I've used both types and a wired mouse is far superior and much cheaper. A bluetooth mouse does take too long to wake up, costs too much, and the batteries will die when you need them most.
With a wireless mouse with a USB dongle you will lose the USB dongle. But before that happens your batteries will die when you need them the most. And it costs too much.
Cheap wired mice weigh less, cost so little you don't worry about losing it, are durable, and always work perfectly.
OMG. Anyone can create any second level domain they want! Think of the chaos!!! Oh, wait, you said TLD. OMFG Think of the chaos!!! Extortion! Porn!
Actually nothing bad will happen. Settle down 14 year old slashdot readers.
I use linux on my laptops, but I have a CS degree so I can. To make my desktop span two monitors with different resolution I had to edit my xorg.conf file by hand. None of the gnome tools could do it. It took me a long time figure out how to get my microphone to pick up sound so I could use skype. My laptop wouldn't suspend until I hand edited/etc/defaults/acpi-whatever. I even had to change the prefs on the volume widget in the panel so that it would actually adjust the volume of my speakers. These are all things that work out of box on any other platform.
Apple isn't killing linux on the desktop. It has never even been close to being a viable desktop platform for non-tech users.
This is how it always works. Once you have enough experience doing anything, from building houses to writing code, you start to spend more time sheepherding the less experienced and less time implementing. It's the circle of life. I didn't rtfa.
Why would my non-technical friend want to transform his computer from a fully function system, with all his documents, programs, music, etc into a semi functional linux system running off a cdrom? Removing the word 'linux' from the name of the cd doesn't make it more appealing. And what does 'internet freedom' mean to my non-technical friend? Will he be able to get to more web sites? No. Maybe less given that linux web browsers can only render a subset of the pages windows browsers can. Can he save new files or music to his live cd? No. All your work goes away when you shut the computer down.
Exactly what freedoms are available to you when you run a linux live system off a cdrom that are unavailable to you on your fully functional windows system?
They've provided me with the same email address for at least six years, for free. I can never remember a time when their email system has been down. So I assume all those thousands (I assume they have thousands) of people are keeping an eye on the email server. When the the server looks like it is crashing they swing into action, grabbing a new server off a dell loading dock, and pass it, fire brigade style, to the email server room where a tech plugs it in, restores a norton ghost image labeled 'email server', unplugs the ethernet cable from the failing server, and plugs it into the new server.
You were transferred to supervisors. You should request to be transferred to someone who got an A in high school math. Odds are good there are one or two underachievers hiding in the call center, but there is no way in hell a person like that would get promoted to (or want to be promoted to) supervisor. On the next call, just say "Please go from cube to cube and ask each employee what their best high school math grade was. When someone says 'A' rather than 'huh?' or 'freshman', or anything else: transfer me to them."
I suppose kids aren't reading this, but if you are, smash your parent's blackberry. Blackberries are expensive. They might get another one, but after you smash three or four, they won't get more. If their blackberries are issued by their employer, your parent will be fired after you smash two or three. Again, problem solved. Don't be afraid. Your parent my yell at you, make scary faces and noises, and send you to your room. But that's attention, and any attention is better than none. And they'll get over it an a day or two and love you again, without a blackberry.
Is this worse than bob? If removing tool bars and menus and only allowing one application to run at a time maximized was some sort of user interface panacea, I think every OS on the planet would already be operating that way. The actual reason for removing tool bars, menus, and forcing applications to run maximized: that's really easy to do. It is much much much harder to actually _create_ some kind of new user interface that will be 'easy' for anyone in the world to pick up and use, and then write applications that take advantage of that revolutionary new interface (there's no way to force existing applications into that hole).
Much as it sucks, the WIMP paradigm is still the best anyone has ever come up with. Selectively disabling portions of WIMP (based on how easy it is to disable, not usability) doesn't make WIMP better. It makes it worse.
You are asking why all the high school dropouts who got suckered into the army by slick recruiters haven't picked up Arabic by marching around town listening to fragments of conversations, while dodging IEDs and such? Really? That's what you can't figure out?
I know what you mean. I have such varied and eclectic taste in liquor that I have to knock over liquor store after liquor store, sampling bottle after bottle, until I find one I like. Then I pay for that one. I'm not some asshole, after all.
And, a couple of decades ago, we realized those wood coated electronics were ugly as sin, and we stopped making them. My mom can't even get the garbage man to take the old console tv away. Why anyone would buy one of these ugly ass 'console' computers is beyond me.
I started with apple basic in elementary school, and I didn't have a problem learning anything else later in life. The idea that by learning one language you somehow can't learn something else later, or have difficulty learning something new, is absurd. It doesn't matter how famous the person who said it is.
I've been lucky to never have problems. But I've used an ergo keyboard for years though. So maybe it actually has prevented problems. But I learned on a standard keyboard, which is probably why I'm still a little faster on those.
The other day I tried a standard, rectangular, old school, non-ergonomic keyboard, and I found I could type much faster and more accurately than with my fancy split key thing. Not sure what would happen if I used it for long periods of time, but I might actually try switching back. Perhaps I was suckered by some ergonomic snake oil.
I think it is more like, when using AJAX, user interfaces are slowly creeping back up to where they were 10 years ago, before everything was crippled to work as a web form in the lowest common denominator browser. Web interfaces still have a hell of a long way to go before they are even close to the level of sophistication that rich clients were at 10+ years ago. Everything that is new was old once before.
Do they also require an external drive to backup the laptop? Do they require a 3 week course that teaches the students how to backup their laptop? Do they explain to the students that, with all the running around students do, the will most likely drop their laptop, or have their laptop stolen, resulting in loss of work, lower grades and loss of money? Did they retro-fit all their desks and library tables with loops to thread their laptop locks through so the student can take a piss break without having their laptop walk off? Do they require laptop locks? I bet not. I bet they just throw on their plaid used car salesman style pants and sell sell sell the laptop!
As a slashdot reading hacker, I have a limited income - my allowance from Mom. Thanks Mom! Lapinator looks like a great product. How many computer products have type B thinsulate in them? Not many! Sadly, I cannot afford my own Lapinator, the worlds greatest lap desk!. But I'm a hacker, so I figured out a sweet log mod (It's log! It's log! It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!) that lets you simulate your own Lapinator! Lapinator is the worlds greatest lap desk! Anyway, here's the mod:
Put on the sun screen! you're leaving the basement, and going outside!
Go outside. You should be able to find a log. In a park, or on your farm, or somewhere!
Saw the log into planks. Be careful you don't cut off your quake hand! (Or whatever you use your hand for, LOL!!!!)
Glue the planks together.
Wait for the glue to dry.
Wait for it....
Laminate! (As an exercise for the reader, download a sweet pic of Natalie Portman and laminte it to the glued together planks for a sweet mod of the mod!)
Go back inside (take your glued together laminated planks with you!)
Put the glued together laminated planks on your lap, and then put your laptop on top of that.
There you have it. A sweet mod for those of you who can't afford a lapinator right now. Lapinator is the greatest lap desk ever made!
An organization with the name 'Public Awareness of Science and Engineering (PAWS) Drama Fund' didn't produce an entertaining drama? I'm shocked - shocked I tell you!
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I've used both types and a wired mouse is far superior and much cheaper. A bluetooth mouse does take too long to wake up, costs too much, and the batteries will die when you need them most. With a wireless mouse with a USB dongle you will lose the USB dongle. But before that happens your batteries will die when you need them the most. And it costs too much. Cheap wired mice weigh less, cost so little you don't worry about losing it, are durable, and always work perfectly.
OMG. Anyone can create any second level domain they want! Think of the chaos!!! Oh, wait, you said TLD. OMFG Think of the chaos!!! Extortion! Porn! Actually nothing bad will happen. Settle down 14 year old slashdot readers.
I use linux on my laptops, but I have a CS degree so I can. To make my desktop span two monitors with different resolution I had to edit my xorg.conf file by hand. None of the gnome tools could do it. It took me a long time figure out how to get my microphone to pick up sound so I could use skype. My laptop wouldn't suspend until I hand edited /etc/defaults/acpi-whatever. I even had to change the prefs on the volume widget in the panel so that it would actually adjust the volume of my speakers. These are all things that work out of box on any other platform.
Apple isn't killing linux on the desktop. It has never even been close to being a viable desktop platform for non-tech users.
This is how it always works. Once you have enough experience doing anything, from building houses to writing code, you start to spend more time sheepherding the less experienced and less time implementing. It's the circle of life. I didn't rtfa.
Are you getting your public money from the magic public money tree, or from 'those with cash'?
Exactly what freedoms are available to you when you run a linux live system off a cdrom that are unavailable to you on your fully functional windows system?
that yahoo is going down the shitter at top speed. Get out now before you pay check comes in yootels (or whatever) rather than dollars!
They've provided me with the same email address for at least six years, for free. I can never remember a time when their email system has been down. So I assume all those thousands (I assume they have thousands) of people are keeping an eye on the email server. When the the server looks like it is crashing they swing into action, grabbing a new server off a dell loading dock, and pass it, fire brigade style, to the email server room where a tech plugs it in, restores a norton ghost image labeled 'email server', unplugs the ethernet cable from the failing server, and plugs it into the new server.
Know how to. Write in complete. Sentences if you. Are a CE. O of a big. Company?
You were transferred to supervisors. You should request to be transferred to someone who got an A in high school math. Odds are good there are one or two underachievers hiding in the call center, but there is no way in hell a person like that would get promoted to (or want to be promoted to) supervisor. On the next call, just say "Please go from cube to cube and ask each employee what their best high school math grade was. When someone says 'A' rather than 'huh?' or 'freshman', or anything else: transfer me to them."
I suppose kids aren't reading this, but if you are, smash your parent's blackberry. Blackberries are expensive. They might get another one, but after you smash three or four, they won't get more. If their blackberries are issued by their employer, your parent will be fired after you smash two or three. Again, problem solved. Don't be afraid. Your parent my yell at you, make scary faces and noises, and send you to your room. But that's attention, and any attention is better than none. And they'll get over it an a day or two and love you again, without a blackberry.
It makes my slow connection faster? It's (Note the apostrophe there. You should give 'em a shot. They're useful all over.) a miracle!
Is this worse than bob? If removing tool bars and menus and only allowing one application to run at a time maximized was some sort of user interface panacea, I think every OS on the planet would already be operating that way. The actual reason for removing tool bars, menus, and forcing applications to run maximized: that's really easy to do. It is much much much harder to actually _create_ some kind of new user interface that will be 'easy' for anyone in the world to pick up and use, and then write applications that take advantage of that revolutionary new interface (there's no way to force existing applications into that hole). Much as it sucks, the WIMP paradigm is still the best anyone has ever come up with. Selectively disabling portions of WIMP (based on how easy it is to disable, not usability) doesn't make WIMP better. It makes it worse.
You are asking why all the high school dropouts who got suckered into the army by slick recruiters haven't picked up Arabic by marching around town listening to fragments of conversations, while dodging IEDs and such? Really? That's what you can't figure out?
I know what you mean. I have such varied and eclectic taste in liquor that I have to knock over liquor store after liquor store, sampling bottle after bottle, until I find one I like. Then I pay for that one. I'm not some asshole, after all.
And, a couple of decades ago, we realized those wood coated electronics were ugly as sin, and we stopped making them. My mom can't even get the garbage man to take the old console tv away. Why anyone would buy one of these ugly ass 'console' computers is beyond me.
I started with apple basic in elementary school, and I didn't have a problem learning anything else later in life. The idea that by learning one language you somehow can't learn something else later, or have difficulty learning something new, is absurd. It doesn't matter how famous the person who said it is.
I've been lucky to never have problems. But I've used an ergo keyboard for years though. So maybe it actually has prevented problems. But I learned on a standard keyboard, which is probably why I'm still a little faster on those.
The other day I tried a standard, rectangular, old school, non-ergonomic keyboard, and I found I could type much faster and more accurately than with my fancy split key thing. Not sure what would happen if I used it for long periods of time, but I might actually try switching back. Perhaps I was suckered by some ergonomic snake oil.
I think it is more like, when using AJAX, user interfaces are slowly creeping back up to where they were 10 years ago, before everything was crippled to work as a web form in the lowest common denominator browser. Web interfaces still have a hell of a long way to go before they are even close to the level of sophistication that rich clients were at 10+ years ago. Everything that is new was old once before.
Do they also require an external drive to backup the laptop? Do they require a 3 week course that teaches the students how to backup their laptop? Do they explain to the students that, with all the running around students do, the will most likely drop their laptop, or have their laptop stolen, resulting in loss of work, lower grades and loss of money? Did they retro-fit all their desks and library tables with loops to thread their laptop locks through so the student can take a piss break without having their laptop walk off? Do they require laptop locks? I bet not. I bet they just throw on their plaid used car salesman style pants and sell sell sell the laptop!
There you have it. A sweet mod for those of you who can't afford a lapinator right now. Lapinator is the greatest lap desk ever made!
Well, if they can look under cars, they can look under the door to the cheer leaders' locker room I guess.
hmm....
Ah ha!
There. That should produce more effective results.
An organization with the name 'Public Awareness of Science and Engineering (PAWS) Drama Fund' didn't produce an entertaining drama? I'm shocked - shocked I tell you!