I use it notoriously. It's not just "forward/back", scrolling and stuff. Suddenly many great features that were always present but too far away to actually use them, are there - at hand. Double image size, to see what the hell is on that thumbnail. Duplicate window, increase font size... And with my multi-tab browsing, 20 or more tabs open at a time, just hold middle button and press right/left to switch tabs. It seems all the actions you perform are so easy and simple, but if you add up time required to perform them daily, it becomes hours, and kilometers of mouse movement. Decreasing time of performing "back" by 40% when it takes half a second is very little. But decreasing it by 40% if you perform "back" 1000 times a day is significant.
Yes, it would: Diagonal right-down and suddenly fonts become more readable, "increase font size". Besides, assign them to RMB and you can select whatever you wish.
I found it amazing, how many features I use, just because they became more accessible. No more searching for "increase font size". No reaching for bookmarklet "duplicate page". No rightclicking to select "open link in new tab". Everything here and now. It's really easier to drag a bit up or down than to press ctrl-T/ctrl+N.
Note MozGest adds much more functionality besides "moving the mouse". - Rockers: Hold one button, press other to perform action - Wheel rockers: Hold a button and rotate wheel to perform action - Custom gestures: You don't like some? Remove it! You'd prefer it done otherwise? Modify assignment. You have a new amazing idea? Write it, bookmarklet style in "custom gesture" field. Pissed off with LMB disturbing with selection? Switch to RMB!
Plus for those who protest against "flick of wrist" - I think moving your hand 2mm left to launch "back" is less stressing than moving it 5cm, to reach the "back" button.
Problem: Performance. With multiple heavy pages opening, on average hardware, it slows down seriously and sometimes gestures don't get recognised.
For view frame source, I prefer Up-right-down, instead of open menu, aim at "This frame", move right to new menu, aim at "Show source". Reload? The gesture takes less than half a second and is performed nearly without moving your hand. F5: Remove your hand from mouse, reach to F5, press it, get back to the mouse. (unless you're visiting pages that allow using both hands)
Install "odometer" device and soon you will see without mouse gestures you're moving the mouse a few KILOMETERS a week! Gestures help you reduce this distance by some 70%.
Now put your mouse on a floor and push it two kilometers in one direction, as punishment for stupidity.
...will they start billing you for bugs, surveilance equipment etc?
"Guilty of robbery and assault, 5 years of prison. Additionally should pay $100 for FBI phone bug, $30 for police phone calls, $5 for ammunition used by the police in shooting, $40 for fuel for police cars, $20 for paper, stamp ink and writing equipment used up in the court, and $0.50 for a donut the surveilance officer ate while observing his house."
The decline won't continue for long. First derivative is negative, but second is positive and will remain such - because of Moore's law. Suddenly instead of reasonable, slow growth, we had a boom, madness at employing IT people. The boom has ended and we are getting back down to the standard "slow increase" line...
Well, first off, some 20 minutes vs 3s(from beyond your 3s event horizon so you won't even get a warning) then a very precise "surgical strike" in almost unlimited amounts (usable for half a day) and some more. No risk for radioactive cloud turning back and killing your own citizens, no problems with early detection, good way to shot down all enemy's missiles of potential counter-strike and many more. Plus all the room to use it freely in nearest conflict because it isn't covered by any international conventions yet.
With such growth of Internet, chip scale and whatever in technology where Moore's law applies, growth of hi-tech employment is necessary. Not "double every ten months" of course, but some way up, no doubt. (one admin who hosted 10 sites, may host 100 of them just as easily, but if they want 10.000, it's just too much for one person) In recent years, it was way higher than reasonable, and it results in a drop, to more 'needed' level. But it will continue growing and I think all those people will find jobs again in 2-3 years, as demand for them rises. It simply doesn't rise AS fast.
Thank you very much, as long as people -think- about war on Earth, I don't wish a highly effective microwave beam on Moon that can be directed at arbitrary place on Earth, effectively frying anyone who opposes whoever controls the beam.
Summary orbit of moon:earth set will remain untouched. And because earth mass increases, moon mass decreases, the effects like ocean level changes will remain untouched. Bringing material from Mars will lenghten Earth orbit, decreasing global temperature - just go on with global warming to counterballance. Or export excess water from ocean level rise - will surely be needed if you plan growing plants to provide local food and oxygen.
Plus assume supereffective space lift, 1 ton/s, how much time to change earth mass by 1%?
humans don't need to leave earth until it is necessary for either population dispersal (to mitigate the effects of a 'killer-asteroid' on our species), pure recreation, or should communication between Earth and our remote explorers be too slow for planning to result in effective utilization.
One more reason (not necessarily applicable on the topic): Unhandled exception. Some malfunction/damage/problem with equipment where any self-diagnostics or automated diagnostics fails and either you send out a new device or a human to repair the old one.
...and no matter what, people don't get bullet in their heads for buying DVD:)
The coupon system was introduced on mostly every kind of goods including not-extremely-basic food (meat, sweets, butter) during the deepest crisis, but for most of the time only "luxuries" were covered.
So... back to the topic - how is the China government going to promote EVD then?
Thanks for clarification. Seems China is much less 'communist' than Poland was back then. So it's -only- the prices that limit buying poorly available resources? If you're poor, you just get no chance to obtain some relatively expensive stuff - a flat, a car, a computer? Here the problem was the production was much lower than demand, and to apply reasonably just distribution of goods (to those who need it, as opposed to those who could afford it if it was free market and prices would skyrocket with such production and demand) the coupons (I bet I'm using wrong name, don't know the correct english word for that, not sure if it even exists, but it's most similar to your classic "discount coupons") were introduced. I can't really imagine a communist/socialist country without these - they are the basic thing that makes the difference from capitalism, although this could have been done somehow else. The idea is - (in theory, corruption twists) you are entitled to obtain/allocate/use/access some very limited goods/resources independently from your material status and only basing on your actual need for them and your qualifications. (or more like on country need for you to use them for country's good)
Just think, you subscribe to 5 high-volume mailing lists and participate heavily. You send out 300+ messages daily. Suddenly your fee gets substantial! And if you work as user support for a small company, replying by email? Suddenly costs of operating rapidly rise. You operate a free web forum, where people subscribe and an automated reply sends them their password, and optionally get email notifications on changes in threads they watch. Your forum can't be free anymore. I can think of a dozen other legitimate uses for sending bulk amounts of emails. Even with $0.01/email, with one email a day for some 500 users, that makes $150/month. Can easily kill any free service.
Hard drives, as opposed to laser beam, require really minimal gap sizes. You can't just shot a ray at specific point and compare the resulting dot brightness against reference value. The fact that the CD head is a few mm from CD surface is result of the design, not the underlying media rules. While MOVING a device (head) in 2D is a Bad Thing, turning a small element along 2 axis, fixed in one place and on restricted angle, is ok.
Maybe I do, English is not my native. Blok Wschodni, as we call it.
Government may put bullets in people's heads for trivial crimes, but these must be actual crimes. Sure, if they find you own DVD, your chances are 90% better that you get bullet in your head than your neighbor. But not because of the DVD itself. Just because DVD costs so much for you, that saving that amount of money was nearly impossible. They will take you under spyglass, check your income and expenses and unless you have a really good excuse to explain where did you get your money from, you may get shot - for thievery. If you won lots of cash on a lottery, you are free to buy a cadillac, a japaneese TV set, anything that isn't strictly illegal (guns, drugs). At worst your neighbors will look down upon you. Enjoy, your taxes will eat this up really soon anyway. Of course you can get some unpleasant questions and some unpleasant visits to the police if you do stuff "legal but disliked" (i.e. hang an american flag in front of your house), but that's not lethal, just "seriously unhealthy". But you won't buy a DVD, and not because of your life threat. Just because an average American doesn't buy a house in Manhattan instead of a nice suburb house. It just doesn't pay.
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I use it notoriously.
It's not just "forward/back", scrolling and stuff. Suddenly many great features that were always present but too far away to actually use them, are there - at hand.
Double image size, to see what the hell is on that thumbnail. Duplicate window, increase font size... And with my multi-tab browsing, 20 or more tabs open at a time, just hold middle button and press right/left to switch tabs. It seems all the actions you perform are so easy and simple, but if you add up time required to perform them daily, it becomes hours, and kilometers of mouse movement. Decreasing time of performing "back" by 40% when it takes half a second is very little. But decreasing it by 40% if you perform "back" 1000 times a day is significant.
Yes, it would: Diagonal right-down and suddenly fonts become more readable, "increase font size". Besides, assign them to RMB and you can select whatever you wish.
I found it amazing, how many features I use, just because they became more accessible. No more searching for "increase font size". No reaching for bookmarklet "duplicate page". No rightclicking to select "open link in new tab". Everything here and now. It's really easier to drag a bit up or down than to press ctrl-T/ctrl+N.
Note MozGest adds much more functionality besides "moving the mouse".
- Rockers: Hold one button, press other to perform action
- Wheel rockers: Hold a button and rotate wheel to perform action
- Custom gestures: You don't like some? Remove it! You'd prefer it done otherwise? Modify assignment. You have a new amazing idea? Write it, bookmarklet style in "custom gesture" field. Pissed off with LMB disturbing with selection? Switch to RMB!
Plus for those who protest against "flick of wrist" - I think moving your hand 2mm left to launch "back" is less stressing than moving it 5cm, to reach the "back" button.
Problem: Performance. With multiple heavy pages opening, on average hardware, it slows down seriously and sometimes gestures don't get recognised.
For view frame source, I prefer Up-right-down, instead of open menu, aim at "This frame", move right to new menu, aim at "Show source".
Reload? The gesture takes less than half a second and is performed nearly without moving your hand. F5: Remove your hand from mouse, reach to F5, press it, get back to the mouse. (unless you're visiting pages that allow using both hands)
Install "odometer" device and soon you will see without mouse gestures you're moving the mouse a few KILOMETERS a week! Gestures help you reduce this distance by some 70%.
Now put your mouse on a floor and push it two kilometers in one direction, as punishment for stupidity.
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Probably same with "standard" communications satellite. But with a space telescope, unmanned station, alien spaceship...?
...will they start billing you for bugs, surveilance equipment etc?
"Guilty of robbery and assault, 5 years of prison. Additionally should pay $100 for FBI phone bug, $30 for police phone calls, $5 for ammunition used by the police in shooting, $40 for fuel for police cars, $20 for paper, stamp ink and writing equipment used up in the court, and $0.50 for a donut the surveilance officer ate while observing his house."
...and would stop giving Caldera Linux people shit.
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Been there, done that.
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The decline won't continue for long. First derivative is negative, but second is positive and will remain such - because of Moore's law. Suddenly instead of reasonable, slow growth, we had a boom, madness at employing IT people. The boom has ended and we are getting back down to the standard "slow increase" line...
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Still on decline, until we get back to norm.
the effects like ocean level changes will remain untouched.
Err, I meant "will decrease". Lower moon gravity, lesser influence on Earth.
Well, first off, some 20 minutes vs 3s(from beyond your 3s event horizon so you won't even get a warning) then a very precise "surgical strike" in almost unlimited amounts (usable for half a day) and some more. No risk for radioactive cloud turning back and killing your own citizens, no problems with early detection, good way to shot down all enemy's missiles of potential counter-strike and many more. Plus all the room to use it freely in nearest conflict because it isn't covered by any international conventions yet.
With such growth of Internet, chip scale and whatever in technology where Moore's law applies, growth of hi-tech employment is necessary. Not "double every ten months" of course, but some way up, no doubt. (one admin who hosted 10 sites, may host 100 of them just as easily, but if they want 10.000, it's just too much for one person) In recent years, it was way higher than reasonable, and it results in a drop, to more 'needed' level. But it will continue growing and I think all those people will find jobs again in 2-3 years, as demand for them rises. It simply doesn't rise AS fast.
You can't imagine how far-going are ecological precautions in Antarctica.
(feces taken away by plane)
Thank you very much, as long as people -think- about war on Earth, I don't wish a highly effective microwave beam on Moon that can be directed at arbitrary place on Earth, effectively frying anyone who opposes whoever controls the beam.
Summary orbit of moon:earth set will remain untouched. And because earth mass increases, moon mass decreases, the effects like ocean level changes will remain untouched. Bringing material from Mars will lenghten Earth orbit, decreasing global temperature - just go on with global warming to counterballance. Or export excess water from ocean level rise - will surely be needed if you plan growing plants to provide local food and oxygen.
Plus assume supereffective space lift, 1 ton/s, how much time to change earth mass by 1%?
humans don't need to leave earth until it is necessary for either population dispersal (to mitigate the effects of a 'killer-asteroid' on our species), pure recreation, or should communication between Earth and our remote explorers be too slow for planning to result in effective utilization.
One more reason (not necessarily applicable on the topic): Unhandled exception. Some malfunction/damage/problem with equipment where any self-diagnostics or automated diagnostics fails and either you send out a new device or a human to repair the old one.
If they grabbed an asteroid who would care?
That assumption is So wrong!
No worries. Will be ballanced by exporting bulk amounts of water! And exporting water will help against ocean level rising!
...and no matter what, people don't get bullet in their heads for buying DVD :)
The coupon system was introduced on mostly every kind of goods including not-extremely-basic food (meat, sweets, butter) during the deepest crisis, but for most of the time only "luxuries" were covered.
So... back to the topic - how is the China government going to promote EVD then?
Thanks for clarification. Seems China is much less 'communist' than Poland was back then. So it's -only- the prices that limit buying poorly available resources? If you're poor, you just get no chance to obtain some relatively expensive stuff - a flat, a car, a computer? Here the problem was the production was much lower than demand, and to apply reasonably just distribution of goods (to those who need it, as opposed to those who could afford it if it was free market and prices would skyrocket with such production and demand) the coupons (I bet I'm using wrong name, don't know the correct english word for that, not sure if it even exists, but it's most similar to your classic "discount coupons") were introduced. I can't really imagine a communist/socialist country without these - they are the basic thing that makes the difference from capitalism, although this could have been done somehow else. The idea is - (in theory, corruption twists) you are entitled to obtain/allocate/use/access some very limited goods/resources independently from your material status and only basing on your actual need for them and your qualifications. (or more like on country need for you to use them for country's good)
Just think, you subscribe to 5 high-volume mailing lists and participate heavily. You send out 300+ messages daily. Suddenly your fee gets substantial!
And if you work as user support for a small company, replying by email? Suddenly costs of operating rapidly rise. You operate a free web forum, where people subscribe and an automated reply sends them their password, and optionally get email notifications on changes in threads they watch. Your forum can't be free anymore.
I can think of a dozen other legitimate uses for sending bulk amounts of emails. Even with $0.01/email, with one email a day for some 500 users, that makes $150/month. Can easily kill any free service.
Hard drives, as opposed to laser beam, require really minimal gap sizes. You can't just shot a ray at specific point and compare the resulting dot brightness against reference value. The fact that the CD head is a few mm from CD surface is result of the design, not the underlying media rules. While MOVING a device (head) in 2D is a Bad Thing, turning a small element along 2 axis, fixed in one place and on restricted angle, is ok.
Maybe I do, English is not my native. Blok Wschodni, as we call it.
Government may put bullets in people's heads for trivial crimes, but these must be actual crimes. Sure, if they find you own DVD, your chances are 90% better that you get bullet in your head than your neighbor. But not because of the DVD itself. Just because DVD costs so much for you, that saving that amount of money was nearly impossible. They will take you under spyglass, check your income and expenses and unless you have a really good excuse to explain where did you get your money from, you may get shot - for thievery.
If you won lots of cash on a lottery, you are free to buy a cadillac, a japaneese TV set, anything that isn't strictly illegal (guns, drugs). At worst your neighbors will look down upon you. Enjoy, your taxes will eat this up really soon anyway. Of course you can get some unpleasant questions and some unpleasant visits to the police if you do stuff "legal but disliked" (i.e. hang an american flag in front of your house), but that's not lethal, just "seriously unhealthy". But you won't buy a DVD, and not because of your life threat. Just because an average American doesn't buy a house in Manhattan instead of a nice suburb house. It just doesn't pay.