Now we can look at the many other invalid patents and have them overturned. Just wish I had more time to research them and present why they are invalide the the USPTO.
Since when is a format slow? I could write an interperter for the MS format that is 3x as slow as the ODF. What are they defining as unsatisfactory and on what kind of documents?
I think it means that people should be familar enough with a computer that when presented with a problem, that they can at least find a way around it.
Some people I work with are by no means computer nerds or well versed in computers, but they know enough, beyond just office and what they need for work, that they can figure out solutions to some problems and are able to give me a fairly good idea of what a problem is when they need help. This is what I want, not excessive knowlege or fancy terms, jsut the ablility to think.
I'm happy it's fast enough for you. Personally I find OS X on my 1Ghz iBook dog slow for just about anything (fortunately I only bought it for very light on-the-road email, WWW, SSH and DVDs).
Dog slow?!?!?!?! What are you smokeing? I run 10.4.6 on a 933Mhx iBook and it runs with no slowdown from what I've seen on 2GHz G5's. I might say I often run Linux and Windows in VPC with little to no slowdown in ANY OS. So, I don't know what your on, but keep it to yourself, because your living in some fantisty world where if it takes more than no time to do something it's dog slow.
Quite a few of my friends use macs, and they are not coputer geeks. They are like joe smoe windows user, basicly.
Let me tell you, they get freaked out and call me ANY TIME the "enter your admin password" box comes up. Even if I'm AT their computer they don't like me doing it (well, have them enter their password for me) and I get a bizillion questions.
And no, I never told them to be aware of this...
I think many non computer literate users don't like something that is not ordinary or looks like they need to enter a password for something that they didn't themselves do.
I know that some of my profs don't use every new verison and realy only change when the new version has corrected some stuff or added a section that they like.
I was stating a concreate example of where the government didn't do something the correct way. I understand that it doens't map to the issue, just amking the case that the government is incompetent.
Lately the ignorance and stupidity of the populace and governments has started to bother me. All the stupid patents, stupid laws, stuff that is suppose to be good, but is implement horrible (read: welfare and the new prescriptions drug thing for seniors, for starters). There is no need for the government to pass many of the laws it does, and I think that this makes good examples of the government making laws that are suppose to help people but do more harm, but what can a citizen do if no one else cares (or do other people care, and I not know these people, equally possible)?
Hasn't anyone else noticed that it is hard to type on a 12-key keypad? I hate sending txt's simply because of that...
As a person also already said, txting is when you don't want a length convo and jsut want to say stuff like: "din pete 5" to make dinner plans at pete's at 5....
I never said it was "uber" common, just that I've seen it happen to about 10% of the laptops I know of and those laptops were of differnt brands.... I agree. My thinkpad and powerbook 520 (both really old) have never ahd HD issues)
I can't tell from the 3 sentences if you are joking or not. Executable code can be placed in ANY file (.doc,.jpg,.wmf,.anything) and if you can get it into the right place, it will run. Windows (and I would venture many OS, to an extent) do not place restrictions around what is data and what is execuable. To the OS it's all a string of bytes.
The hole point of my post was native things. I know I can get ssh servers and clients, but i want it there to begin with. I want this stuff on every compy I use, so I don't have to install it on every one...
Why was I modded overrated? Those are things I use everyday and sorly miss whenever I have to use windows. i have no gripe with Windows, jsut think that some things coudl be added to make it better....
What I love about Mac and *nix is that it comes with so much installed right off (note: have not tried the new shell for vista, whatever it's name is). I'm not talkign about office or even GUI apps, but things like tar, gzip (granted windows has native zip support, so I guess that evens out), gcc (OMG I hate not having a compiler on PC's, sure there are free ones, but I can't (read: not alloud) intall stuff at work). There are things that ppl don't think about like who, uptime, kill, cat (isn't there a DOS equiv to cat...?), cmdln find, cmdln grep, w, cal, bc, lynx, ssh (client AND server), apache (or IIS on Windows, just something by default), mail, sendmail, and perl. That's only what I can think off of the top of my head....
And before you say that's too much to have at once, all of those and more are on *nix and mac systems by default and they run pretty snappy.
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Now we can look at the many other invalid patents and have them overturned. Just wish I had more time to research them and present why they are invalide the the USPTO.
Since when is a format slow? I could write an interperter for the MS format that is 3x as slow as the ODF. What are they defining as unsatisfactory and on what kind of documents?
I think it means that people should be familar enough with a computer that when presented with a problem, that they can at least find a way around it.
Some people I work with are by no means computer nerds or well versed in computers, but they know enough, beyond just office and what they need for work, that they can figure out solutions to some problems and are able to give me a fairly good idea of what a problem is when they need help. This is what I want, not excessive knowlege or fancy terms, jsut the ablility to think.
It's about time that someone take the inititive to get patents on obvious technology examined. May this be precented for many other patents as well.
I'm happy it's fast enough for you. Personally I find OS X on my 1Ghz iBook dog slow for just about anything (fortunately I only bought it for very light on-the-road email, WWW, SSH and DVDs).
Dog slow?!?!?!?! What are you smokeing? I run 10.4.6 on a 933Mhx iBook and it runs with no slowdown from what I've seen on 2GHz G5's. I might say I often run Linux and Windows in VPC with little to no slowdown in ANY OS. So, I don't know what your on, but keep it to yourself, because your living in some fantisty world where if it takes more than no time to do something it's dog slow.
Quite a few of my friends use macs, and they are not coputer geeks. They are like joe smoe windows user, basicly.
Let me tell you, they get freaked out and call me ANY TIME the "enter your admin password" box comes up. Even if I'm AT their computer they don't like me doing it (well, have them enter their password for me) and I get a bizillion questions.
And no, I never told them to be aware of this...
I think many non computer literate users don't like something that is not ordinary or looks like they need to enter a password for something that they didn't themselves do.
...about any of you, but I like to keep my thoughts and actions seperate; it keeps me out of trouble.
Um..judging by some of the drivers I see, a driver's license is no IQ test....
I know that some of my profs don't use every new verison and realy only change when the new version has corrected some stuff or added a section that they like.
Why not:
ur-domain.ur-tld/contact.ext !?!?!?!?!?
Whooooo the simplicity....
Um, since when is pray quantinized. God does what he wants with or without a pray.
Um....you can grow virus caspids w/o genetic material in it.
I was stating a concreate example of where the government didn't do something the correct way. I understand that it doens't map to the issue, just amking the case that the government is incompetent.
Lately the ignorance and stupidity of the populace and governments has started to bother me. All the stupid patents, stupid laws, stuff that is suppose to be good, but is implement horrible (read: welfare and the new prescriptions drug thing for seniors, for starters). There is no need for the government to pass many of the laws it does, and I think that this makes good examples of the government making laws that are suppose to help people but do more harm, but what can a citizen do if no one else cares (or do other people care, and I not know these people, equally possible)?
Hasn't anyone else noticed that it is hard to type on a 12-key keypad? I hate sending txt's simply because of that...
As a person also already said, txting is when you don't want a length convo and jsut want to say stuff like: "din pete 5" to make dinner plans at pete's at 5....
Because I know this is not a porblem iwith my laptop soley.
My roomates HD crashed (Acer), my freinds (IBM), anotehr friend (Dell), and another (HP) all had similar problems.
Just because YOU never had any problems doens't mean no one else has
I never said it was "uber" common, just that I've seen it happen to about 10% of the laptops I know of and those laptops were of differnt brands.... I agree. My thinkpad and powerbook 520 (both really old) have never ahd HD issues)
Sorry, I forgot to append this to my other comment:
I have a Powerbook 520c that's about 12+ years old and it still works liek a charm (minus that battery holding a 15 minute charge...:-/)
I have a 14" iBook. I have only 2 complains:
1) My HD dies after almost a year (gotta love standard warrenties:-D) This seems to be a problem most laptops of any vendor, so...
2) My screen sometimes goes green sometimes (like an overcast). This too seems to be a problem w/ ibooks (search the apple forum...)
Other than that, I love this laptop and it has stud up to a lot. (physical and just computational)
I've only used it a little, but ObjC? A valid C prog will compile on a ObjC compiler and Obj supports classes....
Thanks:-D
That's what I meant by "getting it intot he right place"
I can't tell from the 3 sentences if you are joking or not. Executable code can be placed in ANY file (.doc, .jpg, .wmf, .anything) and if you can get it into the right place, it will run. Windows (and I would venture many OS, to an extent) do not place restrictions around what is data and what is execuable. To the OS it's all a string of bytes.
The hole point of my post was native things. I know I can get ssh servers and clients, but i want it there to begin with. I want this stuff on every compy I use, so I don't have to install it on every one...
Why was I modded overrated? Those are things I use everyday and sorly miss whenever I have to use windows. i have no gripe with Windows, jsut think that some things coudl be added to make it better....
What's overrated suppose to mean anyway?
What I love about Mac and *nix is that it comes with so much installed right off (note: have not tried the new shell for vista, whatever it's name is). I'm not talkign about office or even GUI apps, but things like tar, gzip (granted windows has native zip support, so I guess that evens out), gcc (OMG I hate not having a compiler on PC's, sure there are free ones, but I can't (read: not alloud) intall stuff at work). There are things that ppl don't think about like who, uptime, kill, cat (isn't there a DOS equiv to cat...?), cmdln find, cmdln grep, w, cal, bc, lynx, ssh (client AND server), apache (or IIS on Windows, just something by default), mail, sendmail, and perl. That's only what I can think off of the top of my head....
And before you say that's too much to have at once, all of those and more are on *nix and mac systems by default and they run pretty snappy.