well, clearly you didn't get the idea...let me try again. As I said, hoover isn't a good example, 'hoover' is synonymous with the generic product. 'cellotape' is also a bad example for the same reason.
Try 'Tesco'. If the only supermarket name you can think of is 'Tesco' (presumably because their marketing is so effective) and you still identify that with the store named Tesco while recognising there are others that have a different name then I think there's an argument for them being upset when you are offered a choice of others when specifically asking for them by name.
On the other hand, if you go to a store for an 'iPod', I don't think it's unreasonable for the assistant to suggest non-Apple alternatives. That doesn't sound so bad... although, I haven't lived in the UK since the Apple produced the iPod, so I don't know if that has become synonymous with 'mp3 player'.
Given my understanding of trademark law, they are, but of course that carries the usual weight of an IANAL comment on slashdot:)
Furthermore, it's trademark law in the UK, which might possibly be different to that in the US (assuming you're from the US).
On the other hand, the UK is pretty much in the US's back pocket these days - you know, the one round the back, in the middle. Strangely brown, and worn.
...but when you look in the phone book for 'Tesco', do you really want to see the numbers for all different supermarkets? I wouldn't - I would want the number for Tesco. If I wanted to select a supermarket, I would look up 'supermarkets' in the yellow pages.
One company spends a fortune building a brand image and is so successful that it is *their* product's name that is the first thing you think of when you think of the generic product, and yet you think it's ok to use produce results for their competitors too?
I'm not sure I said that too clearly, but I hope you get the idea.
Aren't they including the fact that the people you distribute it to are also *automatically* doing to then distribute it to others (at least in part)? If so, then it's not just your bandwidth, but the bandwidth of everyone on the bt network, at any time from then on.
I recently wanted to do RAID1 in a case that only fitted one 3.5" HDD - and it was the space for a low profile 3.5" HDD too. I used their adapter to fit in two 2.5" drives into the space of a single 3.5" drive. Works really well:)
He didn't complete his sentence. He was saying something about your 'an idiot'. You have an 'an idiot' don't you? If not, then I don't know what he means.
Although this is kind of a non-issue if only Lenovo is doing that because my employer won't buy from China... Care to name your company so we can opt to not buy from them?
I've never thought of a widescreen as a smaller version of a 4.3 aspect screen. I think of it as a 4.3 screen with extra space on the sides. Yeah, me too!
If someone doesn't like the extra space on the side, I'm sure they could set the resolution to something more square and/or put some black tape over it. Of course, in the case of a laptop, they'd still have lug around the extra weight due to the wider screen dictating a wider computer overall.
Personally, I find window management in OSX to be a fucking nightmare in general, due to that damnable one-menu-bar-per-system philosophy Apple has. I couldn't agree with you more - Aqua seems set up for one window per screen.
Just follow Eugenia's instructions and you'll be up and running in no time flat! As he said, can't understand without a tutorial. No, he didn't. He may have implied it, but 'implied is in the ear of the listener'.
This is actually what he said:
The blender i used for rendering was nigh-impossible to figure out without at least three tutorials. One tutorial is not 'at least three tutorials'.
" The Chinese invasion of 1950 cannot be divorced from this history thirty-seven years before and the politics of the powers in the region: Chinese, Russian and British. "
The British (of the time, at least) have a lot to answer for, IMO; and I say that as an Englishman myself.
I agree with some things you wrote, but not others.
One thing though, when I mentioned "People who bring a bad name on their country are severely dealt with as a matter of law.", I was talking about corruption and other such illegal activity that brings a bad name to the country - nothing to do with 'forceful repression of ideas' which is another argument altogether[1].
Anyway, it's way too late...and, like I said, a proper response would take way too long.
[1] which I also 'tend to' disagree with you on, as it happens - note Tiananmen and Tibet, for example - plenty of expression of 'ideas' at both places - of course, western media have a single-minded interpretation of both, but that's the whole point. I do notice a change though - the media seem to be more balanced in the last few days/weeks (not sure why).
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well, clearly you didn't get the idea...let me try again. As I said, hoover isn't a good example, 'hoover' is synonymous with the generic product. 'cellotape' is also a bad example for the same reason.
Try 'Tesco'. If the only supermarket name you can think of is 'Tesco' (presumably because their marketing is so effective) and you still identify that with the store named Tesco while recognising there are others that have a different name then I think there's an argument for them being upset when you are offered a choice of others when specifically asking for them by name.
On the other hand, if you go to a store for an 'iPod', I don't think it's unreasonable for the assistant to suggest non-Apple alternatives. That doesn't sound so bad...
although, I haven't lived in the UK since the Apple produced the iPod, so I don't know if that has become synonymous with 'mp3 player'.
trade marks that haven't already become generic...
right, and we're talking about the UK not the US in this case, so you're agreeing with me? ...or did I miss something?
indeed. I get the point. Fair enough, I guess. Although, aren't Google working against this in an unnatural way?
I wrote that, and I wasn't referring to such names because they are generic, so it is a bad example.
Well, I'm glad someone realises it....as a westerner living in China, I find the blatant bias of the western media disgusting.
I think I agree.
Hoover is a bad example, because the word has come to mean 'vacuum cleaner'.
... to be honest I'm not all that interestedTry the English2American dictionary - 'h' section :
http://english2american.com/dictionary/h.html
Given my understanding of trademark law, they are, but of course that carries the usual weight of an IANAL comment on slashdot :)
Furthermore, it's trademark law in the UK, which might possibly be different to that in the US (assuming you're from the US).On the other hand, the UK is pretty much in the US's back pocket these days - you know, the one round the back, in the middle. Strangely brown, and worn.
...but when you look in the phone book for 'Tesco', do you really want to see the numbers for all different supermarkets? I wouldn't - I would want the number for Tesco. If I wanted to select a supermarket, I would look up 'supermarkets' in the yellow pages.
Devil's advocate here...
One company spends a fortune building a brand image and is so successful that it is *their* product's name that is the first thing you think of when you think of the generic product, and yet you think it's ok to use produce results for their competitors too?
I'm not sure I said that too clearly, but I hope you get the idea.
Aren't they including the fact that the people you distribute it to are also *automatically* doing to then distribute it to others (at least in part)? If so, then it's not just your bandwidth, but the bandwidth of everyone on the bt network, at any time from then on.
(playing Devil's advocate here, of course)
I had similar thoughts when I read tfa.
:)
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I recently wanted to do RAID1 in a case that only fitted one 3.5" HDD - and it was the space for a low profile 3.5" HDD too.
I used their adapter to fit in two 2.5" drives into the space of a single 3.5" drive. Works really well
I really recommend that site..
He didn't complete his sentence. He was saying something about your 'an idiot'. You have an 'an idiot' don't you? If not, then I don't know what he means.
If someone doesn't like the extra space on the side, I'm sure they could set the resolution to something more square and/or put some black tape over it. Of course, in the case of a laptop, they'd still have lug around the extra weight due to the wider screen dictating a wider computer overall.
By 'square screen' I think he meant 'screen for squares'.
Ooh, that hurt.
This is actually what he said
Here's something that's worth reading, IMO :
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~anoop/weblog/archives/000094.html
An excerpt :
"
The Chinese invasion of 1950 cannot be divorced from this history thirty-seven years before and the politics of the powers in the region: Chinese, Russian and British.
"
The British (of the time, at least) have a lot to answer for, IMO; and I say that as an Englishman myself.
Too long mate. Way too long.
I agree with some things you wrote, but not others.
One thing though, when I mentioned "People who bring a bad name on their country are severely dealt with as a matter of law.", I was talking about corruption and other such illegal activity that brings a bad name to the country - nothing to do with 'forceful repression of ideas' which is another argument altogether[1].
Anyway, it's way too late...and, like I said, a proper response would take way too long.
[1] which I also 'tend to' disagree with you on, as it happens - note Tiananmen and Tibet, for example - plenty of expression of 'ideas' at both places - of course, western media have a single-minded interpretation of both, but that's the whole point. I do notice a change though - the media seem to be more balanced in the last few days/weeks (not sure why).