This isn't a patent on 'fast user switching', this is a patent on switching multiple incarnations of the same user--as El Reg says, "persona switching".
Multiple people in one person's head, not multiple people in one room.
Yeah, that's what a lot of people just don't understand. It may be easy to type a short command in a shell window, but most end-user/average consumer types are deathly afraid of the command-line. (I'd like to blame DOS's shitty CLI for this, as bash and the C shells are nice.)
What? Screw preventing people from selling video games to minors--what about banning saled of Windows to minors? Surely that's far more damaging than Halo or Half-Life.
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply it by the probably rate of failure, B, then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
(The scene was referenced in an earlier comment, but no one bothered quoting that line, unless I missed it somewhere.:-))
If you listen to the commentaries on the good DVD set, you'll find out two things:
1. Confirmation that the narrator is referred to as "Jack" in the scripts because they had to call him something, and "narrator" didn't work well;
2. And Brad Pitt was/perfect/ for the role of Tyler. He has a definite Tyler streak in him.
Two cents.:-)
Oh, one more thing . . . In the book, the name "Jack" isn't to be found. Rather, the original Reader's Digest article referenced in the book used the name "Joe".
As a few funny posts have pointed out, you'll never see reviews for products in the stores, and if you/do/ see them, you aren't going to see the really terrible reviews--accurate, perhaps, but still bad, so their accuracy is irrelevant--in the store next to the aisle where you'll find said reviewed product.
Not to take the opportunity to take a shot at Microsoft (seriously), but IE does something in the same mindset. Rather, it doesn't do something:
It doesn't block pop-up windows. Why? Advertising is what would be blocked, and Microsoft wants more people to advocate its browser. If company A has a product that company B is going to hide or recommend you don't touch, company A won't care about company B's method of delivery.
Don't blame Apple for this one (even if you aren't, sorry). Apple wants to expand overseas with its music service, but at the moment, the big 5 record labels either aren't interested or won't do it for some More Ominous Reason(tm) like distribution control fears or something else stupid.:-/
The majority of Slashdotters, I imagine, are not subscribers, so I'm not directing this toward those of you who are. You guys are paying for duplicate stories (not that major papers don't do this, too, but still). That kinda sucks, and I can understand why you'd be upset.
But to everyone else bitching to hell and back about duplicate posts (in redundant, duplicate posts to begin with), I say:
Big. Freaking. Deal.
If you don't like it sooooo much--if you have such a problem with the content of Slashdot--STOP READING SLASHDOT. You're not paying anything, you're not forced to read any of the sections, and no one here owes you anything.
I don't understand why people who are pissed off so much by typos and accidental duplicate story posts (it's not like it's done on purpose) would continue coming here just to bitch about it in the comment threads. Oh, wait, this is/Slashdot/...
I don't know JavaScript very well, and most people don't know it at all. We know how to draw a form in Acrobat, though, for people to save to disk, e-mail around, and print out.
You go tell that to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, bro. I'm sure they'd be glad to change their entire system for ya.
PDF is guaranteed to work on all of the big platforms. VB isn't.
If you use the print to PDF button, you get a flat PDF file. You can't create or manipulate PDF-based forms (insanely popular on our two campuses) without Acrobat 6.0 Professional. (Standard does it, but you can only edit documents you author. That just doesn't cut it for a large university that lives on the PDF format.)
Also, important but less so, the print to PDF button doesn't create bookmarks (chapter markers) in the PDF files it outputs.
I'm not saying it isn't a killer frickin' feature to have built-in and seamless in your OS. I love it and use it all the time. I'm just saying that there's definitely a market for the non-freeware versions of Adobe's PDF tools.
Final Cut Pro costs more than a copy of Premiere, but it has more high-end features you see on really expensive Avid setups that run you well over two grand.
If you want to mention that Premiere costs less than Final Cut Pro, please do mention that Final Cut Express costs about/half/ of what Adobe charges for Premiere, while having the same badass UI of FCP and most of the same feature set.
I'll tell you, Acrobat's a necessary app for most large businesses and just about any worth-its-salt university.
Acrobat 6.0 Professional costs a lot of money. People using the "print to PDF" button because they can't afford Acrobat (I know, not your point, but keep reading) didn't fall into the market for Acrobat 6 anyway.
Complex PDF generation (actually doing more than just making an electronically printed copy of your document with no chapters, etc.) is still in high demand, and if my sales records are anything of an indicator, it's just going to be higher in the future.
Step 2: Advertise that since spam is out of control, you're going to do everything in your power to help stop it, both in preventing spam from hitting your users and telling the government it needs to be stopped.
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That's funny, that's a link to Panther's Fast User Switching, not a link to the Location Manager.
:-/
Am I missing something in your post?
Christ on a fucking stick, this guy got it right.
This isn't a patent on 'fast user switching', this is a patent on switching multiple incarnations of the same user--as El Reg says, "persona switching".
Multiple people in one person's head, not multiple people in one room.
A hundred thousand Beowulf jokes just collided in my head . . . What's a geek to do?!
Yeah, that's what a lot of people just don't understand. It may be easy to type a short command in a shell window, but most end-user/average consumer types are deathly afraid of the command-line. (I'd like to blame DOS's shitty CLI for this, as bash and the C shells are nice.)
Geeks will use a CLI; Mom and Dad won't.
Aaaaaaaaaand, Slashdotted.
Anyone got a BitTorrent link for the movies?
HAH!
"It looks like you're trying to pin my knight! Would you like to:
- Bb4
- Qc3+
- Forfeit"
Gah. When I preview, I make typos (s/saled/sales/). When I don't preview, it's flawless.
Yay!
What? Screw preventing people from selling video games to minors--what about banning saled of Windows to minors? Surely that's far more damaging than Halo or Half-Life.
If they're in the garage, frequently exposed to the un-nicest of temperatures and humidities, perhaps they're back there, but worthless.
;-)
Might wanna bring 'em indoors, bro.
You know what they say:
:-))
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply it by the probably rate of failure, B, then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
(The scene was referenced in an earlier comment, but no one bothered quoting that line, unless I missed it somewhere.
If you listen to the commentaries on the good DVD set, you'll find out two things:
/perfect/ for the role of Tyler. He has a definite Tyler streak in him.
:-)
1. Confirmation that the narrator is referred to as "Jack" in the scripts because they had to call him something, and "narrator" didn't work well;
2. And Brad Pitt was
Two cents.
Oh, one more thing . . . In the book, the name "Jack" isn't to be found. Rather, the original Reader's Digest article referenced in the book used the name "Joe".
As a few funny posts have pointed out, you'll never see reviews for products in the stores, and if you /do/ see them, you aren't going to see the really terrible reviews--accurate, perhaps, but still bad, so their accuracy is irrelevant--in the store next to the aisle where you'll find said reviewed product.
Not to take the opportunity to take a shot at Microsoft (seriously), but IE does something in the same mindset. Rather, it doesn't do something:
It doesn't block pop-up windows. Why? Advertising is what would be blocked, and Microsoft wants more people to advocate its browser. If company A has a product that company B is going to hide or recommend you don't touch, company A won't care about company B's method of delivery.
Capitalism(tm): Pro-consumer all the way!*
*void in the real world
Unless Apple's looking at IPs and locations, absolutely nothing.
Makes you wonder if the record companies are full of shit or not. (Hint: They are.)
Don't blame Apple for this one (even if you aren't, sorry). Apple wants to expand overseas with its music service, but at the moment, the big 5 record labels either aren't interested or won't do it for some More Ominous Reason(tm) like distribution control fears or something else stupid. :-/
How much voltage is it gonna take to raise SCO's stock after the dive it's gonna take when IBM stomps them into the dirt? :-D
/hear/ my karma burning . . .
Ouch. I can
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To everyone replying to this message:
You got trolled. See also: http://users.adelphia.net/~khaosvoid/images/owned
The majority of Slashdotters, I imagine, are not subscribers, so I'm not directing this toward those of you who are. You guys are paying for duplicate stories (not that major papers don't do this, too, but still). That kinda sucks, and I can understand why you'd be upset.
/Slashdot/ ...
But to everyone else bitching to hell and back about duplicate posts (in redundant, duplicate posts to begin with), I say:
Big. Freaking. Deal.
If you don't like it sooooo much--if you have such a problem with the content of Slashdot--STOP READING SLASHDOT. You're not paying anything, you're not forced to read any of the sections, and no one here owes you anything.
I don't understand why people who are pissed off so much by typos and accidental duplicate story posts (it's not like it's done on purpose) would continue coming here just to bitch about it in the comment threads. Oh, wait, this is
What the hell are you talking about?
Why should something like this:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
Be in JavaScript and not PDF?
I don't know JavaScript very well, and most people don't know it at all. We know how to draw a form in Acrobat, though, for people to save to disk, e-mail around, and print out.
WTF?
You go tell that to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, bro. I'm sure they'd be glad to change their entire system for ya.
PDF is guaranteed to work on all of the big platforms. VB isn't.
Sure.
If you use the print to PDF button, you get a flat PDF file. You can't create or manipulate PDF-based forms (insanely popular on our two campuses) without Acrobat 6.0 Professional. (Standard does it, but you can only edit documents you author. That just doesn't cut it for a large university that lives on the PDF format.)
Also, important but less so, the print to PDF button doesn't create bookmarks (chapter markers) in the PDF files it outputs.
I'm not saying it isn't a killer frickin' feature to have built-in and seamless in your OS. I love it and use it all the time. I'm just saying that there's definitely a market for the non-freeware versions of Adobe's PDF tools.
Final Cut Pro costs more than a copy of Premiere, but it has more high-end features you see on really expensive Avid setups that run you well over two grand.
/half/ of what Adobe charges for Premiere, while having the same badass UI of FCP and most of the same feature set.
If you want to mention that Premiere costs less than Final Cut Pro, please do mention that Final Cut Express costs about
I'll tell you, Acrobat's a necessary app for most large businesses and just about any worth-its-salt university.
Acrobat 6.0 Professional costs a lot of money. People using the "print to PDF" button because they can't afford Acrobat (I know, not your point, but keep reading) didn't fall into the market for Acrobat 6 anyway.
Complex PDF generation (actually doing more than just making an electronically printed copy of your document with no chapters, etc.) is still in high demand, and if my sales records are anything of an indicator, it's just going to be higher in the future.
Okay, what prize do I win if I deface www.defacers-challenge.com?
:-)
All of their server space?
You don't need a mod chip to run unsigned code on an Xbox:
c le =8942
http://www.inquirerinside.com/default.aspx?arti
-$50, Uninformed
Step 1: Help shoot down anti-spam legislature.
... Right?
Step 2: Advertise that since spam is out of control, you're going to do everything in your power to help stop it, both in preventing spam from hitting your users and telling the government it needs to be stopped.
Step 3: Profit
I got nothing.