Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? 389
geogeek6_7 writes: "Intel Inc., everyone's favorite chipmaker, has apparently decided that they own the rights to the word 'Inside.' In proceedings bordering on the line of frivolity, the Yoga Inside Foundation has been tagged with trademark infringment in papers submitted to the PTO by Intel. The article states that Intel will most likely use the Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 in court." Don't worry, Intel doesn't want every instance of the word "Inside" -- only the ones that come right after another word. (Look at the meaning of "Inside" that the YIF is referring to, and the story gets even more absurd.)
trademarks (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:trademarks (Score:2, Informative)
TV Small Court of Sanity (Score:5, Insightful)
Yep, the big companies would _have_ to use this court before the case was allowed to go (via appeal) to the usual federal courts. No lawyers, just like small court-- just the 2 sides presenting their case to a telegenic judge. Shown publically, to expose how ludicrious this is.
Court costs would, of course, be covered by advertising. The rest would go to the US gov't (thus probably wiping out the national debt in just 3 seasons...)
And hey, once the corps realized that the negative PR cost of being displayed as total loons on daytime TV cost more than nuking some pitiful NPO or individual, maybe fewer would be filed.
At least moving these things away from the horrible, horrible process that is our modern judiciary would give some recourse to individuals and small entities. You know it's bad when I'm recommending jerry springer-like exposure over the court system.
Keeping up Appearances. (Score:4, Insightful)
This is the understatement of the year.
The yoga people are offering the Intel Exec's free lessons so that they can learn to be a little more "flexible." If I were in Intel PR, I'd jump on that opportunity right away, and issue a press release the next morning.
Witness the rebirth of ENRON! [lostbrain.com]
tcd004
Re:Keeping up Appearances. (Score:3, Funny)
Err.. hold on... this isn't a marlboro.
Re:Keeping up Appearances. (Score:5, Funny)
Intel should take a lesson from Southwest Airlines. A few years back, some small North Carolina company called them up claiming to have prior rights to "Just Plane Smart". And instead of threatening legal action, they suggested an arm-wrestling match - i.e. winner takes the trademark.
Southwest actually sent a wrestler (who lost), and won a ton of PR points for it.
A link to the site in question (Score:2, Insightful)
New warning sign at Intel's headquarters... (Score:5, Funny)
Unfair tactics (Score:4, Funny)
Re:New warning sign at Intel's headquarters... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New letter for Intel HQ (Score:2, Funny)
Please stop using our trademark Inside - or we'll put you inside.
Yours,
Intel
Re:New letter for Intel HQ (Score:3, Funny)
How about I jam my foot inside your ass.
Yours,
dimator
Intel had better watch out... (Score:3, Funny)
The difference between karma and /. karma (Score:4, Informative)
all that bad karma could hammer them down.
The difference between Hindu karma and Slashdot "karma" (capped cumulative moderation result) is that with Hindu karma, you can't just reset your karma to neutral by killing yourself (i.e. creating another account). Your karma (action) has to follow dharma (the good way) if you want the god to give you the Bonus in the next life. See also Hindu Karma FAQ [about.com].
Enough already!!! (Score:2)
Somebody PLEASE find a prior use example of "(fill in the blank) inside", and kill this one dead! It needs to be stomped on!
Shakespeare had the right idea, though I would also add corporations to the list of things that need killing.
Re:Enough already!!! (Score:2)
Re:Shintel would infringe on Intel (Score:2)
Trade*mark (Score:2)
BNF Copyright (Score:2)
INTELCOPYRIGHT
I think the international copyright laws should be updated to allow regular expressions, and attribute grammars.
Will they go after Cracker Jack next? (Score:2)
W
The Intel Lawyer Trademark (Score:5, Funny)
I guess their lawyers figure people will confused between yoga and a company with their head up their ass.
links (Score:2, Informative)
Swaine- http://www.swaine.com/tuesday.html [swaine.com] Diversions- http://diversions.kaptiv-8.com/ [kaptiv-8.com]
Send email [mailto] to complain.
Dear God, is there no way... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dear God, is there no way... (Score:4, Informative)
Seen outside Intel HQ... (Score:4, Funny)
~Philly
in other news... (Score:2)
Inside Windows (Score:2, Funny)
Intel is just protecting consumer rights (Score:5, Funny)
They're all spoiled, now. (Score:5, Insightful)
Capitalism is good, in its pure and properly practiced form--unfortunately, so is any other form of economy. The bigger companies contributed to political campaigns, and so they began to get judges to rule in their favor even when, perhaps, it wasn't something they really had a right to. They paid for privacy when someone should have looked over their shoulders.
And then it gradually came to the point where large businesses *expected* this privilege. I can't blame Intel because they're behaving in a way which corporate America not only accepts but encourages. They're no longer motivated by a search for prosperity but by mere greed--they are the gluttons who want more food even when they can't eat anymore.
These lawsuits are the symptoms, not the disease. People need to become aware of the business practices of the companies they patronize, and modify their spending habits appropriately. They need to let their representatives know that the interests of business aren't *their* interests.
Once the people take the power *back* from the corporations, maybe the world will regain some of its sanity again. Remember, in America, even if you can't vote, you are an all-important Consumer--pay attention to the choices you make.
Re:They're all spoiled, now. (Score:2)
These lawsuits are the symptoms, not the disease. People need to become aware of the business practices of the companies they patronize, and modify their spending habits appropriately. They need to let their representatives know that the interests of business aren't *their* interests.
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Good idea. I don't want to be critical, but it's no where near far enough. Companies use their power to maintain the status quo. They do it through advertising, buying politicians, etc. Its all legal and accepted.
You fight a long and loosing battle simply trying to "change spending habits" and "notify your politician." In the face of the whole cultural context driving people to act in ways that maintain the dichotomy between people and companies -- suggestions like that will have small effect, even if implemented.
read my sig
In other words. (Score:3, Insightful)
Shopping is something you do every day voting is once a year (if you show up for local elections).
Shopping effects corporations which are more powerful then the govt and for all practical purposes own the govt. How you spend your dollars has a much bigger impact on the composition of your community and country then how you vote.
Unfortunately the number of people who are mindful of their spending is smaller then the number of people who vote.
What a pathetic country we live in.
Re:They're all spoiled, now. (Score:2, Insightful)
It's not the corporations that grant these monopolistic situations - its the STATE! Corps just make best use of available laws because if they don't someone else will and they'll lose competitive advantage.
Take away the laws and the corps can't use 'em. Leave them and they HAVE TO or they cease to exist - just to be replaced by ones that DO because we all want to buy stuff.
Can't have an economy without corps! Can't have your shiny 4 disc LOTR DVD without corps!
Re:They're all spoiled, now. (Score:2, Insightful)
Not really.
1. You invent product with name people will recall.
2. I invent similar product with same name.
3. What happens now?
Tom
Re:They're all spoiled, now. (Score:2)
so misguided and angry.
I don't even know where to begin.
It would take months to bring you around to
understand how many lies and falsehoods about
the world you have taken blindly.
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What's next? XWindows=XPortholes? (Score:2, Insightful)
Next they'll go after little "Evil Inside [extrapolation.net]" logos that constitute fair use in free speech (as satire, political protest) as laid down by Falwell v. Flint [sexuality.org] and the First Amendment [house.gov]. Heck, one can make a completely valid argument that the same would apply to "Linux Inside [imf.au.dk]. How can someone own a trademark on the expression of one object being within another?
"Yoga Inside" has no chance of diluting the Intel brand; however, Intel's behaviour does. Nobody's going to run around and say that they're computer is a "Yoga Inside". Your rant is spurrious.
I'm deeply suspicious of changes to trademark law. Got to love the recent changes [google.com] that have been made to copyright law.
<sarcasm>Thanks, Disney [wired.com]!</sarcasm>. If this trademark stuff gets as out-of-whack, maybe we'll be using XPortholes instead of XWindows [x.org] a few years down the road.
Re:What's next? XWindows=XPortholes? (Score:2)
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Antec Outside Re:What's next? XWindows=XPortholes? (Score:2)
The case came with a stick-on logo like the "Intel Inside" logo, except that it said "Antec Outside" [antec-inc.com] .
Here's a review. [sysopt.com]
Re:They're all spoiled, now. (Score:2)
Aside from which, only a blithering idiot would support the trademark of common words, like "windows" or "inside". The language belongs to its speakers, not to any corporate entity. Arguments to the contrary are either non-sensical or a practice in corporate whoredom.
Max
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Humor - confusing Intel and Yoga? (Score:2)
Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org) [sethf.com]
Rush Out 'n' Register (Score:5, Funny)
"Yes, your honor, we are suing Just To Make Our Lawyers Fuzzy Inside"
Finally, some honesty in the legal system.
NIN (Score:4, Funny)
They will be shortly re-issuing the CD with these sanitized lyrics that are more compatible with current American sensitivities:
I want to FUCK you like an animal
I want to feel you from the in***e
When asked for comment, band leader Trent Reznor said: "Yeah, I'm upset about this. But I feel better knowing that I've personally scored more chicks than all of the dorks working at Intel combined."
This is not the first time. (Score:2)
That will be a tough one to fight (Score:2)
If I say, "Oh, hey! How are you doing Joe? Please go inside..."
Then I can safely assume that Intel's lawyers will be knocking at my door telling me to watch what I say and threaten me with law suits.
I would have to say something like, "Oh, hey! How are you doing Joe? Inside is my house, please go..."
That sounds realy stupid. And that goes the same for this case, it is stupid too.
Yoga...The path of peace (Score:5, Informative)
These people have been refering to yoga as an inner thing for thousands of years. If that's not prior use please shoot me.
quote (Score:3, Funny)
- Bruce Murphy
Got Intel? (Score:2)
I have tried finding references pro or con on this, but all the anti-milk PETA sites are making searching difficult.
Why don't they go after THESE guys? (Score:2, Interesting)
If you ask me, this sounds like a lawyer looking for a way to finance a new BMW and a Caribbean vacation.
Re:Why don't they go after THESE guys? (Score:2)
Intel, fuck you (Score:4, Interesting)
"We can't let a precedent be set," he explained. " 'Yoga Inside' might not sound bad, but what happens when someone comes along with 'Apple Inside'?"
If its in reference to an Apple being in an apple orchard, that's fucking fine.
Even if its Apple computer, who said you have the right to trademark common words? If Apple came up with an add that said something like:
"Apple Inside"
there's nothing wrong with that either. After all, that's what it is: Its an Apple. Since its also an Apple on the outside, they might say something like:
Apple Outside. Apple Inside.
This is just plain ludicrous. Other people shouldn't be prevented from using the ENGLISH LANGUAGE to their benefit because you assholes can't be original and trademark things that aren't already words.
By the way, you fucking assholes, there's something called the First Amendment. It has constitutional basis, so it trumps any "trademark" laws.
This is no different than IBM trying to trademark the "e" symbol with a circle around it. Come on. That's fucking bullshit.
Suggesting to Intel, IBM, and other lamers who are trying to own the English Language by trademarks: if your going to make a trademark, make up a word/symbol for it. Suggestion to Intel for a REAL trademark:
"Intelliside"
Oh wait, because of assholes like you Intel fucks, MS might sue you for trademark violations of its "IntelliPoint" mouse.
Other assholes include Nike, both for trademarking the word "Nike" and for trademarking the Nike symbol. Nike is the greek god of victory, closely associated with Athena/Minerva. And her symbol was the same symbol that the Nike shoe uses. Sounds like fucking prior art to me. Not to mention, it should be public domain.
Why blame a corp? (Score:4, Insightful)
increase shareholder value. You can hardly blame
them for trying to do that. Even if you don't
like the means.
It is the job of governments to create and enforce
rules that corps have to comply to. It is the job
of a government to care for the goods of its
citizens.
If the jurisdiction fails, put the blame where it
belongs.
Re:Why blame a corp? (Score:4, Insightful)
The job of a corporation is to make money. To increase shareholder value. You can hardly blame them for trying to do that. Even if you don't like the means.
The duty of any human being is to behave in an ethical manner. The duty of any citizen is to promote the good of his/her society.
Those duties superceed any duty as an employee or shareholder of a corperation. Since a corperation is made up solely of employees and shareholders, behaving in an ethical manner and promoting the good of society are the top two duties. Therefore, increasing shareholder value must be accomplished through ethical behaviour in a way that promotes the good of society.
If a corperation behaves in an ethical manner, it can, with care, meet it's second obligation by meeting it's third. This is true because producing a useful product or service while enhancing the prosperity of it's constituants is good for society. The key is to make sure that it's means to that end do not cause more harm than good.
Government exists solely to require and facilitate the first two duties. All that it does must be a means to those ends. It is meant to be both a forum where citizens may discuss what constitutes ethical behavoiur and the good of society, and as an organizer to promote that good. Legislation is meant to be an enumeration of the findings of that forum. Criminal court and law enforcement share the sad but necessary function of stopping and correcting people who fail in their duties in a manner consistant with that forum's findings. Courts also act as a lesser forum with a narrower focus where the enumeration (law) is clarified and applied to individual circumstance.
The failure of government to perform it's function does not relieve ANYONE (member of a corperation or not) of their duties. If the law fails to enumerate a necessary behaviour (or restraint) and the court must err on the side of leniancy (in the hope of minimising harm), that does not in itself make an action acceptable.
Closer to the topic at hand, In this matter, To date, Intel is behaving better than many other corperations might in this matter. It could do much better. If it would think flexibly and use the money a legal battle would cost (or even a fraction of it) to sponsor Yoga Inside instead, it would do much more good for society as well as for itself and avoid the potential damage to the strength of it's trademark that a finding for the defendant might cause.
Re:Intel, fuck you (Score:2)
Re:Intel, fuck you (Score:2)
You may want to tell that to Ferrari [supercars.net] or BMW [supercars.net] or Porsche [supercars.net], for that matter.
Ferrari 308 GTB (Score:4, Insightful)
What's more you are under the impression that trademark is intellectual property. It isn't. It is association in the public's mind, and if the public loses that association you lose the right to the exclusive right to use the mark, as in Band-Aid and Kleenex.
As such, in a very real and legal way, a trademark is the "intellectual property" of the public!
A trademark is an item that can be uniquely identified with a business. A company is granted the "temporary" right to the exclusive use of the mark only so long as it is, and remains, a unique indentifier.
As it happens a car model number with zero in the middle does *not* uniquely identify a Peugot, and "Yoga Inside" does NOT conjur up images of computer chips.
Thus neither is a valid trademark.
KFG
Re:Ferrari 308 GTB (Score:3, Insightful)
This must be some strange definition of the word "voluntary" of which I was previously unaware.
Do you perchance work for the IRS, which claims (with a straight face, no less) that the U.S. tax system "is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance"?
Would you defend a rapist in court with "Your Honor, in the case of the young woman in question, she decided she didn't have the physical capability to fight my client in the back alley, and voluntarily decided to have sex before going to the nearest hospital emergency room?"
Re:Intel, fuck you (Score:3, Insightful)
This is no different than IBM trying to trademark the "e" symbol with a circle around it. Come on. That's fucking bullshit.
Good post up to here. Actually it's completely different. The circled 'e' was a new symbol, a character that hadn't been used before. The obvious relationship with the @ symbol and the use of the letter 'e' was so clever that in retrospect it seems obvious. But it wasn't obvious, and it was a completely new symbol (AFAIK; if others had used it before, I retract this entire argument).
Inventing a clever logo and trademarking it seems like a *perfectly* legitimate thing to do and completely different from trying to trademark common words like "Inside" or "Windows".
Re:Intel, fuck you (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm suing all of you (Score:2)
This satirical comment brought to you by Intel: Assholes Inside
AMD to the rescue (Score:2)
PPA, the girl next door.
Karma time (Score:3, Funny)
Does anyone know how I can contact them?
I want some more Karma!!!
bad publicity (Score:2)
I'm am going to put a gigantic sign on the (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm inside"
better yet, someone should sell bumper stickers that say, "people inside"
Top 10 * insides (Score:2)
10. Assholes Inside.
09. Lawyers Inside.
08. Fuck-holes Inside.
07. Dorks Inside.
06. Pinheads Inside.
05. Greedy-fucking-bastards Inside.
04. Arrogant-pricks Inside.
03. Information-nazi's Inside.
02. Dumb-fucks Inside.
and the number one Star Inside phrase is...
01. Big-Brother Inside.
Hoping its a misunderstanding (Score:2)
When I first heard this, I thought to myself, "Man, copyright law sucks, but this sorta makes sense. I mean, Yoga Inside does seem to be capitalizing off of Intel Inside." It's not uncommon either for companies in different fields to try and capitalize off of a well-no slogan either.
Then I saw that they provided Yoga lessons to prisoners, and that Inside refers to being inside a prison. I have to believe that once the higher ups hear about this, they'll drop the lawsuit quick. It's unreasonable. When lawyers don't have enough real work to do, they tend to try and find a way to justify the horrific amounts of money they charge. I'm gonna have to give Intel the benefit of the doubt on this one that they'll do the right thing.
Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 (Score:2, Funny)
Suggested new trademark for Intel: Lawyers Inside
In related news . . . (Score:2)
Intel spinmeister's said to the press, "Trademark law forced us to sue them. It forces us to aggressively defend our trademarks, even in non-related industries."
The CIA's response, "The CIA has decided that since general words such as "intel" can be trademarked, we're suing Intel for violating OUR intellectual property. The CIA used the word Intel long before Intel. Thus, we should be the one's suing some poor Yoga schmuck, not Intel."
Apple goes after the orchard (Score:2)
At some point you would think that people would patent all the ideas, and all the words, and all things would be owned by somebody. To the point that laws would have to under go a dramatic reversal to allow a person to even speak in public without uttering copy protected speak.
And speaking of dilution. I think Dilution would be more like saying "Sparc within", or "Alpha in-the-box", and even "PowerPC inward". Dilution in this form is true dilution since it would make the issue ambigous of how you define "inside", or its like words.
Can we trademark regular expressions? (Score:3, Funny)
So now I have to wonder. According to Intel, we could have.
Is it to late to trademark "Virtual\ .+" ?
80,000 variations (Score:3, Funny)
There are 80 basic Yoga postures, and 80,000 variations.
And not one of them is called the 'intel'.
In fact, the only posture you'll find associated with an 'intel', is the "shoulderhouchedoverkeyboardstrainedneckahansa" -- and that is definetly not a classic Yoga posture.
There's also the "repetitivestressisfuckingmywristsahansa", and the "mybodywilldieprematurelyfromlackofexcerciseahansa " posture.
But none of these will be found on a Yoga video.
And don't get me started on diet.
Really, "Yoga" is associated with health, while "intel" is associated with unhealth.
Yoga means the joining of mind and body. Intel means the joining of your arse to the chair.
There is no possibility of confusing these two things, 'yoga' and 'intel'.
I suggest the lawyers sow a label onto the back of their trowsers, "shit inside", and then they can sue their own asses off.
I understand... (Score:2, Interesting)
Considering this and the nature of the group using the trademark (read the article) I think they should say "no, you can't use our trademark without approval" and then give them a licence for $1 or some other thing to allow the use.
Now, of course this assumes that Intel even has a trademark. How you can trademark "'blank' inside" is amazing... I think I will trademark "'blank' is", maybe even "'blank' and".
Re:I understand... (Score:2)
Devil Inside (Score:3, Funny)
With The Look In Her Eye
Raised On Leather
With Flesh On Her Mind
Words As Weapons Sharper Than Knives
Makes You Wonder How The Other Half Die
Other Half Die
Here Come The Man
With The Look In His Eye
Fed On Nothing
But Full Of Pride
Look At Them Go
Look At Them Kick
Makes You Wonder How The Other Half Live
Intel inside
Intel inside
Every Single One Of Us With Intel inside
Intel inside
Intel inside
Every Single One Of Us With Intel inside
Here Come The World
With The Look In Its Eye Future Uncertain
But Certainly Slight
Look At The Faces
Listen To The Bells
It's Hard To Believe We Need A Place Called Hell
Might as well go after pr0n... (Score:2, Funny)
Intel not everyone's favourite (Score:2)
Everyone's favourite? Intel's not inside my computer.
AMD [amd.com] rules!
Antec Outside (Score:2)
Thankfully it's protected by fair use / parody. I usually toss logos out when assembling a PC but thought that was amusing enough to actually stick on the case.
Some Googlevidence (TM!!) (Score:4, Interesting)
Yoga Inside has been active since 1999 based on work done in 1995 by Mark Stephens in LA juvenile detention camps with six Tibetan monks sent by the Dalai Lama. here [yogajournal.com]
That book has a website, www.yoga-insideout.com, here [yoga-insideout.com]
"Inside and Out" is a popular way of describing holistic health, and the phrase "yoga inside" is commonly used to describe the experience, like the site here [yogaexperience.com].
There is a travel company called Inside India which works with several Yoga therapy centers for health tours, here [inside-india-travel.com].
Barbara Kallir directed an instructional video guide to tantric yoga, "Inside Westside". Recommended for the Lawyers after those free courses, here [earthlink.net].
Couldn't find a link between the Dalai Lama and Intel, unless you count that both are successful exiles. Although Apple struck the Dalai Lama from their Asian billboards so maybe ..nah.
The fourth most popular use of the word conjunction "yoga inside" on the web, after the prison project, the video, and general discussions of yoga and health experiences, is Intel's suit. How many hundreds of millions of dollars of PR is this costing Intel I wonder? Maybe the defendant should get the video publisher to join in, seems like they are making lots of money with their domain name.
What about Energizer? (Score:2, Interesting)
INTEL inside (Score:2, Funny)
This Yoga dude has brass ones! (Score:2)
Intel becoming their main corporate patron - LOL
Big opportunity (Score:2)
If Slashdot were to hire about 5,000 a**hole lawyers, can you imagine what this would do for our favorite website's bottom line? Folks, we would never have to look at a banner ad, an in-article ad, or any other kind of ad for at least the next 1,000 years!
C-Grade Lawyers vs. Groucho Marx (Score:4, Interesting)
Warner Brother's staff counsel made the mistake of threatening Groucho Marx because he had announced a new movie with the name "Casablanca" in it. Here is Groucho's initial response... [princeton.edu] What's truly amazing is that Warner Brother's didn't understand how stupid they looked after getting Groucho's initial letter. The exchange continued for several more letters until somebody at Warner Brothers finally got the message.
Need a sig? Here, have this one...
Intel Hires Idiots [slashdot.org]
The Kick Inside (Score:2)
Baseless? (Score:2)
OTOH, with stuff like the DMCA, I don't know what is legal in the U.S. anymore.
Trademark or Slogan?? (Score:2)
I mean, we don't buy an "Inside brand CPU", do we?? And no one says "Hey, did you hear about that that new 10GHz inside??"
So this isn't at all like the trademark issue involved with, frex, "Kleenix brand tissues".
What's REALLY inside? (Score:3, Funny)
"Check what out?" you might ask. Well, in short, I wanted to check out what's 'inside'. So I did.
Now, to do this with a Pentium 4 would be silly. It's an expensive chip and I don't like the idea of supporting Intel's legal BS with my purchases. I found a couple of 486's laying around (33MHz if you're curious) and decided I should immediately set out to find out what's 'inside'.
Noticing the top is one piece told me to focus my efforts on relieving the chips of their bottom plate which I theorized (having neither the time nor the inclination to actually find out) were simply either glued or soldered on. Working under this theory, I tried using a small straighthead scewdriver to scrape away whatever was holding it in place on the outside and try to pry under the plate.
After realizing this was going nowhere fast, I looked around and decided the best way in was to reverse the process by which it was assembled. Keep in mind I had no intention of trying to actually do anything with what I found, nor do I have the expertise to figure out how any of it worked. I just wanted to see what the hell is 'inside'. I therefore decided to use a small butaine torch. This should, I theorized, heat up the glue or whatever enough to allow me to get into the plate.
I'm going to say this once and I hope everyone listens... DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF WITHOUT GLOVES, LONG SLEEVES, LONG PANTS, AND GOGGLES! Also make sure someone is very nearby (within talking distance) in case something goes wrong. I STRONGLY recommend you NOT try this AT ALL.
Ok, now torch in one hand, vice grips in the other, I proceeded to heat the plate up as much as possible. Pins were glowing, popping and crackling sounds were easily heart, and I started smelling a rather odd burning smell. Eventually the plate came off (dropped off the first one, was pryed off the second one) and I got my first look at what's 'inside'.
Take it from me Intel, this ain't worth suing over. Fire your lawyers and go back to making stuff. It's basically a little rectangular piece of material held into place by a bunch of small gold traces (one for each pin). It looks like the hologram cards from the old Marvel X-men cards. Well, I figured I should investigate further, so I lit up my investigation tool (torch) and went back to work. After maybe 10 minutes of torching various places, the chip pretty much exploded. I have to hand it to Intel, their die held up pretty well until the chip blew apart. Basically, there was a loud 'pop' and about half the cpu flew off to my right about 4 or 5 feet. Pieces of the die went all over and it was altogether really cool.
So anyway, that's the basic story, second CPU didn't explode, and by then I had taken out goggles and gloves to protect myself in case it did. So without further adu, I send you off here [geocities.com] so you can see the pictures of what's 'inside'. Trademarks have been edited out for my continued enjoyment of not getting tossed in an 8x10 foot cell with "Bubba".
Enjoy.
Re:That's not all they own (Score:2)
Better link to TM records (Score:2, Informative)
Intel has a trademark on "bunny people."
tess.uspto.gov uses session-based navigation; links do not survive for longer than 15 minutes. In the TESS window, try clicking "Check Status" to get the TARR record. Turns out the trademarks are for keychains and sweaters. Here they are:
BUNNYPEOPLE [uspto.gov] BUNNYPEOPLE [uspto.gov]
Re:Sorry to take the corporate side, but... (Score:2)
If the slogan was "Intel Yoga", then Intel might have a point. What would you find acceptable next? Maybe JetBlue suing anyone who dares to use the world "blue" in their business name? That's half of their name, right? Who cares if it happens to be a common word in the English language.
Re:Sorry to take the corporate side, but... (Score:2)
expensive brainwashing? This is something we
should hold as a good thing, to promote and
defend? Just because its expensive doesn't
mean its a good thing -- I learned that in kindergarten.
Who is it that wants to defend the way companies go about expensivly brainwashing people?
Think about that.
Re:Thats great.... (Score:2)
Re:What Inside? (Score:2)
I think you meant...
AMD. Intel may kindly place their lips *inside* [goatse.cx] my bottom. That is Intel Inside..
Re:deja vu (Score:2)
time to bring the big "J-Man" back for another round
Dude, everyone hates reunion tours. Besides, he'll never be as good as he was with the original disciples.
Although a thought occurred to me the other day: if you or I were to rise from the dead after three days of rotting, people would run screaming from us like little bitches. Because there's a word for people who come back from the dead: Zombies.
That's right, the "savior" to millions of people is nothing more than an extra in a George Romero nightmare. Remember: Jesus died for your sins, but he rose for your sweeet braaaaaaains!
Re:So High Inside (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, song titles are one of the few things you still can't trademark or copyright.
I used to work at Tower Records, and let me tell you, take any common word or cliche, like, say, "Broken" or "Not this time", and run them through the database, and you'll find 15 or 20 songs of the same name.
In fact, the band Death Cab for Cutie lifted its name directly from the title of an old Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song - and, believe it or not, Bonzo had absolutely no legal remedy.
Re:How can this be TM Dilution? (Score:2, Funny)
Its not a related product, isnt that one of the TM dilution areas? Its not a computer product. So how can it dilute the computer TM?
Transcendental Meditation? TM (tm)? TM (tm) (tm)?? If Intel would use a nice strong TM, perhaps TM wouldn't worry them so much.
Re:Hmmm (Score:2)