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re: viable methods and completely functional applications
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

greg said: > People who are newer (or newly-energized!) are welcome to > look at viable methods for delivering some of this functionality. > Beware, though: it's a larger and more complex problem > than you might guess at first. perhaps it would help if you laid out the complexity of the problem. > Some folks will even remember that I offered a "bounty" reward > for completely functional applications. This offer still stands. perhaps if you were clear about the capabilities you want to deliver, rather than the means of obtaining them, you might have better luck. -bowerbird

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opal-online.org
by Tony Baechler 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello all. I recently found this site and am wondering if PG could either work with them or make use of their services. http://www.opal-online.org/ One thing they offer is a voice over ip chat facility, so perhaps someone can make a presentation about what PG is and what they have to offer. They also offer podcasts of some programs so people can get an idea of what they offer. They might be for the blind, but I don't think they are specifically designed just to appeal to the blind. If someone wants to contact them and schedule a presentation, it might get PG some more publicity. If this link is already known or people determine that it is of no use, then my apologies for mentioning it.

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opal-online.org
by Tony Baechler 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hello all. I recently found this site and am wondering if PG could either work with them or make use of their services. http://www.opal-online.org/ One thing they offer is a voice over ip chat facility, so perhaps someone can make a presentation about what PG is and what they have to offer. They also offer podcasts of some programs so people can get an idea of what they offer. They might be for the blind, but I don't think they are specifically designed just to appeal to the blind. If someone wants to contact them and schedule a presentation, it might get PG some more publicity. If this link is already known or people determine that it is of no use, then my apologies for mentioning it.

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DP Down?
by Kevin Handy 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Is it just me, or is DP down today? All I get is a forbidden message. Any news on when it will be available again?

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Scanner vs. digital camera
by Joshua Hutchinson 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I think the original poster was sarcastically making fun of the notion that "invention" is simply a matter of coming up with an original idea. While current patent practice seems to support that view, it is ridiculous to most people. Hence the saying, "Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." In other words, just coming up with an idea is the easy part. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juhana Sadeharju" <kouhia(a)nic.funet.fi> To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Scanner vs. digital camera Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:38:17 +0300 > > > > From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker(a)gnu-designs.com> > > > > You've "invented" camera features? What hardware did you use when building > > these features into your camera? What camera model did you use as a base > > unit? > > Inventions nor patentions require physical hardware because the > inventions can be readily described in the text. Patent office > does not require inventors to send the hardware to them, anymore. > I invented, but I have not patented. It basically does not matter > which camera gets the features first, but I favor Canon EOS 300D, > Nikon D70, and equivalent competitors. > > I'm curious why you were not interested in the features itself. > They are basically public domain, but manufacturers could be > interested in them more, if such features appears first in > their camera. The competition is now on the camera features. > > Juhana > -- > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev > for developers of open source graphics software > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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Re: Scanner vs. digital camera
by Juhana Sadeharju 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker(a)gnu-designs.com> > > You've "invented" camera features? What hardware did you use >when building these features into your camera? What camera model did >you use as a base unit? Inventions nor patentions require physical hardware because the inventions can be readily described in the text. Patent office does not require inventors to send the hardware to them, anymore. I invented, but I have not patented. It basically does not matter which camera gets the features first, but I favor Canon EOS 300D, Nikon D70, and equivalent competitors. I'm curious why you were not interested in the features itself. They are basically public domain, but manufacturers could be interested in them more, if such features appears first in their camera. The competition is now on the camera features. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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[Fwd: Thought on http://www.gutenberg.org/faq/C-18.php]
by Marcello Perathoner 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Thought on http://www.gutenberg.org/faq/C-18.php Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:24:47 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Burch <nick(a)gagravarr.org> To: webmaster(a)gutenberg.org Hi I'm not sure if you're the right person on the guttenberg team to send this to, but hopefully if not you're close. I happened across http://www.gutenberg.org/faq/C-18.php from a discussion on slashdot, and I had a thought that there is something you can try. It should be possible to use a copyright repository to prove a book is out of copyright, without having to use the old (and hard to find) edition. I live in Oxford, and we have one of the UK's three copyright repositories, in the form of the Bodleian library. Most people can get temporary access to it for research, and I believe the same is true of the other two libraries. These libraries hold most books published in the UK. So, the steps for a book which you think is out of copyright would be: 1) Get a copy of the new version of the book 2) Find your nearest copyright library 3) Check to see if they have a copy of an older version - the search of the collection should be available online, eg http://library.ox.ac.uk/ 4) Arrange temporary membership of the library 5) Turn up, request the book, and go away for a few hours while someone retrieves it from the stack (most books aren't on open shelves) 6) Compare lots of pages to ensure the text is the same 7) Photocopy a few pages (including the copyright info to be sure) 8) Head home, and set to work on the new version I hope the above makes some sense, and might be of use Nick -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Humanities Computing conference
by Andrew Sly 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I'm looking for feedback from other PG volunteers. There will be a four-day "humanities computing Summer Institute" taking place in my city in June, as described here: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ It looks as if its main focus will be on digitizing texts using the tei dtd. Any ideas on how worthwhile it would be participating in this? Andrew

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Scanner vs. digital camera
by Juhana Sadeharju 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

[ Continuing the thread under subject "wiki...". ] Scanners have pros but because they are dangerous to use, I would prefer digital camera. At least I got fed up to lifting up the book for changing pages. A 600 pages book is quite weighty. Another annoyance was that the scanner collected dust (both from book and from room). Scanner was also slow. A couple of days ago I borrowed a tourist range digital camera. I could digitize 8 pages per minute. It was as fast and easy as I had predicted. The digitization speed was limited only by image transfer technology, not by speed of my fingers. "Easy" is the keyword here. I have invented a couple of camera features which would help in book digitization. Anyone would know how to contact camera manufacturers? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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re: [gutvol-d] Humanities Computing conference
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

andrew said: > Just to avoid confusing other PG volunteers too much wouldn't want anyone to be confused... as for the conference, i say go for it. it would be nice if _someone_ here could answer questions about t.e.i. -bowerbird

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