A keyboard that senses the heat from your finger may help, but these keyboards are annoying because they can sense any heat, not just your fingertips. So when you go to hit keys at the top of the keyboard (numbers, F-keys etc,) your palm can trigger the lower keys. Perhaps a minimal force/thermal combo-keyboard could address the issue.
I think you're looking at the problem backwards. My fingers are always cold from lifting frosty Jolt cola cans all day.
I can almost picture the conversation now:
Boss: Do you have the interfaces done for the new product line? Me: Um, no. Boss: What seems to be the problem? Me: This dang keyboard won't accept any input.
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I just hope I can get it to spit out my resume before I'm escorted out the door.
When will the care industry stop trying to make vehicles more like mobile homes? They spend all that time and money in crash tests, but then turn around and add distractions that can only be detrimental. Certainly people can do without these features while they're commutting from place to place.
Sooner than later, we're going to start clogging the courts with lawsuits involving people in accidents where these toys were involved. Cell phones included. When the time comes, I say they do the same thing they did with the tobacco industry. Slap them with a hugh lawsuit. It's not like anyone can't see it coming. Of course, the people using these devices are equally as guilty.
You'd be naive if you think a techie union would be any different than the other kind of union. Eventually, a power play would be made and that would be all she wrote, folks.
Really, there's no guarantee in any job, but the best protection you have, is being great at what you do. This means keeping up with the latest methods, being productive and keeping yourself just within radar range every once in a while to get noticed.
In addition to what you said, one of the things that bugs me most about VB is the automatic formatting of code. For those of us who care about the visual style of our code, this is intolerable. It is Visual Basic after all. This was brought up on a VB list at one point, and someone from MS gave some lame excuse why this is, the way it is.
I know of no other language that has this insipid feature.
Will it allow me to magically recreate Famke Jensen by wearing a bra on my head and hooking my computer to one of her action figures, thereby getting me into all kinds of crazy hijinks and turning my brother into a Jaba The Hut type creature?
You go to the doctor for a test to see whether you have a certain very deadly disease. One in a hundred thousand people have this disease. This test is 99% accurate and NEVER gives a false negative.
I know I'd spend my time figuring out how a test can be 99% accurate and NEVER give a false negative.
CmdrTaco has just won first class tickets to Alderan. There he will learn the ways of the Grammar Jedi. Much time will be spent under the tutelage of Spelling Won Kenobi, where he will face his darkest fears. Many hours will he spend learning how to discern the essence of good articles from evil ones. He will become the most feared of Grammar Jedi. His very prose will inspire generations to come.
It will come to naught however, when, at his Jedi graduation, the planet gets blown up beneath him.
If amazon.com is hurting for money so much, you'd think they'd come up with a better ploy for making revenue. This sounds like a glorified version of the salami technique where they slice off fractions of a penny from back transactions.
Apparently, they aren't making as much money off of their patent fiasco as they thought they would.
The original idea didn't fly because Comte gave the months "superfluous" names.
Funny you should mention that. The name of our months are out of whack. September should be the 7th month, October the 8th, November, the 9th, December the 10. One wonders how it ever came to be the way it is currently.
There are many more efficient calendars than the one proposed here. I've been analyzing alternative calendars for years. Even programmed more than a few of them, to check for accuracy. Some are clunkers, but many stand the test of time, so to speak. You're correct in saying they'll never be implemented. We're stuck with it, much like out current keyboard layout.
I always laugh when I hear how many people watch a show. Assumedly, they get this information from the Neilson ratings. There's no way they can really tell how many people tune into a particular show. For all they know, X number of the Neilson Family are watching one show, and the rest of the country is watching Simpson's reruns.
The Neilson Ratings are just another statistics, and we all know how useful statistics are.
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A keyboard that senses the heat from your finger may help, but these keyboards are annoying because they can sense any heat, not just your fingertips. So when you go to hit keys at the top of the keyboard (numbers, F-keys etc,) your palm can trigger the lower keys. Perhaps a minimal force/thermal combo-keyboard could address the issue.
I think you're looking at the problem backwards. My fingers are always cold from lifting frosty Jolt cola cans all day.
I can almost picture the conversation now:
Boss: Do you have the interfaces done for the new product line?
Me: Um, no.
Boss: What seems to be the problem?
Me: This dang keyboard won't accept any input.
--
I just hope I can get it to spit out my resume before I'm escorted out the door.
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Entropy ain't just a good idea. It's the law.
The two empty halves of coconuts.
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Each sold separately, I bet.
If I write 23 bars of DNA music and my girlfriend writes 23 bars of DNA music, am I going to be paying royalties to her for the rest of my life?
Who's going to get custody of the gold records that hang on the wall?
Babies.
Who would have thunk it?
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Sometimes the obvious answer is the correct one.
If you put a kitten in a non-transparent square jar, is the state of the kitten square or normal, before you open it to find out?
When will the care industry stop trying to make vehicles more like mobile homes? They spend all that time and money in crash tests, but then turn around and add distractions that can only be detrimental. Certainly people can do without these features while they're commutting from place to place.
Sooner than later, we're going to start clogging the courts with lawsuits involving people in accidents where these toys were involved. Cell phones included. When the time comes, I say they do the same thing they did with the tobacco industry. Slap them with a hugh lawsuit. It's not like anyone can't see it coming. Of course, the people using these devices are equally as guilty.
You'd be naive if you think a techie union would be any different than the other kind of union. Eventually, a power play would be made and that would be all she wrote, folks.
Really, there's no guarantee in any job, but the best protection you have, is being great at what you do. This means keeping up with the latest methods, being productive and keeping yourself just within radar range every once in a while to get noticed.
In addition to what you said, one of the things that bugs me most about VB is the automatic formatting of code. For those of us who care about the visual style of our code, this is intolerable. It is Visual Basic after all. This was brought up on a VB list at one point, and someone from MS gave some lame excuse why this is, the way it is.
I know of no other language that has this insipid feature.
Is this just a cheap ploy to get Kate Winslet to pose topless for them?
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Just like time, this is all relative. Canadians may see a 6.4% drop in sales, but with the exchange rate, Americans see it as a 4.8% drop.
This figure gets even lower as you approach the speed of light.
Let's tell China that AOL is a giant spy machine. Maybe they'll keep it.
...and these circular discs are held up to the sun, for flashing Morse code messages to our sattelites.
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I spend all my time debugging software, and I start worrying about my hardware too?
If I'm lucky, when I'm finished debugging the computer, and throw it over the wall, maybe I'll hit a QA person or two.
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I'm thinking the monitor might need some debugging too.
I use the email addresses of the spammers (the ones I determine are legitimate), and feed that to all the other spammers on my list.
-- 'What' ain't no country I've ever heard of. Do they speak English in 'what'?
When I don't get enough useless spam, I type in slashdot.org in my URL box.
It tides me over.
Will it allow me to magically recreate Famke Jensen by wearing a bra on my head and hooking my computer to one of her action figures, thereby getting me into all kinds of crazy hijinks and turning my brother into a Jaba The Hut type creature?
You really have no grasp on basic mathematics do you?
Stop contaminating the gene pool.
You go to the doctor for a test to see whether you have a certain very deadly disease. One in a hundred thousand people have this disease. This test is 99% accurate and NEVER gives a false negative.
I know I'd spend my time figuring out how a test can be 99% accurate and NEVER give a false negative.
CmdrTaco has just won first class tickets to Alderan. There he will learn the ways of the Grammar Jedi. Much time will be spent under the tutelage of Spelling Won Kenobi, where he will face his darkest fears. Many hours will he spend learning how to discern the essence of good articles from evil ones. He will become the most feared of Grammar Jedi. His very prose will inspire generations to come.
It will come to naught however, when, at his Jedi graduation, the planet gets blown up beneath him.
If amazon.com is hurting for money so much, you'd think they'd come up with a better ploy for making revenue. This sounds like a glorified version of the salami technique where they slice off fractions of a penny from back transactions.
Apparently, they aren't making as much money off of their patent fiasco as they thought they would.
The original idea didn't fly because Comte gave the months "superfluous" names.
Funny you should mention that. The name of our months are out of whack. September should be the 7th month, October the 8th, November, the 9th, December the 10. One wonders how it ever came to be the way it is currently.
There are many more efficient calendars than the one proposed here. I've been analyzing alternative calendars for years. Even programmed more than a few of them, to check for accuracy. Some are clunkers, but many stand the test of time, so to speak. You're correct in saying they'll never be implemented. We're stuck with it, much like out current keyboard layout.
I'd hook up my brain to the internet and immediately be targeted for a denial of service attack.
You're wrong. Modula-2 sucks from top to bottom.
Thank you very much.
My contribution will be to write code that fills sector 0 with First Sector (Score:-1, Troll) .
I always laugh when I hear how many people watch a show. Assumedly, they get this information from the Neilson ratings. There's no way they can really tell how many people tune into a particular show. For all they know, X number of the Neilson Family are watching one show, and the rest of the country is watching Simpson's reruns.
The Neilson Ratings are just another statistics, and we all know how useful statistics are.