consider that this will interfere with many other services including international ship distress frequencies, government (including military) allocations, shortwave broadcasts, and most likely aviation and public safety frequencies. Is your ability to get high speed pr0n more important than all this ?
1) RSI and other such conditions. For those that suffer, keyboard alternatives are extreamly attractive
2) Bandwidth. Even at 120wpm, my fingers are typically slower than my brain. Improving the input speed would make new things possible. For example, broadband did more than make downloads go faster, it made a whole new class of services available that were never around before. The mouse is the last device to really do this on the channel between user and computer.
I'm all for these alternatives. Except when coding, then I need things to go much slower than my brain...... Its unlikely anything will replace the standard mouse/keyboard setup any time soon, but we can dream.
Please allow me to express our deepest regrets and sympathies for vaporizing your country. Unfortunatly, while attempting to help save the world from future nuclear calamities, we accidently detonated all your nuclear warheads. We hope that this will not cause you any inconvenience, and we look forward to a prosperous trade relationship with your country at the conclusion of your nuclear winter.
As others have said here: Good SciFi is good fiction with good characters.
I havent read sci-fi in ages, and this thread just lost me a nights sleep because I was reminded of Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Naismith/Vorkosigan" and couldn't put down a book I was reminded of.
Bujold's series is impressive because it focuses on a solid single character. The universe she creates is treated mearly as a backdrop and rather complex plot devices. The remainder of the charaters in the series are richly developed and remind you of Real People (tm). When you beleive your reading about Real People, its much easier to accept that they are in extrodinary positions.
Miles is:
- Disabled
- Strong
- Imperfect
- Inspiring
- A role model for the reader.
I think if I look back across other fiction both in and out of scifi, similar traits of the protagonist will be in common. People want to read about people who inspire them.
Slashdot Mirror
I know kung fu.
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
sorry... had to be said, move along now..
Check out eGuide.
It's a free (as in $), java servlet based white pages that works against LDAP, and all the display is done in XSLT so its very customizable.
yes.
NERD!
Oh wait... I can't stop coding either.. damnit...
When is that going to be the headline?
The next innovation in browsers comes when John Carmack gets bored writing FPS games and starts integrating 3D display technology with web surfing.
I had such high hopes back when VRML was hyped, but it passed on. Why isn't the web going 3D?
I'm not trolling but honestly,
who cares?
The problem with keyboards is twofold:
1) RSI and other such conditions. For those that suffer, keyboard alternatives are extreamly attractive
2) Bandwidth. Even at 120wpm, my fingers are typically slower than my brain. Improving the input speed would make new things possible. For example, broadband did more than make downloads go faster, it made a whole new class of services available that were never around before. The mouse is the last device to really do this on the channel between user and computer.
I'm all for these alternatives. Except when coding, then I need things to go much slower than my brain...... Its unlikely anything will replace the standard mouse/keyboard setup any time soon, but we can dream.
Is seriously in need of a KVM, he could clear up all that desk space easy.
I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her from seing this.
Step 1: Ask question easily answered by 5 seconds with google.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: PROFIT!
Dear North Korea,
Please allow me to express our deepest regrets and sympathies for vaporizing your country. Unfortunatly, while attempting to help save the world from future nuclear calamities, we accidently detonated all your nuclear warheads. We hope that this will not cause you any inconvenience, and we look forward to a prosperous trade relationship with your country at the conclusion of your nuclear winter.
Sincerly,
-George W Bush
Kinda reminds me of this ad: Instant Message to IT
Step 1: Disable overclocking
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!
Time was increased by 34 minutes an hour to enable posting april 1 articles on march 31.
How many natalie portmans is that?
"Printer; Tea. Earl-Gray. Hot"
Apparently, google thinks that Slashdot is now a legitimate source of news. Scarry.
I wonder if Google will start mis-spelling and dupe posting now?
Nude pics of Ellen Feiss.
I havent read sci-fi in ages, and this thread just lost me a nights sleep because I was reminded of Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Naismith/Vorkosigan" and couldn't put down a book I was reminded of.
Bujold's series is impressive because it focuses on a solid single character. The universe she creates is treated mearly as a backdrop and rather complex plot devices. The remainder of the charaters in the series are richly developed and remind you of Real People (tm). When you beleive your reading about Real People, its much easier to accept that they are in extrodinary positions.
Miles is:
- Disabled
- Strong
- Imperfect
- Inspiring
- A role model for the reader.
I think if I look back across other fiction both in and out of scifi, similar traits of the protagonist will be in common. People want to read about people who inspire them.
I can't beleive that ./ is now contributing to the increasingly dated notion that light exists.
Dark Sucker Theory Page
http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/ellenfeiss.html
So long anna k.
Where's the fake pr0n?
Can't you get arrested for being a petabyte?