All you do is pop off the keys and arrange them in the dvorak pattern. Then you have to remap all the keys in your operating system - this would involve a different process depending on what operating system you use. I might be mistaken because I've never tried, but I was under the impression that it is rather trivial to do this in Windows, look around you may even find some software that'll give you schematic and remap the keys for you.
Now, as for the benifits of the Dvorak keyboard: opinions are very mixed. I believe there were debates here on/. not too long ago about it, some say it's highly overrated, stating that true results are only a mere fraction better than Qwerty in most people. If you're already used to Qwerty, you would probably never reach your potential on a Dvorak keyboard because you'd be fighting the conditioning you already have.
Myself... I've never had the desire to type faster because I'd just end up making mistakes more quickly:) So I'm not gonna gobble the hype.
Somehow I think many people would welcome a change like that.
government gets tax dollars for new signs, books, etc.
publishers get to make millions and millions on new editions of all their textbooks
universities get their cut of the textbook dollars
sign makers make a fortune
businesses get to save money by not maintained 2 systems
I don't live in the US nor am I an economist, but logic says that nearly all these costs would be soaked up by the public, everyone else will have a heyday with it all.
Rogers @Home (Canada) is pretty linient. I'm not sure they meter your traffic, but they definately don't have any problems with servers that I know of.
Currently my box is imasq'd to share the connection with 3 computers and is a web, ftp, printer, mysql, telnet server and have had no complaints or warnings. Then again, I'm not pulling down much traffic. I think they'll probably know something is up if you draw like a Gig each day.
Everybody at Sun obviously knows that Linux is as much or more of a threat to Solaris than it is a threat to Windows. Linux is only a few steps away from completely replacing the need for Solaris. As soon as Linux has enterprise calibre performance, there will be little incentive for anyone to use Solaris. IBM knows this too, why do you think they like Linux? They know very well that it's their best weapon to out-muscle both Sun and MS.
I'm surprised Sun is even partially supporting Linux. I guess they think that if they stay in stride with the Linux movement long enough for it to entirely eclipse the Microsoft era there will still be enough of a server market left to do business.
Just think about how much effort has to be put into a complete operating system. Making a single application is one thing. But to put together hoards and hoards of scripts, applications, UI's is very time consuming. Sure, Corel is basing their dist on Debian (? I'm not really sure), but even still they're likely gonna tear a lot of stuff apart and put it all back together, make their own installation wizard, boot loaders, custom X apps, port some of their existing programs to Linux... and the list goes on.
This is intended to be a system that people will use on a day-to-day basis, so you can't expect them to pull an M$ move and release it with boatloads of critters.
Yeah that one has been on before. Anyone who is even slightly interested in cryptography should tune it. Really gives you a good understanding about how cryptography all got started - building up from sending passwords back and forth with simple keys all the way up to sophisticated encryption machines, and about the entire behind the scenes crypto-war that was going on in WW2.
Hello ignorant PC buyers!!! When was the last time you've upgraded your Intel-based PC WITHOUT buying a new motherboard? Doesn't happen, never has since the early of the Pentium (P60-P233). Ever since then a mainboard lasts 6 months, coincidently as long as the time for the next generation CPU to come along.
Oh wait a second, yeah you can upgrade a 400 P3 to a 450 PC.... I forgot about that, sorry.
As far as I remember, there is no ISO cd images anywhere on RedHat's ftp site. They don't make it easy for anyone to make their own cd by downloading from their site. Of course the reason is that they want people to buy the cd for ease of use, but this is annoying.
Other distributions (debian) seem to always do this. If you wait a little while, and ask around on IRC someone will probably be able to point you to a site that has their own cd image made downloadable.
I don't think humans are evolving anymore. The Darwin evolution theory does not apply to humans in this age because we have outgrown nature. If a child is born disabled, diseased, dumb as a doorknob etc. they continue to live and have other childred and spread their poor DNA further into the genepool. This is all because of the great and wonderful world of science and medicine.
If we were to abandon medicine, these "unfit" individuals would not survive long enough to reproduce. But being such a warm hearted race, we humans nurture the weak and by doing so we break the evolutionary system.
Do you really believe that in 200 years humans will have more intellectual ability than the humans today? I don't. How is that possible when stupid people are just as capable of surviving in this world as smart people (aka "us slashdot readers:). There's no way to weed out the garbage genes from oour society unless we do something about.
This is why I am 100% in favour of genetic engineering.
I heard that studies have shown that while a person watches TV, the human brain is LESS ACTIVE than if they were doing absolutely nothing at all. I have no formal proof of this study, but I do believe it... do you?
Somehow I don't think medical software is going to get a good push from the open source community. Making a big medical application/database is not exactly "fun" work akin to open source developemnt. Most successful open source projects are for productivity/desktop apps that the developers have fun with and will actually end up using in the end. I don't see that happening with a piece of software that tells a nurse when to give a patient their medicine.
I think this idea would open up a whole new type of crime -- Clone Murder. If you wanted to snuff someone, why bother killing them? just torch their clone and wait a few years until one of their essential organs gives out.
As I remember reading the earth supposedly collided with a primordial black hole (mass of about a mountain) in 1904, and the results were merely less than a very week nuclear explosion, blew down a few miles of trees. Nobody knew what it was until 30 years later or so.
So I'm not too worried about a black hole with the mass of a few sub-atomic particles.
I think it's perfectly fine that Mozilla has dropped NS4 code. For the smart webdevelopers who've been using an API for their JavaScript applications it will make everything a whole lot nicer for them - all you gotta do is "port" the API to Mozilla and you're done.
It'll be good to have the Win32 port fully compatible with the unix version. There are already tons of Win32 specific bindings that one can use to create windowed applications/scripts with Perl which are much like the tcl/tk and gtk bindings. MS would just be doing similar things to these so it's not that these things hasn't been done before. I say we just have a mass-boycott.
If nobody were to implement these Windows specific extensions then it wouldn't be an issue. The problem is that many Windows programmers are so easily sucked into the black hole of platform specific coding.
I'll have to defend the V3 - I have had nothing but good things to say about it since I got it.
Nobody in their right mind is going to play Q3A in 32bit color anyway even with a TNT2, it's looks fine in 16bit, and the frame rates kick butt.
Do not underestimate how relieving it is to not have to reboot into Windows just to play a game. Since they (Daryll Straus?) released the X server with V3 support I have not had to reboot since.
I'm unsure about the exact performance difference between Q3A in Linux and Windows, but I don't really need to. Visually I cannot tell any difference between the two.
All in all, there is no better video solution for a Linux user and moderate gamer than a V3 3000.. Maybe when Nvidia will get on the bandwagon and support Linux that will change - but I wasn't willing to wait forever.
My dad got a ZX80 when I was about 3 or 4 and was my first experience with a computer of any sort - mostly for playing games. The audio cassette based storage, and the black and white TV for a monitor brings back some good memories. There were some fantastic games - 3 of which I can recall quite clearly: Rocketman, some pinball game, and Mazoggs - the last of which I regarded as the greatest puzzle/maze game of all time (although cheesy by today's standards).
The QL blew my mind - full color, 3D wireframe type games, amazing stuff in its day. If I remember correctly this was around the hey-day of the Commadore64 and Tandy. But I was not jealous, I had way cooler cames for the QL than any of my C64 or Tandy friends.
Bootleg movies have been available for a long time on the net. I've seen available nearly anything that's new - Titanic, Godzilla, Armegeddon were the popular ones for a while. They had Starship Troopers bootlegged long before it was available in video stores.
Usually people were using the old Vivo format for compressing them. If you have it in like 150px by whatever the file size can be as low as 150MB. For anyone with a network connection to the net that is a fairly reasonable download. In an hour you could see the newest movies without paying a penny.
There's a lot of value in a good name. The name "Linux" (by itself) now has a lot of weight behind it and is becoming marketable.
It really doesn't matter at this point whether the correct term is GNU/Linux, or how much RMS and the FSF complains about it. People will continue to refer to it as Linux because that's what is being marketed by word of mouth, media, and television.
Something tells me Lucas and the crew aren't going to go hungry if there's boots floating around, there always will be. The movie companies know it, and are as stupified about what to do as software companies and pirates.
Star Wars is just so huge it doesn't matter what the heck is on the street - hell I could have a DVD copy of the Menace sitting right next to me at this very moment and I'd still be in line May 21 (or whenever it is).
I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem like you can build an internal windows with GTK apps. Unfortunately this is very important in modern software apps and is the one big advantage that KDE has over GTK. I think if GTK and KDE were to standardize on an internal window system with min/max buttons than things would be better.
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All you do is pop off the keys and arrange them in the dvorak pattern. Then you have to remap all the keys in your operating system - this would involve a different process depending on what operating system you use. I might be mistaken because I've never tried, but I was under the impression that it is rather trivial to do this in Windows, look around you may even find some software that'll give you schematic and remap the keys for you.
/. not too long ago about it, some say it's highly overrated, stating that true results are only a mere fraction better than Qwerty in most people. If you're already used to Qwerty, you would probably never reach your potential on a Dvorak keyboard because you'd be fighting the conditioning you already have.
:) So I'm not gonna gobble the hype.
Now, as for the benifits of the Dvorak keyboard: opinions are very mixed. I believe there were debates here on
Myself... I've never had the desire to type faster because I'd just end up making mistakes more quickly
"I love the smell of a burnt CPU in the morning"
- government gets tax dollars for new signs, books, etc.
- publishers get to make millions and millions on new editions of all their textbooks
- universities get their cut of the textbook dollars
- sign makers make a fortune
- businesses get to save money by not maintained 2 systems
I don't live in the US nor am I an economist, but logic says that nearly all these costs would be soaked up by the public, everyone else will have a heyday with it all."The voices in my head say crazy things"
Rogers @Home (Canada) is pretty linient. I'm not sure they meter your traffic, but they definately don't have any problems with servers that I know of.
Currently my box is imasq'd to share the connection with 3 computers and is a web, ftp, printer, mysql, telnet server and have had no complaints or warnings. Then again, I'm not pulling down much traffic. I think they'll probably know something is up if you draw like a Gig each day.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
Everybody at Sun obviously knows that Linux is as much or more of a threat to Solaris than it is a threat to Windows. Linux is only a few steps away from completely replacing the need for Solaris. As soon as Linux has enterprise calibre performance, there will be little incentive for anyone to use Solaris. IBM knows this too, why do you think they like Linux? They know very well that it's their best weapon to out-muscle both Sun and MS.
I'm surprised Sun is even partially supporting Linux. I guess they think that if they stay in stride with the Linux movement long enough for it to entirely eclipse the Microsoft era there will still be enough of a server market left to do business.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
Just think about how much effort has to be put into a complete operating system. Making a single application is one thing. But to put together hoards and hoards of scripts, applications, UI's is very time consuming. Sure, Corel is basing their dist on Debian (? I'm not really sure), but even still they're likely gonna tear a lot of stuff apart and put it all back together, make their own installation wizard, boot loaders, custom X apps, port some of their existing programs to Linux... and the list goes on.
This is intended to be a system that people will use on a day-to-day basis, so you can't expect them to pull an M$ move and release it with boatloads of critters.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
Yeah that one has been on before. Anyone who is even slightly interested in cryptography should tune it. Really gives you a good understanding about how cryptography all got started - building up from sending passwords back and forth with simple keys all the way up to sophisticated encryption machines, and about the entire behind the scenes crypto-war that was going on in WW2.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
Hello ignorant PC buyers!!! When was the last time you've upgraded your Intel-based PC WITHOUT buying a new motherboard? Doesn't happen, never has since the early of the Pentium (P60-P233). Ever since then a mainboard lasts 6 months, coincidently as long as the time for the next generation CPU to come along.
Oh wait a second, yeah you can upgrade a 400 P3 to a 450 PC.... I forgot about that, sorry.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
As far as I remember, there is no ISO cd images anywhere on RedHat's ftp site. They don't make it easy for anyone to make their own cd by downloading from their site. Of course the reason is that they want people to buy the cd for ease of use, but this is annoying.
Other distributions (debian) seem to always do this. If you wait a little while, and ask around on IRC someone will probably be able to point you to a site that has their own cd image made downloadable.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
I don't think humans are evolving anymore. The Darwin evolution theory does not apply to humans in this age because we have outgrown nature. If a child is born disabled, diseased, dumb as a doorknob etc. they continue to live and have other childred and spread their poor DNA further into the genepool. This is all because of the great and wonderful world of science and medicine.
:). There's no way to weed out the garbage genes from oour society unless we do something about.
If we were to abandon medicine, these "unfit" individuals would not survive long enough to reproduce. But being such a warm hearted race, we humans nurture the weak and by doing so we break the evolutionary system.
Do you really believe that in 200 years humans will have more intellectual ability than the humans today? I don't. How is that possible when stupid people are just as capable of surviving in this world as smart people (aka "us slashdot readers
This is why I am 100% in favour of genetic engineering.
PS: take this reply with a chill pill
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
...he had developed a blood-cooling system that meant a living head could be disconnected from its blood supply for up to an hour without ill-effect.
Wow, now that would be one really wild head trip. It'd beat the heck out of any drug that makes you have an "out of body" experience.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
I heard that studies have shown that while a person watches TV, the human brain is LESS ACTIVE than if they were doing absolutely nothing at all. I have no formal proof of this study, but I do believe it... do you?
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
I won't be surprized if at the end of the first day of trading it's in the $80-100 range. Damn, wish I had got one of those golden letters of joy.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
Somehow I don't think medical software is going to get a good push from the open source community. Making a big medical application/database is not exactly "fun" work akin to open source developemnt. Most successful open source projects are for productivity/desktop apps that the developers have fun with and will actually end up using in the end. I don't see that happening with a piece of software that tells a nurse when to give a patient their medicine.
"The voices in my head say crazy things"
I think this idea would open up a whole new type of crime -- Clone Murder. If you wanted to snuff someone, why bother killing them? just torch their clone and wait a few years until one of their essential organs gives out.
As I remember reading the earth supposedly collided with a primordial black hole (mass of about a mountain) in 1904, and the results were merely less than a very week nuclear explosion, blew down a few miles of trees. Nobody knew what it was until 30 years later or so.
So I'm not too worried about a black hole with the mass of a few sub-atomic particles.
I think it's perfectly fine that Mozilla has dropped NS4 code. For the smart webdevelopers who've been using an API for their JavaScript applications it will make everything a whole lot nicer for them - all you gotta do is "port" the API to Mozilla and you're done.
It'll be good to have the Win32 port fully compatible with the unix version. There are already tons of Win32 specific bindings that one can use to create windowed applications/scripts with Perl which are much like the tcl/tk and gtk bindings. MS would just be doing similar things to these so it's not that these things hasn't been done before. I say we just have a mass-boycott.
If nobody were to implement these Windows specific extensions then it wouldn't be an issue. The problem is that many Windows programmers are so easily sucked into the black hole of platform specific coding.
I'll have to defend the V3 - I have had nothing but good things to say about it since I got it.
Nobody in their right mind is going to play Q3A in 32bit color anyway even with a TNT2, it's looks fine in 16bit, and the frame rates kick butt.
Do not underestimate how relieving it is to not have to reboot into Windows just to play a game. Since they (Daryll Straus?) released the X server with V3 support I have not had to reboot since.
I'm unsure about the exact performance difference between Q3A in Linux and Windows, but I don't really need to. Visually I cannot tell any difference between the two.
All in all, there is no better video solution for a Linux user and moderate gamer than a V3 3000.. Maybe when Nvidia will get on the bandwagon and support Linux that will change - but I wasn't willing to wait forever.
My dad got a ZX80 when I was about 3 or 4 and was my first experience with a computer of any sort - mostly for playing games. The audio cassette based storage, and the black and white TV for a monitor brings back some good memories. There were some fantastic games - 3 of which I can recall quite clearly: Rocketman, some pinball game, and Mazoggs - the last of which I regarded as the greatest puzzle/maze game of all time (although cheesy by today's standards).
The QL blew my mind - full color, 3D wireframe type games, amazing stuff in its day. If I remember correctly this was around the hey-day of the Commadore64 and Tandy. But I was not jealous, I had way cooler cames for the QL than any of my C64 or Tandy friends.
Am I the only person who couldn't really give a damn about opera music (even if it is from Star Wars)??
Bootleg movies have been available for a long time on the net. I've seen available nearly anything that's new - Titanic, Godzilla, Armegeddon were the popular ones for a while. They had Starship Troopers bootlegged long before it was available in video stores.
Usually people were using the old Vivo format for compressing them. If you have it in like 150px by whatever the file size can be as low as 150MB. For anyone with a network connection to the net that is a fairly reasonable download. In an hour you could see the newest movies without paying a penny.
There's a lot of value in a good name. The name "Linux" (by itself) now has a lot of weight behind it and is becoming marketable.
It really doesn't matter at this point whether the correct term is GNU/Linux, or how much RMS and the FSF complains about it. People will continue to refer to it as Linux because that's what is being marketed by word of mouth, media, and television.
It's too late people, live with it.
Something tells me Lucas and the crew aren't going to go hungry if there's boots floating around, there always will be. The movie companies know it, and are as stupified about what to do as software companies and pirates.
Star Wars is just so huge it doesn't matter what the heck is on the street - hell I could have a DVD copy of the Menace sitting right next to me at this very moment and I'd still be in line May 21 (or whenever it is).
I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem like you can build an internal windows with GTK apps. Unfortunately this is very important in modern software apps and is the one big advantage that KDE has over GTK. I think if GTK and KDE were to standardize on an internal window system with min/max buttons than things would be better.