What about the crowd that I fall into? I read the summary. If it is remotely interesting to me, I read the comments. If there are a significant number of relevant comments, I'll venture to read the article. If they are full of trolls and flames, then I skip the article. I'll post comments that are on-topic (to the parent post, not necessarily to the article). And my ID# isn't prime because 980662 is divisible by 2 [probably others, but failing that one is the quickest prime test: !(ID&1)].
I would think that a specific motion (think: jiggle) would be more appropriate for a non-clicking interface. Time spent at a location would vary, but imagine if the "click" action was a quick jiggle perpendicular to the current motion. As you move left to right on the screen, when you wanted to "click", you jiggled the mouse in an up/down fashion. Granted, RSI and all would probably go up significantly, but it would be more responsive than timing a pause.
As an aside, Dasher (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/) was an interesting non-clicking method for entering text. I can't view the web site due to the Slashdot effect.
Actually, I'm moving the mouse cursor out of the way so I can read. I specifically look for non-clickable areas of a page to click on so that I can grant focus to the page in such a way that my keyboard controls (page up / page down / scrolling with arrow keys) work effectively. Then, as needed, I'll move the mouse around. This method eliminates a lot of those keyword pop-up windows that a lot of pages like to add these days. If I do keep my hand on the mouse, I'm not following my reading, I'm "twiddling" in blank space on the page, again, to keep the pointer out of the way.
I'd say in Half-Life in the reactor with that gigantic green spiked tentacle. With the lights off, speakers on full, and no one else in the house. I spent a good bit of time cursing that stupid thing.....I was out of grenades and couldn't distract it, so I had to do it the hard way.
I was merely referring to the fact that the parent-parent-parent post said that CD's would play "forever". If you don't think a technology goes out of manufacture, I have some old Beta tapes that I need converted to DVD. Can you buy a consumer grade Beta player for me? Or maybe the laserdisc version of Star Wars? My grandmother has some reel-to-reels of my deceased grandfather playing guitar and harminoca. I think she even has some 8-tracks he made, too. (And yes, all of those items are real items that I can access, not some fictitious items made up for a rant.)
I still buy CD's, but I don't have the expectations that I'll be able to use them 30 years from now. I was just saying that the only way to ensure that you have a media format that will be playable in 50 years is to rely on the lowest tech version of them all.
There's an isometric graphical version out there on the *almost* latest edition. It's called Falcon's Eye http://users.tkk.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html. If the ASCII graphics are turning you off, you can try that.
I've been playing NetHack since the late 80's (1988 to be exact) and still have it installed on several computers (including the PocketPC version for my phone). It is a great time waster that has had me hooked for almost 20 years.
The only media that you can be sure will be playable in many years is vynil. If you have an unscratched master CD, but there are no CD players, how will you do it? You can make a working record player out of a motor, some gears, and something pointy on a moveable arm. to hear better, you might consider some sort of amplifier, and I'm not talking about the electronic type....think low-tech cardboard megaphone.
The parent post is alreday +5 Insightful, but I'd like to add that another way to get better at programming is to find a mentor.....a good mentor. I made the biggest leap in my ability during my first job (which was rather fortunate). I was on a team of young guys, but we were all sharp. Where one of us lacked, the other was strong. After 5 years, I was a very well rounded programmer. I try to continue that by always having someone that I've taken under my wing to mentor as well. So, if you're in Austin and want a top notch database programmer (not a DBA) to be your mentor, look me up.
Another area that will help you is breadth of knowledge. You don't have to be an expert in everything, but be aware of many fields (different tiers, different languages, different layers of the network model, what have you). This helps because you will quit fighting to put part of a solution in the wrong layer. If you can push it to the right layer, your solution will turn out better (easier to write, easier to maintain, more robust code, better overall design).
Yeah, I looked at the gp post and Grace Kelly. The follow features stood out as being very similar: eyebrow line, mouth shape (and position), and the nose (although they pointed in different direction and were different length).
Well, the best use of the technology would be for the shoulder mounted camera to scan your face, flag it as a possible suspect, and then the pseudo-fuzz (or real fuzz) would be presented with a screen containing several images (similar to the "line-up" they do on Law & Order). If the cop picks the "right" one as matching your face, then you can be detained pretty much the same way they could do it now.....just technology assisted.
The only broken bone I've had to date (I'd knock on wood, but that's probably disallowed, too) stemmed from a SUPERVISED game of TOUCH football in school. All of my unsupervised games were pretty much break-free (including tackle football). Oh, and that's American football, not Soccer.
I'll second that......Every new computer gets a copy of NetHack (and that includes my Cingular 8125). Other games that I keep permanently installed somewhere: Civilization (well, technically it's FreeCiv, but same concept) and Theif the Dark Project. And when time is short, I'll play a quick game of FreeCell.
Yeah, personally I prefer my search engines separate and targeted. If I wanted a jack-of-all-trades search, I'd look elsewhere. If I'm shopping, I'll use Froogle. If I'm researching, Google. I used to tell people that if I couldn't find what I was looking for within an hour or two, it's probably not on the Internet. I think I'll have to revise that to a day or two just because of all the product pricing crap that will now show up in my search results.
Google has more than enough money. They can live without the few cents more that they'll get from spamming me. Or better yet, once someone else makes a better unencumbered search engine, we'll all migrate to it. I seem to recall there being other "best" search engines before Google came along (Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, etc.). Each one lost favor because they started adding bloat to the searching process. When will they all learn?
Just out of curiosity, how does a rocket really work? IAMNA-Rocket Scientist, but my understanding was that the explosion happened in a tube, one end open, the other closed. Thrust was generated not by the escaping gas out the back but by the pushing effect on the closed end. So in effect, captured things in a tube were the net cause of a rocket launching.
If he can come up with a way to "recapture" those things in the very same tube and have that result in additional thrust, why not? It's no different than any other attempt at efficiency (such as using waste heat to drive a turbine).
What is regenerative breaking in hybrid cars but an attempt to capture some of the work performed by the engine to generate electricity which can be in turn used to create more thrust and more regenerative breaking, etc. If we had 100% efficiency, we'd have perpetual motion, but there is loss.....
Speaking of which, why haven't we ever tried to use the heat generated by our internal combustion engines to push a turbine? Or the heat generated by our a/c units? There has to be some way there to reclaim some of that lost power.
I get sweaty playing DDR and that boxing game with the 3lb "gloves" and that sword fighting game with the 5lb sword. Throw in some old Nintendo running pad olympics, and I think you've got a business plan!
The less debt you have today, the more you will have tomorrow.
Ain't that the truth. If your credit cards aren't maxed out today, they'll up your limit and the wife will see something she just "HAS" to have. And then lo and behold, more debt tomorrow than you had today. Keep those suckers maxed out and the wife can't run them up any higher.
That's cool.....the only thing is.....Cox gave my neighborhood to TimeWarner about 5 months ago (which I hated). Of course, having DirecTiVo, I only used Cox (and now only use Time Warner) for my internet connection.
If I can get back on Cox's network, I might be dropping my DirecTV.
Now you're taking away the functionality I really like (which, admittedly, you han't intended to provide, you fair-use haters), removing the feature my wife likes the most (suggestions, which afaik you don't implement).
The reason that no one else implements Suggestions (the primary reason that I won't give up my SD DirecTiVo) is that they hold a patent on it. Everyone does the basic features: WishLists, Season Passes, Pause Live TV, etc. It's the Suggestions that no one else has. My wife has Season Passes for all of her stuff, and suggestions are pretty much the only way any of my shows get recorded.
Most things, I do either exclusively left-handed or exclusively right-handed. At least "normally". There are special cases where I will use the other hand for a task, but there are usually reasons (for instance, eating at a very crowded table and not getting a "lefty" seat). And (being the analytical geek that I am) after analyzing it, I've determined what makes me favor one hand vs the other.
Things I do left handed: Eat (here being bi-handed is plus, fork in left, knife in right, no switching) Write Bat @ baseball *** etc.
Things I do right handed: Shoot a gun Mouse Bowl *** Golf Use scissors Throw Bat @ baseball*** etc.
Basically, if you need special equipment to do it with one hand vs the other hand, I use my right. It's far easier to find a right handed glove. Right handed scissors are everywhere. Etc. I call out Bowling because balls are drilled either left handed or right handed. Batting @ baseball, I can switch hit.
As for the gross vs fine movement, my right is much stronger but my left is much quicker. That might have some impact on that as well.
Yeah, it would be amazing if famous people started signing. The jerks just think people are looking to sell those autographs on EBay or something. Now, where did I put my memorabilia price guide?
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What about the crowd that I fall into? I read the summary. If it is remotely interesting to me, I read the comments. If there are a significant number of relevant comments, I'll venture to read the article. If they are full of trolls and flames, then I skip the article. I'll post comments that are on-topic (to the parent post, not necessarily to the article). And my ID# isn't prime because 980662 is divisible by 2 [probably others, but failing that one is the quickest prime test: !(ID&1)].
Layne
I would think that a specific motion (think: jiggle) would be more appropriate for a non-clicking interface. Time spent at a location would vary, but imagine if the "click" action was a quick jiggle perpendicular to the current motion. As you move left to right on the screen, when you wanted to "click", you jiggled the mouse in an up/down fashion. Granted, RSI and all would probably go up significantly, but it would be more responsive than timing a pause.
As an aside, Dasher (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/) was an interesting non-clicking method for entering text. I can't view the web site due to the Slashdot effect.
Layne
Actually, I'm moving the mouse cursor out of the way so I can read. I specifically look for non-clickable areas of a page to click on so that I can grant focus to the page in such a way that my keyboard controls (page up / page down / scrolling with arrow keys) work effectively. Then, as needed, I'll move the mouse around. This method eliminates a lot of those keyword pop-up windows that a lot of pages like to add these days. If I do keep my hand on the mouse, I'm not following my reading, I'm "twiddling" in blank space on the page, again, to keep the pointer out of the way.
Layne
I'd say in Half-Life in the reactor with that gigantic green spiked tentacle. With the lights off, speakers on full, and no one else in the house. I spent a good bit of time cursing that stupid thing.....I was out of grenades and couldn't distract it, so I had to do it the hard way.
Layne
I was merely referring to the fact that the parent-parent-parent post said that CD's would play "forever". If you don't think a technology goes out of manufacture, I have some old Beta tapes that I need converted to DVD. Can you buy a consumer grade Beta player for me? Or maybe the laserdisc version of Star Wars? My grandmother has some reel-to-reels of my deceased grandfather playing guitar and harminoca. I think she even has some 8-tracks he made, too. (And yes, all of those items are real items that I can access, not some fictitious items made up for a rant.)
I still buy CD's, but I don't have the expectations that I'll be able to use them 30 years from now. I was just saying that the only way to ensure that you have a media format that will be playable in 50 years is to rely on the lowest tech version of them all.
Layne
There's an isometric graphical version out there on the *almost* latest edition. It's called Falcon's Eye http://users.tkk.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html. If the ASCII graphics are turning you off, you can try that.
I've been playing NetHack since the late 80's (1988 to be exact) and still have it installed on several computers (including the PocketPC version for my phone). It is a great time waster that has had me hooked for almost 20 years.
Layne
The only media that you can be sure will be playable in many years is vynil. If you have an unscratched master CD, but there are no CD players, how will you do it? You can make a working record player out of a motor, some gears, and something pointy on a moveable arm. to hear better, you might consider some sort of amplifier, and I'm not talking about the electronic type....think low-tech cardboard megaphone.
/ cd_cool_thing_page.asp
Links for the do-it-yourselfer
http://www.discoverengineering.org/cool_things/cd
http://www.arborsci.com/CoolStuff/cool14.htm (section 4)
Layne
The parent post is alreday +5 Insightful, but I'd like to add that another way to get better at programming is to find a mentor.....a good mentor. I made the biggest leap in my ability during my first job (which was rather fortunate). I was on a team of young guys, but we were all sharp. Where one of us lacked, the other was strong. After 5 years, I was a very well rounded programmer. I try to continue that by always having someone that I've taken under my wing to mentor as well. So, if you're in Austin and want a top notch database programmer (not a DBA) to be your mentor, look me up.
Another area that will help you is breadth of knowledge. You don't have to be an expert in everything, but be aware of many fields (different tiers, different languages, different layers of the network model, what have you). This helps because you will quit fighting to put part of a solution in the wrong layer. If you can push it to the right layer, your solution will turn out better (easier to write, easier to maintain, more robust code, better overall design).
Layne
Yeah, I looked at the gp post and Grace Kelly. The follow features stood out as being very similar: eyebrow line, mouth shape (and position), and the nose (although they pointed in different direction and were different length).
Layne
Well, the best use of the technology would be for the shoulder mounted camera to scan your face, flag it as a possible suspect, and then the pseudo-fuzz (or real fuzz) would be presented with a screen containing several images (similar to the "line-up" they do on Law & Order). If the cop picks the "right" one as matching your face, then you can be detained pretty much the same way they could do it now.....just technology assisted.
Layne
And think how funny it would be when that car crash victim gets out of the hospital only to find out that he's locked out of his house.
Layne
The only broken bone I've had to date (I'd knock on wood, but that's probably disallowed, too) stemmed from a SUPERVISED game of TOUCH football in school. All of my unsupervised games were pretty much break-free (including tackle football). Oh, and that's American football, not Soccer.
Layne
I'll second that......Every new computer gets a copy of NetHack (and that includes my Cingular 8125). Other games that I keep permanently installed somewhere: Civilization (well, technically it's FreeCiv, but same concept) and Theif the Dark Project. And when time is short, I'll play a quick game of FreeCell.
Layne
Shouldn't that web site have been named seenonslash.org? Or am I just missing something.
Layne
Yeah, personally I prefer my search engines separate and targeted. If I wanted a jack-of-all-trades search, I'd look elsewhere. If I'm shopping, I'll use Froogle. If I'm researching, Google. I used to tell people that if I couldn't find what I was looking for within an hour or two, it's probably not on the Internet. I think I'll have to revise that to a day or two just because of all the product pricing crap that will now show up in my search results.
Google has more than enough money. They can live without the few cents more that they'll get from spamming me. Or better yet, once someone else makes a better unencumbered search engine, we'll all migrate to it. I seem to recall there being other "best" search engines before Google came along (Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, etc.). Each one lost favor because they started adding bloat to the searching process. When will they all learn?
Layne
Just out of curiosity, how does a rocket really work? IAMNA-Rocket Scientist, but my understanding was that the explosion happened in a tube, one end open, the other closed. Thrust was generated not by the escaping gas out the back but by the pushing effect on the closed end. So in effect, captured things in a tube were the net cause of a rocket launching.
If he can come up with a way to "recapture" those things in the very same tube and have that result in additional thrust, why not? It's no different than any other attempt at efficiency (such as using waste heat to drive a turbine).
What is regenerative breaking in hybrid cars but an attempt to capture some of the work performed by the engine to generate electricity which can be in turn used to create more thrust and more regenerative breaking, etc. If we had 100% efficiency, we'd have perpetual motion, but there is loss.....
Speaking of which, why haven't we ever tried to use the heat generated by our internal combustion engines to push a turbine? Or the heat generated by our a/c units? There has to be some way there to reclaim some of that lost power.
Layne
I get sweaty playing DDR and that boxing game with the 3lb "gloves" and that sword fighting game with the 5lb sword. Throw in some old Nintendo running pad olympics, and I think you've got a business plan!
It's all about the cardio.
Layne
Ain't that the truth. If your credit cards aren't maxed out today, they'll up your limit and the wife will see something she just "HAS" to have. And then lo and behold, more debt tomorrow than you had today. Keep those suckers maxed out and the wife can't run them up any higher.
Layne
That's cool.....the only thing is.....Cox gave my neighborhood to TimeWarner about 5 months ago (which I hated). Of course, having DirecTiVo, I only used Cox (and now only use Time Warner) for my internet connection.
If I can get back on Cox's network, I might be dropping my DirecTV.
Layne
The reason that no one else implements Suggestions (the primary reason that I won't give up my SD DirecTiVo) is that they hold a patent on it. Everyone does the basic features: WishLists, Season Passes, Pause Live TV, etc. It's the Suggestions that no one else has. My wife has Season Passes for all of her stuff, and suggestions are pretty much the only way any of my shows get recorded.
Layne
I've always considered myself bi-handed.
Most things, I do either exclusively left-handed or exclusively right-handed. At least "normally". There are special cases where I will use the other hand for a task, but there are usually reasons (for instance, eating at a very crowded table and not getting a "lefty" seat). And (being the analytical geek that I am) after analyzing it, I've determined what makes me favor one hand vs the other.
Things I do left handed:
Eat (here being bi-handed is plus, fork in left, knife in right, no switching)
Write
Bat @ baseball ***
etc.
Things I do right handed:
Shoot a gun
Mouse
Bowl ***
Golf
Use scissors
Throw
Bat @ baseball***
etc.
Basically, if you need special equipment to do it with one hand vs the other hand, I use my right. It's far easier to find a right handed glove. Right handed scissors are everywhere. Etc. I call out Bowling because balls are drilled either left handed or right handed. Batting @ baseball, I can switch hit.
As for the gross vs fine movement, my right is much stronger but my left is much quicker. That might have some impact on that as well.
Layne
I was looking for some code that might do it....haven't found any yet, but here are some leads:
s p
Start with something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/win32/overrideparams.a
Then, override the creation of anything of class "Scrollbar" to be at position 0 instead of position X.
Just some ideas.
Layne
Yeah, I tell people that I hate using right handed pencils.....Ned Flanders rules!
s /LeftScroll-7380.shtml
per the Question:
Use FireFox for your browser:
http://geckotip.mozdev.org/index.html
For your Palm (well, your computer kind):
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilitie
Layne
Yeah, it would be amazing if famous people started signing. The jerks just think people are looking to sell those autographs on EBay or something. Now, where did I put my memorabilia price guide?
Layne
Bleeding Gums Murphy (requisite Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Gums_Murphy)
Layne