Some people say vi zealots are unreasonable. I disagree, I think you should have to press a special sequence of characters before you can edit a document.;)
Oh I see! So if you get a trademark first, and very few people have heard of your trademark, and then something else comes along LATER that infringes on your trademark, it's not reallllly trademark infringement? Kind of like the tree falling in the woods not really making a sound?
A more specific example:
So let's say I design a specialized embedded hardware product that very few people use/know about but it has a very cool name. Later, Microsoft hears about it and decides this name is cool too and releases a whole new software product line around it that makes billions. Since no one has heard of my trademarked hardware, and everyone has heard of Microsoft's software, they weren't really infringing on my IP?
In the future? It happens right now. Just speculating, but I think e-commerce sites remember the time of day you bought, the color of the background of the page, your HTTP referrer, anything and everything that may be useful to them to make another sale.
Is this sarcastic? I bet you 90% of non-slashdot reading computer users have absolutely no idea what a BIOS is. And probably about a similar number just "click that 'e' button" on their desktop to "logon to the internet".
I'm looking at getting a new iMac but I don't feel like paying nearly $370 CDN (260 USD) for a Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (and Apple Pro Speakers). I'd rather get the low end CD-RW drive iMac with an external DVD-ROM. Surely I could save money this way... but I'm having a hard time finding any good, reaonsably priced external Firewire DVD-ROM drives. Does anyone know of one? This one is way too much, and I wouldn't need the CD-RW capability - what computer these days DOESN'T come with a CD-RW drive?
I suppose one option is a Firewire drive kit and a $50 DVD-ROM drive. Still fairly expensive though.
Agreed! I don't think I could do 1/4 of the job I can do today if it wasn't for Google Groups. People think I know a lot, when in reality, I know how (and when) to use a search engine to find people who have already experienced the same problem as me.
Agreed. Remember what Taco thought of the iPod when it was first announced? "Lame.", IIRC. Overpriced, blah blah blah. Same with the majority of highly moderated posts in the first iPod story. A year later, geeks are all over it like a fat kid on a Smartie. (Note: I'm not slamming it, I bought one too.)
Let's not overreact here people. It might make us look stupid later.
He may not be a cybersquatter, but I think it's obvious that Bill Wyman the journalist is a "namesquatter". The nerve of him...err... his parents, to have picked that name for him at birth years before the Stone! Disgusting!
Good point. There are a lot of them I am starting to use frequently, like Winkey + R for the Run command (Like KDE Alt-F2) or Winkey + F for Find Files or Winkey + E for a Windows Explorer window.
I find that launching apps takes a long time. Sometimes the dreaded "dock bounce" continues on and on for ages.
Launching Java applications is particularly painful. However I guess that's a tradeoff you accept when you develop Java apps. Launching an OS X Java app seems faster than Windows IE loading an Applet though.
All this said; I've only tried 10.1.5. I haven't tried Jaguar yet, and it's supposed to be much speedier overall.
Of critical importance is the search word and highlight feature. Often I'll search for something like "Linux sendmail configuration." What comes up? Newsgroup posts, and often several LONG pages of them. I search via the toolbar and then click the "sendmail" button on the right, and IE scrolls down to the first occurrence of that word. Put simply, this rocks. It nearly eliminates the need for Ctrl-F and makes my searches at least 10 times as fast (since I don't have to scroll down manually or Ctrl-F and type in the word again.)
Have you tried the new Mozilla/Phoenix type-ahead find? It's a similar concept but it's built in and you don't need to use your mouse.
Ctrl+scroll wheel should size text a la IE. I know this was an open bug for a while. Has this been fixed? In my build of Mozilla (which is the original 1.0, I think) it hasn't... although I do appreciate the ability to resize text even when the web developer specifies a point size (something which IE can't currently do.)
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Hahaha. That was great.
Some people say vi zealots are unreasonable. I disagree, I think you should have to press a special sequence of characters before you can edit a document. ;)
Thanks AC! Mod this up. On Phoenix, I set mine to Western (Windows 1252) and this fixed the apostrophe problems I was having.
Exactly. I don't really know what that guy/girl was talking about.
A more specific example:
So let's say I design a specialized embedded hardware product that very few people use/know about but it has a very cool name. Later, Microsoft hears about it and decides this name is cool too and releases a whole new software product line around it that makes billions. Since no one has heard of my trademarked hardware, and everyone has heard of Microsoft's software, they weren't really infringing on my IP?
In the future? It happens right now. Just speculating, but I think e-commerce sites remember the time of day you bought, the color of the background of the page, your HTTP referrer, anything and everything that may be useful to them to make another sale.
Just to follow your suggestion:
thesaurus.com: No entry found for BIOS.
thesaurus.com: No entry found for browser.
I believe there is another type of JackRabbit that is MUCH more suitable for a present for your wife/girlfriend.
I suppose one option is a Firewire drive kit and a $50 DVD-ROM drive. Still fairly expensive though.
Agreed! I don't think I could do 1/4 of the job I can do today if it wasn't for Google Groups. People think I know a lot, when in reality, I know how (and when) to use a search engine to find people who have already experienced the same problem as me.
Let's not overreact here people. It might make us look stupid later.
Great article. Content Cartel, what a perfect phrase.
Seamlessly.... after a restart to change your code page!!
He may not be a cybersquatter, but I think it's obvious that Bill Wyman the journalist is a "namesquatter". The nerve of him ...err... his parents, to have picked that name for him at birth years before the Stone! Disgusting!
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
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Good point. There are a lot of them I am starting to use frequently, like Winkey + R for the Run command (Like KDE Alt-F2) or Winkey + F for Find Files or Winkey + E for a Windows Explorer window.
Launching Java applications is particularly painful. However I guess that's a tradeoff you accept when you develop Java apps. Launching an OS X Java app seems faster than Windows IE loading an Applet though.
All this said; I've only tried 10.1.5. I haven't tried Jaguar yet, and it's supposed to be much speedier overall.
You know what kills me... Microsoft has different meanings for "active desktop". I had to deal with the other meaning extensively on my last project.
Good question, I'm wondering that myself. Specifically, are there any IMAP filters for Windows so that I can use it at school? (Outlook)
Have you tried the new Mozilla/Phoenix type-ahead find? It's a similar concept but it's built in and you don't need to use your mouse.
Phoenix 0.4 does this.
There are no examples in Linux. Try 'man "linux-programming', it will tell you all you need to know! ;)
user_pref("mozgest.delay", 500);
user_pref("mozgest.grid", 15);
user_pref("mozgest.modifier.alt", false);
user_pref("mozgest.modifier.ctrl", false);
user_pref("mozgest.modifier.shift", false);
user_pref("mozgest.mousebutton", 1);
user_pref("mozgest.navigator", true);