> It will be a *real* pain if one piece of software used a gesture for minimise and another for quit.
You mean like F6 in IE takes you to the location and marks all the text so you can begin writing something.
In opera, which I use 99% of the time, F6 is used to tile. I have at least 10 windows open, so this is really painfull:-( I'm with IE here. Tiling is completly useless.
To get the list of banned sites, you could simply get a list of all the domains in the world. Then a little split-up of the file(nothing fancy just a text editor). Try and wget each site and log what happens.
With just a 100 people doing this, how long would it really take to get the list?
Hmmm, for 1000000000 sites, it would take over 100 days. (1 site per second, 100 users).
>Microsoft have succeeded by realising two things > 1) Quality doesn't matter, being first matters > 2) Marketing can over come most evils.
Actually ms is never first:-) They lagged after apple in GUI's at first. They didn't think the internet was THAT important, but when they put their to it, they catched up to netscape and bashed it. Pretty quick in my opinion.
>However when competition loomed they used their >command of the market to crush the competition, >not in the interests of the consumer or because >their product was "better", soley because they >have the first hook that every user sees. This >is bad.
I totally agree.
ms succeds because they have a monopoly and they aren't afraid of using it to destroy the opponent.
>Despite the/. anti-Microsoft propaganda machine, >the forced break up of Microsoft would be a bad >thing for the computing industry as a whole, and > harm consumers more than anyone else.
Maybe in the short term. In the long term it WILL benifit users. Because they will have a choice and ms will have some competition.
>The fact of the matter is, Microsoft practically >single-handedly turned the PC from the haven of >31337 tech-savvy "gurus" to a domain where anyone > could use a computer to browse the internet, > write letters and play games
Oh they did? In what universe? Did they invent the mouse or the window idea? No they did not. They stole it from apple who also stole it. So this leaves the programs. I don't see the great innovation in them either.
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> It will be a *real* pain if one piece of software used a gesture for minimise and another for quit.
:-(
You mean like F6 in IE takes you to the location and marks all the text so you can begin writing something.
In opera, which I use 99% of the time, F6 is used to tile. I have at least 10 windows open, so this is really painfull
I'm with IE here. Tiling is completly useless.
When I saw the subject I thought it was describing the state of teenage girls today.
Oh well, someone had to write it.
Maybe liquid war is something for you then?
It's fun, GPL, very hard to master and not like anything I've seen.
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/
Maybe we should have an "Ask slashdot"?
How many sites are there?
To get the list of banned sites, you could simply get a list of all the domains in the world. Then a little split-up of the file(nothing fancy just a text editor). Try and wget each site and log what happens.
With just a 100 people doing this, how long would it really take to get the list?
Hmmm, for 1000000000 sites, it would take over 100 days. (1 site per second, 100 users).
I think he called it Ruby.
The power of perl, without the inconsistency of perl. And shorter source code(from the great language shootout)
Why does the extra tax go to music? A lot of illegal programs and games are going around.
>Microsoft have succeeded by realising two things
:-)
> 1) Quality doesn't matter, being first matters
> 2) Marketing can over come most evils.
Actually ms is never first
They lagged after apple in GUI's at first.
They didn't think the internet was THAT important, but when they put their to it, they catched up to netscape and bashed it. Pretty quick in my opinion.
>However when competition loomed they used their
>command of the market to crush the competition,
>not in the interests of the consumer or because
>their product was "better", soley because they
>have the first hook that every user sees. This
>is bad.
I totally agree.
ms succeds because they have a monopoly and they aren't afraid of using it to destroy the opponent.
>Despite the /. anti-Microsoft propaganda machine,
>the forced break up of Microsoft would be a bad
>thing for the computing industry as a whole, and
> harm consumers more than anyone else.
Maybe in the short term. In the long term it WILL benifit users. Because they will have a choice and ms will have some competition.
>The fact of the matter is, Microsoft practically
>single-handedly turned the PC from the haven of
>31337 tech-savvy "gurus" to a domain where anyone
> could use a computer to browse the internet,
> write letters and play games
Oh they did? In what universe? Did they invent the mouse or the window idea? No they did not. They stole it from apple who also stole it. So this leaves the programs. I don't see the great innovation in them either.