I like Swype, and use it as my main keyboard on my phone, but it has some major drawbacks. If the word you want to type isn't in its dictionary (a fairly common occurrence for technical terms), it gets to be pretty annoying to use. And god help you if you need to enter a password.
I think you'd have better luck adding a prediction key to the regular keyboard. Maybe cut the space bar in half, with the right half being space and the left half being "guess what word I was typing). Or better yet, do the internet a favor, and move caps lock to an esoteric multikey combo and replace it with the prediction key. There's no reason for it to have such a prominent place anyway.
What are you talking about, "giving [the publisher] an exclusive for free?" They don't want an exclusive to be free, they want to get paid for it!
Without Microsoft's approach: Make exclusive deal with Sony, get paid $X Release on PS, make $Y from sales (Months later) Release on Xbox, make $Z from sales
With Microsoft's approach: Either forfeit $X and release on both consoles simultaneously, or forfeit $Z -- if you weren't planning on taking $Z, then none of Microsoft's policies matter.
What MS is doing is good for customers (though that's not why they're doing it). It sucks when you're forced to wait several extra months to get a game just because the developer was handed a big bag of money by some mega-corp hoping to coerce you into buying their console next time around.
Is it just me, or is there nothing to the posted article?
A summary seems to be, "Over a hundred years ago, people learned to touch type. This is the best method! Or is it? Yes, it is, you should learn it. Oh, but it doesn't work on phone keyboards. The two thumb method is better for that. You should learn that one too. Yeah, it sucks that you need to learn two ways to type, but whatcha gonna do? Go get some training software and learn to touch type!"
Thanks for letting us know that typing is a useful skill, I guess.
Yeah, but remember that even five or ten percent female enrollment still means there's an order of magnitude more guys looking for girls than there are girls to satisfy the demand. Wake me up when the numbers are 50% or higher. Until then, I'm in complete agreement with the GP's advice.
True, but most of those guys are socially-incompetent geeks. From the girls' point of view, as they say, "the odds are good but the goods are odd". If you showed more than once a week and are able to talk to a female without choking on your own tongue, it's not difficult to get a girlfriend in a technical school.
The defendant made legal errors regarding personal jurisdiction, thus losing their opportunity to get the case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction AND their opportunity to argue the merits. The plaintiff made legal errors regarding discovery, thus losing their opportunity to recover damages. The trial judge made legal errors that twice resulted in the verdict being overturned.
In the end, the case was decided without any actual evidence on the merits being admitted.
Justice!
And after all of this, $3 changes hands. Oh, except for the undoubtedly enormous sums paid to the lawyers on all sides.
Parent has it right. EE isn't just about circuits. It also covers embedded controls and systems engineering (feedback loops, etc.). If your goal is a broad understanding of engineering that allows you to mate different technologies, then you can't go wrong with ME+EE. You can do just about anything with that pair. Certain fields (such as a aerospace on the ME side and IC design on the EE side) require you to focus more on depth of knowledge than breadth, but for most careers being well rounded is more important. They'll teach you the specifics on the job.
Compare apples with oranges much? You keep citing sales figures to "prove" that most people prefer to read off tablets over e-ink. But how many people are buying tablets as e-readers?
You may as well say that since more people own stoves than barbecue grills, they must prefer to grill their food on stovetop.
You even then go on to admit that for reading, e-readers are better. So then why even post an argument to the sentence you quoted, "who wants an e-reader without an e-ink display?"
You would be right, if our rulers gave a rat's ass about our health. I don't know what country you live in, but in the good ole US of A, roughly half our government is devoted to torpedoing the wildly popular public options while deregulating the private companies so that they can rape us even more in the future.
We're going back to the Gilded age. If you're not in the top 1%, you are disposable. Work till you can't work no more, then kindly find a hole to die in.
What makes you think that that line is a racial slur? It's an (erroneous) allusion to the well-known story of Jesus driving merchants and money-changers (not lenders) out of the temple. The idea is that taken something that is meant to show deference and using it for your own profit is wrong. Whether its merchants capitalizing off crowds in the temple, or politicians paying lip-service to MLK while fighting against everything he stood for.
Given the rise of sabermetrics, the math department certainly does have a hand in fielding the best baseball team. I doubt there are any successful managers out there who ignore things like OPS and WHIP.
Whelp, an anonymous anarchist has given me an unsubstantiated account of what seems like the most tedious and trivial event in law enforcement history. Guess that proves it... the government is evil!
I have a docking station for my Droid X2, and it just runs on USB, plugged into the same port that the charging and data cables go into. I can charge it with my Kindle's cable if I so choose. I don't see why you think you need a proprietary port for it to work.
Worse than that, the OP's proposed system would make it hell on earth to try to schedule such meetings. Let's see... I want to schedule a meeting with Japan at 3:30 EST. So okay, now that's also 3:30 in Japan. But what the hell does that mean? It gives me no information about whether or not that's a good time for them.
The OP clearly gave this whole system about 30 seconds of thought.
NYC isn't quite as accustomed to hurricanes as NOLA. Imagine how NOLA would handle a noreaster dumping four feet of snow on you, and you'll get a better feel for the severity.
If adrenaline causes rapid aging enough that presidents seem to age ten years for every four in office, then how does one explain professional athletes who compete (or at least practice) almost every day for 10-20 years and come out of it looking, if anything, young for their age?
I own and use a gaming laptop. I travel for business on a regular basis, and spend about 20 weeks a year living in various hotels. Being able to play a few rounds of Starcraft or TF2 with my friends in the evening is well worth the $1400/3 yrs I end up spending on hardware.
It's a niche market, to be sure, but I'm glad it's being served. (Although this particular laptop is well outside my price range.)
Oftentimes, the energy we "steal" from someplace else would have gone to waste anyway. Perhaps the energy here is normally dissipated as heat? If so, reclaiming it won't make you any more tired, and may even make you more comfortable.
Lowering prices will work for a while, but in the end, the current levels of growth are unsustainable. As with microwave ovens, today's miracle tech is tomorrow's commodity item, on sale for $50 at Walmart.
By then, Apple will have made a fortune in tablets. The next runners up, most likely Android solutions, will make a bunch of money as well. But after that, tablets will become another commodity, with razor thin profit margins. Meanwhile, the Apples and Googles of the world will have moved on to The Next Big Thing.
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I like Swype, and use it as my main keyboard on my phone, but it has some major drawbacks. If the word you want to type isn't in its dictionary (a fairly common occurrence for technical terms), it gets to be pretty annoying to use. And god help you if you need to enter a password.
I think you'd have better luck adding a prediction key to the regular keyboard. Maybe cut the space bar in half, with the right half being space and the left half being "guess what word I was typing). Or better yet, do the internet a favor, and move caps lock to an esoteric multikey combo and replace it with the prediction key. There's no reason for it to have such a prominent place anyway.
Clothing is different because you don't need to pay $300 up front before you can shop at K-mart.
What are you talking about, "giving [the publisher] an exclusive for free?" They don't want an exclusive to be free, they want to get paid for it!
Without Microsoft's approach:
Make exclusive deal with Sony, get paid $X
Release on PS, make $Y from sales
(Months later) Release on Xbox, make $Z from sales
With Microsoft's approach:
Either forfeit $X and release on both consoles simultaneously, or forfeit $Z -- if you weren't planning on taking $Z, then none of Microsoft's policies matter.
What MS is doing is good for customers (though that's not why they're doing it). It sucks when you're forced to wait several extra months to get a game just because the developer was handed a big bag of money by some mega-corp hoping to coerce you into buying their console next time around.
Is it just me, or is there nothing to the posted article?
A summary seems to be, "Over a hundred years ago, people learned to touch type. This is the best method! Or is it? Yes, it is, you should learn it. Oh, but it doesn't work on phone keyboards. The two thumb method is better for that. You should learn that one too. Yeah, it sucks that you need to learn two ways to type, but whatcha gonna do? Go get some training software and learn to touch type!"
Thanks for letting us know that typing is a useful skill, I guess.
Yeah, but remember that even five or ten percent female enrollment still means there's an order of magnitude more guys looking for girls than there are girls to satisfy the demand. Wake me up when the numbers are 50% or higher. Until then, I'm in complete agreement with the GP's advice.
True, but most of those guys are socially-incompetent geeks. From the girls' point of view, as they say, "the odds are good but the goods are odd". If you showed more than once a week and are able to talk to a female without choking on your own tongue, it's not difficult to get a girlfriend in a technical school.
The defendant made legal errors regarding personal jurisdiction, thus losing their opportunity to get the case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction AND their opportunity to argue the merits.
The plaintiff made legal errors regarding discovery, thus losing their opportunity to recover damages.
The trial judge made legal errors that twice resulted in the verdict being overturned.
In the end, the case was decided without any actual evidence on the merits being admitted.
Justice!
And after all of this, $3 changes hands. Oh, except for the undoubtedly enormous sums paid to the lawyers on all sides.
Working as intended.
Parent has it right. EE isn't just about circuits. It also covers embedded controls and systems engineering (feedback loops, etc.). If your goal is a broad understanding of engineering that allows you to mate different technologies, then you can't go wrong with ME+EE. You can do just about anything with that pair. Certain fields (such as a aerospace on the ME side and IC design on the EE side) require you to focus more on depth of knowledge than breadth, but for most careers being well rounded is more important. They'll teach you the specifics on the job.
Compare apples with oranges much? You keep citing sales figures to "prove" that most people prefer to read off tablets over e-ink. But how many people are buying tablets as e-readers?
You may as well say that since more people own stoves than barbecue grills, they must prefer to grill their food on stovetop.
You even then go on to admit that for reading, e-readers are better. So then why even post an argument to the sentence you quoted, "who wants an e-reader without an e-ink display?"
You would be right, if our rulers gave a rat's ass about our health. I don't know what country you live in, but in the good ole US of A, roughly half our government is devoted to torpedoing the wildly popular public options while deregulating the private companies so that they can rape us even more in the future.
We're going back to the Gilded age. If you're not in the top 1%, you are disposable. Work till you can't work no more, then kindly find a hole to die in.
An AC made the original assertion, "Doing a dull job voluntarily for a salary you agree to is not the same as slavery or abuse."
Blair1q countered by pointing out that the AC has no evidence that the workers are doing the job voluntarily or that they agree with their wages.
You can't then counter that by saying, "but they might!"
Burden of proof lies with those who make the initial argument, not with those you happen to disagree with.
What makes you think that that line is a racial slur? It's an (erroneous) allusion to the well-known story of Jesus driving merchants and money-changers (not lenders) out of the temple. The idea is that taken something that is meant to show deference and using it for your own profit is wrong. Whether its merchants capitalizing off crowds in the temple, or politicians paying lip-service to MLK while fighting against everything he stood for.
Given the rise of sabermetrics, the math department certainly does have a hand in fielding the best baseball team. I doubt there are any successful managers out there who ignore things like OPS and WHIP.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching 10,000 cop procedurals
There isn't.
A testament to how much ass the human brain kicks.
Whelp, an anonymous anarchist has given me an unsubstantiated account of what seems like the most tedious and trivial event in law enforcement history. Guess that proves it... the government is evil!
I have a docking station for my Droid X2, and it just runs on USB, plugged into the same port that the charging and data cables go into. I can charge it with my Kindle's cable if I so choose. I don't see why you think you need a proprietary port for it to work.
Worse than that, the OP's proposed system would make it hell on earth to try to schedule such meetings. Let's see... I want to schedule a meeting with Japan at 3:30 EST. So okay, now that's also 3:30 in Japan. But what the hell does that mean? It gives me no information about whether or not that's a good time for them.
The OP clearly gave this whole system about 30 seconds of thought.
With the wireless turned off, my 2nd gen Kindle lasts about a month between charges. That's with me reading about 90 minutes a day.
It's the only device I own that I don't need to pack a charging cable for.
c) a much better win/loss record than political leaders
Have you seen the Astros?
NYC isn't quite as accustomed to hurricanes as NOLA. Imagine how NOLA would handle a noreaster dumping four feet of snow on you, and you'll get a better feel for the severity.
If adrenaline causes rapid aging enough that presidents seem to age ten years for every four in office, then how does one explain professional athletes who compete (or at least practice) almost every day for 10-20 years and come out of it looking, if anything, young for their age?
Whoosh!
I own and use a gaming laptop. I travel for business on a regular basis, and spend about 20 weeks a year living in various hotels. Being able to play a few rounds of Starcraft or TF2 with my friends in the evening is well worth the $1400/3 yrs I end up spending on hardware.
It's a niche market, to be sure, but I'm glad it's being served. (Although this particular laptop is well outside my price range.)
Oftentimes, the energy we "steal" from someplace else would have gone to waste anyway. Perhaps the energy here is normally dissipated as heat? If so, reclaiming it won't make you any more tired, and may even make you more comfortable.
Lowering prices will work for a while, but in the end, the current levels of growth are unsustainable. As with microwave ovens, today's miracle tech is tomorrow's commodity item, on sale for $50 at Walmart.
By then, Apple will have made a fortune in tablets. The next runners up, most likely Android solutions, will make a bunch of money as well. But after that, tablets will become another commodity, with razor thin profit margins. Meanwhile, the Apples and Googles of the world will have moved on to The Next Big Thing.