Furthmore, you're stretching the meaning of the phrase "many years". The above trademarks were all registered between November, 2001 and April 2004. They've also abandoned two other trademarks which are now dead. To be fair, they claim to have used some of their trademarks without registering them since January 31, 1993.
Lastly, Tiger Direct, Inc. is a reseller. Apple, Inc. is a manufacturer. Tiger Direct's trademarks are in the Goods and Services catagory "Mail order services featuring computer hardware and software." On the other hand, Apple, Inc. registered a trademark on the word Tiger which was registered on July 2, 2003 and in the Goods and Services catagory "computer operating system software".
While Apple may settle, this is not a case with merits. Instead, Tiger Direct, Inc. appears to be gaming the legal system to get free advertising.
(The links to the USPTO site in this post may expire without warning, though they should not be difficult to reproduce.)
Uhm, why would you try to do that in a terminal window? Remember, we're talking about a terminal window. You know, this argument technique might work well when you are on recess, but when you grow up, most people will straight out see the difference between my apples and your oranges.
You can't have instances of gkrellm (or any equivalent) to see at a glance if important machines are ok.
Uhm, yeah, you can't run graphical apps in a terminal window. You're not even trying, are you? New to this whole concept of terminals and what they are capable of, maybe?
You can't run office tools easily
I see a trend here.
(some of us have real jobs)
And jobs that don't use office tools aren't real? Hello? You in the real world? Trolling on slashdot isn't a real job, asshat.
You can't use any kind of non text data
First point you've made, sorta. Screen works only for terminals and will handle whatever your terminal will handle. And it does handle "graphics" of sort, just not the same kind of graphics you might be used to. (And no, I'm not talking about ascii art.)
Handling any kind of "corner" task is a real problem, i.e. you can't easily reserve 8x6 chars for a biff like app on the side of the screen.
Wow, all those years on a terminal and I never new when I had new mail. Certainly, you know biff works on the command line and will tell you when you have new mail. Screen can even blink or say something like "You have new mail!" when it arrives.
Besides machines don't actually crash all that often anymore, and certainly not regularly
So, I'm lying? Nice try, but people's machines crash regularly. The story I told was 100% true. His machine crashes every day. It happens when you work as a developer or even when doing QA on alpha or beta software.
I can't even remember when one one of my machines last crashed.
You want a cookie? The machine I screen from hasn't been down in 73 days, when it was rebooted to move it physically. I don't know if the machine ever crashed. However, like your comment, it's entirely unrelated to the fact that other people's machines do in fact crash regularly for one reason or another, even modern ones.
From what I saw the windows machines don't even crash all that much anymore either provided you run NT 5.x
The gentleman in question, with this amazingly abhorant crashing computer, has a brand new Dell, running XP with SP1. There goes your theory.
And those of us who have "fake" jobs working for "imaginary" companies have to do things like "log off" every night so that the network can have it's way with our machines. Screen keeps my work open for me when I disconnect from any UI. I can also reconnect to that work from home or on the road by reattaching the screen from any machine. If you don't understand what screen is and why it is useful, don't put it down.
Your post reads like one of those "hah, this car fad is silly, it won't last through the year and we'll ride among those rusty wrecks on our trusty horses laughing our asses off" things one could read in the early 1900s.
Really? Because I don't need to use 4 virtual windows and tens of terminal processes, you jump to the conclusion that I don't think cars will last? Real bright.
Hope you're "real job" doesn't require any actual thinking, else you should keep an eye out for an opening at McDonalds. You can say, "Would you like fries with that?", can't you?
Look, if you read my post carefully and actually take the time to understand what I'm saying, you'll see that I said some people don't like the tools tools that you like. That's just an irrefutable fact. In my "fake" job as a developer, I write code all day long without an IDE. I use a text environment for 8 hours a day. For me, screen is the absolute best tool. And there's not a fucking single thing about my use of screen that should lead you to believe that I'm either old fashioned, change intollerant or anything other than screen is my preference of tool.
I'm convinced that people that refrain from using a comfortable environment are snobs. Or the techno equivalent of middle-ages monks that whipped themselves with thorns every night to expiate some imaginary sin.
Wow, that's both ignorant and insulting. You should be proud. I can accomplish most anything you can with screen and a single terminal window. In the five years since I've discovered screen, I've never found a single instance that I needed to use a second terminal.
Get over yourself. Not everyone finds using the tools you prefer to be comfortable. I find using more than one terminal window to be overly cumbersome. Every day I go to the office, I watch and laugh at some guy scroll through 4 virtual windows and tens of open windows to find the one window he's looking for. Oh, and when his machine crashes, which happens regularly, he loses every open window and all unsaved work. On the other hand, screen users have the same session for months at a time. Some people prefer it. That doesn't make them snobs or in any way maschists.
I actually don't know a single developer who doesn't use a full fledged desktop
You clearly don't know a lot of developers. Some can do all of their development without leaving a shell.
Even when doing GUI work, I do a vast majority of my work in a shell. In Linux, I don't even log into X until I have a need for something graphical. Yeah, I'm old school and probably in a minority, but I'm certainly not fringe. There's nothing radical about not wasting CPU on things you simply don't need.
Lastly, absolutely none of the tools I use to develop are a component of any desktop. Some applications require a GUI environment, but the applications themselves are not part of the desktop. Anything I work on can be done in a minimal graphical environment and a bloated environment. If I were equally familiar with both the only difference would be wasted processes.
I can't believe this was ever modded up to +5 interesting. It's factually inaccurate and close enough to a troll to be marked as a troll. Not to mention it's about as forward thinking as shooting yourself in the head to wake yourself up.
You can always tell the Neuros users by their headphones. The headphones have the distinctive Neuros orange on the outside. It's a lot more discreet than all white, but it's noticable.
I'm not sure this will even be read, but I wanted to give anyone who does read this an open invitation to anyone to participate in a conversation about the politics in a nonpartisan manner. The few replies the parent received made me realize that there actually are other people who are at least somewhat like minded.
Come on over and introduce yourself. It's a blank board, with no customization, so don't be shy or disgusted by it's blandness.
AiM appears to be a conservative, or better put, non-liberal, media watchdog group. On their front page, they mention the word "liberal" twice.
From their FAQ:
"But how do you know the media's political opinions influence their reporting?
Many of them are actually admitting it these days. They admit they're anti-business, pro-big government, anti-family and anti-religion. A couple of years ago, CBS commentator Bernard Goldberg caused quite a stir by saying in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that he couldn't believe people were actually still arguing about whether or not the media were liberal, because it was so obviously true."
Sorry, no unbiased media watchdog group would say something like this.
I lost my cat. I had given up, figured him for dead or just unhappy with the suburban house cat routine. Weeks had gone by, then months.
One day, I decided I'd clean my keyboard. I had the lingerie bag, the dish washer, philips head screer driver, soap, Goo Gone and some ArmourAll.
While disassembling my keyboard, I noticed something familiar. Bits of cat hair started to appear. When fully disassembled, I had answered the question: what happened to my kitty?
As a previous Neuros owner, I'd like to share my experience with you, since I learned about the Neuros at this site.
As of the last week in May, when I returned my unit, I had owned the Neuros for three months. During that three months, I spent more time attempting to get the software and firmware to work than I did actually listening to the Neuros outside of sitting at my desktop. Though during that time I saw a committed effort to improve the software, firmware and hardware, be warned that the Neuros was at that time for early adopters who had the time and patience to post bug reports and wait for a commercial company to release updates.
From corrupted on unit databases to a firmware that randomly deleted the entire contents of the unit, the problems were constant. Every time I took the unit with plans to listen to it, I was dissappointed. During the short periods I managed to make it work, I had other problems. From the MyFi functionality being only listenable in mono to the UI of the unit not allowing you to search for songs while one is playing, the enitre experience was not worth the $399 I paid for.
If you don't fit into the early adopter catagory or have $400 to loan a company for beta software while you "test" their products for them, then buy another MP3 player.
Please don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the concept of the Neuros. The hardware was well designed, but not in the same catagory as an iPod. The UI was livable, but again, not in the same catagory as an iPod. The software and firmware were unusable and required hours and hours at a time to find the bugs that wouldn't allow useful listening to the device. And then, the worst part of it all... it's USB 1.1. No device with 20 Gb of storage should have USB 1.1 There's nothing worse than transfering data for 5 hours to find out you discovered a bug and had to transfer the data again.
Digital Innovations has great customer service and they actually care a great deal about what you have to say. However, for $400, I'd rather purchase company stock than either of their units.
I have to say that the mic on the unit and the line in are nice features. There's nothing like recording your drunk friends at 2:00 am while they think you're listening to MP3s. And the MyFi is a real nice idea, it's just the performance of the MyFi is inadequate. HiSi is a nice idea, though I never found it useful since my unit never made it very long outside of my desktop.
Before I posted this, I checked out the Neuros website. They seemed to have released a serious update to the software. Hopefully this one is spot on or a huge improvement to the versions I had previously used.
I mean, billions of dollars to dig a highway under a city that will likely to be at capacity the day it's opened.
Local newscasters will be reporting:
"Today, in Boston, the Big Dig officially opened to unbearable traffic. In unrelated news, the Even Bigger Dig will commence next week to meet todays traffic needs ten years from now."
The voluntary program would take effect when at least 10 states representing 20 percent of the U.S. population have amended their laws to implement the program. Participating states would then be free to ask Congress to approve a mandatory, nationwide online sales tax regime. It's unclear, however, if Congress would go along with any online sales tax proposal.
The federal government gives representation to each person in each state in these matters and can thus make decisions to enact or reject legislation like this. However, given which party is likely to influence this decision most (GOP), I find it hard to believe they'd push for a federal tax cut and enforce new local taxes. And what about those whacky states out there that find no reason to impose a sales tax. Is there some reason I am missing they wouldn't be opposed to this?
This will not just affect dot com retailers. It will effect a larger group of retailers that includes traditional stores that have taken advantage of internet opportunities. The political motivations to enforce such measures locally seem like they will be heavily outweighed by special interests that have a larger impact in more than one state - jobs, existing tax revenue, political support for candidates and so on.
Given this information, it seems likely that the states wouldn't succeed with this effort. Even if state goverments did manage to work together successfully, Congress and the Supreme Court have the opportunity to shoot it down at the federal level. And this is just what our economy needs, more unoriginal ideas about how to spend taxpayer money to increase their taxes.
Slashdot Mirror
TigerDirect.com does not own a trademark on the word tiger. A 30 second search at USPTO yields that Tiger Direct, Inc. owns seven trademarks:
- XCONNECT
- TIGERPC.COM
- TIGERTV.COM
- TIGERSYSTEMS
- TIGERDIRECT
- TIGERDIRECT
- TIGERDIRECT.COM
Furthmore, you're stretching the meaning of the phrase "many years". The above trademarks were all registered between November, 2001 and April 2004. They've also abandoned two other trademarks which are now dead. To be fair, they claim to have used some of their trademarks without registering them since January 31, 1993.Lastly, Tiger Direct, Inc. is a reseller. Apple, Inc. is a manufacturer. Tiger Direct's trademarks are in the Goods and Services catagory "Mail order services featuring computer hardware and software." On the other hand, Apple, Inc. registered a trademark on the word Tiger which was registered on July 2, 2003 and in the Goods and Services catagory "computer operating system software".
While Apple may settle, this is not a case with merits. Instead, Tiger Direct, Inc. appears to be gaming the legal system to get free advertising.
(The links to the USPTO site in this post may expire without warning, though they should not be difficult to reproduce.)
Uhm, why would you try to do that in a terminal window? Remember, we're talking about a terminal window. You know, this argument technique might work well when you are on recess, but when you grow up, most people will straight out see the difference between my apples and your oranges.
You can't have instances of gkrellm (or any equivalent) to see at a glance if important machines are ok.
Uhm, yeah, you can't run graphical apps in a terminal window. You're not even trying, are you? New to this whole concept of terminals and what they are capable of, maybe?
You can't run office tools easily
I see a trend here.
(some of us have real jobs)
And jobs that don't use office tools aren't real? Hello? You in the real world? Trolling on slashdot isn't a real job, asshat.
You can't use any kind of non text data
First point you've made, sorta. Screen works only for terminals and will handle whatever your terminal will handle. And it does handle "graphics" of sort, just not the same kind of graphics you might be used to. (And no, I'm not talking about ascii art.)
Handling any kind of "corner" task is a real problem, i.e. you can't easily reserve 8x6 chars for a biff like app on the side of the screen.
Wow, all those years on a terminal and I never new when I had new mail. Certainly, you know biff works on the command line and will tell you when you have new mail. Screen can even blink or say something like "You have new mail!" when it arrives.
Besides machines don't actually crash all that often anymore, and certainly not regularly
So, I'm lying? Nice try, but people's machines crash regularly. The story I told was 100% true. His machine crashes every day. It happens when you work as a developer or even when doing QA on alpha or beta software.
I can't even remember when one one of my machines last crashed.
You want a cookie? The machine I screen from hasn't been down in 73 days, when it was rebooted to move it physically. I don't know if the machine ever crashed. However, like your comment, it's entirely unrelated to the fact that other people's machines do in fact crash regularly for one reason or another, even modern ones.
From what I saw the windows machines don't even crash all that much anymore either provided you run NT 5.x
The gentleman in question, with this amazingly abhorant crashing computer, has a brand new Dell, running XP with SP1. There goes your theory.
And those of us who have "fake" jobs working for "imaginary" companies have to do things like "log off" every night so that the network can have it's way with our machines. Screen keeps my work open for me when I disconnect from any UI. I can also reconnect to that work from home or on the road by reattaching the screen from any machine. If you don't understand what screen is and why it is useful, don't put it down.
Your post reads like one of those "hah, this car fad is silly, it won't last through the year and we'll ride among those rusty wrecks on our trusty horses laughing our asses off" things one could read in the early 1900s.
Really? Because I don't need to use 4 virtual windows and tens of terminal processes, you jump to the conclusion that I don't think cars will last? Real bright.
Hope you're "real job" doesn't require any actual thinking, else you should keep an eye out for an opening at McDonalds. You can say, "Would you like fries with that?", can't you?
Look, if you read my post carefully and actually take the time to understand what I'm saying, you'll see that I said some people don't like the tools tools that you like. That's just an irrefutable fact. In my "fake" job as a developer, I write code all day long without an IDE. I use a text environment for 8 hours a day. For me, screen is the absolute best tool. And there's not a fucking single thing about my use of screen that should lead you to believe that I'm either old fashioned, change intollerant or anything other than screen is my preference of tool.
Wow, that's both ignorant and insulting. You should be proud. I can accomplish most anything you can with screen and a single terminal window. In the five years since I've discovered screen, I've never found a single instance that I needed to use a second terminal.
Get over yourself. Not everyone finds using the tools you prefer to be comfortable. I find using more than one terminal window to be overly cumbersome. Every day I go to the office, I watch and laugh at some guy scroll through 4 virtual windows and tens of open windows to find the one window he's looking for. Oh, and when his machine crashes, which happens regularly, he loses every open window and all unsaved work. On the other hand, screen users have the same session for months at a time. Some people prefer it. That doesn't make them snobs or in any way maschists.
You clearly don't know a lot of developers. Some can do all of their development without leaving a shell.
Even when doing GUI work, I do a vast majority of my work in a shell. In Linux, I don't even log into X until I have a need for something graphical. Yeah, I'm old school and probably in a minority, but I'm certainly not fringe. There's nothing radical about not wasting CPU on things you simply don't need.
Lastly, absolutely none of the tools I use to develop are a component of any desktop. Some applications require a GUI environment, but the applications themselves are not part of the desktop. Anything I work on can be done in a minimal graphical environment and a bloated environment. If I were equally familiar with both the only difference would be wasted processes.
"Most of the music downloaded is theft."
I can't believe this was ever modded up to +5 interesting. It's factually inaccurate and close enough to a troll to be marked as a troll. Not to mention it's about as forward thinking as shooting yourself in the head to wake yourself up.
You can always tell the Neuros users by their headphones. The headphones have the distinctive Neuros orange on the outside. It's a lot more discreet than all white, but it's noticable.
Come on over and introduce yourself. It's a blank board, with no customization, so don't be shy or disgusted by it's blandness.
From their FAQ:
" But how do you know the media's political opinions influence their reporting?
Many of them are actually admitting it these days. They admit they're anti-business, pro-big government, anti-family and anti-religion. A couple of years ago, CBS commentator Bernard Goldberg caused quite a stir by saying in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that he couldn't believe people were actually still arguing about whether or not the media were liberal, because it was so obviously true."
Sorry, no unbiased media watchdog group would say something like this.
Read Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News. The book is a good read, but it's point of view is definitely from someone wanting to dispell the myth's propagated by so many successful conservative authors. Read them both. Don't be fooled by either of them.
I lost my cat. I had given up, figured him for dead or just unhappy with the suburban house cat routine. Weeks had gone by, then months.
One day, I decided I'd clean my keyboard. I had the lingerie bag, the dish washer, philips head screer driver, soap, Goo Gone and some ArmourAll.
While disassembling my keyboard, I noticed something familiar. Bits of cat hair started to appear. When fully disassembled, I had answered the question: what happened to my kitty?
I'll miss you, kitty.
As a previous Neuros owner, I'd like to share my experience with you, since I learned about the Neuros at this site.
As of the last week in May, when I returned my unit, I had owned the Neuros for three months. During that three months, I spent more time attempting to get the software and firmware to work than I did actually listening to the Neuros outside of sitting at my desktop. Though during that time I saw a committed effort to improve the software, firmware and hardware, be warned that the Neuros was at that time for early adopters who had the time and patience to post bug reports and wait for a commercial company to release updates.
From corrupted on unit databases to a firmware that randomly deleted the entire contents of the unit, the problems were constant. Every time I took the unit with plans to listen to it, I was dissappointed. During the short periods I managed to make it work, I had other problems. From the MyFi functionality being only listenable in mono to the UI of the unit not allowing you to search for songs while one is playing, the enitre experience was not worth the $399 I paid for.
If you don't fit into the early adopter catagory or have $400 to loan a company for beta software while you "test" their products for them, then buy another MP3 player.
Please don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the concept of the Neuros. The hardware was well designed, but not in the same catagory as an iPod. The UI was livable, but again, not in the same catagory as an iPod. The software and firmware were unusable and required hours and hours at a time to find the bugs that wouldn't allow useful listening to the device. And then, the worst part of it all... it's USB 1.1. No device with 20 Gb of storage should have USB 1.1 There's nothing worse than transfering data for 5 hours to find out you discovered a bug and had to transfer the data again.
Digital Innovations has great customer service and they actually care a great deal about what you have to say. However, for $400, I'd rather purchase company stock than either of their units.
I have to say that the mic on the unit and the line in are nice features. There's nothing like recording your drunk friends at 2:00 am while they think you're listening to MP3s. And the MyFi is a real nice idea, it's just the performance of the MyFi is inadequate. HiSi is a nice idea, though I never found it useful since my unit never made it very long outside of my desktop.
Before I posted this, I checked out the Neuros website. They seemed to have released a serious update to the software. Hopefully this one is spot on or a huge improvement to the versions I had previously used.
I mean, billions of dollars to dig a highway under a city that will likely to be at capacity the day it's opened.
Local newscasters will be reporting:
"Today, in Boston, the Big Dig officially opened to unbearable traffic. In unrelated news, the Even Bigger Dig will commence next week to meet todays traffic needs ten years from now."
The voluntary program would take effect when at least 10 states representing 20 percent of the U.S. population have amended their laws to implement the program. Participating states would then be free to ask Congress to approve a mandatory, nationwide online sales tax regime. It's unclear, however, if Congress would go along with any online sales tax proposal.
The federal government gives representation to each person in each state in these matters and can thus make decisions to enact or reject legislation like this. However, given which party is likely to influence this decision most (GOP), I find it hard to believe they'd push for a federal tax cut and enforce new local taxes. And what about those whacky states out there that find no reason to impose a sales tax. Is there some reason I am missing they wouldn't be opposed to this?
This will not just affect dot com retailers. It will effect a larger group of retailers that includes traditional stores that have taken advantage of internet opportunities. The political motivations to enforce such measures locally seem like they will be heavily outweighed by special interests that have a larger impact in more than one state - jobs, existing tax revenue, political support for candidates and so on.
Given this information, it seems likely that the states wouldn't succeed with this effort. Even if state goverments did manage to work together successfully, Congress and the Supreme Court have the opportunity to shoot it down at the federal level. And this is just what our economy needs, more unoriginal ideas about how to spend taxpayer money to increase their taxes.
Wait! Windows 3.1 worked properly? Whoa! I missed the boat on that one!
Rinse and repeat.