Usually, I type in bursts; I'll know the entire sentance (or line of code) that I want to type, and then I'll start typing it. It's true that the amount of speed I gain from being a fast typist doesn't increase my workrate significantly, but the fact that I don't need to think about the process of typing (i.e. where the keys are) because I'm a good typist does help.
CD didn't have any real competition when it launched in 1982.
There was casette tape and vinyl records. Vinyl is arguably higher quality - and some of the early CDs were just vinyl rips anyway. When CD players cost $900, "nobody" bought them because casette tapes were fine.
The fact of the matter is that within a couple years (five at the outside), tri-format optical disk players will cost under $200 and nobody will care if their disk is a DVD-ROM, BD-ROM, or HD-DVD.
If everyone does that, the new tech will sell poorly and never come down in price.
So, the real plan is for everyone but me to buy their 1080p 80" plasma TVs right now, along with BlueRay players & burners. The thing you all should especially buy is blank BD-Rs, because they cost $20 now and I want to buy them for a quarter.
When you try to do the sort of stupid shit with, say, OSX that people try to do with Linux you absolutly need to RTFM to figure it out. The advantage to OSX is that people believe you and give up when you say that something doesn't work. With Linux, they're like "I just installed Linux on my laptop and I heard that I can share the Starcraft installation on my Windows desktop... I've got it shared via Samba."
If that's the case, then the only way to keep the "market free" is to not allow whoever owns those lines to compete with anyone who would like to own the lines. Actually, this is a perfect place for local governments to step in and administer the lines themselves.
It's not Google's fault that the local ISPs are running into problems with their "unlimted use" plans. In fact, I'm sure Google pays per gigabyte for the bandwidth they use.
It was a risk for ISPs to offer "unlimited" internet plans assuming that most people wouldn't use the bandwidth they thought they were paying for. If that risk bites them in the ass, they're just going to have to cope and start charging for usage.
It would take a lot of work to be able to touch type the left arrow key - and even then it wouldn't be reliable. If more applications supported standard (i.e. emacs) key bindings, it would be a much more feasible concept.
You really need to try hard to fail at that with Linux recently. Hardware largely just works.
Yea, some modems on laptops don't work. Most of them do, and who uses a modem anyway?
3d accleration sometimes takes a bit to get working. What crazy Linux 3D app are you running exactly?
Sure, sometimes the built in memory card reader doesn't work - you'll just need to plug your digital camera into a USB port instead.
The only place where you'd really need to worry about brand checking at the moment is wireless cards - and even most of them work fine.
Most manufacturers of commonly used hardware have discovered that it's easiest to just have their stuff work with Linux... so it does.
You can just take all the key caps off and put them back randomly. At my last desk job, a couple of co-workers did that to me as a prank - when I finally noticed, I just left it that way. Eventually one of them fixed it after it annoyed them enough using my desk.
For tasks such as typing, your nervous system has an "action queue" - you decide which letters you are going to type about half a second before you actually type them. If you make no errors, you can keep up a constant speed much faster than a letter every half second - but every single letter error you make typing takes a long time to correct, reguardless of how quickly you can reach the backspace key.
A typer typing at 40 WPM with no mistakes needs to type a bit over 3 characters per second to keep up that speed. (40 WPM * 5 letters/word = 200 / 60 secs/min = 3.3).
If that same person instead makes a mistake every five words (like me), they instead need to type 5 characters per second to keep up that speed. (8 mistakes means 8 retyped words, so 48 words. It takes nearly a second and a half to detect and correct a mistake, so 60 - 12 = 48 seconds. 48 * 5 letters/word = 240 / 48 seconds/minute = 5 letters/second).
It seriously takes at least that long to detect and correct mistakes. Usually when I start hitting backspace when I notice a mistake, I've already typed four or five more letters - those letters need to be backspaced through and retyped. That's not even taking into account the fact that your typing rythm has been thrown completely off by trying to correct the mistake.
If we compare that to the United States, we get the following:
The United States clearly shows your signs 1, 3, and 7.
The United States less clearly shows signs 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14
The only signs I'd say that the United States isn't showing at all are 5, 8, and 11 - and the current president has tried really hard for 8.
No, a couple of invalid submissions to spamcop aren't too big a problem.
The thing is, spamcop has more than one user. The people providing the service have determined that single-click accuracy is not high enough overall and therefore require that their users verify their submissions (in most cases).
Many online stores accept paypal. If google does things correctly, they could offer much lower rates than even credit card companies for direct account deductions - i.e. it's not just paypal that they could target but Visa and Mastercard.
Many people apparently have difficulty believing that anybody can be more interested in being part of a great work than they are in wielding any sort of political or financial power.
Many other people have difficulty believing that anyone could exploit a position of power for personal gain. In fact, both have happened and continue to happen - the problem is that corruption tends to feed on itself.
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Usually, I type in bursts; I'll know the entire sentance (or line of code) that I want to type, and then I'll start typing it. It's true that the amount of speed I gain from being a fast typist doesn't increase my workrate significantly, but the fact that I don't need to think about the process of typing (i.e. where the keys are) because I'm a good typist does help.
There was casette tape and vinyl records. Vinyl is arguably higher quality - and some of the early CDs were just vinyl rips anyway. When CD players cost $900, "nobody" bought them because casette tapes were fine.
The fact of the matter is that within a couple years (five at the outside), tri-format optical disk players will cost under $200 and nobody will care if their disk is a DVD-ROM, BD-ROM, or HD-DVD.
Who sits 15' away from their TV? With my current 27" analogue TV the average viewing distance is 7'.
So, the real plan is for everyone but me to buy their 1080p 80" plasma TVs right now, along with BlueRay players & burners. The thing you all should especially buy is blank BD-Rs, because they cost $20 now and I want to buy them for a quarter.
Wow. You've made an awful lot of posts in this thread deriding RMS for someone who thinks that he's completely insignificant.
When you try to do the sort of stupid shit with, say, OSX that people try to do with Linux you absolutly need to RTFM to figure it out. The advantage to OSX is that people believe you and give up when you say that something doesn't work. With Linux, they're like "I just installed Linux on my laptop and I heard that I can share the Starcraft installation on my Windows desktop... I've got it shared via Samba."
If that's the case, then the only way to keep the "market free" is to not allow whoever owns those lines to compete with anyone who would like to own the lines. Actually, this is a perfect place for local governments to step in and administer the lines themselves.
It was a risk for ISPs to offer "unlimited" internet plans assuming that most people wouldn't use the bandwidth they thought they were paying for. If that risk bites them in the ass, they're just going to have to cope and start charging for usage.
It's interesting to note that Rijndael was probably the weakest of the AES finalists.
Just cheat. There's no loss of honor in using cheat codes once you've beaten the game.
It would take a lot of work to be able to touch type the left arrow key - and even then it wouldn't be reliable. If more applications supported standard (i.e. emacs) key bindings, it would be a much more feasible concept.
I'm not convinced that there has been a valid attempt at implementing "democratic communism".
Yea, some modems on laptops don't work. Most of them do, and who uses a modem anyway?
3d accleration sometimes takes a bit to get working. What crazy Linux 3D app are you running exactly?
Sure, sometimes the built in memory card reader doesn't work - you'll just need to plug your digital camera into a USB port instead.
The only place where you'd really need to worry about brand checking at the moment is wireless cards - and even most of them work fine.
Most manufacturers of commonly used hardware have discovered that it's easiest to just have their stuff work with Linux... so it does.
Yea, it'd be nice if you could sue the government, wouldn't it?
You can just take all the key caps off and put them back randomly. At my last desk job, a couple of co-workers did that to me as a prank - when I finally noticed, I just left it that way. Eventually one of them fixed it after it annoyed them enough using my desk.
For tasks such as typing, your nervous system has an "action queue" - you decide which letters you are going to type about half a second before you actually type them. If you make no errors, you can keep up a constant speed much faster than a letter every half second - but every single letter error you make typing takes a long time to correct, reguardless of how quickly you can reach the backspace key.
It seriously takes at least that long to detect and correct mistakes. Usually when I start hitting backspace when I notice a mistake, I've already typed four or five more letters - those letters need to be backspaced through and retyped. That's not even taking into account the fact that your typing rythm has been thrown completely off by trying to correct the mistake.
The United States clearly shows your signs 1, 3, and 7.
The United States less clearly shows signs 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14
The only signs I'd say that the United States isn't showing at all are 5, 8, and 11 - and the current president has tried really hard for 8.
Which is why you assumed an insecure windows machine in the post I was responding to...
I'd say that the insecure windows machine is your problem. Spam email is everyone's problem.
Three semesters of descrete mathematics is a requirement in the undergrad CS program I'm currently in. Someone must think it's a good idea...
As I understand it, the spamcop system only considers the most recent recieved header to be a spam source.
For example, in this case it will only mark "spammer.com" as a spammer:
If you want to be able to send messages anonymously, use a remailer or use something other than email.
The thing is, spamcop has more than one user. The people providing the service have determined that single-click accuracy is not high enough overall and therefore require that their users verify their submissions (in most cases).
Many online stores accept paypal. If google does things correctly, they could offer much lower rates than even credit card companies for direct account deductions - i.e. it's not just paypal that they could target but Visa and Mastercard.
Many other people have difficulty believing that anyone could exploit a position of power for personal gain. In fact, both have happened and continue to happen - the problem is that corruption tends to feed on itself.