How can you patent such a concept as "buy it now?" Frankly, I love it and use it all them time -- it lets me land an eBay item before someone else does, albeit for a bit more. But hey, we'll see what happens in court. I'm behind eBay all the way on this one.
P.S. I'm off to patent the use of cars on roadways, so y'all'll have to stop driving when I win! Muhahaha!
I still can't figure out why someone hasn't created a window manager that replicates the Windows Classic (or even MacOS Classic) interface - small footprint, quick, usable. It seems that all the Windows-alikes have the same problem: bloat introduced by "skinning" features. The closest thing that comes to this is IceWM and it still sucks (i.e., contains skinning, themes, etc). What we really need is something like the original Windows NT explorer. I can run that on a P-200 with decent speed, but throw X on there with Ice WM (which is "supposedly" lightweight) and it crawls. Everyone tells me that X is not the problem, it's the Window manager. Well, let's get to work, guys! It seems that X window managers fall under this concept: Fast or looks like ass. Pick one. Can we have one that's a happy medium?
Yeah come to think of it, most girls that do this type of "modeling" are quite fucked up in the most creative of ways. They're the farthest from "normal girl" as you can get, although you can't really tell that from the pictures.
Actually I still use the 2.x series, which they still continue to develop for. ('Classic') It's quite stable and now has video support too in the latest version (I'm running 2.91).
And there could be serious copy protections, but I get the feeling that many software companies WANT their software to be pirated (by home users) so the same people want to use say MS Office or Photoshop at their workplace.
Exactly. Why do you think Microsoft lets me and every other student at my university purchase just about every title of their software for $5? It's all psychological, my friend.
Just from glancing at it, it's a crappy square wave output anyway. You can get this from a 3 cent clock crystal and a couple of flip flops. I think this is over-engineering the idea.
This is NOT NEW. I actually submitted a story about this a full year ago and it got rejected. In fact we have some of these folks on Slashdot right now. My radio station got this guy's CD in the mail... I thought the license was quite interesting so feel free to check out his site here: rootrecords.org
Although I do see a problem with this just as with some GPL software... how do you prove that your original source was ripped off by someone else, who is now making millions?
So have I. Really cool guy. Make him tell you the story about when his parents came home to find out he ripped a giant hole in the backyard of the house so he could build a machine shop in the basement.
It seems that everybody gets sold on the stupidest things these days... just look at American Idol. Star Search has been around for how long? Sure FIRST has been around since '92 but a lot of people don't care -- they'd rather be sold on something as ridiculous as "BattleBots." I think a lot of people would fail to see the connection between FIRST and "That Segway Guy..." but hey, the segway got lots of coverage in the news so it's got to be good, right?
The only thing I still miss are the mouse gestures.
Actually in IE if you hold down the shift key, the scroll-wheel becomes a back-forward wheel, which is all I used the gestures for when I used Opera. Although they were cool, I have to admit.
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First, run Office Update so you have at least Outlook SP1 (SP2 has been out for a while, in fact). Next, add the following value to the registry:
i on s/Mail
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/Outlook/Opt
REG_DWORD: ReadAsPlain = 0x01
Outlook will convert all HTML to plain text before rendering it, and turn all embedded images, etc into attachments.
Thought I'd share that little tidbit.
This is good. And as you can see, it's no $20 pre-amp.
How can you patent such a concept as "buy it now?" Frankly, I love it and use it all them time -- it lets me land an eBay item before someone else does, albeit for a bit more. But hey, we'll see what happens in court. I'm behind eBay all the way on this one.
P.S. I'm off to patent the use of cars on roadways, so y'all'll have to stop driving when I win! Muhahaha!
I still can't figure out why someone hasn't created a window manager that replicates the Windows Classic (or even MacOS Classic) interface - small footprint, quick, usable. It seems that all the Windows-alikes have the same problem: bloat introduced by "skinning" features. The closest thing that comes to this is IceWM and it still sucks (i.e., contains skinning, themes, etc). What we really need is something like the original Windows NT explorer. I can run that on a P-200 with decent speed, but throw X on there with Ice WM (which is "supposedly" lightweight) and it crawls. Everyone tells me that X is not the problem, it's the Window manager. Well, let's get to work, guys! It seems that X window managers fall under this concept: Fast or looks like ass. Pick one. Can we have one that's a happy medium?
Yeah that is creepy, isn't it? Makes you wonder if her father is really Pete Townshend...
Yeah come to think of it, most girls that do this type of "modeling" are quite fucked up in the most creative of ways. They're the farthest from "normal girl" as you can get, although you can't really tell that from the pictures.
You post something like this on Slashdot? I hear the wrists flailing away as a rush of furious masturbation is about to begin...
Actually I still use the 2.x series, which they still continue to develop for. ('Classic') It's quite stable and now has video support too in the latest version (I'm running 2.91).
"Will all the German OSes please add 500 points, and all the American ones please subract 500 points."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Playstation 2's!
Kind of like breaking into a pimped-out ride and stealing the fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror.
And there could be serious copy protections, but I get the feeling that many software companies WANT their software to be pirated (by home users) so the same people want to use say MS Office or Photoshop at their workplace.
Exactly. Why do you think Microsoft lets me and every other student at my university purchase just about every title of their software for $5? It's all psychological, my friend.
If all you want is a square wave, you can do that with a pair of op amps, a few resistors and capacitors. Total price is less than $1.50.
Just from glancing at it, it's a crappy square wave output anyway. You can get this from a 3 cent clock crystal and a couple of flip flops. I think this is over-engineering the idea.
Umm... okay that's why they're developing that version of WMP for Linux-enabled devices, right...? Hmm, oh yeah! Now it makes sense.
This is NOT NEW. I actually submitted a story about this a full year ago and it got rejected. In fact we have some of these folks on Slashdot right now. My radio station got this guy's CD in the mail... I thought the license was quite interesting so feel free to check out his site here: rootrecords.org
Although I do see a problem with this just as with some GPL software... how do you prove that your original source was ripped off by someone else, who is now making millions?
So have I. Really cool guy. Make him tell you the story about when his parents came home to find out he ripped a giant hole in the backyard of the house so he could build a machine shop in the basement.
FIRST robots already have basic AI. I think you missed my point.
It seems that everybody gets sold on the stupidest things these days... just look at American Idol. Star Search has been around for how long? Sure FIRST has been around since '92 but a lot of people don't care -- they'd rather be sold on something as ridiculous as "BattleBots." I think a lot of people would fail to see the connection between FIRST and "That Segway Guy..." but hey, the segway got lots of coverage in the news so it's got to be good, right?
Sad, really.
What happens when you get hit by a bus?
Actually the Zaurus he mentions crashing in the article runs a roll-your-own Linux kernel... ;)
Heh, I forgot, while you are using Opera you're usually masturbating with the other hand, right?
The only thing I still miss are the mouse gestures.
Actually in IE if you hold down the shift key, the scroll-wheel becomes a back-forward wheel, which is all I used the gestures for when I used Opera. Although they were cool, I have to admit.
Warning! The slice of pizza I had for lunch wasn't free either.
Some things are just worth paying for.
Sounds like this guy's got a job waiting for him at the NY Times.