While I'm often the first to make fun of "Slowest Notes", It's a helluva a full-featured package, and the companies that are interested in this sort of functionality have already been using Notes for a long, long time. Microsoft is just too late to the party.
I've always thought that the Table of Contents for Roget's Thesaurus was one of the greatest works of mankind. I don't think many people realize just how difficult the problem really is, and how long it's going to take.
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> Ah, bloggers, run-on sentences, and Internet Explorer. I cannot imagine what these all have in common.
> ...can hack on, improve and get the features they are looking for...
And that's exactly the problem. 20 minutes after Java goes "free", some idiot will start adding pointers to it. Sun's stewardship of the language is the only thing preventing this.
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It's not the "stereotypical definition of what a gamer is", it's the lack of games that non-hardcore gamers want to play.
It looks like the opening scene from The Sound of Music.
Yeah. And now we're gonna get cracks spreading out from the long strokes.
Isn't this like asking if the Italian Renaissance could have happened anywhere except Italy?
While I'm often the first to make fun of "Slowest Notes", It's a helluva a full-featured package, and the companies that are interested in this sort of functionality have already been using Notes for a long, long time. Microsoft is just too late to the party.
I've always thought that the Table of Contents for Roget's Thesaurus was one of the greatest works of mankind. I don't think many people realize just how difficult the problem really is, and how long it's going to take.
Cluelessness?
> For the same amount of keystrokes, I can ... write it in C...
Too funny.
"Linux" is simply the "Kleenex" name for it. Leaving out the "GNU" isn't disrespectful. Most distros could be called X11/[KDE|Gnome]/GNU/Linux.
And that's exactly the problem. 20 minutes after Java goes "free", some idiot will start adding pointers to it. Sun's stewardship of the language is the only thing preventing this.
How will they be able to run Windows?
This parrot really is dead.
What's the "next generation of fusion reactors"? Is there a current generation which I was hitheto unaware of?
"Alberto Gonzales on line 2"
Of course it does. Denying it doesn't make it false.
First we set up phony credit card site, then we get moose and squirrel...
OK, so maybe there was a prior patent, but why is there any patent on a "single clisk to buy it" business process? That's just stupid in the extreme.
So the built-in DRM will work.
Well, you know the old saying: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo".
Thinking of B.F. Skinner and the Skinner Box
If you're travelling at the speed of light, and it's behind you, it's never going to catch up.
So the intimidation manager is actually named Lawless?
One minor quibble: it's PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard).
Actually, they meant "Fireplace Ladder Telephone Sandwich Tree".