Low force may be good for ergonomics -- basically coddling a damaged wrist -- but it's terrible for healthy people actually trying to type well. Modern squishy keyboards create terrible typists. The worst are laptop keyboards (for instance, first thing I do with my macbook pro when I set it up for use is plug a Matias tactile pro 3 into it.) Apple makes the absolute worst keyboards out there, nightmares from the chiclet age.
If you write for a living, as I do, you need a decent keyboard, and by that, I do not mean an "ergonomic" one. If your wrists are that bad, I'm sorry for you, but you'll never be a really effective typist. With squish comes missed keys, double presses, constant backing up for errors and overall low typing speeds. If one is a "hunt and pecker", who mostly lives by the mouse (as many are) that's fine, but if you write all day, every day... it's just not.
Like many other people, I maintain a open wifi connection specifically to provide for public access. Likewise, I maintain an open 144 MHz repeater, and a while ago, a packet BBS that could take and deliver email. I also write free software such as this. When I mean something to be free, or shared for free, there's no negative to taking advantage of that. When I write commercial software, I make sure that I've made the transaction required clear.
Many commercial and/or public establishments make open wifi available; coffee houses, McDonalds, libraries, etc. Doesn't hurt a thing to use those connections.
Now if you prefer not sharing, that's fine -- that's your choice. If you want your connection(s) closed, then by all means close them. The point of an open connection is that it's open. Such things can be used responsibly. A text message, simple text email or IM is absolutely insignificant to any particular wifi connection. A compressed voice connection isn't horrible, bandwidth-wise, either. The more open connections there are, the better it all works as far as portability goes.
Just FYI, the financial benefit I was talking about was the lack of a phone bill; in such a situation, you need to keep your own wifi available, obviously, and you can certainly use that, and keep it closed, without using anyone else's if you want to. You know, it was only a few years ago that almost no one had a portable phone. We survived just fine that way.
Perhaps you might consider learning to share a bit. You know, like open source or free software. Or not. I don't care. I posted to offer those who were open minded a change to consider an opportunity. Not to convert anyone. I'm already phone-bill free, you see.
As for stealing, I'm pretty sure you don't know what that word means.:)
The Network is ubiquitous. You only think you need a phone -- you've been marketed. What you actually need is wifi, and it's pretty much everywhere, with very few exceptions. I live in a rural area and there are wifi connections everywhere, a good many of them open, and others available for the asking.
That still leaves you with text messaging, IM, email, VOIP, etc. With a modern tablet or phone, you can even do video.
That's all quite aside from the financial and sanity benefits.
Would Canadian robots want to be lumberjacks? Would they want to sleep all night and dance all day? Would they be ok? Would they pack buttered scones and poutine? Would they wear women's clothing and hang around in bars?
I would like a grant to study these matters. Also, some Canadians would be useful in this pursuit. I'll need some comely females as a control group to study... while the others are out chopping wood.
The question -- as it always is -- is: What is the operating temperature range for this material? Because if it's still "refrigerate or die", applications will not expand much beyond where they are today.
If we get superconductors we can use as power transmission lines in normal environmental temperature ranges, that'll be a serious game-changer.
Wait, what? No, no empty space here. Not any. You want Texas. It's not being used for much useful other than producing oil, cattle and ignorance (not quite certain which is the state's leading export, actually.) Get some real schools in there, teach science instead of superstition, invite immigrants to help out... you'd have an actual useful state before you knew it.
But not Montana. Please. Besides. I really don't think you'd like our -40 temps in the winter. Texas, on the other hand... perfect.
But you also don't demand that the one legged man crawl up a stairs on hands and knees or else be confined to a hospital bed.
I don't demand any such thing. I do demand he tolerate the existence of two-legged people, the mention of axes, cherry trees, and whetstones. Likewise for the raped individual; bad deal, no question. However, that doesn't make sex bad, relationships bad, or the gender that matches the one that did the deed bad. The deed was bad. Placing blame and/or responsibility on the people who didn't do the deed is defective behavior. Expecting the world to modify its speech because of some event in your life is defective behavior. This is worlds away from your ridiculous example of forcing a one legged man to crawl up stairs.
I'm guessing that you, like many, draw a bright line between visible injuries and less visible ones.
And you'd be 100% wrong. I recognize the injury. I do not recognize the world's responsibility to modify its speech because of an injury, visible or not. Furthermore, I would make a strong case that in doing so, one is making the injury worse.
I've no objection at all to being kind. Now, with that out of the way, how many warnings shall we post? Sex, check. Potential presence of homosexuals. Potential presence of heterosexuals. Possible presence of cross-dressers. Mention of mental disease. Mention of Asperger's syndrome. Democrats. Republicans. Libertarians. Peanut dust. Gluten in the snacks. Me, I'm allergic as hell to mango... so we gotta have a mango warning. Dairy products. Atheists. Theists. Funny names for projects (like "Ubuntu", for goodness sake.) A bee could get in the hall; got your sting kit? Someone might have the flu, or any number of communicable diseases. Might be someone in there with Turette's, complete with symptoms of random foul-mouthery. What if someone (OMG) breastfeeds? What if there's a streaker? What if someone lights up a cigarette or a cigar? What if they bring a spittoon and spit all through the talk? What if they won't take off their hat? What if they're armed? What if they're on a sexual offender's list? What if they're a convicted felon? What if they're (OMG) a congressperson? You want to rub shoulders with one of those????
Where does it stop? The answer is, it doesn't. People are going to interact, talk, etc., and it's ok that they do. It's not ok to muzzle them. For all your good intentions, it just ends up reducing the value of what people have to say. People like Violet Blue who had something to contribute, at least from her POV, and who get locked out by truly well meaning people with an agenda against speech. That's what the well meaning path leads to. It's not good. At all.
So while I'm not inclined to push something into someone's face, I'm even less inclined to muzzle someone else. It's very clear where the best path for society leads, and it isn't down coddling road.
Look, at some point people should become tough enough to deal with the real world. I maintain that it's not good to encourage people to be so weak that they cannot tolerate speech. You're not actually doing them a favor. You might think you are, you might have the kindest heart in the world and that's what's driving you, but you're not doing them a favor, you're creating and/or enabling a weakness that will not serve them well in any facet of society, anywhere, anytime.
What puerile nonsense. Did I mention white, black, brown or any other racial marker? Did I mention male or female or neuter? Did I say there shouldn't be assistance for such fixing? Did I say that "us" was any particular section of the population other than healthy?
Sex is a perfectly ok subject at all times. It is a fundamental and ultimately healthy part of human activity. Arguing that it isn't puts you in the position of someone who is defective, or padding the room for someone who is defective.
If you're defective, you should get that fixed. Not expect the rest of us to modify our behavior.
Eventually, the path of "padding the room" leads to no discussion of any issues because someone might be sensitive to them. That's not the way of liberty; that's the way of the ultimate mommy universe, and it is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Liberty is not a condition where you won't hear uncomfortable things because everyone else is responsible for keeping you away from potential discomfort. It is a condition where you may hear anything, and you are responsible for keeping your own comfort. That's where a healthy human's center needs to be focused.
If you're not a healthy human, you should get that fixed, rather than inconveniencing the rest of us, either directly or via misguided advocates, however well intentioned they make think themselves. If you are one of those advocates, rather than one of the unhealthy, don't work on the rest of us to pad the room. Work on the unhealthy to bring them up to snuff.
You don't own that spectrum. Corporations own that spectrum. Right now, lobbyists from the electronics industry are paying / bribing / offering more to the regulators than the car manufacturers are prepared to meet. Just like the commercial broadcast spectrum segments -- AM and FM radio, television -- of which you get to use precisely zero, this isn't about you -- it's about the manufacturers of devices that will use that spectrum.
The FCC's spectrum allocation arm allocates so little of the available spectrum to the public, and in particular, easily usable spectrum, that it is fairly painful to contemplate. The only people with a public voice are those with extremely deep pockets, and that's no accident.
Not misleading at all. Where did your money come from? If it passed through the hands of a drug dealer or user at ANY point in the life of the bills prior to your coming into it (from the bank or grocery store, whatever), are you now perfectly OK with the cops seizing it?
If you rent a UHaul, and someone else moved drugs in it, are you OK with being drug charges being brought against you?
How is it that the activities of someone else magically translate in your mind into your own property loss?
The only thing that kept them alive at my place was backwards compatibility. XBox360 promised to run XBox games via emulation -- turned out to be a lie -- and our PS3 runs PS2 games pretty much without a hitch. Without those promises, they wouldn't have gotten in the door. Way, way too much money tied up in games for those machines. Before it's asked, no, I don't want to keep every version of every console attached to my system. One per brand is plenty.
Not that I"m actually expecting compatibility this round, but without it, these become irrelevant to me.
The good news is there are tons of games for the older systems, and they'll just get less expensive on the used market. There aren't enough hours in the day in the rest of my life to play everything released to this point, so there's no pressure to buy a new console.
What's more it's been accepted theory for many centuries
It would appear that you don't know what the word "theory" means. You used it where you more properly should have used "ridiculous, evidence free, superstitious presumption."
Well, it goes to 11 three times, actually - two pre channels and the master. But each channel is its own gain times the master gain, so yeah, 22 per channel, lol.
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No! It's a royal pain in the ass. Get rid of it!
Low force may be good for ergonomics -- basically coddling a damaged wrist -- but it's terrible for healthy people actually trying to type well. Modern squishy keyboards create terrible typists. The worst are laptop keyboards (for instance, first thing I do with my macbook pro when I set it up for use is plug a Matias tactile pro 3 into it.) Apple makes the absolute worst keyboards out there, nightmares from the chiclet age.
If you write for a living, as I do, you need a decent keyboard, and by that, I do not mean an "ergonomic" one. If your wrists are that bad, I'm sorry for you, but you'll never be a really effective typist. With squish comes missed keys, double presses, constant backing up for errors and overall low typing speeds. If one is a "hunt and pecker", who mostly lives by the mouse (as many are) that's fine, but if you write all day, every day... it's just not.
Like many other people, I maintain a open wifi connection specifically to provide for public access. Likewise, I maintain an open 144 MHz repeater, and a while ago, a packet BBS that could take and deliver email. I also write free software such as this. When I mean something to be free, or shared for free, there's no negative to taking advantage of that. When I write commercial software, I make sure that I've made the transaction required clear.
Many commercial and/or public establishments make open wifi available; coffee houses, McDonalds, libraries, etc. Doesn't hurt a thing to use those connections.
Now if you prefer not sharing, that's fine -- that's your choice. If you want your connection(s) closed, then by all means close them. The point of an open connection is that it's open. Such things can be used responsibly. A text message, simple text email or IM is absolutely insignificant to any particular wifi connection. A compressed voice connection isn't horrible, bandwidth-wise, either. The more open connections there are, the better it all works as far as portability goes.
Just FYI, the financial benefit I was talking about was the lack of a phone bill; in such a situation, you need to keep your own wifi available, obviously, and you can certainly use that, and keep it closed, without using anyone else's if you want to. You know, it was only a few years ago that almost no one had a portable phone. We survived just fine that way.
Perhaps you might consider learning to share a bit. You know, like open source or free software. Or not. I don't care. I posted to offer those who were open minded a change to consider an opportunity. Not to convert anyone. I'm already phone-bill free, you see.
As for stealing, I'm pretty sure you don't know what that word means. :)
Do what I did: Get rid of your phone.
The Network is ubiquitous. You only think you need a phone -- you've been marketed. What you actually need is wifi, and it's pretty much everywhere, with very few exceptions. I live in a rural area and there are wifi connections everywhere, a good many of them open, and others available for the asking.
That still leaves you with text messaging, IM, email, VOIP, etc. With a modern tablet or phone, you can even do video.
That's all quite aside from the financial and sanity benefits.
Would Canadian robots want to be lumberjacks? Would they want to sleep all night and dance all day? Would they be ok? Would they pack buttered scones and poutine? Would they wear women's clothing and hang around in bars?
I would like a grant to study these matters. Also, some Canadians would be useful in this pursuit. I'll need some comely females as a control group to study... while the others are out chopping wood.
I may be winging it, but I think you're just squabbling about the title.
Only Maxwell's demon can actually save your life. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, you're gonna die.
...excellent for congress.
The question -- as it always is -- is: What is the operating temperature range for this material? Because if it's still "refrigerate or die", applications will not expand much beyond where they are today.
If we get superconductors we can use as power transmission lines in normal environmental temperature ranges, that'll be a serious game-changer.
Is that you, Rick?
Wait, what? No, no empty space here. Not any. You want Texas. It's not being used for much useful other than producing oil, cattle and ignorance (not quite certain which is the state's leading export, actually.) Get some real schools in there, teach science instead of superstition, invite immigrants to help out... you'd have an actual useful state before you knew it.
But not Montana. Please. Besides. I really don't think you'd like our -40 temps in the winter. Texas, on the other hand... perfect.
Because American citizens are very, very sick.
You never met my grandmother.
That's not a password.... This is a password!
I don't demand any such thing. I do demand he tolerate the existence of two-legged people, the mention of axes, cherry trees, and whetstones. Likewise for the raped individual; bad deal, no question. However, that doesn't make sex bad, relationships bad, or the gender that matches the one that did the deed bad. The deed was bad. Placing blame and/or responsibility on the people who didn't do the deed is defective behavior. Expecting the world to modify its speech because of some event in your life is defective behavior. This is worlds away from your ridiculous example of forcing a one legged man to crawl up stairs.
And you'd be 100% wrong. I recognize the injury. I do not recognize the world's responsibility to modify its speech because of an injury, visible or not. Furthermore, I would make a strong case that in doing so, one is making the injury worse.
I've no objection at all to being kind. Now, with that out of the way, how many warnings shall we post? Sex, check. Potential presence of homosexuals. Potential presence of heterosexuals. Possible presence of cross-dressers. Mention of mental disease. Mention of Asperger's syndrome. Democrats. Republicans. Libertarians. Peanut dust. Gluten in the snacks. Me, I'm allergic as hell to mango... so we gotta have a mango warning. Dairy products. Atheists. Theists. Funny names for projects (like "Ubuntu", for goodness sake.) A bee could get in the hall; got your sting kit? Someone might have the flu, or any number of communicable diseases. Might be someone in there with Turette's, complete with symptoms of random foul-mouthery. What if someone (OMG) breastfeeds? What if there's a streaker? What if someone lights up a cigarette or a cigar? What if they bring a spittoon and spit all through the talk? What if they won't take off their hat? What if they're armed? What if they're on a sexual offender's list? What if they're a convicted felon? What if they're (OMG) a congressperson? You want to rub shoulders with one of those????
Where does it stop? The answer is, it doesn't. People are going to interact, talk, etc., and it's ok that they do. It's not ok to muzzle them. For all your good intentions, it just ends up reducing the value of what people have to say. People like Violet Blue who had something to contribute, at least from her POV, and who get locked out by truly well meaning people with an agenda against speech. That's what the well meaning path leads to. It's not good. At all.
So while I'm not inclined to push something into someone's face, I'm even less inclined to muzzle someone else. It's very clear where the best path for society leads, and it isn't down coddling road.
Look, at some point people should become tough enough to deal with the real world. I maintain that it's not good to encourage people to be so weak that they cannot tolerate speech. You're not actually doing them a favor. You might think you are, you might have the kindest heart in the world and that's what's driving you, but you're not doing them a favor, you're creating and/or enabling a weakness that will not serve them well in any facet of society, anywhere, anytime.
What puerile nonsense. Did I mention white, black, brown or any other racial marker? Did I mention male or female or neuter? Did I say there shouldn't be assistance for such fixing? Did I say that "us" was any particular section of the population other than healthy?
Sex is a perfectly ok subject at all times. It is a fundamental and ultimately healthy part of human activity. Arguing that it isn't puts you in the position of someone who is defective, or padding the room for someone who is defective.
If you're defective, you should get that fixed. Not expect the rest of us to modify our behavior.
Eventually, the path of "padding the room" leads to no discussion of any issues because someone might be sensitive to them. That's not the way of liberty; that's the way of the ultimate mommy universe, and it is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Liberty is not a condition where you won't hear uncomfortable things because everyone else is responsible for keeping you away from potential discomfort. It is a condition where you may hear anything, and you are responsible for keeping your own comfort. That's where a healthy human's center needs to be focused.
If you're not a healthy human, you should get that fixed, rather than inconveniencing the rest of us, either directly or via misguided advocates, however well intentioned they make think themselves. If you are one of those advocates, rather than one of the unhealthy, don't work on the rest of us to pad the room. Work on the unhealthy to bring them up to snuff.
It *did* hold up in court.
You don't own that spectrum. Corporations own that spectrum. Right now, lobbyists from the electronics industry are paying / bribing / offering more to the regulators than the car manufacturers are prepared to meet. Just like the commercial broadcast spectrum segments -- AM and FM radio, television -- of which you get to use precisely zero, this isn't about you -- it's about the manufacturers of devices that will use that spectrum.
The FCC's spectrum allocation arm allocates so little of the available spectrum to the public, and in particular, easily usable spectrum, that it is fairly painful to contemplate. The only people with a public voice are those with extremely deep pockets, and that's no accident.
Not misleading at all. Where did your money come from? If it passed through the hands of a drug dealer or user at ANY point in the life of the bills prior to your coming into it (from the bank or grocery store, whatever), are you now perfectly OK with the cops seizing it?
If you rent a UHaul, and someone else moved drugs in it, are you OK with being drug charges being brought against you?
How is it that the activities of someone else magically translate in your mind into your own property loss?
Cash can be subject to seizure without a warrant or other cause.
Read it and weep.
The only thing that kept them alive at my place was backwards compatibility. XBox360 promised to run XBox games via emulation -- turned out to be a lie -- and our PS3 runs PS2 games pretty much without a hitch. Without those promises, they wouldn't have gotten in the door. Way, way too much money tied up in games for those machines. Before it's asked, no, I don't want to keep every version of every console attached to my system. One per brand is plenty.
Not that I"m actually expecting compatibility this round, but without it, these become irrelevant to me.
The good news is there are tons of games for the older systems, and they'll just get less expensive on the used market. There aren't enough hours in the day in the rest of my life to play everything released to this point, so there's no pressure to buy a new console.
It would appear that you don't know what the word "theory" means. You used it where you more properly should have used "ridiculous, evidence free, superstitious presumption."
You're welcome. :)
Well, it goes to 11 three times, actually - two pre channels and the master. But each channel is its own gain times the master gain, so yeah, 22 per channel, lol.