I'm confuzled as to how w00t didn't get first place. I don't see any of the other words -- combined -- as often as w00t, at least when I'm chillaxing with my friends. I think they mad a ginormous mistake.
In the case of the Skywalker family and these American military families, upbringing (most likely) and coincidence (less likely) could explain the bias towards certain behaviors.
Upbringing almost *can't* have anything to do with it. The twins are separated at birth, remember?
Leia was raised by Bail Organa. While he was friendly with the Jedis, AFAIK he had no abilities himself, so he could not have given much to Leia in terms of her ability.
Obi-Wan takes Luke at the end of Episode III, but, as we all know, hands him off to Owen and Beru. While it's possible he could have had an impact before then, the transfer couldn't have taken too long as Obi-Wan wouldn't want to have kept him around. And while they had occasional contact, it couldn't have been too much. Again, he was raised by a non-Jedi family. In fact, he was raised by a family that actively tried to keep him from getting involved in anything.
...in Episodes 4-6, they do talk about how the force runs in Skywalker's family. So there almost has to be some genetic link since Luke and Leia were raised separately. (And doesn't Leia become some big Jedi after RotJ?)
It is. There are sort of two schools of thought about Han meant.
Croddy gives one explanation (the maneuverability test).
The other is that Han was just boasting nonsense deliberately to try to impress Luke and Obi-Wan to see if they were suckers. Had they been impressed, had would have charged them more.
Sioux City crash, 1989, United 232. A DC-10's engine 2 essentially explodes (the fan rotor broke) and sends shrapnel into the wings and fuselage. This shrapnel severs the hydraulic lines that provide control of the plane. The DC-10 has three such systems for redundancy; the shrapnel cuts all three lines.
With the only attitude control being provided by the engines, and using the throttles to apply different thrusts to the left and right engines and turn the plane, the flight crew (and an extra passenger) manages to crash land at Sioux City airport. (There's a good chance you've seen the video.) Out of 296 people, 184 survived.
If you had presented the scenario to almost any pilot in the country the day before it happened and asked them if they thought it would be possible to do that without attitude control, they would have said no.
That's 184 people who would be unquestionably dead if there were not pilots onboard.
The US is no different. You still have to go to court to get the charges dropped for self defense as an extenuating circumstance to murder (or assault, should the person not die).
Not necessarily. Prosecutors won't usually bring charges unless they think that there's a reasonable chance for a conviction.
They don't want the backlash of prosecuting someone who people see as innocent or even as a hero, may not even be able to get an indictment (especially if they need a grand jury), and they don't get a second chance if they lose.
Frankly, I don't WANT a set that can be used through walls. I don't want to chance picking up my neighbor's mouse and keyboard actions and don't want him to be able to pick up mine. (I know, encryption, yadda, but still...)
So it's a matter of the feel rather than the noise? I will agree that the old ones feel better.
Can you get the feel without the noise though? There's no way I could stand to use one of those keyboards...
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I don't really have a problem with it.
Here's my suggestion:
1. Get Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, version 5. I know v.5 has support for teaching Dvorak and that the recent ones don't, but I don't know exactly when they stopped.
2. Find 2 weeks during which you won't have to use the computer for much, but you can use it throughout the day. (Not necessarily a lot, just continually.)
3. During those two weeks, every couple hours sit down and do 15 or 20 minutes of exercise with Dvorak.
4. DON'T USE NON-DVORAK KEYBOARDS DURING THAT TIME. It took two tries to get it for me, and I think the reason the first one failed was because I tried to do it while I was in school and had to type reports and stuff and went back and forth.
As for going back and forth now, I don't find it a problem. In fact, I find I type faster now on QWERTY than I did before. (I learned Dvorak when I was doing somewhat of an advanced hunt-and-peck, without so much hunting, but I've very recently started to come much closer to touch typing.) You'll have a little moment when you first switch when you start to type and ismrpdkd lsl;dl;d* will come out, but you'll go "oh yeah, other layout" and all will be well.
I fully recommend the switch, especially if you have any wrist problems. That was what spurred my switch, and I find it a lot more comfortable. (Though again, I wasn't touch typing before, so it's difficult to say how much is due to learning to touch type and how much is Dvorak. However, whenever I try to touch type on QWERTY, I can feel a difference.)
*That's "complete nonsense", typed as if I were on a Dvorak keyboard while in QWERTY mode.
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Windows also has problems with not switching for already running programs if I switch the settings back and forth to Qwerty as I use it. Then some of the programs are stuck in the old layout and some switch to the new layout. My Apple has no problems with switching back and forth. This happens often enough as other people sit down to use my computers that it's an annoyance.
That's because (at least if you're using the language bar to switch) it's not doing what you think it's doing -- it doesn't change a global setting. Windows keeps track for each application which layout you're using. That's why it switches back and forth.
Whether this is a desirable feature or not is another matter, but I've found it useful on a number of occasions when I have to share computers.
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But he's referring to the actual physical keyboard layout. Like some keyboards make enter the same height as the other keys and put \| between it and backspace, some make right shift shorter and put it out at the end, and some (whose designers need to be prohibited from ever making anything again) cut off a bit from the left part of backspace and put it there.
I've got a volume control dial (much much better than the up/down buttons you sometimes see) and mute button on my keyboard, and wouldn't give them up if you offered me $50.
(I do, however, have a ton of other buttons I haven't pushed since essentially I got the keyboard...)
You can press it, the screen (duh) stops scrolling, and you can use the up and down arrows to go back some distance into what had scrolled off the screen.
Can someone explain to me why they like this? I hate noisy keyboards... Is it just something you used for a while and got used to, and now it seems like the way it should be?
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...its an increasing trend for modern slang and shortened terms to enter the dictionary
Do you have any actual evidence that this is the case other than a feeling/speculation?
I'm confuzled as to how w00t didn't get first place. I don't see any of the other words -- combined -- as often as w00t, at least when I'm chillaxing with my friends. I think they mad a ginormous mistake.
Or just recognized the boast for what it was. I could see something like that being somewhat commonplace.
In the case of the Skywalker family and these American military families, upbringing (most likely) and coincidence (less likely) could explain the bias towards certain behaviors.
Upbringing almost *can't* have anything to do with it. The twins are separated at birth, remember?
Leia was raised by Bail Organa. While he was friendly with the Jedis, AFAIK he had no abilities himself, so he could not have given much to Leia in terms of her ability.
Obi-Wan takes Luke at the end of Episode III, but, as we all know, hands him off to Owen and Beru. While it's possible he could have had an impact before then, the transfer couldn't have taken too long as Obi-Wan wouldn't want to have kept him around. And while they had occasional contact, it couldn't have been too much. Again, he was raised by a non-Jedi family. In fact, he was raised by a family that actively tried to keep him from getting involved in anything.
Nice reference, but that was the tree branch or whatever it was.
The leg just hung about on the planet with all the mattresses for a couple million years, and the white robots acquired it.
...in Episodes 4-6, they do talk about how the force runs in Skywalker's family. So there almost has to be some genetic link since Luke and Leia were raised separately. (And doesn't Leia become some big Jedi after RotJ?)
It is. There are sort of two schools of thought about Han meant.
Croddy gives one explanation (the maneuverability test).
The other is that Han was just boasting nonsense deliberately to try to impress Luke and Obi-Wan to see if they were suckers. Had they been impressed, had would have charged them more.
Not just z/OS either. VM, CMS, and probably other parts of the z line too.
So what happens when there's an emergency?
Sioux City crash, 1989, United 232. A DC-10's engine 2 essentially explodes (the fan rotor broke) and sends shrapnel into the wings and fuselage. This shrapnel severs the hydraulic lines that provide control of the plane. The DC-10 has three such systems for redundancy; the shrapnel cuts all three lines.
With the only attitude control being provided by the engines, and using the throttles to apply different thrusts to the left and right engines and turn the plane, the flight crew (and an extra passenger) manages to crash land at Sioux City airport. (There's a good chance you've seen the video.) Out of 296 people, 184 survived.
If you had presented the scenario to almost any pilot in the country the day before it happened and asked them if they thought it would be possible to do that without attitude control, they would have said no.
That's 184 people who would be unquestionably dead if there were not pilots onboard.
The US is no different. You still have to go to court to get the charges dropped for self defense as an extenuating circumstance to murder (or assault, should the person not die).
Not necessarily. Prosecutors won't usually bring charges unless they think that there's a reasonable chance for a conviction.
They don't want the backlash of prosecuting someone who people see as innocent or even as a hero, may not even be able to get an indictment (especially if they need a grand jury), and they don't get a second chance if they lose.
*Heavy stuff falls faster than light stuff
I always liked the on-screen display for caps lock being turned on, etc.
You can get that with other software I'm sure, but it is another nice thing with the driver.
I've got a Mouseman Duo Elite that works fine.
Frankly, I don't WANT a set that can be used through walls. I don't want to chance picking up my neighbor's mouse and keyboard actions and don't want him to be able to pick up mine. (I know, encryption, yadda, but still...)
I've got an older one (MouseMan Elite Duo maybe) and don't have any problems with anything like that...
I saw LOTR and The Fly at once in your list and my brain combined them into "Lord of the Flies". I was going to yell at you.
But now that I see that you said nothing about Lord of the Flies, I don't have to do that.
So it's a matter of the feel rather than the noise? I will agree that the old ones feel better.
Can you get the feel without the noise though? There's no way I could stand to use one of those keyboards...
I don't really have a problem with it.
Here's my suggestion:
1. Get Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, version 5. I know v.5 has support for teaching Dvorak and that the recent ones don't, but I don't know exactly when they stopped.
2. Find 2 weeks during which you won't have to use the computer for much, but you can use it throughout the day. (Not necessarily a lot, just continually.)
3. During those two weeks, every couple hours sit down and do 15 or 20 minutes of exercise with Dvorak.
4. DON'T USE NON-DVORAK KEYBOARDS DURING THAT TIME. It took two tries to get it for me, and I think the reason the first one failed was because I tried to do it while I was in school and had to type reports and stuff and went back and forth.
As for going back and forth now, I don't find it a problem. In fact, I find I type faster now on QWERTY than I did before. (I learned Dvorak when I was doing somewhat of an advanced hunt-and-peck, without so much hunting, but I've very recently started to come much closer to touch typing.) You'll have a little moment when you first switch when you start to type and ismrpdkd lsl;dl;d* will come out, but you'll go "oh yeah, other layout" and all will be well.
I fully recommend the switch, especially if you have any wrist problems. That was what spurred my switch, and I find it a lot more comfortable. (Though again, I wasn't touch typing before, so it's difficult to say how much is due to learning to touch type and how much is Dvorak. However, whenever I try to touch type on QWERTY, I can feel a difference.)
*That's "complete nonsense", typed as if I were on a Dvorak keyboard while in QWERTY mode.
Windows also has problems with not switching for already running programs if I switch the settings back and forth to Qwerty as I use it. Then some of the programs are stuck in the old layout and some switch to the new layout. My Apple has no problems with switching back and forth. This happens often enough as other people sit down to use my computers that it's an annoyance.
That's because (at least if you're using the language bar to switch) it's not doing what you think it's doing -- it doesn't change a global setting. Windows keeps track for each application which layout you're using. That's why it switches back and forth.
Whether this is a desirable feature or not is another matter, but I've found it useful on a number of occasions when I have to share computers.
But he's referring to the actual physical keyboard layout. Like some keyboards make enter the same height as the other keys and put \| between it and backspace, some make right shift shorter and put it out at the end, and some (whose designers need to be prohibited from ever making anything again) cut off a bit from the left part of backspace and put it there.
You can't remap that with any software.
Why, do you make a habit of pressing 3 or 4 of those buttons a second so that you need the same response of your usual keys?
I've got a volume control dial (much much better than the up/down buttons you sometimes see) and mute button on my keyboard, and wouldn't give them up if you offered me $50.
(I do, however, have a ton of other buttons I haven't pushed since essentially I got the keyboard...)
echo (global-set-key "`" 'backward-delete-char-untabify) >> ~/.emacs
I've actually used Emacs as a shell on a few occasions simply to get that feature.
Scroll lock is still used, at least by FreeBSD.
You can press it, the screen (duh) stops scrolling, and you can use the up and down arrows to go back some distance into what had scrolled off the screen.
Quite useful really.
Windows lets you do it with a GUI too, though not per user. Find remapkey.exe.
Or you can find one of the registry files that will do it.
Or you can get one of the third party tools (there are others) that do it.
Can someone explain to me why they like this? I hate noisy keyboards... Is it just something you used for a while and got used to, and now it seems like the way it should be?
(Not criticizing, just curious.)