It does seem like def con was before comic con (I think?) and would be good example for someone trying to invalidate the trademark. It could be though since def con was a play on the term "DefCon" that it may actually not apply.

Like I said I find it right on the edge so I wouldn't be unhappy to see the trademark validated, but I feel there's some justification there if it is upheld.

For a school with thousands of students, what do you suggest as an alternative?

If you give them "real" PCs, they will screw them up, and you will need dozens of IT staff to delete viruses and reformat drives. At any given time, you will have hundreds of students without working computers.

The old solution was to reformat the drive everyday to a standard image, which means that the PC is just an expensive thin client. With a Chromebook, you get the thin client for less money, without the hassle of reformatting, and without a fragile magnetic drive.

Ah, you are right. Fooled by a damned stock photo :(

You'll have to apply my facetious idea to a future electric container ship. Then it will make more sense. In that scenario, you might change battery capacity to suit the route to next be embarked on. More importantly, you might change battery charge quickly rather then charging the batteries in place; you would charge the batteries on shore using the cheapest power source available, when available, and install them on the next ship to arrive.

There is nothing wrong with making the first "move", as long as that move is benign. Don't ask your subordinates out, don't keep asking if they say no. It's really not hard at all.

The human race isn't going to die out because of this.

or Mormicon

- The Convention Formerly Known as Salt Lake Comic Con.
- Much Better Than Comic Con
- The Comic Convention That Isn't a Con
- Unwilling to Pay Extortionate Fees to Be Called Comic Con
- Did They Bribe the Judge So We Aren't Comic Con Anymore?
- Like Comic Con, Except We Don't Suck
- More Comic, Less Con

Others?

NOT Comic Con?

Ok, I looked up that river and I am sorry but if that is the definition of a river then I'm renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi River. 1,000+ miles!

Not laying any blame at your feet, heck it is shown on Google Earth just as you describe.

It is illegal in some jurisdictions. But I am not aware of any federal law.

... doesn't live in a full democracy? Or is it because 85% of humanity doesn't live in a full democracy that these systems are being sold?

http://www.atlantic-community....

Time-tested does not change what it is. They were diesel-electric when the first prototype roared to life, just like this ship was electric when it whirred nearly silently to life :p

And I don't think the main advantage of diesel-electric is (energy) efficiency. A direct-drive diesel arrangement should be more efficient. The advantage is that you don't need a ridiculous and heavy system of clutches and several-dozen-speed transmissions to make it possible to run at different speeds.

Sexual offender can be almost nothing.. Friend of mine managed to get himself on the sex offenders register.
When he was 20, he met a pretty gal at a nightclub.. She latched on to him, and they ended up going out.. After a while, she started staying over at his place at weekends, and things were good.. She looked young and fresh faced, so always got ID'd, but always pulled out her ID and all was good..
Then eventually he got to meet her folks, and over dinner he said approximately that he knew where she got the cooking skills from now, because she made fantastic breakfasts for him when she stopped over.
That's when conversation pretty much stopped.. He got worried about having made a social faut pas, and left pretty early.
Next day, the police came round to his place and arrested him for rape. Turns out the gal was 15, with false id (age of consent is 16 in UK), and her nights out she was saying she was spending at friends houses studying.
When the court case came around, he was told that ignorance of her age was no defence, and the fact she'd been lying to him and telling him she was 18 and working was no defence.
End result, he did time, and was put on the sex offenders register. He's a nice chap, and thoroughly decent.. Not the sharpest, but damn honourable..
And thoroughly screwed because a gal lied to him. She had no consequence apart from her folks scolding her for lying about being at her friends' houses.

"Our employees are our most valuable asset."

Yes, the ones slated to replace YOU.

The whole thing about having a trademarked name, is San Diego Comic Con may very well want to branch out in offering comic conventions in other cities - to me the name does sound pretty generic but just far enough away from "Comic Convention" that I can see where they'd be awarded a trademark, especially for Comic-Con.

Other shows can be called "Comic Conventions" and they should be perfectly fine as it's enough of a distinction and comic itself is a broadly generic term.

It's a bulker, don't look at that picture at the top of the article. (For one thing, the ship is only 200-something feet long, isn't a standard cointainer 53'?)

I'm sure the batteries are below her belt, (indirectly) cooled by the water. And why would you need to change battery capacity quickly? She'll be doing the same route her entire life. They can probably change out a faulty group of cells very quickly and easily any time she's in port, and probably even while she's under way.

Just because you don't like the guy doesn't mean he isn't an effective CEO. Being effective is not the same as being popular.

Psychopaths often make better leaders because they can ignore the emotions, look at the big picture, and make clear utilitarian decisions. This is especially true for military leadership, where a callous and aggressive push for victory will often result in far fewer casualties than cautious dithering.

There have been interviews where about a half hour in, I decided I would rather starve than work there.

After that, it was all about fucking with them. Times already wasted, might as well make something of it.

Then we have replaced slaves eating coal with machines, and we're back to square 1.

I use Chrome on a Chromebook with 4GB RAM , and at the same time a 32 GB Dell XPS 15 too. Never ran into a memory issue.

Not at all silly. Diesel-Electric is a time-tested and reliable technology that offers huge increases in fuel efficiency.

I should have called it the All-Electric ship, and I certainly didn't mean "rechargeable" as in any way a denigration. It is not, however, proven way of powering a ship. Yet. But with electric cars on the cusp of true practicality, I see no reason why it shouldn't scale up. In fact, in a ship, mass of the batteries will be less of an issue.

When Net Neutrality is lifted carriers will be able to prioritize traffic based on agreement with content providers. This is effectively a type of licensing agreement. If carriers are acting effectively in a licensing and redistribution capacity does that mean that they will be illegally re-licensing and distributing content for which they have no content provider agreements?

I think that the carriers are looking at this and an arbitrage opportunity, however, this could crush them if content providers turn the tables and start demanding fees from the carriers for the privilege of including content on their networks. This is, after all, how cable TV works. If the carriers want to model things after cable TV they might get more than they bargained for.