I have to say - I just don't understand the controversy behind whether Dvorak is better or not. By taking the frequency of every bigram in the english language, and multiplying it by the distance (time) your fingers have to travel between keys, you can impirically prove that, in the Dvorak layout, your fingers travel less. And if your fingers have to travel less, you'll be able to type faster and more comfortably. It's sort of like driving you car - if you only have to drive 5 miles to work, you're probably going to get there faster than someone who has to drive 50 miles.
BTW (blatant link whoring) for a quick comparison of how much more you use the home row in Dvorak than QWERTY, try this link.
I'll second the Feist recommendation as well. If you're willing to commit to his works, I'd start with "Magician: Apprentice" - the first half of "Magician", which was split into two parts b/c it's so damn long.
If you'd rather test the waters, "Silverthorn" can stand on it's own pretty well, and it doesn't require you to have all the background knowledge on Midkemia or the Riftwar.
And personally, I'd avoid all of the books he co-authored w/ Janny Wurtz (The Serpentwar saga). The plot in those is HEAVILY recycled.
Streaming audio to other users via rendezvous sharing music in a P2P network. There's a difference between streaming audio and file sharing.
Apple is not trying to do anything Napster did (distribute copyrighted works to an unlimited number of recipients), they're trying to create a way for people who live in the same house to listen to eachother's music collection.
...the inevitable iDRM technology that should creep into iTunes and iMovie over the next few years.
And it will happen, Apple just needs time to catch up. When there's no content on the 'net in QuickTime, they'll get to work on it.
Really?? I fail to see how that's being built into their current strategy. Let's see... they created iTunes, which allows anyone to rip music to the widely-shared MP3 format, and store it in easily share-able directories. Oh, and then there's the one-click-my-computer-is-now-an-mp3-sharing-FTP-se rver button. Really, when Apple's entire DRM strategy is writing "Do not steal music" in the iTunes license, it's hard to argue that they're on the sides of the RIAA and MPAA, and not consumers.
Apple doesn't want to be forced to make iTunes use something other than the MP3 standard. But if lawyers see that iTunes' use of MP3, along with iCommune, is allowing users to quickly and easily illegally distribute copyrighted works, then iTunes is going to come under attack, and THEN they'll be forced to include some sort of DRM. Really, in the long term, I think Apple's attack on iCommune will be good for the average consumer in the long run, as they'll still have non-DRM iTunes.
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Because it's a lot more convenient to just look at a wrist watch rather than at a PDA
Yeah. Right. And how many characters can you display on a wristwatch at once? Keep in mind they have to be visible to the human eye.
Figuring out that your fingers travel much less in dvorak isn't tough. Just take the number of times you type each bigram in the english language (on average), and multiply each by the distance your fingers have to travel to reach that combination. (For example, TH requires no finger movement in dvorak, but movement by both index fingers in qwerty).
What I can't understand are all these claims that "oh sure, you can move your hands less, but that doesn't mean you'll type faster". If you only have to drive your car 5 miles, instead of 10, you're going to get to your destination faster.
right... because you can "carry them around easily" and "whip them out serriptitiously in the middle of a meeting"??!? No, I think not. If you have a Palm Pilot and a laptop, there's no reason to get a tablet PC. The main market I see is artists, (and, of course, toy-obsessed business execs).
There will always be a market for very small, low-level PC's.
What I love about the PDA market these days is that the 4 or 5 major items you need [ToDo list, Address book, Memo Pad, Daily Planner and Calculator (maybe)] have been on cheap Palms since version 1. Everything that's been added on since then is toy material.
My feeling on the whole issue is that the people who REALLY use their PDA's are the ones who still own Handspring visors (original) and Palm III's... they're not in it for the gee-whiz factor, and you'll usually be able to tell by the fact that their PDA is 3+ years old and held together w/ duct tape. (Just FYI, I use a handspring visor protected by a Rhino Skin aluminum case. Not small but damn it, it protects: 2 years and still kicking)
The WinCE-Pilots, Color Palms, and Sony sleek-Palms are the real toys and, like toys, they'll be at the bottom of the toy bin in 6 months' time.
Xbox? What's an Xbox? I'm too busy drooling over Metroid Prime and Zelda and Resident Evil 0 and Phantasy Star Online and I hear Animal Crossing's pretty neat and and and....
therein lies the problem. Microsoft needs some really good exclusive titles, and I don't see that happening even around christmastime. Of course that could all change once Rare starts popping out some games for the Xbox, but it might be too little too late.
Obviously, the data doesn't *POOF* disappear in one second. I'm guessing the data slowly degrades to the point where the disc is no longer usable.
Does this mean that if I try to watch this DVD 7 hours after I get it, it's going to have far worse quality?? What a f'ing RIP OFF. The whole point of digital technology is to give clear presentation over and over again.
At this point, I wouldn't give up those features for an FM radio or wireless broadcasting. You can get both of these things at Radio Shack for really small and really cheap and attach the wireless broadcaster to your iPod easily enough.
The ability to record off the radio or line-in DOES sound pretty sweet though...
Mail filters out spam perfectly for me out of the box.
Holy hell, I'll second that emotion! The spam filtering on Apple's Mail application is pretty incredible. For the first few weeks, I had to tell it what e-mails were spam, and what weren't, but once I switch it out of "learning" mode, it's been filtering my e-mail PERFECTLY ever since. I haven't once seen a spam e-mail in my inbox, or a real e-mail I wanted to read in my junk folder.
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Right on! As we all know, all generalizations are false.
Yeah, and then we'll have to worry about how we're going to optimize the optimization software.
.....AAAAAHHH!
And then we're going to worry about who's optimizing the optimization of the optimization of the
<crawls into corner, shuddering>
did you also mean "meant"?
Won't it suck to always respawn in the exact same place? Unless of course this phone as some other pretty nifty features, like say teleportation
I have to say - I just don't understand the controversy behind whether Dvorak is better or not. By taking the frequency of every bigram in the english language, and multiplying it by the distance (time) your fingers have to travel between keys, you can impirically prove that, in the Dvorak layout, your fingers travel less. And if your fingers have to travel less, you'll be able to type faster and more comfortably. It's sort of like driving you car - if you only have to drive 5 miles to work, you're probably going to get there faster than someone who has to drive 50 miles.
BTW (blatant link whoring) for a quick comparison of how much more you use the home row in Dvorak than QWERTY, try this link.
damn, this is a slow day. FTW is this.
Yeah, really! Fut the whuck is this??!?
I'll second the Feist recommendation as well. If you're willing to commit to his works, I'd start with "Magician: Apprentice" - the first half of "Magician", which was split into two parts b/c it's so damn long.
If you'd rather test the waters, "Silverthorn" can stand on it's own pretty well, and it doesn't require you to have all the background knowledge on Midkemia or the Riftwar.
And personally, I'd avoid all of the books he co-authored w/ Janny Wurtz (The Serpentwar saga). The plot in those is HEAVILY recycled.
That's what you get for pirating Phillip Glass!!!
I'm a silly bastard. that should read "Streaming audio to other users via rendezvous <> sharing music in a P2P network.
Are you smoking crack?
Streaming audio to other users via rendezvous sharing music in a P2P network. There's a difference between streaming audio and file sharing.
Apple is not trying to do anything Napster did (distribute copyrighted works to an unlimited number of recipients), they're trying to create a way for people who live in the same house to listen to eachother's music collection.
...the inevitable iDRM technology that should creep into iTunes and iMovie over the next few years.
e rver button. Really, when Apple's entire DRM strategy is writing "Do not steal music" in the iTunes license, it's hard to argue that they're on the sides of the RIAA and MPAA, and not consumers.
And it will happen, Apple just needs time to catch up. When there's no content on the 'net in QuickTime, they'll get to work on it.
Really?? I fail to see how that's being built into their current strategy. Let's see... they created iTunes, which allows anyone to rip music to the widely-shared MP3 format, and store it in easily share-able directories. Oh, and then there's the one-click-my-computer-is-now-an-mp3-sharing-FTP-s
Apple doesn't want to be forced to make iTunes use something other than the MP3 standard. But if lawyers see that iTunes' use of MP3, along with iCommune, is allowing users to quickly and easily illegally distribute copyrighted works, then iTunes is going to come under attack, and THEN they'll be forced to include some sort of DRM. Really, in the long term, I think Apple's attack on iCommune will be good for the average consumer in the long run, as they'll still have non-DRM iTunes.
Because it's a lot more convenient to just look at a wrist watch rather than at a PDA
Yeah. Right. And how many characters can you display on a wristwatch at once? Keep in mind they have to be visible to the human eye.
Oh dear sweet lord. You just reminded me of the friggin "Flower Power" and "Blue Dalmation" iMacs.
DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!
Figuring out that your fingers travel much less in dvorak isn't tough. Just take the number of times you type each bigram in the english language (on average), and multiply each by the distance your fingers have to travel to reach that combination. (For example, TH requires no finger movement in dvorak, but movement by both index fingers in qwerty).
What I can't understand are all these claims that "oh sure, you can move your hands less, but that doesn't mean you'll type faster". If you only have to drive your car 5 miles, instead of 10, you're going to get to your destination faster.
An X-10 cam that's NOT being used to spy on naughty teen girls?!? Heaven forfend!
right... because you can "carry them around easily" and "whip them out serriptitiously in the middle of a meeting"??!? No, I think not. If you have a Palm Pilot and a laptop, there's no reason to get a tablet PC. The main market I see is artists, (and, of course, toy-obsessed business execs).
There will always be a market for very small, low-level PC's.
What I love about the PDA market these days is that the 4 or 5 major items you need [ToDo list, Address book, Memo Pad, Daily Planner and Calculator (maybe)] have been on cheap Palms since version 1. Everything that's been added on since then is toy material.
My feeling on the whole issue is that the people who REALLY use their PDA's are the ones who still own Handspring visors (original) and Palm III's... they're not in it for the gee-whiz factor, and you'll usually be able to tell by the fact that their PDA is 3+ years old and held together w/ duct tape. (Just FYI, I use a handspring visor protected by a Rhino Skin aluminum case. Not small but damn it, it protects: 2 years and still kicking)
The WinCE-Pilots, Color Palms, and Sony sleek-Palms are the real toys and, like toys, they'll be at the bottom of the toy bin in 6 months' time.
1 - 83 POUNDS!! 83 F'ing POUNDS!!
2 - 5 MILES!! 5 F'ing MILES!! (Under "strenuous" conditions, which include riding on grass or uphill.)
Xbox? What's an Xbox? I'm too busy drooling over Metroid Prime and Zelda and Resident Evil 0 and Phantasy Star Online and I hear Animal Crossing's pretty neat and and and....
therein lies the problem. Microsoft needs some really good exclusive titles, and I don't see that happening even around christmastime. Of course that could all change once Rare starts popping out some games for the Xbox, but it might be too little too late.
Don't forget corporate profits! It helps push up those too.
Obviously, the data doesn't *POOF* disappear in one second. I'm guessing the data slowly degrades to the point where the disc is no longer usable.
Does this mean that if I try to watch this DVD 7 hours after I get it, it's going to have far worse quality?? What a f'ing RIP OFF. The whole point of digital technology is to give clear presentation over and over again.
At this point, I wouldn't give up those features for an FM radio or wireless broadcasting. You can get both of these things at Radio Shack for really small and really cheap and attach the wireless broadcaster to your iPod easily enough.
The ability to record off the radio or line-in DOES sound pretty sweet though...
Why the hell did THIS post get modded up, while the two above it that said the EXACT SAME THING, and were perhaps MORE informative, didn't?!???
(No offense to Malic... offense to the moderators)
Yep. The iPod has 20 minutes of skip protection say the iPod specs.
They don't list a memory size, but I'm guessing it's 16-32 megs of skip protection.
Mail filters out spam perfectly for me out of the box.
Holy hell, I'll second that emotion! The spam filtering on Apple's Mail application is pretty incredible. For the first few weeks, I had to tell it what e-mails were spam, and what weren't, but once I switch it out of "learning" mode, it's been filtering my e-mail PERFECTLY ever since. I haven't once seen a spam e-mail in my inbox, or a real e-mail I wanted to read in my junk folder.