Back in the day, Cadillac built a show car with no lock. There was a Cadillac emblem etched into the door glass, and a Cadillac emblem on the key fob. You held the key fob up to the etched emblem and the door unlocked. Pretty cool, except they put the car on the trailer and moved it from show to show, never actually driving it. Yep, the battery ran down, and without any other lock, they couldn't get in. Of course, the hood release was on the inside, so they couldn't jump the battery, either!
The assumption is that the electronics are behind the locked door. I suppose if that isn't explicitly stated in the patent then implementers are on their own... But would you buy a vault where the lock was on the outside?
More to the point, you can get Quicktime for Windows but you can't get WMP for Mac. What's the point? Well, Microsoft wants very much to leverage their monopoly on the desktop to make WMP the defacto standard for "digital rights managed" content, thus forcing everyone to use WMP -- and thus Windows -- to play music and watch movies. In other words, they hope to use their OS monopoly to gain a multi-media monopoly for the purpose of furthering their OS monopoly. The same thing they tried with web browsers, and will undoubtedly try with the Next Big Thing.
Meanwhile, Apple is perfectly happy letting you use your iPod with your Windows PC, or watch Quicktime movies on your Windows PC. Oh, yeah, that's really monopolistic on Apple's part, isn't it?
What tool would you recommend for essentially drawing a web page and the tool then spits out the HTML and CSS? The CSS Zen Garden is amazing, but it looks hand-crafted, which is what he's trying to avoid (me, too, which is why I'm asking).
The fact is that the Waco loonies killed themselves, the Ruby Ridge guy was responsible for everything that happened and Elian Gonzalez should be back with his father.
The facts in the Waco case are in dispute by eye witnesses. The bottom line is that if the FBI listened to their advisers (who urged restraint) instead of the politicians (who wanted it wrapped up quickly), those people would still be alive today.
Randy Weaver (the "Ruby Ridge guy") was not responsible for the deaths, the FBI was. An Idaho court found this to be true, but as federal agents the people responsible were not answerable to a state court and they literally got away with murder.
The rules at the time were that any Cuban who made it to USA soil was eligible for asylum.
Buy why am I even discussing this with someone who exchanges emails with mass murderers? Or did you lie about that, too?
He's asking how to build a team before there's a product to ship. I think you'll find that most projects on Sourceforge are one-man-bands, at least until they ship useful code. Generally, an open source project doesn't get volunteers until someone's using the code and offers to help in order to add some feature they want (or just adds it and shares the patch with the original developer/s).
However, some meetings are necessary. The most successful projects I've worked on were the ones where the lead held a status meeting every morning. People are on the hook to say what they expect to do that day, and what they accomplished the day before; as a sufferer of ADHD, I find this very helpful. Everyone hears how everyone else is doing; the lead then knows where help is needed, and who is or is not available to help; you also know when some other team member's delay is buying you time to squeeze more bugs out of your work, or when you are the bottleneck and need to hustle.
These meetings don't need to be long - five to ten minutes should do it. And if some team members don't come in until 10:00 am or noon, then that's when you have the meeting; it doesn't have to be an 8:00 am thing.
Handwriting recognition. Maybe they didn't invent it, but they've made it practical. I've owned a Handspring Visor (Palm OS) and a Pocket PC, and the Pocket PC's handwriting recognition is way better. The Palm OS requires you to learn their way of writing (Graffiti), while the Pocket PC lets you just write. You can print, or use script, or both. You can even use Graffiti. It's not 100% accurate, but neither is the Palm.
My greater fear is that they will outlaw individual possession of RFID readers. It's not too much of a stretch for the folks who thought up the DMCA to apply its "anti-circumvention device" prohibition to RFID readers. If we can't read 'em we can't find 'em, and if we can't find 'em we can't remove 'em.
what's to prevent us from printing out reams of the stuff, like a stack of paper where each sheet has a thousand RFID's printed on it, and then carrying whatever documents we'd like within that stack of paper
Nothing, but it won't work. The RFID they're looking for is still in that stack of paper, so they can still track you (or tell that you're stealing something).
This also makes it easy to forge RFID's, doesn't it?
Sure, if you can obtain the 70 different inks and the design of the RFID you're trying to forge, including its exact number.
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It's when you click the right button on the mouse. Of course, since you use a Mac you only have a one-button mouse, so you know nothing of this -- which means you are not qualified to discuss a Unix GUI in the first place.
One thing Apple and Microsoft have in common is that they both copied the mouse incorrectly. Indeed, the mouse is only half the user interface; in Engelbart's original system the "keyboard" was a five-key item for the left hand, and the mouse had only three keys because the thumb and little finger were busy gripping the mouse itself. If you ever saw anyone use that original mouse system you'd be amazed. It's been compared to the difference between walking and riding a bicycle.
P.S. Like most Mac bigots, you think the Mac UI is "obvious" only because it's what you're used to. Open your mind to alternate possiblities.
If what you say is true, then I find it hard to believe that it's patentable. But unfortunately not impossible to believe.
Does this mean I can get a patent for writing scripts in any new language that comes along, or will Microsoft claim that would infringe this patent? In other words, does this patent imply that Microsoft owns the idea of using any new computer language to write scripts, even before those languages are invented? If not, then how on earth can they get a patent for using this particular language to write scripts? Either way, doesn't using previous computer languages to write scripts count as prior art? Hell, isn't PHP an example of prior art (using HTML to write scripts)?
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Back in the day, Cadillac built a show car with no lock. There was a Cadillac emblem etched into the door glass, and a Cadillac emblem on the key fob. You held the key fob up to the etched emblem and the door unlocked. Pretty cool, except they put the car on the trailer and moved it from show to show, never actually driving it. Yep, the battery ran down, and without any other lock, they couldn't get in. Of course, the hood release was on the inside, so they couldn't jump the battery, either!
The assumption is that the electronics are behind the locked door. I suppose if that isn't explicitly stated in the patent then implementers are on their own... But would you buy a vault where the lock was on the outside?
Meanwhile, Apple is perfectly happy letting you use your iPod with your Windows PC, or watch Quicktime movies on your Windows PC. Oh, yeah, that's really monopolistic on Apple's part, isn't it?
What tool would you recommend for essentially drawing a web page and the tool then spits out the HTML and CSS? The CSS Zen Garden is amazing, but it looks hand-crafted, which is what he's trying to avoid (me, too, which is why I'm asking).
LMFAO!
I find the best way to uncover bugs is to do a demo for your boss's boss.
Aluminum foil doesn't work. You gotta use tin foil! Something to do with interaction with the anti-matter emitters (or was that dylithum?)
Randy Weaver (the "Ruby Ridge guy") was not responsible for the deaths, the FBI was. An Idaho court found this to be true, but as federal agents the people responsible were not answerable to a state court and they literally got away with murder.
The rules at the time were that any Cuban who made it to USA soil was eligible for asylum.
Buy why am I even discussing this with someone who exchanges emails with mass murderers? Or did you lie about that, too?
He's asking how to build a team before there's a product to ship. I think you'll find that most projects on Sourceforge are one-man-bands, at least until they ship useful code. Generally, an open source project doesn't get volunteers until someone's using the code and offers to help in order to add some feature they want (or just adds it and shares the patch with the original developer/s).
These meetings don't need to be long - five to ten minutes should do it. And if some team members don't come in until 10:00 am or noon, then that's when you have the meeting; it doesn't have to be an 8:00 am thing.
Nevermind.
Handwriting recognition. Maybe they didn't invent it, but they've made it practical. I've owned a Handspring Visor (Palm OS) and a Pocket PC, and the Pocket PC's handwriting recognition is way better. The Palm OS requires you to learn their way of writing (Graffiti), while the Pocket PC lets you just write. You can print, or use script, or both. You can even use Graffiti. It's not 100% accurate, but neither is the Palm.
Seriously, kid: you think you have problems now, wait until you have kids of your own. You won't have time for sleep, let alone games.
OK, so you can jam it and forge it -- if you can obtain those 70 inks.
"I may be slow, but I'm ahead of you!"
My greater fear is that they will outlaw individual possession of RFID readers. It's not too much of a stretch for the folks who thought up the DMCA to apply its "anti-circumvention device" prohibition to RFID readers. If we can't read 'em we can't find 'em, and if we can't find 'em we can't remove 'em.
5. Towing a trailer. In the mountains.
One thing Apple and Microsoft have in common is that they both copied the mouse incorrectly. Indeed, the mouse is only half the user interface; in Engelbart's original system the "keyboard" was a five-key item for the left hand, and the mouse had only three keys because the thumb and little finger were busy gripping the mouse itself. If you ever saw anyone use that original mouse system you'd be amazed. It's been compared to the difference between walking and riding a bicycle.
P.S. Like most Mac bigots, you think the Mac UI is "obvious" only because it's what you're used to. Open your mind to alternate possiblities.
(hint: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus)
Does this mean I can get a patent for writing scripts in any new language that comes along, or will Microsoft claim that would infringe this patent? In other words, does this patent imply that Microsoft owns the idea of using any new computer language to write scripts, even before those languages are invented? If not, then how on earth can they get a patent for using this particular language to write scripts? Either way, doesn't using previous computer languages to write scripts count as prior art? Hell, isn't PHP an example of prior art (using HTML to write scripts)?
By the way, this place where I live is called "poison water" -- yeah, that's it, "poison water."