Unfortunatley desktop linux has yet to catch up on some of the usability smarts Windows 7. One killer redeeming feature of 7 is the way the start menu search feature includes a lot of administrative functions. I recall a phone conversation with my dad:
Dad: "How do I change my account password?"
Me: "Click on start menu and type 'password' in the box you see there"
Dad: "Oh there it is, change password, it came up before I finished typing, I click on that ja?"
This is refreshingly easy and saves me time - he'll likely remember the trick for other tasks, and not call back.
I know it's KDE, and not GNOME, but the Lancelot launcher has this exact functionality.
I use Smooth Tasks in KDE4, and it's identical to the Win7 taskbar. It'll even do full-sized window previewing if you hover over the a program in the taskbar.
Yes, we certainly could declare patents on industry-standards were un-enforcable. But that would deprive a lot of people of a lot of profit, so it will never happen.
'We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.'
Mr. Jobs, I have Xerox holding on line 1 for you. They say they'd like to talk to you about some kind of mouse.
The big names in networking (AT&T, Charter, etc.) are going to sue Google on antitrust grounds because it is easier to hire lawyers than to upgrade failing and obsolete networks.
Maybe. Except that, if they base their anti-trust claim on the basis that Google would own both the content and the connection to that content, then Comcast's acquisition of NBC would also be subject to this same suit.
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I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry that this was modded Insightful, and not Funny.
I'm dead serious about that. If it will run something I can install KDE onto, I'm sold.
Blast! There goes my plan to file a patent for "Method for auctioning patents".
Curse you, Prior Art!
And kubuntu 10.10 released today also! get it here
is phoronix slashdotted, or did MS take them down?
Unfortunatley desktop linux has yet to catch up on some of the usability smarts Windows 7. One killer redeeming feature of 7 is the way the start menu search feature includes a lot of administrative functions. I recall a phone conversation with my dad: Dad: "How do I change my account password?" Me: "Click on start menu and type 'password' in the box you see there" Dad: "Oh there it is, change password, it came up before I finished typing, I click on that ja?" This is refreshingly easy and saves me time - he'll likely remember the trick for other tasks, and not call back.
I know it's KDE, and not GNOME, but the Lancelot launcher has this exact functionality.
I use Smooth Tasks in KDE4, and it's identical to the Win7 taskbar. It'll even do full-sized window previewing if you hover over the a program in the taskbar.
Exhibit A: me.
And, to poke a hole in your logic he technically did graduate.
Honorary Degree. Just because he was the comencement speaker. That doesn't count as graduated.
Gates dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft, so seeing him say that university isn't necessary is a little unsurprising.
Why are you buying a free distro?
Does this mean I can pester ICANN for a TLD using the ancient Nordic Futhark?
You'd have to figure out how to translate Futhark first.
I saw the first two episodes last night, and they were just okay. *shrug*
Bite my shiny metal ass.
we get this, but we'll never have duke nukem forever?
And with this, the door is now open to Rock Band: Rush.
Microsoft might as well have said "oh yeah? well, your mom!"
Yay! Ford Prefect can still go home!
Yes, we certainly could declare patents on industry-standards were un-enforcable. But that would deprive a lot of people of a lot of profit, so it will never happen.
Facts and reality need not apply.
We're talking about Steve Jobs, he of the Reality Distortion Field(tm). It goes without saying that facts and reality need not apply.
"This isn't a meteor, it's what we call a 'Boeing Bomb'. You see this peanut?"
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/steal_this_comic.png
I reject your facts, and substitute my own. :P
'We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.'
Mr. Jobs, I have Xerox holding on line 1 for you. They say they'd like to talk to you about some kind of mouse.
The big names in networking (AT&T, Charter, etc.) are going to sue Google on antitrust grounds because it is easier to hire lawyers than to upgrade failing and obsolete networks.
Maybe. Except that, if they base their anti-trust claim on the basis that Google would own both the content and the connection to that content, then Comcast's acquisition of NBC would also be subject to this same suit.
I can't see Comcast suing itself.
Seriously, is there any market Google is not going into?