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Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark 430

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, 2006 @11:37AM from the stupid-legal-moves dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GeekPunk is announcing that their flagship comic book title featuring superheroes patronizing their favorite bar & grill during their off-hours will now be entitled Hero Happy Hour beginning with the fifth issue of the ongoing series. According to creator Dan Taylor, "The decision to change the title was brought upon by the fact that we received a letter from the trademark counsel to 'the two big comic book companies' claiming that they are the joint owners of the trademark 'SUPER HEROES' and variations thereof." " Read the recent boingboing post for more background as well.

Comment IDEA (Score 1) 122

by sawanv on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @12:01AM (#14487974) Attached to: Java Development: Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA?

IDEA is an excellent tool...far superior than Netbeans or Eclipse IMHO. I have used all three and found IDEA to be heads above both.

It is much more stable (It caught a JVM bug, reported it to me and offered to restart or adjust itself!),
has excellent featueres built right in (no hunting for plugins and having to deal with buggy plugins),
has a MUCH shorter learning curve then Eclipse,
excellent version control (better then Netbeans 5, Eclipses' has bugs in it) subtle features that you grow to appreciate, excellent merging and version revision, comparison,
GUI is highly optimised (very fast on Linux),
features actually work (try adding a property to a class with 50 members using the bean pattern interface in NB),
has helpful docs,
doesnt fall over on huge projects (Netbeans does when using refactoring...grrrrrrr...all that wasted time),
has an awesome library of refactoring templates that actually work,
manages to do things "just right for you" e.g. build system,
and many more.....

The only problem is the $400 price tag.

One bit of advice.....please for the love of Gosling ...do not use Eclipse. It is NOT a nice tool, highly confusing, buggy, unstable, and its so called "platform features" are used by about 3 people in the world.

As for NB.....4.1 has the above problems, 5 still to early to say though Matisse is good!

I paid the $400.

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