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Isn’t this the same company that had the trademark dispute with Iceland the country?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_v_Iceland_Foods_Ltd


> The ruling stated that the supermarket chain founded in 1970 "cannot reasonably trademark the name of a country that has been around since the 9th century"

amazing


So does this mean I can start a supermarket chain named Iceland, and that’s fine?


Not in the UK. This was an EU ruling. In the EU you could theoretically open your own store named Iceland but you’d have to be careful about doing absolutely anything that might be intepreted as impersonating the existing store.


This is a great read thank you.


> Iceland Foods' managing director Richard Walker said the supermarket will "vigorously defend its intellectual property rights"

Some people have no shame at all. This is so absurd it read like a comedy sketch.


It would be really nice if you could add options for some common visas. US Green Card holders and holders of Canadian, UK, Schengen and a few other visas get vastly greater coverage than their original passports would by themselves.


Such a well-written release notes page. I like how someone took the time to credit people for each feature that was added.


I have 1,2,6 and 8 plus part of 5 and 7 (remote lock, unlock, status and GPS tracking, heated and cooled seats) on my 4-year old Hyundai Tucson. Not expensive and a very good value for money car. Made in Alabama.


TIer here. I used to work on OMAP USB back in the day, including on the OMAP3 and this particular board. Mainly Linux drivers, so not directly on the boot behavior which was done by ROM code. Fond memories and nice to see this pop up today. I’m generally curious if Doug ever asked about the behavior on the linux-usb mailing list or elsewhere and what the response was. There were a few of us from that time that might have been able to help.


Very cool that you worked on the OMAP3 and BeagleBoard! I didn't ask anybody else about it. I just decided to tinker with my USB sniffer to try to get to the bottom of what was going on.

I'm still a little puzzled about why the 2 second retry doesn't work. It might be worth diving in deeper to figure out why the data received during the retry never makes its way back to libusb. It's a bit of an edge case, but it seems like it could potentially be a bug. I might consider bringing that up as a question on the linux-usb list.


Doug, thanks for mentioning this. I didn’t realize pass-through ones existed. I’ll check out the one you have. Nice article btw.


Thank you! Hopefully it works for you.

I guess I should reword the way I said something in the previous message: when I said "it can force the monitor to always be detected", I really should have said "it forces the monitor to always be detected".


This was really hilarious! And this last judgement has all of the comical history from the beginning!


Note that this article is related to the Nintendo e-Reader, which is an ~2002 add-on to a Nintendo GameBoy gaming device and not an e-book reader.


I think you meant gallons and not litres. At least the Prius prime seems to have a 10.6 gallon tank.


Thanks!


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