Another option would be the Bush Hawk product line. It's a grip with trigger, and you mount your SLR camera on it. It doesn't look much like a gun, but if the resulting photos are the goal, rather than the "shooting", it might be an interesting alternative.
Just because we did it does not mean it is a good idea. We used to dig down copper cables to each and every house to get telephone connectivity, back in the old days.
These days many of the emerging economies build cell phone networks instead, since those are cheaper to build. Most would agree that they are better too.
Perhaps those economies should do the 'right' thing and invest in better public transportations instead of slavishly following in our footsteps. It has worked well in one area, chances are it will in others.
Yes. I think I'll get a few of these. One next to the xbox in the game room, to play music and browse the web, and to work as "guest computer", instead of the old noisy machine there now.
And one for my own bedroom, if I can remove the HD and put some sort of solid state storage in it instead, maybe an SD-card or a USB-stick or something. It would be cool, quiet and small.
It would be nice to see the back of this machine to see what kind of video interfaces it supports.
> And any Linux geek worth his/her salt is going to want to install their own thing anyway.
Yes, but it would be nice to get a friendly icon next to the computer on the web saying "All features in this computer are supported by Linux.". I find Dell machines "good enough" but the bother of making sure that Linux is supported on them before I buy makes me buy other machines.
If I were certain that Linux would work out of the box on a Dell I could just skip several nights of googling for how supported a machine is and just buy it.
Yes, it is common knowledge that the greater chinese shark has excellent fine motor skills and perfect eye sight, both requirements to shoot down satelites with the frickin' lasers on their heads.
And we that prefer the superior editor can replace it with Ctrl, to ease the strain on the wrist.
I did this six years ago and have never looked back, I even do it on Windows-machines these days. There is a nice little util called ctrl2caps (or possibly caps2ctrl) that does this for you.
I have put all the media equipment in the living room in a single power splitter with on/off-switch, when I want to play some game, watch a DVD or put on some music I just flip the switch and everything gets power, and when I am done I turn everything off again. The switch is on the floor so I can do it with my foot, just takes a second. And I also get some protection from spikes in the power when I'm not using the equipment at all.
I use a Wacom board with a pen. The hand is at a relaxed angle, not horisontal, not vertical, somewhere inbetween.
Now these boards are a bit more expensive than those mice described in the article, but I think they cause less stress. Certainly so for gaming, as you already hold the pen in your hand, and moving it is no more work than moving the pen to the next line when writing with pen and paper.
I bought the board when I started feeling pains in my wrist after playing too much Diablo2, and the pain went away, I haven't had any problems since, and that was two or three years ago now.
My hands were so bad that I considered getting out of the computer area alltogether. As a last resort I bought a Wacom Graphire 3 board, and all my problems disappeared. The pen is very light and the angle of the forearm is just the same as when writing with a regular pen.
It takes a while getting used to, but was worth it, my hands are so good these days that I even spend time playing games and stuff again, very nice.
Nope. And I can't see why. Wouldn't it be nice to have a developer community in the west for these things? And given the specs I would probably pay $200ish for it without giving the matter much thought.
I buy alot of movies on DVD. Once they have been out for a few months on DVD they cost about the same as a movie ticket here in.se, at least over mail order.
So for the same price as a movie ticket I get a nice piece of loot to put on my shelf, and I can watch it with friends in the comfort of my own home any time I please. (And sometimes I can see it again, with the commentary track, great fun if it is a movie I like.)
As opposed to seeing it at the movies, with teens talking on their cell-phones throughout the movie, out of focus picture and sound thats so loud you have to bring hearing protection. Not to mention five minutes of spoil.. umm, trailers before the movie gets going.
X-Wing Alliance is a few years old by now, but it is a very good looking game, good controls and graphics that impressed me when I bought it a year ago.
Sadly the missions are significantly harder than those in Tie Fighter, so I got stuck at the fifth mission or so, and that kind of killed that game for me.
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Another option would be the Bush Hawk product line. It's a grip with trigger, and you mount your SLR camera on it. It doesn't look much like a gun, but if the resulting photos are the goal, rather than the "shooting", it might be an interesting alternative.
http://www.bushhawk.com/
The solution is ancient.
You need a small pouch with a hole in the bottom.
Thread your chain/strap through the hole.
Fasten the end of the chain/strap that is on the "outside" of the pouch to your pants.
Fasten the end of the chain/strap that is on the "inside" of the pouch to your keys.
Pull on the chain/strap and the keys zip inside the pouch and will not wear your pockets down.
When you are about to open a lock just pull on the longest key to extract the keys from the pouch.
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Making such a pouch is trivial for the crafty geek, or you can just go to your local leather-workern and get one made for you.
http://www.valleycountry.com.au/catalogue/country_lifestyle/accessories/key_rings/leather_key_pouch
Wait.
Just because we did it does not mean it is a good idea. We used to dig down copper cables to each and every house to get telephone connectivity, back in the old days.
These days many of the emerging economies build cell phone networks instead, since those are cheaper to build. Most would agree that they are better too.
Perhaps those economies should do the 'right' thing and invest in better public transportations instead of slavishly following in our footsteps. It has worked well in one area, chances are it will in others.
When I was a student I compiled the applications I wanted and installed them to my $HOME. No need to be root in any step of the process.
So you were in a different time-zone?
Following the Mona Lisa article two days ago I sat down with Python and pygame and did my own version in an afternoon.
It struck me how easy it is to do simple graphical stuff with the pygame library for Python, and I think it would make a nice beginners language too.
Give them an editor that helps with Pythons indentation quirks, some code examples and let them loose.
Hello world is a single line program, and they can do simple graphical stuff in ten. And it sort of looks like English when you read it.
Yes. I think I'll get a few of these. One next to the xbox in the game room, to play music and browse the web, and to work as "guest computer", instead of the old noisy machine there now.
And one for my own bedroom, if I can remove the HD and put some sort of solid state storage in it instead, maybe an SD-card or a USB-stick or something. It would be cool, quiet and small.
It would be nice to see the back of this machine to see what kind of video interfaces it supports.
In Soviet Kansas is not you anymore.
Hear hear.
I'll reinstall the machine myself, natch. But Dell did the work of finding supported hardware for me. Sounds nice.
> And any Linux geek worth his/her salt is going to want to install their own thing anyway.
Yes, but it would be nice to get a friendly icon next to the computer on the web saying "All features in this computer are supported by Linux.". I find Dell machines "good enough" but the bother of making sure that Linux is supported on them before I buy makes me buy other machines.
If I were certain that Linux would work out of the box on a Dell I could just skip several nights of googling for how supported a machine is and just buy it.
Yes, it is common knowledge that the greater chinese shark has excellent fine motor skills and perfect eye sight, both requirements to shoot down satelites with the frickin' lasers on their heads.
Best thing about this is that they will know in advance when/if they succeed!
OOO! Pretty light! We will succeed with the next run!
Then someone will cause a paradox by trashing the equipment, thus destroying space-time as we know it.
"rita" is Swedish for "draw". Add the KDE K to get "Krita", which means "crayon" in Swedish. A coincidence?
So now we have to microwave our garbage aswell?
At work I have a Kinesis Ergo that also supports making capslock into a control in hardware.
And we that prefer the superior editor can replace it with Ctrl, to ease the strain on the wrist.
I did this six years ago and have never looked back, I even do it on Windows-machines these days. There is a nice little util called ctrl2caps (or possibly caps2ctrl) that does this for you.
The solution to the rain/glasses-problem is simple: Wear a hat or cap, the brim catches rain (and snow) before it can obscure your view.
I have put all the media equipment in the living room in a single power splitter with on/off-switch, when I want to play some game, watch a DVD or put on some music I just flip the switch and everything gets power, and when I am done I turn everything off again. The switch is on the floor so I can do it with my foot, just takes a second. And I also get some protection from spikes in the power when I'm not using the equipment at all.
I use a Wacom board with a pen. The hand is at a relaxed angle, not horisontal, not vertical, somewhere inbetween.
Now these boards are a bit more expensive than those mice described in the article, but I think they cause less stress. Certainly so for gaming, as you already hold the pen in your hand, and moving it is no more work than moving the pen to the next line when writing with pen and paper.
I bought the board when I started feeling pains in my wrist after playing too much Diablo2, and the pain went away, I haven't had any problems since, and that was two or three years ago now.
My hands were so bad that I considered getting out of the computer area alltogether. As a last resort I bought a Wacom Graphire 3 board, and all my problems disappeared. The pen is very light and the angle of the forearm is just the same as when writing with a regular pen.
It takes a while getting used to, but was worth it, my hands are so good these days that I even spend time playing games and stuff again, very nice.
Linux support is good enough.
Nope. And I can't see why. Wouldn't it be nice to have a developer community in the west for these things? And given the specs I would probably pay $200ish for it without giving the matter much thought.
This is why we have antialised fonts, the smoother rendering makes the 1s go through the lines without getting stuck, no more need for soaking.
Try killing XMMS (or any other program that hogs the sound device) before you load the flash animation.
That would be me. :-)
.se, at least over mail order.
I buy alot of movies on DVD. Once they have been out for a few months on DVD they cost about the same as a movie ticket here in
So for the same price as a movie ticket I get a nice piece of loot to put on my shelf, and I can watch it with friends in the comfort of my own home any time I please. (And sometimes I can see it again, with the commentary track, great fun if it is a movie I like.)
As opposed to seeing it at the movies, with teens talking on their cell-phones throughout the movie, out of focus picture and sound thats so loud you have to bring hearing protection. Not to mention five minutes of spoil.. umm, trailers before the movie gets going.
X-Wing Alliance is a few years old by now, but it is a very good looking game, good controls and graphics that impressed me when I bought it a year ago.
Sadly the missions are significantly harder than those in Tie Fighter, so I got stuck at the fifth mission or so, and that kind of killed that game for me.