I'm not sure I would entirely attribute that to the non-"standard" typing technique,
My typing style is quite organic (enough so that I can't even begin to grok the details of what my digits be doing, dancing 'cross teh keys!;D) I am right handed, so my right hand takes control over most of the keyboard. I never use my pinkies save for modifier keys. Which finger strikes which key is entirely controlled by circumstance. How my hands rest changes dramatically from one physical keyboard and sitting position to the next.
In short, I believe that I do not suffer from RSI due to my rarely actually performing tasks which are physically "repetitive" or straining. I rest my hands often by changing position or angle. I prefer flat keyboards (as most people do; remember split keyboards?!;D) because my right hands needs access to some of that left-side territory sometimes.
The standard method requires your hands to rest in an absolutely terrible position for the health of your wrists! Even when you mutilate the keyboard into a split "ergo" design, your pinkies are expected to control 30% of the keyboard or more; and many important and repetitive keystrokes are hellaciously placed.
That is my expanded understanding on the matter.:)
Never underestimate the backlash of millions of pissed off parents. Many of them will do absolutely psychotic things to defend their children from any perceived threat.
Oh, granted.. but I believe that only us Nerds perceive the threat of coprorate data stalking, and those few of us nerds who have kids aren't card carrying members of any of the more influencial municipal mobs, so..
Some things count as so obvious as to not require scientific inquiry. Hot women give get males wood. You don't need to publish this to claim it, end of story.
Point #1: the hypothesis was not "Hot women give get males wood", it was "Hot women make males stupid". Personally, I would not have minded calling Jamie and Adam in on that one.:P
Point #2: Prior to obtaining empirical evidence on this hypothesis, how would you recommend we figure out how to reverse the effect? Are you saying that if this research leads to a drug which increases intelligence in the company of lovely ladies, that you would still not approve?
In short, you've come onto/., News for Nerds, in order to discourage Nerds away from a potentially fruitful Scientific Inquiry which may lead to improved chances of Getting Laid.
Both genders are programmed to seek what's beneficial for successful procreation.
Granted, but when you remove genetically learned challenges (the hostility of the wild) from our environment, this programmed prerogative only takes us so far towards our socially learned goals. The challenges of procreation have transformed drastically, as well as our ability to game and short circuit these vestigial instincts. Noone wants to live in a world populated by prostitutes and pimps, every adult trying to bedazzle and con members of the opposite gender with fake boobs and fake gold — and such behavior no longer benefits of our lineages.
Thus we chide against the effects of this instinct with snarky comments and disdain, and our society does it's best to memetically as well as genetically alter course towards more constructive relationships.
The whole idea of sending people on a one way trip is ridiculous. Does anyone really think it would take less fuel to send enough stuff for people to live the rest of their lives on Mars than it would to simply refuel and fly back to earth?
Yep, that is precisely our thought.
Martian gravity is, what, about 25% earth gravity? Nonetheless, the fuel to reach escape velocity from there is still tremendous. Carrying said fuel from Earth requires more fuel to get that bulk past escape velocity from our much clingier gravity.
The entire idea of burning fuel just to deliver fuel out of a gravity well is a bad one. The fuel requirements to defeat any planetary gravity per pound of payload are ridiculous, making the fuel requirements to transport said fuel payload automatically ridiculous squared.
OTOH, Saturn V rockets are much larger than grain silos.. so imagine how many years worth of food and supplies you could deliver for the same weight cost (not to mention actual cost) as a round-trip shot of fuel?
TFA is right, early explorers including this continent's caucasian founding fathers and this state's initial immigrant's (Oregon trail) set out on excursions they knew they would be lucky to complete, and they would be entirely incapable of returning from.
So, I say the idea should at least be investigated thoroughly. What be your objection after all, murdocj? How do you think the Firefly universe got populated?;D
A truly clever developer will create code so easy to understand that a less than average developer could debug it.
(sig comment:) Bah! Whoosh me if you like Kjella, but I've seen your sig dozens of times and just now realized the rub (tried modeling it in my head for a change): bugs by definition must be beyond the author's capabilities to spot or they wouldn't survive, thus also beyond the capacity of lesser mortals regardless of the charm of the author (ignoring the "tired eyes" effect, of course).
I guess you could always say "the cleverest developer writes code so sharp it debugs itself" *shrug*
Except Qwest and AT&T actually do have full carrier status which prevents this exact scenario. ISPs have some protection, but not as much as the big networks do.
+1 Insightful, in this country Might = Right. Either have deep pockets, or obey the deep pockets. $32 Million judgments await you if you are foolish enough to think for yourself.
Or, which is likelier, most peopel just switched to encrypted p2p, which means that even if they know it looks like p2p traffic, they can't sue you over it because it's illegal to prove there was something illegal inside the encrypted traffic.
Mod parent up! TFA does a terrible job profiling P2P traffic. They even admit having to infer the traffic volume using some rickety approach or another. How can they claim to extrapolate meaningful statistics about events that purposefully evade detection by using unproven, undocumented measuring techniques? 8I
They probably felt the pressure from their own legal people. Getting sued over nonsense is still time consuming and expensive.
Time consuming and expensive enough to be the only real power that Copyright Law really has: fear of enforcement and fear of the messiness of ever even being accused.
This of course subverts the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", given that the detrimental effect of legal activity against families or small businesses are every bit as financially disastrous as losing a case would be.
You are asking why do something with technology, just for the sake of technology, when you can choose to not understand said technology and just pay someone else to do everything for you?
To be fair, you've generalized GP's comment into a form that is no longer foolish. The major value of currency is to purchase that which you do not want to render manually.
Hey, we may be nerds but all of us specialize in something and want nothing to do with specialized responsibilities outside of our chosen bailiwicks.:)
Seems to be working for these companies I'm talking about, and for some more, like Spotify. Either pay a monthly fee or enjoy the ads, but anyway get access to a huge catalog of content you wouldn't otherwise be purchasing.
Perhaps Spotify, doesn't compute for other services like RapidShare though. You don't get any real ability to use RS until you pay their premium rates for it. Then once you do, any corporation who wishes to harass you for uploading or downloading said data gets your payment details from RS.. a little bit more targeted than the IP from your neighbor's wifi.
Of course, I say "any corporation who wishes to harass" as opposed to "the victimized owners of a copyright", since we all know that the latter is nothing but a poor, marginal excuse for the primary motivation mentioned in the former.
mod parent up. DD only works optimally when clients have magnitudes slower connections than the server!
Yeah, I know the initial point of this conversation was "what are the average users doing".. but we've now taken on the dual purpose of "what is the most efficient thing for my non-average self to do?" *shrug*
Besides which, the "star" network topology represented by direct download is harmful to the internet community. Users are thus encouraged to be "consumers" instead of "participants", with so many negative ideological consequences that I would be belittling the problem if I simply tried to name any subset of them.
As a professional musician (the performing kind), I'd like to know who this "musician's lobby" represents. Most of the people I work with (working musician) are pretty adamantly against the current incarnation of copyright (ASCAP is a bitch).
Oh, you know how it is with bureaucratic naming conventions in fascist organizations. "Musician's Lobby", "Ministry of Truth", "Ministry of Peace", etc. Just invert a bit somewhere and you'll start seeing clearly again.:(
A want copyright laws that allow artists to earn a fair living. I want fair use spelled out. I want a limited copyright term, say 20 years. I want NO DMR.
I want NO DRM.
Are you sure he doesn't want NO DMB? Gawd, why everyone be hating on Dave:P
Because your music director chose to perform works first published on or after January 1, 1923 (in the United States), or works whose author was still alive or had died less than 70 years ago (in most other countries).
I'm not sure about actual performances but using it for direct educational purposes is one of the strongest fair use protections
Probably, but Fair Use means nothing unless you are willing to go to court over the matter. School goes to court over niggling sheet music copyright squabble will be spun in headlines as "Music Instructor sued over allegedly encouraging students to bootleg" (or reword to fit:P) which will do nothing but reflect poorly on the board and impact reputation and funding.
Fair use is not a carte blanche, but an ugly legal defensive implement one can only use to either intimidate assailants to back away, or engage in combat and hope it doesn't slip from your grasp in the heat of battle.
Modern Copyright Law was enacted specifically so that people will be discouraged from being creative unless they have large legal warchests at their disposal. It exists to keep control over potentially all self-expression in the hands of incumbent media cartels.
Somehow atheism doesn't really equal adultery, "sin", or other unethical behaviour as people seem to imply.
No, I am pretty sure that self-repression and refusing to acknowledge your own physical and psychological well being lead to this sort of desperate, doublethinking behavior instead. In other words, closed minded religion often begets whatever sin said religion claims to oppose, relative to healthy individuals who do not stripe themselves over such matters.
But isn't that the catholic MO? It's all good, so long as you confess and say the right number of Hail Mary's at the end of the day?
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I'm not sure I would entirely attribute that to the non-"standard" typing technique,
My typing style is quite organic (enough so that I can't even begin to grok the details of what my digits be doing, dancing 'cross teh keys! ;D) I am right handed, so my right hand takes control over most of the keyboard. I never use my pinkies save for modifier keys. Which finger strikes which key is entirely controlled by circumstance. How my hands rest changes dramatically from one physical keyboard and sitting position to the next.
In short, I believe that I do not suffer from RSI due to my rarely actually performing tasks which are physically "repetitive" or straining. I rest my hands often by changing position or angle. I prefer flat keyboards (as most people do; remember split keyboards?! ;D) because my right hands needs access to some of that left-side territory sometimes.
The standard method requires your hands to rest in an absolutely terrible position for the health of your wrists! Even when you mutilate the keyboard into a split "ergo" design, your pinkies are expected to control 30% of the keyboard or more; and many important and repetitive keystrokes are hellaciously placed.
That is my expanded understanding on the matter. :)
Spluh you goobs ;D You know I mean I don't rest my fingers on the home keys and use that whole technique.
You know I invoke all of the keys in their own stead, I cannot author such poetry as the Top Row Retort 8I
I taught myself to type, from the age of 4, and I do not (repeat do NOT) use the "home keys".
Result: 65wpm, and I've been typing for many hours a day for decades with NO TRACE of carpel tunnel.
thus, not really a fan of the party line typing techniques, and I hope my children never learn those.
Besides: "high school"? What the hell? Like kids won't have tons of typing experience by then?
Better idea still: adults teaching classes where kids can learn to text.</haha>
Never underestimate the backlash of millions of pissed off parents. Many of them will do absolutely psychotic things to defend their children from any perceived threat.
Oh, granted.. but I believe that only us Nerds perceive the threat of coprorate data stalking, and those few of us nerds who have kids aren't card carrying members of any of the more influencial municipal mobs, so..
What is the name of the actor who said, "Put X in the center square!" in WarGames?
Fair question. He doesn't seem obvious in the cast list.
Did he do anything else in the film, besides poking his head out from behind Broderick for a minute? It might have been an extra..
(I don't know how to pm on /. ;D)
And for those of us not wanting to fill entire filing cabinets with emails, I suggest using Thunderbird to download your messages.
Whoosh :3
Some things count as so obvious as to not require scientific inquiry. Hot women give get males wood. You don't need to publish this to claim it, end of story.
Point #1: the hypothesis was not "Hot women give get males wood", it was "Hot women make males stupid". Personally, I would not have minded calling Jamie and Adam in on that one. :P
Point #2: Prior to obtaining empirical evidence on this hypothesis, how would you recommend we figure out how to reverse the effect? Are you saying that if this research leads to a drug which increases intelligence in the company of lovely ladies, that you would still not approve?
In short, you've come onto /., News for Nerds, in order to discourage Nerds away from a potentially fruitful Scientific Inquiry which may lead to improved chances of Getting Laid.
Both genders are programmed to seek what's beneficial for successful procreation.
Granted, but when you remove genetically learned challenges (the hostility of the wild) from our environment, this programmed prerogative only takes us so far towards our socially learned goals. The challenges of procreation have transformed drastically, as well as our ability to game and short circuit these vestigial instincts. Noone wants to live in a world populated by prostitutes and pimps, every adult trying to bedazzle and con members of the opposite gender with fake boobs and fake gold — and such behavior no longer benefits of our lineages.
Thus we chide against the effects of this instinct with snarky comments and disdain, and our society does it's best to memetically as well as genetically alter course towards more constructive relationships.
A lot less than for an app which makes me look like Brad Pitt in front of attractive women. Got one of those?
I am Brad Pitt, you inglorious bastard!
The whole idea of sending people on a one way trip is ridiculous. Does anyone really think it would take less fuel to send enough stuff for people to live the rest of their lives on Mars than it would to simply refuel and fly back to earth?
Yep, that is precisely our thought.
Martian gravity is, what, about 25% earth gravity? Nonetheless, the fuel to reach escape velocity from there is still tremendous. Carrying said fuel from Earth requires more fuel to get that bulk past escape velocity from our much clingier gravity.
The entire idea of burning fuel just to deliver fuel out of a gravity well is a bad one. The fuel requirements to defeat any planetary gravity per pound of payload are ridiculous, making the fuel requirements to transport said fuel payload automatically ridiculous squared.
OTOH, Saturn V rockets are much larger than grain silos.. so imagine how many years worth of food and supplies you could deliver for the same weight cost (not to mention actual cost) as a round-trip shot of fuel?
TFA is right, early explorers including this continent's caucasian founding fathers and this state's initial immigrant's (Oregon trail) set out on excursions they knew they would be lucky to complete, and they would be entirely incapable of returning from.
So, I say the idea should at least be investigated thoroughly. What be your objection after all, murdocj? How do you think the Firefly universe got populated? ;D
A truly clever developer will create code so easy to understand that a less than average developer could debug it.
(sig comment:) Bah! Whoosh me if you like Kjella, but I've seen your sig dozens of times and just now realized the rub (tried modeling it in my head for a change): bugs by definition must be beyond the author's capabilities to spot or they wouldn't survive, thus also beyond the capacity of lesser mortals regardless of the charm of the author (ignoring the "tired eyes" effect, of course).
I guess you could always say "the cleverest developer writes code so sharp it debugs itself" *shrug*
Except Qwest and AT&T actually do have full carrier status which prevents this exact scenario. ISPs have some protection, but not as much as the big networks do.
+1 Insightful, in this country Might = Right. Either have deep pockets, or obey the deep pockets. $32 Million judgments await you if you are foolish enough to think for yourself.
Yeah, wth man? You're trying to put a negative spin on recreation that truly lacks a downside. ;D
Or, which is likelier, most peopel just switched to encrypted p2p, which means that even if they know it looks like p2p traffic, they can't sue you over it because it's illegal to prove there was something illegal inside the encrypted traffic.
Mod parent up! TFA does a terrible job profiling P2P traffic. They even admit having to infer the traffic volume using some rickety approach or another. How can they claim to extrapolate meaningful statistics about events that purposefully evade detection by using unproven, undocumented measuring techniques? 8I
They probably felt the pressure from their own legal people. Getting sued over nonsense is still time consuming and expensive.
Time consuming and expensive enough to be the only real power that Copyright Law really has: fear of enforcement and fear of the messiness of ever even being accused.
This of course subverts the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", given that the detrimental effect of legal activity against families or small businesses are every bit as financially disastrous as losing a case would be.
You are asking why do something with technology, just for the sake of technology, when you can choose to not understand said technology and just pay someone else to do everything for you?
To be fair, you've generalized GP's comment into a form that is no longer foolish. The major value of currency is to purchase that which you do not want to render manually.
Hey, we may be nerds but all of us specialize in something and want nothing to do with specialized responsibilities outside of our chosen bailiwicks. :)
Seems to be working for these companies I'm talking about, and for some more, like Spotify. Either pay a monthly fee or enjoy the ads, but anyway get access to a huge catalog of content you wouldn't otherwise be purchasing.
Perhaps Spotify, doesn't compute for other services like RapidShare though. You don't get any real ability to use RS until you pay their premium rates for it. Then once you do, any corporation who wishes to harass you for uploading or downloading said data gets your payment details from RS.. a little bit more targeted than the IP from your neighbor's wifi.
Of course, I say "any corporation who wishes to harass" as opposed to "the victimized owners of a copyright", since we all know that the latter is nothing but a poor, marginal excuse for the primary motivation mentioned in the former.
I doubt DD can saturate my 50mbit pipe.
mod parent up. DD only works optimally when clients have magnitudes slower connections than the server!
Yeah, I know the initial point of this conversation was "what are the average users doing".. but we've now taken on the dual purpose of "what is the most efficient thing for my non-average self to do?" *shrug*
Besides which, the "star" network topology represented by direct download is harmful to the internet community. Users are thus encouraged to be "consumers" instead of "participants", with so many negative ideological consequences that I would be belittling the problem if I simply tried to name any subset of them.
There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage.
Pshaw, sure there is. Rorschach test, Word association, blind obedience, funniest facepaint applied to drunk passed-out dude,
In short: anything where the contestant's willfulness would get in the way of the best results. ;3
As a professional musician (the performing kind), I'd like to know who this "musician's lobby" represents. Most of the people I work with (working musician) are pretty adamantly against the current incarnation of copyright (ASCAP is a bitch).
Oh, you know how it is with bureaucratic naming conventions in fascist organizations. "Musician's Lobby", "Ministry of Truth", "Ministry of Peace", etc. Just invert a bit somewhere and you'll start seeing clearly again. :(
A want copyright laws that allow artists to earn a fair living. I want fair use spelled out. I want a limited copyright term, say 20 years. I want NO DMR.
I want NO DRM.
Are you sure he doesn't want NO DMB? Gawd, why everyone be hating on Dave :P
I call BS. Mozart was deaf.
http://xkcd.com/202/
Because your music director chose to perform works first published on or after January 1, 1923 (in the United States), or works whose author was still alive or had died less than 70 years ago (in most other countries).
Nice try tepples, but you are confusing fair use with public domain.
I'm not sure about actual performances but using it for direct educational purposes is one of the strongest fair use protections
Probably, but Fair Use means nothing unless you are willing to go to court over the matter. School goes to court over niggling sheet music copyright squabble will be spun in headlines as "Music Instructor sued over allegedly encouraging students to bootleg" (or reword to fit :P) which will do nothing but reflect poorly on the board and impact reputation and funding.
Fair use is not a carte blanche, but an ugly legal defensive implement one can only use to either intimidate assailants to back away, or engage in combat and hope it doesn't slip from your grasp in the heat of battle.
Modern Copyright Law was enacted specifically so that people will be discouraged from being creative unless they have large legal warchests at their disposal. It exists to keep control over potentially all self-expression in the hands of incumbent media cartels.
Somehow atheism doesn't really equal adultery, "sin", or other unethical behaviour as people seem to imply.
No, I am pretty sure that self-repression and refusing to acknowledge your own physical and psychological well being lead to this sort of desperate, doublethinking behavior instead. In other words, closed minded religion often begets whatever sin said religion claims to oppose, relative to healthy individuals who do not stripe themselves over such matters.
But isn't that the catholic MO? It's all good, so long as you confess and say the right number of Hail Mary's at the end of the day?