> I'm not sure how many people have tried this, but > you really should put your mouse on the left, > that's where it belongs.
In theory this is a good idea, and I've toyed with the idea myself, but I've found that my left hand just isn't as good at subtle movements that mouse using often requires. I found it too frustrating to stick with it until I got used to it, my brain kept forcing me to use my right hand.
What I did stick with is getting a touchpad and situating it off the left side of my keyboard. Not sure if older iterations of windows could do it, but XP at least will politely allow you to have two mice plugged in at once. I honestly never bothered to try it on my linux box.
At any rate, I do rely most heavily on the mouse on the right, but having the touchpad over there helps when I need to make quick imprecise movements, or my right wrist needs a bit of a rest.. because you're right, the left edge of the keyboard is a lot closer to my hands when typing.
Definetly, the wingman (it's original iteration was just called the "mouseman", the wingman was a poor effort to remarket the shape) is my favorite shape of all of them.
I use one on my gaming rig, the shape feels good, doesn't feel cheap, and is quite precise (which seems the only upgrade they made for the wingman, my mouseman just doesn't move as smoothly).
Unlike you I don't miss the lack of mouse wheel on it.;)
Many people hate the shape though, which leads me to believe it wasn't making them money which is why they aren't made anymore.
> I guess this is another case of the fact that > people appreciate the right to BEND the law.
It's not enforcing the law that's the concern, the interest in these systems is to improve revenues, using the laws to justify extortion.
Issuing speeding tickets is very, very rarely done in the name of safety, which is why they exist to begin with. If you want an example of this, get a speeding ticket sometime and challenge it in court. It's staggeringly simple to get the fine dropped. But of course you have to pay the court fees.;)
To digress, using these systems to fine people is more of inevitability than a theoretical question. If it can funnel cash into the hands of the municipality, it WILL be used.
Nothing to do with your point, but for accuracies sake, it is not run 'by' FNAL, it IS FNAL. FNAL = Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. It is owned by DoE, and operated largely by the Universities Research Association.
Our budget, passed by congress, for the year 2003 was around 288 million dollars. It was 286 million in 2002.
So yes, the DoE spends a lot on theories, but 6 grand a minute sounds excessive.
You doofus, you're not supposed to be graceful about having your foot stuffed into your mouth. Rather, to be a TRUE geek, you are required to fly into a spitting rage, construct a multi-paragraph essay defending your point. You are to conjure up as many off the wall and ill-supported arguments as you can in an effort to win the debate.
As an aside, "winning" is not defined in terms of making anyone actually agree with you. "Winning" is defined as beating the subject to death until no one wants to hear about it again, and ceases posting to the thread. By getting in the last word, you will have earned the right to say you won the argument. If these people in the future act like you're a nimcompoop who doesn't know jack, it's just because they're jealous and closeminded.
As a Canadian, you should have learned by age 2 that America is incapable of reporting on anything from other than it's own perspective.;)
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I was considering doing something like this, except with little beams of light like lasers or something. The beams would be aimed at a photosensitive plate that left a residual glow, which is what the end user sees.
I figure if the technology advances enough, we may even be able to pack hundreds of pixels into a single square inch!;)
I think trying to up the resolution would take away from the artsy feel of the project, and turn it instead into a very poor monitor. The act of watching the wood chips move is also probably enhanced by their size, and likely quite fun to watch.
Genesis3D is definetly pretty, but it's windows-centric, which is a black mark in my book.
For those looking for more cross platorm options, there are these:
OGRE - Seems to be an engine "done right". Learning curve is high, but it is pretty. Not dorked around with it much to comment on usefulness.
Crystal Space - The "linux" of 3d engines. Does damn near everything but it's documented horribly and structure seems nonexistant at times. Will run on almost anything with a CPU though.
Nebula Device - Very very pretty, easy to get started in (not sure how easy to complete a project though), skimpy on docs as well but what does exist will have you pushing polygons quickly.
I don't really have a favorite of these, they all have some really attractive features.
It still seems picking up an opengl book and doing it yourself is the best way to go in the long run. Other options are taking older games with released source (Doom, Marathon, Quake 1 and 2) and using that engine. Again, learning curve will be high though.
> are all different federal entities left to simply > come up (or not come up) with their own standards?
I can only speak for the one I work for, but from what I can tell, the answer is yes. The branch I'm involved in seems to revolve mostly around scanning any net-connected machine for known vulnerabilities and generating scary warnings if a problem is found.
Most of our security is dictated by the site-local security team which is thankfully pretty darn good, because the probe and hope model is fearfully insufficient. Every machine online uses kerberos, they actively sniff the network for cleartext passwords (and warn you strongly when they catch you doing it), and they monitor for traffic spikes to track down compromised machines. Services like httpd or smtp require being up to date on patches, or the machine's port on the switch is shut off. Any offsite accessible website has to have a hole punched in the border router.. the list goes on.
None of this matches any security model I've learned about in other government branches (which seem to prefer the 'firewall it all' philosophy), leading support to the idea that each branch manages itsef it's own way.
Not to flame (too much:) but this is a seriously flawed argument to make.
Stating that LCD's are inferior because you don't have enough room on a 15", and CRT's are much better because you do have enough room on a 21"? I challenge you to find enough room for large fonts on a 15" CRT.. you'd be saying the exact same complaint.
Not neccessarily defending LCD's here (or CRT's) but if you're going to compare the two, you should at least offer them the dignity of testing against equal feature sets.
It is a bit of a niche, but it serves that niche REALLY REALLY well. It's a shame all the illegal file sharing is wearing it down.
The past month I've been using bittorrent to distribute a 500 meg DivX of someone playing a game, basic jist of it was they ran around kicking ass with a VCR running, and they decided to edit it up and distribute it. I put it on my site.. in less than 12 hours I had run up about 20GB of outgoing traffic. Poor server was doing so much I/O working at a shell was almost impossible.
After panicing (thank someone I don't have bandwidth metering) I threw up a bittorrent tracker and told people what to do. I've been running it since then, maybe 3 weeks now. Been averaging about 100k/sec output since then (sometimes much higher, sometimes much lower). Bittorrent doesn't give me a way to look at how many completed downloads the file has had, but judging from the feedback I've recieved several hundred people have the movie.. who knows how many downloaded it that never said a word.
Bittorrent amazes me far more than napster ever did.
I thought the popular strategy was to make sure the shuttle could dock with the ISS, and allow the astronauts to get back to earth in the soyuz module the station has.
Granted I got this info from the media so it could be a pointless thing to say, but it sure sounds good.. especially since I don't think they can just lob another shuttle into space on a whim.
It would also still leave a broken shuttle up in space, which I imagine makes for an interesting engineering problem once the business of keeping people alive is done.
> However, to make it happen, all manufacturers will > have to charge more for printers and less for > cartridges. If even one player sticks with the old > model, that player will see all the gains.
Unfortunatley, that's not how the US economy works. The only way to fix this sort problem is to let things get so bad that the companies involved go bankrupt, letting better run companies take thier place.
Which, incidentialy, is why Lexmark is doing this stunt, to prevent going bankrupt. The profit margin has been cut so low by underselling printers that they can't afford to let people use generic brand cartridges. Even if the population that knows generic brands even exist is one or two percent of the total, that's a significant amount of money the company will lose.
I think the "reform" will eventually happen naturally, the business model works well for cheap stuff like razorblades but for more expensive items the system is flawed.
It could be hastened by government regulation, but I'm not sure getting the government involved is neccessarily a good idea.
I'm sorry, go back and read chapter two, where they talk about humor types by geographic region. Your above intended format falls into "excessively dry", which if my memory serves is a method perfected, and quite jealously defended, by the British.
American humor is expected to involve either bodily functions or blonde women.
Failure to employ region-appropriate humor will potentially flag you for review as a potential terrorist.
> This would kill p2p networks; I say this because > they are going after only the people that shares.
Well the people sharing stuff are perfectly free to share stuff they have a legal privilege to share. There's lots of stuff available to share that won't get anyone sued.
If it truly does kill the p2p networks, then obviously they weren't that valuable to begin with except as a tool to steal.
> Since when is a company going to officially > distribute stuff via Kazaa or BitTorrent? Sorry, > but when Microsoft says 'To download our latest > Service Pack, use Kazaa' then pigs will be flying. > It's so unprofessional.
Replace all the statements in here about kazaa with statements about linux.
And you get the same thing people were saying 4/5 years ago. Don't underestimate the ability for the tech industry to evolve.;)
Don't these guys know anything about thermodynamics?!
By launching a ship in this fashion, they will be STEALING momentum from the earth's rotation, degrading the planet's equilibrium and ultimately destroying the orbit and sending us to a firey death in the sun!
This is obviously a "plan B" coming from those same wackos who want to send the moon crashing into earth by harnessing the energy in the tides.
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> I'm not sure how many people have tried this, but
:)
> you really should put your mouse on the left,
> that's where it belongs.
In theory this is a good idea, and I've toyed with the idea myself, but I've found that my left hand just isn't as good at subtle movements that mouse using often requires. I found it too frustrating to stick with it until I got used to it, my brain kept forcing me to use my right hand.
What I did stick with is getting a touchpad and situating it off the left side of my keyboard. Not sure if older iterations of windows could do it, but XP at least will politely allow you to have two mice plugged in at once. I honestly never bothered to try it on my linux box.
At any rate, I do rely most heavily on the mouse on the right, but having the touchpad over there helps when I need to make quick imprecise movements, or my right wrist needs a bit of a rest.. because you're right, the left edge of the keyboard is a lot closer to my hands when typing.
Kind of a cross between both worlds.
Definetly, the wingman (it's original iteration was just called the "mouseman", the wingman was a poor effort to remarket the shape) is my favorite shape of all of them.
;)
I use one on my gaming rig, the shape feels good, doesn't feel cheap, and is quite precise (which seems the only upgrade they made for the wingman, my mouseman just doesn't move as smoothly).
Unlike you I don't miss the lack of mouse wheel on it.
Many people hate the shape though, which leads me to believe it wasn't making them money which is why they aren't made anymore.
I must have really smart friends, because I didn't get a single bounce! /preen
/sigh
Or maybe I just have no friends.
> Lets not make too much of an issue out of this
;)
The psychological impact of training someone as a part of your job, only to get fired and have said person take your job, should not be understated.
Granted I wouldn't go suicidal over it.. but I haven't ruled out homocide.
> I guess this is another case of the fact that
;)
> people appreciate the right to BEND the law.
It's not enforcing the law that's the concern, the interest in these systems is to improve revenues, using the laws to justify extortion.
Issuing speeding tickets is very, very rarely done in the name of safety, which is why they exist to begin with. If you want an example of this, get a speeding ticket sometime and challenge it in court. It's staggeringly simple to get the fine dropped. But of course you have to pay the court fees.
To digress, using these systems to fine people is more of inevitability than a theoretical question. If it can funnel cash into the hands of the municipality, it WILL be used.
> Batavia, IL run by FNAL
Nothing to do with your point, but for accuracies sake, it is not run 'by' FNAL, it IS FNAL. FNAL = Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. It is owned by DoE, and operated largely by the Universities Research Association.
Our budget, passed by congress, for the year 2003 was around 288 million dollars. It was 286 million in 2002.
So yes, the DoE spends a lot on theories, but 6 grand a minute sounds excessive.
> Kick my ass - I deserve it.
You doofus, you're not supposed to be graceful about having your foot stuffed into your mouth. Rather, to be a TRUE geek, you are required to fly into a spitting rage, construct a multi-paragraph essay defending your point. You are to conjure up as many off the wall and ill-supported arguments as you can in an effort to win the debate.
As an aside, "winning" is not defined in terms of making anyone actually agree with you. "Winning" is defined as beating the subject to death until no one wants to hear about it again, and ceases posting to the thread. By getting in the last word, you will have earned the right to say you won the argument. If these people in the future act like you're a nimcompoop who doesn't know jack, it's just because they're jealous and closeminded.
You got a lot of work to becoming a forum junkie.
As a Canadian, you should have learned by age 2 that America is incapable of reporting on anything from other than it's own perspective. ;)
I was considering doing something like this, except with little beams of light like lasers or something. The beams would be aimed at a photosensitive plate that left a residual glow, which is what the end user sees.
;)
I figure if the technology advances enough, we may even be able to pack hundreds of pixels into a single square inch!
I think trying to up the resolution would take away from the artsy feel of the project, and turn it instead into a very poor monitor. The act of watching the wood chips move is also probably enhanced by their size, and likely quite fun to watch.
> What about forking 2.2, taking all the non-SCO
;)
> stuff from 2.4 and 2.5, and shoe-horning it back
> into the new fork.
Haven't you been reading? We don't know what the "SCO stuff" is, so we can't either identify the "non-SCO" stuff to pull out of 2.4+.
Depending on the phase of the moon, the "SCO stuff" is either the SMP code or thousands of lines of code all over the place.
I mean in theory it's a good idea.. but we have no earthly idea what is SCO's and what isn't because they won't tell us.
Someday, this is gonna get turned into a movie and it will probably end up as a comedy even though it's billed as a documentary.
You know, like spinal tap. Except for real. I mean, it really is a documentary. And it's still funny.
For those looking for more cross platorm options, there are these:
I don't really have a favorite of these, they all have some really attractive features.
It still seems picking up an opengl book and doing it yourself is the best way to go in the long run. Other options are taking older games with released source (Doom, Marathon, Quake 1 and 2) and using that engine. Again, learning curve will be high though.
> are all different federal entities left to simply
> come up (or not come up) with their own standards?
I can only speak for the one I work for, but from what I can tell, the answer is yes. The branch I'm involved in seems to revolve mostly around scanning any net-connected machine for known vulnerabilities and generating scary warnings if a problem is found.
Most of our security is dictated by the site-local security team which is thankfully pretty darn good, because the probe and hope model is fearfully insufficient. Every machine online uses kerberos, they actively sniff the network for cleartext passwords (and warn you strongly when they catch you doing it), and they monitor for traffic spikes to track down compromised machines. Services like httpd or smtp require being up to date on patches, or the machine's port on the switch is shut off. Any offsite accessible website has to have a hole punched in the border router.. the list goes on.
None of this matches any security model I've learned about in other government branches (which seem to prefer the 'firewall it all' philosophy), leading support to the idea that each branch manages itsef it's own way.
I think what you meant was the Type R.
Not to flame (too much :) but this is a seriously flawed argument to make.
Stating that LCD's are inferior because you don't have enough room on a 15", and CRT's are much better because you do have enough room on a 21"? I challenge you to find enough room for large fonts on a 15" CRT.. you'd be saying the exact same complaint.
Not neccessarily defending LCD's here (or CRT's) but if you're going to compare the two, you should at least offer them the dignity of testing against equal feature sets.
It is a bit of a niche, but it serves that niche REALLY REALLY well. It's a shame all the illegal file sharing is wearing it down.
The past month I've been using bittorrent to distribute a 500 meg DivX of someone playing a game, basic jist of it was they ran around kicking ass with a VCR running, and they decided to edit it up and distribute it. I put it on my site.. in less than 12 hours I had run up about 20GB of outgoing traffic. Poor server was doing so much I/O working at a shell was almost impossible.
After panicing (thank someone I don't have bandwidth metering) I threw up a bittorrent tracker and told people what to do. I've been running it since then, maybe 3 weeks now. Been averaging about 100k/sec output since then (sometimes much higher, sometimes much lower). Bittorrent doesn't give me a way to look at how many completed downloads the file has had, but judging from the feedback I've recieved several hundred people have the movie.. who knows how many downloaded it that never said a word.
Bittorrent amazes me far more than napster ever did.
That, or it took him this long to go over it with a lawyer before opening his mouth on the subject.
Does that make those who committ suicide the real heros, because they beat the addiction and quit playing? ;)
If only he'd waited a week more for this story to circulate the net.
I thought the popular strategy was to make sure the shuttle could dock with the ISS, and allow the astronauts to get back to earth in the soyuz module the station has.
Granted I got this info from the media so it could be a pointless thing to say, but it sure sounds good.. especially since I don't think they can just lob another shuttle into space on a whim.
It would also still leave a broken shuttle up in space, which I imagine makes for an interesting engineering problem once the business of keeping people alive is done.
> A noisy hard drive is a dying hard drive.
:D
Or a seagate.
Course they're fine these days, but several years back it was like setting off a chainsaw inside your machine.
> However, to make it happen, all manufacturers will
> have to charge more for printers and less for
> cartridges. If even one player sticks with the old
> model, that player will see all the gains.
Unfortunatley, that's not how the US economy works. The only way to fix this sort problem is to let things get so bad that the companies involved go bankrupt, letting better run companies take thier place.
Which, incidentialy, is why Lexmark is doing this stunt, to prevent going bankrupt. The profit margin has been cut so low by underselling printers that they can't afford to let people use generic brand cartridges. Even if the population that knows generic brands even exist is one or two percent of the total, that's a significant amount of money the company will lose.
I think the "reform" will eventually happen naturally, the business model works well for cheap stuff like razorblades but for more expensive items the system is flawed.
It could be hastened by government regulation, but I'm not sure getting the government involved is neccessarily a good idea.
I'm sorry, go back and read chapter two, where they talk about humor types by geographic region. Your above intended format falls into "excessively dry", which if my memory serves is a method perfected, and quite jealously defended, by the British.
American humor is expected to involve either bodily functions or blonde women.
Failure to employ region-appropriate humor will potentially flag you for review as a potential terrorist.
> This would kill p2p networks; I say this because
> they are going after only the people that shares.
Well the people sharing stuff are perfectly free to share stuff they have a legal privilege to share. There's lots of stuff available to share that won't get anyone sued.
If it truly does kill the p2p networks, then obviously they weren't that valuable to begin with except as a tool to steal.
> Since when is a company going to officially
;)
> distribute stuff via Kazaa or BitTorrent? Sorry,
> but when Microsoft says 'To download our latest
> Service Pack, use Kazaa' then pigs will be flying.
> It's so unprofessional.
Replace all the statements in here about kazaa with statements about linux.
And you get the same thing people were saying 4/5 years ago. Don't underestimate the ability for the tech industry to evolve.
Don't these guys know anything about thermodynamics?!
By launching a ship in this fashion, they will be STEALING momentum from the earth's rotation, degrading the planet's equilibrium and ultimately destroying the orbit and sending us to a firey death in the sun!
This is obviously a "plan B" coming from those same wackos who want to send the moon crashing into earth by harnessing the energy in the tides.