Comment Oh crap (Score 1) 19
I'm so sorry.
Comment Re:Indeed. (Score 1) 18
That's me. Followed you back.
Comment Indeed. (Score 1) 18
I'm on all of them. ryanlrussell , except here.
Comment Bummer (Score 1) 17
I'm sorry it didn't work out.
Comment Yep (Score 1) 5
Comment Re:Dvorak is better, but how much better? (Score 1) 663
I always read about how our QWERTY typewriters were designed to deliberately 'slow' you down. I even taught this to my classes of elementary and middle school students.
Do elementary teachers have a quota of old wives tales and myths to impart to their students? QWERTY typewriters were designed to avoid mechanical jams resulting from commonly used keys being too close together.
I pulled out my Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing manual (in the days when they came with paper manuals) to compare the results of these 5th graders with the Dvorak keyboard. I was stunned, as they matched almost perfectly.
You were stunned to learn that a layout based on statistical frequencies of English letters closely matched a statistical sampling of English letters?
If young children without a bias come up with the same result, there is a rightness and a logic to it.
Ha!
Comment Don't worry (Score 1) 5
Your wife will be calling to make sure you remembered to pick everybody up.
Comment Re:Well Duh (Score 1) 505
You've "helped" nobody except yourself.
That is precisely who I was trying to help. I gave the seller an amount of money which, according to the starting bid and reserve, he was willing to accept. The other potential buyers, according to their entered maximum bids (or their snipes) were not willing to pay as much as I was. You will excuse me if I have extremely limited sympathy for all of these people. Especially the seller who now has what used to be my money in his hands.
Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)
KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
Submission + - Google Search Screws Over SomethingAwful.com
An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the humour website SomethingAwful.com. Apparently, for all of their long history they've been having a problem where their website is listed far down Google's results (often last) for searches related to the site (such as the names of features and articles on the site). For example, when I google for "Photoshop Phriday", the site isn't in the first ten pages of results, despite the fact that Google has indexed the relevent page. In fact, the first result is a noproxy.us proxied version of the relevant page, and the rest of the results are blog and forum entries referring to Something Awful. (Results are apparently better on many non-English versions of Google, however.)
It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?
It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?
Submission + - The Lure of the Straight Razor
DingleBerryMcGee writes: "It seems that the most common getup amongst the tech savvy is a black polo shirt accompanied with a pair of wrinkled khakis overloaded with PDAs, and phones at the waist. Another common theme is a semi-smooth shave accentuating a pallor only five consecutive days in an unlit room playing World of Warcraft can provide. The Montreal Gazette goes into some detail highlighting the growing trend of Straight Razor shaving. The author discusses the necessary equipment, as well as his own experience learning an art so contrarian to technological progress.
Some of the major benefits to a straight razor over modern 'pull and cut' cartridge razors or electric shavers are: decreased ingrown hairs, razor burn and acne, smoother shaves, and the "what are you crazy?" expression on people's faces when they find out you shave with a straight."
Some of the major benefits to a straight razor over modern 'pull and cut' cartridge razors or electric shavers are: decreased ingrown hairs, razor burn and acne, smoother shaves, and the "what are you crazy?" expression on people's faces when they find out you shave with a straight."
Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare 710
DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.
Journal Journal: Rosetta Code -- Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone 215
Did you ever run into the problem where you knew how to do something in one programming language, but really needed to do it in another? That's what Rosetta Code is all about. A variety of programming tasks are solved using as many languages as possible. You can examine existing tasks, or create your own.
Submission + - Apple Introduces New Mobile Phone at MacWorld
octavian755 writes: "Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs confirmed months of speculation Tuesday by unveiling a new mobile phone and a set-top box that allows people to stream video from their computers to their televisions.
Jobs said Apple's iPhone would "reinvent" the telecommunications sector and "leapfrog" past the current generation of hard-to-use smart phones."
Submission + - Ivan Drago: Justice Enforcer
Nicky P. writes: "Unbeknownst to most, Ivan Drago (of Rocky fame) has been kept preserved in the Soviet Embassy waiting to be unleashed on U.S. streets to redeem our corrupted society.
Take control of the "Siberian Express" in this flash game that embodies all things 80's.
AWSD and arrow keys to control Ivan, experiment with key combos to unleash the super moves that will help you unlock the 2 extra playable characters and the mini-game.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/355796"
