Something that pretty much annoys me in mini-keyboards such as mobiles, handhelds and the like, is the keyboard layout. Just as a standard keyboard has been stupidly copied from the old typewriter layouts, the designers copy that same layout over and over again.
For the PC, there's the alternative Dvorak keyboard, which is that much more efficient. A downside is of course it's language-dependency, but there are a lot of different keyboard types out there now as well (not just qwerty/azerty/qwertzu, but loads of regional variations as well - just look at your keymap files:).
I wish some manufacturer would go to the trouble to actually do the same to handlheld keyboards - get a functional layout on those things, instead of the legacy thing. If it means I'll be able to type notably faster, I'm more than willing to learn a new layout.
After all, they managed to mess up Largo Winch as well. As a Belgian, I've been reading Largo and Jeremiah since the first albums came out, and they (and a lot of other Belgian 'comics' - though I find that word demeaning of the genre in this case) are truly excellent stories.
When Largo aired overhere, at first I didn't even have a clue that it actually had anything to do with the books - the few previews I'd seen didn't seem to have any relation to them:) When I finally caught on, I tried to watch, but it was such junk compared to the books that I didn't last 5 minutes.
Now they're airing Jeremiah. Just hearing the news made me go 'hmmmm', and now that I've seen the website, I'm not even going to watch the first episode - Luke bloody Perry as Jeremiah ? Goddess, you might just as well try to pass off Hulk Hogan as a ballerina ! I'm not even going to comment on Kurdy...
The best advice I can give my non-Belgian fellow geeks is this : Get your hands on the original series of the books - learn Dutch or French if you have to, and read those. You'll be reading and re-reading them time and again, and you won't even think of the TV series.
Just like Manga is a genre in and of itself, that cannot be duplicated by others (presumably due to the totally different culture/mindset), so are Belgian (and French) 'comics' an artform that is very hard to duplicate.
Just as the name 'Manga' stems from the original japanese word for the art, I would suggest using something other that 'comics' to indicate this very specific genre, something derived of the dutch name 'strip' or the french 'Bande dessinee'. Both mean something like 'band of drawings', and stem from the original format these appeared in in the papers, as a band of several frames from the story - not unlike today's webcomics, but part of a larger story, not standalone skits.
From time to time,I hear stories of clocks stopping when their owners die. I consider a few of them reliable accounts.
I wonder if these type of things are coincidential, or if there would be some sort of interaction going on here as well ?
Actually, if Onkelinckx really is gonna put a box in every home (and personally, I doubt that), You need Dutch, French *and* German versions.
We'll see what comes out, but don't get your hopes up - with our 3 separate governments and stuff like that, we're not out of the woods yet; besides, Onkelinckx probably means by 'every home' 'every Wallon home'.
Mmm... partially true. Even with our well-designed welfare system, many people still manage to get so far into debt that they've got trouble paying for food, the rent and other stuff. Poverty often hides behind a shiny facade. Nevertheless, indeed no-one *should* be hungry, if the received benefits were used wisely.
If that's sarcasm, you're good at it:)
If it's not, I *strongly* disagree. Reverse engineering is the best, most effective way (save of course getting the actual source) to locate (possible) bugs in software, to name only one use.
Do you think you'd be using a mobile phone if the engineers didn't know how ordinary phones work ? There's precious little point in reinventing the wheel over and over again, imho.
As sir Isaac Newton once said, "If I could see that far, it is solely because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
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Something that pretty much annoys me in mini-keyboards such as mobiles, handhelds and the like, is the keyboard layout. Just as a standard keyboard has been stupidly copied from the old typewriter layouts, the designers copy that same layout over and over again.
:).
For the PC, there's the alternative Dvorak keyboard, which is that much more efficient. A downside is of course it's language-dependency, but there are a lot of different keyboard types out there now as well (not just qwerty/azerty/qwertzu, but loads of regional variations as well - just look at your keymap files
I wish some manufacturer would go to the trouble to actually do the same to handlheld keyboards - get a functional layout on those things, instead of the legacy thing. If it means I'll be able to type notably faster, I'm more than willing to learn a new layout.
After all, they managed to mess up Largo Winch as well. As a Belgian, I've been reading Largo and Jeremiah since the first albums came out, and they (and a lot of other Belgian 'comics' - though I find that word demeaning of the genre in this case) are truly excellent stories.
:)
When Largo aired overhere, at first I didn't even have a clue that it actually had anything to do with the books - the few previews I'd seen didn't seem to have any relation to them
When I finally caught on, I tried to watch, but it was such junk compared to the books that I didn't last 5 minutes.
Now they're airing Jeremiah. Just hearing the news made me go 'hmmmm', and now that I've seen the website, I'm not even going to watch the first episode - Luke bloody Perry as Jeremiah ? Goddess, you might just as well try to pass off Hulk Hogan as a ballerina ! I'm not even going to comment on Kurdy...
The best advice I can give my non-Belgian fellow geeks is this : Get your hands on the original series of the books - learn Dutch or French if you have to, and read those. You'll be reading and re-reading them time and again, and you won't even think of the TV series.
Just like Manga is a genre in and of itself, that cannot be duplicated by others (presumably due to the totally different culture/mindset), so are Belgian (and French) 'comics' an artform that is very hard to duplicate.
Just as the name 'Manga' stems from the original japanese word for the art, I would suggest using something other that 'comics' to indicate this very specific genre, something derived of the dutch name 'strip' or the french 'Bande dessinee'. Both mean something like 'band of drawings', and stem from the original format these appeared in in the papers, as a band of several frames from the story - not unlike today's webcomics, but part of a larger story, not standalone skits.
From time to time,I hear stories of clocks stopping when their owners die. I consider a few of them reliable accounts. I wonder if these type of things are coincidential, or if there would be some sort of interaction going on here as well ?
Actually, if Onkelinckx really is gonna put a box in every home (and personally, I doubt that), You need Dutch, French *and* German versions.
We'll see what comes out, but don't get your hopes up - with our 3 separate governments and stuff like that, we're not out of the woods yet; besides, Onkelinckx probably means by 'every home' 'every Wallon home'.
Mmm... partially true. Even with our well-designed welfare system, many people still manage to get so far into debt that they've got trouble paying for food, the rent and other stuff. Poverty often hides behind a shiny facade. Nevertheless, indeed no-one *should* be hungry, if the received benefits were used wisely.
If that's sarcasm, you're good at it :)
If it's not, I *strongly* disagree. Reverse engineering is the best, most effective way (save of course getting the actual source) to locate (possible) bugs in software, to name only one use.
Do you think you'd be using a mobile phone if the engineers didn't know how ordinary phones work ? There's precious little point in reinventing the wheel over and over again, imho.
As sir Isaac Newton once said, "If I could see that far, it is solely because I stood on the shoulders of giants."