I'm really surprised that people don't whip out their camera phones and film him. He's obviously trying to hide his identity.
Especially after watching his videos, If some idiot got in my face in a public place and didn't go away, I'd just pull out my own phone & film him, telling him I plan to expose his identity "Oh.. you must be the 'surveillance camera guy'.. This is going to be an awesome YouTube post. A lot of people have been wondering what you look like so that they can kick your ass.."
So, playing the game Independence War has shown me that in deep space, your adversary is almost always in a straight line away from you. Why not accelerate away from the bad guy by firing bullets at it nonstop?
but then there's that problem of constantly losing mass.. Something that Spiderman has apparently found a way to get around..
If we can hit a moon of Saturn from the Earth, there is no reason we couldn't fire a hail of bullets intended to reach its target 1 month later, when we know it will be sitting there.
well lets see.. both Firefox & Opera know how to identify themselves to other computers as IE so that some "IE Only" pages will actually load up in them..
It took me a few years to completely switch over. I started in 2000, with a number of lapses back. But I'm completely there now.
Network people hated me. Windows only gives you the standard keyboard at bootup unless you modify some obscure registry setting.. I got the informal "troublemaker" label at 2 of my jobs, so I switched back to be nice.
At my most recent job (Working for the State of Oregon), they asked me on my first day if I needed any specific keyboard accomodation. I told them dvorak, and an extra keyboard for the network types. I put the "language toolbar" prominently on the lower right of my screen so net admins can switch it back when they need to mess with my computer. But thats less of a problem, nowadays. since they usually just VNC right in (or whatever tool they use). They don't touch my computer any more. They just run back to their computer & remote in..
Remote admin uses your keyboard settings, but VMWare does not. So my vmware machines piss off other people. (though VMWare server solved that, as you remote into those...)
I bet those deals above are the main reason that people can stay switched now.
Now for some uncategorized observations..
- you get strange typos like "warked", "thay", "pormission" & substituting most 'o's for a & e, and the reverse.
- i get more typos now. mostly in the vowel department..
- I am finally able to touch type in both layouts. (after 7 years!) , but i have to look away to do qwerty. I still do some micro-cheating with dvorak. It helps that I have it at home & work though. For a time there was a "wig-out" phase where i couldn't type on qwerty.
- Brain remapping feels weird. It has a slightly insane feel to it. Don't worry, it will pass..
- it is weird how your brain compartmentalizes. I hadn't messed with DOS in years (after 2000, never needed to), then lately, I've switched to Ubuntu. and all those 2 or 3 key commands you fire off, like:
cd..
dir/w
etc.. I couldn't type! c is now on the right side of the keyboard & d is in the middle! what the hell?
- you get to know all your passwords in their qwerty mapped equivalents..
- Ubuntu Feisty now does dvorak at the login screen.:) Edgy did not.
- it seems like everything moved from the left side of the keyboard to the right. For a long time I felt like I couldn't take my hands off the keyboard to mouse! What was actually happening though, is that both hands were now being used equally...
- it took me a long time before i could eat chips while typing again.
- I have carpal tunnel. It helps. If it is psychological, don't tell me, and don't read up on it. If it fools me, it can fool you.
- Wife hates it.
- Co-workers no longer try to "drive" on my computer. They throw up both hands & silently curse me.
- m & a are in the same places.
- while learning, there is the "flourescent light" syndrome, when you switch to the other style in the middle of a sentence. disconcerting.
- other people try to switch & fail. Its like watching someone quit smoking.
- I re-map ctrl-c to be ctrl-j & ctrl-v to be ctrl-k & of course ctrl-; will now undo. don't take those positions away, I need that! (autohotkey for windows). I have not figured it out for Ubuntu yet.
- games hate you. If you are lucky, they dont support dvorak, because they think hard about their key positions.
- old programs hate you, BIOS won't support you, I'm gonna eat some worms.
- Friends think that you are cool but stupid
- I like the " being next to where it used to be on my old commodore 64
- Makes you want to look into other weird typing styles, like Chording, etc.. I tried my own keyboard layouts, but work wont let me install the program onto my computer, so I stay with dvorak
- I might just go left-handed dvorak just to piss them off & to free up my right hand to mouse. Though honestly, the more my hand is on the
Not only that, you have 10 other digits you can use. - likely not for an action game, but.. think about using your foot with a trackball. I suggest the $99.00 Kensington. Works for me..
because if you can't now go back and kill your own father, or even alter his life in a significant way, then i would propose that you couldn't alter the lineage of anyone else's grandfather currently alive today.. including... the grandfather of the weed growing out from under my front porch, and the great great grandfather of the storm that came through Portland last night, and I wouldn't even be able to alter significantly the grandfather of the air molecule that carried anthrax to the nose of that old lady in connecticut soon after September 11th. So this really says that you cannot alter *anything*, because you would be altering the lineage, or trajectory of any molecule that made up any existing object (including the cells in your possibly now-dead father's arm, even if he died before you went back!
so i guess then I could watch the past on TV, but never go there..
You mean The president of the Newspaper? I sure hope they don't try to blame the coder on this one. because if I do my mental math correctly, I would think that the coder probably *makes the newspaper* more than the million that was lost.. Not only that. I'd blame the testing department, or moreso, the Programming Manager before the coder, but then, really. with that big of a loss. I'd blame the president of the company. - happened on his watch.
I agree. if HomeSite could show me an object model in a dropdown, I'd dump Interdev forever.
it's getting close, but as of the last version of HomeSite I used, they weren't. plus, at the time, homesite had a problem of coloring the text wrong in my If statements when I would say If (x>y).
The whole point of this Lindows thing in my opinion, is to get more people running Linux so they would use it. If it takes a Windows looking interface to do it, then fine. then Microsoft's App's can compete alongside of everyone else, but, now you have much more programs you can use.
of course, for most of us.. however, like support for 300 baud modems, there will always be places that take $$. (if at the very least to help you convert it to electronic cash!)
Having cash in the future, however, could denote you as a second-class citizen (if not already!)
however, unless anonymity can be guaranteed, Cash is here to stay.
Slashdot Mirror
FYI about SSL. its been cracked
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/the-nsa-versus-encryption.html
yes
Hey I was gonna say that!
I'm really surprised that people don't whip out their camera phones and film him. He's obviously trying to hide his identity.
Especially after watching his videos, If some idiot got in my face in a public place and didn't go away, I'd just pull out my own phone & film him, telling him I plan to expose his identity "Oh.. you must be the 'surveillance camera guy'.. This is going to be an awesome YouTube post. A lot of people have been wondering what you look like so that they can kick your ass.."
uh. Denial of resources is a main *point* of war. In fact is a huge social motivator.
Its one of the better types of social engineering out there!
So, playing the game Independence War has shown me that in deep space, your adversary is almost always in a straight line away from you. Why not accelerate away from the bad guy by firing bullets at it nonstop?
but then there's that problem of constantly losing mass.. Something that Spiderman has apparently found a way to get around..
If we can hit a moon of Saturn from the Earth, there is no reason we couldn't fire a hail of bullets intended to reach its target 1 month later, when we know it will be sitting there.
heh.. just once I'd like to see a player in a video game trip over a chair instead of being blocked by it.
In a game like Left 4 Dead, since your character is running most of the time, usually they should trip over it.
I'm still floored at how the Tank & Charger manage to get blocked by chairs & store fixtures when they can throw characters about 20 feet.
well lets see.. both Firefox & Opera know how to identify themselves to other computers as IE so that some "IE Only" pages will actually load up in them..
Transdermal Paintballs!
whizzzzzzzzzzzz SMAK!
Puts Dr. McCoy's sneaky hypospray to shame!
"Kevin's Fruit. Based on fresh fruit for your consumption."
hmmmmmm.. Do you want my fruit?
It took me a few years to completely switch over. I started in 2000, with a number of lapses back. But I'm completely there now.
..
:) Edgy did not.
Network people hated me. Windows only gives you the standard keyboard at bootup unless you modify some obscure registry setting.. I got the informal "troublemaker" label at 2 of my jobs, so I switched back to be nice.
At my most recent job (Working for the State of Oregon), they asked me on my first day if I needed any specific keyboard accomodation. I told them dvorak, and an extra keyboard for the network types. I put the "language toolbar" prominently on the lower right of my screen so net admins can switch it back when they need to mess with my computer. But thats less of a problem, nowadays. since they usually just VNC right in (or whatever tool they use). They don't touch my computer any more. They just run back to their computer & remote in..
Remote admin uses your keyboard settings, but VMWare does not. So my vmware machines piss off other people. (though VMWare server solved that, as you remote into those...)
I bet those deals above are the main reason that people can stay switched now.
Now for some uncategorized observations..
- you get strange typos like "warked", "thay", "pormission" & substituting most 'o's for a & e, and the reverse. - i get more typos now. mostly in the vowel department..
- I am finally able to touch type in both layouts. (after 7 years!) , but i have to look away to do qwerty. I still do some micro-cheating with dvorak. It helps that I have it at home & work though. For a time there was a "wig-out" phase where i couldn't type on qwerty.
- Brain remapping feels weird. It has a slightly insane feel to it. Don't worry, it will pass..
- it is weird how your brain compartmentalizes. I hadn't messed with DOS in years (after 2000, never needed to), then lately, I've switched to Ubuntu. and all those 2 or 3 key commands you fire off, like:
cd
dir/w
etc.. I couldn't type! c is now on the right side of the keyboard & d is in the middle! what the hell?
- you get to know all your passwords in their qwerty mapped equivalents..
- Ubuntu Feisty now does dvorak at the login screen.
- it seems like everything moved from the left side of the keyboard to the right. For a long time I felt like I couldn't take my hands off the keyboard to mouse! What was actually happening though, is that both hands were now being used equally...
- it took me a long time before i could eat chips while typing again.
- I have carpal tunnel. It helps. If it is psychological, don't tell me, and don't read up on it. If it fools me, it can fool you.
- Wife hates it.
- Co-workers no longer try to "drive" on my computer. They throw up both hands & silently curse me.
- m & a are in the same places.
- while learning, there is the "flourescent light" syndrome, when you switch to the other style in the middle of a sentence. disconcerting.
- other people try to switch & fail. Its like watching someone quit smoking.
- I re-map ctrl-c to be ctrl-j & ctrl-v to be ctrl-k & of course ctrl-; will now undo. don't take those positions away, I need that! (autohotkey for windows). I have not figured it out for Ubuntu yet.
- games hate you. If you are lucky, they dont support dvorak, because they think hard about their key positions.
- old programs hate you, BIOS won't support you, I'm gonna eat some worms.
- Friends think that you are cool but stupid
- I like the " being next to where it used to be on my old commodore 64
- Makes you want to look into other weird typing styles, like Chording, etc.. I tried my own keyboard layouts, but work wont let me install the program onto my computer, so I stay with dvorak
- I might just go left-handed dvorak just to piss them off & to free up my right hand to mouse. Though honestly, the more my hand is on the
Not only that, you have 10 other digits you can use. - likely not for an action game, but.. think about using your foot with a trackball. I suggest the $99.00 Kensington. Works for me..
-K
because if you can't now go back and kill your own father, or even alter his life in a significant way, then i would propose that you couldn't alter the lineage of anyone else's grandfather currently alive today.. including... the grandfather of the weed growing out from under my front porch, and the great great grandfather of the storm that came through Portland last night, and I wouldn't even be able to alter significantly the grandfather of the air molecule that carried anthrax to the nose of that old lady in connecticut soon after September 11th. So this really says that you cannot alter *anything*, because you would be altering the lineage, or trajectory of any molecule that made up any existing object (including the cells in your possibly now-dead father's arm, even if he died before you went back!
so i guess then I could watch the past on TV, but never go there..
-K
http://www.bmwworld.com/models/750hl.htm
You mean The president of the Newspaper? I sure hope they don't try to blame the coder on this one. because if I do my mental math correctly, I would think that the coder probably *makes the newspaper* more than the million that was lost.. Not only that. I'd blame the testing department, or moreso, the Programming Manager before the coder, but then, really. with that big of a loss. I'd blame the president of the company. - happened on his watch.
so does this mean that we will have random explosions countrywide as the new Electricity Grid falls victim to computer viruses too? ;P
-Kevin
I agree. if HomeSite could show me an object model in a dropdown, I'd dump Interdev forever.
it's getting close, but as of the last version of HomeSite I used, they weren't. plus, at the time, homesite had a problem of coloring the text wrong in my If statements when I would say If (x>y).
The whole point of this Lindows thing in my opinion, is to get more people running Linux so they would use it. If it takes a Windows looking interface to do it, then fine. then Microsoft's App's can compete alongside of everyone else, but, now you have much more programs you can use.
of course, for most of us.. however, like support for 300 baud modems, there will always be places that take $$. (if at the very least to help you convert it to electronic cash!)
Having cash in the future, however, could denote you as a second-class citizen (if not already!)
however, unless anonymity can be guaranteed, Cash is here to stay.
..that means all phones will turn into PDA's.
people won't just be happy with games.
TV & movies come next!