I saw the first sentence starting with "While there is a plethora of..." and rolled my eyes, and then died laughing when I saw it as a story tag. Thanks to whomever caused that laugh, it was appreciated.
For $130 keyboards? Here is a review for a non-enthusiast:
"It is $130. Move along."
There is a price range with everything that might enter the realm of luxury in which most people are going to balk at the price because the cheap version is plenty sufficient. Normal keyboards at the store are $20... this is not a keyboard for people that would ever say "$130? It's just a KEYBOARD!"
Therefore, I stand by my statement about requiring a keyboard enthusiast, as it would be someone from the niche of people that would consider buying the keyboard in the first place, instead of walking away from sticker shock.
The buckling springs require more force than the mechanical switches in the Das Keyboard and other modern key types. People that are used to pressing hard to type appreciate it more.
Its very easy to just listen to someone typing and be able to discern if they learned on a type writer... very hard, discrete clicks, instead of a blur of lighter sounds (they can still be very fast).
Unicomp purchased the M patent years ago, and I bought one of their redone USB versions a little bit back, in my quest for "the awesome work keyboard."
It was then that I realized I hadn't learned to type on a keyboard, and that it wasn't for me. One of my coworkers flipped out when he saw it though, because it was basically a modernized version of his favorite key ever (the buckling spring). At least he got usage out of it.
As a Das Keyboard user that -doesn't- use a Mac, I think it is wonderful. If you're a keyboard enthusiast (which is whom I would have expected to review A KEYBOARD), I highly recommend giving one a shot.
Each key is individually weighted, which gives it a really fresh feeling, and the keys feel light but still click loudly. In my opinion, there's really three top-tier keyboards out there for awesome tactile feedback: the M series keyboard (for people that learned on typewriters, not me), this keyboard and its mechanical switches, and those people out there that refuse to use anything but an SGI keyboard, even though their SGI workstation has been unused for years (some of my coworkers).
This guy just cares about the placement of the Command key (which is settable in the Options anyway), and the "extra" keys. If you're like that, this keyboard is not for you.
Is anyone else getting increasingly frustrated with these retarded web page layouts? The only reason this "in-depth" article is 8 pages is because the column width of ACTUAL CONTENT on the page is 280 pixels wide, out of 960 pixels (locked).
29% of the page is content, or less, if you count the stupid header ads and such. Eight pages, my ass.
I agree with you that IMAP is superior, but IMAP's idea of folders and stuff doesn't really jive with GMail's "we have labels instead of folders" deal. That is unless you want dupes of every email that you have more than one label on.
IMAP just doesn't seem very GMail friendly. POP3 is dumb enough to just pull anything in the Inbox with a UIDL tacked on... that's probably why.
Most people aren't willing to "leave their comfort zone" and just go Linux, and I'd say that most of them (that were willing to try Linux in the first place, but not stay) are gamers.
If you're a PC gamer, don't whine about Linux not working for you... stick to Windows. Most friends I know use their PC as an appliance. It lets them talk on Aim and play games.
I never understood people's missionary attempts to "recruit" people to Linux. Who cares? Stick with what you like, try something else when you get tired of it.
As someone that enjoys the Linux release of Firefox at home and prefers the Windows version of it it over IE or the others, you might not be aware that the Windows version doesn't allow for this, unfortunately.
I've gotten quite accustomed to highlighting a URL in another window and just (almost) blindly clicking in the Firefox window to go there. Windows people just don't have that feature.
I don't hate Windows like many here, but I like how I can get down to the kernel level and strip out anything I don't want to run on startup, all the way to how X starts up and what runs. I like where the configuration is stored vs. the Windows registry. I feel more comfortable with it.
Plus, I have a programmer's mind, so the whole idea of tinkering with my machine like that is fun to me. I don't really try to participate in the zealot wars one way or another... people can use what they want. I've been very happy with Linux though.
Certainly not trying to argue here, but I think your example is just one of habit more than efficiency.
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Isn't this five keys, vs eight? I can't talk about the other things you mentioned (which might be better), but the graphing example wasn't helping your case much.
26! domains implies that 26 is the maximum character length, and that there are 26 non-repeating choices to pick from. Please recheck your math. Even though there are longer than 10 letter domains, the answer you're searching for is closer to 26^10.
I could see this being neat in perhaps a corporate area or somewhere at home, where in either case you or IT has some sort of control over the WAP settings, but this whole "wardriving" nonsense (using WEP) wouldn't work.
WAP Clients need to use a matching WEP key of the AP, therefore if this roamed to someone's AP, they'd either have to change to that person's WEP key, or disable it. Plus, what about coffee shop / BBSM / Nomadix type solutions that require authorization with a web page redirect first? Someone with this phone who WANTS to pay for internet at these wouldn't be able to.
Oh, and its dual-processor support is pretty pathetic. The load balancing seems incredibly naive. (And, this may not be an OS problem, but I find that I have problems scrolling text in VS.NET in a timely fashion.
That's an Intellisense issue, not a dual CPU issue. I've seen Intellisense block my text editing for a good 15-20 seconds before.
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That device he's holding in the picture is a slide changer for the speech he's giving... Do all executives take the same class to teach how to give a speech? Regardless of company (Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc, as long as its a tech speech), they all seem to come out with the same horribly hunched over shoulders, and hold that damn thing with two fingers while spinning it around with their other hands fingers.
It's such a pet peeve now that I can't even watch keynote speeches anymore.
PS Actions are like macros in other programs. You basically start "recording" an Action, do a handful of stuff (resize, filter, etc) and then hit "Stop." Then with the Batch command you can say "do this Action to each file in this dir, and save it in this dir."
I'm a keyboard/CLI guy myself, but I cut my teeth on Photoshop, so many GIMP things are new to me. Glad to share in the other direction.:-)
Every time I hear someone whining about not getting a job because they don't have a degree, I have to laugh.
I don't have my degree yet either, and I don't blame companies for not hiring without a degree. It's a baseline... a common ground. Whether or not someone is talented is far more important (I agree with you), but you learn more things at college than how to program. You learn how to manage time, follow coding guidelines, and stick with a goal and see it through for N years.
I've seen many an idiot graduate college, but I've also seen many programmers that think they're great until they have to work in a group with others and follow a coding style or come to some sort of agreement on design/angle. It's more than sitting at home alone writing up the next DB handler.
I realized that the degree is my foot in the door to a lot of companies, so I'm taking night school classes while I work so I can get that foot in. Get a job without a degree? You are lucky. Don't get one? Go back to college or switch careers. The goal of a good hirer for a company is not to hire neither the idiot with the degree nor the genius without one, but the genius WITH one. Remember that.
I mean seriously. Beyond that, if you are carrying around an expensive laptop and running at full speed, why trust a shoulderstrap in the first place? Carry it while you run! Or at least brace it with your arm.
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OpenSSH isn't.
I saw the first sentence starting with "While there is a plethora of..." and rolled my eyes, and then died laughing when I saw it as a story tag. Thanks to whomever caused that laugh, it was appreciated.
Don't forget the best encoding detection bug ever --
Bush hid the facts / this app can break
This causes VS2005 to flip out every once in a while, as it clearly does this encoding detection on a per-line basis.
For $130 keyboards? Here is a review for a non-enthusiast:
"It is $130. Move along."
There is a price range with everything that might enter the realm of luxury in which most people are going to balk at the price because the cheap version is plenty sufficient. Normal keyboards at the store are $20... this is not a keyboard for people that would ever say "$130? It's just a KEYBOARD!"
Therefore, I stand by my statement about requiring a keyboard enthusiast, as it would be someone from the niche of people that would consider buying the keyboard in the first place, instead of walking away from sticker shock.
The buckling springs require more force than the mechanical switches in the Das Keyboard and other modern key types. People that are used to pressing hard to type appreciate it more.
Its very easy to just listen to someone typing and be able to discern if they learned on a type writer ... very hard, discrete clicks, instead of a blur of lighter sounds (they can still be very fast).
Unicomp purchased the M patent years ago, and I bought one of their redone USB versions a little bit back, in my quest for "the awesome work keyboard."
It was then that I realized I hadn't learned to type on a keyboard, and that it wasn't for me. One of my coworkers flipped out when he saw it though, because it was basically a modernized version of his favorite key ever (the buckling spring). At least he got usage out of it.
As a Das Keyboard user that -doesn't- use a Mac, I think it is wonderful. If you're a keyboard enthusiast (which is whom I would have expected to review A KEYBOARD), I highly recommend giving one a shot.
Each key is individually weighted, which gives it a really fresh feeling, and the keys feel light but still click loudly. In my opinion, there's really three top-tier keyboards out there for awesome tactile feedback: the M series keyboard (for people that learned on typewriters, not me), this keyboard and its mechanical switches, and those people out there that refuse to use anything but an SGI keyboard, even though their SGI workstation has been unused for years (some of my coworkers).
This guy just cares about the placement of the Command key (which is settable in the Options anyway), and the "extra" keys. If you're like that, this keyboard is not for you.
Is anyone else getting increasingly frustrated with these retarded web page layouts? The only reason this "in-depth" article is 8 pages is because the column width of ACTUAL CONTENT on the page is 280 pixels wide, out of 960 pixels (locked).
29% of the page is content, or less, if you count the stupid header ads and such. Eight pages, my ass.
Really? I always thought of IrfanView as a really nice, free ACDSee clone (which is great, but non-free).
GQView is a very, very good replacement, IMO. Complete with similar keyboard shortcuts and the like. [shrug]
Their first release's big deal was that it was Debian with GNOME 2.8 bundled. So yes, I can answer half of that.
Xorg might still be a good question though.
I agree with you that IMAP is superior, but IMAP's idea of folders and stuff doesn't really jive with GMail's "we have labels instead of folders" deal. That is unless you want dupes of every email that you have more than one label on.
... that's probably why.
IMAP just doesn't seem very GMail friendly. POP3 is dumb enough to just pull anything in the Inbox with a UIDL tacked on
Most people aren't willing to "leave their comfort zone" and just go Linux, and I'd say that most of them (that were willing to try Linux in the first place, but not stay) are gamers.
If you're a PC gamer, don't whine about Linux not working for you... stick to Windows. Most friends I know use their PC as an appliance. It lets them talk on Aim and play games.
I never understood people's missionary attempts to "recruit" people to Linux. Who cares? Stick with what you like, try something else when you get tired of it.
prefers the Windows version of it it at work
sorry, missed that. I got ahead of myself.
As someone that enjoys the Linux release of Firefox at home and prefers the Windows version of it it over IE or the others, you might not be aware that the Windows version doesn't allow for this, unfortunately.
I've gotten quite accustomed to highlighting a URL in another window and just (almost) blindly clicking in the Firefox window to go there. Windows people just don't have that feature.
On a TI-85, perhaps. Not on a TI-83. A TI-83 doesn't even have F-keys.
I don't hate Windows like many here, but I like how I can get down to the kernel level and strip out anything I don't want to run on startup, all the way to how X starts up and what runs. I like where the configuration is stored vs. the Windows registry. I feel more comfortable with it.
Plus, I have a programmer's mind, so the whole idea of tinkering with my machine like that is fun to me. I don't really try to participate in the zealot wars one way or another... people can use what they want. I've been very happy with Linux though.
Certainly not trying to argue here, but I think your example is just one of habit more than efficiency.
[Y=][CLEAR][SIN][X][GRAPH]
Isn't this five keys, vs eight? I can't talk about the other things you mentioned (which might be better), but the graphing example wasn't helping your case much.
26! domains implies that 26 is the maximum character length, and that there are 26 non-repeating choices to pick from. Please recheck your math. Even though there are longer than 10 letter domains, the answer you're searching for is closer to 26^10.
I could see this being neat in perhaps a corporate area or somewhere at home, where in either case you or IT has some sort of control over the WAP settings, but this whole "wardriving" nonsense (using WEP) wouldn't work.
WAP Clients need to use a matching WEP key of the AP, therefore if this roamed to someone's AP, they'd either have to change to that person's WEP key, or disable it. Plus, what about coffee shop / BBSM / Nomadix type solutions that require authorization with a web page redirect first? Someone with this phone who WANTS to pay for internet at these wouldn't be able to.
Oh, and its dual-processor support is pretty pathetic. The load balancing seems incredibly naive. (And, this may not be an OS problem, but I find that I have problems scrolling text in VS.NET in a timely fashion.
That's an Intellisense issue, not a dual CPU issue. I've seen Intellisense block my text editing for a good 15-20 seconds before.
That device he's holding in the picture is a slide changer for the speech he's giving... Do all executives take the same class to teach how to give a speech? Regardless of company (Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc, as long as its a tech speech), they all seem to come out with the same horribly hunched over shoulders, and hold that damn thing with two fingers while spinning it around with their other hands fingers.
It's such a pet peeve now that I can't even watch keynote speeches anymore.
Hey --
:-)
PS Actions are like macros in other programs. You basically start "recording" an Action, do a handful of stuff (resize, filter, etc) and then hit "Stop." Then with the Batch command you can say "do this Action to each file in this dir, and save it in this dir."
I'm a keyboard/CLI guy myself, but I cut my teeth on Photoshop, so many GIMP things are new to me. Glad to share in the other direction.
"Broke" it? Do you not use a bootloader to roll back "just in case"?
Every time I hear someone whining about not getting a job because they don't have a degree, I have to laugh.
... a common ground. Whether or not someone is talented is far more important (I agree with you), but you learn more things at college than how to program. You learn how to manage time, follow coding guidelines, and stick with a goal and see it through for N years.
I don't have my degree yet either, and I don't blame companies for not hiring without a degree. It's a baseline
I've seen many an idiot graduate college, but I've also seen many programmers that think they're great until they have to work in a group with others and follow a coding style or come to some sort of agreement on design/angle. It's more than sitting at home alone writing up the next DB handler.
I realized that the degree is my foot in the door to a lot of companies, so I'm taking night school classes while I work so I can get that foot in. Get a job without a degree? You are lucky. Don't get one? Go back to college or switch careers. The goal of a good hirer for a company is not to hire neither the idiot with the degree nor the genius without one, but the genius WITH one. Remember that.
That's simple:
"Not a free bag from the WWDC."
I mean seriously. Beyond that, if you are carrying around an expensive laptop and running at full speed, why trust a shoulderstrap in the first place? Carry it while you run! Or at least brace it with your arm.