If America or the UK decided to randomly make a random format, everyone in those countries, and everyone outside those countries would quite rightly yell "WTF?!?!". Its very difficult for countries, even aggressive dictatorship ones, to just declare what a new standard is going to be. No-one else is going to use it with all the big hitters going with the big formats.
I guess they think they'll be in charge of a localised standard which they can then use to control their people. Shame really,
focus-follows-mouse, the traditional focus policy on X11 Eh?! The only window manager I know of that has focus-follows-mouse as default is WindowMaker (and maybe flux?), and thats hardly common - most people use KDE or Gnome. And even if its WM I see it turned off almost every time I see it used.
I just don't get focus-follows-mouse. So you've moved your mouse pointer out of the way to read a document/webpage, you try to scroll down and BAM!-ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!!
If its just historic then Gimp itself should move with the times, not have to be hacked by fanboys. I mean, honestly, window toolbars?! I much prefer the ribbon of Office 12.
3. Any person or business that files over 5 patents in one year has their filing fees raised expotentially with each subsequent submission.
So you want to fine people who have 6 good ideas in a year? Even if you change those numbers there will always be a guy who can produce more than n perfectly sensible patent applications in x months, and you want to punish him because he's clever?! I dont really think thats a good idea at all.
GTA San Andreas has done something wonderful to that effect btw - no loading screens at all, ever! Pretty amazing IMHO, considering the level is about 10 times the size of the previous games even with their respective loading screens taken into account!
'Cold Hard Cash' wasn't exactly the motivation behind the winners of the X-Prize. Im not sure of the numbers but i think they spent 200M building a spacecraft to win them 10M. These people are in it for the advancement of their science (or their name in a history book or on a plaque, or the commerical success - enter Ricahrd Branson).
I saw this in a Dilbert book once (roughly): Every disaster that we can think might happen, like Y2K or Smallpox-wiping-out-humanity etc, doesn't happen because we work out a way to stop it happening!
So the only disasters we need to worry about are the ones we can't predict...:-)
Thats the problem with state funded projects - money isnt an issue. (I know people who take clients out to VERY expensive 'business lunches' just to use up funds so that they dont appear to have over-quoted!
Sorry if i sound like a Capitalizt, but i think the business sense you get from the private sector could really teach government departments a thing or two, at least here in UK.
Amen to that! Why should the amount of money you have affect the quality of your defense! and against anybody who chooses to accuse you of anything! It might not stop the suing culture in the States but itd be a start.
Sharing your music for other people probably is illegal anyway tho...
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If America or the UK decided to randomly make a random format, everyone in those countries, and everyone outside those countries would quite rightly yell "WTF?!?!". Its very difficult for countries, even aggressive dictatorship ones, to just declare what a new standard is going to be. No-one else is going to use it with all the big hitters going with the big formats.
I guess they think they'll be in charge of a localised standard which they can then use to control their people. Shame really,
focus-follows-mouse, the traditional focus policy on X11
Eh?! The only window manager I know of that has focus-follows-mouse as default is WindowMaker (and maybe flux?), and thats hardly common - most people use KDE or Gnome. And even if its WM I see it turned off almost every time I see it used.
I just don't get focus-follows-mouse. So you've moved your mouse pointer out of the way to read a document/webpage, you try to scroll down and
BAM!-ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!!
If its just historic then Gimp itself should move with the times, not have to be hacked by fanboys. I mean, honestly, window toolbars?! I much prefer the ribbon of Office 12.
3. Any person or business that files over 5 patents in one year has their filing fees raised expotentially with each subsequent submission.
So you want to fine people who have 6 good ideas in a year? Even if you change those numbers there will always be a guy who can produce more than n perfectly sensible patent applications in x months, and you want to punish him because he's clever?! I dont really think thats a good idea at all.
The others might be a start though.
WTF as it to do with Mircro$oft?!
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SCO can babble as long as they want, they obviously won't get anywhere. When they lose they'll have to pay the costs....heehee
Is this story about the CdG airport guy actually true, or just an urban myth?
I've heard it before a few times but I've never seen any pictures or reliable links?
What on earth is wrong with Fifa 2005??
"While a WiFi Finder / Seeker won't make a connection out of thin air.."
Isn't that what wireless is supposed to do?
not sure what game ur playing, mine runs fine.
maybe ur hardware's up the creek
I can so see a bunch of redmond programmers going: "if i cant see it, its not there!"
GTA San Andreas has done something wonderful to that effect btw - no loading screens at all, ever! Pretty amazing IMHO, considering the level is about 10 times the size of the previous games even with their respective loading screens taken into account!
fairy muff - still more than the prize is worth tho.
not sure a loss of 190 million dollars is much of a motivation!
'Cold Hard Cash' wasn't exactly the motivation behind the winners of the X-Prize. Im not sure of the numbers but i think they spent 200M building a spacecraft to win them 10M. These people are in it for the advancement of their science (or their name in a history book or on a plaque, or the commerical success - enter Ricahrd Branson).
yea cos u and me together can make everyone in the world boycott all forms of music by choice, no matter.[/sarcasm]
The only successful method is to bring the RIAA down with force, forcefully if necessary! Im talking bombs, napalm, NUCLEAR WINTER!!
Anyone know any Taliban???
I saw this in a Dilbert book once (roughly):
Every disaster that we can think might happen, like Y2K or Smallpox-wiping-out-humanity etc, doesn't happen because we work out a way to stop it happening!
So the only disasters we need to worry about are the ones we can't predict...:-)
I once heard that the British Library wanted to take a 'snapshot of the internet', every week for public records!
Thats the problem with state funded projects - money isnt an issue. (I know people who take clients out to VERY expensive 'business lunches' just to use up funds so that they dont appear to have over-quoted! Sorry if i sound like a Capitalizt, but i think the business sense you get from the private sector could really teach government departments a thing or two, at least here in UK.
Just dont ask for a core dump...
Amen to that! Why should the amount of money you have affect the quality of your defense! and against anybody who chooses to accuse you of anything! It might not stop the suing culture in the States but itd be a start.
Sharing your music for other people probably is illegal anyway tho...