Carpal Tunnel syndrome is now widely thought to be a "brain" problem...
Typing does not require accurate position of the fingers - so long as you hit the "a" key, it doesn't much matter how you hit it.. Over time the brain doesnt bother to take care over which nerves are activated/sensed, because it appears not to matter. Unfortunately, it does!
The consequence of this careless activation of "roughly the right nerves" is what is called Carpal Tunnel.
The cure is to relearn accurate use of the nerves. One of the best ways of doing this has been found to be to learn hand embroidery! Old fashoned watchmaking (or repairling iPods/mobile phones) would probably work too. Most exercise or sports, which require force but little accuracy, will make matters rapidly worse.
What would really help is Microsoft being forced to sell software that is reasonably fit for the purpose for which it is sold. I seem to recall they mention that Windows is meant for use with the internet - that surely implies that it ought not to be 0wned in 5 minutes.
In the UK, and most probably Europe, it is a very serious offence to sell goods unfit for the purpose for which they are advertised.
Lock them up and throw away the key. Mwa, ha, ha haaar!
I heard an interview with one of the researchers a few weeks back. They have an economic model that shows clearly that customers resent the sales model of "free razor, massively overpriced blades" to the extent that the existence of the company is threatened.
This is from a source that the directors of inkjet printer makers cannot ignore and expect to keep their jobs.
With a bit of luck, American farmers will get the messagte about who to vote for at the next election - hint: Its probably not the candidate with "Monsanto" written on his forehead!
As for choosing a grain seed supplier, well, the choice is yours: Do you want a supplier who will sue you for doing thisgs you cannot avoid?
Surely Monsanto's competition must be having a field day? The slogan "Buy our seed and you won't get sued" comes to mind!
You forgot to mention that the good Ol US of A is threatening trade wars because we won't buy this stuff.
If food is marked "contains GM stuff" no one in Europe will buy it. Consequently the supermarkets don't want it. The importers don't want it, and even if the yield is higher, most farmers here don't want it cos they can't sell it. A few farmers have been bribed by Monsanto to try it out for test purposes. Several of those have joined the protest movement, not least because they contaminated their neighbours crops after being told it wouldn't happen. (Most farms in Europe are under 100 acres, so farmers have a lot of neighbours, and they are not very far away!)
Any MP/MEP caught voting for GM stuff risks losing his seat, so there is a tendency for our laws to prohibit it until its adequately tested.
The US has problems selling it to us because of consumer resistance. So they are threatening retaliation on the grounds that it is "illegal interference with free trade". Surely its interference with free trade to force people to sell what their customers won't buy?
For as much as they take from FreeBSD, they give nothing back.
Apart from ten times the amount of publicity that *BSD has ever had before.
It might be that *BSD would prefer money to publicity, but somehow I don't think so. The whole philosophy of *BSD is people can take what they like and give back or not as they please. BSD is not Linux and its not GPL'd because people don't want it to be - if you want your code GPL's you release it under the GPL!
Hell, Hollywood is full of people who have sold their souls to the devil for publicity. BSD is the only known example of the devil giving a soul back unharmed!
Yay, though I walk though the valley of [Silly cones?], I shall fear no evil, cos...
Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidityThose of us over 18 have generally found this to be tihe other way round as ina small amount of real stupidity beats any amount of artificial intelligence
For businessmen who spend lots of time producing correspondence, voice recognition would make a lot more sense
But producing less correspondence would be an even better idea. If they have to pause while pressing keys, they damage the enviroment less, and hire fewer lawyers
I never knew there was a problem - I have three mission critical servers (telecomms billing) running PHP5 on Apache 2, and nothing seems to have gone wrong in 12 months of 24/7 operation.
Its worse than that.... they dont even give you a version of Basic, so you cant write "use once and throw away" programs, and the command shell is pathetic too!
But the real killer is the so called "Server" version won't run headless! Talk about not ready for prime time!
Yeah, I remember the 1880's - we had remote sensing of the weather by floating light-bouys, and processed the data with a Cray super computer.
Oh, wait, I think that was the 1980s. In the 1880s, we had that thing with a man with a brolly and a woman in a summer dress hanging from seaweed. You could tell the weather according to which one came out of the house. AFAICT, the reliability was much the same as today.
My uncle Jack sticking a wet finger in the air and saying "Arrh, it looks like a [fine|rough] day tomorrow - I think I need a wee dram!" was more fun though!
I cant speak for the rest of the EU, but here in the UK, it is illegal to encrypt personal communications over radio links or the telephone, except using devices that the government can crak (and that needs a licnece so they know they can crack it).
And that includes messages encrypted using codes like "Mission completed" means "I have sold my old Ford and bought a BMW instead".
Most laws are unenforceable. Its about 200 years since Dickens said "The Law is an Ass", and it definitely has NOT got better.
There are probably less Windows 95 users out there than that
There are millions of Win95 users. For a start, there are large numbers of companies with machines that are single use, and run Win95 - no one is going to upgrade them, and they will run till they die.
Then there are all the laptops that came with Win95 (eg P1) - Have you ever tried to replace the OS in a laptop? It ain't easy (Unless you are replacing it with NetBSD). If its no longer any use to you give the laptop away to someone, People rarely throw them away, so the Laptop goes on running Win95. And since they are probably not on the net, they are probably not infested with spyware, and go faster than P4s that probably are infested with Spyware.
There are other places in the world than Geekland.
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Typing does not require accurate position of the fingers - so long as you hit the "a" key, it doesn't much matter how you hit it.. Over time the brain doesnt bother to take care over which nerves are activated/sensed, because it appears not to matter. Unfortunately, it does!
The consequence of this careless activation of "roughly the right nerves" is what is called Carpal Tunnel.
The cure is to relearn accurate use of the nerves. One of the best ways of doing this has been found to be to learn hand embroidery! Old fashoned watchmaking (or repairling iPods/mobile phones) would probably work too. Most exercise or sports, which require force but little accuracy, will make matters rapidly worse.
In the UK, and most probably Europe, it is a very serious offence to sell goods unfit for the purpose for which they are advertised.
Lock them up and throw away the key. Mwa, ha, ha haaar!
I heard an interview with one of the researchers a few weeks back. They have an economic model that shows clearly that customers resent the sales model of "free razor, massively overpriced blades" to the extent that the existence of the company is threatened.
This is from a source that the directors of inkjet printer makers cannot ignore and expect to keep their jobs.
As for choosing a grain seed supplier, well, the choice is yours: Do you want a supplier who will sue you for doing thisgs you cannot avoid?
Surely Monsanto's competition must be having a field day? The slogan "Buy our seed and you won't get sued" comes to mind!
If food is marked "contains GM stuff" no one in Europe will buy it. Consequently the supermarkets don't want it. The importers don't want it, and even if the yield is higher, most farmers here don't want it cos they can't sell it. A few farmers have been bribed by Monsanto to try it out for test purposes. Several of those have joined the protest movement, not least because they contaminated their neighbours crops after being told it wouldn't happen. (Most farms in Europe are under 100 acres, so farmers have a lot of neighbours, and they are not very far away!)
Any MP/MEP caught voting for GM stuff risks losing his seat, so there is a tendency for our laws to prohibit it until its adequately tested.
The US has problems selling it to us because of consumer resistance. So they are threatening retaliation on the grounds that it is "illegal interference with free trade". Surely its interference with free trade to force people to sell what their customers won't buy?
Since all the Viagra spam comes from a Canadian pharmacy, I would expect a "Can Spam" act to cover it "explicitly" - after all its Can Spam isnt it?
Or use your favorite torrent.
Personally, I believe that cruel and inhuman torture would be more appropriate.
I just bought one of these from Pizza-a-gogo but I paid only £7.50 and got a free meat feast pizza with it!
Apart from ten times the amount of publicity that *BSD has ever had before.
It might be that *BSD would prefer money to publicity, but somehow I don't think so. The whole philosophy of *BSD is people can take what they like and give back or not as they please. BSD is not Linux and its not GPL'd because people don't want it to be - if you want your code GPL's you release it under the GPL!
Hell, Hollywood is full of people who have sold their souls to the devil for publicity. BSD is the only known example of the devil giving a soul back unharmed!
Yay, though I walk though the valley of [Silly cones?], I shall fear no evil, cos ...
I bet $5 it has more horsepower than the machines first used for Unix - specifically over 10 times the power of a PDP11/40.
Using shell commands might be tricky though!
My copy of the script says "Wake the president"
Why is he always sleeping when anything important happens?
I have RTFM and can find any documentation on the "Google Bit".
Should it be cleared or set? and why?
Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidityThose of us over 18 have generally found this to be tihe other way round as ina small amount of real stupidity beats any amount of artificial intelligence
But producing less correspondence would be an even better idea. If they have to pause while pressing keys, they damage the enviroment less, and hire fewer lawyers
But I read in 1958 that we would have self healing systems "within a decade" - surely we must have had them for over 30 years!
What is supposed to be the problem?
The truth? You cant handle the truth...
But the real killer is the so called "Server" version won't run headless! Talk about not ready for prime time!
Oh, wait, I think that was the 1980s. In the 1880s, we had that thing with a man with a brolly and a woman in a summer dress hanging from seaweed. You could tell the weather according to which one came out of the house. AFAICT, the reliability was much the same as today.
My uncle Jack sticking a wet finger in the air and saying "Arrh, it looks like a [fine|rough] day tomorrow - I think I need a wee dram!" was more fun though!
Not if you're a snake-oil salesman
And that includes messages encrypted using codes like "Mission completed" means "I have sold my old Ford and bought a BMW instead".
Most laws are unenforceable. Its about 200 years since Dickens said "The Law is an Ass", and it definitely has NOT got better.
- an Elliot 803 powered by a 3 cylinder marine compound, driven from the central heating boilers (North London Polytechnic in Hollway Road)
You want ADSL AND support as well? You are WAY too greedy.
There are millions of Win95 users. For a start, there are large numbers of companies with machines that are single use, and run Win95 - no one is going to upgrade them, and they will run till they die.
Then there are all the laptops that came with Win95 (eg P1) - Have you ever tried to replace the OS in a laptop? It ain't easy (Unless you are replacing it with NetBSD). If its no longer any use to you give the laptop away to someone, People rarely throw them away, so the Laptop goes on running Win95. And since they are probably not on the net, they are probably not infested with spyware, and go faster than P4s that probably are infested with Spyware.
There are other places in the world than Geekland.