Try adjusting your sitting position, chair height, equipment placement, etc. It may not be the mouse that's causing the problem. A good mouse can still give you pain if your body is positioned wrong.
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You would that instead of perpetually being behind Microsoft in the current state of the libraries, that we would develop a completely new set of libraries. That way we aren't always playing catch up to what will ultimately be a windows only set of libraries.
The Mono project is developing its own set of libraries. Read Question #1 of the Mono FAQ. This is why I support the Mono project. It's not just following in the footsteps of Microsoft. It's taking a good idea and pushing it beyond where Microsoft may or may not choose to take it.
Photoshop too expensive? Get Photoshop Elements. They basically took all the features that people use most in the non-professional arena and made an affordable version of Photoshop. Straight from Adobe it costs $99, which is definitely affordable to the non-professional user. If you need the full version, and own Elements, you can upgrade for the price difference of Photoshop and Elements. It's by no means a "crippled" version of Photoshop either. It even has features that aren't in the full version.
So far many of the comments seem to be along the lines of, "SQL Server for a PDA?! WHY?!" Well, why not? Think about where PDA's could be headed. Why not have the PDA be the server for your Personal Area Network?
PDA's these days are getting more and more powerful. They're already as powerful as what was on the desktop less than a decade ago, and they're catching up fast. It's not unreal that in 5 years we'll have PDA's capable of running Half Life 2 and Doom 3. I mean, today's PDA's can already run Quake 1 and 2.
So back to SQL Server. Why is it bad that they are developing a version of SQL Server running for this kind of platform? It seems the perfect starting point for some really powerful mobile apps.
A friend of mine had a Toshiba laptop way back when and it fell of the third floor fire-escape and landed on concrete below. The casing was a bit cracked and the keyboard popped off, but it still worked.
But speaking of "hardy hardware", I bought a 128MB USB memory drive a couple years ago when they first started hitting the market. I bought a DiskOnKey drive and it had quite an interesting spec sheet that said it could withstand shock up to 10 G's and vibrations of 5 G's. Not bad for a little drive like that. Most of the other ones I've seen recently are very fragile and the casing will pop open even when dropped from desk height.
(When I first saw the site name, I thought to myself, "Dis Konkey? What a stupid name.")
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So as far as I understand, if it detects that you have a trojan or virus, you get disconnected.
Moral issues aside of whether they should be running P2P software or not, doesn't this cause a problem for the person who now has a disconnected computer with a virus or trojan and can't go do his "auto-update" to get the latest virus defs?
This is not a method of securing data, but rather a method of creating a search query. The object that gets scanned serves only to call up data tagged to that object.
Manhole covers are round because it's a shape that can't fall into the hole it covers. A square lid would be able to be rotated and fall into the hole it covers.
I'm sure the above is a troll, but I'll answer anyways. When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.
That's about it? Well, I'm sure that your second sentence is a troll. The OS, IE, and freecell? Really, man. When's the last time you installed Windows?
I have been beta testing There since the public beta opened. It's really hard to give you an idea of the scope of this system and its potential, but I'll try. (I call it a system because it's not a game by any means.)
First of all, the engine they have created is absolutely astounding. There are no "different servers" or "different maps" in There. It's all one place. Everyone is in There at once. The planet is literally the size of Earth in terms of scale, and actually is a sphere. Let me say that again, the planet is a sphere. In terms of scale, you can zoom seamlessly all the way from a view from orbit down to the lava lamp on the desk in your house.
Many "large environment" engines tend to use fog as a way of not rendering terrain a certain distance away from you. There has no such "fog". You can be literally miles away and see mountains in the distance on the horizon. Then, you can actually travel to those mountains, having them get larger and clearer as you get nearer to them. Movement from one area to another is totally seamless.
People who hadn't actually used There commmented in the earlier Slashdot post that this was not even close to a step towards an actual working metaverse. But, man, I have to tell you. After two months of using There, it's is such a huge leap toward an actual working metaverse that I actually felt a sense of relief almost when I realized what kind of potential this system has. It was relief that someone had actually created a working system that brought to life many of the aspects of what a working metaverse must have.
Another area I have to touch on is the immersiveness of There. First off, the avatar animations are absolutely astounding. They are the most polished, consistent, and realistic avatars I've seen. They respond to what you type, nodding when you say things like "yup", "yes", "yeah", etc., or actually laughing when you type "lol". Most other 3D chat systems are simply IRC with a superfluous add-on of a 3D avatar. In There, the avatars actually for an integral part of the conversation in terms of getting your message across and how it is received.
Another incredible aspect of There is user-created content. With an area literally the size of a planet, There, Inc. does not expect to fill it all with content the There artists and developers come up with. While currently only partially released to the public, the developer's kit will actually allow you to create any kind of object you want and program it to act how you want. Some people want horses. With the dev-kit, you can actually make them, and ride them.
In terms of the economy, they have done many things right. First of all, there is an integrated auctioning system, removing the need for a 3rd-party method of transaction, such as EBay. Will people spend money on a system like this? Yes. I have talked to literally dozens of people who have spent $60+ in There, all of which have never spent money on online games and had all vowed they never would. They all feel it was well-spent. They really are doing something right.
Finally, it's not a game. It's an online social environment. The capabilities of the system are incredible. You have have games inside There, but it's not limited to that. It would be like saying your car is a very big radio. To give you an example, a game like EverQuest, in its entirety, could exist within the There system. Games are simply a sub-set of the system.
I could go on for pages and pages about There and its potential. Suffice to say, it's really hard to knock it unless you've actually tried it and really explored its depths. It has vast potential, and I have no qualms about saying it could be considered The Metaverse v.01b, and I'm such a hardcore geek that you'd have to really floor me to get me to even compare something to a real, working metaverse.
It doesn't matter if you have the fastest hardware in the world if you can't use it because of badly designed software.
Which is interesting, because "badly designed software" was the cry of some of the Mac fans on that site in regard to why the Mac benchmarks were slower than the PC benchmarks.
Even if it does end up being cheaper to produce, don't expect too much of a price drop though. (At least for quite a while.) My guess is companies will charge about the same, and enjoy the increased profits. Slowly, over time, I'm sure the price will come down due to competition.
The browser is integrated into the OS? I don't mean to troll, but it annoys me that this is tossed off lightly as an aside of "Oh, and the browser is integrated." How many thousands of posts have been made on this site flaming Microsoft for doing this exact same thing?
Just a minute, there, though. You talk about people helping themselves, but you missed an important point.
The responsibility also lies with the person being ignored. They can feel all sad and depressed because their loved one doesn't pay attention to them anymore, but they are the ones who chose someone who had those kind of priorities.
You're totally right in the fact that it's not the computer game that's making their loved one ignore them. But if they are with someone who is going to choose a video game over a relationship, well, they need to choose their loved ones a little more carefully.
I use a PC and I have to disagree with your comments.
First of all, of course you will have to use Windows for doing video editing on the PC. Why you would think there are loads of NLE video editing packages out there for Linux, I'm not sure.
Second of all, your statement that the editing packages available for Windows are crap is wrong. Have you even tried any? Recently? And for more than ten minutes? Define crap. I use Vegas Video, by Sonic Foundry, and I can't find anything FCP does that VV doesn't.
Also, FCP isn't the professional industry standard. Avid is.
Don't most companies sit in the red for quite a while? How is this so much different from other business ventures? I mean, look at how long Amazon.com was in the red. Being in the red after the first year is hardly news.
You should check out NewPen. It's an app that turns your screen area into the graffiti pad. That in itself is not so useful. What is useful is that it actually traces behind your stylus so you can see what you are writing. It also draws the big dot where you started, so you can see the flow. My graffiti handwriting improved 10x just from this app alone, mainly because I can actually see what I'm writing.
I thought this would be a tough app to live with, but it was thought out well. Go ahead and try it to see what I mean.
The other option is to get a Sony Clie that has the software-drawn graffiti area. Those models feature the draw-behind by default. Very smart, but then again, Sony has always made cool stuff cooler.
This kind of technology brings up some interesting possibilities for the field of espionage.
For example, the passing of information from an agent to another agent could be as inconspicuous as two people whose hands happen to touch while holding the same handrail in a subway car.
Slashdot Mirror
Try adjusting your sitting position, chair height, equipment placement, etc. It may not be the mouse that's causing the problem. A good mouse can still give you pain if your body is positioned wrong.
The Mono project is developing its own set of libraries. Read Question #1 of the Mono FAQ. This is why I support the Mono project. It's not just following in the footsteps of Microsoft. It's taking a good idea and pushing it beyond where Microsoft may or may not choose to take it.
Photoshop too expensive? Get Photoshop Elements. They basically took all the features that people use most in the non-professional arena and made an affordable version of Photoshop. Straight from Adobe it costs $99, which is definitely affordable to the non-professional user. If you need the full version, and own Elements, you can upgrade for the price difference of Photoshop and Elements. It's by no means a "crippled" version of Photoshop either. It even has features that aren't in the full version.
Name a really powerful desktop app that requires SQL Server and then imagine taking it with you when you leave your desk.
So far many of the comments seem to be along the lines of, "SQL Server for a PDA?! WHY?!" Well, why not? Think about where PDA's could be headed. Why not have the PDA be the server for your Personal Area Network?
PDA's these days are getting more and more powerful. They're already as powerful as what was on the desktop less than a decade ago, and they're catching up fast. It's not unreal that in 5 years we'll have PDA's capable of running Half Life 2 and Doom 3. I mean, today's PDA's can already run Quake 1 and 2.
So back to SQL Server. Why is it bad that they are developing a version of SQL Server running for this kind of platform? It seems the perfect starting point for some really powerful mobile apps.
A friend of mine had a Toshiba laptop way back when and it fell of the third floor fire-escape and landed on concrete below. The casing was a bit cracked and the keyboard popped off, but it still worked.
But speaking of "hardy hardware", I bought a 128MB USB memory drive a couple years ago when they first started hitting the market. I bought a DiskOnKey drive and it had quite an interesting spec sheet that said it could withstand shock up to 10 G's and vibrations of 5 G's. Not bad for a little drive like that. Most of the other ones I've seen recently are very fragile and the casing will pop open even when dropped from desk height.
(When I first saw the site name, I thought to myself, "Dis Konkey? What a stupid name.")
DTD Repositories
There are some other great ones out there, but that should get you started.
Someone did ask.
"One small step for Yang, one giant leap for a third of Mankind."
So as far as I understand, if it detects that you have a trojan or virus, you get disconnected.
Moral issues aside of whether they should be running P2P software or not, doesn't this cause a problem for the person who now has a disconnected computer with a virus or trojan and can't go do his "auto-update" to get the latest virus defs?
This is not a method of securing data, but rather a method of creating a search query. The object that gets scanned serves only to call up data tagged to that object.
Did you read the article?
Manhole covers are round because it's a shape that can't fall into the hole it covers. A square lid would be able to be rotated and fall into the hole it covers.
I'm sure the above is a troll, but I'll answer anyways. When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.
That's about it? Well, I'm sure that your second sentence is a troll. The OS, IE, and freecell? Really, man. When's the last time you installed Windows?
I have been beta testing There since the public beta opened. It's really hard to give you an idea of the scope of this system and its potential, but I'll try. (I call it a system because it's not a game by any means.)
First of all, the engine they have created is absolutely astounding. There are no "different servers" or "different maps" in There. It's all one place. Everyone is in There at once. The planet is literally the size of Earth in terms of scale, and actually is a sphere. Let me say that again, the planet is a sphere. In terms of scale, you can zoom seamlessly all the way from a view from orbit down to the lava lamp on the desk in your house.
Many "large environment" engines tend to use fog as a way of not rendering terrain a certain distance away from you. There has no such "fog". You can be literally miles away and see mountains in the distance on the horizon. Then, you can actually travel to those mountains, having them get larger and clearer as you get nearer to them. Movement from one area to another is totally seamless.
People who hadn't actually used There commmented in the earlier Slashdot post that this was not even close to a step towards an actual working metaverse. But, man, I have to tell you. After two months of using There, it's is such a huge leap toward an actual working metaverse that I actually felt a sense of relief almost when I realized what kind of potential this system has. It was relief that someone had actually created a working system that brought to life many of the aspects of what a working metaverse must have.
Another area I have to touch on is the immersiveness of There. First off, the avatar animations are absolutely astounding. They are the most polished, consistent, and realistic avatars I've seen. They respond to what you type, nodding when you say things like "yup", "yes", "yeah", etc., or actually laughing when you type "lol". Most other 3D chat systems are simply IRC with a superfluous add-on of a 3D avatar. In There, the avatars actually for an integral part of the conversation in terms of getting your message across and how it is received.
Another incredible aspect of There is user-created content. With an area literally the size of a planet, There, Inc. does not expect to fill it all with content the There artists and developers come up with. While currently only partially released to the public, the developer's kit will actually allow you to create any kind of object you want and program it to act how you want. Some people want horses. With the dev-kit, you can actually make them, and ride them.
In terms of the economy, they have done many things right. First of all, there is an integrated auctioning system, removing the need for a 3rd-party method of transaction, such as EBay. Will people spend money on a system like this? Yes. I have talked to literally dozens of people who have spent $60+ in There, all of which have never spent money on online games and had all vowed they never would. They all feel it was well-spent. They really are doing something right.
Finally, it's not a game. It's an online social environment. The capabilities of the system are incredible. You have have games inside There, but it's not limited to that. It would be like saying your car is a very big radio. To give you an example, a game like EverQuest, in its entirety, could exist within the There system. Games are simply a sub-set of the system.
I could go on for pages and pages about There and its potential. Suffice to say, it's really hard to knock it unless you've actually tried it and really explored its depths. It has vast potential, and I have no qualms about saying it could be considered The Metaverse v.01b, and I'm such a hardcore geek that you'd have to really floor me to get me to even compare something to a real, working metaverse.
It doesn't matter if you have the fastest hardware in the world if you can't use it because of badly designed software.
Which is interesting, because "badly designed software" was the cry of some of the Mac fans on that site in regard to why the Mac benchmarks were slower than the PC benchmarks.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
There is not a game. Sims is. There is designed to be more like 3D IRC.
Even if it does end up being cheaper to produce, don't expect too much of a price drop though. (At least for quite a while.) My guess is companies will charge about the same, and enjoy the increased profits. Slowly, over time, I'm sure the price will come down due to competition.
The browser is integrated into the OS? I don't mean to troll, but it annoys me that this is tossed off lightly as an aside of "Oh, and the browser is integrated." How many thousands of posts have been made on this site flaming Microsoft for doing this exact same thing?
*sigh*
Sorry, I couldn't get to that link. The server was slashdotted. You should be more considerate about posting links like that.
It will not be missed.
Just a minute, there, though. You talk about people helping themselves, but you missed an important point.
The responsibility also lies with the person being ignored. They can feel all sad and depressed because their loved one doesn't pay attention to them anymore, but they are the ones who chose someone who had those kind of priorities.
You're totally right in the fact that it's not the computer game that's making their loved one ignore them. But if they are with someone who is going to choose a video game over a relationship, well, they need to choose their loved ones a little more carefully.
I use a PC and I have to disagree with your comments.
First of all, of course you will have to use Windows for doing video editing on the PC. Why you would think there are loads of NLE video editing packages out there for Linux, I'm not sure.
Second of all, your statement that the editing packages available for Windows are crap is wrong. Have you even tried any? Recently? And for more than ten minutes? Define crap. I use Vegas Video, by Sonic Foundry, and I can't find anything FCP does that VV doesn't.
Also, FCP isn't the professional industry standard. Avid is.
Don't most companies sit in the red for quite a while? How is this so much different from other business ventures? I mean, look at how long Amazon.com was in the red. Being in the red after the first year is hardly news.
You should check out NewPen. It's an app that turns your screen area into the graffiti pad. That in itself is not so useful. What is useful is that it actually traces behind your stylus so you can see what you are writing. It also draws the big dot where you started, so you can see the flow. My graffiti handwriting improved 10x just from this app alone, mainly because I can actually see what I'm writing.
I thought this would be a tough app to live with, but it was thought out well. Go ahead and try it to see what I mean.
The other option is to get a Sony Clie that has the software-drawn graffiti area. Those models feature the draw-behind by default. Very smart, but then again, Sony has always made cool stuff cooler.
This kind of technology brings up some interesting possibilities for the field of espionage.
For example, the passing of information from an agent to another agent could be as inconspicuous as two people whose hands happen to touch while holding the same handrail in a subway car.