Spam Will Be 'Solved' In 2 Years -- Bill Gates, 2004

If only he'd put a number on a maximum number of emails sent per spammer. 640,000 SPAMs should be enough for anyone!

This reminds me of the old story that got around, supposedly about a Wordperfect support call. It went something like:

Caller: Your software broke my computer!
WP: Okay, what happened?
Caller: The screen has gone black and the computer won't do anything.
(eventually)
WP: Can you take a look around the back of the computer and makes sure the cables are all securely plugged in?
Caller: Okay, I'll need to get a torch.
WP: Why?
Caller: It's dark, I can't see, the power is off.
WP: Do you still have the packing for your computer?
Caller: Yes.
WP: Please pack your computer up and send it back. You're too stupid to use a computer.
*click*

I'm hoping that v1 meant flat battery, not dead.

Interesting that nearly all advancement and innovation in computing is happening in areas that Microsoft does not occupy, or if they are there, they are a bit player or leech.

In addition to the inet_ntoa and inet_aton and related calls, we have a special inet_ntoaustralia that all TCP stacks here have to implement. It flips the 1's and 0's vertically, so they appear to be in the correct orientation to the host.

Would you be so kind as to highlight some of those flaws and how they affected you? This might save others from making the same mistake and having the same regrets you did.

On a Mac, the trackpad is both a pointer-based interface and a touch based gesture interface. Move one finger around and the cursor moves. Swipe up and down with two fingers and the content in the current application moves up and down, pinch in or out with two fingers and the content zooms in and out. Rotate with two fingers and the content rotates around as well. While doing any of these gestures, the cursor does not move, the gesture is manipulating the content of the application window or performing some kind of other action like showing the desktop or invoking launch pad.

Do you consider a touch based interface only when you're prodding at the actual screen with your fingers? Or, do we need to find another term when the touching is happening on a part of a device that is not also displaying the content?

Actually, Apple have. For a long time. Their touch based input is via their trackpads.

Because, as GGGGGGGGGGGP asked

Something like this?

Right, when I buy my car, I want it with Continental tyres and I don't want to have to pay for the Goodyear tyres that the car builder is forcibly shoving into the boot even though I don't want them.

Erg, no it wouldn't. Excuse coffee deprived brain.

That, and 'OR' would be a lot more useful in that context as well.

Compare Spanning Tree Protocol.

Did Steve also head up the Spanish Inquisition?