"Who is the idiot that invented "hjlk" cursors? (never thought that the character to move up could be above the one to go down?)"
Response:
This is one of my main gripes too - an inverted T shape (like ijkl) would have been much better.
And my response:
But the thing NEITHER of you get is that if you dedicate yourselves to homerow, you can become far faster. J/K to move up and down is actually a LOT quicker since you don't have to lift a finger.
It would be interesting to see if you could setup a system where all the emails didn't actually go out. You'd be reaping money from this company, and preventing spam at the same time! How could would that be.
This would be ESPECIALLY good on those ISPs that block port 25... again, you get money, no spam gets sent!:)
Interesting. The link you provide comes to no conclusion... much like a slashdot conversation.
Anyway, I'm of the opinion that no, there is no JOGL, especially since it requires Visual C++ to compile... that DEFINATELY seems to negate it as being Pure Java(TM).:p
Here's a question for the opinionated Slashdot crowd...
Is it legit, ie: won't have me tied up with lawsuits for the next several years, to use patented technology for personal applications?
Think, perhaps, of a power-generation system that would be suitable for a small hobby farm. If I took the patent, built it, and used it on my own land, but did not sell it, am I violating the patent?
I was wondering if people out there had heard of these, and not just Pilots. I think we're in the minority, but I have about a dozen of these things laying around. I lose some, but who cares, they're only $3CDN!
I ask for them in my stockings.:)
Re:I'm still reading Cryptonomicon...
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It's funny... I think I'm around page 400 or 500 or so, and it does get easier as time passes, and you'll find some of the things that confused you before, just don't matter as much. The first 100 pages for me were really difficult, as I couldn't get my mind wrapped around the characters, the rest is easy. I'm interested in seeing how the book turns out though, for sure.
Also, as much as I love the many different story lines (reminds me _mildly_ of some of King's work), I am REALLY enjoying the Avi/Randy story line, and almost wish I could read 1000 pages of just that.
In your article dated August 18th, 2003, you've entirely misled the North American public. Yes, the Copying for Private Use portion of Canadian copyright act does permit copying of CDs, etc... however, you entirely neglected to mention the limitation section of the bill, which I will now quote for you:
"Limitation
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following in relation to any of the things referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c):
(a) selling or renting out, or by way of trade exposing or offering for sale or rental;
(b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade;
(c) communicating to the public by telecommunication; or
(d) performing, or causing to be performed, in public."
I think any judge would deam P2P filesharing to be in violation of Subsection (2)(b) and (2)(c). Perhaps a retraction is in order?
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So, sorry to burst all those Yankee bubbles, but Canada will not become the land of the Free Music anytime soon, since our laws too restrict P2P sharing.
This is a note to all the readers that have responded to this comment. Everyone seems to be taking the angle that you either leave SCO because what they're doing to the linux community is bad, or you stay because the economy sucks and you need a job.
Well, I agree. Period.
Now, for the real intent of this letter... understand that chrisd might have a real point here. There is a possibility that he's not willing to hire SCO employees because if he does, down the road what would stop SCO from claiming that chrisd's workers, some of whom are former SCO employees, are using their IP? I mean, the company's moral standards are low enough to attack the whole world of Linux users, why not attack another company, just because your former employees are working there?
Basically, when I started in computers, I felt it was important to type properly. That being said, I tried out various typing programs, but it all seemed like a pointless waste of time. aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd, fff, ggg, hhh.... etc etc etc. However, one thing stuck out: keep your fingers on home row. And thus, I hit IRC, making DAMNED sure to keep my fingers on home row, and started getting faster and faster. Now, I type properly, and faster than anybody else I know, or at least as fast as (in the case of my geek friends).
People are amazed to find out I'm a computer geek that touch types.:)
Next up: Ergonomic Keyboards. Unfortunately, of the ones I've tried, the Borg builds the best.
Thing is... when I was in highschool a few years ago, cameras were introduced into the hall ways, and not a single one got touched, ever. I think a girl flashed one once, but that was it.:)
I wonder if the camera guy stored it. Sure, it'd be considered child pornography, but hey... ya never know.
On thing you two should understand, is that you're attacking the problem from different angles. The original poster is more into instruments, whereas the guy responding is more into audio equipment. True, the base theories will be the same, but sounds will be generated differently, and reflection DOES play a key role with instruments, as they're not recorded in sound-proof rooms with sound-absorbing walls.
As an impressionable tween, I read The Bachman Books, a collection of novellas he wrote under that pseudonym. It included a gem of a story called "The Long Walk" -- one of my favorites to date. I won't get into the details (google it), but I'm surprised that it hasn't been implemented into today's reality/endurance TV genre yet. "
They do, isn't it called "The Amazing Race"?:p
Aside from that, time to go home and read, The Long Walk.:)
"Anyway, I said to myself, "Those pussies! Walking's easy!" Being reasonably fit, I set out that afternoon along the North Carolina coastline to take a loooooong walk. Mind you, this was in the dead of summer, being on vacation with my family at a rental beach house.
So imagine my humility when, maybe six hours later, and who know how many grueling miles on the beach, I called my folks collect from a payphone and begged for them to come pick me up. I had the absolute worst sunburn of my entire life and my legs were too sore to go any further.
So, assuming that Mr. King isn't found dead in his home before then, can I sue him if I get skin cancer later on in my life?;-)"
Sure, but so long as you realize that he did in fact teach you some humility.:)
I miss the old laptops with trackballs, man, those were great. You had speed, precision, and all of it came in one tiny package. I mean, take an MS ergo keyboard, put a trackball in the middle, three buttons below it, and you'd have one SWEET keyboard, especially if it's the new M$ Wireless ergo keyboard.
Don't forget that other media have in fact been blamed numerous times for murders. Take Stephen King's short story RAGE. It's been blamed for at least two teacher deaths in the past... oh 10-15 years, I believe.
Here's an interview with King that seems to touch on this matter. There have also been numerous specials on various shows relating to Stephen King's book. I'm sure your local librarian would probably be able to point you to archived material, if you're interested. For that matter, just watched archived news footage of the most recent teacher murders, and I'm sure Stephen King will be mentioned in one or two of them.
*big grins* I almost put a reminder on my wedding day that the DVD would be released in a month. Somehow, I don't think that would have gone over very well.
While what you've done in the past is illegal, there are now many free software projects that give you ample ability to read source code and find exploits. Consider the Free BSD project, who's volunteers spend the bulk of their time reading source code to find exploits.
I suspect that your talents would be appreciated with projects like these, and you'd maintain yourself as an upstanding citizen. Or for that matter, netizen, as the case may becoming.
"It always comes back to creativity for me. Creativity thrives through diversity. So, if you look at creativity at large, lots of poets, painters, playwrights, fiction writers, and so on feed off of each other's creativity, but selectively. It's like biology, with its great diversity, where what really works well in particular environments is selected for survival. "
specifically "It's like bilogy".
I wonder how well his ideals will translate to bioinformatics, where you're dealing with organisims programmatically. Pattern matching is a LOT like poetry. I'd bet Richard Gabriel would really dig Perl, however, he probably at least appreciates the RegExp in Java (since I suspect he probably doesn't do much outside of Java, considering he works for Sun).
Very cool stuff... I only wish this MSA would take off a lot sooner.
Slashdot Mirror
"Who is the idiot that invented "hjlk" cursors? (never thought that the character to move up could be above the one to go down?)"
Response:
This is one of my main gripes too - an inverted T shape (like ijkl) would have been much better.
And my response:
But the thing NEITHER of you get is that if you dedicate yourselves to homerow, you can become far faster. J/K to move up and down is actually a LOT quicker since you don't have to lift a finger.
How COOL would that be... not 'could'. :)
It would be interesting to see if you could setup a system where all the emails didn't actually go out. You'd be reaping money from this company, and preventing spam at the same time! How could would that be.
:)
This would be ESPECIALLY good on those ISPs that block port 25... again, you get money, no spam gets sent!
Interesting. The link you provide comes to no conclusion... much like a slashdot conversation.
:p
Anyway, I'm of the opinion that no, there is no JOGL, especially since it requires Visual C++ to compile... that DEFINATELY seems to negate it as being Pure Java(TM).
But something like jogl violates the rules of the contest, no?
Here's a question for the opinionated Slashdot crowd...
Is it legit, ie: won't have me tied up with lawsuits for the next several years, to use patented technology for personal applications?
Think, perhaps, of a power-generation system that would be suitable for a small hobby farm. If I took the patent, built it, and used it on my own land, but did not sell it, am I violating the patent?
To sum up, you won't find anything "useful" on personal websites/blogs/etc. But you WILL find lots of opinions and different ways of thinking...
Just like Slashdot...
Yeah! this would be amazing! Who do we contact to get the email RFC modified?
I'm far too dependant on email to have it any other way!
Yes!
:)
I was wondering if people out there had heard of these, and not just Pilots. I think we're in the minority, but I have about a dozen of these things laying around. I lose some, but who cares, they're only $3CDN!
I ask for them in my stockings.
It's funny... I think I'm around page 400 or 500 or so, and it does get easier as time passes, and you'll find some of the things that confused you before, just don't matter as much. The first 100 pages for me were really difficult, as I couldn't get my mind wrapped around the characters, the rest is easy. I'm interested in seeing how the book turns out though, for sure.
Also, as much as I love the many different story lines (reminds me _mildly_ of some of King's work), I am REALLY enjoying the Avi/Randy story line, and almost wish I could read 1000 pages of just that.
Yeah, I was sleeping on that one.
:)
I stand corrected.
Uhh... he's the article (the LINKED article, not the Slashdot article) author.
I've just emailed the following to Jamie:
d -3 8328
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Jamie,
In your article dated August 18th, 2003, you've entirely misled the North
American public. Yes, the Copying for Private Use portion of Canadian
copyright act does permit copying of CDs, etc... however, you entirely
neglected to mention the limitation section of the bill, which I will now
quote for you:
"Limitation
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act described in that subsection
is done for the purpose of doing any of the following in relation to any of
the things referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c):
(a) selling or renting out, or by way of trade exposing or offering for sale
or rental;
(b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade;
(c) communicating to the public by telecommunication; or
(d) performing, or causing to be performed, in public."
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/38215.html#ri
I think any judge would deam P2P filesharing to be in violation of
Subsection (2)(b) and (2)(c). Perhaps a retraction is in order?
-----
So, sorry to burst all those Yankee bubbles, but Canada will not become the land of the Free Music anytime soon, since our laws too restrict P2P sharing.
This is a note to all the readers that have responded to this comment. Everyone seems to be taking the angle that you either leave SCO because what they're doing to the linux community is bad, or you stay because the economy sucks and you need a job.
Well, I agree. Period.
Now, for the real intent of this letter... understand that chrisd might have a real point here. There is a possibility that he's not willing to hire SCO employees because if he does, down the road what would stop SCO from claiming that chrisd's workers, some of whom are former SCO employees, are using their IP? I mean, the company's moral standards are low enough to attack the whole world of Linux users, why not attack another company, just because your former employees are working there?
Our technique is time. I mean, come on, we're geeks... we sit on computers 24/7, what ELSE do we do on computers?
Ohhh... get your mind out of the gutter!
Basically, when I started in computers, I felt it was important to type properly. That being said, I tried out various typing programs, but it all seemed like a pointless waste of time. aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd, fff, ggg, hhh.... etc etc etc. However, one thing stuck out: keep your fingers on home row. And thus, I hit IRC, making DAMNED sure to keep my fingers on home row, and started getting faster and faster. Now, I type properly, and faster than anybody else I know, or at least as fast as (in the case of my geek friends).
:)
People are amazed to find out I'm a computer geek that touch types.
Next up: Ergonomic Keyboards. Unfortunately, of the ones I've tried, the Borg builds the best.
Thing is... when I was in highschool a few years ago, cameras were introduced into the hall ways, and not a single one got touched, ever. I think a girl flashed one once, but that was it. :)
I wonder if the camera guy stored it. Sure, it'd be considered child pornography, but hey... ya never know.
On thing you two should understand, is that you're attacking the problem from different angles. The original poster is more into instruments, whereas the guy responding is more into audio equipment. True, the base theories will be the same, but sounds will be generated differently, and reflection DOES play a key role with instruments, as they're not recorded in sound-proof rooms with sound-absorbing walls.
At least as far as I can tell.
"Yeah, King's works are dangerous.
:p
:)
;-)"
:)
As an impressionable tween, I read The Bachman Books, a collection of novellas he wrote under that pseudonym. It included a gem of a story called "The Long Walk" -- one of my favorites to date. I won't get into the details (google it), but I'm surprised that it hasn't been implemented into today's reality/endurance TV genre yet. "
They do, isn't it called "The Amazing Race"?
Aside from that, time to go home and read, The Long Walk.
"Anyway, I said to myself, "Those pussies! Walking's easy!" Being reasonably fit, I set out that afternoon along the North Carolina coastline to take a loooooong walk. Mind you, this was in the dead of summer, being on vacation with my family at a rental beach house.
So imagine my humility when, maybe six hours later, and who know how many grueling miles on the beach, I called my folks collect from a payphone and begged for them to come pick me up. I had the absolute worst sunburn of my entire life and my legs were too sore to go any further.
So, assuming that Mr. King isn't found dead in his home before then, can I sue him if I get skin cancer later on in my life?
Sure, but so long as you realize that he did in fact teach you some humility.
I miss the old laptops with trackballs, man, those were great. You had speed, precision, and all of it came in one tiny package. I mean, take an MS ergo keyboard, put a trackball in the middle, three buttons below it, and you'd have one SWEET keyboard, especially if it's the new M$ Wireless ergo keyboard.
'nuf said.
Don't forget that other media have in fact been blamed numerous times for murders. Take Stephen King's short story RAGE. It's been blamed for at least two teacher deaths in the past... oh 10-15 years, I believe.
Here's an interview with King that seems to touch on this matter. There have also been numerous specials on various shows relating to Stephen King's book. I'm sure your local librarian would probably be able to point you to archived material, if you're interested. For that matter, just watched archived news footage of the most recent teacher murders, and I'm sure Stephen King will be mentioned in one or two of them.
*big grins* I almost put a reminder on my wedding day that the DVD would be released in a month. Somehow, I don't think that would have gone over very well.
Hey Kevin,
While what you've done in the past is illegal, there are now many free software projects that give you ample ability to read source code and find exploits. Consider the Free BSD project, who's volunteers spend the bulk of their time reading source code to find exploits.
I suspect that your talents would be appreciated with projects like these, and you'd maintain yourself as an upstanding citizen. Or for that matter, netizen, as the case may becoming.
Hmm... I think when Richard Gabriel says this:
"It always comes back to creativity for me. Creativity thrives through diversity. So, if you look at creativity at large, lots of poets, painters, playwrights, fiction writers, and so on feed off of each other's creativity, but selectively. It's like biology, with its great diversity, where what really works well in particular environments is selected for survival. "
specifically "It's like bilogy".
I wonder how well his ideals will translate to bioinformatics, where you're dealing with organisims programmatically. Pattern matching is a LOT like poetry. I'd bet Richard Gabriel would really dig Perl, however, he probably at least appreciates the RegExp in Java (since I suspect he probably doesn't do much outside of Java, considering he works for Sun).
Very cool stuff... I only wish this MSA would take off a lot sooner.
I've also found Smarthome.com to be very usefull, and fairly ad-free.