A couple years ago they pissed off a lot of people by threatening anyone referring to their trademarks. Then a few days before the big day this year they managed to do their pointing out copyright law to churches in such a way that they received national attention for it. Now they threaten a law professor for using the pseudo-legal notice on their telecasts to make a point. It'd almost seem they don't realize the effects of bad PR, but the sad part is given their exclusive market and the short attention span of most USians for companies being jerks, they probably figure may as well threaten and not care because the bad effects won't stick.
So anyways. On a slightly related note. Here's a link that I found that describes some of the different camera technology used in football games and the NFL. Now, I finally understand what the SuperVision was.
Cool. There's been discussion on avsforum about the tech stuff before, but it's interesting to see the latest version.
Thought you might get a kick out of this:
The Daily WTF: Immaculate Backup
Way too much effort... I prefer the approach where backups are for disaster recovery, not for "I might need this in the future". Data should be kept online or archived appropriately (not with standard backups requiring a complete system to use) to comply with business needs and/or regulations. Taking the easy way out and just making IT keep everything and jump through hoops like that is ridiculous.
I completely agree. Besides, they forgot to keep all of the sticky-notes that were attached to his monitor from the past five years so they could remember his password. :)
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Oh, man! You put those three letters in your blog title! You know 'N', 'F' and the one that comes after 'K'! They're totally going to come after you now!