I guess tastes differ, but I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the PC controls. I don't use a gamepad though, just a laptop keyboard and mouse.
I was going to pick a) but now I see that you'd linked to the Spanish Wikipedia article, I am now tempted to say b) - it's a close call but I still think I prefer the story as written.
2. Mailing lists... LKML would go bankcrupt in about a day.
When he wrote "People would probably be able to whitelist certain accounts, so that they could recieve mass mails from the University, and from Sport Teams, and from their family", I doubt that he meant that this could only apply to Universities, Sport Teams, and families.
He said "Another company", not "they". I think he meant Microsoft. Linspire don't mind about Freespire, but Microsoft clearly would mind about Freedows or Lindows.
I waste more time reading "Dupe!" comments than I do reading what I prefer to think of as "alternative writeups". Just shut the f* up about dupes, will you? You aren't helping.
I'm sorry it didn't make it past the "novelty" stage for you. You're missing a useful tool.
No I'm not. I use DVDShrink, which uses DeCSS. I still maintain that it's made negligible market penetration, and an archive tool needs market share in order to be really useful.
If they do get a patent in the US, the different patent laws in the EU do not help much. Sure we can develop a workalike over here, and use it ourselves, but no Linux vendor can include it in their distro if they want it to be legal in the US. It would be as popular and useful as DeCSS which never made it beyond being a novelty.
So once a piece of software becomes popular, it should be frozen for all time and no new features added? The compression seting has never defaulted to maximum, you have to select it and it warns you about compatability. What more do you want?
The company I worked for removed WinZip from its standard build when it moved to XP. It is now back in the standard build, because Windows' ZIP support is minimal at best. It also can't handle any other archive format, such as.tar.gz.
Maybe WinDial, or given Microsoft's penchant for generic names, "Microsoft Dial" seems more likely. Then 5 years later they sue any competing product with the word "Dial" in it.
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You don't think that GMail and G-Mail are confusingly similar?
If they have a trademark on G-Mail, then Google can't call their service GMail. It's as simple as that.
Sadly the 1.5 beta is considerably less stable than 1.0.6, but then again it is a beta.
I guess tastes differ, but I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the PC controls. I don't use a gamepad though, just a laptop keyboard and mouse.
And where will we get new Slashdot trolls from?
I was going to pick a) but now I see that you'd linked to the Spanish Wikipedia article, I am now tempted to say b) - it's a close call but I still think I prefer the story as written.
No, you're a sex bot.
When he wrote "People would probably be able to whitelist certain accounts, so that they could recieve mass mails from the University, and from Sport Teams, and from their family", I doubt that he meant that this could only apply to Universities, Sport Teams, and families.
Interesting co-incidence
He said "Another company", not "they". I think he meant Microsoft. Linspire don't mind about Freespire, but Microsoft clearly would mind about Freedows or Lindows.
I don't think even Zonk has duped his own posted stories, has he?
Ah, but they aren't portable, so really it's totally different.
It isn't a patent on hierarchical menus, it's a patent on "automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata."
I presume it's commentary. News sites do that occasionally.
I waste more time reading "Dupe!" comments than I do reading what I prefer to think of as "alternative writeups". Just shut the f* up about dupes, will you? You aren't helping.
No I'm not. I use DVDShrink, which uses DeCSS. I still maintain that it's made negligible market penetration, and an archive tool needs market share in order to be really useful.
If they do get a patent in the US, the different patent laws in the EU do not help much. Sure we can develop a workalike over here, and use it ourselves, but no Linux vendor can include it in their distro if they want it to be legal in the US. It would be as popular and useful as DeCSS which never made it beyond being a novelty.
Who mentioned patents?
So once a piece of software becomes popular, it should be frozen for all time and no new features added? The compression seting has never defaulted to maximum, you have to select it and it warns you about compatability. What more do you want?
The company I worked for removed WinZip from its standard build when it moved to XP. It is now back in the standard build, because Windows' ZIP support is minimal at best. It also can't handle any other archive format, such as .tar.gz.
Maybe WinDial, or given Microsoft's penchant for generic names, "Microsoft Dial" seems more likely. Then 5 years later they sue any competing product with the word "Dial" in it.
I can't believe no-one's suggested this yet. Maybe because it's a really weak joke.
If you tile them, you don't have to have two menu bars and two sets of toolbar buttons.
The difference is that Opera are not attempting to maintain an established monopoly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKU