Left Handed: Writing Tennis Soldering Knives Spoons
Right Handed: Mice Throwing Kicking
Either: Forks
The really weird exception to the rule is FPS... back in my FPS days I would always use my left hand. I think it's because I don't like moving my left hand as much as my left fingers, and FPS I only need minute control over the mouse as I do all movement with the keypad.
There were 2 types of classes in college. Those that handed us out notes and went through a slide show and had us fill in some blanks and those that handed out nothing and wrote on the blackboard.
Guess which one I retained more information from? I've seen that people retain more information if they write it down than if they just see it.
There is an Excellent easy way to back up data on the blackboard, it's called notes. Some classes I didn't even have a notebook. Prior to the class I'd grab some sheets out of the recycle bin and write on the back side.
There's a very easy way to apply corrections, it's called crossing it out and rewriting it. You even retain th original information so you can sometimes see a progression of thought.
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world's first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
Quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" processor
Performance standard
No matter which Mac Pro model you choose -- 8-core or quad-core Intel Xeon -- each delivers advanced performance, workstation graphics, and unparalleled expansion in so many possible configurations, your imagination has finally met its match.
I want to build media center. How quiet is that dell? Does it fit on my book shelf?
My mom wants a computer she can fit on her tiny desk, does the Dell do that?
The Mini is more expensive because it uses a laptop hard drive and laptop ram. It's basically a headless laptop.
I could Build a desktop using Free after rebate cases and power supplies, cheap HD and it'll sound like a wind tunnel (and my debian machine does, that's why it sits in the closet.) That's not what the Mac Mini aspires to be and that's not the market it is sold to.
And if they want to play games, then there is really no choice, no matter how great Parallels is, it's still not the same as running the OS on the machine itself.
Both VMWare Fusion AND Parallels have 3D acceleration in the latest version. I just did a benchmark between my Dell work laptop and both virtualizations. The dell is a 1.83GHz and my MacBook Pro is 2.00 Ghz. Both virtualizations were faster than the Dell. "But the Dell is slower" you cry, show me one game that will run amazingly well on a 2.00GHz and like a dog on a 1.83GHz. Most games were designed for processors slower than that anyway. If you are on the most cutting edge of gaming, I doubt that any laptop, other than the custom Alienware, is going to be fast enough for you anyways.
hope it delivers drivers suitable to use your hardware.
The thing is, Apple controls the hardware. I tried out boot camp (and went back to virtualization), Apple's drivers for Windows XP were much better than Dell's drivers for their laptops. iSight, 2 fingered scrolling, battery control. Windows worked better on my Mac than it did on my Dell prior to it.
- There *are* fewer applications for Apple computers, which is to be expected as they don't command the market-share of, say, Windows
Yes, there are fewer, but I would argue that they are higher quality. How many programs do you need to keep track of recipes? Windows probably has a few dozen programs. Version tracker & Mac Update list 3 for Mac that absolutely rock. They're designed differently, one lets you drag and drop recipies into a calender, each has different features that I could see appealing to different types of people. However they're all exceptionally well made, the UI in all of them is beautiful. The same goes for almost every piece of software I use. How many DVD Ripping programs do I need? MacTheRipper does it all. How about VIDEO_TS to DVD.iso? DVD Imager does just fine. I'd rather have 5 programs to do X where 3 are amazing to use than 100 programs to do X where 3 are amazing to use.
- They do use one-button mice, on the notebooks at least, and the "mighty mouse" is not exactly a two-buttoned mouse if you keep a finger on the right mouse button. Again, something you have to get used to. Or you can buy another mouse, again, more money.
Where does this damn argument keep coming from? Yes there is only 1 button. But there are 3 ways to active a right click. I have my preference and other people have theirs. You can:
Control Click (my personal favorite.) I wish control click worked on my Dell because it's faster and more ergonomic for me. Put your left hand on the home row. Now Slide your hand down and rotate it about 10 degrees so that your thumb is on the left trackpad button, your index is on the trackpad... look where your pinkie is: right next to the Control Button. For me to use the right click I have to either pull my right hand down OR rotate my left hand making it awkward.
Tap with 2 fingers. I'm accidentally hit the trackpad enough accidentally that I HATE tap to click. However, if you're already tapping with your index finger, your middle finger (by design) isn't too far away.
3) Place 2 fingers on the trackpad and press the trackpad button.
- Apple computers are just as secure as everything else on the market if used properly. Apple doesn't have a magic bullet against trojan horses, it just isn't that big of a target for hackers. As the market share grows, that will become a problem. Just like Apache is a bigger target than IIS and has so many more virii for it.
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Boobies links were often the best threads. Now only TFers can comment on the threads. Once a day there would be a good thread "She's too fat" "She needs a sammich" going back and forth with everyone posting photos (or links to photos) of someone who they thought was hotter.
I still read fark daily for news, but lately it has felt completely sold out. 1) Censoring of a NUMBER. I even posted a huge base-10 number created by me pounding the keypad... it was deleted. 2) Censoring of boobies in threads. There was a recent article ABOUT cleavage and some mod went all "OMG NO BOOBS IN THREADS" on the thread. If you're browsing Fark at work then you should know a thread about breasts is going to have pictures of breasts. I have "Images like Opera" installed and have it not display any images on sites originating at forums.fark.com. 3) The new layout SUCKS. Slashdot, when they went CSS, did it tactfully, I'll notice more features and slicker integration as time goes on. Fark threw all UI logic out the window. Thankfully there is greasemonkey.
WAF or GFAF. (Wife Acceptance Factor and GF Acceptance Factor, respectively).
XBMC is idiot proof. They turn it on and it works. I use ccxstream instead of Samba because I have no reason to use Samba on my debian server.
It's hard to explain if you've never seen it in action. If I go over to a friend's house and we want to watch some movies I can ftp them to the hard drive, toss the XBOX in my backpack and go. Almost all TVs on the market have RCA inputs. If I lose my remote I can pull up http://xbox/ on my laptop and play media.
XBMC is an amazing piece of OSS. The interface keeps getting more and more polished. The only downside is the Xbox is starting to show its age. If I could get XBMC on an AppleTV and use the exact same interface, I would.
I had this happen to me. Someone bought some Amazon gift cards I had on eBay for $50 or so. I sent the codes (which is my own fault for being trusting on the internet) about 2 weeks later I got the paypal "This was bought using a stolen credit card, etc etc".
I guess this has happened in the past and Amazon has refused to give out the account information it was used on. $50 isn't worth their time, after all they didn't 'lose' anything.
Take this one step further. Re-sell the Amazon gift cards, sure you're only going to be making 90%, but it's free money as far as you're concerned. You now have 2 levels of removal from the credit card.
Heck, if I was planning this (and I'm not). Set up some PayPal accounts using tor / proxy servers. Wait until the beginning of the billing cycle so that the bill won't show up too soon. Buy a ton of gift cards, eCurrency, anything "digital". Then're sell all of this using another PayPal / eBay Account made with a different IP address. Ebay/Paypal never see the Amazon codes, so they're never going to know if "you" bought and sold the same thing. Since time is limited, I'd find a few auctions I wanted to stalk and set up my selling auctions to end 12 hours after the other ones. Their auction ends, I get the code, 12 hours later my auction ends, I send the code.
Then to get to use the funds: Buy something digital. Hosting, anything that accepts PayPal. Or, Buy "something" from yourself. With PayPal account #2. The one with all the funds. Go ahead and Buy a Dell Laptop or an iPod. Something that gets traded 100x daily on eBay. Pay your self to PayPal account #3, the one linked with your bank account. Go to the USPS and get a tracking number, put it on an envelope and send it to Joe Smith, NY, NY. The tracking number will eventually get used. Some guy is going to get an empty envelope and go WTF. You have a shipping confirmation number to give to pay pal to show that it was a 'verified' transaction.
Given everything I've seen that PayPal has done to protect my money (This wasn't the first, nor the last incident with them...) I highly doubt even 1/2 of this is necessary.
Humans didn't grow up pressing below what they want. When I go to dial my desk phone I don't press just below the buttons. It's assumed in my brain that I will be covering up what I want. The problem I see is the size of a stylus vs size of a finger. If you cram buttons close together my finger won't be able to resolve which one I'm actually trying to press. But the same is true of real buttons (Simpsons and the dialing wand).
Not that we can't learn. Just as spear fishers learned to take into account the refractive index of water when fishing. I'm sure it took a while, but after the learning period I'm sure it's second nature to aim X below what I want to kill.
I'm interested in seeing how Apple solved this problem with the iPhone
Just given a few different months, you could quite easily start narrowing down a leak. Email 1: iPhone delayed until September. Leopard delayed until October. Email 2: October/October Email 3: October/November
If you already had a list of suspected leaks you could narrow the field very quickly with different month combinations.
Exactly. This law was created so that if I can pay rent I can find an apartment / house without the landlord or seller denying me because of race, gender, etc.
Now I have a 3 bedroom 2 bath house that I bought so I can one day grow into it with someone (Plus resale value on a 1 bedroom house isn't great). In the mean time it'd be great to have someone help pay my mortgage and split the bills. Even 1 roommate at $400 / month + utilities is going to cut my bills in half and cut my mortgage payment by 1/3. We both get something out of it.
How far does this law go? In California Alcoholism can be considered a protected class. Can I not kick out (or screen) a roommate because he's an alcoholic? What about a fat guy that has bad BO? This is ridiculous. As many have said before this isn't apartments.com this is roommmates.com
Here's hoping for those 2 hot bi-sexual women and my right to ask explicitly for them.
Yes. This is racist, now he can put in the contract that anyone found dumping shit down the drain will be responsible for cleaning fees. That'll cover his ass, but he's in a world of trouble if he's looking to say "No Asians"
I'd comment that running and biking use the arms differently. Moving your arms is proper form for running while it is not for biking. I'd suspect that on a bike you'd be able to concentrate using your arms better (after all they're supposed to be available for steering).
The way I read it was "hand built" as in "you can't go buy a kit".
Given some of the other items on the list, the list looks pretty open to interpretation.
If they build it by hand... why wouldn't it be 'hand built'. Other comments make it seem like some people make these in their free time, so maybe they just want them to find one that some one built in their free time.
That blog is written by a Slashdotter. He posted it in under an identity fraud article a while ago. I linked to his first post.
In short rather that someone stealing his identity to make money, someone stole his identity and used it when arrested. The victim has been turned down for job after job with no reason given. He found out when he was being harassed by the cops and decided to do a search for himself and found numerous warrants, DUIs, etc. Very depressing story considering he's now in his mid 30s and his life has been ruined by 'background checks' and it wasn't even him.
I saw some stuff in college where they were studying fulgurites (the glass created when lightning hits sand) for the optimal method of injecting plastic into molds. Lighting will always take the path of least resistance. So you have a part you want to mold, they'd pack it full of sand and then hit it with artificial lightning. They'd then study the way that the lightning propagated through the sand to determine the way that all the injection lines should run.
Finding Nemo was a Pixar movie. Disney had nothing to do with the creation or story. Disney was only the distributor of Pixar movies up until they were bought.
My roommate made a Counter Strike map back our freshmen year in college. Every tuesday night we had a 4-5 hours of gaming and I'd say that that map was used the most.
Who wants to shoot their friends at some place in the middle east? Toss some smoke grenades into the cafeteria and go in shooting.
If my boss needs to send me to out to another plant, I take my laptop home for the weekend. If I need to show some information off at a meeting, I just take my laptop and plug it in. All my data is on my computer. I don't have to worry about a few different versions of the same file. Heck, if I'm sitting at my own desk and I feel like sitting on the other side I can pick my computer up and move it.
I don't think I could ever get used to the idea of going back to a Desktop, even for personal use. I'm typing this right now as I watch movies. If I feel like sitting on the couch tomorrow, I don't need to do anything but move my laptop. If I make something in the kitchen I take my laptop to the kitchen and pull up the recipe. My Macbook Pro has more power than any computer I've ever had before. 80 GB is more than enough for all my 'main' stuff. All my movies, music, pictures, are all on a debian 2TB server.
Other people are realizing this too. The laptop market is just going to explode.
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Hurray for being a 'bastard' southpaw.
Left Handed:
Writing
Tennis
Soldering
Knives
Spoons
Right Handed:
Mice
Throwing
Kicking
Either:
Forks
The really weird exception to the rule is FPS... back in my FPS days I would always use my left hand. I think it's because I don't like moving my left hand as much as my left fingers, and FPS I only need minute control over the mouse as I do all movement with the keypad.
Who knows.
I could not disagree more.
There were 2 types of classes in college. Those that handed us out notes and went through a slide show and had us fill in some blanks and those that handed out nothing and wrote on the blackboard.
Guess which one I retained more information from? I've seen that people retain more information if they write it down than if they just see it.
There is an Excellent easy way to back up data on the blackboard, it's called notes. Some classes I didn't even have a notebook. Prior to the class I'd grab some sheets out of the recycle bin and write on the back side.
There's a very easy way to apply corrections, it's called crossing it out and rewriting it. You even retain th original information so you can sometimes see a progression of thought.
Notebooks, on sale, cost $.79 a piece.
That was my thought... they are right next to each other. /this message sent to you on a Dvorak keyboard.
8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world's first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
Quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" processor Performance standard
No matter which Mac Pro model you choose -- 8-core or quad-core Intel Xeon -- each delivers advanced performance, workstation graphics, and unparalleled expansion in so many possible configurations, your imagination has finally met its match.
From: http://www.apple.com/macpro/
It's my work computer.
They're both Intel Core Duos (Not Core 2)
I want to build media center. How quiet is that dell? Does it fit on my book shelf?
My mom wants a computer she can fit on her tiny desk, does the Dell do that?
The Mini is more expensive because it uses a laptop hard drive and laptop ram. It's basically a headless laptop.
I could Build a desktop using Free after rebate cases and power supplies, cheap HD and it'll sound like a wind tunnel (and my debian machine does, that's why it sits in the closet.) That's not what the Mac Mini aspires to be and that's not the market it is sold to.
Both VMWare Fusion AND Parallels have 3D acceleration in the latest version. I just did a benchmark between my Dell work laptop and both virtualizations. The dell is a 1.83GHz and my MacBook Pro is 2.00 Ghz. Both virtualizations were faster than the Dell. "But the Dell is slower" you cry, show me one game that will run amazingly well on a 2.00GHz and like a dog on a 1.83GHz. Most games were designed for processors slower than that anyway. If you are on the most cutting edge of gaming, I doubt that any laptop, other than the custom Alienware, is going to be fast enough for you anyways.
hope it delivers drivers suitable to use your hardware.
The thing is, Apple controls the hardware. I tried out boot camp (and went back to virtualization), Apple's drivers for Windows XP were much better than Dell's drivers for their laptops. iSight, 2 fingered scrolling, battery control. Windows worked better on my Mac than it did on my Dell prior to it. - There *are* fewer applications for Apple computers, which is to be expected as they don't command the market-share of, say, Windows
Yes, there are fewer, but I would argue that they are higher quality. How many programs do you need to keep track of recipes? Windows probably has a few dozen programs. Version tracker & Mac Update list 3 for Mac that absolutely rock. They're designed differently, one lets you drag and drop recipies into a calender, each has different features that I could see appealing to different types of people. However they're all exceptionally well made, the UI in all of them is beautiful. The same goes for almost every piece of software I use. How many DVD Ripping programs do I need? MacTheRipper does it all. How about VIDEO_TS to DVD.iso? DVD Imager does just fine. I'd rather have 5 programs to do X where 3 are amazing to use than 100 programs to do X where 3 are amazing to use.
- They do use one-button mice, on the notebooks at least, and the "mighty mouse" is not exactly a two-buttoned mouse if you keep a finger on the right mouse button. Again, something you have to get used to. Or you can buy another mouse, again, more money.
Where does this damn argument keep coming from? Yes there is only 1 button. But there are 3 ways to active a right click. I have my preference and other people have theirs. You can:
- Apple computers are just as secure as everything else on the market if used properly. Apple doesn't have a magic bullet against trojan horses, it just isn't that big of a target for hackers. As the market share grows, that will become a problem. Just like Apache is a bigger target than IIS and has so many more virii for it.
Boobies links were often the best threads. Now only TFers can comment on the threads. Once a day there would be a good thread "She's too fat" "She needs a sammich" going back and forth with everyone posting photos (or links to photos) of someone who they thought was hotter.
I still read fark daily for news, but lately it has felt completely sold out.
1) Censoring of a NUMBER. I even posted a huge base-10 number created by me pounding the keypad... it was deleted.
2) Censoring of boobies in threads. There was a recent article ABOUT cleavage and some mod went all "OMG NO BOOBS IN THREADS" on the thread. If you're browsing Fark at work then you should know a thread about breasts is going to have pictures of breasts. I have "Images like Opera" installed and have it not display any images on sites originating at forums.fark.com.
3) The new layout SUCKS. Slashdot, when they went CSS, did it tactfully, I'll notice more features and slicker integration as time goes on. Fark threw all UI logic out the window. Thankfully there is greasemonkey.
WAF or GFAF. (Wife Acceptance Factor and GF Acceptance Factor, respectively).
XBMC is idiot proof. They turn it on and it works. I use ccxstream instead of Samba because I have no reason to use Samba on my debian server.
It's hard to explain if you've never seen it in action. If I go over to a friend's house and we want to watch some movies I can ftp them to the hard drive, toss the XBOX in my backpack and go. Almost all TVs on the market have RCA inputs. If I lose my remote I can pull up http://xbox/ on my laptop and play media.
XBMC is an amazing piece of OSS. The interface keeps getting more and more polished. The only downside is the Xbox is starting to show its age. If I could get XBMC on an AppleTV and use the exact same interface, I would.
Amazon Gift Cards / Paypal.
I had this happen to me. Someone bought some Amazon gift cards I had on eBay for $50 or so. I sent the codes (which is my own fault for being trusting on the internet) about 2 weeks later I got the paypal "This was bought using a stolen credit card, etc etc".
I guess this has happened in the past and Amazon has refused to give out the account information it was used on. $50 isn't worth their time, after all they didn't 'lose' anything.
Take this one step further. Re-sell the Amazon gift cards, sure you're only going to be making 90%, but it's free money as far as you're concerned. You now have 2 levels of removal from the credit card.
Heck, if I was planning this (and I'm not). Set up some PayPal accounts using tor / proxy servers. Wait until the beginning of the billing cycle so that the bill won't show up too soon. Buy a ton of gift cards, eCurrency, anything "digital". Then're sell all of this using another PayPal / eBay Account made with a different IP address. Ebay/Paypal never see the Amazon codes, so they're never going to know if "you" bought and sold the same thing. Since time is limited, I'd find a few auctions I wanted to stalk and set up my selling auctions to end 12 hours after the other ones. Their auction ends, I get the code, 12 hours later my auction ends, I send the code.
Then to get to use the funds: Buy something digital. Hosting, anything that accepts PayPal. Or, Buy "something" from yourself. With PayPal account #2. The one with all the funds. Go ahead and Buy a Dell Laptop or an iPod. Something that gets traded 100x daily on eBay. Pay your self to PayPal account #3, the one linked with your bank account. Go to the USPS and get a tracking number, put it on an envelope and send it to Joe Smith, NY, NY. The tracking number will eventually get used. Some guy is going to get an empty envelope and go WTF. You have a shipping confirmation number to give to pay pal to show that it was a 'verified' transaction.
Given everything I've seen that PayPal has done to protect my money (This wasn't the first, nor the last incident with them...) I highly doubt even 1/2 of this is necessary.
DO NOT WANT
Humans didn't grow up pressing below what they want. When I go to dial my desk phone I don't press just below the buttons. It's assumed in my brain that I will be covering up what I want. The problem I see is the size of a stylus vs size of a finger. If you cram buttons close together my finger won't be able to resolve which one I'm actually trying to press. But the same is true of real buttons (Simpsons and the dialing wand).
Not that we can't learn. Just as spear fishers learned to take into account the refractive index of water when fishing. I'm sure it took a while, but after the learning period I'm sure it's second nature to aim X below what I want to kill.
I'm interested in seeing how Apple solved this problem with the iPhone
Just given a few different months, you could quite easily start narrowing down a leak.
Email 1: iPhone delayed until September. Leopard delayed until October.
Email 2: October/October
Email 3: October/November
If you already had a list of suspected leaks you could narrow the field very quickly with different month combinations.
Exactly. This law was created so that if I can pay rent I can find an apartment / house without the landlord or seller denying me because of race, gender, etc.
Now I have a 3 bedroom 2 bath house that I bought so I can one day grow into it with someone (Plus resale value on a 1 bedroom house isn't great). In the mean time it'd be great to have someone help pay my mortgage and split the bills. Even 1 roommate at $400 / month + utilities is going to cut my bills in half and cut my mortgage payment by 1/3. We both get something out of it.
How far does this law go? In California Alcoholism can be considered a protected class. Can I not kick out (or screen) a roommate because he's an alcoholic? What about a fat guy that has bad BO? This is ridiculous. As many have said before this isn't apartments.com this is roommmates.com
Here's hoping for those 2 hot bi-sexual women and my right to ask explicitly for them.
Yes. This is racist, now he can put in the contract that anyone found dumping shit down the drain will be responsible for cleaning fees. That'll cover his ass, but he's in a world of trouble if he's looking to say "No Asians"
I'd comment that running and biking use the arms differently. Moving your arms is proper form for running while it is not for biking. I'd suspect that on a bike you'd be able to concentrate using your arms better (after all they're supposed to be available for steering).
The way I read it was "hand built" as in "you can't go buy a kit".
Given some of the other items on the list, the list looks pretty open to interpretation.
If they build it by hand... why wouldn't it be 'hand built'. Other comments make it seem like some people make these in their free time, so maybe they just want them to find one that some one built in their free time.
They built a breeder reactor one year. After reading the principle behind the Theremin I don't think I'd put it past some students.
"May not have received no moving violations or convictions or court-ordered supervision."
So does that mean you have to have a moving violation to drive?
Maybe my English parser is broken on Friday.
http://g27radio.blogspot.com/2007/04/think-youre-s afe.html
That blog is written by a Slashdotter. He posted it in under an identity fraud article a while ago. I linked to his first post.
In short rather that someone stealing his identity to make money, someone stole his identity and used it when arrested. The victim has been turned down for job after job with no reason given. He found out when he was being harassed by the cops and decided to do a search for himself and found numerous warrants, DUIs, etc. Very depressing story considering he's now in his mid 30s and his life has been ruined by 'background checks' and it wasn't even him.
Disney had no creative input on any of the Pixar movies (pre buy).
Pixar signed a contract to make X movies for Disney. Disney was only the distributor.
Lightning in sand -> injection molding.
I saw some stuff in college where they were studying fulgurites (the glass created when lightning hits sand) for the optimal method of injecting plastic into molds. Lighting will always take the path of least resistance. So you have a part you want to mold, they'd pack it full of sand and then hit it with artificial lightning. They'd then study the way that the lightning propagated through the sand to determine the way that all the injection lines should run.
Finding Nemo was a Pixar movie. Disney had nothing to do with the creation or story. Disney was only the distributor of Pixar movies up until they were bought.
My roommate made a Counter Strike map back our freshmen year in college. Every tuesday night we had a 4-5 hours of gaming and I'd say that that map was used the most.
Who wants to shoot their friends at some place in the middle east? Toss some smoke grenades into the cafeteria and go in shooting.
Fun times.
Today he would be a terrorist.
More like anywhere.
If my boss needs to send me to out to another plant, I take my laptop home for the weekend. If I need to show some information off at a meeting, I just take my laptop and plug it in. All my data is on my computer. I don't have to worry about a few different versions of the same file. Heck, if I'm sitting at my own desk and I feel like sitting on the other side I can pick my computer up and move it.
I don't think I could ever get used to the idea of going back to a Desktop, even for personal use. I'm typing this right now as I watch movies. If I feel like sitting on the couch tomorrow, I don't need to do anything but move my laptop. If I make something in the kitchen I take my laptop to the kitchen and pull up the recipe. My Macbook Pro has more power than any computer I've ever had before. 80 GB is more than enough for all my 'main' stuff. All my movies, music, pictures, are all on a debian 2TB server.
Other people are realizing this too. The laptop market is just going to explode.