I use QWERTY because it's the standard. I know it's not as efficient as DVORAK, but it's more than fast enough for my needs (and I spend all day writing code and emails), so why go through the hassle of relearning typing skills and using DVORAK? Especially in an office environment where I have to keep constantly swapping over to my co-workers keyboards - I really don't want to have to deal with swapping contexts all day long.
Then there's the fact that most apps come with keyboard layouts configured for QWERTY keyboards.
Dull answers to your question, but were you expecting anything else? People aren't going to inconvenience themselves unless the benefits FAR outweigh the problems. I'm sure it's the same reason why many people don't use Linux.
I run a site that has a lot of technical jiggery-pokery that people seem to like.
About once a month or so, my daily hitrate goes up from around 10,000 per day to around 100,000*, as some foreign site discovers the site.
It's only ever foreign sites, too - no English-language sites seem to generate that amount of hits. I suppose I have no way of knowing if I'm the butt of a thousand jokes on the sites that link me.
Anyway, my point is that if you're looking for sources of the slashdot effect, don't forget to include foreign sites, as it's likely that foreign countries could conceivably have 'national portals', or whatever.
* I presume this fits within the bounds of the/. effect, as I've seen slashdotted sites who've received less.
The use a Half-Life/Quake3 engine game (think America's Army) to run "simulations
FYI (and I know it's external to your point), the game in the screenshots is the Army's modified version of Operation Flashpoint, which is a commerically available infantry/armour game. The developers were contracted by the Army to create a special version for them.
I know several game testers, and none of them had any testing (game or software) experience - they walked in and demonstrated that they loved games, and had the patience to sit through test after test after test.
I do hear that play-testing is an infinitely better job than straight bug testing, as you're more there to offer feedback on the gameplay and balance, but it's also a position that's usually filled these days by the customers inbetween release and the first patch:D
With the prevalence of PDAs, and phones with PDA functions, it's getting ever harder to break the Outlook stranglehold - my phone syncs with my Outlook contacts/calendar/todo, and that's VERY important functionality. I'd love to use another PIM, but until the syncing software is available, I, and many other business users aren't likely to make the transition.
I know that the thing is currently a big ass laser - but eventually we will be able to get something like this down to a reasonable size - where it can hopefully be built into attack aircraft - which at that point will allow a plane to fly with confidence in enemy territory.
But what happens if the enemy also has lasers to shoot down your fighters? It'll be a case of 'whoever gets their platforms in the air first, wins'
And then throw satellite and ground based lasers into the mix, just for fun.
Dan covers this in one of his more recent letters sections. He states that compared to Halogen bulbs, LEDs aren't as efficient, and are best suited to accent lights.
You also have to consider that NOT being allowed to post is going to be frustrating as hell for subscribers - it means we (well, 'we' when I subscribe) will have to come back to the story later, once in 'posting time'.
(This are a Melbournian's answer to your questions)
No-one in Australia actually drinks Fosters, it's impossible to get in Pubs (where Tooheys or Carlton/Victoria Bitter generally own most of the pubs), and tastes crap. We're well aware that it's one of our most successful exports, however (even if it does taste like crap).
V, Red Bull or Coffee suffice as drinks to keep you up at night. Melbourne city has at least four cafes and three 7-11s per square meter, so it's anything you want, really.
Actually, those prices were AUD - I had meant to reply to the other poster who was asking about AU prices, but slashdot's lynx interface was a bit naff, so I replied to the parent of that post.
You could always go to the Leaning Tower of Piza, as you'd be foreverafter be able to belittle other people's whack-ass engineering ideas with "Bah! That'll just end up just as broken as the Leaning Tower of Piza, and have you even seen it??"
funny... anything that looks like you're wearing an ASCOT and you claim it doesnt make you look like a dork... funny... really funny....
Perhaps I shouldn't be replying to ACs, but that's just a Crumpler bag (the messenger/courier bags that every man and his dog are wearing these days).
The reason there are so few photos on the site is because the system looks DEAD BORING (which is the point). It's a bag, a phone, and some headphones. Zzz.
If you feel like making your own non-instrusive wearable, one that DOESN'T make you look like a dork, and doesn't require specialist hardware, please check out http://riot.com.au/
"Nvidia's drivers work with Stereoscopic LCD shutter, and Red/blue"
These drivers also work with proper VR Head Mounted Displays (Such as the relatively cheap i-o SVGA 3D glasses), making them their cards the perfect CHEAP choice for homebrew VR developers.
Ugh, I had to post this message by VNCing to my home machine because/. seems to have blocked my entire IP block from posting.
"... I just did some basic demoing, like showing him the zooming dock at the bottom, window shadows, speach recognition, and of course the fish in the background (yes, any OpenGL screen saver can be run as a desktop background)....
"You can't have that in your computer. It's nigh impossible in Windows. But if you got a Mac..."
FYI, it requires 3rd-party software, but the only thing windows can't do out of that list is the zooming dock.
See, the weird thing here is that the text referring to the person who submitted this article ('anonymous reader') hass a link to the server that this notebook sits on - could it be that in self-promotion, they killed their own machine?
As a sysadmin, is there any information anywhere on what sort of machine/connection can handle a slashdot load? I've seen hitcounters of slashdotted sites, and the hits weren't as bad as I was expecting, is it really just that slashdotted servers are 486s in someone's shed?
While this does a nice job of crunching numbers, how do they know that their algorithms are any good at doing what they do? Or are they trying to simulate things that aren't continuously kicked around by chaos theory?
I ask because I've been looking at dynamics in my spare time, and simulating something as small as cigarette smoke accurately seems impossible (although I must say Jos Stam and Co did a nice job of making it look real). So it seems a bit bewildering to see something trying to simulate the earth, even if only at a macro level.
E3 exists to allow publishers to show off upcoming titles - E3 gives awards to the people who generated the most positive attention and hype for their product.
What exactly is the problem here? I would understand this story if it was about Doom3 being awarded 'Game of the Year', but it's not; it's being honoured as having the most impressive preview out of all the thousands of games out there, and I don't see how anyone could find fault with that.
Slashdot Mirror
I use QWERTY because it's the standard. I know it's not as efficient as DVORAK, but it's more than fast enough for my needs (and I spend all day writing code and emails), so why go through the hassle of relearning typing skills and using DVORAK? Especially in an office environment where I have to keep constantly swapping over to my co-workers keyboards - I really don't want to have to deal with swapping contexts all day long.
Then there's the fact that most apps come with keyboard layouts configured for QWERTY keyboards.
Dull answers to your question, but were you expecting anything else? People aren't going to inconvenience themselves unless the benefits FAR outweigh the problems. I'm sure it's the same reason why many people don't use Linux.
I run a site that has a lot of technical jiggery-pokery that people seem to like.
/. effect, as I've seen slashdotted sites who've received less.
About once a month or so, my daily hitrate goes up from around 10,000 per day to around 100,000*, as some foreign site discovers the site.
It's only ever foreign sites, too - no English-language sites seem to generate that amount of hits. I suppose I have no way of knowing if I'm the butt of a thousand jokes on the sites that link me.
Anyway, my point is that if you're looking for sources of the slashdot effect, don't forget to include foreign sites, as it's likely that foreign countries could conceivably have 'national portals', or whatever.
* I presume this fits within the bounds of the
If you don't need it, go to your services menu, and set the messenger service to 'off'.
I have a java applet online that allows you to fiddle with the values in the equation and generate the 'super'shapes in realtime:
bodytag.org/supershapes1/
I know several game testers, and none of them had any testing (game or software) experience - they walked in and demonstrated that they loved games, and had the patience to sit through test after test after test. I do hear that play-testing is an infinitely better job than straight bug testing, as you're more there to offer feedback on the gameplay and balance, but it's also a position that's usually filled these days by the customers inbetween release and the first patch :D
With the prevalence of PDAs, and phones with PDA functions, it's getting ever harder to break the Outlook stranglehold - my phone syncs with my Outlook contacts/calendar/todo, and that's VERY important functionality. I'd love to use another PIM, but until the syncing software is available, I, and many other business users aren't likely to make the transition.
And then throw satellite and ground based lasers into the mix, just for fun.
Dan covers this in one of his more recent letters sections. He states that compared to Halogen bulbs, LEDs aren't as efficient, and are best suited to accent lights.
But he says it better than I could.
You also have to consider that NOT being allowed to post is going to be frustrating as hell for subscribers - it means we (well, 'we' when I subscribe) will have to come back to the story later, once in 'posting time'.
(This are a Melbournian's answer to your questions) No-one in Australia actually drinks Fosters, it's impossible to get in Pubs (where Tooheys or Carlton/Victoria Bitter generally own most of the pubs), and tastes crap. We're well aware that it's one of our most successful exports, however (even if it does taste like crap). V, Red Bull or Coffee suffice as drinks to keep you up at night. Melbourne city has at least four cafes and three 7-11s per square meter, so it's anything you want, really.
Actually, those prices were AUD - I had meant to reply to the other poster who was asking about AU prices, but slashdot's lynx interface was a bit naff, so I replied to the parent of that post.
200GB - $1062
400GB - $1852
500GB - $2256
From zytech.com.au
You could always go to the Leaning Tower of Piza, as you'd be foreverafter be able to belittle other people's whack-ass engineering ideas with "Bah! That'll just end up just as broken as the Leaning Tower of Piza, and have you even seen it??"
I love my job!
funny... anything that looks like you're wearing an ASCOT and you claim it doesnt make you look like a dork... funny... really funny.... Perhaps I shouldn't be replying to ACs, but that's just a Crumpler bag (the messenger/courier bags that every man and his dog are wearing these days). The reason there are so few photos on the site is because the system looks DEAD BORING (which is the point). It's a bag, a phone, and some headphones. Zzz.
If you feel like making your own non-instrusive wearable, one that DOESN'T make you look like a dork, and doesn't require specialist hardware, please check out http://riot.com.au/
Disclaimer: this is one of my projects.
"Nvidia's drivers work with Stereoscopic LCD shutter, and Red/blue"
/. seems to have blocked my entire IP block from posting.
These drivers also work with proper VR Head Mounted Displays (Such as the relatively cheap i-o SVGA 3D glasses), making them their cards the perfect CHEAP choice for homebrew VR developers.
Ugh, I had to post this message by VNCing to my home machine because
What I want is an FM radio with MP3 recorder and programmable recording
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Archos (makers of the Multimedia Jukebox) make pretty much exactly what you are after (not sure about the programmable recording).
http://www.archos.com/lang=en//products/prw_50032
"... I just did some basic demoing, like showing him the zooming dock at the bottom, window shadows, speach recognition, and of course the fish in the background (yes, any OpenGL screen saver can be run as a desktop background). ...
"You can't have that in your computer. It's nigh impossible in Windows. But if you got a Mac..."
FYI, it requires 3rd-party software, but the only thing windows can't do out of that list is the zooming dock.
See, the weird thing here is that the text referring to the person who submitted this article ('anonymous reader') hass a link to the server that this notebook sits on - could it be that in self-promotion, they killed their own machine?
As a sysadmin, is there any information anywhere on what sort of machine/connection can handle a slashdot load? I've seen hitcounters of slashdotted sites, and the hits weren't as bad as I was expecting, is it really just that slashdotted servers are 486s in someone's shed?
Don't be too hard on them, according to this CNN story, a mountaineer was saved by a telemarketer who called him while he was stuck on a mountain.
This is a question, and not a statement
While this does a nice job of crunching numbers, how do they know that their algorithms are any good at doing what they do? Or are they trying to simulate things that aren't continuously kicked around by chaos theory?
I ask because I've been looking at dynamics in my spare time, and simulating something as small as cigarette smoke accurately seems impossible (although I must say Jos Stam and Co did a nice job of making it look real). So it seems a bit bewildering to see something trying to simulate the earth, even if only at a macro level.
E3 exists to allow publishers to show off upcoming titles - E3 gives awards to the people who generated the most positive attention and hype for their product.
What exactly is the problem here? I would understand this story if it was about Doom3 being awarded 'Game of the Year', but it's not; it's being honoured as having the most impressive preview out of all the thousands of games out there, and I don't see how anyone could find fault with that.