The VCR/DVD/CD Player will be allways on and will have to be connected to the phone line in order to work (so that your listning/veiwing habits can be tracked).
In fact we can probably get away without the eject button, if we make all players one shot devices.
A method for protecting Interlectual Property (IP) by means of a centeralised body to ovesee the registration and search for 'pria art' that may invalidate said IP.
Initial investment will go towards astablishing said patent.
I don't know if you have this in the US, but in the UK we have a thing called the Citizens Advice Buro.
In this wonderfull place are Lawers who are prepared to write leagale letters for free.
If this was happening to me I'd be round to mine like a shot with all the stuf MS had sent me and asking the Lawer to write a Cease and Disist letter.
The next time I got a letter from MS I'd be down to the local Small Claimes court, or whatever your equavilent is, where I'd start procedings against them.
For the last six of months I have not recieved any thing other than SPAM through my phone email. As I don't use it to send mail I canceled the option last week.
If more of us start canceleing our accounts, the mobile companies will start to take notice, especally when they keep getting 'I get to mutch SPAM' as the reasion for disconecting.
My mobile company charged me a monthley fee for the service. A monthly fee they are no longer recieving.
Expert witneses in the UK, and possibly in the US, are payed by the court and not by the person(s) their testimony is supposed to help.
Any finatial incentive given to the witness, if descovered, can have the witness fined, bared from being an expert witness again, or possibly inprissoned.
I've got redundancy insurance that will pay all my bills for the first 3 months I'm unemployed, as long as it's not my fault I got in that pridicament.
However I'f I had to take a 50% paycut or get fired I'd be screwed both ways, as there is no way I could live on half my salary for a month and the insurance Co. would be able to show that I caused my own redundancy by not accepting the pay cut.
I'd start looking through my contract at this point and see if there is any thing about time limits before announcing a pay cut.
That or by a shair or two in the Co. and turn up at the AGM and start asking embarrancing (sp?) questions about directors pay.
Pity you are not in the UK. Hear any shair holder is allowed to spend 2 hours a day at the Companies HQ looking over the directors renumaration package, take any notes they want, and leave the building with them.
I was thinking that your avrage game head will want to mainline caffine while pulling an all nighter. The rest of the day you'll end up with little Toney and his school friends + Mum and Dad.
Not sure about Internet Caffes, but I think a Gameing Caffe would go down a bomb.
Switch the games each hour, and allow as many or as few to link together.
Rotate the starting game through the week and have a newbies night.
The sight of 2 dozen game heads should put off even the most drunken thug so security while open should not be a problem.
Keep at least one day a week back for private parties.
The advantage is that you don't need an internet connection, and most modern games will allow you to network them selves together without having to have a disk in every machine.
As to security of the machines them selves. Don't install a floppy drive and see if you can find some way of padlocking the CDROM drive.
The Patent clame is only for a swing attached by 2 chanes to a tree.
So any one swinning on a metal framed swing, or a swing with more than 2 chaines, or a conection mecanism not comprising of a chain, will not be effected by this patent
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I'm sorry but thats one button too many.
It will only have one button; eject.
The VCR/DVD/CD Player will be allways on and will have to be connected to the phone line in order to work (so that your listning/veiwing habits can be tracked).
In fact we can probably get away without the eject button, if we make all players one shot devices.
a country thats trying to join the EU
Would any one like to invest in my new company.
The sole asset will be the following patent.
A method for protecting Interlectual Property (IP) by means of a centeralised body to ovesee the registration and search for 'pria art' that may invalidate said IP.
Initial investment will go towards astablishing said patent.
I don't know if you have this in the US, but in the UK we have a thing called the Citizens Advice Buro.
In this wonderfull place are Lawers who are prepared to write leagale letters for free.
If this was happening to me I'd be round to mine like a shot with all the stuf MS had sent me and asking the Lawer to write a Cease and Disist letter.
The next time I got a letter from MS I'd be down to the local Small Claimes court, or whatever your equavilent is, where I'd start procedings against them.
Sir,
With refrence to your order CR12345778092
We are sorry to tell you that your order is in a holding queue.
As you will be aware all transactions require the primaries signiture signed in triplicate in BLOOD.
Unfortunatly you seam to have taken this to mean the blood of any conviniant human near by.
We require the signature to be in your blood.
We are sorry for the delay this missunderstanding has caused and look forward to taking possession of your soul at the earlist.
Yours,
B. L. Z. Bub
Head of Customour Resources
Hell
As to hair. I think he uses the same stuff Charlies Angles use.
:-)
I don't no what it's called but it allows you to come through a fight without a hair out of place.
According to the origanal DC comics; Superman was about 2 inches taller and more massivly built than Clark.
For the last six of months I have not recieved any thing other than SPAM through my phone email. As I don't use it to send mail I canceled the option last week.
If more of us start canceleing our accounts, the mobile companies will start to take notice, especally when they keep getting 'I get to mutch SPAM' as the reasion for disconecting.
My mobile company charged me a monthley fee for the service. A monthly fee they are no longer recieving.
Expert witneses in the UK, and possibly in the US, are payed by the court and not by the person(s) their testimony is supposed to help.
Any finatial incentive given to the witness, if descovered, can have the witness fined, bared from being an expert witness again, or possibly inprissoned.
Smith. 487536 Smith, Winston. I saw you blinking suring that advert.
BB is watching you.
You get all that here ass well.
The problem is that the anual report of a major company has gone through the PR department, and any negative conatations will have been ironed out.
I've got redundancy insurance that will pay all my bills for the first 3 months I'm unemployed, as long as it's not my fault I got in that pridicament.
:-)
However I'f I had to take a 50% paycut or get fired I'd be screwed both ways, as there is no way I could live on half my salary for a month and the insurance Co. would be able to show that I caused my own redundancy by not accepting the pay cut.
I'd start looking through my contract at this point and see if there is any thing about time limits before announcing a pay cut.
That or by a shair or two in the Co. and turn up at the AGM and start asking embarrancing (sp?) questions about directors pay.
Pity you are not in the UK. Hear any shair holder is allowed to spend 2 hours a day at the Companies HQ looking over the directors renumaration package, take any notes they want, and leave the building with them.
This would give you lots of amo. for the AGM
I never said the Laws where fair. :-)
Using this logic. I won't be able to use any of the software they have bundled with the system.
:-)
Can Microsoft realy be selling me something I can't use
Actualy the USA was founded on NOT obaying the law.
The USA Rebeled against its lawfull masters the British.
The movie took that line verbatum from the book.
I'm sorry thats a crule and unusual punisment.
:-)
You could however make them the piece envoys to the Middle East; I seam to remember somthing about the healing power of music
I was thinking that your avrage game head will want to mainline caffine while pulling an all nighter. The rest of the day you'll end up with little Toney and his school friends + Mum and Dad.
Not sure about Internet Caffes, but I think a Gameing Caffe would go down a bomb.
Switch the games each hour, and allow as many or as few to link together.
Rotate the starting game through the week and have a newbies night.
The sight of 2 dozen game heads should put off even the most drunken thug so security while open should not be a problem.
Keep at least one day a week back for private parties.
The advantage is that you don't need an internet connection, and most modern games will allow you to network them selves together without having to have a disk in every machine.
As to security of the machines them selves.
Don't install a floppy drive and see if you can find some way of padlocking the CDROM drive.
Don't supply speakers, but do supply headphones.
Hope this helps
The Pilgrim
Try using Ocam with a transputer board or 2 pluged into your PC
I wonder if you could rip the Perl abstracted I/O layer, its written in C and is cross platform
Thats why I wanted a combination of NI and PIN
My bank allows my to go to an ATM and draw up to UK£250 based on the fact I type in a 4 didgit code.
Every person bourn, or Leagally entering the UK to work is given an NI number that is unique.
The govt. issuses plastic NI cards with a magnetic strip on them.
I can rember my NI number and my bank PIN.
Can't we use this info. and tec. to access govt web sites.
Most of what I've read so far in this discussion is about click through licences, which is fair enougth.
However what I'am wondering is, am I bound by any licencing aggrement on any software that comes pre-installed on my PC.
I never signed or clicked an agrement, nor did I openn a package, so do I have to abide by any licence agrement I find with the Machine.
The Patent clame is only for a swing attached by 2 chanes to a tree.
So any one swinning on a metal framed swing, or a swing with more than 2 chaines, or a conection mecanism not comprising of a chain, will not be effected by this patent