Skype is the only proprietary bit of software that I use, but I am reluctant to use another simply because the rest of the known world (known to me, anyway) are using Skype. So if I want to communicate with them, I have no choice BUT to use it.
I would desperately love to use an OSS version, but I can't do so without severely limiting my contact with my friends/relatives.
According to a recent New Scientist article, homing pigeons use their nose to find home rather than the Earth's magnetic field.
From the article:
She released 48 inexperienced homing pigeons 50 kilometres from their home loft. Half of them had had their olfactory nerve severed and half their trigeminal nerve, which is responsible for magnetic navigation. The next day, all but one of the birds deprived of their trigeminal nerve had returned home. Only four without a sense of smell returned (The Journal of Experimental Biology, vol 209, p 2888).
The authors haven't broken down the type of computer use at all.
It'd be interesting to see where the aetiology lies - extended use without blinking (eg gamers), bad lighting conditions (oh, gamers again), LED vs CRT use etc.
I'm running Firefox on Linux and I had the previous release candidate installed. The update facility failed with a meaningless error, and corrupted my current install.
So I downloaded and installed the new version, which overwrote my old version including my plugins directory, and on startup, failed with an obscure error until I deleted my user profile.
I'm a card carrying Firefox freak, but really, this was not smooth...
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Skype is the only proprietary bit of software that I use, but I am reluctant to use another simply because the rest of the known world (known to me, anyway) are using Skype. So if I want to communicate with them, I have no choice BUT to use it.
I would desperately love to use an OSS version, but I can't do so without severely limiting my contact with my friends/relatives.
According to a recent New Scientist article, homing pigeons use their nose to find home rather than the Earth's magnetic field.
From the article:
Firefox is now being used to make processors?
That's incredible!
Or do they mean just the Gecko developers?
Do they have to pedal machines to produce power to make the processors? Is THIS how they pay for the time they spend developing OSS??
Wow - that's commitment
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, but Gay Men Are From Uranus...
The authors haven't broken down the type of computer use at all. It'd be interesting to see where the aetiology lies - extended use without blinking (eg gamers), bad lighting conditions (oh, gamers again), LED vs CRT use etc.
I see Johannesburg is the bright spot in Africa - probably has much to do with Sasol oil-from-coal.
Isn't it great using the words "idiot" and "deciced" in the same subject?
I'm running Firefox on Linux and I had the previous release candidate installed. The update facility failed with a meaningless error, and corrupted my current install.
So I downloaded and installed the new version, which overwrote my old version including my plugins directory, and on startup, failed with an obscure error until I deleted my user profile.
I'm a card carrying Firefox freak, but really, this was not smooth...
An "amature" is someone who will do it without getting paid to do it.
Surely an "amature" is somebody who has not yet gone through puberty?
And it looks like it's going to be opensourced along with most of Solaris 10!
Presumably a 32 bit machine will be able to handle a 128 bit file system, in the same way as Solaris 10 is currently destined for (at most) 64 bits.
better style can result in better communication
... and a better chance of getting a date.
You're obviously a Mac user trying to bring down the style scores of future Slashdot analysis with :
an equivilent PCI ask you! That's a cheap shot. Cheap!
I seem to remember having something similar to this when I was young. It was called, let me see now... yes... REAL LIFE EXERCISE!