I've got a Dell Mini 9 which I touch type on.. the biggest problem at first was always hitting return when I went for ' , but I hardly ever do that now. I'm 6'1 with large hands, though admittedly I don't have fat fingers.. but it's definitely possible to touch type (not that I touch type properly, but I type with several fingers without looking which amounts to the same thing) on a netbook with a bit of practice. Using a touchscreen to type however.. yuck.. I love touchscreen devices, but I've always gone for touchscreen phones with slide-out keyboards.
As for people who may point out how the correction algorithm on the screen helps typing speeds even with a smallish keyboard, why not implement the same algorithm for physical keyboards? I definitely make more mistakes on this little keyboard than on a full sized one, but I think given the same software tricks that predictive touchscreen keyboards used that the physical keyboard is always going to win out.
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I suspect the thing about the iPhone and iPad is that they are technically very cool devices, but the software is just overly controlling. It's annoying that there is no other tablet out there with such nice hardware (and properly targetted software) as the iPad. The JooJoo looks pretty good but it's not even out yet and only has half the battery life, etc. It's not a market segment I follow very closely so perhaps there are other decent contenders, but the iPad certainly has the gadgety "I want one!" factor even when you know it's pretty useless when you already have a netbook for doing everything that you would be doing on your iPad anyway.
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This device will prove to have been a mistake.
Apple must really stop making all these heavily profitable mistakes..
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So when you are in a situation where you think, "man, it would suck to try to use my laptop now", I would guess that an iPad might be just the ticket
Seems I've hit a nerve. Yep.. I enjoy alcohol and coffee, but I've pretty much stopped drinking them both because of the negative health effects. I'm very easily affected by stuff like that, possibly have hypoglycaemia. And I don't drive like a granny like a lot of inexplicable drivers out there. So at least I wouldn't be a hypocrite for complaining about them. The driving one is definitely something that I wouldn't mind being fixed by just not letting idiots have a license, but otherwise people should be able to do what they want with their bodies, as long as it doesn't harm others around them. Smoking unfortunately has a much more direct detrimental effect on those around you than drinking.
Now I know what that Sonic Youth song title means, thanks:p
I think Mac Ports is one thing I started using after my exasperated attempts to satisfy dependencies for stuff - it still was nowhere near as good as synaptic.
Handbrake turns indeed, and for when your car is stationary (ie parked) at lights. It's almost essential when moving off from an incline with a manual transmission too.
In this country you're legally meant to apply the handbrake when you get to a stop sign too.
I suppose there are no direct alternatives. The only recent game I know of that came close to recreating the awesome experience of controlling a giant mecha with your controller's force feedback going crazy with every step has been Red Faction Guerilla. There are however plenty of war games that involve similarly large battlefields and strategy.
It's not a matter of if Apple will pass Microsoft now, but when
I used to dream about this kind of thing as a teenager.. with both Macs and Amigas. Nice in a nostalgic kind of way that one of them has made it. Shame I've lost interest now because of their years of DRM in music and now a differently form of DRM on all their gadgets. If they open things up more then I will probably become interested again though.
OSX isn't bad, but Ubuntu is generally more configurable, and just easier to set up and maintain via the repositories. I love being able to install Perl modules with synaptic:)
And Motocross Madness went way downhill. Midtown Madness and Mech Warrior were pretty good fun. There are alternatives to all those games available today though I think. I'm not so sure about really good alternatives to Flight Sim and Train Sim as it's not really in my area of interest, but there must be some..
At least that way they also take out any possible offspring that manage to pop out before the cigarettes can kill them.
(No, I'm not a Nazi, I'm mooostly joking)
I rather enjoy being able to drive an auto like a manual and at the same time not have to worry about sliding backwards into someone because I am not paying attention at a stoplight
What do you think the hand/parking brake is for..? I always put on the handbrake when I stop even in an automatic, rather than waiting with my foot on the brake. It's a good habit to get into.
I hated the idea of automatic transmission for a long time. Mostly because ATs tended to have less gears and therefore took longer to accelerate. The first couple of times I tried one I found the lack of control a little annoying too. But I have driven a couple of nice AT cars (Jag XJR [think it's a supercharged V6] and Audi A6 [3.0 TDI]) I have to say that I do get it now. It's very relaxing - especially around town.
For my own car I still currently prefer a manual, and I love driving my MR2 even around town. Manual is definitely preferable for spirited country road driving. You don't want to be unexpectedly changing gears halfway through a corner (I find cars wallow around a lot more in higher gears as you don't get the same level of control from acceleration and engine braking), though with some autos you can switch to a manual or at least semi-automatic shifting mode which helps a lot.
I don't really see what you're talking about with autos being better for "long drives" though. For most long drives you're probably going to be in your highest gear most of the time anyway, assuming you're driving through major roads/motorways/freeways rather than winding back roads (and your car's engine isn't completely gutless). Cruise control also is nice on especially long drives, though I do sometimes disable it from time to time to break the monotony (thinking of the time when I drove to and from France, I was driving for 13 hours on the way home with a couple of stops to eat, in a manual Honda Accord 1.8 VTEC with cruise control). I do love my driving but if it wasn't for cruise control I'd probably have been done for speeding loads on that journey. Passing the first speed camera coming back into the UK I was actually doing 90-100mph and didn't notice the camera until too late.. thankfully it must have had no film in it because we never heard anything about it. As it is I've only ever been caught once by a mobile patrol. I was doing 114mph on the motorway and got my license taken away for 3 months, so I've learned my lesson now. When it comes to boring-ass motorway driving, cruise control is a definite win as it helps to remove temptation - just turn on cruise control, some good music, and chill.
she was funny, clever, gorgeous and sexy. Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it.
As a Scotsman, I have to say that Steven Moffat must have never actually been to Scotland. I think he's getting confused with Ireland. A common mistake..
I'm not a physicist, but it seems that it would be relatively trivial to work out the location of a sound in an open space by using 3 or more mics. Adding echoes certainly wouldn't simplify the algorithm, but yes it should still be possible to do it. I suspect you could probably train up a neural net to learn the echo patterns when sounds are made location (this would obviously need to be done individually for each installation), or you could do it the hard way and build a 3D model of the city and have another algorithm that works out likely echo patterns that way. A lot of American cities seem to be developed in a criss-cross pattern so that might make the task easier, but here in the UK the cities are just a mish-mash of different building types and curving streets..
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I've got a Dell Mini 9 which I touch type on.. the biggest problem at first was always hitting return when I went for ' , but I hardly ever do that now. I'm 6'1 with large hands, though admittedly I don't have fat fingers.. but it's definitely possible to touch type (not that I touch type properly, but I type with several fingers without looking which amounts to the same thing) on a netbook with a bit of practice. Using a touchscreen to type however.. yuck.. I love touchscreen devices, but I've always gone for touchscreen phones with slide-out keyboards.
As for people who may point out how the correction algorithm on the screen helps typing speeds even with a smallish keyboard, why not implement the same algorithm for physical keyboards? I definitely make more mistakes on this little keyboard than on a full sized one, but I think given the same software tricks that predictive touchscreen keyboards used that the physical keyboard is always going to win out.
I suspect the thing about the iPhone and iPad is that they are technically very cool devices, but the software is just overly controlling. It's annoying that there is no other tablet out there with such nice hardware (and properly targetted software) as the iPad. The JooJoo looks pretty good but it's not even out yet and only has half the battery life, etc. It's not a market segment I follow very closely so perhaps there are other decent contenders, but the iPad certainly has the gadgety "I want one!" factor even when you know it's pretty useless when you already have a netbook for doing everything that you would be doing on your iPad anyway.
This device will prove to have been a mistake.
Apple must really stop making all these heavily profitable mistakes..
So when you are in a situation where you think, "man, it would suck to try to use my laptop now", I would guess that an iPad might be just the ticket
iPads work in the shower?
Seems I've hit a nerve. Yep.. I enjoy alcohol and coffee, but I've pretty much stopped drinking them both because of the negative health effects. I'm very easily affected by stuff like that, possibly have hypoglycaemia. And I don't drive like a granny like a lot of inexplicable drivers out there. So at least I wouldn't be a hypocrite for complaining about them. The driving one is definitely something that I wouldn't mind being fixed by just not letting idiots have a license, but otherwise people should be able to do what they want with their bodies, as long as it doesn't harm others around them. Smoking unfortunately has a much more direct detrimental effect on those around you than drinking.
Now I know what that Sonic Youth song title means, thanks :p
I think Mac Ports is one thing I started using after my exasperated attempts to satisfy dependencies for stuff - it still was nowhere near as good as synaptic.
Handbrake turns indeed, and for when your car is stationary (ie parked) at lights. It's almost essential when moving off from an incline with a manual transmission too.
In this country you're legally meant to apply the handbrake when you get to a stop sign too.
What exactly is your point? Am I a moron because you can post hyperlinks? Because I said "Darwin" instead of "survival of the fittest"?
I suppose there are no direct alternatives. The only recent game I know of that came close to recreating the awesome experience of controlling a giant mecha with your controller's force feedback going crazy with every step has been Red Faction Guerilla. There are however plenty of war games that involve similarly large battlefields and strategy.
LISTEN UP! The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
It's not a matter of if Apple will pass Microsoft now, but when
I used to dream about this kind of thing as a teenager.. with both Macs and Amigas. Nice in a nostalgic kind of way that one of them has made it. Shame I've lost interest now because of their years of DRM in music and now a differently form of DRM on all their gadgets. If they open things up more then I will probably become interested again though.
OSX isn't bad, but Ubuntu is generally more configurable, and just easier to set up and maintain via the repositories. I love being able to install Perl modules with synaptic :)
And Motocross Madness went way downhill. Midtown Madness and Mech Warrior were pretty good fun. There are alternatives to all those games available today though I think. I'm not so sure about really good alternatives to Flight Sim and Train Sim as it's not really in my area of interest, but there must be some..
At least that way they also take out any possible offspring that manage to pop out before the cigarettes can kill them. (No, I'm not a Nazi, I'm mooostly joking)
Make cigarettes more damaging to health, and let Darwin sort em out!
Sorry, not really into WoW. That video however was simultaneously terrifying (I was at work) and hilarious.
I rather enjoy being able to drive an auto like a manual and at the same time not have to worry about sliding backwards into someone because I am not paying attention at a stoplight
What do you think the hand/parking brake is for..? I always put on the handbrake when I stop even in an automatic, rather than waiting with my foot on the brake. It's a good habit to get into.
I hated the idea of automatic transmission for a long time. Mostly because ATs tended to have less gears and therefore took longer to accelerate. The first couple of times I tried one I found the lack of control a little annoying too. But I have driven a couple of nice AT cars (Jag XJR [think it's a supercharged V6] and Audi A6 [3.0 TDI]) I have to say that I do get it now. It's very relaxing - especially around town.
For my own car I still currently prefer a manual, and I love driving my MR2 even around town. Manual is definitely preferable for spirited country road driving. You don't want to be unexpectedly changing gears halfway through a corner (I find cars wallow around a lot more in higher gears as you don't get the same level of control from acceleration and engine braking), though with some autos you can switch to a manual or at least semi-automatic shifting mode which helps a lot.
I don't really see what you're talking about with autos being better for "long drives" though. For most long drives you're probably going to be in your highest gear most of the time anyway, assuming you're driving through major roads/motorways/freeways rather than winding back roads (and your car's engine isn't completely gutless). Cruise control also is nice on especially long drives, though I do sometimes disable it from time to time to break the monotony (thinking of the time when I drove to and from France, I was driving for 13 hours on the way home with a couple of stops to eat, in a manual Honda Accord 1.8 VTEC with cruise control). I do love my driving but if it wasn't for cruise control I'd probably have been done for speeding loads on that journey. Passing the first speed camera coming back into the UK I was actually doing 90-100mph and didn't notice the camera until too late.. thankfully it must have had no film in it because we never heard anything about it. As it is I've only ever been caught once by a mobile patrol. I was doing 114mph on the motorway and got my license taken away for 3 months, so I've learned my lesson now. When it comes to boring-ass motorway driving, cruise control is a definite win as it helps to remove temptation - just turn on cruise control, some good music, and chill.
she was funny, clever, gorgeous and sexy. Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it.
As a Scotsman, I have to say that Steven Moffat must have never actually been to Scotland. I think he's getting confused with Ireland. A common mistake..
My thoughts exactly, but that spelling would still leave poor Verteiron with the impression that he's having a party with a little guy's mouth.
*whoosh*
Sounds like my first gf's vague moustache
Inconceivable! Nothing could be a tighter fuck than my iPad!
Hmm.. "Jyna"cologists.. it could catch on..
All that remains is to switch the compressor from "blow" to "suck".
The labelling nomenclature could probably be improved to avoid ambiguity.
I'm not a physicist, but it seems that it would be relatively trivial to work out the location of a sound in an open space by using 3 or more mics. Adding echoes certainly wouldn't simplify the algorithm, but yes it should still be possible to do it. I suspect you could probably train up a neural net to learn the echo patterns when sounds are made location (this would obviously need to be done individually for each installation), or you could do it the hard way and build a 3D model of the city and have another algorithm that works out likely echo patterns that way. A lot of American cities seem to be developed in a criss-cross pattern so that might make the task easier, but here in the UK the cities are just a mish-mash of different building types and curving streets..