Yeah, it took me over an hour to read it, I didn't understand half of it, but it was very interesting. I just wonder how long it'll be before they get complaints for putting the dissassembled code on the page (all of 10lines).
It seems to me, that he's really too scared to pull the patent. He knows it's a bad patent, and he has made some (very good) suggestions on what to do about the patent office, but it all just says "Do what I say, not what I do". He knows it's a bad patent but is just too scared to do an about face and admit that he was wrong.
Plus Amazon has spent a lot of money saying they are right, and to change face and say they were wrong would be a total waste of the money.
No it doesn't. You just need an app that has a way to select the non-text data, and an app that knows how to receive the non-text data. The XSelection mechanism is far more powerful than the Windows one, just it's harder to program, so many programs don't bother.
I love the ZX 48 At least once a year I'll bring my old one out...connect the tape deck, and spend hours trying to load the old games from tapes that are falling to bits.
My dad tried to throw it out at Christmas...I almost killed him
"Q: What does Helix Code do? A:Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME, the leading desktop environment for Linux. We want to make GNOME the best desktop on the planet, and make it available to everyone."
Reading isn't exactly your best talent is it? If you mean what is Helix GNOME, it's a release of GNOME made by Helix Code....again not exactly rocket science to understand
> it's forced on the libraries by local government.
Thats sort of what I meant by the blacklist being abused.
I don't think a library "a common carrier of information". I think what a library is, is a place where you can get information on something. I can't, for example, get playboy or Hardcore Dutch Teens in my local library, I don't think I should be able to access certain websites from my library either. But again, this comes down to publicly reviewable blacklists, to make sure the censorware isn't being abused.
It's the university's bandwidth, they can say what does and doesn't pass through it. Personally, I feel the same way to "censoring" things in libraries. It's the library's computers, they can say what you read or don't read on it, the only problem here is the censorware's blacklist, and it being abused
(And even worse, the "SHIFT-INS" command used to paste in IE seems to crash Netscape on Linux.)
Something that crashes Netscape in Linux? I will not believe it. Please, if you be so kind to stop spreading unsubstantiated rumours and...Oh wait. Netscape...thats the thing that crashes all the time...sorry about that.
There was a patch for GNOME that allowed you to control the menus and stuff like the panel by voice. I'd have tried it out, but I was on a 56k dialup and didn't fancy the 48meg download for the sdk.
"All CD players do is tell the CDplayer to start playing the CD. So long as the CD player is connected to the soundcard, it will play without linux even know that a soundcard exists"
All CD player programs do is tell the CD player machine....
no it doesn't. All CD players do is tell the CDplayer to start playing the CD. So long as the CD player is connected to the soundcard, it will play without linux even know that a soundcard exists.
This is why the CDplayer/DVDplayer analogy falls down however...the DVDplayer needs to decode the data whereas the CDplayer only needs a computer to start it.
"And under a more highly-moderated system, that -1 post...if it is truly intellegent...will be quickly moderated up ONE WHOLE POINT to the default AC level. Thank god there are plenty of moderators who realize the importance of browsing at the -1 level"
This is complete crap. Under a more highly moderated system there will just be a lot more abuse of power. The only posts that ever get posted up are posts that state what the group mentality assumed to think. Sig11 (Karma Whore (tm)) has said many times that the only reason he has the highest karma rating, is because he posts what people want to hear, which means karma++. If anyone posts something that might be "slightly" out of line with the thinking of the group, karma--.
Another example of why moderation doesn't work is the story of the AC who posted a story that was completely made up, yet was moderated up to +5 within an hour or thereabouts. Moderation only works when the people who moderate have a clue about the subject they are moderating over. Posts that seem truely intelligent to someone with no clue about the subject, may not be to someone who actually understands the subject. But there is nothing to stop the first moderator moderating on it.
It seems from all of this that it's just a way for Andover to try to buddy up to the Open Source community..."Look we're giving you 100,000$ for no reason at all, we're nice people".
Like as someone said somewhere, (either here, or themes.org - can't remember), "Why do we care about Andover.net? All they did was buy some successful portals"
This really depends on a number of points a) Coding skill b) The time you have c) Whether or not you can get a working copy of Moz to compile on your machine - I've never managed it and I've been trying regularly since March 99
"not only can they track what you watch, but they want to make sure you only watch specially "licensed" media. DRM + SDMI, and you thought you owned the bits you bought... "
Maybe this is Microsoft testing the Linux market. They've seen how much Linux people don't like them, and they don't want to throw huge development efforts at it if everyone's just going to tell them where to stick it. So what do they do? Port a small program, thats still pretty useful, and see what the reaction is. Will people tell them where to stick it, or will they welcome it?
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Yeah, it took me over an hour to read it, I didn't understand half of it, but it was very interesting. I just wonder how long it'll be before they get complaints for putting the dissassembled code on the page (all of 10lines).
Mozilla's ability to do alpha PNG has nothing to do with X's ability, just like the gnome-canvas can do alpha pngs without X server support.
It seems to me, that he's really too scared to pull the patent. He knows it's a bad patent, and he has made some (very good) suggestions on what to do about the patent office, but it all just says "Do what I say, not what I do". He knows it's a bad patent but is just too scared to do an about face and admit that he was wrong.
Plus Amazon has spent a lot of money saying they are right, and to change face and say they were wrong would be a total waste of the money.
2.3.x kernel plug and play works a dream, at least for the couple of pnp cards I have (SB64 and some network card)
No it doesn't. You just need an app that has a way to select the non-text data, and an app that knows how to receive the non-text data. The XSelection mechanism is far more powerful than the Windows one, just it's harder to program, so many programs don't bother.
I love the ZX 48
At least once a year I'll bring my old one out...connect the tape deck, and spend hours trying to load the old games from tapes that are falling to bits.
My dad tried to throw it out at Christmas...I almost killed him
"Q: What does Helix Code do?
A:Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME, the leading desktop environment for Linux. We want to make GNOME the best desktop on the planet, and make it available to everyone."
Reading isn't exactly your best talent is it?
If you mean what is Helix GNOME, it's a release of GNOME made by Helix Code....again not exactly rocket science to understand
> it's forced on the libraries by local government.
Thats sort of what I meant by the blacklist being abused.
I don't think a library "a common carrier of information". I think what a library is, is a place where you can get information on something. I can't, for example, get playboy or Hardcore Dutch Teens in my local library, I don't think I should be able to access certain websites from my library either. But again, this comes down to publicly reviewable blacklists, to make sure the censorware isn't being abused.
It's the university's bandwidth, they can say what does and doesn't pass through it. Personally, I feel the same way to "censoring" things in libraries. It's the library's computers, they can say what you read or don't read on it, the only problem here is the censorware's blacklist, and it being abused
(And even worse, the "SHIFT-INS" command used to paste in IE seems to crash Netscape on Linux.)
Something that crashes Netscape in Linux? I will not believe it. Please, if you be so kind to stop spreading unsubstantiated rumours and...Oh wait. Netscape...thats the thing that crashes all the time...sorry about that.
He's said exactly the same before too.
:)
Thats why he's #1 karma whore
There was a patch for GNOME that allowed you to control the menus and stuff like the panel by voice. I'd have tried it out, but I was on a 56k dialup and didn't fancy the 48meg download for the sdk.
This theme doens't use the logo.
The screenshot does, but the theme is for the widgets only, and they don't use the mac logo.
"All CD players do is tell the CDplayer to start playing the CD. So long as the CD player is connected to the soundcard, it will play without linux even know that a soundcard exists"
All CD player programs do is tell the CD player machine....
no it doesn't.
All CD players do is tell the CDplayer to start playing the CD. So long as the CD player is connected to the soundcard, it will play without linux even know that a soundcard exists.
This is why the CDplayer/DVDplayer analogy falls down however...the DVDplayer needs to decode the data whereas the CDplayer only needs a computer to start it.
Could mr AC be a MPAA troll?
"And under a more highly-moderated system, that -1 post...if it is truly intellegent...will be quickly moderated up ONE WHOLE POINT to the default AC level. Thank god there are plenty of moderators who realize the importance of browsing at the -1 level"
This is complete crap. Under a more highly moderated system there will just be a lot more abuse of power. The only posts that ever get posted up are posts that state what the group mentality assumed to think. Sig11 (Karma Whore (tm)) has said many times that the only reason he has the highest karma rating, is because he posts what people want to hear, which means karma++. If anyone posts something that might be "slightly" out of line with the thinking of the group, karma--.
Another example of why moderation doesn't work is the story of the AC who posted a story that was completely made up, yet was moderated up to +5 within an hour or thereabouts. Moderation only works when the people who moderate have a clue about the subject they are moderating over. Posts that seem truely intelligent to someone with no clue about the subject, may not be to someone who actually understands the subject. But there is nothing to stop the first moderator moderating on it.
It was funny once
Now it's passe
Just like the Grits, and Natalie Portman thingy.
Could Jon Katz play on the geek stereotype anymore? I doubt it.
> I never said MP3.com -did- own the MP3 format.
> The RIAA does,
I believe this was to mean "I never said MP3.com -did- own the MP3 format. The RIAA does say that MP3.com...."
To end the stupid people who missed the point of this
Windowmaker crashed quite frequently for me, so it wouldn't be win.
It seems from all of this that it's just a way for Andover to try to buddy up to the Open Source community..."Look we're giving you 100,000$ for no reason at all, we're nice people".
Like as someone said somewhere, (either here, or themes.org - can't remember), "Why do we care about Andover.net? All they did was buy some successful portals"
Say byebye karma.
Damn, it's a sad sad day when /. gets filled with WWF catchphrases.
This really depends on a number of points
a) Coding skill
b) The time you have
c) Whether or not you can get a working copy of Moz to compile on your machine - I've never managed it and I've been trying regularly since March 99
"not only can they track what you watch, but they want to make sure you only watch specially "licensed" media. DRM + SDMI, and you thought you owned the bits you bought... "
Well then, I won't use it. It's that simple.
Maybe this is Microsoft testing the Linux market. They've seen how much Linux people don't like them, and they don't want to throw huge development efforts at it if everyone's just going to tell them where to stick it. So what do they do? Port a small program, thats still pretty useful, and see what the reaction is. Will people tell them where to stick it, or will they welcome it?