I've only been with them for about a week so I'm not much help. After signing up I got my first disk in about 5 days. I'll have to see how they work in the long run.
I use these guys: http://www.intelliflix.com/. It's cheap. Anyways, they too are copying Netflix, must be that they're not big enough to get sued for it yet. Estupido.
Probably yes, but at least Microsoft creates something. Eolas doesn't do shit other than patent vague ideas. At least that's all I can see that they do from their website. While I'm opposed to most software patents, the ones I am most opposed to are the ones which are never even used by the company that filed for them.
This just in: Having solved all other problems, the US gov't has decided to waste our tax money and invade our privacy because apparently parents don't know how to be parents. Porn is out there. Parents must realize this and if they feel their children shouldn't see it, then don't let them! Put the PC in the living room or some other common area. Install a filter. I've never used one, but I'm sure they're not all bad. Why does the government have to get involved?
But ask.com seems to do it for many more search terms. And it's not so much the block of 3 ads at the top that get me, it's the humongous block of 5 ads that you have to scroll past on ask.com to get to the next/previous links at the bottom.
Where I'm seeing the biggest potential problem is here: Say a company hired somebody a few years ago to make them a brochure style website, and it had a flash intro, banner, etc. The company is used to seeing their website a certain way. When all of the sudden the website starts making them click 'OK' every time they go to their homepage they're going to get pissed off. They also aren't going to know why it's happening, or care, or switch browsers, or bitch about Eolas being a bullshit company, they are just going to call the person who made the site and have them fix it. I think there are going to be a lot of cases like this. Sure big companies are going to see this coming and change their code, and yes nerds will just use FireFox... but many small non-tech-savvy people with websites are going to be hit by this.
Not necessarily. If they enforce the patent it would be a different story, but sometimes companies have to take out patents just to protect themselves. It seems the trend is if you don't patent every possible idea in the world, some bullshit company will and then they will sue you. Look at Eolas. We'll have to see how this pans out though.
That's what I read too. There is a huge difference. I would love to be able to pay less than $45/month for a slower connection, but would hate to have to pay ISPs to deliver content.
The close buttons are greyed out unless you mouse over them. I think this is really the best solution because you can close tabs without having to switch to the tab first. Although I do like the point somebody made about middle clicking them to close them, I just tend to forget about that third button.
It seems like this submitter has a problem with Google going into the post with remarks on how it looks "too plain" and "quickly hacked together". If by too plain the author means "simple and clean like most people like it" than I'd agree. I'm sure this wasn't the only article slashdot received on this since topic since it's been linked to on google.com all morning. I've got to wonder why this one made the site. I was going to write in about it, but figured it was non-news.
Or you could use the express edition for free. You can find it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/. I've only used the full versions, but I have heard from others that the express edition was fine for them.
If the mark does not perform this essential function and it is no longer possible to legally enforce rights in relation to the mark, the mark may have become generic. A generic mark forms part of the public domain and can be commercially exploited by anyone.
The point is that Google has this information on you, and will hand it over upon request
I think this would be better stated if you replace "will hand it over upon request" with "must hand it over when ordered to by a judge". I see a big difference there.
It's time to clean up the pirated software off of eBay. Tons of people download pirated software and use it. While I'm not going to argue the morality of that, I can say that selling burned software is by far more immoral than downloading it for yourself. At any given time on eBay you can find numerous popular software titles that are clearly pirated. I see a big difference between installing a hacked copy of photoshop you snagged off the Internet, and downloading a copy, burning a shitload of them, and turning a profit.
The issue is access not possession. Everyone in the US has access to buy a PC. They can go to a store and buy one. They may not be able to afford one, or want one, that's up to them. However there are a lot of rural areas in the US where there is no high speed internet unless you want to pay Direct-Way a $500 setup fee and $99 a month. I run into this a lot when shopping for homes because personally I want nothing to do with living in town, but I do want high speed internet.
I wonder when they supposedly developed this technology. Video game controllers to my knowledge have had this functionality at least since the n64 Rumble Pak.
Rockstar couldn't buy publicity like this. What do they care if some school district has a problem with it? The "uproar" is small in comparison to the benefits they will reap from this publicity. The types of people that were going to buy the game are still going to, and in addition now more and more people are hearing about it and potentially will also buy it.
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I've only been with them for about a week so I'm not much help. After signing up I got my first disk in about 5 days. I'll have to see how they work in the long run.
I use these guys: http://www.intelliflix.com/. It's cheap. Anyways, they too are copying Netflix, must be that they're not big enough to get sued for it yet. Estupido.
Probably yes, but at least Microsoft creates something. Eolas doesn't do shit other than patent vague ideas. At least that's all I can see that they do from their website. While I'm opposed to most software patents, the ones I am most opposed to are the ones which are never even used by the company that filed for them.
This just in: Having solved all other problems, the US gov't has decided to waste our tax money and invade our privacy because apparently parents don't know how to be parents. Porn is out there. Parents must realize this and if they feel their children shouldn't see it, then don't let them! Put the PC in the living room or some other common area. Install a filter. I've never used one, but I'm sure they're not all bad. Why does the government have to get involved?
Gee, I was confused, I thought you were talking about Apple records!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Whatever I feel like gosh!
But ask.com seems to do it for many more search terms. And it's not so much the block of 3 ads at the top that get me, it's the humongous block of 5 ads that you have to scroll past on ask.com to get to the next/previous links at the bottom.
Uncles of Mass Destruction?
True indeed.
Where I'm seeing the biggest potential problem is here: Say a company hired somebody a few years ago to make them a brochure style website, and it had a flash intro, banner, etc. The company is used to seeing their website a certain way. When all of the sudden the website starts making them click 'OK' every time they go to their homepage they're going to get pissed off. They also aren't going to know why it's happening, or care, or switch browsers, or bitch about Eolas being a bullshit company, they are just going to call the person who made the site and have them fix it. I think there are going to be a lot of cases like this. Sure big companies are going to see this coming and change their code, and yes nerds will just use FireFox... but many small non-tech-savvy people with websites are going to be hit by this.
Not necessarily. If they enforce the patent it would be a different story, but sometimes companies have to take out patents just to protect themselves. It seems the trend is if you don't patent every possible idea in the world, some bullshit company will and then they will sue you. Look at Eolas. We'll have to see how this pans out though.
That's funny stuff! This deserves a 6 in my book.
That's what I read too. There is a huge difference. I would love to be able to pay less than $45/month for a slower connection, but would hate to have to pay ISPs to deliver content.
The close buttons are greyed out unless you mouse over them. I think this is really the best solution because you can close tabs without having to switch to the tab first. Although I do like the point somebody made about middle clicking them to close them, I just tend to forget about that third button.
It seems like this submitter has a problem with Google going into the post with remarks on how it looks "too plain" and "quickly hacked together". If by too plain the author means "simple and clean like most people like it" than I'd agree. I'm sure this wasn't the only article slashdot received on this since topic since it's been linked to on google.com all morning. I've got to wonder why this one made the site. I was going to write in about it, but figured it was non-news.
Or you could use the express edition for free. You can find it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/. I've only used the full versions, but I have heard from others that the express edition was fine for them.
I believe 'super hero' would fall under a genericized trademark. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
If the mark does not perform this essential function and it is no longer possible to legally enforce rights in relation to the mark, the mark may have become generic. A generic mark forms part of the public domain and can be commercially exploited by anyone.
The point is that Google has this information on you, and will hand it over upon request
I think this would be better stated if you replace "will hand it over upon request" with "must hand it over when ordered to by a judge". I see a big difference there.
It's time to clean up the pirated software off of eBay. Tons of people download pirated software and use it. While I'm not going to argue the morality of that, I can say that selling burned software is by far more immoral than downloading it for yourself. At any given time on eBay you can find numerous popular software titles that are clearly pirated. I see a big difference between installing a hacked copy of photoshop you snagged off the Internet, and downloading a copy, burning a shitload of them, and turning a profit.
ESA = Entertainment Software Association. Their Website: http://www.theesa.com/
The issue is access not possession. Everyone in the US has access to buy a PC. They can go to a store and buy one. They may not be able to afford one, or want one, that's up to them. However there are a lot of rural areas in the US where there is no high speed internet unless you want to pay Direct-Way a $500 setup fee and $99 a month. I run into this a lot when shopping for homes because personally I want nothing to do with living in town, but I do want high speed internet.
I wonder when they supposedly developed this technology. Video game controllers to my knowledge have had this functionality at least since the n64 Rumble Pak.
So who's going to sue who for copyright infringement?
Rockstar couldn't buy publicity like this. What do they care if some school district has a problem with it? The "uproar" is small in comparison to the benefits they will reap from this publicity. The types of people that were going to buy the game are still going to, and in addition now more and more people are hearing about it and potentially will also buy it.