Even if one-click was leitimate (which O'reilly said it very well may be) the honor system is definatly not non-obvious building on the first. So the honor system certainly shouldn't pass.
PS, I think software patents are bad, but in the framework that they are legel there is a case to be made for one-click.
I am more pissed that software patents tend to patent ideas and not implementations (the source code). If a software patent required the code to the application, whch would then become public domain it would make a lot more sense.
It shouldn't be too hard to modify your front end to run a command line MP3 player (relative to what you have donr so far I mean, I couldn't do it, but I couldn't do the database either). For ripping it looks like
crip http://bach.dynet.com/crip/ could be used aloing with an expect script to work non interactivle and get what you need.
It also looks like tagging the files will be easier then getting the tags seperatly, but I am sure there is a perl library for using cddb (there is at least a python one).
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I disagree.
Ross Perot was a very viable 3rd party before he dropped out the first time.
If he stayed the course he would have had pretty good odds of coming in second at least.
That is a viable 3rd party.
Of course he showed himself to be a whack job, and he quit and came back, ad that eed it for him.
Yeah, openly competing for a distant second is a good plan for success.
Since PS3 is the deafault purchase for most of the people, they want PS3 purchasers to consider them, not Xbox ones. Especially if Sony buries MS with marketing lies.
It is tcl/TK Kind of ugly, but works great for text messaging. It was also the first IM I had that supported buddy pounce.
I used it for a while because it was cross platform before GAIM (I think) and it stored your buddies server side when AOL's did not.
If all you want is an Open source AIM client it is good. If you need some other protocal or pictures or something like that, it will not work though.
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If I am not mistaken MS helped Mono out on their C# implementation.
In the driver arena this the prefered solution to having a closed official impementation. I would assume it is the same for the sake of a language also.
Well let's look at office suites. MS didn't have a monopoly on office suites. Corel used to make one (do they still? I haven't used it since it sucked so bad it made me puke.) What else was there? It's hard to blame Office's success on exploiting a monopoly when historically you had just one competitor, and that competitor sucked.
yeah, because having access to undocuments API's didn't give MS any advantages.
I don't really remember the difference between the two back when they wre of equal market share., but modern Corel does suck, so that was probably a part of it, but MS used their control to their advantage very effectivly at the same time.
KDE groups similar windows always (not only when it feels like (which windows does).
Also middle click cycles through an apps Windows (on the taskbar). Which means if you know the app you can find the window real quick. I can cycle through many broser windows real fast.
And how do you manage so many windows on a MAC?
with the deafault setting it is hard to differentiate between word documents with only 2 minimized.
Also what if I have the same thing open in 2 apps, the little icon is very small.
Firefox/Mozilla gestures do not even close to compare to Opera's (well not last time I tried.
The only reason I dropped Opera is it didn't feel right on Linux (being QT, but not feeling as nice as Konquerer in the environment).
Maybe they fixed this in Mozilla, but opera has these gestures/shortcuts that I find great, and miss:
1) right mouse+mouse wheel (cycle tabs) 2)hold right mouse+tap left mouse (back) 3)revers of 2 for forward 4)CTRL+mousewheel for a supurb zooming, way better then any other zoom.
Also the ram ached forward and back buttons are blazing fast. Just amazing, even on older systems.
Fast foward and rewind was nice, but pretty much jusdt a gimmick.
They could then come after any knock offs no matter what the compound that makes the smell. They could also have the protection perpetually.
In fact, I bet they would not want to patant it, because then it would become public in a relativly short period of time. Unlike many things, the usefulness of that scent will be a very long time.
I thought the GPL was about source.
Someone can make an executable that is very hard to get usable source from, and require activation to use, and it would be a lot like Windows XP is now.
I bet without copyright law the current protection schemes would be looked at as pleasant to deal with, I loathe to think what horrible things they could think of to do if their were no copy protection schemes.
It's bad enough to keep track of all the CDs I need to use, what if I had to sort a whole bunch of hardware dongles. Oh, your computer no longer has a parralell port, well We'll happily sell you the USB dongles with the new version.
The GPL is not about free binaries, it is about Free source, and with or without copyright law source would be closed in many instances.
Why is it that our long history without pesticides makes them unimportant, but our long history without cancer therapy makes it vital (replace with any other medical attention beyond mild anestesia (booze, tree bark)?
I would like an honest respons from and Green party member.
There are deffinatly passages that say it is a sin (Leviticus 20:17
17: And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Also says execute homosexual men and shun anyone who has sex with a menstrating woman (13 and 18 in same chapter).
So I would take the whole chapter with a grain of salt, but deffinatly incest is punishable by shunning and is wicked.
except a high quality reproduction is not cheap to do. And collecting a lot of them is even not cheaper.
If I go somewhere with many high quality reproductions of art from the masters it is still somewhere worth going. The medium is not irrelivent, It can't be a TV screen, In many cases it can't be RGB or CMYK limitted color spaces. But a maticulous copy that captures the brush strokes and the proper (within limits) pigment colors, and the matalics where needed is indeed acceptable in the place of the original (for me anyway).
Nobody said replace the art with plasma screens, they said do it with reproductions.
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We do somwthing a lot like that now, it's not as expensive or techy, but it works.
We call it exit polling.
Even if one-click was leitimate (which O'reilly said it very well may be) the honor system is definatly not non-obvious building on the first. So the honor system certainly shouldn't pass.
PS, I think software patents are bad, but in the framework that they are legel there is a case to be made for one-click.
I am more pissed that software patents tend to patent ideas and not implementations (the source code). If a software patent required the code to the application, whch would then become public domain it would make a lot more sense.
Half assed as in better graphics?
Can't you make a script that runs the /dev/dsp
decoder >
and have a player?
For something like this I don't see why it needs to be any more complex then that.
It shouldn't be too hard to modify your front end to run a command line MP3 player (relative to what you have donr so far I mean, I couldn't do it, but I couldn't do the database either). For ripping it looks like
crip http://bach.dynet.com/crip/ could be used aloing with an expect script to work non interactivle and get what you need.
It also looks like tagging the files will be easier then getting the tags seperatly, but I am sure there is a perl library for using cddb (there is at least a python one).
I disagree.
Ross Perot was a very viable 3rd party before he dropped out the first time.
If he stayed the course he would have had pretty good odds of coming in second at least.
That is a viable 3rd party.
Of course he showed himself to be a whack job, and he quit and came back, ad that eed it for him.
My audio sample of hime saying my name is Linus and I pronounce Linux he said long i and in:
Lee nucks.
and Lee Nuss
I assume it was really him.
So it will degenerate into ask slashdot?
Yeah, openly competing for a distant second is a good plan for success.
Since PS3 is the deafault purchase for most of the people, they want PS3 purchasers to consider them, not Xbox ones.
Especially if Sony buries MS with marketing lies.
Try Tic
It is tcl/TK
Kind of ugly, but works great for text messaging. It was also the first IM I had that supported buddy pounce.
I used it for a while because it was cross platform before GAIM (I think) and it stored your buddies server side when AOL's did not.
If all you want is an Open source AIM client it is good. If you need some other protocal or pictures or something like that, it will not work though.
If I am not mistaken MS helped Mono out on their C# implementation.
In the driver arena this the prefered solution to having a closed official impementation. I would assume it is the same for the sake of a language also.
There is no reason to uninstall Gnome.
One reason to install KDE is the hybrid GUI command line Konqeror with terminal split.
Another is the BeOS Window decoration, with it you title bars take up not more space then needed and you can slide them around to tab you windows.
Also, like your menues all in the same place at the top (Like on a Mac)?, KDE supports this for K apps really well.
Well let's look at office suites. MS didn't have a monopoly on office suites. Corel used to make one (do they still? I haven't used it since it sucked so bad it made me puke.) What else was there? It's hard to blame Office's success on exploiting a monopoly when historically you had just one competitor, and that competitor sucked.
yeah, because having access to undocuments API's didn't give MS any advantages.
I don't really remember the difference between the two back when they wre of equal market share., but modern Corel does suck, so that was probably a part of it, but MS used their control to their advantage very effectivly at the same time.
KDE groups similar windows always (not only when it feels like (which windows does).
Also middle click cycles through an apps Windows (on the taskbar). Which means if you know the app you can find the window real quick. I can cycle through many broser windows real fast.
And how do you manage so many windows on a MAC?
with the deafault setting it is hard to differentiate between word documents with only 2 minimized.
Also what if I have the same thing open in 2 apps, the little icon is very small.
Opera's zoom does pictures,
I prefer that, but I guess it is 6 one half a dozen the other.
Firefox/Mozilla gestures do not even close to compare to Opera's (well not last time I tried.
The only reason I dropped Opera is it didn't feel right on Linux (being QT, but not feeling as nice as Konquerer in the environment).
Maybe they fixed this in Mozilla, but opera has these gestures/shortcuts that I find great, and miss:
1) right mouse+mouse wheel (cycle tabs)
2)hold right mouse+tap left mouse (back)
3)revers of 2 for forward
4)CTRL+mousewheel for a supurb zooming, way better then any other zoom.
Also the ram ached forward and back buttons are blazing fast. Just amazing, even on older systems.
Fast foward and rewind was nice, but pretty much jusdt a gimmick.
The locks come with a thousand dollors of insurance, I would imagine it is in their best interests to replace them with working models.
I bet they would rather trade mark it.
They could then come after any knock offs no matter what the compound that makes the smell. They could also have the protection perpetually.
In fact, I bet they would not want to patant it, because then it would become public in a relativly short period of time. Unlike many things, the usefulness of that scent will be a very long time.
Really?
I thought the GPL was about source.
Someone can make an executable that is very hard to get usable source from, and require activation to use, and it would be a lot like Windows XP is now.
I bet without copyright law the current protection schemes would be looked at as pleasant to deal with, I loathe to think what horrible things they could think of to do if their were no copy protection schemes.
It's bad enough to keep track of all the CDs I need to use, what if I had to sort a whole bunch of hardware dongles. Oh, your computer no longer has a parralell port, well We'll happily sell you the USB dongles with the new version.
The GPL is not about free binaries, it is about Free source, and with or without copyright law source would be closed in many instances.
A power book has a 65 Watt power supply.
And charges even during heavy use.
Maybe it can't throttle down much at all, but I imagine it can.
The monitor dimming when unplugged has got to be at least a few watts. Turning off wireless a little more.
I think you are just wrong.
Except the small states are supposed to be worth more.
It was known that and all the people in charge agreed to do it that way.
Of course a state meant a lot more back then too. So it made sense that just being a state gave an area a boost.
Yeah, can't pantent a pricing model.
They were supposed to call it a business method.
Geez, I should join their legel team.
Why is it that our long history without pesticides makes them unimportant, but our long history without cancer therapy makes it vital (replace with any other medical attention beyond mild anestesia (booze, tree bark)?
I would like an honest respons from and Green party member.
There are deffinatly passages that say it is a sin (Leviticus 20:17
17: And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Also says execute homosexual men and shun anyone who has sex with a menstrating woman (13 and 18 in same chapter).
So I would take the whole chapter with a grain of salt, but deffinatly incest is punishable by shunning and is wicked.
except a high quality reproduction is not cheap to do. And collecting a lot of them is even not cheaper.
If I go somewhere with many high quality reproductions of art from the masters it is still somewhere worth going. The medium is not irrelivent, It can't be a TV screen, In many cases it can't be RGB or CMYK limitted color spaces. But a maticulous copy that captures the brush strokes and the proper (within limits) pigment colors, and the matalics where needed is indeed acceptable in the place of the original (for me anyway).
Nobody said replace the art with plasma screens, they said do it with reproductions.