The owner of the domain loses nothing, he posts interesting emails to his blog, and requires companies to donate to a charity for him to remove it. If he was in dire financial straits, he could post more (and more sensitive) emails, and pocket the take-down fee. Sounds to me like free income.
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute, the "advanced typists" can achieve 120 wpm, and average (touchtypers) can achieve 50-70 wpm. It also says that conversations are held at 200 wpm. It seems like advancing speech recognition to work at conversation speeds with accuracy would yield an increase of between 2 and 4 times in efficiency. Who are you defining as average? record holders?
Maybe for now your muscle memory does common tasks with a keyboard better than with speaking, but I am certain that if you actually had reliable tools with speech recognition, you would have memory to do the same things with speech commands. Improvements for typing: keep keyboard constant for familiarity touch type use non qwerty keyboard customize things to auto-expand short hand and abbreviations
Note that almost all of these things are aided or require a dedicated system for typing, and are not easily portable.
Improvements for speech recognition: better software better microphone
I think that speech recognition holds far more potential for improvement by programmers today.
But intellectual property also denies a reality of buying music today, when it is not possible to buy music from far away by non-major labels. Even if I listened to the radio a lot, I seriously doubt that I would have heard of Antibalas, Lily Allen, John Butler Trio, Spoon, State Radio, and many others. People explore music by hearing it, and when radio isn't playing it, they share it. This is illegal, and leaving that status quo allows companies to make it increasingly difficult to actually get some of this music to hear. Lily Allen and John Butler Trio are both from outside the USA, so unlikely to find on radio. I heard of State Radio from a friend at school, and if I didn't have a emusic.com membership, the first thing I would have done would be to download some tracks from g2p.org and listen to them (illegally). If I really liked them, I might buy their music. The law should be reformed when it makes it illegal to do normal, expected things, like listen to music before you buy it.
But then again, I'm just some kid in high school, so I haven't had the experience that makes the adult world as slow to adjust as the legislature.
Actually, I am a road warrior, and the laptop I take with me on the road is a Dell XPS M2010. Once I sharpen the edges to be razer sharp, I can decapitate multiple people with a single throw. Road warriors, like all warriors, rely on weight for their stopping power. Road ninjas on the other hand prefer the Macbook Air, because they are easier to smuggle into a secure location to be used as shuriken.
Laugh if you like, but first consider who the next President is likely to be, and her unabashed view that Washington actually should be run by lobbyists and corporate interests.
Could you justify the Hillary snub? I dont mean this as sarcasm, I am interested in learning, and it is not really honest to say things without concrete justification.
Hmm, an initial browser that will not interfere with competition. The only solution is a browser that is obviously less desirable than anything else. I propose lynx [http://lynx.browser.org/]
They do realize that IBM, from it's lofty perch near the top of the Fortune 500, doesn't take too kindly to patent extortion? Especially pathetic ones like this? The same IBM that is a company that does not manufacture phones of any kind, smart or otherwise? The same IBM that has a larger patent portfolio than the next-highest competitor by a substantial margin? The same company that probably has a patent on breathing and a another patent on filing patent lawsuits? The same IBM with a quite famous, take-no-prisoners legal strategy? The same IBM that just spent more in legal fees fighting SCO than the company was worth?
Methinks a couple of those plaintiffs are going to get dropped from the suit, quite quickly. Unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case they will have their patent forcibly invalidated, with maybe some Sherman Act sprinkled on top for good measure.
SirWired Judging by the description of IBM, I think you meant "unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case they will have their patent forcibly invalidated" to read: "unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case IBM will forcibly violate them and their patent.
I think Vista is being forced on people simply because most people lack the time/determination to install an operating system, and therefore generally limit themselves to preinstalled operating systems. It isn't being forced, and they are using Vista, but they certainly don't want to.
Not quite authoritarian enough. The universities license and copyright their degrees, and in order to apply to a job, you have to ask the university to grant you authorization to copy your degree and send it to your prospective employer. Obviously if it is the RIAA, this permission is not granted.
Ruby is not nearly as whitespace picky as python, part of the reason I decided to learn it instead of python. Semicolons can be used to end lines, and indent is irrelevent. The only limitation i have come across is having arbitrary line breaks in procs and hashes (I was trying to combine them in a literal construction and keep the result readable)
I'm that generation, and I dont wan't to be defined that way. I was in 4th grade when it happened, and i thought: "Thats really sad, but its only a couple thousand people, it should change my life all that much. Suffice it to say, I was wrong. I misunderestimated the potential for fear in governments and regular people. I dont think that anything less than 10,000 people killed is worth altering all of American life for.
Add one to that count, I switched over to a mac after I had my computer replaced with Vista (it is much worse). I have installed macports, X11, and use the cli quite often. If anything has increased the chance of my switching permanently to linux in the future, it is OS X. I am totally serious, the ease and knowledge I got from setting up latex, ruby, python, vim, emacs, and other useful things, all available on linux more easily than they are windows. I now publish many of my documents in latex. And since I have rsync, and a linux server, I can automatically backup documents to rsync. Now virtually everything I do is nearly as efficient in linux, and gutenprint, which I believe works in linux, is my choice for print drivers.
P.S. I prefer Vim
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More simply, you can "set t_Co=0" which sets the number of terminal colors to zero, and thus I assume makes this change totally universal. Also, it formats the text by underlining it some, which you may prefer.
I am still a kid in 11th grade. If I were to ask my parents how they would raise me differently, they would say that they would get me out of the public school system earlier so that I could learn with kids near my intelligence. If you do not get challenging work, you will not work hard, and you will not learn to work hard. I coasted on my intelligence until tenth grade and then worked incredibly hard to actually do my work. I still have no idea where I would be if I had been truly nurtured throughout my education.
Why cant we have both? The ipod has a digital out, thats fairly fast, and I assume that the iphone can take in a decent amount of data. Use the ipod library with the iphone interface
If you are falling back on a single password, then that password can be ridiculously secure. I use a big diceware password http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html, along with a keepass database http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Assuming that we arent dealing with keyloggers, that is perfectly secure....first post
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The owner of the domain loses nothing, he posts interesting emails to his blog, and requires companies to donate to a charity for him to remove it. If he was in dire financial straits, he could post more (and more sensitive) emails, and pocket the take-down fee. Sounds to me like free income.
Actually, you can only be convicted if you knowingly and intentionally did it.
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute, the "advanced typists" can achieve 120 wpm, and average (touchtypers) can achieve 50-70 wpm. It also says that conversations are held at 200 wpm. It seems like advancing speech recognition to work at conversation speeds with accuracy would yield an increase of between 2 and 4 times in efficiency. Who are you defining as average? record holders?
Maybe for now your muscle memory does common tasks with a keyboard better than with speaking, but I am certain that if you actually had reliable tools with speech recognition, you would have memory to do the same things with speech commands.
Improvements for typing:
keep keyboard constant for familiarity
touch type
use non qwerty keyboard
customize things to auto-expand short hand and abbreviations
Note that almost all of these things are aided or require a dedicated system for typing, and are not easily portable.
Improvements for speech recognition:
better software
better microphone
I think that speech recognition holds far more potential for improvement by programmers today.
But intellectual property also denies a reality of buying music today, when it is not possible to buy music from far away by non-major labels. Even if I listened to the radio a lot, I seriously doubt that I would have heard of Antibalas, Lily Allen, John Butler Trio, Spoon, State Radio, and many others. People explore music by hearing it, and when radio isn't playing it, they share it. This is illegal, and leaving that status quo allows companies to make it increasingly difficult to actually get some of this music to hear. Lily Allen and John Butler Trio are both from outside the USA, so unlikely to find on radio. I heard of State Radio from a friend at school, and if I didn't have a emusic.com membership, the first thing I would have done would be to download some tracks from g2p.org and listen to them (illegally). If I really liked them, I might buy their music. The law should be reformed when it makes it illegal to do normal, expected things, like listen to music before you buy it. But then again, I'm just some kid in high school, so I haven't had the experience that makes the adult world as slow to adjust as the legislature.
Actually, I am a road warrior, and the laptop I take with me on the road is a Dell XPS M2010. Once I sharpen the edges to be razer sharp, I can decapitate multiple people with a single throw. Road warriors, like all warriors, rely on weight for their stopping power. Road ninjas on the other hand prefer the Macbook Air, because they are easier to smuggle into a secure location to be used as shuriken.
Not even with windows, only with wondows, it doesn't work with mac/linux.
Laugh if you like, but first consider who the next President is likely to be, and her unabashed view that Washington actually should be run by lobbyists and corporate interests.
Could you justify the Hillary snub? I dont mean this as sarcasm, I am interested in learning, and it is not really honest to say things without concrete justification.Hmm, an initial browser that will not interfere with competition. The only solution is a browser that is obviously less desirable than anything else. I propose lynx [http://lynx.browser.org/]
Methinks a couple of those plaintiffs are going to get dropped from the suit, quite quickly. Unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case they will have their patent forcibly invalidated, with maybe some Sherman Act sprinkled on top for good measure.
SirWired Judging by the description of IBM, I think you meant "unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case they will have their patent forcibly invalidated" to read: "unless of course IBM wants to make an example of them (not out of the question), in which case IBM will forcibly violate them and their patent.
I think Vista is being forced on people simply because most people lack the time/determination to install an operating system, and therefore generally limit themselves to preinstalled operating systems. It isn't being forced, and they are using Vista, but they certainly don't want to.
Not quite authoritarian enough. The universities license and copyright their degrees, and in order to apply to a job, you have to ask the university to grant you authorization to copy your degree and send it to your prospective employer. Obviously if it is the RIAA, this permission is not granted.
Ruby is not nearly as whitespace picky as python, part of the reason I decided to learn it instead of python. Semicolons can be used to end lines, and indent is irrelevent. The only limitation i have come across is having arbitrary line breaks in procs and hashes (I was trying to combine them in a literal construction and keep the result readable)
I'm that generation, and I dont wan't to be defined that way. I was in 4th grade when it happened, and i thought: "Thats really sad, but its only a couple thousand people, it should change my life all that much. Suffice it to say, I was wrong. I misunderestimated the potential for fear in governments and regular people. I dont think that anything less than 10,000 people killed is worth altering all of American life for.
Add one to that count, I switched over to a mac after I had my computer replaced with Vista (it is much worse). I have installed macports, X11, and use the cli quite often. If anything has increased the chance of my switching permanently to linux in the future, it is OS X. I am totally serious, the ease and knowledge I got from setting up latex, ruby, python, vim, emacs, and other useful things, all available on linux more easily than they are windows. I now publish many of my documents in latex. And since I have rsync, and a linux server, I can automatically backup documents to rsync. Now virtually everything I do is nearly as efficient in linux, and gutenprint, which I believe works in linux, is my choice for print drivers. P.S. I prefer Vim
More simply, you can "set t_Co=0" which sets the number of terminal colors to zero, and thus I assume makes this change totally universal. Also, it formats the text by underlining it some, which you may prefer.
I am still a kid in 11th grade. If I were to ask my parents how they would raise me differently, they would say that they would get me out of the public school system earlier so that I could learn with kids near my intelligence. If you do not get challenging work, you will not work hard, and you will not learn to work hard. I coasted on my intelligence until tenth grade and then worked incredibly hard to actually do my work. I still have no idea where I would be if I had been truly nurtured throughout my education.
Why cant we have both? The ipod has a digital out, thats fairly fast, and I assume that the iphone can take in a decent amount of data. Use the ipod library with the iphone interface
If you are falling back on a single password, then that password can be ridiculously secure. I use a big diceware password http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html, along with a keepass database http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ Assuming that we arent dealing with keyloggers, that is perfectly secure. ...first post