If we geeks truly had any say, then http://openmoko.org/ would be the winning solution and not these products that get all the press because they have big corporate names and lots of advertising dollars behind them.:)
Uusenet was also the first thing that came to my mind when I read the summary. Calling it a solved problem is quite a stretch, though. Especially due to the kludgy way binary content has to pretend it is text content to make it through NNTP and all the extra overhead that entails.
You failed your reading comprehension test and your attempt at an insult. Not mentioning a tangentially related subject does not mean I am unaware of it. Not conscripting a certain group of people is different from not allowing them to join the military at all. Non-jewish Israeli citizens are allowed to join the Israeli military (they just tend to get the crappy jobs like janitor according to one christian Israeli I know).
You're right, there is a difference between the rights of Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews: Arabs have the additional right to not serve in the military. Israel's universal conscription does not apply to its Arab citizens.
I've found your various comments in this thread informative despite the obvious bias. But calling this an "additional right" is ludicrous, though. This is almost as bad as saying Japanese-Americans had the "additional right" of not being conscripted into the US military in WWII. It was obviously because they were distrustful of that group, not because they are doing them some special favor.
I hate to be the one that has to point out the obvious to you, but you have been moderated to +5 insightful for some strange reason.
It is quite unfair to complain when the post you are reading was scored -1. There will *always* be people name-calling and trolling. That's why the moderation system exists. If you don't like reading ad hominem attacks then use the system properly and only read comments scored above a certain level and don't expect moderation to be instantaneous(this covers case of you making that comment before the troll moderation).
(I recommend reading at 3+ that way even registered users with karma bonus still have to have received a positive mod to be visible. I've also found it useful to give negative mods more oomph with -1 for off-topic, flamebait, and redundant and -2 for troll; and also -1 for funny that way it needs two funny mods to be visible and weeds out the wisecracks just one person thought was funny)
Looks like they may be beating http://www.emotiv.com/ 's "EPOC Neuroheadset" to market by several months. The claim for the EPOC was that it would be available for the holidays at the end of 2008. Interesting that they are also planning to sell for the same $300 price as this OCZ one.
I was looking for something to mod up but all the replies so far are about how they learned the earth would be engulfed and surprised at the debate. I think the confusion is arises because there is no debate about whether the sun will expand to the size of earth's orbit. The debate is whether the earth will have moved far enough from that current orbit to not be engulfed. Here we go, wikipedia says precisely this:
While it is likely that the expansion of the outer layers of the Sun will reach the current position of Earth's orbit, recent research suggests that mass lost from the Sun earlier in its red giant phase will cause the Earth's orbit to move further out, preventing it from being engulfed. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sun&oldid=193657154#Life_cycle
Those types of comparisons are kind of silly. Consider that a lot of countries don't even pay their soldiers other than room and board. Ah, your link provides some info about that: the US military budget includes $110.8 billion to pay salaries (and college tuitions I would guess). Your selective quote also conveniently neglected to paste the line before your quote which says that comparison, "... is not adjusted for purchasing power parity." In other words, the same item both militaries have to buy might actually cost 8 times more in the USA vs China.
I don't dispute that america spends a lot on military, but the way people like to exaggerate and bias to make it seem more than it really is is annoying. My ex-gf used to ignorantly claim the *majority* of US government spending is military thanks to her believing disingenuous people misleading folks with selective stats and the like.
Same here. I thought it was an interesting experience. Plus I got to see/hear nifty things like the white noise generator they use for when attorney's approach the bench so the rest of us can't hear it; witness the awesome occurrence of a judge ordering his bailiff to confiscate the cell phone of the state's attorney; and point out a logical error by the defense attorney during voire dire(which is probably why I was not picked for the jury.:))
On the other hand, isn't it possible that there is a correlation between the type of people that join cults and the type of people that commit suicide? Low self-esteem, not very bright, not much going for them in their lives...
I think this comes from arcade games(. Street Fighter and similar games of the 80s mostly had buttons to the right of the joystick(some, like Galaga and Arkanoid had a button on either side). Nintendo just followed that that trend when they made their gamepads. You still bring up a very interesting point of why buttons on the right became the convention, though.
"Besides, any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon if that object is intentionally placed onto a collision course with another space object." -- Whitehouse spokeswoman Dana Perino This is regarding US objection to ban on weapons in space but still a bit apropos.:)
If you truly believe that religious belief necessarily implies a willingness or tendency to do violence, then you, sir, are the one who has abandoned your faculty of reason. Not the religious people. "With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Dr. Steven Weinberg
I've an older friend who said that when he was a kid people used to say, "I could care less, but I'd have to try really hard." That phrase being shortened which makes the sarcastic part not as readily apparent - and people repeating it without realizing it is sarcastic so also not using the right tone of voice for sarcasm - is what leads to the modern logically inaccurate, "I could care less."
p.s. These are not metaphors, so it's certainly not a "mixed metaphor".
More specifically, ever notice how easy it is to steer whether your hands are on the top or the bottom of the wheel? Hands on top you move yours hands left to steer left; on bottom you move your hands right to steer left. But you don't even have to consciously think about it because your mind handles the flip at a lower level similar to the described pliers vs reverse pliers.
It's kind of like training our brain with a new assembly language routine, once we know it we can just call it from a higher level of abstraction above it. C? And with this geeky analogy you can go a level down to machine code, which are the more mechanical commands such as muscles flexing to achieve the result.:)
Most clients that send html mail also send a text mime attachment, as well. Configure your mail client to ignore the html version and display the text. (Or configure your mail server to remove html mime attachments that duplicate text)
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
The TouchStream is both a mouse and keyboard in one. The keyboard splits in half to try to provide extra comfort. The keys are all flat, which can make them feel strange to type on. It retails on the internet for about $350.
They don't retail anymore. Fingerworks went out of business a couple years ago. (The creators apparently got hired by apple to make the iphone touch interface.)
Typing normal text with zero force is indeed a bit awkward and having the ability mouse without moving hands away from position is useful but more awkward than a real mouse. Where this keyboard really shines are the gestures. e.g.:
swiping ring+middle+index+thumb in one of 8 directions switch to the appropriate virtual desktop (in 9x9 grid, scrunching fingers together for desktop 5 in middle)
dragging two fingers of left hand in 4 directions serve as repeated arrow keypresses
ring+middle+index+thumb for various window/browser operations, rotate hand clockwise to close window, squeeze toward center to save, swipe left to go back in browser,right=forward,down=reload, etc
instead of reaching far with pinky for shift/ctl/alt you can hold 4 fingers on home row, above or below to work as shift/ctl/alt
various other shortcuts for keys on the edges,like hit thumb+pinky for enter, thumb+middle for ^C, left thumb+middle for backspace(which can be dragged leftwards to swipe text away)
Anyway, just some of the cool features that make up for the awkward typing. I wish they hadn't gone out of business.:)
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If we geeks truly had any say, then http://openmoko.org/ would be the winning solution and not these products that get all the press because they have big corporate names and lots of advertising dollars behind them. :)
Uusenet was also the first thing that came to my mind when I read the summary. Calling it a solved problem is quite a stretch, though. Especially due to the kludgy way binary content has to pretend it is text content to make it through NNTP and all the extra overhead that entails.
You failed your reading comprehension test and your attempt at an insult. Not mentioning a tangentially related subject does not mean I am unaware of it. Not conscripting a certain group of people is different from not allowing them to join the military at all. Non-jewish Israeli citizens are allowed to join the Israeli military (they just tend to get the crappy jobs like janitor according to one christian Israeli I know).
You're right, there is a difference between the rights of Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews: Arabs have the additional right to not serve in the military. Israel's universal conscription does not apply to its Arab citizens.
I've found your various comments in this thread informative despite the obvious bias. But calling this an "additional right" is ludicrous, though. This is almost as bad as saying Japanese-Americans had the "additional right" of not being conscripted into the US military in WWII. It was obviously because they were distrustful of that group, not because they are doing them some special favor.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312507044494/d10k.htm
I hate to be the one that has to point out the obvious to you, but you have been moderated to +5 insightful for some strange reason.
It is quite unfair to complain when the post you are reading was scored -1. There will *always* be people name-calling and trolling. That's why the moderation system exists. If you don't like reading ad hominem attacks then use the system properly and only read comments scored above a certain level and don't expect moderation to be instantaneous(this covers case of you making that comment before the troll moderation).
(I recommend reading at 3+ that way even registered users with karma bonus still have to have received a positive mod to be visible. I've also found it useful to give negative mods more oomph with -1 for off-topic, flamebait, and redundant and -2 for troll; and also -1 for funny that way it needs two funny mods to be visible and weeds out the wisecracks just one person thought was funny)
Does boycotting really matter when the government will simply hand over $5 billion in immediate cash assistance ( and $10 billion in loan guarantees ) of your tax money to the airlines if they aren't making enough profit?
Putting tubes above ground is also a well established technique ... in Futurama. :)
Looks like they may be beating http://www.emotiv.com/ 's "EPOC Neuroheadset" to market by several months. The claim for the EPOC was that it would be available for the holidays at the end of 2008. Interesting that they are also planning to sell for the same $300 price as this OCZ one.
And some of the academic references are actually a decade old: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lectures/vistas97.html
Those types of comparisons are kind of silly. Consider that a lot of countries don't even pay their soldiers other than room and board. Ah, your link provides some info about that: the US military budget includes $110.8 billion to pay salaries (and college tuitions I would guess). Your selective quote also conveniently neglected to paste the line before your quote which says that comparison, "... is not adjusted for purchasing power parity." In other words, the same item both militaries have to buy might actually cost 8 times more in the USA vs China.
I don't dispute that america spends a lot on military, but the way people like to exaggerate and bias to make it seem more than it really is is annoying. My ex-gf used to ignorantly claim the *majority* of US government spending is military thanks to her believing disingenuous people misleading folks with selective stats and the like.
Same here. I thought it was an interesting experience. Plus I got to see/hear nifty things like the white noise generator they use for when attorney's approach the bench so the rest of us can't hear it; witness the awesome occurrence of a judge ordering his bailiff to confiscate the cell phone of the state's attorney; and point out a logical error by the defense attorney during voire dire(which is probably why I was not picked for the jury. :))
Someone has been watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. ;)
On the other hand, isn't it possible that there is a correlation between the type of people that join cults and the type of people that commit suicide? Low self-esteem, not very bright, not much going for them in their lives...
I think this comes from arcade games(. Street Fighter and similar games of the 80s mostly had buttons to the right of the joystick(some, like Galaga and Arkanoid had a button on either side). Nintendo just followed that that trend when they made their gamepads. You still bring up a very interesting point of why buttons on the right became the convention, though.
This is regarding US objection to ban on weapons in space but still a bit apropos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/europe/13arms.html
Hence the famous proverb:
A fool and his money are soon parted.
-- Dr. Steven Weinberg
I've an older friend who said that when he was a kid people used to say, "I could care less, but I'd have to try really hard." That phrase being shortened which makes the sarcastic part not as readily apparent - and people repeating it without realizing it is sarcastic so also not using the right tone of voice for sarcasm - is what leads to the modern logically inaccurate, "I could care less."
p.s. These are not metaphors, so it's certainly not a "mixed metaphor".
One time I was at a boy scout event in Miami Beach and an old lady fondly said how we looked like the Hitler Youth in our uniforms.
More specifically, ever notice how easy it is to steer whether your hands are on the top or the bottom of the wheel? Hands on top you move yours hands left to steer left; on bottom you move your hands right to steer left. But you don't even have to consciously think about it because your mind handles the flip at a lower level similar to the described pliers vs reverse pliers.
:)
It's kind of like training our brain with a new assembly language routine, once we know it we can just call it from a higher level of abstraction above it. C?
And with this geeky analogy you can go a level down to machine code, which are the more mechanical commands such as muscles flexing to achieve the result.
Most clients that send html mail also send a text mime attachment, as well. Configure your mail client to ignore the html version and display the text. (Or configure your mail server to remove html mime attachments that duplicate text)
They'd be vulnerable to a Snow Crash, though!
http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/Galaxy_Song.html
Typing normal text with zero force is indeed a bit awkward and having the ability mouse without moving hands away from position is useful but more awkward than a real mouse. Where this keyboard really shines are the gestures. e.g.:
- swiping ring+middle+index+thumb in one of 8 directions switch to the appropriate virtual desktop (in 9x9 grid, scrunching fingers together for desktop 5 in middle)
- dragging two fingers of left hand in 4 directions serve as repeated arrow keypresses
- ring+middle+index+thumb for various window/browser operations, rotate hand clockwise to close window, squeeze toward center to save, swipe left to go back in browser,right=forward,down=reload, etc
- instead of reaching far with pinky for shift/ctl/alt you can hold 4 fingers on home row, above or below to work as shift/ctl/alt
- various other shortcuts for keys on the edges,like hit thumb+pinky for enter, thumb+middle for ^C, left thumb+middle for backspace(which can be dragged leftwards to swipe text away)
Anyway, just some of the cool features that make up for the awkward typing. I wish they hadn't gone out of business.