I used a Kensington Orbit trackball for years. I'm back to regular mice now. With the Orbit, you use your fingers for the ball, your thumb for left button, and pinkie for right button. I found that after a while, I developed symptoms of RSI in my hand, but different from that stemming from a regular mouse.
Also, hand dirt and grime would build up on the ball and deposit itself on the roller mechanisms inside. I'd periodically have to pop the ball out and clean the insides. It's just an upside-down mechanical mouse in that regard. Looks like the newer Orbits are now optical instead of mechanical.
It was nice in that you don't have to move it around on the confines of a mouse pad, and you can quickly shoot your cursor to far ends of your monitor without much movement.
Now you've got me looking at the Kensington Expert Mouse (trackball). Hmm...
"The spelling judgment is found in the Authorized Version of the Bible. However, the spelling judgement (with e added) largely replaced judgment in the United Kingdom in a non-legal context, possibly because writing dg without a following e for the/d?/ was seen as an incorrect spelling. In the context of the law, however, judgment is preferred."
I see this "collective knowledge" first hand. Believe me, there is more collective than there is knowledge. IT decisions and directives about IT usage are often based on tradition and "common knowledge" rather than analysis. You may sneer, but there are a competent security experts outside of govt and DoD who don't fall into your "RMS and his followers" category.
Your pants are clean on the right leg but greasy on the left? Either you have a unique bike with the drivetrain on the left, or you sit on your bike facing backwards.
Journalists revealed their sources. They also, every one of them, contradicted Libby's account of how it went down (like his claim he got it from Russert). Even Judith Miller named her source. Mmm, that Kool Aid is delicious, huh?
"And don't forget, no one has been even charged with revealing the identity of what's-their-name. That's the "crime" that was being investigated."
Thank you! And that's the investigation that could not go further and get to the bottom of things precisely because.... ta da! Libby covered it up by lying!
Unsigned band who sees their first major-label contract as their shot at the big time and all their dreams come true: "Where do we sign? We brought our peeeens!"
On the news.com.au article, there are two photos. First is supposedly of an alien recovered at Roswell, with a caption explaining that the photo is known to be a hoax. The second photo appears to be of saucer aircraft, with a caption of "Not fake, this image of 'spacecraft' is the real deal, but the Air Force claim it's their experiment."
What is the story behind that saucer photo? It's not explained in the article.
Related to this is the annoying habit of the most zealous ideologues who post their opinions on web forums to end their unsupported, often ludicrous, assertions with
FACT!
as if that settles it. Oh, it has the "Fact Seal of Approval", I guess he's right.
In my experience, whenever there are discussions about deploying new servers and I specify mine must run Linux (Solaris in the past), people get that lost look in their eyes and mutter, "oh, we'll have to get the Unix guy, we just know Windows and assumed..."
Yes, those southern Democrats, specifically Dixiecrats, who, beginning in the 70's, shifted the other way and now form a very large base of the modern Republican Party.
Hello, glad to meet you! I use Safari as my default browser at home on OS X. I have Firefox, tried Opera, and for a while used Shiira and Sunrise sometimes. But Safari works well for me and isn't as problematic as Firefox on my mini. I admit I really dislike Safari's bookmarks window; Firefox's sidebar is much better. If I were doing web development at home, I'd use Firefox as my main browser, it's what I use on Windows at work. But since I'm just web browsing at home, Safari works better for me.
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The question should be - how long until the Java applet loads?
I used a Kensington Orbit trackball for years. I'm back to regular mice now. With the Orbit, you use your fingers for the ball, your thumb for left button, and pinkie for right button. I found that after a while, I developed symptoms of RSI in my hand, but different from that stemming from a regular mouse.
Also, hand dirt and grime would build up on the ball and deposit itself on the roller mechanisms inside. I'd periodically have to pop the ball out and clean the insides. It's just an upside-down mechanical mouse in that regard. Looks like the newer Orbits are now optical instead of mechanical.
It was nice in that you don't have to move it around on the confines of a mouse pad, and you can quickly shoot your cursor to far ends of your monitor without much movement.
Now you've got me looking at the Kensington Expert Mouse (trackball). Hmm...
Only if pony-tailed, sandal-wearing bearded fat guys with rainbow suspenders start calling themselves sensitive artists.
That represents success to whatever or whoever killed them!
Get thee to Wikipedia!
/d?/ was seen as an incorrect spelling. In the context of the law, however, judgment is preferred."
"The spelling judgment is found in the Authorized Version of the Bible. However, the spelling judgement (with e added) largely replaced judgment in the United Kingdom in a non-legal context, possibly because writing dg without a following e for the
Really, could an article be less informative than this one?
I keep waiting for something big and heavy to fall on that child.
I see this "collective knowledge" first hand. Believe me, there is more collective than there is knowledge. IT decisions and directives about IT usage are often based on tradition and "common knowledge" rather than analysis. You may sneer, but there are a competent security experts outside of govt and DoD who don't fall into your "RMS and his followers" category.
Your pants are clean on the right leg but greasy on the left? Either you have a unique bike with the drivetrain on the left, or you sit on your bike facing backwards.
Journalists revealed their sources. They also, every one of them, contradicted Libby's account of how it went down (like his claim he got it from Russert). Even Judith Miller named her source. Mmm, that Kool Aid is delicious, huh?
"And don't forget, no one has been even charged with revealing the identity of what's-their-name. That's the "crime" that was being investigated."
.... ta da! Libby covered it up by lying!
Thank you! And that's the investigation that could not go further and get to the bottom of things precisely because
I guess the jury who heard all the evidence didn't get your memo.
Unsigned band who sees their first major-label contract as their shot at the big time and all their dreams come true: "Where do we sign? We brought our peeeens!"
On the news.com.au article, there are two photos. First is supposedly of an alien recovered at Roswell, with a caption explaining that the photo is known to be a hoax. The second photo appears to be of saucer aircraft, with a caption of "Not fake, this image of 'spacecraft' is the real deal, but the Air Force claim it's their experiment."
What is the story behind that saucer photo? It's not explained in the article.
For a Washington, DC metro location, the choice of Bladensburg, MD instead of Springfield, Virginia (which even has a Springfield Mall) is beyond me.
I'm really, really surprised I had to read so far into the thread to finally find it mentioned.
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Related to this is the annoying habit of the most zealous ideologues who post their opinions on web forums to end their unsupported, often ludicrous, assertions with
FACT!
as if that settles it. Oh, it has the "Fact Seal of Approval", I guess he's right.
Here's a chance for RedHat or other Linux company to come out with "business-ready computing" (or computers).
Exactly. I recall Carl Sagan discussing it at least 25 years ago, possibly even on the Cosmos series.
And if ASAP is pronounced as ay es ay pee (I don't know why, but some people do this), is it not an acronym, but it is if people just say "asap"?
Funny that when these people want something as soon as possible, they spell out ASAP with four syllables rather than say a two syllable word.
Yes.
In my experience, whenever there are discussions about deploying new servers and I specify mine must run Linux (Solaris in the past), people get that lost look in their eyes and mutter, "oh, we'll have to get the Unix guy, we just know Windows and assumed..."
Yes, those southern Democrats, specifically Dixiecrats, who, beginning in the 70's, shifted the other way and now form a very large base of the modern Republican Party.
Hello, glad to meet you! I use Safari as my default browser at home on OS X. I have Firefox, tried Opera, and for a while used Shiira and Sunrise sometimes. But Safari works well for me and isn't as problematic as Firefox on my mini. I admit I really dislike Safari's bookmarks window; Firefox's sidebar is much better. If I were doing web development at home, I'd use Firefox as my main browser, it's what I use on Windows at work. But since I'm just web browsing at home, Safari works better for me.
And despite all that output, there is nothing of his I can recall more recent than "Take it Away" (ugh).