Not public domain, however Trademarks can be lost because of common usage. Ask Bayer (they lost the asprin tradmark), some other famous lost trademarks include:
So the question is did the Olympics become common usage or has the modern olympic commite reinstated the mark's value through their promotion, and thus should get exclusive use of the mark. Aparently the people who assign trademarks felt they had a valid mark (but its equally possible they were wrong).
However, trademarks are only protected for use in trade and aren't ment to stop free expression. Thus you should be able to set up a non-profit site like www.theolympicssuck.org and they shouldn't be able to stop you. OTOH the intent and the implementation of the law often aren't the same.
Always be aware of the basic rule of the road, you may be in the right but do you really want to try to prove it by stepping into a crosswalk in front of the speeding truck?
ABCNews has recently has done a series of interesting articles on women in the computing industry(1, 2, and 3).
The most recent article (here) is on why and how women are steered in a number of ways away from computing careers.
Mentioned in the article was a study by the American Association of University Women of these pressures in how computers are taught, an executive summary is here as a pdf and an overview is here.
This is a more detailed chart which lists the users/uses of the spectrum between 137MHz and 10GHz in the US. Here's one from the UK. And here is a more general chart posted as reply in this thread.
And for the other side of patents see this article on how an attempt was made (is being made) to rig the system to extend a profitable drug (Claritin) by subverting the patent system (much like the Copyright system has been subverted by the continual grandfathered extensions of the copyright term, the most recent being the Sonny Bono law).
Actually it points out a different problem, the "leak" was initiated on purpose by a person who wanted them to be leaked and had designed them specifically to cause the damage they caused.
Thus it wasn't the nanites themselves which were the problem, but the madman who used them as assassins.
Also they did have a kill switch (Hard UV) the people affected just didn't have access to the "kill switch" when they were being eaten. Later in the book they do go out and clean up the nano-mess and destroy the responsible nanites.
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...and failed. I seem to remember in the 80's that the computer software industry went down a similar path. They may not have had the rediculous license schemes but a number of games and software required dongles hanging off the back of machines and trashed you drives on bad sector reads that had to be there, but you couldn't copy. Guess what the costomers got pissed off enough they stopped buying these products and went with software that wasn't draconian...
Hmmm... now there's an alternative (Linux etc.) that has some difficulties associated with it that WILL become the alternative choice when these measures become annoying enough that companies and individuals decide to refuse to use it and are willing to learn to use the alternative because its less of a pain in the ass than dealing with this kind of crap.
Since the OS company isn't allowed to have a special relationship to the Apps company this is effectively what should happen. The OS company will have to provide the APIs to everyone including the Apps company the same way.
This of course assumes that they won't try to get around this in some sneaky way, this is another reason they are separate companies supposedly this will make the two companies have different and possibly divergent goals.
I agree Tom does have an AMD bias (maybe with some legitamacy recently) but this is not a symptom of it however. The reason he separates out the BX133 as being different is that this is NOT an accepted configuration by Intel, in other words it is overclocked. The closest thing to this is the Solano board which comes out behind the Thunderbird. Additionally Intel and motherboard manufacturers tell you that running a BX chipset at 133MHz is not recommended (although Tom actually has gone into detail in previous reviews on which boards can do this well).
A different point can be argued, which benchmarks should be run to measure performance. Here we can see some difference, at Sharky Extreme different benchmarks are used and slightly different conclusions are reached (Sharky's sometimes seems to bias toward Intel). However, the overall point of both is that the two chips are now basically the same in terms of performance for almost all purposes, and the Athlon is generally cheaper (and available at the moment).
Actually there is a limited beta version of Framemaker for Linux at the Adobe site. I don't know what their liscence agreement says, and the program only works until 12/31/00. However this might be enough to determine whether it is worth using or not.
I actually heard somewhere recently that DeBeers is reliquishing its cartel in the diamond trade so that it can trade dierctly in the US. Apparently the huge market in the US was just too good to continue to pass up.
They seem to be trying to grant their fans rights which they already have. Trademark dilution law allows you to use a trademark for non-comercial purposes, ie a fan site, news site, or other such site with no revenue source (purely for the fun of it). Addmittedly they are allowing the use of copyrigthed material under this licence, but the trademarked material can be used whether you agree to their licence or not.
The standard disclaimers apply, IANAL etc.
But the Trademark dilution act is fairly clear on this point.
I remembered a really cool anthology which hasn't been mentioned here, Robot Carnival. It a collection of related shorts all dealing with robots with a wide range of themes.
Good list, just want to point out you want to get the subtitled version of Akira, NOT the dubbed version if possible. The original voice actors were carefully picked for their intonation/acting, the dubbed voices include one of the people who voiced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 'nuff said.
I agree, I was responding to the "will we ever get beyond 1st person shooters" and saying that what Looking Glass did went a long way toward evolving a new type of game based in the 1st person shooter model (IIRC they called it a 1st person sneaker).
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm wondering where you get you information/calculation.
If you do a simple ideal gas calculation of the average velocity of an oxygen atom at 300K the velocity is much lower than the escape velocity of Mars (.7km/s compared to ~5km/s).
I know this isn't the best way to calculate this but its not a bad first approximation, so I was wondering what calculation you're using.
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It just confirms the old adage...
It better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Here's a link and here's another.
So the question is did the Olympics become common usage or has the modern olympic commite reinstated the mark's value through their promotion, and thus should get exclusive use of the mark. Aparently the people who assign trademarks felt they had a valid mark (but its equally possible they were wrong).
However, trademarks are only protected for use in trade and aren't ment to stop free expression. Thus you should be able to set up a non-profit site like www.theolympicssuck.org and they shouldn't be able to stop you. OTOH the intent and the implementation of the law often aren't the same.
Always be aware of the basic rule of the road, you may be in the right but do you really want to try to prove it by stepping into a crosswalk in front of the speeding truck?
Lets see its in the trunk of a car, that's pretty hot in many places.
The most recent article (here) is on why and how women are steered in a number of ways away from computing careers.
Mentioned in the article was a study by the American Association of University Women of these pressures in how computers are taught, an executive summary is here as a pdf and an overview is here.
The full article must be purchased.
You can curently pick it up at half.com for $4.75(+ ~$1 shipping).
This is a more detailed chart which lists the users/uses of the spectrum between 137MHz and 10GHz in the US. Here's one from the UK. And here is a more general chart posted as reply in this thread.
Here's a very large list of both positive and negative review links at Rotten Tomatoes.
And for the other side of patents see this article on how an attempt was made (is being made) to rig the system to extend a profitable drug (Claritin) by subverting the patent system (much like the Copyright system has been subverted by the continual grandfathered extensions of the copyright term, the most recent being the Sonny Bono law).
Yes nothing ridiculous except that a patent on a telphone menuing system is so broad that it can be seen to include hyperlinking.
Actually it points out a different problem, the "leak" was initiated on purpose by a person who wanted them to be leaked and had designed them specifically to cause the damage they caused.
Thus it wasn't the nanites themselves which were the problem, but the madman who used them as assassins.
Also they did have a kill switch (Hard UV) the people affected just didn't have access to the "kill switch" when they were being eaten. Later in the book they do go out and clean up the nano-mess and destroy the responsible nanites.
http://www.washin gtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36124-2000Jun10.html
Its copyright doesn't expire for 90 years.
...and failed. I seem to remember in the 80's that the computer software industry went down a similar path. They may not have had the rediculous license schemes but a number of games and software required dongles hanging off the back of machines and trashed you drives on bad sector reads that had to be there, but you couldn't copy. Guess what the costomers got pissed off enough they stopped buying these products and went with software that wasn't draconian...
Hmmm... now there's an alternative (Linux etc.) that has some difficulties associated with it that WILL become the alternative choice when these measures become annoying enough that companies and individuals decide to refuse to use it and are willing to learn to use the alternative because its less of a pain in the ass than dealing with this kind of crap.
Since the OS company isn't allowed to have a special relationship to the Apps company this is effectively what should happen. The OS company will have to provide the APIs to everyone including the Apps company the same way.
This of course assumes that they won't try to get around this in some sneaky way, this is another reason they are separate companies supposedly this will make the two companies have different and possibly divergent goals.
A different point can be argued, which benchmarks should be run to measure performance. Here we can see some difference, at Sharky Extreme different benchmarks are used and slightly different conclusions are reached (Sharky's sometimes seems to bias toward Intel). However, the overall point of both is that the two chips are now basically the same in terms of performance for almost all purposes, and the Athlon is generally cheaper (and available at the moment).
Actually there is a limited beta version of Framemaker for Linux at the Adobe site. I don't know what their liscence agreement says, and the program only works until 12/31/00. However this might be enough to determine whether it is worth using or not.
I actually heard somewhere recently that DeBeers is reliquishing its cartel in the diamond trade so that it can trade dierctly in the US. Apparently the huge market in the US was just too good to continue to pass up.
They seem to be trying to grant their fans rights which they already have. Trademark dilution law allows you to use a trademark for non-comercial purposes, ie a fan site, news site, or other such site with no revenue source (purely for the fun of it). Addmittedly they are allowing the use of copyrigthed material under this licence, but the trademarked material can be used whether you agree to their licence or not.
The standard disclaimers apply, IANAL etc.
But the Trademark dilution act is fairly clear on this point.
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I remembered a really cool anthology which hasn't been mentioned here, Robot Carnival. It a collection of related shorts all dealing with robots with a wide range of themes.
Good list, just want to point out you want to get the subtitled version of Akira, NOT the dubbed version if possible. The original voice actors were carefully picked for their intonation/acting, the dubbed voices include one of the people who voiced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 'nuff said.
In case you want to know how get this.
I agree, I was responding to the "will we ever get beyond 1st person shooters" and saying that what Looking Glass did went a long way toward evolving a new type of game based in the 1st person shooter model (IIRC they called it a 1st person sneaker).
Not how they were forced out of business.
Looking Glass Studios did this with the Theif series and look what happened to them. :(
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm wondering where you get you information/calculation.
If you do a simple ideal gas calculation of the average velocity of an oxygen atom at 300K the velocity is much lower than the escape velocity of Mars (.7km/s compared to ~5km/s).
I know this isn't the best way to calculate this but its not a bad first approximation, so I was wondering what calculation you're using.