There's actually no point whatsoever in learning to touch-type exactly as it is taught. The whole concept is for typists, who have to type megabytes of text without thinking much. When you have to think what you're about to type, the speed is of no real concern.
How many people program at 100wpm? Continuously?
So I think you're right. Torturing your hands in positions invented for mindless work is wrong. Unless someone has $minimal_wage "data entry" job, but then, there's host of other problems...
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It's a rewarding pastime, too.
To you. But is it so pleasant for the family and neighbours?
The recent "Earth is only 6000 years old" movement really needs a better name, because while it's tied to creationism, it isn't exactly the same thing. The fundies started up with the insistence on 6000 years simply because it pretty much dismisses the possibility of any evolutionary processes.
It's frequently called "young Earth". This idiocy comes from literal understanding of the Bible and calculations of archbishop Usher (IIRC). That guy added up lifetimes of all generations mentioned in the Old Testament and concluded, that the world was created 4004 years before birth of Christ. I don't think it got popular as anti-evolution thing, but who knows what fundies "think"?
It comes bundled with belief in actual flood, anti-evolutionism and other generic antiscience.
"Open" office was created not for the benefit of the workers or even the company itself. It was created to please little egos of little managers that feel "in control" if they see all their slaves sitting where ordered.
Unfortunately doing any smart work in either open office or cubicle farm is almost impossible. It doesn't matter much whether you see the morons making noise or not...
Sure there are lots of money to be made selling counterfeit whatever. When you sell, you get the money from customer.
Can you (or someone else) explain, how exactly does Osama benefit from someone downloading latest movies or music off Kazaa or BT? I don't see the money getting to their caves here...
They have to know what has been done already, lest they invent the wheel and fire again and again.
And more seriously, to actually invent something complicated or make significat advancement of science you need to know a lot. Think about, say, genetic engineering, quantum physics or nanotechnology. If I were to try to propose something in these fields I'd probably be laughed out because it will be either completely wrong or blatantly obvious to specialists. I know very little about these fields.
As the sum of human knowledge grows, the time to learn to the level necessary to discover something new will grow also. That's unfortunate, but that's reality.
Different people learn differently, while the modern education system assumes homogenous mass of pupils. To achieve that effect, everything is dumbed down to the level well below average.
One thing that would help immensely would be personalized education after some basics (like grammar school). Some are better at sciences, some are better at humanities, some are lost cause. Let everyone progress into their best at earlier age. Even if it means that you will have engineers that don't know Shakespeare or historians that don't know what Carnot's cycle is. If they will want, thy will learn it. But they will be better at their primary skills. Does a programmer really have to know what is the function of mitochondria?
A CEO with a vision is like a primed grenade. It may kill your enemies but as likely it can kill you. Seen that more than once... a vision of bright future that turns ugly.
I understand that company leaders need to be paid more, but there should be a limit. Much lower that what become the typical level today.
And then all "golden parachute" tricks should be forbidden by the law. If you fuck up the company you should suffer too. Today CEOs don't take any risk themselves and that leads to all kinds of idiocy, which lower level employees suffer... alone.
They will claim that the DRM and other "security" features will protect people from viruses, hackers, data theft, whatever. And people will buy it...:-(
Some modem makers have licensed Hayes patent and they require 1 second pause between +++ and ATH0, so the trick won't work. Many others decided to skip this patent and instead check for valid command after +++.
A number of ISPs had this kind of modems, so some fucktards used to put this in their sigs. (oh well for typical luser it's enough to put "press alt-f4 for more details" in the sig;-))
There was even an attempt of using complex commands to make the modem dial back. That didn't work, unfortunately...
In fact there is no shortage of IPv4 addresses. Good half of the address space is still "reserved for future use". We are still years if not decades from time when IPv6 will be actually useful.
I hope, though, it will be replaced by something more sensible. Many people have to remember IP addresses, it's easy with v4 but PITA with v6. Other features are nice, but usability for humans is terrible.
You need a new keyboard, your "0" key has loose contacts.
It's a $5000 upgrade to your almost-free DVD drive.
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Not only older people but a whole lot of people who do not dig "smaller is better".
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Not attractive if your criterion of attractiveness is "how easy it is to stuff into bunghole". It's handy and probably well fitting to hold, much unlike the latest-and-smallest.
I've had it enough with phones too small to hold comfortably, buttons you need toothpick to push. The best phone I ever had was Nokia 6250, a big "armored" phone. If they were to put updated internals (with BT and GPRS) into the same case, I'd run and buy one.
And besides, the cellphone has three key functions (for me) 1. talking with people 2. sending SMS 3. alarm clock. All the rest is not necessary. If I want portable games, there's Gameboy. If I need notes, calendar etc, the PDA is better. If I need digital photos, a camera with real lens is better. So this phone is a very good phone but not a fancy combo device.
But that's the point - unless you put in stakes to mark your claim, fence to keep people off and hire some security (or sit with that laser rifle in hand), your claim there isn't worth shit anyway.
Really, it's not much different from how things are on Earth...
So... the best way to own a piece of martian scenery is to organize an expedition, land there and then proclaim Republic of Mars (or kingdom, or whatever) and get your land granted by the new govt.
For Linux, sure. For Windows, not unless they replace the memory management. It normally uses swap even when there's plenty of free memory and this is supposed to be a feature, not a design bug...
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They aren't. Ruling class needs only obedient sheeple.
At least they don't show commercials between "scenes", as well.
Don't you worry, Blu-Ray will fix that.
These speeds sure come in handy when you have to reenter your 1 billion records database from printouts.
But are they useful for much else?
There's actually no point whatsoever in learning to touch-type exactly as it is taught. The whole concept is for typists, who have to type megabytes of text without thinking much. When you have to think what you're about to type, the speed is of no real concern.
How many people program at 100wpm? Continuously?
So I think you're right. Torturing your hands in positions invented for mindless work is wrong. Unless someone has $minimal_wage "data entry" job, but then, there's host of other problems...
It's a rewarding pastime, too.
To you. But is it so pleasant for the family and neighbours?
There's no way Miyazaki (or even all the world together) could save Disney's soul, because Disney Corp has sold it to devil long ago.
There's no soul to save, only quarterly revenue reports to write. Well, Miyazaki's movie will make them look better, no doubt.
The recent "Earth is only 6000 years old" movement really needs a better name, because while it's tied to creationism, it isn't exactly the same thing. The fundies started up with the insistence on 6000 years simply because it pretty much dismisses the possibility of any evolutionary processes.
It's frequently called "young Earth". This idiocy comes from literal understanding of the Bible and calculations of archbishop Usher (IIRC). That guy added up lifetimes of all generations mentioned in the Old Testament and concluded, that the world was created 4004 years before birth of Christ. I don't think it got popular as anti-evolution thing, but who knows what fundies "think"?
It comes bundled with belief in actual flood, anti-evolutionism and other generic antiscience.
They prefer to have alpha-level software without the label.
Witticisms are for the witless.
"Open" office was created not for the benefit of the workers or even the company itself. It was created to please little egos of little managers that feel "in control" if they see all their slaves sitting where ordered.
Unfortunately doing any smart work in either open office or cubicle farm is almost impossible. It doesn't matter much whether you see the morons making noise or not...
Sure there are lots of money to be made selling counterfeit whatever. When you sell, you get the money from customer.
Can you (or someone else) explain, how exactly does Osama benefit from someone downloading latest movies or music off Kazaa or BT? I don't see the money getting to their caves here...
They have to know what has been done already, lest they invent the wheel and fire again and again.
And more seriously, to actually invent something complicated or make significat advancement of science you need to know a lot. Think about, say, genetic engineering, quantum physics or nanotechnology. If I were to try to propose something in these fields I'd probably be laughed out because it will be either completely wrong or blatantly obvious to specialists. I know very little about these fields.
As the sum of human knowledge grows, the time to learn to the level necessary to discover something new will grow also. That's unfortunate, but that's reality.
Different people learn differently, while the modern education system assumes homogenous mass of pupils. To achieve that effect, everything is dumbed down to the level well below average.
One thing that would help immensely would be personalized education after some basics (like grammar school). Some are better at sciences, some are better at humanities, some are lost cause. Let everyone progress into their best at earlier age. Even if it means that you will have engineers that don't know Shakespeare or historians that don't know what Carnot's cycle is. If they will want, thy will learn it. But they will be better at their primary skills. Does a programmer really have to know what is the function of mitochondria?
A CEO with a vision is like a primed grenade. It may kill your enemies but as likely it can kill you. Seen that more than once... a vision of bright future that turns ugly.
I understand that company leaders need to be paid more, but there should be a limit. Much lower that what become the typical level today.
And then all "golden parachute" tricks should be forbidden by the law. If you fuck up the company you should suffer too. Today CEOs don't take any risk themselves and that leads to all kinds of idiocy, which lower level employees suffer... alone.
They will claim that the DRM and other "security" features will protect people from viruses, hackers, data theft, whatever. And people will buy it... :-(
Some modem makers have licensed Hayes patent and they require 1 second pause between +++ and ATH0, so the trick won't work. Many others decided to skip this patent and instead check for valid command after +++.
;-))
A number of ISPs had this kind of modems, so some fucktards used to put this in their sigs. (oh well for typical luser it's enough to put "press alt-f4 for more details" in the sig
There was even an attempt of using complex commands to make the modem dial back. That didn't work, unfortunately...
I see a business opportunity here...
"Going to fly? Don't forget your TruePrivacy(tm) lead-lined underwear! Available in any Walmart store nearby."
Now see, I'm giving this away coz I have principles (and don't have money to patent it).
In fact there is no shortage of IPv4 addresses. Good half of the address space is still "reserved for future use". We are still years if not decades from time when IPv6 will be actually useful.
I hope, though, it will be replaced by something more sensible. Many people have to remember IP addresses, it's easy with v4 but PITA with v6. Other features are nice, but usability for humans is terrible.
You need a new keyboard, your "0" key has loose contacts.
It's a $5000 upgrade to your almost-free DVD drive.
Not only older people but a whole lot of people who do not dig "smaller is better".
Not attractive if your criterion of attractiveness is "how easy it is to stuff into bunghole". It's handy and probably well fitting to hold, much unlike the latest-and-smallest.
I've had it enough with phones too small to hold comfortably, buttons you need toothpick to push. The best phone I ever had was Nokia 6250, a big "armored" phone. If they were to put updated internals (with BT and GPRS) into the same case, I'd run and buy one.
And besides, the cellphone has three key functions (for me) 1. talking with people 2. sending SMS 3. alarm clock. All the rest is not necessary. If I want portable games, there's Gameboy. If I need notes, calendar etc, the PDA is better. If I need digital photos, a camera with real lens is better. So this phone is a very good phone but not a fancy combo device.
But that's the point - unless you put in stakes to mark your claim, fence to keep people off and hire some security (or sit with that laser rifle in hand), your claim there isn't worth shit anyway.
Really, it's not much different from how things are on Earth...
So... the best way to own a piece of martian scenery is to organize an expedition, land there and then proclaim Republic of Mars (or kingdom, or whatever) and get your land granted by the new govt.
IANAL... but there's a difference betwen abandoned and lost. Lost must be returned to owner (there may be compensation), abandoned is free for taking.
Their reasoning seems to be:
has laptop = is rich = can pay triple = let's charge some extra
Yeah, I see this every time I go shopping for computer stuff.
For Linux, sure.
For Windows, not unless they replace the memory management. It normally uses swap even when there's plenty of free memory and this is supposed to be a feature, not a design bug...