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  1. Re:My Theory of Keyboard Design by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 1 · on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys

    The idea that the 'dvorak' keyboard is somehow superior is a myth.

  2. The Science game. by TeXMaster · · Score: 1 · on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

    This page makes a very nice description of what science "is", or more precisely how it behaves, making the difference between science and faith very clear: science does not claim to have "the definitive answer" to anything. Just an answer "as good as it gets for what we know". This is why scientific theories are scientific theories and not dogmas.

  3. Re:GUI design by jmontana66 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Jef Raskin On The Mac
    The QWERTY keyboard (originally designed to slow down the typing)
    That's not true. It was designed to stop the typewriter from jamming at high speeds, which actually ended up speeding up the typists.
  4. Sun, IBM, other major vendors also going dual-core by brg · · Score: 5, Informative · on Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips
    The UltraSPARC IV processor is also essentially two UltraSPARC III processors on a chip, integrated using chip multithreading (CMT) technology. Here is an article and some marketing blurbs about the UltraSPARC IV.

    The current IBM POWER4 and upcoming POWER5 chips are both dual-core chips. Here is a nice presentation(PDF format) about the POWER5; you can see in the die photos where there are two cores. There have also been rumors of a dual-core PowerPC based on it, but nothing concrete yet.

    Broadcom (which bought SiByte) markets a dual-core, 1GHz 64-bit MIPS chip called the BCM1250 which has a lot of integrated networking goodies.

    Finally, it bears pointing out that on the other side of Intel's severed corpus callosum, they're also working on a dual-core chip.

  5. Re:Usability != Accessibility by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent

    Don't be too hard on him, he suffers from CDP ;)

  6. We have the technology.... by tiltowait · · Score: 5, Informative · on Libraries Are 31337

    the freedom to take a digital copy of the book, leaving the original on the shelf for someone who is not able to use a digital copy.

    The biggest impediment to the type of access you describe nowadays isn't the technology, it's capitalism and all its derivatives, such as copyright.

    Case in point: A few years ago, the ebook vendor netLibrary offered an offline reader. This product was removed due to publisher paranoia. Currently you can only view netLibrary titles one page at a time while connected to the Internet. Furthermore, despite the medium, only one patron per purchasing library can check out a book at any given time. But never fear, now they're offering - for an extra fee - the ability to use a (somewhat) DRM crippled offline reader.

    Publishers are about as up to date with technology and new pricing models as the RIAA. Copyrights disputes have been cited as the reason several publishers have pulled their titles from full-text databases. So instead of moving towards the single search box method for library resources, we now have hundreds of competing library database vendors, each with different coverage and search interfaces. It is the most difficulty time in history to do library research (and the slack that Google is picking up is a detriment to research skills) not just because of varying library materials formats, but because of copyright.

    Libraries Are 31337

  7. Re:93% of your audience use 4.x or better browser by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 2 · on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete?

    Zeldman abuses CSS. Check out this node at Disenchanted to see what I mean.

    He completely lost the point of seperating content from style by overusing !important.

  8. Read some trade rags. by oneiros27 · · Score: 2 · on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials?
    You're thinking of this from the consumer perspective. Try looking up articles from the industry.

    This was an interesting article that I stumbled across earlier today, when looking for PVR software:
    http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/technology/grand-d esigns.html
    I'm guessing that rags like Advertising Week would have a similar perspective on things.
  9. Why should I care what Piro says, again? by _bug_ · · Score: 1, Flamebait · on Piro On Why .Coms Don't Work

    He puts out an okay manga (a little too cliched and too close to the typical "AH! My Goddess" and "Hand Maid May" type of stories about some lonesome geek for it to be a "great" manga)

    But anyways...

    How is it that Piro can rant on what amounts to his personal weblog and people take notice?

    First off, he doesn't cover the .com bombs at all! He only covers one specific model of offering a service for free and then turning it pay afterwards.

    I don't even think that was (is) a business model to begin with. It was more a necessity after banner ads became obviously ineffective. Once you start losing revenue on a free service it's pretty obvious that you simply start charging for that service. Just look at Something Awful. Lowtax didn't charge for forum access initially, but after the whole eFront debacle and the realization that banner ads don't work, he had to turn it over to a pay site.

    This wasn't a planned business model. It was the result of the necessity to recoup some lost revenue.

    So right off Piro is dead wrong.

    And then it all of a sudden turns into his own little time-machine going back to the days of his first 3x3 eyes web site and then goes into a (farily arrogant) rant about "Oh, I CREATE I don't copy".

    Give me a break. This shouldn't even have made it on /.

    I'm thinking Hemos was suffering from a mid-morning hangover when he put this through. There is _NOTHING_ worthwhile about this rant by Piro. Nothing that makes me THINK or QUESTION about the subject of the .COM failure. It isn't well organized or presented in a clear fashion.

    You want some GOOD writing on the subject, go check out disenchanted.com and stop feeding your brain this Internet junk food crap.