It's a smaller XBbox controller with a slightly better layout (the colored buttons are in a PlayStation-standard diamond, instead of the stretched arrangement of the standard controller, and the black & white keys are below the diamond, not above.
Given that I don't own an xbox, I haven't tried the smaller controller myself, but I really disliked the standard controller, and this looks better. Might be worth a try...
Um, you can do that in ctwm, vtwm, and tvtwm. For more than a dozen years.
Of course, with people syaing humorous things like ``I want a light-weight windowmanager, like WindowMaker.'', I suppose that mentioning such things is like speaking latin in Italy or something...
Speed: People who do serious data entry almost always benefit from these optimized input devices. Personally, I almost never use a numeric keypad for anything other than FPS games. Try watching an accountant use one sometimes; it's pretty impressive.
Pain: the staggered layout of qwerty keyboards was influenced primarily by mechanical considerations. The result is actively painful and harmful for a large number of smart, talented people. I know dozens of people who put up with constant low-level pain simply from this stanard interface (qwerty typing) to a very disconnected activity (computer programming). I know several people for whom the pain is not `low-level'.
Personally, I just use qwerty, and count myself lucky that typing never gets above `infrequent mild pain'. Still sucks, though.
There have been at least a couple versions of IE for unix platforms. They were incredibly slow, huge, buggy products that roughly noone used.
On platforms where I have a choice, I avoid MSIE, because it's both amazingly insecure (not just `insecure', but incredibly so. Glaring, stupid bugs coming out at an amazingly high sustained rate. If only MS would spend 10% of the time/money they've invested in claiming in court that MSIE is absolutely essential to their business actually treating it as such...) and also because it's *Annoying*. In those rare situations where I'm forced into using MSIE it generally takes me less than a minute to run across a maddening barrage of flashing, blinking, obscuring ads covering the screen, floating around the background, or whatnot.
If you want speed, try Opera or Omniweb. If you want a good browser with source access, mozilla and konqueror are both good bets. MSIE's advantage is, was, and always will be that it's already built in to your OS.
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I saw one of these at MIT's Adaptive Technology lab back in the early 90's. The toothed gears on the bottom are used to secure/release gimble mounts on each section, allowing full adjustability, including the
(supposedly less than optimal) rectilinear configuration used above.
There are several different proposed URN systems being worked on right now (the document even mentions some, such as PURLs and handles). The big problem with these new specs is that there are a larger number of conflicting requirements dependsin on what you really want to do, so they're unlikely to be able to settle on just one proposal (they've been trying for several years).
Still, after looking through the `robust Hyperlink' documents, basically all of the old URN specs that I've seen are better than this, so I hope it doesn't distract people too much.
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I had been looking at the Casio pda as a possible replacement for carrying both a palm V and an mp3 player. The hardware for wince machines seems to be pretty nice, but I really dislike wince. Does anyone know if there are any other practical alternatives? I've seen the custom projects for Linux and NetBSD on the dragonball based machines, but I don't have the free time to try a full port myself. Perhaps eCos?
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Yesterday I visited my local Best Buy for a little Memorial Day capitalistic goodness, and I saw something that might be right up your alley:
XBox Controller S
(that link is just the first provided by Google).
It's a smaller XBbox controller with a slightly better layout (the colored buttons are in a PlayStation-standard diamond, instead of the stretched arrangement of the standard controller, and the black & white keys are below the diamond, not above.
Given that I don't own an xbox, I haven't tried the smaller controller myself, but I really disliked the standard controller, and this looks better. Might be worth a try...
Um, you can do that in ctwm, vtwm, and tvtwm. For more than a dozen years.
Of course, with people syaing humorous things like ``I want a light-weight windowmanager, like WindowMaker.'', I suppose that mentioning such things is like speaking latin in Italy or something...
Who needs the extra 30%? Two reasons:
Speed: People who do serious data entry almost always benefit from these optimized input devices. Personally, I almost never use a numeric keypad for anything other than FPS games. Try watching an accountant use one sometimes; it's pretty impressive.
Pain: the staggered layout of qwerty keyboards was influenced primarily by mechanical considerations. The result is actively painful and harmful for a large number of smart, talented people. I know dozens of people who put up with constant low-level pain simply from this stanard interface (qwerty typing) to a very disconnected activity (computer programming). I know several people for whom the pain is not `low-level'.
Personally, I just use qwerty, and count myself lucky that typing never gets above `infrequent mild pain'. Still sucks, though.
There have been at least a couple versions of IE for unix platforms. They were incredibly slow, huge, buggy products that roughly noone used.
On platforms where I have a choice, I avoid MSIE, because it's both amazingly insecure (not just `insecure', but incredibly so. Glaring, stupid bugs coming out at an amazingly high sustained rate. If only MS would spend 10% of the time/money they've invested in claiming in court that MSIE is absolutely essential to their business actually treating it as such...) and also because it's *Annoying*. In those rare situations where I'm forced into using MSIE it generally takes me less than a minute to run across a maddening barrage of flashing, blinking, obscuring ads covering the screen, floating around the background, or whatnot.
If you want speed, try Opera or Omniweb. If you want a good browser with source access, mozilla and konqueror are both good bets. MSIE's advantage is, was, and always will be that it's already built in to your OS.
Philip left ArsDigita a while ago.
Take a look at this:
http://www.ergopro.com/comfort.html
I saw one of these at MIT's Adaptive Technology lab back in the early 90's. The toothed gears on the bottom are used to secure/release gimble mounts on each section, allowing full adjustability, including the (supposedly less than optimal) rectilinear configuration used above.
Why is it that no one seems to understand that
`forgiveness' used in this context is a legal term?
URI's are the generic term; you mean `URN'.
There are several different proposed URN systems being worked on right now (the document even mentions some, such as PURLs and handles). The big problem with these new specs is that there are a larger number of conflicting requirements dependsin on what you really want to do, so they're unlikely to be able to settle on just one proposal (they've been trying for several years).
Still, after looking through the `robust Hyperlink' documents, basically all of the old URN specs that I've seen are better than this, so I hope it doesn't distract people too much.
I had been looking at the Casio pda as a possible replacement for carrying both a palm V and an mp3 player. The hardware for wince machines seems to be pretty nice, but I really dislike wince. Does anyone know if there are any other practical alternatives? I've seen the custom projects for Linux and NetBSD on the dragonball based machines, but I don't have the free time to try a full port myself. Perhaps eCos?