"I do not see how customers or prospective PHB employers will know the difference from one guy with a shiny MCSE from one who can write a X-11 game in less than 100 lines!"
100 lines? In C? That's easy. You realise line breaks aren't important in C?
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Still waiting for the simple and real word processor. I wish it would use plain HTML and CSS
HTML and CSS is mainly for screen viewing. Word processing is generally for print.
I just use MediaWiki markup. Dead easy and I can create emphasis (as opposed to italics), strong emphasis, lists (ordered or bulleted), nested lists, tables, mathematical equations and all without leaving my wondrous keyboard and without having to learn key combinations. One of these days I will set up my own MediaWiki installation...
For note-taking, I can do things like indent extra detail. What's so bad about being a geek?
How were the people in this list picked? That's odd, Arnold Schwarzenegger was picked. Was every other Republican at his level of political involvement picked too? Why so few Democrats?
Somebody recently told me that because karma is apparently not awarded for Funny posts (probably because that would be too easy?) people are beginning to mod them other +1s.
"I knew a guy who frequently wanted to use MODE as a variable name in his COBOL programs. But MODE is a COBOL keyword and the compiler would hiss at him. So he now always spells it MOAD."
Similarly for "list" in Lisp or Scheme. I use "lyst" since I learnt the basics off Douglas Hofstadter from "Metamagical Themas".
What? Karma whoring, me? I thought the post you refer to (grandparent now, heh) wouldn't get modded at all. How am I trying to work both sides? Not like I made the first post in this thread.
No, no, no! It does not only "generate" words! It simply enlarges the areas of where you're likely to go! You can zoom around and input anything you want, really. Then it'll add what you wrote to the training text so that next time that name is easier to input.
Much better than T9 in that respect. Hendwriting recognition isn't so much better there either (with symbols and numbers, too).
As in, not seriously or without reading the beginner's thing.
Are you turning the speed slider up? I'm near maximum... 7 I think.
Oh yes, I've tried it on a.5GHz P3 Gentoo and this 2.5GHz AMD64 Windows (shared, dammit, can't switch) and a Tablet PC (you hover your pen above the screen... very cool). The featureset is about the same (well, you can write into other windows, etc) but I can't really definately say that the Linux code is slower than the Windows one, since the Gentoo was so low-spec. (All others ran it smoothly, but on Gentoo dasher froze for about 15 seconds at a time).
Do you mean a sort of typing practice game, with Dasher? I would imagine that as a background thing (i.e. network games) keyboard would be better since you can type without looking at it.
Try it for ten minutes, properly. I don't get the freezes, but I have a fast computer. "Never mind" is two words and would have been easier to type. "alot" similarly. "Dasher" with a capital D is easier, too.
What are you talking about with the capitalisation? After a full stop (question mark, etc) and a space, the yellow (capitals) box is massive.
'Why should it? What if I want to create such a page? Why should someone (or something) tell me what to say, or how to say it? And who will "train" such a thing? The Government??'
To make the other (more likely) options more easily available, spend a lot of time poking around for tags with smaller targets *or* type it by hand *or* change the settings to lower the effect of prediction *or* replace the training files *or* just use the damn thing since it'lol learn, nobody's telling you to do anything, and The Government (as you call it) wouldn't bother.
Disclaimer: I'm 15, and am supposed to be doing Geography coursework, while instead I'm on Slashdot. I wish I could show my dad this thread, but I can't any more, because I've posted a reply when I was supposed to be doing Geography coursework.
I personally believe that people about my age do have a basic gauge of when they need to start working for any particular assignment. For example, I have 1 week until I hand my Geography coursework in for the second round of comments, then I get about 2 weeks before I hand it in for my final mark (which is about 40% of my GCSE (14-16) qualification in Geography).
Basically, I have time to do other stuff, including this.
Why must you assign times for "doing homework" and times for "playing games"? The correct way (when you really have to work at something) is to do work for 50 minutes and browse the net for 10 minutes (careful not to start those long replies...) and to slowly increase the browsing time against the work time if you feel you need to. I've done this. It's easy when you need to hand something in soonish.
It's far easier than spreading the work out over the summer holidays.
The control of computer time is simple at my household - allowed on only on odd-numbered days, except for work or DDR, with a system to make sure people don't hog the computer.
It works. If I were to be browsing Slashdot now, I would be grounded from the computer for a week.
That's why I'm going to selectively delete stuff from my history.:)
"I can say for certain that 99.99% of all Ad and MalWare infections are because of IE and ActiveX."
Wrong.
99.999%....seriously though: I would expect a lot are coming through email attachments and shitty things such as Precision Clock, that thousands-of-cursors thing, filesharing programs such as KaZaa, etc.
Agreed. I've previously gotten round restrictions on downloading or installing software by using Java clients for IRC or FTP. Additionally, make sure you block the ports for common IM protocols, as *at least* ICQ and AIM have Java clients on their websites.
Then you'll just have to make sure (rare) websites like http://www2ftp.de are blocked. (I use that site regularly from school, partly because it's a Jewish school and people begin to think I know German).
All these stayed after uninstalling and re-installing. But more problems:
1) Find-As-You-Type disabled by default. Why? 2) When deleting all your search string and typing a '/', that / is in the search string. No amount of keyboard work gets the bottom bar off so that / works as before.
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"I do not see how customers or prospective PHB employers will know the difference from one guy with a shiny MCSE from one who can write a X-11 game in less than 100 lines!"
100 lines? In C? That's easy. You realise line breaks aren't important in C?
HTML and CSS is mainly for screen viewing. Word processing is generally for print.
I just use MediaWiki markup. Dead easy and I can create emphasis (as opposed to italics), strong emphasis, lists (ordered or bulleted), nested lists, tables, mathematical equations and all without leaving my wondrous keyboard and without having to learn key combinations. One of these days I will set up my own MediaWiki installation...
For note-taking, I can do things like indent extra detail. What's so bad about being a geek?
How were the people in this list picked? That's odd, Arnold Schwarzenegger was picked. Was every other Republican at his level of political involvement picked too? Why so few Democrats?
Somebody recently told me that because karma is apparently not awarded for Funny posts (probably because that would be too easy?) people are beginning to mod them other +1s.
It's always fit into a char[8] for me. I've been able to take advantage of the computer word for a long, long time.
"I knew a guy who frequently wanted to use MODE as a variable name in his COBOL programs. But MODE is a COBOL keyword and the compiler would hiss at him. So he now always spells it MOAD."
Similarly for "list" in Lisp or Scheme. I use "lyst" since I learnt the basics off Douglas Hofstadter from "Metamagical Themas".
What? Karma whoring, me? I thought the post you refer to (grandparent now, heh) wouldn't get modded at all. How am I trying to work both sides? Not like I made the first post in this thread.
No, no, no! It does not only "generate" words! It simply enlarges the areas of where you're likely to go! You can zoom around and input anything you want, really. Then it'll add what you wrote to the training text so that next time that name is easier to input.
Much better than T9 in that respect. Hendwriting recognition isn't so much better there either (with symbols and numbers, too).
Sorry, but that feature is available on Windows too.
Fuck. I wrote my reply, and the grandparent still got another Insightful mod. You're all crazy! Crazy, I say!
As in, not seriously or without reading the beginner's thing.
.5GHz P3 Gentoo and this 2.5GHz AMD64 Windows (shared, dammit, can't switch) and a Tablet PC (you hover your pen above the screen... very cool). The featureset is about the same (well, you can write into other windows, etc) but I can't really definately say that the Linux code is slower than the Windows one, since the Gentoo was so low-spec. (All others ran it smoothly, but on Gentoo dasher froze for about 15 seconds at a time).
Are you turning the speed slider up? I'm near maximum... 7 I think.
Oh yes, I've tried it on a
Do you mean a sort of typing practice game, with Dasher? I would imagine that as a background thing (i.e. network games) keyboard would be better since you can type without looking at it.
Try it for ten minutes, properly. I don't get the freezes, but I have a fast computer. "Never mind" is two words and would have been easier to type. "alot" similarly. "Dasher" with a capital D is easier, too.
What are you talking about with the capitalisation? After a full stop (question mark, etc) and a space, the yellow (capitals) box is massive.
Why games?
It only works on the word and sentence level. It will never be used to write a novel.
'Why should it? What if I want to create such a page? Why should someone (or something) tell me what to say, or how to say it? And who will "train" such a thing? The Government??'
To make the other (more likely) options more easily available, spend a lot of time poking around for tags with smaller targets *or* type it by hand *or* change the settings to lower the effect of prediction *or* replace the training files *or* just use the damn thing since it'lol learn, nobody's telling you to do anything, and The Government (as you call it) wouldn't bother.
Happy now?
Not quite.
Notice that a bit further along there are 3 people who only have 4 friends between them!
Talk about close-knit, eh?
Join the Get The Facts roadshow! THey have a job for you.
"Sex hurts compression"
I thought you were talking about something else.
Disclaimer: I'm 15, and am supposed to be doing Geography coursework, while instead I'm on Slashdot. I wish I could show my dad this thread, but I can't any more, because I've posted a reply when I was supposed to be doing Geography coursework.
:)
I personally believe that people about my age do have a basic gauge of when they need to start working for any particular assignment. For example, I have 1 week until I hand my Geography coursework in for the second round of comments, then I get about 2 weeks before I hand it in for my final mark (which is about 40% of my GCSE (14-16) qualification in Geography).
Basically, I have time to do other stuff, including this.
Why must you assign times for "doing homework" and times for "playing games"? The correct way (when you really have to work at something) is to do work for 50 minutes and browse the net for 10 minutes (careful not to start those long replies...) and to slowly increase the browsing time against the work time if you feel you need to. I've done this. It's easy when you need to hand something in soonish.
It's far easier than spreading the work out over the summer holidays.
The control of computer time is simple at my household - allowed on only on odd-numbered days, except for work or DDR, with a system to make sure people don't hog the computer.
It works. If I were to be browsing Slashdot now, I would be grounded from the computer for a week.
That's why I'm going to selectively delete stuff from my history.
PS Check the proxy log before you call him.
You're nuts. My mum leads a parenting class, for fucks sake. (And yes, I'm happy.)
Site: http://tnlc.info/
A book
Among many, many others.
Port 80, actually, I would think.
"I can say for certain that 99.99% of all Ad and MalWare infections are because of IE and ActiveX."
...seriously though: I would expect a lot are coming through email attachments and shitty things such as Precision Clock, that thousands-of-cursors thing, filesharing programs such as KaZaa, etc.
Wrong.
99.999%.
Agreed. I've previously gotten round restrictions on downloading or installing software by using Java clients for IRC or FTP. Additionally, make sure you block the ports for common IM protocols, as *at least* ICQ and AIM have Java clients on their websites.
Then you'll just have to make sure (rare) websites like http://www2ftp.de are blocked. (I use that site regularly from school, partly because it's a Jewish school and people begin to think I know German).
You know, not everybody lives in the USA. It would not bring IE down to 50% by any means.
They already do!
NEWS FLASH: More money spent on IIS and related products than Linux, Researchers Find
:)
All these stayed after uninstalling and re-installing. But more problems:
1) Find-As-You-Type disabled by default. Why?
2) When deleting all your search string and typing a '/', that / is in the search string. No amount of keyboard work gets the bottom bar off so that / works as before.