And, more importantly, the USPTO claims that Microsoft has a trademark on "Windows", too.
Guess who wins in the argument about who can or cannot legally trademark something between the USPTO and some guy on Slashdot who hear from a friend who knows a guy who said that Microsoft couldn't trademark something?
I can only conclude it's because the good beers don't have really good marketing departments that can actually make people think that if you drink a specific brand of beer, attractive women in bikinis will come to your parties.
Well, that and the higher cost. There's a reason that the Camry has a higher market share than the BMW Z4, and I don't think that it has anything to do with not enough Camry buyers test driving a Z4 first.
As for your last statement, I've never tasted swill, so I wouldn't know. But if you want to get drunk without tasting anything, I'd think it would make more sense to go for vodka mixed with just about anything than to drink beer selected because it has less flavor (sorry, more "smoothness") than the competition. On the other hand, after a few drinks worth of sensory dulling you can't really tell the difference anymore.
Sure they could confuse the two. It's very unfair to A-B if an American in Prague orders a Budweiser and instead of getting what he expected, he's actually served a drinkable beer. Can you imagine what would happen to A-B if all of their customers accidentally tasted a good beer? They'd be out of business almost immediately.
Where can I get a kernel extension that will guarantee a kernel panic every time my wireless mouse stops working? My machine is pretty useless without a mouse, so why would I want the rest of the machine to keep working?
Obviously Apple's stock price is artifically high, based on investors' firm belief that the judge in the case would not only throw out Apple Corps claim, but would also make the unprecedented move of awarding Apple Computer the exclusive rights to the entire Beatles catalog. You can't blame them for selling off the stock when their irrational hopes don't come true
And, in any event, a statement that you can't add RAM to a machine without being a certified technician is completely false, regardless of whether you can replace your optical drive easily.
I'd never try to replace the DVD-ROM drive in my tiBook, but the installation of new RAM couldn't possibly be easier. You just pop off the keyboard (no tools required) and insert the RAM into the easily accessible slot.
How the trollish post above that made this statement is moderated "Insightful" instead of "Troll" is beyond me, and I look forward to seeing it in metamoderation.
The skill of our method (correlation with rain gauges) is 0.86 for a 15-min-interval rain intensity and 0.9 for an hourly interval, versus 0.81 and 0.85, respectively, for radar, when evaluated from the maximal value over a 3 x 7 km2 area.
Umm, no it wasn't. The first iMac was introduced in 1998. The iSmell (along with a bjillion other products beginning with a lowercase i) was introduced in 1999.
Are you arguing that the apartment is no longer the landlord's personal property? How can a lease agreement expire, then? How can you be forced to pay rent to live on "your" property? The entire concept is based on the fact that the landlord can, in fact, give up his right to use his personal property (which, according to you, is such a fundamental right that no contract should be allowed to interfere with it) in exchange for consideration.
Invalid analogy. Contracts do not allow you to sign away certain rights. The right to use your own personal property as you see fit should probably be one of them.
That would pretty much make every single contract in the history of contract law completely pointless. You're inventing "rights" and claiming they're so important that they trump contract law.
Should I complain if the lease on my apartment says my landlord can't use my bedroom to store livestock and he decides to keep pigs in my bed? Wouldn't that deny him the Absolute Right to use his private property as he sees fit?
If you're concerned with the health of the local population, then yes, it does matter. Pollutants put into the atmosphere in the US aren't going to cause the sorts of health problems in the EU that you get from being exposed to the pollutants. It's correct that reducing local CO2 emissions isn't going to stop global warming if global CO2 emissions keep going up, but most "air quality" issues are local. For example, ground-level ozone levels are a frequent problem in many US cities during the summer. They cause health problems in the cities, but travel a few miles outside the city, let alone across the Atlantic, and your asthma isn't as bad.
Actually, studies have shown that people who have an alcoholic beverage every dcay live longer than those who don't. So it's best to be a thin, non-smoking, drinking woman with lots of time off.
First of all, there's no free market, so the idea that the Invisible Hand is going to fix everything is ridiculous.
Secondly, the idea that a completely unregulated market is going to bring lower prices to the consume is a fairy tale. Without legislation to forbid collusion (which doesn't even work when it exists), businesses are just as likely to cooperate to get the best profit as they are to compete until they're all making razor thin margins and on the verge of starvation.
I kind of like OS X's maximize button. It makes the window as big as it needs to be, NOT full screen.
And, to be fair, Apple never calls it a "maximize" button. It's not supposed to maximize your window, so it shouldn't be surprising that it doesn't.
Windows users (and, from your comment, even some Apple users who like the functionality of the green Zoom button) just assume that since Windows and OS X windows each have 3 control widgets, and that 2 of them are minimize and close, that the third one must also be identical and that the Mac's button is somehow broken.
You might as well complain that the Dashboard button on a Windows machine (the one cryptically labelled "F12", whatever that means) completely fails to work at all.
Do you Smug Mac Guys ever consider that it conceivably possible that Microsoft thought up something that simply works better than what Apple thought up?
You mean labelling the menu "Start" and moving it to the bottom of the screen instead of labelling it with an Apple logo and keeping it at the top, like Apple thought up years before Windows and discontinued in OS X? Well, sure, that was original.
your arguments will all lose much of their weight on November 12th, 2007 when the DoJ vs MS settlement expires.
However, since the OP's argument is about whether it's legal for Microsfot to take certain actions rather than how pragmatic it is for the current administration or a future government to prosecute them, you're completely wrong. The settlement with the DOJ is 100% tangental to his arguments.
Unless the Sherman Anti-Trust Act expires too, it will remain illegal for Microsfot or any other monopoly to abuse its monopoly position, whether or not it's got a deal with the DoJ.
Right. The distribution centers with the same ZIP code (in my city) they had when I was in the one month trial period suddenly moved across the country (without changing that ZIP code) once I was a paying customer.
I suspect you think I'll believe the USPS would allow them to move and keep their ZIP code in the same way you'll expect me to believe that the postal service suddenly got very inefficient at delivering mail across town in that same time period.
Oddly enough, my mortgage payments get across town just as quickly as they did before, but I'm sure the slightly wider DVD envelope is being delayed by a brand new mail sorting technology the USPS just installed, coincidentally right after my trial period ended, in my area.
On the other hand, while Blockbuster was quicker in sending new movies, we cancelled when it became obvious that they were incapable of sending the DVD at the top of our queue, listed as "Now Available", instead sending the next DVD in the same TV series which was listed after it. If you want to watch the episodes in order, that's pretty annoying. Especially if you keep the out of order DVD and hope to get the correct one when you return another movie. Such faith in their system would be really naive. You're likely to get the next one after the one you're holding, with the one you want to see still sitting atop your queue.
I think the whole industry is a giant conspiracy to get people going back to the bricks and mortar rental locations so they can afford their rent.
I don't think the President could pull enough strings to get the Secret Service to allow him to drive his own car for 5 minutes, let alone fly a supersonic fighter plane.
If you dial up in such a way that you're connected to the internet, then you are indeed on the Internet. If you dial up to a modem connected to a single host, you're not.
I may be a broadband snob, but I remember connecting to BBSs with a 300 baud modem, and I can assure you I wasn't on the Internet while doing so.
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Guess who wins in the argument about who can or cannot legally trademark something between the USPTO and some guy on Slashdot who hear from a friend who knows a guy who said that Microsoft couldn't trademark something?
shh... now they're going to track you down and sue you for diluting their trademark.
Well, that and the higher cost. There's a reason that the Camry has a higher market share than the BMW Z4, and I don't think that it has anything to do with not enough Camry buyers test driving a Z4 first.
As for your last statement, I've never tasted swill, so I wouldn't know. But if you want to get drunk without tasting anything, I'd think it would make more sense to go for vodka mixed with just about anything than to drink beer selected because it has less flavor (sorry, more "smoothness") than the competition. On the other hand, after a few drinks worth of sensory dulling you can't really tell the difference anymore.
But I guess "hexium" as a name wouldn't make for a really lame joke.
Sure they could confuse the two. It's very unfair to A-B if an American in Prague orders a Budweiser and instead of getting what he expected, he's actually served a drinkable beer. Can you imagine what would happen to A-B if all of their customers accidentally tasted a good beer? They'd be out of business almost immediately.
Where can I get a kernel extension that will guarantee a kernel panic every time my wireless mouse stops working? My machine is pretty useless without a mouse, so why would I want the rest of the machine to keep working?
Obviously Apple's stock price is artifically high, based on investors' firm belief that the judge in the case would not only throw out Apple Corps claim, but would also make the unprecedented move of awarding Apple Computer the exclusive rights to the entire Beatles catalog. You can't blame them for selling off the stock when their irrational hopes don't come true
I'd never try to replace the DVD-ROM drive in my tiBook, but the installation of new RAM couldn't possibly be easier. You just pop off the keyboard (no tools required) and insert the RAM into the easily accessible slot.
How the trollish post above that made this statement is moderated "Insightful" instead of "Troll" is beyond me, and I look forward to seeing it in metamoderation.
The skill of our method (correlation with rain gauges) is 0.86 for a 15-min-interval rain intensity and 0.9 for an hourly interval, versus 0.81 and 0.85, respectively, for radar, when evaluated from the maximal value over a 3 x 7 km2 area.
Computer Shopper had advertising in it? I thought it was marketed as a bludgeoning device.
I don't know where you work, but if you need nuclear weapons to quit your job, you've got some real problems.
I don't believe they have any sweatshop-related marketing for them, though.
Umm, no it wasn't. The first iMac was introduced in 1998. The iSmell (along with a bjillion other products beginning with a lowercase i) was introduced in 1999.
Are you arguing that the apartment is no longer the landlord's personal property? How can a lease agreement expire, then? How can you be forced to pay rent to live on "your" property? The entire concept is based on the fact that the landlord can, in fact, give up his right to use his personal property (which, according to you, is such a fundamental right that no contract should be allowed to interfere with it) in exchange for consideration.
That would pretty much make every single contract in the history of contract law completely pointless. You're inventing "rights" and claiming they're so important that they trump contract law.
Should I complain if the lease on my apartment says my landlord can't use my bedroom to store livestock and he decides to keep pigs in my bed? Wouldn't that deny him the Absolute Right to use his private property as he sees fit?
If you're concerned with the health of the local population, then yes, it does matter. Pollutants put into the atmosphere in the US aren't going to cause the sorts of health problems in the EU that you get from being exposed to the pollutants. It's correct that reducing local CO2 emissions isn't going to stop global warming if global CO2 emissions keep going up, but most "air quality" issues are local. For example, ground-level ozone levels are a frequent problem in many US cities during the summer. They cause health problems in the cities, but travel a few miles outside the city, let alone across the Atlantic, and your asthma isn't as bad.
Actually, studies have shown that people who have an alcoholic beverage every dcay live longer than those who don't. So it's best to be a thin, non-smoking, drinking woman with lots of time off.
Secondly, the idea that a completely unregulated market is going to bring lower prices to the consume is a fairy tale. Without legislation to forbid collusion (which doesn't even work when it exists), businesses are just as likely to cooperate to get the best profit as they are to compete until they're all making razor thin margins and on the verge of starvation.
And, to be fair, Apple never calls it a "maximize" button. It's not supposed to maximize your window, so it shouldn't be surprising that it doesn't.
Windows users (and, from your comment, even some Apple users who like the functionality of the green Zoom button) just assume that since Windows and OS X windows each have 3 control widgets, and that 2 of them are minimize and close, that the third one must also be identical and that the Mac's button is somehow broken.
You might as well complain that the Dashboard button on a Windows machine (the one cryptically labelled "F12", whatever that means) completely fails to work at all.
You mean labelling the menu "Start" and moving it to the bottom of the screen instead of labelling it with an Apple logo and keeping it at the top, like Apple thought up years before Windows and discontinued in OS X? Well, sure, that was original.
your arguments will all lose much of their weight on November 12th, 2007 when the DoJ vs MS settlement expires.
However, since the OP's argument is about whether it's legal for Microsfot to take certain actions rather than how pragmatic it is for the current administration or a future government to prosecute them, you're completely wrong. The settlement with the DOJ is 100% tangental to his arguments.
Unless the Sherman Anti-Trust Act expires too, it will remain illegal for Microsfot or any other monopoly to abuse its monopoly position, whether or not it's got a deal with the DoJ.
I suspect you think I'll believe the USPS would allow them to move and keep their ZIP code in the same way you'll expect me to believe that the postal service suddenly got very inefficient at delivering mail across town in that same time period.
Oddly enough, my mortgage payments get across town just as quickly as they did before, but I'm sure the slightly wider DVD envelope is being delayed by a brand new mail sorting technology the USPS just installed, coincidentally right after my trial period ended, in my area.
On the other hand, while Blockbuster was quicker in sending new movies, we cancelled when it became obvious that they were incapable of sending the DVD at the top of our queue, listed as "Now Available", instead sending the next DVD in the same TV series which was listed after it. If you want to watch the episodes in order, that's pretty annoying. Especially if you keep the out of order DVD and hope to get the correct one when you return another movie. Such faith in their system would be really naive. You're likely to get the next one after the one you're holding, with the one you want to see still sitting atop your queue.
I think the whole industry is a giant conspiracy to get people going back to the bricks and mortar rental locations so they can afford their rent.
I don't think the President could pull enough strings to get the Secret Service to allow him to drive his own car for 5 minutes, let alone fly a supersonic fighter plane.
I may be a broadband snob, but I remember connecting to BBSs with a 300 baud modem, and I can assure you I wasn't on the Internet while doing so.