I was thinking that it would be a hassle to switch to a new keymap... then I realized I come from a country where the layout is different and I had to learn QWERTY when I moved to the US...
Sure it was weird for a few weeks but it made my programming so much easier because some specific key are just easily available on the QWERTY layout (~`\, or even the numbers on the top row, so I don't have to move the right hand to keypad to enter only 1 or 2 digits).
So I gave a try to one the courses you mention... it's soooo much more painful than switching from AZERTY (my home country layout) to QWERTY. I will try to keep trying (not sure how long) Dvorak, but I now believe (after trying for the 3rd time in the last few years) that the main reason people type faster with this layout is because they do have to relearn to type, without looking at the keyboard.
I've been typing on a keyboard since I'm a kid, about 20 years ago and I still need to have my keyboard in my sight, even if I don't "look" at it. All because I never took any typing class, or bother learning to type the "clean" way. Switching to Dvorak would force me to not rely on me not seeing the keys, and so I would type faster (a bit like the Das keyboard mentioned earlier).
I guess I could almost get the same speed improvement by putting the key in an an other random interlaced mapping (like QWERT was designed).
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That's what I use and oh boy it's really good. The coverage and sound quality is MUCH better than my old Samsung c225. Man this was the worst phone ever. Bad bad bad coverage, and after a year the phone decided to call on it's own. Even if sitting on a table it would call people at random.
I use treo 650 to check my email, even more often than with my laptop. I can do yahoo maps and check the traffic.
1 - yes 650 is quite comfortable, maybe a bit bulky for a phone, but small if you look at most other smart phones. 2 - no problem there, only using one hand most of the time. 3 - there is a switch on top of the treo for silent/vibrate mode, great great feature. 4 - speakerphone mode works just fine, I'm using it while I drive if I don't have the headset on. 5 - I have unlimited internet access... it's not braodband speed, but I can ssh and vnc to my servers. And of course email, web, IM. No I'm not replying from my treo, but it happened before. 6 - PalmOS it's still a reference as a simple interface for mobile computing. 7 - Depending on what you enable/disable (blue tooth, email syncing,...) it can go up to 10 days. Honestly I plug it every 2-3 days. 8 - not sure what you mean, but the 650 is good looking 9 - quad band GSM, works in ANY country in the world, as far as I know 10 - I use iSync on my powerbook, no problem 11 - palmOne customer service is really good 12 - Ok it's not really working here as the unlocked GSM version is $700, but you can get it for about $300 with a plan (I think).
I have to say as a phone the Treo 650 is great, and as a bonus it's a (low quality, but good for a phone) digital camera, and a PDA. It can record and play video, music. I too think it does it poorly, but sometimes you don't need quality, just something available. I don't carry my canon SD-300 with me all the time, and I only listen to music on iTunes (mp3 radios).
Well I do have it enabled... but it only kicks in for BIG fonts, not the regular sized text, where the Apple's one would work.
I don't like sub-pixel because for me it's VERY visible... the text feels blurry, and as someone else descibed it - it is phisicaly painful (eye sore, headeach).
I don't have any CRT screen anymore, only LCDs. I mainly work on my 15" powerbook or on a brand new 19" dell LCD. I work daily with Mac OS X and Windows XP.
I do know how subpixel work, maybe better than most poeple as I actually see what it does. And of course I've read a few technicle articles about it.
I remember the first time I saw subpixel (I did not knew about it yet, it was 3-4 years ago I beleive) I was shopping for an lcd screen and looked at the very expensive Apple ones. I assumed they were defective because of the color leaks on the fonts. I assumed the lcd did not sync the signal properly... while on a dvi (or apple's version at the time) connection. It was actually a feature: subpixel font smoothing.
I know I can distinguish color variations better than other poeple ( I remember telling a gfx friend: can't you see this pixel is not the same gray as the others... and the answer would be no... I had to display the hex values of the colors to proove it).
So no it's not my crt screen (that I don't have), I do see the color leak on any lcd, even on my treo 650 (using vnc to control a pc).
I've even tried to tune cleartype with the extra free tool from M$... all the settings I've tried are ugly.
Still I'm surprised nobody else can see the bleeding. It's kind of reassuring to know I'm not the only one who can't stand it, and sorry for the headeach.
- typing from my treo 650, so excuse my typos
yes it's very well know that you can control the speed of a photon (light) by pushing it faster.
I think you watched too many superman movies when you were way younger. But TFA do mention the light traveling at 120km/h.
Waait a minute... Wow... my Acura is faster than light cool... Now I just need to spin it around the earth to go back in time so I can fill my tank when Gas is $1.50 / gallon.
What about 1and1.com ( http://www.1and1.com ) ?
They are only $5.99/y provide full dns support and don't bloat their pages with 85% ads.
Customer support is good, their tools are very nice and I did not get any problem so far.
Only drawback is that you can't pay for more than 1 year, but if they raise the price you can still switch to godaddy.
I have to admit I don't know how 1and1 is making any money off domain names but I guess they use that to sell hosting (quite good and cheap as well).
From TFA this judicial turn of events "directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive." The latter permits the use of copy protection systems.
European directives are overruling the local laws. So basically we might get a few weeks where copy protection would be prohibited but Europe will enforce the fact that it's actually allowed.
mine does
But I agree with some other poeple. I have mine hanging on a wall and I actually turn it on only when I have guests.
The nice thing on mine is that I have a 802.11b card and it's getting it's pictures on my webserver, kind of an automatic update. It's also caching pictures localy in case the file server is unavailaable.
Anyone selling this scanner on Ebay ?
I would need to receive the item before my next trip to Vegas.
Also does it come with the beautiful hungrarian girl ? It might help with security when the casino realize you can actually win.
Reminds me of a comment the top exec of the main french TV network made a few month ago. (the channel is name TF1) "the role of TF1 is to prepare the brain of the viewer to be receptive to the commercials"
Fortunatly in France we have laws to limit the number of commercials per hour, and here it's so much that I almost stoped watching TV (24 without the commercials should be called 17). But I live in CA now, so I just use Netflix (great to watch 17) and MythTV.
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
Netscape FAQ
Q: How do I enable exploits and viruses, that my friends are enjoying on IE ?
A: Go to Preferences/Web Features and check "Enable Virus and Exploits". Note that in the (rare) case where you don't get infected immediately you might have to surf on a few pr0n sites.
I'm not surprised that regular or optical mouses are used for something else than moving a cursor on the screen.
I had a Path Finder Robot project back in 1998.
It was a very dumb small robot but it had to be able to move forward, backward and rotate, which needed some way to estimate distaances. And the cheapest way of doing it was to put a mouse underneath.
Basicaly a mouse is a tool to measure delta's (differences in distances), the optical ones are doing it very accuratly and without actual contact. That's why it's a good tool in that case.
I do like Perl a lot: it allows me to do many things in just a few lines of code (or a few thousands)...
But my biggest complain is that perl allows you do use obscure syntax and invisible variables. You end up with poeple writing code completly unreadable that you have to maintain.
I'll avoid talking about using CPAN, now I try to get the modules I need using apt-get.
IANAL but as so many poeple have mentioned, if you buy a boxed version of the game you should not have to go around all that crap. Unfortunatly M$ got the idea first (actually I would be surprised if they did), or were the first one to apply it on a large scale knowing it would not hurt their sales considering their monopoly. I'm actually wondering how many poeple got anoyed and got a last push to switch to Linux or Mac OS X.
I really wish that the genuine customers that got screwed up will start a class action lawsuite in order to prevent this kind of licensing.
"The Sony Vaio U weighs in at 1.2 lb - light for a PC, heavy for a digital media player"
But with 1.2 lb it sure seem heavy enough to kill an iPod and smash it in peices.
I had one of those mini Vaio laptop... the experience was: expensive, slow, no battery life, not to mention the tiny keyboard half the footprint of my fingers. Sure it could do many things (embedded web-cam, video out, even stereo speakers in such a small design) but it was doing it all badly.
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I was thinking that it would be a hassle to switch to a new keymap ... then I realized I come from a country where the layout is different and I had to learn QWERTY when I moved to the US...
Sure it was weird for a few weeks but it made my programming so much easier because some specific key are just easily available on the QWERTY layout (~`\, or even the numbers on the top row, so I don't have to move the right hand to keypad to enter only 1 or 2 digits).
So I gave a try to one the courses you mention... it's soooo much more painful than switching from AZERTY (my home country layout) to QWERTY. I will try to keep trying (not sure how long) Dvorak, but I now believe (after trying for the 3rd time in the last few years) that the main reason people type faster with this layout is because they do have to relearn to type, without looking at the keyboard.
I've been typing on a keyboard since I'm a kid, about 20 years ago and I still need to have my keyboard in my sight, even if I don't "look" at it. All because I never took any typing class, or bother learning to type the "clean" way. Switching to Dvorak would force me to not rely on me not seeing the keys, and so I would type faster (a bit like the Das keyboard mentioned earlier).
I guess I could almost get the same speed improvement by putting the key in an an other random interlaced mapping (like QWERT was designed).
That's what I use and oh boy it's really good.
... it's not braodband speed, but I can ssh and vnc to my servers. And of course email, web, IM. No I'm not replying from my treo, but it happened before. ...) it can go up to 10 days. Honestly I plug it every 2-3 days.
The coverage and sound quality is MUCH better than my old Samsung c225.
Man this was the worst phone ever. Bad bad bad coverage, and after a year the phone decided to call on it's own. Even if sitting on a table it would call people at random.
I use treo 650 to check my email, even more often than with my laptop. I can do yahoo maps and check the traffic.
1 - yes 650 is quite comfortable, maybe a bit bulky for a phone, but small if you look at most other smart phones.
2 - no problem there, only using one hand most of the time.
3 - there is a switch on top of the treo for silent/vibrate mode, great great feature.
4 - speakerphone mode works just fine, I'm using it while I drive if I don't have the headset on.
5 - I have unlimited internet access
6 - PalmOS it's still a reference as a simple interface for mobile computing.
7 - Depending on what you enable/disable (blue tooth, email syncing,
8 - not sure what you mean, but the 650 is good looking
9 - quad band GSM, works in ANY country in the world, as far as I know
10 - I use iSync on my powerbook, no problem
11 - palmOne customer service is really good
12 - Ok it's not really working here as the unlocked GSM version is $700, but you can get it for about $300 with a plan (I think).
I have to say as a phone the Treo 650 is great, and as a bonus it's a (low quality, but good for a phone) digital camera, and a PDA. It can record and play video, music. I too think it does it poorly, but sometimes you don't need quality, just something available. I don't carry my canon SD-300 with me all the time, and I only listen to music on iTunes (mp3 radios).
Well I do have it enabled ... but it only kicks in for BIG fonts, not the regular sized text, where the Apple's one would work.
I don't like sub-pixel because for me it's VERY visible... the text feels blurry, and as someone else descibed it - it is phisicaly painful (eye sore, headeach).
I don't have any CRT screen anymore, only LCDs. I mainly work on my 15" powerbook or on a brand new 19" dell LCD. I work daily with Mac OS X and Windows XP. I do know how subpixel work, maybe better than most poeple as I actually see what it does. And of course I've read a few technicle articles about it. I remember the first time I saw subpixel (I did not knew about it yet, it was 3-4 years ago I beleive) I was shopping for an lcd screen and looked at the very expensive Apple ones. I assumed they were defective because of the color leaks on the fonts. I assumed the lcd did not sync the signal properly ... while on a dvi (or apple's version at the time) connection. It was actually a feature: subpixel font smoothing.
I know I can distinguish color variations better than other poeple ( I remember telling a gfx friend: can't you see this pixel is not the same gray as the others ... and the answer would be no ... I had to display the hex values of the colors to proove it).
So no it's not my crt screen (that I don't have), I do see the color leak on any lcd, even on my treo 650 (using vnc to control a pc).
I've even tried to tune cleartype with the extra free tool from M$ ... all the settings I've tried are ugly.
Still I'm surprised nobody else can see the bleeding. It's kind of reassuring to know I'm not the only one who can't stand it, and sorry for the headeach.
- typing from my treo 650, so excuse my typos
Is it just me ?
... it's very ugly. Yet when I tell this to someone using it, they don't see the colors.
I HATE subpixel rendering. It's the first thing I disable when I log to a PC or a Mac. Having color stains around my text drives me crazy.
The worst is when you have 2 lowercase L like in 'all'
No, I'm not color blind, I see colors like most poeple, and I'm short sighted (I don't put my nose against the screen either).
I do like the regular (gray) anti-aliasing, and I have to admit I actually miss it when I use a Win 2k or winXP machine.
So why do poeple like sub-pixel so much?
due to slashdot abuse they now provide a direct link to the file, no need for an email.
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/hwgh.html
Enjoy.
yes it's very well know that you can control the speed of a photon (light) by pushing it faster.
... Wow ... my Acura is faster than light cool ... Now I just need to spin it around the earth to go back in time so I can fill my tank when Gas is $1.50 / gallon.
I think you watched too many superman movies when you were way younger. But TFA do mention the light traveling at 120km/h.
Waait a minute
What about 1and1.com ( http://www.1and1.com ) ? They are only $5.99/y provide full dns support and don't bloat their pages with 85% ads. Customer support is good, their tools are very nice and I did not get any problem so far. Only drawback is that you can't pay for more than 1 year, but if they raise the price you can still switch to godaddy. I have to admit I don't know how 1and1 is making any money off domain names but I guess they use that to sell hosting (quite good and cheap as well).
From TFA this judicial turn of events "directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive." The latter permits the use of copy protection systems.
European directives are overruling the local laws. So basically we might get a few weeks where copy protection would be prohibited but Europe will enforce the fact that it's actually allowed.
mine does
But I agree with some other poeple. I have mine hanging on a wall and I actually turn it on only when I have guests.
The nice thing on mine is that I have a 802.11b card and it's getting it's pictures on my webserver, kind of an automatic update. It's also caching pictures localy in case the file server is unavailaable.
I've done some photoshop on the picture an the "flash" and "smoke" is actually a bug, the head body and wings are clearly visible:
I also have it here with an audio recording of the sketch.
Enjoy.
Anyone selling this scanner on Ebay ?
I would need to receive the item before my next trip to Vegas.
Also does it come with the beautiful hungrarian girl ? It might help with security when the casino realize you can actually win.
Reminds me of a comment the top exec of the main french TV network made a few month ago. (the channel is name TF1)
"the role of TF1 is to prepare the brain of the viewer to be receptive to the commercials"
Fortunatly in France we have laws to limit the number of commercials per hour, and here it's so much that I almost stoped watching TV (24 without the commercials should be called 17). But I live in CA now, so I just use Netflix (great to watch 17) and MythTV.
Google got sued for copyright infringment by Perfect 10 Inc (pr0n provider) because Google Images was caching some pictures.
Article there
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
Netscape FAQ
Q: How do I enable exploits and viruses, that my friends are enjoying on IE ?
A: Go to Preferences/Web Features and check "Enable Virus and Exploits". Note that in the (rare) case where you don't get infected immediately you might have to surf on a few pr0n sites.
I'm not surprised that regular or optical mouses are used for something else than moving a cursor on the screen. I had a Path Finder Robot project back in 1998.
It was a very dumb small robot but it had to be able to move forward, backward and rotate, which needed some way to estimate distaances. And the cheapest way of doing it was to put a mouse underneath.
Basicaly a mouse is a tool to measure delta's (differences in distances), the optical ones are doing it very accuratly and without actual contact. That's why it's a good tool in that case.
I do like Perl a lot: it allows me to do many things in just a few lines of code (or a few thousands)...
But my biggest complain is that perl allows you do use obscure syntax and invisible variables. You end up with poeple writing code completly unreadable that you have to maintain.
I'll avoid talking about using CPAN, now I try to get the modules I need using apt-get.
IANAL but as so many poeple have mentioned, if you buy a boxed version of the game you should not have to go around all that crap. Unfortunatly M$ got the idea first (actually I would be surprised if they did), or were the first one to apply it on a large scale knowing it would not hurt their sales considering their monopoly. I'm actually wondering how many poeple got anoyed and got a last push to switch to Linux or Mac OS X.
I really wish that the genuine customers that got screwed up will start a class action lawsuite in order to prevent this kind of licensing.
"Also, a bunch of the pages were sorta stuck together."
I know we slashdot readers are geeks but this is a technical book, not a Playboy !
"The Sony Vaio U weighs in at 1.2 lb - light for a PC, heavy for a digital media player" ... the experience was: expensive, slow, no battery life, not to mention the tiny keyboard half the footprint of my fingers. Sure it could do many things (embedded web-cam, video out, even stereo speakers in such a small design) but it was doing it all badly.
But with 1.2 lb it sure seem heavy enough to kill an iPod and smash it in peices.
I had one of those mini Vaio laptop