It’s easy enough to bypass the Win11 hardware requirements I’ll probably be doing that to a hundred machines in September of 2024 when all my friends and family realize they are one month away from no more security updates on Win10. https://www.tomshardware.com/h...

98 had no DOS underpinning in any meaningful sense, it just had a lot of backwards compatibility for DOS apps. 3.11 was the last version of Windows that truly ran on top of MS DOS.

to think that metadata like “RMS, FR, peak amplitude and stereo width” can be copyrighted. I’m surprised they left out song length!

Let me read TFA... Azotic Technologies.

...is another classic that belongs on the list.

Get your hair dyed some other natural-looking color, with eyebrows to match. You can always go back to grey once you have the job.

#1 and #3 are true, however #2 is false. The information existed and could have in fact been provided. The existence of a "policy" not to give existing relevant evidence to a defense attorney after a certain time period does not change that fact. According to the Brady v. Maryland decision, suppression of exculpatory evidence is a violation of due process. Also, knowingly denying the existence of such existing evidence would be perjury.

I agree with your interpretation. I was answering GP's general question about whether trademarks are ever lost by not defending them, and did not mean to imply that this was the case with Activision and King's Quest. Activision, as far as I can tell, are just being jerks in this case.

We're talking about trademarks in this thread, not patents. There's a different set of laws for those.

Zipper was a trademark which wasn't enforced, and thus it became genericized. If it had been enforced, we'd have to call zippers "sliding fasteners" or something equally awkward. The physical design to which the trademark refers could or could not be patented, that's a completely different issue from whether or not the brand name that refers to the design is trademarked.

You could trademark a non-patented design, or patent a design and not trademark a name for it. Patents and trademarks are apples and oranges.

I'm not 100% sure, but if 78% of electrons generate electricity, isn't there still wasted energy before it actually gets to the useful energy stage? i.e. energy in a single visible photon (~700nm if i recall) is significantly higher than the energy required to jump an electron up a state, and that difference in energy is turned into heat. this would have the effect of reducing the overall efficiency to 15% or something that is much lower. Is this true, or am i remembering bits and peices that are all wrong?

What kind of flamewar is this? And more importantly, how do we tell who's winning?

I don't claim to be a MS fanboy, I only run XP for games; my laptops/netbooks all run ubuntu. Had any other company in the world released this you wouldn't have commented the way you did. Did you see how the user videos were overlaid right overtop of the existing data?? In google it's just a black, blank canvas (try looking up under the eiffle tower in paris). Who cares if you need a live feed to do that? Their system is infinitely more extensible than google's currently is. As for releasing tech demos, this was done right through their current map beta, which anyone can use. It's not vaporware.

First they came for the men with sportscars, but I did not speak out, for I was not a giant douchebag.

Trademarks which have lost their legal protection in the US due to a lack of zealous lawyering include "aspirin," originally a trademark of Bayer AG, "escalator," originally a trademark of Otis Elevator Company, "thermos," originally a trademark of Thermos GmbH, "yo-yo," originally a trademark of Duncan Yo-Yo Company, and "zipper," originally a trademark of B.F. Goodrich. References and more info are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark For a legal precedent from the world of real property, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession

this is serious bullshit. ive been a modder for years now and i know about fair use. the companies that hold the rights of the games i work on LOVE modding as it increases sales and replay value. Activision you are showing your corporate decay.