Be careful with your keyboard -- the model M isn't quite indestructible.
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He finally managed to break it by leaning it against the wall and jumping on it, but it took several tries and about ten minutes.
You have to admire that man's willpower.
But as you said, it's not quite indestructible. A blowtorch and a pneumatic drill can help finish it off fairly quickly, too.
And everyone they're on the phone with -- "Is it hailing there?"
*spews coffee over Model M keyboard*
These things are dishwashable, right? Right?
Nearly so.
One of my teachers in high school spilled coffee or coke (whatever; it was caffeinated, sugary and sticky) over her Model M and got all panicky about it.
I told her to soak it in water, turn it over for a day or two to dry and plug it back in. As good as new.
Damned indestructible. And as I said in my post above, a nice offensive weapon, too.
I have one of the SpaceSavers from Unicomp, as they didn't have a 105-key Customizer at the time.
And since they couldn't offer me one with a Croatian layout, the nice people at Unicomp agreed to send me a blank one. So I got the best from both the Model M and Das Keyboard, and many looks of frustration from family members.
People look at me in a funny way when I tell them how much I paid for it (the shipping almost doubled the cost, too), but then, they do not type as much as I do.
OTOH, I find it funny that people are more than willing to cash out insane amounts of money for the bestest and fastest CPU or video card, but a keyboard? A random El Cheapo keyboard suits them just fine. Me, I like to hear when I've clicked a key, because I don't always even look at the screen when I type.
An added benefit is, of course, the fact that it can be used as an offensive weapon in case of dire emergency or family argument;)
Actually, I recall from previous discussions that tabbed browsing existed before Opera.
But it's a nice, though quite unused piece of software. Firefox has won me over thanks to its great extendability.
You can laugh at the quality of US military recruits, but they can function even if their command structure is destroyed.
Would it be facetious to suggest conducting an experiment? Say, by destroying their whole command structure, top-down... starting with George W.
We can then take notes of their behaviour.
And then you remember how it all finally came out, when you spent a half-hour on the can, insides being stretched to goatse.jpg proportions, tears laced with internal-bleeding running down your face, screaming and punching holes in the bathroom drywall, until finally at last everything was right again, and wave of adrenalin-induced euphoria washed over you once the pain was gone, finally gone? That was Vista SP1
OTOH, consider this: Windows cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility.
Therefore, in order to offer a new product, the old one should be abandoned, which cannot be done at the present point in time.
Imagine, then, that this possible decline of Windows is actually planned.
We know Microsoft is working on a new Windows kernel, on a wholly new operating system and whatnot... could it be that they are actually planning to lower their market share (thus dodging some anti-trust bullets), and then offer something new and improved, even if it proves to be Unix reinvented?
...now, what exactly?
Not only could the average user not find an advantage in Vista over XP (remember, users rarely care what's under the hood, they just want to use the system), now even geeks won't see a difference between the old and the new system?
Ok, let's be constructive. We heard now what will not be different between Vista and "Windows 7". So what will? Because, well, if it's the same... I'm no marketing guru, but I guess even the marketing guys in Redmond might have a hard time selling the same product again.
Ah. You are of course young and inexperienced, and you are unaware of the completely new and reworked[1] Start menu, improved compositing[2], and 3D multiple desktops placed on the faces of a Modron Clippy-like Windows/Office assistant who will put all the Cancel or Allow? messages in a funny-looking message balloon for your convenience[3].
[1] pinched from KDE
[2] ditto from Compiz
[3] don't ask.
For Vista, they promised loads of stuff, then stripped most of them out, presumably for a later version.
Thw MinWin kernel has been touted as non-production from the start IIRC, so that at least comes as no surprise at all.
I do wonder what all Windows 7 will not have; I would rather make a list of that.
For instance: WinFS, MinWin, capability to operate with less than half a terabyte of RAM, users... add to the list as needed; maybe after we define what Windows will not have, we can guess at what it will have.
Sadly, I only have bloat on that list so far...
Not only that, but the knowledge is both language-specific and, worse, America-specific.
Let's assume that even the anagrams ("Which of these is not an anagram of an animal?" type of questions) don't pose a problem to non-native English speakers. But what about the question on the serial numbers of dollar bills? I haven't handled a dollar bill in my entire life; how would I know anything about serial numbers?
Indeed, an IQ test it ain't.
Oh, and another thing: I realized -- belatedly, though -- that it was 60 seconds per question. Now I must track down the damned cookie to re-take the test.
Hm. 8 am. After class, then.
Recently there was quite a bit of an uproar in the EU over this issue.
Apparently, some Irish company put out an ad saying something on the line "With all the talk about how smoking is bad for you, with all the health problems it incurs, and all the money it wastes, we concluded that anyone still smoking is an idiot. And we don't want idiots in our company."
And since anyone who wants to stop smoking can do so and has every incentive to, yes, it is a disease. A self-inflicted one, with patients who reject treatment.
As far as I'm concerned, they're signing their own death sentence.
If and when I become an employer, if I have to hire a smoker (as in: by far the best for the job, and that is their only flaw), I don't care; smoking at work is grounds for instant dismissal.
(Note: in Croatia, smoking is banned in certain areas, and nobody really gives a shit. And if they do, smokers start squealing that we lack tolerance and that we are mean and don't want to accept them for who they are. Well, I don't give a fuck if you poison yourself; if you want heroin, sure, I'll even hold a lighter under your spoon. If you want a cigarette, stay away from me; poison yourselves all you want, but don't make me breathe your exhaust fumes. Anyway, I'm a bit touchy on that matter.)
Here's one thing that annoys me on my iphone and I remember it ties in w/ how OSX does things: they don't let you tab to and press space to enter a checkbox, checks just aren't in the tab order, you have to take your hands off the keyboard and use the mouse.
I haven't noticed that yet, but I seldom try that particular action, and IIRC Firefox, for one, supports it even on OS X.
And I just find alt-tab to cycle through windows (combined with a decent intuitive "FIFO" type ordering that figures you most likely want to bounce back to the last window you were looking at) easier than what I think I remember OSX having, one key to switch to the app, another to switch through the open windows of the app.
Funny, that. That's one of the things I like about OS X: Alt-Tab switches you between different apps (last used window), with push/pop ordering, while another key combination is used for selecting a specified window within the selected app. Most of the time it is much quicker.
and one key to clear the desktop and start with a clean slate w/o closing windows
Um... F11?
With the added benefit of being instantaneous, both in removing the windows and putting them all back.
Besides, with Windows I never know if restoring one window will restore just that window or several others alongside it.
Admittedly, certain Linux GUIs offer even more fine-grained control (e.g. whether dialog windows can be switched to directly), but I feel OS X to be the most efficient by default.
and then stuff like only the corner is draggable to resize a window
A minor annoyance in my book.
I prefer the Linux way in this: Modifier1+drag for move, Modifier2+drag for resize. Couldn't be simpler.
This is the first time a goatse troll made me laugh.
Just imagine... how much would MS have to pay you to click on a goatse link?
How much would you want them to pay you for the goatse links you've already clicked on?
Slashdot Mirror
... spread the sand into thin wafers and bake until done.
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He finally managed to break it by leaning it against the wall and jumping on it, but it took several tries and about ten minutes.
You have to admire that man's willpower.
But as you said, it's not quite indestructible. A blowtorch and a pneumatic drill can help finish it off fairly quickly, too.
Das Keyboard 2 allegedly uses buckling spring technology.
*spews coffee over Model M keyboard*
These things are dishwashable, right? Right?
Nearly so.
One of my teachers in high school spilled coffee or coke (whatever; it was caffeinated, sugary and sticky) over her Model M and got all panicky about it.
I told her to soak it in water, turn it over for a day or two to dry and plug it back in. As good as new.
Damned indestructible. And as I said in my post above, a nice offensive weapon, too.
I have one of the SpaceSavers from Unicomp, as they didn't have a 105-key Customizer at the time.
And since they couldn't offer me one with a Croatian layout, the nice people at Unicomp agreed to send me a blank one. So I got the best from both the Model M and Das Keyboard, and many looks of frustration from family members.
People look at me in a funny way when I tell them how much I paid for it (the shipping almost doubled the cost, too), but then, they do not type as much as I do.
OTOH, I find it funny that people are more than willing to cash out insane amounts of money for the bestest and fastest CPU or video card, but a keyboard? A random El Cheapo keyboard suits them just fine. Me, I like to hear when I've clicked a key, because I don't always even look at the screen when I type.
An added benefit is, of course, the fact that it can be used as an offensive weapon in case of dire emergency or family argument ;)
Since presumably my Firefox 2 will bug me to update to 3 as soon as it's released?
I trow not.
Firefox 1.5.x did not bug users when 2.0 was released, if my memory serves me right.
Actually, I recall from previous discussions that tabbed browsing existed before Opera.
But it's a nice, though quite unused piece of software. Firefox has won me over thanks to its great extendability.
Don't I feel like a big stupid asshole now.
Has Netcraft confirmed it?
Write a new, well-designed OS. Include a minimalist Win32 environment in a VM sandbox. Basically, Wine for Windows to run legacy apps.
Apple has done it twice.
They're waiting for Apple to do it for the third time, methinks.
Well, thank you for explaining my weird joke to the general public.
I wholeheartedly agree; that's why I "pointed out" all the "important new features" that will make users "upgrade" from Vista or whatever.
Would it be facetious to suggest conducting an experiment? Say, by destroying their whole command structure, top-down... starting with George W.
We can then take notes of their behaviour.
And then you remember how it all finally came out, when you spent a half-hour on the can, insides being stretched to goatse.jpg proportions, tears laced with internal-bleeding running down your face, screaming and punching holes in the bathroom drywall, until finally at last everything was right again, and wave of adrenalin-induced euphoria washed over you once the pain was gone, finally gone? That was Vista SP1
FIFY
OTOH, consider this: Windows cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility.
Therefore, in order to offer a new product, the old one should be abandoned, which cannot be done at the present point in time.
Imagine, then, that this possible decline of Windows is actually planned.
We know Microsoft is working on a new Windows kernel, on a wholly new operating system and whatnot... could it be that they are actually planning to lower their market share (thus dodging some anti-trust bullets), and then offer something new and improved, even if it proves to be Unix reinvented?
Or is it too much to expect from a behemoth?
...now, what exactly?Not only could the average user not find an advantage in Vista over XP (remember, users rarely care what's under the hood, they just want to use the system), now even geeks won't see a difference between the old and the new system?
Ok, let's be constructive. We heard now what will not be different between Vista and "Windows 7". So what will? Because, well, if it's the same... I'm no marketing guru, but I guess even the marketing guys in Redmond might have a hard time selling the same product again.
Ah. You are of course young and inexperienced, and you are unaware of the completely new and reworked[1] Start menu, improved compositing[2], and 3D multiple desktops placed on the faces of a Modron Clippy-like Windows/Office assistant who will put all the Cancel or Allow? messages in a funny-looking message balloon for your convenience[3].
[1] pinched from KDE
[2] ditto from Compiz
[3] don't ask.
For Vista, they promised loads of stuff, then stripped most of them out, presumably for a later version.
Thw MinWin kernel has been touted as non-production from the start IIRC, so that at least comes as no surprise at all.
I do wonder what all Windows 7 will not have; I would rather make a list of that.
For instance: WinFS, MinWin, capability to operate with less than half a terabyte of RAM, users... add to the list as needed; maybe after we define what Windows will not have, we can guess at what it will have.
Sadly, I only have bloat on that list so far...
Ah. That explains things.
I get a 119 or so, but that includes questions where I cannot answer at all. I keep clicking on everything, hoping something would get through.
Either a buggy test or Firefox on Unknown (Mac, Intel BTW) is a buggy browser. Or I'm a buggy user.
Not only that, but the knowledge is both language-specific and, worse, America-specific.
Let's assume that even the anagrams ("Which of these is not an anagram of an animal?" type of questions) don't pose a problem to non-native English speakers. But what about the question on the serial numbers of dollar bills? I haven't handled a dollar bill in my entire life; how would I know anything about serial numbers?
Indeed, an IQ test it ain't.
Oh, and another thing: I realized -- belatedly, though -- that it was 60 seconds per question. Now I must track down the damned cookie to re-take the test.
Hm. 8 am. After class, then.
And English major geeks write programs to write that stuff.
Are you talking about the food or the customers?
Probably the management.I think those mice are called rats.
Recently there was quite a bit of an uproar in the EU over this issue.
Apparently, some Irish company put out an ad saying something on the line "With all the talk about how smoking is bad for you, with all the health problems it incurs, and all the money it wastes, we concluded that anyone still smoking is an idiot. And we don't want idiots in our company."
And since anyone who wants to stop smoking can do so and has every incentive to, yes, it is a disease. A self-inflicted one, with patients who reject treatment.
As far as I'm concerned, they're signing their own death sentence.
If and when I become an employer, if I have to hire a smoker (as in: by far the best for the job, and that is their only flaw), I don't care; smoking at work is grounds for instant dismissal.
(Note: in Croatia, smoking is banned in certain areas, and nobody really gives a shit. And if they do, smokers start squealing that we lack tolerance and that we are mean and don't want to accept them for who they are. Well, I don't give a fuck if you poison yourself; if you want heroin, sure, I'll even hold a lighter under your spoon. If you want a cigarette, stay away from me; poison yourselves all you want, but don't make me breathe your exhaust fumes. Anyway, I'm a bit touchy on that matter.)
Are you talking about the food or the customers?
I haven't noticed that yet, but I seldom try that particular action, and IIRC Firefox, for one, supports it even on OS X.
And I just find alt-tab to cycle through windows (combined with a decent intuitive "FIFO" type ordering that figures you most likely want to bounce back to the last window you were looking at) easier than what I think I remember OSX having, one key to switch to the app, another to switch through the open windows of the app.Funny, that. That's one of the things I like about OS X: Alt-Tab switches you between different apps (last used window), with push/pop ordering, while another key combination is used for selecting a specified window within the selected app. Most of the time it is much quicker.
and one key to clear the desktop and start with a clean slate w/o closing windowsUm... F11?
With the added benefit of being instantaneous, both in removing the windows and putting them all back.
Besides, with Windows I never know if restoring one window will restore just that window or several others alongside it.
Admittedly, certain Linux GUIs offer even more fine-grained control (e.g. whether dialog windows can be switched to directly), but I feel OS X to be the most efficient by default.
and then stuff like only the corner is draggable to resize a windowA minor annoyance in my book.
I prefer the Linux way in this: Modifier1+drag for move, Modifier2+drag for resize. Couldn't be simpler.
anyway. what do you like about OSX kbd control?Consistency. BTW this is a very useful site: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html
Wow.
This is the first time a goatse troll made me laugh.
Just imagine... how much would MS have to pay you to click on a goatse link?
How much would you want them to pay you for the goatse links you've already clicked on?
I know it kind of works now, but... ever heard of Plug'n'Play?
/ducks