I think that the confusing part in your example is more the constructs and not the words themselves. That is, if you combine a sentence structure and style that is not readily apparent to the reader with jumbled words, I agree that you can confuse the reader. You have to give some hints to the reader. The majority of your text was readable without too much issue, but I don't normally associate professionals with universities (professors, maybe) and "inversion of internal characters" doesn't just jump into my mind.
I would argue that it's easy enough to confuse an average reader with properly spelled words given a sufficiently complex sentence structure. All the same, it's still fun.:-)
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Yeah the ~ key next to the space bar. I always end up hitting both when trying to find it. I can't tell you how many times I've made the letter next to the letter I want capitalized.
If you find yourself starved for human companionship you should find it. Go have lunch with friends of yours that work somewhere near you. Find a starbucks with wireless access and work there from time to time. Go to your local library, but basically you should find a place where there are people around and work there. (BTW, a laptop is key for this).
If you can't find a place where there are people, then go back to the office from time to time. I usually went once a week or so, to schedule meetings and what not. The basic idea is that even though you're working from home you don't HAVE to be at HOME. Go somewhere and meet someone new. At the office you see the same faces over and over. In the real world there are so many people... too many people.... time to crawl back into my hole.
It seems to me that this is exactly the type of problem that places like akamai and cable and wireless (was digital island) are trying to solve. Pay only for the bandwidth you use, leverage their existing distributed architecture, profit. You can try to get bustable bandwidth etc, but in the past I've found it to be more expensive. Things may have changed since them (a year ago) but you should still look into a content delivery network.
I agree that to allow the human to read the computer's source code is somewhat rediculous. It's akin to allowing humans to hypnotise and ask other humans chess questions before the match. However, I believe that we do need to allow the humans to rest. That's only fair.
A lot of my non computer literate friends have switched to jabber because it's easy to use and it allows you to keep all of your information in one place. That is, you don't have to have 5 seperate clients open to talk to all the people you want to talk to. I will give you that the interface for interacting with transports needs a little work, but other than that things work nicely.
I use it all the time and don't think it's counter intuitive or a pain to use at all. Besides, Windows wasn't the easiest operating system to use, but look where it's at. And don't even get me started on linux.... =)
If it is true, it will be interesting to see what the Japanese government will do. Or even the UN. Because in theory the gold belongs to Japan even if they stole it from Thailand.
I think that an open implementation of the cocoa and carbon apis would allow mac apps on x86. But I hope that apple's long term goal is to release those anyway so that we can all share in MacOS.
The Pentium IV still has a long way to go before it's ready for prime time so I'm not sure these numbers should cause a lot of concern. I still believe that the Pentium Pro was the best thing to come out of intel and that everything else has been a step backwards. =) Anyway, the ppl who really need >1.5GHZ are few and far between. Intel realizes this and are just making another chip so they can get more money from Joe Consumer who just wants the latest and maybe not so greatest.
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You misspelled rscheearch it should really be rscheearechr (or equivalent).
I think that the confusing part in your example is more the constructs and not the words themselves. That is, if you combine a sentence structure and style that is not readily apparent to the reader with jumbled words, I agree that you can confuse the reader. You have to give some hints to the reader. The majority of your text was readable without too much issue, but I don't normally associate professionals with universities (professors, maybe) and "inversion of internal characters" doesn't just jump into my mind.
:-)
I would argue that it's easy enough to confuse an average reader with properly spelled words given a sufficiently complex sentence structure. All the same, it's still fun.
Yeah the ~ key next to the space bar. I always end up hitting both when trying to find it. I can't tell you how many times I've made the letter next to the letter I want capitalized.
And don't even get me started on the escape key!
If you find yourself starved for human companionship you should find it. Go have lunch with friends of yours that work somewhere near you. Find a starbucks with wireless access and work there from time to time. Go to your local library, but basically you should find a place where there are people around and work there. (BTW, a laptop is key for this).
If you can't find a place where there are people, then go back to the office from time to time. I usually went once a week or so, to schedule meetings and what not. The basic idea is that even though you're working from home you don't HAVE to be at HOME. Go somewhere and meet someone new. At the office you see the same faces over and over. In the real world there are so many people... too many people.... time to crawl back into my hole.
How long did this take to build? I'm sure they thought for sure he'd be dead by now.
It seems to me that this is exactly the type of problem that places like akamai and cable and wireless (was digital island) are trying to solve. Pay only for the bandwidth you use, leverage their existing distributed architecture, profit. You can try to get bustable bandwidth etc, but in the past I've found it to be more expensive. Things may have changed since them (a year ago) but you should still look into a content delivery network.
I agree that to allow the human to read the computer's source code is somewhat rediculous. It's akin to allowing humans to hypnotise and ask other humans chess questions before the match. However, I believe that we do need to allow the humans to rest. That's only fair.
The battery on my Nokia 8290 is the only thing keeping it from becoming a choking hazard to small children. =)
I don't think Sun was being optimistic at all. I mean afterall they're the dot in dot-com. =)
With banner ad revenues completely gone it's likely that we will see more and more pay services.
A lot of my non computer literate friends have switched to jabber because it's easy to use and it allows you to keep all of your information in one place. That is, you don't have to have 5 seperate clients open to talk to all the people you want to talk to. I will give you that the interface for interacting with transports needs a little work, but other than that things work nicely. I use it all the time and don't think it's counter intuitive or a pain to use at all. Besides, Windows wasn't the easiest operating system to use, but look where it's at. And don't even get me started on linux.... =)
If it is true, it will be interesting to see what the Japanese government will do. Or even the UN. Because in theory the gold belongs to Japan even if they stole it from Thailand.
I think that an open implementation of the cocoa and carbon apis would allow mac apps on x86. But I hope that apple's long term goal is to release those anyway so that we can all share in MacOS.
The Pentium IV still has a long way to go before it's ready for prime time so I'm not sure these numbers should cause a lot of concern. I still believe that the Pentium Pro was the best thing to come out of intel and that everything else has been a step backwards. =) Anyway, the ppl who really need >1.5GHZ are few and far between. Intel realizes this and are just making another chip so they can get more money from Joe Consumer who just wants the latest and maybe not so greatest.