sounds like a very cool project. definitely "above and beyond" an off the shelf all black keyboard.
Unfortunately I don't think there's anywhere you can buy those oldschool spring / mechanical keyboards "new" anymore. Some people really prefer that style of keyboard (for both the tactile response, and the quality of construction) and it's hard to find them now!
you have to find some paint that won't rub or flake off.
you have to spraypaint the keys carefully enough to not gum up the functioning of the keys: I'm looking at my "unblank" keytronic keyboard right now and it has less than 1/16" between the keys.
you should find some some black paint whose surface feels nice enough to rest under your fingers for 8 hours a day
my "unblank" keytronic keyboar's key writing is actually both painted and tactile. E.g. the white inscriptions on each key are subtly raised up from the rest of the key. This means that even after you "paint" your keyboard, you may still be able to see the key inscriptions, reducing the 'cool factor'.
it's hard! when you're an uber-geek, you're making bank anyway... the time you spend making your own half-baked chincy "painted black" keyboard will probably pay for the real deal: "Das Keyboard"
And finally, let me conclude: Keytronic keyboards are not avaible from your neighborhood CrapUSA or Bogus Buy. Those guys sell horrible, cheap keyboards at outrageous markups.
If you're looking for a quality keyboard, order from Keytronic (or a Das Keyboard if you feel like paying for the 'cool' factor.) Keytronic puts pride, quality, and engineering into their product and it shows. I spent months researching where to buy 'quality keyboards' after being burned by craptastic keyboard after craptastic keyboard from CrapUSA and other like-retailers. The end result of my research pointed me at Keytronic keyboards, and I haven't been disappointed.
By the way, if you happen to know a manufacturer / retailer of QUALITY keyboards, please reply to this post and let me know, I'm interested in creating a community keyboard review site and could use some first-hand info. =)
Hmm. That picture seems to show that there is an exposed 'joy stick'-like controller on the outside of the rover. I have to take this design decision by NASA into serious question. Didn't anyone over there consider the possibility of martians hijacking the rover and using it for their own evil purposes. The rover should be bristling with guns, not unprotected control mechanisms! I'm agape with astonishment!
parents are more concerned about children spending too many hours playing games, rather than about what type of title they were playing.
As they should be, IMO. Sex and violence you can counter with heart-to-heart talks. Computer addiction and tendency towards a sedentary lifestyle are more difficult to combat.
A bug is a bug, of course, of course
And no one can ignore a bug of course
That is, of course, unless the bug affects only 1% of your credit card transactions... ?
I doubt anyone will read this far down into the comments, but here goes:
It seems fairly obvious to me: inventions of the past were largely more simplistic than inventions of present day. Present day inventions require a greater base of knowledge.
Often times, one person cannot reasonably acquire in one lifetime all of the knowledge required to invent some new piece of complex technology. This piece of complex technology must logically then be the work of several people.
If several people are working on the same invention, they are not working on separate inventions. Therefore there are fewer man-hours being logged into individual inventions than in the past, when the technological and scientific learning curve was less steep.
If you're talking about man-hours though, it might be useful to include world population, and the state of world education.
Clearly this is a complex issue involving many different factors, and boiling the issue down to a simple statement of "the rate of inventions per year has been dropping for the last 50 years!! The sky is falling!! At this rate, inventions will stop in 2088!!".
Let's get serious and realize that issues that have such overarching societal effects and a wide base of influential factors cannot be boiled down into a simple linear trend.
Now that is a hypothesis, my theory has been proven a dozen of times in restaurants kitchens.
A theory that has been proved is a law.
But your hypothesis deals with varying the efficiency of the cooling mechanism, not differences in behavior between hot and cool liquid undergoing treatment from indentical cooling mechanisms, which is what measure Mpemba effect calls for.
What is the internet, if not the systems hooked up to it?
The protocols, physical connections, and routers that hook those systems together have more to do with "what the internet is" in a technical sense, than than the systems that access it.
If you're talking about "what is the internet" from a sociological or informatics sense, then the systems play a larger role. But that is not the topic of thise article.
What will be really entertaining? When Amazon is able to take its patents off of its website, and move them into brick-and-mortar stores.
Imagine... soon it will be illegal to watch your customers as they move about your store -- because -- you know -- you could be watching what they're looking at, make inferences about what they're interested in, walk up to them, and *gasp* *shudder* proceed to walk all over Amazon's IP.
8 Colorado Comcast -- Fast and pretty reliable. -- Support leaves something to be desired, but once it's fixed it has tended to stay fixed for a long time.
Hard core gamers know that the mouse wheel is an inefficient way to switch weapons.
When you have 7+ weapons, do you really want to go sifting through all of them to find the right one, when milliseconds make the difference between walking away from a fight and emerging victorious.
The hardcore gamer will settle for nothing less than a 1-to-1 key-to-weapon mapping!
Yes, and return policies only work well if there is an actual, physical store you can return the good to.
I've had brick-and-mortar shops refuse to return my money before. I agree there is a greater element of risk when purchasing online, but if you buy from a reputable company (and it's not hard to find one using word of mouth, and/or retailer ranking sites) the risk delta is negligable. And online retailers usually offer better prices and a larger catalogue.
Why didn't you say so in your original post? I was confused by your reluctance to purchase online as well.
It's probably impractical for brick-and-mortar stores to carry one of every quirky input device known to man. They don't have the inventory space or infrastructure to maintain such a catalog.
Perhaps the better option would be for internet retailers to offer a 30 day money-back trial period with free shipping in both directions?
You're a twisted, demented man. You need to have your petaphiliac tendencies treated by a squad of trained monkeys wielding high voltage cattle prods powered by UPS.
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Unfortunately I don't think there's anywhere you can buy those oldschool spring / mechanical keyboards "new" anymore. Some people really prefer that style of keyboard (for both the tactile response, and the quality of construction) and it's hard to find them now!
- you have to find some paint that won't rub or flake off.
- you have to spraypaint the keys carefully enough to not gum up the functioning of the keys: I'm looking at my "unblank" keytronic keyboard right now and it has less than 1/16" between the keys.
- you should find some some black paint whose surface feels nice enough to rest under your fingers for 8 hours a day
- my "unblank" keytronic keyboar's key writing is actually both painted and tactile. E.g. the white inscriptions on each key are subtly raised up from the rest of the key. This means that even after you "paint" your keyboard, you may still be able to see the key inscriptions, reducing the 'cool factor'.
- it's hard! when you're an uber-geek, you're making bank anyway... the time you spend making your own half-baked chincy "painted black" keyboard will probably pay for the real deal: "Das Keyboard"
And finally, let me conclude: Keytronic keyboards are not avaible from your neighborhood CrapUSA or Bogus Buy. Those guys sell horrible, cheap keyboards at outrageous markups.If you're looking for a quality keyboard, order from Keytronic (or a Das Keyboard if you feel like paying for the 'cool' factor.) Keytronic puts pride, quality, and engineering into their product and it shows. I spent months researching where to buy 'quality keyboards' after being burned by craptastic keyboard after craptastic keyboard from CrapUSA and other like-retailers. The end result of my research pointed me at Keytronic keyboards, and I haven't been disappointed.
By the way, if you happen to know a manufacturer / retailer of QUALITY keyboards, please reply to this post and let me know, I'm interested in creating a community keyboard review site and could use some first-hand info. =)
ciao!
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Hmm. That picture seems to show that there is an exposed 'joy stick'-like controller on the outside of the rover. I have to take this design decision by NASA into serious question. Didn't anyone over there consider the possibility of martians hijacking the rover and using it for their own evil purposes. The rover should be bristling with guns, not unprotected control mechanisms! I'm agape with astonishment!
parents are more concerned about children spending too many hours playing games, rather than about what type of title they were playing.
As they should be, IMO. Sex and violence you can counter with heart-to-heart talks. Computer addiction and tendency towards a sedentary lifestyle are more difficult to combat.Oh, blah. Just because I hit submit 30 seconds later than some other bloke, I get modded redundant. It wasn't friggin' redundant when *I* hit reply. :P
Yeah and there's no such thing as RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) either, right?
My software firewall showed some intrusion attempts after connecting. Disappointing! :-( At least I'm all shored up.
A bug is a bug, of course, of course
And no one can ignore a bug of course
That is, of course, unless the bug affects only 1% of your credit card transactions
You're right in that request smuggling requires two entities. In this particular case, the two entities are:
1. Apache
2. An HTTP proxy, HTTP caching proxy, or HTTP-aware firewall
The reason the security flaw affects one product (Apache), is because the flaw does not require abnormal operation from the proxy, cache, or firewall.
They kiss in the beginning of the video clip. So unless this film is from the deep south, I think they're probably unrelated. :-P
Yes.
It seems fairly obvious to me: inventions of the past were largely more simplistic than inventions of present day. Present day inventions require a greater base of knowledge.
Often times, one person cannot reasonably acquire in one lifetime all of the knowledge required to invent some new piece of complex technology. This piece of complex technology must logically then be the work of several people.
If several people are working on the same invention, they are not working on separate inventions. Therefore there are fewer man-hours being logged into individual inventions than in the past, when the technological and scientific learning curve was less steep.
If you're talking about man-hours though, it might be useful to include world population, and the state of world education.
Clearly this is a complex issue involving many different factors, and boiling the issue down to a simple statement of "the rate of inventions per year has been dropping for the last 50 years!! The sky is falling!! At this rate, inventions will stop in 2088!!".
Let's get serious and realize that issues that have such overarching societal effects and a wide base of influential factors cannot be boiled down into a simple linear trend.
FUD.
But your hypothesis deals with varying the efficiency of the cooling mechanism, not differences in behavior between hot and cool liquid undergoing treatment from indentical cooling mechanisms, which is what measure Mpemba effect calls for.
The protocols, physical connections, and routers that hook those systems together have more to do with "what the internet is" in a technical sense, than than the systems that access it.
If you're talking about "what is the internet" from a sociological or informatics sense, then the systems play a larger role. But that is not the topic of thise article.
Imagine ... soon it will be illegal to watch your customers as they move about your store -- because -- you know -- you could be watching what they're looking at, make inferences about what they're interested in, walk up to them, and *gasp* *shudder* proceed to walk all over Amazon's IP.
I like it!
8 Colorado Comcast
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Fast and pretty reliable.
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Support leaves something to be desired, but once it's fixed it has tended to stay fixed for a long time.
There are studies done which show decisively that tactile key feedback increases touch typing speeds significantly.
Of course, if you have carpal tunnel syndrome, wpm may be the least of your concerns.
Hard core gamers know that the mouse wheel is an inefficient way to switch weapons.
When you have 7+ weapons, do you really want to go sifting through all of them to find the right one, when milliseconds make the difference between walking away from a fight and emerging victorious.
The hardcore gamer will settle for nothing less than a 1-to-1 key-to-weapon mapping!
I've had brick-and-mortar shops refuse to return my money before. I agree there is a greater element of risk when purchasing online, but if you buy from a reputable company (and it's not hard to find one using word of mouth, and/or retailer ranking sites) the risk delta is negligable. And online retailers usually offer better prices and a larger catalogue.
It's probably impractical for brick-and-mortar stores to carry one of every quirky input device known to man. They don't have the inventory space or infrastructure to maintain such a catalog.
Perhaps the better option would be for internet retailers to offer a 30 day money-back trial period with free shipping in both directions?
You are of course competing with other recent eye of sauron lookalikes. So no hard feelings?
Sweet deities, you've found a way to make an already punishingly protracted game last even longer.
Here's my idea for a MpyMod: start all the players out with five bucks so we can actually finish the game tonight.
You're a twisted, demented man. You need to have your petaphiliac tendencies treated by a squad of trained monkeys wielding high voltage cattle prods powered by UPS.
Guess we can shut down public schools then, now, eh?