Am I the only one here that likes his windows without any zoom/shear/rotate transformations, with readable text and contrasting background? If so, does this make me or you insane?:)
Seriously, working on nice font renderer is A Good Thing -- X11 fonts always looked ugly, even with FreeType (X11 fonts will always be rendered to 1-bit bitmaps) -- but do you see any use (other than having a nice eyecandy) for those fancy transformations?
I've had more or less serious problems with my wrists for the past few years now and each time it was getting worse a keyboard change would work.
My theory is that no matter what keyboard you use, it forces holding your shoulders in wrists in the same position for hours a day, which is bad regardless of the position. The solution is to change your keyboard to another one, forcing a considerably different hands position every couple of months. Getting used to a new keyboard takes a few (usually frustrating) days, but that's how you know you start using different moves while typing.
But then again, I'm not a doctor and the above is only a layman's theory, but it does work. Feel free to tell me that it should not, anyway:)
A couple of days ago my right wrist really got me panicked as I felt pain in it for 2 (two) days after I stopped typing. So far I changed the keyboard to M$ Natural Elite and it seems to work for me so far.
Look at the patent page - the Unistroke character set is _much_ simplier than Graffiti. Same must be true for the recognition method. The only common thing these technologies seem to share is the one-stroke-per-character assumption. Do I hear a 'single-click?'
...but I guess having your computers named after famous machines is nice and easy to remember. I.e. isn't it obviuos that your life depends on the good behaviour of Wintermute and hal9000 (the latter one is my main NT box; It's hard to control sometimes) while holly is a funny little lebook that changes its gender (95/Linux) many times a day?
If I had a three-rooms-wide Cray I'd probably name it "Eniac":)
I'm just surprised that the machines consider only the temperature in their calculations. Remember that air humidity, the distance to the neares pool and the nearest pub are also (if not more) important.
Hmm... anybody wants to put two vending machines side by side and watch them compete?
... and name it "Nonamee" ("Penguin double-n, report to the front airlock. I repeat..."). Perhaps NN and Tux don't rhyme, but hey, neither did Abbot and Costello:)
Be careful when you choose a planet to put your money in. Due to limitations of the TCP/IP standard (2 minute timeout) you won't be able to access the 'net from your favorite Mars part.
It's a good argument to use when negotiating the price:)
They might like to start with unplugging it. Seriously, the only way to keep your pages secure is making sure you/your writings/employer/lawyer don't offend or treat anybody. And since it's quite impossible if you want something more than just another boring website you better get used to the thought that there's someone insane enough to lose lots of time just to temporarily alter your website contents. I guess the same rules go for keeping the billboards safe from being spray-painted, but cleaning a website is a bit faster.
By the way, after all those years of yelling at M$'s products (they're insecure! faulty! icky!) it's strange to read that their first site was cracked in '99. Isn't it a kind of proof that their software DOES sometimes work? Or was it 'A cracking contest easy enough nobody tried to win it'?
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Am I the only one here that likes his windows without any zoom/shear/rotate transformations, with readable text and contrasting background? If so, does this make me or you insane? :)
Seriously, working on nice font renderer is A Good Thing -- X11 fonts always looked ugly, even with FreeType (X11 fonts will always be rendered to 1-bit bitmaps) -- but do you see any use (other than having a nice eyecandy) for those fancy transformations?
I've had more or less serious problems with my wrists for the past few years now and each time it was getting worse a keyboard change would work.
:)
My theory is that no matter what keyboard you use, it forces holding your shoulders in wrists in the same position for hours a day, which is bad regardless of the position. The solution is to change your keyboard to another one, forcing a considerably different hands position every couple of months. Getting used to a new keyboard takes a few (usually frustrating) days, but that's how you know you start using different moves while typing.
But then again, I'm not a doctor and the above is only a layman's theory, but it does work. Feel free to tell me that it should not, anyway
A couple of days ago my right wrist really got me panicked as I felt pain in it for 2 (two) days after I stopped typing. So far I changed the keyboard to M$ Natural Elite and it seems to work for me so far.
Look at the patent page - the Unistroke character set is _much_ simplier than Graffiti. Same must be true for the recognition method. The only common thing these technologies seem to share is the one-stroke-per-character assumption.
Do I hear a 'single-click?'
According to the text all a thief must do is being "long and low".
"Be a car. Think a car. Then you'll get a car."
...but I guess having your computers named after famous machines is nice and easy to remember.
:)
I.e. isn't it obviuos that your life depends on the good behaviour of Wintermute and hal9000 (the latter one is my main NT box; It's hard to control sometimes) while holly is a funny little lebook that changes its gender (95/Linux) many times a day?
If I had a three-rooms-wide Cray I'd probably name it "Eniac"
I'm just surprised that the machines consider only the temperature in their calculations. Remember that air humidity, the distance to the neares pool and the nearest pub are also (if not more) important.
Hmm... anybody wants to put two vending machines side by side and watch them compete?
... and name it "Nonamee" ("Penguin double-n, report to the front airlock. I repeat..."). Perhaps NN and Tux don't rhyme, but hey, neither did Abbot and Costello :)
Be careful when you choose a planet to put your money in. Due to limitations of the TCP/IP standard (2 minute timeout) you won't be able to access the 'net from your favorite Mars part.
:)
It's a good argument to use when negotiating the price
They might like to start with unplugging it.
Seriously, the only way to keep your pages secure is making sure you/your writings/employer/lawyer don't offend or treat anybody. And since it's quite impossible if you want something more than just another boring website you better get used to the thought that there's someone insane enough to lose lots of time just to temporarily alter your website contents. I guess the same rules go for keeping the billboards safe from being spray-painted, but cleaning a website is a bit faster.
By the way, after all those years of yelling at M$'s products (they're insecure! faulty! icky!) it's strange to read that their first site was cracked in '99. Isn't it a kind of proof that their software DOES sometimes work? Or was it 'A cracking contest easy enough nobody tried to win it'?