Signs at tourist attractions seem to vary from being in just 1 language to being in virtually every language.
It would be pretty hard for them to not fall in that range, would it not?
Until they are in all the languages for all the tourists visting them this thing has a possible market.
There's a concept in econmomics called economies of scale. It implies that if it's not worth typing out a few sentences explaining the history of, say, Notre Dame cathedral in Tibetan (because you only get 2 Tibetan visitors per year) it sure as heck ain't worth creating a whizz-bang multimedia film about it. In Tebetan.
That's leaving aside the fact that if you happen to be at Notre Dame, you ought to be looking at freakin' Notre Dame.
changing the description at night to point out a lighting affect.
If you need something to point out a lighting effect at night, either the lighting or you is a bit dim.
Yet another example of 'solution in search of a problem syndrome'. Although it does run linux, so it must be teh r0x0r!
Do you really still live the same way your grandmother did?
The 'really' is redundant. It wouldn't be if I'd said I still lived how my grandmother did, but I didn't. I can see why you're so against things like reading. Sigh. The MTV generation...
You know there were these things back in the old days, my gran told me about them. Signs, I think they were called. You had to like read them or something.
Long before the oil runs out, the demand is going to exceed the supply.
That's against the laws of economics, at least in the long term; what will happen is that the price will move until supply and demand match. Whether you or I (or indeed anyone other than drug barons, CEOs and movie stars) can afford that price is another issue.
What's so special about 500 million? It's a purely arbitrary number. It's not even round in any useful number base. Now if it was 536,870,912 then that would be interesting.
Right. Because that one guy who buys it knows everybody who'd like it. Like all of them. And he doesn't mind them leeching off him. Small world, innit?
I've met with and interfaced with a couple hundred employees from Microsoft over the past decade and I'd say 90% of them have been more passionate, smarter, and more 'innovative' than the average
Of people with skin cancer, those with lots of sun exposer had better outcomes than those with less sun exposure.
That's like saying "Of people who drive their cars into concrete bridge pillars, those with a higher blood alcohol level are more likely to survive." It may be true. Let's say they're 10% more likely to syurvive. What if they're also 300% more likey to collide in the first place?
Does not compute with the simple view of Tan=skin cancer.
It says nothing one way or the other about about that, as your so-called study only includes people who have it. Whatever the recovery rate, it's lower than that of those who never got the disease!
I suggest you go and learn about conditional probability.
With that said, I still can't hit the beach withous sunscreen.
I think you should make the effort (and I suspect Darwin would agree).
the relevant context is the mark in connection with the goods or services the mark pertains to.
Which is what I said. Not Apple but Apple [records|computers]. Not any old word, but a word with another one - the other one being the context.
You say one thing (that you can trademark any old word, on its own, without any context) and then post a quote saying "... must be made in relation to the goods or services for which registration is sought, not in the abstract". In the abstract, word by itself. The opposite, which is wahat I correctly said, is in context e.g Sun microsystems.
I note that you haven't answered my rebuttal about how the word "Apple" can be trademarked at least twice. Surely if you can patent any old word, as you seem to think, then this couldn't happen.
Yes you can. See, e.g. Apple, Sun, and Windows for computers.
No, you can't trademark any old word. You can trademark Apple Computers (which means there can be Apple Records), Sun Microsystems (nothing to do with the British 'newspaper') and Microsoft Windows which can't prevent someone operating a double-glazing company.
Except, a morse code machine is of no real use in a real world situation.
Really? So why did ships, secret agents, the armed forces etc make use of it? For a laugh?
It would probably be more effecient even than morse code to use a computer keyboard
Next time I meet a WWII bomber veteran I'll remember to ask him why they didn't take computers with them on raids. Maybe people in those days just weren't as smart as you, eh?
a computer can't easily (despite what "CSI" says:-) pick out what one person is saying in a recorded group conversation. Humans do it as naturally as breathing.
Some humans may do it easily. I find it a bit of a struggle. Is there a name for that? And no, I don't mean deafness.
Last word on precision: If I measure a circle's radius to 3 decimal places, then calculate the circumference using Pi to 1000 decimal places, how accurately will I know the circumference?
I don't know, you didn't say how accurately you measured the radius.
It takes several keypresses to send a single character in morse
It takes several presses on a GSM keyboard too. You know, there are several letters on each.
And in morse, the most common letters use fewer presses, whereas on a standard cellphone the most common letter in the English language requires twice as many presses as it does in morse. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out how many presses "SOS" would take by both methods.
and just because it's morse, it doesn't mean that you can press the keys any quicker. He could only key quicker because of the equipment he was using.
Really? Would you provide a link to the study that proves that? We can obviously discount a priori the possibility that having to relocate from one key to another takes time, right?
That's a fair point, however if I'd written the story, I would have added something along the lines of "as previously reported on/." or "following up on article XYZ", just to make those who shout "it's a dupe!" look silly (or at least vulnerable to a RTFA counterattack) - it's not as if that reaction couldn't have been predicted.
They have two years of mandatory military service and get to keep their rifles AFAIK.
OTOH, Switzerland doesn't have any nukes.
if the UK were to invade Switzerland they might have to go through the rest of Europe first
Nope. You could get there just by crossing France or go the long way round via Italy. That's two countries that aren't near the top of the "difficult for armies to march thorough" list.
and deal with US troops "liberating" their country.
I doubt they could even find it. They'd probably arrive in Norway or Finland looking a) for a Macdonalds and b) puzzled.
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Maybe you need to adjust your sarcasm detector? Oh, and innovative != good. Clippy was innovative.
That's leaving aside the fact that if you happen to be at Notre Dame, you ought to be looking at freakin' Notre Dame.
If you need something to point out a lighting effect at night, either the lighting or you is a bit dim.Yet another example of 'solution in search of a problem syndrome'. Although it does run linux, so it must be teh r0x0r!
You know there were these things back in the old days, my gran told me about them. Signs, I think they were called. You had to like read them or something.
The solution to, and cause of, all life's problems.
What's so special about 500 million? It's a purely arbitrary number. It's not even round in any useful number base. Now if it was 536,870,912 then that would be interesting.
Right. Because that one guy who buys it knows everybody who'd like it. Like all of them. And he doesn't mind them leeching off him. Small world, innit?
I suggest you go and learn about conditional probability.
I think you should make the effort (and I suspect Darwin would agree).You say one thing (that you can trademark any old word, on its own, without any context) and then post a quote saying "... must be made in relation to the goods or services for which registration is sought, not in the abstract". In the abstract, word by itself. The opposite, which is wahat I correctly said, is in context e.g Sun microsystems.
I note that you haven't answered my rebuttal about how the word "Apple" can be trademarked at least twice. Surely if you can patent any old word, as you seem to think, then this couldn't happen.
If bracers are a modifcation to the body, then so are the trousers they hold up.
I don't know. Did you see a sign on the front of the bulding?
It's purely arbitrary to choose now as the 100th anniversary. Surely it depends on how fast you've been travelling?
And in morse, the most common letters use fewer presses, whereas on a standard cellphone the most common letter in the English language requires twice as many presses as it does in morse. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out how many presses "SOS" would take by both methods.
Really? Would you provide a link to the study that proves that? We can obviously discount a priori the possibility that having to relocate from one key to another takes time, right?That's a fair point, however if I'd written the story, I would have added something along the lines of "as previously reported on /." or "following up on article XYZ", just to make those who shout "it's a dupe!" look silly (or at least vulnerable to a RTFA counterattack) - it's not as if that reaction couldn't have been predicted.