Check out Doug Englebart's picture : doesn't he look like Q (in James Bond)? No wonder he thought of a whacky input device like the mouse when only keyboards existed.
each time I put my hand on my TrackMan MarbleFX. It's the best trackball ever made : optical trackball, heavy ball, flawless sliding, 4 buttons, great shape for the hand... I've had mine for 4 years and it still works like new, although it doesn't look like new.
That trackball has been discontinued, but I like it so much I bough 5 of them in an auction, to be sure I never ever run out of them as long as PS/2 ports are around. But at the rate my current one gets used, I might still have the spares at the beginning of the next century.
Thank you Logitech! And yeah, you guys suck pond water for discontinuing great products:-)
I click on the link at the bottom of the article to the page that describe how a Microsoft virus may have been linked to the US blackout, and half of that page is taken up by a huge obnoxious animated gif trying to sell me Microsoft small business edition server 2003. How appropriate...
Magnetic data huh ?
on
MRAM in 2004?
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· Score: 2, Funny
Strange, my computer crashes each time I hit the "degauss" button on my monitor...
With Slashdot's already extensive coverage of the SCO "affair", it's quite obvious that (1) it's a classic case of stock pumping and illegal insider's trading, (2) Most of the industry is not impressed, (3) they'll be squashed by IBM and (4) this whole thing is ridiculously overblown.
So, unless there's some really new development, why do we have to see SCO articles here over and over and over again?
This reminds me of the CueCat thing a while ago: Slashdot seems to regularly latch on some geek-attracting subject, use and reuse it shouting blasphemy against the great opensource and free speech gods, then suddenly drop the whole thing and fall back to the usual background noise of Microsoft bashing. It's really pathetic...
No wait, the date is an odd number, so it a SCO day today on Slashdot.
Hateful SCO bastards, die die SCO !!!
Seriously though, let's all have a laugh once and for all, let's all ignore them and their letters and let the SCC investigate possible illegal insider's trading issues. I mean, the entire thing is so blown up out of proportion here it's not even funny anymore. SCO is ridiculous and the world keeps turning...
Docket Text: Return of service executed re: Subpoena served on Canopy Group c/o Ralph Yanno on 8/26/03
The guy's name is Ralph Yarro actually. I happen to have met him personally when the Canopy company I worked for held its last Christmas party and he's definitely your typical hateable VC investor.
Good for him if he gets into trouble. That'll make my company's 7 rounds of layoffs in 2 years easier to swallow.
"It's another way of indicating that you as an individual are sitting there on the end of the line."
Easy to fake with a mouse movement recorder.
Oh and what about people who use a trackball? does the smart biometric layer apply to those hand movements?
And the other obvious question : wouldn't it be easier to simply teach people why they should use properly formed passwords that are not "mom", "dad", "john1" or "s00persekrit"?
In short, yet another far-fetched solution to solve a non-problem.
Notice how every software maker has advertised that their product is the very best, most secure product on the market? How can everyone be the best all at once?
Err.. on what planet do you live? this isn't new and it's not limited to the computer industry. What has that got to do with UCITA? Have you ever seen a company say anything else but "leader in abc", "best product of xyz",...? I'm still waiting for the pepsi bottle that says "great taste, second only to coke"
Somebody should suggest they run an article on Linux, so they'd just have to stick knoppix on the CD and save on the multimediocre content creation.
Also, somebody should suggest the same idea to Playboy Magazine. They don't even need to make it fancy, just a directory with huge jpegs and another with videos...
I noticed most UK residents are ready to defend their rights under the watchful eyes of the ever-present CCTV cameras.
I mean, come on... The UK must be one of the countries where individual rights are taken away one by one the fastest, with next to no reaction from the public.
Nice piece. Very nice, and very never going to happen. At least as long as opponents are large corps with armies of slick lawyers and proponents the EFF, RMS and a few computer-educated consumers.
Remember, most computer users still think software crashes and glitches are part of life with a computer, that viruses and worms are the work of evil pirates and that Microsoft is the victim, not the cause, etc...
Virginia Tech placed the dual-2GHz G5 order shortly after the G5 was announced. Multiple sources said Virginia Tech has ordered 1100 units
Wow, that'll make Apple's quarter for sure:-)
Seriously though, why PowerMacs ? I've always been under the impression that intelloid machines are the cheapest commodity hardware around for equivalent processing power, if not the most exciting. Would anybody know why Powermac G5s are a better choice here?
(Note to computer zealots: it's not a flamebait, it's a genuine question, from someone who is rigorously ignorant of the Mac world. And just in case, the first sentence is a joke, too...)
Okay, I'll admit it's the first thing I thought too.
How much do you bet she got so tired hearing that all day long all her life that it has something to do with her wanting to become a lawyer ? I mean, why else would someone want to be hated ?
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Check out Doug Englebart's picture : doesn't he look like Q (in James Bond)? No wonder he thought of a whacky input device like the mouse when only keyboards existed.
My favourite mouse all categories is the Atari ST mouse
The Atari ST mouse your favorite mouse all categories? Tell me : you don't happen to love the ZX81 keyboard too by any chance?
each time I put my hand on my TrackMan MarbleFX. It's the best trackball ever made : optical trackball, heavy ball, flawless sliding, 4 buttons, great shape for the hand ... I've had mine for 4 years and it still works like new, although it doesn't look like new.
:-)
That trackball has been discontinued, but I like it so much I bough 5 of them in an auction, to be sure I never ever run out of them as long as PS/2 ports are around. But at the rate my current one gets used, I might still have the spares at the beginning of the next century.
Thank you Logitech! And yeah, you guys suck pond water for discontinuing great products
... move the slash left one character.
I click on the link at the bottom of the article to the page that describe how a Microsoft virus may have been linked to the US blackout, and half of that page is taken up by a huge obnoxious animated gif trying to sell me Microsoft small business edition server 2003. How appropriate ...
Strange, my computer crashes each time I hit the "degauss" button on my monitor ...
I just can't for that new memory does ... does, er.. hmm, what does it do again?
With Slashdot's already extensive coverage of the SCO "affair", it's quite obvious that (1) it's a classic case of stock pumping and illegal insider's trading, (2) Most of the industry is not impressed, (3) they'll be squashed by IBM and (4) this whole thing is ridiculously overblown.
...
So, unless there's some really new development, why do we have to see SCO articles here over and over and over again?
This reminds me of the CueCat thing a while ago: Slashdot seems to regularly latch on some geek-attracting subject, use and reuse it shouting blasphemy against the great opensource and free speech gods, then suddenly drop the whole thing and fall back to the usual background noise of Microsoft bashing. It's really pathetic
I can see ol' Roscoe throwing his hat out the window right now
...
I don't do that, stop lying
Hateful M$ bastards, die die M$ !!!
...
No wait, the date is an odd number, so it a SCO day today on Slashdot.
Hateful SCO bastards, die die SCO !!!
Seriously though, let's all have a laugh once and for all, let's all ignore them and their letters and let the SCC investigate possible illegal insider's trading issues. I mean, the entire thing is so blown up out of proportion here it's not even funny anymore. SCO is ridiculous and the world keeps turning
Docket Text: Return of service executed re: Subpoena served on Canopy Group c/o Ralph Yanno on 8/26/03
The guy's name is Ralph Yarro actually. I happen to have met him personally when the Canopy company I worked for held its last Christmas party and he's definitely your typical hateable VC investor.
Good for him if he gets into trouble. That'll make my company's 7 rounds of layoffs in 2 years easier to swallow.
"It's another way of indicating that you as an individual are sitting there on the end of the line."
Easy to fake with a mouse movement recorder.
Oh and what about people who use a trackball? does the smart biometric layer apply to those hand movements?
And the other obvious question : wouldn't it be easier to simply teach people why they should use properly formed passwords that are not "mom", "dad", "john1" or "s00persekrit"?
In short, yet another far-fetched solution to solve a non-problem.
Notice how every software maker has advertised that their product is the very best, most secure product on the market? How can everyone be the best all at once?
...? I'm still waiting for the pepsi bottle that says "great taste, second only to coke"
Err.. on what planet do you live? this isn't new and it's not limited to the computer industry. What has that got to do with UCITA? Have you ever seen a company say anything else but "leader in abc", "best product of xyz",
Somebody should suggest they run an article on Linux, so they'd just have to stick knoppix on the CD and save on the multimediocre content creation.
...
Also, somebody should suggest the same idea to Playboy Magazine. They don't even need to make it fancy, just a directory with huge jpegs and another with videos
I live in UK
... The UK must be one of the countries where individual rights are taken away one by one the fastest, with next to no reaction from the public.
I noticed most UK residents are ready to defend their rights under the watchful eyes of the ever-present CCTV cameras.
I mean, come on
we cannot give out rights away here even if we wanted too.
What EU country do you live in??? I'd pack tomorrow and move to it if that was remotely true.
Nice piece. Very nice, and very never going to happen. At least as long as opponents are large corps with armies of slick lawyers and proponents the EFF, RMS and a few computer-educated consumers.
...
...
Remember, most computer users still think software crashes and glitches are part of life with a computer, that viruses and worms are the work of evil pirates and that Microsoft is the victim, not the cause, etc
In short: it'll never happen. Move along
the spiders can't be farmed (when you put them too close together, they eat each other)
:-(
Why can't everybody be nice to each other ??
You browser can't process humor tags apparently. Don't worry neither can moderators'.
Bill's made it possible for any random high-school loser to destroy $14 billion of other people's hard work
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Well, remember Bill Gates himself is a college dropout. Dis might explain dat
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even my multithreaded emacs is struggling to keep up as i type this.
May I suggest you stop emacs to free resources for your FFT?
Virginia Tech placed the dual-2GHz G5 order shortly after the G5 was announced. Multiple sources said Virginia Tech has ordered 1100 units
:-)
...)
Wow, that'll make Apple's quarter for sure
Seriously though, why PowerMacs ? I've always been under the impression that intelloid machines are the cheapest commodity hardware around for equivalent processing power, if not the most exciting. Would anybody know why Powermac G5s are a better choice here?
(Note to computer zealots: it's not a flamebait, it's a genuine question, from someone who is rigorously ignorant of the Mac world. And just in case, the first sentence is a joke, too
A lawyer with coding experience. Very nice selection for the EFF.
...
Yes indeed. Thank goodness they didn't pick up a coder with lawyer experience, like Kevin Mitnick
Never knew Alka had a sister
Okay, I'll admit it's the first thing I thought too.
How much do you bet she got so tired hearing that all day long all her life that it has something to do with her wanting to become a lawyer ? I mean, why else would someone want to be hated ?