Yes, loud clicky noises can be good - for some of us. Particularly when we're typing in "the buffer zone" where you don't see the frickin' letters on the frickin' screen. Some of us like the extra feedback, others don't. If you find it too annoying, don't bother.
Now, if you want to look past the point that I only like the clickity-click noise to give myself undeserved BoFH status, it's all about the feel of the keys and not the noise at all.
If you prefer a square keyboard, you type relatively quickly and if you use the sculpted keys to help your fingers strike the Model M is an absolute dream. A lot of my fellow devotees share my claw-hammer fingers - it's a very big plus to be able to feel the exact point where the keystroke is triggered. I don't care about pressing down too hard, I'll mash the keys anyways. Having that tactile feedback lets me lighten up and move onto the next keystroke. That reduces the pounding on the keys and means more comfortable typing longer.
If you want the thinner style keys and not the sculpted tops and you find the clicking too much, you'll probably never entirely be happy with a Model M regardless of how well it meets your other requirements. I'm to be counted with those who will be buried with a Model M clenched firmly in my grasp.
1. Volcano's and things alike emit more C02 gas then the entire human race.
sure do. and for a long time, before the advent of industrialization, the climate has experienced only moderate fluctuations even with all that volcanic co2. then along came escalades and coal plants and massive human-engineer deforestation projects that when added to all that volcanic co2, it tipped the balance to a general warming trend.
Actually, volcanoes eject less CO2 than human activity. Considerably less than 1 percent of anthropogenic CO2 levels. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has actual numbers posted http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html
Volcanic activity also puts out a whole bunch of pollutants such as SO2 that cause localized effects but may or may not influence global climate change.
It's a bit nit-picky, though, and shouldn't take away from your point. You are completely correct that volcanic CO2 has been variable in the past and has not demonstrated the climate fluctuations we're seeing now.
I hate being the cynic, but both times I've been burned have been on small, specialized apps that aren't going to be blink across the mind's eye of Microsoft's testing matrix. The likelihood of any or all of his clients sharing it are presumably small (unless he wrote it himself).
Smoke testing on a general scale like that is not likely to give a great return beyond the Microsoft testing.
I'm sorry, but you need to apologize to those poor people south of the border. There is no way they're going to believe you're polite and friendly starting off your comment with, "You dumbass!"
You should know we have to carefully craft our backhanded compliments.
Now let's sit down and have a beer. I hear the Russians are catching up to our downloads now that their hockey team has finished practice.
I don't get to see my kids every single day. Technically, I'm supposed to be able to talk to my kids every single day on the phone. In actuality, I get to talk to the answering machine 4 times out of every five that I call.
My kids are a little too young to play online with me. But in only a year or two, my daughter will be ready to play games. She knows my MMORPG of choice. I'll happily pay her membership. It will be just one more option that we can use to communicate.
It's one more tool at my disposal. Judge all you want. *My* kids know I'm trying.
"Let the *other guys* do all the work and just give me the final product."
In fact, why don't we just send them all over to your place to enter your transactions and then balance them for you?
Guess what? It's strictly optional. YOU don't have to lift a damned finger if you don't want. *I* am going to download it tonight and give it a go because I want to.
I consult fixing other people's computers - solving their software problems. Guess what? I'm good at what I do. I'm good at it because I take the time poking around with programs that interest me. GNUcash holds my interest. Quicken - bless it's popularity - is a festering piece of crap I can't stand to use.
Hey, that's still my choice. I don't have to use Quicken, I opt to use GNUcash. Now I get the chance to beta-test for them. I don't expect to find a lot, but if I do it'll help a bunch of other users out there. That's cool to me.
You don't have to pitch in. But neither do you have to bitch about beta-testing in the Open Source fashion.
I recommend AVG for clients. I very much appreciate it's auto-update and it's proven to be a solid and reliable solution to me.
Having said that, I keep AntiVir in MY toolkit and use it when I visit a client's site when I need to work on their machine. I like them both, I generally trust AVG to install and forget, but I definitely use AntiVir when I make a housecall. Recommending AVG generally reduces my headaches, but keeping AntiVir available to myself gives me a (slightly different) set of definitions for that mystic "just in case" scenario.
Speaking of housecall, I also use housecall.trendmicro.com for a quick and dirty online scan - I'm a bit out of date there, I haven't needed to use it for a few months now.
Personally? I use ClamWin on my machines. I like the ability to send an email to myself and I trust myself to update my own system in a timely manner.
As far as I can tell, I've stayed more or less clean on mine and my client's systems. Standard "security is a process" proviso applies.
For while you sleep, someone is coding. Someone is documenting. Someone is installing. Someone is showing someone else something cool. Someone is learning something about his or her computer, his or her skills, his or her self.
Someone is understanding the idea of "think globally, act locally" as more than just a catch-phrase. Someone just figured out that, at least occasionally, the choir also needs to hear the preaching in order to feel re-invigorated and appreciated for their efforts.
Best of all, this has absolutely nothing to do with your sleeping patterns nor the back-handed swipe at a concept you appear to grasp tenuously. I truly wish you nap well, and you arise refreshed and prepared to continue with the rest of your day. I hope that some "weirdo" out there also has a great day, filled with productivity and a good experience.
Oh, and Smallfurrycreature got my rankles up and made me determined to do something productive with Open Source today. I have some plans after work with my Ubuntu system. He got added to my friends list, but I'm sure he'll suffer the indignity with grace and dignity - ignoring the infamy as is proper. One (1) geek did something useful today, hopefully driving one (1) other geek to try to do something as well.
And there is the difference between USENET and Slashdot right there..
On USENET, there is absolutely zero chance that someone would have failed to quote "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." This, of course, would be followed with an off topic conversation twenty threads long about whether Churchill ever said such a thing or not, finally ended when the entire thread degenerates to a discussion of Nazi's.
On Slashdot, someone will backhandedly mention rum, sodomy and lashes, and from there we'll just drift off-topic three threads deep, moderators slamming us with "Offtopic" all the way while we slowly degenerate to a fascinating treatease on totalitarian regimes circa 1940.
Frankly, I'm much more proud of my Slashdot contributions. If it weren't for bad karma, I'd have no karma at all!
I appreciate the simplicity of blocking.xxx in one fell swoop. I know it will be pointless and easily circumvented, but most of the sheeple will be blocked and they'll be too stupid or too lazy to bother getting around it.
But freeing up domains?
What the hell ELSE are they going to use www.bigjuicyknockers.com for? Why do we need domains like that freed up?
If only.1% of people respond to spam, they can make millions.
If only.1% of spam vicims sue a spammer, they can make millions.
Sounds to me like there's a lot of money to be made on the margins. There's a whole bunch of collateral damage going on that's costing us a lot more than the millions on the margins, though..
Under clients, Hula only lists Outlook's calendaring as "Planned". Quote from the FAQ:
The Outlook connector should be a set of MAPI providers that speak native Hula NMAP protocol to the Hula server. The work we are doing for CalDav Support will provide the underpinnings for the Hula calendar, which the Outlook connector will use.
A cursory look at it makes it a non-starter, unless there's something coming down the pipe "real soon now." (Boss has to be happy first. Damn, I wish I was a better coder..)
Slashdot Mirror
At the risk of actually answering seriously:
Yes, loud clicky noises can be good - for some of us. Particularly when we're typing in "the buffer zone" where you don't see the frickin' letters on the frickin' screen. Some of us like the extra feedback, others don't. If you find it too annoying, don't bother.
Now, if you want to look past the point that I only like the clickity-click noise to give myself undeserved BoFH status, it's all about the feel of the keys and not the noise at all.
If you prefer a square keyboard, you type relatively quickly and if you use the sculpted keys to help your fingers strike the Model M is an absolute dream. A lot of my fellow devotees share my claw-hammer fingers - it's a very big plus to be able to feel the exact point where the keystroke is triggered. I don't care about pressing down too hard, I'll mash the keys anyways. Having that tactile feedback lets me lighten up and move onto the next keystroke. That reduces the pounding on the keys and means more comfortable typing longer.
If you want the thinner style keys and not the sculpted tops and you find the clicking too much, you'll probably never entirely be happy with a Model M regardless of how well it meets your other requirements. I'm to be counted with those who will be buried with a Model M clenched firmly in my grasp.
May I make a slight correction?
1. Volcano's and things alike emit more C02 gas then the entire human race.
sure do. and for a long time, before the advent of industrialization, the climate has experienced only moderate fluctuations even with all that volcanic co2. then along came escalades and coal plants and massive human-engineer deforestation projects that when added to all that volcanic co2, it tipped the balance to a general warming trend.
Actually, volcanoes eject less CO2 than human activity. Considerably less than 1 percent of anthropogenic CO2 levels. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has actual numbers posted http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html
Volcanic activity also puts out a whole bunch of pollutants such as SO2 that cause localized effects but may or may not influence global climate change.
It's a bit nit-picky, though, and shouldn't take away from your point. You are completely correct that volcanic CO2 has been variable in the past and has not demonstrated the climate fluctuations we're seeing now.
Has it been long enough to forget Ask Jeeves yet?
We call them "Slashvertisements" or something like that. I think it's the uninteresting stories that are promoting a product and / or service.
It's not like we're reading TFA's anyways..
Whether it's the grepping to find instances of an odd item in your logs
Guilty!
or statistical analysis to compare voting records by state to federal balance of payment figures
Guilty!
or figuring out how to make the pelvic actuators on your girl robot work properly
*GASP* Who told you?
*SLAMS DOOR*
I hate being the cynic, but both times I've been burned have been on small, specialized apps that aren't going to be blink across the mind's eye of Microsoft's testing matrix. The likelihood of any or all of his clients sharing it are presumably small (unless he wrote it himself).
Smoke testing on a general scale like that is not likely to give a great return beyond the Microsoft testing.
From TFA: "On Sept. 6 last year"
And this in part establishes just why the new rules were instituted.
I'm sorry, but you need to apologize to those poor people south of the border. There is no way they're going to believe you're polite and friendly starting off your comment with, "You dumbass!"
You should know we have to carefully craft our backhanded compliments.
Now let's sit down and have a beer. I hear the Russians are catching up to our downloads now that their hockey team has finished practice.
Heh..
;-)
My Linux guru made that mistake in front of me once.
"Dude, it's the Windows era. They rank them in order of importance. It's now mouse over keyboard."
We got a great laugh and have yet to repeat the mistake. And we both reach for bash every chance we get.
- Zarq
I dunno...
Usually I use a LiveCD in order to restore a mungled Windows installation.
I'm never really sure if I sould expect to find Tubgirl already set as the desktop background before I ever get to the machine in the first place...
- Zarq
I'm divorced.
I don't get to see my kids every single day. Technically, I'm supposed to be able to talk to my kids every single day on the phone. In actuality, I get to talk to the answering machine 4 times out of every five that I call.
My kids are a little too young to play online with me. But in only a year or two, my daughter will be ready to play games. She knows my MMORPG of choice. I'll happily pay her membership. It will be just one more option that we can use to communicate.
It's one more tool at my disposal. Judge all you want. *My* kids know I'm trying.
- Zarquil
That's true.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let it happen in the first place.
You'll note I'll be vague over precisely what I'm apologizing for. *grin*
- Zarq
As a Canadian, let me the first to turn you down.
Fuck you Aussies! You claimed him in the first place - you keep him! We're going to keep the steroid users from Jamaica.
- Zarq.
Typical whinging NIMBY answer.
"Let the *other guys* do all the work and just give me the final product."
In fact, why don't we just send them all over to your place to enter your transactions and then balance them for you?
Guess what? It's strictly optional. YOU don't have to lift a damned finger if you don't want. *I* am going to download it tonight and give it a go because I want to.
I consult fixing other people's computers - solving their software problems. Guess what? I'm good at what I do. I'm good at it because I take the time poking around with programs that interest me. GNUcash holds my interest. Quicken - bless it's popularity - is a festering piece of crap I can't stand to use.
Hey, that's still my choice. I don't have to use Quicken, I opt to use GNUcash. Now I get the chance to beta-test for them. I don't expect to find a lot, but if I do it'll help a bunch of other users out there. That's cool to me.
You don't have to pitch in. But neither do you have to bitch about beta-testing in the Open Source fashion.
Zarquil
A tad surly, it seems.
Actually.... They have three children.
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp
I don't think the BMGF is meant to put them in the poorhouse, though. The kids will have plenty when it's over.
- Zarq
Trolling in obsolescence for +1 Informative.
This program sold by weight, not volume.
Some settling of bits may have occured during shipping of this program.
Not me! I'm Canadian. The NSA has no jurisdiction here!
- Zarq
Uh-oh.
My $0.02,
I recommend AVG for clients. I very much appreciate it's auto-update and it's proven to be a solid and reliable solution to me.
Having said that, I keep AntiVir in MY toolkit and use it when I visit a client's site when I need to work on their machine. I like them both, I generally trust AVG to install and forget, but I definitely use AntiVir when I make a housecall. Recommending AVG generally reduces my headaches, but keeping AntiVir available to myself gives me a (slightly different) set of definitions for that mystic "just in case" scenario.
Speaking of housecall, I also use housecall.trendmicro.com for a quick and dirty online scan - I'm a bit out of date there, I haven't needed to use it for a few months now.
Personally? I use ClamWin on my machines. I like the ability to send an email to myself and I trust myself to update my own system in a timely manner.
As far as I can tell, I've stayed more or less clean on mine and my client's systems. Standard "security is a process" proviso applies.
- Zarq
Sleep well, my friend.
For while you sleep, someone is coding. Someone is documenting. Someone is installing. Someone is showing someone else something cool. Someone is learning something about his or her computer, his or her skills, his or her self.
Someone is understanding the idea of "think globally, act locally" as more than just a catch-phrase. Someone just figured out that, at least occasionally, the choir also needs to hear the preaching in order to feel re-invigorated and appreciated for their efforts.
Best of all, this has absolutely nothing to do with your sleeping patterns nor the back-handed swipe at a concept you appear to grasp tenuously. I truly wish you nap well, and you arise refreshed and prepared to continue with the rest of your day. I hope that some "weirdo" out there also has a great day, filled with productivity and a good experience.
Oh, and Smallfurrycreature got my rankles up and made me determined to do something productive with Open Source today. I have some plans after work with my Ubuntu system. He got added to my friends list, but I'm sure he'll suffer the indignity with grace and dignity - ignoring the infamy as is proper. One (1) geek did something useful today, hopefully driving one (1) other geek to try to do something as well.
Nice.
- Zarq
And there is the difference between USENET and Slashdot right there..
On USENET, there is absolutely zero chance that someone would have failed to quote "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." This, of course, would be followed with an off topic conversation twenty threads long about whether Churchill ever said such a thing or not, finally ended when the entire thread degenerates to a discussion of Nazi's.
On Slashdot, someone will backhandedly mention rum, sodomy and lashes, and from there we'll just drift off-topic three threads deep, moderators slamming us with "Offtopic" all the way while we slowly degenerate to a fascinating treatease on totalitarian regimes circa 1940.
Frankly, I'm much more proud of my Slashdot contributions. If it weren't for bad karma, I'd have no karma at all!
- Zarq
10 more hours and they'll have a marriage with a couple of really rowdy kids running around the place...
Hold up a second....
We were RIGHT about Disco. Had we put it in place, we'd never have to have suffered George Michael and DRM to protect his sales.
Waitasec, am I missing a joke here?
- Zarq
I like the idea of an xxx domain.
.xxx in one fell swoop. I know it will be pointless and easily circumvented, but most of the sheeple will be blocked and they'll be too stupid or too lazy to bother getting around it.
I appreciate the simplicity of blocking
But freeing up domains?
What the hell ELSE are they going to use www.bigjuicyknockers.com for? Why do we need domains like that freed up?
I'm not seeing a justification there.
If only .1% of people respond to spam, they can make millions.
.1% of spam vicims sue a spammer, they can make millions.
If only
Sounds to me like there's a lot of money to be made on the margins. There's a whole bunch of collateral damage going on that's costing us a lot more than the millions on the margins, though..
A cursory look at it makes it a non-starter, unless there's something coming down the pipe "real soon now." (Boss has to be happy first. Damn, I wish I was a better coder..)