ALL keyboard shortcuts are user-definable, and really easily. (Just mouse over the option/menu_item you want to redefine and press the keyboard shortcut you want to use for it) so making them all Photoshop-compatibile isn't a really hard work.
I don't know about 2.0 but in 1.2 the icon layout was following windows dimensions. [launching gimp, trying out] Yeah. Can be easily arranged into a single or double vertical or horizontal row of icons by plain dragging the resize corner to make the window a narrow bar. Yeah, one plus of so hated separate resizable windows...
Wumpus: Big, heavy, VERY stinky (smells 2 rooms away), slow (rarely moves), thick-skinned (needs several arrow hits, doesn't care about bats), ravenous (eats you as soon as you enter his room) and rather stupid (moves randomly).
So, the improvements aren't really welcome, right?
Yeah, if you only know when the power goes out and can switch to batteries before that. Your average UPS is a bit more than batteries and inverter. It has quite a bit of "smart" electronics that keep the output voltage characteristocs constant. They even take care so the continuation of the sine wave on power loss seamlessly continues the power line wave.
So what? If the idea got into "public domain" before the patent claim was made, sorry. It's in public domain, no matter who did it first. Keep your inventions strictly in secret before you bring your papers to the patent office. Just like my post on 8052 forum about an idea I had got the response: "If you ever planned to patent and build it, sorry, by posting it to this forum you just released your idea to public domain. It's not patentable anymore."
Because Ethernet was never meant for outdoor use. One mild storm and you need to replace 20+% network cards, hubs, switches etc. And while it pays in terms of cost of hardware (i.e. they are inexpensive enough for such "single use") it doesn't pay in terms of manpower - a small ISP can afford sending a team over 20 houses to replace broken hardware. A big ISP would need an army of workers for such a work.
Most of modern military communication devices dynamically change frequencies and use various techniques to prevent jamming - just in case the enemy does so. They are pretty effective at that too. But civilian service class radios, like the police, emergency rescue etc all are vulnerable...
In my town great most providers advertise like this. They just install ethernet lines between people's houses. And then say, 500 customers, each on 10 mbit line are all plugged into one 1mbit line connecting with the rest of the world. Yeah, transfers like 1KB/s are quite common.
...till the projects simply branch. From earlier versions covered strictly under GNU (which is non-revokable once given version is released), a GNU "development offspring" should appear, and for example next to non-GNU XFree86 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, something like XFree86 4.4g, 4.5g, 4.6g will be created - by a team of independent developers who don't agree to taking the freedom away and write it their own way.
Think "View"+"Inventory". Or "Front"+"rear". But seriously a plane simulator with readable, full dashboard would leave no room for anything else than the dashboard...
But not with photocopiers. This trend is getting more common, a decent quality small digital camera or a cellular phone with built-in one, youth just pick the magazines, flip pages making photos, then leave the paper version and read the new issue of their favourite $20 magazine for free, from screens of their computers. If they like it, they sometimes buy the dead tree version.
As "end targets" of the process, they transform data into false money. Not much can be done further. Cutting, macerating to make them look old, or whatever you plan to do with fake money. And if they don't look like real, you can safely print them and assume they are not real.
But what about scanners and editing software? Bullshit. I scan in $1 to paste my face in and morph it to pink. How illegal is that? I want to include a pile of bills in a clipart I create. I want to create textures for a game I write. I can't, because the data - before being processed - is considered "intended for illegal use". That's complete bullshit. Scanners and image processing software are no place for anti-counterfeiting measures.
It's like I approach a military base and put a film in my camera. I get arrested for taking photos of military objects, even though I didn't even aim my camera at them, and never intended to.
People keep saying: An open source programmer will write a feature X that is like in Windows and Microsoft will sue them for stealing the code because now the code is available.
Somebody explain please... what stops the programmer from looking at corresponding part of Windows source code and making totally sure their code is all the way UNLIKE Windows source? Just making sure that no single line looks the same, that no single procedure uses all the same algorithm, and if it does, modify it in such a way, that it derives from Windows just in that way that it is completely opposite? And then ask MS people to show a single infriging line of code. It can still be a patent infrigement. But not copyright.
Ok, name a common item that is called Xerox and is not a copier. Like, take a dump and flush the xerox. Or Let's rent a xerox and go sailing.
"generic name".
If Microsoft called their product Mindows ofr Gindows, they would have a point suing Lindows. But since they called it a generic name, they could just as well sue "Roof windows" producers, engineers who use "Time Window" term, or Window Cleaners. The term is too generic, too common.
In the other hand, idiocies happen. A Linux Mobile site Mobil-X has been successfully sued by people who produce Asterix series. The case has been appealed.
Note currently the world is headed towards situation where ANY hunger for riches (in meaning "material goods") can be satisfied. Then both socialism and communism as economical systems can exist - when people see there's not much point in being even more rich. Everyone gets as much "common" goods as they'd ever need and that's it. Only unique stuff - art, land, remains something worth any pursuit.
In the other hand, need for power has nothing in common with capitalism-communism thing. It's entirely totalitarism-democracy thing, and totalitarism to democracy in terms of freedom or control over people is entirely like capitalism to communism in terms of sharing material goods.
Like the Open Source Software? RMS had this idea and it was a complete utopia... First off, we were talking about ideas and underlying rules, not about whether they are possible or what (wrong) methods should be applied to get them to work. And second, never say never. It may be within our lifespan, when robotics expands so far, that only marginal amount of human labour may be required, and production already can provide more goods than the market can swallow (note around the half of XX Century that was not the case), so system of distribution of goods will HAVE to change (when 50% people lose jobs and 80% of the rest is kept despite being unnecessary), simply work in classic meaning as the main source of income will become unreachable and will have to be obsoleted by something. By what? I don't know. But somehow you will have to be able to get your goods produced by thousands of factories, despite the fact you don't work or work just a little. Trying to force status quo (capitalism) in conditions, where there will be no way to earn money for people, may lead to serious crisis. But gradually replacing the system with socialism or communism (rather socialism though) could help. You just no longer need to work to make a living. You may work to make a little or a lot extra, if you can, but you can live quite comfortably without working at all. That's where the world is heading and nothing short of a serious disaster (which CAN happen of course) is going to change that.
For damn long while I pondered what the hell they mean in the message. World Dialup is Pulver Free, that is Without Pulver. And what does FCC rule on this Pulver Free Word Dialup? The rest wasn't much easier either, until "Pulver.com's"...
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ALL keyboard shortcuts are user-definable, and really easily. (Just mouse over the option/menu_item you want to redefine and press the keyboard shortcut you want to use for it) so making them all Photoshop-compatibile isn't a really hard work.
I don't know about 2.0 but in 1.2 the icon layout was following windows dimensions. [launching gimp, trying out] Yeah. Can be easily arranged into a single or double vertical or horizontal row of icons by plain dragging the resize corner to make the window a narrow bar.
Yeah, one plus of so hated separate resizable windows...
Wumpus: Big, heavy, VERY stinky (smells 2 rooms away), slow (rarely moves), thick-skinned (needs several arrow hits, doesn't care about bats), ravenous (eats you as soon as you enter his room) and rather stupid (moves randomly).
So, the improvements aren't really welcome, right?
Nope. Just play "hunt the wumpus" for a few hours and you will learn to estimate how much wumpus things are.
Yeah, if you only know when the power goes out and can switch to batteries before that. Your average UPS is a bit more than batteries and inverter. It has quite a bit of "smart" electronics that keep the output voltage characteristocs constant. They even take care so the continuation of the sine wave on power loss seamlessly continues the power line wave.
Yeah. But this book is not for the real hardware hackers. It's for those, who want to become ones. Learn from examples, then design your own.
So what? If the idea got into "public domain" before the patent claim was made, sorry. It's in public domain, no matter who did it first.
Keep your inventions strictly in secret before you bring your papers to the patent office. Just like my post on 8052 forum about an idea I had got the response: "If you ever planned to patent and build it, sorry, by posting it to this forum you just released your idea to public domain. It's not patentable anymore."
Because Ethernet was never meant for outdoor use.
One mild storm and you need to replace 20+% network cards, hubs, switches etc. And while it pays in terms of cost of hardware (i.e. they are inexpensive enough for such "single use") it doesn't pay in terms of manpower - a small ISP can afford sending a team over 20 houses to replace broken hardware. A big ISP would need an army of workers for such a work.
Downtime is about 5%.
Most of modern military communication devices dynamically change frequencies and use various techniques to prevent jamming - just in case the enemy does so. They are pretty effective at that too.
But civilian service class radios, like the police, emergency rescue etc all are vulnerable...
I add "...to Provider's nearest host".
In my town great most providers advertise like this. They just install ethernet lines between people's houses. And then say, 500 customers, each on 10 mbit line are all plugged into one 1mbit line connecting with the rest of the world.
Yeah, transfers like 1KB/s are quite common.
...at such rate that there will be no Great Crunch, doesn't mean WE (oour solar system) won't get swallowed by a black hole.
...till the projects simply branch.
From earlier versions covered strictly under GNU (which is non-revokable once given version is released), a GNU "development offspring" should appear, and for example next to non-GNU XFree86 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, something like XFree86 4.4g, 4.5g, 4.6g will be created - by a team of independent developers who don't agree to taking the freedom away and write it their own way.
Whom is SCO about to sue?
* Google
* IBM
* German government
* Linus
* Microsoft
* Me
* I know but I won't tell
* CowboyNeal
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Think "View"+"Inventory". Or "Front"+"rear". But seriously a plane simulator with readable, full dashboard would leave no room for anything else than the dashboard...
...how to run text console on one head and X on the other.
But not with photocopiers. This trend is getting more common, a decent quality small digital camera or a cellular phone with built-in one, youth just pick the magazines, flip pages making photos, then leave the paper version and read the new issue of their favourite $20 magazine for free, from screens of their computers.
If they like it, they sometimes buy the dead tree version.
As "end targets" of the process, they transform data into false money. Not much can be done further. Cutting, macerating to make them look old, or whatever you plan to do with fake money. And if they don't look like real, you can safely print them and assume they are not real.
But what about scanners and editing software? Bullshit. I scan in $1 to paste my face in and morph it to pink. How illegal is that? I want to include a pile of bills in a clipart I create. I want to create textures for a game I write. I can't, because the data - before being processed - is considered "intended for illegal use". That's complete bullshit. Scanners and image processing software are no place for anti-counterfeiting measures.
It's like I approach a military base and put a film in my camera. I get arrested for taking photos of military objects, even though I didn't even aim my camera at them, and never intended to.
People keep saying:
An open source programmer will write a feature X that is like in Windows and Microsoft will sue them for stealing the code because now the code is available.
Somebody explain please... what stops the programmer from looking at corresponding part of Windows source code and making totally sure their code is all the way UNLIKE Windows source? Just making sure that no single line looks the same, that no single procedure uses all the same algorithm, and if it does, modify it in such a way, that it derives from Windows just in that way that it is completely opposite? And then ask MS people to show a single infriging line of code. It can still be a patent infrigement. But not copyright.
Ok, name a common item that is called Xerox and is not a copier. Like, take a dump and flush the xerox. Or Let's rent a xerox and go sailing.
"generic name".
If Microsoft called their product Mindows ofr Gindows, they would have a point suing Lindows. But since they called it a generic name, they could just as well sue "Roof windows" producers, engineers who use "Time Window" term, or Window Cleaners. The term is too generic, too common.
In the other hand, idiocies happen. A Linux Mobile site Mobil-X has been successfully sued by people who produce Asterix series. The case has been appealed.
You get the right for freedom of speech.
Not the right of freedom after speech.
Although, when she's in heat, you'd rather wish her to stop, as this can get quite exhausting, but just in case...
Found in fortune file.
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twines
Tell me why the sky's so blue
And I will tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine
Phototropism makes ivy twine
Rayleigh Scattering makes sky so blue
Sexual hormones are why I love you.
Note currently the world is headed towards situation where ANY hunger for riches (in meaning "material goods") can be satisfied. Then both socialism and communism as economical systems can exist - when people see there's not much point in being even more rich. Everyone gets as much "common" goods as they'd ever need and that's it. Only unique stuff - art, land, remains something worth any pursuit.
In the other hand, need for power has nothing in common with capitalism-communism thing. It's entirely totalitarism-democracy thing, and totalitarism to democracy in terms of freedom or control over people is entirely like capitalism to communism in terms of sharing material goods.
Like the Open Source Software? RMS had this idea and it was a complete utopia...
First off, we were talking about ideas and underlying rules, not about whether they are possible or what (wrong) methods should be applied to get them to work.
And second, never say never. It may be within our lifespan, when robotics expands so far, that only marginal amount of human labour may be required, and production already can provide more goods than the market can swallow (note around the half of XX Century that was not the case), so system of distribution of goods will HAVE to change (when 50% people lose jobs and 80% of the rest is kept despite being unnecessary), simply work in classic meaning as the main source of income will become unreachable and will have to be obsoleted by something. By what? I don't know. But somehow you will have to be able to get your goods produced by thousands of factories, despite the fact you don't work or work just a little. Trying to force status quo (capitalism) in conditions, where there will be no way to earn money for people, may lead to serious crisis. But gradually replacing the system with socialism or communism (rather socialism though) could help. You just no longer need to work to make a living. You may work to make a little or a lot extra, if you can, but you can live quite comfortably without working at all.
That's where the world is heading and nothing short of a serious disaster (which CAN happen of course) is going to change that.
FCC Rules On Pulver Free World Dialup
For damn long while I pondered what the hell they mean in the message. World Dialup is Pulver Free, that is Without Pulver. And what does FCC rule on this Pulver Free Word Dialup? The rest wasn't much easier either, until "Pulver.com's"...