all the rich people get all the world diseases, will the funding start..
Not everything that improves health and quality of life for many, needs to be done for purely altruistic motivation. Better to have research funded for selfish reasons - which then benefits others as well - than to not have the research done at all.
It isn't hypocrisy, but it isn't what it appears on the surface. This is good old fashioned protectionism. Ain't nobody going to mess with a U.S. based company except the U.S. government.
This has nothing to do with protectionism, and everything to do with deflecting (figurative) bullets aimed at the wrong targets. On a site as massive as Facebook, it's absurd to hold the company accountable for every idiotic, hate-filled keyboard-vomit poured onto the site by its users. If the Indian government has a problem with something that was posted, they should take it up with the person that posted it, not the business that runs the service said user abused.
Disclaimer: I despise Facebook, and have disdain for so-called "social media" in general. But let's at least approach this rationally instead of knee-jerk "zomg protectionism!" reflexive nonsense.
I put bbPress on my site a while back. It doesn't have all of the features of some other boards, but it is free and pretty easy to customize. I was able to integrate the logins of my site, my blog, and my boards without too much hassle.
I second this, especially the integrated login which is quite nice. Additionally, bbPress is very easy to customize the appearance, if you're willing to get your hands a little dirty in the process. As an example: Asylum Walls, a forum I rebuilt for a friend, just to illustrate that you can change every tiny graphical detail. That forum was previously a plain, ugly black-on-white "theme" (to use the term loosely). The limits, as with anything that is heavily customizable, are your imagination and time.
Yeah, that forum could've been made even better, but the "time" constraint caught up to me. It's just one example.
Without knowing which arm has been disabled, it's tough to offer specific advice, so I'll just shotgun some ideas here.
First, assuming you can still use a right-handed mouse, might I suggest the Logitech G600. It's got tons of buttons, which assuming your right arm is the functional one, can help fill in a lot of gaps with some creative mouse button configuration. And before anyone cries foul, yes, it IS superior to the Naga which it obviously borrows its design from; I own and have thoroughly used both. The G600's software is also superior.
For left-handed use, either the Razer Nostromo or Logitech G13 gamepads. I have both, and while Logitech's offering has a lot more extra buttons, I find the Nos to be generally more useful with its scroll wheel and more ergonomic feel, while the G13's advantages are more buttons and a true anolog stick (though in a very awkward position, unlike the Nos' more comfortable d-pad). The Nos also has an adjustable palm rest unlike the G13.
Those are off the top of my head, and granted are only mainstream devices and not anything specifically made for the disabled, but I hope I've helped, or at least given a direction to pursue further. Best of luck with the gaming!:)
Who modded this down? sounds like a legitimate complaint to me.
turfers turfin'?
Maybe he was modded down because he was using the arrow keys to play a game instead of WASD or ESDF.
Or, less jokingly, maybe he was modded down because he's full of manure. I have a Logitech Illuminated keyboard, which is decidedly not a "gaming" keyboard, yet it can handle at least 4 simultaneous keypresses in-game (possibly more but I haven't checked).
I'd say either he's out to bash Logitech, he got a lemon, or he's Just Doing It Wrong.
Just like their G600 is a blatant rip-off of the Razer Naga, they seem to have reached a bit of a wall when it comes to having new concepts of their own. They should just go back to doing what they did best: refining what they had iteratively, making improvements with each device generation, rather than "hey, those guys over there are doing something we're not, we gotta get in on that!".
My 2 copper. Still enjoying my Logitech Illuminated and G700, but having doubts about where the company is headed at this point.
As an American, I may not necessarily support or endorse your point of view, but I absolutely support your right to bitch about it on the Internet and elsewhere.
As to whether our First Amendment rights apply to you, I've no idea (I don't know where you're from, or if your country/territory/whatever has similar free speech contingencies), but I do hope for your sake that you're able to state your opinion without repercussions (again, regardless of whether we agree).
As a former IT professional who's used Windows more than any other OS and who's memorized most of the useful shortcuts... I have never once ever pinned anything on the task bar... because that would require me to click on an icon...
Wow, seriously?
WinKey+1 = first pinned item; WinKey+2 = second pinned item; and so on.
Unless of course you're talking about old (pre-'06) versions of Windows, but in that case you don't have "pinned items", just customizable shortcut toolbars that are really just pointing to folders with.lnk files (which is all the Quicklaunch bar really is as well).
Personally, I use both pinned items AND the Start menu; different tools for different purposes. One for common stuff, one for everything else.
All of this will become a moot point, however, when the great pacific garbage patch finally reaches both shores and enables all water based organisms to freely traverse from Asia to North America.
Right, because a patch with the density of 5.1kg of material per square km, and whose size estimate (by non-media and non-biased advocacy groups) is about twice the size of Hawaii, is totally gonna form a thousands-of-km-long land bridge that animals can just stroll right over between Asia and N. America.
I'm not saying the garbage patch isn't an ugly testament to the worst aspects of human activity -- certainly it is -- but at least restrain from spouting nonsense that borders on science fiction. Unless of course hyperbole was your goal, in which case I digress.
Sorry, but I can't get any coding done on anything without a physical keyboard. My current Android tablet is awesome to have around, but it's not a "workstation" by any stretch. Even my smallest laptop is infinitely more productive. Part of it is architecture (x86/x64 vs ARM), most of it is interface and applications. No, not "apps", those are useless for production because they're limited by physical interface -- no one's going to do any serious coding on a touch-based thumb keyboard.
'Real work' is not the exclusive domain of workstations.
It will be until tablets can do as much as workstations -- and that includes natively running the programs needed to get work done, to which they are not even close (unless you're just writing up formatted documents and calling that "work").
As a decades-long desktop- (and now laptop- and tablet-) user, I do not want "cloud based solutions". If the cloud-based bullshit goes down, or if the power goes out locally, or my ISP decides to take a crap, my shit better still be there... or rather, HERE. Locally. On a disk. It can be one of my hard drives, or my USB SSD drive, or my LAN-accessible network drive, whatever, but if I don't have direct access and control of my shit, then something is WRONG, and all the "cloud" solutions in the world won't help me at that point.
My second Android tablet, an Asus Transformer, came with some kind of cloud storage service. I've never touched it; never felt the need to. I'm not paying someone else to store my own stuff, especially when most of it won't even run on ARM devices anyway.
Yeah, I use Dropbox to keep files synchronized across devices. The difference? I still have access to my shit when I can't access the "cloud" for any reason.
Honestly, this "cloud" nonsense has to stop. The marketing bullshit has to stop. Just call it what it is: Internet-based storage. Which means, if you can't access the Internet, you can't access Your Stuff. It's off-limits to you. WTF is the point? As a remote backup? Ok, I can see that. But as real-time storage that you can't control? Screw that.
That "paltry $100 a year in savings" would buy me nearly a year's supply of toilet paper. Good stuff, not the cheap garbage. The rest of your post is just stupidity personified for the sake of looking superior or clever, I can't tell which, nor do I care, since you fail at both, dumbass.
Ergo, when an idiot boss attempts to take advantage of workers - men can be convinced that they're 'rockstars', comrades in arms, a veritable band of brothers, for putting in an eighty hour week that nets them forty hours of pay.
Dunno what your smoking, or the dumbasses that modded you up, but no man with a shred of self-respect would subject himself to what you described (which I can only describe as "fiction").
Really, if you wanna be a man-bashing hater I think you can come up with something better than that.
That's funny.. I was going to suggest Science illiterate, anti-education Conservative rednecks.
Let's dissect this, shall we? Just for shits n' giggles.:)
Firstly, the offending reporter, Nicholas Kirstof, works for the NYT -- a publication that is hardly a bastion of conservatism. (Not a complaint, just an observation.)
Secondly, you've identified a highly specific and narrow subset of "rednecks". Not all rednecks are anti-education, not all rednecks are science-illiterate (nor, by presumed extension, anti-science), not all rednecks are anti-education, and for the really fun part, not all rednecks ascribe to what is commonly accepted as conservatism.
Tangentially, I've noticed a theme around here, which basically states that the terms conservative, redneck, anti-science, bigot, and racist are all treated as if they were synonyms. Such a thing I can only attribute to the left-wing echo chamber (note I distinguish left-wing from liberal; the two are not synonymous, and the former is sadly succeeding in co-opting the latter... but that's a different rant).
Less generalization and black-and-white thinking, and more critical thought, please. And thank you in advance.
The TSA has never stopped a terrorist from boarding a plane. Since the TSA's inception, terrorists have been thwarted by passengers (eg. the "underwear bomber" of Christmas '09), and do note that airport security let the guy get onto the plane in the first place.
But hey, you go right on cheering for the actual erosion of our hard-fought-for liberties for the sake of imaginary security. The TSA does not exist to protect us, it exists to provide the illusion of protection. It stems squarely from the "OMG do something even if it's wrong!" panicky mindset of those in power who have a pathological need to give the public appearance that they're doing something, useful or not, and not a one of 'em in the bunch willing to stand up and say "don't panic, let's stay calm and figure this out" because THAT sure as hell doesn't get anyone reelected.
Thanks a pantload to dumb, panicky sheep like you willing to spend your freedoms like currency to purchase safety, bleating to the government to save you, and dragging the rest of us along in your massive herd of stupidity.
9/11 won't happen again, but not due to any government action. It's because on that day, everything anyone thought they knew about hijackers changed. Before, it was always assumed they wanted hostages to use as a bargaining chip. Now everyone knows differently. The next time terrorists try to hijack a plane, it won't be the TSA that stops them, it'll be the passengers with vivid memories of what happened last time, and won't allow that shit to happen again. When you know your captors WILL kill you, you're much more incentivized to fight them to the death, because then at least you have a chance.
Jihadist terrorists won on 9/11 but they basically screwed themselves for similar endeavors in the future. They played their best ace, but like Daffy Duck, it's a great trick but they can only do it once.
We should be able to focus less on proving we didn't do anything wrong and more on the idea that we don't HAVE to prove we didn't do anything wrong. The whole presumption of innocence thing, ya know?
Why do I only find these kinds of comments the day AFTER I've spent all my mod points?
Did the guy commit a crime? Yes, but committing that crime was a patriotic thing to do, and damned brave if you aske me. The guy should get a CMH for his bravery, or at least a silver star
Seriously? For trying to get classified information to further his writing career?
The indictment also charges him with one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he was seeking to publish.
Yeah. Real patriot, that one.
And apparently he was also a liar. You sure you wanna back this guy for a medal? I sure as hell wouldn't.
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all the rich people get all the world diseases, will the funding start..
Not everything that improves health and quality of life for many, needs to be done for purely altruistic motivation. Better to have research funded for selfish reasons - which then benefits others as well - than to not have the research done at all.
Was going to mod, but decided to post instead.
It isn't hypocrisy, but it isn't what it appears on the surface. This is good old fashioned protectionism. Ain't nobody going to mess with a U.S. based company except the U.S. government.
This has nothing to do with protectionism, and everything to do with deflecting (figurative) bullets aimed at the wrong targets. On a site as massive as Facebook, it's absurd to hold the company accountable for every idiotic, hate-filled keyboard-vomit poured onto the site by its users. If the Indian government has a problem with something that was posted, they should take it up with the person that posted it, not the business that runs the service said user abused.
Disclaimer: I despise Facebook, and have disdain for so-called "social media" in general. But let's at least approach this rationally instead of knee-jerk "zomg protectionism!" reflexive nonsense.
Would you like an LCD display to read your CLI interface? :)
...said the west-coaster.
I put bbPress on my site a while back. It doesn't have all of the features of some other boards, but it is free and pretty easy to customize. I was able to integrate the logins of my site, my blog, and my boards without too much hassle.
I second this, especially the integrated login which is quite nice. Additionally, bbPress is very easy to customize the appearance, if you're willing to get your hands a little dirty in the process. As an example: Asylum Walls, a forum I rebuilt for a friend, just to illustrate that you can change every tiny graphical detail. That forum was previously a plain, ugly black-on-white "theme" (to use the term loosely). The limits, as with anything that is heavily customizable, are your imagination and time.
Yeah, that forum could've been made even better, but the "time" constraint caught up to me. It's just one example.
No clue why you got modded funny. Any class that teaches that is important.
I have to disagree. Any species that is unwilling to fight for its survival will probably be replaced in short order. And rightly so.
Unless you were referring to getting into fights over trivial and unimportant things ("that guy looked at me funny", etc.), then I have to agree.
Hawking does cosmology with one eyeball, and you are stuck on one-handed gaming? Try ping pong, or darts.
Oh for... seriously?!
"N does X with Y, and you are stuck with Z? Try A or B."
I'm nearly 100% positive there's a logical fallacy in there somewhere, I just can't put my finger on it. Also, you're an ass.
Without knowing which arm has been disabled, it's tough to offer specific advice, so I'll just shotgun some ideas here.
First, assuming you can still use a right-handed mouse, might I suggest the Logitech G600. It's got tons of buttons, which assuming your right arm is the functional one, can help fill in a lot of gaps with some creative mouse button configuration. And before anyone cries foul, yes, it IS superior to the Naga which it obviously borrows its design from; I own and have thoroughly used both. The G600's software is also superior.
For left-handed use, either the Razer Nostromo or Logitech G13 gamepads. I have both, and while Logitech's offering has a lot more extra buttons, I find the Nos to be generally more useful with its scroll wheel and more ergonomic feel, while the G13's advantages are more buttons and a true anolog stick (though in a very awkward position, unlike the Nos' more comfortable d-pad). The Nos also has an adjustable palm rest unlike the G13.
Those are off the top of my head, and granted are only mainstream devices and not anything specifically made for the disabled, but I hope I've helped, or at least given a direction to pursue further. Best of luck with the gaming! :)
Who modded this down? sounds like a legitimate complaint to me.
turfers turfin'?
Maybe he was modded down because he was using the arrow keys to play a game instead of WASD or ESDF.
Or, less jokingly, maybe he was modded down because he's full of manure. I have a Logitech Illuminated keyboard, which is decidedly not a "gaming" keyboard, yet it can handle at least 4 simultaneous keypresses in-game (possibly more but I haven't checked).
I'd say either he's out to bash Logitech, he got a lemon, or he's Just Doing It Wrong.
Much as I've enjoyed Logitech's products over the years, and still do, I think they're running out of ideas.
https://www.getezeyes.com/
Just like their G600 is a blatant rip-off of the Razer Naga, they seem to have reached a bit of a wall when it comes to having new concepts of their own. They should just go back to doing what they did best: refining what they had iteratively, making improvements with each device generation, rather than "hey, those guys over there are doing something we're not, we gotta get in on that!".
My 2 copper. Still enjoying my Logitech Illuminated and G700, but having doubts about where the company is headed at this point.
As an American, I may not necessarily support or endorse your point of view, but I absolutely support your right to bitch about it on the Internet and elsewhere.
As to whether our First Amendment rights apply to you, I've no idea (I don't know where you're from, or if your country/territory/whatever has similar free speech contingencies), but I do hope for your sake that you're able to state your opinion without repercussions (again, regardless of whether we agree).
Man, where's Voltaire when ya need him...
Posting to undo a mod mis-click.
Wonder if they'll serve hotdogs?
But who will mine them??
It does.
As a former IT professional who's used Windows more than any other OS and who's memorized most of the useful shortcuts... ... because that would require me to click on an icon...
I have never once ever pinned anything on the task bar
Wow, seriously?
WinKey+1 = first pinned item; WinKey+2 = second pinned item; and so on.
Unless of course you're talking about old (pre-'06) versions of Windows, but in that case you don't have "pinned items", just customizable shortcut toolbars that are really just pointing to folders with .lnk files (which is all the Quicklaunch bar really is as well).
Personally, I use both pinned items AND the Start menu; different tools for different purposes. One for common stuff, one for everything else.
I just think that someone in Comcast legal saw their name go by on a list.
My kingdom for a mod point...
All of this will become a moot point, however, when the great pacific garbage patch finally reaches both shores and enables all water based organisms to freely traverse from Asia to North America.
Right, because a patch with the density of 5.1kg of material per square km, and whose size estimate (by non-media and non-biased advocacy groups) is about twice the size of Hawaii, is totally gonna form a thousands-of-km-long land bridge that animals can just stroll right over between Asia and N. America.
I'm not saying the garbage patch isn't an ugly testament to the worst aspects of human activity -- certainly it is -- but at least restrain from spouting nonsense that borders on science fiction. Unless of course hyperbole was your goal, in which case I digress.
Sorry, but I can't get any coding done on anything without a physical keyboard. My current Android tablet is awesome to have around, but it's not a "workstation" by any stretch. Even my smallest laptop is infinitely more productive. Part of it is architecture (x86/x64 vs ARM), most of it is interface and applications. No, not "apps", those are useless for production because they're limited by physical interface -- no one's going to do any serious coding on a touch-based thumb keyboard.
'Real work' is not the exclusive domain of workstations.
It will be until tablets can do as much as workstations -- and that includes natively running the programs needed to get work done, to which they are not even close (unless you're just writing up formatted documents and calling that "work").
As a decades-long desktop- (and now laptop- and tablet-) user, I do not want "cloud based solutions". If the cloud-based bullshit goes down, or if the power goes out locally, or my ISP decides to take a crap, my shit better still be there... or rather, HERE. Locally. On a disk. It can be one of my hard drives, or my USB SSD drive, or my LAN-accessible network drive, whatever, but if I don't have direct access and control of my shit, then something is WRONG, and all the "cloud" solutions in the world won't help me at that point.
My second Android tablet, an Asus Transformer, came with some kind of cloud storage service. I've never touched it; never felt the need to. I'm not paying someone else to store my own stuff, especially when most of it won't even run on ARM devices anyway.
Yeah, I use Dropbox to keep files synchronized across devices. The difference? I still have access to my shit when I can't access the "cloud" for any reason.
Honestly, this "cloud" nonsense has to stop. The marketing bullshit has to stop. Just call it what it is: Internet-based storage. Which means, if you can't access the Internet, you can't access Your Stuff. It's off-limits to you. WTF is the point? As a remote backup? Ok, I can see that. But as real-time storage that you can't control? Screw that.
That "paltry $100 a year in savings" would buy me nearly a year's supply of toilet paper. Good stuff, not the cheap garbage. The rest of your post is just stupidity personified for the sake of looking superior or clever, I can't tell which, nor do I care, since you fail at both, dumbass.
Ergo, when an idiot boss attempts to take advantage of workers - men can be convinced that they're 'rockstars', comrades in arms, a veritable band of brothers, for putting in an eighty hour week that nets them forty hours of pay.
Dunno what your smoking, or the dumbasses that modded you up, but no man with a shred of self-respect would subject himself to what you described (which I can only describe as "fiction").
Really, if you wanna be a man-bashing hater I think you can come up with something better than that.
That's funny .. I was going to suggest Science illiterate, anti-education Conservative rednecks.
Let's dissect this, shall we? Just for shits n' giggles. :)
Firstly, the offending reporter, Nicholas Kirstof, works for the NYT -- a publication that is hardly a bastion of conservatism. (Not a complaint, just an observation.)
Secondly, you've identified a highly specific and narrow subset of "rednecks". Not all rednecks are anti-education, not all rednecks are science-illiterate (nor, by presumed extension, anti-science), not all rednecks are anti-education, and for the really fun part, not all rednecks ascribe to what is commonly accepted as conservatism.
Tangentially, I've noticed a theme around here, which basically states that the terms conservative, redneck, anti-science, bigot, and racist are all treated as if they were synonyms. Such a thing I can only attribute to the left-wing echo chamber (note I distinguish left-wing from liberal; the two are not synonymous, and the former is sadly succeeding in co-opting the latter... but that's a different rant).
Less generalization and black-and-white thinking, and more critical thought, please. And thank you in advance.
The TSA has never stopped a terrorist from boarding a plane. Since the TSA's inception, terrorists have been thwarted by passengers (eg. the "underwear bomber" of Christmas '09), and do note that airport security let the guy get onto the plane in the first place.
But hey, you go right on cheering for the actual erosion of our hard-fought-for liberties for the sake of imaginary security. The TSA does not exist to protect us, it exists to provide the illusion of protection. It stems squarely from the "OMG do something even if it's wrong!" panicky mindset of those in power who have a pathological need to give the public appearance that they're doing something, useful or not, and not a one of 'em in the bunch willing to stand up and say "don't panic, let's stay calm and figure this out" because THAT sure as hell doesn't get anyone reelected.
Thanks a pantload to dumb, panicky sheep like you willing to spend your freedoms like currency to purchase safety, bleating to the government to save you, and dragging the rest of us along in your massive herd of stupidity.
9/11 won't happen again, but not due to any government action. It's because on that day, everything anyone thought they knew about hijackers changed. Before, it was always assumed they wanted hostages to use as a bargaining chip. Now everyone knows differently. The next time terrorists try to hijack a plane, it won't be the TSA that stops them, it'll be the passengers with vivid memories of what happened last time, and won't allow that shit to happen again. When you know your captors WILL kill you, you're much more incentivized to fight them to the death, because then at least you have a chance.
Jihadist terrorists won on 9/11 but they basically screwed themselves for similar endeavors in the future. They played their best ace, but like Daffy Duck, it's a great trick but they can only do it once.
We should be able to focus less on proving we didn't do anything wrong and more on the idea that we don't HAVE to prove we didn't do anything wrong. The whole presumption of innocence thing, ya know?
Why do I only find these kinds of comments the day AFTER I've spent all my mod points?
Honorary +1, sir.
Did the guy commit a crime? Yes, but committing that crime was a patriotic thing to do, and damned brave if you aske me. The guy should get a CMH for his bravery, or at least a silver star
Seriously? For trying to get classified information to further his writing career?
The indictment also charges him with one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he was seeking to publish.
Yeah. Real patriot, that one.
And apparently he was also a liar. You sure you wanna back this guy for a medal? I sure as hell wouldn't.