All of my keyboards, including my Model M from the late 1980s, my iBook G4 from 2004, and the brand new "multimedia" keyboard on my work PC from 2005, have two symbolic keys, Semicolon and Apostrophe, between 'L' and Enter. All of them have an Enter key that takes up only one row of height. All of them, save my Sun keyboard, have the Backslash key directly above Enter, and a Backspace key nearly as wide as Enter above that. The Sun keyboard replaces Backslash, with Backspace, directly above Enter, and places Backtick and Backslash on two keys in the place Backspace is located on my other keyboards.
The keyboards in many of the computer labs on Michigan Tech's campus, where I study, have a large, backwards L-shaped Enter key, as if you combined the Backslash and Enter keys on a normal PC keyboard, and split the Backspace key into two normal-sized keys; one being Backslash, and the other, Backspace. This practice is beyond evil, and must be cleansed with fire.
Looking at the layouts, it seems the Enter key is in the normal PC keyboard place. The backslash, backspace and backquote keys, however, are not. At least it doesn't have a giant L-shaped Enter key, and a tiny backspace.
I like the regular PC keyboard layout, with one exception: the Caps Lock key. I ALWAYS turn it into a third Ctrl, and don't bother switching my left Ctrl to Caps Lock. I never use Caps Lock anyway, and this way, if someone else uses my computer, they won't be confused.
Well, if you are splitting the wood yourself, you don't really need to burn it to stay warm. Just go split some more wood.;)
At my family's cabin, burning wood is the only means of heating the place. Just as burning Kerosene is the only means we have of reading (or playing cards) after dark.
At work, I use Windows, because that is what the GUI software I am working on is to be written for. I also use Linux, because CLI versions of the same software need to run on that.
At home, I run Linux on my many x86 machines, and MacOS X Tiger on my iBook. I don't have a copy of Windows outside of work, however.
Most people upgrade a lot slower than every three years. I know plenty of Mac users still on B&W G3s, and tray-loading G3 iMacs. These are computers from 1999. Seven year old computers that are still in use, and their owners don't see a reason to upgrade. My parent's Dell is about five years old, and they are just now starting to think seriously of buying a new computer (a Mac mini, actually). My main computer is not showing signs of being long in the tooth yet, but it is only two years old. I haven't even thought about upgrading a single part on it.
Yes, a lanyard works fine......until you are driving your car along, minding your own business, with your mp3 cube on a chain under your shirt, when someone cuts you off. You slam on your brakes, the momentum carrying your mp3 cube forward just enough to allow it to rotate a quarter turn, pointing one corner straight at your chest. Unfortunately, you can't stop fast enough to avoid hitting the car in front of you, and your airbag deploys, embedding your mp3 cube in your sternum. The perfect, diamond-shaped scar in the centre of your chest reminds you of the incident for the rest of your life.
You COULD keep this mp3 player on your keychain, then you can't lose your keys, due to a sodding great glowing cube chained to them. And since you can't lose your keys, you can't lose your mp3 player......or something.
Bah. My company is manufacturing POINT-shaped mp3 players with INFINITE storage capacity. NEVER RUN OUT OF ROOM AGAIN!
Unfortunately, we seem to have a problem with them being a little bit too... dense. It has caused several mishaps with things such as nearby stars and passing photons, so we like to keep our factories in remote places in the universe while we perfect the process.
Well, I don't have any real problems with Comcast, but it IS my only choice if I want broadband. No DSL where I live (too far from the POP), so it's Comcast or nothing. WOW is nearby, but they don't seem to be all the way to Ann Arbor, yet.
If there were other choices, Comcast would have more motivation to provide better/cheaper service than it does now. A little more upstream bandwidth would be nice.
Competing service? IS there one? I know that the only way I can get broadband where I live is through Comcast. I don't have a choice. If I want broadband, I get Comcast.
Don't forget "Fat" binaries. PowerPC and x86 code in one package, so that either platform can run a particular app. Apple's development environment can create them automatically, so for many programs that use API stuff rather than doing too much specific to the arch stuff (embedded asm, anyone?) will need a couple tweaks and a recompile to be compatible with both systems.
Intel Macs coming out won't obsolete PowerPC Macs. They will still be supported, and the great majority of software will run on both platforms for at least a couple of years, just like the Motarola 68k to PowerPC switch years ago.
Rosetta is a temporary measure for the apps that aren't ported right away. This will probably mainly be large, commercial apps where the user doesn't want to pay for the new Intel version right away (maybe waiting until they can upgrade to a new version rather than just the new arch) and small freeware apps that have slow development.
I never understood this either. I can type a HELL of a lot faster than I can write. Not to mention my handwriting is so sloppy the computer probably couldn't recognise it.
Heck, I can't recognise it half the time!
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However, they have also historically upgraded in April, so they are several months overdue for an upgrade. They may be waiting on the iBooks to corrispond with new Powerbooks, whihc are nearing the end of their normal development cycle.
However, while iBooks have had a fairly regular update cycle, powerbooks are somewhat scattered. Look at the graphs on the Macrumors.com buyers' guide.
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All of my keyboards, including my Model M from the late 1980s, my iBook G4 from 2004, and the brand new "multimedia" keyboard on my work PC from 2005, have two symbolic keys, Semicolon and Apostrophe, between 'L' and Enter. All of them have an Enter key that takes up only one row of height. All of them, save my Sun keyboard, have the Backslash key directly above Enter, and a Backspace key nearly as wide as Enter above that. The Sun keyboard replaces Backslash, with Backspace, directly above Enter, and places Backtick and Backslash on two keys in the place Backspace is located on my other keyboards.
The keyboards in many of the computer labs on Michigan Tech's campus, where I study, have a large, backwards L-shaped Enter key, as if you combined the Backslash and Enter keys on a normal PC keyboard, and split the Backspace key into two normal-sized keys; one being Backslash, and the other, Backspace. This practice is beyond evil, and must be cleansed with fire.
Looking at the layouts, it seems the Enter key is in the normal PC keyboard place. The backslash, backspace and backquote keys, however, are not. At least it doesn't have a giant L-shaped Enter key, and a tiny backspace.
I like the regular PC keyboard layout, with one exception: the Caps Lock key. I ALWAYS turn it into a third Ctrl, and don't bother switching my left Ctrl to Caps Lock. I never use Caps Lock anyway, and this way, if someone else uses my computer, they won't be confused.
Well, if you are splitting the wood yourself, you don't really need to burn it to stay warm. Just go split some more wood. ;)
At my family's cabin, burning wood is the only means of heating the place. Just as burning Kerosene is the only means we have of reading (or playing cards) after dark.
Hmm... have a fire in your fireplace WITHOUT burning fossil fuels...
How could we do that?
Oh YEAH! WOOD!
I use all three as well.
At work, I use Windows, because that is what the GUI software I am working on is to be written for. I also use Linux, because CLI versions of the same software need to run on that.
At home, I run Linux on my many x86 machines, and MacOS X Tiger on my iBook. I don't have a copy of Windows outside of work, however.
They would probably have trouble aiming the antennas.
I don't know. I don't work at Cisco, and I don't have access to their code.
Which is why you over-estimate. Think it will take two weeks? Plan on four, and announce that you will have a patch in six weeks.
I'd rather the bank or hospital informs their customers of the problem, and says "We will have a fix in X weeks."
Rather than saying "No problem, move along..."
Most people upgrade a lot slower than every three years. I know plenty of Mac users still on B&W G3s, and tray-loading G3 iMacs. These are computers from 1999. Seven year old computers that are still in use, and their owners don't see a reason to upgrade. My parent's Dell is about five years old, and they are just now starting to think seriously of buying a new computer (a Mac mini, actually). My main computer is not showing signs of being long in the tooth yet, but it is only two years old. I haven't even thought about upgrading a single part on it.
At least Google is mosty simple text. Yahoo is covered in flashy pictures and stuff. Though, it used to be a lot worse...
You could also hang a pair of them from your rear-view mirror, and paint pips on each face of them...
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D'oh!
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Well, that leaves a market for a d8 shaped mp3 player, doesn't it?
Yes, a lanyard works fine... ...until you are driving your car along, minding your own business, with your mp3 cube on a chain under your shirt, when someone cuts you off. You slam on your brakes, the momentum carrying your mp3 cube forward just enough to allow it to rotate a quarter turn, pointing one corner straight at your chest. Unfortunately, you can't stop fast enough to avoid hitting the car in front of you, and your airbag deploys, embedding your mp3 cube in your sternum. The perfect, diamond-shaped scar in the centre of your chest reminds you of the incident for the rest of your life.
You COULD keep this mp3 player on your keychain, then you can't lose your keys, due to a sodding great glowing cube chained to them. And since you can't lose your keys, you can't lose your mp3 player... ...or something.
Bah. My company is manufacturing POINT-shaped mp3 players with INFINITE storage capacity. NEVER RUN OUT OF ROOM AGAIN!
Unfortunately, we seem to have a problem with them being a little bit too... dense. It has caused several mishaps with things such as nearby stars and passing photons, so we like to keep our factories in remote places in the universe while we perfect the process.
Well, I don't have any real problems with Comcast, but it IS my only choice if I want broadband. No DSL where I live (too far from the POP), so it's Comcast or nothing. WOW is nearby, but they don't seem to be all the way to Ann Arbor, yet. If there were other choices, Comcast would have more motivation to provide better/cheaper service than it does now. A little more upstream bandwidth would be nice.
"Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages [for any reason]?"
No.
Competing service? IS there one? I know that the only way I can get broadband where I live is through Comcast. I don't have a choice. If I want broadband, I get Comcast.
Eh? MAC isn't miscapitalised, it's just wrong. It stands for Media Access Control.
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Now you can defenestrate your computer while it remains planted firmly on your desk!
Don't forget "Fat" binaries. PowerPC and x86 code in one package, so that either platform can run a particular app. Apple's development environment can create them automatically, so for many programs that use API stuff rather than doing too much specific to the arch stuff (embedded asm, anyone?) will need a couple tweaks and a recompile to be compatible with both systems.
Intel Macs coming out won't obsolete PowerPC Macs. They will still be supported, and the great majority of software will run on both platforms for at least a couple of years, just like the Motarola 68k to PowerPC switch years ago.
Rosetta is a temporary measure for the apps that aren't ported right away. This will probably mainly be large, commercial apps where the user doesn't want to pay for the new Intel version right away (maybe waiting until they can upgrade to a new version rather than just the new arch) and small freeware apps that have slow development.
Well, it's better than an MS Word document, I guess.
I never understood this either. I can type a HELL of a lot faster than I can write. Not to mention my handwriting is so sloppy the computer probably couldn't recognise it. Heck, I can't recognise it half the time!
However, they have also historically upgraded in April, so they are several months overdue for an upgrade. They may be waiting on the iBooks to corrispond with new Powerbooks, whihc are nearing the end of their normal development cycle.
However, while iBooks have had a fairly regular update cycle, powerbooks are somewhat scattered. Look at the graphs on the Macrumors.com buyers' guide.