Now that makes me wonder if there were similar ones that did have a way of downloading content.
Come to think of it, I'm almost positive that there were MIDI keyboard setups around prior to 1995, which would have an interface for downloading music, and almost certainly had a display of some kind, and you could probably select which piece you wanted to play through the keyboard.
A search for 'electronic music' on IBM's server comes up with a lot of hits.
I do find one that appears to come closer: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04487101__&s_clms=1#clms. It includes solid state memory and a "means for transferring signals stored in the solid state memory means between said memory means and the magnetic storage media means."
Many years ago (I'm guessing around 1985), my brother had a small, toyish Casio keyboard. This particular keyboard had a card slot attached to it. Casio sold cards with various pieces of music on them (I remember a few Beatles tunes). If I recall correctly, the keys had little lights over them that would blink in time with the music. So, what we have is:
* A dedicated music player
* With a keyboard
* And a display (das blinkenlights)
* And stored music on solid state memory (the little cards)
The patent's 18 claims, when taken all together, would give AudioHighway patents on the personal computer, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the telephone company.
Reminds me of a joke, but I can't remember the specifics. Something like "Fully 33 percent of our foos are bar, but only one third of their foos are bar."
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
I think he's making cookies again, but he can't use Famous Amos or even Wally Amos on them. He can't even advertise as "I used to be Famous Amos."
When it was still Wally, he used to do commercials on a radio station I used to listen to (in like 1981!). I can still remember the phone number because of the way he sang it: 1-800-423-3114
Oh, and I won't buy Famous Amos cookies because of the way he was treated.
The DOJ can't have anything to say about court decisions. DOJ is executive branch; circuit court is judicial. There's a reason we've got checks and balances built into the system, folks -- it's so that one branch can't do something like that.
What's the worst that can happen? Microsoft wins. In a fair test, Linux should come in very close. And Microsoft gets to trumpet that "Windows NT is 1.2 times faster than Linux!"
But think about it further. If Microsoft wins, the hackers will tighten Linux up even more. Linux is leaner and faster than anything Microsoft will ever hope to put out.
And finally, Microsoft can't win in the long run because Linux can't lose! There is no company to go out of business and take Linux with it. People will always hack Linux, because they can. The kernel will always be there, and the GNU tools will always be there. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Caldera, and all the others could all go out of business tomorrow -- and you'd still be able to download Linux, compile it yourself, and put together your own distribution.
Note, it's not the "government" as a whole I'm concerned about. Just the half that wants to control our live. Bush and the republicans in 2000, baby:) !
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I don't see a Bush, or any other Republican, administration that would be any nicer than the current bunch.
I remember at one time meteorites were treated the same way as cold fusion is by most researchers. The commonly heard line: "Occam's Razor tells us that the simplest explanation must be that there was already a rock there and you happened to find it. It was hot and glowing because it was struck by lightning. There are no rocks in the sky, therefore rocks cannot fall from the sky."
Seriously, what's the worst that happens? Windows NT wins. Big deal. The hackers make it faster, we test again in six months and knock their shorts off.
Professional licensing means death to the GPL. Who wants to spend thousands of dollars to become a professionally licensed or certified programmer in order to write free software?
The POV of eponymous cohort: Adolf Hitler is "different," therefore, everyone who is "different" is bad. Therefore, we should send all those who are "different" to re-education (i.e. counseling) and keep them away from decent folks (i.e. other students, especially the conforming ones) because they're going to snap and start killing people.
Have you been missing Katz' point entirely? Kids are being singled out for no other reason than their looks and being officially harassed.
I seriously hope to whatever supreme being may or may not be out there that you aren't a school administrator, police officer, or other government official.
What good is "expressing ones individual identity" if everyone else thinks you are a freak, and treats you as such?
The problem is guns. Only the bad guys have them. The bad guys are going to have them no matter what kind of laws you pass prohibiting them. What would happen if the good guys had guns too?
I'll tell you what would happen: the good guys would all turn bad.
You see, it's a scientifically proven fact that guns are EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. When a normal person gets ahold of a gun, he turns into a psychotic killer. The waves of evil come off of the gun and into the normal person's brain, turning him into a raving lunatic.
In fact, guns are so EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL that they have been known to roam around at night when their owners are asleep and kill people by themselves!
Yes, we must ban all guns, now! For the children. If it saves only one life.....
Wednesday morning, an 11 year old boy called in to a local morning radio show. He was talking about how easy it was for him to get drugs: he knew exactly who he needed to go to in his school in order to get drugs. The hosts asked him if it was that easy for him to get a gun, and he said that it was; he was sure he knew right who to go to in order to get a gun.
We spend $17.1 billion a year trying to keep drugs away from kids. And look at the result. What happens when we declare a War On Guns?
If it weren't for the guns, probably more people would have died. The authorities are still finding bombs, and it's been three days.
All it would have taken would have been for the propane tank bomb to have gone off, and there would have been 30 people dead right there.
So, in this case, the guns didn't make it any easier.
And how would more gun control have made it harder for them? They were already carrying weapons illegally. The sign on the door of the school that said "No firearms allowed" sure as hell didn't stop them.
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Nor, might I add, did trenchcoats.
And prohibition certainly didn't prevent it.
Maybe it's time to try a different tack.
(If one person inside that school, even a police officer, had been armed, this whole thing most likely would have turned out differently.)
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I live in a rural area, and can't get faster than 28.8kbps (V.90 even craps out).
So, someone, please tell me why I should give a rip about this when the phone and cable companies can't be bothered to get me any broadband solution.
(Yeah, I know that it's probably not worth their time and money to fix me up. It still sucks.)
Remember boys and girls
silicone == fake boobs
silicon == computer chips
So then what are fake boobs rendered on a computer?
Why can't people just accept that the word 'hacker' has two separate and distinct meanings, anyway? Why the Hacker Jihad?
Because they're tired of having the police called when they introduce themselves to someone as a hacker.
Now that makes me wonder if there were similar ones that did have a way of downloading content.
.ibm.com/details?pn=US04487101__&s_clms=1#clms. It includes solid state memory and a "means for transferring signals stored in the solid state memory means between said memory means and the magnetic storage media means."
Come to think of it, I'm almost positive that there were MIDI keyboard setups around prior to 1995, which would have an interface for downloading music, and almost certainly had a display of some kind, and you could probably select which piece you wanted to play through the keyboard.
A search for 'electronic music' on IBM's server comes up with a lot of hits.
I do find one that appears to come closer: http://www.patents
Now I know what patent attorneys must go through.
Many years ago (I'm guessing around 1985), my brother had a small, toyish Casio keyboard. This particular keyboard had a card slot attached to it. Casio sold cards with various pieces of music on them (I remember a few Beatles tunes). If I recall correctly, the keys had little lights over them that would blink in time with the music. So, what we have is:
* A dedicated music player
* With a keyboard
* And a display (das blinkenlights)
* And stored music on solid state memory (the little cards)
uhhh...crud....what did I miss?
The patent's 18 claims, when taken all together, would give AudioHighway patents on the personal computer, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the telephone company.
Where I work "they" are cracking down because 40% of all sick days are taken on Mondays or Fridays.
Dilbert used that very item, and that's where I heard it from.
One sixth is a staggering 16 percent.
Reminds me of a joke, but I can't remember the specifics. Something like "Fully 33 percent of our foos are bar, but only one third of their foos are bar."
Remember?
And don't let them trademark CmdrTaco (or Rob Malda, for that matter, remembering what happened to Famous Amos in the other thread...)
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
I think he's making cookies again, but he can't use Famous Amos or even Wally Amos on them. He can't even advertise as "I used to be Famous Amos."
When it was still Wally, he used to do commercials on a radio station I used to listen to (in like 1981!). I can still remember the phone number because of the way he sang it: 1-800-423-3114
Oh, and I won't buy Famous Amos cookies because of the way he was treated.
The DOJ can't have anything to say about court decisions. DOJ is executive branch; circuit court is judicial. There's a reason we've got checks and balances built into the system, folks -- it's so that one branch can't do something like that.
What's the worst that can happen? Microsoft wins. In a fair test, Linux should come in very close. And Microsoft gets to trumpet that "Windows NT is 1.2 times faster than Linux!"
But think about it further. If Microsoft wins, the hackers will tighten Linux up even more. Linux is leaner and faster than anything Microsoft will ever hope to put out.
And finally, Microsoft can't win in the long run because Linux can't lose! There is no company to go out of business and take Linux with it. People will always hack Linux, because they can. The kernel will always be there, and the GNU tools will always be there. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Caldera, and all the others could all go out of business tomorrow -- and you'd still be able to download Linux, compile it yourself, and put together your own distribution.
In short, Linux will never die.
Note, it's not the "government" as a whole I'm concerned about. Just the half that wants to control our live. Bush and the republicans in 2000, baby :) !
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I don't see a Bush, or any other Republican, administration that would be any nicer than the current bunch.
"Save the children" can get a lot of mileage.
I've heard Thomas Jefferson referred to as the patron saint of the Internet.
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I remember at one time meteorites were treated the same way as cold fusion is by most researchers. The commonly heard line: "Occam's Razor tells us that the simplest explanation must be that there was already a rock there and you happened to find it. It was hot and glowing because it was struck by lightning. There are no rocks in the sky, therefore rocks cannot fall from the sky."
Seriously, what's the worst that happens? Windows NT wins. Big deal. The hackers make it faster, we test again in six months and knock their shorts off.
I went into it wondering if it was a joke, then after reading through the whole thing I caught the disclaimer near the bottom.
Professional licensing means death to the GPL. Who wants to spend thousands of dollars to become a professionally licensed or certified programmer in order to write free software?
The POV of eponymous cohort: Adolf Hitler is "different," therefore, everyone who is "different" is bad. Therefore, we should send all those who are "different" to re-education (i.e. counseling) and keep them away from decent folks (i.e. other students, especially the conforming ones) because they're going to snap and start killing people.
Have you been missing Katz' point entirely? Kids are being singled out for no other reason than their looks and being officially harassed.
I seriously hope to whatever supreme being may or may not be out there that you aren't a school administrator, police officer, or other government official.
What good is "expressing ones individual identity" if everyone else thinks you are a freak, and treats you as such?
Ever heard of the First Amendment?
The problem is guns. Only the bad guys have them. The bad guys are going to have them no matter what kind of laws you pass prohibiting them. What would happen if the good guys had guns too?
I'll tell you what would happen: the good guys would all turn bad.
You see, it's a scientifically proven fact that guns are EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. When a normal person gets ahold of a gun, he turns into a psychotic killer. The waves of evil come off of the gun and into the normal person's brain, turning him into a raving lunatic.
In fact, guns are so EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL that they have been known to roam around at night when their owners are asleep and kill people by themselves!
Yes, we must ban all guns, now! For the children. If it saves only one life.....
Wednesday morning, an 11 year old boy called in to a local morning radio show. He was talking about how easy it was for him to get drugs: he knew exactly who he needed to go to in his school in order to get drugs. The hosts asked him if it was that easy for him to get a gun, and he said that it was; he was sure he knew right who to go to in order to get a gun.
We spend $17.1 billion a year trying to keep drugs away from kids. And look at the result. What happens when we declare a War On Guns?
Prohibition didn't stop this. So what do we do?
If it weren't for the guns, probably more people would have died. The authorities are still finding bombs, and it's been three days.
All it would have taken would have been for the propane tank bomb to have gone off, and there would have been 30 people dead right there.
So, in this case, the guns didn't make it any easier.
And how would more gun control have made it harder for them? They were already carrying weapons illegally. The sign on the door of the school that said "No firearms allowed" sure as hell didn't stop them.
Nor, might I add, did trenchcoats.
And prohibition certainly didn't prevent it.
Maybe it's time to try a different tack.
(If one person inside that school, even a police officer, had been armed, this whole thing most likely would have turned out differently.)