If only the book was published under an
open
licence then I could modify it to suit
my Fedora Core 2/GNOME using mum,
and others could modify it to suit there
Mandrake 10/KDE using moms.
The author would get the benefits of
others keeping the content up to date, and
off the shelf sales (assuming the source was
released under a non-commercial licence).
The rest of the community would benefit from
a book that would better suit our needs.
It was Thomas W. Malone (1983) in his investigation into "How
People Organise Their Desks" who used the term "Piles" to describe the
physical piles of documents.
Piles serve dual roles.
Firstly they allow the user to find documents that were reciently
viewed, as everything in them is arranged in a vaguely temporal order
with the most recently viewed document at the top.
However, their most important role is to remind
the user of the tasks that he or she has to carry out.
(People often use email inboxes to serve the same task.)
Apple do have a patent on a computer implementation of Piles.
However, you can get similar functionality from ordering documents by
view time (A-Time in *nix terminology), and the patent may have
elapsed by the time Longhorn actually manages to ship:)
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If only the book was published under an open licence then I could modify it to suit my Fedora Core 2/GNOME using mum, and others could modify it to suit there Mandrake 10/KDE using moms. The author would get the benefits of others keeping the content up to date, and off the shelf sales (assuming the source was released under a non-commercial licence). The rest of the community would benefit from a book that would better suit our needs.
Unfortunately top and bottom denote physical locations so it could confuse the masses.
How about dominator and submissive. Or should that be dominatrix...
It was Thomas W. Malone (1983) in his investigation into "How People Organise Their Desks" who used the term "Piles" to describe the physical piles of documents. Piles serve dual roles. Firstly they allow the user to find documents that were reciently viewed, as everything in them is arranged in a vaguely temporal order with the most recently viewed document at the top. However, their most important role is to remind the user of the tasks that he or she has to carry out. (People often use email inboxes to serve the same task.)
Apple do have a patent on a computer implementation of Piles. However, you can get similar functionality from ordering documents by view time (A-Time in *nix terminology), and the patent may have elapsed by the time Longhorn actually manages to ship :)
# apt-get install nautilus-mozilla
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
nautilus-mozilla: Conflicts: mozilla-browser
(>= 2:0.9.10)
E: Sorry, broken packages
# echo I want my integrated browser back!