I made my mind up about wired/wireless things a while back, and went with wired. For the sake of a single cable, I don't have to worry about recharging things, or buying batteries, and all that wankery. It just works. It sits there. Hell, it plugs into the USB hub on the keyboard, or the USB hub on the monitor. I've never had programming issues with a wired mouse. Mostly because I know a couple of keyboard shortcuts in the software I use...
You're better off getting a keyboard without a numberpad, so that the mouse is closer to your right hand when you are typing and switching to the mouse. Numberpads should be on the left side of the keyboard, for this reason (for right handed people). Take Excel - left hand - numberpad for numbers, right hand mouse or cursors for moving. Sorted.
Yeah, a lot has certainly happened in the past decade.
I graduated ten years ago, I had a PII 233 with 64MB RAM (i.e., the original iPhone was technically better, indeed PowerVR MBX beats Virge a dozen times over!) which cost me over a grand at the time. Last year I got a netbook for £200. 10 years ago minus two days I got married, not that it lasted as long as I wanted. I remember thinking that 64MB was massive - I had come from a 10MB Amiga 1200 before that. Now I have a Mac, oh the horrors!
I wonder if this coming decade will see the end of advancements in silicon chip technology, and what will take its place... will wall-sized displays (reflective as well as emissive) be commonplace? Will trains run on time... oh, wait, no.
You forgot to add entries for "desirability 25 years after release", and "fun factor".
Because I am damn sure that seeing big blocky graphics and text on a 12" TV back in 1983 was a lot more exciting than anything computery today. And I doubt you'll be hunting around for a 2009 Dell Inspiron in 2035.
I had two awesome experiences - My Amstrad CPC 464 (my first computer), and my Amiga 500. Nothing since then has been even within an order of magnitude as fun.
I bet my dad went through the same thing with cars and TVs. At least this decade has seen some major TV advancements - vast, high resolution flat thin TVs after decades of bulky CRTs.
Channel 4 has a better range of comedy non-quiz programmes than most other channels, both now and historically. Peep show, black books, spaced...
Also Channel 4 provides them all, for free, on 4oD, should you want to watch them ever. Talk about providing a means to stop piracy, why pirate when it's available from the maker!
BBC gives us QI, HIGNFW, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mighty Boosh, and only the latter isn't a faux quiz. Why don't the faux news quizzes run for half the year, it's not as if they're going to run out of news! Why do they get 8 week 'seasons'? FAIL BBC.
Every time you see this advert, please make a complaint to whoever you make complaints to about unethical, unreasonable, bullying advertising in the USA.
How would you use a subversion branch to kill and loot a goblin? Maybe you could sit in the subversion tree waiting for the goblin to come along checking out things, and then export a heavy branch onto his head? However there is a high chance of conflict occurring. Maybe this plan needs some revision.
However I agree with you about PHP's Level 6 Ring of Hurt [cursed].
Bet Microsoft is miffed they didn't get in earlier with HTML5 video support, as it is most content providers will use H.264 and thus force it to become the de-facto standard.
8 hours is what? 500 miles? This vehicle has a range of 300, so you'd only need a single recharge en-route, and there's no way any responsible person would drive 8 hours straight without at least 2 breaks for toilet, food and refueling anyway, so I really do doubt that you would extend your journey that much. There's really no need to exaggerate the effect to ridiculous levels (11 hours indeed!) because it ruins any argument you might have had.
In addition it is likely that petrol stations will introduce fast charge stations for electric cars as they get more popular. OTOH I'm sure the price per unit would be a lot higher than it is for home supplies. Drive into the service station, drop $5 into the machine and plug it up, then pop in for a coffee, sammich and piss, and come out rested later and the car's ready to go.
If you live in hogbutt creek, middle of fuckallnowhere, then maybe an electric car won't become an option for ten to twenty years, but that's an entirely different issue.
I think that Tesla would be far better off selling this in Europe than the USA first, simply due to the range limitation not being a massive issue here.
For example, you're meant to stop every two hours for a break, definitely every three hours. That's about 150 - 220 miles driving distance. A quick ten minute recharge is therefore quite viable, as long as petrol stations could create enough recharging bays (effectively a large amount of the service station car park would have powered bays, in the long run, you drop in a few coins and get charged for the next 200 miles). In the UK service stations are every 20 to 50 miles, and most cities are well within 300 miles of each other.
I'd also like to see how they safely fit SEVEN people in that car.
Also a small house in the UK is £150k, and this car is around £40k, so that's quite a difference compared to your analogy.
On the other hand the cost savings from operating an electric car would have to be vast to make up for a car that costs double an equivalent petrol car, and has the downside of no existing recharging infrastructure (is there even a standard recharge socket design yet?).
Irrelevant. When 60+ percent* and increasing of all mobile web journeys come from iPhones, the other platforms fade away. Given that I imagine that Android and Palm Pre's web browsers will be also up there, and that they're based upon Webkit as well, and Google is going H.264 like Apple...
I'd like to see Opera Mini rendering the video tag anytime soon.
Yeah. I mean I'm looking at a situation soon where I could have a 2 hour commute to and from work (I currently have a 1 hour commute, but I rent a room close to work, and I own a house where I used to work. Sadly some bankers made the world bad and it's awkward to relocate) but it would be on the train and bus (and these buses are new and have leather seats and free WiFi). The commute would be longer, but I would be back at my home every evening, and I can get my daily websurfing done whilst travelling, instead of in the evening on the computer in my rented room.
But I only have 8 hour days at work. Even with 8 hours sleep, I would have 4 hours every evening to do non-work, non-internet, non-travelling stuff. Hell, I could do some work on the train and leave early on Friday. Or argue to work from home one day a week. I'd get to see my cat every day! Dunno if my girlfriend would like it though, 'cos she's in London (where I work), not Cambridge.
60 hours of what a month? He doesn't earn money to commute! He might save on travel (is it bus? train? car?) though. 6 gallons of gas a day = $15 a day = ~$300 a month on fuel - that doesn't pay for a lot in terms of cheap places to stay, maybe a grotty room in a shared house.
But yes, another task for this bozo is to sit down and work out his finances. If he's renting 1.5 hours away, then he should stop that and put that money onto the saved travel money, and accept that he will have to live closer to work in a smaller/grottier place for a couple of years whilst he develops his skills to a level where he can get out of the job.
Or indeed do a work out at the company he's working at.
Press ups, sit ups, crunches, etc, are all doable.
12 hour cover doesn't mean 12 hours in a chair reading slashdot incessantly. If he is babysitting, then there's plenty of time to do other stuff. Hell, write a script to send the warnings to his phone and get his sleep there. Does the company have gym facilities? Certainly he'll get several breaks overnight where you can do something active, like run up and down stairs before you grab a coffee.
Personally I think the poster is insane, firstly to take a job working 12 hour shifts for more than 3 days a week. Secondly for living 1.5 hours away, meaning a 3 hour commute every day. 12 + 3 + 8 (sleep) leaves a grand total of 1 hour a day to live! STOP AND THINK! Or get the company to put you up overnight nearby on the nights you work.
It's "Excellent". Maybe it's because I turned off adverts.
Of course I turned off the new dynamic thread thingy after getting so frustrated with the slowness, poor rendering, a situation where it would only load a random selection of posts for the comment level you had selected (you had to reclick around 100 times to get all of the posts at that level), etc. Maybe that counted against me, going against the flow, the desires of the Slashdot meisters.
Yeah, if they were to drink a visible quantity of it.
Not the wisp of mercury vapour in a CFL.
Still, whilst I use CFLs a lot, I'm waiting for LED and OLED panel lighting solutions, they will be awesome.
-- Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 14 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
Yeah, I saw that elsewhere in this discussion afterwards. Never had a clue about that shortcut before. It shows the OS is failing with giving hints to users so that they can become more efficient in their day to day work.
-- Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
FUCK OFF, HOW AM I MEANT TO BE COURTEOUS AND QUICKLY REPLY TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE REPLIED TO MY POSTS! ARRRRGHHHH! "Defective By Design" indeed, Slashdot.
The Amiga also had its command keys in the same position. I presume some analysis was done to find the best place for a command key, and both companies decided on this location as a result. It was Windows that did things differently, when they (ten years later) introduced the Windows key, forever banishing Ctrl to the far corners of the main keyboard area.
But ctrl-alt-delete is used to LOGIN on NT, 2000, XP, Vista...
And once logged in, you need to use it to get back to that annoying menu in order to launch task manager.
I played with three OSes yesterday. Vista, I repaired for someone. Eventually found out the problem was a corrupt DNS cache which required a command line intervention. This was after a long time fucking about with Windows' terrible configuration/preferences/setup/network manager systems. Awful. Stress rose inside (and my housemate had already been reduced to tears because of the problem).
I played with a 13" MacBook Pro, and that just worked, apart from needing to get used to the trackpad. Definitely worth the extra money, if you value your hairline, time and general stress levels.
And of course I used my Linux box, where Eclipse Galileo crashed until I installed the latest Java update. But Sun don't give a.deb download, so I did need to pop to the command line to run the install script, then I had to update some soft links. To be honest, this is a fail as well. Also GTK Eclipse doesn't show *some, no all* ticked checkboxes on Ubuntu. No network problems though, nor have there been for a long time.
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I made my mind up about wired/wireless things a while back, and went with wired. For the sake of a single cable, I don't have to worry about recharging things, or buying batteries, and all that wankery. It just works. It sits there. Hell, it plugs into the USB hub on the keyboard, or the USB hub on the monitor. I've never had programming issues with a wired mouse. Mostly because I know a couple of keyboard shortcuts in the software I use...
You're better off getting a keyboard without a numberpad, so that the mouse is closer to your right hand when you are typing and switching to the mouse. Numberpads should be on the left side of the keyboard, for this reason (for right handed people). Take Excel - left hand - numberpad for numbers, right hand mouse or cursors for moving. Sorted.
Yeah, a lot has certainly happened in the past decade.
I graduated ten years ago, I had a PII 233 with 64MB RAM (i.e., the original iPhone was technically better, indeed PowerVR MBX beats Virge a dozen times over!) which cost me over a grand at the time. Last year I got a netbook for £200. 10 years ago minus two days I got married, not that it lasted as long as I wanted. I remember thinking that 64MB was massive - I had come from a 10MB Amiga 1200 before that. Now I have a Mac, oh the horrors!
I wonder if this coming decade will see the end of advancements in silicon chip technology, and what will take its place... will wall-sized displays (reflective as well as emissive) be commonplace? Will trains run on time ... oh, wait, no.
You forgot to add entries for "desirability 25 years after release", and "fun factor".
Because I am damn sure that seeing big blocky graphics and text on a 12" TV back in 1983 was a lot more exciting than anything computery today. And I doubt you'll be hunting around for a 2009 Dell Inspiron in 2035.
I had two awesome experiences - My Amstrad CPC 464 (my first computer), and my Amiga 500. Nothing since then has been even within an order of magnitude as fun.
I bet my dad went through the same thing with cars and TVs. At least this decade has seen some major TV advancements - vast, high resolution flat thin TVs after decades of bulky CRTs.
Yup, if you have money, the law will be a lot softer on you.
Wilful drunk driving resulting in someone's death should be a 10 year sentence, minimum.
Otherwise the fucking law has no balls, and doesn't act as a deterrent.
I hope his football team threw him out and took back that bonus. Yet I expect he'll be playing next season, and cheered by all the team's fans.
I hope that all opposition fans have ONE CHANT this year. "STALLWORTH IS SCUM".
Channel 4 has a better range of comedy non-quiz programmes than most other channels, both now and historically. Peep show, black books, spaced ...
Also Channel 4 provides them all, for free, on 4oD, should you want to watch them ever. Talk about providing a means to stop piracy, why pirate when it's available from the maker!
BBC gives us QI, HIGNFW, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mighty Boosh, and only the latter isn't a faux quiz. Why don't the faux news quizzes run for half the year, it's not as if they're going to run out of news! Why do they get 8 week 'seasons'? FAIL BBC.
Every time you see this advert, please make a complaint to whoever you make complaints to about unethical, unreasonable, bullying advertising in the USA.
* waiting for www.tuneweasel.se *
How would you use a subversion branch to kill and loot a goblin? Maybe you could sit in the subversion tree waiting for the goblin to come along checking out things, and then export a heavy branch onto his head? However there is a high chance of conflict occurring. Maybe this plan needs some revision.
However I agree with you about PHP's Level 6 Ring of Hurt [cursed].
We could call it a day and use DRM encrusted WMV!
Bet Microsoft is miffed they didn't get in earlier with HTML5 video support, as it is most content providers will use H.264 and thus force it to become the de-facto standard.
8 hours is what? 500 miles? This vehicle has a range of 300, so you'd only need a single recharge en-route, and there's no way any responsible person would drive 8 hours straight without at least 2 breaks for toilet, food and refueling anyway, so I really do doubt that you would extend your journey that much. There's really no need to exaggerate the effect to ridiculous levels (11 hours indeed!) because it ruins any argument you might have had.
In addition it is likely that petrol stations will introduce fast charge stations for electric cars as they get more popular. OTOH I'm sure the price per unit would be a lot higher than it is for home supplies. Drive into the service station, drop $5 into the machine and plug it up, then pop in for a coffee, sammich and piss, and come out rested later and the car's ready to go.
If you live in hogbutt creek, middle of fuckallnowhere, then maybe an electric car won't become an option for ten to twenty years, but that's an entirely different issue.
I think that Tesla would be far better off selling this in Europe than the USA first, simply due to the range limitation not being a massive issue here.
For example, you're meant to stop every two hours for a break, definitely every three hours. That's about 150 - 220 miles driving distance. A quick ten minute recharge is therefore quite viable, as long as petrol stations could create enough recharging bays (effectively a large amount of the service station car park would have powered bays, in the long run, you drop in a few coins and get charged for the next 200 miles). In the UK service stations are every 20 to 50 miles, and most cities are well within 300 miles of each other.
I'd also like to see how they safely fit SEVEN people in that car.
Also a small house in the UK is £150k, and this car is around £40k, so that's quite a difference compared to your analogy.
On the other hand the cost savings from operating an electric car would have to be vast to make up for a car that costs double an equivalent petrol car, and has the downside of no existing recharging infrastructure (is there even a standard recharge socket design yet?).
Irrelevant. When 60+ percent* and increasing of all mobile web journeys come from iPhones, the other platforms fade away. Given that I imagine that Android and Palm Pre's web browsers will be also up there, and that they're based upon Webkit as well, and Google is going H.264 like Apple ...
I'd like to see Opera Mini rendering the video tag anytime soon.
* or was it 95%, I forget the exact figures.
Yeah. I mean I'm looking at a situation soon where I could have a 2 hour commute to and from work (I currently have a 1 hour commute, but I rent a room close to work, and I own a house where I used to work. Sadly some bankers made the world bad and it's awkward to relocate) but it would be on the train and bus (and these buses are new and have leather seats and free WiFi). The commute would be longer, but I would be back at my home every evening, and I can get my daily websurfing done whilst travelling, instead of in the evening on the computer in my rented room.
But I only have 8 hour days at work. Even with 8 hours sleep, I would have 4 hours every evening to do non-work, non-internet, non-travelling stuff. Hell, I could do some work on the train and leave early on Friday. Or argue to work from home one day a week. I'd get to see my cat every day! Dunno if my girlfriend would like it though, 'cos she's in London (where I work), not Cambridge.
Well given I'm reading Slashdot at 11pm here, downtime at work where you can do that isn't to be sniffed at.
Still, I'd expect 25 days + national holidays + sick days + reasonable flexi-time now, I think. /other side of the atlantic
Yeah, but it's still only "personal worth" value, not actual money.
What's a good algorithm for personal free time value?
How about: 8 * hourly_wage / free_hours ^ 1.5
?
I moved and got a new job with a reasonable commute and slightly fewer hours (50-55 instead of 60+)
Sometimes I don't think I appreciate my sub-40 hour week job nearly enough. Don't say you also only got 20 days a year holiday with that!
60 hours of what a month? He doesn't earn money to commute! He might save on travel (is it bus? train? car?) though. 6 gallons of gas a day = $15 a day = ~$300 a month on fuel - that doesn't pay for a lot in terms of cheap places to stay, maybe a grotty room in a shared house.
But yes, another task for this bozo is to sit down and work out his finances. If he's renting 1.5 hours away, then he should stop that and put that money onto the saved travel money, and accept that he will have to live closer to work in a smaller/grottier place for a couple of years whilst he develops his skills to a level where he can get out of the job.
Or indeed do a work out at the company he's working at.
Press ups, sit ups, crunches, etc, are all doable.
12 hour cover doesn't mean 12 hours in a chair reading slashdot incessantly. If he is babysitting, then there's plenty of time to do other stuff. Hell, write a script to send the warnings to his phone and get his sleep there. Does the company have gym facilities? Certainly he'll get several breaks overnight where you can do something active, like run up and down stairs before you grab a coffee.
Personally I think the poster is insane, firstly to take a job working 12 hour shifts for more than 3 days a week. Secondly for living 1.5 hours away, meaning a 3 hour commute every day. 12 + 3 + 8 (sleep) leaves a grand total of 1 hour a day to live! STOP AND THINK! Or get the company to put you up overnight nearby on the nights you work.
It's "Excellent". Maybe it's because I turned off adverts.
Of course I turned off the new dynamic thread thingy after getting so frustrated with the slowness, poor rendering, a situation where it would only load a random selection of posts for the comment level you had selected (you had to reclick around 100 times to get all of the posts at that level), etc. Maybe that counted against me, going against the flow, the desires of the Slashdot meisters.
Mercury/Carpet/Kids don't mix.
Yeah, if they were to drink a visible quantity of it.
Not the wisp of mercury vapour in a CFL.
Still, whilst I use CFLs a lot, I'm waiting for LED and OLED panel lighting solutions, they will be awesome.
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Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 14 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
FUCK YOU.
Yeah, I saw that elsewhere in this discussion afterwards. Never had a clue about that shortcut before. It shows the OS is failing with giving hints to users so that they can become more efficient in their day to day work.
--
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
FUCK OFF, HOW AM I MEANT TO BE COURTEOUS AND QUICKLY REPLY TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE REPLIED TO MY POSTS! ARRRRGHHHH! "Defective By Design" indeed, Slashdot.
Yes, exactly that.
The Amiga also had its command keys in the same position. I presume some analysis was done to find the best place for a command key, and both companies decided on this location as a result. It was Windows that did things differently, when they (ten years later) introduced the Windows key, forever banishing Ctrl to the far corners of the main keyboard area.
I didn't know that, nothing in the Windows UI ever suggests that is an option.
But in terms of the original subject, they made Escape bigger as well.
But ctrl-alt-delete is used to LOGIN on NT, 2000, XP, Vista ...
And once logged in, you need to use it to get back to that annoying menu in order to launch task manager.
I played with three OSes yesterday. Vista, I repaired for someone. Eventually found out the problem was a corrupt DNS cache which required a command line intervention. This was after a long time fucking about with Windows' terrible configuration/preferences/setup/network manager systems. Awful. Stress rose inside (and my housemate had already been reduced to tears because of the problem).
I played with a 13" MacBook Pro, and that just worked, apart from needing to get used to the trackpad. Definitely worth the extra money, if you value your hairline, time and general stress levels.
And of course I used my Linux box, where Eclipse Galileo crashed until I installed the latest Java update. But Sun don't give a .deb download, so I did need to pop to the command line to run the install script, then I had to update some soft links. To be honest, this is a fail as well. Also GTK Eclipse doesn't show *some, no all* ticked checkboxes on Ubuntu. No network problems though, nor have there been for a long time.
They do, actually. It's $0.015 per microliter.