Great. And I suppose we have to hire enforcers for these "anti-outsourcing" laws? What about entrepreneurs, are they not allowed to entertain the idea of locating in developing countries?
Laws enacted to deal with the mess created by other laws. It all sounds so incredibly sane, no?
Interesting they would try to trademark the block, which doesn't run out, good thing it didn't work, for the consumer at least.
There is something very wrong here: 1) Millions of dollars, years of work, childhood memories, all go into the Lego brand. For this they receive a trademark to prevent market confusion and exploitation of their brand equity. 2) Mega Brands comes out with Mega Bloks, which looks just like Legos and even interlocks with Lego blocks. This company is able to sell blocks in great quantity by piggy-backing off the Lego brand. 3) The EU court rules in favor of Mega Brands. How could this happen?
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But the judges ruled that consumer perception was not relevant to an analysis of the functionality of the design. EU trademark law "precludes registration of any shape" that is "sufficient to obtain the intended technical result", the court ruled, "even if that result can be achieved by other shapes".
So basically the Canadian company won on a technicality and erased billions of euros of brand value. Way to go EU.
I live in Texas, I voted for Obama, if someone asked me that question on a survey I would probably say "no he's a Protestant Christian". But if you pressed me, I could not say I'm 100% sure he's not a Muslim. Maybe he is, after all. He certainly spent time in Muslim prayer with his Indonesian classmates, and I don't think he was baptized or formally renounced Islam when he joined Trinity UCC. Still this is all a private matter, so who cares?
Agreed. McCain would actually work to implement vouchers and not kowtow to teachers' unions. Obama plans on throwing money at the problem.
Which candidate will make the next generation smarter? I hope Taco was joking. It's the parents' job here. On this question I suppose Obama wins because he has two daughters who will likely grow up to be pretty smart. Does anyone really expect the Federal Government to "make" anyone smarter? What a concept.
Unfortunately this is one election where I am not voting on education, the economy, or even the candidates' records. I'm voting for Obama.
The problem with the commonly-held view of AGW is that it relies on a simplistic theory of the Earth's climate:
Climate = f(CO2 output)
where f is some monotonic function, always increasing for higher values of CO2 output.
But what if the equation were actually:
Climate = g(x)*h(y)*i(z)*f(CO2 output)
Then how much could you really know, and predict, about the Earth's climate? Forget that you already went to all the trouble to prove that f() is a positive function.
Most of the comments on this story are biased in favor of mandating disabled access for websites. Many of them use the analogy that you have to ensure your page renders properly on IE and Firefox no matter what your favorite browser is, so why not have the same requirement for disabled access. This analogy is false: In the case of the browsers, you are free to deny access to one browser or another and lose a big part of your potential audience (also search for "kill bill's browser"), while in the case of disabled access, a court is applying a law to a private company's website which originally only applied to physical access to places of business.
Is having a poorly-accessible website breaking the law or just bad business? I would think it has to be the latter. Not being able to view certain web sites does not prevent blind individuals from living a normal life (in fact they are among the luckiest if you consider the "shock sites" that don't affect them). Those companies that cater to the blind will find a happy and loyal customer base, but those without the resources or sense to do so should not be penalized. Does the law require all books published to have a braille version?
Please note that I am not talking about government websites, which have mandates for disabled access. It's the burdensome regulation of private companies that concerns me.
[quote]God carrying out Darwins theories? Im sure those intelligent design nuts wont like that one bit...[/quote]
Actually I think that's the very definition of ID: If it looks like evolution, God did it. If it doesn't look like evolution, it's because evolution is a fraud.
Is it possible that US Dollars are locked up in foreign reserves? And one day Asian countries will try cashing in their dollars for American goods and everything will inflate like nuts?
Part of the "buy 2 get 1" idea is that you also get the email address of the lucky foreign student. So you could do some distance teaching if you were so inclined and capable.
This new browser will send the same user agent string, so no big deal with market share numbers. And beyond that I can't think of any way this hurts open source and/or helps IE. Basically a non-story.
As any educated Senator can tell you, the spam is converted into an internet, at which point it's passed through a series of tubes. Then it gets mixed with computers or something and cooked to an internal temperature of 180 degrees. This usually takes a weekend or so.
On another series of tubes, civil liberties are transferred from the general public to corporations and other monied interests. As it turns out this is a much more efficient process...
Oh, and if you want your internet to get through faster, use this secret code:;-)
Sorry but this doesn't sound credible. How would the ISP be off the hook after giving you an unrestricted connection? Also, when people have been sued by **AA in the past, there was never an understanding between the customer and the ISP that the provider would block certain kinds of traffic and that would legally shield the users (I'm inferring this based on the discussion you describe in your post).
Which ISP do you have and who did you contact there?
It doesn't make sense to use BitTorrent with home movies and other media with an audience of 1 or 2, because you lose the value of peering and gain added headaches from port forwarding, setting up a tracker, etc.
Linux has already won over the iPod generation, in a sense, because iPod runs on Linux. Google also runs on Linux, and anyone in the know uses Google. TiVo also has Linux under the hood.
That leaves the desktop. Why all the fuss over it? If ESR is talking about productivity apps, let businesses decide where to spend their money--they may very well come around to Mac or GNU/Linux. But it appears he cares more about the following:
Well, as I said in the panel, whenever I try to pitch Linux to somebody who is under 30 and has grown up with the Internet, the questions I get are things like, Will it work with my iPod? Will it work with iTunes? Will I be able to stream with this media format video? Will I be able, in other words, to use the content that's out there that's already published?
To that I say: Linux has already won! The Internet runs on Linux (and BSD). Moreover, these folks who have "grown up with the Internet" will find in greater numbers that their only constraint in computers is the web browser. YouTube, the "content that's out there", runs on Linux web browsers. And it would be a safe bet that we will be seeing YouTube and MySpace on TV set-top boxes, powered by Linux, in the coming months. Don't count out the linux-powered web appliance, either.
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Hey, do you have any recommendations on how to learn Flex and start making RIA's with Flash? What software tools are most useful? Thanks!
Funny that you begin your comment about how you personally benefited from the blackouts, making your judgment about Ken Lay seem a bit disingenuous.
Anyway, the main reason for those California blackouts was poor public policy: Holding residential rates constant while forcing companies to buy power on the spot market, often selling power at a loss. Meanwhile prohibiting building new power plants to satisfy the environmental lobby. I'm not quite sure where Enron fits in there but certainly they were not the only companies messing with the market, and in the end it was the regulators' fault for allowing the market to be messed with in the first place.
I'm sure you shed plenty of tears when the kid down the street holding up the liquor store gets shot by the cops.
Actually, that would be pretty sad. This is not to say that people are not responsible for their actions, but that unless you are said cops or are directly involved, maybe you should show people a little compassion. You don't know them, you don't know their life story, almost everyone is capable of redemption. Show some compassion.
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That's the beauty of living in a free country. You're free to succeed and free to fail in any way you choose.
When your Federal Reserve Notes are worth less (or worthless) can we complain then?
Thank you!
Great. And I suppose we have to hire enforcers for these "anti-outsourcing" laws? What about entrepreneurs, are they not allowed to entertain the idea of locating in developing countries?
Laws enacted to deal with the mess created by other laws. It all sounds so incredibly sane, no?
Interesting they would try to trademark the block, which doesn't run out, good thing it didn't work, for the consumer at least.
There is something very wrong here:
1) Millions of dollars, years of work, childhood memories, all go into the Lego brand. For this they receive a trademark to prevent market confusion and exploitation of their brand equity.
2) Mega Brands comes out with Mega Bloks, which looks just like Legos and even interlocks with Lego blocks. This company is able to sell blocks in great quantity by piggy-backing off the Lego brand.
3) The EU court rules in favor of Mega Brands. How could this happen?
FTA:
But the judges ruled that consumer perception was not relevant to an analysis of the functionality of the design. EU trademark law "precludes registration of any shape" that is "sufficient to obtain the intended technical result", the court ruled, "even if that result can be achieved by other shapes".
So basically the Canadian company won on a technicality and erased billions of euros of brand value. Way to go EU.
I live in Texas, I voted for Obama, if someone asked me that question on a survey I would probably say "no he's a Protestant Christian". But if you pressed me, I could not say I'm 100% sure he's not a Muslim. Maybe he is, after all. He certainly spent time in Muslim prayer with his Indonesian classmates, and I don't think he was baptized or formally renounced Islam when he joined Trinity UCC. Still this is all a private matter, so who cares?
I think it was just one time in Iowa that Obama failed to put his hand on his heart. Watch and listen to the video on the Snopes page.
Clearly Obama was getting into the singing more than the other candidates and forgot to put his hand on his heart. Honest mistake.
Agreed. McCain would actually work to implement vouchers and not kowtow to teachers' unions. Obama plans on throwing money at the problem.
Which candidate will make the next generation smarter?
I hope Taco was joking. It's the parents' job here. On this question I suppose Obama wins because he has two daughters who will likely grow up to be pretty smart. Does anyone really expect the Federal Government to "make" anyone smarter? What a concept.
Unfortunately this is one election where I am not voting on education, the economy, or even the candidates' records. I'm voting for Obama.
The problem with the commonly-held view of AGW is that it relies on a simplistic theory of the Earth's climate:
Climate = f(CO2 output)
where f is some monotonic function, always increasing for higher values of CO2 output.
But what if the equation were actually:
Climate = g(x)*h(y)*i(z)*f(CO2 output)
Then how much could you really know, and predict, about the Earth's climate? Forget that you already went to all the trouble to prove that f() is a positive function.
Most of the comments on this story are biased in favor of mandating disabled access for websites. Many of them use the analogy that you have to ensure your page renders properly on IE and Firefox no matter what your favorite browser is, so why not have the same requirement for disabled access. This analogy is false: In the case of the browsers, you are free to deny access to one browser or another and lose a big part of your potential audience (also search for "kill bill's browser"), while in the case of disabled access, a court is applying a law to a private company's website which originally only applied to physical access to places of business.
Is having a poorly-accessible website breaking the law or just bad business? I would think it has to be the latter. Not being able to view certain web sites does not prevent blind individuals from living a normal life (in fact they are among the luckiest if you consider the "shock sites" that don't affect them). Those companies that cater to the blind will find a happy and loyal customer base, but those without the resources or sense to do so should not be penalized. Does the law require all books published to have a braille version?
Please note that I am not talking about government websites, which have mandates for disabled access. It's the burdensome regulation of private companies that concerns me.
[quote]God carrying out Darwins theories? Im sure those intelligent design nuts wont like that one bit...[/quote] Actually I think that's the very definition of ID: If it looks like evolution, God did it. If it doesn't look like evolution, it's because evolution is a fraud.
Is it possible that US Dollars are locked up in foreign reserves? And one day Asian countries will try cashing in their dollars for American goods and everything will inflate like nuts?
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Well the screwdriver tip was informative.
If you want to be posessive, it's just I-T-S, but if it's supposed to be a contraction, it's I-T-apostrophe-S.
Part of the "buy 2 get 1" idea is that you also get the email address of the lucky foreign student. So you could do some distance teaching if you were so inclined and capable.
This new browser will send the same user agent string, so no big deal with market share numbers. And beyond that I can't think of any way this hurts open source and/or helps IE. Basically a non-story.
From the headline it sounded like I was in trouble with the FBI for buying AT&T Crack.
As any educated Senator can tell you, the spam is converted into an internet, at which point it's passed through a series of tubes. Then it gets mixed with computers or something and cooked to an internal temperature of 180 degrees. This usually takes a weekend or so.
;-)
On another series of tubes, civil liberties are transferred from the general public to corporations and other monied interests. As it turns out this is a much more efficient process...
Oh, and if you want your internet to get through faster, use this secret code:
Sorry but this doesn't sound credible. How would the ISP be off the hook after giving you an unrestricted connection? Also, when people have been sued by **AA in the past, there was never an understanding between the customer and the ISP that the provider would block certain kinds of traffic and that would legally shield the users (I'm inferring this based on the discussion you describe in your post). Which ISP do you have and who did you contact there?
It doesn't make sense to use BitTorrent with home movies and other media with an audience of 1 or 2, because you lose the value of peering and gain added headaches from port forwarding, setting up a tracker, etc.
Wouldn't the CD's get scratched on those spindles?
Linux has already won over the iPod generation, in a sense, because iPod runs on Linux. Google also runs on Linux, and anyone in the know uses Google. TiVo also has Linux under the hood.
That leaves the desktop. Why all the fuss over it? If ESR is talking about productivity apps, let businesses decide where to spend their money--they may very well come around to Mac or GNU/Linux. But it appears he cares more about the following:
Well, as I said in the panel, whenever I try to pitch Linux to somebody who is under 30 and has grown up with the Internet, the questions I get are things like, Will it work with my iPod? Will it work with iTunes? Will I be able to stream with this media format video? Will I be able, in other words, to use the content that's out there that's already published?
To that I say: Linux has already won! The Internet runs on Linux (and BSD). Moreover, these folks who have "grown up with the Internet" will find in greater numbers that their only constraint in computers is the web browser. YouTube, the "content that's out there", runs on Linux web browsers. And it would be a safe bet that we will be seeing YouTube and MySpace on TV set-top boxes, powered by Linux, in the coming months. Don't count out the linux-powered web appliance, either.
Hey, do you have any recommendations on how to learn Flex and start making RIA's with Flash? What software tools are most useful? Thanks!
Funny that you begin your comment about how you personally benefited from the blackouts, making your judgment about Ken Lay seem a bit disingenuous.
Anyway, the main reason for those California blackouts was poor public policy: Holding residential rates constant while forcing companies to buy power on the spot market, often selling power at a loss. Meanwhile prohibiting building new power plants to satisfy the environmental lobby. I'm not quite sure where Enron fits in there but certainly they were not the only companies messing with the market, and in the end it was the regulators' fault for allowing the market to be messed with in the first place.
I'm sure you shed plenty of tears when the kid down the street holding up the liquor store gets shot by the cops.
Actually, that would be pretty sad. This is not to say that people are not responsible for their actions, but that unless you are said cops or are directly involved, maybe you should show people a little compassion. You don't know them, you don't know their life story, almost everyone is capable of redemption. Show some compassion.