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  1. Touchstream Keyboard on Input Solutions for Repetitive Stress Victims? · · Score: 1

    I have one of these. Sadly they're no longer in production since Apple bought them out.

  2. Re:Touch screen, not camera! on Apple's All-Seeing Screen · · Score: 1

    Their sensor technology and subsequent patents comes from Fingerworks. I'm typing this on one of their keyboards!

  3. Re:Small Simple... Solid State on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Interesting, but perhaps too responsive on FingerWorks Offers Replacement PowerBook Keyboard · · Score: 1
    QWERTY may be a crappy standard

    My keyboard is querty. I like to think of it as an extension of the mouse/keyboard interface. I have no problem using my laptop or any other setup for that matter.

    I use this because the amount of time I spend working on my computer any improvement in comfort and effciency is worth it to me.

  5. Re:Interesting, but perhaps too responsive on FingerWorks Offers Replacement PowerBook Keyboard · · Score: 1
    I have a touchstream keyboard and would not go back to using a mechanical one. The gestures are for the most part very intuitive. Mouse movement and text selection typically take only minutes to learn.

    The enhanced gestures you mention are aimed at expert users and have simpler non-zonal equivalents.

    I find the keyboard far more effcient and less stressful than any other setup and I've tried a few over the years!
  6. Re:Now if I can get my boss to pay for it on Strange New Keyboards and Mice · · Score: 1

    I use one of these. Bought it myself, well worth it.

  7. Efficiency of base 2 arithmetic on Hacker's Delight · · Score: 1
    explaining why computers use base 2 for arithmetic, and why this is the most efficient choice

    I always thought that ternary computers were theoretically more efficient, from a mathmatical point of view.

  8. Light of Other Days on 'Computer-On-Glass' Display · · Score: 1

    This story just reminded me of this

  9. Why is this needed? on Speaking in Tongues · · Score: 1

    If people don't understand me, rather than learning their native language, I simply shout loudly and aggressively in my own.

  10. Re:vim tetris ?how to start? on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 1

    :echo mapleader

  11. Re:vim tetris ?how to start? on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 1

    Load the file with so tetris.vim, start the game with [leader]te. Leader is the value set in the mapleader variable. If this is not set use \te. Try :help leader in vim.

  12. Re:Why emacs is better than vim: on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 2, Insightful
  13. Drug Names on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a previous job we had machines named after drugs. Developer conversations could be amusing. "NFS isn't working" "Which environment?" "I'm on heroin but I guess I could switch to methadone" ...

  14. First Post on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will you be charging extra for first posts?

  15. Re:Sigh... on New Nokia Phone · · Score: 1

    Especially with T9...

  16. Re:JabberIM is the way to go, but.... on Jabber As The Coming IM Standard? · · Score: 1

    For me the real killer is not having a client that will tunnel through the strict http firewall we have at work :-(

  17. Re:Time for some education on computer architectur on Emergence of SMT · · Score: 1

    IBM's Power 4 Architecture was designed to exploit SMT. They're looking to leapfrog Sun and Dec in server performance.

  18. Re:New languages & successor to C++ ? on Dennis Ritchie Interview · · Score: 1

    Having used ML in the past I'd agree with this; except for io which is horribly botched on the rest of the language. I guess I won't be using it to write device drivers any time soon.

  19. Re:Where are the traditional Palmtops ? on Scanning The Landscape Of Palmtop GUIs · · Score: 1

    Or even NewtonOS which IMHO still has one of the best PDA interfaces even several years after its demise.

  20. New Brain on Bone Marrow Can Grow New Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Does this mean I can grow myself a new brain out of dog food? Full of marrowbone jelly and meaty goodness...

  21. Re:other stuff on IBM's OSS Code Morphing Code/or OSS vs. Transmeta · · Score: 1

    Flywheel energy storage looks particuarly promising, even for powering something as small as a laptop.

  22. Re:Mobile phones... on New All-In-One Nokia · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough, you're not too far from the truth. My Nokia 9000 communicator detects when it is in a car kit and auto answers on the handsfree set.

  23. Re:ouch on ARM-Based ATX Mobos · · Score: 1

    Castle Technology sell ARM based PC's for not much more than the cost of this motherboard. This sort of computer is still popular amongst enthusiasts (and some schools) in the UK.

  24. Re:Are there any decent Lego clones? on Lego Institutes Bulk Ordering · · Score: 1

    In my youth (c ~1975) I can recall lego clones. They fitted regular lego bricks but were made of cheaper flexible plastic. I remember being really annoyed lending out lego models only to have them returned with immitation bricks in them. No idea who made them though. They've probably been sued out of business.

  25. Re:Plan 9 on SPARC on Open Source Release Of Bell Labs' Plan 9 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a definitive list of machines that Plan9 will run on? The web site mentions compilers for x86, 68020, Sparc etc. I assume that getting it to work on a non x86 machine involves setting up a PC and cross-compiling it.