Fry's? Give me a break. Fry's is good if you want to browse product without being pestered by a salesrep...ever. It's also good for opening up packages and looking inside, since no one pays attention to any customers.
I would never, ever buy a piece of hardware at Fry's.
Try before you buy is great advice for any input device. However, it takes more than a few hours to get used to a split-keyboard. It took me at least a few days of regular use before my error-rate went down to what it was with a "straight" keyboard.
I will agree though that the split-board is not for everyone. Bottom line is make sure you buy from someone who has a good return policy in case you hate the thing.....
Interesting article. I agree that the state of keyboards today is just pitiful, but that "Happy Hacking" keyboard IMHO is an ergonomic nightmare.
I also agree that the mouse is a bigger cause of RSI than the keyboard...I see people all day long mashing their wrist down into a wrist pad while working with the mouse...not good. Of course, keyboard or mouse, if you don't have proper posture or an correctly configured workstation, you are going to have problems....
GT decided that they didn't want to support a Linux version and didn't
want it in the box. We decided not to argue the issue, so the Linux UT libraries and executables will not be available in the box.
In other words, we were to lame to stand up to GT. What a cop out. Come on Epic, stand up for principles like id does.
Now I'm going to have to reconsider whether or not to buy UT.
Andrew Hodges, who was featured on last night's Nova documentary, wrote a biography called Alan Turing:Enigma which is supposed to be pretty good. I have not yet read it because it appears to be out of print, and I haven't tracked down a copy yet.
yeah, I agree with ya there. I'm half-way through the Code Book right now. I found the description of Enigma and it's breaking to be more detailed in the Code Book than in last night's Nova.
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, I think everyone would agree that it is best for all the parties concerned if the case is brought to a final resolution quickly.
Of course, there can be no appeals until the Judge is finished. Remember, all that has been issued so far is the FoF.
RUN, don't walk, to your nearest book shop...
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....and pick Snow Crash up. You will not be disappointed. I agree that there is a lot of fluff out there to wade through, but this book is a classic in my opinion.
That's pretty darned nifty! While that may silence some RedHat haters, I'm sure they'll find something else to complain about.:)
Important thing is that it provides and easy way for those who want to have a "purely free" Linux distro. Of course, most of those folks would probably prefer to roll their own!
The reviews of this book on Amazon were often less than complementary. Anyone care to offer up any books written in the Star Wars universe that are top quality?
I'm familiar with journalist structure, but that's not what Katz did here. In the meat of the review, he basically reiterates the same contrast between TBL's utopian view of the web versus "rapacious capitalists at the gate."
There's a difference between repeating with more detail and repeating ad nauseum.
Why is it when reading this review I felt like I was reading the same 3 paragraphs over and over again. Katz talks about the "rapacious force of capitalism" at least 3 or 4 times.
Good writing is succint and to the point. Not droning on endlessly about the same thing, making one's point 15 different ways. If you write it once, clearly, then there is no need to repeat yourself.
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Fry's? Give me a break. Fry's is good if you want to browse product without being pestered by a salesrep...ever. It's also good for opening up packages and looking inside, since no one pays attention to any customers.
I would never, ever buy a piece of hardware at Fry's.
First it was "open-source journalism." Now it's "open-source reviewing"? Give me a break.
For a while I was worried that when Compaq took over DEC they would just bury Alpha and forget about it.
It's nice to see them pushing it a little more heavily...I always thought DEC did a terrible job of marketing Alpha....
There are many organizations that still use VMS for their continuous computing appliations. Alpha is idea for that application.
Don't give a rat's ass about E? Simple solution, turn off stories about E in your prefs.
/. that can be easily turned off.
I'm sick of people bitching about stuff on
Try before you buy is great advice for any input device. However, it takes more than a few hours to get used to a split-keyboard. It took me at least a few days of regular use before my error-rate went down to what it was with a "straight" keyboard.
I will agree though that the split-board is not for everyone. Bottom line is make sure you buy from someone who has a good return policy in case you hate the thing.....
I use a split keyboard and quite like it. I have a hard time going back to "straight" keyboards. The split design is not perfect, but it's better.
I'm still debating whether to try out one of those Kinesis Ergo keyboards.....
Interesting article. I agree that the state of keyboards today is just pitiful, but that "Happy Hacking" keyboard IMHO is an ergonomic nightmare.
I also agree that the mouse is a bigger cause of RSI than the keyboard...I see people all day long mashing their wrist down into a wrist pad while working with the mouse...not good. Of course, keyboard or mouse, if you don't have proper posture or an correctly configured workstation, you are going to have problems....
said it before, I'll say it again, O'Reilly is just plain cool. :D
In other words, we were to lame to stand up to GT. What a cop out. Come on Epic, stand up for principles like id does.
Now I'm going to have to reconsider whether or not to buy UT.
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Andrew Hodges, who was featured on last night's Nova documentary, wrote a biography called Alan Turing:Enigma which is supposed to be pretty good. I have not yet read it because it appears to be out of print, and I haven't tracked down a copy yet.
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You can read the Amazon.com reviews here:
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yeah, I agree with ya there. I'm half-way through the Code Book right now. I found the description of Enigma and it's breaking to be more detailed in the Code Book than in last night's Nova.
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, I think everyone would agree that it is best for all the parties concerned if the case is brought to a final resolution quickly.
Of course, there can be no appeals until the Judge is finished. Remember, all that has been issued so far is the FoF.
....and pick Snow Crash up. You will not be disappointed. I agree that there is a lot of fluff out there to wade through, but this book is a classic in my opinion.
That's pretty darned nifty! While that may silence some RedHat haters, I'm sure they'll find something else to complain about. :)
Important thing is that it provides and easy way for those who want to have a "purely free" Linux distro. Of course, most of those folks would probably prefer to roll their own!
The reviews of this book on Amazon were often less than complementary. Anyone care to offer up any books written in the Star Wars universe that are top quality?
Just picked up The Code Book after finishing off Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I'm only about half way through, but some good stuff already.
I'd never really heard the details of Turing's later life. It's absolutely tragic that we lost such a genius at such a young age.
I'm familiar with journalist structure, but that's not what Katz did here. In the meat of the review, he basically reiterates the same contrast between TBL's utopian view of the web versus "rapacious capitalists at the gate."
There's a difference between repeating with more detail and repeating ad nauseum.
Why is it when reading this review I felt like I was reading the same 3 paragraphs over and over again. Katz talks about the "rapacious force of capitalism" at least 3 or 4 times.
Good writing is succint and to the point. Not droning on endlessly about the same thing, making one's point 15 different ways. If you write it once, clearly, then there is no need to repeat yourself.
Corel is a "small struggling company"? Huh? They may not be as big as M$ or Adobe, but I think they are pretty darn big.
Last time I checked, they had sold more than a few copies of Corel Draw....
Can you say none? While I'd like to think that Palm will allow me to trade in my Palm V for a rebate against the Palm Vx, I'm not holding my breath.
Of course, they did offer a trade in once before back in the early days, but that was on the 1MB upgrade card and not on an entire unit....
EFIG requires breaking the seal on the unit, and while the work is very good, it doesn't seal up exactly like the factory model.
Not to mention that it voids your warranty.
The William Gibson article was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this headline on /.
I second the recommendation that everyone check it out...definitely worth the read, especially if you are a Gibson fan....