And you imagine that the Japanese Gov would allow MS to buy Sony? Possible certainly but by no means definite - and with this sort of case in play I would expect Sony to be easily able to get the money to fight a hostile takeover. Philips wouldn't be a pushover either. (one 'L', not two btw)
My dream resolution:
Microsoft lose big time and have to pay tens of $B (contented sigh). USGov decides this isn't a happy way to run a country and passes laws to change patents to a sane system (I.E. more or less pre 80s). It's a win-win and I did say it was a dream:-)
More seriously, I know it's not likely but, laws are not usually retrospective - if patents were changed to reduce software patents scope (or strike them out) this wouldn't likely have any affect on a case relating to events prior to the law being passed.
Right now I definitley hate MS more, but software and business practice patents are bad too.(While we're on a list of un-favourite things I should add SCO, Speed humps, 2 jags Prescott, Hollywood films that re-write history to demonise the English, second hand smoke, rap,.... )
If/. had a topic for SCO (maybe renamed caldera), it would need an icon. Hmm. Any artisitics out there care to draw a toilet with dollar bills being flushed, to be used for that purpose?
someone decides to bounce that "spam" back to the "sender".....
I'll be immediately reporting them to their ISP/provider for UCE, and their access will be cut, based on the AUP of their provider. Most providers do not tolerate spammers inside their networks, and it's strictly against their AUP.
I did know there was an 'e' on Cooke, I just mis-typed it and my eyeball check of the preview didn't catch it, sorry:-(
I wasn't being disrespectful of GWB, but I'm not sure he fully qualified as having grasp of history and both national and international politics before becoming president, national probably but not the rest, but that would be true of a lot of politicians. He certainly seems to be learning on the job quite succesfully.
The point was about naturalised US citizens being eligible for election to the presidency - AC is probably an extreme example but he's been a US citizen longer than GWB.
It's not my system but the 'Arnie' amendment makes sense to me.
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In that case I nominate Alistair Cook for president. It'd be nice to have an intelligent, well-educated, man with a grasp of history and both national and international politics in the White House.
Hmm, I don't run sendmail myself. I use kmail and have many filters to sort my incoming mail, which helps a lot - I rarely get anything I want left in my inbox now. The last filter I have is a kmail suggestion, where "content-type" is "text/html" I bounce the message and move to a 'pending-deletion' folder for review, just in case. I would like to send a similar message saying that I don't accept HTML mail but I can't see a way to do this in Kmail - does anyone have any suggstions?
I know bouncing and sending a message is either stupid (confirming a live address to a spammer while bouncing it) or redundant (if it's not a spammer) but I can decide which is best once I know how to send a message, if I can.
Why do the majority of people on/. forget that most software develpoment isn't for sale - it's in-house development. This may be done by an external consultancy but it's not for sale.
Yes there's a lot of software in boxes on shelves, but if you look at the work done writing systems for manufacturing, insurance, banking, trading, etc. etc....
I've been in the IT business for nearly 20 years (with a few years with no work) and have never worked on a retail software product. All work has been solely for internal consumption.
In other words, tariffs on 'foreign' software will have zero impact on this sort of development.
It's even more fun if you read the Register - IBM is giving a copy of SuSE Enterprise Linux with some Power4 pSeries machines - One to Four way SMP boxes. It's a nice gentle way of IBM to play down the Itanium in favour of their own processor, and subtly flipping SCO the bird.
Red Hat is not Linux. There's still
SuSE Mandrake Debian Slackware
Knoppix etc......
Wait for the real release on Monday, as Alan Cox said.
Having said that I tried RH once (v.7) - got totally hacked off at the circular dependency hell (reminded me of dlls) and gave up. I re-formatted the HD and installed SuSE - I went back to that which I knew worked. The improved internet update for SuSE is a breeze too, the old one was a bit painful but they fixed it well. The support mailing lists are also excellent.
IBM have always been a hardware company with a profitable sideline in services. They got confused for a while thinking they were a software company, but that's now known to be another (not-quite-as-profitable) sideline.
Actually IBM are a fairly good software company, even though I have spent too much time on their mainframes hating their software. The s/w just works even if in an obscure and arcane manner. Once you master the correct invocations.... One thing IBM are really good at is backwards compatibility. Whenever possible old software runs unchanged on new hardware and OS, they had a motto about 'Evolution not Revolution'. Support was available of old products for a long time - but all the new features and added goodness were only avaiable for newer versions, which is perfectly reasonable. Another nice thing about IBM (or not depending upon your experience) is the standard and, er, quantity of supplied documentation. Thinking about it they may have thought they were a publisher. At one job (mid 80s) we bought a System/36 (fore-runner of AS400) for bizarre reasons for a project and the documentation started coming. Eventually we had an entire 6' bookshelf filled with docs for this white elephant (I even stuck a trunk and ears on it). This was for a box which was slower than running an emulator on a 286, but could handle 50 terminals with no slowing.
If you can't compile it how can you confirm that it is the source for the binary you are using? I could give you a copy of (say) emacs with the vi source and if you can't prove it's the source for the binary you are using then it's useless.
My car has a drive-by-wire throttle. No mechanical linkage. The ignition system is fully computerised, and some newer cars have electric/electronic power steering rather than hydraulic too. There's been a fair amount of press about certain cars' (including the Explorer) cruise control taking over the throttle when switched off, probably because of EMI in the engine bay. Having your car suddenly want to drive at 65mph with you standing on the brakes whilst heading for a traffic queue sounds somewhat worrying...
On a lot of modern car designs, if the electronics fail the car fails.
The menus are like a maze that one must climb through. The feature that you want could be anywhere in that maze. With XML and a decent editor you can just do a find.
Now, grok this: If
you wouldn't trust your secrets to code you couldn't audit yourself, why should you expect NSA to?
Similarly why should any government use non-OS software? Or more particlarly why should any non-US gov buy MS software? Taken to it's logical extreme why should anybody ever use non-FOSS software?
I suspect the answer lies in a combination of ignorance (lack of knowledge, not stupidity), habit, convenience, cost (perceived?).
I'm in the UK and I used to have a ragtop (TVR Chimaera, if anyone cares) and it didn't have AC - if it was hot I drove with the roof down and wore a cap. If it was cold I wore a warm coat - that's what I bought the car for. I once drove for two hours in January with the roof down and a sheepskin jacket - I still had trouble warming up but it was one of the best drives I've ever had:-). It irritates my wife that when we see a convertible with the roof up and it's not raining I always say (to myself) "Get the roof off, why did you buy that thing if you always have the roof up." It's mostly envy as the TVR had to go a while back and I miss it almost daily:-(
F2 is a much faster rename than dragging your butt through a context menu.
YMMV - ok it's one keystroke v. two ('AppKey','m'), but I have to reach for F2 and my hands are already in position to use the 'AppKey'. So I prefer not to use F2 as it's slower for me. <shrugs>
The original question was about any use for the key, renaming is only one of many anyway.
The thing is, isn't that context menu for files in explorer pretty big? Seems like that's a lot of keystrokes to get the hilight to what you want...
Yes, especially when you start adding to it, but that's what the shortcut keys are for (the underlined ones in the menus), alternatively tune autorepeat on your keyboard. e.g. reduce the delay and increase the repeat rate. With the shortcuts it's normally 2 keystrokes if it's properly organized, perhaps 3. It's still more convenient for me than moving to the mouse, especially as I am still getting up to speed with emacs.....:-D Editing Word or Excel, coding in emacs or t.h.e. are all keyboard tasks and I'm a reasonable typist so the mouse slows me down.
Having said that I prefer the CapsLock key next to 'A' as that is what I am used to - if I have more keys I try to use them.
I forgot to mention I have also remapped the AltGr key to the right of the spacebar to be a regualr Alt key so I can use two handed Alt key combinations and not twist my wrist too much. It's a registry hack for 2000, that was a minor irritation to work out - the main problem being finding out the actual scan codes for the keys in windows. Worth it though.
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Like Stacs compression IP?
And you imagine that the Japanese Gov would allow MS to buy Sony?
Possible certainly but by no means definite - and with this sort of case in play I would expect Sony to be easily able to get the money to fight a hostile takeover.
Philips wouldn't be a pushover either. (one 'L', not two btw)
Microsoft lose big time and have to pay tens of $B (contented sigh). USGov decides this isn't a happy way to run a country and passes laws to change patents to a sane system (I.E. more or less pre 80s).
It's a win-win and I did say it was a dream
More seriously, I know it's not likely but, laws are not usually retrospective - if patents were changed to reduce software patents scope (or strike them out) this wouldn't likely have any affect on a case relating to events prior to the law being passed.
Right now I definitley hate MS more, but software and business practice patents are bad too.(While we're on a list of un-favourite things I should add SCO, Speed humps, 2 jags Prescott, Hollywood films that re-write history to demonise the English, second hand smoke, rap, .... )
If /. had a topic for SCO (maybe renamed caldera), it would need an icon. Hmm.
Any artisitics out there care to draw a toilet with dollar bills being flushed, to be used for that purpose?
I wasn't being disrespectful of GWB, but I'm not sure he fully qualified as having grasp of history and both national and international politics before becoming president, national probably but not the rest, but that would be true of a lot of politicians. He certainly seems to be learning on the job quite succesfully.
The point was about naturalised US citizens being eligible for election to the presidency - AC is probably an extreme example but he's been a US citizen longer than GWB.
It's not my system but the 'Arnie' amendment makes sense to me.
Of course I'm not a US citizen myself...
I know bouncing and sending a message is either stupid (confirming a live address to a spammer while bouncing it) or redundant (if it's not a spammer) but I can decide which is best once I know how to send a message, if I can.
Yes there's a lot of software in boxes on shelves, but if you look at the work done writing systems for manufacturing, insurance, banking, trading, etc. etc ....
I've been in the IT business for nearly 20 years (with a few years with no work) and have never worked on a retail software product. All work has been solely for internal consumption.
In other words, tariffs on 'foreign' software will have zero impact on this sort of development.
Or even renowned ?
It's even more fun if you read the Register - IBM is giving a copy of SuSE Enterprise Linux with some Power4 pSeries machines - One to Four way SMP boxes.
It's a nice gentle way of IBM to play down the Itanium in favour of their own processor, and subtly flipping SCO the bird.
There's still
SuSE
Mandrake
Debian
Slackware
Knoppix
etc......
Wait for the real release on Monday, as Alan Cox said.
Having said that I tried RH once (v.7) - got totally hacked off at the circular dependency hell (reminded me of dlls) and gave up. I re-formatted the HD and installed SuSE - I went back to that which I knew worked. The improved internet update for SuSE is a breeze too, the old one was a bit painful but they fixed it well. The support mailing lists are also excellent.
This reminds me of the DirecTV story about the smart card readers. (Yes I did mean readers).
Actually IBM are a fairly good software company, even though I have spent too much time on their mainframes hating their software. The s/w just works even if in an obscure and arcane manner. Once you master the correct invocations....
One thing IBM are really good at is backwards compatibility. Whenever possible old software runs unchanged on new hardware and OS, they had a motto about 'Evolution not Revolution'. Support was available of old products for a long time - but all the new features and added goodness were only avaiable for newer versions, which is perfectly reasonable.
Another nice thing about IBM (or not depending upon your experience) is the standard and, er, quantity of supplied documentation. Thinking about it they may have thought they were a publisher. At one job (mid 80s) we bought a System/36 (fore-runner of AS400) for bizarre reasons for a project and the documentation started coming. Eventually we had an entire 6' bookshelf filled with docs for this white elephant (I even stuck a trunk and ears on it). This was for a box which was slower than running an emulator on a 286, but could handle 50 terminals with no slowing.
If you can't compile it how can you confirm that it is the source for the binary you are using?
I could give you a copy of (say) emacs with the vi source and if you can't prove it's the source for the binary you are using then it's useless.
There's been a fair amount of press about certain cars' (including the Explorer) cruise control taking over the throttle when switched off, probably because of EMI in the engine bay. Having your car suddenly want to drive at 65mph with you standing on the brakes whilst heading for a traffic queue sounds somewhat worrying...
On a lot of modern car designs, if the electronics fail the car fails.
Taken to it's logical extreme why should anybody ever use non-FOSS software?
I suspect the answer lies in a combination of ignorance (lack of knowledge, not stupidity), habit, convenience, cost (perceived?).
I'm in the UK and I used to have a ragtop (TVR Chimaera, if anyone cares) and it didn't have AC - if it was hot I drove with the roof down and wore a cap. If it was cold I wore a warm coat - that's what I bought the car for. I once drove for two hours in January with the roof down and a sheepskin jacket - I still had trouble warming up but it was one of the best drives I've ever had :-). :-(
It irritates my wife that when we see a convertible with the roof up and it's not raining I always say (to myself) "Get the roof off, why did you buy that thing if you always have the roof up." It's mostly envy as the TVR had to go a while back and I miss it almost daily
The original question was about any use for the key, renaming is only one of many anyway.
Editing Word or Excel, coding in emacs or t.h.e. are all keyboard tasks and I'm a reasonable typist so the mouse slows me down.
Having said that I prefer the CapsLock key next to 'A' as that is what I am used to - if I have more keys I try to use them.
I forgot to mention I have also remapped the AltGr key to the right of the spacebar to be a regualr Alt key so I can use two handed Alt key combinations and not twist my wrist too much. It's a registry hack for 2000, that was a minor irritation to work out - the main problem being finding out the actual scan codes for the keys in windows. Worth it though.