The porn people have apparently discovered and implemented workable "one pass" systems, which is one solution to the problem the poster is attempting to address.
I have to believe, honestly, that the poor fellow is suffering mentally somehow, since there are far better ways to gain publicity about your products for the same amount of money.
Given the complexity of the effort needed to break the key, I think his money is very safe - in which case the publicity came effectively for free. Sound like a pretty good deal to me.
Robertson is a very smart cookie. If you think he hasn't already considered that, then you haven't been following this situation very closely.
Consider, for instance, that maybe that's the real business plan - get sued repeatedly for frivolous reasons, then turn around and get a multi-billion dollar judgement leveraging the federal anti-trust decision. Unlike Be, Robertson will have a continuous legal record of Microsoft's direct actions against the company.
Well, if I've decoded your email address properly you should be getting something....same goes for the person asking the initial question. I am reluctant to post my email address publicly.
Believe it or not, I got a couple of bizarre stalker-like fans as a result of Morph. I even got some hate mail from white supremacists because one of the demo files provided with the product involved morphing a black man into a white woman.
Correct - all versions of Gryphon Morph beyond 1.0 should work just fine in Classic mode under OS X. The 1.x versions were designed around morphing stills, the 2.x versions around morphing motion. The last version released was 2.5. There was a 3.0 in development, but Gryphon was acquired by CUC/Cendant, the product shifted to Sierra Home, and buried.
Unfortunately, the current owner of Morph (Sierra) has neglected to update it.
I have been considering rewriting and re-releasing the product under another name, updated for Mac OSX.
Actually, Flash's accessibility features aren't very useful for anything other than trivial sites - they apply only to static items, not dynamic ones. For instance, if your Flash movie loads text from XML, or creates movies through the new drawing commands, those items cannot be made accessible. There are other restrictions as well.
One of the largest barriers to the adoption of OpenDoc was the business model for software providers. The commercial distribution of software at the time couldn't support a large number of lightweight apps, plus it wasn't clear who to call in case of a problem. The large application developers also cared about the branding of their products, something lost in the OpenDoc world.
I think they finally showed the real first show last week which explained a little about how each of the characters ended up on the ship. The best episode aired so far, I think.
I have mixed feelings about this one overall though. Both it and Enterprise have great potential, if they each find their stride.
Actually, I do know HTML, and I do maintain a commercial website. It probably works fine for blind people, though to be honest I haven't checked. It follows the standards, and I handrolled the HTML (actually PHP templates).
But as the poster said, if you use Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc., then you'll find it's not easy or even possible in some cases to generate the proper HTML without a manual step. Hell, FrontPage doesn't even encode character entities properly. I would hazard that many/most people do not bother, and to do so would incur an expense. And yes, I think that some companies would find that too much to ask.
The incremental effort for a business to support blacks is zero, therefore the "discrimination" is political. The incremental effort to support the blind on a website is clearly non-zero, since, as you've pointed out, many of the most popular tools are not helpful. That "discrimination" is therefore of a technical and financial nature.
I don't think SouthWest is saying "we don't want business from the blind", it's just that the cost or technical hurdles don't justify the effort, particularly when there are equivalent alternatives that explicitly do not require sight (the telephone). And this is not an issue of "separate but equal" - the telephone is for everyone, preceded the web, and I would hazard to say probably dominates the number of reservations Southwest receives by a couple of orders of magnitude.
It's a matter of context. The 70's were full of "anti-hero" movies - Bonnie and Clyde, Dirty Harry, etc - that people were longing for simple Good vs Evil plots and action. Darth Vader was unambiguously bad, Luke Skywalker was unambiguously good. Star Wars was a breath of fresh air in a very dark decade for movies.
Of course Star Wars was derivative - that's a big part of why it worked. We didn't have to contemplate the brooding anti-hero's motivations. The robots were from Kurosawa, the final Death Star battle was from Dambusters and other WWII movies, and the overall structure from old movie serials like Flash Gordon. This was familiar ground writ large.
Raiders of the Lost Ark succeeded for much the same reasons.
If they made a movie of The Dark Knight Returns, I vote for Clint Eastwood as Batman. It think Mel Gibson would have been a better choice than Michael Keaton at the time - Mad Max was already about 60% Batman anyway.
As for Superman, Christopher Reeves is definitely the actor to beat for portrayal of the Big Blue Boyscout. I can't think of any well-known actor who could do it even close. Perhaps they should do what they did in the 70s - pick a relative unknown, but talented and physically compatible actor.
Agree on Miller too!
...they flew over my apartment, so I'm probably one of those Apple access points. Oddly enough, because of the construction style of my unit (apparently Spanish Mission Faraday), I can't get a reliable signal from one end of my unit to the other. Glad I can be of service to local pilot community, though.
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It's actually only two fonts, but they have lots of letters.
The porn people have apparently discovered and implemented workable "one pass" systems, which is one solution to the problem the poster is attempting to address.
Consider, for instance, that maybe that's the real business plan - get sued repeatedly for frivolous reasons, then turn around and get a multi-billion dollar judgement leveraging the federal anti-trust decision. Unlike Be, Robertson will have a continuous legal record of Microsoft's direct actions against the company.
Microsoft is just arrogant enough to fall for it.
No, it's the one from Contact.
Well, if I've decoded your email address properly you should be getting something....same goes for the person asking the initial question. I am reluctant to post my email address publicly. Believe it or not, I got a couple of bizarre stalker-like fans as a result of Morph. I even got some hate mail from white supremacists because one of the demo files provided with the product involved morphing a black man into a white woman.
Correct - all versions of Gryphon Morph beyond 1.0 should work just fine in Classic mode under OS X. The 1.x versions were designed around morphing stills, the 2.x versions around morphing motion. The last version released was 2.5. There was a 3.0 in development, but Gryphon was acquired by CUC/Cendant, the product shifted to Sierra Home, and buried.
Unfortunately, the current owner of Morph (Sierra) has neglected to update it. I have been considering rewriting and re-releasing the product under another name, updated for Mac OSX.
Actually, Flash's accessibility features aren't very useful for anything other than trivial sites - they apply only to static items, not dynamic ones. For instance, if your Flash movie loads text from XML, or creates movies through the new drawing commands, those items cannot be made accessible. There are other restrictions as well.
One of the largest barriers to the adoption of OpenDoc was the business model for software providers. The commercial distribution of software at the time couldn't support a large number of lightweight apps, plus it wasn't clear who to call in case of a problem. The large application developers also cared about the branding of their products, something lost in the OpenDoc world.
MS: Let me introduce you to the BSA.
NY: Did I say $1,000,000? I meant $50.
MS: I thought so.
I have mixed feelings about this one overall though. Both it and Enterprise have great potential, if they each find their stride.
They're running Apache 1.3.26 on Linux.
Very interesting. Ft Belvoir is in Virginia.
Actually, I do know HTML, and I do maintain a commercial website. It probably works fine for blind people, though to be honest I haven't checked. It follows the standards, and I handrolled the HTML (actually PHP templates).
But as the poster said, if you use Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc., then you'll find it's not easy or even possible in some cases to generate the proper HTML without a manual step. Hell, FrontPage doesn't even encode character entities properly. I would hazard that many/most people do not bother, and to do so would incur an expense. And yes, I think that some companies would find that too much to ask.
I don't think SouthWest is saying "we don't want business from the blind", it's just that the cost or technical hurdles don't justify the effort, particularly when there are equivalent alternatives that explicitly do not require sight (the telephone). And this is not an issue of "separate but equal" - the telephone is for everyone, preceded the web, and I would hazard to say probably dominates the number of reservations Southwest receives by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Those bastards at SouthWest don't hire visually impaired pilots either.
Ooh! Ahh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming...
Nature will find a way.
Hmmm...I'm having trouble locating that $1400 Thinkpad with the CD-R/DVD combo drive, built-in 802.11b, DVI and Firewire.
It's a matter of context. The 70's were full of "anti-hero" movies - Bonnie and Clyde, Dirty Harry, etc - that people were longing for simple Good vs Evil plots and action. Darth Vader was unambiguously bad, Luke Skywalker was unambiguously good. Star Wars was a breath of fresh air in a very dark decade for movies.
Of course Star Wars was derivative - that's a big part of why it worked. We didn't have to contemplate the brooding anti-hero's motivations. The robots were from Kurosawa, the final Death Star battle was from Dambusters and other WWII movies, and the overall structure from old movie serials like Flash Gordon. This was familiar ground writ large.
Raiders of the Lost Ark succeeded for much the same reasons.
If they made a movie of The Dark Knight Returns, I vote for Clint Eastwood as Batman. It think Mel Gibson would have been a better choice than Michael Keaton at the time - Mad Max was already about 60% Batman anyway. As for Superman, Christopher Reeves is definitely the actor to beat for portrayal of the Big Blue Boyscout. I can't think of any well-known actor who could do it even close. Perhaps they should do what they did in the 70s - pick a relative unknown, but talented and physically compatible actor. Agree on Miller too!
Maybe we should encourage the RIAA to get an injunction against Microsoft for Office being a P2P client.
...they flew over my apartment, so I'm probably one of those Apple access points. Oddly enough, because of the construction style of my unit (apparently Spanish Mission Faraday), I can't get a reliable signal from one end of my unit to the other. Glad I can be of service to local pilot community, though.