Basically, our initial sneak preview does the following:
* generate wav files of words via the google translate api
* save these wav files into the database (base64 encoding was an (unfortunately failed) experiment
* do initial setup and fill of the words database
* showing an html5 clickable grid with words and an icon, based on the database query, of all the words found.
todo:
* create multiple pages from database, list them and switch
* allow queuing of multiple phrases, and play them as a sentence
* add custom words via web ui and a little php servicelayer
* html5 offline storage for all wav files
* get tablet browsers to fix data uri's for the <audio> tag!
* have a proper design with customizable icon lib
Not bad for a project kickstart in half an evening. Are we infringing on any patents yet?
...whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
I disagree. I'm in Europe. US patents do not affect me, or my code, no matter what the US law writes.
Whatever happens when you try to install it, use it, or modify it on US soil is not something you can hold me personally accountable for. (right?!?! citation needed)
[edit]Or wait.. Should we not even use github for this due to this crazyness?[/edit]
That's an interesting question. Does uploading a project to github from a foreign country qualify as "importation within the United States" ?
It would make sense that it does, but I haven't ever seen the point raised. Could github receive a takedown notice for a patent infringing project ? Could I be held liable for uploading a project (being a foreigner won't protect me from infringing US laws on US "soil")?
Anything on servers physically located within the US would be subject to US law. GitHub can be DMCA'd and forced to remove the project; you (as a non-US citizen) being liable for the infringement is a murkier question. Technically you can be extradited for criminal charges, but if it's just a civil suit, I'm not entirely clear how non-citizens play there.
Schizo, We will not violate patents until it is complete. Once we label as a complete product, and not just a "Proof of Concept", it will infringe on a patent. However, we do plan on doing a pivot and changing the design once we figure out a way around the patent!
Don't even think of looking, and sing loudly with your fingers in your ears if anyone tries to inform you. Otherwise you are willfully infringing and the damages are trebled.
Treble is favored in a few specific contexts (in the game of darts, for instance), but triple is generally favored everywhere else. Even in British English, where treble is most common, triple appears approximately three times for every instance of treble. In American English, treble is almost unheard of except in relation to sound and music.
I use both, often without noticing. I think I tend to be more likely to use treble or trebled at the end of sentence and triple or tripled in the middle of one. Note, I am not claiming this as any sort of sensible usage, am just commenting on how I tend to use the words. My pronunciation of words like grass or bath is also similarly scattered. This confuses folk when they try and work out what class background I am from, which is something of an obsession for many people here in the UK.
