Some monkeys & apes are known to imitate others. Thus, to "ape" someone/thing is to imitate it. It's not derogatory or a particularly odd use, just less common now than it used to be.
That's because they are benchmarking the service, which requires one to be signed in to use. If you don't care about replicating the results yourself, then just read the article and don't sign up.
Quick and dirty paste of the results, for the lazy:
Web Browser | Operating System | Average Rendering Time| Frames / Second
Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 (36714) | Windows Vista | 126ms | 7,9 fps
Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 | OpenSuSE Linux | 128ms | 7,8 fps
Safari 4.0.4 | Windows Vista | 222ms | 4,5 fps
Firefox 3.7a1 | Windows Vista | 385ms | 2,5 fps
Firefox 3.6 | Windows Vista | 405 ms | 2,5 fps
Firefox 3.0.15 | OpenSuSE Linux | 689 ms | 1,5 fps
Internet Explorer 8.0 | Windows Vista | 1756 ms | 0,6 fps
I'm pretty sure that was Stonybrook University in New York. My mother was there at the time, and has told me about that. Of course, it could have been another instance of the same technique.
I just timed myself on a DSK (membrane, standard 104-key) keyboard: 2:17. That puts me at about 105wpm. It should take about 3:16 to type at 75wpm, which is generally considered a reasonable/good speed. My record average (12 tries, dropping highest and lowest, averaging the remainder) on a Model-M in DSK layout is 120wpm, using the preamble to the U.S. constitution as the sample.
And yet thousands of people strap their iPods to their biceps at gyms around the country. "wristwatch" might not work well, but "armband" sure does. I can easily see a more powerful iPhone-like device coming with an arm/wristband.
A better way is to type a passphrase normally, but move your hands up a row on the keyboard.
" i.cc.9 t'5 yl c, c54. ' 4'll4g9'l. r,9h'0052 dpc h,n. 5,p9 g'rfl p4 ' 9,t,r cg. u.5d,'9f3
That's the same sentence, but using a DSK keyboard. "Password" becomes "%'llt,9f". You get letters, numbers, and symbols, and don't have to remember any of them. Of course it's just a simple substitution cypher, but it's far less common than 1337 speak. "Drawing" shapes is an easy one too. "HI" becomes "1'a3.e',.2,o123aoe"
The one thing I disagree with heartily is "calculator."
The computer algebra system of my TI-89 is excellent, far better than anything I've seen for an iPhone.
Cows eat a lot more food than humans do. Going vegan would actually decrease the amount of land needed, since it's more efficient to just make wheat/corn, instead of making wheat/corn and then (inefficiently) converting it to steak.
I listen to other music as well. Some games (EVE online, Warcraft 3, Xenosaga/Xenogears, chrono-trigger) have good music, so I've ripped the good tracks and put them into the rotation. I find it's very rare for the music to be truly integral to the feeling of a game these days.
When playing fast games at LANs I actually tend to listen to Gregorian chants and such. It's far easier to win when relaxed than when nervous.
The first SU-27s seen by the western public flew from Moscow to Paris without refueling, and without drop tanks (internal only). One of them was the two-seater UB version, the same type being sold. (Le Bourget, Paris international air show, 1989.)
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play." Minsky shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
It also doesn't (always) require a firefox restart. Open a task-viewer (top, htop, system monitor, etc.) Find npviewer.bin (the flash plugin process), then kill it. Do a full reload (Ctrl+F5) of the page. Firefox will restart the flash plugin and it should work, so long as it doesn't crash again. Note that it may be better to restart firefox, given how poorly written the flash plugin is I'd not trust it to die cleanly.
World record, according to "The Art and Skill or Radio Telegraphy" is 75.2wpm. "words" are 5 characters. This guy texted about 2.2 characters per second, the morse record is 6.3 characters per second.
Mine too:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7,
no crashes reported. I normally have 50+ tabs open (several hierarchical sets using tree-style tab, most of which are reference info I like to have available.)
Addons installed:
Adblock Plus, All in one Sidebar, Better Privacy, DownThemAll, FireGestures, FoxyProxy, Gmail Manager, Image Zoom, Leet Key, Morning Coffee, NoScript, Moonlight, Nuke Anything Enhanced, PDF Download, RSS ticker, Session Manager, Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out, Tree Style Tab, Update Notifier, XUL Profiler, Youtube Comment Snob.
Flash plugin occasionally crashes, when that happens I kill the npviewer.bin process & reload the page. I've never seen it actually bring firefox down, at least not with the latest versions of each.
HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick) started in real aircraft though. It's far, far easier to fly a HOTAS+Glass cockpit plane than to have to search for the switches on the various panels. If all the switches for the most common functions are under your hands you can respond much faster. Her's a picture of an F16 simulator. Note the (at least) 3 buttons and 3 hat switches on the stick, and the extra bunch on the throttle. Since most gaming joysticks put the throttle as a lever on the base of the stick they need even more buttons to conform.
"String theory" is just a hypothesis. No one's managed to actually predict anything useful with it. Until a testable prediction is confirmed it's nothing but interesting math.
Also, the strings are one dimensional singularities, so even if it's correct they're still singularities (like a ring black hole.)
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"Does this drink taste like a roofie to you?"
"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
Etc, etc. Effective "pick-up" lines.
"The British government isn't actually stupid enough to..." is an example of a sentence beginning written by a moron.
Assembler is for lazy coders if you ask me. I do all my coding in Brainfuck or Malbolge.
Some monkeys & apes are known to imitate others. Thus, to "ape" someone/thing is to imitate it. It's not derogatory or a particularly odd use, just less common now than it used to be.
That's because they are benchmarking the service, which requires one to be signed in to use. If you don't care about replicating the results yourself, then just read the article and don't sign up.
Quick and dirty paste of the results, for the lazy:
Web Browser | Operating System | Average Rendering Time| Frames / Second
Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 (36714) | Windows Vista | 126ms | 7,9 fps
Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 | OpenSuSE Linux | 128ms | 7,8 fps
Safari 4.0.4 | Windows Vista | 222ms | 4,5 fps
Firefox 3.7a1 | Windows Vista | 385ms | 2,5 fps
Firefox 3.6 | Windows Vista | 405 ms | 2,5 fps
Firefox 3.0.15 | OpenSuSE Linux | 689 ms | 1,5 fps
Internet Explorer 8.0 | Windows Vista | 1756 ms | 0,6 fps
If you don't get the new supply, you'll end up with a Mozilla Melted Capacitor Console.
I'm pretty sure that was Stonybrook University in New York. My mother was there at the time, and has told me about that. Of course, it could have been another instance of the same technique.
I just timed myself on a DSK (membrane, standard 104-key) keyboard: 2:17. That puts me at about 105wpm. It should take about 3:16 to type at 75wpm, which is generally considered a reasonable/good speed. My record average (12 tries, dropping highest and lowest, averaging the remainder) on a Model-M in DSK layout is 120wpm, using the preamble to the U.S. constitution as the sample.
And yet thousands of people strap their iPods to their biceps at gyms around the country. "wristwatch" might not work well, but "armband" sure does. I can easily see a more powerful iPhone-like device coming with an arm/wristband.
A better way is to type a passphrase normally, but move your hands up a row on the keyboard. ,r cg. u.5d,'9f3
" i.cc.9 t'5 yl c, c54. ' 4'll4g9'l. r,9h'0052 dpc h,n. 5,p9 g'rfl p4 ' 9,t
That's the same sentence, but using a DSK keyboard. "Password" becomes "%'llt,9f". You get letters, numbers, and symbols, and don't have to remember any of them. Of course it's just a simple substitution cypher, but it's far less common than 1337 speak. "Drawing" shapes is an easy one too. "HI" becomes "1'a3.e',.2,o123aoe"
The one thing I disagree with heartily is "calculator." The computer algebra system of my TI-89 is excellent, far better than anything I've seen for an iPhone.
Cows eat a lot more food than humans do. Going vegan would actually decrease the amount of land needed, since it's more efficient to just make wheat/corn, instead of making wheat/corn and then (inefficiently) converting it to steak.
It's been done, and comes with EMACS. Try "M-x viper-mode" in level 1.
I don't know, Google Code allows Python, and everyone knows Guido has a time machine. Maybe they're borrowing it.
I listen to other music as well. Some games (EVE online, Warcraft 3, Xenosaga/Xenogears, chrono-trigger) have good music, so I've ripped the good tracks and put them into the rotation. I find it's very rare for the music to be truly integral to the feeling of a game these days.
When playing fast games at LANs I actually tend to listen to Gregorian chants and such. It's far easier to win when relaxed than when nervous.
The first SU-27s seen by the western public flew from Moscow to Paris without refueling, and without drop tanks (internal only). One of them was the two-seater UB version, the same type being sold. (Le Bourget, Paris international air show, 1989.)
I should note that the 1000cpm barrier has been broken. Rufzxp.net has more info. That's just receiving, not sending.
It also doesn't (always) require a firefox restart. Open a task-viewer (top, htop, system monitor, etc.) Find npviewer.bin (the flash plugin process), then kill it. Do a full reload (Ctrl+F5) of the page. Firefox will restart the flash plugin and it should work, so long as it doesn't crash again. Note that it may be better to restart firefox, given how poorly written the flash plugin is I'd not trust it to die cleanly.
World record, according to "The Art and Skill or Radio Telegraphy" is 75.2wpm. "words" are 5 characters. This guy texted about 2.2 characters per second, the morse record is 6.3 characters per second.
Mine too:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7,
no crashes reported. I normally have 50+ tabs open (several hierarchical sets using tree-style tab, most of which are reference info I like to have available.)
Addons installed:
Adblock Plus, All in one Sidebar, Better Privacy, DownThemAll, FireGestures, FoxyProxy, Gmail Manager, Image Zoom, Leet Key, Morning Coffee, NoScript, Moonlight, Nuke Anything Enhanced, PDF Download, RSS ticker, Session Manager, Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out, Tree Style Tab, Update Notifier, XUL Profiler, Youtube Comment Snob.
Flash plugin occasionally crashes, when that happens I kill the npviewer.bin process & reload the page. I've never seen it actually bring firefox down, at least not with the latest versions of each.
Bash your keyboard against your desk, holding while holding it on the A/Capslock side. Smashing it against your forehead may also work.
"Wares" does not mean pirated software, "warez" does. "Wares" just means any items offered for sale.
HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick) started in real aircraft though. It's far, far easier to fly a HOTAS+Glass cockpit plane than to have to search for the switches on the various panels. If all the switches for the most common functions are under your hands you can respond much faster. Her's a picture of an F16 simulator. Note the (at least) 3 buttons and 3 hat switches on the stick, and the extra bunch on the throttle. Since most gaming joysticks put the throttle as a lever on the base of the stick they need even more buttons to conform.
"String theory" is just a hypothesis. No one's managed to actually predict anything useful with it. Until a testable prediction is confirmed it's nothing but interesting math. Also, the strings are one dimensional singularities, so even if it's correct they're still singularities (like a ring black hole.)