I only have last year's MacBook Pro with the limited multi-touch pads, but using my work laptop's Dell's touch-pad is almost painful now. The two-finger scroll is insanely great, in particular. Hitting a scrollbar with a cursor seems like a cruel joke now.
You know about edge-scrolling, right? Almost all touchpad software supports it, though it's not always enabled by default. When it's on, you can scroll vertically/horizontally by sliding your finger across the right/bottom edge of the touchpad. It's not as neat as two-finger scrolling or a real scroll wheel, but it sure beats using a scrollbar.
I don't think the GPL was the way to go for Java either, as Java needs to be fairly standardized. I would like to see a new OSS license that prevents forking, but allows me to read the source code, submit patches upstream, and recompile. However the license would prohibit people from distributing altered/forked versions. Such a license might very well convince Adobe to release the source code, as well as Nvidia for their drivers.
I can see the benefits of such a license for some applications, but I think it would create a real headache for Linux distributions. Very few distros ship upstream software as-is. Instead, they apply patches to improve integration with the rest of the system. The last thing Sun wants to do is review every single tweak Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu (or whoever) makes to their codebase. What you propose is certainly better than a binary blob, but it still has some issues, IMO.
I think a satellite radio unit is a better analogy than the stereo itself. EA banning you from online play is like XM cutting off your radio subscription. The software/hardware you purchased still works perfectly, but the company flipped off the "can use this" bit on their server/satellite. Is this legal? I haven't read the license agreements in questions, but my guess is yes.
Mod parent insightful, please. While my little jab about moving to New Zealand was tongue-in-cheek, my complement to the NZ courts was not. It seems to me that the end result was about as just and good for society as possible given the circumstances. I take my hat off to the judge, and I hope the kid keeps on hacking as long as he wants, just on the side of good.
But for most people, they don't turn on their computer just for that anyway. They just let it run as screensaver when they're away for a while, or they let it to make use of unused CPU cycles while they're working or doing other stuff. It's not like they're using extra electricity Except that they are. Modern CPUs have quite a bit of power-saving support built in. If the processor is idle for a long period of time, it will practically shut itself down. Don't get me wrong, I like the Folding@Home project, but it does cause a noticeable increase in your electric bill.
There's literally nothing new here except better Unicode support.
True, but better Unicode support is a very major feature in and of itself. Let's face it, writing a Unicode-enabled Web application with PHP 5 is like hunting wildebeests with a BB gun. It's possible, but it sure ain't easy.
Slashdot Mirror
Most (all?) of Slashdot's icons are stale. That's part of its charm.
Which, in some ways, is oddly like the Z-machine!
Yes it can!
I only have last year's MacBook Pro with the limited multi-touch pads, but using my work laptop's Dell's touch-pad is almost painful now. The two-finger scroll is insanely great, in particular. Hitting a scrollbar with a cursor seems like a cruel joke now.
You know about edge-scrolling, right? Almost all touchpad software supports it, though it's not always enabled by default. When it's on, you can scroll vertically/horizontally by sliding your finger across the right/bottom edge of the touchpad. It's not as neat as two-finger scrolling or a real scroll wheel, but it sure beats using a scrollbar.
I don't think the GPL was the way to go for Java either, as Java needs to be fairly standardized. I would like to see a new OSS license that prevents forking, but allows me to read the source code, submit patches upstream, and recompile. However the license would prohibit people from distributing altered/forked versions. Such a license might very well convince Adobe to release the source code, as well as Nvidia for their drivers.
I can see the benefits of such a license for some applications, but I think it would create a real headache for Linux distributions. Very few distros ship upstream software as-is. Instead, they apply patches to improve integration with the rest of the system. The last thing Sun wants to do is review every single tweak Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu (or whoever) makes to their codebase. What you propose is certainly better than a binary blob, but it still has some issues, IMO.
I think a satellite radio unit is a better analogy than the stereo itself. EA banning you from online play is like XM cutting off your radio subscription. The software/hardware you purchased still works perfectly, but the company flipped off the "can use this" bit on their server/satellite. Is this legal? I haven't read the license agreements in questions, but my guess is yes.
Did you know that sales of Swatch Internet Time watches doubled between 1998 and 1999?
So they sold eight instead of four?
... Braincap or Braincop?
Nicely done. :-)
Not really. :-(
I screwed it up by quoting less of ShieldW0lf's post than I intended to. Oh well.
Incidentally, they also own the land.
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
Well, you could still sue Facebook for defamation of character.
Mod parent insightful, please. While my little jab about moving to New Zealand was tongue-in-cheek, my complement to the NZ courts was not. It seems to me that the end result was about as just and good for society as possible given the circumstances. I take my hat off to the judge, and I hope the kid keeps on hacking as long as he wants, just on the side of good.
So did you read my OmniCode or are you just psychic? :)
Finally, a reasonable justice system! Maybe I should move to New Zealand.
I would suggest using subdomains, e.g. "me@my-server.example.com" and "my-friend@his-their.example.com".
Bah! It's so delicious and moist.
Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. "x86-64" is just as valid a name for the 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture are "x64" is.
That's all well and good until someone sends you an email containing the word "fuck".
IIRC, there is almost no BSD-licensed code (maybe none) in modern versions of Windows.
maybe they haven't heard of the sun
Yes they have, but they call it the day-star and it burns them.
Unlike the malady describe in this article, that is a medically-recognized disorder. It's called xeroderma pigmentosum, and it causes an extremely high sensitivity to ultraviolet light.Apparently they are allergic to it as well.
Did you know that the number of confirmed cases of this problem tripled in the past year?
It's posts like this that make me wish someone could get modded higher than +5. Thanks for the great summary!