I learned to properly do ten finger touch typing on a Dvorak keyboard, and wrote a number of mathematics papers and a PhD dissertation with it. Switching between layouts wasn't usually a big deal, because I had Dvorak on one Olivetti M24 computer, and didn't use any other M24s, so I would automatically use Dvorak on the M24 and QWERTY on all other computers. (The only time it was a big deal is if the Dvorak driver didn't load on the M24. It was really hard to type in QWERTY on it.)
But in the end, I think I wasn't noticeably faster than I was on QWERTY, even though on QWERTY, I don't type the way one is "supposed to", but I greatly favor my stronger fingers. Currently I use my index and middle fingers for most letter keys, with more rare use of the ring fingers, and never seem to use pinkies for letter keys (moreover, I don't think I am very consistent in what fingers I use for which). Moreover, my very messy QWERTY way of typing just *feels* a lot better than my proper 10-finger Dvorak typing did. I like moving my wrists more, and having more flexibility as to which key to press with which finger.
This isn't a controlled experiment, since I didn't use the same typing method on both layouts.
Doesn't seem sleazy to me at all. Think of the skins as just recognition of people who donate to the project. You are welcome to use the project without donating, but perhaps you want to donate, and in addition to the good feeling of supporting a project you like, you get some in-game recognition that doesn't affect game play (except for social reasons). (That said, I would almost never spend more than about $10 on a game. Most games I play are either free or less than $5 from gog.)
Yeah, and if you had a PalmOS device and set the unlock password to a single space, you also had slide to unlock, because to write a space you would slide right. It would be weird if one owed royalties to Apple for setting the password to a space.
Depends how cheap it is. Suppose it's as cheap as ordinary nonrechargeable alkaline batteries. Then the overall cost is two orders of magnitude less than the cost of powering something with ordinary alkalines.
The article does note a very big uptick in suicide rates. Such a striking uptick needs an explanation. The correlated beginning of widespread smartphone ownership provides an explanation, and unlike many other correlational things, this explanation comes with plausible stories about the alleged causal mechanism. Of course, maybe there is another, better explanation that fits this and the other data. But that explanation needs to be offered if one is to block an inference you the best explanation argument that cellphone use is the culprit.
If I buy a book, I don't have to read it all. I can skim to my heart's content without violating the author's rights. If I buy a DVD, I can mute and fast forward to my heart's content. Why shouldn't it be OK to automate this process? It's ok for me to have a list of times to skip and manually skip them. Why would it not be ok to automate the process, say by having servos push the buttons on the remotes and a camera looking at the time display on my DVD player? And if that's ok, why not something less crude?
Not always. Before Christmas, there were three pairs of the expensive climbing shoe type and size I wanted left, at about half off. I bought one. Price went down immediately after. Price continued going down day after day until they sold out the stock, and then jumped to full price when they replenished the stock. At low point, it was less than a third of full price. I can't quite figure out what they were doing, but it's like the system didn't like having low stock so they wanted to refill but couldn't unless they sold out first.
Actually, the explanation in the article is that there is a memory allocation for a node done *before* checking whether the object is present. So if the object is present, there is a pointless memory allocation and deallocation done. Nothing to do with inlining, and an easy fix for the library: just swap the order of the check for presence and the memory allocation.
This works especially well in languages where you can have a function whose definition is within the scope of a function. Then all the functions are guaranteed to be together in the source, and with their containment relationships obvious to the human reader. If one changes an inner function's functioning, one only needs to check in one place--the outer function--for how this affects things.
He wanted to use "Gemaco Borgata" cards at the Borgata Casino. That sounds like a line of cards the casino itself must have ordered. Wikipedia says that the casino is suing Gemaco for the cards being defective. It does, however, sound to me like it's cheating for a player to deliberately choose such defective cards.
I don't question this, but I wonder how you manage to keep the skill. I used to program Z80 assembly in the late 90s (Sharp organizers) and 8086 in the early 90s, but I can't say that I know Z80 and 8086 assembler anymore. Or have you managed to keep up the memory by continuing to program antique devices (not a terrible idea)?
A projector can work great in a bedroom. Point it upward and project on the ceiling and you can watch while lying down. Or use a white wall or even vinyl rollup curtains (though the last shares the movie with the neighbors, so it needs to be family friendly).
I've been making screen dimming apps for Android (RootDim and ScreenDim) for a long time, and have often wondered why the minimum system brightness on just about all devices is so high. Here is my hypothesis. If one sets the display to a level where it's visible but not bright in pitch black conditions, the display may be invisible in normal conditions. This could result in customers complaining their device is broken as they can't see the screen. (But there are alternatives to just setting the minimum high. They could have warnings, or they could turn brightness up even in manual adjustment mode if the light sensor gets enough light.) One piece of advice I have is to go for OLED rather than LCD screen. On LCD, black is gray in low light conditions a the backlight leaks.
I got a Timex Sinclair 1000 when I was 10, as well as a simple book about BASIC programming. Eventually, that got upgraded to a TS-2068. There wasn't much family budget for games for me, so I wrote a number of my own. Did a bit of Z80 assembly for better speed. Then when the family got a PC, I learned C, FORTRAN, some Pascal, and 8086 assembly.
IANAL, but I could imagine a case where someone names a method with a copyrighted haiku: void old_pond_CR_a_frog_leaps_in_CR_waters_sound(). (From Wikipedia's example of a haiku translation; I don't know if their example is copyrighted, but you get the point.) In that case, I think it's not an unreasonable case that the API is copyrightable at least in part. In such a case, even code calling the API--not just an implementation of the API--would require a fair-use defense. I would hope such a fair-use defense would be possible.
So, yes, my example shows that it should be possible for an API to be copyrighted, at least in theory (whether java.lang is sufficiently poetic is a different question!). But the example also shows that unless a fair-use defense is possible, programming is really stifled.
For those of us who travel and make presentations with other people's projectors, the VGA connection is a must, as it's what one can count on a projector having.
I occasionally do see cyclists signaling turns. But I think I have never in my life seen anybody on a bike (other than myself:-) ) ever do the hand signal for stopping (and at least in our state it's required by law).
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I learned to properly do ten finger touch typing on a Dvorak keyboard, and wrote a number of mathematics papers and a PhD dissertation with it. Switching between layouts wasn't usually a big deal, because I had Dvorak on one Olivetti M24 computer, and didn't use any other M24s, so I would automatically use Dvorak on the M24 and QWERTY on all other computers. (The only time it was a big deal is if the Dvorak driver didn't load on the M24. It was really hard to type in QWERTY on it.)
But in the end, I think I wasn't noticeably faster than I was on QWERTY, even though on QWERTY, I don't type the way one is "supposed to", but I greatly favor my stronger fingers. Currently I use my index and middle fingers for most letter keys, with more rare use of the ring fingers, and never seem to use pinkies for letter keys (moreover, I don't think I am very consistent in what fingers I use for which). Moreover, my very messy QWERTY way of typing just *feels* a lot better than my proper 10-finger Dvorak typing did. I like moving my wrists more, and having more flexibility as to which key to press with which finger.
This isn't a controlled experiment, since I didn't use the same typing method on both layouts.
Doesn't seem sleazy to me at all. Think of the skins as just recognition of people who donate to the project. You are welcome to use the project without donating, but perhaps you want to donate, and in addition to the good feeling of supporting a project you like, you get some in-game recognition that doesn't affect game play (except for social reasons). (That said, I would almost never spend more than about $10 on a game. Most games I play are either free or less than $5 from gog.)
Maybe, but I am not sure. After all, if they wanted to, they could have just hard-coded all the telemetry without registry switches for it.
I feel a bit paranoid here: I doubt they removed regedit just to save 313K.
I think a 16lb Mac Portable, with lead acid batteries, could be held in the hand. Just not comfortably. :-)
I.e., it's a lot more interesting?
Yeah, and if you had a PalmOS device and set the unlock password to a single space, you also had slide to unlock, because to write a space you would slide right. It would be weird if one owed royalties to Apple for setting the password to a space.
Depends how cheap it is. Suppose it's as cheap as ordinary nonrechargeable alkaline batteries. Then the overall cost is two orders of magnitude less than the cost of powering something with ordinary alkalines.
The article does note a very big uptick in suicide rates. Such a striking uptick needs an explanation. The correlated beginning of widespread smartphone ownership provides an explanation, and unlike many other correlational things, this explanation comes with plausible stories about the alleged causal mechanism. Of course, maybe there is another, better explanation that fits this and the other data. But that explanation needs to be offered if one is to block an inference you the best explanation argument that cellphone use is the culprit.
If I buy a book, I don't have to read it all. I can skim to my heart's content without violating the author's rights. If I buy a DVD, I can mute and fast forward to my heart's content. Why shouldn't it be OK to automate this process? It's ok for me to have a list of times to skip and manually skip them. Why would it not be ok to automate the process, say by having servos push the buttons on the remotes and a camera looking at the time display on my DVD player? And if that's ok, why not something less crude?
Not always. Before Christmas, there were three pairs of the expensive climbing shoe type and size I wanted left, at about half off. I bought one. Price went down immediately after. Price continued going down day after day until they sold out the stock, and then jumped to full price when they replenished the stock. At low point, it was less than a third of full price. I can't quite figure out what they were doing, but it's like the system didn't like having low stock so they wanted to refill but couldn't unless they sold out first.
Wolfe's Claw of the Conciliator (may give up on it)
Pratchett's Interesting Times
Actually, the explanation in the article is that there is a memory allocation for a node done *before* checking whether the object is present. So if the object is present, there is a pointless memory allocation and deallocation done. Nothing to do with inlining, and an easy fix for the library: just swap the order of the check for presence and the memory allocation.
This works especially well in languages where you can have a function whose definition is within the scope of a function. Then all the functions are guaranteed to be together in the source, and with their containment relationships obvious to the human reader. If one changes an inner function's functioning, one only needs to check in one place--the outer function--for how this affects things.
He wanted to use "Gemaco Borgata" cards at the Borgata Casino. That sounds like a line of cards the casino itself must have ordered. Wikipedia says that the casino is suing Gemaco for the cards being defective.
It does, however, sound to me like it's cheating for a player to deliberately choose such defective cards.
I don't question this, but I wonder how you manage to keep the skill. I used to program Z80 assembly in the late 90s (Sharp organizers) and 8086 in the early 90s, but I can't say that I know Z80 and 8086 assembler anymore.
Or have you managed to keep up the memory by continuing to program antique devices (not a terrible idea)?
Actually, I believe that a military draft would include permanent residents in the US.
Drive the TV from a laptop and use color correction on the laptop?
A projector can work great in a bedroom. Point it upward and project on the ceiling and you can watch while lying down. Or use a white wall or even vinyl rollup curtains (though the last shares the movie with the neighbors, so it needs to be family friendly).
I've been making screen dimming apps for Android (RootDim and ScreenDim) for a long time, and have often wondered why the minimum system brightness on just about all devices is so high. Here is my hypothesis. If one sets the display to a level where it's visible but not bright in pitch black conditions, the display may be invisible in normal conditions. This could result in customers complaining their device is broken as they can't see the screen. (But there are alternatives to just setting the minimum high. They could have warnings, or they could turn brightness up even in manual adjustment mode if the light sensor gets enough light.)
One piece of advice I have is to go for OLED rather than LCD screen. On LCD, black is gray in low light conditions a the backlight leaks.
I got a Timex Sinclair 1000 when I was 10, as well as a simple book about BASIC programming. Eventually, that got upgraded to a TS-2068. There wasn't much family budget for games for me, so I wrote a number of my own. Did a bit of Z80 assembly for better speed. Then when the family got a PC, I learned C, FORTRAN, some Pascal, and 8086 assembly.
IANAL, but I could imagine a case where someone names a method with a copyrighted haiku: void old_pond_CR_a_frog_leaps_in_CR_waters_sound(). (From Wikipedia's example of a haiku translation; I don't know if their example is copyrighted, but you get the point.) In that case, I think it's not an unreasonable case that the API is copyrightable at least in part. In such a case, even code calling the API--not just an implementation of the API--would require a fair-use defense. I would hope such a fair-use defense would be possible.
So, yes, my example shows that it should be possible for an API to be copyrighted, at least in theory (whether java.lang is sufficiently poetic is a different question!). But the example also shows that unless a fair-use defense is possible, programming is really stifled.
For those of us who travel and make presentations with other people's projectors, the VGA connection is a must, as it's what one can count on a projector having.
It requires a very steady hand. It seems to be a sport, just as archery, Jenga and jackstraws.
I occasionally do see cyclists signaling turns. But I think I have never in my life seen anybody on a bike (other than myself :-) ) ever do the hand signal for stopping (and at least in our state it's required by law).