If they were not such assholes, they would not have to worry.
A call center I worked in, instituted a "do not provide physical address" policy, after a couple of bullets were fired through their windows. The shooter was very upset with a different company. OTOH, the fact that I received an average of one death threat a week at the time, might also have had something to do with their change in policy.
Not to be a troll, or feed the trolls, but how does a blind person view the web now ? If it is large text based, than there is a way that this can work, or if it is done by voice, cant you add a little MP3 "To leave a comment, first type "Bill Gates is wise"" or something like that?.
Blind people surf the net using one of the following "solutions".:
Screen reading software, such as JAWS. These read from the top of the page down. The voice(s) can usually be adjusted somewhat by the user.
Braille Display Screens. This displays the text as braille dots, one line of text at a time.
Audio embeds conflict with the screen reader output. [Ever browsed a website listening to a nice cd, only to also get some webdesigner's idea of what constitutes "good music" to come through your speakers at the same time? Audio embeds are the same problem, for users of screen readers.]
Audio embeds don't conflict with braille display screens. The "problem" there is the assumption that an audio output is setup.
Audio embeds work, if the user does not use a screen reading program. The combined audio streams usually result in neither being heard correctly.
Deaf blind people can only surf the web with braille display screens. They don't install audio output on their systems. Audio embeds won't work for them.
I gave up wearing a watch because I get the time from my cell phone.
It was when I got a pager, I could breathe a sigh of relief of not having to ask other people the time. It was the first timepiece I could carry, that kept accurate time.
As for your last paragraph, I am at a loss for words trying to imagine in what way you think that Hollywood movies designed for entertainment can be validly compared to direct government alteration of history.
Two Words: The Blacklist
Or did you never read anything about the McCarthy years, and what filmakers in Hollywood could, or could not portray in their films?
Amber
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Finally, in theory property lines used to create parcel maps were surveyed and you could just digitize them.
Theory is not practice.
At least you aren't claiming that property lines were originally surveyed and can be easilly trassferred to geophysical co-ordinates to be digitized. [Imagining somebody trying to convert "from the third cypress in the north side of the stream to the second apple tree on the far side of the dead oak tree, to the pile of rocks by the stream" to geophysocally co-ordinates, without being physically present.]
What is it beyond the 50 billion(not that this money actually exists) in the bank that they want?
When all the microsofties have put in their twenty years, and cashed their stock options in, that cash reserve will ensure that the stock price does not go down. That means that microsoft can live for about a decade after the original programmers retire, before it collapses. The hope is that before that decade is over, microsoft will have such a grip on software, that they won't go out of business.
Even some governmental agencies are IE-only. This is the case, here, in Quebec with the Revenu and Taxation agency. As a business, you cannot produce your taxation reports on the web without using IE. And try to convince them they are wrong... And you will discover you are just not a citizen for them.
Send the idiots who require IE a letter in Braille asking when their website is going to comply with the Canadian CLF requirements. {Assuming they are in Canada). (US based companies can be sent the same letter, except mentioning section 508.)
that they use special MS.NET files and how to set them up. I really fear that these things are just going to slap more "IE only" tags into the html, which pretty much makes it f**cking useless to me.
Companies that have to comply with Section 508 wil not, in theory, risk using those ie-only extentions. OTOH, most webdesigners don't know how to design a good site that complies with section 508.
All I want to do, is be able to navigate a website using my braille display unit. That shouldn't be too difficult. Except if your website uses flash, it becomes impossible.
tried using it recently for a report, and it can't even properly do things as basic as page numbering and footers.
That sounds about like the functional ability of ms office. Oh wait, you were describing OOo.
OOo 1.1 can do things that cause msofficeXp to choke up and die. [Actually, XP itself gets the blue screen of death.]
The "problems" you describe sound like stylesheets were not being used correctly. OOo requires stylesheets to be used for everything. MSOffice has yet to learn what a style sheet is, much less how they are used.
revision control features, security features, and other stuff that is totally missing from OpenOffice.
Revision control is in OOo. DRM is not in OOo.
If you need encrypted files, GUPGP and a macro make OOo documents secure. There are a couple of one key mactos that encrypt and save a file in OOo.
The database in OOo sucks, but MySQL installation is relatively straightforward.
msoffice does have slightly faster CJKV text input, than OOo has.]
If you think OpenOffice can completely replace MS Office, you don't know anything about MS Office.
Which explains why msoffice blows up, and my computer has the blue screen of death, when I write my book. The same text, in OOo causes no problems.
I can write one page of text in OOo in five minutes. The same page, using ms office, takes three hoursif msoffice doesn't crash, winxp doesn't give me the blue screen of death.
Free billion bytes of storage. What more do you need to know?
Email that does not bounce because the storage limit has been exceeded.
I suspect I would see bouncing email, within a week, if I had a GMail account, and I didn't delete my email. Something I will no doubt only be able to test, after it leaves beta.
Rumor is that the CD in question is TheOpenCD 1.4.
Given the multi-lingual nature of South Africa,
an open source cd, created from the software at translate.org.za makes more sense than The Open CD. Two CD's almost makes sense. The Open CD, to expose people to the range of software available, and one with localizations for South Africa.
When has Microsoft EVER used patents as a tool for gaining market control?
Microsoft is the company that forced third tier distributors to sell computer systems with no operating system on them for $100 more than systems with operating systems installed on them. [I'm speaking form personal experience --- I saw the contract that had that clause. (I wasn't pirating an OS -- I had two legal copies of DrDos --- one in shrinkwrap.)) The company couldn't instal DrDos for legal reasons (even if still in the shrinkwrap) [They would lose their licence to distribute msdos on systems.]]
With an experience like that, what makes anybody think that microsoft won't restart its extortion practices, using patents?
Not to mention they out of court settlements they have made, to avoid beeing convicted of practices to stifle competiton.
The USDOJ was way to leniant on them. The only punishment microsoft might have understood was a $100 check given to every resident in the us, regardless of whether or not the individual had bought a microsoft product.
The thing is, if this was applied for in 1993, finding prior art is difficult.
Possible sources:
Court cases involving BBSes from 1993, or before. IIRC, several sysops were convicted of money laundering charges. [ They accepted credit card payments on behalf of third parties who were selling products.]
Comb through back issues of Boardwatch.
there were several shopping mall plug ins for Wildcat, Osiris, PC-Board, RBBS, TBBS amongst other bulletin board systems.
Comb through other magazines/journals devoted to BBSing.
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A call center I worked in, instituted a "do not provide physical address" policy, after a couple of bullets were fired through their windows. The shooter was very upset with a different company. OTOH, the fact that I received an average of one death threat a week at the time, might also have had something to do with their change in policy.
Amber
Blind people surf the net using one of the following "solutions".:
Audio embeds conflict with the screen reader output. [Ever browsed a website listening to a nice cd, only to also get some webdesigner's idea of what constitutes "good music" to come through your speakers at the same time? Audio embeds are the same problem, for users of screen readers.]
Audio embeds don't conflict with braille display screens. The "problem" there is the assumption that an audio output is setup.
Audio embeds work, if the user does not use a screen reading program. The combined audio streams usually result in neither being heard correctly.
Deaf blind people can only surf the web with braille display screens. They don't install audio output on their systems. Audio embeds won't work for them.
Amber
It was when I got a pager, I could breathe a sigh of relief of not having to ask other people the time. It was the first timepiece I could carry, that kept accurate time.
Amber
As for your last paragraph, I am at a loss for words trying to imagine in what way you think that Hollywood movies designed for entertainment can be validly compared to direct government alteration of history.
Two Words: The Blacklist
Or did you never read anything about the McCarthy years, and what filmakers in Hollywood could, or could not portray in their films?
Amber
Theory is not practice.
At least you aren't claiming that property lines were originally surveyed and can be easilly trassferred to geophysical co-ordinates to be digitized. [Imagining somebody trying to convert "from the third cypress in the north side of the stream to the second apple tree on the far side of the dead oak tree, to the pile of rocks by the stream" to geophysocally co-ordinates, without being physically present.]
Amber
When all the microsofties have put in their twenty years, and cashed their stock options in, that cash reserve will ensure that the stock price does not go down. That means that microsoft can live for about a decade after the original programmers retire, before it collapses. The hope is that before that decade is over, microsoft will have such a grip on software, that they won't go out of business.
Amber
Send the idiots who require IE a letter in Braille asking when their website is going to comply with the Canadian CLF requirements. {Assuming they are in Canada). (US based companies can be sent the same letter, except mentioning section 508.)
Amber
Companies that have to comply with Section 508 wil not, in theory, risk using those ie-only extentions. OTOH, most webdesigners don't know how to design a good site that complies with section 508.
All I want to do, is be able to navigate a website using my braille display unit. That shouldn't be too difficult. Except if your website uses flash, it becomes impossible.
Amber
That sounds about like the functional ability of ms office. Oh wait, you were describing OOo. OOo 1.1 can do things that cause msofficeXp to choke up and die. [Actually, XP itself gets the blue screen of death.]
The "problems" you describe sound like stylesheets were not being used correctly. OOo requires stylesheets to be used for everything. MSOffice has yet to learn what a style sheet is, much less how they are used.
Revision control is in OOo. DRM is not in OOo. If you need encrypted files, GUPGP and a macro make OOo documents secure. There are a couple of one key mactos that encrypt and save a file in OOo.
The database in OOo sucks, but MySQL installation is relatively straightforward. msoffice does have slightly faster CJKV text input, than OOo has.]
Which explains why msoffice blows up, and my computer has the blue screen of death, when I write my book. The same text, in OOo causes no problems.
I can write one page of text in OOo in five minutes. The same page, using ms office, takes three hours if msoffice doesn't crash, winxp doesn't give me the blue screen of death.
Amber
Email that does not bounce because the storage limit has been exceeded.
I suspect I would see bouncing email, within a week, if I had a GMail account, and I didn't delete my email. Something I will no doubt only be able to test, after it leaves beta.
Amber
Given the multi-lingual nature of South Africa, an open source cd, created from the software at translate.org.za makes more sense than The Open CD. Two CD's almost makes sense. The Open CD, to expose people to the range of software available, and one with localizations for South Africa.
Amber
Possible sources:
Amber