10 buttons? Meh. I've got 113 keys right next to my mouse. I have two hands, so I find that I can press these buttons whilst I'm using the mouse.
I think mice are evolving towards having 113 (or perhaps 1337) keys as well. That way, you can throw away the keyboard, and everything will be so easy and simple! But even today, I wonder why Windows machines have keyboards, because it's obviously (in the Microsoft sense) easier to do everything in a GUI with a mouse.
Seriously though, I agree with you -- see my other post in this thread.
I'm right handed, and I mouse with my left hand. My reasoning is that the right hand is more dexterous, and the keyboard needs it. This way you can efficiently use mouse + keyboard at the same time.
Also, when on the left side, the mouse is closer to the active keyboard (assuming there's a numeric keypad). That way it's easier to switch between mousing and two-handed typing.
I gotta admit that often my right hand is grabbing a teacup. Even that is a good argument for wrong-handed mousing:-P
One great thing about CSS is that when you take it away, you're left with a 'Light' page. At least when it's designed sensibly. For example Wikipedia looks and works great in non-CSS browsers, just like the 'Light' Slashdot.
You can always choose 'Light' from the preferences, to give a simple layout which uses your default font. I use this, as the usual Slashdot layout is utterly unreadable IMHO.
I think some browsers can override the CSS with your own version, which is why the CSS version of Slash is quite interesting.
Alot of his money comes from investing activities, etc... If that's questionable business practice, you might move to a third world country where they don't have stock markets
I've often wondered how stock market magically creates money ouf of nothing. I'm sure it has something to do with the third world countries after all.
So how much do you donate to education outside of your property taxes? (assuming you don't live in your parents basement, you actually own real property, and that you are employed... very unlikely for most slashdot readers)
So donation is good, even if the money was raised using questionable business practices? Or, to exaggerate a little, it's OK to steal if you give the money to charity?
The problem is using PDF as a replacement for DOC. Even with OO.o it's not easy to open a PDF, edit it, and save as PDF. But PDF is fine for read-only documents.
No, this is not a mistake, but intentional. In the spirit of GNU which stands for "GNU's Not Unix", GPL might just as well be "GPL Public License". These are recursive abbreviations, whereas "ATM machine" is a redundant abbreviation:)
In the 19th century, the U.S. Postal Service pushed to standardize all the towns ending in -berg, -burgh, -berg, etc. to a single spelling. Most switched, but Pittsburgh was one city which resisted the push.
Interesting. Do you have any examples of places that did change their names?
There's a related issue I started to think about with the recent story concerning the Neanderthals. I'd always thought the correct spelling should be Neandertal (without the H) because the name refers to Neander Valley in Germany, and the word for valley is 'Tal'.
However, it turns out that 'Tal' is the modern spelling, and it was actually 'Thal' when the fossil discoveries were made. The old spelling remains in the name of the species, while the spelling of the place did change to 'Neandertal' in 1901.
I'm with you on this one. I can tolerate some amount of Windows-related news, if only for the "know thy enemy" factor, but this article is not one of them. Sadly, judging from the comments it seems that many Slashdotters are actually using Windows to a great extent.
I've just updated three machines to 2.6.13, and on one of them, the kernel ate all ReiserFS partitions for breakfast (i.e. at the time of booting). It was a small corruption at the top of the filesystem trees, and easy to recover (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree and a little manual work), but still not nice. I'm pretty sure it had to do with a bug in the EPIA MII BIOS, because my other machines were unaffected. VIA even provided a beta BIOS update and now all is well.
The machine has had related problems with earlier 2.6 kernels. It seems that Linux is making use of hardware more and more aggressively, and 2.6 will tell flaky hardware more easily. I can't really blame ReiserFS because the problem was obviously related to that particular hardware, but I also had a couple of JFS partitions that were intact, so at least in this case JFS is more robust.
Other than that, I've had very few problems with the 2.6 series. There were some problems with DVD writing in early releases; I had some DVDs written in 2.6.1 that were only readable with the same kernel:)
I'd say go for it, you can always go back to 2.4 if things break. Oh, and make backups:)
Right on! I also think that there's not really right or wrong in science; for example, Newtonian mechanics is not exactly correct, but it's not quite wrong either.
Imagine if we came up with a theory that agreed 100% with all experiments. (This is of course impossible, for it would take infinite experiments to test absolutely everything:) That would be the end of science. Therefore, while we're doing the process called science, we're always working in a gray area between correct and incorrect.
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I think mice are evolving towards having 113 (or perhaps 1337) keys as well. That way, you can throw away the keyboard, and everything will be so easy and simple! But even today, I wonder why Windows machines have keyboards, because it's obviously (in the Microsoft sense) easier to do everything in a GUI with a mouse.
Seriously though, I agree with you -- see my other post in this thread.
Also, when on the left side, the mouse is closer to the active keyboard (assuming there's a numeric keypad). That way it's easier to switch between mousing and two-handed typing.
I gotta admit that often my right hand is grabbing a teacup. Even that is a good argument for wrong-handed mousing :-P
At least it should be easier for EU to kick him in the nuts this time :D
How can NATO work, then?
There's a significant overlap between NATO and EU already, so anything that stands in the way of an EU army should be a problem for NATO as well.
What are those four explanations, if not results of your expanded creativity?-)
One great thing about CSS is that when you take it away, you're left with a 'Light' page. At least when it's designed sensibly. For example Wikipedia looks and works great in non-CSS browsers, just like the 'Light' Slashdot.
So will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
I think some browsers can override the CSS with your own version, which is why the CSS version of Slash is quite interesting.
No, but with the current trends in petroleum economy, there's increasing pressure to develop alternative energy sources.
Well, at least we know which one of the couple is the 'bride'. ;)
I've often wondered how stock market magically creates money ouf of nothing. I'm sure it has something to do with the third world countries after all.
So donation is good, even if the money was raised using questionable business practices? Or, to exaggerate a little, it's OK to steal if you give the money to charity?
The picture looks like the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
IIRC, it was called "Project Mayhem" in fight Club. But then again, why should I expect the same spelling on Slashdot :-j
Or the same project for that matter. We'd never get anything done, except bitch and moan about it.
The problem is using PDF as a replacement for DOC. Even with OO.o it's not easy to open a PDF, edit it, and save as PDF. But PDF is fine for read-only documents.
What the world needs is a sail car!
No, this is not a mistake, but intentional. In the spirit of GNU which stands for "GNU's Not Unix", GPL might just as well be "GPL Public License". These are recursive abbreviations, whereas "ATM machine" is a redundant abbreviation :)
Interesting. Do you have any examples of places that did change their names?
There's a related issue I started to think about with the recent story concerning the Neanderthals. I'd always thought the correct spelling should be Neandertal (without the H) because the name refers to Neander Valley in Germany, and the word for valley is 'Tal'.
However, it turns out that 'Tal' is the modern spelling, and it was actually 'Thal' when the fossil discoveries were made. The old spelling remains in the name of the species, while the spelling of the place did change to 'Neandertal' in 1901.
If that's so, what are Windows and WinZip doing here?
I often find that scripting makes my life easier than point and grunt. Silly me :)
I'm with you on this one. I can tolerate some amount of Windows-related news, if only for the "know thy enemy" factor, but this article is not one of them. Sadly, judging from the comments it seems that many Slashdotters are actually using Windows to a great extent.
I co-sign. It comes in handy when your code has lots of trig math.
The machine has had related problems with earlier 2.6 kernels. It seems that Linux is making use of hardware more and more aggressively, and 2.6 will tell flaky hardware more easily. I can't really blame ReiserFS because the problem was obviously related to that particular hardware, but I also had a couple of JFS partitions that were intact, so at least in this case JFS is more robust.
Other than that, I've had very few problems with the 2.6 series. There were some problems with DVD writing in early releases; I had some DVDs written in 2.6.1 that were only readable with the same kernel :)
I'd say go for it, you can always go back to 2.4 if things break. Oh, and make backups :)
Imagine if we came up with a theory that agreed 100% with all experiments. (This is of course impossible, for it would take infinite experiments to test absolutely everything :) That would be the end of science. Therefore, while we're doing the process called science, we're always working in a gray area between correct and incorrect.
I did once, and all I got was a screw dislocation.