Jeez, you are a self righteous little idiot. Go back and read the story, then tell me which one of us is off topic. Hint: search for the word "mouse".
The story is clearly about getting a smaller keyboard that still has arrow keys because he wants the mouse closer to the main part of the keyboard. It does not say one thing about eliminating the need for a mouse. Thus your random response about eliminating the need for a mouse is clearly off-topic in general and absolutely off-topic as a reply to my post. Calling me self-righteous for making a joke at your expense just makes the burn flame even brighter.
Too bad this thread is about keyboards that lack arrow keys - not going mouse-free. Please save your comment so that it can be recycled in a future slashdot posting that is actually on topic.
Most computer users are stupid. They'd try to run OS X on a typical PC, it'd suck and then they'd do the typical stupid computer user thing which is to say "this software fucking sucks."
Only a Mac user would think that a user can be both so smart as to acquire a pirated version of Mac OSX and yet so stupid as to go all flamey on OSX just because the pirated copy doesn't run well on their PC.
Next thing you know, you'll claim that Apple has to DRM OSX in order to keep these very same idiot-savant users from calling in and trying to get free support on their pirated copies of OSX.
Who needs arrow keys when you've got vi? HJKL to the rescue - you will never look back (and you will never get those random escape-[ strings inserted into your document that you sometimes get with arrow keys in an xterm either).
This is just another instance of Wikipedia supporters having a chip on their shoulder against the established media - I loved the righteous tone of indignation, you can almost forget just how commonly Wikipedia articles plagiarize printed sources.
"kamapua`a" --> hawaiian name. Seems like you've got a chip on your shoulder about wikipedia. Perhaps you are Tim Ryan's friend?
Buffy's season seven was interminable self-parodying dreck.
Whatever you think about season seven is of no import, fanboi. The fact is that the resolution regarding the future of "the slayer" was as clean and smart as any show has ever been resolved.
Its cliffhanger was particularly nasty, and even worse knowing there were a good 4 seasons left before the whole story would be told.
However, like Farscape, Carnivale's cliffhanger could have been avoided by skipping the last 2-3 minutes of the last episode. Without those minutes, both shows could have been considered to have half-way decent wrap-ups. Not anywhere near perfect (such as the ending of the Buffy series) but at least average.
The supposed cliff hanger certainly reinforces my belief.
I disagree. I was able to predict the cliff-hanger almost from episode 1, just based on the choice of actors. Thus it was clear to me that the show did have an internal logic. They did create a few "filler" episodes, but even those ended up playing a part in later episodes.
For those wondering about how to predict the cliff-hanger, here's the spoiler.
SPOILER: SPOILER: SPOILER: SPOILER:
Rule of thumb - big name actors do not take unimportant bit parts.
Just because something is being abused, that doesn't make it inherently bad. copyrights & patents are like guns. They don't hurt anyone until somebody with bad intentions come along.
Is it "bad" to use a gun to hammer in a nail? That's what copyright does in world with an internet. It is not the right tool for the task, and any attempt to make it the right tool produces large negative side-effects with little to no actual benefits.
Anyone who has ever watched a sunrise/sunset on a DVD will notice how crummy the quality really is.
Anyone who watched a sunrise/sunset on a poorly authored DVD. Probably on a poorly calibrated display too.
I have heard people claim how much better DVD is than VHS- but a high quality VHS tape is better (the first few times you view it).
Yeah, a well-mastered VHS tape is better than a poorly mastered DVD. But a well-mastered VHS doesn't even come close to the quality of a well-mastered DVD. There are plenty of crap DVDs out there, just as there will be plenty of crap HD-BLU-DVDs too, if it ever becomes popular enough for anyone but videophiles to purchase.
Is anyone else reminded of the Amatuer Action BBS prosecution? Back in 1994 a California man and his wife ran a for-pay BBS (yes dial-up) with downloadable porn. A Tennessee postal inspector downloaded some porn from them and when he got it, he shipped THEM some child porn and then charged them with obscenity and had them extradited to Tennessee. If I recall correctly, they were convicted and the man at least served time. All for material that was perfectly legal in California but apparently not in Tennessee.
At the time there was a lot of concern about the net becoming regulated by the laws of the most restrictive state. Funny how that seems to be the case nowadays, except it is the corps doing the 'regulation' and not the governments per se.
(PS, for some reason there is very little record of the whole Amatuer Action BBS fiasco in google's database, very odd for what was such a big deal at the time.)
For example, a two-hour program in HD creates a digital file roughly 15-25 Gigabytes in size,
They are lying through exaggeration. When most people talk about HD, they are referring to the ATSC standard which is MPEG2 at roughly 8.5GB/hour, tops - and is often null-padded to maintain a constant-bitrate, making the effective bitrate substsantially less than 8.5GB/hour. So a full 2 hour program is 17GB.
When you look at the newer HD formats like Europe is going with, ones that implement MPEG4 or even some of the funky things that Microsoft has already released (Terminator2, bunch of IMAX, and some other hollywood/foreign movies in Europe) then it is relatively easy to get 2 hours of "HD content" on a regular single-layer DVD.
So, if MPEG4 were used to record to permanent storage, regular recordable DVD's would be sufficient.
And in a free market all software would end up being sold at it's true value, which is also pretty minimal.
You are correct, up until you used a comma.
The value of software is to the user. If there is a business need for software, it will be created - and that creation will be paid for by the business that needs it and they will be willing to pay up to as much as it is worth to them.
For the last 30 or so years, the majority money spent of software has been to develop it on contract. Shrink-wrap software may die off, replaced by freely downloadable software - but shrink-wrap is only a small part of the total market. Custom development is always where its been at - just look at IBM Global Services, that's pretty much all they do.
How much money do you have? Because you're gonna have to buy the IP of a LOT of companies in order to open source their stuff. Lots of proprietary stuff in the chips and the drivers, from what I hear.
That's the same tired old line we've been hearing since the days before XFree86, when it was just X386. And you know what? It's all bullshit.
All the cards through-out the years that vendors have kept proprietary, they all eventually received 3rd party open-source drivers and you don't hear a word about those 3rd parties being sued or otherwise harassed for violating anyone's IP. All it took was time and effort for people to reverse engineer the proprietary ms-windows drivers.
Normally, I would have had to pay programmers to create software for me, but I don't need to employ any programmers to make a profit now.
oooh your sarcasm is soooo clever.
NOT!
Q: Do you know how much you can earn from simply repackaging free software? A: Exactly as much as that repackaging service is worth and no more.
It doesn't matter if your repackaging software that is critical to a billion dollars worth of business or critical to nobody. The value that you add by repackaging is all that you will be able to charge for in a free market because any other schmoe can compete with your repackaging service. Unless your repackaging adds more value than the other schmoes in the same market, you will never be able to charge more than than the bare minimum. And if you are adding more value, chances are that you are working hard to do it and thus deserve to be rewarded for your efforts.
Knowing nothing about photography at the time I went to the local mum and pap photo place and asked for advice. They sold me a crap camera that happened to be expensive.
To riff on that a little - that is exactly why B&M stores need to fear the net. If you are going to get rip-off customer service from the expensive places, you might as well get customer non-service from some generic place online that charges half as much.
Of course being a NeoCon makes you a moron... I must be one, because I can't even figure out who is a neocon... no one actually says they are. They have no party...
These people usually self-identify as being neocons. Chances are you are not a neocon, because chances are you are too poor to join the club.
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Jeez, you are a self righteous little idiot. Go back and read the story, then tell me which one of us is off topic. Hint: search for the word "mouse".
The story is clearly about getting a smaller keyboard that still has arrow keys because he wants the mouse closer to the main part of the keyboard. It does not say one thing about eliminating the need for a mouse. Thus your random response about eliminating the need for a mouse is clearly off-topic in general and absolutely off-topic as a reply to my post. Calling me self-righteous for making a joke at your expense just makes the burn flame even brighter.
I use Vi -- and I still need a mouse.
How very nice for you.
Too bad this thread is about keyboards that lack arrow keys - not going mouse-free. Please save your comment so that it can be recycled in a future slashdot posting that is actually on topic.
Most computer users are stupid. They'd try to run OS X on a typical PC, it'd suck and then they'd do the typical stupid computer user thing which is to say "this software fucking sucks."
Only a Mac user would think that a user can be both so smart as to acquire a pirated version of Mac OSX and yet so stupid as to go all flamey on OSX just because the pirated copy doesn't run well on their PC.
Next thing you know, you'll claim that Apple has to DRM OSX in order to keep these very same idiot-savant users from calling in and trying to get free support on their pirated copies of OSX.
Who needs arrow keys when you've got vi?
HJKL to the rescue - you will never look back (and you will never get those random escape-[ strings inserted into your document that you sometimes get with arrow keys in an xterm either).
This is just another instance of Wikipedia supporters having a chip on their shoulder against the established media - I loved the righteous tone of indignation, you can almost forget just how commonly Wikipedia articles plagiarize printed sources.
"kamapua`a" --> hawaiian name.
Seems like you've got a chip on your shoulder about wikipedia.
Perhaps you are Tim Ryan's friend?
Buffy's season seven was interminable self-parodying dreck.
Whatever you think about season seven is of no import, fanboi. The fact is that the resolution regarding the future of "the slayer" was as clean and smart as any show has ever been resolved.
No but you might want to look up humor.
Just as soon as you look up delivery.
Then what is a cameo?
A single non-reoccuring appearance, generally as a character of particular importance to that specific episode.
Any other showbiz vocabulary questions? Perhaps you were wondering about foley or gaffer or maybe denoument?
Its cliffhanger was particularly nasty, and even worse knowing there were a good 4 seasons left before the whole story would be told.
However, like Farscape, Carnivale's cliffhanger could have been avoided by skipping the last 2-3 minutes of the last episode. Without those minutes, both shows could have been considered to have half-way decent wrap-ups. Not anywhere near perfect (such as the ending of the Buffy series) but at least average.
The supposed cliff hanger certainly reinforces my belief.
I disagree. I was able to predict the cliff-hanger almost from episode 1, just based on the choice of actors. Thus it was clear to me that the show did have an internal logic. They did create a few "filler" episodes, but even those ended up playing a part in later episodes.
For those wondering about how to predict the cliff-hanger, here's the spoiler.
SPOILER:
SPOILER:
SPOILER:
SPOILER:
Rule of thumb - big name actors do not take unimportant bit parts.
The weather is something beyond our understanding, so it's best that for right now, we attribute it to an Act of God
Hah! After your second sentence I was thinking - I bet this guy believes in intelligent design, and then whammo!
Just because something is being abused, that doesn't make it inherently bad. copyrights & patents are like guns. They don't hurt anyone until somebody with bad intentions come along.
Is it "bad" to use a gun to hammer in a nail? That's what copyright does in world with an internet. It is not the right tool for the task, and any attempt to make it the right tool produces large negative side-effects with little to no actual benefits.
Anyone who has ever watched a sunrise/sunset on a DVD will notice how crummy the quality really is.
Anyone who watched a sunrise/sunset on a poorly authored DVD. Probably on a poorly calibrated display too.
I have heard people claim how much better DVD is than VHS- but a high quality VHS tape is better (the first few times you view it).
Yeah, a well-mastered VHS tape is better than a poorly mastered DVD. But a well-mastered VHS doesn't even come close to the quality of a well-mastered DVD. There are plenty of crap DVDs out there, just as there will be plenty of crap HD-BLU-DVDs too, if it ever becomes popular enough for anyone but videophiles to purchase.
Is anyone else reminded of the Amatuer Action BBS prosecution? Back in 1994 a California man and his wife ran a for-pay BBS (yes dial-up) with downloadable porn. A Tennessee postal inspector downloaded some porn from them and when he got it, he shipped THEM some child porn and then charged them with obscenity and had them extradited to Tennessee. If I recall correctly, they were convicted and the man at least served time. All for material that was perfectly legal in California but apparently not in Tennessee.
At the time there was a lot of concern about the net becoming regulated by the laws of the most restrictive state. Funny how that seems to be the case nowadays, except it is the corps doing the 'regulation' and not the governments per se.
(PS, for some reason there is very little record of the whole Amatuer Action BBS fiasco in google's database, very odd for what was such a big deal at the time.)
Ehmm, the only person contributing to Vista that actually delivers on time?
He is the only one with discipline, so it is no surprise.
For example, a two-hour program in HD creates a digital file roughly 15-25 Gigabytes in size,
They are lying through exaggeration. When most people talk about HD, they are referring to the ATSC standard which is MPEG2 at roughly 8.5GB/hour, tops - and is often null-padded to maintain a constant-bitrate, making the effective bitrate substsantially less than 8.5GB/hour. So a full 2 hour program is 17GB.
When you look at the newer HD formats like Europe is going with, ones that implement MPEG4 or even some of the funky things that Microsoft has already released (Terminator2, bunch of IMAX, and some other hollywood/foreign movies in Europe) then it is relatively easy to get 2 hours of "HD content" on a regular single-layer DVD.
So, if MPEG4 were used to record to permanent storage, regular recordable DVD's would be sufficient.
See this message.
Or better yet, Any swedish girl wants to marry me? =-)
Voting ain't worth that, they all look like Mimi Bobeck.
The days when the swedish girl next door could be a supermodel are long gone.
And in a free market all software would end up being sold at it's true value, which is also pretty minimal.
You are correct, up until you used a comma.
The value of software is to the user. If there is a business need for software, it will be created - and that creation will be paid for by the business that needs it and they will be willing to pay up to as much as it is worth to them.
For the last 30 or so years, the majority money spent of software has been to develop it on contract. Shrink-wrap software may die off, replaced by freely downloadable software - but shrink-wrap is only a small part of the total market. Custom development is always where its been at - just look at IBM Global Services, that's pretty much all they do.
How much money do you have? Because you're gonna have to buy the IP of a LOT of companies in order to open source their stuff. Lots of proprietary stuff in the chips and the drivers, from what I hear.
That's the same tired old line we've been hearing since the days before XFree86, when it was just X386. And you know what? It's all bullshit.
All the cards through-out the years that vendors have kept proprietary, they all eventually received 3rd party open-source drivers and you don't hear a word about those 3rd parties being sued or otherwise harassed for violating anyone's IP. All it took was time and effort for people to reverse engineer the proprietary ms-windows drivers.
Normally, I would have had to pay programmers to create software for me, but I don't need to employ any programmers to make a profit now.
oooh your sarcasm is soooo clever.
NOT!
Q: Do you know how much you can earn from simply repackaging free software?
A: Exactly as much as that repackaging service is worth and no more.
It doesn't matter if your repackaging software that is critical to a billion dollars worth of business or critical to nobody. The value that you add by repackaging is all that you will be able to charge for in a free market because any other schmoe can compete with your repackaging service. Unless your repackaging adds more value than the other schmoes in the same market, you will never be able to charge more than than the bare minimum. And if you are adding more value, chances are that you are working hard to do it and thus deserve to be rewarded for your efforts.
Knowing nothing about photography at the time I went to the local mum and pap photo place and asked for advice. They sold me a crap camera that happened to be expensive.
To riff on that a little - that is exactly why B&M stores need to fear the net. If you are going to get rip-off customer service from the expensive places, you might as well get customer non-service from some generic place online that charges half as much.
taking away the right for any citizens to bare arms would leave them at risk from criminals who would ignore the law as a matter of course.
Yes, if it is illegal to bare arms, only criminals will be able to show off their kickass jailhouse tats!
Of course being a NeoCon makes you a moron... I must be one, because I can't even figure out who is a neocon... no one actually says they are. They have no party...
These people usually self-identify as being neocons. Chances are you are not a neocon, because chances are you are too poor to join the club.
The modern scientific community's attitude is a lot like my 8 year old brother at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
You mispelled corporate.