I've been using the full-sized variant of the Lenovo UltraNav keyboard at work for a few years now (not sure if they still sell it). Mine has the numeric pad as well as a two-button touchpad underneath the regular keyboard (with the nipple).
I do have a couple complaints for it though:
The finish wears off - just like my laptop keyboard. You can definitely tell that I tend to hit the space with my right thumb much more often than with my left. For that matter you can tell which non-letter keys I use the most (such as space and enter) based on what remains of the finish on the keys. Fortunately the letters themselves are still adequately visible.
Recently the left trackpoint button seems to have lost its spring. It doesn't have the resistance that it used to have, although if you can accept that it works pretty well. I now often use the touchpad left button instead.
The touchpad itself is too close to the trackpoint buttons; I often click a button and then end up moving my mouse cursor due to a clumsy thumb.
There is no obvious way to disable the touchpad as far as I have seen - in Windows or Linux.
Otherwise, its a great keyboard. A bit expensive but worth the money IMHO.
I have the full-sized lenovo UltraNav (with the numeric pad and touchpad) hooked up to my Linux workstation at work. Works great; although I haven't bothered to setup the scroll function for the third button - it is worth more to me as a "paste" function in X.
Overall it's great. I bought it to replace the M2 I had with a pointing stick in it - which I replaced only because the person I share my office with was annoyed by the sound of the buckling spring keyboard (and offered to buy me a new, quieter keyboard).
Last I heard Nintendo hadn't actually announced a Wii 2 yet. How can something that hasn't been announced be delayed? Wouldn't that be somewhat similar to saying that flying cars are delayed?
... how he knew that the SIM card would still work after chopping off the edges. Or did he? I'm pretty sure applying the same method to an SD card would not turn out so well...
Some of us recall that the idiots at ICANN decided some time ago that they will soon start selling TLDs themselves; at which point all management and responsibility goes out the window (what little remains of it anyways). If they don't establish.xxx and do something to manage it, someone else will (and that other person or group will make a lot more money out of it).
The article tries to assert that somehow a keyboard is not an effective way of controlling a computer in a hurry. I would like to say that they are full of shit. On any OS that is worth anything, I do more work with the keyboard than with the mouse; especially if the situation is urgent. I don't want to be inconvenienced with a mouse when something important is going down, I want all my fingers available for typing.
Considering the weather conditions that have largely persisted since the explosion, what exact good would putting out booms earlier done?
I accept that we would not have been able to contain all of the oil with booms - I even said that in my post. A lot of that is due to not knowing which direction the oil will rise from the sea floor. However, with a sensible number of booms we could have contained a good portion of the oil. Instead we have essentially contained none of the oil so far. Our best strategy to date has been to attempt a "controlled burn" of some of the oil from the surface, which hasn't done a whole lot (while allowing more of it to disperse further at the same time.
Being as we can't stop it from coming out of the sea floor, we need to at least contain it on the surface - which is exactly what booms are for. Unfortunately we've blown our chance to do that now as well; we could try to contain just the sheen part of the slick at this point but that wouldn't do much in terms of preventing environmental disaster.
If you have a suggestion for the problem, now or earlier, I'd love to hear it. And if you know of a way that we could have contained the slick immediately after the rig sank, I'd like to hear that as well. Unfortunately the strategy implemented so far has been do to nothing, which is accomplishing... nothing.
Why do we have to go through the slashdotted blog.alexanderhiggins.com to see images hosted at NASA? This is the dumbest thing so far this month.
Just wait and see what slashdot has in store for you during the rest of the month! Today is only the third day of the month - by the time the month is over that link won't look even remotely stupid.
When we first saw the images of the rig burning and collapsing is when we should have started our response (if not sooner). Instead we sat around saying "oh, that's too bad". Why didn't we get ships out there immediately with containment booms to hold back the slick? Was it really that outlandish to expect an oil leak to come from this?
Sure, containment booms (like we used for the Exxon Valdez) wouldn't have solved the problem on their own - and likely wouldn't have been able to contain all the oil coming up from 5,000+ feet down - but it would have at least been able to keep a good portion of it from spreading out.
This response has been pathetic, to be kind. Why we thought that the oil companies could honestly handle this on their own is beyond me.
This was just all that was available in 2007. Had he done the same in 1997 it would have been quite a bit different - I'd suspect it would have been quite a bit larger then as well.
Good spam filters like Gmail's and other have really hidden the problem from public view
Except that the filters only end up increasing the cost of business. The filters take human time, CPU time, storage space, bandwidth, etc. Sure the end users see less spam in their inbox but at what cost?
Someone has to pay for the added expenses. And filtering will never solve the problem of spam itself; it only escalates the arms race as spammers find more ways to overcome filtering. We need to work on the root cause of spam if we ever want to defeat it.
Anyways, my point is just that I wonder if there will be little to no effort going forward from government types or PHB's who don't wanna spend the money for something that doesn't seem to be a problem.
A lot of people don't realize or acknowledge how much money they already are spending. Many companies are paying for dedicated anti-spam hardware and/or software. And as more bandwidth is consumed by spam coming in - as filters don't stop spam until after it crosses in and reaches the mail server - companies will have to pay more for internet access as well.
With the ban on texting and cell phone use with out a handsfree device for public transportation and the trucking industry, who finds this surprising? I'm only surprised that this wasn't already banned.
I can't help but wonder which one will be enforced more (or which will be easier to enforce). It is quite difficult for a police officer to see when someone driving is sending a text message - particularly if the person in question is driving an 18-wheeler and the officer is in a crown vic - but who is going to keep tabs on the pilots?
I may have been overly vague in my OP. When I saw the summary on the front page it was already tagged under "Microsoft". My comment was primarily intended to point out that it wasn't intrinsically the fault of Microsoft that someone managed to create an extremely bad presentation slide.
I don't think it is fair to blame this directly on Microsoft. There are, after all, other programs available today that allow you to make terrible presentations. If the talk had been done instead in Apple Keynote, OpenOffice, or any other program, it still would have been possible to make massive, mind-numbing, information-lacking, slides.
For that matter, I'm pretty sure the same was possible before we started doing this with software - it was certainly possible with film slides as well.
I seem to recall a discussion some time ago involving a carrier - I think it was T-Mobile - who did not want to do business with anyone who wouldn't give them their SSN. Now we find that information is carried openly on the network?
Still looking to take over the world, or destroy any part of it that we can't take. Glad to see we brought about some dramatic change with the new administration.
Sorry if I offended you. The "throttling" bit was a joke - something of a bad double entendre, really. Perhaps you aren't aware of other uses of the term "throttle"? Had you opted for a word other than "throttle" I wouldn't have bothered with your post at all, I was trying - and apparently failing - to make a joke. I have no problem with people who opt to allow the power company to adjust their electricity usage for them under periods of high usage; indeed I have a family member in your part of the country who participated in a similar program years ago that worked out quite well for him.
As for me, I spent a fair bit of time in Minnesota, where making jokes about Iowa and/or Wisconsin was something of a popular past time.
We truly have awesome hardware (as noted in the summary):
decisions made by closed doors
Really, does anyone else have doors that can make important decisions for them? It's no wonder other countries hate us for our freedoms; I'd be jealous of sentient doors if my country didn't have them! And you don't even want to know what our doors can do when their open...
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I thought the dear leader was busy flying fighter jets, memorizing phone books, breaking golf records, and leading the NBA in rebounding.
If he can do nuclear fusion as well, then perhaps his talents truly are limitless.
I do have a couple complaints for it though:
Otherwise, its a great keyboard. A bit expensive but worth the money IMHO.
Anyone use one in Linux?
I have the full-sized lenovo UltraNav (with the numeric pad and touchpad) hooked up to my Linux workstation at work. Works great; although I haven't bothered to setup the scroll function for the third button - it is worth more to me as a "paste" function in X.
Overall it's great. I bought it to replace the M2 I had with a pointing stick in it - which I replaced only because the person I share my office with was annoyed by the sound of the buckling spring keyboard (and offered to buy me a new, quieter keyboard).
Last I heard Nintendo hadn't actually announced a Wii 2 yet. How can something that hasn't been announced be delayed? Wouldn't that be somewhat similar to saying that flying cars are delayed?
project
performace
low light levels
Distant planes
Would you mind giving some of your identifying information to that kind gentleman in the suit who is standing over your shoulder?
Correction - you will give your identifying information to that kind gentleman over your shoulder.
... how he knew that the SIM card would still work after chopping off the edges. Or did he? I'm pretty sure applying the same method to an SD card would not turn out so well...
We have too many TLDs already. Additional TLDs are just a racket for registrars.
ICANN already agreed a while ago to start selling TLDs in the not-too-distant future; bringing you the opposite of your wish.
If you think the situation is bad as it is, just wait until you start seeing spam from TLDs representing the 600 quintillion ways to spell viagra.
We have the redundant TLD, ".info". What was that for, anyway?
Some of us recall that the idiots at ICANN decided some time ago that they will soon start selling TLDs themselves; at which point all management and responsibility goes out the window (what little remains of it anyways). If they don't establish .xxx and do something to manage it, someone else will (and that other person or group will make a lot more money out of it).
The article tries to assert that somehow a keyboard is not an effective way of controlling a computer in a hurry. I would like to say that they are full of shit. On any OS that is worth anything, I do more work with the keyboard than with the mouse; especially if the situation is urgent. I don't want to be inconvenienced with a mouse when something important is going down, I want all my fingers available for typing.
Considering the weather conditions that have largely persisted since the explosion, what exact good would putting out booms earlier done?
I accept that we would not have been able to contain all of the oil with booms - I even said that in my post. A lot of that is due to not knowing which direction the oil will rise from the sea floor. However, with a sensible number of booms we could have contained a good portion of the oil. Instead we have essentially contained none of the oil so far. Our best strategy to date has been to attempt a "controlled burn" of some of the oil from the surface, which hasn't done a whole lot (while allowing more of it to disperse further at the same time.
... nothing.
Being as we can't stop it from coming out of the sea floor, we need to at least contain it on the surface - which is exactly what booms are for. Unfortunately we've blown our chance to do that now as well; we could try to contain just the sheen part of the slick at this point but that wouldn't do much in terms of preventing environmental disaster.
If you have a suggestion for the problem, now or earlier, I'd love to hear it. And if you know of a way that we could have contained the slick immediately after the rig sank, I'd like to hear that as well. Unfortunately the strategy implemented so far has been do to nothing, which is accomplishing
Why do we have to go through the slashdotted blog.alexanderhiggins.com to see images hosted at NASA? This is the dumbest thing so far this month.
Just wait and see what slashdot has in store for you during the rest of the month! Today is only the third day of the month - by the time the month is over that link won't look even remotely stupid.
When we first saw the images of the rig burning and collapsing is when we should have started our response (if not sooner). Instead we sat around saying "oh, that's too bad". Why didn't we get ships out there immediately with containment booms to hold back the slick? Was it really that outlandish to expect an oil leak to come from this?
Sure, containment booms (like we used for the Exxon Valdez) wouldn't have solved the problem on their own - and likely wouldn't have been able to contain all the oil coming up from 5,000+ feet down - but it would have at least been able to keep a good portion of it from spreading out.
This response has been pathetic, to be kind. Why we thought that the oil companies could honestly handle this on their own is beyond me.
Ah, yes. 1984, when Apple cunningly replaced beige boxes with ... beige boxes. Life would never be the same after!
This was just all that was available in 2007. Had he done the same in 1997 it would have been quite a bit different - I'd suspect it would have been quite a bit larger then as well.
Naah, I got vi. That's all the office I need, thank you much.
Good spam filters like Gmail's and other have really hidden the problem from public view
Except that the filters only end up increasing the cost of business. The filters take human time, CPU time, storage space, bandwidth, etc. Sure the end users see less spam in their inbox but at what cost?
Someone has to pay for the added expenses. And filtering will never solve the problem of spam itself; it only escalates the arms race as spammers find more ways to overcome filtering. We need to work on the root cause of spam if we ever want to defeat it.
Anyways, my point is just that I wonder if there will be little to no effort going forward from government types or PHB's who don't wanna spend the money for something that doesn't seem to be a problem.
A lot of people don't realize or acknowledge how much money they already are spending. Many companies are paying for dedicated anti-spam hardware and/or software. And as more bandwidth is consumed by spam coming in - as filters don't stop spam until after it crosses in and reaches the mail server - companies will have to pay more for internet access as well.
With the ban on texting and cell phone use with out a handsfree device for public transportation and the trucking industry, who finds this surprising? I'm only surprised that this wasn't already banned.
I can't help but wonder which one will be enforced more (or which will be easier to enforce). It is quite difficult for a police officer to see when someone driving is sending a text message - particularly if the person in question is driving an 18-wheeler and the officer is in a crown vic - but who is going to keep tabs on the pilots?
I may have been overly vague in my OP. When I saw the summary on the front page it was already tagged under "Microsoft". My comment was primarily intended to point out that it wasn't intrinsically the fault of Microsoft that someone managed to create an extremely bad presentation slide.
I don't think it is fair to blame this directly on Microsoft. There are, after all, other programs available today that allow you to make terrible presentations. If the talk had been done instead in Apple Keynote, OpenOffice, or any other program, it still would have been possible to make massive, mind-numbing, information-lacking, slides.
For that matter, I'm pretty sure the same was possible before we started doing this with software - it was certainly possible with film slides as well.
I seem to recall a discussion some time ago involving a carrier - I think it was T-Mobile - who did not want to do business with anyone who wouldn't give them their SSN. Now we find that information is carried openly on the network?
Still looking to take over the world, or destroy any part of it that we can't take. Glad to see we brought about some dramatic change with the new administration.
I still haven't found an external drive for reading my old 5.25" floppies.
Sorry if I offended you. The "throttling" bit was a joke - something of a bad double entendre, really. Perhaps you aren't aware of other uses of the term "throttle"? Had you opted for a word other than "throttle" I wouldn't have bothered with your post at all, I was trying - and apparently failing - to make a joke. I have no problem with people who opt to allow the power company to adjust their electricity usage for them under periods of high usage; indeed I have a family member in your part of the country who participated in a similar program years ago that worked out quite well for him.
As for me, I spent a fair bit of time in Minnesota, where making jokes about Iowa and/or Wisconsin was something of a popular past time.
the times they throttle me...
If your power company is throttling you, someone is either getting too much or not enough service out of their current electricity provider.
That, or there's yet another Iowa joke in there that I just haven't come up with yet.
decisions made by closed doors
Really, does anyone else have doors that can make important decisions for them? It's no wonder other countries hate us for our freedoms; I'd be jealous of sentient doors if my country didn't have them! And you don't even want to know what our doors can do when their open...