You're right, it's NOT property. It's INTELLECTUAL property, which is a type of property, and it's a type of property because the law says it is, the same way it says your possessions are your property.
Here's why 1 button is just as good or better on a laptop even when you need to use 2 buttons:
- Left hand: The button is close enough to the ctrl key that you can easily hit both with the same hand. Ring/pinky on ctrl, thumb on the button, index on the trackpad. You may have to hop around a bit, but after you get the hang of it, it's second nature.
- Right hand: Middle finger on the arrow keys to scroll text/webpages/whatever, thumb on the button, index on the trackpad. Same deal as above. If this were a 2-button setup, with button 1 on the left and 2 on the right, you wouldn't be able to easily hit button 1 with your right thumb and your fingers on the arrow keys, unless you put your left hand down on ctrl to reverse the buttons (and that would suck), or unless you had really big hands.
I think you overestimate the pain-in-the-ass factor of the one button. Yes it's a pain for the first week or so, but then you get used to it and it's fine.
That would be too elegant and convenient. Linux/Unix doesn't do either of those because they're for morons who like to point and click at stuff like the malformed children they are.
Well, you know Unix. If you're not using the most obscure, difficult to implement, kludgey possible solution to a problem, you've obviously been brainwashed by M$ into accepting corporate bloatware over "elegant solutions."
"Corporate directory services?? Unix has been around for 30 years and we've never needed any of that bull-shite before! Everything is a file!! Who needs databases! Just use perl scripts and symlinks!!"
My question is, do people actually pay for this stuff? All the slashdotters that pay for a subscription to this turdfarm, please speak up so we can laugh at you.
Yeah, damn, sucks for you, everyone else is going to be sponging up loads of useful info from these lights. Oh well, maybe some enterprising fellow will discover this untapped market for color-blind case modders and debut a line of RAM sticks with little speakers on them.
If you were a representative from a large corporation trying to decide which school's computing research dept. to fund, would you want to give your money to the school with the computer that had lots of flashy lights, or the school with the boring computer that barely had any lights?
..types the filthy bearded unix slob who's home on a saturday night because he can't figure out why women always reject him when he tries to ask them out in grammatically correct perl
by self-righteous geeks to lord themselves over the inferior masses. I propose a different test: Everybody who endorses this idea be given one week to get a date with a reasonably intelligent, not-awful-looking female. If you don't pass, you get booted from the net. All the nerdboys would fail it and FINALLY we wouldn't have to put up with their cocksure whining anymore.
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is their "big hit"... but that's pretty much as big as it gets for the Stones. No disrespect to them or anything, but they're not really a singles band.
Well, I can understand your feelings about "One," but I would encourage you to dig deeper. "One" is not an album, it's a compilation of all of the Beatles singles that went #1 in the US. If you haven't heard Revolver or Sgt. Pepper, you should withhold judgement on the Beatles until you have, and try to take in some context. It's okay not to like them (even though I can't fathom that), but to disrespect them and call them shit is just wrong, since they basically laid most of the foundation for virtually every type of rock music that came after, directly or indirectly, even at the most fundamental levels. I was going to write a big long explanation about all this, but please see this site, they explain it just as well as I could.
Frank Sinatra and Elvis weren't bands, dopey. Anyway, yes the Beatles were like a shooting star compared to the Stones and Zep, but that only makes their accomplishments all the more amazing. Name another band that's ever put out anything like the quality AND QUANTITY of top-notch material the Beatles did in such an amazingly short period. Lots of bands today will get 2 or 3 albums out in 6 years, and be lucky to have 2 memorable songs on each. The Beatles, more than once, wrote more EXCELLENT material in 3 months than Pearl Jam will put out until Eddie Vedder starts losing control of his bowels and voting Republican. Ask the average person how many Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones songs they can name and they'll probably list about 2 or 3. Ask the same question about the Beatles and you'll get more like 25, and on top of that, everyone's list will merely be a subset of the roughly 75 or so well-known Beatles songs there are to choose from. 75!!!!! Holy fucking shit. U2 have like 10, and they've been popular 4 times as long.
Nevermind that Paul McCartney is one of the best and most underrated bass players ever and that the Beatles as a unit were musically tight as hell... yes it all fell apart for them individually after they broke up, but that's another discussion.
Actually the gov't goes after both supply and demand in the war on drugs. US has also been actively involved in voracious attempts to stamp out overseas sources, esp. in South America. MOST US politicians of the past 50 years HAVE taken a hardline stance, and it tends to be the drug lords who are a little more concerned for their safety than the prez, since they don't have the Secret Service and the US military and F16s and atomic bombs and whatnot protecting them.
Some uninformed but apparently well-meaning kid does something stupid and illegal and her mother, who IS RESPONSIBLE for her and IS IGNORANT of the law, allows it to happen, and Slashdot erupts in incredulity. What the fuck??? Yes I'm aware the family lives in public housing, but it's not like this family will be cast out onto the street or be unable to eat. They did something VERY STUPID and got called on it. Considering the sizes of some of the other lawsuits the RIAA is pushing, they should be RELIEVED they got off only owing $2k, which they will undoubtedly be privileged to pay off in installments.
Well they're both crimes. Obviously one is a lot more severe than the other, but they're both against the law, and we can choose to break them (whether or not we're ignorant of them) at our own risk.
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You're right, it's NOT property. It's INTELLECTUAL property, which is a type of property, and it's a type of property because the law says it is, the same way it says your possessions are your property.
Here's why 1 button is just as good or better on a laptop even when you need to use 2 buttons:
- Left hand: The button is close enough to the ctrl key that you can easily hit both with the same hand. Ring/pinky on ctrl, thumb on the button, index on the trackpad. You may have to hop around a bit, but after you get the hang of it, it's second nature.
- Right hand: Middle finger on the arrow keys to scroll text/webpages/whatever, thumb on the button, index on the trackpad. Same deal as above. If this were a 2-button setup, with button 1 on the left and 2 on the right, you wouldn't be able to easily hit button 1 with your right thumb and your fingers on the arrow keys, unless you put your left hand down on ctrl to reverse the buttons (and that would suck), or unless you had really big hands.
I think you overestimate the pain-in-the-ass factor of the one button. Yes it's a pain for the first week or so, but then you get used to it and it's fine.
Do they come with free magnifying glasses?
i don't think slashdotters maintain gopher sites so much as they have sex with gophers.
That would be too elegant and convenient. Linux/Unix doesn't do either of those because they're for morons who like to point and click at stuff like the malformed children they are.
Well, you know Unix. If you're not using the most obscure, difficult to implement, kludgey possible solution to a problem, you've obviously been brainwashed by M$ into accepting corporate bloatware over "elegant solutions."
"Corporate directory services?? Unix has been around for 30 years and we've never needed any of that bull-shite before! Everything is a file!! Who needs databases! Just use perl scripts and symlinks!!"
My question is, do people actually pay for this stuff? All the slashdotters that pay for a subscription to this turdfarm, please speak up so we can laugh at you.
Yeah, damn, sucks for you, everyone else is going to be sponging up loads of useful info from these lights. Oh well, maybe some enterprising fellow will discover this untapped market for color-blind case modders and debut a line of RAM sticks with little speakers on them.
If you were a representative from a large corporation trying to decide which school's computing research dept. to fund, would you want to give your money to the school with the computer that had lots of flashy lights, or the school with the boring computer that barely had any lights?
Only if you're a loser. For the other 98% of computer users, life will go on as normal.
..types the filthy bearded unix slob who's home on a saturday night because he can't figure out why women always reject him when he tries to ask them out in grammatically correct perl
As long as they aren't allowed back...
n/t
by self-righteous geeks to lord themselves over the inferior masses. I propose a different test: Everybody who endorses this idea be given one week to get a date with a reasonably intelligent, not-awful-looking female. If you don't pass, you get booted from the net. All the nerdboys would fail it and FINALLY we wouldn't have to put up with their cocksure whining anymore.
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is their "big hit"... but that's pretty much as big as it gets for the Stones. No disrespect to them or anything, but they're not really a singles band.
Well, I can understand your feelings about "One," but I would encourage you to dig deeper. "One" is not an album, it's a compilation of all of the Beatles singles that went #1 in the US. If you haven't heard Revolver or Sgt. Pepper, you should withhold judgement on the Beatles until you have, and try to take in some context. It's okay not to like them (even though I can't fathom that), but to disrespect them and call them shit is just wrong, since they basically laid most of the foundation for virtually every type of rock music that came after, directly or indirectly, even at the most fundamental levels. I was going to write a big long explanation about all this, but please see this site, they explain it just as well as I could.
Frank Sinatra and Elvis weren't bands, dopey. Anyway, yes the Beatles were like a shooting star compared to the Stones and Zep, but that only makes their accomplishments all the more amazing. Name another band that's ever put out anything like the quality AND QUANTITY of top-notch material the Beatles did in such an amazingly short period. Lots of bands today will get 2 or 3 albums out in 6 years, and be lucky to have 2 memorable songs on each. The Beatles, more than once, wrote more EXCELLENT material in 3 months than Pearl Jam will put out until Eddie Vedder starts losing control of his bowels and voting Republican. Ask the average person how many Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones songs they can name and they'll probably list about 2 or 3. Ask the same question about the Beatles and you'll get more like 25, and on top of that, everyone's list will merely be a subset of the roughly 75 or so well-known Beatles songs there are to choose from. 75!!!!! Holy fucking shit. U2 have like 10, and they've been popular 4 times as long.
Nevermind that Paul McCartney is one of the best and most underrated bass players ever and that the Beatles as a unit were musically tight as hell... yes it all fell apart for them individually after they broke up, but that's another discussion.
The Beatles suck musically?????? WTF???? What's the matter with you?
Actually the gov't goes after both supply and demand in the war on drugs. US has also been actively involved in voracious attempts to stamp out overseas sources, esp. in South America. MOST US politicians of the past 50 years HAVE taken a hardline stance, and it tends to be the drug lords who are a little more concerned for their safety than the prez, since they don't have the Secret Service and the US military and F16s and atomic bombs and whatnot protecting them.
Dear Anonymous Dipshit: YOU CAN'T SUE A 12 YEAR OLD!!!!! Which is why the RIAA sued her LEGAL GUARDIAN, which would be HER MOTHER.
Shhh, they're an evil megacorp. You know, like SCO and the RIAA. So it's okay.
...types the unbathed linux nerd sitting at his overclocked watercooled dual athlon and masturbating to hentai porn
sorry. thugz
Some uninformed but apparently well-meaning kid does something stupid and illegal and her mother, who IS RESPONSIBLE for her and IS IGNORANT of the law, allows it to happen, and Slashdot erupts in incredulity. What the fuck??? Yes I'm aware the family lives in public housing, but it's not like this family will be cast out onto the street or be unable to eat. They did something VERY STUPID and got called on it. Considering the sizes of some of the other lawsuits the RIAA is pushing, they should be RELIEVED they got off only owing $2k, which they will undoubtedly be privileged to pay off in installments.
Well they're both crimes. Obviously one is a lot more severe than the other, but they're both against the law, and we can choose to break them (whether or not we're ignorant of them) at our own risk.