Also, who says nerds don't want the occasional update on it, with some hopefully semi inteligent conversation/debate about how its going, and what people think.
If you want the occassional update, go to Google news, or other news sites. As for intelligent discussion, you must not be on Slashdot a lot:-).
According to the Home Recording Act, I can record any signal I can pick up in my home from the radio or TV AND let any of my friends or family borrow or record from my recording.
The Audio Home Recording Act only covers music, not TV. And it is not limited to radio, it also applies to CDs, records, and cassette tapes. But it only covers copying, not distributing.
Also, the same is true for any TV shows. I can record The Sopranos, burn it to a DVD, and give it to a friend, yet I can't download the episode of the Sopranos I missed last week even though I pay for HBO!!
Where did you get that idea from? It is not legal to record the Sopranos and re-distribute it. The Sony case only covered time-shifting. Strictly speaking, librarying TV shows was not covered by the opinion.
Briefly, I'll explain how they work in theory. After signing up with a disposable email service, they give you a disposable email address that you can, for example, enter into forms. Mail sent to that disposable email address gets automatically forwarded to your email account of choice. But here's where they supposedly come in handy. You can sign up for a different disposable email address everytime you fill in a web form. If you start getting spam, you can look at the disposable email address the spam was sent to and you can do 2 things: (1) cancel the disposable email address so you no longer get spam sent to that address; and (2) you know who gave out your disposable address and you can take whatever action you deem appropriate.
This seems like a cool product, in theory, but I haven't seen anyone with real world experience with these services. If anyone here can describe their experiences, it would be greatly appreciated.
Any decent sized University will laugh this donor off in a minute. $2.4M is not nearly enough to retrofit an entire campus to another OS. If the donor wants to make sure his donation is only spent on Linux, that's fine, but to completely prevent an entire school from ever buying an MS product is beyond stupid.
We're talking real world here, not some fantasy land. $2.4M sounds like a lot of money, but to a relatively large university, it's not. His point was that refitting the ENTIRE UNIVERSITY is going to take a lot of money and/or time and it is not worth doing for only $2.4M.
And what happens if this does happen. There's some publicity and some former MS employee who made millions in the stock market pleges even more if they switch back to MS.
IE and the Media Player, however, can not be uninstalled. What's next is anything that is integrated which can not be uninstalled yet has competition.
Who cares if they can't be uninstalled? It is trivial to install a preferred player or browser and make it the default. With the size of hard drives today, the 10 to 100 MB that IE and Media Player occupy is trivial as well.
I think he was referring to the 2600.com/DeCSS case where they were forced to remove the links to DeCSS sites, so they just typed the name of the web site. Some of what you post to is deep-linking, where a website wants you to access articles through their main page instead of linking directly to the article (and losing some clicks).
Are they serious? Hell, I get that much SPAM a month. But in all seriousness, this is pretty weak. Really weak in fact. that comes out to ~66MB a day.
So much for playing games online, downloading game demos (those things are like 150-250MB a piece) and I don't think you can even download Mandrake's entire distribution (though that may be a sympton of Mandrake's bloat)...
There is a difference between 66 MB/day and 2 GB a month. While it is true that a large game demo will be larger than 66 MB, it's not like you donwload those every day.
instapundit.com (Glenn's original blog) has topped 200,000 daily visits on at least one occasion, and his readership is growing monthly. His fellow top-teir bloggers boast similar numbers. And they're just talking about boring ole' politics and such.
There is obviously a large market for political writing, which is why such blogs are so popular. You don't have to read the same columnists over and over again, as political blogs contain many new voices and links to all sorts of news stories. Instapundit.com mainly contains links to other stories. But check out all the links to other blogs on the left side of the page. You have some blogs, like USS Clueless, that present lengthy analysis of the upcoming war. In the legal world, a blog about appeallate law, How Appealling is among the most popular blogs, but there are many legal blogs (sometimes called blawgs), as you can see from the compilation on Bag & Baggage. The key to these blogs I listed above isn't necessarily the content (and none of them are "what I did today" type blogs), it is the links to other stories.
Right. Most comments here assume that blogging is mainly of the "what I ate for breakfast" category. But the author of the article is probably the most famous blogger in the world. But what does he blog about? Politics, mainly. Instapundit acts as a compilation of news stories and his comments about them.
Is news blogging important? Ask Trent Lott. The news about his racist comments was small news on an AP wire that no major news organization covered. Instapundit covered it immediately (after being pointed to it by Josh Marshall, another blogger. IIRC, the comments were made on a Thursday. Instapundit was all over the story, calling for his ouster by Friday and Saturday, but the major news organizations didn't cover the story until Tuesday.
The statement "women are paid less then men" is as close to a fact as you get in economics.
The problem is that many assume that statement means that, if you there are equally qualified women and men interviewing for a position, the man would be paid 30% more. That is not true. What is true is that, in general, women take lower paying jobs than men. Part of that reason is historical, as you mentioned. But part of it is just lack of interest. There are more men than women in the relatively high paying field of engineering. There are more women than men in the relatively low paying field of elementary school teaching. Not because of discrimination, but by choice. Add to that, the number of women who choose not to work or work only part time, in order to raise children, and you have the reason why females, as a whole, get paid less than males, as a whole.
It prevents somebody from coming along with a trash-can like utility that looks, acts, and feels like a Trash Can but differs visually from the original.
You got that about 100% wrong. As pointed ouit by others in this thread, ONLY the visual design is protected. The functionality is not protected (and couldn't be, since Apple was using trash can like icons for over 15 years.)
Fuck. Every product I can think of that uses a generic english word for a trademark just happens to come from the same company.
Can anyone find me an example of this from any company other than Microsoft?
Renault Le Car is the only one I can think of. Maybe MS should name the Longhorn version: Le Windows:-)
Of course, you're also changing the subject. The original post said that Lindows and Windows are easily distinguishable. My previous post pointed out that Lepsi wouldn't be an appropriate trademark. Now your going back to the genericness argument.
Is there a phone available which selects an appropriate ringtone for each caller?
Not polyphonic, but my wife's Nokia 3390 allows you to assign different ringers for different callers. My Kyocera 3035 allows you to do separate ringers for separate groups of callers (personal, business, and uncategorized).
I think, this would mean that it run Microsoft Windows. However, if he said that it runs Lindows, I would think he meant it run Lindow. Easy, isn't it?
Try it. Manufacture a beverage named Lepsi, a computer named Lell, or an SUV called the Lescalade, and see how far you can go;-).
"DOS" may not be a trademark, but I've read many articles that referenced it as such at the bottom, so apparently the media thinks it is.
So now it's Microsoft's fault that sloppy writers state that DOS is a TM instead of MS-DOS? As for acronyms and abbreviations getting trademarked, ever heard of ATT or IBM? How about NASCAR?
The question isn't whether the term windows is used with respect to other products. The question is this, if someone said that they bought a computer that runs windows, what do you think they meant? Any computer guy who says that means that the computer runs Microsoft Windows.
It's pretty obvious what is going on here. The Apple case was completely unrelated to Trademarks. What Lindows wants is further documentation showing that MS used the term "window" in a generic manner. They've already submitted evidence that others considered "windows" to be a generic term in the early 1980s. (See here)
I don't know why you "hate" to say it, but it is most certainly copyright infringement. The author of a copyrighted work has the exclusive right to distribute and copy the work.
Obviously, search engine companies don't like this and developed anti-spam techniques to block as much of it as possible. If you are running a serious business and $100/year or so guarantees a decent placement in a major search engine, it's definitely worth it.
It's a lot more than $100/year at Overture. I know someone who runs a web based business, and they spend $400 per DAY for good search engine placement with Google and Overture.
I've always hated those menus. I know where menu items are. But, by hiding the menu items, their position changes, and I can't find the menu choice I need.
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If you want the occassional update, go to Google news, or other news sites. As for intelligent discussion, you must not be on Slashdot a lot :-).
The Audio Home Recording Act only covers music, not TV. And it is not limited to radio, it also applies to CDs, records, and cassette tapes. But it only covers copying, not distributing.
Also, the same is true for any TV shows. I can record The Sopranos, burn it to a DVD, and give it to a friend, yet I can't download the episode of the Sopranos I missed last week even though I pay for HBO!!
Where did you get that idea from? It is not legal to record the Sopranos and re-distribute it. The Sony case only covered time-shifting. Strictly speaking, librarying TV shows was not covered by the opinion.
- Spam Gourmet
- Spamex
- Sneakemail
- Mailsehll
- Emailias
General information about disposable email addresses can be found in this PC Magazine article and this about.com article.Briefly, I'll explain how they work in theory. After signing up with a disposable email service, they give you a disposable email address that you can, for example, enter into forms. Mail sent to that disposable email address gets automatically forwarded to your email account of choice. But here's where they supposedly come in handy. You can sign up for a different disposable email address everytime you fill in a web form. If you start getting spam, you can look at the disposable email address the spam was sent to and you can do 2 things: (1) cancel the disposable email address so you no longer get spam sent to that address; and (2) you know who gave out your disposable address and you can take whatever action you deem appropriate.
This seems like a cool product, in theory, but I haven't seen anyone with real world experience with these services. If anyone here can describe their experiences, it would be greatly appreciated.
Any decent sized University will laugh this donor off in a minute. $2.4M is not nearly enough to retrofit an entire campus to another OS. If the donor wants to make sure his donation is only spent on Linux, that's fine, but to completely prevent an entire school from ever buying an MS product is beyond stupid.
And what happens if this does happen. There's some publicity and some former MS employee who made millions in the stock market pleges even more if they switch back to MS.
Who cares if they can't be uninstalled? It is trivial to install a preferred player or browser and make it the default. With the size of hard drives today, the 10 to 100 MB that IE and Media Player occupy is trivial as well.
I think he was referring to the 2600.com/DeCSS case where they were forced to remove the links to DeCSS sites, so they just typed the name of the web site. Some of what you post to is deep-linking, where a website wants you to access articles through their main page instead of linking directly to the article (and losing some clicks).
There is a difference between 66 MB/day and 2 GB a month. While it is true that a large game demo will be larger than 66 MB, it's not like you donwload those every day.
There is obviously a large market for political writing, which is why such blogs are so popular. You don't have to read the same columnists over and over again, as political blogs contain many new voices and links to all sorts of news stories. Instapundit.com mainly contains links to other stories. But check out all the links to other blogs on the left side of the page. You have some blogs, like USS Clueless, that present lengthy analysis of the upcoming war. In the legal world, a blog about appeallate law, How Appealling is among the most popular blogs, but there are many legal blogs (sometimes called blawgs), as you can see from the compilation on Bag & Baggage. The key to these blogs I listed above isn't necessarily the content (and none of them are "what I did today" type blogs), it is the links to other stories.
Is news blogging important? Ask Trent Lott. The news about his racist comments was small news on an AP wire that no major news organization covered. Instapundit covered it immediately (after being pointed to it by Josh Marshall, another blogger. IIRC, the comments were made on a Thursday. Instapundit was all over the story, calling for his ouster by Friday and Saturday, but the major news organizations didn't cover the story until Tuesday.
The problem is that many assume that statement means that, if you there are equally qualified women and men interviewing for a position, the man would be paid 30% more. That is not true. What is true is that, in general, women take lower paying jobs than men. Part of that reason is historical, as you mentioned. But part of it is just lack of interest. There are more men than women in the relatively high paying field of engineering. There are more women than men in the relatively low paying field of elementary school teaching. Not because of discrimination, but by choice. Add to that, the number of women who choose not to work or work only part time, in order to raise children, and you have the reason why females, as a whole, get paid less than males, as a whole.
First, design patents last 14 years. Second, design patent would not protect a generic trash can, only one that looks like the patented trash can.
You got that about 100% wrong. As pointed ouit by others in this thread, ONLY the visual design is protected. The functionality is not protected (and couldn't be, since Apple was using trash can like icons for over 15 years.)
Renault Le Car is the only one I can think of. Maybe MS should name the Longhorn version: Le Windows :-)
Of course, you're also changing the subject. The original post said that Lindows and Windows are easily distinguishable. My previous post pointed out that Lepsi wouldn't be an appropriate trademark. Now your going back to the genericness argument.
Not polyphonic, but my wife's Nokia 3390 allows you to assign different ringers for different callers. My Kyocera 3035 allows you to do separate ringers for separate groups of callers (personal, business, and uncategorized).
Try it. Manufacture a beverage named Lepsi, a computer named Lell, or an SUV called the Lescalade, and see how far you can go ;-).
So now it's Microsoft's fault that sloppy writers state that DOS is a TM instead of MS-DOS? As for acronyms and abbreviations getting trademarked, ever heard of ATT or IBM? How about NASCAR?
The question isn't whether the term windows is used with respect to other products. The question is this, if someone said that they bought a computer that runs windows, what do you think they meant? Any computer guy who says that means that the computer runs Microsoft Windows.
They didn't. They had trademarks on MS-DOS. (See this page).
It's pretty obvious what is going on here. The Apple case was completely unrelated to Trademarks. What Lindows wants is further documentation showing that MS used the term "window" in a generic manner. They've already submitted evidence that others considered "windows" to be a generic term in the early 1980s. (See here)
One cool thing about GTA3 for the PC was the ability to use your own MP3s. Once you got tired of the music, switch to your own music.
I don't know why you "hate" to say it, but it is most certainly copyright infringement. The author of a copyrighted work has the exclusive right to distribute and copy the work.
It's a lot more than $100/year at Overture. I know someone who runs a web based business, and they spend $400 per DAY for good search engine placement with Google and Overture.
I've always hated those menus. I know where menu items are. But, by hiding the menu items, their position changes, and I can't find the menu choice I need.