They release all these movies with huge amounts of computer-generated special effects, high-dollar actors, etc., and after they flop, they just don't get it.
Most of these computer-generated special effects don't hold a candle to the special effects of the 1980's and early '90s. They're not going to recreate the awesomeness of Bladerunner when they've decided that lens flares are a stylistic decision rather than an obstable that a trained crew should avoid at all costs. They can't keep coating the world with brown sugar to make it look drearier than it is, or tinting it green to make it look surreal, without it becoming a bland gimmick.
And the actors - well, let's face it. Pretty much every high-dollar actor has been cast in films that just outright suck by now. Movie nuts may have some kind of attachment to their favorite stars, but I really think that most people prefer to see a good story being told rather than Nicholas Cage's blank "wut just happen" stare, etc. There're plenty of lower-dollar actors who do genuinely wish to entertain, and I think they get overlooked by the rabble.
It's kind of tough to understand why people would think that DDG has any magic to stop the NSA from eavesdropping on it in realtime. Isn't its hosting done by Amazon to begin with? (srsly a question, idk)
Aside from that, DDG does have its benefits. Not setting any cookies is important. Not remembering search history on their end is important. It also prefers to serve up SSL-enabled pages instead of their unencrypted counterparts. And a very beneficial feature is that it doesn't set the referrer when you go somewhere.
But NOTHING will prevent the NSA from eavesdropping on traffic en-route if they choose to do so, given that they have the incentive to do so and the cooperation of the providers that actually matter.
As long as the event is generated instantaneously when the interrupt is called, which is the case with the Linux atkbd driver at least, it'll make quite a bit of difference. I think you meant "processed" rather than "polled," in which case you can realize instantly that some overhead has been removed from the process, since it goes from "poll, then process" to "just process".
The larger enter key and placement of the backslash that you describe regarding A4Tech's click boxes are part of the "ISO keymap," but the ones you and I prefer are part of the "ANSI keymap". Just thought you'd like to know.:)
FYI- ISO = International Standards Organization ("International Organization for Standardization")
and
ANSI = "American National Standards Institute"
I'm not sure if this is truthful, but it's what I've read in the past. I recall long ago that I was researching this exact topic and came to the conclusion that a good keyboard (Ducky, Filco, Das, WASD, etc) plugged into a PS/2 port is the best solution to combat latency.
The reasoning was something like - USB acts by polling the device, so you're pretty much stuck with whatever frequency limitations your driver/port/OS provide. But with PS/2, your input is not polled; rather, it calls an interrupt the second data is available.
A little-known bonus is that a lot of the cheesy "gaming" keyboards these days (even some of the mechanical ones!) don't allow n-key rollover unless they're plugged in via PS/2 either.
But again, I don't really know the truthfulness of this (aside from the n-key rollover thing, which I experienced with keyboards made by non-dedicated keyboard manufacturers). Any insights, comrades?
It isn't officially supported, but it is possible to patch CyanogenMod to allow information/permission spoofing. Research "openpdroid" (newest), pdroid2 (unmaintained), or pdroid (abandoned) for more info, as well as the "autopatcher" on XDA forums for a tool to patch already packaged CM/etc ROMs.
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They release all these movies with huge amounts of computer-generated special effects, high-dollar actors, etc., and after they flop, they just don't get it.
Most of these computer-generated special effects don't hold a candle to the special effects of the 1980's and early '90s. They're not going to recreate the awesomeness of Bladerunner when they've decided that lens flares are a stylistic decision rather than an obstable that a trained crew should avoid at all costs. They can't keep coating the world with brown sugar to make it look drearier than it is, or tinting it green to make it look surreal, without it becoming a bland gimmick.
And the actors - well, let's face it. Pretty much every high-dollar actor has been cast in films that just outright suck by now. Movie nuts may have some kind of attachment to their favorite stars, but I really think that most people prefer to see a good story being told rather than Nicholas Cage's blank "wut just happen" stare, etc. There're plenty of lower-dollar actors who do genuinely wish to entertain, and I think they get overlooked by the rabble.
It's kind of tough to understand why people would think that DDG has any magic to stop the NSA from eavesdropping on it in realtime. Isn't its hosting done by Amazon to begin with? (srsly a question, idk)
Aside from that, DDG does have its benefits. Not setting any cookies is important. Not remembering search history on their end is important. It also prefers to serve up SSL-enabled pages instead of their unencrypted counterparts. And a very beneficial feature is that it doesn't set the referrer when you go somewhere.
But NOTHING will prevent the NSA from eavesdropping on traffic en-route if they choose to do so, given that they have the incentive to do so and the cooperation of the providers that actually matter.
As long as the event is generated instantaneously when the interrupt is called, which is the case with the Linux atkbd driver at least, it'll make quite a bit of difference. I think you meant "processed" rather than "polled," in which case you can realize instantly that some overhead has been removed from the process, since it goes from "poll, then process" to "just process".
The larger enter key and placement of the backslash that you describe regarding A4Tech's click boxes are part of the "ISO keymap," but the ones you and I prefer are part of the "ANSI keymap". Just thought you'd like to know. :)
FYI- ISO = International Standards Organization ("International Organization for Standardization")
and
ANSI = "American National Standards Institute"
I'm not sure if this is truthful, but it's what I've read in the past. I recall long ago that I was researching this exact topic and came to the conclusion that a good keyboard (Ducky, Filco, Das, WASD, etc) plugged into a PS/2 port is the best solution to combat latency. The reasoning was something like - USB acts by polling the device, so you're pretty much stuck with whatever frequency limitations your driver/port/OS provide. But with PS/2, your input is not polled; rather, it calls an interrupt the second data is available. A little-known bonus is that a lot of the cheesy "gaming" keyboards these days (even some of the mechanical ones!) don't allow n-key rollover unless they're plugged in via PS/2 either. But again, I don't really know the truthfulness of this (aside from the n-key rollover thing, which I experienced with keyboards made by non-dedicated keyboard manufacturers). Any insights, comrades?
It isn't officially supported, but it is possible to patch CyanogenMod to allow information/permission spoofing. Research "openpdroid" (newest), pdroid2 (unmaintained), or pdroid (abandoned) for more info, as well as the "autopatcher" on XDA forums for a tool to patch already packaged CM/etc ROMs.