I hope that gestures take off. I've been using Opera for a few days now and have played a bit of Black and White too.
I don't know if it's just the novelty value, but I'm finding them useful. Hold the right mouse button and moving around is very easy and quickens things up if you're browing with the mouse (no need to reach to the keyboard again). It's a lot quicker to hold right mouse button and drag up and down than it is to find the reload button and click it.
I agree with the poster above, there needs to be a well defined set of gestures that will work in all applications before it really takes off.
Read this article by John Viega, one of the authors of Mailman. He talks about how Open sourced software does not necessarily mean security, how many eyes on does not mean they will look for loopholes, and why. Also other interesting points.
However, because MSLINUX is opensource, we can modify it so that it works on its own without having MSOFFICE accompanying it. If on the other hand it is impossible to use MSLINUX without MSOFFICE, then one could say that MSLINUX is nothing but vapourware...
I sincerely doubt that a petrol station would broadcast to mobile phones since there are always notices telling you turn off your phone at the stations. The transmitters would be a lot more powerful than the receivers (the handsets), so I imagine that they would not risk blowing up their properties by broadcasting advertisements.
We have to bear in mind that many people use webmail or POP mailboxes, and therefore do not instantly get messages. (Yes, POP can be collected at regular intervals, but not exactly the same thing.) This is the market the the instant messaging programs cater for. Also, the IMs usually have a feature that allow you to see who is currently online from your contact list. Yes, this feature is available on irc (notify), but there are many irc networks out there, also irc requires you to log on, while the IMs log on automatically.
"Microsoft has pulled out of the fight claiming that to continue to squabble over standards would constitute an unacceptable security risk"..."[about Microsoft's MSN Messenger] AOL quickly cried foul claiming that Microsoft was hacking into its servers without authority and blocked access"..."[MSN messenger] now makes not attempt to access AOL Instant Messenging accounts"..."Microsoft claims to have 4.5 million using MSN Messenger while AOL has a more substantial 80 million users"
They go on to say that there are moves to establish a universal standard by the IETF, and the standard should be released by the summer of 2000.
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I hope that gestures take off. I've been using Opera for a few days now and have played a bit of Black and White too.
I don't know if it's just the novelty value, but I'm finding them useful. Hold the right mouse button and moving around is very easy and quickens things up if you're browing with the mouse (no need to reach to the keyboard again). It's a lot quicker to hold right mouse button and drag up and down than it is to find the reload button and click it.
I agree with the poster above, there needs to be a well defined set of gestures that will work in all applications before it really takes off.
Read this article by John Viega, one of the authors of Mailman. He talks about how Open sourced software does not necessarily mean security, how many eyes on does not mean they will look for loopholes, and why. Also other interesting points.
...at least they didn't do it in C++
However, because MSLINUX is opensource, we can modify it so that it works on its own without having MSOFFICE accompanying it. If on the other hand it is impossible to use MSLINUX without MSOFFICE, then one could say that MSLINUX is nothing but vapourware...
I can host it. Drop me a line at russell@straylight.eu.org.nospam, dropping the nospam of course...
I sincerely doubt that a petrol station would broadcast to mobile phones since there are always notices telling you turn off your phone at the stations. The transmitters would be a lot more powerful than the receivers (the handsets), so I imagine that they would not risk blowing up their properties by broadcasting advertisements.
Or I may be wrong...
William Gibson Interview @ AICN
Posted by michael on Fri February 04, 04:09 AM
from the idoru dept.
Yay! I finally have my own department... so when am I moving in, fellows?
I'm quite surprised that no-one, not even an Anonymous Coward made a crack about the physical and biological incompatibilities of fathering a mouse...
published by O'Reilly of course...
I guess they would just need to port the applications across to it though... therefore, probably not a big deal.
We have to bear in mind that many people use webmail or POP mailboxes, and therefore do not instantly get messages. (Yes, POP can be collected at regular intervals, but not exactly the same thing.) This is the market the the instant messaging programs cater for. Also, the IMs usually have a feature that allow you to see who is currently online from your contact list. Yes, this feature is available on irc (notify), but there are many irc networks out there, also irc requires you to log on, while the IMs log on automatically.
"Microsoft has pulled out of the fight claiming that to continue to squabble over standards would constitute an unacceptable security risk"..."[about Microsoft's MSN Messenger] AOL quickly cried foul claiming that Microsoft was hacking into its servers without authority and blocked access"..."[MSN messenger] now makes not attempt to access AOL Instant Messenging accounts"..."Microsoft claims to have 4.5 million using MSN Messenger while AOL has a more substantial 80 million users"
They go on to say that there are moves to establish a universal standard by the IETF, and the standard should be released by the summer of 2000.
I see that someone has "parked" microsoftsucks.net
I wonder if Microsoft would/could sue for this trademark infringement...