On top of that, I've -never- seen a Dvorak keyboard. If you learn to type fluently, you don't need to look at the keyboard at all anyway, and I assume most Dvorak keyboard users (myself included) try it out and learn it first before investing in a new keyboard, and once you've learned it (or QWERTY for that matter), it doesn't really matter what's printed on the keys... I would rather a keyboard with nothing printed on the keys - I'm sure it'd be a much better tool for anybody to learn any keyboard layout because it removes the possibilty of typing by hunt'n'peck
Wouldn't it be much more efficent to just reflect the solar energy away from the car, rather than absorb it, convert it to electricity, run a heat pump, and fan... to pump the energy which wasn't absorbed by the solar array... out again.
Much cheaper solution: a biiiig sheet of mylar; drape it over your car, blind all other motorists, and have a _clear_ road all the way to work!
I've always found it intriguing that a programmer who could master several arcane computer languages (especially since computers are notably intolerant of errors), could fail so utterly to master his own native human language.
Maybe it's reflex, like children not tidying their rooms because they have to; in programming you are forced to be perfect is spelling and grammar, so when you have the option to write free-form... it's taken to the extreme.
Living in Germany, using the "TAN" system, my bank has a variation on the theme; they post you a list of 100 TAN's (for a single transaction you require login, password _AND_ piece-of-paper-with-list-of-TANS), and using one of these TANS, you can enable your mobile phone.
After "enabling" your mobile phone you need login, password, _AND_ mobile phone. For each transaction you get a TAN sent to your mobile phone (the moment you're online carrying out the transaction).
I think it's quite clever because I don't have to carry the piece of paper with me to be able to do transfers when not at home (or god-forbid come up with unsafe alternative storage mechanisms), and for someone to steal all my non-existant money, they still need my brain and my phone, which will require a step more violence than just snooping.
> This would also eliminate traffic jams because your car would know the path of least resistance, compared to all the ohter cars.
I dissagree - surely with such a large difference between calculation and reaction times, thousands of cars could reach the same decision to take some tiny, and currently free side-road, leading to gridlock and navigation systems telling you to go in circles...
What you really need is load-balancing routers which will give you reccomendations and estimates based on percentage of people following suggestions and likelyhood from experience that all currently being given reccomendations will follow them...
stick it on any wall less than 6 metres away, and presto - wireless display. ... and it won't even matter if the wall is flat, or if you're looking at it straight on because the screen will reccognise these differences and adjust pixel placement to give a non-distorted, parralell perspective view no matter/where/ you look at it from!
Hmm... reading the article one thing stuck out in my eye - 200kW - isn't that a bit little for a whole appartment block. I guestimate an average household will be using at least 1kW on just lights and background electronics at any time before anything high-load like cooking, heating or cooling...
Maybe an error on the part of the article-writer?
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Wouldn't it be much more efficent to just reflect the solar energy away from the car, rather than absorb it, convert it to electricity, run a heat pump, and fan... to pump the energy which wasn't absorbed by the solar array... out again. Much cheaper solution: a biiiig sheet of mylar; drape it over your car, blind all other motorists, and have a _clear_ road all the way to work!
I've always found it intriguing that a programmer who could master several arcane computer languages (especially since computers are notably intolerant of errors), could fail so utterly to master his own native human language.
Maybe it's reflex, like children not tidying their rooms because they have to; in programming you are forced to be perfect is spelling and grammar, so when you have the option to write free-form... it's taken to the extreme.
Tiger Beer is the only Tiger I'll interface Directly with!
The cut that saw put in the sausage would not remove the finger, but you'd definitely remember and avoid it!
Living in Germany, using the "TAN" system, my bank has a variation on the theme; they post you a list of 100 TAN's (for a single transaction you require login, password _AND_ piece-of-paper-with-list-of-TANS), and using one of these TANS, you can enable your mobile phone.
After "enabling" your mobile phone you need login, password, _AND_ mobile phone. For each transaction you get a TAN sent to your mobile phone (the moment you're online carrying out the transaction).
I think it's quite clever because I don't have to carry the piece of paper with me to be able to do transfers when not at home (or god-forbid come up with unsafe alternative storage mechanisms), and for someone to steal all my non-existant money, they still need my brain and my phone, which will require a step more violence than just snooping.
> This would also eliminate traffic jams because your car would know the path of least resistance, compared to all the ohter cars.
I dissagree - surely with such a large difference between calculation and reaction times, thousands of cars could reach the same decision to take some tiny, and currently free side-road, leading to gridlock and navigation systems telling you to go in circles...
What you really need is load-balancing routers which will give you reccomendations and estimates based on percentage of people following suggestions and likelyhood from experience that all currently being given reccomendations will follow them...
...especially seeing as the article said
riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph
stick it on any wall less than 6 metres away, and presto - wireless display.
... and it won't even matter if the wall is flat, or if you're looking at it straight on because the screen will reccognise these differences and adjust pixel placement to give a non-distorted, parralell perspective view no matter /where/ you look at it from!
One big giveaway in the image of the person who's been working away is the 5 1/2" floppy lying on the desk... They must have been skipping work a /long/ time! ;-]
More importantly though ;-) - what would you be able to make out with ~160x160 pixles in a steamy environment...
-Robin-
Hmm... reading the article one thing stuck out in my eye - 200kW - isn't that a bit little for a whole appartment block. I guestimate an average household will be using at least 1kW on just lights and background electronics at any time before anything high-load like cooking, heating or cooling...
Maybe an error on the part of the article-writer?
Best winds,
-Robin-
~:)