SETI at home is pointless, wait 10 years and well be able to see planets and will just get a single supercomputer to watch those solar systems. There are useful BONIC projects
Would that not be an interesting task? develop a powersaving scalling system that turns all but one of the machines off when the system isnt in use but will still look "up" to anybody trying to use it. perhaps even use standby and WOL on the last machine so the power usage drops to almost zero.
They didn't kill anything. Funny me and the courts seam to disagree with you on this one. They illegally used their monopoly in one area to stifle competition in another.
Why alot of linux users want everything and they want it now. for example the BBC offer streaming iplayer, but people still produced a tool to download the full.mov versions (thanks iphone users:D).
I personally use a combination of the two due to technical reasons.
The easiest way from the bottom is 'up'. Really? last time i looked the easiest way from the bottom was actually nowhere or jail. don't let the american ideal fool you, if your born poor and work your ass off all your life, you'll die pretty much still at the bottom.
What happens if they put OSS QT on lifesupport and it met the minimum requirements for the free qt agreement and released QT pro with most of the development?
Not saying this will happen but im sure its easy for them to get out of free qt agreement if they want.
less drastic measures like SElinux or apparmour (or bsd equivelents) would probably be more user friendly. Simple stuff like if you connected to the network you can only read user files and write to none configuration user files wouldn't even need any tools.
Most (i think all) touchpads will pickup two finger taps as middle click ( 3 finger is right click ) If it doesn't (not sure if that's even possible tbh), if your not on a mac, clicking both left and right at the same time will simulate a middle click.
We'll ill start by saying wooooooosh, but as you got some basics wrong anyway ill answer a few of your points
Though I would argue whether this is an upgrade at all. Why trade: No trade both are still there.
control-c/control-v you mean highlight/control-c/move/control-v for highlight/move/middleclick well if your using your mouse then the latter is quicker otherwise the former is probably quicker, but there is no sacrifice anyway.
one of two clipboards (X is one, clipboard provided by desktop environment other). Finding and remembering which you need to use where and which works best for which use. KDEs clipboard tool, keeps them in sync and id guess gnome can do the same
highlight/middle click only works with text
Not true, highlight middle click should work with any medium, infact i dont quite understand why xorg hasnt implemented a standard drag and drop as the middle click system was pretty sweet. Nothing is stored in the buffer until you middle click at which point the program you click into(A) asks the program with the selection(B) what formats the selection is avalible in, then the A picks the best format and B sends the selection in that format
have to keep the source application open otherwise you lose what you "copied"
Again kde works around this limitation but obviously you lose the advantage of the previous point
highlight the URL in your browser location bar to paste the new URL you just copied from the google website? Damn, just overwrote what you "copied" first with the "copy" of what you were intending to replace.
touche, that is ofc assuming that the user is too dumb to paste into somewhere valid *the page (if autoscroll is off) *the tabbar (or even the tab depending on the browser *the site favicon (well in firefox 3 anyway not tested in other browsers
but this is all abit pointless as *both methods of copy and paste are valid *i dont live in germany *for me select/middle click on the favicon is quicker than select/cntrl+v/f6/cntrl+c/enter but thats just me
You dont have to code to help, bugreport help too. while ive not done any coding yet, i do take the time to support other users and submit bug reports, hell in one case i even submited a patch.
have the DOJ gone after IBM (the IT powerhouse of the 80s)? Because last time i checked you had to do something illegal before they could sue your ass. What illegal practices are you accusing google of?
OFC 500 new features have to be new now, because if a competitor offers that 'feature' as a product on windows, its called anti-competitive. TBH there isnt much money left in the OS market, apple can get away with what they do because of thier small market share means competitors can go to windows instead, but essentially all thier doing is developing core aplications and libraries.
TBH because of microsofts market dominance they cant really add aplications that other people already offer. Without the ability to add new aplications to thier offering theyre basically just maintaining a kernel, a window manager and the core apps they offered in xp. And whens the last time a non-geek got really excited by a kernel upgrade, adding shine to the WM will just draw critism because its slower and more bloated and who cares about paint or notepad.
Perhaps the best thing they could do would be to build some framework for 3rd party apps to use on windows, say they start offering all aplications an API to a world map & a personal information manager, but then theyd be hurting microsoft earth and outlook.
There are ways around your plan. Private equity for example is a good way to make lots of money and not pay any tax at all. take out huge loan by microsoft move debt to microsoft microsoft pay no tax instead they pay a bank back for 5-10 years once they pay the bank back sell microsoft and youve just earned a huge loan over 5-10 years and they the new owners could do the same.
I suspect the change of administrations didn't help. The DOJ probably had a good plan to bitchslap MS into line, but when the republicans got in, they were told to do the least amount of damage to a major corporation possible.
Microsoft came to dominance by sabotaging the API so that its competitors did not have a good API to use, and its internal divisions for Excel and Word had a secret API that worked well. This is monopolistic behavior.
So you're suggesting no-one except Microsoft was able to write fully functional Windows applications ?
No Netscape were worried about Microsoft threatening PC distributors to not ship Netscape and instead ship IE. and *drum roll* that's exactly what MS did.
what anticompetitive moves did microsoft make with vista? DOJ dont care how much the product sucks, they just have to make sure that non-ms companies can still compete when it comes to the software that runs on it.
Slashdot Mirror
"muhahaha look at those noobs with 15FPS"
"why, whats your FPS?"
"its over 500.0"
SETI at home is pointless, wait 10 years and well be able to see planets and will just get a single supercomputer to watch those solar systems. There are useful BONIC projects
Would that not be an interesting task? develop a powersaving scalling system that turns all but one of the machines off when the system isnt in use but will still look "up" to anybody trying to use it. perhaps even use standby and WOL on the last machine so the power usage drops to almost zero.
Program a strong AI and then ask it if entropy can be reduced.
Why alot of linux users want everything and they want it now. for example the BBC offer streaming iplayer, but people still produced a tool to download the full .mov versions (thanks iphone users :D).
I personally use a combination of the two due to technical reasons.
But if it is on GPL thanks to v3 they cant lock it down like they have to for the providers (like say tivo had to)
What happens if they put OSS QT on lifesupport and it met the minimum requirements for the free qt agreement and released QT pro with most of the development?
Not saying this will happen but im sure its easy for them to get out of free qt agreement if they want.
less drastic measures like SElinux or apparmour (or bsd equivelents) would probably be more user friendly. Simple stuff like if you connected to the network you can only read user files and write to none configuration user files wouldn't even need any tools.
Most (i think all) touchpads will pickup two finger taps as middle click ( 3 finger is right click )
If it doesn't (not sure if that's even possible tbh), if your not on a mac, clicking both left and right at the same time will simulate a middle click.
We'll ill start by saying wooooooosh, but as you got some basics wrong anyway ill answer a few of your points
Though I would argue whether this is an upgrade at all. Why trade: No trade both are still there. control-c/control-v you mean highlight/control-c/move/control-vfor highlight/move/middleclick
well if your using your mouse then the latter is quicker otherwise the former is probably quicker, but there is no sacrifice anyway. one of two clipboards (X is one, clipboard provided by desktop environment other). Finding and remembering which you need to use where and which works best for which use. KDEs clipboard tool, keeps them in sync and id guess gnome can do the same
highlight/middle click only works with text
Not true, highlight middle click should work with any medium, infact i dont quite understand why xorg hasnt implemented a standard drag and drop as the middle click system was pretty sweet. Nothing is stored in the buffer until you middle click at which point the program you click into(A) asks the program with the selection(B) what formats the selection is avalible in, then the A picks the best format and B sends the selection in that formathave to keep the source application open otherwise you lose what you "copied"
Again kde works around this limitation but obviously you lose the advantage of the previous pointhighlight the URL in your browser location bar to paste the new URL you just copied from the google website? Damn, just overwrote what you "copied" first with the "copy" of what you were intending to replace.
touche, that is ofc assuming that the user is too dumb to paste into somewhere valid*the page (if autoscroll is off)
*the tabbar (or even the tab depending on the browser
*the site favicon (well in firefox 3 anyway not tested in other browsers
but this is all abit pointless as
*both methods of copy and paste are valid
*i dont live in germany
*for me select/middle click on the favicon is quicker than select/cntrl+v/f6/cntrl+c/enter but thats just me
Nope, just that they can not use the full functionality of windows, they can ofc find ways around this limitation
You dont have to code to help, bugreport help too. while ive not done any coding yet, i do take the time to support other users and submit bug reports, hell in one case i even submited a patch.
Doing a lot of hard work, and then getting people to bitch about it incessantly as if you were their very own personal slave, all without being paid?
But if there is no software you can use to do something, you have to do the hard work anyway. and your free to ignore the bitching.copy AND paste? you my friend need to upgrade to linux, here its just middle click.
have the DOJ gone after IBM (the IT powerhouse of the 80s)?
Because last time i checked you had to do something illegal before they could sue your ass. What illegal practices are you accusing google of?
what like linux (because the NSA never made any commits to the kernel!)
OFC 500 new features have to be new now, because if a competitor offers that 'feature' as a product on windows, its called anti-competitive. TBH there isnt much money left in the OS market, apple can get away with what they do because of thier small market share means competitors can go to windows instead, but essentially all thier doing is developing core aplications and libraries.
TBH because of microsofts market dominance they cant really add aplications that other people already offer. Without the ability to add new aplications to thier offering theyre basically just maintaining a kernel, a window manager and the core apps they offered in xp. And whens the last time a non-geek got really excited by a kernel upgrade, adding shine to the WM will just draw critism because its slower and more bloated and who cares about paint or notepad.
Perhaps the best thing they could do would be to build some framework for 3rd party apps to use on windows, say they start offering all aplications an API to a world map & a personal information manager, but then theyd be hurting microsoft earth and outlook.
There are ways around your plan. Private equity for example is a good way to make lots of money and not pay any tax at all.
take out huge loan
by microsoft
move debt to microsoft
microsoft pay no tax instead they pay a bank back for 5-10 years
once they pay the bank back sell microsoft and youve just earned a huge loan over 5-10 years
and they the new owners could do the same.
tax as a punishment simply wont work
I suspect the change of administrations didn't help. The DOJ probably had a good plan to bitchslap MS into line, but when the republicans got in, they were told to do the least amount of damage to a major corporation possible.
Microsoft came to dominance by sabotaging the API so that its competitors did not have a good API to use, and its internal divisions for Excel and Word had a secret API that worked well. This is monopolistic behavior.
So you're suggesting no-one except Microsoft was able to write fully functional Windows applications ?
Yes.yeah it had nothing to do with MS hastling distributors. nothing at all to do with that right...
No Netscape were worried about Microsoft threatening PC distributors to not ship Netscape and instead ship IE. and *drum roll* that's exactly what MS did.
what anticompetitive moves did microsoft make with vista?
DOJ dont care how much the product sucks, they just have to make sure that non-ms companies can still compete when it comes to the software that runs on it.