I thought handwriting recognition was one of the things people were attracted to when considering a tablet. Doesn't sound like he's got that (other than the graffiti-like app). Any OS programs that fit the bill?
Some people need all the processing they can get. It's allowing some of us to do things we couldn't before. If you don't need it, don't buy it. And you can always stop buying bloatware and write your own software or optimize your favorite OS program.
48 hours or a week is usually just fine for a small, agile company (i.e. one without all the bureaucracy). A larger one might need a bit more time. And even that small one might have trouble getting a patch out in a week - especially if a key person is on vacation. I'd say a month is actually reasonable. Of course all this is assuming closed source. Keep it open, announce it right away and you're almost guaranteed to get a patch within 24 hours.
High sales volume is great, but they're losing money, so they're worth nothing (as a whole anyway) unless someone can turn that around. Good luck to everyone at Corel!
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Let me guess. MTV generation?
Chacun ses gouts. I loved the intro.
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Among other glorious and terrible images, there are shots from a chicken processing plant. It shows thousands of chicks tumbling off a conveyor belt, swirling down a giant metal funnel and having their beaks burned.
More than once I've been threatened with lawsuits for that sort of thing, having been the lead tech at a small ISP for several years. Thankfully nobody actually started legal proceedings. Proud to say I didn't cave once to the unreasonable demands. I did provide all the logs and such I could find once when the secret service came by with a subpoena though. That was an altogether different case than somebody sharing some music though.
Yeah, that was kind of my point. Sendmail's been great for the net, but unless it's completely rewritten to simplify it and discard its backward compatibility, it's a mess. Actually, I haven't used it in a while, but I got rather familiar with it in 1994 when I was hacking the conf file to do twisted things for uucp feeds to various places, the worst being a Major BBS that seemed to need everything rewritten just so.
Well, losing historic sites and losing postcard-perfect landscapes are tragic, but China's in great need of this too. I was in that area a couple months ago and saw the poverty and the tremendously high levels of pollution around the cities. What is your alternative for them? Developed countries got where they are with no thought for the environment and now tell developing countries they shouldn't do the same. If you want to impose those kinds of restrictions on people you're going to have to help them economically to compensate.
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I've used a lot of WM's over the last decade and have kept coming back to fvwm since '95 or so. I'm so much more productive when I'm on a linux box and my custom setup than with other window managers or in windows or on my new mac (hoping I'll get used to its shortcomings soon). For network engineering, I mostly need lots of xterms (or rxvt's or what have you) and some browser windows that are easily organized and easy to get around between. Everything below is something that I have had trouble with in mac osx, windows, kde, gnome or other wm's/environments. If anyone thinks there's another interface that does everything I list (note that lots of them can do some or most of this), let me know and I'll try it out sometime.
- most importantly, i need about 10 virtual desktops, with a scaled down view of windows on each desktop and the ability to easily drag a window to another desktop. the pager should always be on top (i.e. never covered)
- the ability to move around the screen easily via keyboard. e.g. i use shift-arrow to move from virtual desktop to virtual desktop, ctrl-arrow to move 10 or 20 pixels at a time, and shift-ctrl-arrow to move 1 or 2 pixels at a time. note that those last two can take me to another virtual desktop. the mouse however, i can move as much as i like without flipping to another desktop. i can click a desktop on the pager if i don't want to go back to the keyboard
- four clean terminal windows easily fit per screen with readable text. font size should be easily changed (e.g. right-click and pull down to the size you want). also, windows must be resizeable by grabbing and dragging any side. anyone know an easier way around the default (right corner only) resize limitation in mac osx?
- cut and paste has to be quick and easy - e.g. highlight in one window and middle-click in another. this is my main obstacle to liking mac osx. someone tell me there's a tweak for this somewhere without just running x in root mode (which I've been holding off on)
- customizable menus that come up when clicking the desktop to save real estate versus a dock or task bar or whatever. should have options for move, close, and kill.
- unless someone got focus follows thought worked out, here's what i want: sloppy focus follows mouse, no auto-raising of windows (i need to look at one window and type in another), and one raise window key combo that with one press raises or lowers the window in focus and with additional use cycles through all windows on that desktop
- not a hard and fast requirement, but i do prefer a config file that's easy to grep through than endless menus. i list this just as a barrier to entry. for all i know lots of wm's have done all of the above for quite some time, but i've gotten frustrated with poor config menus and given up on them.
If any of you have been finding it a bit difficult to get space from ARIN, consider yourselves lucky. RIPE's tougher to get space from. And APNIC and JPNIC sometimes seem to guard their remaining IP space insanely. I hear about registries asking for receipts for all the supposed servers you've got installed as well as why you need so many. Sometimes they'll tour the facility to be sure you really need that large a netblock. This one's through the grapevine, but it's a usually reliable grapevine - one company was turned down and told to buy a certain type of hardware that would handle higher loads with fewer IP addresses.
It's a tough question - should early adopters with huge blocks of space be required to renumber (a very painful process) even though they're generally the ones that got the whole thing moving in the first place? Those early class A blocks don't even require annual payments. Go to an ARIN meeting sometime to hear some lively debate on that subject.
IPv6 is going to have to be pushed outside the U.S. None of the big backbones are rolling out anything substantial anytime soon. Nobody in the U.S. is feeling enough pain from IPv4 to need to do it. Besides, we'd really need some v6-optimized hardware too to get it going natively everywhere.
Competition? Sure. But fair competition? No. Most monopolies have the advantages of mass marketing and economies of scale. That made Standard Oil a monopoly. Microsoft has an additional advantage - designed lack of interoperability. MS Word would not be dominant if everyone in business needed (or thought they need) a copy to read what their colleagues, vendors and most importantly customers were sending to them. Not that I think MS's tactics will do anything but delay the inevitable.
Just another domino in a long line of them. Lots more in the future than there are in the past, but it's unstoppable now. Regardless of pricing, no nation wants to be dependent on a private entity.
Troll. First off, there's been lots of good science fiction as well. Second, some people have always been willing to put their lives at risk for things they're passionate about, and it's not (always) a childish thing. We owe them our thanks. Third, feeding the poor and pushing the limits of human knowlege are not mutually exclusive ideas. Fourth, there's plenty of suffering in the world, but there are plenty of other things to point your finger at than space exploration. Fifth, it sounds like you've got a problem with media coverage of space tragedies. Might I suggest alternative media? Sixth, if you can do it better than NASA, I'm sure some X Prize teams want to talk to you. Then again, you've probably spent a little too much time blathering on Slashdot and too little time reading about aerodynamics.
What a great thing, the X-Prize. Space flight will eventually be dominated by private enterprise anyway, and this accelerates it. I think it's important as a way to get younger generations excited about the future in the same way past generations were in the early days of space programs.
Spam amounts to a distributed denial of service attack. Are you going to argue that DDOS should be legal as well? Additionally, you're using a classically weak "slippery slope" argument. Here are a few links on the subject of slippery slopes:
I think we'll all agree there's tremendous room for price erosion in the music biz since it can be produced and distributed so cheaply. I don't think there's nearly so much fat to trim in movies though. It takes a lot of money to put together a feature film. And the big budget movies seem to be more popular (not always, but there's a correlation). Digital cameras, editing and distribution might help some though.
There are a couple reasons I don't think this is likely to happen. First, there are plenty of people spamming already. No reason to work that end too if you're an anti-spam company. Second is that the cost of sending spam is low, but non-negligible. OTOH, with a virus, it's some small cost to start it out and then ignorant outlook users do the rest of the work for you.
This site has a lot of comments railing against patents for non-innovative, obvious "inventions". Well, I see the Tim's web not as revolutionary but as evolutionary. Gopher had navigation among documents and there were search engines but not hyperlinks inside the documents themselves. I don't want to take away from Tim's work, but I think you were overstating its importance. Someone else would've come up with that sooner or later (probably sooner).
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I thought handwriting recognition was one of the things people were attracted to when considering a tablet. Doesn't sound like he's got that (other than the graffiti-like app). Any OS programs that fit the bill?
Some people need all the processing they can get. It's allowing some of us to do things we couldn't before. If you don't need it, don't buy it. And you can always stop buying bloatware and write your own software or optimize your favorite OS program.
48 hours or a week is usually just fine for a small, agile company (i.e. one without all the bureaucracy). A larger one might need a bit more time. And even that small one might have trouble getting a patch out in a week - especially if a key person is on vacation. I'd say a month is actually reasonable. Of course all this is assuming closed source. Keep it open, announce it right away and you're almost guaranteed to get a patch within 24 hours.
High sales volume is great, but they're losing money, so they're worth nothing (as a whole anyway) unless someone can turn that around. Good luck to everyone at Corel!
Let me guess. MTV generation?
Chacun ses gouts. I loved the intro.
Anyone else seen Baraka?
Among other glorious and terrible images, there are shots from a chicken processing plant. It shows thousands of chicks tumbling off a conveyor belt, swirling down a giant metal funnel and having their beaks burned.
More than once I've been threatened with lawsuits for that sort of thing, having been the lead tech at a small ISP for several years. Thankfully nobody actually started legal proceedings. Proud to say I didn't cave once to the unreasonable demands. I did provide all the logs and such I could find once when the secret service came by with a subpoena though. That was an altogether different case than somebody sharing some music though.
Yeah, that was kind of my point. Sendmail's been great for the net, but unless it's completely rewritten to simplify it and discard its backward compatibility, it's a mess. Actually, I haven't used it in a while, but I got rather familiar with it in 1994 when I was hacking the conf file to do twisted things for uucp feeds to various places, the worst being a Major BBS that seemed to need everything rewritten just so.
Hefty 621 pages? The bat book is very nearly twice as hefty.
Well, losing historic sites and losing postcard-perfect landscapes are tragic, but China's in great need of this too. I was in that area a couple months ago and saw the poverty and the tremendously high levels of pollution around the cities. What is your alternative for them? Developed countries got where they are with no thought for the environment and now tell developing countries they shouldn't do the same. If you want to impose those kinds of restrictions on people you're going to have to help them economically to compensate.
I've used a lot of WM's over the last decade and have kept coming back to fvwm since '95 or so. I'm so much more productive when I'm on a linux box and my custom setup than with other window managers or in windows or on my new mac (hoping I'll get used to its shortcomings soon). For network engineering, I mostly need lots of xterms (or rxvt's or what have you) and some browser windows that are easily organized and easy to get around between. Everything below is something that I have had trouble with in mac osx, windows, kde, gnome or other wm's/environments. If anyone thinks there's another interface that does everything I list (note that lots of them can do some or most of this), let me know and I'll try it out sometime.
- most importantly, i need about 10 virtual desktops, with a scaled down view of windows on each desktop and the ability to easily drag a window to another desktop. the pager should always be on top (i.e. never covered)
- the ability to move around the screen easily via keyboard. e.g. i use shift-arrow to move from virtual desktop to virtual desktop, ctrl-arrow to move 10 or 20 pixels at a time, and shift-ctrl-arrow to move 1 or 2 pixels at a time. note that those last two can take me to another virtual desktop. the mouse however, i can move as much as i like without flipping to another desktop. i can click a desktop on the pager if i don't want to go back to the keyboard
- four clean terminal windows easily fit per screen with readable text. font size should be easily changed (e.g. right-click and pull down to the size you want). also, windows must be resizeable by grabbing and dragging any side. anyone know an easier way around the default (right corner only) resize limitation in mac osx?
- cut and paste has to be quick and easy - e.g. highlight in one window and middle-click in another. this is my main obstacle to liking mac osx. someone tell me there's a tweak for this somewhere without just running x in root mode (which I've been holding off on)
- customizable menus that come up when clicking the desktop to save real estate versus a dock or task bar or whatever. should have options for move, close, and kill.
- unless someone got focus follows thought worked out, here's what i want: sloppy focus follows mouse, no auto-raising of windows (i need to look at one window and type in another), and one raise window key combo that with one press raises or lowers the window in focus and with additional use cycles through all windows on that desktop
- not a hard and fast requirement, but i do prefer a config file that's easy to grep through than endless menus. i list this just as a barrier to entry. for all i know lots of wm's have done all of the above for quite some time, but i've gotten frustrated with poor config menus and given up on them.
If any of you have been finding it a bit difficult to get space from ARIN, consider yourselves lucky. RIPE's tougher to get space from. And APNIC and JPNIC sometimes seem to guard their remaining IP space insanely. I hear about registries asking for receipts for all the supposed servers you've got installed as well as why you need so many. Sometimes they'll tour the facility to be sure you really need that large a netblock. This one's through the grapevine, but it's a usually reliable grapevine - one company was turned down and told to buy a certain type of hardware that would handle higher loads with fewer IP addresses.
It's a tough question - should early adopters with huge blocks of space be required to renumber (a very painful process) even though they're generally the ones that got the whole thing moving in the first place? Those early class A blocks don't even require annual payments. Go to an ARIN meeting sometime to hear some lively debate on that subject.
IPv6 is going to have to be pushed outside the U.S. None of the big backbones are rolling out anything substantial anytime soon. Nobody in the U.S. is feeling enough pain from IPv4 to need to do it. Besides, we'd really need some v6-optimized hardware too to get it going natively everywhere.
Competition? Sure. But fair competition? No. Most monopolies have the advantages of mass marketing and economies of scale. That made Standard Oil a monopoly. Microsoft has an additional advantage - designed lack of interoperability. MS Word would not be dominant if everyone in business needed (or thought they need) a copy to read what their colleagues, vendors and most importantly customers were sending to them. Not that I think MS's tactics will do anything but delay the inevitable.
Microsoft didn't make it where they are by playing fair. They use their monopoly position to their advantage by all legal means, and then some.
Just another domino in a long line of them. Lots more in the future than there are in the past, but it's unstoppable now. Regardless of pricing, no nation wants to be dependent on a private entity.
Troll. First off, there's been lots of good science fiction as well. Second, some people have always been willing to put their lives at risk for things they're passionate about, and it's not (always) a childish thing. We owe them our thanks. Third, feeding the poor and pushing the limits of human knowlege are not mutually exclusive ideas. Fourth, there's plenty of suffering in the world, but there are plenty of other things to point your finger at than space exploration. Fifth, it sounds like you've got a problem with media coverage of space tragedies. Might I suggest alternative media? Sixth, if you can do it better than NASA, I'm sure some X Prize teams want to talk to you. Then again, you've probably spent a little too much time blathering on Slashdot and too little time reading about aerodynamics.
What a great thing, the X-Prize. Space flight will eventually be dominated by private enterprise anyway, and this accelerates it. I think it's important as a way to get younger generations excited about the future in the same way past generations were in the early days of space programs.
Spam amounts to a distributed denial of service attack. Are you going to argue that DDOS should be legal as well? Additionally, you're using a classically weak "slippery slope" argument. Here are a few links on the subject of slippery slopes:
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I think we'll all agree there's tremendous room for price erosion in the music biz since it can be produced and distributed so cheaply. I don't think there's nearly so much fat to trim in movies though. It takes a lot of money to put together a feature film. And the big budget movies seem to be more popular (not always, but there's a correlation). Digital cameras, editing and distribution might help some though.
There are a couple reasons I don't think this is likely to happen. First, there are plenty of people spamming already. No reason to work that end too if you're an anti-spam company. Second is that the cost of sending spam is low, but non-negligible. OTOH, with a virus, it's some small cost to start it out and then ignorant outlook users do the rest of the work for you.
This site has a lot of comments railing against patents for non-innovative, obvious "inventions". Well, I see the Tim's web not as revolutionary but as evolutionary. Gopher had navigation among documents and there were search engines but not hyperlinks inside the documents themselves. I don't want to take away from Tim's work, but I think you were overstating its importance. Someone else would've come up with that sooner or later (probably sooner).