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  1. Re:Map right alt to enter on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, ring finger chords aren't your solution, i, k, , or j are obviously much better. Anyhow, it's just an idea to get you started.

  2. Map right alt to enter on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 2

    Simplest solution I can think of is to map right alt to enter (which I would do even without injury anyway), and then some comfortable substitution for p, ; and /. Some candidate keys would be capslock and tilde, or probably better some chording combinations like left alt o, l and .

    The best solution might involve buying a Kinesis Contoured, which should save stress from pinkies on both hands as it has an extended thumb keywell.

  3. Re:Try LyX! on Collaborative LaTeX Editor With Preview In Your Web Browser · · Score: 1

    The use of keyboard shortcuts in Lyx is amazing. Not to mention intuitive response with WYSIWYM. The problem, apart from familiarity among researchers, is making it _exactly_ what you mean, which will never beat plain text - but no reason why it can't come close enough (Lyx is mainly backward compatible with latex after all). This would beat the standard of using wikis for building documentation for sure.

  4. As a paying member, I can assure you this advertisement is still well and truly in my face.

  5. Re:Looking forward on Bill Gates Answers Questions From Redditors · · Score: 1

    If you see the potential in emerging technology, have a fortunate enough background to mark a sizeable degree of influence, proclaim yourself part of the movement by accepting the efforts of a sea of talented peers, and then on the cusp of a social revolution, turn it into a closed system, ignore a history of dedicated research culture which aimed to increase possibilties, not curate them, you no longer are capable of understanding your own role in the deviation of that potential back towards to the established ways of old.

    No one should care about a man's single present will to strive towards evil or non-evil or the determined personal crusades, it is their ability to perceive their place in the possible evolution of social behaviour which marks the responsibility of their actions. This man has failed, and is guilty, when considering the notion that technology is not at all what it could be even today. Let alone tomorrow. Only those who studied the practice, should know what I mean, depending on your appraisal of said potential. His prior actions were nothing but pure abuse of what should be thought of as privilege, not just opportunity.

  6. Re:LCD vs. E-Ink/E-Paper on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 1

    I was hoping for discussion on this, Slashdot of all communities should be no stranger to bright font on dark background reading. Couple this with the increase of OLED based devices, and personally the lust for e-ink falls dramatically :/ Moreover I wonder, if this could ever catch on in the wider public, could this spur the final push towards electronic reading?

  7. Re:I Hate The Google Knowledge Graph on Google's Second Brain: How the Knowledge Graph Changes Search · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Currently I have to quote almost every keyword due to the issues drawn in parent and compounded by the change from + syntax in the old system.

    Search is not what it used to be, these days sites are more interested telling you what to search for than asking

  8. Which ones are 'nuts' on Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me · · Score: 1

    Lately, a lot of comments on RMS state 'he is a nut, but he is right...'. So why not stop calling him a nut and instead, state that in current world we live in only what he is trying to do is nuts.

  9. Re:Why not full size? on Real-Life Transformer Robot On Sale In Japan · · Score: 1

    Ahead of you.

    2013
            1/8 scale transform robot - More bigger transform robot
            1/12 scale symmetry combine robot - Inventing combine system

    2015
            1/5 scale transform robot - More bigger transform robot
            1/12 scale combine robot - Inventing many parts combine system - Inventing super AI system

    2030
              1/1 scale transform robot - Transform robot anybody can ride - The robot think by super AI system

    from: http://www.braverobotics.com/history_en.html

  10. PS3 Navigation Move Controller on Ask Slashdot: Gaming With Only One Hand? · · Score: 1

    Pairs with other controllers well obviously, but good controller alone. Should be usable with most DualShock drivers.

  11. Bright Business Future on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 2

    Expect to be followed up with a "Free to Type" and "Pay to Save" model shortly.

  12. Re:Please keep the URLs working on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    A decent point and idea - any suggestions for software/plugins which could do this?

  13. Dual Boot+Hibernation on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    Teach the Create a Distro that safely handles hibernation under dual boot on installation, perhaps by sacrificing shared partitions; and advertise this magic to the public! A completely inobtrusive environment to your workflow (or inobtrusive + 1 minute to hibernate and resume back) would offer advantages to gaming in a single OS - dedicated console-like system configuration to gaming (assuming the distro was more or less gaming orientated, and protection from crashes/memory leaks.

    In principle you would never have to restart either installed OS, persisting each desktop at each hibernation. A shortcut to hibernate and reboot (rather than shutdown) should also be made available. If more people understood how this principle worked, having a Linux install would be seen only as plus by many people, act as a gateway etc etc.

  14. Allow users to see the writing on the wall on Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software · · Score: 2

    Take a page from the book of Kickstarter. If people can see exactly how their payment/donation is contributing, they will be in a better position to make the decision for themselves. No one wants to overpay or be ripped off. Transparency in funding should be the next step in modern day open and other projects. The philosophy of developers being confident about their flow of operations speaks volumes about what their work represents.

    I remember a website with a simple 'in the red' meter on the homepage. If incoming donations were sufficient to meet current costs, the arrow pointed to the middle. If insufficient. to the left, and if in surplus, to the right. I never saw this arrow at anywhere less to the extreme right. Such a meter could easily be placed in a dialog window or somewhere.

    We should do everything we can to allow honesty to be rewarded.

  15. Who is in it for the long run on Open Source Payday · · Score: 1

    Take 5 of the most grating bugs collated from any Slashdot project discussion, particular those which are often compared to 'the leading (non-floss) brand.' Imagine 5 programmers hired FULL TIME every year to work on each respective area. Subtract an average programmer's salary times 5 from (the top few, with some assumptions in data) salaries occupied in the upper management echelon.

    A simple calculation shows which management figureheads understand the long term role of floss in public technology. You can either believe 100% in the war or choose the liberty of a 'private view'. No matter the absolute level of funding an organisation receives, the according effect on the future will be exponential. This is how the character of project members must be understood.

  16. Re:Just what Hollywood needs.... on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    I did some searching for "online only" drama series, and couldn't come up with much info on this... Would you be able to list some sources for free YouTube series?

  17. Satisfaction from nutrition on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I used to think this kind of research would be the holy grail to food production. 10 years after being vegetarian I think to myself now, the experience I treasure from meals now is the simple history behind how it arrives to the plate, and the symbiotic relationship between our body and nutrients it has come to rely on. The more sustainable the realisation of how we receive our energy supply, the stronger I feel as a human species living in the wild.

    The very idea of ready-made nutrition sitting in the ground or hanging from branches whets my imagination's appetite more than any short lived craving for any particular chemistry.

    So much can be done with tofu and seitan these days I don't see any potential lack of food creativity in the long term, or lack of better things for the mind to concentrate on than tweaking physiological pleasure. Food can be so much more than what meets the eye.

  18. Re:Tasteless on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you say, started? First time I had ever come across a DRM forcing your to transmit (from MD to another device) in analog, rather than digital... and record either full bit optical or half-bit USB....

  19. The state of human endeavour on Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy · · Score: 1

    And this is how the energy of the human race currently flows. Sustainability in a nutshell

  20. otsukaresama desita on Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    hope some people can finally take a breather, it's only been... 9 months...

  21. Re:10 years... on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    In which case it could've passed this test even without the battery ;)

  22. One of the biggest influences... on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    ...at one of the best times of my life

    This site has been amazing.

    Thank you for my future! :)

  23. Re:Tiling window manager on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    I would advise getting a Japanese keyboard or a Kinesis.

    Remap one of the thumb keys to win. You could almost mirror all of the other hand's keys using that.

    MUCH less tiring than the pinky. Although combined with capslock (as ctrl etc) extremely good.

  24. Dictionary translation on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms · · Score: 1

    A very concreate reason for the abolishment of DRM:

    One of the potential attractions for reading foreign language ebooks would be the ability to copy and paste words and sentences into machine translators (software dictionaries etc). I can't tell you how motivating and efficient this method is when reading standard text such as webpages. Thanks to DRM this simple and staple electronic function is gaffed.

    The future never seemed so far away.

  25. Ask Banksy on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    At least up there with this interesting parallel quote by Banksy:

    "The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."