Well this might not be for Mac users, Microsoft Project Siena might be a useful option for people on the Windows platform. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
You might want to look at TypeScript if you're already using Visual Studio. It infers types, type checks your code, is open source, and supports writing plain JavaScript. When using Visual Studio, you can do the things you're used to doing like "go to definition" and "find all references". If you decide to annotate your definitions with types, it can do type checking and catch errors which is really useful when you need to refactor a lot of code. The video at the bottom of http://www.typescriptlang.org/ is a really good tutorial. It compiles to JavaScript and accepts plain JavaScript so you can use it without having to rewrite all your code.
It looks like the standard account for fastmail.fm limits you to only 7 aliases. I use tuffmail which is a similar service but they give everyone with a paid account unlimited aliases. Another thing that looks worrisome with fastmail.fm is that there seem to be bandwidth and polling quotas.
I wouldn't necessarily call it default passwords. I believe I was one of the people victim to this. I have an asterisk PBX setup for my parents at their house so they could call me for free. One of the problems I think with asterisk is that the flag "allowguest" is set to true by default which means random computers on the internet can connect to your box and try to call out. (I also made the mistake of allowing the default dialplan to have a way to dial out on this computer). I noticed this a few weeks prior when bots had been randomly connecting to me and tried to place outgoing calls. I promptly found the 'feature' and turned it off on my computer and I was planning to do the same on my parents box. Unfortunately I forgot about doing it and about a week ago I noticed that I had a lot of calls had been placed to cell phones in the Philippines. It easily ate through the $60 I had in my prepaid account until I had realized what had happened.
Have you ever tried calling verizon tech support? I can't blame her for that. They just pass you around to different divisions of people that can't help you. First you talk to tech support. "Oh, your TV isn't displaying that channel? That's a billing issue, let me get you their number". After on hold for 20 minutes, "Oh that channel doesn't work, that's a tech support issue not a billing issue." After 20 minutes again, "Oh I can't access your account because it's classified as a business account (even though you live in an apartment). We only do residential accounts and the business lines are closed today"
I've had variations on the above conversation with verizon support on multiple occasions. Usually you just get disconnected or hung up on after being on hold or someone has to transfer you to another center where the process starts over again.
It seems they're taking the "protect the children" route. That will probably help their odds of getting it passed. But one can only wonder how long it takes before something like this (if passed) would lead over into the virtual world, like how the protect act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003) was able to convict someone to 20 years in prison for having cartoons which depict underage-looking girls engaging in sexual acts (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ-ZPbjBP2nc1wF3JqIbElBYgKngD9563DJO0).
...the Kinesis contour keyboard (http://kinesis-ergo.com/). I have about three of these and they're really comfortable. My arms reach straight out so the wrists don't have to bend out awkwardly, the keys are aligned vertically, the backspace/ctrl/alt/del/enter keys are right under my thumbs so my pinky doesn't get stretched out of place, and they have dvorak/qwerty switchable models... They are expensive at $300+ usd but if you spend all day on a computer like me I'm not sure why you would want to live with a $20 keyboard.
The skype homepage is translated into chinese, japanese, and korean, and I'm pretty certain it has a fairly large userbase in each of those countries. So I don't think it's really a problem.
I'm writing a paper for a technical writing class at ga tech where I want to evaluate those three solutions (and some other ones). Do you perhaps have a link or some more info about how your school evaluated blackboard, webct, and moodle?
Well you've only had it open since 10 this morning. I've run firefox on linux for weeks and after a few days it starts bloating especially if you have extensions that try to replicate opera's session support. Here is my current firefox process:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 16563 timmy 15 0 443m 243m 25m S 0.0 19.3 56:13.84 firefox-bin
as you can see, about 443 MB virtual memory (doesn't matter), but 243 MB resident in memory, so that is one big sucker there. it's used 56hours of computing time and been up since Sep12 (8 days ago)
Yeah, but why is display technology moving so slow? I can't find a non-laptop 17" LCD monitor that can do 1600x1200. And 1600x1200 has been around for ages. I don't need fast 3D graphics or anything, I'd just like some detailed screens where i can't count then number of pixels in the non-antialiased white '/' character on a black terminal. which appears to be 10, on this computer's xterm.
I don't think the shadow would move faster than the speed of light in that case, the time it takes for the light "update" to show up on the wall is just going to take longer when you're really really far away. So if you move something across the spotlight, it will just take longer to show up on the wall. Like how if the sun went out, we'd just know 7 minutes or so later rather than the shadow hitting us instantly...
Nope, looks like 18secs according to the screenshot. it could just be that amd chips or better in that respect or that it's depending on another factor--like his RAM.
But one thing I noticed when I went to japan a year ago was that it was much easier to find stores that sold used music CDs and stuff. I would usually buy used full CDs that were in the $5 range and you could find used singles for $1-2 IIRC. On the other hand, you could find new CDs in china for around $1. Some of them probably weren't the real copy, but I think fakes would sometimes come with like 2 CDs--an extra with songs from a previous album or even an entire different singer!
Can someone explain to me why desktop LCDs (like 17") typically only do 1280x1024 but laptop LCDs that size (or smaller) and CRTs can often do 1600x1200? I don't think I've ever seen a desktop LCD around 17" or so do 1600x1200. Why is it such a problem?
If he wanted emacs to act like vi, there's nothing stopping him from customizing it that way or using something like viper-mode.
On the other hand, he's losing some of the greatest benefits of a kinesis keyboard: the keys line up vertically, the right thumb can easily hit the space bar(it's over it) and the enter key, and the left thumb is right over the backspace. For people that enter numbers a lot, there is a foot pedal available that turns the right half of the keyboard into a numeric pad so you can type numbers without your right hand leaving the home row. The more expensive models also support key macros.
Buying a kinesis keyboard was probably one of the best hardware purchases I've ever made.
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I use a kinesis essential keyboard: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm. It seems a little cheaper than the one you have and it has made typing a lot nicer for me. I can't stand going back to flat keyboards now, it just doesn't feel right to be typing that way.
One of the things I first noticed after I started using it was that I could easily use the C-n, C-p, C-f, and C-b commands in emacs whereas I had to use the arrow keys in the past because it wasn't comfortable to use the control keys. Another nice feature is that my left thumb rests on the backspace key (and right is on the spacebar).
Yeah, I made a recent switch to opera and I'm almost converted. The only thing that bothers with with my opera 8 is that it segfaults about one or two times a day. However, thanks to its session management, that's not a total problem because when I start opera the next time, all the same tabs are open with the pages I was browsing before it crashed.
One of the most important features *for me* in a modern browser is how tabbed browsing works along with session management. One of the important features is where I want something like an "undo close tab" option. I had that in firefox with tabbrowser extensions (it's such a pain to have to find all the extensions I want after you install mozilla/firefox..i wish they would just dump the extension idea and build everything into the browser--it could be done without more "bloat".) In opera I can just click edit-undo when I close a tab by mistake. The killer was that all the tab extensions I had to get for firefox really slowed the feel of the browser down and made it unusable for browsing. I don't want to wait 2 seconds for it to load a new tab and I certainly don't want the whole browser to halt while a page is being loaded and rendered in the background. I also felt the lag when I was writing into a form--I like they letters to come up immediately without feeling any lag when I type.
Another thing that is importart for me is that when the browser has to be closed or crashes, that I can restore my previous session. I tried extensions for firefox to do this but they usually didn't work or the extension was made for some other version of the browser and it just turned out to be a mess. Likewise for mouse gestures, you have to hunt down and find the best extension that does what you want rather than have a consistant implementation built in.
Well I'm sure there are things that are better in firefox but I'm not covering them here because I think most people here know more about firefox than opera.
I was looking at that dice password generator page and i came upon this:
For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet.
how can anyone read that with a straight face?
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I'm writing a paper on web accessibility for an ethics class this semester, while it's still in its infancy, I have some things I can share with you.
Are you aware that "The U.S. Census Bureau says that more 49.7 million people have a disability or some sort of long lasting condition. Of these 49.7 million people, 9.3 million have a hearing or vision disability and 12.4 million of them have a condition related to cognition or difficulty in learning"? Due to advances in health, the world population is getting older and 53 percent of the people with disabilities in the US are 65 and older.
And are you aware that about 71 out of the fortune 100 web sites according to one experiment have a severe web accessibility error (priorty 1) according to Bobby (web accessibility checker)?
And there are only so many things that validation sites can check--what if a site uses a a color theme that is nearly impossible for color-blind users? Fortunately, it's possible to design an accessible website that looks good also.
Yahoo also provides things like online dictionaries that google doesn't have(the list goes on but this is something i use often). here: korean/english dict. if you just go to the specific country's pages in general, you will see that they are much more localized and they offer thing like flash movies for kids and stuff. google doesn't have that much other than a search, newsgroups, and news.
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Well this might not be for Mac users, Microsoft Project Siena might be a useful option for people on the Windows platform. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
You might want to look at TypeScript if you're already using Visual Studio. It infers types, type checks your code, is open source, and supports writing plain JavaScript. When using Visual Studio, you can do the things you're used to doing like "go to definition" and "find all references". If you decide to annotate your definitions with types, it can do type checking and catch errors which is really useful when you need to refactor a lot of code. The video at the bottom of http://www.typescriptlang.org/ is a really good tutorial. It compiles to JavaScript and accepts plain JavaScript so you can use it without having to rewrite all your code.
It looks like the standard account for fastmail.fm limits you to only 7 aliases. I use tuffmail which is a similar service but they give everyone with a paid account unlimited aliases. Another thing that looks worrisome with fastmail.fm is that there seem to be bandwidth and polling quotas.
LiveJasmin has had 3D cameras for a few months now. (http://www.livejasmin.com/listpage.php?tags=girl+3dcam&type=40) [NSFW]
I wouldn't necessarily call it default passwords. I believe I was one of the people victim to this. I have an asterisk PBX setup for my parents at their house so they could call me for free. One of the problems I think with asterisk is that the flag "allowguest" is set to true by default which means random computers on the internet can connect to your box and try to call out. (I also made the mistake of allowing the default dialplan to have a way to dial out on this computer). I noticed this a few weeks prior when bots had been randomly connecting to me and tried to place outgoing calls. I promptly found the 'feature' and turned it off on my computer and I was planning to do the same on my parents box. Unfortunately I forgot about doing it and about a week ago I noticed that I had a lot of calls had been placed to cell phones in the Philippines. It easily ate through the $60 I had in my prepaid account until I had realized what had happened.
Have you ever tried calling verizon tech support? I can't blame her for that. They just pass you around to different divisions of people that can't help you. First you talk to tech support. "Oh, your TV isn't displaying that channel? That's a billing issue, let me get you their number". After on hold for 20 minutes, "Oh that channel doesn't work, that's a tech support issue not a billing issue." After 20 minutes again, "Oh I can't access your account because it's classified as a business account (even though you live in an apartment). We only do residential accounts and the business lines are closed today"
I've had variations on the above conversation with verizon support on multiple occasions. Usually you just get disconnected or hung up on after being on hold or someone has to transfer you to another center where the process starts over again.
It seems they're taking the "protect the children" route. That will probably help their odds of getting it passed. But one can only wonder how long it takes before something like this (if passed) would lead over into the virtual world, like how the protect act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003) was able to convict someone to 20 years in prison for having cartoons which depict underage-looking girls engaging in sexual acts (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ-ZPbjBP2nc1wF3JqIbElBYgKngD9563DJO0).
...the Kinesis contour keyboard (http://kinesis-ergo.com/). I have about three of these and they're really comfortable. My arms reach straight out so the wrists don't have to bend out awkwardly, the keys are aligned vertically, the backspace/ctrl/alt/del/enter keys are right under my thumbs so my pinky doesn't get stretched out of place, and they have dvorak/qwerty switchable models... They are expensive at $300+ usd but if you spend all day on a computer like me I'm not sure why you would want to live with a $20 keyboard.
But did you count the time it takes to load and unload the data off of those disk drives?
The skype homepage is translated into chinese, japanese, and korean, and I'm pretty certain it has a fairly large userbase in each of those countries. So I don't think it's really a problem.
Here are some pics of the Mazda RX-8 that has two tanks: the hydrogen can be filled on one side, and regular gas on the other side.
a /gallery4.html
_ 75008.html
http://autos.goo.ne.jp/motorshow/gallery/car/mazd
there is an article here in japanese: http://autos.goo.ne.jp/motorshow/news/tms/article
I'm writing a paper for a technical writing class at ga tech where I want to evaluate those three solutions (and some other ones). Do you perhaps have a link or some more info about how your school evaluated blackboard, webct, and moodle?
Well you've only had it open since 10 this morning. I've run firefox on linux for weeks and after a few days it starts bloating especially if you have extensions that try to replicate opera's session support. Here is my current firefox process:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
16563 timmy 15 0 443m 243m 25m S 0.0 19.3 56:13.84 firefox-bin
as you can see, about 443 MB virtual memory (doesn't matter), but 243 MB resident in memory, so that is one big sucker there. it's used 56hours of computing time and been up since Sep12 (8 days ago)
Yeah, but why is display technology moving so slow? I can't find a non-laptop 17" LCD monitor that can do 1600x1200. And 1600x1200 has been around for ages. I don't need fast 3D graphics or anything, I'd just like some detailed screens where i can't count then number of pixels in the non-antialiased white '/' character on a black terminal. which appears to be 10, on this computer's xterm.
I don't think the shadow would move faster than the speed of light in that case, the time it takes for the light "update" to show up on the wall is just going to take longer when you're really really far away. So if you move something across the spotlight, it will just take longer to show up on the wall. Like how if the sun went out, we'd just know 7 minutes or so later rather than the shadow hitting us instantly...
Nope, looks like 18secs according to the screenshot. it could just be that amd chips or better in that respect or that it's depending on another factor--like his RAM.
But one thing I noticed when I went to japan a year ago was that it was much easier to find stores that sold used music CDs and stuff. I would usually buy used full CDs that were in the $5 range and you could find used singles for $1-2 IIRC. On the other hand, you could find new CDs in china for around $1. Some of them probably weren't the real copy, but I think fakes would sometimes come with like 2 CDs--an extra with songs from a previous album or even an entire different singer!
Can someone explain to me why desktop LCDs (like 17") typically only do 1280x1024 but laptop LCDs that size (or smaller) and CRTs can often do 1600x1200? I don't think I've ever seen a desktop LCD around 17" or so do 1600x1200. Why is it such a problem?
If he wanted emacs to act like vi, there's nothing stopping him from customizing it that way or using something like viper-mode.
On the other hand, he's losing some of the greatest benefits of a kinesis keyboard: the keys line up vertically, the right thumb can easily hit the space bar(it's over it) and the enter key, and the left thumb is right over the backspace. For people that enter numbers a lot, there is a foot pedal available that turns the right half of the keyboard into a numeric pad so you can type numbers without your right hand leaving the home row. The more expensive models also support key macros.
Buying a kinesis keyboard was probably one of the best hardware purchases I've ever made.
I use a kinesis essential keyboard: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm. It seems a little cheaper than the one you have and it has made typing a lot nicer for me. I can't stand going back to flat keyboards now, it just doesn't feel right to be typing that way.
One of the things I first noticed after I started using it was that I could easily use the C-n, C-p, C-f, and C-b commands in emacs whereas I had to use the arrow keys in the past because it wasn't comfortable to use the control keys. Another nice feature is that my left thumb rests on the backspace key (and right is on the spacebar).
Yeah, I made a recent switch to opera and I'm almost converted. The only thing that bothers with with my opera 8 is that it segfaults about one or two times a day. However, thanks to its session management, that's not a total problem because when I start opera the next time, all the same tabs are open with the pages I was browsing before it crashed.
One of the most important features *for me* in a modern browser is how tabbed browsing works along with session management. One of the important features is where I want something like an "undo close tab" option. I had that in firefox with tabbrowser extensions (it's such a pain to have to find all the extensions I want after you install mozilla/firefox..i wish they would just dump the extension idea and build everything into the browser--it could be done without more "bloat".) In opera I can just click edit-undo when I close a tab by mistake. The killer was that all the tab extensions I had to get for firefox really slowed the feel of the browser down and made it unusable for browsing. I don't want to wait 2 seconds for it to load a new tab and I certainly don't want the whole browser to halt while a page is being loaded and rendered in the background. I also felt the lag when I was writing into a form--I like they letters to come up immediately without feeling any lag when I type.
Another thing that is importart for me is that when the browser has to be closed or crashes, that I can restore my previous session. I tried extensions for firefox to do this but they usually didn't work or the extension was made for some other version of the browser and it just turned out to be a mess. Likewise for mouse gestures, you have to hunt down and find the best extension that does what you want rather than have a consistant implementation built in.
Well I'm sure there are things that are better in firefox but I'm not covering them here because I think most people here know more about firefox than opera.
I was looking at that dice password generator page and i came upon this:
For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet.
how can anyone read that with a straight face?
I'm writing a paper on web accessibility for an ethics class this semester, while it's still in its infancy, I have some things I can share with you.
Are you aware that "The U.S. Census Bureau says that
more 49.7 million people have a disability or some sort of long
lasting condition. Of these 49.7 million people, 9.3 million have a
hearing or vision disability and 12.4 million of them have a condition
related to cognition or difficulty in learning"? Due to advances in health, the world population is getting older and 53 percent of the people with disabilities in the US are 65 and older.
And are you aware that about 71 out of the fortune 100 web sites according to one experiment have a severe web accessibility error (priorty 1) according to Bobby (web accessibility checker)?
And there are only so many things that validation sites can check--what if a site uses a a color theme that is nearly impossible for color-blind users? Fortunately, it's possible to design an accessible website that looks good also.
Yahoo also provides things like online dictionaries that google doesn't have(the list goes on but this is something i use often). here: korean/english dict. if you just go to the specific country's pages in general, you will see that they are much more localized and they offer thing like flash movies for kids and stuff.
google doesn't have that much other than a search, newsgroups, and news.
looks like if you look at the lower end itanium 2 (1.4GHz and less cache) you can get one for $900. the motherboard might cost $1k+ though.
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