That's what I did with my Saturn for a couple years after I bought a Malibu. I still used the saturn to drive to work and to the store (less than 10 miles a day) because it got better gas milage in town. But any time I needed to travel more than about 30 miles from home, I took the Malibu until my cousins turned 16 and I gave them the car. (Parents died before they were out of grade school, didn't have much and I wasn't driving it much)
I included Battery as part of "standard" maintenance. You're going to replace one of those every 3 - 5 years no matter the vehicle along with tires and brakes. That's to be expected. But what does a standard battery cost? $100. What I'm talking about are repairs that are above and beyond routine stuff that you're going to be spending money on no matter the car. I could almost included an alternator at 70 - 80k miles in that. That's par for the course. What I'm talking about are major repair bills. Granted we changed the oil every 3,000, but that was about it. We didn't do anything special beyond that.
We've averaged between $500 - $1000 per car over the 10+ years of we own them fix things beyond normal maintenance. I know a prius battery is between $2,500 - $4k to replace and has a 8 year or 100,000 mile warranty. That's still 4x's what we've spent on average on cars/trucks in the last 25 years.
My first car lasted me 10 years (1996 saturn) and the only two things I had to do to it was a new fly wheel and a new alternator. The total of which set me back about $400. Now there was standard maintenance (tires, breaks, battery, oil changes, etc..), but I had not transmission problems. Gave it to a family member for their 16th birthday and it's still on the road and other than a new set up spark plugs & wires, they've not done anything to it.
My last car (Chevy Malibu) I got 6 years out of it before it was totaled by ice falling off a roof, and I put on new tires and brakes in the 5 years, 90k miles I had the car. I had no other mechanical problems with it.
My Dad has a 97 Astro van that's at 145k and has had a new fuel pump ($500) and alternator ($300) in 13 years plus standard maintenance. He also has a 2004 Impala that has 100k miles and so far, had to have an instrument board replaced, total cost $200. He's put a new set of tires on the car, but has yet to replace the breaks. And before the 96 Astro he had an 86 Astro for about 15 years. Outside of routine maintenance, the only thing he ever put on it was a new starter. Not sure what that cost, but it wasn't more than $200.
Overall, we've not had a lot of things "go wrong" with cars and trucks. We tend to drive them 10 years/150k miles and have pretty much bought all GM products. Buying a car that you know is going to have a maintenance cost roughly the same as a transmission replacement in 8 years just doesn't look that attractive to me. And I'n the market after a year of dealing with insurance companies and lawyers about my previous car.
I guess if you're the type that trades every 3 years, then maybe, but damn you loose a lot money doing that. And if I was looking at used cars, knowing there was going to be a repair bill within x years that could be equal to what I paid for the vehicle doesn't make it particularly attractive either.
I've been looking at new cars since my settlement and probably going to buy a Sabaru Legacy. Hell, they get 30MPG highway now and are all wheel drive and that's with the automatic (which gets better milage than the manuals now thanks to CVT).
I do have to say I like the Chevy Volt's approach with the gas/electric system. Makes a lot of sense, but $40k is a little out of my price range at the moment plus I'll let someone else be the beta tester for those.
10 - 11 years ago I was working for a small shop that produced some graphics tools for Windows & IRIX. It was clear that IRIX was going the way of the DODO and we were looking to port and Linux came up. Red Hat was the "standard" standard of the day so we ported the application to RH. Shortly there after linux accounted for less than 5% of sales and about 12% of technical support requests. We found that very few were even running "standard" builds of Red Hat. It seemed like folks in those days would set up their user libraries in different locations because of this reason or that reason. It was a nightmare. Granted, most people that tinkered with their installs understood the problem was *theirs* and some paid a bunch of $$$ in support costs because of it. But there were that vocal few that really turned me off the linux "community" as a whole for a decade now. The next release dropped Linux support in favor of OSX because we started to see a demand from Apple users.
You and a few more folks on slashdot, but not 99% of mobile phone users. I want my phone to check email, sync my calendar, make/receive call, and most importantly work without me having to tinker with it. While there maybe a hardcore group of hobby hackers that think this is cool, trust me, the vast majority of don't really care about the openness factor.
Really? Because I'm using an iPad right now in the form of a computer because it replaced my MacBook Pro. It seems to have plenty of horsepower to run browsers, iWork, and Skype. Which is pretty much what I ran on my old laptop and that is what most people using desktops are doing. Seems to be powerful enough to do what I, and most people not on Slashdot, need.
I can image an ARM in a "laptop". Because I'm using one right now in my iPad, which replaced the laptop I used to carry around. I looked at the number of times I actually need a full computer and it's not often anymore. I've gone from being a Geek to a more "typical" user. So far I have great battery life and plenty of power for email, skype, iWork, and websurfing. And with docking stations at home and the office I have a full keyboard when I have to write longer email messages or type up a proposal in iWork.
I would argue that Apple et. al. and Webkit is forcing Microsoft to up their game rather than Mozilla/Firefox because of the mobile market. Very few outside of Mozilla uses FireFox's rendering engine. Google, Palm, Apple, and soon Blackberry are all adopting webkit. That means in the mobile market there is webkit with an overwhelming dominance in that market. Especially when RIM switches their browser. I see very few Windows Mobile devices anymore and even those I do see are usually running some version of Opera.
Mobile, whether you like it or not, is where the growth in browsers are now. People are going to start going towards appliances rather than computers at home. Now in my 30's I'm part of that group. I've had a MacMini hooked up to my TV for years. It rarely gets used as a computer, it's a media appliance. I use an iPad for surfing the net and email. I also have a Wii, which if it wasn't for 5 years worth of iTunes purchases I could probably get buy with just the Wii and NetFlix + Hulu.
But Visa also has the power to say, "Hmmm, This PayPal thing is shady, therefore we're going to terminate their processing account and ban PayPal from taking Visa Cards". And whatever Visa does, MasterCard, Amex and Discover will quickly follow their lead. Visa has been the ones behind PASB/PCI/PA-DSS for a while and the rest of the industry pretty much says, "Whatever Visa's doing, we'll do too."
The way trademark law is, you HAVE to defend it or loose it. And The New White Meat is close enough to warrant a C&D just to show that you are trying to protect the trademark.
It is not copyright. If you don't defend your copyright you don't loose it until the alotted time expires. Same with a patent. But Trademarks are different. There are no set time limits on Trademarks meaning if you do not actively defend them, you loose 'em at any time.
If you are a trademark holder, you can't afford to write anything off as a "parody". You need to send the C&D so you can prove you made the attempt to protect it. Whether or not you do anything after the C&D letter is another matter.
You can't take parody into account with trademarks. It's a touchy subject and you have to send out the C&D even if it is parody for no other than if you don't, then someone else can say, "In this example, they let it slide, therefore they failed to defend their trademark."
By sending the C&D the council covers their ass for the next attempt to infringe on the trademark.
Used to have a laptop, G5 Tower, and Mac Mini at home until a little over a year ago when a storm destroyed my house. Now I have a MacMini hooked up the TV that acts a media center, a Wii, and an iPad 3G. And I see a lot more of my friends going Xbox/PS3/Wii and an iPad with a laptop they have from work. I'm to the point where the last thing I want to do when I come home is mess around with computer. I deal with computer shit at work all day and even then I'm down to my iPad3G + docking station.
I don't code anymore, all I need is the mac mini to download and compile the latest versions of our software to test and sign off on. We have a iPhone/iPad App for our bug reporting and then the iPad does pretty much everything else I need. In fact, if the iPhone could use an external keyboard, I wouldn't even need the iPad.
I'm not sure how they can all be moved to california. If they sniffed the wifi in > and the plaintiff is in >, it would seem as though the plaintiff could argue that the jurisdiction for the tort claim would be >, especially if google was in violation of a > statue.
Thing is with trademarks you have to defend them or loose them. Parody rules don't matter with trademarks as you still have to show that you are actively trying to protect the mark or slogan. You are much better off to send the C&D because then if it is brought up in a later court case, you can show that you were actively trying to protect the mark.
We tried it a work, but it lasted less than a week before we went back to emails and skype. We couldn't figure out any advantage to it what so ever. It didn't replace anything in our existing work flow and it didn't add anything of value either. End of the day, Email for most stuff works and then we have skype for anything urgent.
Also depends on where in the US you are. We're in a smaller college town and we can pay developers about 2/3 rd's as much as the nearest "big city" and developers still make pretty good lives because cost of living is relatively cheap.
Not sure why this is a -1, because parent has a point. While it may not be clear who is paying whom royalties, etc., It is clear that the OP is not the copyright holder to any of the materials. If you don't own the copyrights and don't have a license or permission to host/post/etc., then it is infringement. I know it's not popular amongst the/. crowd, but that is the way it is.
Thing is many of these countries use civil law as opposed to common law. In civil law countries, it is indeed the letter of the law that matters. The "spirit" of the law can be argued in common law countries, but bares little or no weight in most European courts.
I could find my notes afterwords, doesn't mean I could read them. Actually for my non-math classes I found I could either write notes or pay attention and understand what they were trying to teach, not both. But I was one of those people who could sit in class and absorb what was being said with near instant recall later if I paid attention. At least throughout my 20's. Now as I'm in my 30's, my iPhone and Computer (now iPad) are invaluable as I find myself having to write down calendar events to actually remember them as well as when proposals are due or sent out and to whom.
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As of right now, nobody is required to be in the office. Frankly most people spend 5 - 6 hours in the office max. Most of the developers work at home or their favourite cafe including myself. I'm only in the office for webex demos. Even then I have enough hardware at home that I can do them from here as well. While we have a couple iMacs and Mac Mini's, by far everyone wants a 15" MacBook Pro with a 19" monitor they can plug into while at the office. They value mobility and the ability to work from anywhere. Same with a lot of "corporate" people I know. They've all been getting laptops in recent years.
Personally I've found the iPad 3G handles 90% of my needs. The only thing it doesn't allow me to do is the product demos. I suppose I could team view into a machine at work and do the demo that way if I really wanted to be geeky about it, but I either do it from the office or home where it's quite and people can hear me on the sales call.
That's the problem with firefox: they forgot their original goal was creating a lean fast browser. As time marched on they started adding features that now makes it bloated and comparable to Mozilla/Netscape that it replaced. I still need it for a couple sites that work with IE/FF but not any of the Webkit browsers or Opera.
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Hearing the stories of how well that worked in businesses and universities 30 years ago....good luck and have fun with that!
That's what I did with my Saturn for a couple years after I bought a Malibu. I still used the saturn to drive to work and to the store (less than 10 miles a day) because it got better gas milage in town. But any time I needed to travel more than about 30 miles from home, I took the Malibu until my cousins turned 16 and I gave them the car. (Parents died before they were out of grade school, didn't have much and I wasn't driving it much)
I included Battery as part of "standard" maintenance. You're going to replace one of those every 3 - 5 years no matter the vehicle along with tires and brakes. That's to be expected. But what does a standard battery cost? $100. What I'm talking about are repairs that are above and beyond routine stuff that you're going to be spending money on no matter the car. I could almost included an alternator at 70 - 80k miles in that. That's par for the course. What I'm talking about are major repair bills. Granted we changed the oil every 3,000, but that was about it. We didn't do anything special beyond that.
We've averaged between $500 - $1000 per car over the 10+ years of we own them fix things beyond normal maintenance. I know a prius battery is between $2,500 - $4k to replace and has a 8 year or 100,000 mile warranty. That's still 4x's what we've spent on average on cars/trucks in the last 25 years.
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My first car lasted me 10 years (1996 saturn) and the only two things I had to do to it was a new fly wheel and a new alternator. The total of which set me back about $400. Now there was standard maintenance (tires, breaks, battery, oil changes, etc..), but I had not transmission problems. Gave it to a family member for their 16th birthday and it's still on the road and other than a new set up spark plugs & wires, they've not done anything to it.
My last car (Chevy Malibu) I got 6 years out of it before it was totaled by ice falling off a roof, and I put on new tires and brakes in the 5 years, 90k miles I had the car. I had no other mechanical problems with it.
My Dad has a 97 Astro van that's at 145k and has had a new fuel pump ($500) and alternator ($300) in 13 years plus standard maintenance. He also has a 2004 Impala that has 100k miles and so far, had to have an instrument board replaced, total cost $200. He's put a new set of tires on the car, but has yet to replace the breaks. And before the 96 Astro he had an 86 Astro for about 15 years. Outside of routine maintenance, the only thing he ever put on it was a new starter. Not sure what that cost, but it wasn't more than $200.
Overall, we've not had a lot of things "go wrong" with cars and trucks. We tend to drive them 10 years/150k miles and have pretty much bought all GM products. Buying a car that you know is going to have a maintenance cost roughly the same as a transmission replacement in 8 years just doesn't look that attractive to me. And I'n the market after a year of dealing with insurance companies and lawyers about my previous car.
I guess if you're the type that trades every 3 years, then maybe, but damn you loose a lot money doing that. And if I was looking at used cars, knowing there was going to be a repair bill within x years that could be equal to what I paid for the vehicle doesn't make it particularly attractive either.
I've been looking at new cars since my settlement and probably going to buy a Sabaru Legacy. Hell, they get 30MPG highway now and are all wheel drive and that's with the automatic (which gets better milage than the manuals now thanks to CVT).
I do have to say I like the Chevy Volt's approach with the gas/electric system. Makes a lot of sense, but $40k is a little out of my price range at the moment plus I'll let someone else be the beta tester for those.
10 - 11 years ago I was working for a small shop that produced some graphics tools for Windows & IRIX. It was clear that IRIX was going the way of the DODO and we were looking to port and Linux came up. Red Hat was the "standard" standard of the day so we ported the application to RH. Shortly there after linux accounted for less than 5% of sales and about 12% of technical support requests. We found that very few were even running "standard" builds of Red Hat. It seemed like folks in those days would set up their user libraries in different locations because of this reason or that reason. It was a nightmare. Granted, most people that tinkered with their installs understood the problem was *theirs* and some paid a bunch of $$$ in support costs because of it. But there were that vocal few that really turned me off the linux "community" as a whole for a decade now. The next release dropped Linux support in favor of OSX because we started to see a demand from Apple users.
How many LoC's is a shitton and how many Shittonnes does that equal?
You and a few more folks on slashdot, but not 99% of mobile phone users. I want my phone to check email, sync my calendar, make/receive call, and most importantly work without me having to tinker with it. While there maybe a hardcore group of hobby hackers that think this is cool, trust me, the vast majority of don't really care about the openness factor.
Really? Because I'm using an iPad right now in the form of a computer because it replaced my MacBook Pro. It seems to have plenty of horsepower to run browsers, iWork, and Skype. Which is pretty much what I ran on my old laptop and that is what most people using desktops are doing. Seems to be powerful enough to do what I, and most people not on Slashdot, need.
I can image an ARM in a "laptop". Because I'm using one right now in my iPad, which replaced the laptop I used to carry around. I looked at the number of times I actually need a full computer and it's not often anymore. I've gone from being a Geek to a more "typical" user. So far I have great battery life and plenty of power for email, skype, iWork, and websurfing. And with docking stations at home and the office I have a full keyboard when I have to write longer email messages or type up a proposal in iWork.
I would argue that Apple et. al. and Webkit is forcing Microsoft to up their game rather than Mozilla/Firefox because of the mobile market. Very few outside of Mozilla uses FireFox's rendering engine. Google, Palm, Apple, and soon Blackberry are all adopting webkit. That means in the mobile market there is webkit with an overwhelming dominance in that market. Especially when RIM switches their browser. I see very few Windows Mobile devices anymore and even those I do see are usually running some version of Opera.
Mobile, whether you like it or not, is where the growth in browsers are now. People are going to start going towards appliances rather than computers at home. Now in my 30's I'm part of that group. I've had a MacMini hooked up to my TV for years. It rarely gets used as a computer, it's a media appliance. I use an iPad for surfing the net and email. I also have a Wii, which if it wasn't for 5 years worth of iTunes purchases I could probably get buy with just the Wii and NetFlix + Hulu.
But Visa also has the power to say, "Hmmm, This PayPal thing is shady, therefore we're going to terminate their processing account and ban PayPal from taking Visa Cards". And whatever Visa does, MasterCard, Amex and Discover will quickly follow their lead. Visa has been the ones behind PASB/PCI/PA-DSS for a while and the rest of the industry pretty much says, "Whatever Visa's doing, we'll do too."
The way trademark law is, you HAVE to defend it or loose it. And The New White Meat is close enough to warrant a C&D just to show that you are trying to protect the trademark.
It is not copyright. If you don't defend your copyright you don't loose it until the alotted time expires. Same with a patent. But Trademarks are different. There are no set time limits on Trademarks meaning if you do not actively defend them, you loose 'em at any time.
If you are a trademark holder, you can't afford to write anything off as a "parody". You need to send the C&D so you can prove you made the attempt to protect it. Whether or not you do anything after the C&D letter is another matter.
You can't take parody into account with trademarks. It's a touchy subject and you have to send out the C&D even if it is parody for no other than if you don't, then someone else can say, "In this example, they let it slide, therefore they failed to defend their trademark."
By sending the C&D the council covers their ass for the next attempt to infringe on the trademark.
Used to have a laptop, G5 Tower, and Mac Mini at home until a little over a year ago when a storm destroyed my house. Now I have a MacMini hooked up the TV that acts a media center, a Wii, and an iPad 3G. And I see a lot more of my friends going Xbox/PS3/Wii and an iPad with a laptop they have from work. I'm to the point where the last thing I want to do when I come home is mess around with computer. I deal with computer shit at work all day and even then I'm down to my iPad3G + docking station.
I don't code anymore, all I need is the mac mini to download and compile the latest versions of our software to test and sign off on. We have a iPhone/iPad App for our bug reporting and then the iPad does pretty much everything else I need. In fact, if the iPhone could use an external keyboard, I wouldn't even need the iPad.
I'm not sure how they can all be moved to california. If they sniffed the wifi in > and the plaintiff is in >, it would seem as though the plaintiff could argue that the jurisdiction for the tort claim would be >, especially if google was in violation of a > statue.
> = pick a state, any state.
Thing is with trademarks you have to defend them or loose them. Parody rules don't matter with trademarks as you still have to show that you are actively trying to protect the mark or slogan. You are much better off to send the C&D because then if it is brought up in a later court case, you can show that you were actively trying to protect the mark.
We tried it a work, but it lasted less than a week before we went back to emails and skype. We couldn't figure out any advantage to it what so ever. It didn't replace anything in our existing work flow and it didn't add anything of value either. End of the day, Email for most stuff works and then we have skype for anything urgent.
Also depends on where in the US you are. We're in a smaller college town and we can pay developers about 2/3 rd's as much as the nearest "big city" and developers still make pretty good lives because cost of living is relatively cheap.
Not sure why this is a -1, because parent has a point. While it may not be clear who is paying whom royalties, etc., It is clear that the OP is not the copyright holder to any of the materials. If you don't own the copyrights and don't have a license or permission to host/post/etc., then it is infringement. I know it's not popular amongst the /. crowd, but that is the way it is.
Thing is many of these countries use civil law as opposed to common law. In civil law countries, it is indeed the letter of the law that matters. The "spirit" of the law can be argued in common law countries, but bares little or no weight in most European courts.
I could find my notes afterwords, doesn't mean I could read them. Actually for my non-math classes I found I could either write notes or pay attention and understand what they were trying to teach, not both. But I was one of those people who could sit in class and absorb what was being said with near instant recall later if I paid attention. At least throughout my 20's. Now as I'm in my 30's, my iPhone and Computer (now iPad) are invaluable as I find myself having to write down calendar events to actually remember them as well as when proposals are due or sent out and to whom.
As of right now, nobody is required to be in the office. Frankly most people spend 5 - 6 hours in the office max. Most of the developers work at home or their favourite cafe including myself. I'm only in the office for webex demos. Even then I have enough hardware at home that I can do them from here as well. While we have a couple iMacs and Mac Mini's, by far everyone wants a 15" MacBook Pro with a 19" monitor they can plug into while at the office. They value mobility and the ability to work from anywhere. Same with a lot of "corporate" people I know. They've all been getting laptops in recent years.
Personally I've found the iPad 3G handles 90% of my needs. The only thing it doesn't allow me to do is the product demos. I suppose I could team view into a machine at work and do the demo that way if I really wanted to be geeky about it, but I either do it from the office or home where it's quite and people can hear me on the sales call.
That's the problem with firefox: they forgot their original goal was creating a lean fast browser. As time marched on they started adding features that now makes it bloated and comparable to Mozilla/Netscape that it replaced. I still need it for a couple sites that work with IE/FF but not any of the Webkit browsers or Opera.
pfssst....they'll become a trillion dollar company anyway thanks to inflation. Although a Trillion dollars isn't what it used to be...