A former co-worker of mine is working at weta writing some of their custom effects software. I can't squeeze anything out of him - they keep security *very* tight around that place.
After having sat in "standard" office chairs for several years, I started a new job with the opportunity to get a new chair. After several weeks of looking around and trying many chairs (aeron included) I settled on the Steelcase Leap. Now, 10 months later, it's still an incredibly comfortable chair. Newer than the Aeron, a lotta research has gone into it and it shows.
Besides it was designed by IDEO so it looks really cool as well. Since having it, 5-6 people have sat in it and then gone out and bought their own.
This spring I spent over a week studying and trying out chairs and ended up buying a Leap. I'm totally happy with it, many of my back, shoulder, arm problems went away! And 5-6 people have bought them just from sitting in mine.
The Peace Corps may be a really good thing to look into. I have a friend who's going to Turkmenistan in the fall to teach economics and how to start and run small businesses to people there.
I was involved in building large portions of that site. (actually it's running on OSS - RedHat, MySQL, Apache, Zope)
It does have some good ways to be helpful. Non-Profit Organizations post things the need people to volunteer for and you can go on there and search for things that interest you (say, something computer related) and apply.
Sure, I can see how it would be hard to write any kind of code entirely with speech, but, as I was typing madly away, I could see how it'd be useful to say "check mail" or "lookup someFunction()".
That already exists in the world of medium format digital cameras (megavision, leaf, etc.) where one (or more) of those companies is offering a "location kit" or something like that, that is a beltpack which has a large hard drive and battery pack and which attaches to your computer (when you get back from the forest) with either SCSI or IEEE 1394 (firewire/iLink). A cool site/mag for pro stuff is PEI magazine
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A former co-worker of mine is working at weta writing some of their custom effects software. I can't squeeze anything out of him - they keep security *very* tight around that place.
Sure, if you're ready to download the rendering engine (10s of megs) plus the scene files and textures (100s megs). Then go right ahead. :)
Besides it was designed by IDEO so it looks really cool as well. Since having it, 5-6 people have sat in it and then gone out and bought their own.
.jonah
This spring I spent over a week studying and trying out chairs and ended up buying a Leap. I'm totally happy with it, many of my back, shoulder, arm problems went away! And 5-6 people have bought them just from sitting in mine.
it already has 10/100 ethernet!
The Peace Corps may be a really good thing to look into. I have a friend who's going to Turkmenistan in the fall to teach economics and how to start and run small businesses to people there.
I was involved in building large portions of that site. (actually it's running on OSS - RedHat, MySQL, Apache, Zope)
It does have some good ways to be helpful. Non-Profit Organizations post things the need people to volunteer for and you can go on there and search for things that interest you (say, something computer related) and apply.
But, yeah checkit netaid.org
Sure, I can see how it would be hard to write any kind of code entirely with speech, but, as I was typing madly away, I could see how it'd be useful to say "check mail" or "lookup someFunction()".
well, if it feels better and your wrists don't fall apart as fast, isn't that a good enough reason?
That already exists in the world of medium format digital cameras (megavision, leaf, etc.) where one (or more) of those companies is offering a "location kit" or something like that, that is a beltpack which has a large hard drive and battery pack and which attaches to your computer (when you get back from the forest) with either SCSI or IEEE 1394 (firewire/iLink). A cool site/mag for pro stuff is PEI magazine