Aside from the fact that I'm left-handed, I find more balance in keeping the mouse on the left (with the numberpad on the right). As rare as left-handed mice are, I've always just stuck with symmetrical, ambidextrous mice and trackballs.
I also happen to be quite a fan of Logitech products, so their recent trend towards right-hand specific mice with myriad buttons is not a happy trend for me at all.
As a born and raised native of Fort Wayne, it's nice to see them slashdotted....kinda
Especially after they were ranked at the Very Bottom of Men's Health magazine's list of city intelligence in the US.
Even though I moved out as soon as I was able (to Columbus, OH [19], NYC [32], and currently Miami [94]), the place isn't so bad. There are even a few people there smart enough to read to everyone else. It's nice, storytime is. I especially liked the milk and cookies.
Spam, chinese take-out, and most canned soups have a lot of sodium in them. Too much sodium for lunch has a serious negative impact on my afternoon productivity. *snore*
If server sales and xbox are their prime moneymakers, then where does piracy come into this? Servers ship with legit licenses, right? And it's difficult to pirate hardware with out first breaking and entering.
I'm just thanking Billmer that they have these other divisions to offset the substantial losses brought on by software piracy.
You watch, next year they'll be reporting more record sales due to the crackdown on software piracy!
Not that I'm a huge MS supporter. Psh. I do kinda dig what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing, though. I mean, at least SOME of the money is being put to good use.
Not trollin, just FYI. Chevy dropped the Geo moniker in 1998 and absorbed their lines. The Storm with their awful (Isuzu) engines were dropped entirely, and they sold the Metro, Prism, and Tracker under the Chevrolet badge.
The Metro has recently been replaced by the Aveo in 2004. Chevrolet.com says it starts at $9,995, but I would argue that it's not even worth that. They show it at $13,405 - that's just shy of the Cobalt, which starts at 14,190 (and is an immense improvement over the Cavalier, which it is replacing).
Enough with the run-on sentences! And pointless information!
All technology should come with warnings. Hot coffee utilizes a technology called "heating" to make it more palatable for morning drivers, but the dangers of spillage (and subsequent burning!) are so great that a warning must be given.
And cheap batteries can overheat.
And keyboards can damage your wrists.
And so on and so forth.
Let me be the first to warn you. Everything is dangerous. Even the most basic, fundamental, trusted things. Dirt can contain deadly bacteria, or at the very least suffocate you. You can drown in the bath. Avoid Everything for Complete Safety. And God save you if you really need someone to warn you of every possible danger that everything presents.
A guideline I go by when it comes to technology: Cheap things are CHEAP.
I've been hearing on NPR (sorry, can't provide links to radio and didn't see anything on their website) about schools in Japan which have implemented tracking tags. This is a reaction to an incident 2 years ago in which 6 or 8 students were murdered. The country has been considered such a safe place that children as young as 6 find their own way to school... unescorted.
As a means of ensuring the continued safety of those children, they've been given tags (I assume RFID, or related tech) that creates an entry in the school's computer system when they pass through one of the gates/doors. Parents can elect to receive a mobile alert (SMS/email, whatever) when the children arrive at and depart from school.
All in the name of safety.
It's funny, but somehow this doesn't concern me. I guess you could call it a prejudice, but I think of the Japanese as more trustworthy with relation to things like this. The thought of tracking children in the US by similar means scares the hell out of me.
But what's the right solution? I honestly don't know.
I don't know enough about the technology to speak from any perspective of expertise, but if the RFID technology is similar to the EZ-Pass I used in the tolls up in NYC...
Well, the EZ-Pass comes with a little anti-static bag you can keep the tag in when you don't want it to be read. If it's something you carry, you could just slip it into something like this and that's that.
Now that I think of it, I wonder if that would also work for the security tags that are supposed to stop shoplifters. Not that anyone ever reacts when those alarms go off any more, but it's a curiosity.
Agreed. Wiki can't possibly be 100% accurate, but as an initial resource, it's a very good one. Even a lot of the original research papers, scientific journal articles, etc are eventually disproven. Some of the greatest truths are no more than a working draft of the real truth. The key is realizing and acknowledging this fact. An obvious example of this is the theory of relativity. Einstein knew well enough to refer to it as a theory. He didn't say "This is how things work," but in essence said "This is my best estimation of how things work."
And this is what gets me about the reviewer's insistance on constantly pointing out use of the word "probably". I credit Wiki for having the stones to admit that the resource isn't perfect. No single resource ever is.
In addition to being biased, the review strikes me as incredibly cynical as well. It expresses an utter lack of faith in humankind. I've grown into a bit of a cynic myself, but it's a sad day when the cynics feel the need to press their cynicism on those who still have hope.
Wiki employs a set of checks and balances, much like our government "probably" "attempts" to employ. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty good working draft until somebody eventually comes up with something better.
Yeah, or if your camera has white balance settings, just white-balance it against something orange-ish to take an ACTUAL BLUE picture of the moon, or anything.
What I'm impressed about in that photo is Jupiter and its moons. It looks like a weird lens flare or something.
Slashdot Mirror
Aside from the fact that I'm left-handed, I find more balance in keeping the mouse on the left (with the numberpad on the right). As rare as left-handed mice are, I've always just stuck with symmetrical, ambidextrous mice and trackballs.
I also happen to be quite a fan of Logitech products, so their recent trend towards right-hand specific mice with myriad buttons is not a happy trend for me at all.
And Seth Cohen formally has his name changed to Sith Cohen. (?) Nevermind.
As a born and raised native of Fort Wayne, it's nice to see them slashdotted. ...kinda
Especially after they were ranked at the Very Bottom of Men's Health magazine's list of city intelligence in the US.
Even though I moved out as soon as I was able (to Columbus, OH [19], NYC [32], and currently Miami [94]), the place isn't so bad. There are even a few people there smart enough to read to everyone else. It's nice, storytime is. I especially liked the milk and cookies.
Spam, chinese take-out, and most canned soups have a lot of sodium in them. Too much sodium for lunch has a serious negative impact on my afternoon productivity. *snore*
What's wrong with Logitech? ;)
Granted, they've got a knack for changing around the Ins/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys, which drives me nuts, but MS is doing the same thing.
If server sales and xbox are their prime moneymakers, then where does piracy come into this? Servers ship with legit licenses, right? And it's difficult to pirate hardware with out first breaking and entering. I'm just thanking Billmer that they have these other divisions to offset the substantial losses brought on by software piracy. You watch, next year they'll be reporting more record sales due to the crackdown on software piracy! Not that I'm a huge MS supporter. Psh. I do kinda dig what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing, though. I mean, at least SOME of the money is being put to good use.
Not trollin, just FYI. Chevy dropped the Geo moniker in 1998 and absorbed their lines. The Storm with their awful (Isuzu) engines were dropped entirely, and they sold the Metro, Prism, and Tracker under the Chevrolet badge.
The Metro has recently been replaced by the Aveo in 2004. Chevrolet.com says it starts at $9,995, but I would argue that it's not even worth that. They show it at $13,405 - that's just shy of the Cobalt, which starts at 14,190 (and is an immense improvement over the Cavalier, which it is replacing).
Enough with the run-on sentences! And pointless information!
Apparently not, then. :) I'll look into it.
All technology should come with warnings. Hot coffee utilizes a technology called "heating" to make it more palatable for morning drivers, but the dangers of spillage (and subsequent burning!) are so great that a warning must be given. And cheap batteries can overheat. And keyboards can damage your wrists. And so on and so forth. Let me be the first to warn you. Everything is dangerous. Even the most basic, fundamental, trusted things. Dirt can contain deadly bacteria, or at the very least suffocate you. You can drown in the bath. Avoid Everything for Complete Safety. And God save you if you really need someone to warn you of every possible danger that everything presents. A guideline I go by when it comes to technology: Cheap things are CHEAP.
I've been hearing on NPR (sorry, can't provide links to radio and didn't see anything on their website) about schools in Japan which have implemented tracking tags. This is a reaction to an incident 2 years ago in which 6 or 8 students were murdered. The country has been considered such a safe place that children as young as 6 find their own way to school ... unescorted.
As a means of ensuring the continued safety of those children, they've been given tags (I assume RFID, or related tech) that creates an entry in the school's computer system when they pass through one of the gates/doors. Parents can elect to receive a mobile alert (SMS/email, whatever) when the children arrive at and depart from school.
All in the name of safety.
It's funny, but somehow this doesn't concern me. I guess you could call it a prejudice, but I think of the Japanese as more trustworthy with relation to things like this. The thought of tracking children in the US by similar means scares the hell out of me.
But what's the right solution? I honestly don't know.
I don't know enough about the technology to speak from any perspective of expertise, but if the RFID technology is similar to the EZ-Pass I used in the tolls up in NYC... Well, the EZ-Pass comes with a little anti-static bag you can keep the tag in when you don't want it to be read. If it's something you carry, you could just slip it into something like this and that's that. Now that I think of it, I wonder if that would also work for the security tags that are supposed to stop shoplifters. Not that anyone ever reacts when those alarms go off any more, but it's a curiosity.
Agreed. Wiki can't possibly be 100% accurate, but as an initial resource, it's a very good one. Even a lot of the original research papers, scientific journal articles, etc are eventually disproven. Some of the greatest truths are no more than a working draft of the real truth. The key is realizing and acknowledging this fact. An obvious example of this is the theory of relativity. Einstein knew well enough to refer to it as a theory. He didn't say "This is how things work," but in essence said "This is my best estimation of how things work."
And this is what gets me about the reviewer's insistance on constantly pointing out use of the word "probably". I credit Wiki for having the stones to admit that the resource isn't perfect. No single resource ever is.
In addition to being biased, the review strikes me as incredibly cynical as well. It expresses an utter lack of faith in humankind. I've grown into a bit of a cynic myself, but it's a sad day when the cynics feel the need to press their cynicism on those who still have hope.
Wiki employs a set of checks and balances, much like our government "probably" "attempts" to employ. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty good working draft until somebody eventually comes up with something better.
Yeah, or if your camera has white balance settings, just white-balance it against something orange-ish to take an ACTUAL BLUE picture of the moon, or anything.
What I'm impressed about in that photo is Jupiter and its moons. It looks like a weird lens flare or something.