Kinesis make (or at least sell) a lot of stuff of varying quality, but when someone just says 'a kinesis' they usually mean the Kinesis Contour, ie the keyboard with the two bowl-shaped areas.
As someone who does a lot of typing and is willing to spend a lot of time and money on ergonomic stuff (because I'm lazy and stupid), I have typed on a lot of strange things over the years to a pretty high rate of wpm. My findings have been:
1 -- The shift from Dvorak to Qwerty did not greatly increase my speed or accuracy. It made me a bit more comfortable, but learning it was total torture for about 2 months.
2 -- Learning Dvorak does not mean you forget Qwerty. I can flip between them now -- in fact, the varying placement of the shift key gives me more trouble.
3 -- None of these layouts is designed for programming in curly-brace languages:)
4 -- The difference in using a well-shaped keyboard (KINESIS!) is much greater than that between different letter key layouts.
5 -- Much of the hand strain I have suffered has to do with reaching for nonletter keys (cursor keys, and the backspace key) -- fixed by a Kinesis, but not by Dvorak.
6 -- Habits and posture (not resting hand on the keyboard etc) count for about as much as the ergonomics of the actual keyboard.
My suggestion therefore is: first fix your posture and find a way to stop reaching around for the backspace and arrow keys. If you crave more efficiency, get a kinesis. If you STILL demand utter total perfection, try Dvorak, but by that point you will be putting in a fair bit of work for what you gain.
Other people's mileage may, of course, vary. There's no doubt that Dvorak is more efficient and comfy -- but there's a serious cost/benefit calculation to be made.
So, to recap: The anglo-saxon world (wherever the hell _that_ is) is being paranoid. In Italy, on the other hand, people realize that there's no reason to worry about fascism.
Heck, I guess you're right -- fascism could never take root in the freedom-loving soil of Italy.
Now, about this weird 'anglosaxon world' thing you have created in your mind...
Some group of people struggle against all odds to produce (well, update) a whole modern independent OS free of Windows and Unix baggage.
Slashdot responses summarized:
--It's not free/Unix/OSX/real. --I already have Linux. Why should I care about anything else? --LOL BeOS is so dead!!11 pwned! noobz --I don't know what it is, I don't want to find out, and I don't like it.
I think this provides a strong clue as to why human society has not yet attained a state of nirvana-like perfection and happiness:)
The Lion King was based on Simba the White Lion, which was a Japanese thing by Tezuka I think. They even reused a lot of the scenes (not the actual cels, but the composition).
They _have_ learned that their 2D feature animation business is dead -- that's why they got Pixar to do them a 3D one it and why they're closing the 2D one down now.
They have also learned that their IP holding business is still a winner -- that's why they got the copyright extension.
They have also learned that competition is bad. That's why they got exclusive distribution rights to Ghibli movies and gave them small releases with abysmal dubs.
Summary: Disney still not stupid.
But boy, the dub on that Sen to Chihiro movie was beyond belief. The spooky thing was that all these people were going to it and saying how wonderful and magical it was and all the time it was practically eviscerated by that 'don't compete with our features!' dub job.
Well, I found it spooky.
I dunno about Howl's though. It looks like a return to typical Miyazaki, and that's not an undilutedly good thing.
Ok, I am utterly rambling. But my main point still stands. Disney are survivors, they know which side their bread is buttered and they'll get copyright extensions and lock new creators into hideous contracts and stifle foreign movies if that's what it takes. I still kind of like them though somehow.
Levitical law prohibits tattoos and 'cutting your body for the dead' right where it prohibits planting two kinds of seed in a field and cutting off the edges of your beard.
Moving onward to actual Christianity, the subject of my post, body piercing and tattooing is not forbidden by the RC, the C of E, the Missouri Synod, the Calvinists, the Episcopalians, nor have I ever personally met a Christian who gives a damn (poor choice of words there perhaps).
Somewhere there are a few slightly wacky sects like the 7th Day Adventists who have a lot of weird Leviticus-inspired rules as well as regular Christian ones, and they might forbid piercing. You may wish to focus on them if that reinforces the opinions you already hold about Christianity, but they're not exactly central to the debate.
They are dwarfed, in fact, by the vast mass of atheist/agnostics like yourself who have strongly-held yet blurry beliefs about Christianity formed from a vague mishmash of web pages and angst.
Now, I'm glad you realize that 'most Christians don't bother with the fiddly bits' -- you've gotten further than the original poster. The next step would be to go and read some stuff about what Christians actually do believe -- both the Catholics and the mainstream Protestants (Lutheran etc) will have lots of fun facts for you about the supercession of the Levitical law.
I really don't want to deliver a generic 'learn something about it before talking!' smackdown here, but... well, let's just leave it hanging in the air:)
Yes, bodily modification is against some religions (most notably Judeochristian religions),
What???
I honestly cannot figure out where atheists get these wacky superstitions from. I guess you just hear them when you're a kid and as you grow up you never think to question them.
Ramen doesn't cost the same everywhere -- in London, Where Decent Food Costs A Lot, a packet of ramen can be 65p (I'm talking about cheap good third world instant ramen, not the silly Japanese stuff that actually tastes like ramen). In NY that same ramen is only 45 cents and in Japan its about 50yen, the price driven down by the local's bizarre preference for real (ie silly) ramen.
If ramen is only 10 cents in Indonesia, then Indonesia is a good place to buy ramen!
In other news antibiotic abuse is widespread and extremely bad for the environment and the people who live in it.
Sure, typing ))5w is slow the first few times, much slower than the mouse.
After that you don't have to think about it.
But with the mouse, you always have to reach over, get the mouse, aim the little arrow, zero it in on the thing you want... you're always thinking and you don't realize what a lot of time you're spending aiming that little arrow and waving your hand around.
Hey, try being a Tibetan. Okay, that's quite impractical, so read about the recent history of Tibet, picture yourself there, consider the consequences of questioning authority, or looking the wrong way at the wrong person, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or just being Tibetan, and picture what objects might be put into what part of your body while your friends wondered where you were.
Ok, Tibet is a bad example, not everbody in the world has the PLA on their doorstep. Try Korea, where you can be arrested, tried, and imprisoned all in one swift move without the involvement of anyone outside the legal system. Or Japan, where you can be held at a police station without trial forever or until they decide they like you. Or Egypt, which is the same except that you might not survive the experience. These are our allies. They're much nicer than Sudan and Azerbaijan and Pakistan and what have you.
Sure, EurAmerica has occasional free-speech ups and downs; the 70s were an up, the 20s were a down, and we're in a minor down now, etc. But really, all EurAmerica's problems take place at a level that is soooooo vastly higher than anything many of the world's people can aspire to that it's funny.
Really, it is funny. There should be some 'Boffo the Oppression Clown' guy who comes in and makes jokes when they arrest you.
having to tab 30 times till the correct hyperlink is selected
Well, if you use something like Word or pico or notepad or Visual Studio or Emacs, yes, that can be very annoying, and the mouse is better.
If you use vi(m), then you eventually get used to specifying faroff page locations in the way you think of them: 'two sentences later on, the fifth word' is ))5w, and so on. Or 'center the screen on the end of the next paragraph' is }z.. And so on.
Unless of course you were editing web pages in some sort of WYSIWYG graphical editor thing. That'd just be perverse.
But in the US and Europe, there appear to be no good female comic writers.
I think this is because if a man wants to be a cartoonist, he learns to draw and design and lay out panels, while if a woman wants to be a cartoonist she networks with her art college freinds and produces a strip in which stick figures talk about Iraq and Men.
I must note that the above theory is based on a single visit to Forbidden Planet and there may be some cases it doesn't address:)
If you don't ID your scrolls you will have to either sell them to a shop, or just read them at random to find out what they are. In either case you risk wasting a valuable scroll!
I only hope the Jewish community bears this in mind before it's too late.
I have nothing to add to the subject line... but the lameness filter demands text... and I must sate it's unholy hunger... here is my offering of text, O great lameness filter.
How many people have said, "We must believe in God, for if we do, and he does not exist, nothing happens. But if we do not believe in him, and he does exist, then we are doomed."
This is good logic on their part!
But, it's fairly clear he does not exist.
Unless you've had some kind of divine revelation to the effect that there is nothing divine, which would be weird, this is a big leap of illogic on your part!
1 -- China and Tibet have been under one government in the past and speak a related languages
2 -- If Tibet had aligned with India, China would not have been able to defeat India as easily.
3 -- With Tibet as part of China, it can't be manipulated and oppressed by the West any more
4 -- The fact that China was able to defeat Tibet so easily shows that there was a dangerous power vacuum there without China; the same is true of East Turkestan etc.
We're still expecting that the.Net Framework will ship with Longhorn - on the CD and/or "in the box" in some way. But the.Net Framework won't be at Longhorn's core, we hear.
Hmm... looks like a slow news day...
Another developer source, who asked not to be named, says he has been hearing some related hall talk.
Now that is what I call a slow news day!
In REAL news, readers of a popular web news/discussion site were reported to be disappointed that 'news for nerds, stuff that matters' would not, after all, be at the core of their experience.
"Actual news will occur in some areas and subcomponents," said a guy who heard someone say something about it on the bus, "but the site will be founded on a meaningless, seemingly random series of poorly-chosen blog pages and zine articles. It's probably for the best."
Was someone expecting an OS that was implemented in.NET, with.NET kernel and.NET device drivers and a fully.NET API?
I think most people were expecting an OS written the way previous versions of the product, and most other OSes, are written. It would be reasonable to expect it to come bundled with a.NET runtime, and to offer interfaces that that.NET runtime can use, so that you can write.NET applications and run them on it.
Amazingly enough, that is exactly what it does come with, and exactly what it does offer.
Now, were there _really_ any people who expected Longhorn to be 'in'.NET and are now hurt and confused?
Or is this the most groundless, gratuitous Slashdot FUD... EVER?
If the former, then those people are odd, odd people and should probably be put in a special safe place. If the latter, then it has a certain geeky glory to it but it's also a bit sad.
Slashdot Mirror
Kinesis make (or at least sell) a lot of stuff of varying quality, but when someone just says 'a kinesis' they usually mean the Kinesis Contour, ie the keyboard with the two bowl-shaped areas.
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/
Your geek license is hereby revoked.
It will be restored to you when you demonstrate an understanding of commonly-available key layout switching features on Windows and Linux.
Have a nice day.
As someone who does a lot of typing and is willing to spend a lot of time and money on ergonomic stuff (because I'm lazy and stupid), I have typed on a lot of strange things over the years to a pretty high rate of wpm. My findings have been:
1 -- The shift from Dvorak to Qwerty did not greatly increase my speed or accuracy. It made me a bit more comfortable, but learning it was total torture for about 2 months.
2 -- Learning Dvorak does not mean you forget Qwerty. I can flip between them now -- in fact, the varying placement of the shift key gives me more trouble.
3 -- None of these layouts is designed for programming in curly-brace languages
4 -- The difference in using a well-shaped keyboard (KINESIS!) is much greater than that between different letter key layouts.
5 -- Much of the hand strain I have suffered has to do with reaching for nonletter keys (cursor keys, and the backspace key) -- fixed by a Kinesis, but not by Dvorak.
6 -- Habits and posture (not resting hand on the keyboard etc) count for about as much as the ergonomics of the actual keyboard.
My suggestion therefore is: first fix your posture and find a way to stop reaching around for the backspace and arrow keys. If you crave more efficiency, get a kinesis. If you STILL demand utter total perfection, try Dvorak, but by that point you will be putting in a fair bit of work for what you gain.
Other people's mileage may, of course, vary. There's no doubt that Dvorak is more efficient and comfy -- but there's a serious cost/benefit calculation to be made.
P.S. Yay for Kinesis.
So, to recap: The anglo-saxon world (wherever the hell _that_ is) is being paranoid. In Italy, on the other hand, people realize that there's no reason to worry about fascism.
Heck, I guess you're right -- fascism could never take root in the freedom-loving soil of Italy.
Now, about this weird 'anglosaxon world' thing you have created in your mind...
Some group of people struggle against all odds to produce (well, update) a whole modern independent OS free of Windows and Unix baggage.
Slashdot responses summarized:
--It's not free/Unix/OSX/real.
--I already have Linux. Why should I care about anything else?
--LOL BeOS is so dead!!11 pwned! noobz
--I don't know what it is, I don't want to find out, and I don't like it.
I think this provides a strong clue as to why human society has not yet attained a state of nirvana-like perfection and happiness
It was a graduation speech, but -- get this! -- the REAL IRONY was that most students were GRADUATING!!
Alanis Morissette has a lot to answer for.
Yay Star Control!
The Lion King was based on Simba the White Lion, which was a Japanese thing by Tezuka I think. They even reused a lot of the scenes (not the actual cels, but the composition).
They _have_ learned that their 2D feature animation business is dead -- that's why they got Pixar to do them a 3D one it and why they're closing the 2D one down now.
They have also learned that their IP holding business is still a winner -- that's why they got the copyright extension.
They have also learned that competition is bad. That's why they got exclusive distribution rights to Ghibli movies and gave them small releases with abysmal dubs.
Summary: Disney still not stupid.
But boy, the dub on that Sen to Chihiro movie was beyond belief. The spooky thing was that all these people were going to it and saying how wonderful and magical it was and all the time it was practically eviscerated by that 'don't compete with our features!' dub job.
Well, I found it spooky.
I dunno about Howl's though. It looks like a return to typical Miyazaki, and that's not an undilutedly good thing.
Ok, I am utterly rambling. But my main point still stands. Disney are survivors, they know which side their bread is buttered and they'll get copyright extensions and lock new creators into hideous contracts and stifle foreign movies if that's what it takes. I still kind of like them though somehow.
I think you illustrate my point pretty well.
Levitical law prohibits tattoos and 'cutting your body for the dead' right where it prohibits planting two kinds of seed in a field and cutting off the edges of your beard.
Moving onward to actual Christianity, the subject of my post, body piercing and tattooing is not forbidden by the RC, the C of E, the Missouri Synod, the Calvinists, the Episcopalians, nor have I ever personally met a Christian who gives a damn (poor choice of words there perhaps).
Somewhere there are a few slightly wacky sects like the 7th Day Adventists who have a lot of weird Leviticus-inspired rules as well as regular Christian ones, and they might forbid piercing. You may wish to focus on them if that reinforces the opinions you already hold about Christianity, but they're not exactly central to the debate.
They are dwarfed, in fact, by the vast mass of atheist/agnostics like yourself who have strongly-held yet blurry beliefs about Christianity formed from a vague mishmash of web pages and angst.
Now, I'm glad you realize that 'most Christians don't bother with the fiddly bits' -- you've gotten further than the original poster. The next step would be to go and read some stuff about what Christians actually do believe -- both the Catholics and the mainstream Protestants (Lutheran etc) will have lots of fun facts for you about the supercession of the Levitical law.
I really don't want to deliver a generic 'learn something about it before talking!' smackdown here, but... well, let's just leave it hanging in the air
Yes, bodily modification is against some religions (most notably Judeochristian religions),
What???
I honestly cannot figure out where atheists get these wacky superstitions from. I guess you just hear them when you're a kid and as you grow up you never think to question them.
Time to broaden your horizons!
I call your bluff -- ' v'½--Ç-Ø OE',' isn't a name at all! In other news, Slashdot (perhaps unsurprisingly) isn't very multilingual.
However, I did once know a Japanese lady whose family name was 'kyuuraku' as in 'long-lasting pleasure'.
I think it's one of those names awarded to artists and craftsmen way back when... they're getting pretty rare now.
There's a list of 4-character names here:
http://www.ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp/~jjksiro/4moji.html
Ramen doesn't cost the same everywhere -- in London, Where Decent Food Costs A Lot, a packet of ramen can be 65p (I'm talking about cheap good third world instant ramen, not the silly Japanese stuff that actually tastes like ramen). In NY that same ramen is only 45 cents and in Japan its about 50yen, the price driven down by the local's bizarre preference for real (ie silly) ramen.
If ramen is only 10 cents in Indonesia, then Indonesia is a good place to buy ramen!
In other news antibiotic abuse is widespread and extremely bad for the environment and the people who live in it.
Sure, typing ))5w is slow the first few times, much slower than the mouse.
After that you don't have to think about it.
But with the mouse, you always have to reach over, get the mouse, aim the little arrow, zero it in on the thing you want... you're always thinking and you don't realize what a lot of time you're spending aiming that little arrow and waving your hand around.
Hey, try being a Tibetan. Okay, that's quite impractical, so read about the recent history of Tibet, picture yourself there, consider the consequences of questioning authority, or looking the wrong way at the wrong person, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or just being Tibetan, and picture what objects might be put into what part of your body while your friends wondered where you were.
Ok, Tibet is a bad example, not everbody in the world has the PLA on their doorstep. Try Korea, where you can be arrested, tried, and imprisoned all in one swift move without the involvement of anyone outside the legal system. Or Japan, where you can be held at a police station without trial forever or until they decide they like you. Or Egypt, which is the same except that you might not survive the experience. These are our allies. They're much nicer than Sudan and Azerbaijan and Pakistan and what have you.
Sure, EurAmerica has occasional free-speech ups and downs; the 70s were an up, the 20s were a down, and we're in a minor down now, etc. But really, all EurAmerica's problems take place at a level that is soooooo vastly higher than anything many of the world's people can aspire to that it's funny.
Really, it is funny. There should be some 'Boffo the Oppression Clown' guy who comes in and makes jokes when they arrest you.
having to tab 30 times till the correct hyperlink is selected
Well, if you use something like Word or pico or notepad or Visual Studio or Emacs, yes, that can be very annoying, and the mouse is better.
If you use vi(m), then you eventually get used to specifying faroff page locations in the way you think of them: 'two sentences later on, the fifth word' is ))5w, and so on. Or 'center the screen on the end of the next paragraph' is }z.. And so on.
Unless of course you were editing web pages in some sort of WYSIWYG graphical editor thing. That'd just be perverse.
Rumiko Takahashi.
But in the US and Europe, there appear to be no good female comic writers.
I think this is because if a man wants to be a cartoonist, he learns to draw and design and lay out panels, while if a woman wants to be a cartoonist she networks with her art college freinds and produces a strip in which stick figures talk about Iraq and Men.
I must note that the above theory is based on a single visit to Forbidden Planet and there may be some cases it doesn't address
If you don't ID your scrolls you will have to either sell them to a shop, or just read them at random to find out what they are. In either case you risk wasting a valuable scroll!
I only hope the Jewish community bears this in mind before it's too late.
I have nothing to add to the subject line... but the lameness filter demands text... and I must sate it's unholy hunger... here is my offering of text, O great lameness filter.
OMG someone has finally invented the PC Bang.
At last, PC Bangs exist. Previously they were confined to the world of fantasy.
(why yes... I _do_ have nothing better to do than be sarcastic today...)
When you whack the two bales together, the horse often darts out from in between them and gets away. Unless you use HUGE bales of hay.
How many people have said, "We must believe in God, for if we do, and he does not exist, nothing happens. But if we do not believe in him, and he does exist, then we are doomed."
This is good logic on their part!
But, it's fairly clear he does not exist.
Unless you've had some kind of divine revelation to the effect that there is nothing divine, which would be weird, this is a big leap of illogic on your part!
1 -- China and Tibet have been under one government in the past and speak a related languages
2 -- If Tibet had aligned with India, China would not have been able to defeat India as easily.
3 -- With Tibet as part of China, it can't be manipulated and oppressed by the West any more
4 -- The fact that China was able to defeat Tibet so easily shows that there was a dangerous power vacuum there without China; the same is true of East Turkestan etc.
5 -- Your turn will come, gwailo.
We're still expecting that the .Net Framework will ship with Longhorn - on the CD and/or "in the box" in some way. But the .Net Framework won't be at Longhorn's core, we hear.
Hmm... looks like a slow news day...
Another developer source, who asked not to be named, says he has been hearing some related hall talk.
Now that is what I call a slow news day!
In REAL news, readers of a popular web news/discussion site were reported to be disappointed that 'news for nerds, stuff that matters' would not, after all, be at the core of their experience.
"Actual news will occur in some areas and subcomponents," said a guy who heard someone say something about it on the bus, "but the site will be founded on a meaningless, seemingly random series of poorly-chosen blog pages and zine articles. It's probably for the best."
Was someone expecting an OS that was implemented in
I think most people were expecting an OS written the way previous versions of the product, and most other OSes, are written. It would be reasonable to expect it to come bundled with a
Amazingly enough, that is exactly what it does come with, and exactly what it does offer.
Now, were there _really_ any people who expected Longhorn to be 'in'
Or is this the most groundless, gratuitous Slashdot FUD... EVER?
If the former, then those people are odd, odd people and should probably be put in a special safe place. If the latter, then it has a certain geeky glory to it but it's also a bit sad.