this was exactly the situation at an independent bookstore i worked at only 5 years ago. MS-DOS. Dot-matrix printer. floppies (i did a floppy backup of the inventory database every night.) i don't know how old the monitor was, but when it started to die i got the store owner another year or so out of it by changing the prompt string to display white instead of invisible grey...
Alcoholic beverages are the only tradtional beverages that produce a net dehydration. So if you have a beer, you need to drink *more* water than normal. Caffinated beverages, while mildy dehydrating, do not produce a net dehydration--and one average coffee is equivalent to 2/3 of that amount in water. Seawater will dehydrate you, but beverages with more modest quantities of salt, such as gatorade, actually *help you retain water* AND make you thirsty, encouraging you to drink more. not to mention they replenish salt excreted in sweat.
unfortunately we also have a ecosystem which depends on most of its species to remain in balance, to say nothing of how temperature influences weather systems. change the temperature, and you change a lot, and let's say 50% of the time, that's change for the worse. on a hotter earth, keeping ourselves cool is the easy part, and the least of our worries.
thanks for the informative post, but i'm wondering, how do your advice apply to a) recording digital audio b) sampling (i.e. running gigastudio)
i'm guessing throughput is rather important for both?
that depends a lot on what you mean by 'skill'--if skill is just that which predicts performance, then your last sentence is true by definition. if there are things which can affect performance but are not 'skill' then there is obvious reason to doubt your last statement
actually no, this is an argument for bringing your tablet's keyboard to class... i'm getting really tired of hearing arguments that run:
it's bad not to have a keyboard
tablets don't have keyboards
therefore it's bad to have a tablet
almost every slate-form tablet comes with a separate USB keyboard you can plug into it when needed, which could be used in conjunction with a stand for the slate itself, and many models have optional keyboard stands that the tablet can lock into. furthermore, convertible talbets have the keyboard attached, and can do anything a laptop can.
the only defining feature of a tablet is the ability to write on the screen, and the associated cost. I'd say that anyone who goes to math classes, or any other class that requires free-form drawing, (i.e. music class, anything involving diagrams) or who wants to be able to write on PDF files should take the performance cut and buy a low end tablet if the price is a problem--and play unreal on their desktop...
ps. as far as the handwriting recognition, in onenote you can have the text remain displayed as graphics, but be searchable behind it, like a PDF file. so recognition errors are non-critical but you retain the value of searching
this is why buying a tablet comes down to either buying a convertible fujitsu, or buying an electrovaya.
my electrovaya SC-300 was only $1000 canadian on Ebay (new, straight from the company, btw) and has 8-hour-battery life (listed as 12-hours).
my only real complain about it is that it's not lighter and that it should have been a convertible, but with a $3 metal bookstand you can use it on a table like a laptop, but better, since you can push the separate keyboard out the way when it's time to write on the screen for extended periods (i.e., doing math work)
fujitsu makes nicer, sleeker tablets, but the battery life is several hours less, even though they are in the #2 position in this category
the article is thoroughly accurate in this regard--by late next year, 'late next year' will be about a year away... and due to the proprietary nature of ms' HTML (hyper-time manipulation language) standards, slashdot lacks the tools neccessary to prove any of ms's press releases false...
i think your parent meant he wasn't releasing ALT each time, i.e. the "no" refered to looking at each icon in the little popup window as the square moved each time he pressed tab
then i suggest a little 'details' button (with a keyboard shortcut as well) that will show what's going on... but really i'd rather have it show the info by default--in *general* there is a big problem with software that doesn't make it obvious for the user to tell the difference between a long task and the program freezing...
please enligten me then--i am not a programmer, but i am frustrated by the filename-directory organization of the windows filesystem--how can NTFS work like a database? ok, i not sure a normal database can even do this, but I want to have music and PDF files and so on sortable/searchable by multiple chronological criteria--i.e. date of premiere, date RANGE of composition, date of first publication, various revision dates, date of recording, release date of recording, release date of the relevant compilations, date of encoding--and so on... don't we need a database integrated into the file sytem to achieve this kind of interaction with data?
you have a flawed understanding of being 'omnipotent'--i am an atheist, but i would like to explain how theists, (i think it was the scholastics), resolved this little problem:
rather than saying that god can do 'anything', they say that god can do anything which is *possible*. for instance, god cannot make a contradiction true. also, perhaps god is limited by other laws. the rule can't be "for any action x, god can do x", since that would mean god could make a contradiction true. the rule was thought to be (again i think it was the scholastics) "if x is a possible action, god can do x", a corollary of this is "if you can do it, god can do it! (and probably better)"
suffering is explained by saying that God made this word "the best of all possible worlds" and so the suffering in it must be the consequence of some sort of trade-off--and it's usually said that the culprit is giving us free will and the chance at redemption, etc.
erm, well, to be honest i never played quake specifically, but i played lots of doom, and always used keyboard and mouse at the same time
(i.e. left hand on keyboard, right hand on mouse)
depending on how you set up the controls this allows for all sorts of complex control in the game
just a mouse on its own is comparatively limited...
and if it seems cumbersome to use the keyboard like that, imagine how cumbersome piano playing must be...
your emphasis on books is misplaced--sure, books may always be around, but eventually they'll only be in museums, and as backups--as another poster hinted at, portability to the past is not a major force behind the perserverance of a given technology--and books will eventually be replaced by electronic equivalents.
yeah the original poster got the idea wrong--excercise doesn't avoid obesity, but it avoids many of the health risks associated with obesity--for instance, sumo wrestlers are not at high risk for the many health problems that threaten individuals who are both obese and inactive--the point is, you have to be active REGARDLESS OF YOUR WEIGHT--that includes us skinny folk, and it also means that individuals who are inactive and only somewhat overweight should begin by introducing exercise, as one's current diet might be 'just right' once exercise is introduced.
of course, if one is severely overweight, both exercise *and* a reduction in calories will be neccessary.
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this was exactly the situation at an independent bookstore i worked at only 5 years ago. MS-DOS. Dot-matrix printer. floppies (i did a floppy backup of the inventory database every night.) i don't know how old the monitor was, but when it started to die i got the store owner another year or so out of it by changing the prompt string to display white instead of invisible grey...
Alcoholic beverages are the only tradtional beverages that produce a net dehydration. So if you have a beer, you need to drink *more* water than normal. Caffinated beverages, while mildy dehydrating, do not produce a net dehydration--and one average coffee is equivalent to 2/3 of that amount in water. Seawater will dehydrate you, but beverages with more modest quantities of salt, such as gatorade, actually *help you retain water* AND make you thirsty, encouraging you to drink more. not to mention they replenish salt excreted in sweat.
in other news, this '8 glasses of water a day' nonsense is pure myth--read http://www.flp-aloevera.co.uk/water_benefits.htm for more.
"The art form will never die... how long have MIDI keyboards been around?"
only about 20 years. now imagine computer music 2000 years from now... even in 200 years the advances will be astronomical.
"Machines always sound better than humans anyway."
newsflash: Humans ARE Machines--we just happen to be better machines for most tasks. this will change.
sorry--can you give me a hint about Prokofiev's works? i have no idea what i would google to find what you're talking about...
unfortunately we also have a ecosystem which depends on most of its species to remain in balance, to say nothing of how temperature influences weather systems. change the temperature, and you change a lot, and let's say 50% of the time, that's change for the worse. on a hotter earth, keeping ourselves cool is the easy part, and the least of our worries.
let's not forget Windows XP Tablet PC Edition...
thanks for the informative post, but i'm wondering, how do your advice apply to a) recording digital audio b) sampling (i.e. running gigastudio) i'm guessing throughput is rather important for both?
that depends a lot on what you mean by 'skill'--if skill is just that which predicts performance, then your last sentence is true by definition. if there are things which can affect performance but are not 'skill' then there is obvious reason to doubt your last statement
actually no, this is an argument for bringing your tablet's keyboard to class... i'm getting really tired of hearing arguments that run: it's bad not to have a keyboard tablets don't have keyboards therefore it's bad to have a tablet almost every slate-form tablet comes with a separate USB keyboard you can plug into it when needed, which could be used in conjunction with a stand for the slate itself, and many models have optional keyboard stands that the tablet can lock into. furthermore, convertible talbets have the keyboard attached, and can do anything a laptop can. the only defining feature of a tablet is the ability to write on the screen, and the associated cost. I'd say that anyone who goes to math classes, or any other class that requires free-form drawing, (i.e. music class, anything involving diagrams) or who wants to be able to write on PDF files should take the performance cut and buy a low end tablet if the price is a problem--and play unreal on their desktop... ps. as far as the handwriting recognition, in onenote you can have the text remain displayed as graphics, but be searchable behind it, like a PDF file. so recognition errors are non-critical but you retain the value of searching
this is why buying a tablet comes down to either buying a convertible fujitsu, or buying an electrovaya. my electrovaya SC-300 was only $1000 canadian on Ebay (new, straight from the company, btw) and has 8-hour-battery life (listed as 12-hours). my only real complain about it is that it's not lighter and that it should have been a convertible, but with a $3 metal bookstand you can use it on a table like a laptop, but better, since you can push the separate keyboard out the way when it's time to write on the screen for extended periods (i.e., doing math work) fujitsu makes nicer, sleeker tablets, but the battery life is several hours less, even though they are in the #2 position in this category
the article is thoroughly accurate in this regard--by late next year, 'late next year' will be about a year away... and due to the proprietary nature of ms' HTML (hyper-time manipulation language) standards, slashdot lacks the tools neccessary to prove any of ms's press releases false...
how can a question be a fallacy!?
i think your parent meant he wasn't releasing ALT each time, i.e. the "no" refered to looking at each icon in the little popup window as the square moved each time he pressed tab
then i suggest a little 'details' button (with a keyboard shortcut as well) that will show what's going on... but really i'd rather have it show the info by default--in *general* there is a big problem with software that doesn't make it obvious for the user to tell the difference between a long task and the program freezing...
please enligten me then--i am not a programmer, but i am frustrated by the filename-directory organization of the windows filesystem--how can NTFS work like a database? ok, i not sure a normal database can even do this, but I want to have music and PDF files and so on sortable/searchable by multiple chronological criteria--i.e. date of premiere, date RANGE of composition, date of first publication, various revision dates, date of recording, release date of recording, release date of the relevant compilations, date of encoding--and so on... don't we need a database integrated into the file sytem to achieve this kind of interaction with data?
you have a flawed understanding of being 'omnipotent'--i am an atheist, but i would like to explain how theists, (i think it was the scholastics), resolved this little problem: rather than saying that god can do 'anything', they say that god can do anything which is *possible*. for instance, god cannot make a contradiction true. also, perhaps god is limited by other laws. the rule can't be "for any action x, god can do x", since that would mean god could make a contradiction true. the rule was thought to be (again i think it was the scholastics) "if x is a possible action, god can do x", a corollary of this is "if you can do it, god can do it! (and probably better)" suffering is explained by saying that God made this word "the best of all possible worlds" and so the suffering in it must be the consequence of some sort of trade-off--and it's usually said that the culprit is giving us free will and the chance at redemption, etc.
erm, well, to be honest i never played quake specifically, but i played lots of doom, and always used keyboard and mouse at the same time (i.e. left hand on keyboard, right hand on mouse) depending on how you set up the controls this allows for all sorts of complex control in the game just a mouse on its own is comparatively limited... and if it seems cumbersome to use the keyboard like that, imagine how cumbersome piano playing must be...
who the hell plays quake with *just* the mouse? might as well play the piano with my nose...
your emphasis on books is misplaced--sure, books may always be around, but eventually they'll only be in museums, and as backups--as another poster hinted at, portability to the past is not a major force behind the perserverance of a given technology--and books will eventually be replaced by electronic equivalents.
more like a "double superlative" perhaps
yeah the original poster got the idea wrong--excercise doesn't avoid obesity, but it avoids many of the health risks associated with obesity--for instance, sumo wrestlers are not at high risk for the many health problems that threaten individuals who are both obese and inactive--the point is, you have to be active REGARDLESS OF YOUR WEIGHT--that includes us skinny folk, and it also means that individuals who are inactive and only somewhat overweight should begin by introducing exercise, as one's current diet might be 'just right' once exercise is introduced.
of course, if one is severely overweight, both exercise *and* a reduction in calories will be neccessary.