I'm sorry I read your comment, but I want my 6 seconds back, you thieving bastard.
That the CDDL is inapplicable to patents is a very valid point and, if true, nullifies the entire benefit of this "release." I may be flamebait, but you're just offtopic.
The important thing is that I see another pretentious "stop whining you sissy" AC on slashdot telling me that I fear change. People like me may or may not be few and far between, but people like you aren't. You piss and moan because I want another choice, pretending that if I have it my way that everyone else can't have it theirs. You think everyone else uses the computer in the exact same way as you, and therefore since you don't have a problem with a single mousebutton, I shouldn't either.
You're ignorant. Other than that, we can coexist without our preferences making each other feel threatened.
Thanks for the link! I still prefer actual buttons because I don't have to think as much to figure out what I'm touching, but this driver would make it more bearable. Now we need a Linux driver to do the same thing, though - OS X is great, but I'm a total zealot.
While I won't judge Apple for refusing to ship a 3-button mouse, I will say it's the one thing that keeps me from buying one of their laptops. When I'm using X applications, the PRIMARY buffer is my best friend. Copying text via simple selection and pasting just by clicking the middle mouse button does actually help me work faster.
And please don't tell me that I can just plug in a USB mouse. My Apple-owning friends have suggested that, but it's really not a solution. I want a laptop for portability, not for lugging around external devices to compensate for poor design decisions on the part of the manufacturer.
I'd pay the extra $5 for some more buttons. A wheel would be cool, but I'd settle for 3 plain buttons, like the Thinkpads have. I'd also like to have the option of using a nipple for pointing instead of a touchpad because it just feels better to me, but that's another discussion...
Why would you bother to post such a large quote and mention that it's "from another site" and not even give a link? I'm confused about how that's considered 'informative.'
The song's called Kumbaya, jackass, and it either came from Angola or... the southern east coast of the US, nobody's certain. I bet there are *tons* of hippies there.
So you're telling this webmaster to ask his linux/unix users to break US copyright law by using unlicensed proprietary software? I don't think that's the answer he was looking for.
You are absolutely 100% missing the point. This isn't about big-box electronics chains or portable player hardware. Most people haven't even heard of mpeg or avi or anything either - and those that do had to learn about them sometime. It's easy to get ogg vorbis/theora support on all 3 platforms including strange architectures on linux, but it's more difficult and totally illegal in the US to get support for wmv or qt on linux - and impossible on other architectures - and nobody is going to pay $30 just to see this athlete's videos. Real exists only for linux-ix86, but at least it's legal in the US...
The poster asked this question because he wants something that will work for everyone, and you're basically telling him he shouldn't want that. I repeat, you're missing the point.
Have you even tried ogg vorbis and theora? It doesn't sound like it.
I have a lot of respect for the work Raskin does, but holding down one key while typing a command is *not* a habit I want to get into - I'm almost certain it would lead to some sort of chronic pain.
Seems a little broken - the window isn't wide enough to fit the text (the ----- separators wrap), the cursor doesn't move with the arrow keys and page up/down don't work. Also, the text tells me that 'leap forward' is the right alt key, but in reality it's bound to the left key.
Otherwise, being a vim user, I have no problem getting used to this modal, bloated UI;). To be perfectly honest I'm fairly certain I can get exactly the same interface in vim with some tweaking. But the more I think about it - holding down one key *while* typing - the less motivation I feel.
Two copies of XP Corporate were leaked before XP actually released. One copy was released by a group (or individual, i don't know) called 'devil's 0wn'. That's the key from that copy.
The vast majority of people can't just up-and-buy a new computer just because they're sick of Microsoft. Add that to the fact that the vast majority of people who bought a computer in the last 3 or 4 years won't actually *need* a new one for a few more, and I think you have your reasons.
Hmm, I must admit I haven't tried the cisco monitor tools because some coworkers told me they didn't work properly with recent Red Hat distros - and these are guys who've played with more wireless hardware than I'd ever want to;)
You do realize that you can create a GPG associated with an email address and just use it, right? If you know you trust someone and don't need other people to know that you trust them, then there's no need to bother signing any keys. It's pretty easy, and we do actually have it now.
What? The point of a PKI is to verify identities. When you sign a key, you're saying "I am absolutely 100% certain that this key belongs to the legal entity whose name is on the key itself." If I were to sign "your key" via a secure connection, exactly how would that prove that I am communicating with $YOUR_NAME?
CAs verify identities by proxy - they charge an account under your name, and they rely on your having been unable to forge that account as proof that you're you.
If I don't actually care who you are, and only about whether or not someone is listening without your knowledge, then I don't need a PKI. Simple as that.
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I'm sorry I read your comment, but I want my 6 seconds back, you thieving bastard.
That the CDDL is inapplicable to patents is a very valid point and, if true, nullifies the entire benefit of this "release." I may be flamebait, but you're just offtopic.
And on a light note, illustrating the wisdom of teenagers:
"Teenagers all smoke, and they seem pretty on the ball..." -Zap Brannigan in Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Thanks.
The important thing is that I see another pretentious "stop whining you sissy" AC on slashdot telling me that I fear change. People like me may or may not be few and far between, but people like you aren't. You piss and moan because I want another choice, pretending that if I have it my way that everyone else can't have it theirs. You think everyone else uses the computer in the exact same way as you, and therefore since you don't have a problem with a single mousebutton, I shouldn't either.
You're ignorant. Other than that, we can coexist without our preferences making each other feel threatened.
So you're complaining that your roaming profiles actually roam?
Wait, the local machine doesn't keep a cached copy?
Wow, that sounds *so* much more obvious than a context menu...
Damn you're pretentious. I have.
This is another suggestion that's worn out and doesn't cut it. I can use one button now to do what I need; why would I want to use two?
Computers exist to help humans overcome some of their shortcomings. They do not exist to make us work harder in the name of "better design."
Thanks for the link! I still prefer actual buttons because I don't have to think as much to figure out what I'm touching, but this driver would make it more bearable. Now we need a Linux driver to do the same thing, though - OS X is great, but I'm a total zealot.
While I won't judge Apple for refusing to ship a 3-button mouse, I will say it's the one thing that keeps me from buying one of their laptops. When I'm using X applications, the PRIMARY buffer is my best friend. Copying text via simple selection and pasting just by clicking the middle mouse button does actually help me work faster.
And please don't tell me that I can just plug in a USB mouse. My Apple-owning friends have suggested that, but it's really not a solution. I want a laptop for portability, not for lugging around external devices to compensate for poor design decisions on the part of the manufacturer.
I'd pay the extra $5 for some more buttons. A wheel would be cool, but I'd settle for 3 plain buttons, like the Thinkpads have. I'd also like to have the option of using a nipple for pointing instead of a touchpad because it just feels better to me, but that's another discussion...
Why would you bother to post such a large quote and mention that it's "from another site" and not even give a link? I'm confused about how that's considered 'informative.'
The song's called Kumbaya, jackass, and it either came from Angola or... the southern east coast of the US, nobody's certain. I bet there are *tons* of hippies there.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the Iraqi resistance felt the same way, and it obviously didn't do much to protect them from terrorists... :(
So you're telling this webmaster to ask his linux/unix users to break US copyright law by using unlicensed proprietary software? I don't think that's the answer he was looking for.
The poster asked this question because he wants something that will work for everyone, and you're basically telling him he shouldn't want that. I repeat, you're missing the point.
Have you even tried ogg vorbis and theora? It doesn't sound like it.
I have a lot of respect for the work Raskin does, but holding down one key while typing a command is *not* a habit I want to get into - I'm almost certain it would lead to some sort of chronic pain.
Seems a little broken - the window isn't wide enough to fit the text (the ----- separators wrap), the cursor doesn't move with the arrow keys and page up/down don't work. Also, the text tells me that 'leap forward' is the right alt key, but in reality it's bound to the left key.
Otherwise, being a vim user, I have no problem getting used to this modal, bloated UI ;). To be perfectly honest I'm fairly certain I can get exactly the same interface in vim with some tweaking. But the more I think about it - holding down one key *while* typing - the less motivation I feel.
Two copies of XP Corporate were leaked before XP actually released. One copy was released by a group (or individual, i don't know) called 'devil's 0wn'. That's the key from that copy.
The vast majority of people can't just up-and-buy a new computer just because they're sick of Microsoft. Add that to the fact that the vast majority of people who bought a computer in the last 3 or 4 years won't actually *need* a new one for a few more, and I think you have your reasons.
Well let me see... citing the legal precedent of taxpayers paying twice for everything else... I think I can predict the outcome of this one. :(
Hmm, I must admit I haven't tried the cisco monitor tools because some coworkers told me they didn't work properly with recent Red Hat distros - and these are guys who've played with more wireless hardware than I'd ever want to ;)
Yes to what?
You do realize that you can create a GPG associated with an email address and just use it, right? If you know you trust someone and don't need other people to know that you trust them, then there's no need to bother signing any keys. It's pretty easy, and we do actually have it now.
What? The point of a PKI is to verify identities. When you sign a key, you're saying "I am absolutely 100% certain that this key belongs to the legal entity whose name is on the key itself." If I were to sign "your key" via a secure connection, exactly how would that prove that I am communicating with $YOUR_NAME?
CAs verify identities by proxy - they charge an account under your name, and they rely on your having been unable to forge that account as proof that you're you.
If I don't actually care who you are, and only about whether or not someone is listening without your knowledge, then I don't need a PKI. Simple as that.
Right... he was asking a question. So far nobody's answered it. :)
It's 6.8.1, isn't it?