5 1/4" drives are easy to find - just go to your local flea market or second-hand store. I have two sitting at home unused - the one I tried worked just fine last year to copy a friend's data onto a CD. They still plug into a normal floppy drive connection - you just need the right cable.
Well, according to the Canadian government, those "experts" are just radical extremists who pretend to care about copyright. If you are against copyright bills, you are a terrorist.
Yeah, I pass a sign saying saying "Longitudinal Centre of Canada" twice a day on my commute, but nobody here is going to pretend we're the middle of anything but nowhere.
It's certainly Central Canada based on east/west population distribution - although it may have shifted west in the last while, I believe that the population center of Canada (based on a center-of-gravity type calculation with population density) was calculated to be just north of Toronto. You can pretty much just discount everyone in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and the maritime provinces. Then you have BC/Alberta balancing off Quebec, and Southern Ontario gets split in half.
Southern Indiana doesn't get cold. Indianapolis' all time record low is only -30F, and there isn't a month with an average high below freezing. If you get up to northern Minnesota or North Dakota, the records are around -40F, head up north to Winnipeg or Edmonton and you get -50F for a record, with snow on the ground from October straight through to May some years. After a cold winter, during the first few days of above freezing weather you'll see people (mostly crazies, IMHO) out in short sleeves and shorts in 20F weather. Dear hunting in 10F weather is hardly enduring the cold.
It's all what you're used to. I'm one of those people who I'm sure would be quite incapacitated by a southern US summer. If it's warmer than 80F at night, I wake up after about an hour drenched in sweat. Fortunately we get maybe one of those nights per year. We'll crack 90 maybe 5-10 times. So living without AC here, just means that I just take a couple days off work and hit the beach instead of trying to think in the heat.
On the other hand we regularly have 2 weeks worth of -40 as daily highs. Over most of the winter I generally only heating the house to 55. At 60F I'm comfortable in a t-shirt and jeans. When my formerly Trinidadian uncle comes and visits, he keeps his huge down parka on the whole time he's here. And the African immigrants I know here have seem to enjoy having their apartments heated to 80F.
So yes, it's all fun to be able to handle more extreme weather than others, but be careful in thinking that others are wimps. I don't know you, so I won't make any assumptions, but people who can handle heat well, often can't handle the cold (and vice versa).
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is he all of a sudden complaining about the.NET installation saying when you can disconnect from the internet? I realize that he most likely has an always-on connection, but there is still a large number of people using dial--up connections that only give you x number of hours per month. It's helpful to know that the installation is not going to need the internet again to download some extra bits later on. I'd hardly call a little note of convenience for those who need to ration their internet usage "totally audacious". Maybe somebody can explain how it's shocking and reckless, but I'm just not seeing it.
Your problem is that you are opening the Control Panel in the first place. With windows 7, the search finally became fast enough and smart enough. I don't know that I've looked through the start menu hierarchy more than a couple times. I just use search for everything.
Just click the start button (or hit the windows key on your keyboard), and start typing - "Device manager", "add user", "remove program", etc.. In all those cases the control panel applet I'm looking for is at the top of the list, and I just hit Enter. No mouse intervention required.
Well, given that we know the earth is a sphere, saying the curvature is a foot per mile (well, closer to 8 inches), is a perfectly useful fact in calculating the size of the earth. Just divide one mile*mile by 8 inches, and you get the diameter of the earth
. Try it.
That's just surface tension... I mean, look at the curvature of a drop of water on a piece of wax paper. Clearly that can be extrapolated to more than a foot of deviation over an entire lake.
If you do the curvature calculations in meters, the earth is even flatter - only 392 nanometer deviation per meter. You'd have a hard time finding a lake that smooth.
It's pretty close to flat - the curvature of the earth is less than a foot per mile - a rounding error really, given that even the smoothest of prairies can easily vary by more than that.
The problem, then, is that the laws are too rigid. If it's too rigid to require people to drive 55, then set the speed limit at 65, or set the speed limit at 55, but allow exceeding that limit for a given period of time. If it's unreasonable to fine someone for smoking a bit of pot, then make it legal to do so. If vandalism should be allowed under certain conditions, the law needs to specify what those conditions are.
It a whole lot more objective than leaving it up to police officers. If it weren't for the obvious privacy issues in whoever's running this knowing where my car has been, I'd be happy if every intersection had this sort of thing. Traffic flow would be improved immensely. Of course the privacy thing really is a deal breaker when it comes to this level of surveillance (I'd trust the AI, but unfortunately, these sort of systems always have a human in the mix).
I'd much prefer that we'd all switch to AI controlled cars.
I realize I'm just replying to a troll here, but whatever. I can to the little flicky gestures if I really wanted to, but it's so much easier just to rock my thumb up and down instead. I could use the onscreen keyboard if I so desired, but I'm more a fan of tactile feedback if I'm going to be doing a significant amount of typing. Most of the time, I just use the stylus and rely on handwriting recognition.
If you're willing to pay through the nose ($2K+), you can get some extremely slick tablets - MotionComputing, Fujitsu and Lenovo all have some pretty nice systems. If you don't want to spend that kind of money, you're just going to get low grade crap that will sour you on the whole tablet idea. You can pick up some decent sub-$1000 slates if you go the ebay route and pick up a new battery and install Windows 7 on them manually.
Of course, the Fujitsu tablets also have styluses, so you get a proper mouse-type interface with hover and right click in any non-multitouch enabled app. Windows 7 also translates certain multitouch gestures into keyboard./mouse input for those apps that don't support multitouch explicitly - it's certainly not as nice as native multitouch support in an app, but it's at least something.
I've had a Windows 7 slate for several months now (combo multitouch/stylus), and it works great for me. Windows 7's handwriting recognition is amazing. Multitouch gestures do leave something to be desired, but given that I have a directional pad on the side of the slate, I generally use those instead. With a full wacom digitizer, I can use photoshop and other pressure sensitive apps. It's bright enough that I can read in almost full sunlight. If I need to type, I just use a bluetooth keyboard. And of course, there's OneNote, which is really the single most important app I use. I've played with a friend's iPad a few times, and it really just seems like a cheap toy compared to what a real slate can do. The real reason PC-based slates haven't caught on (IMHO), is entirely based on the price point. A decent tablet costs $2000 or more - anything less and you're getting a piece of crap. Of course, at $2000, you alienate a very large portion of your potential market. Most PC manufacturers realized this, and stayed from tablets almost completely, not willing to make an expensive device that wouldn't sell, or an overly cheap device that wouldn't be worthwhile.
Apple's marketing magic has managed to create a market for cheap-ass crap slates, by not marketing them as computers, but rather as toys for grownups. They've lowered the functionality expectations, so people won't be disapointed with something barely more than a big cell-phone. I wouldn't even want to try Photoshop on an iPad if it were available. I'd give OneNote a shot if it existed for the iPad, but I wouldn't expect much from it.
Think of the X axis as the amount of stuff you can do, and the Y axis as the amount of time/effort involved in learning. Then for VIM you end up getting something roughly like a square root graph.
If you just like complaining, that's fine, but if you're stuck using it as work and want some tips:
Don't use the mouse: I don't use the mouse much at all for the ribbon - it's practically designed with keyboard users in mind. All the old menu shortcuts from 2003 still work (even where there is no visible menu), and EVERY command on the ribbon is available without moving off the keyboard.
If you don't like the space the ribbon takes up, double click on the tab headings and it collapses.
Add your most common commands to the little toolbar thing at the top left and you can access them with +[1-9]
People underestimate the value of training - we do it subconsciously when we meet people with different accents or vocal tones. At first people are hard to understand, but given an hour or so talking to someone, you eventually stop noticing their accent. Windows 7 seems to do a really good job at learning from use (it learns even without explicit training when you make corrections). I have windows 7 tablet and the voice recognition is impressive. Its handwriting recognition is even better than mine when it comes to my writing (it benefits from knowing the directions and order of strokes) - I just scratch out something vaguely resembling something I want to write and it seems to recognize it almost 100% of the time.
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5 1/4" drives are easy to find - just go to your local flea market or second-hand store. I have two sitting at home unused - the one I tried worked just fine last year to copy a friend's data onto a CD. They still plug into a normal floppy drive connection - you just need the right cable.
Well, according to the Canadian government, those "experts" are just radical extremists who pretend to care about copyright. If you are against copyright bills, you are a terrorist.
Yeah, I pass a sign saying saying "Longitudinal Centre of Canada" twice a day on my commute, but nobody here is going to pretend we're the middle of anything but nowhere.
It's certainly Central Canada based on east/west population distribution - although it may have shifted west in the last while, I believe that the population center of Canada (based on a center-of-gravity type calculation with population density) was calculated to be just north of Toronto. You can pretty much just discount everyone in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and the maritime provinces. Then you have BC/Alberta balancing off Quebec, and Southern Ontario gets split in half.
Southern Indiana doesn't get cold. Indianapolis' all time record low is only -30F, and there isn't a month with an average high below freezing. If you get up to northern Minnesota or North Dakota, the records are around -40F, head up north to Winnipeg or Edmonton and you get -50F for a record, with snow on the ground from October straight through to May some years. After a cold winter, during the first few days of above freezing weather you'll see people (mostly crazies, IMHO) out in short sleeves and shorts in 20F weather. Dear hunting in 10F weather is hardly enduring the cold.
On the other hand we regularly have 2 weeks worth of -40 as daily highs. Over most of the winter I generally only heating the house to 55. At 60F I'm comfortable in a t-shirt and jeans. When my formerly Trinidadian uncle comes and visits, he keeps his huge down parka on the whole time he's here. And the African immigrants I know here have seem to enjoy having their apartments heated to 80F.
So yes, it's all fun to be able to handle more extreme weather than others, but be careful in thinking that others are wimps. I don't know you, so I won't make any assumptions, but people who can handle heat well, often can't handle the cold (and vice versa).
That's why our DB uses Female, Male, Neither, Other, Indeterminate, Transgendered, Unknown, and FILENOTFOUND.
Really? You need to reconfigure windows and install crap 50 times a day? That's the real reason your XP system got hosed.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is he all of a sudden complaining about the .NET installation saying when you can disconnect from the internet? I realize that he most likely has an always-on connection, but there is still a large number of people using dial--up connections that only give you x number of hours per month. It's helpful to know that the installation is not going to need the internet again to download some extra bits later on. I'd hardly call a little note of convenience for those who need to ration their internet usage "totally audacious". Maybe somebody can explain how it's shocking and reckless, but I'm just not seeing it.
Just click the start button (or hit the windows key on your keyboard), and start typing - "Device manager", "add user", "remove program", etc.. In all those cases the control panel applet I'm looking for is at the top of the list, and I just hit Enter. No mouse intervention required.
There are plenty of people in every organization who have lists on their desk detailing how to do each thing -
To Open email:
These are the same people, who after having a job working on a computer for 10 years, still use a single finger and hunt for every key-press.
Well, given that we know the earth is a sphere, saying the curvature is a foot per mile (well, closer to 8 inches), is a perfectly useful fact in calculating the size of the earth. Just divide one mile*mile by 8 inches, and you get the diameter of the earth . Try it.
Yup, an excellent essay that everyone should read at least once.
That's just surface tension... I mean, look at the curvature of a drop of water on a piece of wax paper. Clearly that can be extrapolated to more than a foot of deviation over an entire lake.
If you do the curvature calculations in meters, the earth is even flatter - only 392 nanometer deviation per meter. You'd have a hard time finding a lake that smooth.
It's pretty close to flat - the curvature of the earth is less than a foot per mile - a rounding error really, given that even the smoothest of prairies can easily vary by more than that.
The problem, then, is that the laws are too rigid. If it's too rigid to require people to drive 55, then set the speed limit at 65, or set the speed limit at 55, but allow exceeding that limit for a given period of time. If it's unreasonable to fine someone for smoking a bit of pot, then make it legal to do so. If vandalism should be allowed under certain conditions, the law needs to specify what those conditions are.
It a whole lot more objective than leaving it up to police officers. If it weren't for the obvious privacy issues in whoever's running this knowing where my car has been, I'd be happy if every intersection had this sort of thing. Traffic flow would be improved immensely. Of course the privacy thing really is a deal breaker when it comes to this level of surveillance (I'd trust the AI, but unfortunately, these sort of systems always have a human in the mix).
I'd much prefer that we'd all switch to AI controlled cars.
I realize I'm just replying to a troll here, but whatever. I can to the little flicky gestures if I really wanted to, but it's so much easier just to rock my thumb up and down instead. I could use the onscreen keyboard if I so desired, but I'm more a fan of tactile feedback if I'm going to be doing a significant amount of typing. Most of the time, I just use the stylus and rely on handwriting recognition.
If you're willing to pay through the nose ($2K+), you can get some extremely slick tablets - MotionComputing, Fujitsu and Lenovo all have some pretty nice systems. If you don't want to spend that kind of money, you're just going to get low grade crap that will sour you on the whole tablet idea. You can pick up some decent sub-$1000 slates if you go the ebay route and pick up a new battery and install Windows 7 on them manually.
Of course, the Fujitsu tablets also have styluses, so you get a proper mouse-type interface with hover and right click in any non-multitouch enabled app. Windows 7 also translates certain multitouch gestures into keyboard./mouse input for those apps that don't support multitouch explicitly - it's certainly not as nice as native multitouch support in an app, but it's at least something.
Apple's marketing magic has managed to create a market for cheap-ass crap slates, by not marketing them as computers, but rather as toys for grownups. They've lowered the functionality expectations, so people won't be disapointed with something barely more than a big cell-phone. I wouldn't even want to try Photoshop on an iPad if it were available. I'd give OneNote a shot if it existed for the iPad, but I wouldn't expect much from it.
Think of the X axis as the amount of stuff you can do, and the Y axis as the amount of time/effort involved in learning. Then for VIM you end up getting something roughly like a square root graph.
People underestimate the value of training - we do it subconsciously when we meet people with different accents or vocal tones. At first people are hard to understand, but given an hour or so talking to someone, you eventually stop noticing their accent. Windows 7 seems to do a really good job at learning from use (it learns even without explicit training when you make corrections). I have windows 7 tablet and the voice recognition is impressive. Its handwriting recognition is even better than mine when it comes to my writing (it benefits from knowing the directions and order of strokes) - I just scratch out something vaguely resembling something I want to write and it seems to recognize it almost 100% of the time.
Nobody would expect someone to write down 1/3
I use base 3, so 0.1 is a perfectly easy number to express in floating point.