But if you're feeling adventurous, you can take all the keys out and wash them individually. Having then forgotten where they go, you can implement your own keyboard layout by rearranging the keys. It's the only way you'll get a DVORAK keyboard, albeit an unworking one.
The best thing about Google is that it still has a 'new company' feel to it. That means it doesn't have a defined core market, core audience, core products, and hence it feels free to do anything it feels like.
The very fact that Google has managed to do so much and to put its fingers into so many pies is a testament to the nimbleness of the corporation. I'd like to see the News Corporation, AOL or Microsoft (all of whom desperately want to be big internet players and have the money to do it) come up with as good ideas as Google has.
But they're not going to - those companies are old and fat, with too many managers and too few bright sparks.
Does anyone know why Firefox usage might be higher in Europe?
Maybe European organizations are more likely to pick and choose the software used in their business rather than go for the usual 'I don't know the alternatives so I'll just use microsoft for everything' option.
Plus Microsoft is seen as still being very US-centric.
It can be handy. How can you learn from your mistakes if you don't have the painful memory of the consequences?
This all reminds me of that drug they give people who undergo surgery while conscious. They feel the pain, but they form no memory of it. That way they don't get Post Trauma Stress because they can't remember undergoing anything stressful.
Personally, it scares the hell out of me. If I can't remember it, then how can I know what I've really experienced and what I haven't?
Depends on how hard it is to keep a secret. In a tight-knit, closely allied group they might well agree to be partners in crime. But above a certain size, there's going to be someone who will leak the news of wire tapping for political or financial ends to the press.
Fortunately for us in the UK there are plenty of people willing to knock Tony Blair down a peg or two. If Bush was in the habit of illegal wiretapping, on the other hand, we probably wouldn't hear about it. Shame that.
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Hmmm. A simple, neat definition. The only problem is that the rest of the world uses a different definition of Web 1.0 and 2.0. But hey, invent your own private language if you like. In fact, you should probably become a consultant.
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I deny the reality of Web 2.0. People just invented it to sound cool.
Then came the geeks who didn't know what Web 2.0 was, but were so sure that they were more tech-savvy and more web gurulike than everyone else they decided to become the confusers instead of the confusees, and lo, Web 3.0 was born.
Draw the line before 3D graphics. Civilization (number 4 excepted) is a prime example of how good games can be without requiring your users to have brand new PCs and your investors to risk millions on you. Everyone forgets that it's the non-GPU number crunching game mechanics and AI that make or break a game.
If advances in graphics technology had made games better (i.e. more enjoyable) everyone would be having far more fun playing games now than they did five years ago. I don't think that's the case.
All the press in the States about wiretapping seems to be the main reason why so many people are disproportionately interested in protecting their right to privacy.
However, the boring truth is that the american government really doesn't care what mobile phone calls the average joe makes. In principle, it's a worthy fight, but in practice the only people it's going to affect is those people unlucky enough to be Muslims in post 9/11 America. The average advanced pc user studiously following a detailed privacy protection regime is simply engaging in a largely pointless hobby.
Okay, they have energy, which is effectively the same thing at the end of the day, as they possess relativistic mass by virtue of their energy. E = mc^2.
The fact is that scientists can't explain why the rate of expansion of the universe is decreasing without inventing a) a whole load of invisible matter (dark matter) or b) a new unknown force (but not gravity) that acts as an attractive force between mass.
They went by KISS and chose a). Can't blame them really, if you want a grand unified theory you don't want to go inventing new forces.
There are many massless particles in physics. Photons, for instance.
Note that it makes just as much sense to talk about gravity waves as it does to talk about gravity particles, and no one assumes waves have to have mass.
Dark energy, dark matter and gravitons are all theoretical concepts postulated to help make the world make sense to physicists. But that doesn't mean they exist.
Here's an idea - write new games that everyone can run, working to the lowest common denominator. No more competing to bring out the game with best-graphics-ever, and cheaper overall to bring out a game. Then all that time previously spent building the graphics engine can be spent making the game good.
Yeah, I know it's not going to happen, but nice idea?
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Unfortunately that is the only practical option.
But if you're feeling adventurous, you can take all the keys out and wash them individually. Having then forgotten where they go, you can implement your own keyboard layout by rearranging the keys. It's the only way you'll get a DVORAK keyboard, albeit an unworking one.
The best thing about Google is that it still has a 'new company' feel to it. That means it doesn't have a defined core market, core audience, core products, and hence it feels free to do anything it feels like.
The very fact that Google has managed to do so much and to put its fingers into so many pies is a testament to the nimbleness of the corporation. I'd like to see the News Corporation, AOL or Microsoft (all of whom desperately want to be big internet players and have the money to do it) come up with as good ideas as Google has.
But they're not going to - those companies are old and fat, with too many managers and too few bright sparks.
Does anyone know why Firefox usage might be higher in Europe?
Maybe European organizations are more likely to pick and choose the software used in their business rather than go for the usual 'I don't know the alternatives so I'll just use microsoft for everything' option.
Plus Microsoft is seen as still being very US-centric.
It can be handy. How can you learn from your mistakes if you don't have the painful memory of the consequences?
This all reminds me of that drug they give people who undergo surgery while conscious. They feel the pain, but they form no memory of it. That way they don't get Post Trauma Stress because they can't remember undergoing anything stressful.
Personally, it scares the hell out of me. If I can't remember it, then how can I know what I've really experienced and what I haven't?
Depends on how hard it is to keep a secret. In a tight-knit, closely allied group they might well agree to be partners in crime. But above a certain size, there's going to be someone who will leak the news of wire tapping for political or financial ends to the press.
Fortunately for us in the UK there are plenty of people willing to knock Tony Blair down a peg or two. If Bush was in the habit of illegal wiretapping, on the other hand, we probably wouldn't hear about it. Shame that.
Hmmm. A simple, neat definition. The only problem is that the rest of the world uses a different definition of Web 1.0 and 2.0. But hey, invent your own private language if you like. In fact, you should probably become a consultant.
I deny the reality of Web 2.0. People just invented it to sound cool.
Then came the geeks who didn't know what Web 2.0 was, but were so sure that they were more tech-savvy and more web gurulike than everyone else they decided to become the confusers instead of the confusees, and lo, Web 3.0 was born.
Incidentally, I favour static html and frames.
Draw the line before 3D graphics. Civilization (number 4 excepted) is a prime example of how good games can be without requiring your users to have brand new PCs and your investors to risk millions on you. Everyone forgets that it's the non-GPU number crunching game mechanics and AI that make or break a game.
If advances in graphics technology had made games better (i.e. more enjoyable) everyone would be having far more fun playing games now than they did five years ago. I don't think that's the case.
All the press in the States about wiretapping seems to be the main reason why so many people are disproportionately interested in protecting their right to privacy.
However, the boring truth is that the american government really doesn't care what mobile phone calls the average joe makes. In principle, it's a worthy fight, but in practice the only people it's going to affect is those people unlucky enough to be Muslims in post 9/11 America. The average advanced pc user studiously following a detailed privacy protection regime is simply engaging in a largely pointless hobby.
Okay, they have energy, which is effectively the same thing at the end of the day, as they possess relativistic mass by virtue of their energy. E = mc^2.
The fact is that scientists can't explain why the rate of expansion of the universe is decreasing without inventing a) a whole load of invisible matter (dark matter) or b) a new unknown force (but not gravity) that acts as an attractive force between mass.
They went by KISS and chose a). Can't blame them really, if you want a grand unified theory you don't want to go inventing new forces.
There are many massless particles in physics. Photons, for instance.
Note that it makes just as much sense to talk about gravity waves as it does to talk about gravity particles, and no one assumes waves have to have mass.
Dark energy, dark matter and gravitons are all theoretical concepts postulated to help make the world make sense to physicists. But that doesn't mean they exist.
Here's an idea - write new games that everyone can run, working to the lowest common denominator. No more competing to bring out the game with best-graphics-ever, and cheaper overall to bring out a game. Then all that time previously spent building the graphics engine can be spent making the game good.
Yeah, I know it's not going to happen, but nice idea?
Wow, if you boycott any place you see a pop up ad for I'm surprised you end up going anywhere.
Sit and wait for a new post to appear? Haven't these people got anything better to do? I think there's a lot I don't get about slashdot. (First Post)