michael, don't you realize that Dungeons & Dragons is a tool of The Devil? Satan uses D&D to warp and manipulate young minds into doing the will of darkness! How dare you use such a popular forum for advocating and informing people of this horror. D&D is nothing but suicide, sex, drugs, and evil! Burn it!
Oh wait a minute, you mean it's just a game? Sheesh!
Yeah, provided the user doesn't, you know, remember it. Or print it out. Or have somebody looking over their shoulder.
This DRM crap restricts printing. Memorization of huge documents is extremely unlikely and at the very least error-prone. Lastl, someone looking over your shoulder is not an effective means of acquiring a document. Sure, the offender could catch a glimpse of what you're looking at, but too little for too short a time.
Yes, this will probably be a very effective mechanism for restricting access to documents. And of course, the issue for most open source advocates and users is that this will destroy interoperability. You will not be able to use K/Open/Star/Abi Office to open Microsoft Office documents.
If you disagree with this, do everything you can to match the targted demographic especially if you're nowhere near it. If you're Muslim, start eating pork on airliners. If you're not, do things that show you might be. You get the picture. Throw off the statistics and help make this all a big waste of money, and the idiots who come up with this bullshit will be nailed for their wasteful tactics.
Wanke said that the server team had already fixed all of the known security vulnerabilities. "We're very happy about security," he said. "It's fun to see where we are [with security]. I'm personally very impressed with the work that went into it, the fixes and the thought process. We all think it's very secure..."
Yes, just keep telling yourself that and eventually you'll believe it. Meanwhile, the rest of the security-conscious community will write things that are secure rather than things that they think are secure.
"NT 3.51 was a very unrewarding release," Thompson said, contrasting it with Daytona. "After Daytona was completed, we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware. But because of this, NT 3.51 was a solid release, and our customers loved it."
How horrible for a monopoly software company to have its programmers sit around and do bug fixes! My God, how ever did they survive? Fixing bugs at Microsoft must be like... Hell.
Would you rather have the masses read/. to form their stereo types of CS people?
"Computer science is clearly a field for people with enormous anuses, way too much time on their hands, hot grits down their pants, and a homosexual lust for cowboys."
Of course, this isn't too far off the mark from CMU.
Shigeru Miyamoto's masterwork Super Mario Brothers is truly a classic work of modern literature; borrowing heavily from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and an obvious inspiration for Trainspotting, SMB shows the initial joy but the eventual mental and moral decline due to drugs.
Like in classic Greek drama, much of the story is implied. Because the setting is not a part of our common mythos, however, it comes with a small supplemental text which fills in the history for the reader: the evil dragon Bowser Koopa (a metaphor for a kingpin) has invaded a once-propserous kingdom, and those residents who did not join him and become goombas (the local slang for dealers) were turned into blocks - that is, they were embedded in concrete, to sleep with the fishes, as it were.
Enter Mario, the fallen hero. At the very outset of his adventure, he is doomed, as almost right away he steals a dealer's mushroom (obviously mixed with peyote) and begins to hallucinate, that he is big, that he is powerful. As though on PCP, he finds it easy to break solid bricks by punching it and does not perceive the pain; however, when dealers, pushers (personified by turtles much like Thompson's literal lounge lizards), and other minions of the kingpin cause him pain (in retaliation for his original drug theft), he immediately loses the empowering effects of the peyote, and in fact, seems very small and vulnerable, and must desparately seek out another hit. When he is not seeking out a hit of peyote, he is seeking out much more powerful stuff indeed - a flower (the opium-giving poppy) or a star (a hit of LSD), both of which further his delusions of being strong and powerful.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychadelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
His trials and travails continue along his slide into dementia, with such powerful imagery as being underwater (drowning in desparation) and along a long suspension bridge with flying fish (skirting death at every corner). After chapter 3, which describes a night of terrors, and chapter 4, another full day, he finds himself in another castle delusion, but this time he is so hopelessly lost in his mind that it appears to him as a maze, where if he does not climb the correct stairs in the right order, he is trapped and seems to endlessly repeat the pathway.
Much more of the same continues, showing the repetition and mental deadness of a drug-induced haze, with some intermediate powerful imagery as a landscape so bleak and gray that it appears to be frozen, causing our fallen hero to psychosomatically slip on what seems to be ice. At many points, he is also unwittingly caught up in drug-related urban warfare, bullets careening across the landscape, although in Mario's stupor, the inanimate metal slugs appear to be living, almost sentient things.
Finally, he enters a final castle which appears to be real, but it is quickly apparent that it is not, for it is filled with all of his prior hallucinations, but twisted into much more nightmarish images, again arranged in a maze as some of the castle-hallucination-nightmares before (although this time with the strong symbolism of the magic number 3), and at the end, when he finally destroys what he believes to be the kingpin Koopa and rescues who he believes to be the princess, it becomes obvious to the reader (though not to Mario, still in a state of dementia) that he was only a hapless pimp and the "princses" his whore, who (at our hero's expense) direct him to start his hapless Quixotic quest from the beginning, only this time, all the drug dealers are wearing bullet-proof jackets (who have appeared as gigantic beetles to our hallucinogenic hero all along).
And so, the cycle of depravity begins anew, but much more difficultly for our pathetically-pathos-pumped plumber.
Of course, this plot summary only begins to scratch the surface of this epic novel. One really must complete it on their own in order to truly appreciate its depth and challenge, trying to sort out what is real and what isn't.
There is, of course, a like-minded series following this book (although the immediate sequel is a blatant last-minute search and replace job on the cancelled Doki Doki Panic); there are also several TV adaptations, a movie (which completely missed the point and took major liberties with the plot), several spin-off series, and, at one time, there was even a breakfast cereal, in a monstrous twist of consumer-driven poetic irony. Regardless of this sensational consumerism, however, the original story has withstood the test of time, and will forever be a literary classic.
I explained that my system running Linux and Win2K would not boot and after re-running my bootloader, the system would start but TurboTax would not run.
Even if you don't actually own TurboTax (I infact used it for the first time this year) I would file a bug report. We all know what the symptoms and causes are and they're valid no matter who reports them.
We must all make a stand to demonstrate consumers dislike and resist silly measures like this. Especially when these measures damage our computers!
Nothing would enrage me more than to have my software rearrange and/or relable my keys. This is just an absolutely bad idea. You would destroy any learning curve software has and you would demolish any consistency between applications.
I do agree with you that internationalization would benefit tremendously from such a keyboard -- but chances are, if you are an X language speaker, you'll be in an X language speaking area with appropriately fitted computers. Very few international cybercafes as far as I'm aware.
User interface hardware needs to be designed such that it is the same today as it was the day before. Users have a hard enough time with crappy software constantly shifting beneath their feet.
the keyboards we use are still a throwback to the early 1980s. I mean - my Mac doesn't have room for page up/down or home/end keys,
That's likely because it's a laptop.
And my PC keyboards all waste plastic on a backwards-apostrophe key
Try writing a document with LaTeX, then complain about this key. Personally, I use that character quite a bit.
and a scroll-lock (+ LED!),
A lot of *nix users like scroll-lock. I know I do.
while functions that you use all the time, such as switching between windows, cut/copy/paste, back/forwards, undo/redo etc, all have to double-up with other keys..
This is largely to prevent accidents. I'd hate to be typing along and accidently hit the single "undo" key.
By the way, did you know that lots of operting environments let you create keybindings? Just an FYI.
Have any organizations actually tried to re-invent the keyboard recently? (..not counting the manufacturers who stick a few 'multimedia' keys along the top for consumer PCs).
Yes. All their "improvements" suck (except for a very small few, highly specialized designs -- like onehanded keyboards or even 5 key chords).
Would this be doomed to failure
Most are.
because of the tens of thousands of legacy apps that expect things to be the way they are?
I don't see why legacy applications would prevent new keyboard designs from coming forward. Any keyboard design will fundamentally have a mechanism for alpha-numerics. Specialty keys are up for grabs. What you're talking about sounds mostly like keyboard layout. In that case, there's a LOT of variety.
What sort of keys would you include in your fantasy keyboard layout?" It's not just the keys on your keyboard that are important, it's also how you arrange them. What kind of keyboard arrangements might we see in the future?
Oh well, let me think about this one. I would probably want some letters. Maybe some numbers. Perhaps some special symbols like dollar signs and parenthesis. Maybe some other non-printing characters for special functions -- keys that I could map on a per application basis. Wow, the possibilities are endless. If only we had such an input device...
How would I arrange them? I would imaging in such a way that my fingers can reach them with comfort.
Probably DVORAK.
OKay, so what the hell does this submission accomplish? We've probably just witness the single most ridiculous Ask Slashdot ever, by someone who has done absolutely no research beyond the one or two QWERTY PC-101 boards in his house.
Yes, some changes are good... but most are clearly just crap (web buttons and so forth). We've seen a lot of development in ergonomic keyboards. That's good. We've seen DVORAK become more popular. Also good. What more does this guy want? I suppose he also argues for the revolution of the piano keyboard as well.
(Hint: try studying some history instead of just whining.)
Everything was fine up until that. I beg your pardon, but I'd say that most people today don't even consider why we dropped the bombs (aside from: "we were at war?"), let alone the details of the event. I am not a WWII history buff and what I do know about Japanese history is pre-Meiji Restoration.
So take a chill and realize that not everyone's shelves are stocked with the same books as yours.
I could just go look this up, but I wanted real-time opinions. Someone answer me this: why did the United States drop two atomic bombs are civilian targets in Japan? I do not understand why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targetted for these attacks. I do not understand how anything even remotely moral may be derived from this. Can I get some insight?
I was taken back to learn that only Windows users benefit from this new technology. Here's an open letter I sent to Opera Software, inquiring about bringing this enhancement to other platforms.
I'm very excited about the new Bork technology in Opera, however I am disappointed to find it is not available for Linux. I am a little distressed that Windows users get the superior browser, while Linux users are stuck with yesterday's news. Does Opera Software plan on bringing this enhancement to other platforms? I hope in the future all platforms will be equally supported with enhancements to the Opera browser. Many thanks!
You can send this letter to Opera Software using their feedback page.
That would be "Brak". Brak loves beans. When Brak eats beans, he sits in his own little cloud. Nobody wants to come visit him, in his little cloud. He doesn't know why. Maybe because he's cuttin' muffins.
Remind me to tell you the monkey story sometime.
And how is this cyberpunk?
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I didn't know that subjecting yourself to mental control and monitoring was cyberpunk. Geez, I guess it's time for us to wake up and stop being so anarchist!
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michael, don't you realize that Dungeons & Dragons is a tool of The Devil? Satan uses D&D to warp and manipulate young minds into doing the will of darkness! How dare you use such a popular forum for advocating and informing people of this horror. D&D is nothing but suicide, sex, drugs, and evil! Burn it!
Oh wait a minute, you mean it's just a game? Sheesh!
Yeah, provided the user doesn't, you know, remember it. Or print it out. Or have somebody looking over their shoulder.
This DRM crap restricts printing. Memorization of huge documents is extremely unlikely and at the very least error-prone. Lastl, someone looking over your shoulder is not an effective means of acquiring a document. Sure, the offender could catch a glimpse of what you're looking at, but too little for too short a time.
Yes, this will probably be a very effective mechanism for restricting access to documents. And of course, the issue for most open source advocates and users is that this will destroy interoperability. You will not be able to use K/Open/Star/Abi Office to open Microsoft Office documents.
Virtual machines host YOU
If you disagree with this, do everything you can to match the targted demographic especially if you're nowhere near it. If you're Muslim, start eating pork on airliners. If you're not, do things that show you might be. You get the picture. Throw off the statistics and help make this all a big waste of money, and the idiots who come up with this bullshit will be nailed for their wasteful tactics.
Wanke said that the server team had already fixed all of the known security vulnerabilities. "We're very happy about security," he said. "It's fun to see where we are [with security]. I'm personally very impressed with the work that went into it, the fixes and the thought process. We all think it's very secure..."
Yes, just keep telling yourself that and eventually you'll believe it. Meanwhile, the rest of the security-conscious community will write things that are secure rather than things that they think are secure.
Would you rather have the masses read /. to form their stereo types of CS people?
"Computer science is clearly a field for people with enormous anuses, way too much time on their hands, hot grits down their pants, and a homosexual lust for cowboys."
Of course, this isn't too far off the mark from CMU.
Shigeru Miyamoto's masterwork Super Mario Brothers is truly a classic work of modern literature; borrowing heavily from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and an obvious inspiration for Trainspotting, SMB shows the initial joy but the eventual mental and moral decline due to drugs.
Like in classic Greek drama, much of the story is implied. Because the setting is not a part of our common mythos, however, it comes with a small supplemental text which fills in the history for the reader: the evil dragon Bowser Koopa (a metaphor for a kingpin) has invaded a once-propserous kingdom, and those residents who did not join him and become goombas (the local slang for dealers) were turned into blocks - that is, they were embedded in concrete, to sleep with the fishes, as it were.
Enter Mario, the fallen hero. At the very outset of his adventure, he is doomed, as almost right away he steals a dealer's mushroom (obviously mixed with peyote) and begins to hallucinate, that he is big, that he is powerful. As though on PCP, he finds it easy to break solid bricks by punching it and does not perceive the pain; however, when dealers, pushers (personified by turtles much like Thompson's literal lounge lizards), and other minions of the kingpin cause him pain (in retaliation for his original drug theft), he immediately loses the empowering effects of the peyote, and in fact, seems very small and vulnerable, and must desparately seek out another hit. When he is not seeking out a hit of peyote, he is seeking out much more powerful stuff indeed - a flower (the opium-giving poppy) or a star (a hit of LSD), both of which further his delusions of being strong and powerful.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychadelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
His trials and travails continue along his slide into dementia, with such powerful imagery as being underwater (drowning in desparation) and along a long suspension bridge with flying fish (skirting death at every corner). After chapter 3, which describes a night of terrors, and chapter 4, another full day, he finds himself in another castle delusion, but this time he is so hopelessly lost in his mind that it appears to him as a maze, where if he does not climb the correct stairs in the right order, he is trapped and seems to endlessly repeat the pathway.
Much more of the same continues, showing the repetition and mental deadness of a drug-induced haze, with some intermediate powerful imagery as a landscape so bleak and gray that it appears to be frozen, causing our fallen hero to psychosomatically slip on what seems to be ice. At many points, he is also unwittingly caught up in drug-related urban warfare, bullets careening across the landscape, although in Mario's stupor, the inanimate metal slugs appear to be living, almost sentient things.
Finally, he enters a final castle which appears to be real, but it is quickly apparent that it is not, for it is filled with all of his prior hallucinations, but twisted into much more nightmarish images, again arranged in a maze as some of the castle-hallucination-nightmares before (although this time with the strong symbolism of the magic number 3), and at the end, when he finally destroys what he believes to be the kingpin Koopa and rescues who he believes to be the princess, it becomes obvious to the reader (though not to Mario, still in a state of dementia) that he was only a hapless pimp and the "princses" his whore, who (at our hero's expense) direct him to start his hapless Quixotic quest from the beginning, only this time, all the drug dealers are wearing bullet-proof jackets (who have appeared as gigantic beetles to our hallucinogenic hero all along).
And so, the cycle of depravity begins anew, but much more difficultly for our pathetically-pathos-pumped plumber.
Of course, this plot summary only begins to scratch the surface of this epic novel. One really must complete it on their own in order to truly appreciate its depth and challenge, trying to sort out what is real and what isn't.
There is, of course, a like-minded series following this book (although the immediate sequel is a blatant last-minute search and replace job on the cancelled Doki Doki Panic); there are also several TV adaptations, a movie (which completely missed the point and took major liberties with the plot), several spin-off series, and, at one time, there was even a breakfast cereal, in a monstrous twist of consumer-driven poetic irony. Regardless of this sensational consumerism, however, the original story has withstood the test of time, and will forever be a literary classic.
Within an hour!
Mein Gott!
I would, but Slashdot's HTML parser strips these:
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"New front light screen"
Sounds a lot like engrish to me.
"GameBoy SP new and much enjoyable front light screen! All GameBoy games can you have play!"
Registars knock you off YOU
I explained that my system running Linux and Win2K would not boot and after re-running my bootloader, the system would start but TurboTax would not run.
Even if you don't actually own TurboTax (I infact used it for the first time this year) I would file a bug report. We all know what the symptoms and causes are and they're valid no matter who reports them.
We must all make a stand to demonstrate consumers dislike and resist silly measures like this. Especially when these measures damage our computers!
Google leads to all kinds of knowledge. Perhaps if you had known about it beforehand, you would have saved yourself some time.
Handkey Corporation
Datahand Ego Keyboard (These are incredible. Used them before.)
Matias Corporation (If you can run it, try their demo -- I found I could get used to this layout in less than 30 minutes)
There's a start. Remember Google.
Nothing would enrage me more than to have my software rearrange and/or relable my keys. This is just an absolutely bad idea. You would destroy any learning curve software has and you would demolish any consistency between applications.
I do agree with you that internationalization would benefit tremendously from such a keyboard -- but chances are, if you are an X language speaker, you'll be in an X language speaking area with appropriately fitted computers. Very few international cybercafes as far as I'm aware.
User interface hardware needs to be designed such that it is the same today as it was the day before. Users have a hard enough time with crappy software constantly shifting beneath their feet.
These Ask Slashdots aren't improving.
the keyboards we use are still a throwback to the early 1980s. I mean - my Mac doesn't have room for page up/down or home/end keys,
That's likely because it's a laptop.
And my PC keyboards all waste plastic on a backwards-apostrophe key
Try writing a document with LaTeX, then complain about this key. Personally, I use that character quite a bit.
and a scroll-lock (+ LED!),
A lot of *nix users like scroll-lock. I know I do.
while functions that you use all the time, such as switching between windows, cut/copy/paste, back/forwards, undo/redo etc, all have to double-up with other keys..
This is largely to prevent accidents. I'd hate to be typing along and accidently hit the single "undo" key.
By the way, did you know that lots of operting environments let you create keybindings? Just an FYI.
Have any organizations actually tried to re-invent the keyboard recently? (..not counting the manufacturers who stick a few 'multimedia' keys along the top for consumer PCs).
Yes. All their "improvements" suck (except for a very small few, highly specialized designs -- like onehanded keyboards or even 5 key chords).
Would this be doomed to failure
Most are.
because of the tens of thousands of legacy apps that expect things to be the way they are?
I don't see why legacy applications would prevent new keyboard designs from coming forward. Any keyboard design will fundamentally have a mechanism for alpha-numerics. Specialty keys are up for grabs. What you're talking about sounds mostly like keyboard layout. In that case, there's a LOT of variety.
What sort of keys would you include in your fantasy keyboard layout?" It's not just the keys on your keyboard that are important, it's also how you arrange them. What kind of keyboard arrangements might we see in the future?
Oh well, let me think about this one. I would probably want some letters. Maybe some numbers. Perhaps some special symbols like dollar signs and parenthesis. Maybe some other non-printing characters for special functions -- keys that I could map on a per application basis. Wow, the possibilities are endless. If only we had such an input device...
How would I arrange them? I would imaging in such a way that my fingers can reach them with comfort.
Probably DVORAK.
OKay, so what the hell does this submission accomplish? We've probably just witness the single most ridiculous Ask Slashdot ever, by someone who has done absolutely no research beyond the one or two QWERTY PC-101 boards in his house.
Yes, some changes are good... but most are clearly just crap (web buttons and so forth). We've seen a lot of development in ergonomic keyboards. That's good. We've seen DVORAK become more popular. Also good. What more does this guy want? I suppose he also argues for the revolution of the piano keyboard as well.
Silly. Stupid editors.
I think you got your point across about not being against video game violence/sexuality.
Who needs real girls when you can easily pick one up from #hotteensex on IRC?
(Hint: try studying some history instead of just whining.)
Everything was fine up until that. I beg your pardon, but I'd say that most people today don't even consider why we dropped the bombs (aside from: "we were at war?"), let alone the details of the event. I am not a WWII history buff and what I do know about Japanese history is pre-Meiji Restoration.
So take a chill and realize that not everyone's shelves are stocked with the same books as yours.
I could just go look this up, but I wanted real-time opinions. Someone answer me this: why did the United States drop two atomic bombs are civilian targets in Japan? I do not understand why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targetted for these attacks. I do not understand how anything even remotely moral may be derived from this. Can I get some insight?
You can send this letter to Opera Software using their feedback page.
That would be "Brak". Brak loves beans. When Brak eats beans, he sits in his own little cloud. Nobody wants to come visit him, in his little cloud. He doesn't know why. Maybe because he's cuttin' muffins.
Remind me to tell you the monkey story sometime.
I didn't know that subjecting yourself to mental control and monitoring was cyberpunk. Geez, I guess it's time for us to wake up and stop being so anarchist!
They're theives! Wicked... false... tricksie... They stole our nomination... and we wants it back!