Except in Shangai, or Ventiane, or Hanoi, or New Delhi, or Kabhul, or Algiers
So far, you've been very careful to pick cities in countries that have little disregard for United States GGM law but happen not to be embargoed.
or Moscow
Two words: Dmitry Sklyarov. If you sell to USA customers, you break USA law, and if you don't sell to USA customers, you have very little market and no way to move enough units to make profit. This makes USA GGM law effectively extraterritorial.
I was once told that a claim had to be a single sentence
Easy. "We claim a method for allowing $cool_feature comprising " followed by a list of noun phrases describing the steps.
and could not contain the word "or"
The patent under present discussion contains an "or" in the first claim: "wherein the selection of shows is based on one of either pattern matching or fuzzy logic analysis of the user specified criteria"
However: this particular wording opens up a potential loophole: The word "either" may turn an OR into an XOR by excluding the "both" possibility.
A good screen reader program will know to skip the graphical characters, or better yet, intercept the curses calls that draw boxes and menus to build a rough model of the document.
now with jaws , this is no longer true. blind users love windows.
A license for the version of Jaws that works with most PCs sold today (i.e. PCs running Windows operating systems that use an NT-style kernel) costs $1,200 US per seat. That's more than the cost of the PC itself. The ADA makes exceptions in cases where accommodation of a sufficiently disabled employee would place an undue burden on an employer.
Most GUIs are already vector based, as far as I know. A window is simply a vector object with colour attributes etc., and it contains other vector objects such as buttons etc.
However, GUIs with $$$-driven appearances such as Apple's Aqua, Microsoft's Luna, Netscape's Mozilla Modern, and many X11 WM themes use bitmaps to store the rounded corners and shiny things that make the system not look butt-Motif ugly.
A better idea might be using XFree with a low resolution and a large virtual desktop. Then things will look big without reducing the workspace size. Jumping between a bunch of different modes (with Ctl-Alt-Numpad+/-) would give differing levels of magnification.
The lowest I could go (Red Hat 6.2 base install on a laptop with NeoMagic internal video) was 640x480. I know people who would need to go down as low as 320x200 (that is, PC mode 13h) with view-follows-keyboard. How do I set that up?
Now, if enforcement teeth can be put into the law, all kinds of compteting OSes can be banned. I.e. any of the freeware ones. Oh, but not immediately. The Freeware OSes can get their legal staff on the issue
Especially because all the interesting speech recognition and synthesis technologies are patented in major markets (US, Germany, Japan) with prohibitive license terms.
Microsoft may claim 88 gazillion-trillion Passport subscribers, but how many of those are really one-time half-filled and fake entries used to get a temporary spamming Hotmail account?
Very few. Hotmail deletes unused free accounts after 45 days.
With a little work in my studio, trusty oscilloscope, two good mics, and some good monitor speakers I could reproduce any track and make sure it sounded little different from the original recording (maybe even better).
Which is why eventually, if the RIAA has its way, all audio recording equipment available without a government-granted professional license will detect watermarks. Defeating them gets you 10 years in a place where anal rape is legal. By the time you're out, this is your behind (warning: gay porn).
Do they not realize that many of us have digital connections to our speakers and therefore we won't hear anything?
If the digital connections you speak of are encrypted digital connections, Microsoft will take that into account when signing the driver. As I said, the driver must turn off only the cleartext digital outputs.
And it can combine that information with the rest of the.NET Passport stuff and (based on overlooked terms in the EULA) give your number to telemarketers, charge you more based on how much you make, etc.
If you want to use Debian tools, USE DEBIAN!! Not Debian on Win32
With Win32, you get all the Win32 drivers. For instance, Debian GNU/Linux doesn't support my laptop's internal modem. With Debian on Win32, on the other hand, I could alt-tab out to Mozilla and dial the Internet.
Most, if not all, system utilities work through a gui
The Start menu still doesn't take you to the important system configuration tools regedit or winipcfg. You have to use Start > Run... which is essentially the commandline.
that is, in normal use, stable
Microsoft sells no operating system that satisfies these three constraints: 1. home priced, 2. stable, and 3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft).
Copy the signature byte for byte and put it where the bootloader looks for it?
Signature. Not magic cookie. Copying magic cookies (e.g. "Licensed by Sega" code) is legal under Sega v. Accolade, but Xbox's BIOS probably verifies the digital signature against the actual game data using asymmetric crypto where Microsoft holds the private key, and then stores the software decryption keys in the lead-in (like DVD-Video CSS) and probably makes some other major violations of the DVD-ROM standard. How are you going to burn the DVD again?
If it isn't ME or XP, it could degrade the audio
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Do you know each other in real life? If not, how do you know he uses Windows ME and Windows XP?
How do you know that the proprietary player doesn't degrade the output quality significantly if it detects Windows 95, 98, or NT 4?
It isn't a streaming format at all, flash files ".swf" are downloaded to your computer and then viewed (sometimes in parts, so you get a nice 'loading' screen).
Archon explained this quite well. I'd like to add that many Flash movies you find on memepool (all your base, hatten är din, hyakugojyuuichi, irrational exuberance, etc) preload their images and stream their audio or have slow intros (using little bitmap data) such that 32 kbps (the effective transfer rate of a 56K modem counting line noise and PPP and TCP overhead) can cover the first few scenes quite nicely. Look at "Pokerap 2" by Neil Cicierga: It uses a simple spinning AOL CD to cover the loading of the first scene.
From the DVD/Mpeg2 it is a rather dark scene, but on the highest Mpeg4 setting it is dark & "muddy" and gets rather pixellated.
I've noticed that while you can't see the "grid", there are still "striations/gradation/banding" (one of those words).
What you're seeing is Mach banding (Java demo; explanation) caused by the interaction between color quantization and the eye's high-pass edge detection filter. It kills the quality of anything played back at 15/16-bit high color. DVDs don't show this because the hardware decoder uses 24-bit or higher color, which eliminates most Mach banding.
[Use a UNIX-spec system's pipes to capture the audio]
Too bad the player doesn't run under *BSD or GNU/Linux, and Wine doesn't support the Secure Audio Path API. (If it did, it would be branded a circumvention device under the DMCA and relegated to the non-US distributions.)
grossly overpriced CD that the actual artist MAYBE gets $0.10 from the sale of
The songwriter, on the other hand, makes a full 75 cents from each record sold, which she splits evenly with the music publisher. Moral: to get rich in the record industry, write your own songs.
ANYONE offering any type of music downloads will eventually get shut down, especially places like emusic that allow you to just download an MP3
The United States has a "compulsory license" scheme (see 17 USC 115) for sound recordings such that the copying party pays the label a set royalty for each phonorecord (i.e. copy) or digital delivery made, and the label can't veto it.
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Except in Shangai, or Ventiane, or Hanoi, or New Delhi, or Kabhul, or Algiers
So far, you've been very careful to pick cities in countries that have little disregard for United States GGM law but happen not to be embargoed.
or Moscow
Two words: Dmitry Sklyarov. If you sell to USA customers, you break USA law, and if you don't sell to USA customers, you have very little market and no way to move enough units to make profit. This makes USA GGM law effectively extraterritorial.
2 people were developing the telephone, bell patented it mere hours before the other guy.
That's not the whole story. Mr. Bell submitted his final patent a couple hours before Mr. Gray submitted his first draft.
However, as the population of the United States increases, assuming the proportion of inventors in the population remains constant, the number of inventors will increase, and the probability of two inventors inventing the same invention independently increases approximately as the square of the number of inventors. Your attorney may be able to use independent invention as evidence of obviousness to disprove the validity of a patent.
I was once told that a claim had to be a single sentence
Easy. "We claim a method for allowing $cool_feature comprising " followed by a list of noun phrases describing the steps.
and could not contain the word "or"
The patent under present discussion contains an "or" in the first claim: "wherein the selection of shows is based on one of either pattern matching or fuzzy logic analysis of the user specified criteria"
However: this particular wording opens up a potential loophole: The word "either" may turn an OR into an XOR by excluding the "both" possibility.
In the late 1980's platforms from Apple and Commodore(and even Atari to some extent) were very viable
The Apple II Plus and later II models had Applesoft BASIC, written by Microsoft, in ROM.
Horizontal double line, horizontal double line
A good screen reader program will know to skip the graphical characters, or better yet, intercept the curses calls that draw boxes and menus to build a rough model of the document.
now with jaws , this is no longer true. blind users love windows.
A license for the version of Jaws that works with most PCs sold today (i.e. PCs running Windows operating systems that use an NT-style kernel) costs $1,200 US per seat. That's more than the cost of the PC itself. The ADA makes exceptions in cases where accommodation of a sufficiently disabled employee would place an undue burden on an employer.
Most GUIs are already vector based, as far as I know. A window is simply a vector object with colour attributes etc., and it contains other vector objects such as buttons etc.
However, GUIs with $$$-driven appearances such as Apple's Aqua, Microsoft's Luna, Netscape's Mozilla Modern, and many X11 WM themes use bitmaps to store the rounded corners and shiny things that make the system not look butt-Motif ugly.
A better idea might be using XFree with a low resolution and a large virtual desktop. Then things will look big without reducing the workspace size. Jumping between a bunch of different modes (with Ctl-Alt-Numpad+/-) would give differing levels of magnification.
The lowest I could go (Red Hat 6.2 base install on a laptop with NeoMagic internal video) was 640x480. I know people who would need to go down as low as 320x200 (that is, PC mode 13h) with view-follows-keyboard. How do I set that up?
Let's break Miguel's legs!!!!!
Or just take them off.
Now, if enforcement teeth can be put into the law, all kinds of compteting OSes can be banned. I.e. any of the freeware ones. Oh, but not immediately. The Freeware OSes can get their legal staff on the issue
Especially because all the interesting speech recognition and synthesis technologies are patented in major markets (US, Germany, Japan) with prohibitive license terms.
Or am I missing something? (URL?)
Microsoft may claim 88 gazillion-trillion Passport subscribers, but how many of those are really one-time half-filled and fake entries used to get a temporary spamming Hotmail account?
Very few. Hotmail deletes unused free accounts after 45 days.
With a little work in my studio, trusty oscilloscope, two good mics, and some good monitor speakers I could reproduce any track and make sure it sounded little different from the original recording (maybe even better).
Which is why eventually, if the RIAA has its way, all audio recording equipment available without a government-granted professional license will detect watermarks. Defeating them gets you 10 years in a place where anal rape is legal. By the time you're out, this is your behind (warning: gay porn).
Do they not realize that many of us have digital connections to our speakers and therefore we won't hear anything?
If the digital connections you speak of are encrypted digital connections, Microsoft will take that into account when signing the driver. As I said, the driver must turn off only the cleartext digital outputs.
Microsoft have no right to collect your telephone number without asking.
"Either you let us read your telephone number off our unblockable 1-800 Caller ID, or we won't let you activate XP." Does that count as "asking"?
Ooooh! Microsoft will have my TELEPHONE NUMBER.
And it can combine that information with the rest of the .NET Passport stuff and (based on overlooked terms in the EULA) give your number to telemarketers, charge you more based on how much you make, etc.
Use VMware! ... Linux can snarf stuff off the audio device
Do you imply that the Secure Audio Path can't detect vmware?
If you want to use Debian tools, USE DEBIAN!! Not Debian on Win32
With Win32, you get all the Win32 drivers. For instance, Debian GNU/Linux doesn't support my laptop's internal modem. With Debian on Win32, on the other hand, I could alt-tab out to Mozilla and dial the Internet.
Most, if not all, system utilities work through a gui
The Start menu still doesn't take you to the important system configuration tools regedit or winipcfg. You have to use Start > Run... which is essentially the commandline.
that is, in normal use, stable
Microsoft sells no operating system that satisfies these three constraints: 1. home priced, 2. stable, and 3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft).
Copy the signature byte for byte and put it where the bootloader looks for it?
Signature. Not magic cookie. Copying magic cookies (e.g. "Licensed by Sega" code) is legal under Sega v. Accolade, but Xbox's BIOS probably verifies the digital signature against the actual game data using asymmetric crypto where Microsoft holds the private key, and then stores the software decryption keys in the lead-in (like DVD-Video CSS) and probably makes some other major violations of the DVD-ROM standard. How are you going to burn the DVD again?
Do you know each other in real life? If not, how do you know he uses Windows ME and Windows XP?
How do you know that the proprietary player doesn't degrade the output quality significantly if it detects Windows 95, 98, or NT 4?
It isn't a streaming format at all, flash files ".swf" are downloaded to your computer and then viewed (sometimes in parts, so you get a nice 'loading' screen).
Archon explained this quite well. I'd like to add that many Flash movies you find on memepool (all your base, hatten är din, hyakugojyuuichi, irrational exuberance, etc) preload their images and stream their audio or have slow intros (using little bitmap data) such that 32 kbps (the effective transfer rate of a 56K modem counting line noise and PPP and TCP overhead) can cover the first few scenes quite nicely. Look at "Pokerap 2" by Neil Cicierga: It uses a simple spinning AOL CD to cover the loading of the first scene.
From the DVD/Mpeg2 it is a rather dark scene, but on the highest Mpeg4 setting it is dark & "muddy" and gets rather pixellated. I've noticed that while you can't see the "grid", there are still "striations/gradation/banding" (one of those words).
What you're seeing is Mach banding (Java demo; explanation) caused by the interaction between color quantization and the eye's high-pass edge detection filter. It kills the quality of anything played back at 15/16-bit high color. DVDs don't show this because the hardware decoder uses 24-bit or higher color, which eliminates most Mach banding.
Why do you think no one uses LISP even though it kicks ass?
Lots of people use Common Lisp and Scheme.
[Use a UNIX-spec system's pipes to capture the audio]
Too bad the player doesn't run under *BSD or GNU/Linux, and Wine doesn't support the Secure Audio Path API. (If it did, it would be branded a circumvention device under the DMCA and relegated to the non-US distributions.)
grossly overpriced CD that the actual artist MAYBE gets $0.10 from the sale of
The songwriter, on the other hand, makes a full 75 cents from each record sold, which she splits evenly with the music publisher. Moral: to get rich in the record industry, write your own songs.
ANYONE offering any type of music downloads will eventually get shut down, especially places like emusic that allow you to just download an MP3
The United States has a "compulsory license" scheme (see 17 USC 115) for sound recordings such that the copying party pays the label a set royalty for each phonorecord (i.e. copy) or digital delivery made, and the label can't veto it.