When it comes to keyboards and mice, some used items are just as good as new. KeyTronic keyboards, Cherry keyboards, IBM (Model M) keyboard, many older mice. Last a long time.
And the best high-end keyboards are not made in China: - The old IBM Model M, is not made by IBM any more, but made and sold by Unicomp in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. - If you don't like clicky and prefer the rubber dome feel, then get a Topre Realforce. The Rolls Royce of rubberdome. Made in Japan. They may cost a few times more than the cheap Chinese-made stuff, but they will also last a lifetime.
Some of the Wyse PCE keyboards (with IBM PC like layout) talk the PS/2 protocol and can be connected directly to a modern PC with or without a simple adapter. Look for model numbers 900840 and 900866.
The key switches in the Wyse keyboards are "Cherry MX Black". There are now loads of new keyboards with the different variations of the Cherry MX (black, red, blue, brown...) -- because they have become popular for computer gaming. One of the first, and now most inexpensive models with blacks, was Steelseries 6GV2 and Steelseries 7G.
Look also for Filco, Rosewill, Leopold, Deck, CM Storm Quickfire and TT eSports Meka [G1], but note that some of them can come with different Cherry MX switches.
Vintage Wyse keyboards are quite popular among keyboard enthusiasts (collectors) these days. However... they are mainly not after the key action but for the key caps to put on their modern keyboards. The key caps on the keyboards for the Wyse 50 terminals (without cursor keys) were made of thick plastic, but the others are quite good too. Both were double-shot injection molded, so that the legends never wear off.
People also like the vintage colour scheme of dark blue (not black) on grey/dark grey.
In fact, some groups of enthusiasts have made replica key sets. There is a project right now for making an adapter kit with a few missing keys in the vintage style to make them all fit modern keyboard layouts and have the same style.
A while ago, a group of Korean collectors got a full replica set made... but they botched the colour code for the blue legends when the ordered it so they got light blue instead... and now there are other enthusiasts who are making a replica of that set, even, hehe.
If you get access to the slides before the presentation, get them printed and bring the hardcopy to the lecture. Then write your notes in the margin beside each slide, using a pencil. Then you don't have to duplicate what is on the slides and you get each of your notes in context.
You are not alone. Approximately 20% of all people can not experience stereoscopic 3D. Within those 80% who can, many get head aches... and some people (like me) can experience 3D but just don't like it.
My CRT TV from 1995 broke down a week ago. After a lot of getting into the know about current TV sets, reading reviews and searching around in umpteen stores IRL and on-line, I finally bought a new one that got top marks in reviews, with the same screen size (for 4:3 programs) and which cost the same as my old TV had back in '95. Did I get a better TV? Not really. The audio is flat and the analog tuner is really bad. I also doubt that this new set will last me 17 years.
All the computer keyboards I use are vintage, mechanical. Better feel and can be repaired. I started collecting them, and have close to twenty now, for work and home. That should last me for a while. I am saddened that people throw them away when buying new PCs instead of selling them.
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Let me troll here just a little bit...
I suspect that it is not so much that iOS developers have forgotten how to code for multiple screen resolutions and aspect ratios as never having learned to. The way things are going, I am afraid that they are not going to learn to, either.
I may be false, but I have got the impression think that most of the people who design iOS apps are much the same people who design web pages by painting pictures in Photoshop and translating them into web pages with a fixed width. Microsoft is also encouraging this behaviour with Metro. A Metro app needs only to support a few different resolutions, and you are encouraged to align your text and other display elements to the same pixels as in other apps. No scaling here, either.
I have a pretty difficult sinus infection right now, which has lasted for over a month. I have taken antibiotics for ten days but I am still not well.
Before reading this topic, I actually did put my nose into a glass of whisky (not into the whisky itself) for almost an hour. I could feel the alcohol fumes high up into my nose, which felt pretty nice. Another thing that I found feels a lot in your nose when you have a sinus infection is wasabi.
Where I live (Stockholm, Sweden), there are many households that have done this for years and the amount is growing. Households throw their food waste in special paper bags and put in separate bins. The contents of these are then collected and processed into methane at a factory.
The incentive for housing cooperatives and households to join the program is that collection of food waste is free while collection of ordinary garbage is not. There should be less amount of normal garbage and thus the cooperation's garbage costs would be reduced.
The latest iteration was the CyKey, but it is just a chorded keyboard, it does not record. The site does not seem to have been updated in a while.
I could have sworn that there was a software version available for iPhone or MacOS' TrackPad... but I am probably just confused and thinking of the TrackPad version of FrogPad.
Modern endoscopes used for colonoscopy and gastroscopy already have small pincers at the end. These can cut off, and retrieve, cancer polyps in the colon -- polyps being the pre-stage to colon cancer. However, these polyps are tiny. It sounds to me like the new device described in the article is mostly like a larger variation of these pincers.
Too bad that this "crab" device was not available seven months ago when I went through major surgery to remove a small tumour from my colon. It would have made a huge difference to me. The operation took six hours, I had a painful week at the hospital (partly because the epidural failed at one point) and over a month's absence from work. I am left with a huge scar down the entirety of my abdomen.
In most cases when a web page takes a long time to load, it is not the HTTP connection to the web page's home server itself that is too slow, but... that the page is waiting for responses from various ad-servers, counters, social networking sites, etc before it can fully render.
I experience that the biggest slowdown on the sites that I visit, have often been caused by connections to Google Analytics.
Discover extraterrestrials being responsible for global warming on Earth, except that they claim that all they did was just speed things along because humans were foolish enough to not care anyway.
There have been studies that have shown that some EM radiation of the type radiated by cell phones (and cell towers) can cause damage to brain cells. One thing that science is inconclusive about is that all cell phone radiation would be harmful. Different phone systems and carriers use different frequency bands and these bands may affect cells in different ways. Each frequency band must therefore be studied separately, and that has not been done.
Most "experts" who claim that cell phone radiation is harmless often refer to studies that show that a) the thermal effects of cell phone radiation at legal levels is negligible and/or b) that the radiation is non-ionizing, I.e. does not nudge the atoms in DNA molecules.
However, radiation can have other effects!
One scientist that is known to have conducted research for GSM-900 is professor Bertil R R Persson. Here are some papers:
I think that what we see on Google Maps is just a weird composition of several satellite images taken at days when the mountains were covered by snow and on days when there was no snow. That's it.
I read a lot of critizism against Ubuntu for taking this route, but I think that it is necessary if Ubuntu is going to keep up with the hardware and not fall behind.
Face it. Practically no hardware vendor builds end-user hardware specifically to run Ubuntu. Most PCs that run Ubuntu now were designed to run Microsoft Windows, and that is how it is going to be for a considerable time. And what is the future direction of Microsoft Windows?... Towards touch-based devices. At Microsoft's "Build" developer conference last month, they even referred to tablets as "tablet PCs". It isn't just tablets. Microsoft is pushing hardware vendors to make all screens touch screens: even 24" desktop screens. In the future, people are not going to be as willing to switch from Windows to Ubuntu if it means that they are going to loose that much capability.
Personally. I would really like a tablet that runs a real Linux distro, is fast and has a high resolution IPS screen. I have been dreaming and yearning for one for fifteen years now, albeit I envisioned it with a stylus. But fuck Unity! I still run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (with Gnome and Window Maker) so that I would not have to stand for that crap, and that is what I installed on my newly purchased netbook also.
I would also question the use of a shotgun from a UAV. A shotgun is only usable at relatively close range. The shots disperse, meaning that there is an increased risk of hitting other things than the intended target the farther you are from the target. You will have to be able to assess the distance to your target to use it accurately. I am afraid that with the shooter not being at the scene, seeing the scene only in a monitor, there is a much larger risk of the shooter assessing the distance incorrectly.
Your statement that ARM should be based on Motorola 68000 is incorrect. The ISAs of the two architectures is completely different. ARM has 32-bit instructions, for instance, while the 68000 has 16-bit instructions. ARM processes the entire 32-bit word, while the 68000 processes 8, 16 or 32-bit words. etc.
Were you confused by the Dragonball series of microcontrollers, that was used in the PalmPilot? Early versions had a 68000 core and later versions had an ARM core.
I believe that nations and unions are going to have a larger demand for military technology in the future.
To protect resources they already have, to acquire more resources from their neighbours and to protect their borders from the influx of refugees from war zones and various lands that can't sustain them (for one reason or another).
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Non-ionizing means that it does not directly cause DNA damage.
However, it has been shown in tests that microwaves of certain frequencies can have other effects on human cells other than heating them up. These effects include increasing the uptake of glucose and breaking the cell's membrane which would allow the cell to be killed by albumen in the blood. Not all frequencies in the microwave band are equal, though. Only some frequencies have been tested.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is also available on-line for free... unless, that is, you have to go through a censoring web proxy.
I recommend it. It is not that long. It is interesting how much in sci-fi movies and literature that has been influenced by it.
If the laser propulsion tech that they are talking about is focusing light to create plasma of the surrounding air, then would this not create enormous amounts of ozone as a by-product?
Now that Steve Jobs is working less and less at Apple, they are going to lose the generator for the reality distortion field that sustains their business. Maybe the building is planned as a giant circle just so that it can house the new gigantic circular field generator that they need to build.
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When it comes to keyboards and mice, some used items are just as good as new. KeyTronic keyboards, Cherry keyboards, IBM (Model M) keyboard, many older mice. Last a long time.
And the best high-end keyboards are not made in China:
- The old IBM Model M, is not made by IBM any more, but made and sold by Unicomp in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- If you don't like clicky and prefer the rubber dome feel, then get a Topre Realforce. The Rolls Royce of rubberdome. Made in Japan.
They may cost a few times more than the cheap Chinese-made stuff, but they will also last a lifetime.
You are right. They need to acquire money before they can bribe a politician.
Oh wait... Maybe that is why they are doing this!? First sue the government for money, then bribe it using the same money.
Some of the Wyse PCE keyboards (with IBM PC like layout) talk the PS/2 protocol and can be connected directly to a modern PC with or without a simple adapter. Look for model numbers 900840 and 900866.
The key switches in the Wyse keyboards are "Cherry MX Black". There are now loads of new keyboards with the different variations of the Cherry MX (black, red, blue, brown...) -- because they have become popular for computer gaming. One of the first, and now most inexpensive models with blacks, was Steelseries 6GV2 and Steelseries 7G. Look also for Filco, Rosewill, Leopold, Deck, CM Storm Quickfire and TT eSports Meka [G1], but note that some of them can come with different Cherry MX switches.
Vintage Wyse keyboards are quite popular among keyboard enthusiasts (collectors) these days. However ... they are mainly not after the key action but for the key caps to put on their modern keyboards. The key caps on the keyboards for the Wyse 50 terminals (without cursor keys) were made of thick plastic, but the others are quite good too. Both were double-shot injection molded, so that the legends never wear off.
People also like the vintage colour scheme of dark blue (not black) on grey/dark grey.
In fact, some groups of enthusiasts have made replica key sets. There is a project right now for making an adapter kit with a few missing keys in the vintage style to make them all fit modern keyboard layouts and have the same style. ... but they botched the colour code for the blue legends when the ordered it so they got light blue instead ... and now there are other enthusiasts who are making a replica of that set, even, hehe.
A while ago, a group of Korean collectors got a full replica set made
If you get access to the slides before the presentation, get them printed and bring the hardcopy to the lecture.
Then write your notes in the margin beside each slide, using a pencil.
Then you don't have to duplicate what is on the slides and you get each of your notes in context.
You are not alone. Approximately 20% of all people can not experience stereoscopic 3D. Within those 80% who can, many get head aches... and some people (like me) can experience 3D but just don't like it.
The light cycles was only a single stage within the Tron arcade game.
The original "Snake" was Centipede.
My CRT TV from 1995 broke down a week ago.
After a lot of getting into the know about current TV sets, reading reviews and searching around in umpteen stores IRL and on-line, I finally bought a new one that got top marks in reviews, with the same screen size (for 4:3 programs) and which cost the same as my old TV had back in '95.
Did I get a better TV? Not really. The audio is flat and the analog tuner is really bad.
I also doubt that this new set will last me 17 years.
All the computer keyboards I use are vintage, mechanical. Better feel and can be repaired. I started collecting them, and have close to twenty now, for work and home. That should last me for a while. I am saddened that people throw them away when buying new PCs instead of selling them.
Let me troll here just a little bit ...
I suspect that it is not so much that iOS developers have forgotten how to code for multiple screen resolutions and aspect ratios as never having learned to. The way things are going, I am afraid that they are not going to learn to, either.
I may be false, but I have got the impression think that most of the people who design iOS apps are much the same people who design web pages by painting pictures in Photoshop and translating them into web pages with a fixed width.
Microsoft is also encouraging this behaviour with Metro. A Metro app needs only to support a few different resolutions, and you are encouraged to align your text and other display elements to the same pixels as in other apps. No scaling here, either.
I have a pretty difficult sinus infection right now, which has lasted for over a month. I have taken antibiotics for ten days but I am still not well.
Before reading this topic, I actually did put my nose into a glass of whisky (not into the whisky itself) for almost an hour. I could feel the alcohol fumes high up into my nose, which felt pretty nice.
Another thing that I found feels a lot in your nose when you have a sinus infection is wasabi.
You could use Window Maker and GNOME together. It is not difficult to set up. I have been using them together for years.
Where I live (Stockholm, Sweden), there are many households that have done this for years and the amount is growing.
Households throw their food waste in special paper bags and put in separate bins. The contents of these are then collected and processed into methane at a factory.
The incentive for housing cooperatives and households to join the program is that collection of food waste is free while collection of ordinary garbage is not. There should be less amount of normal garbage and thus the cooperation's garbage costs would be reduced.
The latest iteration was the CyKey, but it is just a chorded keyboard, it does not record. The site does not seem to have been updated in a while.
I could have sworn that there was a software version available for iPhone or MacOS' TrackPad ... but I am probably just confused and thinking of the TrackPad version of FrogPad.
Modern endoscopes used for colonoscopy and gastroscopy already have small pincers at the end. These can cut off, and retrieve, cancer polyps in the colon -- polyps being the pre-stage to colon cancer. However, these polyps are tiny. It sounds to me like the new device described in the article is mostly like a larger variation of these pincers.
Too bad that this "crab" device was not available seven months ago when I went through major surgery to remove a small tumour from my colon. It would have made a huge difference to me. The operation took six hours, I had a painful week at the hospital (partly because the epidural failed at one point) and over a month's absence from work. I am left with a huge scar down the entirety of my abdomen.
In most cases when a web page takes a long time to load, it is not the HTTP connection to the web page's home server itself that is too slow, but ... that the page is waiting for responses from various ad-servers, counters, social networking sites, etc before it can fully render.
I experience that the biggest slowdown on the sites that I visit, have often been caused by connections to Google Analytics.
Thanks Google for making the web faster!
Discover extraterrestrials being responsible for global warming on Earth, except that they claim that all they did was just speed things along because humans were foolish enough to not care anyway.
Most "experts" who claim that cell phone radiation is harmless often refer to studies that show that a) the thermal effects of cell phone radiation at legal levels is negligible and/or b) that the radiation is non-ionizing, I.e. does not nudge the atoms in DNA molecules. However, radiation can have other effects!
One scientist that is known to have conducted research for GSM-900 is professor Bertil R R Persson. Here are some papers:
I think that what we see on Google Maps is just a weird composition of several satellite images taken at days when the mountains were covered by snow and on days when there was no snow. That's it.
I read a lot of critizism against Ubuntu for taking this route, but I think that it is necessary if Ubuntu is going to keep up with the hardware and not fall behind.
Face it. Practically no hardware vendor builds end-user hardware specifically to run Ubuntu. Most PCs that run Ubuntu now were designed to run Microsoft Windows, and that is how it is going to be for a considerable time. ... Towards touch-based devices. At Microsoft's "Build" developer conference last month, they even referred to tablets as "tablet PCs".
And what is the future direction of Microsoft Windows?
It isn't just tablets. Microsoft is pushing hardware vendors to make all screens touch screens: even 24" desktop screens.
In the future, people are not going to be as willing to switch from Windows to Ubuntu if it means that they are going to loose that much capability.
Personally. I would really like a tablet that runs a real Linux distro, is fast and has a high resolution IPS screen. I have been dreaming and yearning for one for fifteen years now, albeit I envisioned it with a stylus.
But fuck Unity! I still run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (with Gnome and Window Maker) so that I would not have to stand for that crap, and that is what I installed on my newly purchased netbook also.
I would also question the use of a shotgun from a UAV. A shotgun is only usable at relatively close range. The shots disperse, meaning that there is an increased risk of hitting other things than the intended target the farther you are from the target. You will have to be able to assess the distance to your target to use it accurately.
I am afraid that with the shooter not being at the scene, seeing the scene only in a monitor, there is a much larger risk of the shooter assessing the distance incorrectly.
Your statement that ARM should be based on Motorola 68000 is incorrect. The ISAs of the two architectures is completely different. ARM has 32-bit instructions, for instance, while the 68000 has 16-bit instructions. ARM processes the entire 32-bit word, while the 68000 processes 8, 16 or 32-bit words. etc.
Were you confused by the Dragonball series of microcontrollers, that was used in the PalmPilot? Early versions had a 68000 core and later versions had an ARM core.
I believe that nations and unions are going to have a larger demand for military technology in the future. To protect resources they already have, to acquire more resources from their neighbours and to protect their borders from the influx of refugees from war zones and various lands that can't sustain them (for one reason or another).
Non-ionizing means that it does not directly cause DNA damage.
However, it has been shown in tests that microwaves of certain frequencies can have other effects on human cells other than heating them up. These effects include increasing the uptake of glucose and breaking the cell's membrane which would allow the cell to be killed by albumen in the blood.
Not all frequencies in the microwave band are equal, though. Only some frequencies have been tested.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is also available on-line for free ... unless, that is, you have to go through a censoring web proxy.
I recommend it. It is not that long. It is interesting how much in sci-fi movies and literature that has been influenced by it.
If the laser propulsion tech that they are talking about is focusing light to create plasma of the surrounding air, then would this not create enormous amounts of ozone as a by-product?
Now that Steve Jobs is working less and less at Apple, they are going to lose the generator for the reality distortion field that sustains their business.
Maybe the building is planned as a giant circle just so that it can house the new gigantic circular field generator that they need to build.