unperson [he/him]

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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • You can take Mickey from Steamboat Willie, make him wink, give him tie-dye shorts and pink skin, and use him as the logo Mickey Dishwasher Soap—you can’t use him as is for a trademark because it’s too generic.

    You can’t use his ears for an animation studio or a TV channel because it’s easy to confuse with Disney’s trademarks.

    Trademarks are limited by category (which is why Apple Computer got into a lawsuit with Apple Records only after Apple Computer launched iTunes, before it was perfectly fair) and enforced on similarity. Also a trademark has to be distinct but doesn’t have to be original, you can use a bitten apple as a trademark but you can’t copyright that shape.

    Edit: another difference between trademarks and copyright is that you never lose the copyright, but you must keep enforcing a trademark. If you let your brand become the generic term for a product, if you let others use your mark without suing them, then you lose the rights over the name.












  • It’s not just cooling but also battery draw.

    You could buy a 2 kg laptop with a 45 W CPU, but then it’d barely be portable and after a few years the battery will last half an hour, what’s the point.

    What you want to know is called the thermal design power: TDP, and you can look up the data sheet for the CPU in the laptop to know what it is. 15-22 W is typical, 30-45 W what you find in “workstation” laptops and small desktops, 60-120 W in desktops.