I work for a local Junior Collge. Because of the disability act we have to provide for students with handicaps. As a result we needed to buy a one handed keyboard.
I had a friend that was of the opinion that art and science were not related. They form in two seperate parts of the brain and while sometimes art and science converge, an artist and a scientist were two different things entirely. I was argueing that a math problem or computer program is artistic in nature and could be construed as art.
About a year later I happened to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence and found this quote.
"Actually this idea isn't so strange," I continue. "Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you'll see the difference. The craftsman isn't ever following a single line of instruction. He's making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he'll be absorbed and attentive to what he's doing even though he doesn't deliberately contrive this. His motions and the machine are in a kind of harmony. He isn't following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand. The material and his thoughts are changing together in a progression of changes until his mind's at rest at the same time the material's right."
"Sounds like art," the instructor says.
"Well, it is art," I say. "This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of sculpture, so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that just to associate the two sounds ludicrous."
I'm both artistic and scientific. I think that mastery in anything helps your ability to learn anything else.
Lastly, you'd be surpirsed how many millions of people hate learning a "new" phone. I personally can't stand nokia phones, they're bulky, have features I never need, and I can't seem to get used to the menus. But I hear from everyone i know with one that "they're so easy to use." And if you know how to use one nokia, you know how to use them all. That's their best kept secret.
This is why I stay with Nokia. It's interface is _VERY_ intuitive. I used a motorola for a short while which was just stupidly designed. Several things were annoying as hell. For example on the nokia, a locked phone can still be answered while it is recieving a call. On the motorola it had to be unlocked with a password (nokia is just two buttons) and then answered. By the time you got the phone unlocked the phone call was gone.
I didn't even need to crack the book on my nokia. If I want to do something, most of the time I just think.. hmm.. this button should do this when I'm in this menu and viola, it would work.
In addition, the menus and interface are almost exactly the same for each phone. Once you learn one nokia, you've learned them all.
It doesn't rule out using the connection for general web browsing and email, which is probably all that 95% of their target market want anyway.
This is broadband we are talking about. If the target market is just browsing the web or reading email why would they need broadband? Before I had broadband that's all I did, and it was plenty fast enough.
I think what bothers me the most is that they don't specifically limit the illegal grey area and instead broadly ban everything. What if I were watching movies available free on the internet (red vs blue, the broken episodes) or various free mp3's or for that matter internet radio.
I'm trying to think of a single thing I do with my cable modem that doesn't include games, music or video. To mind the only thing is the occasional download of a linux ISO. Broadband would be a pretty boring place under these restrictions.
Deffiantly Media Player Classic all the way. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
It's lightweight and works great. Drop in a codec pack and your set for all your viewing needs.
Heading to and from an awesome techno party me and my friends caught about 40 or so 'shooting stars.' What's amazing is this was all from passenger and driver side windows. I would guess that we had around a 30% view of the sky.
Granted we have a great advantage, living out in country Texas there aren't very many of the city lights to obscure the stars. In fact it's actually hard to make out many of the constellations because there are _too many_ stars up there.
It was awesome, and an excellent begining and end to an excellent night.
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I still have a couple more original Model Ms in storage.
Are you willing to sell them? I'd love a couple more. I hate typing on anything but a Model M.
I work for a local Junior Collge. Because of the disability act we have to provide for students with handicaps. As a result we needed to buy a one handed keyboard.
The price tag? 700 dollors!!
I was shocked and outraged.
I had a friend that was of the opinion that art and science were not related. They form in two seperate parts of the brain and while sometimes art and science converge, an artist and a scientist were two different things entirely. I was argueing that a math problem or computer program is artistic in nature and could be construed as art.
About a year later I happened to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence and found this quote.
I'm both artistic and scientific. I think that mastery in anything helps your ability to learn anything else.
Lastly, you'd be surpirsed how many millions of people hate learning a "new" phone. I personally can't stand nokia phones, they're bulky, have features I never need, and I can't seem to get used to the menus. But I hear from everyone i know with one that "they're so easy to use." And if you know how to use one nokia, you know how to use them all. That's their best kept secret.
This is why I stay with Nokia. It's interface is _VERY_ intuitive. I used a motorola for a short while which was just stupidly designed. Several things were annoying as hell. For example on the nokia, a locked phone can still be answered while it is recieving a call. On the motorola it had to be unlocked with a password (nokia is just two buttons) and then answered. By the time you got the phone unlocked the phone call was gone.
I didn't even need to crack the book on my nokia. If I want to do something, most of the time I just think.. hmm.. this button should do this when I'm in this menu and viola, it would work.
In addition, the menus and interface are almost exactly the same for each phone. Once you learn one nokia, you've learned them all.
It doesn't rule out using the connection for general web browsing and email, which is probably all that 95% of their target market want anyway.
This is broadband we are talking about. If the target market is just browsing the web or reading email why would they need broadband? Before I had broadband that's all I did, and it was plenty fast enough.
I think what bothers me the most is that they don't specifically limit the illegal grey area and instead broadly ban everything. What if I were watching movies available free on the internet (red vs blue, the broken episodes) or various free mp3's or for that matter internet radio.
I'm trying to think of a single thing I do with my cable modem that doesn't include games, music or video. To mind the only thing is the occasional download of a linux ISO. Broadband would be a pretty boring place under these restrictions.
Deffiantly Media Player Classic all the way. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ It's lightweight and works great. Drop in a codec pack and your set for all your viewing needs.
Heading to and from an awesome techno party me and my friends caught about 40 or so 'shooting stars.' What's amazing is this was all from passenger and driver side windows. I would guess that we had around a 30% view of the sky. Granted we have a great advantage, living out in country Texas there aren't very many of the city lights to obscure the stars. In fact it's actually hard to make out many of the constellations because there are _too many_ stars up there. It was awesome, and an excellent begining and end to an excellent night.