Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay attorneys' fees of more than $400,000. She has now agreed to accept an immediate payment of $240,000 in return for the dismissal of the Estate's appeal. 'This case shows there are solutions to the problem Carol Shloss faced other than simple capitulation,' says Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone, who led the litigation team."
Wow, so it only cost $150,000 (+) in attorneys fees so that she could establish her right to do something she should have been able to do all along? Man, our system ROCKS. Color me jaded to find irony that the head of the litigation team is the one so thrilled...
That's weak.
I play every game in Rogue-mode. Die once, start over from the beginning.
This tempers a truly superior video-game warrior, one who laughs in the face of adversity and spits in the face of death.
Everyone is entitled to their own way to enjoy games. You may find his style weak, but I find this concept of a "truly superior video-game warior" pretty weak. Let the guy have fun the way he wants, and we won't laugh at the way you want to have fun either.;)
Linux is making no headway in the homes of non-geeks mainly due to marketing and due to ease-of-use perceptions. Back in the day when I tried Linux, even as techy, I found it a pain in the ass to set up and be happy with. I haven't gone back to try again in several years, but there are other reasons for that. People don't associate the word "easy" with "Linux" and so they don't want it. Changing that perception would, I think, go a long way to getting people to use Linux. If all I wanted was email and internet, I'd use Linux in a heartbeat - because I know it's possible and a heck of a lot cheaper. Most non-geeks buying computers depend on the pimply dude in the bright blue shirt driving the black and orange Beetle to tell them what computer to buy. Which goes back to sales and marketing.
As for me, I won't go to Linux because I mainly use my home computer for gaming. Thus, it's a Windows box. Windows has a very strong command over the gaming rigs due to the sheer volume of titles. Even today, the majority of PC game releases do not have OSX or Linux versions. There are, however, some notable exceptions (didnt Valve say they were gonna start doing Linux versions?). But just a few publishers going there isn't enough. It won't really take off for the gamer world until "most" games come out for Linux.
So without gamers and non-geeks, what other market for the home desktop do they have? Probably, the ones who are already using it?:)
that was my first thought... an awesome office chair.
Second thought was that it will work some muscles that aren't normally used.. with all that leaning moving and stuff...
Yeah, maybe using one of these might allow a person to work off their love-handles.;) However, as an office chair - they'd definitely have to add a backrest and arm-rests. With just the fanny-pad, I and the awkward way of half-sitting, I can't see the demo-product being very comfortable for any real length of time. Even the guys demo'ing the product in the video didn't look like they were terribly sure of their balance or comfort. But whether this product can actually find a practical use in the world - you can be certain some of the new technology used to make it work will find it's way into other stuff.
And to the GP's thoughts about this being a reality of the future where people don't walk anymore - I don't know. You probably will see a very large number of the already fat and lazy migrating to being even more fat and lazy, and I think you'd also see the health-conscious continue to be health conscious. I can tell you which group of girls' legs I'd rather see walking down the street today, or in future.;)
Good points - but I'm a little confused by why it's okay for us to differ in opinion on whether the interface is intuitive or not, but not okay for us to differ in opinion on whether this change is good or not? If the interface is more intuitive, the change is good. If not, it's bad.
I think taking a step back from either side of the argument - with a change this dramatic to the interface, you're ALWAYS going to have a side that hates it and a side that doesn't. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that/. opinion is representative of IT-industry opinion, or more importantly in this case - representative of Office/Firefox USER opinion. In fact, many in the IT-industry are notorious for forcing things onto users that users don't like, because IT thinks it's better for them.
LOL.. way to miss the entire point. Yes, I know exactly what he did and what he currently does with respect to Linux. Since you completely didn't get the point - it was that Torvalds is a god in the/. Linux-love world. I guess you missed the "if".
Another literal interpretation simply for the sake of hating on change. Do you really think I meant that each user has to spend 80 hours learning the menu? No - I meant each user acclimates over the course of roughly 2 weeks or otherwise normal application usage. Real-time lost? Who knows, minutes?
How many functions in the application do you regularly use? 10? 20? Crap, if it takes you 80 hours to learn where 20 functions are, even if they were hidden down 400 menus deep, then I'd have to question your cognitive abilities and wonder whether you should actually be using a computer in the first place.
I think this most/.'ers hate the menus because MS created them. If Torvalds has build the new menu system as the default Linux interface, you guys would be creaming your pants over them.
LOL. I didn't say you had to spend a full two weeks dedicated to learning the new interface. I meant that people generally become acclimated to the new interface during their first two weeks using the application in their normal way. Who knows how much time they actually spend hunting for their normally used commands, but I found it didn't take me very long at all. But hey - that's the wonderful thing about computers. If you don't like the way Mozilla's doing it - you can write your own frigging browser. Keep railing against progress. Let me know how it works out for you. Still using those keycards, cuz you didn't want to learn typing and the cards worked just fine?
Your making the mistake that the current problem ignores the previous problem.
No, that's what I was pointing out because the post I was responding to specifically named the "current" administration. I also never suggested concentrating on only the previous 9 years..? However, I do agree that concentrating on 9 years ago will do nothing for understanding what has caused the current crisis and what can be done to prevent future ones. To do that, we really have to take a long hard look at the past 25 years because we started down this road with Reagan.
You are all complaining about a complete non-issue. But this is/., so that's to be expected. The ribbon actually IS a much better menu system once you get used to it. All the normal things that most users generally use are pretty easy to find, and many of the mid-level and intermediate things they weren't already aware of are presented more easily. And, the shortcut keys for advanced users weren't changed for the most part.
Most people who actually give the ribbon a chance get used to it in about 2 weeks - much better than most software changes as big as moving to the ribbon. It's just the people railing against it for the sake of railing against change who can't handle it.
Get over it. Not all change not initiated by YOU is bad.
Yeah, I totally agree that the Obama administration has lived up to exactly 0% of the glorious new world of American politics we were all promised. Of course, I never bought into that promise, even though I did aggressively vote and grass-roots campaign against electing the ticket with that nut-job Palin on it. Even though I agreed with McCain on about as much as I agreed with Obama on, it was the selection of Palin that lost my vote for him for good. She couldn't think her way out of a paper bag, and after failing would just tell you God wants her to be there.:o
American politics is a cess pool of greed and corruption, peppered with occasional idiocy used as a patsy (Bush, anyone?), run by the political and executive classes who use their concentrated wealth and law obfuscation to exploit the working class.
However, as long as the general public continues to allow themselves to be riled up to an extreme in one direction or the other without question to what they read an hear in the biased (again, either direction depending on source) media, we will never have the power to truly correct the glaring flaws that have opened up in our system over the last several decades.
Just by enforcing the state's existing tax law from 2008 onwards, we could reduce Washington's revenue shortfall by more than 70 percent. Alternately, we could pursue the entire $707 million from Microsoft's thirteen years of tax dodging and cover most of the expected deficit going forward.
Oh, and by doing so, also fully convince Microsoft that being headquartered in Washington may not be in their long-term interest?
I fear that America has far more in common with Iran than a lot of us would like to admit.
In one of those countries, common people are unable to determine exactly what they law says because the law is obfuscated by those who create the law. As such, the people are required to depend on a smaller subset of the population to "interpret" the law because it has been so obfuscated, telling the people what the law means. Those interpreters of the law change slowly over time, but ultimately they determine even what laws the other parts of the government can enact. Of course, those interpreters are designed to be answerable to the law they interpret, but who "watches the watchmen?"
So you're saying that, because the system designed to protect him is broken and slow, it's okay for him to make inflammatory, potentially false, public statements about other people, in his own interest, because the system design to protect them is also broken and slow?
Just as a side-note, you're only half-right about the "belief of truth" clause. The second half of that is that there can also not be a "reckless disregard for whether the statement is true or false." And that's only as right as the state in which we're talking jurisdiction. Depending on whether he has more proof than, "Hey! That super-generic background texture looks just like a really super-generic background texture I derived from existing work myself!" they might have a case.
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Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay attorneys' fees of more than $400,000. She has now agreed to accept an immediate payment of $240,000 in return for the dismissal of the Estate's appeal. 'This case shows there are solutions to the problem Carol Shloss faced other than simple capitulation,' says Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone, who led the litigation team."
Wow, so it only cost $150,000 (+) in attorneys fees so that she could establish her right to do something she should have been able to do all along? Man, our system ROCKS. Color me jaded to find irony that the head of the litigation team is the one so thrilled...
That's weak. I play every game in Rogue-mode. Die once, start over from the beginning. This tempers a truly superior video-game warrior, one who laughs in the face of adversity and spits in the face of death.
Everyone is entitled to their own way to enjoy games. You may find his style weak, but I find this concept of a "truly superior video-game warior" pretty weak. Let the guy have fun the way he wants, and we won't laugh at the way you want to have fun either. ;)
Answer - Economics 101
But, just to add something interesting (at least to me), have a gander at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983
Linux is making no headway in the homes of non-geeks mainly due to marketing and due to ease-of-use perceptions. Back in the day when I tried Linux, even as techy, I found it a pain in the ass to set up and be happy with. I haven't gone back to try again in several years, but there are other reasons for that. People don't associate the word "easy" with "Linux" and so they don't want it. Changing that perception would, I think, go a long way to getting people to use Linux. If all I wanted was email and internet, I'd use Linux in a heartbeat - because I know it's possible and a heck of a lot cheaper. Most non-geeks buying computers depend on the pimply dude in the bright blue shirt driving the black and orange Beetle to tell them what computer to buy. Which goes back to sales and marketing.
:)
As for me, I won't go to Linux because I mainly use my home computer for gaming. Thus, it's a Windows box. Windows has a very strong command over the gaming rigs due to the sheer volume of titles. Even today, the majority of PC game releases do not have OSX or Linux versions. There are, however, some notable exceptions (didnt Valve say they were gonna start doing Linux versions?). But just a few publishers going there isn't enough. It won't really take off for the gamer world until "most" games come out for Linux.
So without gamers and non-geeks, what other market for the home desktop do they have? Probably, the ones who are already using it?
that was my first thought... an awesome office chair. Second thought was that it will work some muscles that aren't normally used.. with all that leaning moving and stuff...
Yeah, maybe using one of these might allow a person to work off their love-handles. ;) However, as an office chair - they'd definitely have to add a backrest and arm-rests. With just the fanny-pad, I and the awkward way of half-sitting, I can't see the demo-product being very comfortable for any real length of time. Even the guys demo'ing the product in the video didn't look like they were terribly sure of their balance or comfort. But whether this product can actually find a practical use in the world - you can be certain some of the new technology used to make it work will find it's way into other stuff.
;)
And to the GP's thoughts about this being a reality of the future where people don't walk anymore - I don't know. You probably will see a very large number of the already fat and lazy migrating to being even more fat and lazy, and I think you'd also see the health-conscious continue to be health conscious. I can tell you which group of girls' legs I'd rather see walking down the street today, or in future.
Good points - but I'm a little confused by why it's okay for us to differ in opinion on whether the interface is intuitive or not, but not okay for us to differ in opinion on whether this change is good or not? If the interface is more intuitive, the change is good. If not, it's bad.
/. opinion is representative of IT-industry opinion, or more importantly in this case - representative of Office/Firefox USER opinion. In fact, many in the IT-industry are notorious for forcing things onto users that users don't like, because IT thinks it's better for them.
I think taking a step back from either side of the argument - with a change this dramatic to the interface, you're ALWAYS going to have a side that hates it and a side that doesn't. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that
LOL.. way to miss the entire point. Yes, I know exactly what he did and what he currently does with respect to Linux. Since you completely didn't get the point - it was that Torvalds is a god in the /. Linux-love world. I guess you missed the "if".
/sigh
/.'ers hate the menus because MS created them. If Torvalds has build the new menu system as the default Linux interface, you guys would be creaming your pants over them.
Another literal interpretation simply for the sake of hating on change. Do you really think I meant that each user has to spend 80 hours learning the menu? No - I meant each user acclimates over the course of roughly 2 weeks or otherwise normal application usage. Real-time lost? Who knows, minutes?
How many functions in the application do you regularly use? 10? 20? Crap, if it takes you 80 hours to learn where 20 functions are, even if they were hidden down 400 menus deep, then I'd have to question your cognitive abilities and wonder whether you should actually be using a computer in the first place.
I think this most
LOL. I didn't say you had to spend a full two weeks dedicated to learning the new interface. I meant that people generally become acclimated to the new interface during their first two weeks using the application in their normal way. Who knows how much time they actually spend hunting for their normally used commands, but I found it didn't take me very long at all. But hey - that's the wonderful thing about computers. If you don't like the way Mozilla's doing it - you can write your own frigging browser. Keep railing against progress. Let me know how it works out for you. Still using those keycards, cuz you didn't want to learn typing and the cards worked just fine?
Your making the mistake that the current problem ignores the previous problem.
No, that's what I was pointing out because the post I was responding to specifically named the "current" administration. I also never suggested concentrating on only the previous 9 years..? However, I do agree that concentrating on 9 years ago will do nothing for understanding what has caused the current crisis and what can be done to prevent future ones. To do that, we really have to take a long hard look at the past 25 years because we started down this road with Reagan.
You are all complaining about a complete non-issue. But this is /., so that's to be expected. The ribbon actually IS a much better menu system once you get used to it. All the normal things that most users generally use are pretty easy to find, and many of the mid-level and intermediate things they weren't already aware of are presented more easily. And, the shortcut keys for advanced users weren't changed for the most part.
Most people who actually give the ribbon a chance get used to it in about 2 weeks - much better than most software changes as big as moving to the ribbon. It's just the people railing against it for the sake of railing against change who can't handle it.
Get over it. Not all change not initiated by YOU is bad.
Hmm.. and I was thinking that the leftover milk from a bowl of Lucky Charms was the real source of 1/3 of the country's sugar...
Yeah, I totally agree that the Obama administration has lived up to exactly 0% of the glorious new world of American politics we were all promised. Of course, I never bought into that promise, even though I did aggressively vote and grass-roots campaign against electing the ticket with that nut-job Palin on it. Even though I agreed with McCain on about as much as I agreed with Obama on, it was the selection of Palin that lost my vote for him for good. She couldn't think her way out of a paper bag, and after failing would just tell you God wants her to be there. :o
American politics is a cess pool of greed and corruption, peppered with occasional idiocy used as a patsy (Bush, anyone?), run by the political and executive classes who use their concentrated wealth and law obfuscation to exploit the working class.
However, as long as the general public continues to allow themselves to be riled up to an extreme in one direction or the other without question to what they read an hear in the biased (again, either direction depending on source) media, we will never have the power to truly correct the glaring flaws that have opened up in our system over the last several decades.
Your words suggest you believe only the "current administration" is the problem?
Sorry, but it's pretty naive and, as you say, short-sighted, to think that the previous administration was any better, or that the future one will be.
You're right on.. but the dude got his blog on /. ! Even a stupid rant can end up as squirrel bedding.
Just by enforcing the state's existing tax law from 2008 onwards, we could reduce Washington's revenue shortfall by more than 70 percent. Alternately, we could pursue the entire $707 million from Microsoft's thirteen years of tax dodging and cover most of the expected deficit going forward.
Oh, and by doing so, also fully convince Microsoft that being headquartered in Washington may not be in their long-term interest?
I fear that America has far more in common with Iran than a lot of us would like to admit.
In one of those countries, common people are unable to determine exactly what they law says because the law is obfuscated by those who create the law. As such, the people are required to depend on a smaller subset of the population to "interpret" the law because it has been so obfuscated, telling the people what the law means. Those interpreters of the law change slowly over time, but ultimately they determine even what laws the other parts of the government can enact. Of course, those interpreters are designed to be answerable to the law they interpret, but who "watches the watchmen?"
Oh, and the other country is Iran.
...and I'm happy for you and all, but FORTRAN was the best old-school language of all time!
I can only hope someone else on /. found it interesting
I did, but I don't have mod points. ;)
Whoosh...
Whatever the case, I'm really excited to see fatty acid extracts used instead of chemical compounds on the food that I eat.
Yeah, I can't wait to have dead roach slime smeared all over my food. That sounds much more appetizing. ;)
Just because a person leaves a door open (whether a house or car) does not mean the government can enter the property without a warrant.
Sure it does. Don't you watch Law & Order?! 0.o
So you're saying that, because the system designed to protect him is broken and slow, it's okay for him to make inflammatory, potentially false, public statements about other people, in his own interest, because the system design to protect them is also broken and slow?
Just as a side-note, you're only half-right about the "belief of truth" clause. The second half of that is that there can also not be a "reckless disregard for whether the statement is true or false." And that's only as right as the state in which we're talking jurisdiction. Depending on whether he has more proof than, "Hey! That super-generic background texture looks just like a really super-generic background texture I derived from existing work myself!" they might have a case.
I wonder if it hurts the mice to be lifted by their livers. I wonder if the liver warms and cooks while they're still alive.
You could satisfy your curiosity by simply reading the article.
Is this where we say, "You must be new here." ;)
Or... it's a cunning ploy to show how idiotic Patents are in this day-and-age.
I'm glad you're getting modded Funny, cuz the only alternative would have been +1 Naive, which doesn't exist. :)