If you're a lady and can control a DVR with some amount of skill, please post a reply to this with a short sentence showing us you know what you are talking about.
This is very important as it will facilitate great advances in pick-up line artistry:
"Hey baby... wanna come to my place and check out my TiVo?"
But seriously, I'd like to know if the article is bullshit or real.
Does it work man? I've spent a pretty penny on devices such as this and if your product works, I'll buy a Dozen.
No but seriously, I'd totally outfit my entire house with all Optimus keyboards, even if they are the most expensive keyboards on the market... it's just too cool.
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people spammed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people spammed.
Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine.
Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the spam. The spam, Dimitri. The email spam. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
"and yes we are working on the "spelling issues" I am a computer geek, not a english major... deal with it!"
I read through the rest of the article and it was almost amusing how many spelling errors they have. I would suggest using a spellchecker but the words they're using are actual words, so it wouldn't help. Like threw for through and setup for set up or a instead of an. Just a little piece of advice... if you write for Tom's Hardware Guide, get a really really really patient editor.
Love your articles though... hope you get time to keep doing it.
There's a little flicker problem when you first use the page. I haven't debugged it or looked at it for more than a few minutes, but it's probably fixable by pre-loading the images so that when you first access them it doesn't have to get them from the server.
... this won't help. little 3 MB songs are NOT clogging your networks, University X. Big 3.x GB movie downloads probably do a lot more damage.
The way to alleviate "outside" access from universities is to educate people on bittorrent. Another thing you could do is support the hosting of internal DC++ like communities. When they limited the bandwidth at my university, we all used DC++ and found that within our students, we had plenty to feast on. No, I'm not saying universities should aid in illegal file sharing. But if you set up legal file sharing and actually share interesting things on it, maybe people will look into it and participate in this so called "higher learning" that you fake to deliver for 40,000 a year.
We don't need no GPL Linus leave those distros alone
We don't need no soft control LINUS! Leave those distros alone
Heh, ok, so do you realize that the GPL is the only thing that protects Linux? Your arguments are nice, but people are greedy and I'm willing to bet that the best way to make money off of Linux is not to keep it in fluffy happy sharing with everyone free as in everything mode. I love Linux so leave that GPL alone.
For the people with hearing problems, I think a well designed GUI is the key. We take 70% of our input visually, so it should be easier to overcome the dificulties of a hearing impaired user than those of a user with vision problems.
For those with vision problems, I've found quite a few links on software that will definitely help out. I'd suggest going with Linux because you can write your own stuff or customize something that's already written much easier.
BLINUX General ORALUX ZipSpeak
As far as making an OS from scratch for people with different needs, here's what I'd do: I'd make native support for ASP.net applications. The user would only get HTML output from any program they use, but with different interaction capabilities than the traditional web. HTML is already very sensitive to the needs of the visually and hearing impaired users, therefore, you'd be leveraging technology that already exists.
This is too funny... the whole point of buying these books would be to have a list of them so I can read one that sounds interesting when I wanted to pick up a new book. But now I can just look at the list and buy as I go.
Can google be your highly optimized data warehousing solution? Can it provide customized applications for the countless stores and factories and businesses of the world? Can it offer a flexible data interchange solution? I didn't think so. Whereas they may very well have the recreational user market cornered, almost all of those recreational users pay for their internet connection. They pay using money they make at their jobs. They make money at their jobs most likely using a computer. Those computers run all the stuff I mentioned above. Operating systems as we know them will never die because of exceptionally good content brokers like Yahoo and Google. Operating systems as we know them will die when the network is so fast that applications are easier (and more cheaply) stored on a server and accessed from terminals.
Whenever you come up with a theory about america in general, you have to put $ first. And nobody does that better than M$. I'm betting on them, no matter what amazing beautiful things google comes up with and no matter how shotty of a job M$ does of running their business. In the car industry there was a Toyota to kill GM. In the OS industry... I don't see anything yet.
heh... you could get like multiple usb wireless cards and sit in the middle of seattle and connect to like three starbucks at the same time in the same account. Then it would either thing you're a gigantic 20 meter radius cylindrical being or it would think you're three different people.
But seriously though, if they can do this, can't the VOIPs use it to bail them out of that 911 fiasco they're in?
Here's the thing about AOL... my mom tried to cancel their service for 2 years. They threatened to bring legal action against us. We did nothing but say we wanted to cancel. Similar stories from all friends that have tried to cancel. Moral: as long as I live, AOL will not get another customer from any of my friends.
That's so true, you should get a 6 for this. On a side note, I love how the public says Microsoft is more trustworthy than before. This is the biggest fallacy ever and it's directly spawning from the apathetic approach to technology that the majority of people take.
Instead of realizing that it's because their dumb asses are mindlesly installing viruses and malware on their computers because of a combination of no technical skill and using a flawed product that Microsoft puts out, they're thinking... hm... all these viruses must be SOMEONE's fault. The only someone that they know outside of themselves is the government. The gears creak and squeal to get the brain working and finally they make the connection: THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT ME. And then the bullet enters their brain just after they think.... I love you BIG GOVERNMENT
I've never read nor maintained a blog. I'm kind of antisocial in non-personal mediums.
However, I'm thinking of starting my own blog. I consider myself a professional shopper as I know the basics about every kind of product out there. Would people be interested in a blog that talks about what brands to buy and not buy in every category from cars to soda?
Actually, you don't need scientific proof. It's just common sense:
QWERTY was invented in order to help typewriters not jam up. Typewriters jam up when those little letter hammer heads crash into each other and get stuck. This happens with letters that have hammers that are close togehter. QWERTY was optimized to minimize the closeness of these hammers when typing words in the english language.
DVORAK was invented along with electronic typing (when those little hammers were gone). It was optimized to have all the letters as close to each other as possible when typing words in the english language. This basically gives you more letters typed per finger displacement distance.
So you see, it's just by design that these two layouts work the way they do.
Why is everyone crying about this? This is a kick kick kick ASS product. I'm really glad Microsoft surfaced this. It's way faster than Photoshop and for those of us who don't need the bulkiness of Adobe and their APLSOD (Adobe Plugin Loading Screen Of Death) I would like to say Hooray!
Yeah, yeah, so microsoft has a monopoly on everything. Go cry me a river, I'll still use linux and everything else that exists because life is good when software flows.
Nerd... a quick search of google presents us with the following specimen:
THE NERD
So really what's going on here is that these rich jocks and art boys have called themselves nerds in order to mate higher up the food chain. Power to you rich dudes.
Now for what really makes a better lover: Study, listen, watch, breathe, hang out with, learn everything about your girl. Find out exactly where her buttons are (in and out of bed). Then, press away. It's like a piano, with practice you can make cool melodies. More concrete: study up on sex, improve your physique - yeah, that requires working out - and keep your humour and intelectual charm.
last of all tips: women aren't worth it anyway, don't bother.
ok, so someone else answered this and they were wrong. How about an autonomous auto-pilot driver powered by Google 3D? Or an autonomous flying taxi. Have a little immagination people, don't just let Google have all the fun.
I think you misunderstood what I said. The card the OP is talking about is just a dictionary. It has the secret translations of each letter. So you do a normal dictionary attack, not multiplied by 2, and you just translate on the fly. In other words, when the dictionary attack gets to "bank" it would crack his bank password.
that's a really cool idea, however, once someone realizes that each letter has a two character code, they could just do a dictionary attack on you and it would be fairly simple to "guess" the word you're using because the dictionary would guess it for you.
I use a similar aproach but mine is kinda foolproof. I think of a word that I would know that's not in the dictionary... like blumpy. Then I pick a symbol like & or *. Then I take this and make, for example, my bank password: blumpy&bank, and lets say my slashdot password: blumpy&slashdot. So it's easy to remember, just remember blumpy& and change it ever so often if you want.
I totally agree. Notice how we're in the vast minority since everyone else is getting modded up and we're still at 1. Can you believe this shit? I'm never sending my kids to these schools.
Dude... they're 12... That's 6th grade. My school (not me the math genius) was teaching algebra in 5th grade. Of course, my school was in Romania and not here in the states. Regardless, kids understood a lot more complicated stuff at an earlier age, and I'm willing to bet American kids are just as smart as Romanian kids.
It's people like you that say "they're not going to understand" that causes progress to halt. Believe me, kids are way smarter than understanding x/y when they're 12 years old.
are you kidding? This gets an insightful? You're against giving calculators to kids? A math test should be well thought out. It should be structured to test concepts, not how quickly someone can convert fractions to decimals or backwards. Give the kids fraction to decimal conversions for homework.
On the test, ask a question like: If you have x/y, how would you convert this to a decimal... Or give them a repeating decimal that goes beyond the precision of the calculator and ask them to tell you what the repetition is. Really, there's millions of other ways to test the CONCEPT.
It completely shocks me that this slashdot crowd, one that is supposed to be smart, makes and regards with high oppinion such comments as the one I'm responding to. Mathematic miseducation in this country reaches way deeper than I thought.
Actually, I disagree with both sides here. I think what TFA was trying to get to was that mice are inadequate input devices, with which I agree. The conclusion that keyboards are therefore better is however flawed. As *someone* once said, if aliens find the ruins of earth millions of years from now, they would dig up our laptops and imagine that we had 104 fingers.
Logitech to the rescue. I've been using the MX500 mouse for over three years now. The awesome thing about it is how well positioned its 8 buttons are. Before you run away and cry "I don't like 8 buttons, that's too many!", just listen.
You can assign keystrokes to buttons and I've got the multi-purpose buttons set up like this: 1 - [space] 2 - [ctrl+tab] 3 - [ctrl] 4 - [backspace] 5 - [enter] 6 - [quick switch]
1 through 4 allow for ULTRA-FAST navigation of websites using firefox. Just imagine ctrl-clicking on everything and then ctrl-tabbing through everything and then pressing backspace to back a page and space to page down through the page.
Also, I love GSView and I use space and backspace to navigate that. God, I love this mouse.
I'm also a developer and it's mighty handy to double click, drag and drop, press backspace, or insert spaces, or press enter all from your mouse while you're handling just about everything else on the keyboard. Ctrl-Tab is an awesome multi-purpose button to have as you can use it in any tabbed IDE and SQLQueryAnalyzer. QuickSwitch eliminates my need to alt-tab.
So what's my point? Listen to Confucius, go the middle way. We need more well designed keyboard-mouse combinations like the MX500. And getting some good text recognition wouldn't be half bad either.
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If you're a lady and can control a DVR with some amount of skill, please post a reply to this with a short sentence showing us you know what you are talking about.
This is very important as it will facilitate great advances in pick-up line artistry:
"Hey baby... wanna come to my place and check out my TiVo?"
But seriously, I'd like to know if the article is bullshit or real.
Does it work man? I've spent a pretty penny on devices such as this and if your product works, I'll buy a Dozen.
No but seriously, I'd totally outfit my entire house with all Optimus keyboards, even if they are the most expensive keyboards on the market... it's just too cool.
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people spammed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people spammed. Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the spam. The spam, Dimitri. The email spam. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
"and yes we are working on the "spelling issues" I am a computer geek, not a english major... deal with it!" I read through the rest of the article and it was almost amusing how many spelling errors they have. I would suggest using a spellchecker but the words they're using are actual words, so it wouldn't help. Like threw for through and setup for set up or a instead of an. Just a little piece of advice... if you write for Tom's Hardware Guide, get a really really really patient editor. Love your articles though... hope you get time to keep doing it.
There's a little flicker problem when you first use the page. I haven't debugged it or looked at it for more than a few minutes, but it's probably fixable by pre-loading the images so that when you first access them it doesn't have to get them from the server.
... this won't help. little 3 MB songs are NOT clogging your networks, University X. Big 3.x GB movie downloads probably do a lot more damage. The way to alleviate "outside" access from universities is to educate people on bittorrent. Another thing you could do is support the hosting of internal DC++ like communities. When they limited the bandwidth at my university, we all used DC++ and found that within our students, we had plenty to feast on. No, I'm not saying universities should aid in illegal file sharing. But if you set up legal file sharing and actually share interesting things on it, maybe people will look into it and participate in this so called "higher learning" that you fake to deliver for 40,000 a year.
We don't need no GPL
Linus leave those distros alone
We don't need no soft control
LINUS! Leave those distros alone
Heh, ok, so do you realize that the GPL is the only thing that protects Linux? Your arguments are nice, but people are greedy and I'm willing to bet that the best way to make money off of Linux is not to keep it in fluffy happy sharing with everyone free as in everything mode. I love Linux so leave that GPL alone.
For the people with hearing problems, I think a well designed GUI is the key. We take 70% of our input visually, so it should be easier to overcome the dificulties of a hearing impaired user than those of a user with vision problems.
For those with vision problems, I've found quite a few links on software that will definitely help out. I'd suggest going with Linux because you can write your own stuff or customize something that's already written much easier.
BLINUX
General
ORALUX
ZipSpeak
As far as making an OS from scratch for people with different needs, here's what I'd do: I'd make native support for ASP.net applications. The user would only get HTML output from any program they use, but with different interaction capabilities than the traditional web. HTML is already very sensitive to the needs of the visually and hearing impaired users, therefore, you'd be leveraging technology that already exists.
This is too funny... the whole point of buying these books would be to have a list of them so I can read one that sounds interesting when I wanted to pick up a new book. But now I can just look at the list and buy as I go.
Hate to harp on this:
Can google be your highly optimized data warehousing solution? Can it provide customized applications for the countless stores and factories and businesses of the world? Can it offer a flexible data interchange solution? I didn't think so. Whereas they may very well have the recreational user market cornered, almost all of those recreational users pay for their internet connection. They pay using money they make at their jobs. They make money at their jobs most likely using a computer. Those computers run all the stuff I mentioned above. Operating systems as we know them will never die because of exceptionally good content brokers like Yahoo and Google. Operating systems as we know them will die when the network is so fast that applications are easier (and more cheaply) stored on a server and accessed from terminals.
Whenever you come up with a theory about america in general, you have to put $ first. And nobody does that better than M$. I'm betting on them, no matter what amazing beautiful things google comes up with and no matter how shotty of a job M$ does of running their business. In the car industry there was a Toyota to kill GM. In the OS industry... I don't see anything yet.
heh... you could get like multiple usb wireless cards and sit in the middle of seattle and connect to like three starbucks at the same time in the same account. Then it would either thing you're a gigantic 20 meter radius cylindrical being or it would think you're three different people.
But seriously though, if they can do this, can't the VOIPs use it to bail them out of that 911 fiasco they're in?
Here's the thing about AOL... my mom tried to cancel their service for 2 years. They threatened to bring legal action against us. We did nothing but say we wanted to cancel. Similar stories from all friends that have tried to cancel. Moral: as long as I live, AOL will not get another customer from any of my friends.
That's so true, you should get a 6 for this.
On a side note, I love how the public says Microsoft is more trustworthy than before. This is the biggest fallacy ever and it's directly spawning from the apathetic approach to technology that the majority of people take.
Instead of realizing that it's because their dumb asses are mindlesly installing viruses and malware on their computers because of a combination of no technical skill and using a flawed product that Microsoft puts out, they're thinking... hm... all these viruses must be SOMEONE's fault. The only someone that they know outside of themselves is the government. The gears creak and squeal to get the brain working and finally they make the connection: THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT ME. And then the bullet enters their brain just after they think.... I love you BIG GOVERNMENT
I've never read nor maintained a blog. I'm kind of antisocial in non-personal mediums.
However, I'm thinking of starting my own blog. I consider myself a professional shopper as I know the basics about every kind of product out there. Would people be interested in a blog that talks about what brands to buy and not buy in every category from cars to soda?
Actually, you don't need scientific proof. It's just common sense:
QWERTY was invented in order to help typewriters not jam up. Typewriters jam up when those little letter hammer heads crash into each other and get stuck. This happens with letters that have hammers that are close togehter. QWERTY was optimized to minimize the closeness of these hammers when typing words in the english language.
DVORAK was invented along with electronic typing (when those little hammers were gone). It was optimized to have all the letters as close to each other as possible when typing words in the english language. This basically gives you more letters typed per finger displacement distance.
So you see, it's just by design that these two layouts work the way they do.
Why is everyone crying about this? This is a kick kick kick ASS product. I'm really glad Microsoft surfaced this. It's way faster than Photoshop and for those of us who don't need the bulkiness of Adobe and their APLSOD (Adobe Plugin Loading Screen Of Death) I would like to say Hooray!
Yeah, yeah, so microsoft has a monopoly on everything. Go cry me a river, I'll still use linux and everything else that exists because life is good when software flows.
For the last time Mr. Connery, I am not selling the pen is mightier device.
Nerd... a quick search of google presents us with the following specimen: THE NERD
So really what's going on here is that these rich jocks and art boys have called themselves nerds in order to mate higher up the food chain. Power to you rich dudes.
Now for what really makes a better lover: Study, listen, watch, breathe, hang out with, learn everything about your girl. Find out exactly where her buttons are (in and out of bed). Then, press away. It's like a piano, with practice you can make cool melodies. More concrete: study up on sex, improve your physique - yeah, that requires working out - and keep your humour and intelectual charm.
last of all tips: women aren't worth it anyway, don't bother.
ok, so someone else answered this and they were wrong. How about an autonomous auto-pilot driver powered by Google 3D? Or an autonomous flying taxi. Have a little immagination people, don't just let Google have all the fun.
I think you misunderstood what I said. The card the OP is talking about is just a dictionary. It has the secret translations of each letter. So you do a normal dictionary attack, not multiplied by 2, and you just translate on the fly. In other words, when the dictionary attack gets to "bank" it would crack his bank password.
that's a really cool idea, however, once someone realizes that each letter has a two character code, they could just do a dictionary attack on you and it would be fairly simple to "guess" the word you're using because the dictionary would guess it for you.
I use a similar aproach but mine is kinda foolproof. I think of a word that I would know that's not in the dictionary... like blumpy. Then I pick a symbol like & or *. Then I take this and make, for example, my bank password: blumpy&bank, and lets say my slashdot password: blumpy&slashdot. So it's easy to remember, just remember blumpy& and change it ever so often if you want.
I totally agree. Notice how we're in the vast minority since everyone else is getting modded up and we're still at 1. Can you believe this shit? I'm never sending my kids to these schools.
Dude... they're 12... That's 6th grade. My school (not me the math genius) was teaching algebra in 5th grade. Of course, my school was in Romania and not here in the states. Regardless, kids understood a lot more complicated stuff at an earlier age, and I'm willing to bet American kids are just as smart as Romanian kids.
It's people like you that say "they're not going to understand" that causes progress to halt. Believe me, kids are way smarter than understanding x/y when they're 12 years old.
are you kidding? This gets an insightful? You're against giving calculators to kids? A math test should be well thought out. It should be structured to test concepts, not how quickly someone can convert fractions to decimals or backwards. Give the kids fraction to decimal conversions for homework.
On the test, ask a question like: If you have x/y, how would you convert this to a decimal... Or give them a repeating decimal that goes beyond the precision of the calculator and ask them to tell you what the repetition is. Really, there's millions of other ways to test the CONCEPT.
It completely shocks me that this slashdot crowd, one that is supposed to be smart, makes and regards with high oppinion such comments as the one I'm responding to. Mathematic miseducation in this country reaches way deeper than I thought.
Actually, I disagree with both sides here. I think what TFA was trying to get to was that mice are inadequate input devices, with which I agree. The conclusion that keyboards are therefore better is however flawed. As *someone* once said, if aliens find the ruins of earth millions of years from now, they would dig up our laptops and imagine that we had 104 fingers.
Logitech to the rescue. I've been using the MX500 mouse for over three years now. The awesome thing about it is how well positioned its 8 buttons are. Before you run away and cry "I don't like 8 buttons, that's too many!", just listen.
You can assign keystrokes to buttons and I've got the multi-purpose buttons set up like this:
1 - [space]
2 - [ctrl+tab]
3 - [ctrl]
4 - [backspace]
5 - [enter]
6 - [quick switch]
1 through 4 allow for ULTRA-FAST navigation of websites using firefox. Just imagine ctrl-clicking on everything and then ctrl-tabbing through everything and then pressing backspace to back a page and space to page down through the page.
Also, I love GSView and I use space and backspace to navigate that. God, I love this mouse.
I'm also a developer and it's mighty handy to double click, drag and drop, press backspace, or insert spaces, or press enter all from your mouse while you're handling just about everything else on the keyboard. Ctrl-Tab is an awesome multi-purpose button to have as you can use it in any tabbed IDE and SQLQueryAnalyzer. QuickSwitch eliminates my need to alt-tab.
So what's my point? Listen to Confucius, go the middle way. We need more well designed keyboard-mouse combinations like the MX500. And getting some good text recognition wouldn't be half bad either.