That senario gives Microsoft way too much goodwill.
Did they make sure to quarrentine all of their programmers who used or saw the source to Character?
If any staff member is poisoned by their previous work with the other company, it's theft. Microsoft is one of the few companies that could reasonably be expected to spend the money to be sure there's no impression of code piracy.
Other small companies go way out of their way to make it clear they aren't using code from their employee's previous employers unless they want to have a risk of legal action that could bankrupt them.
On the other hand, Microsoft doesn't need to worry about legal action draining their funds completely so they aparently take a different interpretation about their own use of other people's code. They have the $$$ to afford it.
I got spoiled with using Opera for linux when
they started supporting mouse gestures. Now,
mozilla (and by extension/embedding, galeon)
supports guestures too!
But you have to go into the control settings and
switch the function of the right mouse button to
turn them on.
It's nice to be able to go forward/backward in the
page history, and to switch tabs without using the
keyboard or selecting any little tiny pixmap images
on the screen.
Gestures with a mouse with a scrollwheel makes
reading slashdot pretty quick.
actually, if iden is like the docomo japanese
phones, it's really low power with many local
relays. the battery lasts for days if not weeks
because the radio transmitter in the phone is
much much smaller.
hey... there's a demo for mac or pc keyboards,
but what about a X input style keyboard driver/mapping
to let you use one handed entry on a regular
keyboard all the time?
should be a mostly easy project -- there are
devorak mappings for X -- how different could it be?
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"linux is where solaris was 5 or 10 years ago"
says the current Linux evangelist at Sun.
I really think solaris is way way behind linux
now. What parts of solaris are more advanced than
the simplest parts of linux?
Look at iptables, ipvs, filesystem support,
memory support, multi-cpu support.
I think it's an odd thing for their expert to
be so out to lunch, and say something so unsupported by facts.
is this the cd this guy was playing on his road trip?
that's not quite true. the radio stations pay
an annual fee to the RIAA which gives them the
right to play the music on the air.
I see... open bar but no open software ?!
what sort of shrink-wrap license was on the beer?
Did they make sure to quarrentine all of their
programmers who used or saw the source to Character?
If any staff member is poisoned by their previous
work with the other company, it's theft. Microsoft
is one of the few companies that could reasonably
be expected to spend the money to be sure
there's no impression of code piracy.
Other small companies go way out of their way to
make it clear they aren't using code from their
employee's previous employers unless they want
to have a risk of legal action that could bankrupt
them.
On the other hand, Microsoft doesn't need to worry
about legal action draining their funds completely
so they aparently take a different interpretation
about their own use of other people's code. They
have the $$$ to afford it.
But you have to go into the control settings and switch the function of the right mouse button to turn them on.
It's nice to be able to go forward/backward in the page history, and to switch tabs without using the keyboard or selecting any little tiny pixmap images on the screen.
Gestures with a mouse with a scrollwheel makes reading slashdot pretty quick.
I agree -- that's a really lame question to have a mod of 5.
the quick answer: "It doesn't help to lock the barn doors once the cows get out. You can't just add security to an os which doesn't have it."
troll troll troll ameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
dude -- you sound like an ignorant fool when you
can't be bothered to spell correctly.
maybe GW BUSH will use the death penalty to help you
> ... to kill my phone batteries....
actually, if iden is like the docomo japanese
phones, it's really low power with many local
relays. the battery lasts for days if not weeks
because the radio transmitter in the phone is
much much smaller.
very cool - this is sort of a gameboy cellphone
don't really need the hardware... http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~john/computer/hk/
check http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~john/computer/hk/ for example patch for console mode
you could think of an opensource project on sourceforge as promotion of the idea in general of half a keyboard or one handed typing.
hey... there's a demo for mac or pc keyboards, but what about a X input style keyboard driver/mapping to let you use one handed entry on a regular keyboard all the time? should be a mostly easy project -- there are devorak mappings for X -- how different could it be?