You have time automatically, software doesn't just suddenly "appear" -- it takes time to write, lot's of time, even if you're trying to copy the workings of someone else -- especially so if how the software works is very novel. If someone could just clone it in a year or two then its implementation wasn't very special after all.
You're talking about implementation, right? Patenting "concepts" is just to scary for me to think about.
Whatever happened to simply being the best and levering being the first one to be on the top?
At least, he works for clients who want him to say that linux sucks, which can be seen here for instance (thanks to Anon on osnews for that link)
"Linux and other open source projects require too much customization, and doubts about the legitimacy of open source code could get users tangled up in lawsuits. Besides, many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents. Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source -- or at least thinking through the possible liabilities, argues guest columnist Rob Enderle."
After the disappointments that were [...] Charlie's Angels 2 [...]
How can one possibly be disappointed in that movie? I haven't seen it, but I saw the first one which means I couldn't possibly be disappointed in the second. The first one was pure and utter shit. Pure hollywood crap -- and this is given that the movies tries to be fluff. The worst big-budget movie I've ever seen. I had to take two breaks in the middle of the movie to gather energy so that I could get through it, that's how horrible it is.
That's saying something, because I managed to watch Druids without having to resort to taking pauses, and trust me, that "movie" is awful. Not as awful as Charlie's Angels, but quite horrible. If you don't know it, it features Christopher Lambert and Max von Sydow. You can probably imagine the horror?
The deal is with the really worthwhile gestures which doesn't involve moving the mouse at all. I'm thinking about the hold+click-other mouse button gestures for navigating forward and backward. I truly can not see how one can not like that.
The kind that involves grand movement I don't understand.
For some perspective, Biljana Plavsic, ex-President of the Republika Srpska was convicted of Crimes against humanity (that is, allowing/ordering ethnic cleansing/killing of thousands of persons) and will serve at most eleven years in prison.
I haven't heard anything about any monetary damages in her case, but if I had to choose between 7-11 years of jail or economic ruin for the rest of my life, I think I'd just might take the time.
I just reloaded to see a Reginald Charles selling $55,450 worth of his SCO stock. At $55,450 that's the largest insider trade listed since this thing started.
06/20/03 BROUGHTON REGINALD CHARLES Sold 5,000 $11.09 $55,450
Because these games suck so much that they need to sucker those first $50 out of their customers. If one could actually test the game without paying (or for a very low fee) then the internet would be flooded with negative opinions (probably well deserved) from people who actually played the game (which means their opinion will matter) and (this is key), don't have the need to justify their purchase to themselves and everyone around them.
Price (as mentioned) and performance in specific applications, if applicable.
"Current platform" is of course also a big reason to stick with one or the other when upgrading, though that might be a little bit more relevant for people upgrading on the Athlon-line, since AMD stuck with SocketA for a long time while Intel enjoyed going from Slot-1/whatever to SocketX/Y/Z forcing motherboard replacement between processors.
We have digital-tv here (Sweden) too (in fact, we have a deadline where the analog signal is shut down by 2007/2008 or whatever it was). You've used it? I haven't seen a box yet which was actually fast -- they're all horrible in all kinds of ways. They're slow to change channels for one. Navigation is another problem. Like most geeks I come from a background where I expect things to go full-frame, not 2fps.
For my overlay-vision to work it'd have to be 0-frame latency with content update at full frame-rate (25fps+).
Digital... Picture is great -- as long as you have good reception. If you don't, you get spikes in the audio and garbled video MPEG which is much worse than a little snow/noise that you'd get in an analog broadcast.
Digital-TV is the future, the problem is that it isn't currently better at everything and people aren't likely to downgrade in any area. Really, I think the whole garbled MPEG-problem might become a bigger negative than people count on.
There is no great difference in performance between the AthlonXP and Pentium 4 lines. The small difference that exists is largely due to platform specific optimizations in the specific software benchmarked. That's relevant in the real world, sure, but it's not a measure of raw perfomance.
I don't think that it is in dispute that Intel went for low IPC/high clock at least partly because it was seen as good for PR -- with the MHz-race and MHz-myth and all.
It's with some humor we now see them back-peddle as they try to sell their high-performance low-energy processors which is clocked much lower than the P4s, but like the AthlonXP-line, have a higher IPC.
I've had (I'm sure it isn't in any way novel) for television with overlays. So we have tv-text, but now with everything going digital it would be cool with a standard for "html" (including vector graphics) overlays which would be sent with the TV broadcast and toggled by the viewers at will.
For instance, one could have an overlay with the name of the actors floating over their heads. Or the names of the characters -- I know a person that while watching a movie in company, have to ask every freaking minute what is happening on screen..argh --.. other overlays could provide information on what music is currently playing (linking to the place of purchase with a simple point'n'click with a remote) or just misc information about the program such as the next airtime and what not.
Sure, there's the problem of creating all that metadata, but -- call me a nerd -- it'd be cool.
Today I saw this article which says that, accoring to a statement by VP Scott McNealy, Sun is going to focus more and R&D, expecially Linux and Java. He does identify their main competitors as IBM and Microsoft.
They'll combat IBM by selling complete solutions of Software and Hardware, while they're to target Microsoft with Linux and Java.
Well, on the ICQ network if you send a message of <350 characters (or whatever the limit is) to an offline contact, it'll go onto the server and be sent to the recipient as soon as she/he logs on.
I'm not aware of any plugin for doing, say, timed sends or such, but I wouldn't rule out the existance of such things. Try searching the plugins and if you don't find anything there, ask on the miranda forums.
Use your brain; I'm working under the "everything else considered equal" assumption, which isn't much of stretch in the case of Miranda vs Trillian if you ask me.
These all do one thing and they do it fairly well.
I'm also using an older executable to pull the two contact list arrow-icons from, since
the one that's distributed with Miranda is ugly as hell. I have no idea why they turned
the nice little arrows into ugly plus-and-minuses... yuck.
A little unusual maybe, but I'm running my Miranda with 25% inactive opacity, 100% active opacity. That way I can have the contact list expanded but still read through it as long as the mouse-pointer doesn't put miranda in focus. Very slick if you ask me, and the only use of transparency on the desktop that I feel is meaningful.
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You have time automatically, software doesn't just suddenly "appear" -- it takes time to write, lot's of time, even if you're trying to copy the workings of someone else -- especially so if how the software works is very novel. If someone could just clone it in a year or two then its implementation wasn't very special after all.
You're talking about implementation, right? Patenting "concepts" is just to scary for me to think about.
Whatever happened to simply being the best and levering being the first one to be on the top?
At least, he works for clients who want him to say that linux sucks, which can be seen here for instance (thanks to Anon on osnews for that link)
"Linux and other open source projects require too much customization, and doubts about the legitimacy of open source code could get users tangled up in lawsuits. Besides, many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents. Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source -- or at least thinking through the possible liabilities, argues guest columnist Rob Enderle."
After the disappointments that were [...] Charlie's Angels 2 [...]
How can one possibly be disappointed in that movie? I haven't seen it, but I saw the first one which means I couldn't possibly be disappointed in the second. The first one was pure and utter shit. Pure hollywood crap -- and this is given that the movies tries to be fluff. The worst big-budget movie I've ever seen. I had to take two breaks in the middle of the movie to gather energy so that I could get through it, that's how horrible it is.
That's saying something, because I managed to watch Druids without having to resort to taking pauses, and trust me, that "movie" is awful. Not as awful as Charlie's Angels, but quite horrible. If you don't know it, it features Christopher Lambert and Max von Sydow. You can probably imagine the horror?
Thanks for listening to my rant.
The deal is with the really worthwhile gestures which doesn't involve moving the mouse at all. I'm thinking about the hold+click-other mouse button gestures for navigating forward and backward. I truly can not see how one can not like that.
The kind that involves grand movement I don't understand.
"Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe." -- Demosthenes
Our friend Reginald Charles (VP of International Sales, SCO) seems to have sold off another 5K set of shares.
He sold one set 2003-06-20, and this set 2003-06-25.
Only 155K to go Charles!
Yeah. Just today I saw a post by a web-designer, explaining how he/she had never used Mozilla.
Sad, sad, sad.
(as if the original topic wasn't sad enough)
For some perspective, Biljana Plavsic, ex-President of the Republika Srpska was convicted of Crimes against humanity (that is, allowing/ordering ethnic cleansing/killing of thousands of persons) and will serve at most eleven years in prison.
I haven't heard anything about any monetary damages in her case, but if I had to choose between 7-11 years of jail or economic ruin for the rest of my life, I think I'd just might take the time.
I googled him a little and according to this Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership SEC filing he is Vice President of International Sales.
If I'm reading it right he aquired 50,000 common shares 2003-03-18.
Pump'n'dump, here we come?
I just reloaded to see a Reginald Charles selling $55,450 worth of his SCO stock. At $55,450 that's the largest insider trade listed since this thing started.
06/20/03 BROUGHTON REGINALD CHARLES Sold 5,000 $11.09 $55,450
Because these games suck so much that they need to sucker those first $50 out of their customers. If one could actually test the game without paying (or for a very low fee) then the internet would be flooded with negative opinions (probably well deserved) from people who actually played the game (which means their opinion will matter) and (this is key), don't have the need to justify their purchase to themselves and everyone around them.
Why, specifically, should one never give a chapter by chapter summary?
Let's see... We boycott DVDs because of the region-coding and we don't like idiotic business-process patents, so yes, I think we hate them.
Price (as mentioned) and performance in specific applications, if applicable.
"Current platform" is of course also a big reason to stick with one or the other when upgrading, though that might be a little bit more relevant for people upgrading on the Athlon-line, since AMD stuck with SocketA for a long time while Intel enjoyed going from Slot-1/whatever to SocketX/Y/Z forcing motherboard replacement between processors.
We have digital-tv here (Sweden) too (in fact, we have a deadline where the analog signal is shut down by 2007/2008 or whatever it was). You've used it? I haven't seen a box yet which was actually fast -- they're all horrible in all kinds of ways. They're slow to change channels for one. Navigation is another problem. Like most geeks I come from a background where I expect things to go full-frame, not 2fps.
For my overlay-vision to work it'd have to be 0-frame latency with content update at full frame-rate (25fps+).
Digital... Picture is great -- as long as you have good reception. If you don't, you get spikes in the audio and garbled video MPEG which is much worse than a little snow/noise that you'd get in an analog broadcast.
Digital-TV is the future, the problem is that it isn't currently better at everything and people aren't likely to downgrade in any area. Really, I think the whole garbled MPEG-problem might become a bigger negative than people count on.
That's not insightful, that's dumb.
There is no great difference in performance between the AthlonXP and Pentium 4 lines. The small difference that exists is largely due to platform specific optimizations in the specific software benchmarked. That's relevant in the real world, sure, but it's not a measure of raw perfomance.
I don't think that it is in dispute that Intel went for low IPC/high clock at least partly because it was seen as good for PR -- with the MHz-race and MHz-myth and all.
It's with some humor we now see them back-peddle as they try to sell their high-performance low-energy processors which is clocked much lower than the P4s, but like the AthlonXP-line, have a higher IPC.
I've had (I'm sure it isn't in any way novel) for television with overlays. So we have tv-text, but now with everything going digital it would be cool with a standard for "html" (including vector graphics) overlays which would be sent with the TV broadcast and toggled by the viewers at will.
For instance, one could have an overlay with the name of the actors floating over their heads. Or the names of the characters -- I know a person that while watching a movie in company, have to ask every freaking minute what is happening on screen..argh -- .. other overlays could provide information on what music is currently playing (linking to the place of purchase with a simple point'n'click with a remote) or just misc information about the program such as the next airtime and what not.
Sure, there's the problem of creating all that metadata, but -- call me a nerd -- it'd be cool.
Today I saw this article which says that, accoring to a statement by VP Scott McNealy, Sun is going to focus more and R&D, expecially Linux and Java. He does identify their main competitors as IBM and Microsoft.
They'll combat IBM by selling complete solutions of Software and Hardware, while they're to target Microsoft with Linux and Java.
They might not love linux, but...
Press-releases are impressive, but now IBM leads! Lawyers for everyone!
Buttkicking for Linux!
Well, on the ICQ network if you send a message of <350 characters (or whatever the limit is) to an offline contact, it'll go onto the server and be sent to the recipient as soon as she/he logs on.
I'm not aware of any plugin for doing, say, timed sends or such, but I wouldn't rule out the existance of such things. Try searching the plugins and if you don't find anything there, ask on the miranda forums.
Use your brain; I'm working under the "everything else considered equal" assumption, which isn't much of stretch in the case of Miranda vs Trillian if you ask me.
Can't comment on that plugin, never used it. Don't even use IRC much; the internet is enough of a timewaster for me already :-(
I'm running the following plugins: CopyIP, GnuPG, History++, PopUp SecureIM, Last seen, Tooltip info, Version info, WhiIsReadingMyStatusMsg.
These all do one thing and they do it fairly well.
I'm also using an older executable to pull the two contact list arrow-icons from, since the one that's distributed with Miranda is ugly as hell. I have no idea why they turned the nice little arrows into ugly plus-and-minuses... yuck.
A little unusual maybe, but I'm running my Miranda with 25% inactive opacity, 100% active opacity. That way I can have the contact list expanded but still read through it as long as the mouse-pointer doesn't put miranda in focus. Very slick if you ask me, and the only use of transparency on the desktop that I feel is meaningful.
/Intresseklubben noterar.
I like Miranda better. Miranda just gets everything right. Light-weight by default, and plugins for everything else.
I couldn't even find the source-code for trillan. Is it available? If not, Miranda wins _hands_ down since it's GPLed.
Too bad it's Windows only though.
a toilet papaer brand called SCO with no trademark problems.
Actually, that's reserved for Authentic SCO Stock(TM)
But Trillian is bloated flashy-ware, while Miranda (nightlies here) is slim and nice.
Encryption supported via SecureIM (DH/KE + AES) or gnupg plugin