So what is the benefit? You sneed that second mouse-button, yet you still have to use the keyboard to be fully operational, you gain 0.1 second for single-click instead of double-click, but you made the possibility of accidently starting an app (or opening that pr0n you wanted to stack away) much higher.
Ahh, again sombody ignores things like discontinous selections. How do you select two (or more) different files/icons to operate on? With an extra contextual menu entry add to selection? How are you going to teach your Mom that?
I find it quite odd that people still whine about "only one mouse button", you can do CMs with click-and-hold (there is at least one extension that does that on "classic" MacOS, as do several apps, OTOH both Windows and Linux-GUIs still need modifier keys for some things.
"It fell off the desk,'' he said. "They didn't do anything with it."
The company didn't even patent the concept because of the secrecy surrounding the project.
So the trackball -- ingenious as it was -- was left to languish in relative obscurity with the rest of the DATAR system, while researchers around the world grappled with the problem of making a graphical user interface of their own.
So it was forgotten (for several years)because it wasn't patented? Others had to (re-)invent lesser alternatives because it wasn't patented?
Wthout any more information, my guess it could have hit anywhere within ca. 50% of earth's surface. If it had been 288,000 (plus/minus a few thousand) miles closer.
Browsing (actually "find"ing) through "Mein Kampf", I found this:
Each one of us today may regret the fact that the advent of Christianity was the first occasion on which spiritual terror was introduced into the much freer ancient world, but the fact cannot be denied that ever since then the world is pervaded and dominated by this kind of coercion and that violence is broken only by violence and terror by terror. Only then can a new regime be created by means of constructive work. Political parties are prone to enter compromises; but a philosophy never does this. A political party is inclined to adjust its teachings with a view to meeting those of its opponents, but a philosophy proclaims its own infallibility.
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The most devoted Protestant could stand side by side with the most devoted Catholic in our ranks without having his conscience disturbed in the slightest as far as concerned his religious convictions.
Ohh, I can see it: In 1969, Paleontologist Mike Raath of South Africa's Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research names a dinosaur without typing "http://www.iczn.org/code.htm" into his computer first - I wonder why.
OTOH one has to wonder why Mr. Bughunter didn't type "Mike Raath Bernard Price Institute" into Google, click on the 2nd hit to find that
Mike is a vertebrate palaeontologist with a special interest in dinosaurs. He is a former Director of the BPI who left in 1987 to become Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum. On his retirement from there in 1995 he returned to the Institute as Curator of Collections. His research interests remain focused on the fauna of the Late Triassic / Early Jurassic Elliot Formation - particularly the dinosaurs.
- and has an Email-address.
Then again, why didn't Raath simply name it Syntarsussaurus?
Sure you can use SIMD! But hardly any compiler does (because it's hard for a compiler to see when they can use it, esp. when using C(++)), including AFAIK the Intel compiler. At least c't hasn't reported that anything had changed from version 4.5 in mid 2000, when it only used around 20 prefetch (not SIMD) instructions in all of the SPECint95 suite. Remember SSE also contains non-SIMD instructions.
And if you think that "this is a fair reflection of the performance a user can expect on normal code", because the norm for programs would be to be simply compiled with the "normal" compiler, you also have to use the results from the MS compiler, not from gcc or Intel.
Not "having the weapon and the ability to use it" kept this planet "safe", it was the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) that did. Knowing that "Whoever shoots first, dies second."
India and Pakistan are in a MAD situation, as are Israel and all of Arabia. Even Saddam Hussein didn't use his weapons of mass destruction in the (2nd) Gulf War, because he knew the answer would be devastating.
Bush however thinks nobody can touch the US (as if 9/11 didn't prove that to be an illusion). Planing to use nuclear arms as tactical weapons or against non-(semi-)Superpowers goes against the MAD principle (as does that silly anti-missile system).
Van Gogh died insane, bacause nobody wanted his art when he was alive. Rembrandt became famous and rich - and AFAIK had others working in his name (similar to Disney). And all Escher sites I checked give detailed Copyright information.
Bullshit. Microsoft doesn't limit supply of its software to boost prices.
But if you insist, I will not give a damn about GPL, because it conects a cost to something that is infinitly copyable - limits on what you can do with the software. So here we have it, the GPL is unconstitutional.
No, you are making a civil law argument (that IP can't phisically change posession and thus can't be stolen). I'm making a business argument. Face it, IP has value, else you wouldn't want it. So as long as anything that has value can be owned it is logical that IP is ownable. The fact that you in the US fuck up IP law totaly doesn't change that. Hell, the only reason the GNU exists is because RMS didn't want his code to be stolen.
Well, before the change programming the software wasn't taxed, but the manufacturing (as in putting it on media) was. So a SW house making the SW in Seattle, but making the CDs somewhere else, didn't have to pay taxes in Seattle - unlike a company also printing the CDs there. And yes, if you were an Amish in Seattle (big if), you'd have to pay taxes:
The city's business and occupation tax is 0.215 percent of gross receipts, minus credit for money spent on research and development, he said.
And unlike the SW producers, said Amish couldn't get around paying taxes by simply shipping the furniture somewhere else to put finishing to it.
Wether IP is real or not, it has value. Or do you think what makes software (or books or CDs etc.) sell is not the programs, writing or music, but the media it is printed on? Would you pay the exact same amount for the same media if there was just semi-random information on that media? Of course you wouldn't, you just pirate it anyway.
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He didn't even mention PCs. He was comparing MacOS X to MacOS.
So what is the benefit? You sneed that second mouse-button, yet you still have to use the keyboard to be fully operational, you gain 0.1 second for single-click instead of double-click, but you made the possibility of accidently starting an app (or opening that pr0n you wanted to stack away) much higher.
I find it quite odd that people still whine about "only one mouse button", you can do CMs with click-and-hold (there is at least one extension that does that on "classic" MacOS, as do several apps, OTOH both Windows and Linux-GUIs still need modifier keys for some things.
Of pr0n and warez, stuff that could just as well be propagated through the web and FTP.
Let it send an SMS to your cell phone.
No. "Giant Stealth Asteroid Hits Earth And Nobody Notices Until 5 Days Later" - that would be a big headline ;-)
Wthout any more information, my guess it could have hit anywhere within ca. 50% of earth's surface. If it had been 288,000 (plus/minus a few thousand) miles closer.
You mean something like this? (Found through an article (in German) in Telepolis, that draws a link to the Kate Bush song Experiment IV.
Unless you want to do something live.
OTOH one has to wonder why Mr. Bughunter didn't type "Mike Raath Bernard Price Institute" into Google, click on the 2nd hit to find that
- and has an Email-address.Then again, why didn't Raath simply name it Syntarsussaurus?
Bad for them that they don't sell Macs ;-)
And if you think that "this is a fair reflection of the performance a user can expect on normal code", because the norm for programs would be to be simply compiled with the "normal" compiler, you also have to use the results from the MS compiler, not from gcc or Intel.
One more thing, while c't said they used the Absoft Fortran compiler, they did not mention wether they also used the "VAST-F/Vector - preprocessor which automatically inserts AltiVec instructions in your code."
No, 58,000,000 Kilotons, or 58,000,000,000 tons. Or just 0.058 Teratons. Totaly harmless ;-)
Of course SPEC doesn't account for SIMD. Not even with the super-duper Intel compiler.
Eh? .005 g (grams) = 5 mg = 5000 g, that would be enough for 5 kg of kidney.
India and Pakistan are in a MAD situation, as are Israel and all of Arabia. Even Saddam Hussein didn't use his weapons of mass destruction in the (2nd) Gulf War, because he knew the answer would be devastating.
Bush however thinks nobody can touch the US (as if 9/11 didn't prove that to be an illusion). Planing to use nuclear arms as tactical weapons or against non-(semi-)Superpowers goes against the MAD principle (as does that silly anti-missile system).
Van Gogh died insane, bacause nobody wanted his art when he was alive. Rembrandt became famous and rich - and AFAIK had others working in his name (similar to Disney). And all Escher sites I checked give detailed Copyright information.
But if you insist, I will not give a damn about GPL, because it conects a cost to something that is infinitly copyable - limits on what you can do with the software. So here we have it, the GPL is unconstitutional.
No, you are making a civil law argument (that IP can't phisically change posession and thus can't be stolen). I'm making a business argument. Face it, IP has value, else you wouldn't want it. So as long as anything that has value can be owned it is logical that IP is ownable. The fact that you in the US fuck up IP law totaly doesn't change that. Hell, the only reason the GNU exists is because RMS didn't want his code to be stolen.
Wether IP is real or not, it has value. Or do you think what makes software (or books or CDs etc.) sell is not the programs, writing or music, but the media it is printed on? Would you pay the exact same amount for the same media if there was just semi-random information on that media? Of course you wouldn't, you just pirate it anyway.
interesting that you mention Playboy in the context of "kiddie mags" ;-)
No, it also does single precision FP. 128 bit wide register.