Jumping tigers, ownership madness, Intel gets NYAGed
A recent escape of a tiger at a zoo in California despite a 15-foot high wall and a mote has raised the question of just how high a tiger can jump. National Geographic takes a stab at the question in a recent story on its website, reporting a case in India where a tiger took three fingers off a man riding on elephant-back. The article unfortunately contains a typo stating that 12 feet is about 4 kilometers rather than 4 meters (which is about right).
It seems that Ed Stelmach is defending his sicking lawyers on an Alberta university student (see the full story a couple of posts ago) over the rights to the domain edstelmach.ca by telling the CBC:
"I'm sure the public, those that are really interested in this, find it upsetting. Obviously the public knows that a name is a name, it's your name, it's your property."
Wow. Hellloooo culture of ownership. What happens if you have a really common name? Does Bob White of Vancouver have exclusive rights to bobwhite.ca, or does that belong to Bob White of Thunder Bay? What about Bob White of Halifax? I can't wait to see someone try to sue over that.
Now Mr. Stelmach might have had an easier go of it if he had just set a meeting with Dave Cournoyer, who by the way finds the whole situation is "bizarre and ridiculous", but since Stelmach sent in the lawyers first and asked questions later, I don't see this settling out of court.
In corporations behaving badly news, Intel is under investigation by the New York Attorney General's (NYAG) office over anti-trust concerns regarding its rivalry with AMD. The accusations are that (a) Intel sold CPUs at a lower price to manufacturers who use them exclusively (illegal), (b) that Intel tried to cut AMD off from certian key distribution channels (also illegal), and (c) that Intel offered financial incentives to keep batches of AMD-based systems from leaving the factory. Intel denies doing any such thing, and really, I think they wouldn't have to.
AMD has been in trouble with the technical aspects of it manufacuring business; as Ars Technica notes, the transition to 65 nanometer-scale processors (which ultimately resulted in the Anthlon 64) was very rough indeed and Intel was able to beat AMD to the 45 nanometer punch by months. AMD has also yet to roll out its first quad-core chip.
It seems that Ed Stelmach is defending his sicking lawyers on an Alberta university student (see the full story a couple of posts ago) over the rights to the domain edstelmach.ca by telling the CBC:
"I'm sure the public, those that are really interested in this, find it upsetting. Obviously the public knows that a name is a name, it's your name, it's your property."
Wow. Hellloooo culture of ownership. What happens if you have a really common name? Does Bob White of Vancouver have exclusive rights to bobwhite.ca, or does that belong to Bob White of Thunder Bay? What about Bob White of Halifax? I can't wait to see someone try to sue over that.
Now Mr. Stelmach might have had an easier go of it if he had just set a meeting with Dave Cournoyer, who by the way finds the whole situation is "bizarre and ridiculous", but since Stelmach sent in the lawyers first and asked questions later, I don't see this settling out of court.
In corporations behaving badly news, Intel is under investigation by the New York Attorney General's (NYAG) office over anti-trust concerns regarding its rivalry with AMD. The accusations are that (a) Intel sold CPUs at a lower price to manufacturers who use them exclusively (illegal), (b) that Intel tried to cut AMD off from certian key distribution channels (also illegal), and (c) that Intel offered financial incentives to keep batches of AMD-based systems from leaving the factory. Intel denies doing any such thing, and really, I think they wouldn't have to.
AMD has been in trouble with the technical aspects of it manufacuring business; as Ars Technica notes, the transition to 65 nanometer-scale processors (which ultimately resulted in the Anthlon 64) was very rough indeed and Intel was able to beat AMD to the 45 nanometer punch by months. AMD has also yet to roll out its first quad-core chip.
Labels: AMD, big bad business, corporate bastards, culture of ownership, Intel, tigers
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