Personally I think that if he has produces fusion power then I believe that it is more important that someone implements it than he holds a patent and no one implements.
Also, say he's invented a really bad way of creating fusion power and we have to wait 25 Years for his patent to run out so that someone can implement a improved design. (this happened with the steam engine a hundred or so years ago!!).
I've just tried a few of those 'online' apps, they ate loads of memory and one crashed firefox, hardly the things I would expect from an 'online' app.
Instead they are just regular application embeded in a web page, woopie, I can do that with anything Java.
I was expecting the kind of thin client that I would be able to access from a mobile device, or run on a pritated copy of Crippled Windows (TM) that's been imported from Asia.
Got graphics cart performance or support problems, well you should be using SNAP....
startup problems, well used a desent SysVInit replecement that runs init's in parralle instead of serial.
Want to run windows games, well WineX (Cedera) runns shit loads, and out of the last 4 games I brought 2 had native Linux support 1 had Mac support (and I didn't check the box before hand).
If they managed to implement something that would have been impossible without copying your ideas then the've broken copyright laws, no patent required.
What are you ging on about 'destroys much of what the current World Wide Web'
Forms are fuck*d in the current implementation and compleatly screw up layouts.
Ok, there may be a few non-techies that write html by hand, but then I doubt it would be too hard for them to move to XForms, and it would tidy up the web a bit.
Those who don't write by hand (I started off using a text HTML editor that provided the tags for me) will just use the GUI generator, or some WiKi type system, so no problem for them, and a whole load of new constraints preventing things like Word and Frontpage generating such shit html.
On my wish list. It would be nice to have forms that could switch from entry to display, in whole or in part, I hope XForms provides this.
Data validation is really that great, you can do it now if you want.
What is good is unwrapping the form from the UI, this should make it easier for small (or large) screens to display the form, and allow blind or handicaped people to navigate the information easier. sections are clear, labels and inputs are tightly bound etc....
I've been runnig gentoo for the past year (that's a migration every week or so) and it takes as long as a compile and a diff._cfg0abc abc usually followed by mv._cfg0abc abc.
So far, next to no problems with enterprise style applications. A lot of the Pre-Alpha user style apps had some configuration problems, and getting everything over to alsa had a couple of hickups, but I stuck it out with an OSS/Alsa Mix for a while.
X has had a few glitches, but XOrg is starting to move towards the hot-plug world. ( I could have paid for SNAP and had no problems at all!).
"It's a shame your PC didn't come pre-installed with a spul chuker: who are you going to blame for that?"
It's a shame that I may need one, who are you going to blame for that?
"If you want the best computer you pay for it. I bought a Mac (several in fact) because I value quality and I'm prepared to and able to pay for it."
They don't, that's the point... well, apart from the cray in the back garden.
"What too many of you WinDOH!s wheeniers don't understand is that a big chunk of that quality comes from Apple having a known, quality, hardware base upon which they can build their OS."
I want a foo young graphics card, only the BEST you see;->, Oh I'm not a WinDOH!s anything, or a
PC's anything either, that's the point.
"If Apple had to write an OS to run on any old shit (like this crap Dell work provides me) it would not run as reliably as it does on my PB or G5 or my wife's iMac. Half the problem (but only half!) with Windows is the fact that cheap-arsed muppets like you will buy any old crap and expect Windows to run on it."
You don't understand, M$ Doesn't write drivers, Windows runs on any old shit because people can write drivers for it. If you del blue screens when you play an audio file, chances are the drivers are shit not windows.
Ahh.. the poor germans must be having problems searching for there home page and not being top of the list....
I don't expect google to drop the golden egg in my lap, and I do expect more than just turkey recipies when I search for the word breast, a little bit of spam never hurt me enough to even consider banning extream metta-tagging, it did teach me to use junk email addresses for public info and real ones for private email.
I like to send in replies to job applications telling them how there curent site is badly designed, refering them to standards, accessability documentation &co and asking them to make sure that anyone they hire has xyz skills (e.g. CSS).
I try not to mention things like 'firefox' or 'linux' in these emails unless it is a particular problem, just industry standards.
Ok, I don't think you understand Business, or a lot of OSS development.
Given that a Company will use software to increase it's efficiancy and profitability. and Most oss development is fragmented, written by partimers and could stop being supported at any moment.
Companies will pay people to keep the projects supported, they can't afford for the product to stop being supported.
Companies will pay people to taylor the software to there particulat MO, this will give them a competitive advantage over other companies using exactly the same software (say a spread sheet that had extra formular for a branch of math used in a company)
Companies will pay for people to support the software, and often that means developing new software.
In the end the Company gains money (interms of competitive advantage and waste reduction) some of which will find it's way to developers.
I don't know about you, but when I write code it's fairly easy to slap any old UI on the front. It's not like ITunes does anything fancy interms of UI.
Also your demagraphics are heavly scewed.
'But for 1% of the desktop market instead of 97%'
Ok, 50% of desktops are in offices, almost all Windows.
Then who's going to by an IPod, geekie people who are probably a few hundred percent more lightly to have Linux at home then the rest or the population.
So there target audance is probably about 15% of the desktop, maybe less with not to great a split between linux, windows and maybe mac usage.
This is based on the people I know who would consider buying a IPod. 3% of the people I know which works out as about 10 or so people. of them it's about a 35-65 split between linux and windows.
I would say that about 60% of the people I know own a computer of sorts, about 10-90 linux-Windows with the odd Mac.
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Personally I think that if he has produces fusion power then I believe that it is more important that someone implements it than he holds a patent and no one implements.
Also, say he's invented a really bad way of creating fusion power and we have to wait 25 Years for his patent to run out so that someone can implement a improved design. (this happened with the steam engine a hundred or so years ago!!).
I've just tried a few of those 'online' apps, they ate loads of memory and one crashed firefox, hardly the things I would expect from an 'online' app.
Instead they are just regular application embeded in a web page, woopie, I can do that with anything Java.
I was expecting the kind of thin client that I would be able to access from a mobile device, or run on a pritated copy of Crippled Windows (TM) that's been imported from Asia.
Got graphics cart performance or support problems, well you should be using SNAP....
startup problems, well used a desent SysVInit replecement that runs init's in parralle instead of serial.
Want to run windows games, well WineX (Cedera) runns shit loads, and out of the last 4 games I brought 2 had native Linux support 1 had Mac support (and I didn't check the box before hand).
Wow, schizophrenics are the bigest bunch of slackers I know, infact it's one of the requirement of being mad.
Dommine receptors are also partly responsable for schizophrenia.
The only question is, are the monkeys less 'mad' and is that a 'good' thing.
Copyright law.... that's what it's there for.
If they managed to implement something that would have been impossible without copying your ideas then the've broken copyright laws, no patent required.
What are you ging on about 'destroys much of what the current World Wide Web'
Forms are fuck*d in the current implementation and compleatly screw up layouts.
Ok, there may be a few non-techies that write html by hand, but then I doubt it would be too hard for them to move to XForms, and it would tidy up the web a bit.
Those who don't write by hand (I started off using a text HTML editor that provided the tags for me) will just use the GUI generator, or some WiKi type system, so no problem for them, and a whole load of new constraints preventing things like Word and Frontpage generating such shit html.
On my wish list.
It would be nice to have forms that could switch from entry to display, in whole or in part, I hope XForms provides this.
Data validation is really that great, you can do it now if you want.
What is good is unwrapping the form from the UI, this should make it easier for small (or large) screens to display the form, and allow blind or handicaped people to navigate the information easier. sections are clear, labels and inputs are tightly bound etc....
Don't worry, this is all to stop people eating food and waring cloths that are not made by the official sponsors (or at least a good counterfit).
I've been runnig gentoo for the past year (that's a migration every week or so) ._cfg0abc abc usually followed by mv ._cfg0abc abc.
and it takes as long as a compile and a diff
So far, next to no problems with enterprise style applications. A lot of the Pre-Alpha user style apps had some configuration problems, and getting everything over to alsa had a couple of hickups, but I stuck it out with an OSS/Alsa Mix for a while.
X has had a few glitches, but XOrg is starting to move towards the hot-plug world. ( I could have paid for SNAP and had no problems at all!).
So your saying that your not tied to a system, and that's the problem.
Ahh.. Now I see where Microsoft is comming from, they want eveyone to buy redhat enterprise.
"It's a shame your PC didn't come pre-installed with a spul chuker: who are you going to blame for that?"
;->, Oh I'm not a WinDOH!s anything, or a
It's a shame that I may need one, who are you going to blame for that?
"If you want the best computer you pay for it. I bought a Mac (several in fact) because I value quality and I'm prepared to and able to pay for it."
They don't, that's the point... well, apart from the cray in the back garden.
"What too many of you WinDOH!s wheeniers don't understand is that a big chunk of that quality comes from Apple having a known, quality, hardware base upon which they can build their OS."
I want a foo young graphics card, only the BEST you see
PC's anything either, that's the point.
"If Apple had to write an OS to run on any old shit (like this crap Dell work provides me) it would not run as reliably as it does on my PB or G5 or my wife's iMac. Half the problem (but only half!) with Windows is the fact that cheap-arsed muppets like you will buy any old crap and expect Windows to run on it."
You don't understand, M$ Doesn't write drivers, Windows runs on any old shit because people can write drivers for it. If you del blue screens when you play an audio file, chances are the drivers are shit not windows.
Go home troll.
Do so because it's pre-installed, on a cheep PC.
Most PC's Come with windows pre-intalled because the everyone writes windows compatabile software and hardware drivers.
PC's can't come with Mac OS installed, bacuse Apple played the propriotry card.
Most games run under Windows, because most PC run Windows because of the above.
Ahh.. the poor germans must be having problems searching for there home page and not being top of the list....
I don't expect google to drop the golden egg in my lap, and I do expect more than just turkey recipies when I search for the word breast, a little bit of spam never hurt me enough to even consider banning extream metta-tagging, it did teach me to use junk email addresses for public info and real ones for private email.
CCTV has the effect of moving crime away from the cameras, away from the built up wealth and down the very streets where we live.
Would you rather you home or your workpalce broken into?
Well acourding to our tracking systems you went round to that drug dealers house every day for more than a month.
Maybe you spent a few too many hours in a mosque.
Maybe you a postman...
I like to send in replies to job applications telling them how there curent site is badly designed, refering them to standards,
accessability documentation &co and asking them to make sure that anyone they hire has xyz skills (e.g. CSS).
I try not to mention things like 'firefox' or 'linux' in these emails unless it is a particular problem, just industry standards.
I got kicket to here....
m im etype=application/x-oleobject
http://plugins.netscape.com/plug-in_finder.adp?
Web monkeis can't even write java.
Any book that gets so many review in such a short space of time must be worth a read, even for comedy value.
Bugger citizens, what about Customers.
consumers circa 1998. Corportate slang for not coprorate customers(people).
It was caused by your nebula, pay up.
One Vogon destroyer.
Ok, I don't think you understand Business, or a lot of OSS development.
Given that a Company will use software to increase it's efficiancy and profitability.
and
Most oss development is fragmented, written by partimers and could stop being supported at any moment.
Companies will pay people to keep the projects supported, they can't afford for the product to stop being supported.
Companies will pay people to taylor the software to there particulat MO, this will give them a competitive advantage over other companies using exactly the same software (say a spread sheet that had extra formular for a branch of math used in a company)
Companies will pay for people to support the software, and often that means developing new software.
In the end the Company gains money (interms of competitive advantage and waste reduction) some of which will find it's way to developers.
With women it's all take.. take.. take..
They may have showed if there'd have been some hard cash being burnt.
I don't know about you, but when I write code it's fairly easy to slap any old UI on the front. It's not like ITunes does anything fancy interms of UI.
Also your demagraphics are heavly scewed.
'But for 1% of the desktop market instead of 97%'
Ok, 50% of desktops are in offices, almost all Windows.
Then who's going to by an IPod, geekie people who are probably a few hundred percent more lightly to have Linux at home then the rest or the population.
So there target audance is probably about 15% of the desktop, maybe less with not to great a split between linux, windows and maybe mac usage.
This is based on the people I know who would consider buying a IPod. 3% of the people I know which works out as about 10 or so people.
of them it's about a 35-65 split between linux and windows.
I would say that about 60% of the people I know own a computer of sorts, about 10-90 linux-Windows with the odd Mac.
Well when
Nearly 36 percent of adults in Botswana are believed to have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
I say fuck IP,