All that they're flogging is this: lots of intercommunicating little computers in everything. We're already about halfway there -- between the XBox, Tivo, and KISS Technology's (GPL-violating) DVD player, *normal* people are more likely than ever to have a computer connected to their television without even knowing it.
...but get a lawyer. They do this for a living. They're not all scum. Why, I bet you've got at least one lawyer friend. Pay them (yes, pay -- even if this is a friend) to write up a letter and send it to the violator.
DIY is great for things you enjoy doing. Writing letters to copyright infringers isn't fun for many people.
I have a relatively uncommon first-name, but one of the few people who shares it registered it as a domain name relatively early in the history of the web. If I were to become famous, I'd almost certainly be known by first-name alone, as there are only a small handful of entertainers with this name, and none of them are "stars".
So all I need to do now is become famous, and that domain is mine!
As much as we don't like to admit that this is the case, but companies making unilateral decisions and moving forward with them is often how standards are made.
Web folk always moan about MSIE's poor standards complience, for instance, but forget that CSS/Text came from them -- Netscape was pushing CSS/JavaScript at the time. Now, one of those is a standard, and the other is dead.
Ultimitely, either people will like Yahoo's idea and adopt it and it will eventually become a new standard, or it will be ignored by everyone else and forgotten. Only time will tell.
I've stayed far away from the KDE/Gnome debate for the past couple years, choosing instead to stick with simple, stripped-down window managers like fluxbox and FVWM.
But a buddy was showing me some of his favorite GTK themes on his Gnome desktop, and I have to admit that I was impressed. Unfortunately, when I checked to see how many packages I'd have to install for Gnome, there were over 30 -- Mozilla was one of the dependencies!
So, can any/.ers recommend a... svelt window manager that supports some of this wonderful eye candy?
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All that they're flogging is this: lots of intercommunicating little computers in everything. We're already about halfway there -- between the XBox, Tivo, and KISS Technology's (GPL-violating) DVD player, *normal* people are more likely than ever to have a computer connected to their television without even knowing it.
...but get a lawyer. They do this for a living. They're not all scum. Why, I bet you've got at least one lawyer friend. Pay them (yes, pay -- even if this is a friend) to write up a letter and send it to the violator.
DIY is great for things you enjoy doing. Writing letters to copyright infringers isn't fun for many people.
I have a relatively uncommon first-name, but one of the few people who shares it registered it as a domain name relatively early in the history of the web. If I were to become famous, I'd almost certainly be known by first-name alone, as there are only a small handful of entertainers with this name, and none of them are "stars".
So all I need to do now is become famous, and that domain is mine!
Web folk always moan about MSIE's poor standards complience, for instance, but forget that CSS/Text came from them -- Netscape was pushing CSS/JavaScript at the time. Now, one of those is a standard, and the other is dead.
Ultimitely, either people will like Yahoo's idea and adopt it and it will eventually become a new standard, or it will be ignored by everyone else and forgotten. Only time will tell.
But a buddy was showing me some of his favorite GTK themes on his Gnome desktop, and I have to admit that I was impressed. Unfortunately, when I checked to see how many packages I'd have to install for Gnome, there were over 30 -- Mozilla was one of the dependencies!
So, can any /.ers recommend a... svelt window manager that supports some of this wonderful eye candy?