The ocean is a lot closer and cheaper to get to. Heck, it may even have more useful minerals than the moon. Might not have the super-nationalistic "We made it to the moon and now I've got moonrocks for gravel because of our people's democratic moon station of power" ring to it, but it's more available. Right?
No worries. With the $300 withdrawl limit, the thief can only steal so much per day. They'll have to keep taking your eyeball back to an ATM and you and the police can follow your eyeball around the country eventually retrieving it.
Well, I guess the bank would disable your account......?
"No, wait! I'll just *GIVE* you $300... Please don't take my eyeball out!"
IANAL, but if the word becomes ubiquitous, then it's kind of like it's in the public domain and the trademark is weakened. Well, at least that's what the LAWYERS think, I bet. Real people know they can't start a company and start selling 'Band-Aids' and 'xerox machines' and hope they won't get sued.
And of course, the 10% who were just in Seattle to cause a ruckus was 100% of what the media showed on the nightly news. If believe the scene that was replayed many times was someone 'anarchist' throwing a rock at a Starbuck's window.
With regards to L.A. and Seattle, I think they are different beats. L.A. was primarily one group of people expressing outrage at perceived (read: real) economic disparities and the growing prison industrial complex that primarily targets people of color. I think your definition of Seattle's WTO protest is pretty accurate. A lot of white people protesting, but a lot more up there for the spirit of things or just tryin' to bust shit up. IMHO, anyhow.
Mildly off topic I know, but it's strange when events like open-software gaining acceptance in the marketplace are called 'uprisings'(as though open-source programmers are so terribly disenfranchised) while real uprisings, like the 'L.A. riots' that happened in part to bring about social change for increasingly disenfranchised and marginalized groups have less grand language applied to them (e.g. 'riot').
"Frustrations, though, run high. One Microsoft executive, chief strategist Craig Mundie, even calls Linux unhealthy for the technology industry. "It ultimately is a question about whether societies are going to value intellectual property or not," he says."
No, they don't! Evidence: Napster, Kazaa, et al. Casual piracy in the workplace. Mix-tapes. etc.
"Second, Intel Corp., the dominant maker of processors for PCs, loosened its tight links with Microsoft and started making chips for Linux. This made it possible for corporations to get all the computing power they wanted at a fraction of the price."
Specialized linux chips? Why didn't I see this posted on/.???? This is possibly the biggest story this year!
Must be because there are fewer names..maybe because few people ever settled there and populations changed drastically a few times.
Your children if you have any, would be surnamed: Arnorsson (male) or Arnordottir (female) if you kept with icelandic traditions of patronymic naming, I think.
I think that growth-driven business and software combined make for an obnoxious combination. Businesses feel that new software they put out has to have new features and new designs even when previous versions of the software worked very efficiently
I can see this with Windows XP and Office XP. Windows 98 & 2k do pretty much everything XP does without the snazz or bloat.
OpenOffice does everything I want it to as well, and it's like a free version of older Office
I feel like a lot of computer-savvy people get snide with people that don't share their knowledge base or don't care as much about computers. Why this is, I don't know. Lack of interpersonal skills or something.
On second thought, I guess this could occur in any domain where there is a lot of learning on the side, outside of classes. Like I have a friend who thinks he 'knows' japanese, but won't take any classes because he thinks he knows more than any professor. Give me a break!
"If Jack Valenti had his way back in 1982 (he almost did as the Sony BetaMax case went all the way to the Supreme Court) we wouldn't have VCRs today, Blockbuster wouldn't exist and 50% of Hollywoods income wouldn't exist."
Blockbuster not existing with their crappy video selection along with Aaron Spelling Genetic Nepotism(TM) make a failure of the Betamax doctrine seem 99% bad, instead of 100%.
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Ads for nerds. Shit that we can't afford.
Dude, you just stepped on my webserver.
Oh shit, sorry...
Hey, the music stopped?
Oh shit, sorry...
"I am a fly who onced dreamed he was a man.....and without a webserver"
The ocean is a lot closer and cheaper to get to.
Heck, it may even have more useful minerals than the moon.
Might not have the super-nationalistic "We made it to the moon and now I've got moonrocks for gravel because of our people's democratic moon station of power" ring to it, but it's more available. Right?
No worries. With the $300 withdrawl limit, the thief can only steal so much per day. They'll have to keep taking your eyeball back to an ATM and you and the police can follow your eyeball around the country eventually retrieving it.
Well, I guess the bank would disable your account......?
"No, wait! I'll just *GIVE* you $300... Please don't take my eyeball out!"
IANAL, but if the word becomes ubiquitous, then it's kind of like it's in the public domain and the trademark is weakened. Well, at least that's what the LAWYERS think, I bet. Real people know they can't start a company and start selling 'Band-Aids' and 'xerox machines' and hope they won't get sued.
to shut up and keep pretending it is not a company ruled by lawyers!
With regards to L.A. and Seattle, I think they are different beats. L.A. was primarily one group of people expressing outrage at perceived (read: real) economic disparities and the growing prison industrial complex that primarily targets people of color. I think your definition of Seattle's WTO protest is pretty accurate. A lot of white people protesting, but a lot more up there for the spirit of things or just tryin' to bust shit up. IMHO, anyhow.
Mildly off topic I know, but it's strange when events like open-software gaining acceptance in the marketplace are called 'uprisings'(as though open-source programmers are so terribly disenfranchised) while real uprisings, like the 'L.A. riots' that happened in part to bring about social change for increasingly disenfranchised and marginalized groups have less grand language applied to them (e.g. 'riot').
No, they don't! Evidence: Napster, Kazaa, et al. Casual piracy in the workplace. Mix-tapes. etc.
Specialized linux chips? Why didn't I see this posted on /.???? This is possibly the biggest story this year!
Can we say Pons and Fleischmann salad dressings?
Must be because there are fewer names..maybe because few people ever settled there and populations changed drastically a few times.
Your children if you have any, would be surnamed: Arnorsson (male) or Arnordottir (female) if you kept with icelandic traditions of patronymic naming, I think.
PRIOR FUCKING ART!
Well, here's one link to a glucose-powered fuel cell. Enjoy!
it's called e-mail with PGP.
There is a face and name to this evil!!!!
When they *finally* get around to getting that Gundam operational, it will run Linux!!!!!
I don't like paying $50 a month for 1.5 MB down and double-56k up.
I can see this with Windows XP and Office XP. Windows 98 & 2k do pretty much everything XP does without the snazz or bloat.
OpenOffice does everything I want it to as well, and it's like a free version of older Office
C'est la vie...
I feel like a lot of computer-savvy people get snide with people that don't share their knowledge base or don't care as much about computers. Why this is, I don't know. Lack of interpersonal skills or something.
On second thought, I guess this could occur in any domain where there is a lot of learning on the side, outside of classes. Like I have a friend who thinks he 'knows' japanese, but won't take any classes because he thinks he knows more than any professor. Give me a break!
*THWACK*
Okay. Here's your 386 running Windows 3.1
"And this is what I mean: I'd really like to have the system before that."
*BEEP*
Here's your old Apple II.
Blockbuster not existing with their crappy video selection along with Aaron Spelling Genetic Nepotism(TM) make a failure of the Betamax doctrine seem 99% bad, instead of 100%.
macshune
I was gonna say that, but I figured it was ;)
already common knowledge