Though I understand the possible convinience of one-button controls for things like tablets and PDAs, but do not like them when I'm using an actual mouse. I have five fingers, and I don't like wasting any of them. I wish I could get a mouse with three buttons, and two scroll wheel/buttons.
My idea (and I'm completely serious, I think this would work if it caught on!) is to get people to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect. I know legitimate words so esoteric I can stump the Oxford Unabridged, let alone the pathetic word lists I have seen use by spellcheckers. Further, grammar checking is a joke. Let alone the fact that improper grammar is sometimes a great device to utilize to express yourself, we just don't have that good of programs to recognize grammar to begin with! (As an aside, I decided to put this into word, and it turns out the "yourself" in the last sentence ought to be "you.") What if I wanted to have a conversation in another language, express mathematics, use technical or new words, or copy a page of Milton or Woolf? I guess I'm SOL.
People will over time develop impeccable linguistic skills! If using plenty of profanity on your IM or chat client qualifies, I agree.
Then part II: When speech recognition becomes widespread, make the recognition software only recognize clearly enunciated words (and then check them for grammar!). As someone who had to go through a decade of speech therapy, I am appalled. I large minority of people have speech impediments of varying degrees. This is not laziness or incorrectness, but genetics and often a physical struggle. A speech impediment, a cold, a bit tongue, or fatigue could make your program unusable.
Think about it. We could have an entire society where everyone speaks perfectly clear, grammatically precise day-to-day English (or whatever language you speak in your country)! I really don't know what to say to that.
Last year in a Civil Engineering class I was in, a guest speaker spoke on this subject. He showed us some video of cars with no drivers going around on the road at about 80 mph, excecuting lane changes, passing maneuvers, and other crazy stuff at 80mph, IIRC. It was pretty cool.
As to psychological issues: I posed the question, and he was not that worried. Politicians, in his expereince, were not all that reactionary on the issue, and when the technology is out there, there will probably be auto-car only freeways, which would cause people to get over their qualms quite quickly to be able to get to work in 1/3 the time, not having to go on slower, less direct roads.
I live in the US (Texas) and use AT&T as my wireless provider, and SMS is 10c per message with no service. I could have gotten unlimited SMS for $2 a month.
Come to think of it, this is because my navbar is PART of my filebar (to save space... I only have 106 pixels up there at any given time. I would not mind a tad smaller, either.)
To be honest, it's a good thing I don't use full screen, because I would lose my navigation stuff. Meh, there are keyboard shortcuts (I refuse to use mouse gestures... I have a KEYBOARD, people... haha: mouse.)
I have been running firefox since before it was firefox and have not had problems rendering/.
If this were a problem, which/.'s blatent deviation (read: hundreds of deviations a page) from the HTML 3.2 it claims, I'd be sympathetic to the browser anyways.
IE 6.0 has a really nice auto hide feature for the filebar when in full screen mode. Full screen is indeed full screen. Under Firefox 1.0 you have to uncheck the navigation and bookmark toolbar while in window mode and then go into full screen mode.
I could see how this could be annoying for someone who actually uses this feature. However, I don't have this problem. I am running "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" and when I go to fullscreen I lose all my nav bars and such... I literally have nothing up there but 48 pixels of tabs.
And which IS exactly.083 dollars per dollar. I don't see that this is difficult.
Base twelve would eventually have gone to floating point calculations (.083 base 10 being about.1 base 12 [I find myself for the second time today wishing that/. allowed <sub> tags]) if you wanted it to be infinately precise. At which point who cares about fractions, which are more difficult to work with and perform calculations with when they are proper and greater than one, and difficult to conceive of when they are improper.
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As a student at A&M, I've noticed that a lot of people still do that, just without the fixing ot painting yellow :).
It is the name of a type of panda, as I recall. Since no one knows this, it is portrayed as a red fox on fire humping the planet.
I have used several skins, all of which have been highly usable.
If you wish to do this successfully, set up a seperate profile for yourself.
You obviously don't pirate like I do.
Though I understand the possible convinience of one-button controls for things like tablets and PDAs, but do not like them when I'm using an actual mouse. I have five fingers, and I don't like wasting any of them. I wish I could get a mouse with three buttons, and two scroll wheel/buttons.
I think Illustrator is more geared toward drawing.
Ah, the glories of Yahoo Graffiti with a tablet...
Personally, I would rather have what content does remain than none at all.
My idea (and I'm completely serious, I think this would work if it caught on!) is to get people to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect.
I know legitimate words so esoteric I can stump the Oxford Unabridged, let alone the pathetic word lists I have seen use by spellcheckers. Further, grammar checking is a joke. Let alone the fact that improper grammar is sometimes a great device to utilize to express yourself, we just don't have that good of programs to recognize grammar to begin with! (As an aside, I decided to put this into word, and it turns out the "yourself" in the last sentence ought to be "you.") What if I wanted to have a conversation in another language, express mathematics, use technical or new words, or copy a page of Milton or Woolf? I guess I'm SOL.
People will over time develop impeccable linguistic skills!
If using plenty of profanity on your IM or chat client qualifies, I agree.
Then part II: When speech recognition becomes widespread, make the recognition software only recognize clearly enunciated words (and then check them for grammar!).
As someone who had to go through a decade of speech therapy, I am appalled. I large minority of people have speech impediments of varying degrees. This is not laziness or incorrectness, but genetics and often a physical struggle. A speech impediment, a cold, a bit tongue, or fatigue could make your program unusable.
Think about it. We could have an entire society where everyone speaks perfectly clear, grammatically precise day-to-day English (or whatever language you speak in your country)!
I really don't know what to say to that.
A revolution requires that people leave their house
This revolution revolutionizes what a revolution is. The internet changes everything.
The cache the entirety of many small, copyrighted pictures.
Last year in a Civil Engineering class I was in, a guest speaker spoke on this subject. He showed us some video of cars with no drivers going around on the road at about 80 mph, excecuting lane changes, passing maneuvers, and other crazy stuff at 80mph, IIRC. It was pretty cool.
As to psychological issues: I posed the question, and he was not that worried. Politicians, in his expereince, were not all that reactionary on the issue, and when the technology is out there, there will probably be auto-car only freeways, which would cause people to get over their qualms quite quickly to be able to get to work in 1/3 the time, not having to go on slower, less direct roads.
Adobe Illustrator is their tool more for design/drawing, I believe.
He uses Filemaker Pro.
Because that is the oddest part of his quest...
I, for one, welcome our genetically engineered shark overlords.
When an OS upgrade decreases your hardware compatability, it's your fault.
I live in the US (Texas) and use AT&T as my wireless provider, and SMS is 10c per message with no service. I could have gotten unlimited SMS for $2 a month.
Come to think of it, this is because my navbar is PART of my filebar (to save space... I only have 106 pixels up there at any given time. I would not mind a tad smaller, either.)
To be honest, it's a good thing I don't use full screen, because I would lose my navigation stuff. Meh, there are keyboard shortcuts (I refuse to use mouse gestures... I have a KEYBOARD, people... haha: mouse.)
How odd... I've never once noticed (had?) that problem.
For one build (1.0 PR), I did have trouble with one option of the Movable Type backend, but I was forgiving since it was not a final release.
I have been running firefox since before it was firefox and have not had problems rendering /.
/.'s blatent deviation (read: hundreds of deviations a page) from the HTML 3.2 it claims, I'd be sympathetic to the browser anyways.
If this were a problem, which
IE 6.0 has a really nice auto hide feature for the filebar when in full screen mode. Full screen is indeed full screen. Under Firefox 1.0 you have to uncheck the navigation and bookmark toolbar while in window mode and then go into full screen mode.
I could see how this could be annoying for someone who actually uses this feature. However, I don't have this problem. I am running "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" and when I go to fullscreen I lose all my nav bars and such... I literally have nothing up there but 48 pixels of tabs.
guys they allready have metric time no joke
Too much of a reminder of Internet 2. (I once got in a fist fight with Internet 2... it wasn't not pretty.)
And which IS exactly .083 dollars per dollar. I don't see that this is difficult.
.1 base 12 [I find myself for the second time today wishing that /. allowed <sub> tags]) if you wanted it to be infinately precise. At which point who cares about fractions, which are more difficult to work with and perform calculations with when they are proper and greater than one, and difficult to conceive of when they are improper.
Base twelve would eventually have gone to floating point calculations (.083 base 10 being about