I have a Microsoft keyboard, and I like it quite a bit. I've got the old one, with the larger arrow keys. I find that it does reduce the strain on my wrists.
One of the big problems with regular keyboards is that the little flip out feet are in the WRONG PLACE! The feet should go on the front of the keyboard to give the keyboard a better angle. If you can't do that then for dog's sake put the keyboard flat and lower your chair! Trust me that's a better thing to do.
The biggest pain for me is the *mouse*. Games always cause some pain for me. I use vi normally when I'm programming, and I never need a mouse for that.
Out of all the word processors mentioned, none of them really pay homage to the traditional UNIX way of doing things, namely small programs that do small things really well, chained together through IO redirections and pipes. While I understand the need for integration of applications, does that integration need to be done the Microsoft way? I'd rather not have an 80 megabyte word processor with 10,000 features built into one program. Maybe I'm just an old fart complaining about what the world has turned into. But I'm 31 and I don't feel like an old fart...
Maybe a word processor really isn't quite suited to traditional UNIX integration. LyX does come closest though. It uses LaTeX as the underlying format, and processes files through dvips to make postscript output. If you want to edit the underlying format by hand, you'll find that it is nice plain old LaTeX code. You're never locked out of the machine in other words. With the other word processors there's a feeling of isolation. When I use them, I'm not running a Windows box or a Linux box, I'm a word processor jockey. To me that feels icky. I *like* being immersed in the UNIX environment. At least there's a choice available that I can live with.
Ahhhh! Someone accused someone else of not understanding how science works. I have a small amount of experience here.
Science works this way (compressed version): I say "Bullshit", you keep showing me evidence until I stop saying "bullshit".
The attitude to hold should be one of *utmost* skepticism. WIMPS are an extraordinary claim, and one should yell bullshit until we are shown extraordinary proof. I don't think the person you're replying to was dismissing at all. He was wagering.
I will raise him $50 that the study when released is shoved in a drawer and forgotten.
Yup, but if South Park can be made and not censored, then you can bet they won't censor any of the things you might say.
Uh oh, there were a lot of people who wanted to censor South Park. This is not a good sign. We need more South Parks to help drive censors into their little hole in the ground.
I agree. I have three machines at home. Celeron 333, P-133, and a 486-33, all running Linux (windows on the fast one for games only). The smallest machine is a print server and it works quickly and reliably. My P-133 is very snappy and responsive, even when loaded down with 70 processes! For programming I couldn't ask for any more speed. I'm not writing the Linux kernel, and even then it would be perfectly fine. Of course, under Windows the Celeron 333 sometimes disappoints, but that's mostly because I'm running games in Windows. For Linux, the Celeron is also snappy. In fact, I can perceive very little difference in responsiveness between those two machines. One is damn fast, the other one is damn faster!
Everyone should recite this mantra: "A Pentium 133 does 200 MIPS. A Pentium 133 does 200 MIPS. A Pentiu..." 200 MIPS is a meaningless benchmark number, but it does give a rough insight into just how fast even that old machine is, especially when running a lean operating system.
We didn't create open source in order for someone else to usurp the power and force us to churn technically questionable features at a rapid clip in order to satisfy some marketing person.
Open source is a rebellion against that sort of thinking. We can build better, faster, stronger, and cheaper. But only because it is a labor of love. We program because we want to, not because the users are demanding the features. My answer to the person who wants me to put 50 features into the code when only 10 should be there?
I don't agree that a time basis should be used to automoderate a message. Everyone, myself included, should start at 1 by default. Anonymous cowards should start at -1 with no hope of ever moderating up unless they have a registered account. Hell, unless you have an account there should be no guarentee that your message will even be saved. Who wants to waste a backup tape on Jackie Chan ASCII art? This is the principle that the truth of a statement does *not* depend on who says it. Truth is a value independent of the person saying it.
On the other hand, I like your idea of unlimited moderation points for people who have over 100 karma. I myself do not at this point, but if someone has over 100 karma, they are intelligent enough to write good posts, or else are good enough to fake it. Either way, when it comes to judgement ability, it would be reasonable to give high karma people permanent moderation. However, they should be subject to the meta-moderators in higher proportion. If a several meta-moderators agree that a moderation was unjust, double karma should be lost for the bad moderation. That should weed out the bad moderators very quickly.
Back to the anonymous coward problem. Postings made by anonymous cowards should never have the hope of being moderated up. Also, there should be a limit. Maybe 50 anonymous cowards with no login allowed to post per article, then everyone else MUST have a logged in account (anonymity optional).
All your points are true, and that means that people who use DNA testing need to be concentrating on *clearing* people rather than implicating them. A positive DNA match should not be considered to be the final word in guilt or innocence.
I did the Eastern Canada tour three years ago (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa) with my wife. All the cities impressed me greatly, but Ottawa was especially beautiful.
Hi, I'm sitting behind a SOCKS firewall at work, and I can't figure out how to make mozilla work with it. Any ideas? It sure looks great on the intranet, but I want to read/. with it.
A penny will *not* go through a person! There's something called air resistance, and a penny would sting a bit if dropped from the ESB, but it wouldn't kill anyone.
Throwing rocks is not trivial. Dropping them from 30,000 feet IS trivial.
If you think that dropping a large steel sphere from 30,000 feet will make a bigger boom than a bomb, then why did they put explosives in the bombs? You see my point?
Nobody's arguing with you about objects dropped from solar orbit onto Jupiter.
So, would the $95 chipset translate to initial real world prices of maybe $150 a card?
And, just how do these things work with existing systems. Say I've got a network with 2 of these cards, plus a humble Linksys 10Mb NE 2000 clone card. Would the gigabit cards talk to each other really fast, but slow down only when talking to the NE2000 clone? Or does the entire network run at 10Mb when the NE2000 is on it.
Somehow I think this doesn't make much sense. I think even a 2000 pound bomb is going to make a bigger boom than a 20000 pound sphere dropped from 50,000 feet.
The sphere isn't going to get going fast enough on the way down to disintegrate or explode. All it will do is bury itself into the dirt.
This sounds like the myth of the penny dropped off the Empire State Building.
I agree that we don't need to worry about VA Linux. I think the folks there are smart enough to realize that they exist as a company only because they have been good community citizens so far. Any company that doesn't please the geeks will face our mighty wrath! That's just a bit of boasting, but I don't think it's too far off. LinuxOne has certainly earned our ire, and that scared off their investors. The market that buys VA Linux computers is the same one that reads Slashdot. VA Linux was smart to buy up Andover, and they will be smart to stay out of the editorial process.
There's a major problem with alter.net (uunet) in Chicago. Their router apparently is fed up with all this packet garbage and has gone on strike demanding better working conditions.
istar.net in Canada and michnet are also having big troubles.
And, just as I'm typing this the problems seem to have gone away, and suddenly I can load pages a lot faster!
IBM dead? That's interesting. I posted just a while ago that I can't get to www.altavista.com. Well, I'm at work at IBM right now and every site I touch is very slow, which is damn unusual for 11 PM Tuesday.
I wonder if the internet in general is having problems, or if IBM is also a target.
Hmmmm. Maybe the problem is with me. I'm at work at IBM, and EVERYTHING is really slow tonight. Usually at 10:45 PM I've got a nice fat network pipe all to myself.
Maybe IBM has misconfigured routers, er, I mean, is the target of a DoS attack?
NASA administrators said today that they don't care if Russia implements their totalitarian spy system, just as long as it doesn't interfere with their obligations to launch the habitation module of the International Space Station.
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I have a Microsoft keyboard, and I like it quite a bit. I've got the old one, with the larger arrow keys. I find that it does reduce the strain on my wrists.
One of the big problems with regular keyboards is that the little flip out feet are in the WRONG PLACE! The feet should go on the front of the keyboard to give the keyboard a better angle. If you can't do that then for dog's sake put the keyboard flat and lower your chair! Trust me that's a better thing to do.
The biggest pain for me is the *mouse*. Games always cause some pain for me. I use vi normally when I'm programming, and I never need a mouse for that.
Out of all the word processors mentioned, none of them really pay homage to the traditional UNIX way of doing things, namely small programs that do small things really well, chained together through IO redirections and pipes. While I understand the need for integration of applications, does that integration need to be done the Microsoft way? I'd rather not have an 80 megabyte word processor with 10,000 features built into one program. Maybe I'm just an old fart complaining about what the world has turned into. But I'm 31 and I don't feel like an old fart...
Maybe a word processor really isn't quite suited to traditional UNIX integration. LyX does come closest though. It uses LaTeX as the underlying format, and processes files through dvips to make postscript output. If you want to edit the underlying format by hand, you'll find that it is nice plain old LaTeX code. You're never locked out of the machine in other words. With the other word processors there's a feeling of isolation. When I use them, I'm not running a Windows box or a Linux box, I'm a word processor jockey. To me that feels icky. I *like* being immersed in the UNIX environment. At least there's a choice available that I can live with.
Have you tried ddd? I use it quite a bit. The nice part is debugging with a core file. No more mysterious crashes.
Ahhhh! Someone accused someone else of not understanding how science works. I have a small amount of experience here.
Science works this way (compressed version): I say "Bullshit", you keep showing me evidence until I stop saying "bullshit".
The attitude to hold should be one of *utmost* skepticism. WIMPS are an extraordinary claim, and one should yell bullshit until we are shown extraordinary proof. I don't think the person you're replying to was dismissing at all. He was wagering.
I will raise him $50 that the study when released is shoved in a drawer and forgotten.
Yup, but if South Park can be made and not censored, then you can bet they won't censor any of the things you might say.
Uh oh, there were a lot of people who wanted to censor South Park. This is not a good sign. We need more South Parks to help drive censors into their little hole in the ground.
No, I'm not calling you a karma whore, I'm suggesting that it should be in the Jargon File. :-)
I agree. I have three machines at home. Celeron 333, P-133, and a 486-33, all running Linux (windows on the fast one for games only). The smallest machine is a print server and it works quickly and reliably. My P-133 is very snappy and responsive, even when loaded down with 70 processes! For programming I couldn't ask for any more speed. I'm not writing the Linux kernel, and even then it would be perfectly fine. Of course, under Windows the Celeron 333 sometimes disappoints, but that's mostly because I'm running games in Windows. For Linux, the Celeron is also snappy. In fact, I can perceive very little difference in responsiveness between those two machines. One is damn fast, the other one is damn faster!
Everyone should recite this mantra: "A Pentium 133 does 200 MIPS. A Pentium 133 does 200 MIPS. A Pentiu..." 200 MIPS is a meaningless benchmark number, but it does give a rough insight into just how fast even that old machine is, especially when running a lean operating system.
We didn't create open source in order for someone else to usurp the power and force us to churn technically questionable features at a rapid clip in order to satisfy some marketing person.
Open source is a rebellion against that sort of thinking. We can build better, faster, stronger, and cheaper. But only because it is a labor of love. We program because we want to, not because the users are demanding the features. My answer to the person who wants me to put 50 features into the code when only 10 should be there?
"Use the source. Leave me alone."
I don't agree that a time basis should be used to automoderate a message. Everyone, myself included, should start at 1 by default. Anonymous cowards should start at -1 with no hope of ever moderating up unless they have a registered account. Hell, unless you have an account there should be no guarentee that your message will even be saved. Who wants to waste a backup tape on Jackie Chan ASCII art? This is the principle that the truth of a statement does *not* depend on who says it. Truth is a value independent of the person saying it.
On the other hand, I like your idea of unlimited moderation points for people who have over 100 karma. I myself do not at this point, but if someone has over 100 karma, they are intelligent enough to write good posts, or else are good enough to fake it. Either way, when it comes to judgement ability, it would be reasonable to give high karma people permanent moderation. However, they should be subject to the meta-moderators in higher proportion. If a several meta-moderators agree that a moderation was unjust, double karma should be lost for the bad moderation. That should weed out the bad moderators very quickly.
Back to the anonymous coward problem. Postings made by anonymous cowards should never have the hope of being moderated up. Also, there should be a limit. Maybe 50 anonymous cowards with no login allowed to post per article, then everyone else MUST have a logged in account (anonymity optional).
All your points are true, and that means that people who use DNA testing need to be concentrating on *clearing* people rather than implicating them. A positive DNA match should not be considered to be the final word in guilt or innocence.
I did the Eastern Canada tour three years ago (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa) with my wife. All the cities impressed me greatly, but Ottawa was especially beautiful.
Hi, I'm sitting behind a SOCKS firewall at work, and I can't figure out how to make mozilla work with it. Any ideas? It sure looks great on the intranet, but I want to read /. with it.
I think the name will be AOL's Heuristic Online Link Explorer.
We'll know it as A-HOLE!
Just a joke....
You should caveat that with "Java on the client side."
Java on the server side works great. I work at IBM and our website does megabucks each quarter with Java on the server side.
A penny will *not* go through a person! There's something called air resistance, and a penny would sting a bit if dropped from the ESB, but it wouldn't kill anyone.
Throwing rocks is not trivial. Dropping them from 30,000 feet IS trivial.
If you think that dropping a large steel sphere from 30,000 feet will make a bigger boom than a bomb, then why did they put explosives in the bombs? You see my point?
Nobody's arguing with you about objects dropped from solar orbit onto Jupiter.
So, would the $95 chipset translate to initial real world prices of maybe $150 a card?
And, just how do these things work with existing systems. Say I've got a network with 2 of these cards, plus a humble Linksys 10Mb NE 2000 clone card. Would the gigabit cards talk to each other really fast, but slow down only when talking to the NE2000 clone? Or does the entire network run at 10Mb when the NE2000 is on it.
You can patent a mouse trap.
You should not be able to patent trapping mice.
Somehow I think this doesn't make much sense. I think even a 2000 pound bomb is going to make a bigger boom than a 20000 pound sphere dropped from 50,000 feet.
The sphere isn't going to get going fast enough on the way down to disintegrate or explode. All it will do is bury itself into the dirt.
This sounds like the myth of the penny dropped off the Empire State Building.
I agree that we don't need to worry about VA Linux. I think the folks there are smart enough to realize that they exist as a company only because they have been good community citizens so far. Any company that doesn't please the geeks will face our mighty wrath! That's just a bit of boasting, but I don't think it's too far off. LinuxOne has certainly earned our ire, and that scared off their investors. The market that buys VA Linux computers is the same one that reads Slashdot. VA Linux was smart to buy up Andover, and they will be smart to stay out of the editorial process.
Check out the internet traffic report stats:
There's a major problem with alter.net (uunet) in Chicago. Their router apparently is fed up with all this packet garbage and has gone on strike demanding better working conditions.
istar.net in Canada and michnet are also having big troubles.
And, just as I'm typing this the problems seem to have gone away, and suddenly I can load pages a lot faster!
IBM dead? That's interesting. I posted just a while ago that I can't get to www.altavista.com. Well, I'm at work at IBM right now and every site I touch is very slow, which is damn unusual for 11 PM Tuesday.
I wonder if the internet in general is having problems, or if IBM is also a target.
Hmmmm. Maybe the problem is with me. I'm at work at IBM, and EVERYTHING is really slow tonight. Usually at 10:45 PM I've got a nice fat network pipe all to myself.
Maybe IBM has misconfigured routers, er, I mean, is the target of a DoS attack?
How about altavista? No response as of 22:25 CST.
And what about Yahoo today? Their site has been dog slow all day long, with mail unavailable for several hours.
NASA administrators said today that they don't care if Russia implements their totalitarian spy system, just as long as it doesn't interfere with their obligations to launch the habitation module of the International Space Station.
Back to regular programming...