@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
"Interesting thought ... If you installed Win7 as a dual boot on a machine that previously only had Linux, and it wrecked your Linux installation,...
This is an excellent summary of Ubuntu and Mint and the interface differences between them. Most such articles take a very partisan position for...
@ewallace. Not so clear. Anyone can obtain the text, for example from here http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2379.
I support ACTA so long as it and...
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Communications between 2 nodes. They exchange addresses!? That is what communications is about. Where is the patentability in that. sounds like yet another software patent that should never have been allowed.
Mind you in conversations with the wonderkids of Firefox, I found out that Computer Science from the 70s has absolutely no relevance today, so maybe these patent people are seeing this for the first time.
Peer to peer network protocols use the same concept. In active mode the servents exchange IP addresses and form point to point connections for exactly the same reasons as Skype and other net telephony apps. Without the central server as a bottleneck, the system can scale much higher and is more resilient to outages.
ICMP, SMTP, DNS, etc. Wonder if that exchanges IP addresses between processing units in order to establish a direct communication link between the devices via the Internet.
What's next? Broadcast each and every packet over the entire Internet just to make sure you don't violate some patent? I'm sure that'll do wonders availability wise. Might land you in jail as well since someone (perhaps the same person that granted the patent in question?) might confuse it for a DoS attack.
Customer to ISP: my Internet connection is down!
ISP: No it's not. We're only filtering out the illegal packets. The unicasts to be precise.
Customer: but without unicasts what good is my Internet connection?
ISP: at least now it's legal.
On the other hand. It would solve the spam problem. No more spam for sure. But then they start phoning you up again.
Anyway, I'm not sure about the exact and entire text of the "point-to-point IP" patent but if its basis is "exchanges IP addresses between processing units in order to establish a direct communication link" then you might as well patent the letter "e".