I think for many applications the ability to draw directly onto the screen is much more intuitive than drawing on an off-screen tablet. Getting used to a wacom tablet is like learning to use a mouse for the first time. I don't think the two approaches are equally comparable.
Agreed. I won't be happy until I have an affordable 24"x36" tiltable surface to draw/write on. Something where I could overlay a clean, blank sheet and trace over.
Look to the now-defunct profession of drafting if you want to have insight into graphical technical communication technology. It's been successfully used for a few hundred years.
People that make and read technical drawings need to be easily able to see the whole picture at one time - brain cache tends to degrade if one has to spend 30 seconds looking for files. Really complicated stuff requires focus, and anything that detracts from that focus (like having to zoom/pan within a CAD drawing) doesn't help.
I can completely believe that Matt Groening was relating a story about being yelled at for mocking Fox News, and that people thought he was serious.
And given The Simpsons' history of ridiculing (note to illiterate slashdotters: there is only one "e" in the word, "ridicule") the FOX network I can't see how anyone would take seriously anything that MG says. Maybe he and The Simpsons should be forced to implement a laugh track to placate the humourless.
My son is 12 and has his own TV, VCR and cable in his room, not to mention a few gaming machines. He's not really that geeky or nerdlike (no matter how hard I try to convince him to be), but he tells me that he doesn't watch that much TV anymore. He says he prefers chatting on the web, playing with his dog and reading.
My question is: is he scamming me? I think he might be starting to choke the chicken, but give the outward appearance that he is actually a model child.
Any fatherly advice out there? I don't want to go into [Homer-voice] Why you little! [/Homer-voice] strangulation mode without any backup.
Wow, thanks Peter. The server must have been busy the previous 7 times I tried to download.
Now, after a painless 10 minute dowmload of RealPlayer (my mouse index finger is sore from clicking the "don't send me spam" button) I can now hear the file!
hundreds will see it before the server is fried.
if you don't want people to read something- get it posted on/.
Just yesterday some were recommending hosting companies for websites in order to avoid the slashdot effect (low cost, big pipes, able to handle temporary massive traffic).
And now for obvious joke ripped-off from rec.humor.funny:
A Spitfire World War II pilot is reminiscing before school children about his days in the air force. (Joke best delivered with a good, thick British accent)
"In 1942," he says, "the situation was really tough. The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember, " he continues, "one day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these fokkers appeared.
(At this point, several of the children giggle.)
I looked up, and right above me was one of them. I aimed at him and shot him down. They were swarming. I immediately realized that there was another fokker behind me."
At this instant the girls in the auditorium start to giggle and boys start to laugh. The teacher stands up and says, "I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company"
"That's true," says the pilot, "but these fokkers were flying Messerschmidts."
Luckily the government is doing something that isnt for corporate interests and Bush campaign donors
Because, obviously, everything the Bush administration does is inherently evil. Right?
If 9/11 had happened under a democratic administration all the same "attacks on freedom" would be happening, except the vitriol would be directed at Gore.
I may be naive, but the further the net develops, the more freedom is created.
From my viewpoint, the real problem is that exercise strikes me as a mindless waste of time and effort. I watch people in gyms mindlessly walking to nowhere or pulling stuff on machines until they sweat and ache, and to be honest it sounds like a miserable, dumb and unproductive way to spend time.
Exercise and better diet strike me as a lot of pain for little gain. The negative effects on one's life show up immediately and the positive ones take huge amounts of time to appear. So it's all too easy to give up and say it's just not worth it.
Hook 'em up to power generating machines!
The fact that you use the words, "mindless" and "gym" in the same sentence is interesting.
Physical fitness is trendy and cool. Being seen being trendy is even cooler.
Ride a bike, walk instead of drive, eschew that bendover-avoiding, hand-operated mechanical picker-upper gadget and you should be OK. No need to spend money at a gym.
If it weren't for Gates and Windows, the net wouldn't be what it is today.
What, you mean a cesspool of vendor-lock-in battles, viruses, worms, and incompatible standards?
I suppose. Every new development has its bugs, and the internet might just be the biggest development ever. But if the current Windows-using population never got to the net would it now be so prominent in the minds of virtually everyone on the planet?
How many Unix/Linux promoters would have ever been heard of outside of select, ignored user groups?
The internet is an ongoing experiment in communications and patience is required.
It may not be fixed to your liking within 3 years, but remember that this is a relatively new technology to the rest of the world.
Spam will likely kill it within 2 years if nothing is done, however.
Can someone please clarify this? I have "digital" cable (non-HD)TV and the image quality often looks like JPG images with poor dithering. Or something. Am I explaining that right? The image often becomes "blocky".
I used PayPay as an example only. Does Visa/MC offer something like this for online purchases? I.E., exchange cash at a retail outlet (or banks?) for online dollars that can be spent anonymously.
Sure, with CCs you have limited liability, but the paperwork hassle tends to be the problem. Someone else mentioned check cards, but again, those are linked to your bank account.
As the article states, it's a good idea for those who don't have credit cards/don't want to use their CCs online. I wonder if these cards will have an expiry date like some of the pre-paid cell phone ones do.
I'm behind the times in online purchasing technology, does PayPal (or another company) offer pre-paid options like this? I'm assuming that many people don't buy online due to fear - this would limit financial risk to whatever amount is the limit on the card.
Slashdot Mirror
I think for many applications the ability to draw directly onto the screen is much more intuitive than drawing on an off-screen tablet. Getting used to a wacom tablet is like learning to use a mouse for the first time. I don't think the two approaches are equally comparable.
Agreed. I won't be happy until I have an affordable 24"x36" tiltable surface to draw/write on. Something where I could overlay a clean, blank sheet and trace over.
Look to the now-defunct profession of drafting if you want to have insight into graphical technical communication technology. It's been successfully used for a few hundred years.
People that make and read technical drawings need to be easily able to see the whole picture at one time - brain cache tends to degrade if one has to spend 30 seconds looking for files. Really complicated stuff requires focus, and anything that detracts from that focus (like having to zoom/pan within a CAD drawing) doesn't help.
are there actually people who can write FASTER than they can type?
Those of us "of a certain age" that learned and practiced technical drawing/drafting before CAD made us obsolete are surprisingly fast.
Still haven't gotten to the point where I can draw animated cartoons real-time, though. Tremendous strain on the wrist.
[stealth Simpsons reference]
I can completely believe that Matt Groening was relating a story about being yelled at for mocking Fox News, and that people thought he was serious.
And given The Simpsons' history of ridiculing (note to illiterate slashdotters: there is only one "e" in the word, "ridicule") the FOX network I can't see how anyone would take seriously anything that MG says. Maybe he and The Simpsons should be forced to implement a laugh track to placate the humourless.
Does this smell like advertisers going after that great, untapped stereotypical female market to you?
My son is 12 and has his own TV, VCR and cable in his room, not to mention a few gaming machines. He's not really that geeky or nerdlike (no matter how hard I try to convince him to be), but he tells me that he doesn't watch that much TV anymore. He says he prefers chatting on the web, playing with his dog and reading.
My question is: is he scamming me? I think he might be starting to choke the chicken, but give the outward appearance that he is actually a model child.
Any fatherly advice out there? I don't want to go into [Homer-voice] Why you little! [/Homer-voice] strangulation mode without any backup.
w00t="Won Over Other Team"
RE: (#7364830) Agreed.
...one element that matters most: the relevance of the search results it returns. It's what makes Google's paid AdWords useful instead of annoying
And they don't feature annoying flash ads like some other sites which shall remain nameless.
Wow, thanks Peter. The server must have been busy the previous 7 times I tried to download.
Now, after a painless 10 minute dowmload of RealPlayer (my mouse index finger is sore from clicking the "don't send me spam" button) I can now hear the file!
Paul
www.dnsstuff.com
One word: Hookers!
You can get the audio for the show here.
Yeah, if you want to pay for the download.
I wonder when the copyright ran out on this.
I read Moron Shoppping Carts.
hundreds will see it before the server is fried. if you don't want people to read something- get it posted on /.
Just yesterday some were recommending hosting companies for websites in order to avoid the slashdot effect (low cost, big pipes, able to handle temporary massive traffic).
For example, try to Slashdot this ==> http://www.pipingdesign.com
OK, so maybe I'm trolling for month-end hits. The site is hosted at nexcess.net, a great service.
...mice poop, strategically placed behind all of your cabinets and cupboards
"That's not a mouse turd, it's a caper."
"If it's a caper, eat it."
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Please mod parent up.
As distasteful as it is, it has to be done.
Fokker, and then Stork, how appropriate is that?!
I'm assuming that you Dutch don't have a company called, "Toddler" that might take over next...
Paul
And now for obvious joke ripped-off from rec.humor.funny:
A Spitfire World War II pilot is reminiscing before school children about his days in the air force. (Joke best delivered with a good, thick British accent)
"In 1942," he says, "the situation was really tough. The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember, " he continues, "one day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these fokkers appeared.
(At this point, several of the children giggle.)
I looked up, and right above me was one of them. I aimed at him and shot him down. They were swarming. I immediately realized that there was another fokker behind me."
At this instant the girls in the auditorium start to giggle and boys start to laugh. The teacher stands up and says, "I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company"
"That's true," says the pilot, "but these fokkers were flying Messerschmidts."
Luckily the government is doing something that isnt for corporate interests and Bush campaign donors
/troll
Because, obviously, everything the Bush administration does is inherently evil. Right?
If 9/11 had happened under a democratic administration all the same "attacks on freedom" would be happening, except the vitriol would be directed at Gore.
I may be naive, but the further the net develops, the more freedom is created.
From my viewpoint, the real problem is that exercise strikes me as a mindless waste of time and effort. I watch people in gyms mindlessly walking to nowhere or pulling stuff on machines until they sweat and ache, and to be honest it sounds like a miserable, dumb and unproductive way to spend time. Exercise and better diet strike me as a lot of pain for little gain. The negative effects on one's life show up immediately and the positive ones take huge amounts of time to appear. So it's all too easy to give up and say it's just not worth it.
Hook 'em up to power generating machines!
The fact that you use the words, "mindless" and "gym" in the same sentence is interesting.
Physical fitness is trendy and cool. Being seen being trendy is even cooler.
Ride a bike, walk instead of drive, eschew that bendover-avoiding, hand-operated mechanical picker-upper gadget and you should be OK. No need to spend money at a gym.
If it weren't for Gates and Windows, the net wouldn't be what it is today.
What, you mean a cesspool of vendor-lock-in battles, viruses, worms, and incompatible standards?
I suppose. Every new development has its bugs, and the internet might just be the biggest development ever. But if the current Windows-using population never got to the net would it now be so prominent in the minds of virtually everyone on the planet?
How many Unix/Linux promoters would have ever been heard of outside of select, ignored user groups?
The internet is an ongoing experiment in communications and patience is required.
It may not be fixed to your liking within 3 years, but remember that this is a relatively new technology to the rest of the world.
Spam will likely kill it within 2 years if nothing is done, however.
Mod this post down.
If it weren't for Gates and Windows, the net wouldn't be what it is today.
Then again, remember Steve Martin's quote from (almost) decades ago:
I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was...
... an arctic region covered with ice.
PS: That quote may not be exact.
Can someone please clarify this? I have "digital" cable (non-HD)TV and the image quality often looks like JPG images with poor dithering. Or something. Am I explaining that right? The image often becomes "blocky".
I used PayPay as an example only. Does Visa/MC offer something like this for online purchases? I.E., exchange cash at a retail outlet (or banks?) for online dollars that can be spent anonymously.
Sure, with CCs you have limited liability, but the paperwork hassle tends to be the problem. Someone else mentioned check cards, but again, those are linked to your bank account.
As the article states, it's a good idea for those who don't have credit cards/don't want to use their CCs online. I wonder if these cards will have an expiry date like some of the pre-paid cell phone ones do.
I'm behind the times in online purchasing technology, does PayPal (or another company) offer pre-paid options like this? I'm assuming that many people don't buy online due to fear - this would limit financial risk to whatever amount is the limit on the card.