I don't think we want the helmsman staring down at his console to make sure he pushes the forward button instead of the back one, when he should be looking out the main viewer at the Borg cube.
I took apart a keyboard to turn it into a "Star Trek" keyboard - no buttons, you just touched spots on plastic - which is basically what a keyboard is underneath the buttons.
I didn't even get all the way and it was annoying as hell - it was quite responsive when you touched the right spot on the plastic, but when not staring at the keyboard there was no feedback - no feel of the buttons to tell you where your hands were located, since it was all a smooth plastic film, and you lost the tactile feedback from pushing the button and knowing it was pushed.
The question is, is it worth the extra cost for the added value? We can take someone's temperature in two seconds with a digital ear thermometer, so is there much more value in being able to take it from the air?
Back in kindergarten we all learned to print neatly.
Then, a few grades later, they taught us to write in cursive, and our handwriting became horrible.
After I got out of middle school and they rightly stopped caring if I wrote print or cursive, I tried to switch back to print but my handwriting was already damaged beyond recognition.
If they just stuck with print, everything would be fine.
"I am viewing Slashdot on a Powerbook with a bluetooth mouse. My bluetooth phone is a few feet away and its bluetooth headset is next to it. This seems to be common among posters tonight. Bluetooth this and Bluetooth that all hooked up to an Apple."
I just want to speak up as having never used Bluetooth in my life.
I'm pretty sure some people are born without an appendix, for example. Or how about those women who have a mutation that gives them extra color sensitivity?
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Yeah, I only ever got turn based games working networked, since I couldn't do assembly...
Tim
Was it networked, or two players on one calc?
Tim
Because whether or not they were trying to innovate their UI, there would be certain UI conventions that were verboten, like the scroll wheel.
Tim
Before you play Unreal Tournament, you might want to sign the petition for Mac Half Life 2!
Tim
Cracking the case and tearing apart glued components is not easy.
Easy is opening the door on my Nomad, sliding out the old battery, and sliding the new one in.
No, it's not a great hardship to change the iPod battery, but it's stupid. If Apple made a light fixture they'd probably glue the bulb in place.
Tim
If you were running Windows XP, you'd be able to say the same thing about your Windows machines.
Tim
Warforge will open the beta...
Tim
I made a dumb mistake, actually - the jacks can have four wires, but that allows for two lines on one jack...
Tim
Do you guys have the same 4 wire copper wiring that we generally have in our POTS?
Tim
I don't think you've ever bought DSL. You don't necessarily get your rated speed. They expressly add a disclaimer that speed is not guaranteed.
Tim
I don't think we want the helmsman staring down at his console to make sure he pushes the forward button instead of the back one, when he should be looking out the main viewer at the Borg cube.
Tim
There's 640 kbps DSL and there's 3 Mbps DSL...
I want it in LOC/sec.
Tim
It is.
I took apart a keyboard to turn it into a "Star Trek" keyboard - no buttons, you just touched spots on plastic - which is basically what a keyboard is underneath the buttons.
I didn't even get all the way and it was annoying as hell - it was quite responsive when you touched the right spot on the plastic, but when not staring at the keyboard there was no feedback - no feel of the buttons to tell you where your hands were located, since it was all a smooth plastic film, and you lost the tactile feedback from pushing the button and knowing it was pushed.
Tim
The question is, is it worth the extra cost for the added value? We can take someone's temperature in two seconds with a digital ear thermometer, so is there much more value in being able to take it from the air?
Tim
Back in kindergarten we all learned to print neatly.
Then, a few grades later, they taught us to write in cursive, and our handwriting became horrible.
After I got out of middle school and they rightly stopped caring if I wrote print or cursive, I tried to switch back to print but my handwriting was already damaged beyond recognition.
If they just stuck with print, everything would be fine.
Tim
Nowhere near as good as Wikipedia - E2 doesn't take itself seriously enough the be an encyclopedia, but takes itself too seriously to be "Everything."
Tim
The same thing was once said to me by a very wise man. You see, very soon you return the beer to the bar.
Tim
Here in NYC with a tip I sometimes pay $6 for a pint. It is good beer, however, that I suspect I would never find outside of the city.
Tim
It is sad that you consider using Bluetooth some sort of prerequisite for being a good person.
Tim
Normally I am not a fan of LCDs, but maybe you guys should have gotten some.
Tim
"I am viewing Slashdot on a Powerbook with a bluetooth mouse. My bluetooth phone is a few feet away and its bluetooth headset is next to it. This seems to be common among posters tonight. Bluetooth this and Bluetooth that all hooked up to an Apple."
I just want to speak up as having never used Bluetooth in my life.
Tim
How about Carlo Rossi, in the big jug?
Tim
I've had some pretty nasty vodka....
Tim
I'm pretty sure some people are born without an appendix, for example. Or how about those women who have a mutation that gives them extra color sensitivity?
Tim
When we dig back through the fossil record, the further back in time we find fossils the simpler the organisms are.
So there's macro evolution or God is an asshole playing tricks on us with dinosaur bones and trilobite skeletons...
Tim