Or here's an idea, how about a mouse with more than one button. Maybe if Xerox invented it first, then they could "borrow" the design from them?
Xerox had three-button mice. Apple did usability testing, and found that they confuse most people. A mouse is an extension of your arm. You don't move the mouse and press a button, you just point to something. People don't normally point with different fingers to mean different things; it's unnatural.
Now that most people are used to having more than one button, it's not so bad, but some people are stil confused by this, as hard to believe as that may sound.
For those who want multiple buttons, MacAlly, Logitech, Microsoft and others make multiple-button mice.
Shouldn't you be able to define areas where the different buttons work? I thought that MacOS X was going to have better support for multiple mouse buttons.
Not that I know of. Sounds like those were just rumors.
Oh well, I'm on BeOS anyway, so all I have to do is click-and-hold for a right button click. I might just get one...
Mac OS uses a control-click, just about every Web browser lets you do a click-and-hold, and there's a freeware add-on to let you use a click-and-hold in the Finder as well.
It's available to all apps that support it, as was the case with previous multi-processor Macs and Mac clones. Photoshop, of course, takes full advantage. However, Mac OS 9 is not fully optimized to take advantage of it, so most stuff won't speed up at all. Mac OS X, though, will support SMP throughout, so everything will be VERY fast.
While I'll be the first to admit that the iMac is nice looking, in a sort of sickeningly-cute way, I don't think most geeks (myself and my friends included) would want to be seen with such a thing.
Am I missing something, or is that totally unsupportable? After all, the recipient has not asked for this letter. They have not signed a non-disclosure with Apple. What the hell gives Apple the right to restrict distribution of this letter? I can see claiming copyright over the contents, but fair use does allow for reproducing small sections or paraphrasing and summarizing.
Yes, you're entirely correct, and Apple would lose in court, but they know it won't go to court. Ric Ford of MacInTouch posted the letter he received, and his attorney's response.
We (the US) are dropping out of the WTO. It will happen in March or April of next year. After Bush's cabinet has had time to sort things out and start moving on things.
Most importantly, this concept of fair use does not override specific statutory enactment such as the DMCA, which are intended by Congress to give clear protection to the rights of the creative community to use technological means to protect its product. It is this protection which has enabled the motion picture industry to launch new products in digital format, such as DVDs.
They couldn't have done it if it weren't for the DMCA? Wow, they're lame.
Direct X is a service that the OS provides to the applications which run on it. It may come bundled with every game in the world - but it's so tightly integrated with the OS that they can't even get to parity on versioning from 9x to NT. It doesn't make any sense, IMHO, to split it off to the Apps division.
That sounds almost exactly like Internet Explorer - it's tightly integrated with the OS, it comes bundled with everything, and it provides services to applications (such as WinAmp and StarOffice, both of which use MSIE's browser engine).
Why do you assume they'd be using GPL as their license? There -are- other licenses out there, y'know:) --S
heh, sorry, brain fart. I was thinking of Corel Linux, not WordPerfect. Opening WordPerfect under a customized license would be fine. Well, I think it'd be fine; lots of people qould undoubtedly complain (see rants about Darwin and other mostly-free projects).
The plain truth is that StarOffice sucks worse than Windows as it tries to forcefully be an OS. AbiWord may not be great but it is perfectly usable (for me) and does not require huge amounts of resources to feed the cravings of its mandatory web browser.
StarOffice sucks worse than Windows? Huh? Windows tries forcefully to be an OS too, in case you forgot. As for the mandatory Web browser, did you know that StarOFfice for Windows uses MSIE as its browser?
...let the company be broken. Then Microsoft A and B will hit the courts to see who gets.NET, since it is not an operating system nor an application.
<rant type="offtopic"> I'm getting kind of tired of people who never looked at the Final Judgement saying there's any confusion about which company gets something. Read the Final Judgement; it's all spelled out very clearly. MS-OS gets Windows, and MS-Apps gets everything else. Everything means everything, not just applications. MS-OS will probably get Windows.NET, but MS-Apps gets Office.NET and everything else.
I personally thought that this was one of the most remarkable parts of the movie, the fact that an action movie can have two sides that you can both identify and agree with. This was perhaps the most realistic part of the film, that neither side was the best solution to the answer (will Dr. X's efforts really save the mutants/Magneto is fighting for their rights but in a violent manner) and that both can be seen as good and bad.
I agree. The final scene with the chess game was rather telling of the nature of the two characters, and made me respect Dr. Xavier much more for not completely villainizing Magneto.
I was kinda hoping the Mozilla team would do something like this themselves, actually, or at least make a customizable install where you can choose to install only the browser - and, damnit, make it so you can install other pieces of it after the browser has already been installed!
Congress granted "Olympic" special status a while back. You're pretty much guaranteed to be accused of violating the trademark if you use "Olympic" anything. "Olympia" is apparently OK.
Ever wonder why every country besides the US has a particular TLD (e.g..co.uk,.cz,.to,.cx)? Why is there not a.us TLD?
Uhhh, you're a moron. As others have pointed out, there is a.us domain, and yes, you can register domains under it (although you have to fit them into the geographical hierarchy under.us - gee, imagine that, structure), and yes, registrations are free. Go to www.nic.us for more information and to register a domain.
Yes, but most of the big corporations out there have already standardized on IE4 or IE5. If AOL comes out with Mozilla, you're not going to see that figure flinch.
You don't think that most of AOL's twenty-three million users migrating to Mozilla will make the browser market share numbers flinch? Just how big a flinch are you looking for?
Couldn't they offer free downloads of source, but charge your credit card for a precompiled binary? That would keep most people paying, while still allowing developers to use it for free.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think the GPL allows that. Free software must be free - you can charge for the distribution and packaging, but not the software itself. So, you can sell a box in the store, and you can sell a pack of install CDs online, but I don't think the FSF would let you get away with charging for a download.
"Together, the proprietary innovation and the purported faults in standards compliance mean that Web pages created to work for IE--widely considered to be the dominant browser--won't work with browsers from Netscape, Opera Software and other providers."
Does that mean that those pages also won't work with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, frequently praised as being the most standards-compliant browser available?
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Xerox had three-button mice. Apple did usability testing, and found that they confuse most people. A mouse is an extension of your arm. You don't move the mouse and press a button, you just point to something. People don't normally point with different fingers to mean different things; it's unnatural.
Now that most people are used to having more than one button, it's not so bad, but some people are stil confused by this, as hard to believe as that may sound.
For those who want multiple buttons, MacAlly, Logitech, Microsoft and others make multiple-button mice.
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are you serious, or all you trolling? It's hard to tell.
HALO for Mac!! This most likely means HALO for PC also!
Umm, duh? Halo is the first Bungie game to be Windows-first, built with Microsoft development tools. Plus, they just got bought out by Microsoft.
Multiple G4 for the same price as previous single G4. And with the clock settings as dip switches, it's an overclockers dream!
Apple usually covers their jumpers with "warranty void if removed" stickers.
OSx public beta in September!
This is actually a disappointment; they had planned to release it today.
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Not that I know of. Sounds like those were just rumors.
Oh well, I'm on BeOS anyway, so all I have to do is click-and-hold for a right button click. I might just get one...
Mac OS uses a control-click, just about every Web browser lets you do a click-and-hold, and there's a freeware add-on to let you use a click-and-hold in the Finder as well.
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Thus the rumored cube.
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Yes, you're entirely correct, and Apple would lose in court, but they know it won't go to court. Ric Ford of MacInTouch posted the letter he received, and his attorney's response.
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God, Bush is winning? We're all screwed.
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They couldn't have done it if it weren't for the DMCA? Wow, they're lame.
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That sounds almost exactly like Internet Explorer - it's tightly integrated with the OS, it comes bundled with everything, and it provides services to applications (such as WinAmp and StarOffice, both of which use MSIE's browser engine).
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heh, sorry, brain fart. I was thinking of Corel Linux, not WordPerfect. Opening WordPerfect under a customized license would be fine. Well, I think it'd be fine; lots of people qould undoubtedly complain (see rants about Darwin and other mostly-free projects).
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Thanks for volunteering.
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StarOffice sucks worse than Windows? Huh? Windows tries forcefully to be an OS too, in case you forgot. As for the mandatory Web browser, did you know that StarOFfice for Windows uses MSIE as its browser?
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I'm getting kind of tired of people who never looked at the Final Judgement saying there's any confusion about which company gets something. Read the Final Judgement; it's all spelled out very clearly. MS-OS gets Windows, and MS-Apps gets everything else. Everything means everything, not just applications. MS-OS will probably get Windows.NET, but MS-Apps gets Office.NET and everything else.
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"This is not the VPN solution you're looking for."
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Blue women with scales are fine as long as they're not kicking me like that.
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I agree. The final scene with the chess game was rather telling of the nature of the two characters, and made me respect Dr. Xavier much more for not completely villainizing Magneto.
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WWW.COM, Inc. already thought of it. Good thing they're not suing anybody.
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Oh, so the Olympic Peninsula, Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest, etc. aren't OK any more?
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Uhhh, you're a moron. As others have pointed out, there is a
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You don't think that most of AOL's twenty-three million users migrating to Mozilla will make the browser market share numbers flinch? Just how big a flinch are you looking for?
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I could be mistaken, but I don't think the GPL allows that. Free software must be free - you can charge for the distribution and packaging, but not the software itself. So, you can sell a box in the store, and you can sell a pack of install CDs online, but I don't think the FSF would let you get away with charging for a download.
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Does that mean that those pages also won't work with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, frequently praised as being the most standards-compliant browser available?
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