I live on a highway they visited. I also know that the best place to hide something, is out in the open, amongst a huge mess. My front yard is a huge mess, they got themselves a *really nice* panorama of it.
My questions now are: (1) How much time do they spend actually looking at what they have photographed, before making it available online?
(2) What would be the most embarrasing thing (for them to photograph and use) that I could "plant" in my yard for them, for "next time" (3) If there will be a "next time", when?
Microsoft's "TreeView" is part of a library called "Windows Common Controls", which is redistributable.
I can write an app that uses it. Use MS' installkit tools to make a SETUP disk, and GIVE you a copy.
I have just provided you with a copy of the TreeView control. Microsoft's software does that, in case you needed it.
If they patented *just that*, the'd be charging royalties for every copy of every package that used it. NOT the case.
What they did patent, was their implementation of "special system folders", that creates a superset that includes not only the file system tree, but a mixed-lot of "apples and oranges". These include, but are not limited to:
Objects like "My Documents" and "Desktop", which, are re-maps back into the filesystem
Other computers on the local network
Network adaptors
The "Control Panel"
In short, it's the way thet Windows Explorer navigates different types of objects on thw computer, incorporating not only a TreeView control on the left, but the ListView on the right.
Open up Winwows Explorer (from "Programs\Accessories" via the Start Menu) what you see *Right There* is what they set out to patent!
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My questions now are:
(1) How much time do they spend actually looking at what they have photographed, before making it available online?
(2) What would be the most embarrasing thing (for them to photograph and use) that I could "plant" in my yard for them, for "next time"
(3) If there will be a "next time", when?
I see a potential for some real fun here.
-NK
Microsoft's "TreeView" is part of a library called "Windows Common Controls", which is redistributable.
I can write an app that uses it. Use MS' installkit tools to make a SETUP disk, and GIVE you a copy.
I have just provided you with a copy of the TreeView control. Microsoft's software does that, in case you needed it.
If they patented *just that*, the'd be charging royalties for every copy of every package that used it. NOT the case.
What they did patent, was their implementation of "special system folders", that creates a superset that includes not only the file system tree, but a mixed-lot of "apples and oranges". These include, but are not limited to:
In short, it's the way thet Windows Explorer navigates different types of objects on thw computer, incorporating not only a TreeView control on the left, but the ListView on the right.
Open up Winwows Explorer (from "Programs\Accessories" via the Start Menu) what you see *Right There* is what they set out to patent!
-NK