How strong do you think the relationship is between Apple and the copyright holders? If AAC is going to be ineffective DRM then would it surprise anyone if the copyright holders end their relationship with Apple/iTunes?
Now if there was just something that could be patented such that the Patent Office would have to pay royalties...
I have it! A patent on the process of approving bad patents. The Rubber Stamp Patent! They will be out of business in no time!
If we had a free anti-spam product such as Razor that we could get OEMs to agree to add to the install base then we could make some rapid reductions in spam.
Or what about getting the feature added to a few major ISPs mail servers? If a large ISP made use of the spam databases it would knock out big chunks of these e-mail lists that are shared.
I have had the pleasure of working on and using an OO software package at an engineering consulting firm for a number of years. We do a lot of system analysis, namely power cycles, so the software is used for modeling a network of engineering processes. We were able to make use of an OOD that brought several advantages:
- Generic procedures define I/O, curve implementation, etc at a high level and are inherited to the process specific objects.
- Easy extensibility. It has been very easy to add new processes to the model's library by focusing the attention on writing code for a particular object procedure. You don't need to be an expert on OO and all of the other object functionality is already taken care of. Makes us engineers think we are real hackers.:)
I wish I could share it with you but this is an internal tool and a closed shop. I just wanted to share a success story for using OOP on an engineering problem.
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How strong do you think the relationship is between Apple and the copyright holders? If AAC is going to be ineffective DRM then would it surprise anyone if the copyright holders end their relationship with Apple/iTunes?
Now if there was just something that could be patented such that the Patent Office would have to pay royalties... I have it! A patent on the process of approving bad patents. The Rubber Stamp Patent! They will be out of business in no time!
If we had a free anti-spam product such as Razor that we could get OEMs to agree to add to the install base then we could make some rapid reductions in spam.
Or what about getting the feature added to a few major ISPs mail servers? If a large ISP made use of the spam databases it would knock out big chunks of these e-mail lists that are shared.
Kansas no-call list goes into effect Nov. 1st! Here's the link. Warning not browser friendly :(
I have had the pleasure of working on and using an OO software package at an engineering consulting firm for a number of years. We do a lot of system analysis, namely power cycles, so the software is used for modeling a network of engineering processes. We were able to make use of an OOD that brought several advantages:
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- Generic procedures define I/O, curve implementation, etc at a high level and are inherited to the process specific objects.
- Easy extensibility. It has been very easy to add new processes to the model's library by focusing the attention on writing code for a particular object procedure. You don't need to be an expert on OO and all of the other object functionality is already taken care of. Makes us engineers think we are real hackers.
I wish I could share it with you but this is an internal tool and a closed shop. I just wanted to share a success story for using OOP on an engineering problem.