That's what I get for misinterpreting what article you're talking about. Clearly Dvorak alternates better than Qwerty. Unfortunately, 23 years of touch typing is not going to be overcome by logic, because my fingers do the typing rather than my brain at this point. I'll keep Dvorak in mind when teaching my kids....
It probably depends on what types of dexterity you're good at. If rolling all the fingers on one hand goes faster for you, and gets you reliable results, it'll go faster than alternating. For me, alternating works extremely well and even gives me some tactile feedback (without looking) for when I've made typos.
Care to back up such inferences, Mr. Editor, or are you just another troll making claims without any support? What precisely is there in Sun's portfolio of app software that only runs on Solaris? Not Java. Not iPlanet/SunOne/N1/whatever you want to call it this month. Care to back it up with facts instead of random allegations?
MacOS is really not terribly hard. They do have a really good user interface. There are some things that are hard to get used to (their default of single button mice for example, but that's moot if you provide your own) for an experienced user, but if this is REALLY for your wife, it should only be an issue on the occasional times when you need to do something on the box. That's how it is for my wife's iBook, and even then it's never been a very big deal.
If you do go that route, I'd recommend David Pogue's "missing manual" books for a quick up to speed as well.
There are many dimensions of environment. Shell Environment is one of my favorites. Many many moons ago, a customer changed the root.profile/.cshrc or whatever so that "ls" became "ls -CF" at all times. This was on a clustered server.
The next time the cluster tried to reconfigure, it failed mysteriously. Customer couldn't figure it out, local support people couldn't figure it out, I was one of those people but out of town (I'm convinced given the nature of the problem that I would have figured it out), so they ended up having higher level engineers driven in from 6 hours away to come look at why the cluster reconfiguration was failing.
They found the problem--apparently some part of the scripts that were running the cluster reconfiguration process trusted "ls" from the environment instead of calling/bin/ls directly (as any good security person would tell you is the right way to do it). The characters at the end of filenames confused the reconfiguration scripts, breaking them. And yes, that obvious failure on the clustering scripts was corrected, and that version of the clustering software is antique now anyway, so you needn't worry about whether what I'm talking about will affect you.
This isn't really a production/dev environment difference so much as a cautionary tale about how things in the environment you may not expect can still effect what's going on. Even the difference between "su oracle" vs logging in as oracle for example, could change your environment noticeably. I've had other customers make similar changes with unwanted effects, told them specifically to look at the root.profile etc. to see why two "identical" machines behaved differently, only to have them pooh pooh the whole idea until I had them send me the files in question and was able to prove to them that the cause was indeed in some environmental setup difference.
I would hardly consider a 26x speed up for a 64x processor multiple scaling "well". They can wave their hands and claim it's because part of their compile is single threaded, but until they demonstrat a real world app (or even standard benchmark; a kernel compile doesn't really qualify there either) that scales better than 26x, I'm not very impressed.
The difference is that when a company has a track record of bad behavoir, you can always invest in a different company
Always. Uh huh. Tell that to the people who took a bath in Enron, money that cannot "always" then be moved to another company--the money's gone, start over!
Great way to plan retirement. All it will take is a financial scandal/fuckup on the part of a mutual funds company or three and the results will be the same, so don't give me that crap about "foolish investors putting their money on one company" either.
The system is not broken. There is no crisis. This "crisis" is being manufactured by the right-wing because that's the only way they'll convince moderates to go along with such a risky, reactionary, and thoughoughly unecessary return to 1929.
I'd agree, except Al Gore and more Democrats than I can shake a stick at have been raising the same bogeyman for a looong time. It's been manufactured by politicians, not just the right wing. The right are the ones beating the drum currently, but it's been beaten before by others.
I spent ~$750 18 months ago for one I was sure would work. I might have been able to spend less, but then I would have been risking poor performance and spending more in the long run to upgrade until it did work. That was a pretty conservative approach.
Of course, a TiVo is only a couple hundred bucks, but a "lifetime subscription" is about $300, so I didn't really spend a huge amount more than the equivalent TiVo.
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That's what I get for misinterpreting what article you're talking about. Clearly Dvorak alternates better than Qwerty. Unfortunately, 23 years of touch typing is not going to be overcome by logic, because my fingers do the typing rather than my brain at this point. I'll keep Dvorak in mind when teaching my kids....
It probably depends on what types of dexterity you're good at. If rolling all the fingers on one hand goes faster for you, and gets you reliable results, it'll go faster than alternating. For me, alternating works extremely well and even gives me some tactile feedback (without looking) for when I've made typos.
Care to back up such inferences, Mr. Editor, or are you just another troll making claims without any support? What precisely is there in Sun's portfolio of app software that only runs on Solaris? Not Java. Not iPlanet/SunOne/N1/whatever you want to call it this month. Care to back it up with facts instead of random allegations?
I thought it was known from slashdot, not UT2004....
Cool. That means I can pick one up for a song in about 3 years.
for an experienced user of another operating system. Somehow that got truncated, and it was probably my fault :-)
If you do go that route, I'd recommend David Pogue's "missing manual" books for a quick up to speed as well.
Yes, I know how su works, I was MAKING A POINT. Many DBA's do NOT know how su works, and would be confused by the difference.
The next time the cluster tried to reconfigure, it failed mysteriously. Customer couldn't figure it out, local support people couldn't figure it out, I was one of those people but out of town (I'm convinced given the nature of the problem that I would have figured it out), so they ended up having higher level engineers driven in from 6 hours away to come look at why the cluster reconfiguration was failing.
They found the problem--apparently some part of the scripts that were running the cluster reconfiguration process trusted "ls" from the environment instead of calling /bin/ls directly (as any good security person would tell you is the right way to do it). The characters at the end of filenames confused the reconfiguration scripts, breaking them. And yes, that obvious failure on the clustering scripts was corrected, and that version of the clustering software is antique now anyway, so you needn't worry about whether what I'm talking about will affect you.
This isn't really a production/dev environment difference so much as a cautionary tale about how things in the environment you may not expect can still effect what's going on. Even the difference between "su oracle" vs logging in as oracle for example, could change your environment noticeably. I've had other customers make similar changes with unwanted effects, told them specifically to look at the root .profile etc. to see why two "identical" machines behaved differently, only to have them pooh pooh the whole idea until I had them send me the files in question and was able to prove to them that the cause was indeed in some environmental setup difference.
Which is like an offshore tax haven. Nothing like violating the spirit while staying within the letter of the law.
Not a single one of which was a standard benchmark, which leads me to believe that they were manufactured to be linear. Woo hoo.
I would hardly consider a 26x speed up for a 64x processor multiple scaling "well". They can wave their hands and claim it's because part of their compile is single threaded, but until they demonstrat a real world app (or even standard benchmark; a kernel compile doesn't really qualify there either) that scales better than 26x, I'm not very impressed.
See previous post about starving elders. Your moral position is underwhelming.
Yeah, because all the investment strategies work so great when the CEOs are lying scumbags.
Yeah! Let's let all those stupid old people STARVE (or eat cat food)!
Always. Uh huh. Tell that to the people who took a bath in Enron, money that cannot "always" then be moved to another company--the money's gone, start over!
Great way to plan retirement. All it will take is a financial scandal/fuckup on the part of a mutual funds company or three and the results will be the same, so don't give me that crap about "foolish investors putting their money on one company" either.
Can I get a job posting to slashdot?
I'd agree, except Al Gore and more Democrats than I can shake a stick at have been raising the same bogeyman for a looong time. It's been manufactured by politicians, not just the right wing. The right are the ones beating the drum currently, but it's been beaten before by others.
Must be made +10!! This was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
Of course, a TiVo is only a couple hundred bucks, but a "lifetime subscription" is about $300, so I didn't really spend a huge amount more than the equivalent TiVo.
Nope, they only have the first page of it, which is just a picture.
Somewhat curious. That and the price are the main things curbing my lust for one myself.
Has Apple fixed the 2 sec gap between songs yet?
Oh no. Not a beating. There's a much better use to which we should be putting that irony stick to help Michael out.