Monopolies may not be bad if they are regulated. Unregulated monopolies, on the other hand, are bad. They are bad because of bad behavior. They may start off nice, but without competition or regulation, they will turn towards bad behavior.
I don't know what you mean by, "it's called capitalism." There are lots of things called "capitalism" and in many of those cases, we try to encourage competition and discourage the formation of monopolies. Antitrust is a very important part of a market economy.
Legally, it's not who registers the trademark first, but who uses the trademark first. It also matters if they are in the same market. It's possible that they could all get the gmail trademark if they are all in completely different markets. For Google to be in trouble, one of these other companies would have had to actually use the gmail name to provide Internet services or email services before Google. If one of the other companies get gmail registered as a trademark, Google can still use gmail, get sued by the other company, and then as a defense, challenge the validity of the other company's registered trademark. I bet Google's attorney's are not worried.
Actually, it isn't that remarkable. Apple has high R&D costs associated with their hardware and software that PC makers don't have to deal with, e.g. OS X and the G5. I read an article where a Dell spokesperson was bragging that they had the same R&D budget as Apple. They failed to mentioned that Dell is a much larger company.
Last I knew, the New York Stock Exchange ran on NT. Also, I happen to know that many airline dispatch systems run on NT as well. I've never heard M$ say not to use their OS.
I find it funny that you blame Apple and their tech support. It sounds like if you had done as they asked and disabled your linux box, you would have gotten you network back up and running. Your problem was having two DHCP servers and you didn't realize that your Airport Base Station had a DHCP server running. Well, IMHO, it's kind of a no brainer to realize that the Base Station has a DHCP server running. Most of these kinds of devices do. Also, the configuration utilities for the Base Station are pretty easy to use and the settings for the DHCP server part are pretty clear.
IMHO your problem with Apple is that you're just more familiar with GNU-LINUX. You can't blame that on Apple.
Actually no, because the DPI at which the OS renders (96 for Windows and 72 for Mac) does not match the DPI of the physical screen (typically over 100). The OS typically does not know or does not account for varying differences in DPI of differing physical displays. This means fonts that are 12 pt usually are different sizes on different computers. However, printer drivers typically know what DPI the physical printers are and therefore the fonts are printed the same on every physical printer (roughly the same).
You sound a bit confused. 12 point refers to the size of a font when printed. Typical printing ranges from 9 to 12 point. 14 is definitely big. It will look a little awkward. The whole 96 DPI and 72 DPI thing refers to rendering the font on-screen. In this sense, 12 point start to become meaningless because some computers can render fonts at other resolutions besides 96 or 72 DPI. Regardless of what it looks like on screen, 12 should always be the same size on paper.
Actually, Georgia is also a screen font. Verdana (sans serif) and Georgia (serif) were specifically designed to be easy to read on-screen. Georgia does not look good on paper, it comes out too dark. Verdana looks like crap on paper but great on-screen. Tahoma is actually just Verdana Narrow. Both Times New Roman and Arial are designed for print. Unfortunately they are both overused and ugly. Can't we get anything new?
Actually, in law, "real property" refers to land. So, copyrights are _not_ real property. By the same token, your car is not real property either. It may also help to keep in mind that 'property' is an artificial concept in the first place. Property is whatever the courts and the legislature define it as: typically property is a bundle of rights regarding a relationship between a legal person and another regarding the subject of the property right. In the case of copyrights, we're talking about a different bundle of rights than with your car.
I think you might be missing something. Apparently, a lot of people approve of this kind of stuff. Bush's approval ratings are pretty high and slashdoters represent only a minority of the population. Apparently, American Democracy is working the way it was intended to--albeit with results that we, the minority, don't approve of. Unless, of course, you think more people would be against these policies than are currently, if only they were better educated. Perhaps it's time to start campaigning for media and education reform--did you know that every day there are 310 hours of conservative talk radio and only 5 of progressive talk radio? We might also want to give a few of our hard earned dimes to the Democrats. Who would you feel more comfortable with running our country, the Teacher's Unions, Labor Unions, EFF, and the ACLU, or Big Oil, Enron, Clear Channel, and the pharmaceutical companies?
We don't need a law that would be "narrow enough" to prevent a "bonanza for lawyers." We need a law that shuts down spammers period. If lawyers profit by shutting down the spammers, then so be it. Seriously, are lawyers as evil as spammers? Remember, with these private rights of action, it will be the lawyers who save us from spam. There are a lot of good lawyers out there working in the public interest. Also, keep in mind, once spamming dies out, so will the business for lawyers.
I successfully migrated over two gigs of mail from Outlook PST files to Mail.app using Outlook2Mac. I also converted a lot of contacts. It's a great tool--reliable and accurate. Converts attachments and everything. Only problem, it runs in Windows.
The original Dungeon Master on my Amiga 500c freaked me out. Wondering around in silence, hearing faint footsteps getting louder, sudden silence... then bam, a mummy jumps out from around the corner! Holy cow would I jump! Incidentally, my brother and I mapped out that entire game on graph paper.
Besides Dungeon Master, I gotta say, that I played some MUD in school. I don't remember the name of the Mudd (Deku or something), but after 40 hours in one week, I decided I'd better go cold turkey. It was like drugs. A buddy of mine dropped out of school. He played something like 800 hours in one semester.
Diablo II is certainly up there too. Not only is it addictive, but playing Hard Core online (that is when you play and death is permanent) can be intense. I remember when I first started playing Hardcore with my brother and a PK (player killer) came after my brother. I totally freaked! I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
This evening, 4/2/03, Nightly Business Report on PBS said that M$'s stock price went up when they announced that they were in talks to buy Google.
It's not whether M$ can compete with Google that we should be concerned with. Competition is good. It's the lack of competition that we should be worried about.
Actually, v60 is the most recent public beta--it does not have tabs and was never leaked. It's v62 that was the first to include tabs and was leaked, supposedly unintentionally.
Actually, the replay showed that Gore should have won. If they had only recounted the counties that Gore requested, then yes Bush would have won. However, and ironically, if they had recounted the entire state, as Bush was tempted to request, then Gore would have won.
So yes, Gore won both the overall popular vote and he won Florida. Moreover, in the case of a tie, it should have been Congress that made the final decision, not the Supreme Court--as stated in the US Constitution.
Bush was appointed president, not elected. To add irony upon irony, the heavily conservative state-rights US Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court and itnerfered with the election proceedings of the State of Florida, which according to the US Constitution has the sovereignty to determine its own electorates.
I wouldn't get your panties so bunched up about Al Gore and the DMCA. Remember that it was Gore and the Clinton administration that tried to break up Microsoft. (Unlike the current admin that just decided they will no longer enforce anti-trust laws.) Gore clearly has a pro-technology and pro-technology-choice bent. Al Gore may be able to do a lot for Apple. He certainly has a lot of connections. This could be a really smart move on Apple's part.
Interesting side note, President Clinton and Jobs were pretty tight, while Michael Dell was a big supporter of Dubya. I think that says a lot...
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Monopolies may not be bad if they are regulated. Unregulated monopolies, on the other hand, are bad. They are bad because of bad behavior. They may start off nice, but without competition or regulation, they will turn towards bad behavior.
I don't know what you mean by, "it's called capitalism." There are lots of things called "capitalism" and in many of those cases, we try to encourage competition and discourage the formation of monopolies. Antitrust is a very important part of a market economy.
Legally, it's not who registers the trademark first, but who uses the trademark first. It also matters if they are in the same market. It's possible that they could all get the gmail trademark if they are all in completely different markets. For Google to be in trouble, one of these other companies would have had to actually use the gmail name to provide Internet services or email services before Google. If one of the other companies get gmail registered as a trademark, Google can still use gmail, get sued by the other company, and then as a defense, challenge the validity of the other company's registered trademark. I bet Google's attorney's are not worried.
Actually, it isn't that remarkable. Apple has high R&D costs associated with their hardware and software that PC makers don't have to deal with, e.g. OS X and the G5. I read an article where a Dell spokesperson was bragging that they had the same R&D budget as Apple. They failed to mentioned that Dell is a much larger company.
Last I knew, the New York Stock Exchange ran on NT. Also, I happen to know that many airline dispatch systems run on NT as well. I've never heard M$ say not to use their OS.
I find it funny that you blame Apple and their tech support. It sounds like if you had done as they asked and disabled your linux box, you would have gotten you network back up and running. Your problem was having two DHCP servers and you didn't realize that your Airport Base Station had a DHCP server running. Well, IMHO, it's kind of a no brainer to realize that the Base Station has a DHCP server running. Most of these kinds of devices do. Also, the configuration utilities for the Base Station are pretty easy to use and the settings for the DHCP server part are pretty clear.
IMHO your problem with Apple is that you're just more familiar with GNU-LINUX. You can't blame that on Apple.
Actually no, because the DPI at which the OS renders (96 for Windows and 72 for Mac) does not match the DPI of the physical screen (typically over 100). The OS typically does not know or does not account for varying differences in DPI of differing physical displays. This means fonts that are 12 pt usually are different sizes on different computers. However, printer drivers typically know what DPI the physical printers are and therefore the fonts are printed the same on every physical printer (roughly the same).
You sound a bit confused. 12 point refers to the size of a font when printed. Typical printing ranges from 9 to 12 point. 14 is definitely big. It will look a little awkward. The whole 96 DPI and 72 DPI thing refers to rendering the font on-screen. In this sense, 12 point start to become meaningless because some computers can render fonts at other resolutions besides 96 or 72 DPI. Regardless of what it looks like on screen, 12 should always be the same size on paper.
Actually, Georgia is also a screen font. Verdana (sans serif) and Georgia (serif) were specifically designed to be easy to read on-screen. Georgia does not look good on paper, it comes out too dark. Verdana looks like crap on paper but great on-screen. Tahoma is actually just Verdana Narrow. Both Times New Roman and Arial are designed for print. Unfortunately they are both overused and ugly. Can't we get anything new?
Actually, in law, "real property" refers to land. So, copyrights are _not_ real property. By the same token, your car is not real property either. It may also help to keep in mind that 'property' is an artificial concept in the first place. Property is whatever the courts and the legislature define it as: typically property is a bundle of rights regarding a relationship between a legal person and another regarding the subject of the property right. In the case of copyrights, we're talking about a different bundle of rights than with your car.
I think you might be missing something. Apparently, a lot of people approve of this kind of stuff. Bush's approval ratings are pretty high and slashdoters represent only a minority of the population. Apparently, American Democracy is working the way it was intended to--albeit with results that we, the minority, don't approve of. Unless, of course, you think more people would be against these policies than are currently, if only they were better educated. Perhaps it's time to start campaigning for media and education reform--did you know that every day there are 310 hours of conservative talk radio and only 5 of progressive talk radio? We might also want to give a few of our hard earned dimes to the Democrats. Who would you feel more comfortable with running our country, the Teacher's Unions, Labor Unions, EFF, and the ACLU, or Big Oil, Enron, Clear Channel, and the pharmaceutical companies?
That's why you go after the company that hires the spammer. Trace the money, trace the products.
We don't need a law that would be "narrow enough" to prevent a "bonanza for lawyers." We need a law that shuts down spammers period. If lawyers profit by shutting down the spammers, then so be it. Seriously, are lawyers as evil as spammers? Remember, with these private rights of action, it will be the lawyers who save us from spam. There are a lot of good lawyers out there working in the public interest. Also, keep in mind, once spamming dies out, so will the business for lawyers.
I successfully migrated over two gigs of mail from Outlook PST files to Mail.app using Outlook2Mac. I also converted a lot of contacts. It's a great tool--reliable and accurate. Converts attachments and everything. Only problem, it runs in Windows.
The original Dungeon Master on my Amiga 500c freaked me out. Wondering around in silence, hearing faint footsteps getting louder, sudden silence... then bam, a mummy jumps out from around the corner! Holy cow would I jump! Incidentally, my brother and I mapped out that entire game on graph paper.
Besides Dungeon Master, I gotta say, that I played some MUD in school. I don't remember the name of the Mudd (Deku or something), but after 40 hours in one week, I decided I'd better go cold turkey. It was like drugs. A buddy of mine dropped out of school. He played something like 800 hours in one semester.
Diablo II is certainly up there too. Not only is it addictive, but playing Hard Core online (that is when you play and death is permanent) can be intense. I remember when I first started playing Hardcore with my brother and a PK (player killer) came after my brother. I totally freaked! I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
Quicktime 6 is MPEG-4 while WMP and Div-X are proprietary derivations of MPEG-4.
This evening, 4/2/03, Nightly Business Report on PBS said that M$'s stock price went up when they announced that they were in talks to buy Google.
It's not whether M$ can compete with Google that we should be concerned with. Competition is good. It's the lack of competition that we should be worried about.
Actually, v60 is the most recent public beta--it does not have tabs and was never leaked. It's v62 that was the first to include tabs and was leaked, supposedly unintentionally.
Actually, the replay showed that Gore should have won. If they had only recounted the counties that Gore requested, then yes Bush would have won. However, and ironically, if they had recounted the entire state, as Bush was tempted to request, then Gore would have won.
So yes, Gore won both the overall popular vote and he won Florida. Moreover, in the case of a tie, it should have been Congress that made the final decision, not the Supreme Court--as stated in the US Constitution.
Bush was appointed president, not elected. To add irony upon irony, the heavily conservative state-rights US Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court and itnerfered with the election proceedings of the State of Florida, which according to the US Constitution has the sovereignty to determine its own electorates.
I wouldn't get your panties so bunched up about Al Gore and the DMCA. Remember that it was Gore and the Clinton administration that tried to break up Microsoft. (Unlike the current admin that just decided they will no longer enforce anti-trust laws.) Gore clearly has a pro-technology and pro-technology-choice bent. Al Gore may be able to do a lot for Apple. He certainly has a lot of connections. This could be a really smart move on Apple's part.
Interesting side note, President Clinton and Jobs were pretty tight, while Michael Dell was a big supporter of Dubya. I think that says a lot...