Actually, based on the movement of your palm and whether all of your fingers touch the keyboard at about the same moment, it doesn't give out spurious keystrokes. So you *can* situate your fingers to touch type with no problem.
Oh, and there are raised dots so that you can find the F and J keys.
BitTorrent is banned at my university (University of Florida). See: http://freeculture.org/wiki/index.php/Icarus for links, including a slashdot article on the matter.
In the mean time, I'm starting a petition at my University to un-ban BitTorrent. Of course Slashdot's now reporting how much bandwidth it can use, so there goes that idea.
And here I was at work last week saying "Holy shit, I put in a blank CD and Nautilus pops up a window instantly titled something like 'Items to burn'. This is how I like it!".
Bah, I just saw Koolio on Wednesday. It exists, and it appears to work (it was not in Benton Hall, which is the only place it's currently programmed to operate). On top of that, its' face is really cute.
I've been the happy owner of a Fingerworks Touchstream LP keyboard for about 6 months now. It's unlike any other keyboard out there. It's both a keyboard and a mouse, and tracks your fingers/palms sort of like a touchpad on steroids.
The result is that there's no force needed to "hit" a key, you just lightly brush the surface and the letter pops up on screen. Want to start mousing? Don't move your wrists out of their happy resting position, just put two fingers together on one of the surfaces and drag them around -- that's your mouse cursor! Three buttons, even.
It's precise and fast. Also totally great are hand gestures -- not just the ones you'll start making at Microsoft Natural keyboards that are clumsy by comparison. Rather, you can rest your four fingers (sans thumb) of your left hand on the surface and move them slightly to the left to get a "home" keypress. To the right yields an "end". Pageup and pagedown are up and down.
There seem to be hundreds of these things, for text-editing, for EMACS, for -- no joke -- programming even (there's actually a programming mode for the keyboard).
I know I sound like I'm selling these, but I'm just a really happy customer. Their customer service is excellent as well, and they offer a money-back guarantee if you don't like one of their products.
I'm sure there are more/.ers who have these things -- am I the only one who loves his Touchstream?
Lack of sleep doesn't do it, nor mass amounts of monitor radiation. He was probably overdosed on some drug. He probably died like Elvis - a pH imbalance getting hightened by his duties in the bathroom.
Besides, if this could happen to just anybody, EverQuest would have far fewer players...
We could just post snipers all over the area, and hope to countersnipe him/her/it/garlic first. It would, however, make playing with toy guns really dangerous...
If we turn off team damage, think we could just use the Redeemer at random and get him?
I'm not a college student yet, by the definition of the phrase. I'm still in high school, though taking classes that are commonly referred to as college level. I'm an International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate. To define, the IB program is an acclaimed university 'preparatory' program that exists in 101 countries for high school-level students (Grades 11-12 in the US). There are several other college prep programs for high school students; the primary difference between, for example, AP classes and IB ones is simply scope. Often the AP classes teach the same things as the IB classes do, but a person can take AP American History and everything else regular level. IB students have every hour of the school day filled with critical thinking, analysis, discussion and writing. If we're interested in... say... becoming a computer scientist, we don't simply take one hard class (CompSci) and ignore the other subjects. We're given what's essentially a classical or renaissance education. All conceivable academic subjects are taught (or at least touched upon), and tied in to alternative cultural ideas.
The obvious effect is that by the time we enter college, an IB student is founded thoroughly in at least two languages, at least two branches of the sciences, the arts, the theory of wisdom and knowledge, classical philosophy, and has a mastery of Calculus-level mathematics.
The important effect, though, is that we are prepared to become members of the international community. This is a significant concept, especially today. People who are capable of doing their job and only their job are legion. What is needed are people who bind world cultures together, people who can influence the course of humanity. People who can think.
This is what a broad education is meant to provide. I must agree with what was said earlier: Universities are not technical schools or job-training academies. They exist to embrace students' minds', pull them out of the box, and, to use a cliché, expand their horizons.
I suppose one simply must ask him/herself: "Do I want to learn an occupation, or do I want an education?" If it's the former, investigate technical programs and technical schools. If it's the latter, look towards the university system.
Maybe the U.S. should learn from Germany (which, as a note, is the foreign country that I'm in my fourth year of studying) and their education system. Those who want to learn to weld metals aren't forced through philosophy and Latin classics. Instead they are identified and moved to schools to learn the jobs they want to perform. Those who want to be photographers learn the arts, physics and mathematics used therein and finish their education apprenticing with a photographer. Those who want to learn the theory of knoweldge are the ones who eventually take the Arbitur and go on to a prestegious Universität. Everybody wins.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, all we must do is implant the small chip into the sharks! A dramatic size and price improvement!
Actually, based on the movement of your palm and whether all of your fingers touch the keyboard at about the same moment, it doesn't give out spurious keystrokes. So you *can* situate your fingers to touch type with no problem.
Oh, and there are raised dots so that you can find the F and J keys.
BitTorrent is banned at my university (University of Florida). See: http://freeculture.org/wiki/index.php/Icarus for links, including a slashdot article on the matter.
But we're not allowed to commit suicide. Make assisted suicide legal and you may well see people helping the voluntary human extinction movement.
Dijjer looks pretty cool, too bad all peer to peer protocols of any sort are banned at my university under pain of being blacklisted...
In the mean time, I'm starting a petition at my University to un-ban BitTorrent. Of course Slashdot's now reporting how much bandwidth it can use, so there goes that idea.
:)
Damn it!
And here I was at work last week saying "Holy shit, I put in a blank CD and Nautilus pops up a window instantly titled something like 'Items to burn'. This is how I like it!".
Works for me.
Bah, I just saw Koolio on Wednesday. It exists, and it appears to work (it was not in Benton Hall, which is the only place it's currently programmed to operate). On top of that, its' face is really cute.
:)
Your vaporware claim is wrong, sorry!
Would user-mode linux be dangerous to boot because of multiple booting OSes trying to grab control of devices at the same time, or some other reason?
Why would you want to boot uml anyway? You boot the master and then the client sessions later, not at the same time...
*confused*
"Sorry about the forced ad-viewing - it only last about 10 seconds, and the article is worth it."
alteran is obviously the owner of the advertisement! It's a consipracy!
Linux is now complete. We have the capability to navigate small, one manned fighters down narrow trenches and run over hordes of people at 200 KPH.
Who needs Grand Theft Auto when you have Manta close-air-support flyers?
ROAD KILL!
Only one problem: I'm using an LCD with a DVI connection.
:)
It looks like every time I've seen a D-A converter fry, but I thought that by using DVI I was avoiding digital->analog conversion.
Anyway... It ain't the CRT!
It's strange to read that, since the Digital-Analog converter on my video card apparently has died this morning when my computer turned on.
:(
On the plus side to this premature failure, Slashdot now looks extremely trippy... Those green bars keep blinking magenta!
The down side is the contrast for text is really bad...
I've been the happy owner of a Fingerworks Touchstream LP keyboard for about 6 months now. It's unlike any other keyboard out there. It's both a keyboard and a mouse, and tracks your fingers/palms sort of like a touchpad on steroids.
/.ers who have these things -- am I the only one who loves his Touchstream?
The result is that there's no force needed to "hit" a key, you just lightly brush the surface and the letter pops up on screen. Want to start mousing? Don't move your wrists out of their happy resting position, just put two fingers together on one of the surfaces and drag them around -- that's your mouse cursor! Three buttons, even.
It's precise and fast. Also totally great are hand gestures -- not just the ones you'll start making at Microsoft Natural keyboards that are clumsy by comparison. Rather, you can rest your four fingers (sans thumb) of your left hand on the surface and move them slightly to the left to get a "home" keypress. To the right yields an "end". Pageup and pagedown are up and down.
There seem to be hundreds of these things, for text-editing, for EMACS, for -- no joke -- programming even (there's actually a programming mode for the keyboard).
I know I sound like I'm selling these, but I'm just a really happy customer. Their customer service is excellent as well, and they offer a money-back guarantee if you don't like one of their products.
I'm sure there are more
Aww. This sounds just like my high school's student council elections.
Oh, fond memories...
I'd *love* to switch from SETI to the cancer research program, but I'm definitely not switching to Windows to do it!
*mumbles something about installing Windows would be spreading cancer*
Using drugs*is* irresponsible behavior (The illegal kind, that is).
Lack of sleep doesn't do it, nor mass amounts of monitor radiation. He was probably overdosed on some drug. He probably died like Elvis - a pH imbalance getting hightened by his duties in the bathroom.
Besides, if this could happen to just anybody, EverQuest would have far fewer players...
We could just post snipers all over the area, and hope to countersnipe him/her/it/garlic first. It would, however, make playing with toy guns really dangerous...
If we turn off team damage, think we could just use the Redeemer at random and get him?
It's performing very well out of the box right now, but IIP is about to have its scalability tested, Slashdot style.
Here's to hoping the whole thing doesn't come tumbling down.
I'm not a college student yet, by the definition of the phrase. I'm still in high school, though taking classes that are commonly referred to as college level. I'm an International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate. To define, the IB program is an acclaimed university 'preparatory' program that exists in 101 countries for high school-level students (Grades 11-12 in the US). There are several other college prep programs for high school students; the primary difference between, for example, AP classes and IB ones is simply scope. Often the AP classes teach the same things as the IB classes do, but a person can take AP American History and everything else regular level. IB students have every hour of the school day filled with critical thinking, analysis, discussion and writing. If we're interested in... say... becoming a computer scientist, we don't simply take one hard class (CompSci) and ignore the other subjects. We're given what's essentially a classical or renaissance education. All conceivable academic subjects are taught (or at least touched upon), and tied in to alternative cultural ideas.
The obvious effect is that by the time we enter college, an IB student is founded thoroughly in at least two languages, at least two branches of the sciences, the arts, the theory of wisdom and knowledge, classical philosophy, and has a mastery of Calculus-level mathematics.
The important effect, though, is that we are prepared to become members of the international community. This is a significant concept, especially today. People who are capable of doing their job and only their job are legion. What is needed are people who bind world cultures together, people who can influence the course of humanity. People who can think.
This is what a broad education is meant to provide. I must agree with what was said earlier: Universities are not technical schools or job-training academies. They exist to embrace students' minds', pull them out of the box, and, to use a cliché, expand their horizons.
I suppose one simply must ask him/herself: "Do I want to learn an occupation, or do I want an education?" If it's the former, investigate technical programs and technical schools. If it's the latter, look towards the university system.
Maybe the U.S. should learn from Germany (which, as a note, is the foreign country that I'm in my fourth year of studying) and their education system. Those who want to learn to weld metals aren't forced through philosophy and Latin classics. Instead they are identified and moved to schools to learn the jobs they want to perform. Those who want to be photographers learn the arts, physics and mathematics used therein and finish their education apprenticing with a photographer. Those who want to learn the theory of knoweldge are the ones who eventually take the Arbitur and go on to a prestegious Universität. Everybody wins.