I have a DAS Keyboard with brown Cherry switches. They are 45g to activate, and not clicky. The keyboard is not silent, but it is certainly not noisy, either.
This is the best feeling keyboard I own, and maybe the best feeling one I have ever owned. I have pounded the crap out of it for over a year and it still works, as one would expect. Every time I shop for a laptop, I just cringe when I feel the keys and I think about spending all day using it.
The decision does raise an interesting question, though - what makes you a journalist? Is it having an account on WordPress or Blogger? What about aggregators like Drudge and Slashdot? We see journalists espousing opinions all the time, frequently controversial - your local rag's editorial page is just such a place.
I love the shades of grey.
Is there anything that is quite as effective as bragging rights to drive innovation (besides Economics, of course)? I don't know if security on iOS could get any better faster if you didn't have a determined group trying to break it publicly.
I started messing around with RockMelt six months ago after receiving an invite. It's ok, but I have yet to find a real compelling reason to use it over Chrome, especially since, as the article mentions, it only sort-of supports Chrome extensions, which means I can only sort-of do things that I rely on Chrome for.
I don't know if I agree that 3 was a letdown, especially after 2 was SUCH a letdown.
I thought 3 was a much better game than 2, aside from the really annoying Cortana inserts that were lame, and felt forced at best.
While I like the interaction with the Flood better in 1 than 3, in general I like 3 better - the online play is outstanding (not available in 1), the graphics are much better (console), the weapons and vehicles are better, and the maps don't feel as as repetitive as they were in 1. The weapons are, in general, better. The bad guys are much harder in 3. Legendary is much harder in 3.
I like to play both 1 and 3 in both campaign, multi-player campaign (especially in the meta-mode), and even single-console head-to-head.
The BIG difference, though, is the XBox Live component. Ultimately that makes the difference between 3 and 1 for me.
It only works for folks who choose to comply. Folks that ignore the list and spoof their caller id can't be dealt with. In my case there was also a telemarketer who was calling because I was on a list from my mortgage company. I repeatedly told them to put me on their do not call list, reported them to the Do Not Call website, and called the mortgage company to complain. It still took 14 months to get them to stop.
While this is true, it generally takes us only a second or two to figure out that the person calling is garbage. 1) Call center background 2) Obvious headset use 3) Mispronounce name. 4) Ask who's calling, from where, and the nature of the call. At least for us we're off with the asshats in less than five seconds total.
Not at all. For one, the languages are completely different. Revolution follows the "xTalk" (history of languages, which are considered to be verbose because the syntax is very English-like, unlike BASIC, which, while easy to learn (until you start casting and using strong-typing), is not. xTalk is a history that stems from HyperTalk, the language that was in HyperCard. Each product that has copied, borrowed from, or stood on the shoulders of HyperTalk has had its own version of HyperTalk, which generally speaking is very close to the original, but adds additional functionality to it (think of them more as near-dialects, such as the English spoken in the Northeast vs. that spoken in the Midwest). xTalk uses implicit typing, and implicit casts and recasts.
Most of Revolution is written in...Revolution. So, much of the source is sitting there for you to see, tweak, and change, if you choose. The engine is really the only part of the environment that isn't hackable. As a result, there are several different projects that replaced the GUI and IDE. It is easy to add new functionality and API's to most of the objects/controls in Rev because of this hackability.
The Hypercard paradigm, which Revolution shares is centered around "cards" and "stacks". A stack is a group of cards. Cards have multiple functions, including form layouts. However originally, cards were thought of as database records, similar to a recipe box card. There are of course several other important structural components in Revolution, but it helps to start with the above and work from there.
That's the $.02 tour. If you're interested in pursuing it further, you should check out www.runrev.com and download a trial version to try it out. Remember, it is very different than what you're used to in VB.
I am not really a Revolution fanboi, however, I was and am a HyperCard fanboi. As a result, I still use Revolution to perform various tasks that it is uniquely well suited for, namely data stream parsing and analysis, and rapid prototyping. I prefer other tools for other tasks, but when I want to quickly do data analysis, test an idea, or pick through a data stream, Revolution is great.
Although Apple abandoned HC a long time ago, it still lives on, today in a product called Revolution.
Revolution is definitely a child or grandchild of HC. If you build applications in HC, you should have no trouble running with Rev. There's even a section on their website discussing that topic.
It is definitely far from perfect, but it's better than FORTRAN.
I own stock in a bunch of companies. This year, this same motion was made by some shareholder for nearly all the companies. I believe some of the mutual funds I own also had this provision proposed by some shareholder. Does anybody want to guess how many times it was voted up by the majority of shareholders? How about zero. It wasn't just Google. Shareholders, especially fund managers (where the majority of stocks are held), have more important fish to fry, like improving share prices. Here's a thought - if you want to improve Google, how about making a suggestion that will help them get back into the 600's.
You still have the very tall hurdle of demonstrating that these are "inferior offiers". One look at the org chart ends that discussion. Since this is a "no blood no foul" kind of situation, this won't make it out of the Federal District Court, let alone to SCOTUS. What Court of Appeals is going to certify the action for review of a purely technical argument when the action of the President and the Secretary indicates their tacit approval of the practice? The amicus brief filed by the Secretary and the President will end this discussion before it even gets tarted. How are the plaintiffs even going to gain standing? Come on.
Ha. Ha.
Here's the deal on Bikini:
1) You can't live there. You can visit on a dive excursion. Everything is brought with you. There are bunks in the buildings, but that's all
2) The radiation is in the form of cesium, which is extremely water soluble. As a result, it is present above the waterline in the sand and soil (but not at the surface, as rainwater constantly washes it away). In addition, since cesium is SO soluble, all traces away from the shore are long gone. So it's safe to dive the wrecks, which are spectacular.
3) Previous attempts to get the cesium to bond to other elements, e.g. iodine, did not succeed as planned, and the vegetation continues to suck it up.
4) In 1946 there were around 150 residents that were relocated to Kili Island and to Ejit, so they'd like to get home some time, too.
5) If you ever get the chance, cough up the cash, learn how to dive, and GO. Most of the wrecks are deep, but the water in the lagoon is as clear as you are going to see, and the wrecks are pristine. I've done diving at a military-controlled atoll, where there is very little traffic, fewer tourists, and an active SCUBA community. It may be the best diving I have ever done.
Having owned both matte and glossy lappies, I vote matte, all the way. Glossy is fine, when I'm in a dark room with indirect lighting. However, EVERYTHING shows on it. Dust, fingerprints, spots, everything. I have to tilt the screen at a stupid angle to eliminate the reflection from the ceiling above me, even WITH indirect lighting (provided by an uplamp and a desklamp, neither of which are in my direct field of view). No more glossy, thank you. Not ever.
Then again, maybe it's because the market isn't as large as was hoped. My agency, while constantly evaluating options for radio frequency moves, is not THAT interested in moving. It's really expensive. When you think about base stations, antennas, transmitters, new radios for every piece of apparatus, and radios for every firefighter, medic, EMT, etc., you start talking about a huge chunk of change for each department. Then there are repeaters, trunk gear, etc.
In order for a single department to be able to move, they need lots of neighboring departments to move as well, or they're only going to be able to talk to their mutual aid agencies via one channel on a mobile repeater, which sucks. We have that problem now, with neighboring jurisdictions in vastly different tracks of spectrum. Luckily we have some radios in their swath, because the poor blokes who are stuck hitting the repeater are frequently fighting to get a message through. That is not a good situation to have during a Mayday.
So the way that this gets done is ten, fifteen, or twenty departments (an entire County, in many cases) will have to all buy new gear at once, retrofit all the towers, apparatus, stations, etc. Since none of the departments can afford to do that anyway, a big fat grant proposal has to be put together, and the funding come from government. For what? I'm not saying that you can't come up with a case justifying such investment, but given that emergency responders are able to effectively answer calls and talk to their comm center now, it's not as easy an argument to make. If you're in an urban setting it makes more sense, because your LOS to a tower is frequently impeded. However, most of the country isn't urban.
To be fair, the University is "bowing down" to a threatened contempt citation by the court. Actually I believe the wording was that the court was asking the University to explain why it should NOT be found to be in contempt. To this point it looks like OSU was being protective of their students. The whole ex-parte discovery argument is one of those things that legal techies love to debate, but OSU was pretty much out of good options, it appears.
Yeah, but what happens if the local user needs the space? Does DFS give priority to local storage and move the files? If it has to quickly that could be a pain since the throughput would be poor, right?
We've been hearing about how we were about to run out of IP4 addresses in three years back in 1990. It's been 17 years. The same silly article gets published every six months. I'm still waiting. Call me when we actually hit Peak Oil, too. Oh wait! We just passed it AGAIN!
You know, Grand Central from Google does the same thing. Using the "Wisdom of Crowds" theory, it allows you to use the "wisdom" to block spam calls, identify themselves before ringing your phone, etc. For a free service, it's pretty nice.
This assumes that no changes are made drawing over drawing. How would you be aware that such changes are made? For instance, what if a fan, stirrer, or the balls are switched out, as one can suppose does happen. As you are not aware of these changes, you are back where you started from. This also supposes that the auditors that are supposed to ensure that the results are random aren't doing their jobs by performing rigorous testing. In that way, the lottery commission is opening it up to lawsuits by players alleging that the game is not fair. So while the research is interesting, it would be extremely difficult to actually use it in the real world, especially now that the work is public, which means that the behavior of the lottery is likely to change as a result.
I live in the country on the mainland. When I lived in the city the ambient light made stargazing impossible. When my family comes to visit my house in the sticks, one of the things they all comment on is all the stars they can see now.
The stargazing on Hawaii is even more spectacular. However, the best stargazing I've ever done was from a little island on a tiny atoll several hundred miles west of Hawaii. Since there isn't anything resembling civilization nearby, it was about as black as one could imagine, as it was before moonrise. The night sky is completely chock full of dim lights that we have no hope of seeing when there is any ambient light at all. It really is amazing.
In case you weren't paying attention, there are certain VERY VERY popular channels that have essentially NO commercials on them. They do have quarter-hour breaks, but there really aren't any merchandising ads during that time. ONE of those channels just broadcast the highest-rated cable-TV program EVER.
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I have a DAS Keyboard with brown Cherry switches. They are 45g to activate, and not clicky. The keyboard is not silent, but it is certainly not noisy, either. This is the best feeling keyboard I own, and maybe the best feeling one I have ever owned. I have pounded the crap out of it for over a year and it still works, as one would expect. Every time I shop for a laptop, I just cringe when I feel the keys and I think about spending all day using it.
The decision does raise an interesting question, though - what makes you a journalist? Is it having an account on WordPress or Blogger? What about aggregators like Drudge and Slashdot? We see journalists espousing opinions all the time, frequently controversial - your local rag's editorial page is just such a place. I love the shades of grey.
Is there anything that is quite as effective as bragging rights to drive innovation (besides Economics, of course)? I don't know if security on iOS could get any better faster if you didn't have a determined group trying to break it publicly.
I started messing around with RockMelt six months ago after receiving an invite. It's ok, but I have yet to find a real compelling reason to use it over Chrome, especially since, as the article mentions, it only sort-of supports Chrome extensions, which means I can only sort-of do things that I rely on Chrome for.
How about Fantasy Halo? I'll take Johnson as my first pick any day.
I don't know if I agree that 3 was a letdown, especially after 2 was SUCH a letdown. I thought 3 was a much better game than 2, aside from the really annoying Cortana inserts that were lame, and felt forced at best. While I like the interaction with the Flood better in 1 than 3, in general I like 3 better - the online play is outstanding (not available in 1), the graphics are much better (console), the weapons and vehicles are better, and the maps don't feel as as repetitive as they were in 1. The weapons are, in general, better. The bad guys are much harder in 3. Legendary is much harder in 3. I like to play both 1 and 3 in both campaign, multi-player campaign (especially in the meta-mode), and even single-console head-to-head. The BIG difference, though, is the XBox Live component. Ultimately that makes the difference between 3 and 1 for me.
It only works for folks who choose to comply. Folks that ignore the list and spoof their caller id can't be dealt with. In my case there was also a telemarketer who was calling because I was on a list from my mortgage company. I repeatedly told them to put me on their do not call list, reported them to the Do Not Call website, and called the mortgage company to complain. It still took 14 months to get them to stop.
While this is true, it generally takes us only a second or two to figure out that the person calling is garbage. 1) Call center background 2) Obvious headset use 3) Mispronounce name. 4) Ask who's calling, from where, and the nature of the call. At least for us we're off with the asshats in less than five seconds total.
Not at all. For one, the languages are completely different. Revolution follows the "xTalk" (history of languages, which are considered to be verbose because the syntax is very English-like, unlike BASIC, which, while easy to learn (until you start casting and using strong-typing), is not. xTalk is a history that stems from HyperTalk, the language that was in HyperCard. Each product that has copied, borrowed from, or stood on the shoulders of HyperTalk has had its own version of HyperTalk, which generally speaking is very close to the original, but adds additional functionality to it (think of them more as near-dialects, such as the English spoken in the Northeast vs. that spoken in the Midwest). xTalk uses implicit typing, and implicit casts and recasts. Most of Revolution is written in...Revolution. So, much of the source is sitting there for you to see, tweak, and change, if you choose. The engine is really the only part of the environment that isn't hackable. As a result, there are several different projects that replaced the GUI and IDE. It is easy to add new functionality and API's to most of the objects/controls in Rev because of this hackability. The Hypercard paradigm, which Revolution shares is centered around "cards" and "stacks". A stack is a group of cards. Cards have multiple functions, including form layouts. However originally, cards were thought of as database records, similar to a recipe box card. There are of course several other important structural components in Revolution, but it helps to start with the above and work from there. That's the $.02 tour. If you're interested in pursuing it further, you should check out www.runrev.com and download a trial version to try it out. Remember, it is very different than what you're used to in VB. I am not really a Revolution fanboi, however, I was and am a HyperCard fanboi. As a result, I still use Revolution to perform various tasks that it is uniquely well suited for, namely data stream parsing and analysis, and rapid prototyping. I prefer other tools for other tasks, but when I want to quickly do data analysis, test an idea, or pick through a data stream, Revolution is great.
Although Apple abandoned HC a long time ago, it still lives on, today in a product called Revolution. Revolution is definitely a child or grandchild of HC. If you build applications in HC, you should have no trouble running with Rev. There's even a section on their website discussing that topic. It is definitely far from perfect, but it's better than FORTRAN.
I own stock in a bunch of companies. This year, this same motion was made by some shareholder for nearly all the companies. I believe some of the mutual funds I own also had this provision proposed by some shareholder. Does anybody want to guess how many times it was voted up by the majority of shareholders? How about zero. It wasn't just Google. Shareholders, especially fund managers (where the majority of stocks are held), have more important fish to fry, like improving share prices. Here's a thought - if you want to improve Google, how about making a suggestion that will help them get back into the 600's.
You still have the very tall hurdle of demonstrating that these are "inferior offiers". One look at the org chart ends that discussion. Since this is a "no blood no foul" kind of situation, this won't make it out of the Federal District Court, let alone to SCOTUS. What Court of Appeals is going to certify the action for review of a purely technical argument when the action of the President and the Secretary indicates their tacit approval of the practice? The amicus brief filed by the Secretary and the President will end this discussion before it even gets tarted. How are the plaintiffs even going to gain standing? Come on.
Ha. Ha. Here's the deal on Bikini: 1) You can't live there. You can visit on a dive excursion. Everything is brought with you. There are bunks in the buildings, but that's all 2) The radiation is in the form of cesium, which is extremely water soluble. As a result, it is present above the waterline in the sand and soil (but not at the surface, as rainwater constantly washes it away). In addition, since cesium is SO soluble, all traces away from the shore are long gone. So it's safe to dive the wrecks, which are spectacular. 3) Previous attempts to get the cesium to bond to other elements, e.g. iodine, did not succeed as planned, and the vegetation continues to suck it up. 4) In 1946 there were around 150 residents that were relocated to Kili Island and to Ejit, so they'd like to get home some time, too. 5) If you ever get the chance, cough up the cash, learn how to dive, and GO. Most of the wrecks are deep, but the water in the lagoon is as clear as you are going to see, and the wrecks are pristine. I've done diving at a military-controlled atoll, where there is very little traffic, fewer tourists, and an active SCUBA community. It may be the best diving I have ever done.
Having owned both matte and glossy lappies, I vote matte, all the way. Glossy is fine, when I'm in a dark room with indirect lighting. However, EVERYTHING shows on it. Dust, fingerprints, spots, everything. I have to tilt the screen at a stupid angle to eliminate the reflection from the ceiling above me, even WITH indirect lighting (provided by an uplamp and a desklamp, neither of which are in my direct field of view). No more glossy, thank you. Not ever.
Then again, maybe it's because the market isn't as large as was hoped. My agency, while constantly evaluating options for radio frequency moves, is not THAT interested in moving. It's really expensive. When you think about base stations, antennas, transmitters, new radios for every piece of apparatus, and radios for every firefighter, medic, EMT, etc., you start talking about a huge chunk of change for each department. Then there are repeaters, trunk gear, etc. In order for a single department to be able to move, they need lots of neighboring departments to move as well, or they're only going to be able to talk to their mutual aid agencies via one channel on a mobile repeater, which sucks. We have that problem now, with neighboring jurisdictions in vastly different tracks of spectrum. Luckily we have some radios in their swath, because the poor blokes who are stuck hitting the repeater are frequently fighting to get a message through. That is not a good situation to have during a Mayday. So the way that this gets done is ten, fifteen, or twenty departments (an entire County, in many cases) will have to all buy new gear at once, retrofit all the towers, apparatus, stations, etc. Since none of the departments can afford to do that anyway, a big fat grant proposal has to be put together, and the funding come from government. For what? I'm not saying that you can't come up with a case justifying such investment, but given that emergency responders are able to effectively answer calls and talk to their comm center now, it's not as easy an argument to make. If you're in an urban setting it makes more sense, because your LOS to a tower is frequently impeded. However, most of the country isn't urban.
To be fair, the University is "bowing down" to a threatened contempt citation by the court. Actually I believe the wording was that the court was asking the University to explain why it should NOT be found to be in contempt. To this point it looks like OSU was being protective of their students. The whole ex-parte discovery argument is one of those things that legal techies love to debate, but OSU was pretty much out of good options, it appears.
Yeah, but what happens if the local user needs the space? Does DFS give priority to local storage and move the files? If it has to quickly that could be a pain since the throughput would be poor, right?
We've been hearing about how we were about to run out of IP4 addresses in three years back in 1990. It's been 17 years. The same silly article gets published every six months. I'm still waiting. Call me when we actually hit Peak Oil, too. Oh wait! We just passed it AGAIN!
You know, Grand Central from Google does the same thing. Using the "Wisdom of Crowds" theory, it allows you to use the "wisdom" to block spam calls, identify themselves before ringing your phone, etc. For a free service, it's pretty nice.
This assumes that no changes are made drawing over drawing. How would you be aware that such changes are made? For instance, what if a fan, stirrer, or the balls are switched out, as one can suppose does happen. As you are not aware of these changes, you are back where you started from. This also supposes that the auditors that are supposed to ensure that the results are random aren't doing their jobs by performing rigorous testing. In that way, the lottery commission is opening it up to lawsuits by players alleging that the game is not fair. So while the research is interesting, it would be extremely difficult to actually use it in the real world, especially now that the work is public, which means that the behavior of the lottery is likely to change as a result.
I live in the country on the mainland. When I lived in the city the ambient light made stargazing impossible. When my family comes to visit my house in the sticks, one of the things they all comment on is all the stars they can see now.
The stargazing on Hawaii is even more spectacular. However, the best stargazing I've ever done was from a little island on a tiny atoll several hundred miles west of Hawaii. Since there isn't anything resembling civilization nearby, it was about as black as one could imagine, as it was before moonrise. The night sky is completely chock full of dim lights that we have no hope of seeing when there is any ambient light at all. It really is amazing.
The Darwin Awards are crying right now. So close and yet so far.
Don't forget that there are essentially no ads on Disney Channel.
In case you weren't paying attention, there are certain VERY VERY popular channels that have essentially NO commercials on them. They do have quarter-hour breaks, but there really aren't any merchandising ads during that time. ONE of those channels just broadcast the highest-rated cable-TV program EVER.
I'm not sure that for things like tech channels that the next revolution isn't streaming online to your pc anyway.