Seamless OS integration. Contrast to almost any search engine, none of which tie directly to the browser, let alone let you search from inside a Word document or email message.
Mac OS X has this of sorts with Safari's google search in the toolbar and a Cocoa service which searches google for the selected text. Pretty Spiffy.
Exactly. According to _current_ laws of physics, you have to make a bend in space/time OUTSIDE you ship to counteract gravity, and it would have to simulate something really dense. Like the guy who came up with this cockamamy idea. You would destroy a lot with that much power.
Seriously, you can't alter space/time with a superconductor ring(look at their site). Their site shows no way they can do this.
Come on, zero point energy? That was in CBS's Alias TV show(Rimbaldi's music box buried in Siberia, for those who don't know). It's a joke.
All that said, I would love for something like this to work. Very much. Just it isn't possible. Go eat at Milliways.
Faster than graffiti? How slow are these people? I can use Graffiti almost as fast as I type on a full size keyboard, and I am no expert. Sure you _can_ get fast with a Treo KB, but that takes practice that Graffiti/Jot doesn't. I don't see why Palm can't make a version of at least some of their devices with a Graffiti area in addition to/instead of the thumbboard.
When Hawkins et al designed the original Pilot, they did testing to see if users liked the keyboard or the Graffiti better, and _nobody_ voted for the keyboard. Graffiti also did a better job on the 'phone test' that is, keeping up with a phone conversation better than the keyboard.
Even better, you have to ask for a specific module. How do I know what to ask for if I don't know first? I can'nt(see above) just ask for 'everything'.
What I mean is few kids have the patience to learn vi or emacs when I could just fire up Project Builder or Kate or whatever and have better functionality right there. Also, I have _never_ seen a linux box which does not require occasional tweaking from a command prompt. A Mac, you can always do it, unless you want to use some programs in X11, but that is another story.
If these are young kids, they might be happier with Mac OS X. I mean, not many kids have the patience to work with any command prompt at all. The Mac will also run M$ Word so they can write macro virii^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpapers for school.
Kinda has a ring to it, but is this practical?
I don't see anything like this ever working, but maybe vendors could change the way their EULAs are written.
...and I'll say it again:
"Those who are willing to give up an essential liberty for
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Used to be, replacing www with archive let you in, no reg needed. Then NYT plugged that hole. You had to register until somebody noticed that you could just add ?partner=GOOGLE and registration was unneeded. Then NYT added a unique ID(I think) to every story, which you must pass with the partner name. If you can get news.google.com to hand over a link, it is easy.
In theory, there is a scheme to the unique ID(Has anybody looked, is it even unique?) which could be reverse engineered, but that is a lot harder than just giving out bogus info (a@a.com is already taken, but I could just get an addr out of WPoison)
Apple has in no way attempted to lock Linux off the hardware. If fact, since the purchase of NeXT/return of Jobs, macs have been easier to port oses to. This could be a good thing for PCs, that is, they will 'just work' like Macs, or they will still need manual IRQ tweakage(and so on...) on a closed set of hardware.
I ran Linux on my G3 until I got a copy of Jaguar, and OS X is only in use because I needed a *nix environment and some proprietary software at the same time. If I had a spare x86 box, it would run Linux.
C Flat *is* used, in situations were a B natural would be notationally incorrect. C Natural is a B#, C Flat is a B-Natural. This is because C and B are only a half step apart, as are E and F
CMIIW, but he subscribers have to wait to post just like everyone else.
How about an option to turn of the "Story Coming" advertisement for some of us freeloaders who don't care to see the future?
Have you examined at all the possibility of porting Lindows to alternative hardware(ppc, m68k, x86-64) or are you very focused on the Windows market? Do you see any advantages to either staying focused on one platform or branching out?
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Seamless OS integration. Contrast to almost any search engine, none of which tie directly to the browser, let alone let you search from inside a Word document or email message.
Mac OS X has this of sorts with Safari's google search in the toolbar and a Cocoa service which searches google for the selected text. Pretty Spiffy.
Exactly. According to _current_ laws of physics, you have to make a bend in space/time OUTSIDE you ship to counteract gravity, and it would have to simulate something really dense. Like the guy who came up with this cockamamy idea. You would destroy a lot with that much power.
Seriously, you can't alter space/time with a superconductor ring(look at their site). Their site shows no way they can do this.
Come on, zero point energy? That was in CBS's Alias TV show(Rimbaldi's music box buried in Siberia, for those who don't know). It's a joke.
All that said, I would love for something like this to work. Very much. Just it isn't possible. Go eat at Milliways.
Faster than graffiti? How slow are these people? I can use Graffiti almost as fast as I type on a full size keyboard, and I am no expert. Sure you _can_ get fast with a Treo KB, but that takes practice that Graffiti/Jot doesn't. I don't see why Palm can't make a version of at least some of their devices with a Graffiti area in addition to/instead of the thumbboard.
When Hawkins et al designed the original Pilot, they did testing to see if users liked the keyboard or the Graffiti better, and _nobody_ voted for the keyboard. Graffiti also did a better job on the 'phone test' that is, keeping up with a phone conversation better than the keyboard.
I really think that graffiti/jot is the elegant solution. Palm seems to disagree, and Xerox's patent on Unistroke isn't helping the situation.
I want a device that has all these features, except it does graffiti instead of the stupid keyboard.
Just my opinion though.
Can anyone tell me if this is over the top of Cocoa, so yo get the Cocoa services and the like for no extra code?
try getting a USB printer to work and you'll find a new definition of pain and suffering
You mean like the in the Great Sarlacc of Tatooine?
Even better, you have to ask for a specific module. How do I know what to ask for if I don't know first? I can'nt(see above) just ask for 'everything'.
What I mean is few kids have the patience to learn vi or emacs when I could just fire up Project Builder or Kate or whatever and have better functionality right there. Also, I have _never_ seen a linux box which does not require occasional tweaking from a command prompt. A Mac, you can always do it, unless you want to use some programs in X11, but that is another story.
If these are young kids, they might be happier with Mac OS X. I mean, not many kids have the patience to work with any command prompt at all. The Mac will also run M$ Word so they can write macro virii^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpapers for school.
Kinda has a ring to it, but is this practical? I don't see anything like this ever working, but maybe vendors could change the way their EULAs are written.
Does this open the way to blasters and lightsabers a la Star Wars? It looks to my untrained eye that it very well might.
It looks like the area they used has hills in the right places.(Mars Hill on their map gives me this thought)
Yes, and you can use 'em up on this just as quickly.
I have set up a mirror. It will take itself down at 8pm CDT, that is 6pm PDT and 9pm EDT. http://tuxserver.ath.cx/~durin/monopoly/
...and I'll say it again: "Those who are willing to give up an essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Used to be, replacing www with archive let you in, no reg needed. Then NYT plugged that hole. You had to register until somebody noticed that you could just add ?partner=GOOGLE and registration was unneeded. Then NYT added a unique ID(I think) to every story, which you must pass with the partner name. If you can get news.google.com to hand over a link, it is easy. In theory, there is a scheme to the unique ID(Has anybody looked, is it even unique?) which could be reverse engineered, but that is a lot harder than just giving out bogus info (a@a.com is already taken, but I could just get an addr out of WPoison)
username:anonymoose1 password:aaaaa
Unless, of course the $10 is in base 2 or 3....
Apple has in no way attempted to lock Linux off the hardware. If fact, since the purchase of NeXT/return of Jobs, macs have been easier to port oses to. This could be a good thing for PCs, that is, they will 'just work' like Macs, or they will still need manual IRQ tweakage(and so on...) on a closed set of hardware. I ran Linux on my G3 until I got a copy of Jaguar, and OS X is only in use because I needed a *nix environment and some proprietary software at the same time. If I had a spare x86 box, it would run Linux.
To my understanding there was a bug in 2.0 that made it crawl. 2.3 was really snappy for me on a G3/300, as alway YMMV
C Flat *is* used, in situations were a B natural would be notationally incorrect. C Natural is a B#, C Flat is a B-Natural. This is because C and B are only a half step apart, as are E and F
.. makes me think of full-screen blue. Do I have this?
CMIIW, but he subscribers have to wait to post just like everyone else. How about an option to turn of the "Story Coming" advertisement for some of us freeloaders who don't care to see the future?
Have you examined at all the possibility of porting Lindows to alternative hardware(ppc, m68k, x86-64) or are you very focused on the Windows market? Do you see any advantages to either staying focused on one platform or branching out?