The article is very short on details. For instance, how will they obtain the the power if the kites are floating hundreds or thousands of feet in the air? Unless their tethered, in which case on whose land would they be tethered? And what would they do when the wind drops?
I would disagree with your logic by virtue of the fact that twelve year olds are not able to drop by their local game store and pay $50 for a game. For children it is almost always the case that the parents buy the games themselves; thus avoiding the problem.
According to the Associated Press, it is because of because of Bush's "reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes - and ours - on his faith in the power of leadership."
Not many people have the ability to reshape reality in their image
While it is meant (I would assume from the feature set) to be a replacement for Pain (and it does this admirably) it also has advanced photo editing tools, such as clone stamp, as well as some filters. So while at its present state the GIMP is better at image manipulation, the framework is there for more photo editing features.
Azureus. Though, to be fair, Download.com probably didn't add the spyware, but they are definitely distributing a version that has spyware. I mean, how difficult would it be for them to go the sourceforge page of azureus (I'll help them out: it's azureus.sourceforge.net) and serve a version directly from the makers.
On their download page for Azureus there is an editor's note saying that it contains spyware, and about half of the comments say that it installed malware on their computers. Probably the half that actually downloaded it from CNet.
Okay, so it's been 4 years since the last major release, and yes, I used to love Enlightenment back in the day, but the world has moved on to bigger and better things (KDE, Gnome, OS-X). Enlightenment still has a lot of catching up to do before it is newsworthy!
This is not true. As can be seen on this page, the last release was only three months ago. Also, you do not descern between the different releases. The release noted in the post in DR17, which is very new. I know being informed before you post on/. is too much to ask, but at least RTFA.
In the computer industry 17 years is not 'no time at all'. In fact, that is a great deal of time. Seventeen years ago there was no internet, computers were only feasible for the most rich people or businesses or academic institutions. Especially since most of these Software Patents are completely stupid, like 'one click shopping'. Allowing bogus patents to rule us for 17 years could completely destroy America's computing industry, moving it to other countries with less idiotic patent law.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this being called a new trailer? There was actually a/. story when this teaser trailer came out about 6 months ago.
I would have to say that PalmOne deserves whatever happens to them.
Until the release of the T5 I was a die-hard Palm OS fan, owning now less than six different Palm devices over the years (starting with the original Palm Pilot.) However when PalmOne released the T5 it was such a slap in the face to all of their customers that I couldn't believe that a company could be so stupid. For the T5 is essentially a T3, execpt with some more memory. And no Wi-fi. And no Cobalt. And did I mention no Wi-fi?
The day after PalmOne released the T5 (October 4) I decided against upgrading my Treo 600 to a Treo 650 (which has a meagre 32mb of ram and NO WI-FI) and instead bought a Dell Axim x30. It has Wi-fi, a exteremly fast processor (624mhZ) and tons of memory. While I find the OS unstable, I now see how much the PalmOS has limited me.
I live around silicon valley where we have five Fry's electronics. Every friday that publish a six page color ad in the Mercury News. In these ads there are components enough at cheap enough prices to build a computer for under $120. I can only imagine that a large company like Dell or HP could get them even cheaper, as they buy the components in bulk.
Then they'd just sue the paper companies, or if they're really feeling good the company that made the printer that you printed it out on. At which point they'd probably just sue God for making all those damn trees in the first place.
One beneficiary of computerized navigation is national security: thanks to G.P.S. and cellphone technology, flying cars could be tracked more easily than any road vehicle.
Somehow that doesn't seem like a good thing to me. When the Government can track you where ever you are while driving (flying?) we are back in 1984.
Is that, like XP, MS will pay off application developers to cause their apps to break in previous versions. A great example of this is with Adobe, who's latest video offerings only work on XP, forcing me to upgrade.
Gamespy just published the <a href="http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/539/539197p1<nobr>.<wbr></wbr></nobr> html?fromint=1">second part of their d&d history series</a> which talks mainly about the controversy around d&d and some kid who tried to kill himself. Some people with their own agendas twisted it to their own purposes, trying to ban d&d. It just goes to show that some people are obsessed with this, and no matter the curcumstances they will try to stop things like this.
- Raise the application fee so that the patent office can do a decent job. <p> I must dissagree on this count. Raising the application fee puts patenting solely in the domain of the corporate r+d labs. It would keep garage inventors and other small time inventors out of the process.
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The article is very short on details. For instance, how will they obtain the the power if the kites are floating hundreds or thousands of feet in the air? Unless their tethered, in which case on whose land would they be tethered? And what would they do when the wind drops?
I would disagree with your logic by virtue of the fact that twelve year olds are not able to drop by their local game store and pay $50 for a game. For children it is almost always the case that the parents buy the games themselves; thus avoiding the problem.
According to the Associated Press, it is because of because of Bush's "reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes - and ours - on his faith in the power of leadership."
Not many people have the ability to reshape reality in their image
While it is meant (I would assume from the feature set) to be a replacement for Pain (and it does this admirably) it also has advanced photo editing tools, such as clone stamp, as well as some filters. So while at its present state the GIMP is better at image manipulation, the framework is there for more photo editing features.
Reuter's story on this is here.
Azureus. Though, to be fair, Download.com probably didn't add the spyware, but they are definitely distributing a version that has spyware. I mean, how difficult would it be for them to go the sourceforge page of azureus (I'll help them out: it's azureus.sourceforge.net) and serve a version directly from the makers.
Download.com is definitely a big problem.
On their download page for Azureus there is an editor's note saying that it contains spyware, and about half of the comments say that it installed malware on their computers. Probably the half that actually downloaded it from CNet.
Reminds me a quote I heard once: "Puritanism is the constant dread that someone somewhere is having a good time."
Okay, so it's been 4 years since the last major release, and yes, I used to love Enlightenment back in the day, but the world has moved on to bigger and better things (KDE, Gnome, OS-X). Enlightenment still has a lot of catching up to do before it is newsworthy!
This is not true. As can be seen on this page, the last release was only three months ago. Also, you do not descern between the different releases. The release noted in the post in DR17, which is very new. I know being informed before you post on /. is too much to ask, but at least RTFA.
You are a troll, but whatever.
In the computer industry 17 years is not 'no time at all'. In fact, that is a great deal of time. Seventeen years ago there was no internet, computers were only feasible for the most rich people or businesses or academic institutions. Especially since most of these Software Patents are completely stupid, like 'one click shopping'. Allowing bogus patents to rule us for 17 years could completely destroy America's computing industry, moving it to other countries with less idiotic patent law.
So...ah...Switzerland?
Am I the only one who has a problem with this being called a new trailer? There was actually a /. story when this teaser trailer came out about 6 months ago.
I would have to say that PalmOne deserves whatever happens to them. Until the release of the T5 I was a die-hard Palm OS fan, owning now less than six different Palm devices over the years (starting with the original Palm Pilot.) However when PalmOne released the T5 it was such a slap in the face to all of their customers that I couldn't believe that a company could be so stupid. For the T5 is essentially a T3, execpt with some more memory. And no Wi-fi. And no Cobalt. And did I mention no Wi-fi? The day after PalmOne released the T5 (October 4) I decided against upgrading my Treo 600 to a Treo 650 (which has a meagre 32mb of ram and NO WI-FI) and instead bought a Dell Axim x30. It has Wi-fi, a exteremly fast processor (624mhZ) and tons of memory. While I find the OS unstable, I now see how much the PalmOS has limited me.
I live around silicon valley where we have five Fry's electronics. Every friday that publish a six page color ad in the Mercury News. In these ads there are components enough at cheap enough prices to build a computer for under $120. I can only imagine that a large company like Dell or HP could get them even cheaper, as they buy the components in bulk.
Then they'd just sue the paper companies, or if they're really feeling good the company that made the printer that you printed it out on. At which point they'd probably just sue God for making all those damn trees in the first place.
They have a search extension for Mozilla based browsers, which is certaintly somewhere where they stand out against google.
Somehow that doesn't seem like a good thing to me. When the Government can track you where ever you are while driving (flying?) we are back in 1984.
I got in, and am downloading the client now (70% done). I am not a fileplanet subscriber.
I, for one, enjoy my operating system crashing eery five minutes. That's a feature you just don't find in 98.
Is that, like XP, MS will pay off application developers to cause their apps to break in previous versions. A great example of this is with Adobe, who's latest video offerings only work on XP, forcing me to upgrade.
Sorry, but I beg to differ.
Gamespy just published the <a href="http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/539/539197p1<nobr>.<wbr></wbr></nobr> html?fromint=1">second part of their d&d history series</a> which talks mainly about the controversy around d&d and some kid who tried to kill himself. Some people with their own agendas twisted it to their own purposes, trying to ban d&d. It just goes to show that some people are obsessed with this, and no matter the curcumstances they will try to stop things like this.
What I think they meant was better pop-uo blocking for the advertisers.
- Raise the application fee so that the patent office can do a decent job.
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I must dissagree on this count. Raising the application fee puts patenting solely in the domain of the corporate r+d labs. It would keep garage inventors and other small time inventors out of the process.
uh, duh? Our government is pretty pathetic if it needs a study to tell it to be fair and balanced.