I've wanted this for years, but no company has really brought it to market- a split keyboard. Imagine an ergonomic keyboard that's been halved so that your arms may rest further apart than with a typical keyboard. It wouldn't be hard to put a mouse or trackball contraption on the right side (or left side for lefties) to minimize arm movement. Or even have the keyboard shards strap to your wrists so that you can type in whatever position you prefer.
I know they make those one-handed keyboards, but two hands would be an easier transition for the general populous who doesn't want to learn a new typing pattern.
Nevermind Linux, either. I use Flash just fine in Linux... perhaps your are mistaken.
Nevermind the flash ads, which make it impossible to surf the web with your speakers/headphones on. I don't think there's any other software technology out there that really makes one wish they could rip the sound card OUT of their computer. Yeah, one thing that always bugs me is that you can't right click on a Flash object and adjust/mute the volume. Flash has way too much control over my computer when it runs, and that really bothers me. If they would even just add some enhancements to the Flash player so that it would allow muting/stopping/etc, it would be that much more tolerable. However, they have to make it so uncontrollable because that's what content makers want - to shove things down our throats without us having a say in it.
I personally find that being able to hit Control+Shift+H and then select a HTML element I don't want to see is the ultimate feature. Whether it's an annoying advertisement or just poor site layout, it's like I have control over what's displayed to me. Back in the dark ages, we had to put up with and view whatever crap a website pumped to us. (Adblock Filterset.G, Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Elemehnt Hiding Helper)
These are the other add-ons I'm using:
ColorfulTabs - Colors tabs differently based on the URL
Flashblock - I never want Flash to play automatically - especially at work where bandwidth is monitored.
Forecastfox - Get weather forecast and severe weather warnings in-browser.
IE View - for my company's intranet pages which don't work in FF yet (mainly URLs with improper URIs)
Personal Menu - replace 'File', 'Edit', etc with one button, or customize however
Tab Mix Plus - various tab options
Tamper Data - view and modify http/https requests - helps when debugging, hacking, or blocking web apps
Yahoo toolbar - email alerts, news, etc.
I leave my browser window open all day so it makes sense to make it as comfortable and featureful as possible. Not to mention, I use Linux at home so it saves me from having to deal with different interfaces and idiosyncrasies.
Granted, IE has caught up a lot with Firefox recently, but I still associate IE with tabless browsing, poor standards compliance, malware, abusive websites, irregular updates, and unstable OS integration (if you hose IE, you break a lot of apps that depend on it, so why even run that risk?).
In general, the thing that attracts me to open source software is it eventually gets better and fixes your annoyances. Sometimes it's a trade-off, sometimes it's a trade-up. For proprietary software, many times those fixes never come... especially if there's no fiscal reason for the company to do so.
It's about choice. If IE meets your needs, then use it. Others have found that the extensibility and robustness of Firefox are useful, especially when combined with the fact that most malware is written for IE.
If you've used Firefox and haven't noticed any advantages, then you're apparently not its target audience. But then that raises this question: why are you reading the nerdiest website in the world if you aren't interested in such nerdy things as fine-tuning and customizing your software?
But still, he has a point, it's not rocket science.... Dude, some days, being a developer I think is probably worse than working out mathematical calculations at NASA.
Dealing with natural laws is one thing - dealing with undocumented behavior in closed source code is another. Only humans can muck things up to such extraordinarily mind-boggling levels.
What the general populace looks for is confidence in a leader.
I'm just mentally exploring right now, but perhaps confidence is a delusion in and of itself.
An indecisive person will see all 360 degrees he can move in and not be able to choose one. The confident leader will pick one direction and go in it until becoming sufficiently convinced that it was a mistake. We pick confident leaders because they at least give us progress rather than "waiting for conclusive evidence". The good leaders are right a good percentage of the time, whether by luck or instinct.
If a candidate said, "I believe we can stop global warming", gets elected, we do all the work to stop global warming, and then find out that it's impossible to stop... well, that's better than nothing, right?
I don't think a candidate's position on creationism is relevant. Ultimately, all of this creationist FUD just causes the theory of evolution to be more fleshed out and firm. America is not going to elect a secularist, and so all the candidates are delusional to some degree with regards to religion anyway.
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So, did this Phillips guy develop the trojan that stole the Fark passwords? Did this guy minor in CompSci? He sent a trojan. Any idiot can do that, with the plethora of pre-built and easily customizable trojans out there.
Not to mention, it doesn't take a genius to write a trojan and any hobbyist programmer can do it (though maybe a little harder now with "enhanced security" in Windows").
So what happens when you (forgive the pseudo PHP code):
foreach(ip in every_ip_in_existence) {
$html = get_ad(ip); // do nothing here }
In other words, the more code the ad companies give you, the more you can game them... they'd need a way of safeguarding against those types of things. Not saying it's not possible, but significantly harder to run a large-scale ad operation like Doubleclick/Google.
This is why those new whiny singers should drop dead and Kurt Cobain should be revived.
Person1: What's he singing? Person2: I don't know, but I love this song! Person1: It kinda sounds like he's singing "McDonald's cheeseburger"... Person2: Yeah, but look here in the linear notes... the song's obviously about heroin and makes absolutely no sense. Person1: I guess you're right. Anyway, I'm kinda hungry, what should we do about lunch? Person2: Well, speaking of McDonald's cheeseburgers...
Sorry, if you knew anything about biochemistry or medicine, I might waste time arguing with you, but the science is clear. You just wasted your time being prick on the internet for absolutely no benefit to anyone, so why not spend a few more moments to enlighten the ignorant masses?
If the lye in soap kills organisms anyway, how much damage is the anti-bacterial element really doing? Isn't it just redundant, since if you use soap the bacteria will die anyway?
Think about the extreme opposite: a judge being able to rule within 5 minutes on complete bias.
The same goes with our governmental system- totalitarianism vs democracy. Yeah, the totalitarian government may be more efficient... but definitely less just.
And yes, it has to be that way to some extent. Could they put in provisions to help these crazy court cases? Perhaps, but there would still be a level of inefficiency in order to make room for justice.
Hmm I wasn't trying to be flamebait but apparently I was!
I don't pretend to be the authority, but when you have to recreate the same function X number of times for different types being passed into it it obviously is going to generate a lot of extra code. For every templated function in C++ you'd need the compiler to generate a new prologue and epilogue for essentially the same code in the middle, just so it's 'type safe'. It's not as little overhead as you think! Especially when you have entire templated classes in C++. Really, why do you need the operator overloaded 20 times when you have printf when working with limited memory?
I actually worry about this a lot programming for the Windows Mobile / Pocket PC platform with C# of all languages. Even though C# 2.0 has templates, they're created at runtime and then take up space. For the desktop it's completely perfect programming methodology to template everything since you have the memory and processor to handle it, and then the runtime benefits of calling that function are realized. However, for PDAs I've found that using non-generic classes with casting is faster - even though the runtime overhead is slower, the JIT time (which is unrelated to this discussion) and memory space taken up for additional templated classes is not worth it.
Why are you programming in C++ for an embedded system? All that template garbage is going to inflate the size of your code, and do you really need it? Yeah, the situation sucks, but I don't see why you can't just use C... since it allows you to do leaner things.
For the $500 a year pricetag on the 250gb drive, I could go out and purchase a few 250gb external drives. Although online storage is great for protecting against a physical disaster, it's simply too clumsy right now to be used effectively. Folks, we're backing up important documents and perhaps large files which are occasionally transferred. Not your entire porn collection.
If you're trying to transfer your porn collection from one computer to another then this obviously isn't the solution and you're looking at this the wrong way. This is a how much is your important data and its uptime worth? question. Perhaps they also have other little features that make it convenient.
You can never have everyone content with life. There will always be inequity and jealousy and greed leading to criminal activity, and again this is only in relation to theft and crimes committed as a means to theft. Other crimes have any number of causes beyond a perceived need for comfort or contentment. This sounds like a job for... drugs!!!!!
1. Doctors and mechanics are in business and get paid well. Not computer fixers. Especially if they're free neighbor kids - who don't have degrees, business reputation, or years of training. 2. Computers' inner workings are more accessible to lay people since they're exposed to more configuration, etc. They're trained to tweak things since most applications require tweaking. Once you learn how to get under the hood of your car and start diagnosing it yourself, of course you will begin to question expert mechanics. It's human nature. 3. Perhaps the social imbalance between nerds and commoners causes nervousness as well.
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. It's not the 0-day, cutting edge thing that attracts most people. It's more correlated to how much joy and excitement you derive from these games.
I'm in the same boat as you with the whole waiting to play games... for most games. Same with most movies "I'll rent it when it's out on video."
But let's say you're a huge Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Transformers fan, and let's pretend all of those movies came out on the same weekend. Now, you've been anticipating these movies for years, you've been on the interwebs looking for information, you've been chatting about how great they're going to be... and now your total satisfaction of all 3 will be tied together and generally lower than if they'd been spread out.
Not to mention, if you don't do X right away you miss the social tidal wave and have less to talk about (depending on your social situation). I can't watch Back to the Future and then start chatting to random strangers about details in it.
I'll agree with you that cutting edge with a lot of things can be really stupid to outside observers, but I think it's a lot more complicated than you make it out to be. Typically, every person tends to do what's best for himself.
WTF is a non-profit doing licensing its symbols out to commercial users? Making money the good ol' "honest" way rather than guilting people into donating? It's just good business sense. The product is used for red-cross-like things, the company licensing it is supporting the Red Cross, and people buying the product will know they're indirectly supporting the Red Cross.
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I've wanted this for years, but no company has really brought it to market- a split keyboard. Imagine an ergonomic keyboard that's been halved so that your arms may rest further apart than with a typical keyboard. It wouldn't be hard to put a mouse or trackball contraption on the right side (or left side for lefties) to minimize arm movement. Or even have the keyboard shards strap to your wrists so that you can type in whatever position you prefer.
I know they make those one-handed keyboards, but two hands would be an easier transition for the general populous who doesn't want to learn a new typing pattern.
I guess this gives a whole new meaning to Mono !
Har har har har har!!!
I personally find that being able to hit Control+Shift+H and then select a HTML element I don't want to see is the ultimate feature. Whether it's an annoying advertisement or just poor site layout, it's like I have control over what's displayed to me. Back in the dark ages, we had to put up with and view whatever crap a website pumped to us. (Adblock Filterset.G, Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Elemehnt Hiding Helper)
These are the other add-ons I'm using:
ColorfulTabs - Colors tabs differently based on the URL
Flashblock - I never want Flash to play automatically - especially at work where bandwidth is monitored.
Forecastfox - Get weather forecast and severe weather warnings in-browser.
IE View - for my company's intranet pages which don't work in FF yet (mainly URLs with improper URIs)
Personal Menu - replace 'File', 'Edit', etc with one button, or customize however
Tab Mix Plus - various tab options
Tamper Data - view and modify http/https requests - helps when debugging, hacking, or blocking web apps
Yahoo toolbar - email alerts, news, etc.
I leave my browser window open all day so it makes sense to make it as comfortable and featureful as possible. Not to mention, I use Linux at home so it saves me from having to deal with different interfaces and idiosyncrasies.
Granted, IE has caught up a lot with Firefox recently, but I still associate IE with tabless browsing, poor standards compliance, malware, abusive websites, irregular updates, and unstable OS integration (if you hose IE, you break a lot of apps that depend on it, so why even run that risk?).
In general, the thing that attracts me to open source software is it eventually gets better and fixes your annoyances. Sometimes it's a trade-off, sometimes it's a trade-up. For proprietary software, many times those fixes never come... especially if there's no fiscal reason for the company to do so.
It's about choice. If IE meets your needs, then use it. Others have found that the extensibility and robustness of Firefox are useful, especially when combined with the fact that most malware is written for IE.
If you've used Firefox and haven't noticed any advantages, then you're apparently not its target audience. But then that raises this question: why are you reading the nerdiest website in the world if you aren't interested in such nerdy things as fine-tuning and customizing your software?
Dealing with natural laws is one thing - dealing with undocumented behavior in closed source code is another. Only humans can muck things up to such extraordinarily mind-boggling levels.
What the general populace looks for is confidence in a leader.
I'm just mentally exploring right now, but perhaps confidence is a delusion in and of itself.
An indecisive person will see all 360 degrees he can move in and not be able to choose one. The confident leader will pick one direction and go in it until becoming sufficiently convinced that it was a mistake. We pick confident leaders because they at least give us progress rather than "waiting for conclusive evidence". The good leaders are right a good percentage of the time, whether by luck or instinct.
If a candidate said, "I believe we can stop global warming", gets elected, we do all the work to stop global warming, and then find out that it's impossible to stop... well, that's better than nothing, right?
I don't think a candidate's position on creationism is relevant. Ultimately, all of this creationist FUD just causes the theory of evolution to be more fleshed out and firm. America is not going to elect a secularist, and so all the candidates are delusional to some degree with regards to religion anyway.
Not to mention, it doesn't take a genius to write a trojan and any hobbyist programmer can do it (though maybe a little harder now with "enhanced security" in Windows").
You're not supposed to remember observing SpongeBob. My god, if you're watching SpongeBob in a sober state, you're doing things wrong.
This is why those new whiny singers should drop dead and Kurt Cobain should be revived.
Person1: What's he singing?
Person2: I don't know, but I love this song!
Person1: It kinda sounds like he's singing "McDonald's cheeseburger"...
Person2: Yeah, but look here in the linear notes... the song's obviously about heroin and makes absolutely no sense.
Person1: I guess you're right. Anyway, I'm kinda hungry, what should we do about lunch?
Person2: Well, speaking of McDonald's cheeseburgers...
If the lye in soap kills organisms anyway, how much damage is the anti-bacterial element really doing? Isn't it just redundant, since if you use soap the bacteria will die anyway?
Justice and efficiency are mutually exclusive.
Think about the extreme opposite: a judge being able to rule within 5 minutes on complete bias.
The same goes with our governmental system- totalitarianism vs democracy. Yeah, the totalitarian government may be more efficient... but definitely less just.
And yes, it has to be that way to some extent. Could they put in provisions to help these crazy court cases? Perhaps, but there would still be a level of inefficiency in order to make room for justice.
Hmm I wasn't trying to be flamebait but apparently I was!
I don't pretend to be the authority, but when you have to recreate the same function X number of times for different types being passed into it it obviously is going to generate a lot of extra code. For every templated function in C++ you'd need the compiler to generate a new prologue and epilogue for essentially the same code in the middle, just so it's 'type safe'. It's not as little overhead as you think! Especially when you have entire templated classes in C++. Really, why do you need the operator overloaded 20 times when you have printf when working with limited memory?
I actually worry about this a lot programming for the Windows Mobile / Pocket PC platform with C# of all languages. Even though C# 2.0 has templates, they're created at runtime and then take up space. For the desktop it's completely perfect programming methodology to template everything since you have the memory and processor to handle it, and then the runtime benefits of calling that function are realized. However, for PDAs I've found that using non-generic classes with casting is faster - even though the runtime overhead is slower, the JIT time (which is unrelated to this discussion) and memory space taken up for additional templated classes is not worth it.
Why are you programming in C++ for an embedded system?
All that template garbage is going to inflate the size of your code, and do you really need it? Yeah, the situation sucks, but I don't see why you can't just use C... since it allows you to do leaner things.
Dude, what old guys do YOU play with?
:(
The ones I played with kicked my ass. I had to quit.
I'm such a basketball n00b.
Seems more positive to me! Helping is better than punishing any day! What the world needs more of is LOVE (and DRUGS!!! (and ZOMG PONIES!!!))!!!!
If you're trying to transfer your porn collection from one computer to another then this obviously isn't the solution and you're looking at this the wrong way. This is a how much is your important data and its uptime worth? question. Perhaps they also have other little features that make it convenient.
1. Doctors and mechanics are in business and get paid well. Not computer fixers. Especially if they're free neighbor kids - who don't have degrees, business reputation, or years of training.
2. Computers' inner workings are more accessible to lay people since they're exposed to more configuration, etc. They're trained to tweak things since most applications require tweaking. Once you learn how to get under the hood of your car and start diagnosing it yourself, of course you will begin to question expert mechanics. It's human nature.
3. Perhaps the social imbalance between nerds and commoners causes nervousness as well.
What a nerdy awesome joke that only computer developers can fully appreciate.
Wish I had mod points.
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. It's not the 0-day, cutting edge thing that attracts most people. It's more correlated to how much joy and excitement you derive from these games.
I'm in the same boat as you with the whole waiting to play games... for most games. Same with most movies "I'll rent it when it's out on video."
But let's say you're a huge Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Transformers fan, and let's pretend all of those movies came out on the same weekend. Now, you've been anticipating these movies for years, you've been on the interwebs looking for information, you've been chatting about how great they're going to be... and now your total satisfaction of all 3 will be tied together and generally lower than if they'd been spread out.
Not to mention, if you don't do X right away you miss the social tidal wave and have less to talk about (depending on your social situation). I can't watch Back to the Future and then start chatting to random strangers about details in it.
I'll agree with you that cutting edge with a lot of things can be really stupid to outside observers, but I think it's a lot more complicated than you make it out to be. Typically, every person tends to do what's best for himself.