I type over 70 WPM using what you term muscle twitches. With a very small amount of training I can use voice recognition software at over 160 WPM and it doesn't involve strain (other than the mental "strain" of enunciating). Aside from that, nothing is ever misspelled (homonyms and other nuances are all you must worry about).
People talk all day (ask my mother-in-law) without losing their voice or straining any muscles, but have you ever typed literally all day? It is unreasonable to expect someone to type as fast as they can dictate with the same amount of training in each.
On Vista saying "open notepad" is much faster than trying to remember where it is buried on the menu. People can pick up a mic with a list of key words in front of them and more easily use the computer than they could with a mouse. Other just touching what they want instead of determining the difference between left-click, right-click, double-click, drag, etc... This is the reason that programming languages that read closer to English are usually more popular, they're simply easier to pick up and understand. Nobody wants to remember syntax.
Maybe you shouldn't talk about things you have no experience in, let alone try to make analogies that bare no relevance to the discussion. Maybe your closed-mindedness is the reason that interfaces haven't changed much, but I'm willing to bet that you will get on your Iphone and call all your friends to discuss how stupid this poster named OMNI-something was on/.... or if not you'll sure send them a text message using T9 instead of just pounding out each letter individually. Tell Fisher Price about that.
Yeah, we learned to invite China next time. Maybe that way they won't hire out their tweeners to hack our site in their downtime from gold farming in WoW
Psst, hey, buddy. You seen this video yet? Some real femmy guy is crying on his webcam and says stuff like "Leave Britney alone!" No, no, this one is free. See me next week, I got this great vid of a 15 year old boy the Americans call "Paris" goin down on a guy.
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I'm so happy we can share. *crying*...and the rockets red glare
That's just like the time Cheney tried to email GDub@whitehouse.com - after the initial shock it was hours of laughter had by all. Except for Cheney because he already laughed one time this millenium.
How can this year have record box office draws, what movie was worth seeing? I didn't see a single movie in the theatre last year, and honestly, I don't know why anyone would go to the theatre anymore. What is a ticket now? $10? $15? Then you gotta deal with the mouth-breathers who think that the actors can hear them, the fucktard who leaves his cellphone on (or, worse yet, TALKS on it during the movie), plus the crap that gets put out on film.
There was no Lord of the Rings, no Harry Potter (I don't think), no Narnia, and even the kids movies looked pretty crappy. Look at the Oscars this year: lowest rated Oscars since they started rating (or near to if not exactly lowest).
I know some people who had nothing to hide. In fact, they were quite accomodating. They're called The French. Are you French? Voulez-vous wiretap ce soir?
exactly how will this help me find and/or download porn? Wake me up when Microsoft buys the guys who invented the worldwide porn telescope, then I'll be impressed.
Someone asked a specific question of a customer service representative. That representative gave a clear and unambiguous answer. Either that answer was incorrect, or a serious mistake was made internally. No, I'll tell you exactly how that conversation went.
Customer: My case is very important to me and I need to get it back
Rep: I'm sorry, sir, but we cannot guarantee that you'll get the same parts back that you send in. It's defective and the repair team will certainly have to replace parts.
Customer: Ok, but the case isn't defective and I need that back. It's very important.
Rep: (thinking 'is it as important as a working 360?') I'm sorry, sir, but I simply cannot guarantee that you'll get the same parts back.
Customer: Can I just send in the defective parts and get working parts?
Rep: No sir, we need the entire machine.
Customer: Can I send it in without a case?
Rep: Is that the whole machine sir?
Customer: Well, it's the whole machine-part of the machine.
Rep: Sir, if you want to use this service and get back a working machine, we need the entire machine. It doesn't matter if you have a defective controller or burnt out hard drive, we need the whole package.
Customer: I don't have some of the packing material that was inside... the cardboard and stuff.
Rep: That is ok sir, just the machine.
Customer: But you just said-
Rep: Want a working machine?
Customer: Yes, that's why-
Rep: Send it in, the entire machine. Everything you have. We will fix it.
Customer: And I can get my case back?
Rep: Yes sir, I will put a note on there for them to send you exactly what you sent them, 3-6 months later.
Customer: But then it won't work, and I'll be without it for 3-6 months.
Rep: (thinking 'and I'll still be on this fucking phone call in 3-6 months too') Then send in the whole machine and we will send you a working on.
Customer: And I'll get my original case back?
Rep: Yes sir, I can personally guarantee that you will get your case back. In fact, we're not going to change anything. There's a little switch in there that's labeled "broken" and "working". I'm sure it just got jostled.
Customer: Can't I just flip the switch?
Rep: There is no switch. sir. I'm just running out of ways to tell you that if you want a working system you need to send in the whole thing, and if you don't want to use the service then I should disconnect and go on to the pool of 383 calls coming into our call center now.
Customer: Can I put a note on it?
Rep: I'm sure you can.
Customer: Will they read it?
Rep: Are you writing it in English?
You get the idea. The end-game was the Rep telling the customer absolutely anything he wanted because he was too dumb to listen.
Maybe if students put as much effort into school and not doing illegal things, this wouldn't even be a debate. But no, you go out there and show whatever it is you think you're showing. All I think you're really showing is how dumb college kids are, and how little they realize how the real world works.
There is no abuse anywhere in (my reply's) parent, TFA, or anywhere else on here that I saw. If you consider it abuse to break a rule and receive punishment (having your door removed), to have your internet restricted as a minor, to have your email read as a minor, and parents setting rules while you live with them then you make me sad and I think life must have been quite a shock for you when you left the womb.
MCP (or whatever his nick was) didn't speak to his father for months and felt nothing but anger towards him for 10-12 years because of a door. That's where the emotion is in my reply. If he knew how lucky he was to have a father, a house, a dog, or how lucky his friend was to have parents, to go to college, for them to give her a computer and cell phone, then he wouldn't have wasted him time plunking out that tripe.
All the kiddies on here who complain about DRM and evil parents who won't let them get on their MySpace need to take a real hard look at their life and think about what's really important. The sad thing is that I'm sure many would say they couldn't live without their iPods or their "friends" on FaceBook, and that is a seriously sad state of affairs... kind of like being angry at your father for a fucking door.
Computers are not a right and neither was your fucking door. Parents are not your friends, they are your parents. Your friend was lucky to have a computer, not unlucky to have "draconian" parents who cared. Did they take away her cell phone too? The author should not to be meddling, and that's exactly what he's doing.
His question is valid but his purpose isn't. Your stories are the inane babbling of a spoiled child who didn't get his way once.
I'll sell you this Playboy seeing as how you are 18, but I am required to warn you that this is the first step on a long and lonely road. Sure, today you'll whack it once or twice, then maybe not again for a few days. But I guarantee you, you'll be back. This is a habit-forming product, my friend, and it won't be long before you'll be whacking it whenever the opportunity arises.
I agree, and seriously, why would the spy satellite even need rocket fuel? It probably didn't launch itself up there, and it's not going to use it for course corrections or re-entry... so why does it need to have this reserve of fuel anyway?
The problem... is that they add absolutely nothing to society Sorry, thought you were talking about people who comment on biased blurbs. Make this quote your signature, it kind of puts things into perspective.
It's really funny to me that there is an article not an inch away from this one that discusses CNN and their use of user-generated articles to use as news, wherein everyone was knocking the user-generated stuff as biased and unreliable.
I think all the crazies get a day pass on Sunday and use their time making inconsistent comments/stories on Slashdot.
You know, that's an interesting point. We should start bringing blankets so that when we do find life on another planet we can give it to them. It worked when we met the Indians.
If you listened to that show he was discussing about how the media is making a big deal that he's not behind McCain and yadda yadda, well he said that the worst thing he could do was to support McCain because then all the liberals and independents would leave McCain because of their aversion to Rush. He said that the best thing he could do for McCain is to openly support Obama. Then this topic comes up and some caller or some tech guy he was talking to said that he should stop saying that he uses Apple and to openly support Microsoft to crush them. I thought that was funny.
Sonofabitch, you mean that the article, that I didn't read because I wouldn't understand, didn't talk about the same stuff in the little blurb up there that had a bunch of stuff that I had to look up and still don't understand any better after having done so? AND there's ads? Let's just shoot down a satellite.
You may be right, but another part of it was the games that were made based on his script. He wanted compensation for them using his script for the game instead of going straight from Tolkien's words. He had to sue EA over that aspect of it since the games were reinacting scenes from the movie.
Best Buy fucking lost this lady's personal machine, and they are not responsible that way for whatever personal data (and illegal porn) she might have had one it. Damnit, they're right. They didn't know she had tax records or whatever on there, so they can't be held liable for that. Not only that, but if they ARE held liable for the information on there, doesn't that mean that the lady should be held liable for anything illegal she had on there?
Why was I so quick to hate on Best Buy? Oh yeah, they suck.
I gotta stop reading/. on Sundays. It seriously would not surprise me if the next topic posted on the next page was "An anonymous user writes in to ask 'Is my cat ugly?'"
When in the blue fuck did Slashdot become "I have some inane gripe where the answer is obvious and I want to try to turn nerds into trolls?" This article, the fuckin "Amazon ripped me off eventhough I have no proof and am out no money or time", "Can I do something with all this spare hard drive space", or the "Here, download this 15 gig bit-torrent of bullshit that someone clicked a radio button on MySpace to hide instead of being smart and just hiding" bullshit... it's nuts.
I understand there are some basic themes here - RIAA sucks, Microsoft sucks, paying for stuff sucks, Bush sucks, Americans suck, Futurama is cool (but I won't buy anything to support it), Apple is imo (but still somehow irresistable), Linus isn't down for the fight anymore, etc... - but if this is a new trend and Slashdot is gonna turn into fuckin Dear Abby then gawd help us.
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I type over 70 WPM using what you term muscle twitches. With a very small amount of training I can use voice recognition software at over 160 WPM and it doesn't involve strain (other than the mental "strain" of enunciating). Aside from that, nothing is ever misspelled (homonyms and other nuances are all you must worry about).
/. ... or if not you'll sure send them a text message using T9 instead of just pounding out each letter individually. Tell Fisher Price about that.
People talk all day (ask my mother-in-law) without losing their voice or straining any muscles, but have you ever typed literally all day? It is unreasonable to expect someone to type as fast as they can dictate with the same amount of training in each.
On Vista saying "open notepad" is much faster than trying to remember where it is buried on the menu. People can pick up a mic with a list of key words in front of them and more easily use the computer than they could with a mouse. Other just touching what they want instead of determining the difference between left-click, right-click, double-click, drag, etc... This is the reason that programming languages that read closer to English are usually more popular, they're simply easier to pick up and understand. Nobody wants to remember syntax.
Maybe you shouldn't talk about things you have no experience in, let alone try to make analogies that bare no relevance to the discussion. Maybe your closed-mindedness is the reason that interfaces haven't changed much, but I'm willing to bet that you will get on your Iphone and call all your friends to discuss how stupid this poster named OMNI-something was on
Yeah, we learned to invite China next time. Maybe that way they won't hire out their tweeners to hack our site in their downtime from gold farming in WoW
And there's lots (and I mean LOTS) of music to listen to. Some would say endless, 23 hour, ear crushing amounts.
Can't you be voted troll for your shift key being broken instead?
Psst, hey, buddy. You seen this video yet? Some real femmy guy is crying on his webcam and says stuff like "Leave Britney alone!" No, no, this one is free. See me next week, I got this great vid of a 15 year old boy the Americans call "Paris" goin down on a guy.
...and the rockets red glare
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I'm so happy we can share. *crying*
That's just like the time Cheney tried to email GDub@whitehouse.com - after the initial shock it was hours of laughter had by all. Except for Cheney because he already laughed one time this millenium.
How can this year have record box office draws, what movie was worth seeing? I didn't see a single movie in the theatre last year, and honestly, I don't know why anyone would go to the theatre anymore. What is a ticket now? $10? $15? Then you gotta deal with the mouth-breathers who think that the actors can hear them, the fucktard who leaves his cellphone on (or, worse yet, TALKS on it during the movie), plus the crap that gets put out on film.
There was no Lord of the Rings, no Harry Potter (I don't think), no Narnia, and even the kids movies looked pretty crappy. Look at the Oscars this year: lowest rated Oscars since they started rating (or near to if not exactly lowest).
Something about this post smells fishy to me.
I know some people who had nothing to hide. In fact, they were quite accomodating. They're called The French. Are you French? Voulez-vous wiretap ce soir?
exactly how will this help me find and/or download porn? Wake me up when Microsoft buys the guys who invented the worldwide porn telescope, then I'll be impressed.
Maybe if students put as much effort into school and not doing illegal things, this wouldn't even be a debate. But no, you go out there and show whatever it is you think you're showing. All I think you're really showing is how dumb college kids are, and how little they realize how the real world works.
There is no abuse anywhere in (my reply's) parent, TFA, or anywhere else on here that I saw. If you consider it abuse to break a rule and receive punishment (having your door removed), to have your internet restricted as a minor, to have your email read as a minor, and parents setting rules while you live with them then you make me sad and I think life must have been quite a shock for you when you left the womb.
MCP (or whatever his nick was) didn't speak to his father for months and felt nothing but anger towards him for 10-12 years because of a door. That's where the emotion is in my reply. If he knew how lucky he was to have a father, a house, a dog, or how lucky his friend was to have parents, to go to college, for them to give her a computer and cell phone, then he wouldn't have wasted him time plunking out that tripe.
All the kiddies on here who complain about DRM and evil parents who won't let them get on their MySpace need to take a real hard look at their life and think about what's really important. The sad thing is that I'm sure many would say they couldn't live without their iPods or their "friends" on FaceBook, and that is a seriously sad state of affairs... kind of like being angry at your father for a fucking door.
Computers are not a right and neither was your fucking door. Parents are not your friends, they are your parents. Your friend was lucky to have a computer, not unlucky to have "draconian" parents who cared. Did they take away her cell phone too? The author should not to be meddling, and that's exactly what he's doing. His question is valid but his purpose isn't. Your stories are the inane babbling of a spoiled child who didn't get his way once.
I'll sell you this Playboy seeing as how you are 18, but I am required to warn you that this is the first step on a long and lonely road. Sure, today you'll whack it once or twice, then maybe not again for a few days. But I guarantee you, you'll be back. This is a habit-forming product, my friend, and it won't be long before you'll be whacking it whenever the opportunity arises.
I agree, and seriously, why would the spy satellite even need rocket fuel? It probably didn't launch itself up there, and it's not going to use it for course corrections or re-entry... so why does it need to have this reserve of fuel anyway?
It's over 9000!!!!111oneone
You know, that's an interesting point. We should start bringing blankets so that when we do find life on another planet we can give it to them. It worked when we met the Indians.
If you listened to that show he was discussing about how the media is making a big deal that he's not behind McCain and yadda yadda, well he said that the worst thing he could do was to support McCain because then all the liberals and independents would leave McCain because of their aversion to Rush. He said that the best thing he could do for McCain is to openly support Obama. Then this topic comes up and some caller or some tech guy he was talking to said that he should stop saying that he uses Apple and to openly support Microsoft to crush them. I thought that was funny.
Sonofabitch, you mean that the article, that I didn't read because I wouldn't understand, didn't talk about the same stuff in the little blurb up there that had a bunch of stuff that I had to look up and still don't understand any better after having done so? AND there's ads? Let's just shoot down a satellite.
You may be right, but another part of it was the games that were made based on his script. He wanted compensation for them using his script for the game instead of going straight from Tolkien's words. He had to sue EA over that aspect of it since the games were reinacting scenes from the movie.
Terrorists are bringing kiddie porn to our borders? Those sonsabitches.
I gotta stop reading /. on Sundays. It seriously would not surprise me if the next topic posted on the next page was "An anonymous user writes in to ask 'Is my cat ugly?'"
[start troll]
When in the blue fuck did Slashdot become "I have some inane gripe where the answer is obvious and I want to try to turn nerds into trolls?" This article, the fuckin "Amazon ripped me off eventhough I have no proof and am out no money or time", "Can I do something with all this spare hard drive space", or the "Here, download this 15 gig bit-torrent of bullshit that someone clicked a radio button on MySpace to hide instead of being smart and just hiding" bullshit... it's nuts.
I understand there are some basic themes here - RIAA sucks, Microsoft sucks, paying for stuff sucks, Bush sucks, Americans suck, Futurama is cool (but I won't buy anything to support it), Apple is imo (but still somehow irresistable), Linus isn't down for the fight anymore, etc... - but if this is a new trend and Slashdot is gonna turn into fuckin Dear Abby then gawd help us.
[end troll]