My ideal keyboard would be the general design of the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with the Cherry MX Brown switches and anti-ghosting features. Sadly, I've never found a keyboard even close. It seems that I can either have a comfortable ergonomic keyboard or one that actually works well, not both. Are there even enough people interested in a keyboard like this to have a chance of it ever being made?
That's only true for people with broad shoulders (such as myself). If you're shoulders are more narrow, a split keyboard design can actually hurt your wrists. Like anything with ergonomics, there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution... sadly. What I hate being in the broad-shouldered gamer crowd is that I can either get a good mechanical gaming keyboard or an ergonomic keyboard. I've never found one that has both functions. I would love a MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 (the keyboard I'm typing this on) with the Cherry MX brown switches... no such luck. I guess there aren't enough of us to warrant making it.
That's what the suggestion of using solar panels to cover the driveway. It creates sun protection for cars parked there or anything you want to do and generates electricity at the same time.
Except that the same type of big pocket media companies have tried this exact tactic on more than one occasion and each time, the companies that dug their heels in and refused to change with the times were crushed no matter how much money or influence they threw at the problem. All they can do is slow their demise in exchange for guaranteeing their demise.
I must admit that I'm torn on this one. Who to cheer for? A corrupt politician or Oracle? Can we have a no-holds-barred cage match and shoot the winner in the head?
Yea, they could but, what company wants to spend 2-5 times the staff, time and money just to get the same result as your competitors. By doing it this way, their costs should be on par for development of Chrome and Safari. Mozilla is a strange duck in this arena as far as development so comparing them isn't quite right.
I agree; as long as they continue to play nice with the rest of the vendors, I'm all for them being in the race.
We're here to mourn one of our fallen heroes. Fuck you for dragging this bullshit in! I will now count you in the same category as the Westboro Baptist Church.
Are you going for a funny mod? I'm all for their current track but, that doesn't mean for a second that I trust them, just that I'll give them a chance.
All of us who know Microsoft's history in this area need to watch them carefully and make sure that none of the people we advise are caught unaware. That being said, as long as they don't pull their old behavior, I'm all for their current track.
I'm getting the impression that is why they are shipping the Spartan web browser. I've been getting the feeling that they've been having troubles coding IE to support many HTML5 features without breaking a their legacy crap. Add to that the browser is heavily integrated into the win32s code and you're in for a coding nightmare. They were never going to be able to develop for changes as fast as competing browsers with that model and they knew it. As such, this move makes the most sense given their options. As long as they stay dedicated to working with web standards, I'm all for it. I'm just going to be very wary given their history with the web.
I realize how incompetent the government can be, but just how long is this environmental impact study going to take? It's been going on for at least 4 years that I'm aware of.
Actually, from what I have read, the environmental impact study is complete and the project was approved on that basis. The holdup now is that because this project has foreign governments involved there is a review that has to be done by the U.S. State Department to see if the project is in the national interests of the United States. This is the process the oil companies and Republicans are trying to bypass. The environmental issue is a smokescreen at this point to avoid answering why they want to bypass the national interest question.
I agree. I just wanted to point out the difference of trying to accurately portray the actual life cost of LSD. It gets really hard to track once you count in behavior while on the drug. But, even with that factored in, its death rate is no where near the level its current drug classification implies.
Funneling billions upon billions of dollars a year into criminal gangs and militarized police forces to combat them over drugs is one of the stupidest things we have done in the last century.
And, thank you, by the way. I think that is the nicest complement I have ever received online.
Part of it was public awareness. You'd find it common in previous generations that people would tell you "it's all in your head" and other less than helpful answers to problems you had with things as allergies and many other health issues. Now, as this study suggests, that once there was public awareness, people were having their children avoiding high allergy risk foods and in doing so making the problem worse as humans are prone to do.
True, but the number of deaths for doing something stupid while on LSD is another matter. With it, and other substances, you need to take into account the actions people take while their behavior is modified. It does make it a complete mess to try and scientifically track the adverse effects of these substances.
At this point, I see making these substances illegal, all of them, is causing more problems than they solve. It's time to make drugs legal and create a (sub)-Department of Harmful Recreation Substances to track quality, adverse reactions and to make sure the public is properly informed on the actual effects of all these substances. It would save an incredible amount of money, $225 billion in anti-drug enforcement in the U.S. alone and create new revenue to deal with the problems caused by people being stupid. People try to say that drugs would be even more available but, you can go less than a mile in almost every town in the U.S. and purchase any drug you wish. Criminalizing it is not keeping it off the street and it never will. It would save lives by minimizing health issues from inconsistent dosing, poor to no quality control and lack of reliable information of these substances to say nothing of the current arms race between the new designer drugs that have never been tested and the DEA.
It's likely that people working on a project like TrueCrypt that the earlier arguments are not going to work. They know bad people are going to use their software. It's just comes with the territory. It's impossible to build a tool that will help a free speech activist in China (or the U.S. for that matter) and not be able to help an Al Qaeda group or child pornographers. It starts to get a whole lot harder to keep to your principles when your freedom and personal safety start being threatened. That's why the developers of TrueCrypt choose to stay anonymous. It's likely the NSA or similar agency tracked them down and whatever powers that be started threatening them... with what we won't know unless the developers come out of the shadows and tell their side of the story. But, given their final message and the clues that they seeded it with, it sounds like they were served a National Security Letter (which has a built-in gag order or you go to jail) and told to put a backdoor in. Now National Security Letters are complete bullshit and a violation of the U.S. Constitution but, unless you're willing to fight it to the SCOTUS and sit in jail the whole time, it's safer to fold up shop and hide. That's what the developers of TrueCrypt and Lavabit did.
If they lived in the U.S., it would be comply or go to prison. If they lived outside the U.S., work for us or GITMO baby! Even if the NSA couldn't actually enforce it, the current nebulous state of U.S legal enforcement powers would make anyone with a bulls-eye on their head nervous.
You obviously have no idea how this works. Your balance is NOT transferred because there is no one to guarantee that whoever takes over the debt (the money the bank owes its account holders) will get paid so, no one will accept the debt. The FDIC then has to step in, take over the deposits, loans, etc. and then sell them to a bank at a huge loss, that is picked up by the taxpayer, and pay any portion of the deposits that fall short up to a maximum of $100,000; again at taxpayer expense. Banks should be punished but, this method doesn't work because the American people pick up the bill one way or the other (either through higher taxes or an economic depression). This was true in 1929 and is still true today.
You do realize who picks up the tab when the FDIC has to bail out a bank right? The answer is you and me. I agree the banks should be punished for bad behavior but, history has taught us that standard capitalist repercussions are bad for the economy as a whole and different solutions to the problem need to be used.
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My ideal keyboard would be the general design of the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with the Cherry MX Brown switches and anti-ghosting features. Sadly, I've never found a keyboard even close. It seems that I can either have a comfortable ergonomic keyboard or one that actually works well, not both. Are there even enough people interested in a keyboard like this to have a chance of it ever being made?
That's only true for people with broad shoulders (such as myself). If you're shoulders are more narrow, a split keyboard design can actually hurt your wrists. Like anything with ergonomics, there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution... sadly. What I hate being in the broad-shouldered gamer crowd is that I can either get a good mechanical gaming keyboard or an ergonomic keyboard. I've never found one that has both functions. I would love a MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 (the keyboard I'm typing this on) with the Cherry MX brown switches... no such luck. I guess there aren't enough of us to warrant making it.
That's what the suggestion of using solar panels to cover the driveway. It creates sun protection for cars parked there or anything you want to do and generates electricity at the same time.
Except that the same type of big pocket media companies have tried this exact tactic on more than one occasion and each time, the companies that dug their heels in and refused to change with the times were crushed no matter how much money or influence they threw at the problem. All they can do is slow their demise in exchange for guaranteeing their demise.
What would your arguments be from a songmaker perspective?
Time to join the dinosaurs and buggy whip makers.
Only on Facebook and Fox.
I must admit that I'm torn on this one. Who to cheer for? A corrupt politician or Oracle? Can we have a no-holds-barred cage match and shoot the winner in the head?
Yea, they could but, what company wants to spend 2-5 times the staff, time and money just to get the same result as your competitors. By doing it this way, their costs should be on par for development of Chrome and Safari. Mozilla is a strange duck in this arena as far as development so comparing them isn't quite right.
I agree; as long as they continue to play nice with the rest of the vendors, I'm all for them being in the race.
We're here to mourn one of our fallen heroes. Fuck you for dragging this bullshit in! I will now count you in the same category as the Westboro Baptist Church.
Are you going for a funny mod? I'm all for their current track but, that doesn't mean for a second that I trust them, just that I'll give them a chance.
When it's the next generation of them, yes. That doesn't mean they will, though. We'll have to wait and see and be wary.
All of us who know Microsoft's history in this area need to watch them carefully and make sure that none of the people we advise are caught unaware. That being said, as long as they don't pull their old behavior, I'm all for their current track.
I'm getting the impression that is why they are shipping the Spartan web browser. I've been getting the feeling that they've been having troubles coding IE to support many HTML5 features without breaking a their legacy crap. Add to that the browser is heavily integrated into the win32s code and you're in for a coding nightmare. They were never going to be able to develop for changes as fast as competing browsers with that model and they knew it. As such, this move makes the most sense given their options. As long as they stay dedicated to working with web standards, I'm all for it. I'm just going to be very wary given their history with the web.
Thanks for that... X-(
Although, wouldn't it just save us some time if we just nuked East Texas from orbit?
Why should we limit it to East Texas?
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I realize how incompetent the government can be, but just how long is this environmental impact study going to take? It's been going on for at least 4 years that I'm aware of.
Actually, from what I have read, the environmental impact study is complete and the project was approved on that basis. The holdup now is that because this project has foreign governments involved there is a review that has to be done by the U.S. State Department to see if the project is in the national interests of the United States. This is the process the oil companies and Republicans are trying to bypass. The environmental issue is a smokescreen at this point to avoid answering why they want to bypass the national interest question.
I agree. I just wanted to point out the difference of trying to accurately portray the actual life cost of LSD. It gets really hard to track once you count in behavior while on the drug. But, even with that factored in, its death rate is no where near the level its current drug classification implies.
Funneling billions upon billions of dollars a year into criminal gangs and militarized police forces to combat them over drugs is one of the stupidest things we have done in the last century.
And, thank you, by the way. I think that is the nicest complement I have ever received online.
Part of it was public awareness. You'd find it common in previous generations that people would tell you "it's all in your head" and other less than helpful answers to problems you had with things as allergies and many other health issues. Now, as this study suggests, that once there was public awareness, people were having their children avoiding high allergy risk foods and in doing so making the problem worse as humans are prone to do.
True, but the number of deaths for doing something stupid while on LSD is another matter. With it, and other substances, you need to take into account the actions people take while their behavior is modified. It does make it a complete mess to try and scientifically track the adverse effects of these substances.
At this point, I see making these substances illegal, all of them, is causing more problems than they solve. It's time to make drugs legal and create a (sub)-Department of Harmful Recreation Substances to track quality, adverse reactions and to make sure the public is properly informed on the actual effects of all these substances. It would save an incredible amount of money, $225 billion in anti-drug enforcement in the U.S. alone and create new revenue to deal with the problems caused by people being stupid. People try to say that drugs would be even more available but, you can go less than a mile in almost every town in the U.S. and purchase any drug you wish. Criminalizing it is not keeping it off the street and it never will. It would save lives by minimizing health issues from inconsistent dosing, poor to no quality control and lack of reliable information of these substances to say nothing of the current arms race between the new designer drugs that have never been tested and the DEA.
It's likely that people working on a project like TrueCrypt that the earlier arguments are not going to work. They know bad people are going to use their software. It's just comes with the territory. It's impossible to build a tool that will help a free speech activist in China (or the U.S. for that matter) and not be able to help an Al Qaeda group or child pornographers. It starts to get a whole lot harder to keep to your principles when your freedom and personal safety start being threatened. That's why the developers of TrueCrypt choose to stay anonymous. It's likely the NSA or similar agency tracked them down and whatever powers that be started threatening them... with what we won't know unless the developers come out of the shadows and tell their side of the story. But, given their final message and the clues that they seeded it with, it sounds like they were served a National Security Letter (which has a built-in gag order or you go to jail) and told to put a backdoor in. Now National Security Letters are complete bullshit and a violation of the U.S. Constitution but, unless you're willing to fight it to the SCOTUS and sit in jail the whole time, it's safer to fold up shop and hide. That's what the developers of TrueCrypt and Lavabit did.
If they lived in the U.S., it would be comply or go to prison. If they lived outside the U.S., work for us or GITMO baby! Even if the NSA couldn't actually enforce it, the current nebulous state of U.S legal enforcement powers would make anyone with a bulls-eye on their head nervous.
You seemed to have missed the anti-systemd rant article and thought this was one by mistake. Here's the link to the article you want: Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System.
Like the systemd argument itself, most of the world has moved on.
You obviously have no idea how this works. Your balance is NOT transferred because there is no one to guarantee that whoever takes over the debt (the money the bank owes its account holders) will get paid so, no one will accept the debt. The FDIC then has to step in, take over the deposits, loans, etc. and then sell them to a bank at a huge loss, that is picked up by the taxpayer, and pay any portion of the deposits that fall short up to a maximum of $100,000; again at taxpayer expense. Banks should be punished but, this method doesn't work because the American people pick up the bill one way or the other (either through higher taxes or an economic depression). This was true in 1929 and is still true today.
You do realize who picks up the tab when the FDIC has to bail out a bank right? The answer is you and me. I agree the banks should be punished for bad behavior but, history has taught us that standard capitalist repercussions are bad for the economy as a whole and different solutions to the problem need to be used.