I'm dumb. Indented stuff doesn't look broken because all that is getting covered is whitespace. It actually wasn't fixed while I was in the middle of complaining.
In Safari on my Mac, the lefthand navigation covers part of the left side of the center pane. Please fix, and then I'm sure I'll learn to tolerate it:)
This story puts me in the uncomfortable position of having to decide if I hate Ticketmaster more or scalpers more. I'll have to get back to you on that.
Ditto that on the Jawbone. My boss had a Jawbone Prime and recently switched to a Jawbone Icon. He uses it in the datacenter a lot. I never know he is there unless he tells me. Like most, our datacenter is really loud.
Also, when I am sitting next to him in the office and I make a quip about something he is saying on the phone, the person on the other end can't hear it unless he chooses to repeat it to them. I have gotten pretty chatty with the obnoxious comments trying to trip him up before. I come very close to getting in a lot of trouble on the few occasions he chooses to use his (non-noise-cancelled) desk phone.
The magic is done with a secondary mic that touches his face and presumably only lets through the frequencies it detects he is speaking. Pretty cool really.
I think this is not completely unrealistic. I do not block every ad, but I do it selectively for sites that irritate me. For instance, Facebook ads get blocked because I don't ever want to see those fucking teeth ads again. Also, I need to filter Facebook to block all of those surveys anyway. Slashdot apparently offers to remove ads for free if you post several good comments, but I have never taken them up on that and clicked the box because the ads here are not that irritating.
I don't think the advertisers will ever come to a consensus that blinking popup ads of dancing babies with awful teeth schilling for fraudulent mortgage companies that install malware are below a certain standard of taste and should not be used, but the sites I use most often already seem to have the self-respect not to run crap like that. Maybe if I spent more of my online time searching for free ringtones, things would be different for me.
Put another way, I am too lazy to block ads unless they piss me off. Maybe the folks at Google are expecting a lot of people to be like me.
How about a prize for the team that can destroy the most autonomous lunar rovers on their way to defile the Apollo landing sites in order to claim that idiotic x-prize.
Otherwise, check fpga4fun.com . They use a tiny FPGA board, which reminds me of the Arduino: it has everything you need and nothing more.
I have been playing with the Pluto board from fpga4fun. This is great for little proof of concept projects. It is too limited for big projects, but as a hobbyist, I have found that there is a lot of room to play and learn on the cheapest one before I need an upgrade.
The most common digraph in English is "th". In QWERTY both those letters are typed with the same finger, which absolutely requires repositioning each time it is typed.
Some of your problems using your qwerty keyboard might be ameliorated by pressing 'h' with the proper finger.
Incidentally, if we include h in the left-hand side of the keyboard, the longest word is a tie between haberdasheress and thereafterward.
Does anyone else find themselves trying to use this in the password field? For me, there is brief annoyance that it doesn't work, followed closely by a feeling of silliness mixed with relief.
Google uses Nuance Communications' speech recognition engine. That's interesting and I'd like to know where that information comes from. To me, it seems like something in-house that's in its very early stages. The "I'm thinking" noise sounds like a recording of somebody quietly mumbling, imitating the "I'm thinking" sounds that systems powered by TellMe make. I think toll-free directory (1-800-555-1212) uses TellMe. In my (brief and unscientific) tests, that service compared favorably with Google's in recognizing the stuff I was trying to tell it. Of course, since toll-free directory doesn't actually provide the same information as the google service, it wouldn't be a good replacement. The comparison is purely academic.
Hmm, I just visited TellMe Studio http://studio.tellme.com/ to check my facts and noticed they're getting bought by Microsoft. This was announced just over three weeks ago. To me, the timing of google 411's release seems an awful lot like a response to this. I hope google decides to go a similar direction to tellme and let the public sign up to play with it for free.
I had terrible luck with the voice recognition talking to Google on my cellphone. I tried about eight times and I couldn't get it to recognize my zip code (55418) it got 1 or 2 digits off every time, or skipped it entirely. When I broke down and punched in the numbers with my fingers, it worked great, but if I wanted to punch buttons with my fingers, I'd just send google a text message. I don't recall exactly what, but it had trouble getting a couple of the other things I told it too. I'm excited to see where they take this technology. IMO, it has lots of room to grow.
And making powerpoint presentations with continuously looping audio is not something you should be teaching anybody. If you knew how to do your job you'd be teaching them why this is a bad idea. This seems like a perfectly appropriate use of the software for a third grader. Sure, it's annoying. I consider it poor taste and perhaps distracting from the material, but I think it's safe to assume that most discussion of taste and effective presentation strategies would be lost on a third grade audience anyway. Taste and restraint can come later. This is just an introduction to the tools.
When you hand a kid a box of markers and let him scribble, do you then go berating him about how the colors clash in his drawing? Just let them be kids. When folks out in the business world design powerpoint presentations at a third grade level, that sucks. Sadly, it's all too common.
That said, I do hate powerpoint. A lot. I have to say I agree there should be a special place in hell for teaching it to any age group. : )
I have a paranoid client who would use a product like this in the real world as well. Their house was constructed with gypsum panels with aluminum backed paper. All of the custom cabinetry is steel. The windows are something special too. The place is cool as hell. No, I can't get a cellphone signal in there. The place was designed to keep the radio waves out, not in, but it works both ways. I wouldn't put that place up against a determined nsa van, but it is really impressive what the gets blocked. As far as I know, none of those panels are intentionally bonded to ground, so it could be a lot better.
This place has a "safe room" too, but it's just the place where they put new plastic products coming into the house for a month or two to let them outgas most of their VOCs. I get my chuckles about it, and I'm not allowed to go there if I put on deodorant that day, but I have to admit that the air quality in there is superb. Placebo or not, I always feel better after working there for a day.
Interestingly, I still can't even go to their site with my Mac. When I go to puretracks.com in Safari on my Mac, I get the following unfriendly message:
We apologize, but www.puretracks.com is not available for Mac OS. I am thinking that they might want to rethink their strategy for breaking into the iPod market...
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That was fast!
I'm dumb. Indented stuff doesn't look broken because all that is getting covered is whitespace. It actually wasn't fixed while I was in the middle of complaining.
Please fix
That was fast!
In Safari on my Mac, the lefthand navigation covers part of the left side of the center pane. Please fix, and then I'm sure I'll learn to tolerate it :)
Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen. I still think you're sexy, Larry.
Is State Farm his insurance company, or the other guy's?
This story puts me in the uncomfortable position of having to decide if I hate Ticketmaster more or scalpers more. I'll have to get back to you on that.
As a jailbreaker, it is always a little bittersweet to see my arbitrary code execution bugs fixed.
Ditto that on the Jawbone. My boss had a Jawbone Prime and recently switched to a Jawbone Icon. He uses it in the datacenter a lot. I never know he is there unless he tells me. Like most, our datacenter is really loud.
Also, when I am sitting next to him in the office and I make a quip about something he is saying on the phone, the person on the other end can't hear it unless he chooses to repeat it to them. I have gotten pretty chatty with the obnoxious comments trying to trip him up before. I come very close to getting in a lot of trouble on the few occasions he chooses to use his (non-noise-cancelled) desk phone.
The magic is done with a secondary mic that touches his face and presumably only lets through the frequencies it detects he is speaking. Pretty cool really.
Please, please learn the backstory before commenting.
I want to, and that's why I visited the forums. Perhaps you or some other helpful Slashdotter can provide a few helpful links? :)
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"Simpler" Hello World Demonstrated In C
Every time I read an article like this, it gives me a smug face wondering why more people don't switch.
Swtch to what, VMware or Parallels?
I think this is not completely unrealistic. I do not block every ad, but I do it selectively for sites that irritate me. For instance, Facebook ads get blocked because I don't ever want to see those fucking teeth ads again. Also, I need to filter Facebook to block all of those surveys anyway. Slashdot apparently offers to remove ads for free if you post several good comments, but I have never taken them up on that and clicked the box because the ads here are not that irritating.
I don't think the advertisers will ever come to a consensus that blinking popup ads of dancing babies with awful teeth schilling for fraudulent mortgage companies that install malware are below a certain standard of taste and should not be used, but the sites I use most often already seem to have the self-respect not to run crap like that. Maybe if I spent more of my online time searching for free ringtones, things would be different for me.
Put another way, I am too lazy to block ads unless they piss me off. Maybe the folks at Google are expecting a lot of people to be like me.
How about a prize for the team that can destroy the most autonomous lunar rovers on their way to defile the Apollo landing sites in order to claim that idiotic x-prize.
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/about-the-prize/rules-and-guidelines
Otherwise, check fpga4fun.com . They use a tiny FPGA board, which reminds me of the Arduino: it has everything you need and nothing more.
I have been playing with the Pluto board from fpga4fun. This is great for little proof of concept projects. It is too limited for big projects, but as a hobbyist, I have found that there is a lot of room to play and learn on the cheapest one before I need an upgrade.
What if they outrank you?
The most common digraph in English is "th". In QWERTY both those letters are typed with the same finger, which absolutely requires repositioning each time it is typed.
Some of your problems using your qwerty keyboard might be ameliorated by pressing 'h' with the proper finger.
Incidentally, if we include h in the left-hand side of the keyboard, the longest word is a tie between haberdasheress and thereafterward.
Does anyone else find themselves trying to use this in the password field? For me, there is brief annoyance that it doesn't work, followed closely by a feeling of silliness mixed with relief.
Great, so how fast does it reboot?
Come on folks, it's time to be counted!
Now where can I download the Alexa plugin for lynx?
This just means that he understands the computer usage habits of the average slashdotter.
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Relax--it's only ones and zeros
Hmm, I just visited TellMe Studio http://studio.tellme.com/ to check my facts and noticed they're getting bought by Microsoft. This was announced just over three weeks ago. To me, the timing of google 411's release seems an awful lot like a response to this. I hope google decides to go a similar direction to tellme and let the public sign up to play with it for free.
I had terrible luck with the voice recognition talking to Google on my cellphone. I tried about eight times and I couldn't get it to recognize my zip code (55418) it got 1 or 2 digits off every time, or skipped it entirely. When I broke down and punched in the numbers with my fingers, it worked great, but if I wanted to punch buttons with my fingers, I'd just send google a text message. I don't recall exactly what, but it had trouble getting a couple of the other things I told it too. I'm excited to see where they take this technology. IMO, it has lots of room to grow.
When you hand a kid a box of markers and let him scribble, do you then go berating him about how the colors clash in his drawing? Just let them be kids. When folks out in the business world design powerpoint presentations at a third grade level, that sucks. Sadly, it's all too common.
That said, I do hate powerpoint. A lot. I have to say I agree there should be a special place in hell for teaching it to any age group. : )
I have a paranoid client who would use a product like this in the real world as well. Their house was constructed with gypsum panels with aluminum backed paper. All of the custom cabinetry is steel. The windows are something special too. The place is cool as hell. No, I can't get a cellphone signal in there. The place was designed to keep the radio waves out, not in, but it works both ways. I wouldn't put that place up against a determined nsa van, but it is really impressive what the gets blocked. As far as I know, none of those panels are intentionally bonded to ground, so it could be a lot better.
This place has a "safe room" too, but it's just the place where they put new plastic products coming into the house for a month or two to let them outgas most of their VOCs. I get my chuckles about it, and I'm not allowed to go there if I put on deodorant that day, but I have to admit that the air quality in there is superb. Placebo or not, I always feel better after working there for a day.