I think you'd SWYPE with one hand and select the words with the second hand. Both would be done on the keypad. So I think it would work faster than the OpenOffice guessing.
There is no reason the touch input device should only be made to work in English. It could have settings for every common world language.
People in countries that speak Spanish, for example, use different keyboards than English speakers. So in the case of keyboards with buttons several versions need to be created for different languages. A touch pad device just needs new software to have the different letters. I imagine a touch pad device would be MUCH better in languages like Chinese.
So you are pointing out a weakness that applies to keyboards as we now know them and does not apply to touchpads.
Yes. The system I have in mind would remember your most common words. And you could add buttons to bring up word menus for your purposes and would probably have other enhancements. For example, if you were coding, there would be a menu with all the language keywords and all variables in scope, so when you coded, you would only actually type when naming new variables.
When I started doing SWYPE on my Android device, I realized the keyboards days where numbered.
Can I type on my phone faster than my computer? No. But what about an enhanced system based on SWYPE on a keypad that is the size of a standard keyboard? Oh, and if you hit a button in the corner, the 100 most common English letter words appear (which are one fourth the words you type). And instead of laying it out like a QWERTY, you lay it out with the five vowels large, and the constants surrounding them. You would barely ever type three letters without the correct word guess appearing for you to tap.
I agree that the law and power are on their side. BUT, there is still the concept that the customer is always right. If enough trekkies say they like the app and are unhappy with their actions and they have nothing really to gain from banning the app, they might change their minds and allow the app to continue.
This is the kind of annoying thing the lawyers just automatically do. I think a petition campaign might be effective in this case. If the app doesn't harm them, annoying geeks does, they might reconsider.
This is hilarious! Why do they give out these phones anyway? Besides, Apple is a religion. The security team should have impersonated priests to get the phone back.
Why does MS want feedback on their Python IDE? I doubt most Python developers are not open to a MS IDE and they probably don't want to use any heavy IDE. But thanks for the slashvertisement.
If you don't want to be mistreated and spat on, you organize and fight for your rights. The Haymarket massacre had to occur to get the work week done to forty hours in the first place. I wouldn't suggest anything so extreme, but I think software engineers and IT workers need to organize and unionize.
If you think about it, you are better off in the International Union of Elevator Constructors or the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, than being a rank and file coder. The difference? Unions! While the unfortunate truth is that unions of unskilled people are in a lot of trouble these days, unions of skilled workers do very well.
If software engineers unionized, they'd be paid like doctors and lawyers.
How about you don't give users the "true" version number, but you still give them a number that gives them their approximate build and feature set. For example, you can have Firefox 4 and keep releasing versions as Firefox 4 (but have "About Firefox" tell you the exact bug fix version). Now every one to two years, after they make major additions, they can up the version number, to Firefox 5, for example.
If there is an ambiguous case about upping the number, you can go to 4.1 or 4.5 instead. This would be helpful because then you won't go up to silly high numbers very quickly.
Are you saying you might need like 8 grams as the article suggests? Even if it needs 80 or 100 grams, it still a good deal as you will only cost a few hundred dollars. If you need 8 grams then you're talking about $40 of thorium.
A site asks you and your SO questions and predicts your happiness over time? I don't think this is going do any good for your love life. Just love and support your SO and make your own happiness.
For a drug that cures any virus to work, it has to work in a manner that keeps the profits up for big pharma and the medical industry in general. If it doesn't do that, you can't have it.
If you can't trace the intellectual property you are using, don't use it. That means don't your own R&D. In fact, if you hire software engineers, don't even have them do anything innovative.
If you do, you are taking a great risk. To increase your reward and compensate for the risk, patent everything and sue aggressively. By the way, since developing technology is now a high risk activity, it is not suitable for small companies or entrepreneurs. Excessive IP laws and suing people for innovating is the heart of capitalism.
The father of Computer Science, Alan Turing, was gay. And now people actually want to engage in homophobic computing? I find this kind of hatred shameful.
As far as I’m concerned, all of this airport security – the cameras, the questions, the screening, the searches, is just one more way of reducing your liberty and reminding you they can fuck with you anytime they want, as long as you’re willing to put up with it. Which means, of course, anytime they want. Because that’s the way Americans are now. They’re always willing to trade away a little of their freedom for the feeling – the illusion – of security.
In our world you have two categories for anything. In this case the two categories are: politically correct and white supremacist.
And plenty of racists cry "politically correct!" whenever someone calls them on their crap or is simply less racist than them. So yeah, new Spiderman is politically correct, but I don't think Marvel should limit their art to avoid that criticism.
It's what conservatives whine when people don't let them engage in overt racism or when others refrain from racism. So yes, a black/hispanic gay Spiderman is "politically correct." However, I don't think Marvel should limit it's art to appease people who cry "Political correctness!" They want to tell a story about someone who reflects the new America and I think the gay angle is great because Spiderman has always been an underdog.
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I think you'd SWYPE with one hand and select the words with the second hand. Both would be done on the keypad. So I think it would work faster than the OpenOffice guessing.
There is no reason the touch input device should only be made to work in English. It could have settings for every common world language. People in countries that speak Spanish, for example, use different keyboards than English speakers. So in the case of keyboards with buttons several versions need to be created for different languages. A touch pad device just needs new software to have the different letters. I imagine a touch pad device would be MUCH better in languages like Chinese. So you are pointing out a weakness that applies to keyboards as we now know them and does not apply to touchpads.
Yes. The system I have in mind would remember your most common words. And you could add buttons to bring up word menus for your purposes and would probably have other enhancements. For example, if you were coding, there would be a menu with all the language keywords and all variables in scope, so when you coded, you would only actually type when naming new variables.
Yeah. What is Rusty Foster even doing these days?
When I started doing SWYPE on my Android device, I realized the keyboards days where numbered.
Can I type on my phone faster than my computer? No. But what about an enhanced system based on SWYPE on a keypad that is the size of a standard keyboard? Oh, and if you hit a button in the corner, the 100 most common English letter words appear (which are one fourth the words you type). And instead of laying it out like a QWERTY, you lay it out with the five vowels large, and the constants surrounding them. You would barely ever type three letters without the correct word guess appearing for you to tap.
I agree that the law and power are on their side. BUT, there is still the concept that the customer is always right. If enough trekkies say they like the app and are unhappy with their actions and they have nothing really to gain from banning the app, they might change their minds and allow the app to continue.
This is the kind of annoying thing the lawyers just automatically do. I think a petition campaign might be effective in this case. If the app doesn't harm them, annoying geeks does, they might reconsider.
This is hilarious! Why do they give out these phones anyway? Besides, Apple is a religion. The security team should have impersonated priests to get the phone back.
Why does MS want feedback on their Python IDE? I doubt most Python developers are not open to a MS IDE and they probably don't want to use any heavy IDE. But thanks for the slashvertisement.
Why am I not surprised?
If you don't want to be mistreated and spat on, you organize and fight for your rights. The Haymarket massacre had to occur to get the work week done to forty hours in the first place. I wouldn't suggest anything so extreme, but I think software engineers and IT workers need to organize and unionize.
If you think about it, you are better off in the International Union of Elevator Constructors or the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, than being a rank and file coder. The difference? Unions! While the unfortunate truth is that unions of unskilled people are in a lot of trouble these days, unions of skilled workers do very well.
If software engineers unionized, they'd be paid like doctors and lawyers.
Rewarding people for their work contradicts the principles of the free market. It will not be allowed.
How about you don't give users the "true" version number, but you still give them a number that gives them their approximate build and feature set. For example, you can have Firefox 4 and keep releasing versions as Firefox 4 (but have "About Firefox" tell you the exact bug fix version). Now every one to two years, after they make major additions, they can up the version number, to Firefox 5, for example. If there is an ambiguous case about upping the number, you can go to 4.1 or 4.5 instead. This would be helpful because then you won't go up to silly high numbers very quickly.
Are you saying you might need like 8 grams as the article suggests? Even if it needs 80 or 100 grams, it still a good deal as you will only cost a few hundred dollars. If you need 8 grams then you're talking about $40 of thorium.
That's my point. I understand that the suit is stronger than a person, but the why not show it doing something a person can't do in the demo?
He did a 200 lb. pulldown and lifted two 35 lb. dumbbells. I can do that with no suit. It would have been cool if he lifted something really heavy.
A site asks you and your SO questions and predicts your happiness over time? I don't think this is going do any good for your love life. Just love and support your SO and make your own happiness.
For a drug that cures any virus to work, it has to work in a manner that keeps the profits up for big pharma and the medical industry in general. If it doesn't do that, you can't have it.
If you can't trace the intellectual property you are using, don't use it. That means don't your own R&D. In fact, if you hire software engineers, don't even have them do anything innovative.
If you do, you are taking a great risk. To increase your reward and compensate for the risk, patent everything and sue aggressively. By the way, since developing technology is now a high risk activity, it is not suitable for small companies or entrepreneurs. Excessive IP laws and suing people for innovating is the heart of capitalism.
The father of Computer Science, Alan Turing, was gay. And now people actually want to engage in homophobic computing? I find this kind of hatred shameful.
As far as I’m concerned, all of this airport security – the cameras, the questions, the screening, the searches, is just one more way of reducing your liberty and reminding you they can fuck with you anytime they want, as long as you’re willing to put up with it. Which means, of course, anytime they want. Because that’s the way Americans are now. They’re always willing to trade away a little of their freedom for the feeling – the illusion – of security.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the Binladen Group will be creating a skyscraper?
Now I have the clap.
In our world you have two categories for anything. In this case the two categories are: politically correct and white supremacist. And plenty of racists cry "politically correct!" whenever someone calls them on their crap or is simply less racist than them. So yeah, new Spiderman is politically correct, but I don't think Marvel should limit their art to avoid that criticism.
It's what conservatives whine when people don't let them engage in overt racism or when others refrain from racism. So yes, a black/hispanic gay Spiderman is "politically correct." However, I don't think Marvel should limit it's art to appease people who cry "Political correctness!" They want to tell a story about someone who reflects the new America and I think the gay angle is great because Spiderman has always been an underdog.