Unless this is just a publicity stunt (which I suspect it is, and is a bad one at that because it just shows how stupid he is,) this trademark will never get approved because it has no secondary meaning.
Keep in mind, "Creationism" != "Religious faith". There are plenty of people who believe in God and who accept the scientific theory of evolution. But they are not creationists. The second part of thise line makes sense, but the first doesn't. That's because the real argument goes along the lines of:
"Theory of Evolution" != "Big Bang Theory"
Why is it, that even here at/., that people regularly confuse the Theory of Evolution with the Big Bang Theory? Creationism and the Theory of Evolution are not mutually exclusive. Creationism and the Big Bang Theory essentially are (It depends on how early you want to trace time, since one can* argue that time existed before the big bang.)
*since I have not done any thorough research on this subject, I'm going to assume that one can argue, but I'm not making any statement as to how valid the argument could be.
The quantum state of a living creature is pretty formidable. That is just not in the foreseeable future. Then let's start with something more simple. Can we expect to teleport dead people in the foreseeable future?
I'm sorry, but I always thought of the book as a product, and delivery as a service. So my interpretation of this ruling is that the judge is saying that he can value the service?
Maybe it's just that more people are going to these universities that simply wouldn't cut it 20 years ago? I know that many universities are continuously trying to boost their numbers; it's a sort of pride thing. I know plenty of people who have the patience to go through and scour information. I also know plenty of people who don't, and am left confused as to how the people who don't have the patience have made it as far as they have.
Since that's exactly what they're advertising, it's a violation of trade laws if it doesn't. That's where the asterisk comes in, along with the phrase "Best Efforts."
If you can't read the fine print before signing something, then don't sign it. That's Business Law 101.
While your argument makes sense prima facie, it's unrealistic for your $15/mo connection to provide you 5MB/s downstream 24/7, at least for residential clients. Commercial lines, however, are another matter. As a business, I would expect higher priority over residential clients and have dedicated bandwidth. But then again, then you should also be willing to fork over money for anything between a T1 and an OC192 connection.
I could see this program working very well if they credited customers' accounts for 'unused bandwidth.' Say I have a plan for 40GB, but I only use 2GB because I'm busy doing other things outside. If TW credits my account down to whatever the smallest plan that covers 2GB, then this could be fantastic.
Another way of thinking about it: Pay As You Go system. You pay for 40GB of data, so 40GB gets credited to your account. As you upload and download, TW debits your account for the amount used. Balances never expire, and when you finally close out your account, you get the remaining balance back.
And here I was, thinking that EA had written these games using OpenGL and OpenAL, thus allowing them to easily port the games over to growing platforms. Then I saw mentions of Transgaming, and all hopes were dashed.
All I ever hear about is how they're using Blender for the movie. However, 3d modelling and animation is only a part of the production process. What I want to know is what other programs are they using?
What audio programs are they using? They've got to record dialog somehow (unless it's a silent movie.) Which video editing programs? You know, like organizing scenes, cutting the "negatives," etc.
I think the promotion of the video editing programs would be more beneficial than promotion of Blender itself, as many more people are interested in doing things with camcorders than 3d modelling.
Work only gets done every-other-year in Washington anyways because 1/3 of the Senate is campaigning for reelection and the whole House is running for reelection. Never mind that the roles of the Senate and the House have swapped since in the inception of the Constitution. Originally, members of the Senate was supposed to have longer political lives than members of the House (hence the term-life of 6 years instead of 2 years.) However, there is neigh a political position (other than a Supreme Court Justice) that has a longer political life than being a member of the House (which has a rediculously high incumbancy rate.)
Digital cinema currently uses 2K projectors (2048 pixels wide), which is about the same resolution as you effectively get from analog projection (and only very slightly higher than HDTV 1080p). State of the art projectors are capable of showing pictures which are 4096 pixels wide (4K), which is significantly better than analog projection. At a 2:1 aspect ratio those formats are 2 and 8 megapixels. I don't know.... I remember watching Batman Begins at an IMAX, and it looked phenominal. The preview for the upcoming Batman movie was shown in fullscreen instead of widescreen and looked a hundred times better because it filled up all 6 stories of the screen. Combine that with the 20,000 watts of sound that the cinema can pump out from its 50 speakers, and I'll gladly pay $14 to watch a good movie at the IMAX, where you HAVE to sit in the middle of a row, and at least half-way up the theatre in order to fully enjoy the movie. The only thing that could be better is if they had copies of Batman for viewing at an OMNIMAX theatre.
It's because of experiences like at the IMAX that the home will never be able to replicate the big-screen experience. Never.
I've been thinking about this workaround for quite a while, but I never see anything discussed about it. But why not mitigate activity on the SSD by having/var be a ramdrive? Once the system is stable, cron a backup (snapshot) to the SSD, along with writes for whenever the partition is unmounted. Ram is cheap enough that for typical applications,/var shouldn't be too large (unless you have large caches stored in/var, but that can be solved with symbolic links)
Without reading up on this, I know that this thing must be inoperable (from a practicality standpoint), but still I wonder what kind of insurance policy the owner must put on this thing. Collectables/property insurance is my guess, but imagine how much it would cost if it were insured as an auto or a plane.
Oblig: I hope Boeing provided a good warrenty for it!
I guess you somehow managed to miss out on the libexpat fiasco? Yep. All I did was follow instructions and didn't have any problems. I really couldn't gather why some people were having the problems they had. Maybe it's because was in the process before that time to thin down my packages.keywords
Assuming you're living in the United States (I can't vouch for other nations,) if anyone knicks anything from your mailbox, then they've committed a federal crime.
I realized that with Gentoo I spend a lot more time working on the computer itself as opposed to using the computer to do other things. Funny, I underwent the same transformation. My solution, though, was to stick to packages listed in Stable instead of ~. The only times I've had problems with my computer in the past 6 months or so have been when I tried adding something cosmetic, like adding a bootsplash. I was able to avoid the problems many people faced when upgrading Gnome from 2.18 to 2.20 (or was it 2.16 to 2.18, whenever expat was changed) by following instructions.
Oh yeah, I've also had problems with getting compiz and the last two or three fglrx packages to work, but then again, that's cosmetic as well. So is trying to get the open-source ati drivers to work. Basically, it was when I realized that all I really use my computer for these days is playing music, watching videos, checking email, and checking websites like/. and the beeb, that I concluded that what I have had for a long time is 'good enough.' Now, the vast majority of my package upgrades are for security fixes, not for some new eyecandy.
But I was able to accomplish this even by sticking with Gentoo.
(From EP...) In school I remember we all thought Edina kids were spoiled. We always thought that was ironic because we viewed both EP and Edina as pretty much equal. I guess we forgot about Minnetonka, though. But looking back in perspective, my half of Bloomington is just as wealthy as EP.
Many schools at all levels of education spend far too much money on administrators and not enough on teachers... However, this city in particular has the reputation of being filled with rich kids. I would know, as I came from a neighboring city, and we bitched all the time about those Eden Prairie punks driving their Bmers & such. I just get a kick out of the story because so many kids I know from that city have some complexe that makes them think they're more important than other people.
On a side note, I say those kids deserve it. There are privacy settings for a reason.
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Bill Gates and his proclamation that everything will eventually be on the internet. You think he was only talking about the Digital Home?
When I saw "The Doctor," I immediately thought of Dr. Who. But, alas, the title is refering to medical doctors, or something....
Slashdot, what has happened to you?
Unless this is just a publicity stunt (which I suspect it is, and is a bad one at that because it just shows how stupid he is,) this trademark will never get approved because it has no secondary meaning.
"Theory of Evolution" != "Big Bang Theory"
Why is it, that even here at
*since I have not done any thorough research on this subject, I'm going to assume that one can argue, but I'm not making any statement as to how valid the argument could be.
I'm sorry, but I always thought of the book as a product, and delivery as a service. So my interpretation of this ruling is that the judge is saying that he can value the service?
Maybe it's just that more people are going to these universities that simply wouldn't cut it 20 years ago? I know that many universities are continuously trying to boost their numbers; it's a sort of pride thing. I know plenty of people who have the patience to go through and scour information. I also know plenty of people who don't, and am left confused as to how the people who don't have the patience have made it as far as they have.
If you can't read the fine print before signing something, then don't sign it. That's Business Law 101.
While your argument makes sense prima facie, it's unrealistic for your $15/mo connection to provide you 5MB/s downstream 24/7, at least for residential clients. Commercial lines, however, are another matter. As a business, I would expect higher priority over residential clients and have dedicated bandwidth. But then again, then you should also be willing to fork over money for anything between a T1 and an OC192 connection.
I could see this program working very well if they credited customers' accounts for 'unused bandwidth.' Say I have a plan for 40GB, but I only use 2GB because I'm busy doing other things outside. If TW credits my account down to whatever the smallest plan that covers 2GB, then this could be fantastic.
Another way of thinking about it: Pay As You Go system. You pay for 40GB of data, so 40GB gets credited to your account. As you upload and download, TW debits your account for the amount used. Balances never expire, and when you finally close out your account, you get the remaining balance back.
My god, I would love a plan like that.
And here I was, thinking that EA had written these games using OpenGL and OpenAL, thus allowing them to easily port the games over to growing platforms. Then I saw mentions of Transgaming, and all hopes were dashed.
All I ever hear about is how they're using Blender for the movie. However, 3d modelling and animation is only a part of the production process. What I want to know is what other programs are they using?
What audio programs are they using? They've got to record dialog somehow (unless it's a silent movie.)
Which video editing programs? You know, like organizing scenes, cutting the "negatives," etc.
I think the promotion of the video editing programs would be more beneficial than promotion of Blender itself, as many more people are interested in doing things with camcorders than 3d modelling.
Create a whole host of new email addresses, and sign them up for regular batches of Goatse, and feel no pity.
Work only gets done every-other-year in Washington anyways because 1/3 of the Senate is campaigning for reelection and the whole House is running for reelection. Never mind that the roles of the Senate and the House have swapped since in the inception of the Constitution. Originally, members of the Senate was supposed to have longer political lives than members of the House (hence the term-life of 6 years instead of 2 years.) However, there is neigh a political position (other than a Supreme Court Justice) that has a longer political life than being a member of the House (which has a rediculously high incumbancy rate.)
It's because of experiences like at the IMAX that the home will never be able to replicate the big-screen experience. Never.
I've been thinking about this workaround for quite a while, but I never see anything discussed about it. But why not mitigate activity on the SSD by having /var be a ramdrive? Once the system is stable, cron a backup (snapshot) to the SSD, along with writes for whenever the partition is unmounted. Ram is cheap enough that for typical applications, /var shouldn't be too large (unless you have large caches stored in /var, but that can be solved with symbolic links)
Something about this sounds fishy.... I find it hard to believe that it would cost less than $2,000 to turn in to RoboCop.
Without reading up on this, I know that this thing must be inoperable (from a practicality standpoint), but still I wonder what kind of insurance policy the owner must put on this thing. Collectables/property insurance is my guess, but imagine how much it would cost if it were insured as an auto or a plane.
Oblig:
I hope Boeing provided a good warrenty for it!
The internet didn't kill the record store. Big-box retailers like Best Buy did.
Assuming you're living in the United States (I can't vouch for other nations,) if anyone knicks anything from your mailbox, then they've committed a federal crime.
Oh yeah, I've also had problems with getting compiz and the last two or three fglrx packages to work, but then again, that's cosmetic as well. So is trying to get the open-source ati drivers to work. Basically, it was when I realized that all I really use my computer for these days is playing music, watching videos, checking email, and checking websites like
But I was able to accomplish this even by sticking with Gentoo.
Why? Because everyone's going to have their assistants print the budget off for them.
On a side note, I say those kids deserve it. There are privacy settings for a reason.