As the article says, you can only legitimately sue if there's danger of product confusion. But the big boys have brought this on themselves. Sony sued some poor woman who ran a small restaurant called "Sony's," and that was the woman's name! I can hear it now..."Yes, Your Honor, I swear I was confused into thinking I was getting a genuine Sony Brand cheeseburger when in fact I was only getting an American-made knockoff. I feel soooo damaged!"
If you go to the trouble to read what they have predicted, you will learn that they see comets as just asteroids with highly elliptical orbits. Just exactly how much of a splash would YOU expect from a spacecraft hitting an iron-nickel asteroid?
No, actually, in the electric model the Sun is a giant anode at the center of a giant vacuum tube. No wire is required. Perhaps you also believe that EM radiation requires the luminiferous ether to operate?
There is nothing whacko about the electric model of the Sun. It is simply a competing model. Keep in mind that there have already been failures of the fusion model, for example, the deficiency of neutrino production.
I have no horse in this race, but it would be nice if those who claim to believe in science would act a bit more scientifically and a bit less like the advocates of superstition and religion.
You haven't heard about Vladimir Putin? Government control of corporations has nothing to do with Communism. And you don't seriously think Joseph Stalin believed in the "withering away of the state," do you?
"a bipartisan coalition of [hick] legislators" wants to tax broadband. Maybe they should tax indoor plumbing and really bring up the living standards of their constituents.
"If they didn't have the one person unique identifier out there in so many of these databases...that link so much information together over disparate databases, the theft perhaps wouldn't be as painful or dangerous to the individual."
But then they couldn't keep a credit history for you and beat you over the head with it when you refuse to pay some incompetent bozo who bollixed up the last job he did for you. Get used to it: We now have government of the business, by the business, and for the business. And YOU end up getting the business...
Like the man said, "of" is simply a mispronunciation of "'ve." As such it's just another case of "the idiots can't spell." It's not a new development of a constantly changing living language. It's just a bit more ignorance added to the huge mound already in place.
So why doesn't some 'twit with a bloody Anglish degree write a version with the proper damned modern spellings? Why do the bloody pedants make you try to read the blimy mythspeelinged version?
This goes along with my cow manure theory of religion. When it's really fresh, it's not much good for anything. But after sufficient ripening time it does have a certain usefulness as fertilizer. And after a couple of thousand years, it's good for research into the state of the human intellect in the past.
Well, I own three TVs. One is in the closet upstairs. One is in the closet downstairs. And one, the Sharp LCD, is used to watch DVDs. Extrapolating from this, 2/3s of all TVs are gay and the other third are wired....
That's what they thought about the railroads.... And, come to think of it, the bronze sword industry. It got the point where you couldn't give away a bronze sword.
So who's going to need whom in the near future? It will get to the point that no one will buy Windows if it won't support the Google Meta-Operating System.
A year! Cheap at twice the price. And I'd imagine they're gonna sell ads like those 3d-worlds aps that never got off the ground. In fact, how long till they integrate this with a 3D virtual world?
My impression of the actual story is that this is about free access to data and not free beer. What happens 50 years from now when some poor Norwegian wants to access his grandparents' land records and the data is stored in an M$ only format that Redmond has decided not to support any longer? And don't forget, Norway is part of a loose-knit Scandinavian Confederation whose laws are synchronized now and then, so that this is likely to spread from Iceland to Finland at the very least. And where goes Denmark, can Germany be far behind?
One can only imagine the uproar from the cuneiform believers when the Egyptians had the audacity to mandate that all public records be kept on papyrus....
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As the article says, you can only legitimately sue if there's danger of product confusion. But the big boys have brought this on themselves. Sony sued some poor woman who ran a small restaurant called "Sony's," and that was the woman's name! I can hear it now..."Yes, Your Honor, I swear I was confused into thinking I was getting a genuine Sony Brand cheeseburger when in fact I was only getting an American-made knockoff. I feel soooo damaged!"
If you go to the trouble to read what they have predicted, you will learn that they see comets as just asteroids with highly elliptical orbits. Just exactly how much of a splash would YOU expect from a spacecraft hitting an iron-nickel asteroid?
No, actually, in the electric model the Sun is a giant anode at the center of a giant vacuum tube. No wire is required. Perhaps you also believe that EM radiation requires the luminiferous ether to operate?
There is nothing whacko about the electric model of the Sun. It is simply a competing model. Keep in mind that there have already been failures of the fusion model, for example, the deficiency of neutrino production.
I have no horse in this race, but it would be nice if those who claim to believe in science would act a bit more scientifically and a bit less like the advocates of superstition and religion.
And which animals would those be?
You haven't heard about Vladimir Putin? Government control of corporations has nothing to do with Communism. And you don't seriously think Joseph Stalin believed in the "withering away of the state," do you?
"It starts the first intergalactic war." Oh, is it from another galaxy?
"a bipartisan coalition of [hick] legislators" wants to tax broadband. Maybe they should tax indoor plumbing and really bring up the living standards of their constituents.
"If they didn't have the one person unique identifier out there in so many of these databases...that link so much information together over disparate databases, the theft perhaps wouldn't be as painful or dangerous to the individual."
But then they couldn't keep a credit history for you and beat you over the head with it when you refuse to pay some incompetent bozo who bollixed up the last job he did for you. Get used to it: We now have government of the business, by the business, and for the business. And YOU end up getting the business...
Judaism isn't all THAT weird. Of course it's the proper name of god that was originally meant, but you know how these fanatics get.
It's irony you dolt!
Like the man said, "of" is simply a mispronunciation of "'ve." As such it's just another case of "the idiots can't spell." It's not a new development of a constantly changing living language. It's just a bit more ignorance added to the huge mound already in place.
Indeed! Twain hits the nail on the head again!
So why doesn't some 'twit with a bloody Anglish degree write a version with the proper damned modern spellings? Why do the bloody pedants make you try to read the blimy mythspeelinged version?
This goes along with my cow manure theory of religion. When it's really fresh, it's not much good for anything. But after sufficient ripening time it does have a certain usefulness as fertilizer. And after a couple of thousand years, it's good for research into the state of the human intellect in the past.
I know, it's still just BS, Mr. Smartypants.
You'll need a shovel and a permit from the Egyptian government.
Especially if they stream Air America like I do.
Well, I own three TVs. One is in the closet upstairs. One is in the closet downstairs. And one, the Sharp LCD, is used to watch DVDs. Extrapolating from this, 2/3s of all TVs are gay and the other third are wired....
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Except Longhorn is going to break all your current software and that will cost you an arm-and-a-half to replace.
"MS is too big to become "irrelevent."
That's what they thought about the railroads.... And, come to think of it, the bronze sword industry. It got the point where you couldn't give away a bronze sword.
That's because it's explosive...
...You will be assimilated.
So who's going to need whom in the near future? It will get to the point that no one will buy Windows if it won't support the Google Meta-Operating System.
A year! Cheap at twice the price. And I'd imagine they're gonna sell ads like those 3d-worlds aps that never got off the ground. In fact, how long till they integrate this with a 3D virtual world?
I have 512 and an empty slot. Maximum possible, 3GB. And my motherboard's a couple of years old. No, this program won't run on a TRS-80. ;-)
My impression of the actual story is that this is about free access to data and not free beer. What happens 50 years from now when some poor Norwegian wants to access his grandparents' land records and the data is stored in an M$ only format that Redmond has decided not to support any longer? And don't forget, Norway is part of a loose-knit Scandinavian Confederation whose laws are synchronized now and then, so that this is likely to spread from Iceland to Finland at the very least. And where goes Denmark, can Germany be far behind?
One can only imagine the uproar from the cuneiform believers when the Egyptians had the audacity to mandate that all public records be kept on papyrus....
Actually, Lindows was supposed to run ALL Windows programs before they scaled back their early claims. Looks like it just got put on the back burner.