Actually, does it matter when he published the paper in the light of this:
But Platt's playlist application also has a rejection history. It received an NFR on 17 November 2002, and a more serious Final Rejection on 14 June 2004. After further documentation was received, and extension granted, the application received another NFR on 11 December last year.
Looks like whatever got him the patent he didn't come up with until 2004.
So you are arguing that sometime in 2001 Platt wrote down all of his work in a paper, later in 2001 Apple came up with the same ideas, slapped them together into the iPod, and shipped, and then in 2002 Platt made minor finishing touches to his paper and published it.
"Gee, even if there were a 'Global Warming', it just means we can go on destroying American peat bogs, because there are new ones thawing off in Siberia."
Okinawa alone cost 50,000 American and 200,000 Japanese lives - and it wasn't even part of the mainland.
No, it only cost about 18,900 American lives. Even if we include "several thousand soldiers who died indirectly" your "factual" number is already twice as big as the real one. Thanks for the fine example of American number-crunching.
Wonder how long it would have taken to subjugate all the main islands?
Since the Japanese were defeated, and ready for surrender weeks before, how about none.
Interesting estimates. The whole war "only" cost 407,000 US troop casualties. The guess that invading a country ready to surrender would have cost more lives than the enire rest of the war, let alone even more than twice that, is pretty pessimistic - unless it's nothing but a lame excuse for mass murder.
Hell, would somebody just fire up X11 on their Mac, type "xev" into the xterm that opens and test the MightyMouse already. Just check if you see "state 0x500" there when you klick the mouse with fingers on both sides.
Yeah, you know even less about xev than the author of that article. No mention about trying to test chording, nothing about the "status" given, just mentioning "button 1" event. Ignorant == you. Stop trolling, you little twerp.
Well, if they had tested it, they would have mentioned it, wouldn't they. Neither tester mentioned games, nor any special apps, and the "mouse setup applets" that come with the mouse nor the default one on the Mac show chording. And it hasn't even been shown by the tests that there is something that needs fixing. Which has been my fucking point: You guys simply don't comprehend what the tests said.
So which mouse can you buy that would show chording in the described situations? Put up or shut up.
Face it, until you actually check for chording, you can't fucking tell if it works or not. You are the one who is hypothesizing here. Exclamation Mark!
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Yes, you are confused. This discussion isn't about the invention of a HD based MP3 player.
So you are arguing that sometime in 2001 Platt wrote down all of his work in a paper, later in 2001 Apple came up with the same ideas, slapped them together into the iPod, and shipped, and then in 2002 Platt made minor finishing touches to his paper and published it.
Ahh, so only people who are ruthless and/or willing to brown-nose and/or willing to have sex with superiors are intelligent enough to be a genius.
Nothing but ad-hominems from you. Who was surprized?
QED
Everytime somebody disproves GALLANT's theories, people like you spout forth [list you posted] to kill it off. Lather, rinse, repeat.
"Gee, even if there were a 'Global Warming', it just means we can go on destroying American peat bogs, because there are new ones thawing off in Siberia."
Now, if GALLANT's scientific studies consisted of anything but the points you just listed...
Yeah, under the GPL we only see something called GNU/forking, which is just great.
No, he is talking about the "violence culture" of America, and the fact that if you mix it with a "gun culture" you get trouble.
Ooooh, evil Canada doesn't have ghettos with a history of racial segregation - they are not multi cultural.
Gee, I think there is one more thing wrong in America - people just don't listen to what others say.
No, it only cost about 18,900 American lives. Even if we include "several thousand soldiers who died indirectly" your "factual" number is already twice as big as the real one. Thanks for the fine example of American number-crunching.
Wonder how long it would have taken to subjugate all the main islands?
Since the Japanese were defeated, and ready for surrender weeks before, how about none.
Interesting estimates. The whole war "only" cost 407,000 US troop casualties. The guess that invading a country ready to surrender would have cost more lives than the enire rest of the war, let alone even more than twice that, is pretty pessimistic - unless it's nothing but a lame excuse for mass murder.
Hell, would somebody just fire up X11 on their Mac, type "xev" into the xterm that opens and test the MightyMouse already. Just check if you see "state 0x500" there when you klick the mouse with fingers on both sides.
Yeah, you know even less about xev than the author of that article. No mention about trying to test chording, nothing about the "status" given, just mentioning "button 1" event. Ignorant == you. Stop trolling, you little twerp.
Well, if they had tested it, they would have mentioned it, wouldn't they. Neither tester mentioned games, nor any special apps, and the "mouse setup applets" that come with the mouse nor the default one on the Mac show chording. And it hasn't even been shown by the tests that there is something that needs fixing. Which has been my fucking point: You guys simply don't comprehend what the tests said.
Too bad I'm right and you idiots are wrong, hrrm? Oh well, you should be used to it by now.
Semantics are the last resort of somebody losing an argument. There is at least one universal third party driver for mice for Mac OS X.
Thank you for supporting my point. Chording has not been tested.
Okay, once more for the peanut gallery: was the mouse tested in a situation where chords would make a difference? IMHO no. Please show me otherwise.
Based on my experiences driving Porsches during rush-hour in the city, they can't reach 150 mph. Sincerly.
So try the mouse in those games before you make the claim it wouldn't work. That's all I asked.
Face it, until you actually check for chording, you can't fucking tell if it works or not. You are the one who is hypothesizing here. Exclamation Mark!
Yes, for example USB Overdrive - which doesn't support chording yet either. Jesus Christ, am I talking to a horde of imbeciles here?