What kind of chain are you speaking about? Something for a 150cc that jumps over hills and runs like "bhhrraap....braa-raaaa-raaapppp" or one that is meant to be driven on streets, roads and highways?
If it's a streetbike, then you or someone else has been monkeying with the chain tension. Drivechains for *serious* motorcycles only break if there severely abused.
Somewhere in the world it's always morning on that day - or atleast the next day.
DUH!
--ScottKin
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Escuse me? "same old gags"?...
Since when did I say that I was "better than you"?
Now, who's calling the kettle black? Who's the twit who kept on putting the "Get a job" lyrics after every one of my posts? You? I'd put money on it. There are thousands of IT/MIS people who are out-of-work, and you have the utter AUDACITY to post that drivel? SCREW YOU!
People who throw stones shouldn't live in glass houses, my friend.
Everyone here knows that the Moderators here are either high on foot-powder or are Linux fans who don't like it when someone tries to undo the brainwashing they've been subjected to by "The Community". I'm pretty sure that they get tagged/moderated in the same fashion when they post their pro-penguine comments on Windows-related sites & message-bases.
Up until the last few months, my Karma was quite positive - but thanks to (probably) you and others who enjoy post-stalking and inane moderating, my karma has dropped significantly - hence my previous post of my new crusade to obtain the lowest "karma" possible.
BTW - for the unenlightened:
Kissing Ass Rubs Malda's.....nah.....
Kissing Ass Receives Malda's Admiration
Chew away, pug-boy.
--ScottKin
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And now, we see why some lower mamals kill their young.
How about being a brave soul and using your/. login instead of being a happless prick?
Oh, that's right - that wouldn't be fair for me to verbally accost you like you have done to me.
It's too bad that/. is now mostly used by pimply-faced geeks ("geek" as in the originsl term: a side-show freak that bites the heads off of live chicken and eats them) to be rude and show how immature they are and how their parent's failed at teaching them what the rest of the world calls "respect" and "manners". It's become nothing more than an online version of "Crank Yankers".
Have fun, you clueless putz!
--ScottKin
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Actually, it's going just fine, Tim.
Yeah, you...Tim Irwin.
Shall I put your home phone # here on/.?
Did you enjoy the phonecall from the nice policeman? I'm sure that your mommy did.
What a fsckwhit.
--ScottKin
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Bzzzzzt - WRONG ANSWER!
Energia is the *current* Russian Heavy-lift launch vehicle.
The Rocket you are thinking of is the N-1:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1883348.stm
http://members.aol.com/nodin/N1pages/N1index1.ht ml
Just watched the Post-flight briefing. Apparently, the X-43 went "...significantly beyond Mach 7...". They were reluctant to give exact speeds until all of the flight data was analyzed, which is SOP.
Do people on IRC attack conference line services? Oh yes, I've seen it being done several times, and FoF is something of a wheel in this scene. Are said hijacked conference lines used for neferious purposes? I'm sure once in a while, but really they are mostly used for the purposes of socialization... same as has been the case with phreaking the past.
What do people do the first time they phreak? They call a faraway place and talk to someone just because it is neat to talk to someone in England, or Fiji or somewhere far away without cost.
For the money you'd have to spend for an attorney on a federal charge for "phreaking", you could get your FCC license and buy a very nice Yaesu, Hallicrafters or Uniden HAM radio rig and talk to anyone else in the world with a HAM rig.
Unfortunately, many people who choose such illegal activities such as phreaking or hacking/cracking don't do a cost/benefit analysis or even a sane pro/con thought process before doing it.
Of course, his mommy & daddy would bail him out and in court they would have their highly-paid Attorney argue that the little AC is a "tortured soul" with many emotional problems ("I mean, look at the kid, Your Honor...Fangs? One eye is yellow and the other is red?!"), and he'd probably get off with a slap on the wrist.
If parents of these kids did a better job at parenting they wouldn't be in the mess they've got themsevles into.
That's ok - most of the moderators here communicate in that fashion on a regular basis - misery loves company.
If you're wondering, I'm on a campaign now to get my "Karma" lower than anyone elses in the history of this overblown blog called SlashPork...oops...SlashDot.
The truth of the matter is that Slashdot is irrelevant. Most of it's fans think otherwise, but they've been duped into thinking that having this mysterious value called "Karma" associated with their nickname here gives them some additional sense of value in the real world, that spaced-out former hippies like RMS should be sainted and that "Free Software" will rule.
Guess again, dorks - "Free Software" will keep programmers from getting paid to work (how can you get paid for working on something that is "free"?), will ruin the economy (no income or economy if the major high-tech driver (programmers) don't get paid) and allow cats and dogs to live together...well, at least one of those things are silly. Let's see you all climb over yourselves to offer your inane rebuttals. That kind of group-think makes me laugh.
Truth hurts - like a brick wall coming at you at 100 mph.
If it is part of the basic functionality of the object or item specified in the Patent Documentation, you better believe that it's an integral part of the application.
The operative question is: Does it function like the item specified in the Patent Application? Does it toggle with a single click on a button and then go away when the workspace is selected?
The answer: No. The Enlightenment VWM will stay there until you actually kill it. It will not shrink/zoom/grow when an object is seleted to trigger.
When you click on the leftmost button on the Desktop Manager, your current Windown zooms-out to occupy it's appropriate spot, and the Manager zooms-out to show all of the defined workspaces/desktops.
This is not like fvwm, Starfish/HP Dashboard or any other kind of workspace manager.
Get a clue and get educated about a topic before you shoot your collective mouths off.
Now that you mention this (and I don't know why this didn't leap out of the PDF and smack me), the patent application in question does indeed appear to be for one particular way that the Virtual Desktops PowerToy for Windows XP functions - when you have the item installed and running, 5 new buttons occupy space on your taskbar; one for each desktop and a "globe" icon. By clicking on the "globe" icon, all 4 virtual desktops are shown on your screen, each occupying 1/4 of the screen. By clicking on the appropriate window, the user's workspace is then moved to that particular VW.
This *is* significantly different than other VWM's & switchers, where you are presented with a smallish representation of the entire system workspace and then given a thumbnail representing a particular Window and it's contents.
It will be interesting to see how this one shakes-out.
McAfee also had a product that entered the market back in the Win 3.x era that gave you (oddly enough) a Win9x-looking desktop (i.e. no Program Manager window), tape backup software and a VWM functionality that gave you multiple windows, with icons and titles representing each open application in each window. It was dockable and hideable.
IIRC, McAfee sold the backup software to Seagate which was renamed as BackupExec.
As the previous chorus of posters suggest, Microsoft may appear to have a non-valid patent application, since there really *is* "prior art" for this.
See - I'm not always on Microsoft's side on things!
How do you expect actual companies like IGN to make money to pay for servers, T3's and OC12's, support staff, web designers, network admins, advertizing people, game reviewers and everyone else who runs a business?
ADVERTIZING
Most sites like IGN and GameSpy allow you to purchase something called a "subscription" (as in "buying a subscription to Slashdot) that will allow you to bypass those annoying Adverts. If you don't want to pay for access to such sites and don't want to deal with Ads, then the answer is very simple: Don't go there, or find another outlet for the news & info that site provides that doesn't use irritating Ads & pop-ups/pop-unders.
Welcome to the New Internet - it's been here since the 1990's. Get used to it or go to some geek-boy's homebrew gaming website that carries nearly the same info you'll find in IGN, but with cute little animated GIFs of Pikachu all over the place.
Obviously, Mr. Arbiter's experience in sports doesn't cover "American" Football.
To "Punt" in "American" Football as played by the NFL, is to have your kicker or "punter" to kick the ball towards the opposing team when you have run out of "downs" that you can effectively move the ball forward and beyond the line of scrimage 10 yards from where your first down ("1st Down") started. Trying to make "1st Down" when you're at 4th Down and short yardage is a gamble; hence, when most teams reach 4th Down they chose to punt the ball to the opposing team and have them try to do the same.
In Call Center vernacular, the term "punt" means to pass the caller to yet another phone support person to see if they can move the call along.
In boating, a "punt" is a long stick used to do what? Change the direction of a boat. You push the punting stick until it hits bottom, and then push - thus changing the direction of the boat or moving it along.
I can hardly wait to see who gets arrested in this. I sincerely hope that someone high-up in the Open Source/Free Software enclave is caught with the code so the world can know what a bunch of bottom-feeders they really are.
Evidently, this mentally-deficient idiot hasn't heard of something called a Packet Sniffer.
Just collect all of the IP addresses were the code is coming from, sue the ISPs under the PATRIOT Act to force them to divulge the User(s), and then use the FBI & US Marshalls to do some massive raids.
Additionally, at least I have a web site listed, you happless twit!
Unlike the happless-twit/. *NIX-weenies who post here, I have more important things to do (like staring two new businesses) with my time than to hard-code HTML. Would you rather I used Dreamweaver MX, or do some 1337-looking shee-yawt with Flash MX for my webpage? FrontPage works well, does my site quickly and with less hassle (unfortunately, the hassle percentage is swallowed-up by my provider), and lets me concentrate on trying to make a buck in a depressed job market.
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DVD actually means more than just a Video Disc. In some places it's referred to as "Digital Versatile Disc", since it can hold more than just video.
In the case of the bike, I believe that they actually meant DVD-ROM.
--ScottKin
Are we talking about the original Japanese release, the English Translation version or the 2001 Remastered English Translation version:
"I've customized that bike for myself. It's too wild - you couldn't handle it"
--ScottKin
What kind of chain are you speaking about? Something for a 150cc that jumps over hills and runs like "bhhrraap....braa-raaaa-raaapppp" or one that is meant to be driven on streets, roads and highways?
If it's a streetbike, then you or someone else has been monkeying with the chain tension. Drivechains for *serious* motorcycles only break if there severely abused.
--ScottKin
Somewhere in the world it's always morning on that day - or atleast the next day.
DUH!
--ScottKin
Escuse me? "same old gags"?...
Since when did I say that I was "better than you"?
Now, who's calling the kettle black? Who's the twit who kept on putting the "Get a job" lyrics after every one of my posts? You? I'd put money on it. There are thousands of IT/MIS people who are out-of-work, and you have the utter AUDACITY to post that drivel? SCREW YOU!
People who throw stones shouldn't live in glass houses, my friend.
Everyone here knows that the Moderators here are either high on foot-powder or are Linux fans who don't like it when someone tries to undo the brainwashing they've been subjected to by "The Community". I'm pretty sure that they get tagged/moderated in the same fashion when they post their pro-penguine comments on Windows-related sites & message-bases.
Up until the last few months, my Karma was quite positive - but thanks to (probably) you and others who enjoy post-stalking and inane moderating, my karma has dropped significantly - hence my previous post of my new crusade to obtain the lowest "karma" possible.
BTW - for the unenlightened:
Kissing
Ass
Rubs
Malda's.....nah.....
Kissing
Ass
Receives
Malda's
Admiration
Chew away, pug-boy.
--ScottKin
And now, we see why some lower mamals kill their young.
/. login instead of being a happless prick?
/. is now mostly used by pimply-faced geeks ("geek" as in the originsl term: a side-show freak that bites the heads off of live chicken and eats them) to be rude and show how immature they are and how their parent's failed at teaching them what the rest of the world calls "respect" and "manners". It's become nothing more than an online version of "Crank Yankers".
How about being a brave soul and using your
Oh, that's right - that wouldn't be fair for me to verbally accost you like you have done to me.
It's too bad that
Have fun, you clueless putz!
--ScottKin
Actually, it's going just fine, Tim.
/.?
Yeah, you...Tim Irwin.
Shall I put your home phone # here on
Did you enjoy the phonecall from the nice policeman? I'm sure that your mommy did.
What a fsckwhit.
--ScottKin
Bzzzzzt - WRONG ANSWER!
t ml
Energia is the *current* Russian Heavy-lift launch vehicle.
The Rocket you are thinking of is the N-1:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1883348.stm
http://members.aol.com/nodin/N1pages/N1index1.h
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/n1.html
--ScottKin
Just watched the Post-flight briefing. Apparently, the X-43 went "...significantly beyond Mach 7...". They were reluctant to give exact speeds until all of the flight data was analyzed, which is SOP.
Congrats to NASA-Dryden and NASA as a whole.
I wonder what a beowulf cluster could do with that kind of connection? /ObligatoryBeowulfCommentEnd
--ScottKin
What do people do the first time they phreak? They call a faraway place and talk to someone just because it is neat to talk to someone in England, or Fiji or somewhere far away without cost.
For the money you'd have to spend for an attorney on a federal charge for "phreaking", you could get your FCC license and buy a very nice Yaesu, Hallicrafters or Uniden HAM radio rig and talk to anyone else in the world with a HAM rig.
Unfortunately, many people who choose such illegal activities such as phreaking or hacking/cracking don't do a cost/benefit analysis or even a sane pro/con thought process before doing it.
--ScottKin
Of course, his mommy & daddy would bail him out and in court they would have their highly-paid Attorney argue that the little AC is a "tortured soul" with many emotional problems ("I mean, look at the kid, Your Honor...Fangs? One eye is yellow and the other is red?!"), and he'd probably get off with a slap on the wrist.
If parents of these kids did a better job at parenting they wouldn't be in the mess they've got themsevles into.
--ScottKin
That's ok - most of the moderators here communicate in that fashion on a regular basis - misery loves company.
If you're wondering, I'm on a campaign now to get my "Karma" lower than anyone elses in the history of this overblown blog called SlashPork...oops...SlashDot.
The truth of the matter is that Slashdot is irrelevant. Most of it's fans think otherwise, but they've been duped into thinking that having this mysterious value called "Karma" associated with their nickname here gives them some additional sense of value in the real world, that spaced-out former hippies like RMS should be sainted and that "Free Software" will rule.
Guess again, dorks - "Free Software" will keep programmers from getting paid to work (how can you get paid for working on something that is "free"?), will ruin the economy (no income or economy if the major high-tech driver (programmers) don't get paid) and allow cats and dogs to live together...well, at least one of those things are silly. Let's see you all climb over yourselves to offer your inane rebuttals. That kind of group-think makes me laugh.
Truth hurts - like a brick wall coming at you at 100 mph.
--ScottKin
If it is part of the basic functionality of the object or item specified in the Patent Documentation, you better believe that it's an integral part of the application.
Think - then speak.
--ScottKin
The operative question is: Does it function like the item specified in the Patent Application? Does it toggle with a single click on a button and then go away when the workspace is selected?
The answer: No. The Enlightenment VWM will stay there until you actually kill it. It will not shrink/zoom/grow when an object is seleted to trigger.
--ScottKin
Note: This represents a FULL Screen, not some cute little VWM sitting in the lower right of your desktop.
Desktop Manager screenshot
When you click on the leftmost button on the Desktop Manager, your current Windown zooms-out to occupy it's appropriate spot, and the Manager zooms-out to show all of the defined workspaces/desktops.
This is not like fvwm, Starfish/HP Dashboard or any other kind of workspace manager.
Get a clue and get educated about a topic before you shoot your collective mouths off.
--ScottKin
Now that you mention this (and I don't know why this didn't leap out of the PDF and smack me), the patent application in question does indeed appear to be for one particular way that the Virtual Desktops PowerToy for Windows XP functions - when you have the item installed and running, 5 new buttons occupy space on your taskbar; one for each desktop and a "globe" icon. By clicking on the "globe" icon, all 4 virtual desktops are shown on your screen, each occupying 1/4 of the screen. By clicking on the appropriate window, the user's workspace is then moved to that particular VW.
This *is* significantly different than other VWM's & switchers, where you are presented with a smallish representation of the entire system workspace and then given a thumbnail representing a particular Window and it's contents.
It will be interesting to see how this one shakes-out.
--ScottKin
McAfee also had a product that entered the market back in the Win 3.x era that gave you (oddly enough) a Win9x-looking desktop (i.e. no Program Manager window), tape backup software and a VWM functionality that gave you multiple windows, with icons and titles representing each open application in each window. It was dockable and hideable.
IIRC, McAfee sold the backup software to Seagate which was renamed as BackupExec.
As the previous chorus of posters suggest, Microsoft may appear to have a non-valid patent application, since there really *is* "prior art" for this.
See - I'm not always on Microsoft's side on things!
--ScottKin
How do you expect actual companies like IGN to make money to pay for servers, T3's and OC12's, support staff, web designers, network admins, advertizing people, game reviewers and everyone else who runs a business?
ADVERTIZING
Most sites like IGN and GameSpy allow you to purchase something called a "subscription" (as in "buying a subscription to Slashdot) that will allow you to bypass those annoying Adverts. If you don't want to pay for access to such sites and don't want to deal with Ads, then the answer is very simple: Don't go there, or find another outlet for the news & info that site provides that doesn't use irritating Ads & pop-ups/pop-unders.
Welcome to the New Internet - it's been here since the 1990's. Get used to it or go to some geek-boy's homebrew gaming website that carries nearly the same info you'll find in IGN, but with cute little animated GIFs of Pikachu all over the place.
Your Choice.
--ScottKin
Obviously, Mr. Arbiter's experience in sports doesn't cover "American" Football.
To "Punt" in "American" Football as played by the NFL, is to have your kicker or "punter" to kick the ball towards the opposing team when you have run out of "downs" that you can effectively move the ball forward and beyond the line of scrimage 10 yards from where your first down ("1st Down") started. Trying to make "1st Down" when you're at 4th Down and short yardage is a gamble; hence, when most teams reach 4th Down they chose to punt the ball to the opposing team and have them try to do the same.
In Call Center vernacular, the term "punt" means to pass the caller to yet another phone support person to see if they can move the call along.
In boating, a "punt" is a long stick used to do what? Change the direction of a boat. You push the punting stick until it hits bottom, and then push - thus changing the direction of the boat or moving it along.
Nice try, folks.
--ScottKin
Amen, Brother.
I can hardly wait to see who gets arrested in this. I sincerely hope that someone high-up in the Open Source/Free Software enclave is caught with the code so the world can know what a bunch of bottom-feeders they really are.
Evidently, this mentally-deficient idiot hasn't heard of something called a Packet Sniffer.
Just collect all of the IP addresses were the code is coming from, sue the ISPs under the PATRIOT Act to force them to divulge the User(s), and then use the FBI & US Marshalls to do some massive raids.
Pretty simple process, really.
Haven't the String Theorists been describing the regions of strings as being similar to bubbles or doughnuts?
"Very Curious, indeed"
--ScottKin
This is a prime example of why marrying your cousin is a bad idea.
This moron needs to hide behind the "Anonymous Coward" because they are afraid - hence the "Coward" moniker.
You can kiss my hairy ass as well.
--ScottKin
Additionally, at least I have a web site listed, you happless twit!
/. *NIX-weenies who post here, I have more important things to do (like staring two new businesses) with my time than to hard-code HTML. Would you rather I used Dreamweaver MX, or do some 1337-looking shee-yawt with Flash MX for my webpage? FrontPage works well, does my site quickly and with less hassle (unfortunately, the hassle percentage is swallowed-up by my provider), and lets me concentrate on trying to make a buck in a depressed job market.
Unlike the happless-twit
Have a nice day!
--ScottKin