QWERTY appeared when people were typing so fast on a typewriter that the "arms" would stick together. The letters were placed so that there was a maximum of movement (=time) possible (thus eliminating two "hammers" from hitting at the same time).
So basically, we are stuck with the most inneficient technique available. I think that keyboards should use the same interface but letters should be moved to different places. A few common letters like A and E should be available on "both sides" in order to speed up typing.
Why is the current input method perfect? Well everyone is already familliar with it. Most products can easily use it (try a vertical KBD on a PDA ou ATM??)
Maybe instead of having 3 longs lows, we should have 4 narrower lines of characters (not including #'s and control keys). While typing this article, I found out that my fingers were mostly moving horizontaly, not vertically. Having a "cube" of characters instead of a triangle would probably improve typing.
Rule #1: Make a photocopy otherwise in 3 months, you won't remember where you bought the thing (even less the number to call to inquire!)
Rule #2: Don't buy anything that has a good rebate if you don't need it. For example, you can find a free phone at xyz but the question is: Do you need it? If not, why worry.
Rule #3: Look for a bargain. Sometimes, rebates are given to end of life merchandise, meaning someting new is coming up and they need to get rid of this model. Nothing bad with this, but look at other alternatives (OEM hard disk for example, versus retail box usually has a BIG difference). I've always used rebated on useful stuff. For example you can always get cheap/free CDR's every other month or so. Basically, shop wise! Don't get caught in the "boy it's cheap" syndrome if you don't need a "zyx" or whatever...
Don't forget that a rebate is always on the seller's advantage. They profit from interests and then write off this amount for tax purposes. So basically, it's a win-win situation. Even if you get your rebate, they get to lower their taxes.
SGI actually owns Maya which is vastly used on the WinTel market. They recently won an Oscar award for their software. The only other company to even win an oscar was Pixar. I'm not too worried about them "dying" just now...
When I was in Japan, I saw a ton of Japanese based pda's. It's much easier for them to support english than for US to support japanese..!
Palm has one and so does Zaurus (in fact, they have many models).
Oh and BTW, they are much more cooler than the US models:)
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How hard would it be to add a few chips so that a laptop actually becomes an "X display" ?
I mean, connect the VGA "in" and have a separate keyboard/mouse connectors going "to" a machine instead of "from a peripheral". That way, the "Cpu" side would be de-activated, becoming a dumb graphic terminal.
I've seen many rackmounted 1U units with flat screens and keyboards that you can pull out but I've never seen anything that you can carry around.
I'd buy one today to manage all my servers if I could find something like that.
Anyone else in the same boat? Found alternatives?? Please share your findings. I'm tired to move this "monitor on a cart" around..!
I had the chance to live there for some time and as most people don't realise, most streets don't have names! It is a very complex, un-friendly and confusing way of thinking. (ie: strange for Japan)
Everything is so dense that finding a friend can be a pain in the butt, believe me.
Ok ok, I hear all that privacy crap, but who cares? Unless you're some mafia top-dude, who gives a crap about where you are? What do you have to *hide* ?
Just think about kids being kidnaped or such things. I think the pros outweight the cons.
I moved in a brand new duplex and I can tell you that my mom's house is much better than mine. Everything is about cutting corners these days. People don't live in the same house as long as they used to I guess. So contractors know this and build with that in mind.
2: Extremely large database installations running Oracle still choose HP 9000 RISC based machines running HP-UX, Sun machines running Slowlaris, SGI machines running Irix, or IBM machines running AIX. BTW, it's not Linux that isn't trustworthy, it's the chintzy hardware that it runs on.
Note that this is about to change with SGI's new machine (Altix). This will be a nice and stable Linux machine ready for prime time. So the dude needs to watch out..
4: Corporations are still willing to pay for all this testing and corporate support for the big iron, if that'll mean big uptime.
Personally, I would probably get FIRED if I were to recommend using Dell servers (or any x86 type machine).
Despite what you see in the ads, anyone ever saw a dell/windows server in Fortune 100 companies? Research centers? Manufacturing?
1.)I have hot swapable drive support. HP is working on this for w2k but does dell have this?
How about hot swappable CPU's and memory? I know SGI hardware can do it.
4.) I have a scalable server that has supperior clustering software that NT and Linux lack
Don't forget platform dependent applications. For example, XFS (on SGI) and their graphic cards will simply kill any dell machine running Windows. I'm sorry for the Dell dude, but there is simply no comparasion possible. Heck, what's the filesystem or filessize limit on fat32/ntfs? How about 2TB for a single file on XFS? Can the dude do it?
5.) With up to 128 processors I can have one fast mutha.
How about 1024 for SGI machines? Think the dell dude will get close to that number (on a single image machine, not a cluster!)? Windows can scale up to 32? 64 maybe? I haven't even seen a PC with more than 4 cpu's anyway. But correct me if I'm wrong as I'd like to buy an 8CPU linux box.
6.) World class stability.
Windows != stability. Let's just say that I'm glad I don't have to deal with windows servers anymore.
7.)WOrld class support.
This is where I have to admit that Dell seems to be doing pretty good. On the desktop side at least. I couldn't say about their server support. I'm not trying to have a vendor war here (we mostly have SGI's here), but I know SGI can be on site withing 4 hours with a spare part. I'm sure this is common for every unix vendor.
On a personal note, if unix is dead then why is Microsoft considering Linux as a threat? Why is Apple going to unix with OS-X? Why are major graphic shops going to Linux? Why don't you see Windows machines in research dept?
Basically: Where is windows other than your desktop and mom & pop servers?? NO WHERE!
I've been a victim of similar problemS and it's a real pain in the ass to have them fixed. It's SOOOO easy for a company to say "you owe us" and send "threaths" to collection agencies. Then they wash their hands. I am so mad at many companies and yet, there is no way to get mad at them. Ok, boycott their services, but what about phone company or gas or anything essencial?
I always wanted to start a business that is the opposite of credit card history and collection. To go agaisnt the companies and RATE *THEM*. That way, customers can decide which company to go for (based on hassle/disputes level).
I guess they never heard about "the customer is always right"
I think we should all visit and use this site to give those (depressed) dudes some help. How would you feel working there?
Never make fun of struggling people. We need to stick together and click on their ads to generate some revenue... There are jobs at stake here!
Credit cards weren't invented last year. Back when they were invented, this was some major technology. Can you imagine? A piece of plastic with a magnetic stripe on the back? Totally un-hackable! How could it possibly be hacked when most people didn't even have magnetic tapes at home? Most people were still using records to play music. This was state or the art technology. And to fake the card? No way, an "embosser" was probably something guarded as close as the mona lisa painting.
These days, you can buy blanks, printers, mag-stripe writers at most stores. Easily hackable. Too easy in fact.
Like the article mentioned, there are 500 millions cards in the US alone. If you calculate the cost to replace each card at $1, you've got 1/2 a billion $ fee. Companies are slowly going to the "smart (yeah right) card" but that just doesn't cut it. The whole system sucks, but companies don't really care because we're actually paying for it..! Wonder why you have a 21% interest fee while you can borrow at around 5-6% at the bank? The credit card companies simply balance their #'s every year... "ok we lost $X dollar, let's charge X% to customers". It's no magic... So why bother changing the system? It's perfect to the credit companies...!
It's no secret that most security vendors have large IP ranges all around the world (in order to get different ranges), and thousands of emails that are monitored for viruses.
It's simply a matter of who (among the vendors) will get hit first.
As far as notifying the community, well hmm they probably "forgot"...(!)
I used to run a computer store (actually 3) a few years ago. Nothing prevents you from bringing back an opened box! It's simply a policy from the store to prevent abuse.
You can bring back your OS, game, application, etc and get a full refund! If the store won't do it, buy somewhere else! Go to mom & pop shops. They need your business anyway. Don't buy at big retailers.
I never had a check book until I moved to the states. In Canada, I always paid everything through debit cards, which is more secure than check cards in the US. My landlord would debit my monthly rent right off my account. All major utilities could be paid with this technique as well.
I never had more than 20-40$ in my pockets and that was only used for small restaurants or vending machines. Checks? I only got those from my grand parents at christmas.
It's amazing that, in the US, such a low security (and easily counterfit-able) piece of low tech still runs the economy.
I will always smile, yet get angry at people writing checks for a pack of gum and monopolizing the line for 5 minutes. But that's another story...
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QWERTY appeared when people were typing so fast on a typewriter that the "arms" would stick together. The letters were placed so that there was a maximum of movement (=time) possible (thus eliminating two "hammers" from hitting at the same time).
:)
So basically, we are stuck with the most inneficient technique available. I think that keyboards should use the same interface but letters should be moved to different places. A few common letters like A and E should be available on "both sides" in order to speed up typing.
Why is the current input method perfect? Well everyone is already familliar with it. Most products can easily use it (try a vertical KBD on a PDA ou ATM??)
Maybe instead of having 3 longs lows, we should have 4 narrower lines of characters (not including #'s and control keys). While typing this article, I found out that my fingers were mostly moving horizontaly, not vertically. Having a "cube" of characters instead of a triangle would probably improve typing.
I say: why re-invent the wheel? Just align it
I've never had any issues with rebates.
Rule #1: Make a photocopy otherwise in 3 months, you won't remember where you bought the thing (even less the number to call to inquire!)
Rule #2: Don't buy anything that has a good rebate if you don't need it. For example, you can find a free phone at xyz but the question is: Do you need it? If not, why worry.
Rule #3: Look for a bargain. Sometimes, rebates are given to end of life merchandise, meaning someting new is coming up and they need to get rid of this model. Nothing bad with this, but look at other alternatives (OEM hard disk for example, versus retail box usually has a BIG difference).
I've always used rebated on useful stuff. For example you can always get cheap/free CDR's every other month or so.
Basically, shop wise! Don't get caught in the "boy it's cheap" syndrome if you don't need a "zyx" or whatever...
Don't forget that a rebate is always on the seller's advantage. They profit from interests and then write off this amount for tax purposes.
So basically, it's a win-win situation. Even if you get your rebate, they get to lower their taxes.
SGI actually owns Maya which is vastly used on the WinTel market.
They recently won an Oscar award for their software. The only other company to even win an oscar was Pixar. I'm not too worried about them "dying" just now...
If I'm right, he actually mentions that this is made realtime via SGI hardware :)
When I was in Japan, I saw a ton of Japanese based pda's. It's much easier for them to support english than for US to support japanese..!
:)
Palm has one and so does Zaurus (in fact, they have many models).
Oh and BTW, they are much more cooler than the US models
How hard would it be to add a few chips so that a laptop actually becomes an "X display" ?
I mean, connect the VGA "in" and have a separate keyboard/mouse connectors going "to" a machine instead of "from a peripheral". That way, the "Cpu" side would be de-activated, becoming a dumb graphic terminal.
I've seen many rackmounted 1U units with flat screens and keyboards that you can pull out but I've never seen anything that you can carry around.
I'd buy one today to manage all my servers if I could find something like that.
Anyone else in the same boat? Found alternatives?? Please share your findings. I'm tired to move this "monitor on a cart" around..!
I had the chance to live there for some time and as most people don't realise, most streets don't have names! It is a very complex, un-friendly and confusing way of thinking. (ie: strange for Japan)
Everything is so dense that finding a friend can be a pain in the butt, believe me.
Ok ok, I hear all that privacy crap, but who cares? Unless you're some mafia top-dude, who gives a crap about where you are? What do you have to *hide* ?
Just think about kids being kidnaped or such things. I think the pros outweight the cons.
Buy a TV out card and there ya go. No need to worry about upgrading the box (or dumping it) when DivX version x.y will be out.
.avi .mov .mp3 too...
Oh and your PC can do
Isn't it amazing?
Is this like the IE-Netscape or AOL-MSN kid fight?
"My version is better than yours?"
Grow up RH. I'm waiting for you to deploy RH x.y on some machines here. Where's 8.1?
I moved in a brand new duplex and I can tell you that my mom's house is much better than mine. Everything is about cutting corners these days. People don't live in the same house as long as they used to I guess. So contractors know this and build with that in mind.
"This email brought to you by Ford. Have you flown a Ford lately?"
2: Extremely large database installations running Oracle still choose HP 9000 RISC based machines running HP-UX, Sun machines running Slowlaris, SGI machines running Irix, or IBM machines running AIX. BTW, it's not Linux that isn't trustworthy, it's the chintzy hardware that it runs on.
Note that this is about to change with SGI's new machine (Altix). This will be a nice and stable Linux machine ready for prime time. So the dude needs to watch out..
4: Corporations are still willing to pay for all this testing and corporate support for the big iron, if that'll mean big uptime.
Personally, I would probably get FIRED if I were to recommend using Dell servers (or any x86 type machine).
Despite what you see in the ads, anyone ever saw a dell/windows server in Fortune 100 companies? Research centers? Manufacturing?
Not me...
While we may laugh at people getting "scammed", let's not remember that this money doesn't go in nice people's pockets.
This money mostly funds war and terrorism.
1.)I have hot swapable drive support. HP is working on this for w2k but does dell have this?
How about hot swappable CPU's and memory? I know SGI hardware can do it.
4.) I have a scalable server that has supperior clustering software that NT and Linux lack
Don't forget platform dependent applications. For example, XFS (on SGI) and their graphic cards will simply kill any dell machine running Windows. I'm sorry for the Dell dude, but there is simply no comparasion possible. Heck, what's the filesystem or filessize limit on fat32/ntfs? How about 2TB for a single file on XFS? Can the dude do it?
5.) With up to 128 processors I can have one fast mutha.
How about 1024 for SGI machines? Think the dell dude will get close to that number (on a single image machine, not a cluster!)? Windows can scale up to 32? 64 maybe? I haven't even seen a PC with more than 4 cpu's anyway. But correct me if I'm wrong as I'd like to buy an 8CPU linux box.
6.) World class stability.
Windows != stability. Let's just say that I'm glad I don't have to deal with windows servers anymore.
7.)WOrld class support.
This is where I have to admit that Dell seems to be doing pretty good. On the desktop side at least. I couldn't say about their server support. I'm not trying to have a vendor war here (we mostly have SGI's here), but I know SGI can be on site withing 4 hours with a spare part. I'm sure this is common for every unix vendor.
On a personal note, if unix is dead then why is Microsoft considering Linux as a threat? Why is Apple going to unix with OS-X? Why are major graphic shops going to Linux? Why don't you see Windows machines in research dept?
Basically: Where is windows other than your desktop and mom & pop servers?? NO WHERE!
I've been a victim of similar problemS and it's a real pain in the ass to have them fixed. It's SOOOO easy for a company to say "you owe us" and send "threaths" to collection agencies. Then they wash their hands. I am so mad at many companies and yet, there is no way to get mad at them. Ok, boycott their services, but what about phone company or gas or anything essencial?
I always wanted to start a business that is the opposite of credit card history and collection. To go agaisnt the companies and RATE *THEM*. That way, customers can decide which company to go for (based on hassle/disputes level).
I guess they never heard about "the customer is always right"
I think we should all visit and use this site to give those (depressed) dudes some help. How would you feel working there?
Never make fun of struggling people. We need to stick together and click on their ads to generate some revenue...
There are jobs at stake here!
When will we be able to directly bag stuff in carts and then leave w/o going through cashiers? (I mean, w/o stealing).
Going to the cashier is such a waste of time. I think this is a step through the right direction.
I used to work in a computer store and we resold a lot of badging stuff. A writer used to go for less than 300$ and a printer was around 2000$.
:)
Basically, a small investment for such a (possible) great return. Although, if you get caught... that's another story
Credit cards weren't invented last year. Back when they were invented, this was some major technology. Can you imagine? A piece of plastic with a magnetic stripe on the back? Totally un-hackable! How could it possibly be hacked when most people didn't even have magnetic tapes at home? Most people were still using records to play music. This was state or the art technology. And to fake the card? No way, an "embosser" was probably something guarded as close as the mona lisa painting.
These days, you can buy blanks, printers, mag-stripe writers at most stores. Easily hackable. Too easy in fact.
Like the article mentioned, there are 500 millions cards in the US alone. If you calculate the cost to replace each card at $1, you've got 1/2 a billion $ fee. Companies are slowly going to the "smart (yeah right) card" but that just doesn't cut it. The whole system sucks, but companies don't really care because we're actually paying for it..! Wonder why you have a 21% interest fee while you can borrow at around 5-6% at the bank? The credit card companies simply balance their #'s every year... "ok we lost $X dollar, let's charge X% to customers". It's no magic... So why bother changing the system? It's perfect to the credit companies...!
I need a thing that hooks to my brain and does whatever I want to do right away!
Think about all the time lost between what you want to do and your body interaction. Major lag...
No more scrolling through menus or finding files. Instant!
Oh well, maybe that'd be the keyboard for the 22nd century...
It's no secret that most security vendors have large IP ranges all around the world (in order to get different ranges), and thousands of emails that are monitored for viruses.
It's simply a matter of who (among the vendors) will get hit first.
As far as notifying the community, well hmm they probably "forgot"...(!)
Clock speed != performance
I used to run a computer store (actually 3) a few years ago. Nothing prevents you from bringing back an opened box! It's simply a policy from the store to prevent abuse.
You can bring back your OS, game, application, etc and get a full refund! If the store won't do it, buy somewhere else! Go to mom & pop shops. They need your business anyway. Don't buy at big retailers.
I never had a check book until I moved to the states. In Canada, I always paid everything through debit cards, which is more secure than check cards in the US. My landlord would debit my monthly rent right off my account. All major utilities could be paid with this technique as well.
I never had more than 20-40$ in my pockets and that was only used for small restaurants or vending machines. Checks? I only got those from my grand parents at christmas.
It's amazing that, in the US, such a low security (and easily counterfit-able) piece of low tech still runs the economy.
I will always smile, yet get angry at people writing checks for a pack of gum and monopolizing the line for 5 minutes. But that's another story...
Sponge bob square pants