It's the exact same thing as expanding the current key size, the shape has nothing to do with it unless the user has a subconscious difference. There's still a range that each key takes. If you press in the middle of the two buttons, you still have the same case as if you pressed in the middle of the two on the last keyboard.
I don't see anything clever with the shape at all. Unless it just doesn't respond when you hit outside of the shape, which I can only see as an annoyance, taking up so much space but not doing anything.
Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it than youâ(TM)d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are more likely to press the correct key each time they tap.
Significantly more is right. It's about the same size as the buttons themselves, doubling screen real-estate.
Sadly, this isn't realistic. Exspecially with our current concern with education (none), I doubt this will happen anytime soon. This scheme would be amazing for more than just the warehouse problem, including the return to creativity. If you follow some greatminds out there, maybe you can find a movement towards better education and help out your neighborhood or local town, which would help us all.
I'll pay $5, as that's what Google says a keyboard is worth. Hell, I'll throw on an extra $5 just for the loud sound effects it makes, just to annoy my coworkers around me. Drag it behind a donkey, it'll survive the trip about as well as Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator.
The only fiction I know of is about "elite hackers". The difference I see here is that any kind of control can always be evaded. Isn't it a core concept of crypotgraphy that as long as a public channel exists, private communication is always possible? With that in mind, it's easy to see that any kind of filtering or protection governments use will and always can be thwarted by the small "elite".
Now, do the governments / huge corporations really care about these corner cases? No, Napster wasn't a threat until your grandmother could use it. They care about blocking and controlling the majority. For example, many Chinese truly believe that Tienanmen Square never actually happened. Every time the vast minority speaks up about it, they get thrown in jail, no problem. The great firewall of China is doing it's job, let the local police handle the rest.
But back to what you were saying, yes I believe there was never going to be a Utopia, but for some of us, you can't stop it. I believe Benkler is right in The Wealth of Networks, in that true democracy is the amazing ability of the Internet. Sadly, I don't think America, or any country for that matter, really wanted a democracy, as a republic is more suited for command in their eyes.
If there's any kind of central control point in a global architecture, then it's not truly global. Any single governing body (or even a group) will be controlled or dominated by at least one country. Then it becomes a national architecture. I'm all for a different solution, where the industrial model gets broken down and a web of trust gets established. Sure there are issues with a web of trust, but they can be solved with time and money.
I'm personally surprised that there isn't more issue with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and it's dominance over the network of networks. I think there's a lot more direct and immediate control there than with DNS.
No, the land could not be used to grow food instead. The cartoon I responded to illustrates the fact that Ethanol is taking directly from starving children, most notably in Africa. Growing more food here will never help the problem in Africa, as their problem is government regulation and control.
On another note, Congress is starting to cut food subsidies, for good reason. Drive through California back country sometime and see all the "Congress created dust bowl!" signs along the highways. Congress supplies anti-growing subsidies to farmers in America so they won't supply more than is demanded in the markets. They cut those negative subsidiaries when there is more demand and add growth subsidiaries when there is even more demand.
I think the food problem is too advanced and intertwined to other markets, maybe even too controlled and improperly regulated by the government, to point towards one thing like the production of Ethanol.
You're agreeing with me? I said that the Ethanol R&D is the solution and should not be cut. Excuse my poor wording. I think that it shouldn't be dropped, because even though it might not work now, if enough of the industry is invested in it, ie enough money thrown at it, the problem can and will be solved.
Now I'm sorry I brought up clean coal, as I do believe the term is an oxymoron, but Carbon Dioxide emissions can be dramatically reduced with open-system algae farms. Now this concept is still just that, in the proof-of-concept phases, but hopefully it'll be a good interim solution until we can head towards solar, wind, and nuclear. Again, I apologize for not thinking before typing. Thanks for the corrections.
But it's not Fuel vs. Food. The corn companies are not taking Corn that can be used for food, and the price of corn is not going up because of the production of Ethanol. Sugar cane, for instance, is being turned much more effectively into Ethanol.
The problem with Ethanol is that it doesn't work. It takes more Oil to produce and distribute Ethanol.
This is a clear case of lobbying on both sides. The scientific facts need to be gathered, which a commenter said above. I would argue that not pushing Ethanol R&D is destroying our chances for alternative fuel sources. Clean coal and clean air is the real solution, but destroying any R&D, even for a temp-solution, is definitely not a solution.
The summary and the quote differ dramatically. For one, DotA/CS was not in Warcraft 3/Half-Life 's core intentions. For another, finding glitches in games, say edge-of-world boundaries (in WOW), secret moves (in SSB), and even delete content (in GTA) is essentially different. I personally enjoy the glitches / hacking at games (no, not like wall-hacking), but then again that job is more for game testers and can get old extremely fast.
I would agree that every game or platform developer believes in creating a mod base, or an API in the case of software, as it has proven again and again to extend the product beyond the original ideas.
Now about game testers? There's no real money there, only a few incredibly bored individuals.
Just from the summary, it's 64 cameras which "report" (ie dump images) to a computing cluster which can process the 15,000 faces/second. I would agree that it's sensationalistic journalism, hell it got me to read the article, but I don't think it's merely a theoretical possibility. I would argue that the person with the first post had a more intelligent comment and with much less text.
I completely agree. It's all blame and finger pointing. But the real heart of the story is did it actually happen? AFAIK Last.fm and CBS are still denying this all happened at all. I suppose it's between the RIAA and God.
My question is when will these Google-wannabe companies learn? Why do any of them need to connect names and IP addresses and store them in transmittable data? There is no technological advantage to storing IP address history.
I say Google-wannabe because Google is the most successful data farmer in the world. Information is power, and they realized it, and efficiently acted on it early.
Sure, but we're not in Utopia. The world is run through a capitalist society. Universal Health Care won't work. It's a great goal, but like world peace: not going to happen.
Who says the two parties you're referring to are one and the same? I'd argue that they are very separate groups.
But I would agree that no, of course Apple won't change its business practices if they keep raking in the dough. I'm glad you've solved that complex market conundrum. As far as they know, their solution is working, and if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't change a thing. I might if you could prove that appeasing the hardcore enthusiast.01% market share would help the bottom line.
Ever watch GATTACA? Think about what they coined "discrimination down to a science". Databases do not need your name to figure out majorities. If insurance companies linked a mole on the left cheekbone to a higher probability of cancer... well, maybe you'd just get the mole removed.
Nevertheless, I'm all for the advancement of science and am interested in contributing to the project. Who knows, maybe if all the pessimists advance the project, it'll be done properly.
Exactly. It's all just lingo and terminology. Even if you're right 100% of the time (like if a switch went down in the control room), would it really matter if everyone else thought of a different term (ie: "The Internets Broken")? The point is communication and relaying information.
I gave up the hacker/cracker argument ages ago. There's plenty of examples, as can be seen in all of the idle replies below...
That's pretty much any profession. Ever talk to a pharmacist and become confused? Ever try to read a doctors handwriting?
And let's not forget, trying to out-argue a person with a British accent. Those pansies could convince me I was standing on the sky and looking up at the ground.
You learned this in school? My collegiate program just signed off after a single class of credit and said we were then "ethical". Or was this a more "CYA" type class?
IBM did not spin off Lenovo, Lenovo bought out the remaining hardware rights from IBM. Lenovo has been manufacturing IBM hardware for a long time now, the daughter company just got bigger than the mother.
In other news, can someone create an exact copy of windows in linux? Why doesn't the LinuxFoundation look at exactly what's holding that back? If it behaves exactly the same, I guarantee they will own the market. Exactly the same as XP even, forget Vista or 7, people haven't been accustomed to those yet.
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It's the exact same thing as expanding the current key size, the shape has nothing to do with it unless the user has a subconscious difference. There's still a range that each key takes. If you press in the middle of the two buttons, you still have the same case as if you pressed in the middle of the two on the last keyboard.
I don't see anything clever with the shape at all. Unless it just doesn't respond when you hit outside of the shape, which I can only see as an annoyance, taking up so much space but not doing anything.
Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it than youâ(TM)d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are more likely to press the correct key each time they tap.
Significantly more is right. It's about the same size as the buttons themselves, doubling screen real-estate.
From my minimalistic POV, that's horrid.
You know... I had a friend like you. I had to tell him what to type a lot when trying to write stuff on his machine...
Sadly, this isn't realistic. Exspecially with our current concern with education (none), I doubt this will happen anytime soon. This scheme would be amazing for more than just the warehouse problem, including the return to creativity. If you follow some great minds out there, maybe you can find a movement towards better education and help out your neighborhood or local town, which would help us all.
Yeah, we can definitely see that you grasped this product quite well in your very concise description.
I'll pay $5, as that's what Google says a keyboard is worth. Hell, I'll throw on an extra $5 just for the loud sound effects it makes, just to annoy my coworkers around me.
Drag it behind a donkey, it'll survive the trip about as well as Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator.
The only fiction I know of is about "elite hackers". The difference I see here is that any kind of control can always be evaded. Isn't it a core concept of crypotgraphy that as long as a public channel exists, private communication is always possible? With that in mind, it's easy to see that any kind of filtering or protection governments use will and always can be thwarted by the small "elite".
Now, do the governments / huge corporations really care about these corner cases? No, Napster wasn't a threat until your grandmother could use it. They care about blocking and controlling the majority. For example, many Chinese truly believe that Tienanmen Square never actually happened. Every time the vast minority speaks up about it, they get thrown in jail, no problem. The great firewall of China is doing it's job, let the local police handle the rest.
But back to what you were saying, yes I believe there was never going to be a Utopia, but for some of us, you can't stop it. I believe Benkler is right in The Wealth of Networks, in that true democracy is the amazing ability of the Internet. Sadly, I don't think America, or any country for that matter, really wanted a democracy, as a republic is more suited for command in their eyes.
If there's any kind of central control point in a global architecture, then it's not truly global. Any single governing body (or even a group) will be controlled or dominated by at least one country. Then it becomes a national architecture. I'm all for a different solution, where the industrial model gets broken down and a web of trust gets established. Sure there are issues with a web of trust, but they can be solved with time and money.
I'm personally surprised that there isn't more issue with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and it's dominance over the network of networks. I think there's a lot more direct and immediate control there than with DNS.
No, the land could not be used to grow food instead. The cartoon I responded to illustrates the fact that Ethanol is taking directly from starving children, most notably in Africa. Growing more food here will never help the problem in Africa, as their problem is government regulation and control.
On another note, Congress is starting to cut food subsidies, for good reason. Drive through California back country sometime and see all the "Congress created dust bowl!" signs along the highways. Congress supplies anti-growing subsidies to farmers in America so they won't supply more than is demanded in the markets. They cut those negative subsidiaries when there is more demand and add growth subsidiaries when there is even more demand.
I think the food problem is too advanced and intertwined to other markets, maybe even too controlled and improperly regulated by the government, to point towards one thing like the production of Ethanol.
You're agreeing with me? I said that the Ethanol R&D is the solution and should not be cut. Excuse my poor wording. I think that it shouldn't be dropped, because even though it might not work now, if enough of the industry is invested in it, ie enough money thrown at it, the problem can and will be solved.
Now I'm sorry I brought up clean coal, as I do believe the term is an oxymoron, but Carbon Dioxide emissions can be dramatically reduced with open-system algae farms. Now this concept is still just that, in the proof-of-concept phases, but hopefully it'll be a good interim solution until we can head towards solar, wind, and nuclear. Again, I apologize for not thinking before typing. Thanks for the corrections.
He didn't save once. I'm surprised that Windows didn't blue-screen on him.
But it's not Fuel vs. Food. The corn companies are not taking Corn that can be used for food, and the price of corn is not going up because of the production of Ethanol. Sugar cane, for instance, is being turned much more effectively into Ethanol.
The problem with Ethanol is that it doesn't work. It takes more Oil to produce and distribute Ethanol.
This is a clear case of lobbying on both sides. The scientific facts need to be gathered, which a commenter said above. I would argue that not pushing Ethanol R&D is destroying our chances for alternative fuel sources. Clean coal and clean air is the real solution, but destroying any R&D, even for a temp-solution, is definitely not a solution.
The summary and the quote differ dramatically. For one, DotA/CS was not in Warcraft 3/Half-Life 's core intentions. For another, finding glitches in games, say edge-of-world boundaries (in WOW), secret moves (in SSB), and even delete content (in GTA) is essentially different. I personally enjoy the glitches / hacking at games (no, not like wall-hacking), but then again that job is more for game testers and can get old extremely fast.
I would agree that every game or platform developer believes in creating a mod base, or an API in the case of software, as it has proven again and again to extend the product beyond the original ideas.
Now about game testers? There's no real money there, only a few incredibly bored individuals.
It's memorial day. Only people that work from home are on slashdot, amirite?
Just from the summary, it's 64 cameras which "report" (ie dump images) to a computing cluster which can process the 15,000 faces/second. I would agree that it's sensationalistic journalism, hell it got me to read the article, but I don't think it's merely a theoretical possibility. I would argue that the person with the first post had a more intelligent comment and with much less text.
I completely agree. It's all blame and finger pointing. But the real heart of the story is did it actually happen? AFAIK Last.fm and CBS are still denying this all happened at all. I suppose it's between the RIAA and God.
My question is when will these Google-wannabe companies learn? Why do any of them need to connect names and IP addresses and store them in transmittable data? There is no technological advantage to storing IP address history.
I say Google-wannabe because Google is the most successful data farmer in the world. Information is power, and they realized it, and efficiently acted on it early.
Sure, but we're not in Utopia. The world is run through a capitalist society. Universal Health Care won't work. It's a great goal, but like world peace: not going to happen.
Who says the two parties you're referring to are one and the same? I'd argue that they are very separate groups.
.01% market share would help the bottom line.
But I would agree that no, of course Apple won't change its business practices if they keep raking in the dough. I'm glad you've solved that complex market conundrum. As far as they know, their solution is working, and if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't change a thing. I might if you could prove that appeasing the hardcore enthusiast
Ever watch GATTACA? Think about what they coined "discrimination down to a science". Databases do not need your name to figure out majorities. If insurance companies linked a mole on the left cheekbone to a higher probability of cancer... well, maybe you'd just get the mole removed.
Nevertheless, I'm all for the advancement of science and am interested in contributing to the project. Who knows, maybe if all the pessimists advance the project, it'll be done properly.
Exactly. It's all just lingo and terminology. Even if you're right 100% of the time (like if a switch went down in the control room), would it really matter if everyone else thought of a different term (ie: "The Internets Broken")? The point is communication and relaying information.
I gave up the hacker/cracker argument ages ago. There's plenty of examples, as can be seen in all of the idle replies below...
That's pretty much any profession. Ever talk to a pharmacist and become confused? Ever try to read a doctors handwriting?
And let's not forget, trying to out-argue a person with a British accent. Those pansies could convince me I was standing on the sky and looking up at the ground.
Probably the most relevant article that jumps to my mind.
You learned this in school? My collegiate program just signed off after a single class of credit and said we were then "ethical". Or was this a more "CYA" type class?
IBM did not spin off Lenovo, Lenovo bought out the remaining hardware rights from IBM. Lenovo has been manufacturing IBM hardware for a long time now, the daughter company just got bigger than the mother.
In other news, can someone create an exact copy of windows in linux? Why doesn't the LinuxFoundation look at exactly what's holding that back? If it behaves exactly the same, I guarantee they will own the market. Exactly the same as XP even, forget Vista or 7, people haven't been accustomed to those yet.