It's a little classic Mac-like looking but it has a TON of features, including both vector and raster elements, it DOES do CYMK (can't vouch for accuracy), page-orientated so you can have text flow between boxes etc, PDF and even some web output (I wouldn't trust the web output though, maybe v9 or 10 are better).
I've used at least version 7 & 8. I picked them up on magazine CD's.
(What's with all the Mac comments? Did people forget you're using XP?)
Evidently somebody got carried away with some fairly routine bookkeeping. The contract still exists, and there is still the same un-spent money on the books. Evidently, what happened is a "no-cost extension". That is, the period of the contract has been extended, but they're not sending any checks.
Considering Bussard said in the video that the company's remaining assets and some of the researchers were taken up by another gov. contractor, it sounds like this does nothing useful for the research company. Unless it's just to keep the project alive.
Despite the hype, we'd all love to see more success. (even if if it is "no wait, don't cut our funding we just had a breakthrough" kind.
Thanks for that link! I'm going to have to try it out
For the doubters, yes, you most definitely CAN get injured from using the mouse button (and the wheel!) too much. I started getting shooting pains in my hand & wrist from using a web interface too much, after years of typing with no problems.
I used the old MouseTool program for a long time that was similar, but work was stopped on it long ago (went from GPL to commercial before Y2K), and I'm not sure if it was the source for some of my computer's odd behaviour.
Hopefully this program will be a bit more stable!
I'm not sure if the software in the original post isn't a bit overkill, though. Double the menus & slow-down. The other programs I've seen just automatically click, and you can usually press a key for a modifier like drag or right-click, and that's been good balance for me.
Also that www.dontclick.it interface is interesting. Doesn't help with that's written already though.
We had neither the money, nor the cooling, nor the power supplies, nor the controls to run this small device steady-state, which is what we need to do, and what requires us to build the full-scale device.
Maybe the plan was to get the $2M but aim for funding from somebody who could supply the $200M if the $2M is approved. It sounds like they didn't have enough documentation/proof that the W6 was everything they claimed ("redo... to quiet dissent"), especially after it blew.
Rebuilding the demonstration/improved demo:
...we are still trying to get the missing $ 2M restored and put into our existing but unfunded contract. IF this happens - which is improhable, given the politics of this election year, and the non-visionary people in Congress - we will redo WB-6 with an improved and better version (WB-7) which should give 5x more output, and run about 50 tests to quiet dissent. AND we will convene a review panel of very high-level and internationally distinguished people to spend about 6 weeks going over this to recommend for or against proceeding sith a full scale demo.
Why $200M as then next stage:
Why a full-scale demo? Because the system scales oddly: Fusion output goes as the 7th power of the size and Gain goes as the 5th power. Thus there is very little to be gained by building a half-size model;
And finally:
So we did what we could and finally DID prove the physics and associated engineering physics constraints, scaling laws, etc, albeit at 1/8-1/10 scale. So what? Doubling the size will not tell us anything we don't already know. The next intelligent and logical step is to build a machine big enough to make net power. And THAT is the same 200 M we have quoted to the DoD since the beginning.
I did that. Didn't work. Nor did the javascript tricks. I went to a website designed to test your spam-countermeasures and it had NO trouble figuring it out.
Back to a contact form, and a list of email addresses with nothing after the @. Told users to type in the name, add the domain or else use the contact form.
Not QUITE, and only allowed for similar personal, limited and specific uses.
And not for long, They want a Canadian version of the DMCA: see http://www.michaelgeist.ca/daysofdrm
One factor will not not solve it alone. Some software will help a lot though.
The points by some others are dead on. Pain is signal from your body that its damaged. It needs to heal, first of all. In case you haven't noticed them, #1 & #2 have already been stated.
1. A pointer is basically tough on you - learn keyboard shortcuts, make sure you are in an ergonomically appropriate position - but keep varying it - it is abolutely step 1. My body always lets me know when I've been using the mouse too much.
2. Exercise - take breaks & do something else, look up stretching & strengthening exercises, and see a physiotherapist if you can. Medication is only a temporary relief and masks the problem - accumulated damage. My wife says that since she started over-the-head stretching its cleared up her carpal tunnel, and she'd switched to a trackball too. (The trackball hurts my thumb after a short while, but some people it works for. Same as with that joystick mouse). If your boss and the software won't accomodate you, then it is a safety issue!
3. One thing that really helped me was MouseTool. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRESS THE MOUSE BUTTON, NOR GRIP THE MOUSE! Just resting your hand on the mouse is enough. It automatically clicks when you move and then stop the mouse, or you can use a keyboard hotkey, etc etc. The default works great for me and not having to grip the mouse and keep clicking really REALLY helps. It was by Jeff Roush, there's a commercial version of it now at quilmouse. You can still find a free version various places, although it has a few incompatibilities sometimes. I'm pretty sure the original was GPL. There's a Windows, Linux version and a Mac version may be available by now too.
Not that you can, and should, combine this program with other solutions... one factor will not not solve it alone.
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At least get it right. It was 2 UNCLEAN animals and 7 CLEAN beasts and birds.
You'll note that even the unclean animals got a ride.
It's a little classic Mac-like looking but it has a TON of features, including both vector and raster elements, it DOES do CYMK (can't vouch for accuracy), page-orientated so you can have text flow between boxes etc, PDF and even some web output (I wouldn't trust the web output though, maybe v9 or 10 are better).
I've used at least version 7 & 8. I picked them up on magazine CD's. (What's with all the Mac comments? Did people forget you're using XP?)
A friend (also in I.T.) knows a carpenter. Guy who was in an accident. Had brain damage, couldn't do it any more.
So... he went into I.T.
This explains way, WAY too much...
I know what O.P. means though, I'd love to get do something else too, but other things have priority right now.
Thanks for that link! I'm going to have to try it out For the doubters, yes, you most definitely CAN get injured from using the mouse button (and the wheel!) too much. I started getting shooting pains in my hand & wrist from using a web interface too much, after years of typing with no problems. I used the old MouseTool program for a long time that was similar, but work was stopped on it long ago (went from GPL to commercial before Y2K), and I'm not sure if it was the source for some of my computer's odd behaviour. Hopefully this program will be a bit more stable! I'm not sure if the software in the original post isn't a bit overkill, though. Double the menus & slow-down. The other programs I've seen just automatically click, and you can usually press a key for a modifier like drag or right-click, and that's been good balance for me. Also that www.dontclick.it interface is interesting. Doesn't help with that's written already though.
I did that. Didn't work. Nor did the javascript tricks. I went to a website designed to test your spam-countermeasures and it had NO trouble figuring it out. Back to a contact form, and a list of email addresses with nothing after the @. Told users to type in the name, add the domain or else use the contact form.
Not QUITE, and only allowed for similar personal, limited and specific uses. And not for long, They want a Canadian version of the DMCA: see http://www.michaelgeist.ca/daysofdrm
One factor will not not solve it alone. Some software will help a lot though.
The points by some others are dead on. Pain is signal from your body that its damaged. It needs to heal, first of all. In case you haven't noticed them, #1 & #2 have already been stated.
1. A pointer is basically tough on you - learn keyboard shortcuts, make sure you are in an ergonomically appropriate position - but keep varying it - it is abolutely step 1. My body always lets me know when I've been using the mouse too much.
2. Exercise - take breaks & do something else, look up stretching & strengthening exercises, and see a physiotherapist if you can. Medication is only a temporary relief and masks the problem - accumulated damage. My wife says that since she started over-the-head stretching its cleared up her carpal tunnel, and she'd switched to a trackball too. (The trackball hurts my thumb after a short while, but some people it works for. Same as with that joystick mouse). If your boss and the software won't accomodate you, then it is a safety issue!
3. One thing that really helped me was MouseTool. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRESS THE MOUSE BUTTON, NOR GRIP THE MOUSE! Just resting your hand on the mouse is enough.
It automatically clicks when you move and then stop the mouse, or you can use a keyboard hotkey, etc etc. The default works great for me and not having to grip the mouse and keep clicking really REALLY helps.
It was by Jeff Roush, there's a commercial version of it now at quilmouse. You can still find a free version various places, although it has a few incompatibilities sometimes. I'm pretty sure the original was GPL. There's a Windows, Linux version and a Mac version may be available by now too.
Not that you can, and should, combine this program with other solutions... one factor will not not solve it alone.