No, it's not just you. The last time I went keyboard shopping I was annoyed that I could no longer buy a keyboard through the common retail outlets that didn't have all sorts of silly keys all over it.
This keyboard seems aimed at the 1337 crowd, not the geek crowd. To attract geeks I'd think what they'd want to do is reintroduce the Model M.
They can put a Tux sticker on one of the keys if it makes them feel better for some reason.
Here's another hint: not every Java Developer looks at the development world the same.
Of course not. Nonetheless there tend to be certain commonalities off viewpoint. You don't find many people advocating Java who dislike object oriented programing, for instance.
I've never met any of the Java developers that slashdot likes to use as the stereotype, for example.
Oddly enough, about the only place I've met them is on Slashdot, and my neighbor.
It was orginally named Doll House because that actually was the genesis of the game. It wasn't a game at all, but an architechtural/interior design program with the advancement that you could populate it with people and pets so you could see a more natural rendition of your design rather than just a static image.
After working it up they realized they had something that could be sold for entertainment.
Frankly, I have no gender aversion to dolls or doll houses. They really are valuable tools for design and I like designing. Being able to animate them is a major plus. Call them "models" if you get all weirded out by names.
They're also fun to play with. Sue me.
But I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the game.
My mother used to work in an art supply store. The owners would only order two of one certain pen per month. My mother would sell them with a couple of hours after they arrived and then turn several people a day away for the rest of the month.
When she went to the owners to ask them to order more they refused. You see, they checked their records and found that they only sold two per month.
These new devices are developed more so to improve the TV watcher's experience; there wasn't a need for smart devices in the first Olympics, there is no need now.
You've never done scoring for a race, have you? Some of these systems are an absolute blessing even for local club events. AMB transponder systems are such old news they're affordable by individuals now and you can make your own system with Radio Shack bits for even less.
Actually, being able to recover your data after the FBI walks off with all of your hard drives is a perfectly legitimate reason. It could even be critical.
Bear in mind that the FBI often confiscates things from people who are not party to the crimes being investigated. It's called "evidence." Sometimes evidence is in the hands of third parties.
The FBI also often confiscates things without ever actually filing a charge. You may or may not ever get your drives back, but if you do it's likely to take a few years.
If you are charged with a crime it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to realize that having copies could be a critical element in preparing your defense.
Back up early. Back up often. Back up not only off site, but off the radar.
Sittin' in the basement, on a summer's day Chattin' with my net mates, passin' time away Sittin' in the darkness, scratchin' at my fleas AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
Please, please, please, please, give me Goobber please AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
I think this song has lasted, almost long enough I have to post on/. (k5's just too tough) I haven't got a real life, so I'm beggin' on my kness AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
Please, please, please, please, give me Goobber please AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
Actually, the issue isn't that he was writting in the 50's, but that he was writting in the mythic style of the Sagas. In the modern mind there is only one world, the human world. In the mythical mind the world is many Worlds, each distinct from the other. the World of the Gods, The World of the Elves, et al, and The World of Men.
To refer to "humans" in LOTR would have been an anachronism and "man" did not even come to mean specifically the male of the species until the Middle English period, long after the mythic times from which LOTR derives. "Men" is the correct generic term. J.R.R. knew his archaic language.
Yes and no. At the time it was liberal. Now it is conservative.
Conservative is a relative term. Liberal is an absolute term. They are not in the same class, let alone opposites and in a liberal culture all liberals are, by definition, conservatives.
What you think of as "conservatives" would be radicals.
Do not be confused by the doublespeak applied by those with political agendas to terms which have well founded meanings.
Strong central government over a disarmed populace is autocracy, about as far away from liberalism as you can get. To see a historical example of how this works read about Ieyasu's Shogunate, a showpiece of autocratic, nonliberal government.
How sad it is, that I can read these statements by you and see no contradiction whatsoever, while simultaneously knowing that a vast number of your fellow citizens would see a great disconnect.
Somehow, somewhere along the line, people have forgotten that the private ownership of arms is a liberal philosophy.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord which sparked the revolution itself was fought to protect arms from confiscation.
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Well, as the boggies say, "Hot puppies!"
KFG
No, it's not just you. The last time I went keyboard shopping I was annoyed that I could no longer buy a keyboard through the common retail outlets that didn't have all sorts of silly keys all over it.
This keyboard seems aimed at the 1337 crowd, not the geek crowd. To attract geeks I'd think what they'd want to do is reintroduce the Model M.
They can put a Tux sticker on one of the keys if it makes them feel better for some reason.
KFG
Q.E.D.
KFG
Here's another hint: not every Java Developer looks at the development world the same.
Of course not. Nonetheless there tend to be certain commonalities off viewpoint. You don't find many people advocating Java who dislike object oriented programing, for instance.
I've never met any of the Java developers that slashdot likes to use as the stereotype, for example.
Oddly enough, about the only place I've met them is on Slashdot, and my neighbor.
KFG
I think by "business enviroment" he means "prairie dog colony."
In that respect he's probably right, Paul would likely not fit in as a code monkey. Like he'd consider that a bad thing.
KFG
An inability to fit in with the majority of society gives way to a need to fit in with SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE
Oddly enough, that's also exactly how the majority of society becomes the majority of society.
KFG
And the Java developer's world view is over focused.
Both are flaws of vision.
KFG
As the other sort of geeks say, "A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place."
KFG
It was orginally named Doll House because that actually was the genesis of the game. It wasn't a game at all, but an architechtural/interior design program with the advancement that you could populate it with people and pets so you could see a more natural rendition of your design rather than just a static image.
After working it up they realized they had something that could be sold for entertainment.
Frankly, I have no gender aversion to dolls or doll houses. They really are valuable tools for design and I like designing. Being able to animate them is a major plus. Call them "models" if you get all weirded out by names.
They're also fun to play with. Sue me.
But I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the game.
KFG
Fortunately most online consumers not use lynx.
My mother used to work in an art supply store. The owners would only order two of one certain pen per month. My mother would sell them with a couple of hours after they arrived and then turn several people a day away for the rest of the month.
When she went to the owners to ask them to order more they refused. You see, they checked their records and found that they only sold two per month.
KFG
These new devices are developed more so to improve the TV watcher's experience; there wasn't a need for smart devices in the first Olympics, there is no need now.
You've never done scoring for a race, have you? Some of these systems are an absolute blessing even for local club events. AMB transponder systems are such old news they're affordable by individuals now and you can make your own system with Radio Shack bits for even less.
See the above comments about fencing as well.
KFG
. . .is there a device to track Olympic Weiners?
See above post about RFID tags in condoms.
KFG
Actually, being able to recover your data after the FBI walks off with all of your hard drives is a perfectly legitimate reason. It could even be critical.
Bear in mind that the FBI often confiscates things from people who are not party to the crimes being investigated. It's called "evidence." Sometimes evidence is in the hands of third parties.
The FBI also often confiscates things without ever actually filing a charge. You may or may not ever get your drives back, but if you do it's likely to take a few years.
If you are charged with a crime it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to realize that having copies could be a critical element in preparing your defense.
Back up early. Back up often. Back up not only off site, but off the radar.
KFG
Google Ads in GMail.
It's worse than that, it's spam, GIM.
KFG
Sittin' in the basement, on a summer's day
/. (k5's just too tough)
Chattin' with my net mates, passin' time away
Sittin' in the darkness, scratchin' at my fleas
AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
Please, please, please, please, give me Goobber please
AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
I think this song has lasted, almost long enough
I have to post on
I haven't got a real life, so I'm beggin' on my kness
AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
Please, please, please, please, give me Goobber please
AIM's for dorks and lusers, give me Goobber please!
KFG
Excuse me, I have to rush off to the USPTO to get a patent on "A Thing That Covers Other Things".
Expect to hear from the lawyers of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
I don't think they have a case though, because they didn't do it "on the Internet".
KFG
Unplug it or cover it up or something
If you hurry maybe you can be first to market the personal security "Cam-Cozy."
I wonder how long it'll be before web sites start popping up with unauthorized videos from hijacked webcams.
Tuesday.
KFG
It's Groundhog Day!
Oh God, I hope not. That means they'd have to run the story over and over until they got it right.
We could be stuck here forever.
KFG
Actually, the issue isn't that he was writting in the 50's, but that he was writting in the mythic style of the Sagas. In the modern mind there is only one world, the human world. In the mythical mind the world is many Worlds, each distinct from the other. the World of the Gods, The World of the Elves, et al, and The World of Men.
To refer to "humans" in LOTR would have been an anachronism and "man" did not even come to mean specifically the male of the species until the Middle English period, long after the mythic times from which LOTR derives. "Men" is the correct generic term. J.R.R. knew his archaic language.
KFG
It burns! It burns us!
KFG
Yes and no. At the time it was liberal. Now it is conservative.
Conservative is a relative term. Liberal is an absolute term. They are not in the same class, let alone opposites and in a liberal culture all liberals are, by definition, conservatives.
What you think of as "conservatives" would be radicals.
Do not be confused by the doublespeak applied by those with political agendas to terms which have well founded meanings.
Strong central government over a disarmed populace is autocracy, about as far away from liberalism as you can get. To see a historical example of how this works read about Ieyasu's Shogunate, a showpiece of autocratic, nonliberal government.
KFG
Yeah, but only the bits between the first and the last.
KFG
Sardonic
KFG
How sad it is, that I can read these statements by you and see no contradiction whatsoever, while simultaneously knowing that a vast number of your fellow citizens would see a great disconnect.
Somehow, somewhere along the line, people have forgotten that the private ownership of arms is a liberal philosophy.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord which sparked the revolution itself was fought to protect arms from confiscation.
KFG
What if all our predispositions are predetermined by chemistry, but our actions are still our own choice?
KFG