Yes, patents *are* a bad idea. I stress people to read Phil Salin most excellent article on patents. It is the most clearest, strongest, most sensible things ever said about patents.
I do this from time to time. This (late) guy, Phil Salin, has written the most amazing article on sofware patents. It is an absolute *MUST* read for everyone, I am totally dead serious.
http://philsalin.com/patents.html
Please let the EC be the only sane software-patent-less place to make money.
When some slob shuts me down in the US, I can still use my genuine inventions in the EC.
Keep the evil scum out !
It's soo lame. Look ma, no hands - look at me look at me look at me !
"Windows" Media Photo. What's "Windows" about it? What does it have to do with "Windows"? Nothing ! Absolutely nothing !
Ok, so I'm going to create a new portable open source language that runs everywhere, and I'm going to call it "The Atari ST Programming Language".
Could Mr Bill Gates just grow up and start picking some cooler names? I mean, come on, get on board, become more fashionable already. Sometimes, even if you come up with the coolest new technology, a good snazzy name alone could cause it to pick up more steam than the technology itself.
"JPEG2006"? Naah.
"Snazzy". Maybe. I'm trademarking this right now - sorry world, it's mine now, I own this now. Hands off everyone, or I will sue you and take your house away.
"Windows Media Photo". Sooo pethetic...
Editing a file in vim in konsole is much slower than in xterm.
With a keyboard repeat setting of 90 cps, editing a source file in vim in konsole, scrolls are fairly choppy. In xterm it's completely smooth.
In aterm, because of its internal caching scheme, the screen doesn't refresh at all, freezes, until you let go of the cursor key, making aterm totally useless.
Simplicity, and matureness, and people not mucking around with xterm wins over the constant tinkering, fooling, poking, peeking, horsing around with KDE. I don't like KDE, I like gnome only slightly better. Someone, somewhere, finally write a *decent* desktop - NO one has done it, so far - really - they all suck or are too primitive.
It won't happen right away, but I'll start migrating all my business away from Godaddy. I'm not looking forward to systems being administered by people that just know how to toy with M$ dialog boxes.
I want a bonifide skilled shop with Unix people doing things intelligently. I also demand no outsourcing.
gnome-terminal scroll speed & moving windows.
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gnome-terminal must have been the most inefficient terminal that has ever been made for Linux. Perhaps maybe that pig of a KDE's konsole might be even slower. I'm more of an icewm + xterm guy. aterm is missing the window title changes and has a really nasty bug, where you can't scroll up and down in vim too well if you set the keyboard repeat to around 90 cps. So I can't use aterm.
So is gnome-terminal finally decent now? I'm totally not interested to see how fast it launches, I'm only interested in how fast it works once it's up.
Second thing: Gnome's configurability. They kept on taking out feature after feature, in the interested to cater to the most common denominator: the average smuck user, or so it seems. It got stupider and stupider.
One thing I totally and utterly hate: I want to move a window using the alt-mouse-button to stick out *above* the screen. But an idiot wouldn't know how to move the window back because then the window's title bar is outside the screen. I absolutely *HATE* this restriction, and I *HATE* to be treated that because the average idiot will get lost, *I* must not have that feature either.
Aren't they though? How the hell dare they intimidate the small private creative person.
I am a very creative person that is coming up with new ideas every day. However I am intimidated like hell and scared sh**less that if I put something creative on my website or create a little product to see if I can make a living by doing something useful with my own genuine honest ideas.
None of my ideas are stolen, but someone else will steal it from me through this patent society hack. I don't feel like risking my house, so I'm forced to keep all my ideas to myself in fear of an attack.
End result: the patent system has successfully shut me up - is THAT what they want? Are these guys listening AT ALL ? It's depressing that's what it is!
The USPO Mob is a direct attack on creativity in my opinion. What're these patents supposed to do again? Induce creativity, y-e-a-h r-i-g-h-t... as if...
-depressed
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Yes, patents *are* a bad idea. I stress people to read Phil Salin most excellent article on patents. It is the most clearest, strongest, most sensible things ever said about patents.
http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html
I do this from time to time. This (late) guy, Phil Salin, has written the most amazing article on sofware patents. It is an absolute *MUST* read for everyone, I am totally dead serious.
http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html
http://philsalin.com/patents.html Please let the EC be the only sane software-patent-less place to make money. When some slob shuts me down in the US, I can still use my genuine inventions in the EC. Keep the evil scum out !
"Windows" Media Photo. What's "Windows" about it? What does it have to do with "Windows"? Nothing ! Absolutely nothing !
Ok, so I'm going to create a new portable open source language that runs everywhere, and I'm going to call it "The Atari ST Programming Language".
Could Mr Bill Gates just grow up and start picking some cooler names? I mean, come on, get on board, become more fashionable already. Sometimes, even if you come up with the coolest new technology, a good snazzy name alone could cause it to pick up more steam than the technology itself.
"JPEG2006"? Naah.
"Snazzy". Maybe. I'm trademarking this right now - sorry world, it's mine now, I own this now. Hands off everyone, or I will sue you and take your house away.
"Windows Media Photo". Sooo pethetic...
Editing a file in vim in konsole is much slower than in xterm. With a keyboard repeat setting of 90 cps, editing a source file in vim in konsole, scrolls are fairly choppy. In xterm it's completely smooth. In aterm, because of its internal caching scheme, the screen doesn't refresh at all, freezes, until you let go of the cursor key, making aterm totally useless. Simplicity, and matureness, and people not mucking around with xterm wins over the constant tinkering, fooling, poking, peeking, horsing around with KDE. I don't like KDE, I like gnome only slightly better. Someone, somewhere, finally write a *decent* desktop - NO one has done it, so far - really - they all suck or are too primitive.
It won't happen right away, but I'll start migrating all my business away from Godaddy. I'm not looking forward to systems being administered by people that just know how to toy with M$ dialog boxes.
I want a bonifide skilled shop with Unix people doing things intelligently. I also demand no outsourcing.
gnome-terminal must have been the most inefficient terminal that has ever been made for Linux. Perhaps maybe that pig of a KDE's konsole might be even slower. I'm more of an icewm + xterm guy. aterm is missing the window title changes and has a really nasty bug, where you can't scroll up and down in vim too well if you set the keyboard repeat to around 90 cps. So I can't use aterm. So is gnome-terminal finally decent now? I'm totally not interested to see how fast it launches, I'm only interested in how fast it works once it's up. Second thing: Gnome's configurability. They kept on taking out feature after feature, in the interested to cater to the most common denominator: the average smuck user, or so it seems. It got stupider and stupider. One thing I totally and utterly hate: I want to move a window using the alt-mouse-button to stick out *above* the screen. But an idiot wouldn't know how to move the window back because then the window's title bar is outside the screen. I absolutely *HATE* this restriction, and I *HATE* to be treated that because the average idiot will get lost, *I* must not have that feature either.
Aren't they though? How the hell dare they intimidate the small private creative person. I am a very creative person that is coming up with new ideas every day. However I am intimidated like hell and scared sh**less that if I put something creative on my website or create a little product to see if I can make a living by doing something useful with my own genuine honest ideas. None of my ideas are stolen, but someone else will steal it from me through this patent society hack. I don't feel like risking my house, so I'm forced to keep all my ideas to myself in fear of an attack. End result: the patent system has successfully shut me up - is THAT what they want? Are these guys listening AT ALL ? It's depressing that's what it is! The USPO Mob is a direct attack on creativity in my opinion. What're these patents supposed to do again? Induce creativity, y-e-a-h r-i-g-h-t... as if... -depressed