Or maybe it's your browser that's obsolete. I highlighted the link, right clicked, selected "Open selected URL in new tab" and was able to load the page with no modifications to the URL. Isn't FireFox great?
You also have to consider how long it takes to destroy the bullet once you've locked on and turned the laser on. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like you'd have to have one hell of a laser to take out a bullet in 100ms.
PalmGear says it was submited December 27, 2002, but it could easily have existed before then, that's just when PalmGear got ahold of it. I've sent an email to the developer asking when it first existed.
I'm pretty sure there are other apps that do something similar out there, I'll see if I can find any from before July 12, 2002.
I admit that I haven't RTFA, but that sure looks like what you say they've patented. That's not the only example either, it's just what showed up in a quick search.
The Ship is my favourite site, and I've yet to see a pop-up ad on it
If your browser blocks the banner ad, odds are that it'll block pop-ups too, so how do you know?
I've yet to see a pop-up ad anywhere on the internet with my current browser(Firefox.8), but does that mean that all pop-up ads have suddenly disappeared?
Have you ever read your car manual? Or your cordless phone manual? Or even the insert that comes with your medicine, something you take internally for heaven's sake!
Normally, no. But that's only because I'm already familiar with technology and how to take a pill. If I'm about to do something I've never done before I make sure I at least glance at the man pages to make sure I understand what the hell I'm supposed to do.
I really doubt I'm in the minority here or there would be a crap load of Linux users with no files left on the hard drive (I wonder how I'm supposed to use this rm command. I know, I'll try rm -rf / just for the hell of it!).
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Yes, it's called something like text links. It lets you use any highlighted text like it were an actual link.
Or maybe it's your browser that's obsolete. I highlighted the link, right clicked, selected "Open selected URL in new tab" and was able to load the page with no modifications to the URL. Isn't FireFox great?
You also have to consider how long it takes to destroy the bullet once you've locked on and turned the laser on. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like you'd have to have one hell of a laser to take out a bullet in 100ms.
Sorry to reply to my own post and so quickly, but I just found 2 apps that are from well before 2002 and have the same functionality as QLaunch.
AardQuick Button Launcher(August 20, 2001)
Button Launch 1.8(October 16, 2000)
Those are just what showed up after about 5 mins of looking, I'd bet that there are quite a few more.
PalmGear says it was submited December 27, 2002, but it could easily have existed before then, that's just when PalmGear got ahold of it. I've sent an email to the developer asking when it first existed.
I'm pretty sure there are other apps that do something similar out there, I'll see if I can find any from before July 12, 2002.
Take a look here.
I admit that I haven't RTFA, but that sure looks like what you say they've patented. That's not the only example either, it's just what showed up in a quick search.
I've yet to see a pop-up ad anywhere on the internet with my current browser(Firefox
I really doubt I'm in the minority here or there would be a crap load of Linux users with no files left on the hard drive (I wonder how I'm supposed to use this rm command. I know, I'll try rm -rf / just for the hell of it!).
Great, now 43 million people are going to get cancer because they're running Gator.
Remember, people, it's == for comparison.
Then again, it would be 43 million Gator users, so maybe we should view it as evolution at work.