Theese examples doesnt cover cases, not any of them. The patent is covering cases and not the function of changing colours in itself. Prior art would be a computer that did what this describes. Find one and get back to us.
Okey, case modding has done almost similar things like putting a neon light into a case but i doubth that they have made the colours interchangable. I have never ever anywhere on the net seen a case that was made of semitransparent plastic and that changed colour, that idea is to me all new. I have seen some toys that does this but never ever a case for a computer.
We have to hand it to them, it would make some awsome cases. Imagine a plugin to XMMS that flashed not only the screen but the whole damn computer with the music!
Salesman: "What colour do you want your Imac in?" Customer: "Blue" salesman clicks on a button. Salesman: "There you go"
Wasnt it Microsoft who left all development of the CLI back in 90? They have since claimed it useless and worthless. If they decide to implement it now they will be atleast 10 years behind in security. That is, if they dont look at others source code and doesnt reinvent the wheel again. Either they will be up the creek without security or they will "borrow" code and knowledge from the unix world. Either way they are in for a rough ride. I suggest that we keep a close eye out for any similaritys.
I have a strong feeling that they wont go at this from scratch. That would make them implement numerous bugs into windows, again.
One last quiestion, do they think all that is linux is the CLI? What about price, freedom and developers etc? Either way, the users of windows are the real winners here. Damnit, all of you that love windows, support linux and get better windows. It should be pretty obvious by now.
Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Network as it was intended (a separate MS network), hailstorm and a slew of other troubled products from MS havent been that successful. They get is "right" sometimes but not because of superior tech, compare IE6 to Mozilla and it should be obvious what happens with MS "innovation" once competition is eliminated.
I would say that almost every single product originating from inside Redmond sucks really hard. only the ones that are bought from the outside is usable.
Why copy something that bad and awful? It sure aint easy to use for a newbie. For someone used to windows yes but that isnt because the GUI is easy but because they know it from before.
I dont want to dog them for the effort, i just dont agree with them. Some people will probably love this .
They are still at their best shoddy practises. I say sue them into limbo for whatever stunt they pull. Microsoft have shown us time and time again that they themselves doesnt believe in their own offerings since they go to such great lenght to artificially stifle all and every sign of competition.
If Microsoft doesnt think their products is worth a rats ass, why should we?
Im totally "Anything But Microsoft" and my decision seems better and better each day.
Yahoo have missed the point slightly.
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I use google not because it gives better results but because i really like the adfree slick interface. Google is user oriented and hasnt fallen into factored searches yet. I think Yahoo needs to get back to basics again and focus on users needs. There are much left to do in search engines left and advertising is not what people using them are after.
The UI in linux shouldnt be made for the sole purpose of making it easier to move from windwos to linux. Windows is not the role model i want since to much in it is backwards and messy.
What do we want from a UI is the question we should ask ourselves. We want a way to start applications, to switch between them and to arrange them. An effort from scratch in defining how we human work and then project that onto linux UI would give us a good start. Computers really need to get closer to human, thats a fact. MS Windows is getting more and more away from that and linux has the chance to take the ball and run.
With the emerging protectionism of some predatory companies on the expence of newstarters the innovation regarding to computers have almost grinded to a halt. Damn, our computers is still based on 1950 technoloygy when better ways exists but no one seems willing to take a chance and implement it with such entrenched companies as Intel and Microsoft at the helm. The USA needs aggressive enforcement of antitrust, oligopol and kill the DMCA in its cradle. The DMCA pretty much cements certain oligopols and monopolies by law.
All these stupid decisions gives the ball to other countries to play with. I think the USA can very well go the same way as Japan did in the 90's. With current leadership in the states that is dangerous as hell. Bad economy? Start a war and focus the citizens on another direction.
One of the most common complaints about linux is that you cant play games on it. If gaming shifts to consoles instead of PC maybe the PC can be left to do what it is good at, work as a multipurpose tool to do work.
I dont think internet and such will be a blast on a telly just yet. Why would i want a console needing constand upgrades and error corrections and such? I love consoles because i slap a cd in and it just works.
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Well because the software we use today doesnt lend itself volontarily to extencive automation. You can automate patch installations, users added to all relevant systems at one click of a button, backup and all such things. The problem that some people seems to have a hard time grasping is that software sucks mostly. It is ridden with faults that make any automation fail randomly no matter how well it is implemented. Thats where most IT staff is doing their job, straighten out faults in the software and installing it. Support is also very hard to automate.
Before any automation can be used on a daily basis software must get much better and have much less bugs at shipping date than today. Its a very wrong approach to go backwards and automate fixing of faults related to bugs. Fix the bugs instead.
Microsoft would give to much credibility to linux by releasing applications for it. It would be a standing invitation into linux land. Maybe if they somehow loose half their market they would think about it. If that would happen im sure that something else than linux will popup pretty fast. the only thing holding new OS back is Microsfoft, the rest of us are waiting anxciously.
As of the TCO studyes, dont take that for truth. How can you make a five year study on something that has a life expectancy of three years? It's soon update time in Windows 2000 land so this TCO study "missed" that fact by mistake? With linux you dont have to update everything at once. What about training cost after the initial two years on linux? Surely they wont stay the same all the time? The study misses alot of factors that seems to have been left out intentionally.
I would say that this study is badly skewed and has no real value.
Myself as a geek i always throw any manual out the window upon purchase. I have learned linux the hard way and even if i now manage linux pretty well i could have learned it in much shorter time. Ofcourse experience cant be read but many of the pitfalls can be avoided by reading a newbie book.
As of showing linux off at the telly it wont have to be anything special. just show that you can surf, play music, movies, write calcs and letters etc. Everything you do on windows you can do in linux.
Forbid everything connected and any terrorist can still use the net untraced. Steal a mobile phone, snatch the sim-card and put it into a mobilephone modem connected to your laptop. They really dont get it, the more people thay trace and spy on the bigger holes there will be in the net.
The most funny thing is that terorists have pretty much abandoned the net and use IRL messages while homeland security is focusing on phones and the internet to no use. This makes me wonder if the act is just an excuse to spy on USA's own citizens.
The only licenses i have a problem is those who havent anyting in them stopping embrace and extend. If the BSD license had a paragraph that stated "anything changed that hinders functioning with the original must be disclosed" i would support it fully. And yes, i have Microsoft in mind because they are the only ones that have a vessel big enough to do this easily.
Some of the best books i have ever read was science fiction novels. Even if they consist of otherwise very boring issues the Science fiction plot makes them worth the reading. Many russian books critizise society but in a very subtle manner. That is also true of many western books about the future with a small number of companies battling for world domination. They to critizise society in a subtle way. The sience fiction aspect makes it easier to view from a distance and to look at an issue from a neutral viewpoint.
How can you get better security with a pile of code that is even more molded together than WinXP? I always thought that walling off different applications from eachothers was the key to security, kind of like chroot. To make one large application is in my mind a big frozen target. If we had 20 different popular mail apps instead of one mail viruses would never had such spreading as it have had. Diversity is what saved life when the dinos died out and that applies to networked computers to.
Microsoft is really sounding a bit to much like a dictator for me to feel comfortable.
Its not denigrating gays in any way. I happen to be very open to other peoples opinions, sexual habits, politics, whatever suits you. Pull your toes in and lighten up. Our world is a shitty place to live in and the only thing that makes it possible to cope with is humor and jokes. If somebody makes jokes about muslims, jews, black, rasists, myself, nazis thats fine by me.
That said i am sorry if i may have offended you. It was ment to be a joke about the types that always complain about spelling. I get your drift but i dont think anything is to holy to make fun of.
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Theese examples doesnt cover cases, not any of them. The patent is covering cases and not the function of changing colours in itself. Prior art would be a computer that did what this describes. Find one and get back to us.
Okey, case modding has done almost similar things like putting a neon light into a case but i doubth that they have made the colours interchangable. I have never ever anywhere on the net seen a case that was made of semitransparent plastic and that changed colour, that idea is to me all new. I have seen some toys that does this but never ever a case for a computer.
We have to hand it to them, it would make some awsome cases. Imagine a plugin to XMMS that flashed not only the screen but the whole damn computer with the music!
Salesman: "What colour do you want your Imac in?"
Customer: "Blue"
salesman clicks on a button.
Salesman: "There you go"
Wasnt it Microsoft who left all development of the CLI back in 90? They have since claimed it useless and worthless. If they decide to implement it now they will be atleast 10 years behind in security. That is, if they dont look at others source code and doesnt reinvent the wheel again. Either they will be up the creek without security or they will "borrow" code and knowledge from the unix world. Either way they are in for a rough ride. I suggest that we keep a close eye out for any similaritys.
I have a strong feeling that they wont go at this from scratch. That would make them implement numerous bugs into windows, again.
One last quiestion, do they think all that is linux is the CLI? What about price, freedom and developers etc? Either way, the users of windows are the real winners here. Damnit, all of you that love windows, support linux and get better windows. It should be pretty obvious by now.
This sounds like an excellent chip to use when building networking hardware. I want one for my toaster!
And no, it is not aimed at notebooks or desktops you imbecills!
Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Network as it was intended (a separate MS network), hailstorm and a slew of other troubled products from MS havent been that successful. They get is "right" sometimes but not because of superior tech, compare IE6 to Mozilla and it should be obvious what happens with MS "innovation" once competition is eliminated.
I would say that almost every single product originating from inside Redmond sucks really hard. only the ones that are bought from the outside is usable.
Why copy something that bad and awful? It sure aint easy to use for a newbie. For someone used to windows yes but that isnt because the GUI is easy but because they know it from before.
I dont want to dog them for the effort, i just dont agree with them. Some people will probably love this .
This: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28677.html
They are still at their best shoddy practises. I say sue them into limbo for whatever stunt they pull. Microsoft have shown us time and time again that they themselves doesnt believe in their own offerings since they go to such great lenght to artificially stifle all and every sign of competition.
If Microsoft doesnt think their products is worth a rats ass, why should we?
Im totally "Anything But Microsoft" and my decision seems better and better each day.
I use google not because it gives better results but because i really like the adfree slick interface. Google is user oriented and hasnt fallen into factored searches yet. I think Yahoo needs to get back to basics again and focus on users needs. There are much left to do in search engines left and advertising is not what people using them are after.
You know, that wasnt funny because it is to close o reality. Is USA afraid of Sadam? No way in hell. Are they afraid that the oilprice go up? Yes!
Solution?
Get their own friendly government installed iraq.
It keeps me awake at night thanking our lord that sweden havent got anything the USA could need.
The UI in linux shouldnt be made for the sole purpose of making it easier to move from windwos to linux. Windows is not the role model i want since to much in it is backwards and messy.
What do we want from a UI is the question we should ask ourselves. We want a way to start applications, to switch between them and to arrange them. An effort from scratch in defining how we human work and then project that onto linux UI would give us a good start. Computers really need to get closer to human, thats a fact. MS Windows is getting more and more away from that and linux has the chance to take the ball and run.
I guess the hackers of the future will be both hackers and pocket thiefs. The man in the corner selling clocks get a new buisiness.
"you want an www.ibm.com/we/own/joo or a www.bank.com/all/your/base/is/in/my/pocket?"
With the emerging protectionism of some predatory companies on the expence of newstarters the innovation regarding to computers have almost grinded to a halt. Damn, our computers is still based on 1950 technoloygy when better ways exists but no one seems willing to take a chance and implement it with such entrenched companies as Intel and Microsoft at the helm. The USA needs aggressive enforcement of antitrust, oligopol and kill the DMCA in its cradle. The DMCA pretty much cements certain oligopols and monopolies by law.
All these stupid decisions gives the ball to other countries to play with. I think the USA can very well go the same way as Japan did in the 90's. With current leadership in the states that is dangerous as hell. Bad economy? Start a war and focus the citizens on another direction.
It happens right now!
One of the most common complaints about linux is that you cant play games on it. If gaming shifts to consoles instead of PC maybe the PC can be left to do what it is good at, work as a multipurpose tool to do work.
I dont think internet and such will be a blast on a telly just yet. Why would i want a console needing constand upgrades and error corrections and such? I love consoles because i slap a cd in and it just works.
Why?
Well because the software we use today doesnt lend itself volontarily to extencive automation. You can automate patch installations, users added to all relevant systems at one click of a button, backup and all such things. The problem that some people seems to have a hard time grasping is that software sucks mostly. It is ridden with faults that make any automation fail randomly no matter how well it is implemented. Thats where most IT staff is doing their job, straighten out faults in the software and installing it. Support is also very hard to automate.
Before any automation can be used on a daily basis software must get much better and have much less bugs at shipping date than today. Its a very wrong approach to go backwards and automate fixing of faults related to bugs. Fix the bugs instead.
If that code is as bad formatted as it works it would make any man without nuclear goggles blind.
I mean, ohh the horror!
Microsoft would give to much credibility to linux by releasing applications for it. It would be a standing invitation into linux land. Maybe if they somehow loose half their market they would think about it. If that would happen im sure that something else than linux will popup pretty fast. the only thing holding new OS back is Microsfoft, the rest of us are waiting anxciously.
As of the TCO studyes, dont take that for truth. How can you make a five year study on something that has a life expectancy of three years? It's soon update time in Windows 2000 land so this TCO study "missed" that fact by mistake? With linux you dont have to update everything at once. What about training cost after the initial two years on linux? Surely they wont stay the same all the time? The study misses alot of factors that seems to have been left out intentionally.
I would say that this study is badly skewed and has no real value.
Myself as a geek i always throw any manual out the window upon purchase. I have learned linux the hard way and even if i now manage linux pretty well i could have learned it in much shorter time. Ofcourse experience cant be read but many of the pitfalls can be avoided by reading a newbie book.
As of showing linux off at the telly it wont have to be anything special. just show that you can surf, play music, movies, write calcs and letters etc. Everything you do on windows you can do in linux.
Forbid everything connected and any terrorist can still use the net untraced. Steal a mobile phone, snatch the sim-card and put it into a mobilephone modem connected to your laptop. They really dont get it, the more people thay trace and spy on the bigger holes there will be in the net.
The most funny thing is that terorists have pretty much abandoned the net and use IRL messages while homeland security is focusing on phones and the internet to no use. This makes me wonder if the act is just an excuse to spy on USA's own citizens.
Too bad i dont have a single subwaystation in a 500 mile radius.
A well, cant win them all.
The only licenses i have a problem is those who havent anyting in them stopping embrace and extend. If the BSD license had a paragraph that stated "anything changed that hinders functioning with the original must be disclosed" i would support it fully. And yes, i have Microsoft in mind because they are the only ones that have a vessel big enough to do this easily.
Never forget kerberos.
Some of the best books i have ever read was science fiction novels. Even if they consist of otherwise very boring issues the Science fiction plot makes them worth the reading. Many russian books critizise society but in a very subtle manner. That is also true of many western books about the future with a small number of companies battling for world domination. They to critizise society in a subtle way. The sience fiction aspect makes it easier to view from a distance and to look at an issue from a neutral viewpoint.
Imagine an office landscape of about 100 people. It will sound like a chicken farm on fire.
Isnt handsfree silly enough to watch? Will the computer understand foul language and respond by deleting files (happens anyway if you use Windows).
I suppose youre right, my bad.
How can you get better security with a pile of code that is even more molded together than WinXP? I always thought that walling off different applications from eachothers was the key to security, kind of like chroot. To make one large application is in my mind a big frozen target. If we had 20 different popular mail apps instead of one mail viruses would never had such spreading as it have had. Diversity is what saved life when the dinos died out and that applies to networked computers to.
Microsoft is really sounding a bit to much like a dictator for me to feel comfortable.
Its not denigrating gays in any way. I happen to be very open to other peoples opinions, sexual habits, politics, whatever suits you. Pull your toes in and lighten up. Our world is a shitty place to live in and the only thing that makes it possible to cope with is humor and jokes. If somebody makes jokes about muslims, jews, black, rasists, myself, nazis thats fine by me.
That said i am sorry if i may have offended you. It was ment to be a joke about the types that always complain about spelling. I get your drift but i dont think anything is to holy to make fun of.