I was under the impression that the movie Mystery Men was made under a similar premise. Ditto with the cartoon (and very short-lived TV series) The Tick. Although it may have simply been a parody of every comic book ever made.
Either way, I can't see a City of Heroes movie/series turning out a whole lot differently.
It is cheap although it may be slighly inconvenient because you must time your life according to the bus or train schedule.
I think our hypocrisy becomes very pronounced when we refuse to become inconvenienced by a bus schedule; and at the same time, let many of our evenings' activities be dictated by the TV broadcast schedule.
Easiest way to review the content: ignore context.
Just hand the guys a giant text file of all the game dialog so they can scan it for profanity and racy phrases. Then do a long and tedious slideshow of all the wireframe models and their associated skins. Seeing as they only seem to care about nudity and gross obscenities, this should work just fine.
Amen!
I believe there was an issue of "Sport Compact Car" a couple years ago where one of the editorials pointed this out. Part of his argument (if I recall correctly) was that the bicycle industry has done this for years. Parts are very standardized. Parts can be swapped between brands with almost no worries about compatibility issues. What this has lead to is a lot of competition and innovation in the aftermarket. It allows the consumer to compare parts straight across based on weight, color, price, or whatever other parameters are important to the customer.
Now compare that to the automobile industry. If you have one of the more popular models (most Hondas, Camaros, Mustangs, etc.) of cars, there's a lot of options. However, if you want to 'trick out' something less common (my 99 ford escort for example), almost anything you want to do to it will require custom fabricated parts (very very expensive). Want to do an engine swap in a modern car? Good luck. Want to convert your FF car to an FR setup? Heaven help you. Want an MR spyder with a manual tranny and AWD for less than $50k? Not in this lifetime, buddy. The problem is that almost every single part in a newer car is proprietary. Proprietary parts means that parts manufacturers have a cornered market, and they can (and do) charge outrageous premiums. Also, it leaves your average shadetree mechanic totally unable to perform many repairs.
So yeah, I'm all for standards in the auto industry. I'd buy a modular-design car just for the degree of customization it would allow.
It shames to admit it, but my purchase decision will be based almost entirely upon Square-Enix. Here's how thing have gone so far:
Final Fantasy III (VI) was on the super Nintendo. Hoping that the trend would continue, I purchased a N64. Then I went and bought a playstation when Final Fantasy VII was released. The N64 went into the closet. Things went well through FF VIII and IX. I bought a Playstation 2 to play FFX, (and subsequently X-2, XI, and XII). But Dang it all, Square-Enix just had to go release Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube. Yeah, I ended up buying a Gamecube, 4 GC-GB cables, and a Gameboy just to play FFCC. So far, the only systems I haven't found a reason to purchase are the X-box and its 360 variant.
Yes, there are several other games that I've purchased along the way to make better use of the systems. But ultimately, it comes down to the games. I just hope that square focuses on a single console; otherwise, it'll be a big pain in the wallet.
1: Always vote. If nothing else, it gives you the right to complain.
2: Vote against the incumbent. Leaving someone in place for too long causes things to stagnate. Get someone new in there before the old one starts to fester and cause a stink.
3: If available, vote Third-party. Democrats and Republicans enjoy spreading the myth that you can only be a democrat or a republican; there being no other options. Prove them wrong.
As a side note, Cecil Adams wrote a column once on the term "idiot"; specifically that it originally meant a person who had the right to vote, but didn't.
I used to be baffled by how giddy girls would get when words like "diamonds", "gold", or "platinum" were mentioned. While they're getting all dreamy-eyed, the only thing I can think about is how over-priced and easily-lost it all is.
Then I realized that I'm the same way; I just respond to different words. For me, (as a mild audiophile and auto-geek) it's words like, "oxygen-free braided copper", "CNC machined billet titanium", and "cast magnesium". I feel a little happier thinking about such things, but the girls just don't seem to get it.
Amen! Rumble is a nuisance, not an enhancement. A bigger nuisance is the games where it won't allow you to turn it off. For those, you just open up the controller, snip a couple wires, and remove excess ballast.
As for the whole tilt-sensitive thing; it reminds me of the days when the novice would create sin waves with his controller cable in an attempt to get mario to jump a little higher.
I was actually involved in a car accident about a week ago. Some guy going too fast (possibly intoxicated) rear-ended me. He was going around 40 mph, I was at a dead stop and had been at a dead stop for around 10 seconds. My car was trashed, and because of its vintage, I now owe more than it's worth.
I was commenting to say that in many cases, his (the guy who caused the accident) insurance will not only pay for the damage to the vehicle, but also depreciation incurred. You'll have to bring it up specifically (forcibly even), since it's in their best interest to conveniently forget about it.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot guarantee the validity of my above statements. I am unsure of the laws specific to where you live, so this may not apply to you anyway. This is just my two cents as a random member of the Slashdot community.
I've had an Asetek (http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-wat-72.html) cooling system installed in my box for almost 2 years now. I love it. Even running the thing at full processor load on both the video card and the processor (a p4 prescot), temperatures won't go more than 10 degrees above ambient. And yes, that's with very minimal fan noise.
Unfortunately, my system developed a leak too. The leak actually occurred on the chipset block, between the block and the fitting. It was a slow leak, but not slow enough to evaporate before it accumulated. And where did it accumulate? directly over my AGP slot. The water pooled up on top of the video card, leaked into the slot itself, and after 10 seconds of weird behavior on the monitor, the system shuts down.
The damage? Nothing really. I opened it up, used a cotton swab to dry out the slot, wiped the card off, and ran some rubber cement around the chipset block fitting. Less than a (panicked) half hour later, I turned the machine back on, and haven't had a problem since. Moterboard is a Giga-byte 8KNXP (rev 2). Video card is an Asus, GeForce 5600 Ultra. The system was running regular old distilled water. The fact that they survived 'the wettening' (invader zim refference) so well has planted a bit of brand-loyalty in my mind. When I upgrade, I'll try and stick with the same manufacturers.
And yes, the new system will also be liquid-cooled.
I personally have a decent 5.1 surround system. It's far from the top end of things, but noticeably better than most of the cheap systems you see for sale at Wal-Mart.
From the variety of movies that I've watched on it, my big complaint lies with the audio encoding of the movies themselves rather than with the equipment it's playing on. I have a few hundred DVDs, and there's only a handful of them where it seems that any real effort was put into the channeling of the audio. The Superbit version of the Fifth Element comes to mind as a movie that simply sounds incredible with the surround. Most of the rest of them fall short, even ones with dts.
I have a suspicion that the dts tracks on some of them were just copies of the Dolby (or even Stereo) tracks that had just been resampled at a higher bitrate. It would be like using a casette to record a song from a radio broadcast and then encoding it into a 128kHz mp3. It's still not going to sound as good as the original (The original CD... not the radio recording).
Anyway, perhaps I'm wrong but, it seems like the shortcomings in my sound system (and many others as well) is not so much the equipment, but the quality of the media being played. Anyone else seen a difference between DVD distributions of movies? Or perhaps have a preferrence in the companies you buy your DVDs from?
I agree that this is a fairly sizeable problem with capitalism. But, considering the reality of the problem, you can hardly blame them for their reluctance.
Let's use an analogy from Star Trek. Imagine that we're using our phasers, photon cannons or whatnot to fight off the Borg. Any given setting for our weapons is only effective for a few shots. To stay effective in this fight, we need to use a variety of weapons with a variety of settings between them. Variability wins while too much repetition is death.
Now imagine that it takes weeks, if not months or years to recalibrate weapons.
Even worse, imagine that the same resistance that the Borg get is quickly passed on to the Vulcans, Ferengi, Klingons, and everyone else out there who wants it.
Why invest the money when the enemy is frighteningly more adept at avoiding our weapons than we are at making new ones? It's a losing battle.
This is the state of our current battle against bacterial disease. Our antibiotic weapons become obsolete before they really have a chance to become effective. Investment fizzles by default. This is why we still don't have any magic bullets against disease. Even unrelated bacteria can share their armor with the Darwin-defying trick called plasmids. Ironically, the place where the most pestilent and resistant bacteria can be found is in hospitals. The constant barrage of disinfectants and antibiotics they receive there makes them the most dangerous ones to contract. In my opinion, the next super-bug is much more likely to come from a hospital than it is to come from the soil. (Metabolic barriers are much harder to overcome than resistance ones.)
In short, this is why so little corporate capital is being invested in antibiotics, or vaccines for that matter. The only probable return on investment they derive from it is an improved reputation in the public eye. Sadly, even that will likely fizzle as quickly as does the effectiveness of the product.
Blah blah blah...I'll shut up now, I'm boring even my self.
That comment right there is the reason that I think your post got modded up: Honesty and restraint. Kinda ironic that it concerns a story about secrecy and an over-eagerness to classify documents.
Maybe I'm being a little too optimistic here, but as long as we're using electrolysis to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas, why not use a lot of it and just pump pure oxygen into your fuel injectors? Isn't it about 70% of the air we pump into the cylinder (nitrogen) is not reacting anyway? And when it does react, it forms pollutants AFAIK.
If we can pump more oxygen into the cylinder (rather than the hydrogen mix it seems the author is pumping in), that means that we can pump in more gas as well; like turbocharging without the forced induction. It would also theoretically be able to reduce the need for much of the complicated air intake equipment we see on cars; filters, turbos, superchargers, cold air intakes.
The only real shortcoming that I see with pumping in the oxygen rather than the hydrogen is that the electrolysis reaction would have to produce a much larger volume than would be practically feasible, and in the end would still result in a net loss. Either way, there might be some potential there.
Sadly, most people's idea of measuring progress just means faster clockspeeds at the cost of all else. It's the same mentality that permits people to buy Hummers and Escalades rather than an economy car that's a few years old. While gas prices have forced people to consider (or even notice in some cases) efficiency, the same value is not yet being placed on the levels of noise we endure. The preferred remedy (ironically) usually involves purchasing louder speakers.
I think the only real advantage that something like this would have are these:
1: being able to log into and locate (using the GPS) your car prettymuch no matter what happens to it or where they take it. Let's you know where the kids are at night, or where the theif is who stole the thing.
2: massive portable file storage. You could drive cross country in the thing and never have to hear the same song twice and never worry about losing reception to radio stations. It theoretically could act as a (relatively) secure storage place for sensitive personal files in case your house gets raided or something. I realize that this last suggestion isn't at all likely, but then again, this is the/. crowd.
Frankly, filesharing would seem to be the only practical reason to do this kind of filtering. As far as porn and other adult content goes though, I don't see much of a reason for it. At some point, I hope they figure out that people like porn. People will get it one way or another. Restricting access hasn't stopped people from using drugs, it's not gunna stop them from gratifying built-in instincts.
So, the question is: Can these guys get ATI or nVidia to buy their chip?
I can't imagine either of these companies ignoring an oportunity like this. The speed at which it renders, and its clock speed make it a perfect cantidate for onboard graphics. AFAIK both companies are making motherboard chipsets and would love to have a silent solution for integrated graphics.
Unfortunately, with all the hype over clock speeds, I can also readily see them pointlessly increasing voltages and bus speeds all in the name of performance. In my mind, the real advantage of these chips is that with a low clock speed like that, they are much easier to keep at reasonable temperatures. Personally, I would love to have high-performance graphics that don't make my computer sound like a vaccuum cleaner, or require elaborate phase-change cooling systems.
Tough me just right and I'll send you a "file". Don't worry, norton should have gotten rid of the whole herpes thing.
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The big problem with changing to a new layout is not so much the learning curve for the new board, it would be the further steepening of that curve created by the persistence of the qwerty layout.
I had planned for quite awhile to switch over to a dvorak layout keyboard, but haven't just because I would be switching daily between the keyboard on my personal computer, and the ones that I use at school/work. Having to learn something new once would not be bad. Having to learn something new while constantly being reminded of how things used to be would be a real pain.
One thing that I would like to see in the keyboard market is more variety in the shape of the board itself. I have one of those 'split' Micro$oft keyboards and love it. Unfortunately, there aren't many other manufacturers out there that use this layout. Being able to adjust the exact angle of the split, and the distance between the halves would make the board even better, but I can't see this happening in the current market. Closest thing to inovation that they've done in awhile is make keyboards that light up. It may look cool, but hasn't really improved the functionality or versatility of the product at all. Anyway, just my 2 cents.
However, on the same note, tons more jobs will be created in the design, production, construction, and maintainence of windmills. Not to mention the fact that if energy costs are reduced, the overhad budgets of many companies will also be reduced, and they'll be able to afford to hire on a few more people. It's basic economics. Look at the larger picture.
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I was under the impression that the movie Mystery Men was made under a similar premise. Ditto with the cartoon (and very short-lived TV series) The Tick. Although it may have simply been a parody of every comic book ever made.
Either way, I can't see a City of Heroes movie/series turning out a whole lot differently.
It is cheap although it may be slighly inconvenient because you must time your life according to the bus or train schedule.
I think our hypocrisy becomes very pronounced when we refuse to become inconvenienced by a bus schedule; and at the same time, let many of our evenings' activities be dictated by the TV broadcast schedule.
Which leaves us with confirmation that 50% of all studies are wrong.
You should do a study on that.
Easiest way to review the content: ignore context.
Just hand the guys a giant text file of all the game dialog so they can scan it for profanity and racy phrases. Then do a long and tedious slideshow of all the wireframe models and their associated skins. Seeing as they only seem to care about nudity and gross obscenities, this should work just fine.
Amen!
I believe there was an issue of "Sport Compact Car" a couple years ago where one of the editorials pointed this out. Part of his argument (if I recall correctly) was that the bicycle industry has done this for years. Parts are very standardized. Parts can be swapped between brands with almost no worries about compatibility issues. What this has lead to is a lot of competition and innovation in the aftermarket. It allows the consumer to compare parts straight across based on weight, color, price, or whatever other parameters are important to the customer.
Now compare that to the automobile industry. If you have one of the more popular models (most Hondas, Camaros, Mustangs, etc.) of cars, there's a lot of options. However, if you want to 'trick out' something less common (my 99 ford escort for example), almost anything you want to do to it will require custom fabricated parts (very very expensive). Want to do an engine swap in a modern car? Good luck. Want to convert your FF car to an FR setup? Heaven help you. Want an MR spyder with a manual tranny and AWD for less than $50k? Not in this lifetime, buddy. The problem is that almost every single part in a newer car is proprietary. Proprietary parts means that parts manufacturers have a cornered market, and they can (and do) charge outrageous premiums. Also, it leaves your average shadetree mechanic totally unable to perform many repairs.
So yeah, I'm all for standards in the auto industry. I'd buy a modular-design car just for the degree of customization it would allow.
It shames to admit it, but my purchase decision will be based almost entirely upon Square-Enix. Here's how thing have gone so far:
Final Fantasy III (VI) was on the super Nintendo. Hoping that the trend would continue, I purchased a N64. Then I went and bought a playstation when Final Fantasy VII was released. The N64 went into the closet. Things went well through FF VIII and IX. I bought a Playstation 2 to play FFX, (and subsequently X-2, XI, and XII). But Dang it all, Square-Enix just had to go release Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube. Yeah, I ended up buying a Gamecube, 4 GC-GB cables, and a Gameboy just to play FFCC. So far, the only systems I haven't found a reason to purchase are the X-box and its 360 variant.
Yes, there are several other games that I've purchased along the way to make better use of the systems. But ultimately, it comes down to the games. I just hope that square focuses on a single console; otherwise, it'll be a big pain in the wallet.
1: Always vote. If nothing else, it gives you the right to complain.
2: Vote against the incumbent. Leaving someone in place for too long causes things to stagnate. Get someone new in there before the old one starts to fester and cause a stink.
3: If available, vote Third-party. Democrats and Republicans enjoy spreading the myth that you can only be a democrat or a republican; there being no other options. Prove them wrong.
As a side note, Cecil Adams wrote a column once on the term "idiot"; specifically that it originally meant a person who had the right to vote, but didn't.
I used to be baffled by how giddy girls would get when words like "diamonds", "gold", or "platinum" were mentioned. While they're getting all dreamy-eyed, the only thing I can think about is how over-priced and easily-lost it all is.
Then I realized that I'm the same way; I just respond to different words.
For me, (as a mild audiophile and auto-geek) it's words like, "oxygen-free braided copper", "CNC machined billet titanium", and "cast magnesium". I feel a little happier thinking about such things, but the girls just don't seem to get it.
Amen! Rumble is a nuisance, not an enhancement.
A bigger nuisance is the games where it won't allow you to turn it off. For those, you just open up the controller, snip a couple wires, and remove excess ballast.
As for the whole tilt-sensitive thing; it reminds me of the days when the novice would create sin waves with his controller cable in an attempt to get mario to jump a little higher.
e. Natalie Portman covered in hot (genetically modified) grits.
I was actually involved in a car accident about a week ago. Some guy going too fast (possibly intoxicated) rear-ended me. He was going around 40 mph, I was at a dead stop and had been at a dead stop for around 10 seconds. My car was trashed, and because of its vintage, I now owe more than it's worth.
I was commenting to say that in many cases, his (the guy who caused the accident) insurance will not only pay for the damage to the vehicle, but also depreciation incurred. You'll have to bring it up specifically (forcibly even), since it's in their best interest to conveniently forget about it.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot guarantee the validity of my above statements. I am unsure of the laws specific to where you live, so this may not apply to you anyway. This is just my two cents as a random member of the Slashdot community.
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I've had an Asetek (http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-wat-72.html) cooling system installed in my box for almost 2 years now. I love it. Even running the thing at full processor load on both the video card and the processor (a p4 prescot), temperatures won't go more than 10 degrees above ambient. And yes, that's with very minimal fan noise.
Unfortunately, my system developed a leak too. The leak actually occurred on the chipset block, between the block and the fitting. It was a slow leak, but not slow enough to evaporate before it accumulated. And where did it accumulate? directly over my AGP slot. The water pooled up on top of the video card, leaked into the slot itself, and after 10 seconds of weird behavior on the monitor, the system shuts down.
The damage? Nothing really. I opened it up, used a cotton swab to dry out the slot, wiped the card off, and ran some rubber cement around the chipset block fitting. Less than a (panicked) half hour later, I turned the machine back on, and haven't had a problem since. Moterboard is a Giga-byte 8KNXP (rev 2). Video card is an Asus, GeForce 5600 Ultra. The system was running regular old distilled water. The fact that they survived 'the wettening' (invader zim refference) so well has planted a bit of brand-loyalty in my mind. When I upgrade, I'll try and stick with the same manufacturers.
And yes, the new system will also be liquid-cooled.
I personally have a decent 5.1 surround system. It's far from the top end of things, but noticeably better than most of the cheap systems you see for sale at Wal-Mart.
From the variety of movies that I've watched on it, my big complaint lies with the audio encoding of the movies themselves rather than with the equipment it's playing on. I have a few hundred DVDs, and there's only a handful of them where it seems that any real effort was put into the channeling of the audio. The Superbit version of the Fifth Element comes to mind as a movie that simply sounds incredible with the surround. Most of the rest of them fall short, even ones with dts.
I have a suspicion that the dts tracks on some of them were just copies of the Dolby (or even Stereo) tracks that had just been resampled at a higher bitrate. It would be like using a casette to record a song from a radio broadcast and then encoding it into a 128kHz mp3. It's still not going to sound as good as the original (The original CD... not the radio recording).
Anyway, perhaps I'm wrong but, it seems like the shortcomings in my sound system (and many others as well) is not so much the equipment, but the quality of the media being played. Anyone else seen a difference between DVD distributions of movies? Or perhaps have a preferrence in the companies you buy your DVDs from?
Trans-fast?
I believe they refer to it as "zoom-zoom."
I agree that this is a fairly sizeable problem with capitalism. But, considering the reality of the problem, you can hardly blame them for their reluctance.
Let's use an analogy from Star Trek. Imagine that we're using our phasers, photon cannons or whatnot to fight off the Borg. Any given setting for our weapons is only effective for a few shots. To stay effective in this fight, we need to use a variety of weapons with a variety of settings between them. Variability wins while too much repetition is death.
Now imagine that it takes weeks, if not months or years to recalibrate weapons. Even worse, imagine that the same resistance that the Borg get is quickly passed on to the Vulcans, Ferengi, Klingons, and everyone else out there who wants it.
Why invest the money when the enemy is frighteningly more adept at avoiding our weapons than we are at making new ones? It's a losing battle.
This is the state of our current battle against bacterial disease. Our antibiotic weapons become obsolete before they really have a chance to become effective. Investment fizzles by default. This is why we still don't have any magic bullets against disease. Even unrelated bacteria can share their armor with the Darwin-defying trick called plasmids. Ironically, the place where the most pestilent and resistant bacteria can be found is in hospitals. The constant barrage of disinfectants and antibiotics they receive there makes them the most dangerous ones to contract. In my opinion, the next super-bug is much more likely to come from a hospital than it is to come from the soil. (Metabolic barriers are much harder to overcome than resistance ones.)
In short, this is why so little corporate capital is being invested in antibiotics, or vaccines for that matter. The only probable return on investment they derive from it is an improved reputation in the public eye. Sadly, even that will likely fizzle as quickly as does the effectiveness of the product.
Blah blah blah...I'll shut up now, I'm boring even my self.
That comment right there is the reason that I think your post got modded up: Honesty and restraint.
Kinda ironic that it concerns a story about secrecy and an over-eagerness to classify documents.
Maybe I'm being a little too optimistic here, but as long as we're using electrolysis to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas, why not use a lot of it and just pump pure oxygen into your fuel injectors? Isn't it about 70% of the air we pump into the cylinder (nitrogen) is not reacting anyway? And when it does react, it forms pollutants AFAIK.
If we can pump more oxygen into the cylinder (rather than the hydrogen mix it seems the author is pumping in), that means that we can pump in more gas as well; like turbocharging without the forced induction. It would also theoretically be able to reduce the need for much of the complicated air intake equipment we see on cars; filters, turbos, superchargers, cold air intakes.
The only real shortcoming that I see with pumping in the oxygen rather than the hydrogen is that the electrolysis reaction would have to produce a much larger volume than would be practically feasible, and in the end would still result in a net loss. Either way, there might be some potential there.
Amen.
Sadly, most people's idea of measuring progress just means faster clockspeeds at the cost of all else. It's the same mentality that permits people to buy Hummers and Escalades rather than an economy car that's a few years old. While gas prices have forced people to consider (or even notice in some cases) efficiency, the same value is not yet being placed on the levels of noise we endure. The preferred remedy (ironically) usually involves purchasing louder speakers.
I think the only real advantage that something like this would have are these:
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1: being able to log into and locate (using the GPS) your car prettymuch no matter what happens to it or where they take it. Let's you know where the kids are at night, or where the theif is who stole the thing.
2: massive portable file storage. You could drive cross country in the thing and never have to hear the same song twice and never worry about losing reception to radio stations. It theoretically could act as a (relatively) secure storage place for sensitive personal files in case your house gets raided or something. I realize that this last suggestion isn't at all likely, but then again, this is the
Frankly, filesharing would seem to be the only practical reason to do this kind of filtering. As far as porn and other adult content goes though, I don't see much of a reason for it. At some point, I hope they figure out that people like porn. People will get it one way or another. Restricting access hasn't stopped people from using drugs, it's not gunna stop them from gratifying built-in instincts.
So, the question is: Can these guys get ATI or nVidia to buy their chip?
I can't imagine either of these companies ignoring an oportunity like this. The speed at which it renders, and its clock speed make it a perfect cantidate for onboard graphics. AFAIK both companies are making motherboard chipsets and would love to have a silent solution for integrated graphics.
Unfortunately, with all the hype over clock speeds, I can also readily see them pointlessly increasing voltages and bus speeds all in the name of performance. In my mind, the real advantage of these chips is that with a low clock speed like that, they are much easier to keep at reasonable temperatures. Personally, I would love to have high-performance graphics that don't make my computer sound like a vaccuum cleaner, or require elaborate phase-change cooling systems.
To paraphrase (I'm not sure if I have the quote correct) the band Type O Negative: "Functionless art is nothing more than tollerated Grafitti."
Tough me just right and I'll send you a "file".
Don't worry, norton should have gotten rid of the whole herpes thing.
The big problem with changing to a new layout is not so much the learning curve for the new board, it would be the further steepening of that curve created by the persistence of the qwerty layout.
I had planned for quite awhile to switch over to a dvorak layout keyboard, but haven't just because I would be switching daily between the keyboard on my personal computer, and the ones that I use at school/work. Having to learn something new once would not be bad. Having to learn something new while constantly being reminded of how things used to be would be a real pain.
One thing that I would like to see in the keyboard market is more variety in the shape of the board itself. I have one of those 'split' Micro$oft keyboards and love it. Unfortunately, there aren't many other manufacturers out there that use this layout. Being able to adjust the exact angle of the split, and the distance between the halves would make the board even better, but I can't see this happening in the current market. Closest thing to inovation that they've done in awhile is make keyboards that light up. It may look cool, but hasn't really improved the functionality or versatility of the product at all.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
However, on the same note, tons more jobs will be created in the design, production, construction, and maintainence of windmills. Not to mention the fact that if energy costs are reduced, the overhad budgets of many companies will also be reduced, and they'll be able to afford to hire on a few more people. It's basic economics. Look at the larger picture.