If people are dead, aren't they also technically blind?

(No, zombies don't count.)

If I buy a Nike T-Shirt. It has a Nike logo on it. If I sell it to you, did I just commit trademark infringement? No? Why not?

The difference is this. You buy Nike T-Shirts then print some slogan on them and then either sell them or give them away. What you've done is now made it appear the slogan is from Nike (or it's reasonable to assume people could be confused by it.)

Yes, this is a problem, isn't it.

Google is not in the business of providing searches. Google is in the business of selling ads. It just happens that having the best search gives you more eyeballs on your ads. They leverage that advantage to gain share in other markets. It does sound like another company I've heard about.

But you're on target here, this is obviously not comfortable for Microsoft. Five years ago they wouldn't have even bothered to issue a response. This is the kind of press release that is pure fear.

Someone has made a plug-in for your browser that makes it 8X faster.

• It shows incompetence of your developers that someone else had apparently patched your buggy/slow software.
• Eventually people learn that it's actually another browser. Most people don't even know what a browser is.
• Why use something in emulation when you can run the real thing? People will switch.

It's something I said a long long long time ago. What can kill Microsoft? Something free.

Sigh, bloom is/was better. This is ok, but honestly it's just the same thing without any real innovation as far as I can tell. Great, I can use a square or a triangle or a star to draw lines around... blah.

Nothing new here, move along.

I thought for sure this thread would be full of all caps.

Either the mods are marking -1 ALL CAPS or everyone is showing remarkable restraint.

Either way, well done.

Do you have a case around your iPod/iPhone? Did you stick a nice logo or stickers or velum wrap around that makes your cool toy look like a radio? Do you wear a black t-shirt?

I noticed my iPod Touch was throwing it's pitches slower than normal. (Ok, the game was...) But that it also was warm. It wasn't like this in the winter! What was up? Well, I'm guessing here, but I bet my processor is overheating. So I pull off the super cool overlay I designed and paid $12 for. Yep... the pitcher works much better thank you.

Clue? Stop overheating your damn iPods/iPhones.

They can't take something that looks like a laptop but is in reality a paper weight, right? So if I have a kill switch that makes the laptop not work what are they going to do? They would probably still take it but if they can't BOOT the thing... if it doesn't even work... what can they do?

Madmax had his kill switch tied to explosives... but I guess that would be a "no no".

The invocation of Hilbert space in the article suggests a LINEAR cellular automata. It would suggest the possibility of any two points in space affecting each other through a very long, but singular line. The concept is akin, if I understand it correctly, to saying that the entire universe is one long line in Hilbert space and thus each iteration of movement affects all others.

but, IANAP

Well that's a relief. I thought everything was my fault.

Try some lemon.

It makes your mouth pucker in just the right way.

> Send a laptop to 10 people or you will have bad luck for 7 years. If you do send laptops to 10 people you will get your greatest wish!!
>
> A woman in Canada didn't send the laptops and now she is in prison for cheating on her taxes.
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> A man in Kansas sent the 10 laptops and now has a new laptop!
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> This is not a hoax or scam!! YOu HVAE TO SEND THIS!! 10 Laptops or something horrible will happens. Send it to all your friends!!!
> >
> > It's TRUE!! I got cancer when I didn't send the laptops, but then I sent them and now I have a million dollars!!!11
> >
> > Don't think this is a trick!! Just do it !1 Wjhat do you have to lose??
> >
> > Jack in Fredricksburgton
> >
> >
> > > I can't count the number of times I've sent out these kinds of Laptops and gotton NOTHIONG. But this is the real deal.
> > > You can't go wrong with this one. Think about it, you already got the laptop. You already have it...
> > > but dont' just accept the gift and not pass it on or your in for big troubles.
> > > >
> > > > Here is a free laptop. Pass this on to 10 friends and enjoy!
> > > >
> > > > Richard R.

In other news MS attempts to bribe government officials with state of the art laptop computers by sending the gifts directly to their offices. The move prompted some pundits to suggest that such "guerrilla marketing" was a new direction for Microsoft, who traditionally had used bribes of cash or AOL disks.

"We wanted to strike out into new ground with this campaign" said Micheal Hunt, lead marketer for the campaign, "We thought 'what would be more unexpected or be more exciting than an electronic device in a brown box being anonymously delivered to your home or office?' and the answer was 'nothing'. We expect an explosion of these types of packages when we start to target other agencies such as the ATF and Homeland Security."

The guy who programs the code for the X-Box isn't the same guy that programs for the Playstation?