The rumours are true. In our proud 20 years of E-week stunt history, the UBC Engineers have placed beetles in all sorts of places...
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. When my dad was at high school, one year the final-year engineering students completely dissasembled the headmaster (principal)'s car and rebuilt it on the roof of one of the school buildings. That would have been somewhere around 1966 or 1967.
>>Side mirrors? on a keyboard?!
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>What's next? An airbag?
Yes, because the next version of this will appear in your internet-enabled car, replacing the steering wheel, in order for you to type on your head-up display whilst driving.
It takes you to the same url, but this time, it shows you the picture instead of that message.
Not for anyone running IE5 for MacOS (often described as the best browser yet). And before anyone accuses me of being a Mac weenie, I run the MacOS on my SuSE Linux box using Mac-on-Linux, so I can use things like IE5, Adobe Photoshop and BBEdit.
Not that it really matters; it's probably the same picture that I have here.
When I click on the above link, I get to a page headed "tripod - error 404", but which contradictorily states:
Hello! This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos Network site, providing the best personal and commercial publishing tools available on the Net. For premier homepages and lively community interaction, visit Tripod often.
When human hands relax, they curve, going eventually into a fist. This keyboard would require the hands to be flat, only rotated through 90 degrees - a posture that I imagine would become quite tiring. If the keyboard halves were curved, so that using it was like putting your hand around the far side of a cylinder, it would probably be a lot more comfortable to use.
I didn't do enormously well at high school, and didn't get the right sort of grades to get into a good college. Even if I had, it probably wouldn't have been an IT-related degree that I'd have been taking.
After finishing school I had spent half a year going on vacation and generally goofing off, and then I spent a year in a dead-end office job at the bottom of the ladder.
I got sick of that, so I decided to look for employment in something I was more interested in. I already knew how to write HTML to a pretty high level - I'd been doing web pages as a hobby since I was 15 - so I figured I'd start looking for an IT job.
Unfortunately, I got made redundant before I secured a new job, so I spent another half a year out of work before I managed to get my current job - writing HTML and JavaScript professionally for a web design agency. It took me those six months to find a company that would accept me on the strength of my skills rather than my experience, but once I did, I was set for life. I gain marketable experience every day in this job. (I met someone the other day who has a degree from one of the best universities in England, but no experience. She's had to start her career - in marketing - way down at the bottom as an office junior, as it was the only job in advertising she could get.)
The upshot? I never got any formal qualifications, but I have a damn good job that will lead to better and better ones. And I didn't have to spend four years in student penury only to end up with a qualification of arguable usefulness. I can still go to college at some point in the future, too, if I want to (and I think I will.)
My conclusion - the beaten path isn't all it's cracked up to be. High school kids should weigh up the merits of college carefully, rather than just blindly accepting the plan of "high school, then college, then job".
If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75.
*splutter* $12.75???
Perhaps the RIAA would like to explain to me why, despite the exact same principles applying, the average retail price of a CD in Britain is closer to $23.
So you have something better to do with the other one? Or perhaps you use both hands to move your mouse?
you aren't even guaranteed to hit Ctrl if you're looking at something else (like, the screen, which you're meant to be looking at).
Most people get the hang of it. Ever heard of practice?
It's not that much effort to flick your eyes down to the keyboard if you're really unsure. Unless of course you're one of those people who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. (Agggh... eyes... moving... can't... keep... hand... steady...)
function keys are rarely used and aren't always pressed with perfect accuracy.
You've obviously never spent any real amount of time using a Mac. Thanks to those same consistent shortcuts, as a poster above mentioned, that apply across the whole OS, I can make any Mac app do any one of the standard shortcut actions with my eyes closed, as can most people who actually use Macs.
Hey, wow. It obviously takes an "exposé", a press release-rebuffal, and a christening of the story in the tired old Watergate-pun fashion before it's good enough for/.'ers to read these days.
Posted by CmdrTaco on 14:20 23 June 2000
but:
2000-06-22 09:46:10 Users looking for drug information online being se (yro,Privacy) (rejected)
This isn't the end of the internet. It's just the end of the **free** Internet.
Oh, crap. It's no such thing. The variety of potential protocols is infinite, so this to decry some people's response to a particular kind of data transfer as "the end of the free internet" is just so much doomsaying hogwash.
Colleges who once promoted *thought* and *freedom* are now going to regulate what you can do over the internet.
In your dreams. Americans always think that they own the net. They don't. Whatever a college or even a court in America may think about something, it has absolutely 0% bearing on what I, an internet user in London, will ever do in the future.
In their hands the law isn't about justice, or winning or losing, it is just another business tool they have at their disposal.
This is always the case with large corporations. The status quo is defended feverishly by bureaucrats and their associated teams of lawyers who are only interested that their pockets continue to be filled, regardless of justice or human rights.
Valenti probably had nothing to do with this suit at all. He's just another corporate figurehead, spouting the same old pro-industry propaganda.
So British Telecom is going to trawl through every single one of the billions of pages on the internet (something nobody has ever managed so far), total up the links used, identify the author of the page and then send him/her a bill for hyperlink usage? In every single country in the world, regardless of conflicting international laws?
Don't make it secure - live with the consequences.
So, if you owned a gun shop which was robbed because you bought cheap padlocks, and your guns were used in a drive-by shooting, would you consider it fair if the shooting victim's friends drove by your shop and blew it to Kingdom Come?
Somebody who's running a DDOS attack - unlike the hapless electrohippies - is going to be IP spoofing and using a multitude of machines. If you bounce all the attacking packets back, all you're likely to hit is a large number of machines belonging to innocent people with bad security.
Question: What do are you saying when you say, "PIN number?" Answer: You are saying, "... NUMBER number!!!!"
and showing yourself to be both ignorant and redundant.
Ah, but it must be right, because even the People Who Know say it that way. From the email I just received:
"Congratulations, your new ICANN At Large Member account has been created. There is just one more piece of information you will need to activate your account: your unique pin number."
The British lycos site (http://www.lycos.co.uk/ ) doesn't do this. It simply gives a list of yahoo pages.
Attempting to access the US version of Lycos from where I am automatically re-routes me to the UK & Ireland site. If I want to get to Lycos.com then I have to use Anonymizer. Perhaps I don't want to use their site in the UK - it's not their place to decide. I don't like having choices made for me.
a small display rig that wraps around the side. A little reminiscent of the ones the Dominion crews use in Star Trek DS9, don't cha think?
A little while back I read about a similar concept, but instead of having a small monitor fooling the eye into thinking it was looking at a larger one further away, it actually projected the image onto the retina. That must have been about a year ago, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
Slashdot Mirror
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. When my dad was at high school, one year the final-year engineering students completely dissasembled the headmaster (principal)'s car and rebuilt it on the roof of one of the school buildings. That would have been somewhere around 1966 or 1967.
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The vertical keyboard can't be bought anywhere, it has never gone out of the lab.
Crap. Why, in fact, did this ever make it here as an article? Look what I just found.
http://www.typesafe.com/.If it's not available, why does NASA recommend it?
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>What's next? An airbag?
Yes, because the next version of this will appear in your internet-enabled car, replacing the steering wheel, in order for you to type on your head-up display whilst driving.
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Not for anyone running IE5 for MacOS (often described as the best browser yet). And before anyone accuses me of being a Mac weenie, I run the MacOS on my SuSE Linux box using Mac-on-Linux, so I can use things like IE5, Adobe Photoshop and BBEdit.
Not that it really matters; it's probably the same picture that I have here.
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Exactly. But I bet you British Telecom or Amazon have already patented it.
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Hello! This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos Network site, providing the best personal and commercial publishing tools available on the Net. For premier homepages and lively community interaction, visit Tripod often.
Please click on http://members.tripod.com/laffs/images/keyboard.jp g to load this file."
Clicking that takes you to exactly the same place. What delightful recursion.
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When human hands relax, they curve, going eventually into a fist. This keyboard would require the hands to be flat, only rotated through 90 degrees - a posture that I imagine would become quite tiring. If the keyboard halves were curved, so that using it was like putting your hand around the far side of a cylinder, it would probably be a lot more comfortable to use.
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That's the sound of Microsoft shooting itself in the foot again.
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I didn't do enormously well at high school, and didn't get the right sort of grades to get into a good college. Even if I had, it probably wouldn't have been an IT-related degree that I'd have been taking.
After finishing school I had spent half a year going on vacation and generally goofing off, and then I spent a year in a dead-end office job at the bottom of the ladder.
I got sick of that, so I decided to look for employment in something I was more interested in. I already knew how to write HTML to a pretty high level - I'd been doing web pages as a hobby since I was 15 - so I figured I'd start looking for an IT job.
Unfortunately, I got made redundant before I secured a new job, so I spent another half a year out of work before I managed to get my current job - writing HTML and JavaScript professionally for a web design agency. It took me those six months to find a company that would accept me on the strength of my skills rather than my experience, but once I did, I was set for life. I gain marketable experience every day in this job. (I met someone the other day who has a degree from one of the best universities in England, but no experience. She's had to start her career - in marketing - way down at the bottom as an office junior, as it was the only job in advertising she could get.)
The upshot? I never got any formal qualifications, but I have a damn good job that will lead to better and better ones. And I didn't have to spend four years in student penury only to end up with a qualification of arguable usefulness. I can still go to college at some point in the future, too, if I want to (and I think I will.)
My conclusion - the beaten path isn't all it's cracked up to be. High school kids should weigh up the merits of college carefully, rather than just blindly accepting the plan of "high school, then college, then job".
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*splutter* $12.75???
Perhaps the RIAA would like to explain to me why, despite the exact same principles applying, the average retail price of a CD in Britain is closer to $23.
Corporate asswipes.
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So you have something better to do with the other one? Or perhaps you use both hands to move your mouse?
you aren't even guaranteed to hit Ctrl if you're looking at something else (like, the screen, which you're meant to be looking at).
- Most people get the hang of it. Ever heard of practice?
- It's not that much effort to flick your eyes down to the keyboard if you're really unsure. Unless of course you're one of those people who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. (Agggh... eyes... moving... can't... keep... hand... steady...)
function keys are rarely used and aren't always pressed with perfect accuracy.You've obviously never spent any real amount of time using a Mac. Thanks to those same consistent shortcuts, as a poster above mentioned, that apply across the whole OS, I can make any Mac app do any one of the standard shortcut actions with my eyes closed, as can most people who actually use Macs.
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Is it just me, or do the insides of the G4 Cube look exactly like the "AE 35" from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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Posted by CmdrTaco on 14:20 23 June 2000
but:2000-06-22 09:46:10 Users looking for drug information online being se (yro,Privacy) (rejected)
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Well, okay. Your first post sounded like you were trying to speak for the whole net, that's all.
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Oh, crap. It's no such thing. The variety of potential protocols is infinite, so this to decry some people's response to a particular kind of data transfer as "the end of the free internet" is just so much doomsaying hogwash.
Colleges who once promoted *thought* and *freedom* are now going to regulate what you can do over the internet.
In your dreams. Americans always think that they own the net. They don't. Whatever a college or even a court in America may think about something, it has absolutely 0% bearing on what I, an internet user in London, will ever do in the future.
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This is always the case with large corporations. The status quo is defended feverishly by bureaucrats and their associated teams of lawyers who are only interested that their pockets continue to be filled, regardless of justice or human rights.
Valenti probably had nothing to do with this suit at all. He's just another corporate figurehead, spouting the same old pro-industry propaganda.
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Dream on, BT.
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So, if you owned a gun shop which was robbed because you bought cheap padlocks, and your guns were used in a drive-by shooting, would you consider it fair if the shooting victim's friends drove by your shop and blew it to Kingdom Come?
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Somebody who's running a DDOS attack - unlike the hapless electrohippies - is going to be IP spoofing and using a multitude of machines. If you bounce all the attacking packets back, all you're likely to hit is a large number of machines belonging to innocent people with bad security.
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Answer: You are saying, "... NUMBER number!!!!"
and showing yourself to be both ignorant and redundant.
Ah, but it must be right, because even the People Who Know say it that way. From the email I just received:
"Congratulations, your new ICANN At Large Member account has been created. There is just one more piece of information you will need to activate your account: your unique pin number."
Doh!
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It's when they start stopping people from yelling "theatre" in a crowded fire that you should start worrying.
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Tell that to the BBC.
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Attempting to access the US version of Lycos from where I am automatically re-routes me to the UK & Ireland site. If I want to get to Lycos.com then I have to use Anonymizer. Perhaps I don't want to use their site in the UK - it's not their place to decide. I don't like having choices made for me.
And it's for that reason that I don't use Lycos.
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A little while back I read about a similar concept, but instead of having a small monitor fooling the eye into thinking it was looking at a larger one further away, it actually projected the image onto the retina. That must have been about a year ago, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
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And so we come inevitably closer to Neal Stephenson's concept from Snow Crash of "gargoyles"...
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