Yeah -- although in fact really old (pre-1998, I think) kineses have even better and clickier keys than the modern models do. They have flakier firmware, though.
I always remap my keys -- I find it's more convenient to do that at the keyboard level than the OS level. But then, I remap _all_ the keys, including a keypad layer that I access with a pedal, for programming punctuation -- I'm a bit geeky in that one tiny respect:)
No flat keyboard -- especially not with brick-pattern keys -- can be called ergonomic. For that kind of money, you can get a Kinesis Contour -- see www.kinesis-ergo.com.
I love them -- if you're going to spend 300$ on a keyboard (which is nothing, if you spend 1/3 to 1/4 of your life with your hands on one) then get a good one.
It certainly seems as if the world is moving the microsoft way (you will recall that MS put powerful scripting in IE as a response to Sun's propaganda campaign about Java applets).
Now, both companies seem to have abandoned the battle -- Sun found Java applets kind of embarrassing in the end (understandably), while MS declared the browser wars over and forgot about it (bizarrely). However, the conflict they started, between web browser as app host versus independant virtual machine + runtimes as app host, has continued to the present day.
It's interesting to speculate as to why the MS alternative, browser as host, has done better.
Well, it's not that interesting.
But I remember when the choice first became clear and people rushed to learn about Java applets... and 8 or 9 years on, the buzzwords are pretty much exactly the same, but the vendors (like Macromedia) never seemed to play Sun's game.
I think, in the end, I'd rather see a move back to 'proper' apps, Java or otherwise, and an end to seeing complicated interfaces implemented in text markup languages and browser scripting languages. Way too late for that, though.
Yeah! I own an anvil and I should be able to do anything I like with it, like dropping it on people's heads! I own a building and I should be able to do anything I like with it, like demolishing it while people are inside! I own a horse, and I should be allowed to do anything I like with it, like torturing it to death and --
There's plenty of scope for chivalry and general heroics in an environment of lethal ranged weaponry. The flying aces of world war 1 -- the tank aces of world war 2 -- the assassins of the Cold War -- the mercenaries of the Biafran war -- the guy that just manages to sprint to within grenade distance of a machine-gun nest.
As long as the two sides are roughly evenly matched, there's scope for both honor and ingenuity in deciding the conflict. It's only when the sides are mismatched that it becomes a methodical process.
So to recap, some guy tweaked you 'a few months ago', and you are still bothered enough that you spend two paragraphs telling Slashdot how Soccer is boring and you take pride in the fact that the US sucks at it and anyway the US will win anyway and 'Euros' suck. I'm gonna assume you're a Republican.
Now, calm down. The US is great at lots of things. It's not a major soccer playing nation. That's fine. It's okay that the US is not good at soccer. Accept it... then forget about it. It's no biggie.
Now I get it -- it's like Pro Wrestling! They're building the evil evil HellHounds up to be the baddies -- muscle-flexing (probably nazi, gay, or both) foreigners with shady corporate backing. Now the first American team, the down-home Texans, takes a fall to build up sympathy. THAT's when they wheel out the REAL HEROES, which'll be some big 'Team America' (only not puppets) which will whup the teutonic cheats to the sound of wild cheering and 'yankee doodle'.
I'm getting my crudely-lettered 'KILL!' sign ready now!
Apple likes to swoop on good ideas that have been poorly implemented in the past.
That's right folks! And we call this process 'innovation'! Try an example sentence: The iPod is a product of Apple's 'innovation'!
Now, when icky companies do it, the process has a different name. We call it 'copying'! Example sentence: Windows is a product of Micro$oft's 'copying'!
Remember, this material will appear in your Slashdot Exam! Those not scoring 100% will be beaten on the head with penguin dolls until they conform! Conform! CONFORM!
I was, of course, aware of the magnetic attraction that sugar, salt and grease hold for the British technician. I didn't realize, though, that you could ask the call center to annotate the request.
I will try your suggestion. Soon engineer requests will look like this:
#1357726 Line from local p.c. suspected broken. BACON SANDWICHES AVAILABLE. WE PROVIDE TEA!! DON'T DO 26 Elm Gardens first! He is crotchety! Also, we guarantee that if you come before 8:30 our daughter will answer the door (subject to availability).
Yeah, right. You expect me to believe there's a so-called 'spackler' somewhere out there? I can't see it. I've never directly observed it. I'm supposed to just accept its existance on faith, based on a few secondary phenomena like a slashdot posting?? Let me be the first to call HOAX!
their engineers will only come out between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
Technically not true. They have early-shift and late-shift engineers, and the former can work pretty early in the morning. But you have to find your way through the incredible, Byzantine, almost unreal tangle of red tape and tradition until you gradually come to understand and use (but not control! You never truly control british bureaucracy) the dispatching system.
I should know about this -- I have had no phone in my new flat for a month. I estimate I will have the UK's overpriced and inflexible Broadband, now with not-letting-you-cancel goodness, in about another six weeks.
So, it wasn't Michael Dell, then. Nor was it Dell, the famed computer vendor. That only leaves Del Boy from 'Only Fools and Horses'. Heh, those crazy Cockneys and their money-making schemes! I bet they mess it up and wind up penniless again!
I fear the fundamentalists and their likely effect on what remains of our society's will to understand its surroundings as much as the next guy. But the new definition is better. It is a correct definition. I'm quite pleased with it.
The first one is kind of vague and looks a bit 'dumbed down' -- to be precise, it looks as if the wording 'natural explanations' was put in specifically to oppose creationism.
I, for one, welcome our new scientifically-challenged but lexicographically-correct fundamentalist overlords.
At no point has the Good Fairy That Lives In The Sky come down and announced that MS have to be the only corp on Earth that likes competition. Until that does happen, MS have a right to react to competition in the same way as every other company (ie primarily by saying nasty things about it, then by reluctantly spending money to try to get rid of it).
If the GFTLITS has in fact come down and delivered this announcement, then I stand corrected.
To those who doubt the existence of the GFTLITS, I have nothing to say. But you will learn.
Pull up a pouffe, son, and allow me to explain. He has learned that he can get away with anything -- because who's going to demand honesty? You? The Labor Party?? He knows you'll vote for whatever keeps the Evil Capitalists away. He's adapted well to the environment you have created for him. A+ for learning, Mr. Mandelson!
You, like the rest of the British public, have failed to learn, preferring the 'bluebottle trying to fly through a closed window' model. This is because as a community you have the self-preservation instincts of a kamikaze plane full of lemmings.
All clear? Recap: he and his freinds are exploiting you and your peers to a degree quite unprecedented in the last 100 years in the UK -- and you are tutting fondly because 'he never learns'. The next phase of this process is extinction.
It's going to be interesting to see how Microsoft wriggles out of this one...
Excuse me? They supported the bill for a while, at least. What did you do? Or do you feel that companies have a responsibility to perform political lobbying on behalf of causes you support? Hint: they don't.
I hear Standard Oil, Rocky Mountain Non-Ferrous Metals, Amtrak, and Mrs. Mitten's Olde Fashioned Tea Shoppe are also companies that are currently not supporting the bill.
Wonder how they are going to wriggle out of it? Heh, it'll be interesting to watch them squirm!
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Yeah -- although in fact really old (pre-1998, I think) kineses have even better and clickier keys than the modern models do. They have flakier firmware, though.
I always remap my keys -- I find it's more convenient to do that at the keyboard level than the OS level. But then, I remap _all_ the keys, including a keypad layer that I access with a pedal, for programming punctuation -- I'm a bit geeky in that one tiny respect
'Rosebud' refers to his wife's naughty bits. This in no way helps the movie to make sense, though.
(I don't normally use or condone expressions like 'naughty bits' but I can't remember offhand if
Argh! It's _exactly_ on the cusp between brilliant troll and actual idiot!
No flat keyboard -- especially not with brick-pattern keys -- can be called ergonomic. For that kind of money, you can get a Kinesis Contour -- see www.kinesis-ergo.com.
I love them -- if you're going to spend 300$ on a keyboard (which is nothing, if you spend 1/3 to 1/4 of your life with your hands on one) then get a good one.
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It certainly seems as if the world is moving the microsoft way (you will recall that MS put powerful scripting in IE as a response to Sun's propaganda campaign about Java applets).
Now, both companies seem to have abandoned the battle -- Sun found Java applets kind of embarrassing in the end (understandably), while MS declared the browser wars over and forgot about it (bizarrely). However, the conflict they started, between web browser as app host versus independant virtual machine + runtimes as app host, has continued to the present day.
It's interesting to speculate as to why the MS alternative, browser as host, has done better.
Well, it's not that interesting.
But I remember when the choice first became clear and people rushed to learn about Java applets... and 8 or 9 years on, the buzzwords are pretty much exactly the same, but the vendors (like Macromedia) never seemed to play Sun's game.
I think, in the end, I'd rather see a move back to 'proper' apps, Java or otherwise, and an end to seeing complicated interfaces implemented in text markup languages and browser scripting languages. Way too late for that, though.
Yeah! I own an anvil and I should be able to do anything I like with it, like dropping it on people's heads! I own a building and I should be able to do anything I like with it, like demolishing it while people are inside! I own a horse, and I should be allowed to do anything I like with it, like torturing it to death and --
oh, wait, I forgot -- I'm not a libertarian.
I walked out of Matrix Revolutions on opening night totally entertained and happy,
Ha ha, yeah! Good one! I was going to tell my own improbable story, but I'll never be able to cap yours!
There's plenty of scope for chivalry and general heroics in an environment of lethal ranged weaponry. The flying aces of world war 1 -- the tank aces of world war 2 -- the assassins of the Cold War -- the mercenaries of the Biafran war -- the guy that just manages to sprint to within grenade distance of a machine-gun nest.
As long as the two sides are roughly evenly matched, there's scope for both honor and ingenuity in deciding the conflict. It's only when the sides are mismatched that it becomes a methodical process.
So to recap, some guy tweaked you 'a few months ago', and you are still bothered enough that you spend two paragraphs telling Slashdot how Soccer is boring and you take pride in the fact that the US sucks at it and anyway the US will win anyway and 'Euros' suck. I'm gonna assume you're a Republican.
Now, calm down. The US is great at lots of things. It's not a major soccer playing nation. That's fine. It's okay that the US is not good at soccer. Accept it... then forget about it. It's no biggie.
Ya know, I really feel I have helped this guy.
Waiter! My redundant/troll/flamebait mod please!
Now I get it -- it's like Pro Wrestling! They're building the evil evil HellHounds up to be the baddies -- muscle-flexing (probably nazi, gay, or both) foreigners with shady corporate backing. Now the first American team, the down-home Texans, takes a fall to build up sympathy. THAT's when they wheel out the REAL HEROES, which'll be some big 'Team America' (only not puppets) which will whup the teutonic cheats to the sound of wild cheering and 'yankee doodle'.
I'm getting my crudely-lettered 'KILL!' sign ready now!
Apple likes to swoop on good ideas that have been poorly implemented in the past.
That's right folks! And we call this process 'innovation'! Try an example sentence: The iPod is a product of Apple's 'innovation'!
Now, when icky companies do it, the process has a different name. We call it 'copying'! Example sentence: Windows is a product of Micro$oft's 'copying'!
Remember, this material will appear in your Slashdot Exam! Those not scoring 100% will be beaten on the head with penguin dolls until they conform! Conform! CONFORM!
Enjoy!
Bytes are not always the same size; bits are.
I was, of course, aware of the magnetic attraction that sugar, salt and grease hold for the British technician. I didn't realize, though, that you could ask the call center to annotate the request.
I will try your suggestion. Soon engineer requests will look like this:
#1357726 Line from local p.c. suspected broken. BACON SANDWICHES AVAILABLE. WE PROVIDE TEA!! DON'T DO 26 Elm Gardens first! He is crotchety! Also, we guarantee that if you come before 8:30 our daughter will answer the door (subject to availability).
Yeah, right. You expect me to believe there's a so-called 'spackler' somewhere out there? I can't see it. I've never directly observed it. I'm supposed to just accept its existance on faith, based on a few secondary phenomena like a slashdot posting?? Let me be the first to call HOAX!
their engineers will only come out between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
Technically not true. They have early-shift and late-shift engineers, and the former can work pretty early in the morning. But you have to find your way through the incredible, Byzantine, almost unreal tangle of red tape and tradition until you gradually come to understand and use (but not control! You never truly control british bureaucracy) the dispatching system.
I should know about this -- I have had no phone in my new flat for a month. I estimate I will have the UK's overpriced and inflexible Broadband, now with not-letting-you-cancel goodness, in about another six weeks.
So, it wasn't Michael Dell, then. Nor was it Dell, the famed computer vendor. That only leaves Del Boy from 'Only Fools and Horses'. Heh, those crazy Cockneys and their money-making schemes! I bet they mess it up and wind up penniless again!
evolution relies on faith just as much (if not more) than creationism.
How can something rely more on faith than Creationism?
I fear the fundamentalists and their likely effect on what remains of our society's will to understand its surroundings as much as the next guy. But the new definition is better. It is a correct definition. I'm quite pleased with it.
The first one is kind of vague and looks a bit 'dumbed down' -- to be precise, it looks as if the wording 'natural explanations' was put in specifically to oppose creationism.
I, for one, welcome our new scientifically-challenged but lexicographically-correct fundamentalist overlords.
At no point has the Good Fairy That Lives In The Sky come down and announced that MS have to be the only corp on Earth that likes competition. Until that does happen, MS have a right to react to competition in the same way as every other company (ie primarily by saying nasty things about it, then by reluctantly spending money to try to get rid of it).
If the GFTLITS has in fact come down and delivered this announcement, then I stand corrected.
To those who doubt the existence of the GFTLITS, I have nothing to say. But you will learn.
Yes, I know it's fun to bash and denigrate and trash an icon.
Lucas sure seems to enjoy it.
How about just 'bombs'?
Imagine how safe we'll be when there are egg-sized objects requiring no hard-to-find heavy metals, that destroy a whole city in one go!
As weapons miniaturization proceeds, freedom will become harder and harder to protect, I tells'ee.
Hoho, Mandelson never learns.
That is _so_ cute! Cute but annoying.
Pull up a pouffe, son, and allow me to explain. He has learned that he can get away with anything -- because who's going to demand honesty? You? The Labor Party?? He knows you'll vote for whatever keeps the Evil Capitalists away. He's adapted well to the environment you have created for him. A+ for learning, Mr. Mandelson!
You, like the rest of the British public, have failed to learn, preferring the 'bluebottle trying to fly through a closed window' model. This is because as a community you have the self-preservation instincts of a kamikaze plane full of lemmings.
All clear? Recap: he and his freinds are exploiting you and your peers to a degree quite unprecedented in the last 100 years in the UK -- and you are tutting fondly because 'he never learns'. The next phase of this process is extinction.
It's going to be interesting to see how Microsoft wriggles out of this one...
Excuse me? They supported the bill for a while, at least. What did you do? Or do you feel that companies have a responsibility to perform political lobbying on behalf of causes you support? Hint: they don't.
I hear Standard Oil, Rocky Mountain Non-Ferrous Metals, Amtrak, and Mrs. Mitten's Olde Fashioned Tea Shoppe are also companies that are currently not supporting the bill.
Wonder how they are going to wriggle out of it? Heh, it'll be interesting to watch them squirm!
I mean, listen to yourself.
I never think that Penny Arcade comics are funny, but often still laugh at User Friendly.
This pretty much renders your opinions on comedy invalid, doesn't it?
Go ahead -- mod me 'Troll' for speaking the truth! The world will remember me!