It's good to see something that has all of the features of Outlook, but its nice to see they are improving the interface.. I've often thought it should be possible to make a better interface for viewing mail.
You don't get those for everything, for instance, on the flash.com website if you right click on the flash banners you only get settings and about macromedia flash. I believe if you have the commercial version of flash it may give you a few more options, but for the most part you usually don't get the option to pause, fast forward, or rewind.
I hate flash movies because there is no good way to pause them and come back, nor is there a good way to fast forward or rewind or do anything that you normally would when watching video. Flash is alright for those annoying interactive websites, but its damn annoying for movies.
It's not only possible, but some of us have been doing this for over ten years. If Apple pursues this patent, I'm definitely calling prior art on this.
Fast user switching isn't even close to running separare x sessions, not is it similar to switching between virtual desktops. Fast user switching unloads part of the OS and logs in another user, this is much more efficient than loading multiple xsessions and switching between them. If apple pursues this patent, the only one that could call prior art on this is microsoft and as stated in the article, apple's implementation is different than microsofts and that is what they are pursuing the patent on.
Even if the Apple method is superior, how are they going to get a patent for the concept of fast user switching, even they admit that MS had it before them. I could see them getting some kind of patent for the particular way they do it, but for the concept in general its a little late.
I take it that SCO wasn't at OSCON to defend themselves? It would be more effective to call SCO out sometime when they are actually there to make fools of themselves in public.
So what happens if you send it in, do they send you a new one, or do they just fix it somehow and return it. What do they expect you to do for computing during the 6-8 wks it always take these kinds of transactions to work?
A better feature would be a tutorial on how to count cards. If you don't know how to count cards or use decent strategy, the old crappy poker AI has a pretty good shot at winning.
Generally the laws apply to any spammer mailing stuff to someone in that state. For instance, if i wanted too, I could sue any spammer in the world under the Illinois state anti-spam laws, it would probably only be effective in the US since the long arm statutes would allow Illinois courts to have jurisdiction over the spammer since they had some amount of contact with illinois. In the case of this upcoming law, i believe it would also allow anyone in the world to sue spammers from Michigan as well.
This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.
Unless it is all new music, it will most likely be singles that you can buy individually or get off albums from the artists.
What are these "statistics" you keep referring to?
Statistics is a branch of mathematics, if you go to college you generally get a decent introduction to statistics. As I pointed out before, your statements show an obvious ignorance of statistics.
Do you agree that an alien race with radio is likely to have possessed it for longer than we have?
No, I wouldn't even agree to that..there is nothing that would lead me to believe that an alien race within communication range of earth has had radio technology longer than we have. As I said, statistically, the odds of there being aliens more advanced than us are the same as there being aliens less advanced than us in regards to radio communication and otherwise.
It's one thing to assume there is intelligent life out there, it's another to make assumptions about it trying to use the evolution of intelligent life on earth to measure it.
The only way I'd even consider that intelligent aliens have had radio technology longer than us is if they got in touch with us before we got in touch with them.. We've been trying to contact intelligent alien life for a long time and haven't gotten any answers.. using your assumption that aliens would be similar to us, it would stand that if aliens have had radio technology longer than us, they'd make first contact, not us.
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I thought there was already a non-independant, money grubbing based corporation in charge of the mozilla project? Is AOL just giving up?
It's good to see something that has all of the features of Outlook, but its nice to see they are improving the interface.. I've often thought it should be possible to make a better interface for viewing mail.
You don't get those for everything, for instance, on the flash.com website if you right click on the flash banners you only get settings and about macromedia flash. I believe if you have the commercial version of flash it may give you a few more options, but for the most part you usually don't get the option to pause, fast forward, or rewind.
Couldn't they just change the name of the program again to get around the legisilation?
I hate flash movies because there is no good way to pause them and come back, nor is there a good way to fast forward or rewind or do anything that you normally would when watching video. Flash is alright for those annoying interactive websites, but its damn annoying for movies.
Oh yeah.... a racing game with the SS engine. What a lovely thought...
Yeh, the first time I played it and saw how big the worlds were, I kept thinking how cool it would be with vehicles.
I wish someone would add car to Serious Sam..
It's not only possible, but some of us have been doing this for over ten years. If Apple pursues this patent, I'm definitely calling prior art on this.
Fast user switching isn't even close to running separare x sessions, not is it similar to switching between virtual desktops. Fast user switching unloads part of the OS and logs in another user, this is much more efficient than loading multiple xsessions and switching between them. If apple pursues this patent, the only one that could call prior art on this is microsoft and as stated in the article, apple's implementation is different than microsofts and that is what they are pursuing the patent on.
Even if the Apple method is superior, how are they going to get a patent for the concept of fast user switching, even they admit that MS had it before them. I could see them getting some kind of patent for the particular way they do it, but for the concept in general its a little late.
The problem is not the video card.. that's a fine video card, the problem is that the mac is woefully slow at gaming.
Wouldn't that be the oldest planet to date? I seriously doubt that they believe they've found the oldest planet in all of the universe..
I take it that SCO wasn't at OSCON to defend themselves? It would be more effective to call SCO out sometime when they are actually there to make fools of themselves in public.
So what happens if you send it in, do they send you a new one, or do they just fix it somehow and return it. What do they expect you to do for computing during the 6-8 wks it always take these kinds of transactions to work?
A better feature would be a tutorial on how to count cards. If you don't know how to count cards or use decent strategy, the old crappy poker AI has a pretty good shot at winning.
just let it go.. you failed to understand my point, and you've failed to make one of your own. it's over.. get on with your life.
My browser filled in "That's the point I was making." from last time I made a /. post. I meant the subject to be "RTFA"
stop using mozilla..
Read carefully: I'm saying that any given alien race with radio technology probably has had it longer than we have.
No sir, it is you who is trolling me.
Generally the laws apply to any spammer mailing stuff to someone in that state. For instance, if i wanted too, I could sue any spammer in the world under the Illinois state anti-spam laws, it would probably only be effective in the US since the long arm statutes would allow Illinois courts to have jurisdiction over the spammer since they had some amount of contact with illinois. In the case of this upcoming law, i believe it would also allow anyone in the world to sue spammers from Michigan as well.
I hate spam as much if not more than the next person, but I don't think jail time for the first offense should be written into the law.
This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.
Unless it is all new music, it will most likely be singles that you can buy individually or get off albums from the artists.
What are these "statistics" you keep referring to?
Statistics is a branch of mathematics, if you go to college you generally get a decent introduction to statistics. As I pointed out before, your statements show an obvious ignorance of statistics.
(Note that this case was decided by a 3-judge panel and thus isn't binding precedent.)"
What the hell does that mean? Either it was decided by an appeals court and is valid for precendent in that area or it wasn't decided.
Are we going to end up harvesting plankton a la SOylent Green?
Soylent Green is people, not plankton.
Do you agree that an alien race with radio is likely to have possessed it for longer than we have?
No, I wouldn't even agree to that..there is nothing that would lead me to believe that an alien race within communication range of earth has had radio technology longer than we have. As I said, statistically, the odds of there being aliens more advanced than us are the same as there being aliens less advanced than us in regards to radio communication and otherwise.
It's one thing to assume there is intelligent life out there, it's another to make assumptions about it trying to use the evolution of intelligent life on earth to measure it.
The only way I'd even consider that intelligent aliens have had radio technology longer than us is if they got in touch with us before we got in touch with them.. We've been trying to contact intelligent alien life for a long time and haven't gotten any answers.. using your assumption that aliens would be similar to us, it would stand that if aliens have had radio technology longer than us, they'd make first contact, not us.
I believe it's used on penny-arcade.com all the time.