I'm using dvorak for a few years now, and I'm pretty happy with it. Other people around me have switched too, so I was able to observe some patterns:
All of us are happier with dvorak and would switch again if given a chance to reconsider that decision.
I've become considerably faster. With QWERTZU I maxed out at about 360 characters per minute, with dvorak I reach 500. But numbers were/are reached only when I concentrate hard of course, but I do think they scale linearly to a more casual way of typing (meaning: I think I'm also faster when I don't concentrate hard).
The learning process depends greatly on your own consequence. If you stop using QWERT* at all, and use dvorak exclusively, you're back at your old speed within weeks. A friend who wasn't consquent and kept switching back needed months.
Switching back to QWERTZU does not work for me, I'm basically a hunter/pecker there. I know someone who claims he can do it within a few minutes, but I'd say that's quite rare. It's not much of a problem though, since about every computer system these days can change keyboard layouts on the fly without too much trouble.
I've had some wrist problems too. The layout switch helped a little bit, however the switch to an ergonomic keyboard (Logitech Cordless Desktop Comfort in my case) helped much more. Get an ergonomic keyboard, they do help, and they're much cheaper than special solutions like that macron keyboard or whatever it's called.
You mean like the dedicated chapter on Network Adress Translation in the official handbook? (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ handbook/network-natd.html)
I don't expect much from their player, to be honest.
When listening to music under windows, I want to use winamp, period. Does that sony player offer hotkeys that lets me advance the playlist while playing Quake? Does it offer crossfading? Can it give me huge randomized playlists?
Granted, it works, I can listen to their CD on my PC. But frankly I don't feel like going out of my way to be able to do that...
Ok, how much copper do I have to buy to stop it? I have to admit that it's freaking me out a bit how easy it is to pickup the screen's radiation after all, and to make sense of it.
Hm and now I know why PGP lists that "secure viewer" as Tempest-resistant too....
If he told the cop "I'm recording this incident" then the cop would have specific knowledge and could base his further actions on that knowledge.
It is weird that this point should even be made. After all, isn't a police officer supposed to act well enough so it wouldn't make a difference whether his actions are being recorded or not? You make it sound (with a point tho) as if a police officer who knows his actions are not being observed (save by his victim, but that doesnt matter much...), acts in an illegimite fashion...
> Excessive speeding can cause damage to the car's engine.
Well, first thats pretty much improbable. I have heard of very few cars that had problems running on full throttle on unlimited (german) autobahns... the two cases I remember right now was a) an overheating case, which was resolved by simply letting the motor cool down, and removing the license plate from the air intakes in the front which it covered, and b) Some 3rd party tuning gear (an exhaust) broke. I think this argument is negligible, because todays cars run at high speeds for prolonged periods quite fine, and what qualifies as "speeding" in the US is nowhere near the speed the car could even run at... and I doubt even speeding folks run at 120mph over there... with a rented car, which probably isnt suited very well for racing.
> Also, speeding can lead to traffic accidents, so it can be seem as a prevention against damage
Well, yes, but if you're going to prevent damage, you might as well not let the customers rent a car at all, because, who knows, they might run over a kid at mere 15mph!!!
And again it is my opinion that law enforcement is the job of the police, and most certainly not private individuals or companies.
Wrong. If you return the car late, there is damage insofar that the rental company loses money they could have earned by renting the car to another customer.
I think they're on the right track with not allowing the rental company to demand charges for speeding; thats the police's job. I mean just imagine if anyone and there brother could start charging you fines for speeding. The police will charge ya a ticket. The homeowners of the houses you charge you fines. The company that built the road. Greenpeace.
> Who the hell uses 100Mbits around a LAN anyway?
I do - and I wouldn't want to miss it anymore. Far more comfortable, and thats just the two comps I have at home.
Think of how much more pleasant the increased bandwidth is in an office network, where 50 workers or more are mailing each other pr0n vids;-)
You know, this sounds great. A drive with "fluid dynamic bearing". I dunno, but this sounds like it might be quiter, but emits more heat in exchange. Which is a problem:
I currently have two IBM Deskstar 75GXP that are quite silent, however they easily get hot enough to make cook some egg 'n bacon breakfast on them. So what good is a HD that is silent, but gets so hot you need an aditional fan to keep the air inside the case cool?
On another note, I, like some other folks who posted above, like the sounds the HD's produce. You get some more information about what your computer is doing, plus, the sound the HD's produce (a low clicking and chirping... well, maybe not chirping. The seeking sound, you know) is not unpleasant, quite the opposite indeed. Unlike the humming of fans, which I consider to be very annoying.
as for those 69MB transfer rate: Thats burst transfer rate, and you're certainly not going to get it when copying 60MB of MP3's from that drive... (plus, do you have a device handy thats able to write at that speed?).
My next desk is gonna have a kind of mini-cupboard, into which I put the tower. open to the back for ventilation, and with an isolated door in the front so to dam the noise.
"To help novice players to have a faster learning curve in playing 3D games"
Thats a stupid argument. It should be the game developer who decides how difficult a certain game is, and certainly not the driver manufacturer. There's an "easy" setting with most games which is adequate even for absolute newbies. Also, by using see-through newbies won't learn the game faster. They'll learn to play a whole different game. They won't train their quick reflexes needed to fight someone who has surprisingly turned around a corner. They won't train their "feeling" for secret areas, because they can see hidden items from far away. In the long run, it will not help their gaming experience or skill, the opposite actually.
"To let skilled players to have a chance to test their skills with a new challenge"
If a player is skilled and wants a challenge, he most certainly won't turn to see-through, which effectively prohibits any challenge. Challenge comes from the situation in the game which need skills to overcome - If you can hit an enemy dead-on the moment he turns around the corner, you no longer playthe game the way the game designers intended; and therefore miss the challenges they set up.
"To help users become familiar with 3D graphics rendering"
"To save the time of developers for developing and fixing 3D graphics"
While those point may be valid, they're negligable; Game designers who code 3D stuff surely also have the ability to also code in a wireframe or transparency mode for developement, which can be excluded from the final release or blocked for multiplaying. There are games that still have these devel modes in single player mode, and the "users" who want to "become familiar with 3D graphics rendering" can use those.
The difference between the two ways of implementing is that if you implement it at game level, you can make it so its not allowed in online playing, therefore not altering the game for other players. If you however implement this at driver level, you give all other players an unfair disadvantage and destroy the game.
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Other countries have had such legislation for a while now. For example, Switzerland: http://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/Breitbandzugang-fuer-alle-Schweizer-162094.html . I'm sure there are more.
You mean like the dedicated chapter on Network Adress Translation in the official handbook? (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ handbook/network-natd.html)
It's opera 6.12 on FreeBSD 5.0, XFree 4.3 with fontconfig 2.1.92 and Xft 2.1
I use Bitstream Vera Serif 10pt as standard serif font, and the minimum font size is set to 8 points.
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Here's a great place: bsdforums
I don't expect much from their player, to be honest.
When listening to music under windows, I want to use winamp, period. Does that sony player offer hotkeys that lets me advance the playlist while playing Quake? Does it offer crossfading? Can it give me huge randomized playlists?
Granted, it works, I can listen to their CD on my PC. But frankly I don't feel like going out of my way to be able to do that...
Maybe RMS shouldn't have pointed at GNU/Hurd then... ;)
Ok, how much copper do I have to buy to stop it? I have to admit that it's freaking me out a bit how easy it is to pickup the screen's radiation after all, and to make sense of it.
Hm and now I know why PGP lists that "secure viewer" as Tempest-resistant too....
If he told the cop "I'm recording this incident" then the cop would have specific knowledge and could base his further actions on that knowledge.
It is weird that this point should even be made. After all, isn't a police officer supposed to act well enough so it wouldn't make a difference whether his actions are being recorded or not? You make it sound (with a point tho) as if a police officer who knows his actions are not being observed (save by his victim, but that doesnt matter much...), acts in an illegimite fashion...
> Excessive speeding can cause damage to the car's engine.
Well, first thats pretty much improbable. I have heard of very few cars that had problems running on full throttle on unlimited (german) autobahns... the two cases I remember right now was a) an overheating case, which was resolved by simply letting the motor cool down, and removing the license plate from the air intakes in the front which it covered, and b) Some 3rd party tuning gear (an exhaust) broke. I think this argument is negligible, because todays cars run at high speeds for prolonged periods quite fine, and what qualifies as "speeding" in the US is nowhere near the speed the car could even run at... and I doubt even speeding folks run at 120mph over there... with a rented car, which probably isnt suited very well for racing.
> Also, speeding can lead to traffic accidents, so it can be seem as a prevention against damage
Well, yes, but if you're going to prevent damage, you might as well not let the customers rent a car at all, because, who knows, they might run over a kid at mere 15mph!!!
And again it is my opinion that law enforcement is the job of the police, and most certainly not private individuals or companies.
Wrong. If you return the car late, there is damage insofar that the rental company loses money they could have earned by renting the car to another customer.
I think they're on the right track with not allowing the rental company to demand charges for speeding; thats the police's job. I mean just imagine if anyone and there brother could start charging you fines for speeding. The police will charge ya a ticket. The homeowners of the houses you charge you fines. The company that built the road. Greenpeace.
> Who the hell uses 100Mbits around a LAN anyway? I do - and I wouldn't want to miss it anymore. Far more comfortable, and thats just the two comps I have at home. Think of how much more pleasant the increased bandwidth is in an office network, where 50 workers or more are mailing each other pr0n vids ;-)
You know, this sounds great. A drive with "fluid dynamic bearing". I dunno, but this sounds like it might be quiter, but emits more heat in exchange. Which is a problem: I currently have two IBM Deskstar 75GXP that are quite silent, however they easily get hot enough to make cook some egg 'n bacon breakfast on them. So what good is a HD that is silent, but gets so hot you need an aditional fan to keep the air inside the case cool? On another note, I, like some other folks who posted above, like the sounds the HD's produce. You get some more information about what your computer is doing, plus, the sound the HD's produce (a low clicking and chirping... well, maybe not chirping. The seeking sound, you know) is not unpleasant, quite the opposite indeed. Unlike the humming of fans, which I consider to be very annoying. as for those 69MB transfer rate: Thats burst transfer rate, and you're certainly not going to get it when copying 60MB of MP3's from that drive... (plus, do you have a device handy thats able to write at that speed?). My next desk is gonna have a kind of mini-cupboard, into which I put the tower. open to the back for ventilation, and with an isolated door in the front so to dam the noise.
"To help novice players to have a faster learning curve in playing 3D games"
Thats a stupid argument. It should be the game developer who decides how difficult a certain game is, and certainly not the driver manufacturer. There's an "easy" setting with most games which is adequate even for absolute newbies. Also, by using see-through newbies won't learn the game faster. They'll learn to play a whole different game. They won't train their quick reflexes needed to fight someone who has surprisingly turned around a corner. They won't train their "feeling" for secret areas, because they can see hidden items from far away. In the long run, it will not help their gaming experience or skill, the opposite actually.
"To let skilled players to have a chance to test their skills with a new challenge"
If a player is skilled and wants a challenge, he most certainly won't turn to see-through, which effectively prohibits any challenge. Challenge comes from the situation in the game which need skills to overcome - If you can hit an enemy dead-on the moment he turns around the corner, you no longer playthe game the way the game designers intended; and therefore miss the challenges they set up.
"To help users become familiar with 3D graphics rendering"
"To save the time of developers for developing and fixing 3D graphics"
While those point may be valid, they're negligable; Game designers who code 3D stuff surely also have the ability to also code in a wireframe or transparency mode for developement, which can be excluded from the final release or blocked for multiplaying. There are games that still have these devel modes in single player mode, and the "users" who want to "become familiar with 3D graphics rendering" can use those.
The difference between the two ways of implementing is that if you implement it at game level, you can make it so its not allowed in online playing, therefore not altering the game for other players. If you however implement this at driver level, you give all other players an unfair disadvantage and destroy the game.