All these companies making players that will only play their (DRM) formats. We have MP3 walkmans, discmans, the ipod, Microsoft's newly announced thing. I'm waiting for someone to make something like an ipod that runs Linux, stores gigs of data like the ipod, and that I can compile xmms on to play whatever the hell audio format I want, as well as using it to store all my personal files to transfer from computer to computer via USB. Maybe like a Zaurus with massive HD capacity.
Last time I looked (a couple of months ago), the Win98 updates were a couple of dozen.exe files. That's no good. What is needed is one big executable that contains them all, and installs the ones you choose. There's no point installing, I don't know, that HD shutdown fix if you don't need it, or indeed if installing it when you don't need it could break something.
What is it with confusing illiterates using "anymore" when they shouldn't? This and the previous Ask Slashdot: Exporting Myself summaries had me reading those bits twice to decipher what the author actually meant.
I wish to know that at least one of the main desktop Linux distros will stick around for many years, be it Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, whatever. Otherwise, how can "Linux be ready for the desktop" if all the distros close down or stop supporting after a short while? Imagine it, you've managed to persuade your friend|relative to use [insert distro] only to have it stop being supported next year. At least with a Microsoft OS, you know it's going to be a few years before they stop updating, patching etc, it.
You're getting into the movie when all of a sudden it uses an unedited sound from elsewhere and you're totally taken out of the movie because of it. How hard can it be to record your own sounds, for chrissake? At least you'd have the 'bonus' of it sounding authentic.
Most famously (for me) is its copious use in Aliens, but the earliest work I've heard it in is the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, nigh on 30 years before Doom.
Of course I haven't RTFA, but I hope it pops up a dialog box asking what to do instead of barging straight on in and changing all the (firewall) settings.
Me too. I've done a couple of trips to the USA, renting a car, driving around, buying petrol ('gas'), renting motel rooms, buying tickets to national parks, and other activities that puts my hard earned cash into the American economy. No more, I guess. I've heard too many horror stories lately and moves like this only serve to add fuel to the fire (or add to the smoke).
Spot on. I'm trying to convince my father that Linux is the way to go for his work desktops, and it's rather hard when the OOo and Mozilla file dialogs do not contain that beautiful shortcut to the floppy disk. I've had to set up a link to/mnt/floppy in his home dir instead.
Down with custom file dialogs! Hooray for KDE file dialogs!
That's great, but what happens when MS stop the Win98 updates? I'd like to be able to download all the updates as one big file that I can burn and keep forever. I think there are many small.exe's someone on microsoft.com for each update, but that's kind of shit because not all.exe's are suitable for your system. One big.exe that installs all the updates that is required would be good.
So you told your friend that you would help him set up computers to use the internet at his university and now that he actually wants you to help him, you're in the shit. LOL.
In short, HTAs pack all the power of Microsoft Internet Explorer--its object model, performance, rendering power, protocol support, and channel-download technology--without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser."
I think it's fair to say nobody would want to infringe on this patent anyway.
Aren't patents meant to protect their inventors from their implementations being stolen, to prevent loss of profit this way, and to promote competition?
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Pervert.
Oh, OK :-)
Totally agree, except I couldn't care less about whether it's innovative or not.
I don't see why any business in Isreal should have to change from MS Office to whatever. Just use rtf.
All these companies making players that will only play their (DRM) formats. We have MP3 walkmans, discmans, the ipod, Microsoft's newly announced thing. I'm waiting for someone to make something like an ipod that runs Linux, stores gigs of data like the ipod, and that I can compile xmms on to play whatever the hell audio format I want, as well as using it to store all my personal files to transfer from computer to computer via USB. Maybe like a Zaurus with massive HD capacity.
And have the audio and video players accept plug-ins for future formats.
Come to think of it, there's no reason to have usable USB ports on corporate desktop PCs.
I think it's the least MS could do.
What is it with confusing illiterates using "anymore" when they shouldn't? This and the previous Ask Slashdot: Exporting Myself summaries had me reading those bits twice to decipher what the author actually meant.
I wish to know that at least one of the main desktop Linux distros will stick around for many years, be it Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, whatever. Otherwise, how can "Linux be ready for the desktop" if all the distros close down or stop supporting after a short while? Imagine it, you've managed to persuade your friend|relative to use [insert distro] only to have it stop being supported next year. At least with a Microsoft OS, you know it's going to be a few years before they stop updating, patching etc, it.
You're getting into the movie when all of a sudden it uses an unedited sound from elsewhere and you're totally taken out of the movie because of it. How hard can it be to record your own sounds, for chrissake? At least you'd have the 'bonus' of it sounding authentic.
Most famously (for me) is its copious use in Aliens, but the earliest work I've heard it in is the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, nigh on 30 years before Doom.
./setiathome &
./foldingathome &
./distributeddotnet &
of course../setiathome & ./foldingathome & ./distributeddotnet &
Where is the problem?
I have news for them.
Of course I haven't RTFA, but I hope it pops up a dialog box asking what to do instead of barging straight on in and changing all the (firewall) settings.
So that information was once considered private, but now isn't. Funny, I don't remember being asked.
Me too. I've done a couple of trips to the USA, renting a car, driving around, buying petrol ('gas'), renting motel rooms, buying tickets to national parks, and other activities that puts my hard earned cash into the American economy. No more, I guess. I've heard too many horror stories lately and moves like this only serve to add fuel to the fire (or add to the smoke).
A .avi can be in one of any number of codecs. It's just a suffix.
Spot on. I'm trying to convince my father that Linux is the way to go for his work desktops, and it's rather hard when the OOo and Mozilla file dialogs do not contain that beautiful shortcut to the floppy disk. I've had to set up a link to /mnt/floppy in his home dir instead.
Down with custom file dialogs! Hooray for KDE file dialogs!
No.
That's great, but what happens when MS stop the Win98 updates? I'd like to be able to download all the updates as one big file that I can burn and keep forever. I think there are many small .exe's someone on microsoft.com for each update, but that's kind of shit because not all .exe's are suitable for your system. One big .exe that installs all the updates that is required would be good.
So you told your friend that you would help him set up computers to use the internet at his university and now that he actually wants you to help him, you're in the shit. LOL.
I think it's fair to say nobody would want to infringe on this patent anyway.
Why does Microsoft need to patent this?