I've had my Motion TPC for about 2 1/2 months now, thanks to a > $600 developer discount. I use it pretty hard (it's my work and home machine) and have yet to see a single scratch on the screen. Its main weakness, IMHP, is video. It has an onboard Intel graphics chip that uses system RAM. Even maxed out at 1GB, opening more than a couple windows in dial-monitor mode starts to bog it down pretty good. Other than that it's a great machine.
See the thing is the reaching for the mouse. With a bigger keyboard you gotta reach farther.
Amen to that. I would give up my number pad to be able to set my mouse right next to the keyboard. At work I have a very adjustable keyboard tray that does a great job of holding my Natural keyboard at the perfect level... BUT it doesn't fit my mouse. I have to reach waaaay over to the right -- and up -- in order to get to the mouse that's sitting on the desk. I have StrokeIt (funny name, cool app) installed for the times I'm surfing or doing other mouse-intensive things, so I can use mouse gestures and keep from having to switch back to the keyboard as often.
Does anyone have any experience with any of the FingerWorks products? The TouchStream keyboard looks really tempting, but it's too much of an investment to try out sight unseen... especially since there's very little tactile feedback.
My only beef is that the latest iteration of oriented the insert/home/pgup block vertically, and I keep hitting delete when I'm going for end.
That's the Elite. I have the Pro, which has standard insert/home/etc layout as well as a full-sized, normal-in-every-way arrow key layout. And yeah, it is very satisyingly LOUD.
It's because you have no experience with DD that you thought it was good. Read some of the comic books and see for yourself.
That's probably true. But it raises an interesting question:
What makes a "good" comic book movie?
a) the one that can manage the most suspension of disbelief (i.e. makes the story the "realest")?
b) the one that sticks closest to canon?
c) the one that throws continuity out the window, but goes for the best "interpretation" of the "spirit" of the comic?
d) The one that makes the most money because the most people like it?
...was quite good IMHO. OK, so it was a smaller-scale story than X-Men or Spider-Man, and the main character didn't have the firepower of a battalion of Marines. So what? It definitely got me interested in DD as I had no prior experience with that corner of the Marvel-verse. It even raised my opinion of Ben Affleck out of the cellar.
its ability to be used as a non-lethal incapacitating weapon is scary...
I'll take a non-lethal weapon over a lethal one any day. This sounds a lot more humane than even pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, nightsticks, etc... barring long-term negative effects, anyway.
The shuttle's recorder is pretty much redundant, since they send everything down in realtime anyway. It's unlikely that this will tell us anything new, IMHO.
ISTR being able to view gifs on my old C64 (actually I think it was a 128 in 64 mode) off a neighborhood BBS, using my trusty 300 baud modem. It took about an hour to download and another 30 minutes to render, but it only crashed the box every once in awhile.
20 years ago, I was the only kid I knew who was into rockets. And two of the above three things didn't exist yet. You think it's gotten any more popular since then?
Just as a point of comparison: The 1675th Soyuz launch took place recently.
That would be Soyuz the launch rocket, as opposed to Soyuz the manned spacecraft. The booster is used to launch both manned and unmanned cargo. While there have been no fatalities with the capsule since the '70s, the booster crashed on launch sometime during the last year, and there were fatalities, IIRC.
The normal way of doing things is to send the ISS crews up and down on the shuttle, and swap out their Soyuz twice a year by having a separate crew (maybe including a space tourist) deliver a new one and ride the old one back home. While the shuttle is down, they now need to send up the ISS crew on the Soyuz. So no taxi flights are necessary.
Why can't we send up a shuttle, with just a pilot crew, ie no researchers, to rescue them?
Discovery is in the middle of a major refit.
Endeavour was the last one up and is in the middle of its between-missions reconfig (engines pulled out, mods for next mission, etc.)
Atlantis, scheduled to go up the first of March, actually could have been launched in a week or so. But only if they said to heck with most of the safety checks. If something goes wrong (as it did on Columbia WITH all the safety stuff), you've screwed two shuttles and two crews, instead of one.
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Do we look down on non-computer people so much that we don't even bother to ask anymore why they do stupid things?
Apple users, being on a higher plane than us poor IBM-bound sods, are exempt from such criticism.
The Brain is an interface on top of your current FS.
The Brain (now known as PersonalBrain, since they're targeting the enterprise market anymore) does use your current FS, but you have the option of dumping any or all files in the Brain into one big Brain directory. Which has the added bonus of being real easy to back up. So technically, if you use it to its full extent, it's not hierarchical.
I've been using it off and on for years. It's slow on first load, but the more you use it the better it works for you.
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has a particularly gruesome description of death by decompression chamber. Has to be one of the worst ways to die that I can think of.
I was disappointed that it wasn't a unicycle. Imagine a seat on a wheel that moves and swivels to keep directly underneath you. Sort of like a magic one legged stool.
Then it + you would be too bulky to ride on a sidewalk along with normal pedestrians.
And I was also disappointed that it didn't go faster. If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?
The point is to get people get out of cars for dumb short trips, not to replace the car (or replace walking, for that matter).
Uh... what's the point of building the huge, expensive station, if we're not going to be able to put more than 3 people up there and only do a small amount of experiments?? Or am I reading this wrong? very confused...
Supposedly, the Orbital Space Plane could also be used as a CRV for up to 7 people. The crew capacity is TBD, though, so the extra seats will be the first thing to go when the budget inevitably gets crunched.
1) Increase shuttle flight rate (to ISS) to 5 flights a year.
2) Extend shuttle lifetime, possibly by as much as 10 years.
3) Upgrade current shuttle fleet.
Are these goals mutually exclusive, or what? The current round of shuttle upgrades pulls one shuttle out of service for a year, leaving only two that can fly to the ISS. Turnaround time for a shuttle is somewhere around 3 months, BEFORE you factor in all the delays. Finally, if the flight rate is increased, won't that lower the life expectancy of the vehicles?
Speaking of the wireless version, anyone know if it's affected too?
Also speaking of the wireless version... mine has two dead ports. It doesn't really matter because I will probably never have more than two non-wireless boxes in the house, but still, kind of annoying.
Unfortunately, the link only works if you already have the previous version of Shareaza. I even tried searching for the install file in Gnucleus -- nothing so far.
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I've had my Motion TPC for about 2 1/2 months now, thanks to a > $600 developer discount. I use it pretty hard (it's my work and home machine) and have yet to see a single scratch on the screen. Its main weakness, IMHP, is video. It has an onboard Intel graphics chip that uses system RAM. Even maxed out at 1GB, opening more than a couple windows in dial-monitor mode starts to bog it down pretty good. Other than that it's a great machine.
Amen to that. I would give up my number pad to be able to set my mouse right next to the keyboard. At work I have a very adjustable keyboard tray that does a great job of holding my Natural keyboard at the perfect level... BUT it doesn't fit my mouse. I have to reach waaaay over to the right -- and up -- in order to get to the mouse that's sitting on the desk. I have StrokeIt (funny name, cool app) installed for the times I'm surfing or doing other mouse-intensive things, so I can use mouse gestures and keep from having to switch back to the keyboard as often.
Does anyone have any experience with any of the FingerWorks products? The TouchStream keyboard looks really tempting, but it's too much of an investment to try out sight unseen... especially since there's very little tactile feedback.
That's the Elite. I have the Pro, which has standard insert/home/etc layout as well as a full-sized, normal-in-every-way arrow key layout. And yeah, it is very satisyingly LOUD.
That's probably true. But it raises an interesting question:
What makes a "good" comic book movie?
a) the one that can manage the most suspension of disbelief (i.e. makes the story the "realest")?
b) the one that sticks closest to canon?
c) the one that throws continuity out the window, but goes for the best "interpretation" of the "spirit" of the comic?
d) The one that makes the most money because the most people like it?
...was quite good IMHO. OK, so it was a smaller-scale story than X-Men or Spider-Man, and the main character didn't have the firepower of a battalion of Marines. So what? It definitely got me interested in DD as I had no prior experience with that corner of the Marvel-verse. It even raised my opinion of Ben Affleck out of the cellar.
"NASA is engaged in small-scale studies on manned flight to Mars but has no plans for a mission."
April Fool's was 2 weeks ago.
I'll take a non-lethal weapon over a lethal one any day. This sounds a lot more humane than even pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, nightsticks, etc... barring long-term negative effects, anyway.
The shuttle's recorder is pretty much redundant, since they send everything down in realtime anyway. It's unlikely that this will tell us anything new, IMHO.
ISTR being able to view gifs on my old C64 (actually I think it was a 128 in 64 mode) off a neighborhood BBS, using my trusty 300 baud modem. It took about an hour to download and another 30 minutes to render, but it only crashed the box every once in awhile.
20 years ago, I was the only kid I knew who was into rockets. And two of the above three things didn't exist yet. You think it's gotten any more popular since then?
That would be Soyuz the launch rocket, as opposed to Soyuz the manned spacecraft. The booster is used to launch both manned and unmanned cargo. While there have been no fatalities with the capsule since the '70s, the booster crashed on launch sometime during the last year, and there were fatalities, IIRC.
The normal way of doing things is to send the ISS crews up and down on the shuttle, and swap out their Soyuz twice a year by having a separate crew (maybe including a space tourist) deliver a new one and ride the old one back home. While the shuttle is down, they now need to send up the ISS crew on the Soyuz. So no taxi flights are necessary.
Apple users, being on a higher plane than us poor IBM-bound sods, are exempt from such criticism.
Once upon a time, molecules were all there is. Then it was atoms. And 640K was enough for anybody.
Talk about slime.
A mousepad (or two side-by-side) should do the trick.
The Brain (now known as PersonalBrain, since they're targeting the enterprise market anymore) does use your current FS, but you have the option of dumping any or all files in the Brain into one big Brain directory. Which has the added bonus of being real easy to back up. So technically, if you use it to its full extent, it's not hierarchical.
I've been using it off and on for years. It's slow on first load, but the more you use it the better it works for you.
According to this page, it should probably be E.E. Cummings, caps and all.
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has a particularly gruesome description of death by decompression chamber. Has to be one of the worst ways to die that I can think of.
Then it + you would be too bulky to ride on a sidewalk along with normal pedestrians.
And I was also disappointed that it didn't go faster. If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?
The point is to get people get out of cars for dumb short trips, not to replace the car (or replace walking, for that matter).
Supposedly, the Orbital Space Plane could also be used as a CRV for up to 7 people. The crew capacity is TBD, though, so the extra seats will be the first thing to go when the budget inevitably gets crunched.
Three points of note:
1) Increase shuttle flight rate (to ISS) to 5 flights a year.
2) Extend shuttle lifetime, possibly by as much as 10 years.
3) Upgrade current shuttle fleet.
Are these goals mutually exclusive, or what? The current round of shuttle upgrades pulls one shuttle out of service for a year, leaving only two that can fly to the ISS. Turnaround time for a shuttle is somewhere around 3 months, BEFORE you factor in all the delays. Finally, if the flight rate is increased, won't that lower the life expectancy of the vehicles?
Also speaking of the wireless version... mine has two dead ports. It doesn't really matter because I will probably never have more than two non-wireless boxes in the house, but still, kind of annoying.
Unfortunately, the link only works if you already have the previous version of Shareaza. I even tried searching for the install file in Gnucleus -- nothing so far.