The trick with optical mouse's is to avoid the wireless. Since they contain their own power supply and transmitters, they are simply too heavy. Try gaming with a brick! The Logitech optical (with wires) is so light and accurate that gaming with it is a breeze. Unfortunately as others have stated, the middle button is a wheel and basically a pain in the ass.
Like the kids who shot their classmates at Columbine? Seems like the world has moved on. Yeah, he's 18, he's still a kid. But the stuff he is playing around with is adult. What if they had gone in and the whole place blew? Just because you are 18 doesn't mean you are not dangerous. These guys all have lives, family, and are no longer assuming that someone who is talking about bombs is not physically involved in making bombs.
I programmed on macs for years. Not only can I mostly move around and accomplish things with keyboard shortcuts, but I also bought a nifty piece of software called Quickeys. Using this software I could start a sequence and end a sequence of steps, saving them as a macro and attaching them to keys. The neat thing about this was how sophisticated this was. Apple OS (talking 8.6) has a very well designed events system and Quickeys allowed you to literally record any action you could take with the keyboard and mouse and remember them. You could do this in real time (playback takes as long as you took) or simply have Quickeys do it as quickly as it could. It worked for any software or the OS. Any time I started using software, I would easly think of X number of shortcuts to define when that software was in the foreground. Want to perform elaborate copy/paste operations between different applications? Do it yourself and it remembers how... I believe they tried to port it to Windows, but when I checked it out a few years back, it was barely functional.
You are exactly right. When I read Dune the first 5 times, everytime I was totally dropped into the world that Frank Herbert created. Reading the recent novel (I've blocked the name from my mind), I felt like I was reading a soap opera for the mentally embalmed. The complexity of the plot was medicore. You could guess what was gonna happen next. Almost like they were afraid to make it too complex, otherwise it would be difficult to turn into a new tv series. YAWN. I would rather read "The Horse's Mouth" instead!
There may be a ruling that can hold one end or the other responsible. I think he should find out what the common law says. He may have had a contract with them to ship this blah blah no insurance blah blah, but contracts that violate common law are not upholdable (I'm not betting my life on it though, I'm a geek). Like the ol' you have 5 days to pay your rent at the beginning of the month common law no matter what your lease says.
I believe that unless they do something about minimum wage, lowest bidder security, that this will be the norm.
I agree, my company has spent years writing and promoting CBT software for the aviation industry. Our primary audience in America are those security companies. It isn't that the employees are necessarily incompentent to work there, its the incredibly high turnover rates. Try finishing a software development project where your team of programmers totally rotate every month. They need to make the job one that the airport screeners will see as a career investment. Just like we work a job where we get benefits and are willing to bust our humps to make the company suceed, so should they. Many of these screeners have a lot of pride and deserve a hand for working under difficult situations, but like any group, you are going to have morons and incompentants who never should be there in the first place.
The news just repeats the same thing over and over.... on slashdot, at least you get mounds of interesting wild speculation and people willing to bet 100 bucks on anything!
Peter Jennings apologized for the inconsistancies. He mentioned that when something like this happens, it is normal to get differing reports from eye witnesses and other sources...
its pleasantly warm down here in Rochester and we are just a tinsy bit below you. You guys want to hear a horror story? Imagine turning 40, yes! 40! on Halloween..... Slit my wrist! Slit my wrist!
At my company, I setup my computer, I created the partitions, installed the boot app, development OS, test OS, software, and ghosted my results so I could always "step" back to a healthy or clean system. Microsoft Visual Studios directory was "MSVS" instead of "Microsoft Visual Studios" (default, close enough). How could I depend on IT support to do the job? They just want to do it one way and be done. If I let them handle the ghosting, then they wouldn't complete all the setup and I would have 20 things to setup again each time I reghosted. I know my machine and my needs the best, not them. The programmer next to me had different needs, different story. How does IT support take the final authority for all of this? It would just be another tradeoff.
On the other foot, the problem is education and experience. Many users, including developers, go cross-eyed when you start discussing disk partitions, short-cuts, time-savers. I'm educated about my machine, but I made a point of becoming so.
While I agree with your management comment, have to say that AIM and Realplayer were the two most frequent crashers on my win2k system. Note the "were"...
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What kind of leverage did you use to renegotiate? Far as I can see now, they simply don't have too change your interest. Any advice?
The trick with optical mouse's is to avoid the wireless. Since they contain their own power supply and transmitters, they are simply too heavy. Try gaming with a brick! The Logitech optical (with wires) is so light and accurate that gaming with it is a breeze. Unfortunately as others have stated, the middle button is a wheel and basically a pain in the ass.
Like the kids who shot their classmates at Columbine? Seems like the world has moved on. Yeah, he's 18, he's still a kid. But the stuff he is playing around with is adult. What if they had gone in and the whole place blew? Just because you are 18 doesn't mean you are not dangerous. These guys all have lives, family, and are no longer assuming that someone who is talking about bombs is not physically involved in making bombs.
I programmed on macs for years. Not only can I mostly move around and accomplish things with keyboard shortcuts, but I also bought a nifty piece of software called Quickeys. Using this software I could start a sequence and end a sequence of steps, saving them as a macro and attaching them to keys. The neat thing about this was how sophisticated this was. Apple OS (talking 8.6) has a very well designed events system and Quickeys allowed you to literally record any action you could take with the keyboard and mouse and remember them. You could do this in real time (playback takes as long as you took) or simply have Quickeys do it as quickly as it could. It worked for any software or the OS. Any time I started using software, I would easly think of X number of shortcuts to define when that software was in the foreground. Want to perform elaborate copy/paste operations between different applications? Do it yourself and it remembers how... I believe they tried to port it to Windows, but when I checked it out a few years back, it was barely functional.
Is animi a religion then?
I run linux because I wanna be a lil' cowpoke
Thanks for the warning. I just gave my mom a 9.1 CD for her mac. Of course she is suppose to wait... whe will won't she? Oh $hit!
Just what we need, more government... Sorry, couldn't resist ;)
It was still kinda cool, using your voice as a weapon. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM DAISY! BOOOOOMMMM!
You are exactly right. When I read Dune the first 5 times, everytime I was totally dropped into the world that Frank Herbert created. Reading the recent novel (I've blocked the name from my mind), I felt like I was reading a soap opera for the mentally embalmed. The complexity of the plot was medicore. You could guess what was gonna happen next. Almost like they were afraid to make it too complex, otherwise it would be difficult to turn into a new tv series. YAWN. I would rather read "The Horse's Mouth" instead!
Don't wait any longer, just sue...
There may be a ruling that can hold one end or the other responsible. I think he should find out what the common law says. He may have had a contract with them to ship this blah blah no insurance blah blah, but contracts that violate common law are not upholdable (I'm not betting my life on it though, I'm a geek). Like the ol' you have 5 days to pay your rent at the beginning of the month common law no matter what your lease says.
I believe that unless they do something about minimum wage, lowest bidder security, that this will be the norm.
I agree, my company has spent years writing and promoting CBT software for the aviation industry. Our primary audience in America are those security companies. It isn't that the employees are necessarily incompentent to work there, its the incredibly high turnover rates. Try finishing a software development project where your team of programmers totally rotate every month. They need to make the job one that the airport screeners will see as a career investment. Just like we work a job where we get benefits and are willing to bust our humps to make the company suceed, so should they. Many of these screeners have a lot of pride and deserve a hand for working under difficult situations, but like any group, you are going to have morons and incompentants who never should be there in the first place.
The news just repeats the same thing over and over.... on slashdot, at least you get mounds of interesting wild speculation and people willing to bet 100 bucks on anything!
Peter Jennings apologized for the inconsistancies. He mentioned that when something like this happens, it is normal to get differing reports from eye witnesses and other sources...
its pleasantly warm down here in Rochester and we are just a tinsy bit below you. You guys want to hear a horror story? Imagine turning 40, yes! 40! on Halloween..... Slit my wrist! Slit my wrist!
Thought they got rid of the app a long time ago. I just go to my roadrunner web page to manage my account...
Something tells me that the moron who implemented that policy was directed to "greener pastures".. Or promoted...
At my company, I setup my computer, I created the partitions, installed the boot app, development OS, test OS, software, and ghosted my results so I could always "step" back to a healthy or clean system. Microsoft Visual Studios directory was "MSVS" instead of "Microsoft Visual Studios" (default, close enough). How could I depend on IT support to do the job? They just want to do it one way and be done. If I let them handle the ghosting, then they wouldn't complete all the setup and I would have 20 things to setup again each time I reghosted. I know my machine and my needs the best, not them. The programmer next to me had different needs, different story. How does IT support take the final authority for all of this? It would just be another tradeoff. On the other foot, the problem is education and experience. Many users, including developers, go cross-eyed when you start discussing disk partitions, short-cuts, time-savers. I'm educated about my machine, but I made a point of becoming so.
While I agree with your management comment, have to say that AIM and Realplayer were the two most frequent crashers on my win2k system. Note the "were"...
Maybe they haven't had any sex since she launched? Or perhaps no sleep in 48 hours. Can't be caught napping or screwing on the job, nosirree!
World's first gargoyle!!!!
Do you want the video camera put in the 4th gen so you can pick up eye signals to control the computer? Blink twice rapidly to close window...
Well GWB is a Texan. He's just following tradition. Eh? Eh? No, I'm not Canadian.