Recently in Australia there has been a bit of a mining boom in Western Australia. The mining companies are paying insane salaries just to entice people to go work in the middle of the Australian desert.
Don't believe what you see in the media. Mining jobs are not that well paid. The workers' annual wage seems high, but they generally work 14 x 12 hour days (the equivalent of 4 x 40 hour weeks) every three weeks. They're mostly getting somewhere in the region of AUD35 an hour, which isn't really particularly good money.
The law would be more black and white if laws were better drafted. But they're not. They've often appallingly sloppily drafted - which means they're open to interpretation.
Sort of, maybe. But i don't think it's really ego in the most commonly understood sense of the word.
[......] I've discussed this many times with devs who can't "see" what I'm trying to point out - but who'd build something which they couldn't use / understand / like?
That goes for everything in life. Everybody only ever does anything for themselves. For example, if you help someone, you do it because it helps build the sort of society you want to live in and because it makes you feel good about yourself. On a fundamental level, nobody ever does anything for any reason other than that it benefits themself in some way.
For example I was discussing how to eject a CD on OSX the other day with someone - he couldn't understand the problem with the idea that dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk. For him it seemed so simple, so "normal".
It is normal if you're a Mac user. It's been part of MacOS forever. But, i agree, it's totally fucking stupid!
I feel like i made linux from scratch every time i have a working installation that is 100% working with harddisks, dvd, colors, high res, 3d, sounds, and working keyboard + mouse!
I'm afraid that's what you get when you install Linux from here. Try getting it from here or here instead!
Except what they are doing is not unlawful. Nice try, though, little freetard.
There's no way to say whether it is or it isn't unlawful without a long and expensive court case. But that doesn't mean it's not unlawful - it just means the court case would cost more than paying off the standover man.
Staggered keys are more suitable for touch typing - the P key is at a higher row than the L key, and this is good, because your little finger can be lifted up high easily to reach the P key. On many modern keyboards though, keys are flat - especially on the chiclet style keyboards most laptops have. This means you have to stretch your fingers far in order to reach some keys while adhering to the touch type system.
Of course it doesn't. Have you ever used a manual? The keys were in the same x/y positions as modern keyboards, but the rows were in different z positions. That means it was further from the "A" key to the "Q" key on a manual keyboard than it is on a laptop keyboard - not closer.
No matter much you stretch, your pinkie is not going to reach the Backspace key for example, without some odd contortions of your hand.
It was harder on a manual keyboard. But mostly irrelevant because you couldn't correct errors by just hitting the bs key in the same way you can on a computer.
The obvious easiest system to work with is what we do intuitively after some time on computers - use all your fingers and whichever finger is closest to hit the required key.
It's not even close to being the easiest system. You have to look at the keyboard while you're typing, for a start.
[......] I do NOT hover my fingers over the home row at all, because it's useless: you rarely use any of the characters there [......]
The point of basing your fingers over the home keys is not because you''re more likely to use those keys. It's because you have to base your fingers somewhere fixed - otherwise it's not possible to find the keys you need without looking - and those keys are in the middle of the letter keys, which minimizes the amount of finger movement required to reach any required key.
I find i type best on touch screens using two index fingers. I hold the phone, in landscape mode, with the thumbs and middle fingers of both hands and use both index fingers to type with, dividing the keys up between the hands as in touch typing. I can type quickly and accurately like this without much effort.
Speaking as someone who has been on this earth for many years, that last activity takes longer the older you become...
Bollocks it does! If it takes you longer than a couple of minutes to have a shit then you need to drink more water, get more exercise and eat more vegetables.
All browsers yes. But these days (especially in response to adverts) people find themselves entering the data not into the browser, but a generic search bar in their phones. Many of these will start a google search without a www or "http://" prefix.
Have you ever watch a non-techy person enter a URL into a web browser? In my experience, they all type it into the search bar, not the URL bar. I don't know how they cope with Chrome's lack of a separate search bar!
Yeah, i was a web developer for the last two years of the 2000s (and still do a little bit now and then) and i know what you mean. But it was possible to convince people by then - i'm sure it wasn't possible a few years earlier.
But this is a very good reason why it's such a good indicator of whether the people running the business know what they're doing or not - if they do know what they're doing, they'll take advice from their web dev. If they think they know better than the web dev, then they're clearly too stupid to be trusted with my business!
[......] putting the other thing just plain does violence to the conceptual integrity of the domain name system [......]
I think that's a bit melodramatic! I'm not quite sure which "other thing just plain" you're talking about, but maybe that's implied by the next bit.
and I shudder at the thought that there are no people in the world who would consider one 'unprofessional' for not doing it. There are protocols that aren't HTTP, you know.
Of course i know there are other protocols than HTTP. But if you enter a domain name or URL without the protocol, all web browsers default to HTTP - and they have done for a very long time. What we're talking about is web addresses, not gopher URLs.
Slashdot Mirror
There's flash on Slashdot???
Try flashblock!
Why bother with the "eur" in "eurasia"? Europe's just the arse end of Asia anyway.
Why bother with the "eur" bit of "eurasia"? europe's just the arse end of asia anyway.
Pass the sabot, General Ludd!
Recently in Australia there has been a bit of a mining boom in Western Australia. The mining companies are paying insane salaries just to entice people to go work in the middle of the Australian desert.
Don't believe what you see in the media. Mining jobs are not that well paid. The workers' annual wage seems high, but they generally work 14 x 12 hour days (the equivalent of 4 x 40 hour weeks) every three weeks. They're mostly getting somewhere in the region of AUD35 an hour, which isn't really particularly good money.
The Law is Black and white anyways...
The law would be more black and white if laws were better drafted. But they're not. They've often appallingly sloppily drafted - which means they're open to interpretation.
Red Hat abandoned desktop Linux [......]
Really? What's Fedora then?
Which distribution?
Even more so if it was a laptop!
You must be installing it on some pretty weird laptops then!
Its all about egos [......]
Sort of, maybe. But i don't think it's really ego in the most commonly understood sense of the word.
[......] I've discussed this many times with devs who can't "see" what I'm trying to point out - but who'd build something which they couldn't use / understand / like?
That goes for everything in life. Everybody only ever does anything for themselves. For example, if you help someone, you do it because it helps build the sort of society you want to live in and because it makes you feel good about yourself. On a fundamental level, nobody ever does anything for any reason other than that it benefits themself in some way.
For example I was discussing how to eject a CD on OSX the other day with someone - he couldn't understand the problem with the idea that dragging the CD to the recycle bin isn't something I (A realitively pro computer user) would concider for trying to eject the disk. For him it seemed so simple, so "normal".
It is normal if you're a Mac user. It's been part of MacOS forever. But, i agree, it's totally fucking stupid!
I feel like i made linux from scratch every time i have a working installation that is 100% working with harddisks, dvd, colors, high res, 3d, sounds, and working keyboard + mouse!
I'm afraid that's what you get when you install Linux from here. Try getting it from here or here instead!
Except what they are doing is not unlawful. Nice try, though, little freetard.
There's no way to say whether it is or it isn't unlawful without a long and expensive court case. But that doesn't mean it's not unlawful - it just means the court case would cost more than paying off the standover man.
It's like any other new form of exercise - you have to build your muscles up gradually so they can cope with it. A week isn't long enough to do that.
There would be considerably more point to posting that if you said what difference it's made to your typing speed.
Staggered keys are more suitable for touch typing - the P key is at a higher row than the L key, and this is good, because your little finger can be lifted up high easily to reach the P key. On many modern keyboards though, keys are flat - especially on the chiclet style keyboards most laptops have. This means you have to stretch your fingers far in order to reach some keys while adhering to the touch type system.
Of course it doesn't. Have you ever used a manual? The keys were in the same x/y positions as modern keyboards, but the rows were in different z positions. That means it was further from the "A" key to the "Q" key on a manual keyboard than it is on a laptop keyboard - not closer.
No matter much you stretch, your pinkie is not going to reach the Backspace key for example, without some odd contortions of your hand.
It was harder on a manual keyboard. But mostly irrelevant because you couldn't correct errors by just hitting the bs key in the same way you can on a computer.
The obvious easiest system to work with is what we do intuitively after some time on computers - use all your fingers and whichever finger is closest to hit the required key.
It's not even close to being the easiest system. You have to look at the keyboard while you're typing, for a start.
[......] I do NOT hover my fingers over the home row at all, because it's useless: you rarely use any of the characters there [......]
The point of basing your fingers over the home keys is not because you''re more likely to use those keys. It's because you have to base your fingers somewhere fixed - otherwise it's not possible to find the keys you need without looking - and those keys are in the middle of the letter keys, which minimizes the amount of finger movement required to reach any required key.
I find i type best on touch screens using two index fingers. I hold the phone, in landscape mode, with the thumbs and middle fingers of both hands and use both index fingers to type with, dividing the keys up between the hands as in touch typing. I can type quickly and accurately like this without much effort.
[......] maybe 5 mins taking a crap.
Speaking as someone who has been on this earth for many years, that last activity takes longer the older you become...
Bollocks it does! If it takes you longer than a couple of minutes to have a shit then you need to drink more water, get more exercise and eat more vegetables.
Lawyers. Burning money is a crime in the US.
Not a hope. If you're on your death bed and you've burnt all your money, they can't get anything out of you.
OTOH he could just burn it, wouldn't have to pay any inheritance tax at all [......]
Who do you think ends up with the money when you burn cash?
All browsers yes. But these days (especially in response to adverts) people find themselves entering the data not into the browser, but a generic search bar in their phones. Many of these will start a google search without a www or "http://" prefix.
Have you ever watch a non-techy person enter a URL into a web browser? In my experience, they all type it into the search bar, not the URL bar. I don't know how they cope with Chrome's lack of a separate search bar!
Thank you for that, AC! You expressed it much better than i could, much more vitriolically than i ever would. And you made me laugh.
Yeah, i was a web developer for the last two years of the 2000s (and still do a little bit now and then) and i know what you mean. But it was possible to convince people by then - i'm sure it wasn't possible a few years earlier.
But this is a very good reason why it's such a good indicator of whether the people running the business know what they're doing or not - if they do know what they're doing, they'll take advice from their web dev. If they think they know better than the web dev, then they're clearly too stupid to be trusted with my business!
And it's not just me who's not happy with it - there are at least 38,000 of us!
[......] putting the other thing just plain does violence to the conceptual integrity of the domain name system [......]
I think that's a bit melodramatic! I'm not quite sure which "other thing just plain" you're talking about, but maybe that's implied by the next bit.
and I shudder at the thought that there are no people in the world who would consider one 'unprofessional' for not doing it. There are protocols that aren't HTTP, you know.
Of course i know there are other protocols than HTTP. But if you enter a domain name or URL without the protocol, all web browsers default to HTTP - and they have done for a very long time. What we're talking about is web addresses, not gopher URLs.
Because 2021 will be the year of Syllable on the desktop. Get with it!