A friend of mine keeps policeman hat on the back seat. Says that it helps. It might depend on the neighbourhood and/or country you live in. In some places that might attract vandals;-). In *my* country, I can imagine it might keep some thieves out.
Look at my post I made moments ago a little bit up. I use arrows too. Also other keys like delete, backspace or end...
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Oh $DEITY, he uses arrow keys in Vim! The horror!
So what? I am Vim-aficionado as well, and I use arrows too. What is wrong with that? I do not use Vim to demonstrate to myself or others how cool I am. I use it because I like the power of combined:ex commands, because I need powerful Regular Expressions. I use it because it works the same way on all systems - Windows, Linux and QNX at work, FreeBSD and Linux at home.
I even remap my arrow keys to gh, gj, gk, gl for some jobs, so when I have some lines with text-wrap enabled I can go to the visual next line (like most of other editors do). Oh... and I also use Insert, Home, PageUp, Delete, End and PageDown keys too. Do I lose even more points for that? Thought so;-)
Aaaand... You might wish to stop reading now,... sometimes I use key combinations such as Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, and even Alt-F4 on non-windows platforms. I copy lines from mswin.vim to my.vimrc even on non-Windows platforms.
I believe that for a developer, that has to deal with "third-party services that do the hosting, fulfillment, and billing" the 30% cut is a reasonable deal.
But Amazon, Kobo, Google Books, New York Times, etc... have their own services that do the hosting, fulfillment, and billing. Those subjects often have less than 30% profit on books, thanks to the agency deal that Apple helped to enforce. So for those subject, the 30% Apple cut is unrealistically high.
Look up the Eicar test virus. It is not a virus as such, just a text string you can create by a text editor, but all antivirus programs react to this and it is fun to see how antivirus reacts to your attempts to save file, unpack an archive or send email.
Russians do not have/use letter H, they substitute G instead. So Hotel can only be written in Azbuka as Gotel or alternatively 'otel (proper Russian name for Hotel is Gostinica)
For H in formulas or when spelling, for example H2O they use sound "Ash" - an aproximation of English spelling for H.
Fanless computers for industrial automation, for example the ones made by Advantech can take LOTS of abuse. They work at coke battery plant, steel plant, sintering plant,... places that can be at least as hostile as a desert.
I have deployed Mint Linux several times as a replacement system for non-techie Windows users.
Mint Linux is built on Ubuntu, They have tweaked Ubuntu, added various "non-strictly-free" codecs, drivers and programs. The start menu us on the bottom left and former Windows users just love the 3D effects, desktop cube, wobbly windows...
No. You can not disable it. You can not change the pictures of dead authors. There is hack that allows you to use your own photos.
Kindle is not the only device on the market. On PocketBook e-ink reading device you can configure everything. Including "screensavers". You can switch those off, you can replace the picture, you can have number of pictures and let the PocketBook to randomly display one of those. I have compiled a nice collection of images from M.C.Escher.
You are wrong. I bet Canada is forcing Amazon to translate all the English books to French and display English text on one half of screen and French translation on the other half;-)
Of course, French books sold in Quebec won't have to be translated into English.
Just yesterday I have learned that Amazon DELETED some books by Ayn Rand that people purchased for their Kindle.
No, I am not talking about deleting the allegedly copyright infringing books from Amazon server, I am talking about deleting said books from the Kindle devices of individual buyers. Amazon just connected (by means of whispernet) to individual kindle devices and deleted the books.
Now we learn about advertisements automatically inserted into books. Way to go Amazon!
I am from generation that saw the introduction of a handheld calculator.
I finally got one in 7-th grade in grammar school. Many, many of my clasmates didn't have calculator at the time. From time to time people from the next class would come to our class and each of them was trying to borrow a calculator, because they has physics test that day and they wanted to save time by not having to do calculations by hand. I hated, just HATED to put my precious programmable calculator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-61 into the hands of some ignorant clumsy non-geek;-)) At that time a good calculator was about as valuable in my country as a netbook is in USA today.
So, when one of them came to me to borrow my calculator it went like this: "Hey, can you lend me a calculator" "Of course, no problem at all" "Let me just show you how it works. You plug in the power adaptor to the wall socket, switch the thing on like this..." "now let's compute 3*5. OK?" "you type 3" "now you move 3 to the next register by pressing this symbol - you see this gorgeous thing uses Reverse Polish Logic" "now you type in 5" "and finally you press * symbol to tell the calculator to compute..." "Hey... do not run away... I can show you how to cleverly use the next two registers for parenthesis... "
Install some nasty looking geeky system on your notebook and every time one of your art oriented friends comes along just start explaining how this obscure distro works...
I finished my bachelor and masters degree with straight A's.
ALL my grades from ALL exams were straight A's.
I just sat down and studied until I was prepared for exam. Systematic work during semester also helps. It also helps if your study specialization really interests you.
And I am not aware of having a personality disorder.
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A friend of mine keeps policeman hat on the back seat. Says that it helps. It might depend on the neighbourhood and/or country you live in. In some places that might attract vandals ;-). In *my* country, I can imagine it might keep some thieves out.
Look at my post I made moments ago a little bit up. ...
I use arrows too. Also other keys like delete, backspace or end
Oh $DEITY, he uses arrow keys in Vim! The horror!
So what? :ex commands, because I need powerful Regular Expressions. I use it because it works the same way on all systems - Windows, Linux and QNX at work, FreeBSD and Linux at home.
I am Vim-aficionado as well, and I use arrows too. What is wrong with that? I do not use Vim to demonstrate to myself or others how cool I am. I use it because I like the power of combined
I even remap my arrow keys to gh, gj, gk, gl for some jobs, so when I have some lines with text-wrap enabled I can go to the visual next line (like most of other editors do). ... and I also use Insert, Home, PageUp, Delete, End and PageDown keys too. Do I lose even more points for that? Thought so ;-)
Oh
Aaaand ... You might wish to stop reading now, ... .vimrc even on non-Windows platforms.
sometimes I use key combinations such as Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, and even Alt-F4 on non-windows platforms. I copy lines from mswin.vim to my
Exactly like Lenovo.
And don't forget the famous Chinese brand Hummer.
I believe that for a developer, that has to deal with "third-party services that do the hosting, fulfillment, and billing" the 30% cut is a reasonable deal.
But Amazon, Kobo, Google Books, New York Times, etc ... have their own services that do the hosting, fulfillment, and billing. Those subjects often have less than 30% profit on books, thanks to the agency deal that Apple helped to enforce. So for those subject, the 30% Apple cut is unrealistically high.
Brilliant!
Look up the Eicar test virus.
It is not a virus as such, just a text string you can create by a text editor, but all antivirus programs react to this and it is fun to see how antivirus reacts to your attempts to save file, unpack an archive or send email.
How long until some virus simply attempts to "unlock" the processor 11 times?
Just for the heck of it.
Download the announcement at http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010
Russians do not have/use letter H, they substitute G instead.
So Hotel can only be written in Azbuka as Gotel or alternatively 'otel (proper Russian name for Hotel is Gostinica)
For H in formulas or when spelling, for example H2O they use sound
"Ash" - an aproximation of English spelling for H.
Fanless computers for industrial automation, for example the ones made by Advantech can take LOTS of abuse. They work at coke battery plant, steel plant, sintering plant, ... places that can be at least as hostile as a desert.
A nice example is here:
http://www.advantech.com/eAutomation/fanless-box-pcs/Default.aspx
I have deployed Mint Linux several times as a replacement system for non-techie Windows users.
Mint Linux is built on Ubuntu, They have tweaked Ubuntu, added various "non-strictly-free" codecs, drivers and programs. The start menu us on the bottom left and former Windows users just love the 3D effects, desktop cube, wobbly windows ...
You can simply send email to yourself with the book in pdf.
Steve Jobs has demonstrated that at least THAT works.
There is an e-ink device called PocketBook.
http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html
There is version with 5" screen and version with 6" screen.
Just yesterday I have downloaded a Blockout game for my PocketBook.
Yes. THAT Blockout - a 3D version of Tetris.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sk&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://bookfast.org/category/pocketbook/programs&twu=1
No. You can not disable it. You can not change the pictures of dead authors. There is hack that allows you to use your own photos.
Kindle is not the only device on the market.
On PocketBook e-ink reading device you can configure everything. Including "screensavers".
You can switch those off, you can replace the picture, you can have number of pictures and let the PocketBook to randomly display one of those. I have compiled a nice collection of images from M.C.Escher.
People don't read anymore
http://www.google.com/search?q=quote+steve+jobs+people+don't+read+Anymore&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/
You are wrong. ;-)
I bet Canada is forcing Amazon to translate all the English books to French and display English text on one half of screen and French translation on the other half
Of course, French books sold in Quebec won't have to be translated into English.
You forgot to tag the article as "old news".
We have seen all those videos long time ago.
Please, mod parent up! This is spot on.
Nice pun!
10 PRINT "What is your name?"
20 INPUT A$
30 PRINT "Hello " A$
You see? You can use it to write programs.
Very dangerous! They can *not* let that happen.
No. ;-)
That is not true.
Mushrooms are made from horseshit
Just yesterday I have learned that Amazon DELETED some books by Ayn Rand that people purchased for their Kindle. No, I am not talking about deleting the allegedly copyright infringing books from Amazon server, I am talking about deleting said books from the Kindle devices of individual buyers. Amazon just connected (by means of whispernet) to individual kindle devices and deleted the books. Now we learn about advertisements automatically inserted into books. Way to go Amazon!
I am from generation that saw the introduction of a handheld calculator.
I finally got one in 7-th grade in grammar school. Many, many of my clasmates didn't have calculator at the time. From time to time people from the next class would come to our class and each of them was trying to borrow a calculator, because they has physics test that day and they wanted to save time by not having to do calculations by hand. I hated, just HATED to put my precious programmable calculator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-61 into the hands of some ignorant clumsy non-geek ;-))
At that time a good calculator was about as valuable in my country as a netbook is in USA today.
So, when one of them came to me to borrow my calculator it went like this: ..." ..." ... do not run away ... I can show you how to cleverly use the next two registers for parenthesis ... "
"Hey, can you lend me a calculator"
"Of course, no problem at all"
"Let me just show you how it works. You plug in the power adaptor to the wall socket, switch the thing on like this
"now let's compute 3*5. OK?"
"you type 3"
"now you move 3 to the next register by pressing this symbol - you see this gorgeous thing uses Reverse Polish Logic"
"now you type in 5"
"and finally you press * symbol to tell the calculator to compute
"Hey
Install some nasty looking geeky system on your notebook and every time one of your art oriented friends comes along just start explaining how this obscure distro works ...
I finished my bachelor and masters degree with straight A's. ALL my grades from ALL exams were straight A's. I just sat down and studied until I was prepared for exam. Systematic work during semester also helps. It also helps if your study specialization really interests you. And I am not aware of having a personality disorder.