...both by Hundertwasser and by South American engineers. It's good to see scaling-up attempts.
There was this Austrian chap (he's dead you see) who called himself Friedensreich Hundertwasser (his real name was Friedrich Stowasser) who had all sorts of wonderfully wonky ideas about how to design living spaces in synergy with nature. An absolute lack of square angles is definitely a trademark of his, along with an abundance of colours. There are a number of exhibits and presentations about the man and his works -- here is the home page of the official museum in Vienna, which is definitely worth a visit. http://www1.kunsthauswien.com/english/mainindex.ht m As you can see, Hunderwassers ideas were revolutionary (perhaps too much so), but it has set a trail for other people to follow.
"Other people" recently turned out to be architect Shah Jaafar and professor Kamaruzzaman Sopian of the Advanced Engineering Centre at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who have shown (sorry, no link available) that it is indeed possible to make housing that gets by exclusively on solar power and hydrogen, both of which are natural and infinitely renewable resources (okay, maybe not infinitely, but I'm sure you'll agree it's close enough). This is interesting reading, and sheds a positive light on the future. Maybe there's a way around the current energy- and pollution-related problems of our world after all?
Thank you for the helpful suggestion. My ex-MS brother already suggested it and even provided a sample. Alas, the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator doesn't allow you to properly remap *everything*; even though it seems to, the end result just doesn't work right. [Ctrl]+(whatever) hardly works, [Windows]+(those few keys) are broken, and it's a mess setting up all the int'l characters (ä[a umlaut], ñ[n tilde], [euro]). There are *a lot* more non-USian combos than you'd ever figure.
Thanks, but no go. The hacked DLL works like a charm, however. That is, with the two caveats that (a) all users on my system get Dvorak NO when the system thinks it's "Dvorak US", and (b) I had to kill that tedious Windows-protects-its-DLLs "feature" to make it work.
1) Less finger movement for typical English sentences. This is easily verifiable, and not questioned AFAIK. 2) The keycaps on typical keyboards don't match the letter assignment, so you aren't tempted to look a the keys. 3) It is supported by modern operating systems and can be used with readily available keyboards.
ad 1) True and excellent. I'm a Dane, but most of my typing is in English anyway.
ad 2) True, but not a 'benefit' unless you are taking a blind typing course. For daily work that gets annoying and I have made custom caps for my (standard) keyboard. Also, I am (just as the story submitter) a programmer and occasionally need to find certain caps (say, or ^) and you don't want to go on an adventure to find those.
ad 3) True/false -- it's debatable. The supposedly modern OS that I use at work only supports Dvorak US, so I had to use an ugly hack to replace a DLL in order to use Dvorak NO (with æøå).
"my userID, which I have to enter in QWERTY mode on occasion before my layout preference has taken effect"
I had the same problem, using Windows XP at work, and finding that the initial login (naturally) did not follow my personal prefs. My peeve was not so much the userID; rather, it was annoying to hunt-and-peck a *password* on qwerty.
To change the initial Windows XP login window so it uses Dvorak US instead of the standard (qwerty) layout, change the registry key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload\1" to "00010409". (Actually, in order to support æøå, I've had to replace the Dvorak DLL file with a custom Norwegian variant, so what my XP calls 'Dvorak US' is in effect 'Dvorak NO'.)
DOT Department Of Transportation DOT Damage Over Time (Everquest) DOT Date of Termination DOT Date of Theft DOT Date of Transplanting DOT Deed of Trust DOT Deep Ocean Technology/Transponder DOT Delivered on Time DOT Department Of Telecommunications DOT Department of the Treasury DOT Department of Tourism DOT Department of Trade DOT Department of Transport DOT Design on Textile DOT Designated Order Turnaround (NYSE trading method) DOT Designating Optical Tracker DOT Dictionary Of Occupational Titles DOT Digital Opportunity Task Force DOT Diocese of Torit DOT Direction of Travel DOT Directly Observed Therapy DOT Director of Technology DOT Director Of Training DOT Director On Target DOT Directory of Trades DOT Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate DOT Distributed Object Technology DOT Division Officer Training DOT Document Template (filename extension for Microsoft Word template) DOT Dose Optimized Thermotherapy DOT Druid of the Talon (video game character) DOT Duration Of Therapy DOT Dutch Open Telescope DOT Dynamic Object Technology DOT Dynamic Overclocking Technology
This sounds so much like the "student laptops" (more like tablets) that the cadets(?) used in Ender's Game. Guess we're finally headed for that promised "21st century future", eh?
Technically however, I will hold that DVDJon was in fact cracking (the copy protection), but (as most of us will agree) with fair use in mind. In that regard, I should probably change my rant* to be up-to-date with the fair-use hooplah that's all the rage these days.
What I meant by 'cracking' was the act of redistibuting license keys, or cracked programs, in breach of law. Fair enogh?
_____ * admittedly a copy/paste from a rant page on my web site...
*Dramatic drum roll* A LOT OF US ARE HACKERS! ...but (hopefully) a measly few of us are crackers.
Every so often the media prints bad stuff about hackers. More often than not this is a misnomer. A cracker -- the correct term -- is a person who uses computers to do Bad Things (breaking copy protection, committing electronic break-in and theft, writing viruses, etc).
On the other hand, the term "hacker" describes a skillful and devoted programmer. Yes, hackers break some rules, but so do artists - it's a good bad attitude. To stay in that context, for obvious reasons hackers would no more be affiliated with crackers than artists would with graffiti scribblers (though even graffiti has its good and bad sides), so naturally the "hacker" vs. "cracker" discord perpetuated in the media is uncomfortable.
Anyway, in spite of constant media abuse I will not eschew the word. In fact, I frequently pester journalists about their term misuse, though I realize that attempting to enlighten the media about their misconception is probably a lost battle by now, after years and years of misuse.
But, as they say, you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
I read a couple of pages on your site (sorry), and I must say I like your style, tongue-in-cheek as it is. I'll definitely return later to view a screenshot or two.
I hawe to ask: any plans to make this into a cross-platform thing? Otherwise I'd be stuck on my work computer, and I'd much rather run it on my own hardware.
... I got this Apple Dekstop Bus port in place of one of my hands (you guess which one), and now I'm working on crummy x86 boxes (what? Oh, nevermind then...).
Anyway, it's all USB now and my bionic ADB is useless. I'm back on that godawful actual-physical-touching-a-keyboard method so yeah, my body modification hinders me (at least, all the look-at-that-freak looks but none of the benefits)...
I'm wary of switching because I would then have problems using other people's computers.
...which is why I held off until I could be a fulltime sw developer (on my own workstation) instead of doing onsite support (on other people's (broken) computers).
Your point is very real, though I guess you can always do like my brother and bring your own keyboard wherever you go (which is not because he uses Dvorak, but because he uses TouchStream).
For all you guys thinking that the keyboard is the way to go: are you still referring to qwerty?
True, compared to the mouse the keyboard is an insanely precise HCI device, mainly because (once you have learned the dimensions of your specific keyboard) you 'just know' where everything is, and your muscle memory will outperform any positionally non-absolute device (mouse/trackpoint/touchpad/joystick).
But don't think that's as good as it gets.
Even for the much-celebrated keyboard, improvements are possible. Case in point: the actual layout of the keys. Yes, I am a qwerty-to-Dvorak convert, and let me tell you it's an improvement. Granted, a few key combos (such as Ctrl-ZXCV) are blasted from a nice row to all over the keyboard (but for historic reasons personally I prefer the "Ctl-Insert" style anyway, in spite of my Macintosh heritage).
Typing plain text (such as this) is not only faster, it is noticeably more comfortable. Plus, as a nerd/geek I gotta appreciate the amount of exercise it saves me, even if it's just af the ten-finger variety.;-)
Compare for yourself: Dvorak and qwerty layouts side-by-side This post is two-thirds of the finger movement in Dvorak, with more than 61% of all hits on the home row, compared to just some 30% using qwerty.
... hello? Has anybody read Snow crash? Glass knives! I tell you, they are transparent in more ways than one.
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Well, I can see how my post was worded a bit weird... I was trying to find a picture of one of those sleek T40-type keyboards, not the 10-pound indestructible old-school ones.:o)
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I would like to recommend an IBM keyboard, but it turns out they're apparently quite hard to find a picture of. A couple of my colleagues use them with great delight; I myself prefer full-height keys.
I don't know what ThinkPad you have, but you can get a "framed external" T40-series keyboard with pointer stick and touchpad and everything.
"We now have a 37 hour work week, and 5 week of paid vacation." In addition, you may take a 6th week of --unpaid-- vacation. Most companies demand a certain percentage (say, 50%) of vacation spent before midsummer.
"It basically shut down our country for a few weeks, but most people in Denmark were supportive of the strike." A few weeks? Where I was (in the capital) it lasted one week, if even that. And the effect it had on the population was a mad panic to hoard (of all things) petrol and yeast. (One guy even blew up wis house because he filled a bathtub in his cellar with petrol, and the fumes ignited. Tsk, but that's Darwin at work right there.)
Let it also be known that I had NO IDEA about this strike until I checked/. AFTER I came to work today. And I'm not exactly alone in the building, either.
I had that too, I think it's to do with extentions. When I clicked the arrow (on 104) it complained that an update to Copy Plain Text wasn't available after all.
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"South American" ... where'd that come from? Of course, I meant to say "Asian".
...both by Hundertwasser and by South American engineers. It's good to see scaling-up attempts.
t m
There was this Austrian chap (he's dead you see) who called himself Friedensreich Hundertwasser (his real name was Friedrich Stowasser) who had all sorts of wonderfully wonky ideas about how to design living spaces in synergy with nature.
An absolute lack of square angles is definitely a trademark of his, along with an abundance of colours. There are a number of exhibits and presentations about the man and his works -- here is the home page of the official museum in Vienna, which is definitely worth a visit.
http://www1.kunsthauswien.com/english/mainindex.h
As you can see, Hunderwassers ideas were revolutionary (perhaps too much so), but it has set a trail for other people to follow.
"Other people" recently turned out to be architect Shah Jaafar and professor Kamaruzzaman Sopian of the Advanced Engineering Centre at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who have shown (sorry, no link available) that it is indeed possible to make housing that gets by exclusively on solar power and hydrogen, both of which are natural and infinitely renewable resources (okay, maybe not infinitely, but I'm sure you'll agree it's close enough). This is interesting reading, and sheds a positive light on the future. Maybe there's a way around the current energy- and pollution-related problems of our world after all?
"...modpoints...
... in English, you rarely concatenate words the way you do in many Germanic languages. So you should have written 'mod points'.
:o)
--
I'm trying to improve my English. Please correct me on any spelling/grammar errors in this post."
Okay
Cheers.
Thank you for the helpful suggestion. My ex-MS brother already suggested it and even provided a sample. Alas, the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator doesn't allow you to properly remap *everything*; even though it seems to, the end result just doesn't work right. [Ctrl]+(whatever) hardly works, [Windows]+(those few keys) are broken, and it's a mess setting up all the int'l characters (ä[a umlaut], ñ[n tilde], [euro]). There are *a lot* more non-USian combos than you'd ever figure.
Thanks, but no go. The hacked DLL works like a charm, however. That is, with the two caveats that (a) all users on my system get Dvorak NO when the system thinks it's "Dvorak US", and (b) I had to kill that tedious Windows-protects-its-DLLs "feature" to make it work.
1) Less finger movement for typical English sentences. This is easily verifiable, and not questioned AFAIK.
2) The keycaps on typical keyboards don't match the letter assignment, so you aren't tempted to look a the keys.
3) It is supported by modern operating systems and can be used with readily available keyboards.
ad 1)
True and excellent. I'm a Dane, but most of my typing is in English anyway.
ad 2)
True, but not a 'benefit' unless you are taking a blind typing course. For daily work that gets annoying and I have made custom caps for my (standard) keyboard. Also, I am (just as the story submitter) a programmer and occasionally need to find certain caps (say, or ^) and you don't want to go on an adventure to find those.
ad 3)
True/false -- it's debatable. The supposedly modern OS that I use at work only supports Dvorak US, so I had to use an ugly hack to replace a DLL in order to use Dvorak NO (with æøå).
"my userID, which I have to enter in QWERTY mode on occasion before my layout preference has taken effect"
I had the same problem, using Windows XP at work, and finding that the initial login (naturally) did not follow my personal prefs. My peeve was not so much the userID; rather, it was annoying to hunt-and-peck a *password* on qwerty.
To change the initial Windows XP login window so it uses Dvorak US instead of the standard (qwerty) layout, change the registry key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload\1" to "00010409". (Actually, in order to support æøå, I've had to replace the Dvorak DLL file with a custom Norwegian variant, so what my XP calls 'Dvorak US' is in effect 'Dvorak NO'.)
*wiping tears from eyes* Thanks man, I needed a good laugh. I wish I had mod points for you.
This should be a reply to (your own?) grandchild-post, but anyway...
... & various other international goings-on that are, roughly speaking, more established than (open source) ".org"s.
http://nato.int/
http://eu.int/
Acording to http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym= DOT, there are 35 kinds of DOTs:
DOT Department Of Transportation
DOT Damage Over Time (Everquest)
DOT Date of Termination
DOT Date of Theft
DOT Date of Transplanting
DOT Deed of Trust
DOT Deep Ocean Technology/Transponder
DOT Delivered on Time
DOT Department Of Telecommunications
DOT Department of the Treasury
DOT Department of Tourism
DOT Department of Trade
DOT Department of Transport
DOT Design on Textile
DOT Designated Order Turnaround (NYSE trading method)
DOT Designating Optical Tracker
DOT Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
DOT Digital Opportunity Task Force
DOT Diocese of Torit
DOT Direction of Travel
DOT Directly Observed Therapy
DOT Director of Technology
DOT Director Of Training
DOT Director On Target
DOT Directory of Trades
DOT Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate
DOT Distributed Object Technology
DOT Division Officer Training
DOT Document Template (filename extension for Microsoft Word template)
DOT Dose Optimized Thermotherapy
DOT Druid of the Talon (video game character)
DOT Duration Of Therapy
DOT Dutch Open Telescope
DOT Dynamic Object Technology
DOT Dynamic Overclocking Technology
...it's about load testing his data center!
"Here's some pics to check it out." ?? Dead giveaway!
This sounds so much like the "student laptops" (more like tablets) that the cadets(?) used in Ender's Game. Guess we're finally headed for that promised "21st century future", eh?
Isn't this a dupe from half a year ago?
Too bad if it's just a symptom of the problem(s) just not being fixed yet...
Wow, that sure reminded me of old man Lehrer!
h tm
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/newmath.
Indeed, you are quite correct.
Technically however, I will hold that DVDJon was in fact cracking (the copy protection), but (as most of us will agree) with fair use in mind. In that regard, I should probably change my rant* to be up-to-date with the fair-use hooplah that's all the rage these days.
What I meant by 'cracking' was the act of redistibuting license keys, or cracked programs, in breach of law. Fair enogh?
_____
* admittedly a copy/paste from a rant page on my web site...
*Dramatic drum roll*
...but (hopefully) a measly few of us are crackers.
A LOT OF US ARE HACKERS!
Every so often the media prints bad stuff about hackers. More often than not this is a misnomer. A cracker -- the correct term -- is a person who uses computers to do Bad Things (breaking copy protection, committing electronic break-in and theft, writing viruses, etc).
On the other hand, the term "hacker" describes a skillful and devoted programmer. Yes, hackers break some rules, but so do artists - it's a good bad attitude. To stay in that context, for obvious reasons hackers would no more be affiliated with crackers than artists would with graffiti scribblers (though even graffiti has its good and bad sides), so naturally the "hacker" vs. "cracker" discord perpetuated in the media is uncomfortable.
Anyway, in spite of constant media abuse I will not eschew the word. In fact, I frequently pester journalists about their term misuse, though I realize that attempting to enlighten the media about their misconception is probably a lost battle by now, after years and years of misuse.
But, as they say, you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
Go ahead, mod me down. Be a sheep.
I read a couple of pages on your site (sorry), and I must say I like your style, tongue-in-cheek as it is. I'll definitely return later to view a screenshot or two.
I hawe to ask: any plans to make this into a cross-platform thing? Otherwise I'd be stuck on my work computer, and I'd much rather run it on my own hardware.
Here, compare the two keyboards side-by-side with your own text!
... I got this Apple Dekstop Bus port in place of one of my hands (you guess which one), and now I'm working on crummy x86 boxes (what? Oh, nevermind then...).
Anyway, it's all USB now and my bionic ADB is useless. I'm back on that godawful actual-physical-touching-a-keyboard method so yeah, my body modification hinders me (at least, all the look-at-that-freak looks but none of the benefits)...
Dang.
I'm wary of switching because I would then have problems using other people's computers.
...which is why I held off until I could be a fulltime sw developer (on my own workstation) instead of doing onsite support (on other people's (broken) computers).
Your point is very real, though I guess you can always do like my brother and bring your own keyboard wherever you go (which is not because he uses Dvorak, but because he uses TouchStream).
For all you guys thinking that the keyboard is the way to go: are you still referring to qwerty?
;-)
True, compared to the mouse the keyboard is an insanely precise HCI device, mainly because (once you have learned the dimensions of your specific keyboard) you 'just know' where everything is, and your muscle memory will outperform any positionally non-absolute device (mouse/trackpoint/touchpad/joystick).
But don't think that's as good as it gets.
Even for the much-celebrated keyboard, improvements are possible. Case in point: the actual layout of the keys. Yes, I am a qwerty-to-Dvorak convert, and let me tell you it's an improvement. Granted, a few key combos (such as Ctrl-ZXCV) are blasted from a nice row to all over the keyboard (but for historic reasons personally I prefer the "Ctl-Insert" style anyway, in spite of my Macintosh heritage).
Typing plain text (such as this) is not only faster, it is noticeably more comfortable. Plus, as a nerd/geek I gotta appreciate the amount of exercise it saves me, even if it's just af the ten-finger variety.
Compare for yourself:
Dvorak and qwerty layouts side-by-side
This post is two-thirds of the finger movement in Dvorak, with more than 61% of all hits on the home row, compared to just some 30% using qwerty.
... hello? Has anybody read Snow crash? Glass knives! I tell you, they are transparent in more ways than one.
Well, I can see how my post was worded a bit weird ... I was trying to find a picture of one of those sleek T40-type keyboards, not the 10-pound indestructible old-school ones. :o)
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This was what I was not able to find an image for:
http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/
I would like to recommend an IBM keyboard, but it turns out they're apparently quite hard to find a picture of. A couple of my colleagues use them with great delight; I myself prefer full-height keys.
I don't know what ThinkPad you have, but you can get a "framed external" T40-series keyboard with pointer stick and touchpad and everything.
"We now have a 37 hour work week, and 5 week of paid vacation."
/. AFTER I came to work today. And I'm not exactly alone in the building, either.
In addition, you may take a 6th week of --unpaid-- vacation. Most companies demand a certain percentage (say, 50%) of vacation spent before midsummer.
"It basically shut down our country for a few weeks, but most people in Denmark were supportive of the strike."
A few weeks? Where I was (in the capital) it lasted one week, if even that. And the effect it had on the population was a mad panic to hoard (of all things) petrol and yeast. (One guy even blew up wis house because he filled a bathtub in his cellar with petrol, and the fumes ignited. Tsk, but that's Darwin at work right there.)
Let it also be known that I had NO IDEA about this strike until I checked
I had that too, I think it's to do with extentions. When I clicked the arrow (on 104) it complained that an update to Copy Plain Text wasn't available after all.