well yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't use the slightly older version that doesn't have those license changes. I think this is a matter of people in charge not wanting their distribution of linux to be considered morally wrong in the eyes of fanatics.
a Sun spokesperson says, "The future of JDesktop Integration Components is uncertain. We have no plans to make JDesktop Integration Components open source in the near future."
I would say because "In Court Again" implies that they left court the first time.
They did. They are now in an appeals court. Sure, it's more or less the same topic, but a decision was made the first time they were in court. It's not like they are still waiting for that initial decision.
Highlighting having the side-effect of copying is just unintuitive and often the wrong behavior. It's speculating that you will want to copy the highlighted text, but often times you want to delete the highlighted text without clobering your copy buffer. or maybe you might just want to highlight the text to mark your spot.
For your example of deleting after you paste, that is a matter of bad usability. so i've got this really long URL in the location bar. i middle click and paste before the first letter of the old URL. then what, i hold down delete until all the old stuff is gone? i highlight it (and by side effect copy it) then delete it? or does a keyboard initiated highligh not copy to a buffer, probably not. But still instead of the 2 actions of "highlight and paste" i have "paste highlight delete" and might end with a clobbered copy buffer.
c'mon... i'm lazy. why do 3 things when i can do 2?
Sun is not doing anything Free or Open Source as we know it. they aren't even doing anything free or with open source. Yesterday they redefined "free" to mean "subsidized". today they are redefining "open source" as "all your base..." followed by "someone set us up the bomb"
In other words, if the side-effect of allowing this "economic panacea" was that all non-industrial hemp would be destroyed by cross-polination and other factors, would you still be promoting industrial hemp? Didn't think so...
Why would anyone, smoker or non-smoker, promote this? it's ecologically and environmentally irresponsible.
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That's got to be the worst joke I've heard on/. in a loooong time.
Thank you! I'll be here all week! Enjoy your stay, be sure to tip your waitress.
There is also a chapter on Perlin noise (improved version) and its implementation on GPUs that was written by Ken Perlin himself.
Wow.. there's a person behind Perlin noise? I always thought it was a random noise generator based on the chaos found in Perl programs. Thus, the noise was generated by an http client that has "gone perlin'" -- which means to crawl the web in search of arbitrary bits of Perl.
between IBM and Sun, we'll all be running Linux on Sun hardware in a few years and drinking tropical beverages from our robot butlers.
I kid!
seriously, how can something that costs money to duplicate be free? software is trivial to duplicate. Hardware... not so much. I think Gates & Co. (that includes Sun) are being blatantly stupid and hoping that it gets perceived as being "innovative".
sorry if i display a lot of ignorance on this subject. i've never touched wireless. However, isn't using someone elses open wireless connection just the same, legally, as something like beige-boxing a phone line to dial out with a modem+laptop? it's unauthorized access to something that isn't yours.
so it's all fun and games until you land yourself in a honeypot.
It would be great if there were free Internet access for everyone walking down the street. However, it would be better if you knew that the connection you were riding was authorized by the owner for public use.
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Just because you are on equal footing doesn't mean your at the top of the mountain. Maybe you can rest and catch your breath, take a look around to see the best path to the top. But in a minute your competition will start climbing again so you better as well.
but few people will choose one or the other based on technology. More likely, some other factor will be more important.... lowest price, who has the nearest dropff, which one screwed up on you.
Of course! technology should be transparent to the end user. Things should just improve for reasons unknown to them. UPS should be trying all sorts of things to try to keep my business. So how will UPS know where to put their next new drop off without data gathered? won't a conveniently placed drop off reduce your expenditures, helping to keep prices lower?
IT is not a commodity. That the wrong word to use. It's a neccesity. All commodities are not neccesities and vice versa.
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Is anyone else hoping that AdTI mentions Hitler or the Nazis so that this discussion can be officially over?
x.org is a much better name, right?
well, maybe it is... if it's pronounced ZORG! (with exclamation and all)
well yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't use the slightly older version that doesn't have those license changes. I think this is a matter of people in charge not wanting their distribution of linux to be considered morally wrong in the eyes of fanatics.
my X is working just fine. if it ain't broke...
But the demos I've seen for looking glass....damn. It looks like Apple's Expose on steroids.
yes it does.
-Instead of a nice pretty background, you get a pinkish, zit-covered background.
-Way more bulk than any prgram needs... quickly turns to bloat if you stop running it.
-Violent mood swings lead to the termination of all the puny shell scripts.
-To pass a performace test it will try to load foreign components, specifically, C code.
a Sun spokesperson says, "The future of JDesktop Integration Components is uncertain. We have no plans to make JDesktop Integration Components open source in the near future."
I would say because "In Court Again" implies that they left court the first time.
They did. They are now in an appeals court. Sure, it's more or less the same topic, but a decision was made the first time they were in court. It's not like they are still waiting for that initial decision.
headline: "Blackberry In Court Again Over Patents"
lets analyze.
First word: Blackberry
Who is this article about? Blackberry.
Second+Third word: In Court
Where is Blackberry? In Court
Fourth word: Again
So they have been there before? Is this a continuation of the previous dispute? Yes and yes.
Fifth+Sixth word: Over Patents
Why was Blackberry in court again? Over Patents
Now, why was this misleading?
curved keyboard layout?! how innnnnovative!
[the above should be read with a heavy english accent, to visions of a co-worker being humorously pummeled over the head with such a keyboard]
i can only imagine what this specific lawsuit is about. Displaying "emoticons" on a limited resource computing device? Brilliant!
fscking fsckers.
What happened to the nice internet we had in 1996?
i blame blogs
More like bottom 50%. You'd be surprised at just how many _stupid_ people there are that have managed to get their grubby fat fingers on a computer.
like your parents, who are banging on your bedroom door, asking you to take out the trash and then take a shower?
Sheesh. Yeah, this year will be the year of linux-on-the-desktop now that we have integrated blogging. That was sure the barrier for entry to me.
... oh brother, i might do a "rm -rf /" and go cry myself to sleep.
the day that "find / -name blog" gives me some found files
Of course with my paycheck, the whole thing should get me about 2 minutes at the slot machines
Is that what Candians call prostitutes these days?
I already patented a "method for reviewing the process by which patents are reviewed and issued"
ha! I'll have my lawyers contact your lawyers.
Society has finally reached so low that it has forced us to created an alternative virtual world to live in.
You could say that about all forms of escapism. Religion, drugs, video games...
Dear Valued Movie Executive,
You have been replaced by a very small shell script. Good day.
Sincerely,
C. Ron Tab
Meh.
Highlighting having the side-effect of copying is just unintuitive and often the wrong behavior. It's speculating that you will want to copy the highlighted text, but often times you want to delete the highlighted text without clobering your copy buffer. or maybe you might just want to highlight the text to mark your spot.
For your example of deleting after you paste, that is a matter of bad usability. so i've got this really long URL in the location bar. i middle click and paste before the first letter of the old URL. then what, i hold down delete until all the old stuff is gone? i highlight it (and by side effect copy it) then delete it? or does a keyboard initiated highligh not copy to a buffer, probably not. But still instead of the 2 actions of "highlight and paste" i have "paste highlight delete" and might end with a clobbered copy buffer.
c'mon... i'm lazy. why do 3 things when i can do 2?
No kidding. I was scrolling through to see if anyone posted this before I went ahead and ranted about it.
Widespread corporate use of PGP and the GNU variants would make this discussion pointless.
Mods, do you duty. Mod parent up please.
Sun is not doing anything Free or Open Source as we know it. they aren't even doing anything free or with open source. Yesterday they redefined "free" to mean "subsidized". today they are redefining "open source" as "all your base..." followed by "someone set us up the bomb"
Imagine a beowulf cluster of significant others.
In other words, if the side-effect of allowing this "economic panacea" was that all non-industrial hemp would be destroyed by cross-polination and other factors, would you still be promoting industrial hemp? Didn't think so...
Why would anyone, smoker or non-smoker, promote this? it's ecologically and environmentally irresponsible.
That's got to be the worst joke I've heard on /. in a loooong time.
Thank you! I'll be here all week! Enjoy your stay, be sure to tip your waitress.
There is also a chapter on Perlin noise (improved version) and its implementation on GPUs that was written by Ken Perlin himself.
Wow.. there's a person behind Perlin noise? I always thought it was a random noise generator based on the chaos found in Perl programs. Thus, the noise was generated by an http client that has "gone perlin'" -- which means to crawl the web in search of arbitrary bits of Perl.
who knew!?
between IBM and Sun, we'll all be running Linux on Sun hardware in a few years and drinking tropical beverages from our robot butlers.
I kid!
seriously, how can something that costs money to duplicate be free? software is trivial to duplicate. Hardware... not so much. I think Gates & Co. (that includes Sun) are being blatantly stupid and hoping that it gets perceived as being "innovative".
sorry if i display a lot of ignorance on this subject. i've never touched wireless. However, isn't using someone elses open wireless connection just the same, legally, as something like beige-boxing a phone line to dial out with a modem+laptop? it's unauthorized access to something that isn't yours.
so it's all fun and games until you land yourself in a honeypot.
It would be great if there were free Internet access for everyone walking down the street. However, it would be better if you knew that the connection you were riding was authorized by the owner for public use.
Just because you are on equal footing doesn't mean your at the top of the mountain. Maybe you can rest and catch your breath, take a look around to see the best path to the top. But in a minute your competition will start climbing again so you better as well.
but few people will choose one or the other based on technology. More likely, some other factor will be more important.... lowest price, who has the nearest dropff, which one screwed up on you.
Of course! technology should be transparent to the end user. Things should just improve for reasons unknown to them. UPS should be trying all sorts of things to try to keep my business. So how will UPS know where to put their next new drop off without data gathered? won't a conveniently placed drop off reduce your expenditures, helping to keep prices lower?
IT is not a commodity. That the wrong word to use. It's a neccesity. All commodities are not neccesities and vice versa.