In theory, I think MacOS X is actual resolution independent. That is to say, the Windows and widgets are all that way. However, any application that uses scalar graphics (which is just about all of them) will throw those advantages out the window.
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No offense, but the logistics of that are just silly. Monitors don't handle anything except the display of pixels. Video cards do things like "rendering" and even then, it's often a function of software. It sounds to me that you'd be happier with a 1600x1200 monitor under a resolution-independant OS, where graphics are all vectors and can scale "crisply" to any res.
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I disagree on the IE part. No one around here has any great love for Microsoft, but I think you'll find that the sentiment towards IE is that it's a very good, very fast, very stable browser. IE runs like a dream on my Win2k and 98 systems, while Mozilla is still very sluggish. Kmeleon runs almost as fast as IE, except that they've got some display-issues that make redrawing a little hokey when you're also loading from the network. I think they could fix this with a little thought-out multi-threading.
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Although everyone else here seems inclined to spank you, I wholeheartedly agree. I'm running KMeleon as I post this, and it's absolutely fabulous. The UI isn't some mucked-up XML crap; it's at least twice as responsive as Mozilla on any day, regardless of whether you install Mail and News as well.
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I very much doubt that *any* judge wants to get his own ruling overturned. It's a nice theory, but I don't buy it. Particularly since I don't think it would do much good.
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Clearly a response to the Gnome announcement? Hardly. Microsoft hasn't announced anything. It's hillarious that this thread has almost 600 messages in it, all jabbering about the consequences of an unsubstantiated rumor.
Yes, even though the site that posted it said very adamantly that it was true, they have given us no proof, and Microsoft has said nothing. It's just a rumor...
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I won't speak for the rest of the article, but the sentence you gave as an example was fairly unbiased, regardless of whether you agree with who it makes look better.
Providing abandonware, without permission, is illegal. You may not think it should be, but right now it is; that statement was as factual as possible.
The pirates do *claim* they are providing a service. That's not something you can really substatiate on -- Maybe it's a service, and maybe it's a morally reprehensible crime against intellectual property. You may think it's a service, but I guarantee you that the original game publishers don't think so. If you can dispute it, it's not a hard-line.
Didn't you ever cover opinion versus fact in fifth grade?
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You really shouldn't be running Mozilla on a 486 anyway. If you need it, there's Galeon, a slimmed down version of the Mozilla rendering engine. But seriously, Mozilla is just now getting usable on my PIII 550; Whether it was optimized or not, it's going to be garbage on a 486.
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After some checking, it turns out that BeOS does in fact have a protected-mode loader, much like Loadlin. However, under Win2k (which is what I'm running) and NT, this is not possible, so it simply prompts you to insert a boot disk. I suppose that's the solution for WinME as well.
On the other hand, loadlin doesn't actually use DOS anyway -- it just unloads Windows and loads up a Linux kernel... I can only imagine that this would still work under WinME, since it is not a protected OS like WinNT.
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If you hate the GUI so much, then why would you upgrade to WinME anyway? If all you're going to use is MS-DOS then just stick with MS-DOS, or a version of Win9x that includes it.
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How do you figure that? BeOS-over-Windows does not work like Linux-over-Windows; BeOS makes you insert a BeOS boot-disk in order to load the operating system. Windows never comes into play. When you click on the BeOS icon, inside of Windows, it just tells you to insert your floppy, and then it reboots the computer. You never get into protected mode, and you never need DOS.
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Super, Great, Fantastic. Now my wrist-watch won't crash anymore. Oh, wait -- My wrist-watch doesn't crash anyway because, like the majority of watch-wearing people on this planet, I don't wear a digital watch.
Digital watches have never been fashionable -- I don't think wrist-computers are going to take-off any time in the near (or not-so-near) future.
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MS is *not* doing away with the CLI, by any means. You can still run DOS programs, and you can still get a C:\> prompt. All it means is that you have to do so inside of Windows ME; Heck, just make it fullscreen by pressing ALT-ENTER. This is equivalent to only being able to run a terminal under X. Big deal.
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Where is it said that Microsoft abandoned the prompt? You can still use the prompt in Windows ME. You can still run console applications in Windows ME. What you cannot do, is boot straight to MS-DOS, because it doesn't exist as an operating system on its own. You need to run console-based (and DOS) applications from a shell-window inside Windows ME.
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MAPI is *not* a protocol. It's an API (thus the name) for programmers to use messaging systems under Windows, and allow other applications to access their messaging systems. And some other fun stuff.
Exchange uses it's own protocol for it's groupware and email functionality, but that protocol is not called MAPI.
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Those classical songs are copyrighted. The music is, of course, public domain, but someone made that recording -- someone sat down and played that song. The recording is certainly not public domain.
If the artist is dead, that doesn't mean anything. The term for copyrighted material (thanks Disney) is outrageously long -- chances are it's still owned by that person's estate or heirs or company
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It most assuredly is not the same person. Nothing short of a labotomy would make the original Enoch Root write posts like that -- the grammer is much worse.
Incidentally, if anyone is interested in buying a 125+ karma account, I'm more than willing to sell...
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What if I published a list of homosexuals? And what if you were on that list? No crime there, but what if you weren't a homosexual? What if, because of that list, your wife left you and took the kids? There'd easily be grounds for a lawsuit then.
Now flashback to MAPS. What if yesmail isn't a spammer. Because of the list, yesmail will lose customers, and a potentially large amount of money. I'm not saying that yesmail isn't a spammer, but if they can convince a jury that they aren't... Well that's grounds for libel.
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Rules schmules. No rules are actually applied to domain names, they're simply there as a useful way for web-surfers to find what they're looking for. You'll notice that this is still Slashdot.org, although.com works too. This is not enforced now, and it would not be for.gnu either.
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I agree wholeheartedly. RMS will try to sell this on the basis that the GNU project contains many sub-projects, with many authors, but the point is the same: Free Software is the movement, not GNU. GNU doesn't deserve the TLD, but maybe there should be a.oss.
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Slashdot Mirror
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Yes, even though the site that posted it said very adamantly that it was true, they have given us no proof, and Microsoft has said nothing. It's just a rumor...
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Providing abandonware, without permission, is illegal. You may not think it should be, but right now it is; that statement was as factual as possible.
The pirates do *claim* they are providing a service. That's not something you can really substatiate on -- Maybe it's a service, and maybe it's a morally reprehensible crime against intellectual property. You may think it's a service, but I guarantee you that the original game publishers don't think so. If you can dispute it, it's not a hard-line.
Didn't you ever cover opinion versus fact in fifth grade?
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On the other hand, loadlin doesn't actually use DOS anyway -- it just unloads Windows and loads up a Linux kernel... I can only imagine that this would still work under WinME, since it is not a protected OS like WinNT.
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Digital watches have never been fashionable -- I don't think wrist-computers are going to take-off any time in the near (or not-so-near) future.
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Exchange uses it's own protocol for it's groupware and email functionality, but that protocol is not called MAPI.
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If the artist is dead, that doesn't mean anything. The term for copyrighted material (thanks Disney) is outrageously long -- chances are it's still owned by that person's estate or heirs or company
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Incidentally, if anyone is interested in buying a 125+ karma account, I'm more than willing to sell...
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Now flashback to MAPS. What if yesmail isn't a spammer. Because of the list, yesmail will lose customers, and a potentially large amount of money. I'm not saying that yesmail isn't a spammer, but if they can convince a jury that they aren't... Well that's grounds for libel.
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