You're excused. To someone brought up on 'cmd' PS is probably indistinguishable from magic. Oh, and congrats, Mickeysoft, on finally figuring how to do wrap-around text selection. Welcome to the 20th century.
Contact won't happen until we stop eating sentient animals. Imagine what would happen if a space-faring race that looked like giant prawns turned up... om nom nom!
Stupid JS Tricks - like popping to the top of the page when returning from a link instead of returning to where you were. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And stupid. Current site works fine with JS off - keep it that way.
Cave paintings [...] may have been an early form of advertising of your goods and services
Hardly - the caves that were decorated are all deep, deep underground and very hard to get to. I think the art was a plea to the gods to send more animals because, between them, the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons had wiped them out, especially the mega-fauna.
>I have no faith that they will still be around in ten years
Well they were twats 20 years ago when they made licensing Postscript so expensive that HP developed PCL... so they will probably still be twatting around in 10 years time.
Ignore everything posted by Yvonne - how hard is that? The "Slashdot Staff" will soon get the message when there are NO replies to their adverticles [sic].
The fact is that all you posters WANT to be outraged. It's like a sexual thrill (at least that's what Andrew Denton said on the (Oz) ABC show "Shock Horror Aunty").
The moment he is back in the authorities' hands Obama will declare him a terrorist and then it's game over - he will be outside the purview of the courts thanks to the "special arrangements" in place since 911.
have a ~30% greater need for computing resources for the period between mid-november and early january
This is the myth I want to see busted. You see, every company in retail wants that extra 30% at Xmas. Now are you saying that the service provider is going to have all that extra infrastructure just sitting around all year waiting for your and all your competitors' peak requirements? Or is the guy who pays most going to be adequately serviced while the rest of you pound sand? (hint: no, yes)
When mouse-wheel scrolling can be configured ...
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... to move a page per click I'll get excited. Windows still rules in that regard (I threw up in my mouth a bit saying that) - RSI sucks.
It's not impossible that Casio are well aware that the patents are bogus but still pay for licenses because that's cheaper and quicker than a legal battle.
oh really? I've had uTorrent hang so hard a couple of times that it can't be killed from taskmgr or taskkill. In fact win7 itself hung while shutting down necessitating a hard reset.
the American method of developing weapons is better than any authoritarian system
Yep, in China the inevitable corruption enriches only the generals and the politicians, whereas in America the corruption enriches the generals, the politicians AND the CEO - a clearly superior method.
"I got a rule. I never let go of money I don't have to^H^H."
FTFY But where does this insane idea that FB is worth $50b come from? Just because Goldman-Sachs bought themselves a whole heap of fuck-all? *cough* myspace *cough*
The patent office posts on it's website the summary or abstract of the application and invites knowlegable practioners of the art to invent a comparable system within some given period (possibly determined by the complexity of the invention).
If an alternative invention is submitted before the end of that period then that application must have been obvious.
If the application is repudiated within 1 hour the applicant is forced to eat their application documentation!
Isn't it the case that Windows ALWAYS adds the current directory to the head of PATH whereas you're talking about having to do something in order to make Linux insecure? You too could prepend "." to your PATH but then you'd be as clueless as Microsoft.
Well done mate for fighting the good fight throughout the comments on this story.
As humans we tend to think of those who we voluntarily associate with to be pretty much like us; it's only when you read the comments on stories like this that you realise that some of the otherwise very intelligent folks populating this site are in fact completely fucking bat-shit insane.
Two sigs seen on slashdot are apposite here (paraphrasing):
Light travels faster than sound: that's why some people appear bright until they speak.
and:
A patriot is someone who defends his country from its government.
Humans have consistently underestimated the intelligence of higher animals except for one species whose intelligence has been consistently overestimated.
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You're excused. To someone brought up on 'cmd' PS is probably indistinguishable from magic.
Oh, and congrats, Mickeysoft, on finally figuring how to do wrap-around text selection. Welcome to the 20th century.
Contact won't happen until we stop eating sentient animals. Imagine what would happen if a space-faring race that looked like giant prawns turned up ... om nom nom!
Stupid JS Tricks - like popping to the top of the page when returning from a link instead of returning to where you were. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And stupid.
Current site works fine with JS off - keep it that way.
Cave paintings [...] may have been an early form of advertising of your goods and services
Hardly - the caves that were decorated are all deep, deep underground and very hard to get to. I think the art was a plea to the gods to send more animals because, between them, the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons had wiped them out, especially the mega-fauna.
When you follow a link and then come back why aren't you at the same place on the page? This has been broken for a while.
>I have no faith that they will still be around in ten years
Well they were twats 20 years ago when they made licensing Postscript so expensive that HP developed PCL ... so they will probably still be twatting around in 10 years time.
Ignore everything posted by Yvonne - how hard is that? The "Slashdot Staff" will soon get the message when there are NO replies to their adverticles [sic].
The fact is that all you posters WANT to be outraged. It's like a sexual thrill (at least that's what Andrew Denton said on the (Oz) ABC show "Shock Horror Aunty").
- Software Architect: arsehole who gets in the programmers' and developers' way
BTW as a sidenote I actually really like Ubuntu Unity. At first disliked it, but have gotten quite accustomed to it
And how did you cope with Unity stealing the ALT key? Just 3 minutes of battling with that bullshit was enough for me.
The moment he is back in the authorities' hands Obama will declare him a terrorist and then it's game over - he will be outside the purview of the courts thanks to the "special arrangements" in place since 911.
have a ~30% greater need for computing resources for the period between mid-november and early january
This is the myth I want to see busted. You see, every company in retail wants that extra 30% at Xmas. Now are you saying that the service provider is going to have all that extra infrastructure just sitting around all year waiting for your and all your competitors' peak requirements? Or is the guy who pays most going to be adequately serviced while the rest of you pound sand? (hint: no, yes)
... to move a page per click I'll get excited. Windows still rules in that regard (I threw up in my mouth a bit saying that) - RSI sucks.
Only psychopaths need apply.
It's not impossible that Casio are well aware that the patents are bogus but still pay for licenses because that's cheaper and quicker than a legal battle.
Nothing's crashing. nothing's blue screening
oh really? I've had uTorrent hang so hard a couple of times that it can't be killed from taskmgr or taskkill. In fact win7 itself hung while shutting down necessitating a hard reset.
Mao - is that you?
You can guess what happened next
You walked back across the road, waved the wad of cash and said "Look! Credit history! Now approve my loan, bitches!"?
the American method of developing weapons is better than any authoritarian system
Yep, in China the inevitable corruption enriches only the generals and the politicians, whereas in America the corruption enriches the generals, the politicians AND the CEO - a clearly superior method.
"I got a rule. I never let go of money I don't have to^H^H."
FTFY
But where does this insane idea that FB is worth $50b come from? Just because Goldman-Sachs bought themselves a whole heap of fuck-all? *cough* myspace *cough*
Can I set "scroll by page" for the mouse-wheel yet?
No?
Then there's still some catching up to do.
The patent office posts on it's website the summary or abstract of the application and invites knowlegable practioners of the art to invent a comparable system within some given period (possibly determined by the complexity of the invention).
If an alternative invention is submitted before the end of that period then that application must have been obvious.
If the application is repudiated within 1 hour the applicant is forced to eat their application documentation!
"The facts of life are conservative." Margaret Thatcher
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Stephen Colbert
Isn't it the case that Windows ALWAYS adds the current directory to the head of PATH whereas you're talking about having to do something in order to make Linux insecure? You too could prepend "." to your PATH but then you'd be as clueless as Microsoft.
Well done mate for fighting the good fight throughout the comments on this story.
As humans we tend to think of those who we voluntarily associate with to be pretty much like us; it's only when you read the comments on stories like this that you realise that some of the otherwise very intelligent folks populating this site are in fact completely fucking bat-shit insane.
Two sigs seen on slashdot are apposite here (paraphrasing):
Light travels faster than sound: that's why some people appear bright until they speak.
and:
A patriot is someone who defends his country from its government.
Humans have consistently underestimated the intelligence of higher animals except for one species whose intelligence has been consistently overestimated.