And then one car can rebroadcast another car if it likes that 'station.' And if popular enough you can have the whole city rebroadcasting a signal from one person.
Oh yeah, Clearchannel [may they rot in hell] and the FCC are gonna LOVE that!:)
Amen! I got two from Weirdstuff in California for $2 each several years ago. These days the prices are actually going up even at used computer stores [at least here in the DFW area]. I guess they finally realized how popular they are.
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Hmm, I managed to get 88WPM [gross speed] for 1 min. on the "Fishing in Finland" test with 98% accuracy. I missed on word.
Of course, this is on my crappy, soft, non-clicky type Logitech keyboard at work. I'll have to try it on my old IBM keyboard when I get home.
Ah - the arbitrary 'Model M' post when the word 'keyboard' appears in the article.
It's hardly arbitrary. It's the best keyboard ever made. I actually have an approximately 20% increase in typing speed on one over any other keyboard I've ever tried.
I will say that this "Das Keyboard" looks suspiciously like a Model M painted black.
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So up until a year ago I never touch-typed, since I could hunt-peck at roughly 60wpm. Never looking at the keyboard.
I hate to break this to you buddy, but if you aren't looking at the keyboard then you are touch-typing. You may not be using the proper 'home' keys or using the correct fingering for each letter but if you are not looking at the keyboard you can't call it 'hunt-peck'. It's rather difficult to hunt for a key without looking at the keyboard. Unless of course it's a braille keyboard in which case you are still 'touch' typing!:)
That's like Ford re-introduing the Pinto, but just a stripped-down version featuring only a rusty rear bumper and a gas tank. You'll have to tow it behind a Ford pickup truck fitted with a special firewall/blast shield.
Slashdot: the land of stupid analogies
Slashdot is like a grapefruit with the center removed and replaced with battery acid and thumbtacks
I dunno, it might not have been terribly accurate, but it WAS at least funny unlike yours.
try going back and watching IV now. Now that I've been spoiled by good choreography, watching Alec Guiness mince about, gingerly swatting at an equally wooden Darth Vader, makes me want to cry.
Reminds me about part of the Vader Monologues, with Anakin as a "good voice" within Vader's head:
(Vader and Kenobi continue their battle, blades sizzling and crackling.)
VADER: (aloud) Your powers are weak, old man.
A: Ha! Look who's talking! You're not exactly a spring chicken yourself...
V: Hey, I'm still a badass!
A: Suuuuuuure you are. What happened to all those kicks and flips and stuff you used to be able to do?
V: Well--
A: If Yoda were here, he could whip the pants off of both of you--and he was nine hundred years old, for crying out loud!
V: Hey, Kenobi isn't exactly jumping around anymore, either.
A: Yeah, I know. Sad, really. I'm just going to step out and grab you guys a couple of rocking chairs, okay?
V: Zip it.
A: Try not to break a hip while I'm out, all right?
Personally I think the biggest problem with Ep1-3 isn't so much the story. Yeah so we know where it goes, but that doesn't me it the ride to get there can't be exciting.
No the problem is money. Lucas has way too much of it. Especially for the first film [New Hope] there was a severe budget crunch. They were limited in both money and time. I think this forces a film team to make decisions that in the long run are good for the film. If you have no boundaries, you are more likely to throw in little bits that really have no business being in the movie. If you are limited, you are forced to trim the fat and leave the good bits. With the prequels, Lucas had no limits. He effectively had infinite money and time in which to make these films. As a result he wasn't forced to REALLY think about which parts worked to help the film and which didn't.
Then again his dialog sucks either way, especially with love scenes. The general story of Ep 1 and 2 really aren't bad at all. They could have been great movies if the dialog [and to a lesser degree the acting] were better and if they'd been forced to really be picky about what they filmed.
But more than that I'm a strong proponent or supporter of Jury Nullification
Wow, I hadn't heard of any of that before. I've never had jury duty yet. I was called once but had already moved out of that state. I will certainly keep that in mind if I am ever called. It's so sad how the government has been slowly eroding all the things that our founding fathers put in place to keep this a free country.
You can demand anything you want. That doesn't mean you'll get it. You'll get it only if you can somehow coerce your "representatives" (who are no such thing anymore) to see things your way.
The problem is that they no longer answer to you, or to any of their "constituents". The people they answer to are the people that made their election possible: the people who run large corporations, and especially the people who run the corporations that own the media.
And this is exactly why it's time for a revolution. Bloodless preferably, but if necessary then blood will be spilt. I know it sounds extreme, but I really think we are quickly heading down a road that has two possible outcomes. 1: that we become the 'evil' country we've always fought against or 2: we revolt and put in place an actual democratic government, by the people, for the people etc. We now have the technology to implement a true direct democracy. It's time to do so.
The world record was over 75 words per minute averaged over a 15 minute period. I doubt you could achieve that on a phone keyboard.
No kidding. Even on my old IBM type M keyboard I barely average more than that. Most of the typing games/tutorial/teaching software I've tried gives me average WPM in the 80-85 range, with short peaks of 104ish. And honestly I'm slower in real-world applications. I can type fairly quickly in general but get a bit bogged down with the symbols.
I keep thinking to myself that it would be cool to learn morse code. With the way the world is going lately, I have a sinking feeling that morse code may end up being more useful than T9 or sms slang before too long.
Interesting. This mouse has lasted me forever. No problems with it at all. I don't know what revision it is, as it doesn't have a revision number on it though I know it is at least from 2000. I do have a 3.0 at work and it is ok, but I don't like the new button locations on it.
And what I meant about minimum programming was that there is a minimum of Microsoft code involved in the mouse itself. That's why it doesn't suck as bad [for me] as so many of their products.:)
As for the MS Natural keyboard, I can't stand it. I'll stick with my 15 year old PS/2 IBM/Lexmark keyboards.
I've used a lot of Microsoft products. The only one I've ever actually A: paid for and B: would pay for again, is an optical MS Intellimouse Explorer. I've had this mouse for years now. I bought it when optical mice were still a new thing [on PC's anyway, not counting the decades of optical mice from Sun of course]. This is a great product, probably because there was a minimum of programming involved in making it.
Other than that, I'll stick to other vendors for my software needs.
Since it is built deeply into the operating system, Spotlight learns about each new file as soon as it is created, saved or downloaded.
Copernic also has this feature as of version 1.5. It can index on-the-fly when using NT/2K/XP. If you are using Outlook, it will also index your emails on-the-fly. It supports Thunderbird, but sadly doesn't do the on-the-fly indexing.
Not to knock Spotlight as I haven't tried it, but there are other systems that can do on-the-fly indexing.
And if you freelance for $80/hr or are self employed for $120/hr, that time you spend building a computer or buying one is worth how much?
Lets face it. If we were pulling in $80-120/hr, we wouldn't be niggling over a few hundred dollars in the price of a computer.
People who build their computers seem to fall into two general camps. 1)Those who do it because they enjoy it, and 2) those who do it because they don't have the available cash to drop on an over-priced pre-built system. If they have a little money and some free time, they choose to spend some of that free time building instead of the money to pay someone else to build it.
I currently fit into both groups. I generally try to get the best deal I can on parts. I don't mind spending my time building the computer because I really enjoy it. Now I am starting to make more money, and I have a baby on the way so it may come to pass in the not to distant future that the exchange rate of my time to the money saved may not be worth it, and I may choose to buy a pre-built system the next time I'm ready to upgrade; but it's hardly fair to say that my time is currently worthless just because I choose to spend some of it building my computers.
I know most people don't make an issue of it, but it _is_ still a commandment, and it _is_ distressing for some of us to see.
First of all, *if* god gave us free will, who gave you the right to complain about how and when we use that free will? If he wants to use god's name in vain then that's his god-given right. Get over it. If you don't want to see things that offend you, maybe you should stick to Christian Safe sites. Don't try to force us to curb our speech/actions based YOUR beliefs.
Secondly, where is the commandment that says not to use the word god/God? Oh I see, you mean this one: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain".
I hate to have to be the one to tell you this but 'God' isn't god's name. 'God/the Lord' is the substitute that the translators of the bible used to keep people from saying god's name, which is actually 'Yaweh'. They could have just as easily used "snickerdoodle".
If you are going to follow the faith of a pointless mythology, you might as well learn it properly. Sheesh.
Ender-
PS. Thank you for instigating my first ever religious flame/troll post in 14 years of BBS/Internet useage. Too bad you're anonymous.
as an alternative to Linux, it doesn't yet deliver.
Am I the only person who finds this statement insanely hilarious? Maybe it's just my time spent as a sysadmin, but it seems to me that just a few/several years ago Linux was said to not deliver as an alternative to Solaris. A statement like that has got to really sting Sun.
I don't know. Even then, she shows up, drops off a kid, and leaves again. Although she does have focus in part of the story, it still strikes me as just giving a little focus to a background character.
Maybe it's just me. But don't get me wrong, I love the books! I'm reading them to my wife & unborn child every night.:)
While Dent is a familiar cipher, audiences will be left clueless by Ford Prefect, bemused by Zaphod Beeblebrox and indifferent to Trillian.
Personally, in reading the books, I've always been left feeling quite indifferent to Trillian. Almost like she's a background character with little to no importance. So it sounds like they at least got that right.
Probably the same part of me that wishes for it too...
Cuz I'm praying for rain And I'm praying for tidal waves I wanna see the ground give way. I wanna watch it all go down. Mom please flush it all away. I wanna watch it go right in and down. I wanna watch it go right in. Watch you flush it all away.
Sick of this world's bullshit. I want it to head straight for us. If we can't get our heads out of our asses long enough to figure out a solution, we don't deserve to inhabit this planet.
Personally I find it much easier to flip through a wad of "same-sized" bills [not that I ever HAVE that much money]. When I went to Italy, I had a bitch of a time dealing with all that odd-sized money.
Now I do agree that perhaps we should look into using different colors.
Slashdot Mirror
And then one car can rebroadcast another car if it likes that 'station.' And if popular enough you can have the whole city rebroadcasting a signal from one person.
:)
Oh yeah, Clearchannel [may they rot in hell] and the FCC are gonna LOVE that!
Amen! I got two from Weirdstuff in California for $2 each several years ago. These days the prices are actually going up even at used computer stores [at least here in the DFW area]. I guess they finally realized how popular they are.
Hmm, I managed to get 88WPM [gross speed] for 1 min. on the "Fishing in Finland" test with 98% accuracy. I missed on word.
Of course, this is on my crappy, soft, non-clicky type Logitech keyboard at work. I'll have to try it on my old IBM keyboard when I get home.
Ah - the arbitrary 'Model M' post when the word 'keyboard' appears in the article.
It's hardly arbitrary. It's the best keyboard ever made. I actually have an approximately 20% increase in typing speed on one over any other keyboard I've ever tried.
I will say that this "Das Keyboard" looks suspiciously like a Model M painted black.
So up until a year ago I never touch-typed, since I could hunt-peck at roughly 60wpm. Never looking at the keyboard.
:)
I hate to break this to you buddy, but if you aren't looking at the keyboard then you are touch-typing. You may not be using the proper 'home' keys or using the correct fingering for each letter but if you are not looking at the keyboard you can't call it 'hunt-peck'. It's rather difficult to hunt for a key without looking at the keyboard. Unless of course it's a braille keyboard in which case you are still 'touch' typing!
That's like Ford re-introduing the Pinto, but just a stripped-down version featuring only a rusty rear bumper and a gas tank.
You'll have to tow it behind a Ford pickup truck fitted with a special firewall/blast shield.
Slashdot: the land of stupid analogies
Slashdot is like a grapefruit with the center removed and replaced with battery acid and thumbtacks
I dunno, it might not have been terribly accurate, but it WAS at least funny unlike yours.
try going back and watching IV now. Now that I've been spoiled by good choreography, watching Alec Guiness mince about, gingerly swatting at an equally wooden Darth Vader, makes me want to cry.
Reminds me about part of the Vader Monologues, with Anakin as a "good voice" within Vader's head:
(Vader and Kenobi continue their battle, blades sizzling and crackling.)
VADER: (aloud) Your powers are weak, old man.
A: Ha! Look who's talking! You're not exactly a spring chicken yourself...
V: Hey, I'm still a badass!
A: Suuuuuuure you are. What happened to all those kicks and flips and stuff you used to be able to do?
V: Well--
A: If Yoda were here, he could whip the pants off of both of you--and he was nine hundred years old, for crying out loud!
V: Hey, Kenobi isn't exactly jumping around anymore, either.
A: Yeah, I know. Sad, really. I'm just going to step out and grab you guys a couple of rocking chairs, okay?
V: Zip it.
A: Try not to break a hip while I'm out, all right?
Personally I think the biggest problem with Ep1-3 isn't so much the story. Yeah so we know where it goes, but that doesn't me it the ride to get there can't be exciting.
No the problem is money. Lucas has way too much of it. Especially for the first film [New Hope] there was a severe budget crunch. They were limited in both money and time. I think this forces a film team to make decisions that in the long run are good for the film. If you have no boundaries, you are more likely to throw in little bits that really have no business being in the movie. If you are limited, you are forced to trim the fat and leave the good bits. With the prequels, Lucas had no limits. He effectively had infinite money and time in which to make these films. As a result he wasn't forced to REALLY think about which parts worked to help the film and which didn't.
Then again his dialog sucks either way, especially with love scenes. The general story of Ep 1 and 2 really aren't bad at all. They could have been great movies if the dialog [and to a lesser degree the acting] were better and if they'd been forced to really be picky about what they filmed.
But more than that I'm a strong proponent or supporter of Jury Nullification
Wow, I hadn't heard of any of that before. I've never had jury duty yet. I was called once but had already moved out of that state. I will certainly keep that in mind if I am ever called. It's so sad how the government has been slowly eroding all the things that our founding fathers put in place to keep this a free country.
Agreed, but the question is how?
You can demand anything you want. That doesn't mean you'll get it. You'll get it only if you can somehow coerce your "representatives" (who are no such thing anymore) to see things your way.
The problem is that they no longer answer to you, or to any of their "constituents". The people they answer to are the people that made their election possible: the people who run large corporations, and especially the people who run the corporations that own the media.
And this is exactly why it's time for a revolution. Bloodless preferably, but if necessary then blood will be spilt.
I know it sounds extreme, but I really think we are quickly heading down a road that has two possible outcomes. 1: that we become the 'evil' country we've always fought against or 2: we revolt and put in place an actual democratic government, by the people, for the people etc. We now have the technology to implement a true direct democracy. It's time to do so.
Ender-
The world record was over 75 words per minute averaged over a 15 minute period. I doubt you could achieve that on a phone keyboard.
No kidding. Even on my old IBM type M keyboard I barely average more than that. Most of the typing games/tutorial/teaching software I've tried gives me average WPM in the 80-85 range, with short peaks of 104ish. And honestly I'm slower in real-world applications. I can type fairly quickly in general but get a bit bogged down with the symbols.
I keep thinking to myself that it would be cool to learn morse code. With the way the world is going lately, I have a sinking feeling that morse code may end up being more useful than T9 or sms slang before too long.
it looks good like other MS products.. But it needs two new batteries every month.!
Um...Mine doesn't use batteries. It uses an ancient technology called "wires"...
Interesting. This mouse has lasted me forever. No problems with it at all. I don't know what revision it is, as it doesn't have a revision number on it though I know it is at least from 2000. I do have a 3.0 at work and it is ok, but I don't like the new button locations on it.
:)
And what I meant about minimum programming was that there is a minimum of Microsoft code involved in the mouse itself. That's why it doesn't suck as bad [for me] as so many of their products.
As for the MS Natural keyboard, I can't stand it. I'll stick with my 15 year old PS/2 IBM/Lexmark keyboards.
I've used a lot of Microsoft products. The only one I've ever actually A: paid for and B: would pay for again, is an optical MS Intellimouse Explorer. I've had this mouse for years now. I bought it when optical mice were still a new thing [on PC's anyway, not counting the decades of optical mice from Sun of course]. This is a great product, probably because there was a minimum of programming involved in making it.
Other than that, I'll stick to other vendors for my software needs.
Ender-
If you missed the sarcasm in that one, you'll really hate this:
Love is blind
God is Love
Therefore, Ray Charles is God.
Hmmm...
"Only One Man Would Dare Use Strawberry"
That's raspberry.
Ender-
Since it is built deeply into the operating system, Spotlight learns about each new file as soon as it is created, saved or downloaded.
Copernic also has this feature as of version 1.5. It can index on-the-fly when using NT/2K/XP. If you are using Outlook, it will also index your emails on-the-fly. It supports Thunderbird, but sadly doesn't do the on-the-fly indexing.
Not to knock Spotlight as I haven't tried it, but there are other systems that can do on-the-fly indexing.
Ender-
And if you freelance for $80/hr or are self employed for $120/hr, that time you spend building a computer or buying one is worth how much?
Lets face it. If we were pulling in $80-120/hr, we wouldn't be niggling over a few hundred dollars in the price of a computer.
People who build their computers seem to fall into two general camps. 1)Those who do it because they enjoy it, and 2) those who do it because they don't have the available cash to drop on an over-priced pre-built system. If they have a little money and some free time, they choose to spend some of that free time building instead of the money to pay someone else to build it.
I currently fit into both groups. I generally try to get the best deal I can on parts. I don't mind spending my time building the computer because I really enjoy it. Now I am starting to make more money, and I have a baby on the way so it may come to pass in the not to distant future that the exchange rate of my time to the money saved may not be worth it, and I may choose to buy a pre-built system the next time I'm ready to upgrade; but it's hardly fair to say that my time is currently worthless just because I choose to spend some of it building my computers.
Ender-
I know most people don't make an issue of it, but it _is_ still a commandment, and it _is_ distressing for some of us to see.
First of all, *if* god gave us free will, who gave you the right to complain about how and when we use that free will? If he wants to use god's name in vain then that's his god-given right. Get over it. If you don't want to see things that offend you, maybe you should stick to Christian Safe sites. Don't try to force us to curb our speech/actions based YOUR beliefs.
Secondly, where is the commandment that says not to use the word god/God? Oh I see, you mean this one: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain".
I hate to have to be the one to tell you this but 'God' isn't god's name. 'God/the Lord' is the substitute that the translators of the bible used to keep people from saying god's name, which is actually 'Yaweh'. They could have just as easily used "snickerdoodle".
If you are going to follow the faith of a pointless mythology, you might as well learn it properly. Sheesh.
Ender-
PS. Thank you for instigating my first ever religious flame/troll post in 14 years of BBS/Internet useage. Too bad you're anonymous.
as an alternative to Linux, it doesn't yet deliver.
Am I the only person who finds this statement insanely hilarious? Maybe it's just my time spent as a sysadmin, but it seems to me that just a few/several years ago Linux was said to not deliver as an alternative to Solaris. A statement like that has got to really sting Sun.
My, my how times change.
Ender-
Isn't there an option in the Task Manager for Windows XP on dual proc systems that lets you pick which processor a process should run on?
Yes, if you right-click on a process, you can set the "affinity" to tell it which processor to prefer.
Ender-
I don't know. Even then, she shows up, drops off a kid, and leaves again. Although she does have focus in part of the story, it still strikes me as just giving a little focus to a background character.
:)
Maybe it's just me. But don't get me wrong, I love the books! I'm reading them to my wife & unborn child every night.
Ender-
While Dent is a familiar cipher, audiences will be left clueless by Ford Prefect, bemused by Zaphod Beeblebrox and indifferent to Trillian.
Personally, in reading the books, I've always been left feeling quite indifferent to Trillian. Almost like she's a background character with little to no importance. So it sounds like they at least got that right.
Ender-
Probably the same part of me that wishes for it too...
Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Sick of this world's bullshit. I want it to head straight for us. If we can't get our heads out of our asses long enough to figure out a solution, we don't deserve to inhabit this planet.
That's my take anyway.
Ender-
Personally I find it much easier to flip through a wad of "same-sized" bills [not that I ever HAVE that much money].
When I went to Italy, I had a bitch of a time dealing with all that odd-sized money.
Now I do agree that perhaps we should look into using different colors.
Ender-