This keyboard uses buckling springs for its key switches, which are revered by engineers. Typing on buckling spring keyboards has a much higher quality feel than the plastic keyboards which are sold today. The keyboards are also quite loud, which makes them not as useful for cubicle work.
The funniest part of this excellent article is this snippet comparing large corporations with ``real world'' small businesses.
If, for example, you are targeting a large organization with a complex managerial structure, it is likely that there will be a culture of managers impressing managers. With this in mind, research needs to come from established organizations such as government agencies, objective research institutions, universities, and professors. Within this targeted audience, educational chops play a real role. On the other hand, if you are targeting a small business, real-world information will more likely be of interest. In this case, usage/skills statistics, press, similarly-sized case studies, and awards may have more impact. In a smaller organization, the focus is more typically on technical ability and costs, as opposed to the political issues encountered in larger corporate environments.
This link didn't work. Although the coupon showed up for a brief instant, the page immediately refreshed to the front page which requires you to login or register.
I just tested their spoof http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/29/new_u rl_spoofing_flaw_found_in_internet_explorer.html [netcraft.com] with Safari 1.2 (v125) and it shows 'google.com' in the address bar
The exploit affects the status bar, not the address bar. With Firefox / Camino, when I hover the mouse over the microsoft.com link, the status bar reads "google.com". With Safari, the status bar reads "microsoft.com".
SLASHDOT
knows what issues are important to young Americans because more young
Americans are on their open-post Web boards discussing those issues
than anywhere else in the world. Yes, they're tech-focused,
self-proclaimed Nerds - a community that most likely boasts the highest
mean IQ of any online - but it's their politics-related discussions
that hold seven of their Hall of Fame's 10-most-active-stories spots.
PS: Slashdot was also nice enough to invent reader-generated interviews
and reader-moderated discussions. It's what's enabled them to provide
our only question nominations from an entire community.
Using Firefox right now, and it has problems connecting to my company's Sharepoint portal. Images aren't displayed properly, A few ActiveX controls don't show up, it needs to prompt for domain authentication.
Do you think Microsoft Sharepoint could be doing anything to make themselves render better in Microsoft Internet Explorer? Not Microsoft...
The good news, I guess, is that a dumb patent got invalidated.
I'm sorry, what's dumb about this patent?
My understanding of the algorithm is that Xerox devides the Graffiti area into 9 ``blocks.'' The recognition algorithm tracks which block the stylus starts in, the end block, and the blocks through which the stylus travels. The recognition is fast and accurate, because each letter is simply an encoding of (start, end, intermediate blocks).
This algorithm is neither dumb nor obvious. Palm copied PARC's Graffiti alphabet because the algorithm was so elegant.
Have you tried Graffiti 2? It's slower and less accurate.
If your site is getting hammered on a single web page, you can make a static version of it for short-term use that has no graphics or database requests in it. [...] A single page may not sound like it would make much difference, but less than a thousand out of nearly 40,000 visitors from SlashDot ever clicked links to other resources on the same site after visiting the page in question.
seriously, other companies are charging institutions for the privelege of offering their draconian DRM laiden music services.
I think you may have the wrong idea about iTunes on Campus. iTunes on Campus isn't free music for students, like Napster et al. are trying to peddle. iTunes on Campus just lets sysadmins distribute the iTunes software for free, something the students can do anyway.
I swear, I expect any day to see a story on something even *more* inane, such as a new color for Pepsi, and somehow,/. is going to relate that to OSS. There really IS more to life than OSS, people!
The reason is that the/. editors will only accept stories that mention OSS in the comments.
It's a vicious cycle;
submitters feel they have to tie every story back to OSS before the editors to accept it, and
every story the editors see contains OSS in its comments.
Note that the article is saying that IBM wants to migrate Office to Linux. Not "give away for free". We'd still be paying monopolistic prices for it.
Even if the pricing is monopolistic (and I highly doubt it will be), the important part is Microsoft Office running on Linux. OOo is close, but not there, and it will never be 100% compatible. Not even Microsoft is 100% backwards-compatible with its own earlier versions.
The major hurdle to more widespread Linux adoption on the desktop is Microsoft Office compatibility. Anything that improves that situation will get more people seriously considering Linux.
One problem I see is that most email information is very hard to parse reliably if it's just free-format text. Sure you can tell people to send out formal meeting invitations but not all clients support that. It would be great if you received a message that said "how about a meeting next Monday at 1pm my time" and the software would pop up your schedule for next Monday at 4pm because you're eastern time and he's pacific.
This is a great idea, and one that's already mentioned on the web site as part of the prototype. In the publications section, you'll find that Mia K. Stern is already looking at parsing dates and times out of free-form email to turn it into formal meeting invitations.
It supports already-existing N64 and SNES games, though the logo in one of the screenshots looked like they had edited it to run on the iQue, so all bets are off whether they support unedited N64 games natively.
We're seeing usage and adoption here because it's free.
This is a good point. However, this usage and adoption gets our foot in the door.
Microsoft allowed rampant piracy of Windows in second- and third-world countries for the same reason: getting people used to using the operating system means that 1) people will get comfortable with it and 2) people will be less willing to switch to another alternative.
The fact that it is free is what gets us in the door; the quality is what keeps us in users' minds.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.infendo.com/uploaded_images/timescans-7 27882.jpg
For this crowd, the story should have linked to Apple's technical specs page.
This keyboard uses buckling springs for its key switches, which are revered by engineers. Typing on buckling spring keyboards has a much higher quality feel than the plastic keyboards which are sold today. The keyboards are also quite loud, which makes them not as useful for cubicle work.
Looking at that picture, it seems to me they are avoiding demoing blue pixels. Does anyone know if plasma TVs of this size have issues showing blue?
Looking at that picture, it seems to me they are avoiding demoing blue pixels. Does anyone know if LCDs of this size have issues showing blue?
This link didn't work. Although the coupon showed up for a brief instant, the page immediately refreshed to the front page which requires you to login or register.
Perhaps they're tracking the referrer.
Check out the Samus murals too!
I had this problem on 10.3.6. One workaround is to choose View > Show Paper Tape. This avoids having to disable speak or restart.
The exploit affects the status bar, not the address bar. With Firefox / Camino, when I hover the mouse over the microsoft.com link, the status bar reads "google.com". With Safari, the status bar reads "microsoft.com".
This exploit also affects Safari 1.2.3 on Panther.
SLASHDOT knows what issues are important to young Americans because more young Americans are on their open-post Web boards discussing those issues than anywhere else in the world. Yes, they're tech-focused, self-proclaimed Nerds - a community that most likely boasts the highest mean IQ of any online - but it's their politics-related discussions that hold seven of their Hall of Fame's 10-most-active-stories spots. PS: Slashdot was also nice enough to invent reader-generated interviews and reader-moderated discussions. It's what's enabled them to provide our only question nominations from an entire community.
Oh, wait...
Do you think Microsoft Sharepoint could be doing anything to make themselves render better in Microsoft Internet Explorer? Not Microsoft...
I'm sorry, what's dumb about this patent?
My understanding of the algorithm is that Xerox devides the Graffiti area into 9 ``blocks.'' The recognition algorithm tracks which block the stylus starts in, the end block, and the blocks through which the stylus travels. The recognition is fast and accurate, because each letter is simply an encoding of (start, end, intermediate blocks).
This algorithm is neither dumb nor obvious. Palm copied PARC's Graffiti alphabet because the algorithm was so elegant.
Have you tried Graffiti 2? It's slower and less accurate.
My initials are DSL. (And I subscribe to cable modem...)
Is this possible in Eudora 6? I run Eudora on my Powerbook, and when I start typing on the From: line, I get an error message:
I vaguely remember finding a (PC-only) plugin to enable this functionality, but I don't remember where. Is such a plugin still required?
I think you may have the wrong idea about iTunes on Campus. iTunes on Campus isn't free music for students, like Napster et al. are trying to peddle. iTunes on Campus just lets sysadmins distribute the iTunes software for free, something the students can do anyway.
The students still have to buy the songs.
The reason is that the /. editors will only accept stories that mention OSS in the comments.
It's a vicious cycle;
It doesn't matter whether I can order a machine with an OS. What matters is whether the machine is cheaper when I order it without an OS .
You can order a machine from Dell without an OS, but it will cost the same price. And that's useless to me.
Even if the pricing is monopolistic (and I highly doubt it will be), the important part is Microsoft Office running on Linux. OOo is close, but not there, and it will never be 100% compatible. Not even Microsoft is 100% backwards-compatible with its own earlier versions.
The major hurdle to more widespread Linux adoption on the desktop is Microsoft Office compatibility. Anything that improves that situation will get more people seriously considering Linux.
We need to keep the big picture in mind.
This is a great idea, and one that's already mentioned on the web site as part of the prototype. In the publications section, you'll find that Mia K. Stern is already looking at parsing dates and times out of free-form email to turn it into formal meeting invitations.
03-11 Identifying and Understanding Dates and Times in Email
Mia K. Stern, 2003
From Lik-Sang,
It appears unlikely that it would support "native" N64 games without editing.
This is a good point. However, this usage and adoption gets our foot in the door.
Microsoft allowed rampant piracy of Windows in second- and third-world countries for the same reason: getting people used to using the operating system means that 1) people will get comfortable with it and 2) people will be less willing to switch to another alternative.
The fact that it is free is what gets us in the door; the quality is what keeps us in users' minds.