I concur. I've used a Kinesis Ergo keyboard for many years. With a normal keyboard I used to find that I'd get pains in my little finger, especially on the right hand. Shortly after starting to use the Kinesis, those pains vanished.
The main keys that are normally pressed by the little finger (control, alt, backspace, enter, home, end, windows) are switched to the middle of the keyboard and used by the thumbs. Takes a little getting used to, but before long you'll be using those keys without thinking. Shift is still in the usual spot for the little finger, however mine also came with a foot pedal that could be used for shift (or anything else, as it was also programmable). (I never used the foot pedal)
Have a motorway/freeway without a speed limit (like the German Autobahns) can make sense. But having a road with no speed limit through a housing estate where lots of kids live would be a recipe for disaster. People already drive too fast on such roads, and debatably the speed limit on these roads is too high (50km/h here, which is ~31mph).
So, yes, given a good quality straight wide road with wide lanes, a speed limit shouldn't be required. Other roads should have a speed limit appropriate to the road, the width, surface, location, etc.
100mph =~ 160.934km/h (by definition) 95mph =~ 152.9 90mph =~ 144.8km/h 85mph = ~136.8km/h (motorways in Italy, among other countries, have speed limits of 130km/h) 80mph =~ 128.7km/h 75mph =~ 128.7km/h 74.5mph =~ 120km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in Ireland) 70mph =~ 112.65 km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in the UK)
Agreed. Most lecturers make their notes available, so print out a copy and takes not on this. Pencil/pen on paper is still the best - easier to highlight points, scribble in the margins, etc. Technology is good, but not as good as the old-school methods. (Plus your pencil and paper won't run out of battery power)
I did a Masters last year and i wouldn't have been able to take as many notes on a keyboard or tablet. Plus a pencil is more accurate than a stylus, and much higher resolution than even a Retina display (due to it's pretty analogue nature)
Google don't sell your data to the advertisers. Of the advertisers we want to target a group, google's algorithms will decide, based on your data, if you are part of that group. No human looks at the data, just the cloud computers.
The sheer number of people using Google products ensure individual privacy, as there is just far too much days there to talk through.
When you first login to the Android phone, you have the option to turn off sync for any services you don't want to sync with the cloud. You might leave on mail, but disable contacts, calender and gallery. This way, none of that data will be sent to Google, our pulled down from Google.
Also, remember that a LOT of people use Google - 200m Android , 550k new daily - so unless there is a very specific need for Google to look at your data, they won't. You can assume that to a fairly high degree your secrets will be safe.
It's amazing that, when I visit the US, I feel less free than when I'm at home, or in just about any other country. Except, perhaps, the UK.
Especially in airports.
No, I don't believe the 'land of the free' is actually free any more. I think that a lot of people delude themselves, but have actually given up a lot of their freedoms in the name of better security. There is always a fine balance between freedom and security, and I feel the US is leaning, these days, more towards security than freedom.
Case in point - TSA. Freedom means that you have a choice. With TSA, the choice is "we feel you up or put your in our under-your-clothes scanner, or you don't fly, even if you are a 5 year old".
I find it increasingly frustrating that many applications default to US English, despite the locale of my machine or IP address I'm coming from.
And thus find it increasingly frustrating when it tells me words ending in -our are spelled wrong and wants to correct them, or words ending in -ise.
So what will this bot do? Would I expect to see, over and over again, that it's submitting what I would consider incorrect submissions because, like so many things, because it knows only about American English (and to hell with the rest of the English speaking world)?
Given 64/100 for Facebook, and 77/100 for Wikipedia, how, exactly, do you define 'hate' and 'like'?
Facebook gets a lower score, but how does this equate to 'hate'?
Certainly, Facebook is liked a lot less than wikipedia. I don't like facebook (I closed my account there a long long time ago), but I don't 'hate' it. (I also don't trust it, but that's another issue entirely)
In 'attack mode', it's following a set of pre-determined attack moved. Not even randomly determined. Boring.
But in 'defence mode', it's impressive, tracking the opponents sword and moving to block it. Very nice. Would be cool if it could move faster... but that's just a factor of time - next year's version will be twice as fast, and the year after twice as fast again...
Al contacted Lady Gaga through her agents, was asked to send a copy of the song for approval (so he want ahead and produced/recorded it), and was then denied.
He ranted about it, letting the whole Twitterverse know what happened.
Then Lady Gaga herself saw the post, and knew nothing about the song. While Al sent the stuff to the agent, nothing was passed onto Lady Gaga herself.
She, apparently, loved the song and gave Al her blessing.
Feckin' agents.
Yeah, he could have released it anyway, but he has never released a parody song without the consent of the original artist. He feels that it's only right to get their consent. Nothing legal about it - it's just his way. As some else posted, he's just a nice guy!
I wonder if the RIAA would allow you to estimate just how much pirated music you own, and send them a cheque (check, for you US guys) for a nomimal amount per track, thus legitimising all of your music.
Kinda like the tax system, I suppose - you send them what you owe on a yearly basis. Could the RIAA operation like that - download as much as you like, and then send them a cheque at the end of the year for the amount you owe?
Forgot to mention that one of the campus societies (RedBrick, which is the computing society) does Linux admin training using the computers in the computing building. The computers on the rest of the campus are Windows only, but the WiFi will accept anything and allow it to work.
I'm using a college computing as I type this. This PC, as do all the PCs in the building, dual boots on Windows XP and Suse Linux. There's a dedicated administrator for the Linux part, and there are Linux servers too. Some of our subjects (specifically those relating to secure programming [buffer overflows] and network programming) were all thought on Linux. All relevant printer drivers are setup to work under Linux just fine.
Some of the lectures use Linux (Suse, Ubuntu, others), NetBSD, and Mac OSX on their own laptops, and these are all used on the college network.
I bring my own laptop in and I have no problem accessing the WiFi networks under either Windows7 or Linux. I can't access the servers directly - need to use SSH to access them. Nor can I print (I think - to be honest, I haven't tried printing from my laptop, but I would guess I can't as I need to be logged into the network so the printers can debit my printing account for each page).
So, yeah, no problems here. They expect us computing students (especially us older students) to come in with anything to use, so they allow everything. Even my Android phone has no problem connecting to the network, and since I started last September they changed the policy to allow the android phones to be able to connect to mail.google.com without going through a proxy - actually, I think they removed the requirement to using a proxy for anything, as I can access any website from android.
On 2011-06-02 Google Inc. voted No with the following comment: While Google supports the technical content of this JSR, we are voting no because of its licensing terms. As per the JCP resolutions of 9/25/2007 and 4/7/2009, "TCK licenses must not be used to discriminate against or restrict compatible implementations of Java specifications by including field-of-use restrictions on the tested implementations. Licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA, and violate the expectations of the Java community that JCP specs can be openly implemented."
The proposed license clearly violates this requirement (see Exhibit A, Section II). Oracle was duly reminded of this when JSR-336 was first proposed, but has done nothing to address the issue. It would be wrong to condone the inclusion of field-of-use restrictions in a TCK license, as this clearly violates the JSPA, by Oracle's own admission. Google does not want to slow the progress of this release, but we do believe it is critical that this issued be addressed, in order to comply with the JSPA and to preserve the openness of the Java platform.
Just like in an airplane, I think a black box device is a great idea. Far to many accidents occur with no witnesses that this will give an opportunity to work out what went wrong (why were there no skids, how fast were they going, where the bulbs in the headlights working).
For people who are safe drivers, again there is no problem. Yes, we all drive a bit over the speed limit all the time - part of the whole 'keeping your eyes on the road' thing we are expected to do means we can't drive permanently looking at the speedometer to ensure we don't just sneak over the limit. But many accidents are caused by drivers driving excessively over the limit, and if I'm involved in an accident with someone like that, I like the idea that I can point to my black box data and say 'see, I was 2km/h over the limit, whereas they were 45km/h over the limit'. It'll protect me and put the blame on those who were actually responsible.
Which means that they have to be tamper-proof or the just can't be admissible.
So, so long as they are used only in the purpose of an accident and proving fault, I have no problem with them.
In the case of a Big Brother type situation, there I _do_ have a problem.
But I'm try to remain optimistic that the Big Brother element won't be present.
Oh, also, I want to be able to read the data myself at any time! It would be a great way to learn about your own driving habits, what causes fuel use to go up, am I subconsciously sitting at a red light with my foot depressing the throttle, etc. With GPS, I can track everywhere I've been (but this does tend to imply Big Brother stuff, so no GPS please).
Store everything on the box, but only store a certain amount. If it's to be use for crash analysis, how much data is needed? An hour? A day? A week? more data allows an investigator to analyse driving patterns and behaviour ("this guy always speeds", or "this guy has no habit of speeding - did his foot slip?")
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I concur. I've used a Kinesis Ergo keyboard for many years. With a normal keyboard I used to find that I'd get pains in my little finger, especially on the right hand. Shortly after starting to use the Kinesis, those pains vanished.
The main keys that are normally pressed by the little finger (control, alt, backspace, enter, home, end, windows) are switched to the middle of the keyboard and used by the thumbs. Takes a little getting used to, but before long you'll be using those keys without thinking.
Shift is still in the usual spot for the little finger, however mine also came with a foot pedal that could be used for shift (or anything else, as it was also programmable). (I never used the foot pedal)
The only caveat is that they are expensive.
Are they...em...footprints?!
It depends on the road and the location.
Have a motorway/freeway without a speed limit (like the German Autobahns) can make sense. But having a road with no speed limit through a housing estate where lots of kids live would be a recipe for disaster. People already drive too fast on such roads, and debatably the speed limit on these roads is too high (50km/h here, which is ~31mph).
Again, though, some roads here have stupid speed limits: http://www.aanewsletter.ie/edition/9/img/IMG_1325_10p.jpg
So, yes, given a good quality straight wide road with wide lanes, a speed limit shouldn't be required. Other roads should have a speed limit appropriate to the road, the width, surface, location, etc.
75mph =~ 120.7km/h
*typo above
It's a 41mile stretch, so it may only be tolled at 41 mile intervals...
For those of us who don't know mph, here's some conversions to km/h:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+85+mph+in+kph (etc)
100mph =~ 160.934km/h (by definition)
95mph =~ 152.9
90mph =~ 144.8km/h
85mph = ~136.8km/h (motorways in Italy, among other countries, have speed limits of 130km/h)
80mph =~ 128.7km/h
75mph =~ 128.7km/h
74.5mph =~ 120km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in Ireland)
70mph =~ 112.65 km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in the UK)
Agreed. Most lecturers make their notes available, so print out a copy and takes not on this. Pencil/pen on paper is still the best - easier to highlight points, scribble in the margins, etc. Technology is good, but not as good as the old-school methods. (Plus your pencil and paper won't run out of battery power)
I did a Masters last year and i wouldn't have been able to take as many notes on a keyboard or tablet. Plus a pencil is more accurate than a stylus, and much higher resolution than even a Retina display (due to it's pretty analogue nature)
Good luck with the studies.
Wasn't the declaration signed on the 3rd?
It was first read to the people on the 4th, and thus celebrations happen on that day, but the actual signing was the 3rd...
Google don't sell your data to the advertisers. Of the advertisers we want to target a group, google's algorithms will decide, based on your data, if you are part of that group. No human looks at the data, just the cloud computers.
The sheer number of people using Google products ensure individual privacy, as there is just far too much days there to talk through.
When you first login to the Android phone, you have the option to turn off sync for any services you don't want to sync with the cloud. You might leave on mail, but disable contacts, calender and gallery. This way, none of that data will be sent to Google, our pulled down from Google.
Also, remember that a LOT of people use Google - 200m Android , 550k new daily - so unless there is a very specific need for Google to look at your data, they won't. You can assume that to a fairly high degree your secrets will be safe.
It's amazing that, when I visit the US, I feel less free than when I'm at home, or in just about any other country.
Except, perhaps, the UK.
Especially in airports.
No, I don't believe the 'land of the free' is actually free any more. I think that a lot of people delude themselves, but have actually given up a lot of their freedoms in the name of better security. There is always a fine balance between freedom and security, and I feel the US is leaning, these days, more towards security than freedom.
Case in point - TSA.
Freedom means that you have a choice. With TSA, the choice is "we feel you up or put your in our under-your-clothes scanner, or you don't fly, even if you are a 5 year old".
Sounds to me like there's going to be a deluge of back-of-the-taxi pr0n hitting your favourite site come 2015...
$ sudo -i
I find it increasingly frustrating that many applications default to US English, despite the locale of my machine or IP address I'm coming from.
And thus find it increasingly frustrating when it tells me words ending in -our are spelled wrong and wants to correct them, or words ending in -ise.
So what will this bot do? Would I expect to see, over and over again, that it's submitting what I would consider incorrect submissions because, like so many things, because it knows only about American English (and to hell with the rest of the English speaking world)?
Created cinematography. Cinema quality, no doubt.
I want to see the full feature length movie of this now...
'Food production creates carbon emissions.'
luckily photosysthesis eats up some of that carbon...
The world cannot be completely 0 emissions or all the plants would die off once the CO2 is all gone.
(But yeah, we still need to reduce the amount of CO2 we pump out)
How something if phrased is very important.
Given 64/100 for Facebook, and 77/100 for Wikipedia, how, exactly, do you define 'hate' and 'like'?
Facebook gets a lower score, but how does this equate to 'hate'?
Certainly, Facebook is liked a lot less than wikipedia. I don't like facebook (I closed my account there a long long time ago), but I don't 'hate' it.
(I also don't trust it, but that's another issue entirely)
In 'attack mode', it's following a set of pre-determined attack moved. Not even randomly determined. Boring.
But in 'defence mode', it's impressive, tracking the opponents sword and moving to block it. Very nice. Would be cool if it could move faster... but that's just a factor of time - next year's version will be twice as fast, and the year after twice as fast again...
LOL. But true! ;-)
Al contacted Lady Gaga through her agents, was asked to send a copy of the song for approval (so he want ahead and produced/recorded it), and was then denied.
He ranted about it, letting the whole Twitterverse know what happened.
Then Lady Gaga herself saw the post, and knew nothing about the song. While Al sent the stuff to the agent, nothing was passed onto Lady Gaga herself.
She, apparently, loved the song and gave Al her blessing.
Feckin' agents.
Yeah, he could have released it anyway, but he has never released a parody song without the consent of the original artist. He feels that it's only right to get their consent. Nothing legal about it - it's just his way. As some else posted, he's just a nice guy!
I wonder if the RIAA would allow you to estimate just how much pirated music you own, and send them a cheque (check, for you US guys) for a nomimal amount per track, thus legitimising all of your music.
Kinda like the tax system, I suppose - you send them what you owe on a yearly basis. Could the RIAA operation like that - download as much as you like, and then send them a cheque at the end of the year for the amount you owe?
Forgot to mention that one of the campus societies (RedBrick, which is the computing society) does Linux admin training using the computers in the computing building. The computers on the rest of the campus are Windows only, but the WiFi will accept anything and allow it to work.
I'm using a college computing as I type this. This PC, as do all the PCs in the building, dual boots on Windows XP and Suse Linux. There's a dedicated administrator for the Linux part, and there are Linux servers too. Some of our subjects (specifically those relating to secure programming [buffer overflows] and network programming) were all thought on Linux. All relevant printer drivers are setup to work under Linux just fine.
Some of the lectures use Linux (Suse, Ubuntu, others), NetBSD, and Mac OSX on their own laptops, and these are all used on the college network.
I bring my own laptop in and I have no problem accessing the WiFi networks under either Windows7 or Linux. I can't access the servers directly - need to use SSH to access them. Nor can I print (I think - to be honest, I haven't tried printing from my laptop, but I would guess I can't as I need to be logged into the network so the printers can debit my printing account for each page).
So, yeah, no problems here. They expect us computing students (especially us older students) to come in with anything to use, so they allow everything. Even my Android phone has no problem connecting to the network, and since I started last September they changed the policy to allow the android phones to be able to connect to mail.google.com without going through a proxy - actually, I think they removed the requirement to using a proxy for anything, as I can access any website from android.
Kudos to them!
On 2011-06-02 Google Inc. voted No with the following comment:
While Google supports the technical content of this JSR, we are voting no because of its licensing terms. As per the JCP resolutions of 9/25/2007 and 4/7/2009, "TCK licenses must not be used to discriminate against or restrict compatible implementations of Java specifications by including field-of-use restrictions on the tested implementations. Licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA, and violate the expectations of the Java community that JCP specs can be openly implemented."
The proposed license clearly violates this requirement (see Exhibit A, Section II). Oracle was duly reminded of this when JSR-336 was first proposed, but has done nothing to address the issue. It would be wrong to condone the inclusion of field-of-use restrictions in a TCK license, as this clearly violates the JSPA, by Oracle's own admission. Google does not want to slow the progress of this release, but we do believe it is critical that this issued be addressed, in order to comply with the JSPA and to preserve the openness of the Java platform.
Just like in an airplane, I think a black box device is a great idea. Far to many accidents occur with no witnesses that this will give an opportunity to work out what went wrong (why were there no skids, how fast were they going, where the bulbs in the headlights working).
For people who are safe drivers, again there is no problem. Yes, we all drive a bit over the speed limit all the time - part of the whole 'keeping your eyes on the road' thing we are expected to do means we can't drive permanently looking at the speedometer to ensure we don't just sneak over the limit. But many accidents are caused by drivers driving excessively over the limit, and if I'm involved in an accident with someone like that, I like the idea that I can point to my black box data and say 'see, I was 2km/h over the limit, whereas they were 45km/h over the limit'. It'll protect me and put the blame on those who were actually responsible.
Which means that they have to be tamper-proof or the just can't be admissible.
So, so long as they are used only in the purpose of an accident and proving fault, I have no problem with them.
In the case of a Big Brother type situation, there I _do_ have a problem.
But I'm try to remain optimistic that the Big Brother element won't be present.
Oh, also, I want to be able to read the data myself at any time! It would be a great way to learn about your own driving habits, what causes fuel use to go up, am I subconsciously sitting at a red light with my foot depressing the throttle, etc. With GPS, I can track everywhere I've been (but this does tend to imply Big Brother stuff, so no GPS please).
Store everything on the box, but only store a certain amount. If it's to be use for crash analysis, how much data is needed? An hour? A day? A week? more data allows an investigator to analyse driving patterns and behaviour ("this guy always speeds", or "this guy has no habit of speeding - did his foot slip?")