The article says the error rate would be combined with GPS. Only erratic typing while driving or while riding public transit would result in a block.
Or erratic typing while on a car's passenger seat, Anyway, preventing erratic typing while on public transport seems like a rather large problem to me.
Yes (unless you find an 80 year old lady to take care of the painting), but I was referring to a pre-digital time and pretty chaotic environment, where master tapes simply got lost. Also, if your recording studio loses digital masters, you are just as screwed as with tapes. Anyway, it was just an aside about reasons for valuable music disappearing from circulation, and isn't really on topic)
(...) There's either too weak of a modern interest in certain albums or "not enough profit" for record companies in re-releasing them. (...)
Or the rights to the music have become a holy mess. It's typical, e.g., of 80ies/90ies indie recordings, when the artistic and commercial envirnonment was in a frenzy of development, people had too much to do in the present and didn't think about tomorrow (or didn't have an interest in tomorrow at all), most people didn't really know what they were doing, etc. And of course the copyright laws weren't up to the task of dealing with such a volatile environment. Recording artists sold rights to indie labels, which promptly went under, or were bought out by majors (who had no actual interest in the catalog), and so on. Many a band in recent years went through prolonged struggles to reaquire the rights in order to be able to rerelease albums.
For me on this W520 it's just a matter of Fn+F8 to toggle the trackpad on/off
That's also an option, but IMO too much of a hassle to do every time. The machine knows when you are typing, so it should do the appropriate thing automatically.
Ouch, interesting. It never happened to me in Win XP or 7, so I assumed that they do - but maybe that's because the Lenovo laptops I used had tiny touchpads. I never used OS X for extended times, but when I did the problem did not occur despite the huge touchpads so, again, I assumed (yeah I know). Indeed, 5 seconds of googling showed that OS X has a '“Ignore accidental trackpad input” checkbox on the Trackpad tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel', though it may be off by default, I dunno. http://www.macworld.com/article/1136275/trackpadoff.html
I have used a MacBook Pro with Ubuntu since 2009, and I am quite sure that even in 9.04 Ubuntu did it. The documentation looks like it (though apparently buggy), at least as a GUI-supported option. 12.04 certainly has at least the option now.
This is a Gnome thing, I can only assume KDE and therefore SuSE has the option as well (though maybe difficult to find among 10000 other options:p )
That's why they call it engineering. Do you think when they crash test cars and check to see how much damage will occur if you hit a cow? Of course not, because we stay within the bounds of accepted principles. We don't need to know the answer to everything.
Car makers such as Volvo and Saab factor in elk crashes when designing and building cars. VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute has developed an elk crash test dummy called Mooses.
The dummy features similar weight, centre of gravity as well as dimensions to a live elk, and is used to recreate realistic elk collisions. A very popular European car failed its first Moose test and today is one of the safest in the world, thanks to the test results that initiated more stringent safety development.
Processing would be an option. It's basically Java, but gives immediate feedback like s script language, and it's visual, which makes it fun to learn because you see immediate results, and if you want to make games it may be a good fit.
I like the superhero reboots. The story of how a person becomes a superhero and how he/she deals with it is IMHO the most interesting part, at least if the movie shall appeal to an audience greater than superhero nerds. After that you can deal with maybe 2 super villains, and if the script writer is lucky, the hero has a built-in dark side, like Batman, which can provide for an interesting ending. But after a few movies there is nothing interesting to do, at least not in the movie format. So I am happy to reboot at this point and let a different director create a different play on the topic.
(I agree with the suggestion in TFA that TV series are a more appropriate medium due to the the complexity they allow, but then I prefer the series format over movies for most story telling).
Pedestrians and cyclists are rarely hit on highways, which would be more or less the only place where faster car speed would come into play. Such accidents usually happen in cities and residential quarters. And - at least in Europe, I don't know about the US - car safety design has increasingly led to improvements for pedestrians/cyclists, in step with the required testing procedures focusing more on such accidents. Improvements include passive stuff like avoiding design features that hurt pedestrians/cyclists, and active stuff like, e.g., bonnets that are moved by explosive charges in case of an accident, or radar systems that reliably reduce speed before an accident happens even if the car driver is asleep at the wheel. As a consequence, pedestrian/cyclist injuries in car accidents have significantly declined.
I have never, ever, seen pirated content with ads and logos added (overcompressed stuff I did see, of course). I see ads and added logos only when I watch media I paid for.
Generally I can find the general directions myself, what I need a cycle route planner for is to take surface and traffic/safety into account. There's a lot of cobblestone pavement where I live, and it sucks to ride over that. Doesn't look like Google Maps will help me with this any time soon. But as I said initially, there's komoot.de and it does what I need. I uses OpenStreetMap data as well as other sources, comes with a smartphone app, etc. Hmmm, I just realized it works outside of Germany as well (I tried it for the US), but I don't know about data quality there, and it seems the website is available only in German.
Yeah, I didn't express that well. I meant that it didn't offer cycling directions *in Germany* (and still doesn't). Planning a cycle route in, e.g., UK does work for me.
According to the H, UK was only one of many European countries for which cycling directions were enabled:
Cycling maps are available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway and the UK. Cycling directions are available at least in both Austria and Switzerland in addition to the UK.
You can overlay the cycling information for maps, but it doesn't seem to do the route planning for cycling; the only options there remain "per car" and "on foot". So for the time being, for actual cycling route planning in Germany, Komoot seems to remain the only good option for now.
Oh, hell, yes. There was a time in the mid 90s where Windows people would install Linux on a separate partition, for fun. Then they tried to get rid of it further down the line and oh fuck, I'm never doing this again. Linux on the desktop might be twice as far along if GRUB hadn't been such a piece of utter shit.
Large parts of European cities, especially residential quarters, also date to the 1800s (typically to 1850-90, with some patches even dating back to the 1700s, and typically early 1900-10 at the latest (e.g., the Gründerzeit in Germany and Austria)), have not been destroyed in the war, and nevertheless have proper installations.
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The article says the error rate would be combined with GPS. Only erratic typing while driving or while riding public transit would result in a block.
Or erratic typing while on a car's passenger seat, Anyway, preventing erratic typing while on public transport seems like a rather large problem to me.
Yes (unless you find an 80 year old lady to take care of the painting), but I was referring to a pre-digital time and pretty chaotic environment, where master tapes simply got lost. Also, if your recording studio loses digital masters, you are just as screwed as with tapes. Anyway, it was just an aside about reasons for valuable music disappearing from circulation, and isn't really on topic)
And then there's the frequent problem of "where the hell are the master tapes?"
(...) There's either too weak of a modern interest in certain albums or "not enough profit" for record companies in re-releasing them. (...)
Or the rights to the music have become a holy mess. It's typical, e.g., of 80ies/90ies indie recordings, when the artistic and commercial envirnonment was in a frenzy of development, people had too much to do in the present and didn't think about tomorrow (or didn't have an interest in tomorrow at all), most people didn't really know what they were doing, etc. And of course the copyright laws weren't up to the task of dealing with such a volatile environment. Recording artists sold rights to indie labels, which promptly went under, or were bought out by majors (who had no actual interest in the catalog), and so on. Many a band in recent years went through prolonged struggles to reaquire the rights in order to be able to rerelease albums.
This is not a singular thing. E.g., http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3066165&cid=41092713
I still can't parse "concluded that theory."
Proven it? Confirmed it? What?
I guess a combination of this meaning from Merriam-Webster
3a : to reach as a logically necessary end by reasoning : infer on the basis of evidence "concluded that her argument was sound"
and a non-English native writer?
Sample size does not matter that much when you can show a direct, structural link between cause and effect.
Reminds me of Scott Adam's Spasmodic Dysphonia, and how he could not speak normally, but sing and speak in rhyme. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/scott_adams_fixes_own_brain_can_now_speak/
It's a different disease, but similar in the way that music is treated different by the brain.
For me on this W520 it's just a matter of Fn+F8 to toggle the trackpad on/off
That's also an option, but IMO too much of a hassle to do every time. The machine knows when you are typing, so it should do the appropriate thing automatically.
Ouch, interesting. It never happened to me in Win XP or 7, so I assumed that they do - but maybe that's because the Lenovo laptops I used had tiny touchpads. I never used OS X for extended times, but when I did the problem did not occur despite the huge touchpads so, again, I assumed (yeah I know). Indeed, 5 seconds of googling showed that OS X has a '“Ignore accidental trackpad input” checkbox on the Trackpad tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel', though it may be off by default, I dunno.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1136275/trackpadoff.html
I have used a MacBook Pro with Ubuntu since 2009, and I am quite sure that even in 9.04 Ubuntu did it. The documentation looks like it (though apparently buggy), at least as a GUI-supported option. 12.04 certainly has at least the option now.
This is a Gnome thing, I can only assume KDE and therefore SuSE has the option as well (though maybe difficult to find among 10000 other options :p )
What OSes are you people using which don't automatically deactivate the touchpad when typing?
That's why they call it engineering. Do you think when they crash test cars and check to see how much damage will occur if you hit a cow? Of course not, because we stay within the bounds of accepted principles. We don't need to know the answer to everything.
Do elks count?
Car makers such as Volvo and Saab factor in elk crashes when designing and building cars. VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute has developed an elk crash test dummy called Mooses.
The dummy features similar weight, centre of gravity as well as dimensions to a live elk, and is used to recreate realistic elk collisions. A very popular European car failed its first Moose test and today is one of the safest in the world, thanks to the test results that initiated more stringent safety development.
Processing would be an option. It's basically Java, but gives immediate feedback like s script language, and it's visual, which makes it fun to learn because you see immediate results, and if you want to make games it may be a good fit.
http://www.processing.org/
http://www.openprocessing.org/
I didn't mean to say that superhero movies are the greatest kind of movie imaginable :)
I like the superhero reboots. The story of how a person becomes a superhero and how he/she deals with it is IMHO the most interesting part, at least if the movie shall appeal to an audience greater than superhero nerds. After that you can deal with maybe 2 super villains, and if the script writer is lucky, the hero has a built-in dark side, like Batman, which can provide for an interesting ending. But after a few movies there is nothing interesting to do, at least not in the movie format. So I am happy to reboot at this point and let a different director create a different play on the topic.
(I agree with the suggestion in TFA that TV series are a more appropriate medium due to the the complexity they allow, but then I prefer the series format over movies for most story telling).
I want an Atom movie. And Flash.
Pedestrians and cyclists are rarely hit on highways, which would be more or less the only place where faster car speed would come into play. Such accidents usually happen in cities and residential quarters. And - at least in Europe, I don't know about the US - car safety design has increasingly led to improvements for pedestrians/cyclists, in step with the required testing procedures focusing more on such accidents. Improvements include passive stuff like avoiding design features that hurt pedestrians/cyclists, and active stuff like, e.g., bonnets that are moved by explosive charges in case of an accident, or radar systems that reliably reduce speed before an accident happens even if the car driver is asleep at the wheel. As a consequence, pedestrian/cyclist injuries in car accidents have significantly declined.
I have never, ever, seen pirated content with ads and logos added (overcompressed stuff I did see, of course). I see ads and added logos only when I watch media I paid for.
That helps with contact sharing to the phone (one of the OP's requirements) how exactly?
Generally I can find the general directions myself, what I need a cycle route planner for is to take surface and traffic/safety into account. There's a lot of cobblestone pavement where I live, and it sucks to ride over that. Doesn't look like Google Maps will help me with this any time soon. But as I said initially, there's komoot.de and it does what I need. I uses OpenStreetMap data as well as other sources, comes with a smartphone app, etc. Hmmm, I just realized it works outside of Germany as well (I tried it for the US), but I don't know about data quality there, and it seems the website is available only in German.
Yeah, I didn't express that well. I meant that it didn't offer cycling directions *in Germany* (and still doesn't). Planning a cycle route in, e.g., UK does work for me.
Interesting, thx. Maybe it will be added later for Germany.
According to the H, UK was only one of many European countries for which cycling directions were enabled:
Cycling maps are available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway and the UK. Cycling directions are available at least in both Austria and Switzerland in addition to the UK.
Source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Google-Maps-jetzt-auch-fuer-Radfahrer-in-Europa-1637428.html (German)
You can overlay the cycling information for maps, but it doesn't seem to do the route planning for cycling; the only options there remain "per car" and "on foot". So for the time being, for actual cycling route planning in Germany, Komoot seems to remain the only good option for now.
Oh, hell, yes. There was a time in the mid 90s where Windows people would install Linux on a separate partition, for fun. Then they tried to get rid of it further down the line and oh fuck, I'm never doing this again. Linux on the desktop might be twice as far along if GRUB hadn't been such a piece of utter shit.
Grub in the mid-nineties? I don't think so.
Large parts of European cities, especially residential quarters, also date to the 1800s (typically to 1850-90, with some patches even dating back to the 1700s, and typically early 1900-10 at the latest (e.g., the Gründerzeit in Germany and Austria)), have not been destroyed in the war, and nevertheless have proper installations.