Um, is the "ergonomic rule" about putting commonly used keys under strong fingers only one of these "everybody knows it's true" and not a real truth? 'Cause this sucker has 4 vowels under pinkies (a, e, i under the left pinky at that). Wouldn't that be bad ergonomic design, if the finger-strength rule is real?
But kids in the hospital long-term usually means their parents have long since given up any hope of ever climbing out of debt. I just can't help thinking that the $200 could be far better spent.
Then you should read the testimonials at the Child's Play site. Most parents are thrilled at anything that lets their kids smile and be occupied by something other than being in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. And $200 in video-game entertainment can touch many more kids and make a bigger impact per kid than can a the same money given to one family with crushing debt.
There was a recent thread on the GPGPU forums about picking a grad program for studying graphics. Since pretty much everyone there is either studying graphics or practicing them, you may get better responses than from here.
I think an additional problem will be in handling the age factor... In 2008, I buy a level 6 computer. What is it in 2009? level 4? still level 6, but the top end is now level 12?
It doesn't let you fix up just any cookie on the fly (so cookies coming through from ads can't be adjusted "on the fly"), but you can bring up "allow, block, remove" with a key press. You can change the cookie it's going to adjust (say if you know the ad server), but there's no list of cookies accessed for this page, just the current server in an edit box.
I should say I'm using 0.2, so it's possible that it does more already, or that there are plans to do more.
Photocopiers are available in most libraries, yet this doesn't seem to have created a huge problem with "piracy" of books.
Probably 'cause it's a big pain in the ass to copy a whole book with a photocopier. It's actually more difficult to copy only part of a CD digitally.
Not that I disagree with the notion that the law and associated penalties should be sufficient. They should. Just because my car could have technology that prevented me from performing some moving violation doesn't mean the illegailty of it should be supplanted by the impossibility of it. The car crippled "in the best interest of myself and others" is probably less useful to me.
The RESALE of music however is a much trickier issue that will likely be ruled in Apple (the Beatles') favor, as it is for all intents and purposes impossible to distinguish Apple (Computer's) intent with the iTunes music store from the topic the agreement was made about.
Maybe in a court of law with high powered attourneys arguing the case, it will be indistiguishable. But to those of us with common sense, I can't think of the last time I bought any music from Apple Corps. That they distributed, maybe, but I give no thought to that at all when making a purchase. I buy music from BestBuy, and my wife's bought a few tunes from... Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store.
Hell, I just tried to look them up on the web... do you know how many actual record companies with "Apple" in their name there are? Where are those cut-and-dry law suits?
if its not a significant risk, then why did I get nearly debilitating pain in my wrists when I coded all day long with a standard keyboard, but it went away as soon as I switched to an M$ natural keyboard? I'd never had such pain before, and since I've switched, I haven't had it return. I'd say that this pain was "caused" by the use of a lousy keyboard for long periods - but maybe I'm deluding myself.
The answer is in your question. You changed the nature of the stress on your wrists. Maybe, by using the natural keyboard, you were forced into a near stress free position. More likely, you just stopped stressing the same parts of your wrist the standard keyboard did. That doesn't mean the keyboard is to blame. Many people can use a standard without pain. It's about proper posture, about avoiding repetitive stress, and taking breaks... the hows... not what you are doing.
I developed problems when learning to inline-skate. When I'd lose my balance, I'd throw myself forward so I could 'controllably' plant onto my hands and break my fall. Guess what? RSI-type wrist pain. Doctor said "Don't skate, or don't fall".
It's not what you do repetitively, it's how you do it. It's about repetitive stress. Keyboard (or whatever) in a comfortable manner that doesn't unduly stress your body and no pain will result.
If the high end software is the standard then the low end alternative software is obviously not acceptable.
Not at all obvious. A business making such a decision needs to put a value on having the standard versus having the alternative. Might be the missing features cost more than the mark-up of buying the standard. But that doesn't justify the business pirating any software. That means they should have bought the standard and cut somewhere else.
I want to start an airline, but I can't afford a Boeing 777. I could afford an Airbus, but that's crappier than the 777. I'll just steal the 777. Oh I know, these are tangible objects, not "software". I don't argue that current software pricing is nuts, but that still doesn't excuse theft. And theft has never driven down costs, unless you're aiming for out-of-business/bankrupcy sales.
You need the standard but you aren't willing to pay for it? Then you don't really need it. Rethink your business or your budget.
Paintshop Pro is acceptable to the guy pirating Photoshop to adjust his digital camera snapsots before putting them on the web for his family/friends to see. But he pirated Photoshop for free...
They like to make up numbers. Same as "one pirated song costs us $X amount of dollars". I wonder how much of that piracy is highly priced productivity tools - Photoshop, Flash, 3DSMax, Visual Studio, etc etc, stuff that people can't really afford, so they are technically losing money, since it wouldn't have been bought in the first place.
Though I'm guilty of using that argument myself, I only attribute it to my MP3 collection. I just don't have the cash lying around to purchase $5,000 worth of CDs, and right now I don't have the space to store all of them (half the time, the liner notes are more interesting than the CD, but I digress).
The difference being; I'm not making a product / money off of my MP3 collection. I use it for my personal enjoyment, period. When people download high-end image / video / audio editing applications, there's a good chance that they've got monetary interests. If that's the case, why should they have the right to make money using pirated (not duly paid for) tools?
I'll grant you it's a case of bad versus worse, but there is a legitimacy to the piracy claims and certainly people making money freely off somebody elses hard work has to be a limit.
That's one point. Here's another, sticking to the high-end software slant...
When you pirate high-end software you couldn't afford, that's also one less sale of the low-end clone.
Say you need some image manipulation software, but you can't afford Photoshop. What if you could have afforded something else, say Paintshop Pro? We all know you can afford Gimp. Pirating a copy of Photoshop you couldn't have afforded anyway hurts noone? No, it hurts lots of people, including the competitors (you could argue it especially hurts the competitors, since you were their target demographic) and the handling/distribution company of their is one.
Not that it excuses music piracy, but in general there's no "competitor" to that song you like. It's liked for its individuality. I'm leaving sound-a-like bands, covers, remixes, live-albums and such out of the argument. If there's some one particular recoding of a piece you want, it's not that case that you can get the 95% of the full performance you needed most for less by turning to a competing artist.
I thought the "dark ages" comment was pretty silly, too.
I mean in the USA, EA (and each other game company) bothers to get permission for name/likeness from the appropriate Players' Associations (and many other entities... NBA, NFL, MLS, NCAA, Notre Dame University, Ford Field, Michael Jordan, to throw a few aquired licenses out there).
Sure, they do so mostly out of fear of having their asses sued off in the USA. Now they have to wake up and do the same in other countries. This means they'll quit doing it at all? Hardly. Too many people would hold back buying/recommending an otherwise good game 'cause it lacks the licenses.
Not that it matters to anyone. Clearly from reading the comments here, the porn angle was the way to go to get this widely read (not the Cringely article, obviously, just the slashblurb).
But, Cringely talks about hiding data. And, yes, current consumer wireless tech is a poor fit to the task of securing data, but that will change.
Personally, I just like the plug-and-play, out-of-sight storage idea. You could, very seriously, drop this in any closet with electrical outlets and serve up media/storage to a host of gadgets in your house. For current implementations, I'd worry about robustness (can I really just turn it on and forget about it till the drive dies?). I know my damn wireless router gets all screwed up if I try to activate MAC address controls.
No computer is a Turing machine in implementation (icky tape heads wandering around on an infinite tape - or a finite tape if you knew in advance what algorithm you were about to run), and von Neumann machine refers to implementation.
A von Neumann architecture treats memory as one big serially addressable hunk of unlabeled "stuff". There's no way to look at the memory and know what anything is (instruction or data? what type of data? what's the meaning of this data?) until you try and execute the memory and see what happens. This leaves the door wide open for self-modifying code, which is maybe what triggered you to think self-modifying.
[...] community has an important decision to make right now, between KDE and Gnome. [...] Linux's total victory over Microsoft [...] Gnome winning over the Linux desktop [...] Gnome should win [...] win the dektop [...]
Um, Linux, KDE, Gnome,... they should all be about being "usable" and "useful" not "winning". The "win" attitude is what drives Microsoft to do the things that make many of us not want to use their products.
And does the community need to decide between Gnome and KDE? No. The individual does, sure, but again the ability to play and decide is supposed to be why many of us use Linux.
I don't think there's a legitimate beef about TrollTech's license for QT/KDE. It allows Linux distros to put it out there; it lets others use it to put their own apps out there; it says go ahead and make money with our product, but pay us for helping make your product look desireable. What's wrong with that? I'm less thrilled with the Win32 license, but I can see that maybe they feel there's less of a history of Win32 developers giving back (I've never bothered to look into their reasons, this just seems like a reason I might have not have made the licenses the same). Keep in mind, the GPL doesn't let you make money on the software itself... you have to give that away for free and make the money elsewhere (support, manuals, services, things you bind to the software). Those who want everything GPL'd seem (to me) to be ignoring the developer's right to choose a license that gives them what they feel they deserve. Unacceptable software under a great license should fail just like great software under an unnacceptable license... Market rules... Best tool for the job (evaluating on both what does it do for me and on what does it cost me/keep me from doing).
Now, I'm not trying to paint you as obsessed with winning the Linux desktop or overtaking MS... I don't know a thing about you. But your post does use these phrases that set off my whole rant.
But this is different. The article is about monitoring the blogs, not the searches. As suggested in another comment, this may be related to Google's acquisition of Blogger.
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Um, is the "ergonomic rule" about putting commonly used keys under strong fingers only one of these "everybody knows it's true" and not a real truth? 'Cause this sucker has 4 vowels under pinkies (a, e, i under the left pinky at that). Wouldn't that be bad ergonomic design, if the finger-strength rule is real?
But kids in the hospital long-term usually means their parents have long since given up any hope of ever climbing out of debt. I just can't help thinking that the $200 could be far better spent.
Then you should read the testimonials at the Child's Play site. Most parents are thrilled at anything that lets their kids smile and be occupied by something other than being in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. And $200 in video-game entertainment can touch many more kids and make a bigger impact per kid than can a the same money given to one family with crushing debt.
There was a recent thread on the GPGPU forums about picking a grad program for studying graphics. Since pretty much everyone there is either studying graphics or practicing them, you may get better responses than from here.
I think an additional problem will be in handling the age factor...
In 2008, I buy a level 6 computer. What is it in 2009? level 4? still level 6, but the top end is now level 12?
Permit Cookies is almost this.
It doesn't let you fix up just any cookie on the fly (so cookies coming through from ads can't be adjusted "on the fly"), but you can bring up "allow, block, remove" with a key press. You can change the cookie it's going to adjust (say if you know the ad server), but there's no list of cookies accessed for this page, just the current server in an edit box.
I should say I'm using 0.2, so it's possible that it does more already, or that there are plans to do more.
What's new since April?
Dupe!
Probably 'cause it's a big pain in the ass to copy a whole book with a photocopier. It's actually more difficult to copy only part of a CD digitally.
Not that I disagree with the notion that the law and associated penalties should be sufficient. They should. Just because my car could have technology that prevented me from performing some moving violation doesn't mean the illegailty of it should be supplanted by the impossibility of it. The car crippled "in the best interest of myself and others" is probably less useful to me.
Not to click on goatse.cx links?
That "Profit" always follows "???"?
That Natalie Portman is damn hot?
Which plot came first, XIII or Bourne Identity? I've got my guess.
The answer is in your question. You changed the nature of the stress on your wrists. Maybe, by using the natural keyboard, you were forced into a near stress free position. More likely, you just stopped stressing the same parts of your wrist the standard keyboard did. That doesn't mean the keyboard is to blame. Many people can use a standard without pain. It's about proper posture, about avoiding repetitive stress, and taking breaks
I developed problems when learning to inline-skate. When I'd lose my balance, I'd throw myself forward so I could 'controllably' plant onto my hands and break my fall. Guess what? RSI-type wrist pain. Doctor said "Don't skate, or don't fall".
It's not what you do repetitively, it's how you do it. It's about repetitive stress. Keyboard (or whatever) in a comfortable manner that doesn't unduly stress your body and no pain will result.
Not at all obvious. A business making such a decision needs to put a value on having the standard versus having the alternative. Might be the missing features cost more than the mark-up of buying the standard. But that doesn't justify the business pirating any software. That means they should have bought the standard and cut somewhere else.
I want to start an airline, but I can't afford a Boeing 777. I could afford an Airbus, but that's crappier than the 777. I'll just steal the 777. Oh I know, these are tangible objects, not "software". I don't argue that current software pricing is nuts, but that still doesn't excuse theft. And theft has never driven down costs, unless you're aiming for out-of-business/bankrupcy sales.
You need the standard but you aren't willing to pay for it? Then you don't really need it. Rethink your business or your budget.
Paintshop Pro is acceptable to the guy pirating Photoshop to adjust his digital camera snapsots before putting them on the web for his family/friends to see. But he pirated Photoshop for free
That's one point. Here's another, sticking to the high-end software slant
When you pirate high-end software you couldn't afford, that's also one less sale of the low-end clone.
Say you need some image manipulation software, but you can't afford Photoshop. What if you could have afforded something else, say Paintshop Pro? We all know you can afford Gimp. Pirating a copy of Photoshop you couldn't have afforded anyway hurts noone? No, it hurts lots of people, including the competitors (you could argue it especially hurts the competitors, since you were their target demographic) and the handling/distribution company of their is one.
Not that it excuses music piracy, but in general there's no "competitor" to that song you like. It's liked for its individuality. I'm leaving sound-a-like bands, covers, remixes, live-albums and such out of the argument. If there's some one particular recoding of a piece you want, it's not that case that you can get the 95% of the full performance you needed most for less by turning to a competing artist.
I thought the "dark ages" comment was pretty silly, too.
... NBA, NFL, MLS, NCAA, Notre Dame University, Ford Field, Michael Jordan, to throw a few aquired licenses out there).
I mean in the USA, EA (and each other game company) bothers to get permission for name/likeness from the appropriate Players' Associations (and many other entities
Sure, they do so mostly out of fear of having their asses sued off in the USA. Now they have to wake up and do the same in other countries. This means they'll quit doing it at all? Hardly. Too many people would hold back buying/recommending an otherwise good game 'cause it lacks the licenses.
Not that it matters to anyone. Clearly from reading the comments here, the porn angle was the way to go to get this widely read (not the Cringely article, obviously, just the slashblurb).
But, Cringely talks about hiding data . And, yes, current consumer wireless tech is a poor fit to the task of
securing data, but that will change.
Personally, I just like the plug-and-play, out-of-sight storage idea. You could, very seriously, drop this in any closet with electrical outlets and serve up media/storage to a host of gadgets in your house. For current implementations, I'd worry about robustness (can I really just turn it on and forget about it till the drive dies?). I know my damn wireless router gets all screwed up if I try to activate MAC address controls.
Previewing is only helpful if you read the preview. I, of course, meant self-replicating where I put the second self-modifying.
... are two minutes up yet?
La la la
No computer is a Turing machine in implementation (icky tape heads wandering around on an infinite tape - or a finite tape if you knew in advance what algorithm you were about to run), and von Neumann machine refers to implementation.
A von Neumann architecture treats memory as one big serially addressable hunk of unlabeled "stuff". There's no way to look at the memory and know what anything is (instruction or data? what type of data? what's the meaning of this data?) until you try and execute the memory and see what happens. This leaves the door wide open for self-modifying code, which is maybe what triggered you to think self-modifying.
Um, Linux, KDE, Gnome,
And does the community need to decide between Gnome and KDE? No. The individual does, sure, but again the ability to play and decide is supposed to be why many of us use Linux.
I don't think there's a legitimate beef about TrollTech's license for QT/KDE. It allows Linux distros to put it out there; it lets others use it to put their own apps out there; it says go ahead and make money with our product, but pay us for helping make your product look desireable. What's wrong with that? I'm less thrilled with the Win32 license, but I can see that maybe they feel there's less of a history of Win32 developers giving back (I've never bothered to look into their reasons, this just seems like a reason I might have not have made the licenses the same). Keep in mind, the GPL doesn't let you make money on the software itself
Now, I'm not trying to paint you as obsessed with winning the Linux desktop or overtaking MS
And they do that much already ... on their Zeitgeist page: http://google.com/zeitgeist
But this is different. The article is about monitoring the blogs, not the searches. As suggested in another comment, this may be related to Google's acquisition of Blogger.
Here's what I think they should to for April Fools this year: one made-up story, posted over and over again, all day long.
And it should be about a new technology to prevent /. dupes.
On the other hand, I found this one pretty confusing.
The anti-Picard?
Make it not so!
Your emphasis on female flesh as a prime distraction leads me to think you may just be a teen-aged male.