Posts by Rich Lock
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do you know if other industries use patent tit-for-tat in disputes like large software companies seem to?
Yes. Large corporates in all fields will spend millions of dollars amassing huge portfolios of patents that may or may not be valid. Thier competitors do the same. Litigating any one of them will cost both sides hundreds of thousands of dollars and bleed each sides profits white.
Think of it as mutually assured destruction.
Mechanical devices? Nope. Circuit boards? Nope.
Um, yes to both actually. I'd happily file a patent application (to protect the unique functionality), and a design application (to protect the unique look) for both of these categories. If the client had the money and the individual circumstances were appropriate.
The bottom line is, unfortunately, the bottom line.
If I had a small client working away in his garden shed on an improved electro-mechanical braking/acceleration system, and Toyota decided they were going to copy it rather than licence it, if the client didn't have to money to leverage his IP fighting them in the courts, then he'd be shit out of luck. How's that different from the software guys?
Will be back later to see how this is going, but must do some work. Those jackboots won't stamp down on those faces all by themselves, you know.
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Even today they have a Nocturnal Dominion death metal show, but no drum and bass show
'The Warning'? 11-1 fri nights with DJ DWare?
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They can even manage to keep things open, too.
I went to Spain for a holiday once and was rather taken aback to find that everything did close for a three-hour siesta in the middle of the day. I'd assumed it was some sort of urban legend that didn't apply to english tourists...
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Four weeks sounds like an awful lot
Oh, you'd hate living in Europe, with their 5-6 weeks annual leave as standard.
And look! look how backward they are! Gosh, we really should model ourselves more closely on the US, with their standard two weeks. I thank our lucky stars we have advocacy groups like the business round table who protect our interests from those nasty socialist cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Ahem. As you were.
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Worth noting that a lot of pubs in the UK are open on Christmas Day, but that on Christmas Day (and the days around it) far more stuff is shut or running a skeleton service than in NZ.
But more stuff is open at Easter.
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'There was a cat that really was gone': the greatest ever historical analysis of anything in pop lyric form.
Hmm, I'd argue for The Stranglers.
Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick. That made his ears burn.
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and let’s not forget that America didn't really get punk at all until they found Nirvana who were able to offer a nice corporatised version of it for the masses.
By 'get', you really mean 'become big enough nationwide to really be thought of as pop', though, right?
The San Francisco scene was pretty big, or at least that's my impression (for example, wiki tells me that the Dead Kennedys formed in 1978).
And this cut a little too close to my funny bone. My laughter was tinged with more than a shade of unease.
"Punk is more than just a Mohawk hairstyle," Tolbert said. "For us back in the '90s, punk was a way of life. I see these kids today hanging around Gilman Street in their leather jackets with their wallet chains, and I just want to say to them, 'You think punk is a costume, man?' Back in'93, it was about so much more: It was a rebellion against outmoded belief systems. It was a cry of outrage against the repressive authority of the Clinton Administration."
"I saw some kid wearing a Sex Pistols T-shirt the other day–he couldn't have been more than 9 when the Pistols did their Filthy Lucre reunion tour," Tolbert said. "I was like, 'You can listen to the music, you can wear the T-shirt, but I was there.' I had fifth-row seats at that goddamn stadium, man, right up front, close enough to see Johnny Rotten's wrinkles. Did you see an original member of The Clash play during Big Audio Dynamite II's last tour? Did you see two of the four original Ramones play at the KROQ Weenie Roast in '95? You did not, but I did. I swear to God, they're like a joke, these people." .
Ouch….
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I find myself hearing songs that sound exactly like the bit in the promo for the show that says "it's like, do-doodle-oo, do-doodle-oh"!
Heh heh heh. It's funny because it's true!
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(no women!?)
As an early riser (not necessarily by choice), I've been listening to Jennifer, the DJ who is on before/fills in for Mr Havoc before he arrives.
She's rather good, in my opinion.
I don't think Matt will do BOTY in the morning. I don't think Chris is coming with him, for a start, and I think that schtick mainly comes as a duo. I expect he will be quick-witted and irreverent, sure, but I also think he'll be more thoughtful than you might hear on Drive.
Was wondering about this. Much as I love Thursday drive when I get to listen to it...woud I love it first thing in the morning?
And personally I'm a big fan of the 'specialist show' format. We ended up listening to a lot of jazz and funk on sunday afternoons when we were renovating the house last year, which was great. But generally, if there's a demographic, I'll not be in it...
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My eyes....zer goggles, zey do nothing..