Perhaps what would really be cool is if they put a headphone jack into the PalmPilot, so you could use it as an MP3 player. Why have all the memory and processing power dedicated to a specific task when you can use it for anything you want?
How many mp3s do you have that are less than 2MB? What you need is a WinCE machine.
As was discussed several years ago when M$ began to expand beyond OS products into office products, MS should be broken up into an OS company and a Applications company. The OS company would be forbidden from developing Application products.
This idea is very old. But MS contends that IE is not an application. Is Notepad an application? Would MS-OS be able to sell Win9A with Notepad included? Or would Notepad become owned by MS-APP? How about Write or HyperTerminal or Solitaire? Is character map an application?
How about the Telnet client? Is it part of the OS or an application?
Is COM part of the OS? It relies on the registry to work, but you could probably replace it with a different ORB if Explorer didn't use it.
Is the Explorer shell part of the OS? Is the start menu part of the OS?
I agree that MS should be two separate companies, but I do not think it would be easy to decide how they are broken up. I would be a huge trial and it would be hard to find many people who agreed with which Windows component goes where.
What's the difference between this and, say, Mail Merge in Microsoft Word for DOS, circa 1990. You specify that a field, let's call it 'name', is Times Roman, 12pt but do not put the text there. Then you hit activate the mail merge command and text appears in the desired format.
All that this seems to add is multiple layers of style sheet. And even that could be down with Style Sheets refered to in the Mail Merge file!
I've only read the extract, but I cannot imagine the rest of the patent request is more compelling in terms of uniqueness.
The article prompted hundreds of angry comments from other Mac users on the Slashdot Web site, which is dedicated to technical computer issues and open source discussion.
Minors aren't alowed to enter into legally binding contracts. So there.
Not true. IANAL, but, minors can legally sign contracts. They can also break a contract at will until they reach their majority. It is because they can break a contract without threat of breech of contract that companies do not enter into agreements with minors.
The RIAA model is not the only way for musicians to make money. It is the only way for the *studios* that the RIAA represents to make money in the huge amounts that they do as middlemen.
It's also the only way for a composer to make money. The song writer, who is not a performer, cannot go out and make money without getting paid for a song.
In the current system, the copyright holder gets half of the money from ASCAP or BMI everytime the song is aired or performed publically. The convenience of this is that songwriters cannot create licenses for the songs. Anyone can cover any song, and while the songwriter will get paid, he cannot stop the song from being performed.
But getting back to where I came in, how, in a make-money-by-performing-it model, does a song writer make money? Nobody wants me to sing an R&B ballad, but maybe, I want to write one and sell to somebody. Should I just not bother, since I won't be performing the song?
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Perhaps what would really be cool is if they put a headphone jack into the PalmPilot, so you could use it as an MP3 player. Why have all the memory and processing power dedicated to a specific task when you can use it for anything you want?
How many mp3s do you have that are less than 2MB? What you need is a WinCE machine.
As was discussed several years ago when M$ began to expand beyond OS products into office products, MS should be broken up into an OS company and a Applications company. The OS company would be forbidden from developing Application products.
This idea is very old. But MS contends that IE is not an application. Is Notepad an application? Would MS-OS be able to sell Win9A with Notepad included? Or would Notepad become owned by MS-APP? How about Write or HyperTerminal or Solitaire? Is character map an application?
How about the Telnet client? Is it part of the OS or an application?
Is COM part of the OS? It relies on the registry to work, but you could probably replace it with a different ORB if Explorer didn't use it.
Is the Explorer shell part of the OS? Is the start menu part of the OS?
I agree that MS should be two separate companies, but I do not think it would be easy to decide how they are broken up. I would be a huge trial and it would be hard to find many people who agreed with which Windows component goes where.
But it's jibberish. The tenor clef (?) symbol should at least be in front of the notes otherwise how are we to know what value those note have.
What's the difference between this and, say, Mail Merge in Microsoft Word for DOS, circa 1990. You specify that a field, let's call it 'name', is Times Roman, 12pt but do not put the text there. Then you hit activate the mail merge command and text appears in the desired format.
All that this seems to add is multiple layers of style sheet. And even that could be down with Style Sheets refered to in the Mail Merge file!
I've only read the extract, but I cannot imagine the rest of the patent request is more compelling in terms of uniqueness.
The article prompted hundreds of angry comments from other Mac users on the Slashdot Web site, which is dedicated to technical computer issues and open source discussion.
No mention of Linux there.
Minors aren't alowed to enter into legally binding contracts. So there.
Not true. IANAL, but, minors can legally sign contracts. They can also break a contract at will until they reach their majority. It is because they can break a contract without threat of breech of contract that companies do not enter into agreements with minors.
The RIAA model is not the only way for musicians to make money. It is the only way for the *studios* that the RIAA represents to make money in the huge amounts that they do as middlemen.
It's also the only way for a composer to make money. The song writer, who is not a performer, cannot go out and make money without getting paid for a song.
In the current system, the copyright holder gets half of the money from ASCAP or BMI everytime the song is aired or performed publically. The convenience of this is that songwriters cannot create licenses for the songs. Anyone can cover any song, and while the songwriter will get paid, he cannot stop the song from being performed.
But getting back to where I came in, how, in a make-money-by-performing-it model, does a song writer make money? Nobody wants me to sing an R&B ballad, but maybe, I want to write one and sell to somebody. Should I just not bother, since I won't be performing the song?