I've been wondering for a while if keyboards should be replaced with a touch screen...
Think about it - you could reprogram keyboard layout, or even make the "keyboard" go away completely while you change the screen to be some other "input device".
I don't know if I can get what I'm thinking across accurately, but your idea to get the mouse replaced - what if *both* the mouse and computer were replaced with a 3'x1' touchscreen so that you could make that screen be any kind of input device you want - keyboard and "handless mouse", drawing tablet (and instead of the drawing appearing on the "regular" screen in front of you, you have it, or at least a copy of it, on the actual touchscreen.
I think there are words missing there... like something along the lines of:
... like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used to run TVs rather than lights, when network traffic, be it voice, video, or just plain data, gets broken down...
I've never had my position so succinctly expressed, though I would append something along the lines of, "I don't think we should have gone there in the first place."
Afghanistan was one thing (and I don't think we finished that). Iraq was something else.
It's been a while and memory can be fleeting, but...
I recall reading what I think was KJA's first Star Wars book and enjoying it. But as you say, after that, it was utter shit. I think he started writing books targeted to younger audiences, and then everything he wrote started sounding the same. Crap crap crap.
And his Dune work with Brian Herbert is making Frank Herbert spin in his grave.
Zahn - I need to see what else he's written in the Star Wars genre, as I've read I think five of his so far and was incredibly impressed. It's too bad that KJA had me fearing any Star Wars book after a while...
My first reaction is to say "Yes, great idea!" However, I then get concerned about the "Lowest Common Denominator", where people just look at the https and not the lock icon. They can be kinda small and go unnoticed.
Really, I think a warning dialog is needed. The original click-through was good enough, I thought. Now, as everyone says, it's like having to sacrifice your firstborn to get to a self-signed site.
One wonders if the cert authorities have told the browser companies "Make it harder for self-signed certs to be used or we won't allow your browser to use our service."
I got my PS3 originally for the BlueRay... and the fact that it had be eons since I had had a game console (that SuperNintendo is currently gathering dust in a closet right now). My first two games were "Ratchet and Clank Future" and "Resistance: Fall of Man".
I liked the "story" of Resistance, but hated the gameplay (and FPS style, since it was story driven... the "maps" were very linear in order to make sure you went the right way). FPSs are so much better with a keyboard and mouse.
"R&CF:ToD" was very fun. But the real fun began with "Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga". There's just something to be said for being able to run around with a lightsaber and slashing Storm Troopers. And the puzzles were okay.
"Lego Indiana Jones" was kinda cool. The puzzles were a little more involved, but there was something lacking in the game... something about the feel that just wasn't right.
"Lego Batman" has been great so far. I like the fact that you play both Batman through "Story"s as well as the "Villans".
My biggest issue with all of the "Lego" games has been the "Story" and "Free Play" options. You really can't do all of the "Free Play" stuff until you've gone through enough of the "Story"s to unlock key characters (or in the case of Batman, special Batsuits) (IE, in "Star Wars", there are things you just can't do in the first three movies - six stories each - until you've come across Tie Fighters in "A New Hope). It's kind of a "forced delayed replayability" thing. But once you have those extra characters, it's very cool.
All PS3 games so far have been able to play 720P. However, the game animation quality of "The Simpsons" just flat out sucked (cutscenes were cool, but there was some "blockiness" to the edges of characters during the game). There are reviews on my MySpace blog for most of the games I've played.
I got a PS3 not too long ago for it's BR player, but I have yet to buy a disk (as I haven't seen a sub $20 BR disk yet... or at least not one I'd want to buy). I still enjoy my fair share of BR disks though...
$18.18 a month for 3 movies at a time from Netflix, no limit on number of movies a month. *That's* how I'm enjoying BlueRay.
I looked at a number of the early posts and didn't see this joke - hope it's not a repeat...
I just keep having this image in my head of two of the technicians for the LHC wandering through the innards of the thing, when one suddenly looks at the other and says, "Aw crap! A Helium leak!"...
I don't know what alternatives you have for access there (IE, who you're currently using), but here in Tampa it's basically Verizon FIOS and Bright House. While there may be something to say for FIOS's network speed, Bright House wasn't too bad when I used it, and their current HD TV line up and general cable service have some strong points over Verizon's. Enough to where I'm tempted to switch back, at least until Verizon's HD channels start matching up with Bright House's.
Thing is, I have some machines (no.NET whatsoever) that report the SV1 UA.
I found this out when I started to deal with some issues from AVG not properly interpreting certain javascript in use on my employer's site, which let to AVG doing strange recursive lookups.
So, would it make any difference if Apple renamed their app as "Apple Software Installer" rather than "software update"?
I would say yes.
I came late to this discussion today; I'm off visiting some folks and not spending all of my time at a computer.;) But I saw this earlier this week and posted on my MySpace about it. I also submitted it as a story when I noticed it getting wider media traction. Kinda glad my submission didn't get chosen because this version (with a Mozilla exec involved) is "fuller".
An Updater should by default only update my existing software. It should not by default install new software, particularly software I don't want or need.
It's less of a problem these days but can you remember a time when hard drive performance would dip seriously if you had a lot of stuff cluttering it? Even if that stuff was never running? So why then would I want an "update utility" to add clutter?
I'd prefer that the engineer designing the stuff like cars or planes be able to answer a hell of a lot more than 50% of the questions on a test measuring his knowledge of the material relevant to his tasks...
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I've been wondering for a while if keyboards should be replaced with a touch screen ...
Think about it - you could reprogram keyboard layout, or even make the "keyboard" go away completely while you change the screen to be some other "input device".
I don't know if I can get what I'm thinking across accurately, but your idea to get the mouse replaced - what if *both* the mouse and computer were replaced with a 3'x1' touchscreen so that you could make that screen be any kind of input device you want - keyboard and "handless mouse", drawing tablet (and instead of the drawing appearing on the "regular" screen in front of you, you have it, or at least a copy of it, on the actual touchscreen.
Then how do you read the screen?
At least one other has said "Thank you"; let me add mine.
The instant he started towing the party line after losing the 2000 primary he lost my respect.
I think there are words missing there ... like something along the lines of:
... like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used to run TVs rather than lights, when network traffic, be it voice, video, or just plain data, gets broken down ...
If you start putting your car through the tubes ...
I've never had my position so succinctly expressed, though I would append something along the lines of, "I don't think we should have gone there in the first place."
Afghanistan was one thing (and I don't think we finished that). Iraq was something else.
It's been a while and memory can be fleeting, but ...
...
I recall reading what I think was KJA's first Star Wars book and enjoying it. But as you say, after that, it was utter shit. I think he started writing books targeted to younger audiences, and then everything he wrote started sounding the same. Crap crap crap.
And his Dune work with Brian Herbert is making Frank Herbert spin in his grave.
Zahn - I need to see what else he's written in the Star Wars genre, as I've read I think five of his so far and was incredibly impressed. It's too bad that KJA had me fearing any Star Wars book after a while
At least I have chicken.
I once was the host for Moral Decay (telnet://playdecay.com:3003/) ... and MD was founded in 1992.
Try again:
500,000
x 5
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2,500,000
Sorry. If it's any consolation, I'm sure I've done it once in a while, too.
And damn it, PRE tags should work!
Ah. Perhaps not this exact essay but there have been other Slashdot articles featuring Bennett Haselton involving spam.
Haven't I read this essay before?
My first reaction is to say "Yes, great idea!" However, I then get concerned about the "Lowest Common Denominator", where people just look at the https and not the lock icon. They can be kinda small and go unnoticed.
Really, I think a warning dialog is needed. The original click-through was good enough, I thought. Now, as everyone says, it's like having to sacrifice your firstborn to get to a self-signed site.
One wonders if the cert authorities have told the browser companies "Make it harder for self-signed certs to be used or we won't allow your browser to use our service."
I got my PS3 originally for the BlueRay ... and the fact that it had be eons since I had had a game console (that SuperNintendo is currently gathering dust in a closet right now). My first two games were "Ratchet and Clank Future" and "Resistance: Fall of Man".
... the "maps" were very linear in order to make sure you went the right way). FPSs are so much better with a keyboard and mouse.
... something about the feel that just wasn't right.
I liked the "story" of Resistance, but hated the gameplay (and FPS style, since it was story driven
"R&CF:ToD" was very fun. But the real fun began with "Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga". There's just something to be said for being able to run around with a lightsaber and slashing Storm Troopers. And the puzzles were okay.
"Lego Indiana Jones" was kinda cool. The puzzles were a little more involved, but there was something lacking in the game
"Lego Batman" has been great so far. I like the fact that you play both Batman through "Story"s as well as the "Villans".
My biggest issue with all of the "Lego" games has been the "Story" and "Free Play" options. You really can't do all of the "Free Play" stuff until you've gone through enough of the "Story"s to unlock key characters (or in the case of Batman, special Batsuits) (IE, in "Star Wars", there are things you just can't do in the first three movies - six stories each - until you've come across Tie Fighters in "A New Hope). It's kind of a "forced delayed replayability" thing. But once you have those extra characters, it's very cool.
All PS3 games so far have been able to play 720P. However, the game animation quality of "The Simpsons" just flat out sucked (cutscenes were cool, but there was some "blockiness" to the edges of characters during the game). There are reviews on my MySpace blog for most of the games I've played.
But it's october.
I got a PS3 not too long ago for it's BR player, but I have yet to buy a disk (as I haven't seen a sub $20 BR disk yet ... or at least not one I'd want to buy). I still enjoy my fair share of BR disks though ...
$18.18 a month for 3 movies at a time from Netflix, no limit on number of movies a month. *That's* how I'm enjoying BlueRay.
I looked at a number of the early posts and didn't see this joke - hope it's not a repeat ...
...
I just keep having this image in my head of two of the technicians for the LHC wandering through the innards of the thing, when one suddenly looks at the other and says, "Aw crap! A Helium leak!"
Sounding, of course, like a chipmunk.
Did anyone else read that headline and think, "She scanned his brain and it killed him?"
I don't know what alternatives you have for access there (IE, who you're currently using), but here in Tampa it's basically Verizon FIOS and Bright House. While there may be something to say for FIOS's network speed, Bright House wasn't too bad when I used it, and their current HD TV line up and general cable service have some strong points over Verizon's. Enough to where I'm tempted to switch back, at least until Verizon's HD channels start matching up with Bright House's.
I store all of my passwords in plain text!
Posting this undoes some moderation I've done to this discussion, but when I read this, I seriously needed a:
-1, Drank the Kool-Aid
moderation.
Thing is, I have some machines (no .NET whatsoever) that report the SV1 UA.
I found this out when I started to deal with some issues from AVG not properly interpreting certain javascript in use on my employer's site, which let to AVG doing strange recursive lookups.
Actually, Robin Williams made that joke somewhere along the line ...
So, would it make any difference if Apple renamed their app as "Apple Software Installer" rather than "software update"?
;) But I saw this earlier this week and posted on my MySpace about it. I also submitted it as a story when I noticed it getting wider media traction. Kinda glad my submission didn't get chosen because this version (with a Mozilla exec involved) is "fuller".
I would say yes.
I came late to this discussion today; I'm off visiting some folks and not spending all of my time at a computer.
An Updater should by default only update my existing software. It should not by default install new software, particularly software I don't want or need.
It's less of a problem these days but can you remember a time when hard drive performance would dip seriously if you had a lot of stuff cluttering it? Even if that stuff was never running? So why then would I want an "update utility" to add clutter?
I dunno ...
...
I'd prefer that the engineer designing the stuff like cars or planes be able to answer a hell of a lot more than 50% of the questions on a test measuring his knowledge of the material relevant to his tasks