The article claims that the keyboards are or will soon be on the market. However, the last keyboard is made by a now-defunct company called Fingerworks. The article claims that the keyboard is available on the Internet for $350, but I would be amazed if you could find one for under $600.
How many other keyboards in the list are no longer available?
capable of using Windows Installer MSIs or not, as the user wishes
You're talking about making a software installer for "the common man", and you think that this person will actually care whether or not the system uses MSIs? You may as well ask the person to go and write a doctoral thesis on quantum physics instead of make that choice because both options will have about the same effect on the user.
It's great to have a discussion among developers about whether or not MSIs are the best way to implement this system, but for goodness sake, don't go rubbing the poor users' noses in the issue--most of them will neither notice nor care that the option is missing.
Don't get me wrong: users love to have choices, but they don't want to have those choices. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your roommate at university who is a Computer Science major, plays video games for 20 hours a week, and thinks that Magic is a card game that they made for people without enough imagination to play D&D would want the option, leave it out. On the other hand, if your mom would want it, put it in.
Did no one on Slashdot go to this year's PDC?! Oh, wait...I guess that's a dumb question...Anyway, they gave out copies of Vista build 5219 to everyone who attended, and it already had tabbed browsing in IE7. Why are people making such a big deal about this now?
I know it's actually more expensive than the Kinexis keyboard (which I have never heard of), but does anyone else use a keyboard from Fingerworks? It acts a lot like a mechanical keyboard, but requires no force and allows for gesture support on the keyboard which is light-years beyond those pitiful mouse gestures supported by a few applications.
Although almost no one has heard of the language family to begin with, the MUMPS/M family of languages has a decendant which is not listed in the tree: Caché, which is a proprietary concoction from Intersystems. The only reason that I know about it is because the company that I work for uses it.
As a former Wal-Mart cashier (I worked there for one summer between getting my BA and starting grad school), I can tell you that the two things that matter most are (in no particular order):
How fast you scan items
Making sure that you don't make any customers mad
I, for one, hardly ever paid any attention to what was coming up on my screen, and when I did, it was often pretty incomprehensible (their displays don't show too many characters), so as long as they didn't try to purchase a TV for $2 or something like that, it's not likely that a cashier would notice.
I think the issue is not *where* the government is, but *who* they are. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will), but I think we have poor leadership in our government because your average Joe Slashdotter is content with posting his opinion on a site where others will agree with him and leaving things at that. "The right thing" never gets done in the government because there is no one in Washington who has our interests in mind. And no one in Washington has our interests in mind because none of us really cares enough about the outcome to get organized. I'm not necessarily saying that we need a "Slashdot Party" to represent us (although the idea may have merit), but we need to push our "folk heroes" into the public eye more forcefully. I'd like to see Linus Torvalds on "Good Morning America", and Eric S Raymond on "Larry King Live" (please don't attack the specific examples, I'm just throwing them out here), but these things won't happen if we don't get organized and start making a lot of noise outside of our own little community. Slashdot, I say put your money where your mouth is.
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But we've always been at war with East Asia!
The article claims that the keyboards are or will soon be on the market. However, the last keyboard is made by a now-defunct company called Fingerworks. The article claims that the keyboard is available on the Internet for $350, but I would be amazed if you could find one for under $600. How many other keyboards in the list are no longer available?
What does it say about the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray battle? I want to buy my player now!
(someone had to ask...)
You're talking about making a software installer for "the common man", and you think that this person will actually care whether or not the system uses MSIs? You may as well ask the person to go and write a doctoral thesis on quantum physics instead of make that choice because both options will have about the same effect on the user.
It's great to have a discussion among developers about whether or not MSIs are the best way to implement this system, but for goodness sake, don't go rubbing the poor users' noses in the issue--most of them will neither notice nor care that the option is missing.
Don't get me wrong: users love to have choices, but they don't want to have those choices. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your roommate at university who is a Computer Science major, plays video games for 20 hours a week, and thinks that Magic is a card game that they made for people without enough imagination to play D&D would want the option, leave it out. On the other hand, if your mom would want it, put it in.
Open source is only free if your time has no value.
Did no one on Slashdot go to this year's PDC?! Oh, wait...I guess that's a dumb question...Anyway, they gave out copies of Vista build 5219 to everyone who attended, and it already had tabbed browsing in IE7. Why are people making such a big deal about this now?
I know it's actually more expensive than the Kinexis keyboard (which I have never heard of), but does anyone else use a keyboard from Fingerworks? It acts a lot like a mechanical keyboard, but requires no force and allows for gesture support on the keyboard which is light-years beyond those pitiful mouse gestures supported by a few applications.
Your car already has streaming audio. It's called radio!
Although almost no one has heard of the language family to begin with, the MUMPS/M family of languages has a decendant which is not listed in the tree: Caché, which is a proprietary concoction from Intersystems. The only reason that I know about it is because the company that I work for uses it.
- How fast you scan items
- Making sure that you don't make any customers mad
I, for one, hardly ever paid any attention to what was coming up on my screen, and when I did, it was often pretty incomprehensible (their displays don't show too many characters), so as long as they didn't try to purchase a TV for $2 or something like that, it's not likely that a cashier would notice.I think the issue is not *where* the government is, but *who* they are. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will), but I think we have poor leadership in our government because your average Joe Slashdotter is content with posting his opinion on a site where others will agree with him and leaving things at that. "The right thing" never gets done in the government because there is no one in Washington who has our interests in mind. And no one in Washington has our interests in mind because none of us really cares enough about the outcome to get organized. I'm not necessarily saying that we need a "Slashdot Party" to represent us (although the idea may have merit), but we need to push our "folk heroes" into the public eye more forcefully. I'd like to see Linus Torvalds on "Good Morning America", and Eric S Raymond on "Larry King Live" (please don't attack the specific examples, I'm just throwing them out here), but these things won't happen if we don't get organized and start making a lot of noise outside of our own little community. Slashdot, I say put your money where your mouth is.