On the one hand, it'd totally in-character for SCO to pick on some Average Joe. It's exactly the kind of greaseball move they'd stoop to.
On the other hand, SCO has already said that they'll be going after corporations and not individuals (which, oddly enough, seems to be born out by their actions). I guess it makes sense: corporations are their potential "customers." Perhaps they're hoping the target will settle. (Ugh, this could turn into an ugly perpetual-motion lawsuit machine.)
Who would hire a fresh-out-of-college person with no real world experience?
Um, lots of companies. Let me guess: you're independently wealthy?
These days, to the extent that jobs exist, it's actually easier for college grads to get hired, because they start at the ground floor in terms of salary. Employers don't give a shit about your experience; if they did, an Indian wouldn't be doing your job right now.
I don't know about this Roomba, but IIRC most vacuum cleaners generate a pretty powerful magnetic field. Might not be the best thing to strap a Tablet PC to...
I've checked out Proxyconn's site, and while it seems interesting, it only speeds loading of web pages and embedded images in email. That's nice, but not any help for downloading large files or playing real-time online games, which is where a fast connection is most useful. As for banner ads, does anyone on Slashdot still use IE?
This is our official response in regards to this matter:
I have extended HardOCP.com's pledge to correct any and all possible inconsistencies or errors in our editorial entitled "Behind the Phantom Console" personally to Timothy Roberts and Kevin Bachus of Infinium Labs and they have yet to inform HardOCP.com of any information we presented as being not correct. This courtesy was extended on September 17, 2003, the date the article was published and has been extended several times since then with no reply ever being received by HardOCP.com. It is my opinion that Infinium Labs' only interest is stifling HardOCP.com and our opinions. HardOCP.com still stands by our thoughts and opinions put forth in our editorial and no amount of legal badgering and frivolous lawsuits will change those opinions that we have shared with our readers.
It's good to see a website refusing to be intimidated by spurious legal threats. To often, all it takes is the sound of a lawyer clearing his throat to get a website owner to panic and pull content. Of course, HardOCP is not exactly a two-bit operation, and Infinium Labs is far from a massive corporation, but I'll take my victories where I can. Here's to the free press.
This seems like the racketeering suit filed against DirecTV, which was tossed out of court. Still, I'm glad that someone is taking a stand. Even if this suits and others like it are not successful, the RIAA may change tactics as they begin to meet resistance.
Sure, the big organised crime gangs will get around it with no problems at all. But it will stop the casual counterfeiter. This is what it is designed to do.
"The casual conterfeiter"? What are you smoking? Printing fake money isn't like burning a mix CD: by the time you've gotten your hands on that cottony paper required for a bill to feel like a real one, you're going to have to print out reams of the stuff to make it worth your while. And even if it were feasible on a small scale, it isn't like there's some grass-roots counterfeiting movement, where all the cool kids are printing out $1 bills to use in vending machines. (Or are they, and I'm just missing out?) Frankly, I don't see which actual criminals, who are currently counterfeiting money, will be deterred by this.
The really big advantage of this is they'll be able to command the rovers in near-realtime
...if you consider 8 minutes of lag to be "near realtime." (Mars is 8 light-minutes away from Earth, so until we develop a Tachyon-based communications system, that's as good as it's going to get.)
If the MMORPG is mobile-capable, e.g. PocketPC (which I *HIGHLY* suspect) then it is not a crowded marketplace anymore...even at $3 a month it'll remain pretty lucrative.
Unless their new MMORPG is a MUD (which I *HIGHLY* suspect is not the case), I doubt you'll be able to play it on any PocketPC. You can't even run the most recent version of EverQuest on a 500mhz Pentium II with 512 megs of ram, and PocketPCs aren't even close to being able to support that much RAM. (Don't believe me? See for yourself.)
Lindows was named Lindows purely to generate sales from the popularity/notoriety of Windows. Yes, the word windows can be considered an everyday word, but why does that matter? It is obvious that the product in question chose to mimic another products name, not a popular GUI format or home decoration. If that were the case they would have named it something like Toolbar or Chimney.
I think you're confused about how trademark infringement works. A trademark is infringed if and only if it can be shown that the name would cause a consumer to confuse the two products. Just having a name that's reminiscent of the name of another company's product isn't automatically an infringement. (That's why if there's a car called a Mercury, and I want to call my software suite Mercury, I can do so: there's no risk that someone will mistakenly believe that my software suite is a product of the car company.) There is no way someone would confuse "Lindows" for "Microsoft Windows."
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But if we were born with 13 fingers on each hand, then how would we work math?
If you want wierd examples of mathematical systems, look no further than human history. The ancient Babylonians did their astrological calculations in base 60. The ancient Romans had their own wonky system of numerals. The traditional Chinese system of numbering might be called base 5, but it really isn't.
Now, if you mean the actual mechanics of math, I'd argue that those are universal. If you have one thing and get another thing, you'll have two things. That's true in New York, Antartica, and Alpha Centauri.
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You said it. I'm on the east coast and my provider used to be Bell Atlantic, but now it's Verizon. I haven't even heard of Bell Atlantic in years...
On the contrary, a sign of a great idea is that even if the market doesn't accept it at first, it keeps on returning until its time has come.
And to think that all this time, I was expressing my algorithms in pictograms!
Pressing news: later today, pressing news will be announced.
I call bullshit.
On the other hand, SCO has already said that they'll be going after corporations and not individuals (which, oddly enough, seems to be born out by their actions). I guess it makes sense: corporations are their potential "customers." Perhaps they're hoping the target will settle. (Ugh, this could turn into an ugly perpetual-motion lawsuit machine.)
Bring 'em on!
No, they'll blame pirates.
Um, lots of companies. Let me guess: you're independently wealthy?
These days, to the extent that jobs exist, it's actually easier for college grads to get hired, because they start at the ground floor in terms of salary. Employers don't give a shit about your experience; if they did, an Indian wouldn't be doing your job right now.
That is not what he said. What Clemens said was, "don't be an unpaid volunteer (i.e. sucker)."
If I were able to read the news ten times more quickly, I'd just have to get back to work ten times faster!
I don't know about this Roomba, but IIRC most vacuum cleaners generate a pretty powerful magnetic field. Might not be the best thing to strap a Tablet PC to...
I've checked out Proxyconn's site, and while it seems interesting, it only speeds loading of web pages and embedded images in email. That's nice, but not any help for downloading large files or playing real-time online games, which is where a fast connection is most useful. As for banner ads, does anyone on Slashdot still use IE?
But with such a professional webpage, it must be genuine!
Ahem. Commonweal is an archaic term meaning the common welfare. (Think weal as in Weal and Woe.)
If only...
I have extended HardOCP.com's pledge to correct any and all possible inconsistencies or errors in our editorial entitled "Behind the Phantom Console" personally to Timothy Roberts and Kevin Bachus of Infinium Labs and they have yet to inform HardOCP.com of any information we presented as being not correct. This courtesy was extended on September 17, 2003, the date the article was published and has been extended several times since then with no reply ever being received by HardOCP.com. It is my opinion that Infinium Labs' only interest is stifling HardOCP.com and our opinions. HardOCP.com still stands by our thoughts and opinions put forth in our editorial and no amount of legal badgering and frivolous lawsuits will change those opinions that we have shared with our readers.
It's good to see a website refusing to be intimidated by spurious legal threats. To often, all it takes is the sound of a lawyer clearing his throat to get a website owner to panic and pull content. Of course, HardOCP is not exactly a two-bit operation, and Infinium Labs is far from a massive corporation, but I'll take my victories where I can. Here's to the free press.
This seems like the racketeering suit filed against DirecTV, which was tossed out of court. Still, I'm glad that someone is taking a stand. Even if this suits and others like it are not successful, the RIAA may change tactics as they begin to meet resistance.
"The casual conterfeiter"? What are you smoking? Printing fake money isn't like burning a mix CD: by the time you've gotten your hands on that cottony paper required for a bill to feel like a real one, you're going to have to print out reams of the stuff to make it worth your while. And even if it were feasible on a small scale, it isn't like there's some grass-roots counterfeiting movement, where all the cool kids are printing out $1 bills to use in vending machines. (Or are they, and I'm just missing out?) Frankly, I don't see which actual criminals, who are currently counterfeiting money, will be deterred by this.
IIRC, I think there's two scales for pH. One states that 1-4.9 is "base", 5 is neutral 6-10 is "acid". The other is 0-5 "acid", 6-10 "alkaline".
The "other scale for pH" you're thinking of is pOH. Just subtract a pH level from 14 and you have the equivalent pOH level.
If the MMORPG is mobile-capable, e.g. PocketPC (which I *HIGHLY* suspect) then it is not a crowded marketplace anymore...even at $3 a month it'll remain pretty lucrative.
Unless their new MMORPG is a MUD (which I *HIGHLY* suspect is not the case), I doubt you'll be able to play it on any PocketPC. You can't even run the most recent version of EverQuest on a 500mhz Pentium II with 512 megs of ram, and PocketPCs aren't even close to being able to support that much RAM. (Don't believe me? See for yourself.)
I think you're confused about how trademark infringement works. A trademark is infringed if and only if it can be shown that the name would cause a consumer to confuse the two products. Just having a name that's reminiscent of the name of another company's product isn't automatically an infringement. (That's why if there's a car called a Mercury, and I want to call my software suite Mercury, I can do so: there's no risk that someone will mistakenly believe that my software suite is a product of the car company.) There is no way someone would confuse "Lindows" for "Microsoft Windows."
If you want wierd examples of mathematical systems, look no further than human history. The ancient Babylonians did their astrological calculations in base 60. The ancient Romans had their own wonky system of numerals. The traditional Chinese system of numbering might be called base 5, but it really isn't.
Now, if you mean the actual mechanics of math, I'd argue that those are universal. If you have one thing and get another thing, you'll have two things. That's true in New York, Antartica, and Alpha Centauri.
Many colleges (including mine) offer Comp Sci. courses in which you design an operating system. It's not that uncommon.