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> No. Bad kitty. Stay off keyboard.

https://www.bitboost.com/pawse...

I suppose the same way PawSense detects whether a cat or a human is using the device: when you text and drive, you have a funny way of using the device - because you're constantly switching between texting, putting down the device and driving, picking it back up after 10 seconds, and doing that over and over, as opposed to a human that's fully committed to the task of inputting text.

How would that be different than someone, say, texting while masturbating in the passenger seat of a moving car? A lot of sudden awkward pauses, shifts in position, device gets put down to pinch a nipple.

I suppose the same way PawSense detects whether a cat or a human is using the device: when you text and drive, you have a funny way of using the device - because you're constantly switching between texting, putting down the device and driving, picking it back up after 10 seconds, and doing that over and over, as opposed to a human that's fully committed to the task of inputting text.

Holy shit, I should have checked my volume before checking out the sounds that annoy cats.. wow.

No, but it means PawSense will need an update.

I'm wondering if journalists and bloggers are finding they have to disable their catlike-typing detection software everytime they need to input the word "Eyjafjallajökull".

When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it.

PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.

http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/pawsense-faq.html

As long as the computer doesn't think they are a cat. I wonder if PawSense would count as prior art in using typing patterns in determining the user?

I'd say you need PawSense.

Actually, cat typing is quite predictable.

See http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/

You get a helpful warning.

"whether a message was sent by an ally or an impostor..."

...or a cat.

--Rob

Bookware for various languages:

Living Language

A list of the 'Teach Yourself' Books.

Tuttle Kanji Cards - I have a set of these and they're very nice flashcards.

Free-ish software for Japanese:

Kanji Gold

Tile Tag - Drill game for Japanese kana.

Stuff to pay for:

Multi-Lingual Books - Seem to have a good selection of stuff.

OK... So I myself am interested in Japanese... ;-) However, it does seem to exercise a lot of different portions of your brain, from the pictographic script to the weird (to me!) grammer stuff. However, you should have her pick what she's most interested in, since interest is vital to keeping with a foreign language self-study program.

Another thing you might look at is the game of Go. It seems to be well thought of by various people who should know, and I believe it's even claimed to be effective in staving off such things as Alzheimers. However, the good players say that there's no good computer implementation, so you might have to find her a human opponent.

American Go Association

Good luck!

Disclaimer: I've tried some of these resources, not all. Your mileage may vary. Contents may settle during shipment.

Cats using your PC.

Or you might consider a better solution for the problem

{=^:^=} meow!

How about a cat that doesn't shed, a cat that sleeps AT NIGHT instead of during the day, a cat that doesn't s**t behind the couch when you piss it off, a cat that is hairball resistant, a cat that doesn't care if the bowl isn't exactly full, a cat that can actually decide if it wants to be inside or outside (as opposed to wanting both simultaneously), a cat that views keyboards as natural preditors, a cat that will not release any "presents" in the house until said "gift" is completely DEAD, a cat that will actually kill said "gifts" that get into your house by other means, a cat that'll bring home USEFUL things instead of the typical birds, rabbits, mice, frogs... a new lawnmower would be nice once in awhile, or maybe some PC hardware - but no, it's always half-dead stuff.

Some of this wishlist can be met by judicious selection, equipping and training. MY cat 1) is hairball resistant (she's gotten like one or two in the last eighteen years); 2) doesn't urinate/defecate indoors (she takes care of all that outdoors); 3) is always exactly where she wants to be (a cat flap is a beautiful invention); and 4) she doesn't walk on keyboards any more (check PawSense out!).

I'll admit she does have an unfortunate habit of bringing half-dead critters in -- but fortunately, she has a very distinctive yowl meaning "I've just crippled something and I've just gotta show you," which makes it easy to shove her out the cat flap and latch it behind her before she actually lets her new playmate loose.

As for bringing in useful stuff, well . . . if I had a cat with discerning taste in computer hardware who was also strong enough to haul in a lawnmower, I would be rather nervous about living in the same house with it. ;-)

Also, do not leave an exposed rackmount keyboard, or you may find your iptables spontaneously changing.

pawsense Will probably work well for that purpose too. Once you hear the harmonica sound while falling asleep on your keaboard, you _will_ wake up.

I can't answer to your other claims, but this one:

- failed to come even within an order of magnitude of equivalent C++ code in terms of performance

is not even close to true. Performance differences like that haven't existed in SmartEiffel/SmallEiffel for at least 5 years.

Here is one comparison of many languages (including C, C++, Java and Eiffel):

http://www.bitboost.com/people/intro-to-python-tcs /intro-to-python--2002-11--special-topic--runspeed --002.html

Well... if you use Windows there is a solution to that problem. Though, it'd be better to have a hardware dongle or something to make it non-operating system specific....

Tsss, tsss. You are not running PawSense, are you?

Loved those winners of 2000:
CHEMISTRY
"Romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder."

COMPUTER SCIENCE
"Detecting when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard."

Of course I always knew the first one, so it's quite useful to tell people who are "in love", dunno about the later.

But then they can just license this technology to filter it out.

Q. My cat is deaf. Can you help me?
A. PawSense detects the paws of even deaf cats. Even if a cat is deaf, PawSense blocks cat typing once detected.

PawSense[tm] detects whether cat or human is typing, and disables the keyboard if the former.