The Microsoft Windows Longhorn desktop is being drawn in a completely different way than all previous versions. Every window will have its own, full window-sized surface to draw to. The desktop will be dynamically composed many times a second from the contents of each window.
>... if only a little late!
Hahahaha! Much later than you think. Longhorn's desktop will work in the same way that the Commodore Amiga's Graphics System worked in...1986.
A the hardware level the Deskop's and Window's bitmaps where compiled into display instructions for the custom co-processing chips. Those drawing instructions controlled the electron beam of the CRT.
The Amiga could even do one better than Longhorn. You can have mulitple desktops of different resolutions and color depths. You could even drag one desktop down and reveal the desktop below it. Showing both at the same time.
Patents are a different breed of cat... you can sit back for years and let people infringe on your patents, then spring the legal trap on them and take them for everything they've got-- and they have nobody to blame but themselves, for not doing sufficient due-diligence to make sure there were no pre-existing patents for their product/service/whatever.
That is not entirely true. If a patent holder knows of any infrigements and chooses to do nothing for years, the patent holder will be limited in the amount of damages they can collect. A legal dotrine know as Laches limits this type of behavior.
For example, say Joe Bob was doing something that causes me some type of harm. And I know that Joe Bob's actions are doing me harm. But I don't do or say anything to Joe Bob to stop it. After 10 years , I sue Joe Bob for his actions. I'm going to take him for everything that he owns.
Well under the Doctrine of Laches, I will be limited on the amount of damages that I could collect. In fact, I might be able to collect any damages, at all.
I did have another idea on this. Blackboard could claim that they are protecting access to the library books. But that won't quite work, the system has to work "...in the ordinary course of its operation,...".
OK, lets see, umm... They could put locks and readers all of the books, then that would be in course with its operation. But then they have to deal with all of the cables connecting the books to the system...
this ain't it. If Blackboard tried to get a DCMA case brought against the presenters, they will be laughed out of court. Section 1201 only applies "...to a work protected under this title." In other words a copyrightable work.
If don't know exact what information is encoded only the cards, but I'll bet long odds that it on identification and account information about the student. That isn't copyrightable information.
Take the US criminal and civil court system. OJ was found not guilty of murder by the state but found guilty in civil court. He was essentially tried twice for the same event but for different charges...
No that's not exactly the proper why to describe it. For a criminal violation, the criminal trial is for the volation(s) of the criminal law. The victims (Nicole's family members in OJ's) have control over how the personal is tried. The victims of the criminal act are not assumed to be object, as you can well imagine.
So the state assumes the responsbility for trials and punishment. The DAs, judges and jurys are assumed to objective to allow for a fair trial and amount of punishment. That is why crminal court cases are "The people of the State/Commonwealth/... vs John Doe" or "The United States vs..."
The civil case is the the victims can get their pound of flesh. It's a big help in the civil case if the defendent was found guilty in the criminal trial. But it's not a necessity as the OJ civil case revealed.
Crimial trials have a higher threshold for a finding of guilt: innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. The threshold for a civil case is lower: a proponderence of the evidence.
This is a slamdunk case...for Skylink. The plantifs haven't considered another (very important) part of Section 1201: the exemptions. Specificly reverse engineering.
(f) Reverse Engineering. - (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right
to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological
measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of
that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing
those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve
interoperability of an independently created computer program with
other programs, and that have not previously been readily available
to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such
acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement
under this title.
The Skylink remote interoperates with the Garage Door Opener.
The Xserver running on the Xipaq is the Tiny-X server running on top of the Frame Buffer. It has the XRandR, Rendering and AA font support extensions.And not only that it supports the Voyager PCMCIA VGA Card. But even given all of this, the Server and support libraries don't eat a lot of memory or storage resources.
Jim Gettys and Keith Packard has done a fantastic job of cutting down resource used in the IPAQ's X environment. And they're not done yet. There are still more reductions that can be done.
And don't discount having the ability of using remote displays. It's very nice to be able to run my PIM applications remotely from my IPAQ on my desktop machine: 1280x1024 screen, full sized keyboard and mouse. Who needs to do Hot/Active Sync'ing?
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>... if only a little late!
Hahahaha! Much later than you think. Longhorn's desktop will work in the same way that the Commodore Amiga's Graphics System worked in...1986.
A the hardware level the Deskop's and Window's bitmaps where compiled into display instructions for the custom co-processing chips. Those drawing instructions controlled the electron beam of the CRT.
The Amiga could even do one better than Longhorn. You can have mulitple desktops of different resolutions and color depths. You could even drag one desktop down and reveal the desktop below it. Showing both at the same time.
That is not entirely true. If a patent holder knows of any infrigements and chooses to do nothing for years, the patent holder will be limited in the amount of damages they can collect. A legal dotrine know as Laches limits this type of behavior.
For example, say Joe Bob was doing something that causes me some type of harm. And I know that Joe Bob's actions are doing me harm. But I don't do or say anything to Joe Bob to stop it. After 10 years , I sue Joe Bob for his actions. I'm going to take him for everything that he owns.
Well under the Doctrine of Laches, I will be limited on the amount of damages that I could collect. In fact, I might be able to collect any damages, at all.
They did?!?!? They must have sneaked it in. Do happen to know which Act # it's in?
OK, lets see, umm... They could put locks and readers all of the books, then that would be in course with its operation. But then they have to deal with all of the cables connecting the books to the system...
Aww, let the guys in R&D work out the details.
If don't know exact what information is encoded only the cards, but I'll bet long odds that it on identification and account information about the student. That isn't copyrightable information.
Opps. That should have been:
The vicitms (Nicole's family members in OJ's) have no control over how the person is tried...
No that's not exactly the proper why to describe it. For a criminal violation, the criminal trial is for the volation(s) of the criminal law. The victims (Nicole's family members in OJ's) have control over how the personal is tried. The victims of the criminal act are not assumed to be object, as you can well imagine.
So the state assumes the responsbility for trials and punishment. The DAs, judges and jurys are assumed to objective to allow for a fair trial and amount of punishment. That is why crminal court cases are "The people of the State/Commonwealth/... vs John Doe" or "The United States vs ..."
The civil case is the the victims can get their pound of flesh. It's a big help in the civil case if the defendent was found guilty in the criminal trial. But it's not a necessity as the OJ civil case revealed.
Crimial trials have a higher threshold for a finding of guilt: innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. The threshold for a civil case is lower: a proponderence of the evidence.
The Skylink remote interoperates with the Garage Door Opener.
Case Dismissed!
This isn't your Grandfather's X Windows.
The Xserver running on the Xipaq is the Tiny-X server running on top of the Frame Buffer. It has the XRandR, Rendering and AA font support extensions.And not only that it supports the Voyager PCMCIA VGA Card. But even given all of this, the Server and support libraries don't eat a lot of memory or storage resources.
Jim Gettys and Keith Packard has done a fantastic job of cutting down resource used in the IPAQ's X environment. And they're not done yet. There are still more reductions that can be done.
And don't discount having the ability of using remote displays. It's very nice to be able to run my PIM applications remotely from my IPAQ on my desktop machine: 1280x1024 screen, full sized keyboard and mouse. Who needs to do Hot/Active Sync'ing?