You can actually buy foot pedals for certain keyboards. My Kinesis Contour keyboard has 1- to 3-button foot pedals. I have the older 2-pedal variant, and being an Emacs user, I had them mapped to "control" and "meta". Was interesting, but my wrists aren't bad enough to put up with the learning curve of training my feet...
As I got older, there was too many
things that could't be explained
properly any other way except through
a mystical/religious element.
If you don't have empirical evidence,
then what do you have? What
constitutes "proper explanation" if
not sensory (== empirical) evidence,
hypothesization, prediction, and test?
I have never seen anything that could
not be explained by current science or
modest extensions thereof.
Thus my subject; if it has an effect
on the natural world, it can be
measured in the natural world, and
thus it is not supernatural. Anything
that is supernatural either has an
effect on the natural world, or it
doesn't. The first means that it's no
longer supernatural, the second means
that you never see or feel it. As
such, how can it be said to exist?
These things were all touchy/feely
kinds of issues that you can't gather
imperical evidence on.
Oh, but you can. Any action you
take is controlled by nerves, which
are in turn controlled by various
parts of your brain. We don't
understand the brain as a whole, but
we have a pretty good idea of how it
works. Any action you take physically
has a basis in electro-chemical
interactions in your head. Your
memories, who you are,
is nothing but structure inside your brain.
Bertrand Russell, from a collection of
his essays entitled Why I am not a
Christian:
Even if the open windows of science at
first make us shiver after the cosy
indoor warmth of traditional
humanizing myths, in the end the fresh
air brings vigor, and the great spaces
have a splendor of their own.
I defer further discussion on this
topic to
The Secular Web,
A standard CD-R blank holds 650MB of data. MP3s can be encoded at various bitrates, the most popular being 112, 128, 192, and 256kbps (kilo-bits per second).
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You can actually buy foot pedals for certain keyboards. My Kinesis Contour keyboard has 1- to 3-button foot pedals. I have the older 2-pedal variant, and being an Emacs user, I had them mapped to "control" and "meta". Was interesting, but my wrists aren't bad enough to put up with the learning curve of training my feet...
Note that, for Apple products, various sites already do this for you:
You'll go ahead and make one anyway. Heck, with logic like this, you're already ahead of the game, right?
I really don't want to believe in a higher power. Because that would mean that I was supposed to be this fucked up.
If you don't have empirical evidence, then what do you have? What constitutes "proper explanation" if not sensory (== empirical) evidence, hypothesization, prediction, and test? I have never seen anything that could not be explained by current science or modest extensions thereof.
Thus my subject; if it has an effect on the natural world, it can be measured in the natural world, and thus it is not supernatural. Anything that is supernatural either has an effect on the natural world, or it doesn't. The first means that it's no longer supernatural, the second means that you never see or feel it. As such, how can it be said to exist?
Oh, but you can. Any action you take is controlled by nerves, which are in turn controlled by various parts of your brain. We don't understand the brain as a whole, but we have a pretty good idea of how it works. Any action you take physically has a basis in electro-chemical interactions in your head. Your memories, who you are, is nothing but structure inside your brain.
Bertrand Russell, from a collection of his essays entitled Why I am not a Christian:
I defer further discussion on this topic to The Secular Web,
A standard CD-R blank holds 650MB of data. MP3s can be encoded at various bitrates, the most popular being 112, 128, 192, and 256kbps (kilo-bits per second).
For a 650MB blank:
I'm waiting for the DVD-Rs to come down a bit more in price. First generation blanks are 5GB each, yielding:
while the second-generation media should have 18GB of capacity: so about two weeks of music on an 18GB disc.I've seen an item similar to what people are requesting: a portable player for MP3 tracks written to CD-R media.
It certainly sounds like vaporware, but the curious might want to take a look.