...at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands.
But I don't frequently alternate hands with my QWERTY. In fact, if you pay attention to what your hands are doing, it seems that your left hand does quite a bit more than your right. I kind of assumed that Dvorak fixed this by adjusting the balance.
I don't think the two are very comparable. It's a pain in the ass (or, more accurately, the eyes) to read an e-book, but it's so much easier to listen to digital music. You don't really spend hours turning the pages of a CD, do you?
Back in the days of Napster, I deleted all of my Metallica. It wasn't any good anyways, but I also made a warped audio collage piece out of one of their songs.
But, still, my 24 GB of music remains, and it grows daily...
Perhaps we need to take into account the changing definition of 'success.' These days, a successful game has millions of copies sold. But think back to the days when independent gamewriters were the norm: what was successful then? Certainly not millions of sales... perhaps thousands. How many copies of Sierra's most popular adventures games were sold, do you think? Or Wolfenstein 3D? Or the original Warcraft?
But with massive corporation behind games nowadays with their huge marketing budgets and distribution base, independent developers obviously can't compete. But they may still be able to attain success equal to that of the days of old.
Well, pro-guns means pro-weapons, regardless of how you sugar coat it.
But perhaps there should be another category, labelled "pacifism" or something, that blocks anti-gun and peace activism sites. Then those people who wish to censor those deviants can use that category, and leave 'weapons' unbanned.
I think you're missing the point, actually. Ascribing some political agenda to some software corporation is ridiculous. They simply reflect desired censorware categories, which they have implemented in order to cater to a politically wider range of customers. What if you want to block pro-gun sites? Then add 'weapons' to the ban list. And if you don't... well, don't. They're just making a tool, and you can use it however you want.
Of course, we're just ascribing human curiosity to this hypothetical alien species. What if they are motivated not by curiosity, but by a relentless thirst for conquest? Or what if they are looking for supermarkets after all, but for a different reason... because they're really, really hungry?
Maybe we don't want to attract these aliens after all...
"...a large corporate entity may be clandestinely trying to sway you or your child's political views by censoring content from one side of a political debate. This is indeed chilling..."
Isn't "weapons" just a category that can be blocked or not, depending on whose controlling the software? Thus I think it is fairly accurate to include pro-gun sites under "weapons." If a parents wants to block weapons-related information, then they can use this category. If not, they won't.
Frankly, I don't think this "large corporate entity" really cares at all about any of these 'moral' issues and is just creating an accurate classification of web sites for their censorware product. Ooh, chilling indeed.
what did this guy REALLY do? I mean, this is Slashdot. You can't exactly expect biased reporting. Especially when it's reporting on news reported by a biased Western news source! What exactly did this guy write? What else is he involved in? Who does he work for?
I just can't take this very seriously. It reeks too severely of "look at how evil our rival government is!" propaganda.
Yes, it looks nice, but it was supposed to have been designed BEFORE its descendant. Kind of odd that it looks more MODERN, don't you think?
But maybe we can explain it away by saying that it was just a design fad. Or maybe we can say that Star Trek as we see is just a symbolic reinterpretation of the stories, and that the appearance of the special effects were limited by the resources of the times: that the NCC-1701 didn't actually look like it did, and looked more like the new old Enterprise.
Well, I didn't say that we'd have a complete understanding. I said that...we'll have the most comprehensive understanding of the physical universe ever before achieved.
This will be a major step towards a unified physical model, but it won't necessarily be the final one.
The two segments of the show turn their spotlights on a crisis in physics, one invisible to the general public but increasingly embarrassing to the discipline... general relativity is completely out of whack with the equally accurate explanation... known as quantum mechanics.
How is this an embarassment? It's a fascinating puzzle to have uncovered! Once we nix this dilemma, we'll have the most comprehensive understanding of the physical universe ever before achieved! But it's embarassing that we've already gotten this far? Whomever thinks that does not have an accurate understanding of the nature of science.
Slashdot Mirror
Researches on the shape, size, distribution, and density will be made on the crates on the moon.
Crates, eh? Jesus; did these SpaceDaily people use Babelfish is something?
They'll take notice alright. Yay, more ad exposures for Time!
Well, I find it interesting that anyone would say "Come on gang!"
Should we append to that, "He won't get away with this! Not because of us blasted kids and our dog!"
...at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands.
But I don't frequently alternate hands with my QWERTY. In fact, if you pay attention to what your hands are doing, it seems that your left hand does quite a bit more than your right. I kind of assumed that Dvorak fixed this by adjusting the balance.
SCO's actions are deliberately trying to damage RedHat's sales potential...
Is that illegal?
I mean, is there some law against a Coke ad saying "Pepsi tastes like ass; buy Coke"?
I don't think the two are very comparable. It's a pain in the ass (or, more accurately, the eyes) to read an e-book, but it's so much easier to listen to digital music. You don't really spend hours turning the pages of a CD, do you?
Back in the days of Napster, I deleted all of my Metallica. It wasn't any good anyways, but I also made a warped audio collage piece out of one of their songs.
But, still, my 24 GB of music remains, and it grows daily...
Perhaps we need to take into account the changing definition of 'success.' These days, a successful game has millions of copies sold. But think back to the days when independent gamewriters were the norm: what was successful then? Certainly not millions of sales... perhaps thousands. How many copies of Sierra's most popular adventures games were sold, do you think? Or Wolfenstein 3D? Or the original Warcraft?
But with massive corporation behind games nowadays with their huge marketing budgets and distribution base, independent developers obviously can't compete. But they may still be able to attain success equal to that of the days of old.
that's a horrible idea!
They can always use the Digital Needle:
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
No no, you have to use proper business-speak here.
Novell will have lost potential future revenues.
no.
Well, pro-guns means pro-weapons, regardless of how you sugar coat it.
But perhaps there should be another category, labelled "pacifism" or something, that blocks anti-gun and peace activism sites. Then those people who wish to censor those deviants can use that category, and leave 'weapons' unbanned.
I think you're missing the point, actually. Ascribing some political agenda to some software corporation is ridiculous. They simply reflect desired censorware categories, which they have implemented in order to cater to a politically wider range of customers. What if you want to block pro-gun sites? Then add 'weapons' to the ban list. And if you don't... well, don't. They're just making a tool, and you can use it however you want.
Of course, we're just ascribing human curiosity to this hypothetical alien species. What if they are motivated not by curiosity, but by a relentless thirst for conquest? Or what if they are looking for supermarkets after all, but for a different reason... because they're really, really hungry?
Maybe we don't want to attract these aliens after all...
"...a large corporate entity may be clandestinely trying to sway you or your child's political views by censoring content from one side of a political debate. This is indeed chilling..."
Isn't "weapons" just a category that can be blocked or not, depending on whose controlling the software? Thus I think it is fairly accurate to include pro-gun sites under "weapons." If a parents wants to block weapons-related information, then they can use this category. If not, they won't.
Frankly, I don't think this "large corporate entity" really cares at all about any of these 'moral' issues and is just creating an accurate classification of web sites for their censorware product. Ooh, chilling indeed.
er... make that read "unbiased reporting"
>_
what did this guy REALLY do? I mean, this is Slashdot. You can't exactly expect biased reporting. Especially when it's reporting on news reported by a biased Western news source! What exactly did this guy write? What else is he involved in? Who does he work for?
I just can't take this very seriously. It reeks too severely of "look at how evil our rival government is!" propaganda.
Oh yes, because as we all know, communism is EVIL .
I love easily ascii-able logos, but:Wow, that's dumb.
...the next iteration of Grand Theft Auto, name as yet unknown...
Let me guess... GTA4?
Yes, it looks nice, but it was supposed to have been designed BEFORE its descendant. Kind of odd that it looks more MODERN, don't you think?
But maybe we can explain it away by saying that it was just a design fad. Or maybe we can say that Star Trek as we see is just a symbolic reinterpretation of the stories, and that the appearance of the special effects were limited by the resources of the times: that the NCC-1701 didn't actually look like it did, and looked more like the new old Enterprise.
But it's still a bad series.
Star Trek: Enterprise is still not well accepted by real trekkies because, well, it's crap. Let's just ignore it, shall we?
Well, note that it was broken up into a dozen pieces by a "piece of space junk" that "impacted," destroying the Enterprise and presumably her crew.
However, I'd bet that this model didn't have its shields up at the time, which probably would have negated any damage at all.
And besides, the "space junk" is a scale model too. In actual size, that would be one huge obstacle!
Well, I didn't say that we'd have a complete understanding. I said that ...we'll have the most comprehensive understanding of the physical universe ever before achieved.
This will be a major step towards a unified physical model, but it won't necessarily be the final one.
The two segments of the show turn their spotlights on a crisis in physics, one invisible to the general public but increasingly embarrassing to the discipline... general relativity is completely out of whack with the equally accurate explanation... known as quantum mechanics.
How is this an embarassment? It's a fascinating puzzle to have uncovered! Once we nix this dilemma, we'll have the most comprehensive understanding of the physical universe ever before achieved! But it's embarassing that we've already gotten this far? Whomever thinks that does not have an accurate understanding of the nature of science.