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Comment Re:1st Amendment (Score 1) 329

by billeeto (#35111466) Attached to: Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name
Sarah Palin (R) Probably got the idea from fox lawyers who sued al Franken for entitling his book "lies and the lying liars who tell them, a fair and balanced account" when fox had a trademark registration on "fair and balanced". The lawsuit was a godsend to Franken for lifting his book up to the Nyt bestseller list and the judge laughed the case out of court.

Comment Re:Saab was great until 900i (Score 1) 438

by billeeto (#30506116) Attached to: A Requiem For Saab
I gave my '92 900 turbo convertible to my son, what a classic design. it has a rebuilt engine and new transmission, with about 220k miles, looks great and drives well with good acceleration ... same car as seen in Sideways, but we pray it won't meet the same fate as that one... in fact we hope Saab as a whole won't smash into a proverbial tree, but I am glad the status quo in Trollhattan is over. I'd rather see Saab end then more of the ho-hum Saaburus.
Transportation

Submission + - A Requiem for Saab

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that auto enthusiasts across the country are dismayed by the news that General Motors is planning to shut down Saab, the Swedish carmaker it bought two decades ago, after a deal to sell it fell apart. Even with its modest and steadily declining sales, Saab, an acronym for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, or Swedish Airplane Company, long stood out as a powerful brand in spite of itself. “It wasn’t designed to be a fashion statement,” says Ron Pinelli, president of Autodata, which tracks industry statistics. “It was designed to provide transportation under miserable weather conditions.” Many Saab owners consider the brand’s glory days to be the 1980s, when Americans began buying cars again after a recession and energy crisis. “The cars were communicative,” says Pinelli. “They didn’t try to numb the experience like cars do today.” The cars had odd touches and appealed to those who appreciate the unconventional. Swedish engineers assumed drivers would be wearing gloves, so they designed big buttons for the dashboard. Though the cars were compact, with long hoods and short rear ends, there was plenty of headroom inside. Now Saab, a brand that once had one of the clearest identities in the industry, seems headed for extinction just as automakers are searching for more distinctive designs to help set them apart. “It’s a shame that Saab is a victim,” adds Pinelli ."
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Game Companies Intrigued By 3D Tech 23

Posted by Soulskill from the bringing-depth-to-the-industry dept.
An editorial by Rob Fahey looks into the possibility of game companies experimenting with modern 3D technology. Over the past decade, advances in the field have been enough for film studios to give 3D another shot, but significant price-related hurdles remain when considering individual consumers. Quoting: "[The approach presently favored by game makers] has actually been around for some time. It displays the image for the left eye, then the right eye, in quick succession on screen — while the glasses you wear close LCD 'shutters' over your eyes so that each eye only sees the appropriate image. If this is done fast enough, the brain sees no flicker — just a continuous, steady 3D image. The best thing about this final approach is that some televisions already exist which could, in theory, support it. No new display technology is required, but what you do need is a TV screen which can display twice the number of frames per second as a normal screen — since you now need one frame for each eye, where previously you had one frame for both eyes. You also need LCD glasses synched to the television's refresh rate for each viewer. All of this lies in the realms of being moderately plausible."
The Courts

Warner Music Forces Lessig Presentation Offline 196

Posted by timothy from the streisand-times-one-million dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Larry Lessig, known (hopefully) to everyone around here as a defender of all things having to do with consumer rights and fair use rights when it comes to copyright, is now on the receiving end of a DMCA takedown notice from Warner Music, who apparently claimed that one of Lessig's famous presentations violated on their copyright. Lessig has said that he's absolutely planning on fighting this, and has asked someone to send Warner Music a copy of US copyright law that deals with 'fair use.'" Reader daemonburrito notes that the (rehosted) "video remains available at the time of this submission."

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