Not just algorithms, also ideas. With an algorithm there is at least a possibility to work around with another algorithm that does the same thing. When ideas get patented you are stuck for sure.
If they can make it better they should be the ones to make the billions. If they make the device you built better (as opposed to making a device that does something you thought should be done) you should get a part of the billions. Patents shouldn't impede people who want to improve things.
It's not difficult to come up with something original, the hard and expensive part is to make it work. Patents aren't intended to protect original ideas, they are there as an initiative to tell how you did what you did.
You can submit the patent as soon as you get the idea. That will promise no body else will be granted the same patent until you have had the chance to implement it (assuming your application was the first for that idea).
That is even worse, people could sit on their ideas until someone actualy figures out how to implent it and then patent their implentation.
You have no sense of style. A mouse with symetrical buttons around a scrollwheel looks better than a mouse without buttons and a mysterious knob/ball in the middle that has no visual connection to anything (the groove between the buttons connects the scrollwheel to the rest of the mouse, without them it would look out of place).
When an interface can be done well using one button developers will follow the human interface guidlines and do so. When it can't even Apple will make a 3 button mouse a requirement. Shipping with a mouse that will most probably replaced is bad enough, but at least now you can replace with an Apple branded mouse (if you don't mind pushing solid surfaces instead of clicking that is...)
You can replace with exatly the same amount of operations: select-paste-select-delete instead of select-copy-select-paste. It isn't perfect however, that's why modern toolkits allow you to drag-and-drop and use Ctrl-X/C/V operations in addition to the standard X copy and paste functionality.
I'm looking at you Internet Explorer, you Safari and you Konqueror (they don't even tell you the default, but on Ubuntu it spoofs as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;" as well as "(like Gecko)" ).
The Ubuntu release cycle is based on the Gnome release cycle: when a new gnome is released the Ubuntu team packages it up, irons out some bugs and a new Ubuntu is released. So yes, Breezy will be released shortly after Gnome 2.12 and will contain it.
I'm not at a computer with Gnome right now, but I believe rubberbanding all icons should inverse the selection, this is of course no replacement for a real 'invert selection', why don't you file a feature request?
Get a better mouse (or use the keyboard when editing text). Would you be complaining about context menus if you would right click a lot by mistake? If you would I suggest an Apple branded mouse.
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What UNIX patents? Mod the troll down.
Not just algorithms, also ideas. With an algorithm there is at least a possibility to work around with another algorithm that does the same thing. When ideas get patented you are stuck for sure.
If they can make it better they should be the ones to make the billions. If they make the device you built better (as opposed to making a device that does something you thought should be done) you should get a part of the billions. Patents shouldn't impede people who want to improve things.
It's not difficult to come up with something original, the hard and expensive part is to make it work. Patents aren't intended to protect original ideas, they are there as an initiative to tell how you did what you did.
You have no sense of style. A mouse with symetrical buttons around a scrollwheel looks better than a mouse without buttons and a mysterious knob/ball in the middle that has no visual connection to anything (the groove between the buttons connects the scrollwheel to the rest of the mouse, without them it would look out of place).
You could probably do it with a Firefox extension.
When an interface can be done well using one button developers will follow the human interface guidlines and do so. When it can't even Apple will make a 3 button mouse a requirement. Shipping with a mouse that will most probably replaced is bad enough, but at least now you can replace with an Apple branded mouse (if you don't mind pushing solid surfaces instead of clicking that is...)
You can replace with exatly the same amount of operations: select-paste-select-delete instead of select-copy-select-paste. It isn't perfect however, that's why modern toolkits allow you to drag-and-drop and use Ctrl-X/C/V operations in addition to the standard X copy and paste functionality.
Get a trackball.
Professionally designed and developed games gave notheing on NetHack.
Aore you talking about Saf-"Mozilla/5.0, like Gecko"-ari?
I'm looking at you Internet Explorer, you Safari and you Konqueror (they don't even tell you the default, but on Ubuntu it spoofs as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;" as well as "(like Gecko)" ).
The Ubuntu release cycle is based on the Gnome release cycle: when a new gnome is released the Ubuntu team packages it up, irons out some bugs and a new Ubuntu is released. So yes, Breezy will be released shortly after Gnome 2.12 and will contain it.
You may not like it, but that does not make it cluttred. Either way you can edit the toolbars in Epiphany and Icon/Text preferences for all of Gnome.
Shouldn't it be possible to compile plug-ins separately?
I'm not at a computer with Gnome right now, but I believe rubberbanding all icons should inverse the selection, this is of course no replacement for a real 'invert selection', why don't you file a feature request?
Get a better mouse (or use the keyboard when editing text). Would you be complaining about context menus if you would right click a lot by mistake? If you would I suggest an Apple branded mouse.
Their primary and only goal is to do what the owners decide.
Wolfenstein 3D is there because it's source was released (but not data).
As links to the actual sites, why aren't there link to the actual sites?
Ubuntu has one CD and unlike with MS Windows you are mostly done after that one CD.
Quotes from the website:
"Main Feature"
"Entertainment follows you"
But at least it plays vorbis.