I think it may be the way you were using it. My wife swipes with big swirling curlicues, and the software appears to suggest random crap instead of every other word. She hates it with a passion.
I draw angular shapes that go from letter to letter, sometimes with pauses on double letters, and only rarely need to correct it. I love it.
My mental model of how it works is by matching shapes (points here, curves there, pauses there) with a dictionary of words that could be created with letters near the shape's distinctive features. I'm sure that's not exactly how it works, but when I act on that mental model, I end up drawing over specific letters, with as clear a line as possible to the next one. Consider trying it this way, and you might find you like it better.
This is why you remove your batteries (or use a faraday cage) at home, before you go. Better would be to leave your phone completel at home and not take it with you when you go to meet your friends.
I'll second that: Neverwinter's gameplay is one of the best I've seen in an MMO. The capitol city was terribly laggy, but the combat felt __very__ satisfying. Unfortunately, the few people I talked to indicated that there were some class balance issues -- I took that with some grain of salt -- , and my pocket healer expressed a lot of frustration that as a cleric he couldn't really healbot. Healing mechanics requiring you to face people to see their health didn't make it any nicer, he said.
We're hopeful that Elder Scrolls Online (beta soon!) will be nice.... but honestly I'm not eager to maintain two subscriptions, so the bar for awesomeness is that much higher.
Go where your friends go, though. If my guild rolled to a different game, I'd go with them.
Perhaps he misses the bus and is worried. Maybe he is lost in a store. Maybe his mom's car crashes and the kid can call 911. Maybe he misses talking to his dad and wants to talk to him.
A phone is a tool, if you treat it as one. Seeing the unbridled joy as my son ran off with his aunt's iphone to do face-time with his grandmother was a life-changing moment: I finally understood the value of the smartphone as a tool. A knife is a tool, too, and some cultures are OK with teaching kids how to use them.
I tend to feel that considering the expected failure modes of your product when sold at a drive-through is wise and considerate to other humans. People drive, and people drop things. It's not something one plans.
I would not be keen on being in a situation where I would need to argue that in court, with my resources frozen and a set of frothing federal prosecutors on the other side of the bench.
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I believe MIT press was able to print a book of crypto implementations, back when such software was ITAR restricted, so yes: I think he does.
I am thankful that RMS is a zealot devoted to fighting things like this. I know that I and others don't always agree with him, but other times I am profoundly grateful for his good arguments.
Except, since so many trolls are shell corporations, they'd just dissolve themselves, and the next shell company would not be bound by the agreement, right?
Encrypting the communication will likely not encrypt the routing or connection information: the cell network has to know where to send your call. Signals intelligence can get a LOT of information about you from knowing to whom you are talking, even if they do not know what you are saying.
My mother told it to me as a slightly more pessimistic version: "Assume the other driver is an idiot or a LIAR". That right turn signal? He forgot about it, or will change his mind. It's saved my bacon several times, and the only side effect is that I drive like a timid mouse.:)
AH, but here's the rub: How do you know that he has lied? There's no way you can trust his information before the Bad Thing happens, because it's unverifiable. And, as cold reading shows us, it's very possible for him to tell you what he thinks you want to hear, once you start hurting him enough that he'll do anything to make it stop.
There's a reason the Inquisition was able to get people to confess to things which were untrue: torture.
I don't care about remembering my own, but I would have loved to have had video records of my dad, or grandparents, when they were younger, talking about their hopes, dreams, fears, jobs, parents, etc. I have stories that my dad tells but they are only the rose-colored few, and my son will nearly never hear them. THat makes them somewhat special, but it also makes me a bit sad that once my dad is gone, so will the stories be.
It's not about memory, it's about family history in a way which has been impossible before now.
Not to mention that signing that would effectively be perjury, which could very well come bite him later when a DIFFERENT bureaucrat looks over the papers.
What would stop him from making Youtube take down requests? If he honestly believes it's infringement, I don't think it's a problem for him to make DMCA takedown requests, and I can only imagine Glee's joy at having their channel shuttered the way others do once they get too many takedown requests.... wishful thinking, I know.
You'll note also that I was referencing the laws for homicide, meaning that in the hypothetical situation one will have killed the intruder who was assaulting one's family member. In that case, you're going to be more worried about criminal proceedings and less about being sued.
If one ever does get a weapon for home defense, a wise person would get some training on the legal ramifications of using lethal force in one's jurisdiction, and on the very subtle differences in when it is self defense and when it isn't. (e.g.: If they're running away, your life is no longer in danger.)
Reading the No-Nonsense Self Defense site that someone else has linked before is chock-full of very frightening and sobering information, that pretty much makes one want to curl up and hope they are never in a situation where they are attacked, because even if you feel you were acting in self defense, there's a good chance you will have screwed it up. Scary, scary, scary stuff. I highly recommend reading the site.
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I think it may be the way you were using it. My wife swipes with big swirling curlicues, and the software appears to suggest random crap instead of every other word. She hates it with a passion.
I draw angular shapes that go from letter to letter, sometimes with pauses on double letters, and only rarely need to correct it. I love it.
My mental model of how it works is by matching shapes (points here, curves there, pauses there) with a dictionary of words that could be created with letters near the shape's distinctive features. I'm sure that's not exactly how it works, but when I act on that mental model, I end up drawing over specific letters, with as clear a line as possible to the next one. Consider trying it this way, and you might find you like it better.
This is why you remove your batteries (or use a faraday cage) at home, before you go. Better would be to leave your phone completel at home and not take it with you when you go to meet your friends.
The key word was "used" car. My car budget is around $10k, and even that I am not eager to pay (since I do not have the cash for that right now).
I'll second that: Neverwinter's gameplay is one of the best I've seen in an MMO. The capitol city was terribly laggy, but the combat felt __very__ satisfying. Unfortunately, the few people I talked to indicated that there were some class balance issues -- I took that with some grain of salt -- , and my pocket healer expressed a lot of frustration that as a cleric he couldn't really healbot. Healing mechanics requiring you to face people to see their health didn't make it any nicer, he said.
We're hopeful that Elder Scrolls Online (beta soon!) will be nice.... but honestly I'm not eager to maintain two subscriptions, so the bar for awesomeness is that much higher.
Go where your friends go, though. If my guild rolled to a different game, I'd go with them.
Fortunately, Detroit can easily enroll in one of those pilot programs for robotic peacekeeping units that Omni Consumer Products is working on.
Perhaps he misses the bus and is worried.
Maybe he is lost in a store.
Maybe his mom's car crashes and the kid can call 911.
Maybe he misses talking to his dad and wants to talk to him.
A phone is a tool, if you treat it as one. Seeing the unbridled joy as my son ran off with his aunt's iphone to do face-time with his grandmother was a life-changing moment: I finally understood the value of the smartphone as a tool. A knife is a tool, too, and some cultures are OK with teaching kids how to use them.
I tend to feel that considering the expected failure modes of your product when sold at a drive-through is wise and considerate to other humans. People drive, and people drop things. It's not something one plans.
"Sorry kid, maybe next time your dad won't ruin everyone's movie by texting..."
I would not be keen on being in a situation where I would need to argue that in court, with my resources frozen and a set of frothing federal prosecutors on the other side of the bench.
I believe MIT press was able to print a book of crypto implementations, back when such software was ITAR restricted, so yes: I think he does.
I am thankful that RMS is a zealot devoted to fighting things like this. I know that I and others don't always agree with him, but other times I am profoundly grateful for his good arguments.
Except, since so many trolls are shell corporations, they'd just dissolve themselves, and the next shell company would not be bound by the agreement, right?
Encrypting the communication will likely not encrypt the routing or connection information: the cell network has to know where to send your call. Signals intelligence can get a LOT of information about you from knowing to whom you are talking, even if they do not know what you are saying.
My mother told it to me as a slightly more pessimistic version: "Assume the other driver is an idiot or a LIAR". That right turn signal? He forgot about it, or will change his mind. It's saved my bacon several times, and the only side effect is that I drive like a timid mouse. :)
I wonder how much the BBC would make if they let non-brits subscribe as well.
You could probably wear an IR LED hat as a countermeasure.
AH, but here's the rub: How do you know that he has lied? There's no way you can trust his information before the Bad Thing happens, because it's unverifiable. And, as cold reading shows us, it's very possible for him to tell you what he thinks you want to hear, once you start hurting him enough that he'll do anything to make it stop.
There's a reason the Inquisition was able to get people to confess to things which were untrue: torture.
I don't care about remembering my own, but I would have loved to have had video records of my dad, or grandparents, when they were younger, talking about their hopes, dreams, fears, jobs, parents, etc. I have stories that my dad tells but they are only the rose-colored few, and my son will nearly never hear them. THat makes them somewhat special, but it also makes me a bit sad that once my dad is gone, so will the stories be.
It's not about memory, it's about family history in a way which has been impossible before now.
Not to mention that signing that would effectively be perjury, which could very well come bite him later when a DIFFERENT bureaucrat looks over the papers.
I'd be more interested in what would happen to Fox's channel if Coulton were to have issued takedown requests on _theirs_.
What would stop him from making Youtube take down requests? If he honestly believes it's infringement, I don't think it's a problem for him to make DMCA takedown requests, and I can only imagine Glee's joy at having their channel shuttered the way others do once they get too many takedown requests. ... wishful thinking, I know.
You'll note also that I was referencing the laws for homicide, meaning that in the hypothetical situation one will have killed the intruder who was assaulting one's family member. In that case, you're going to be more worried about criminal proceedings and less about being sued.
If one ever does get a weapon for home defense, a wise person would get some training on the legal ramifications of using lethal force in one's jurisdiction, and on the very subtle differences in when it is self defense and when it isn't. (e.g.: If they're running away, your life is no longer in danger.)
Reading the No-Nonsense Self Defense site that someone else has linked before is chock-full of very frightening and sobering information, that pretty much makes one want to curl up and hope they are never in a situation where they are attacked, because even if you feel you were acting in self defense, there's a good chance you will have screwed it up. Scary, scary, scary stuff. I highly recommend reading the site.
It's never too late to learn programming. Your pay scale may not be awesome, but if you find that you enjoy it and like learning, there's little to be lost by learning programming.
I believe that the physical labor is part of what drives the satisfaction that smiths find in their work.
Ah yes, the longbow. An elegant weapon for a civilized age. ;)