What if I want to type ? the fact is for most pc interaction you dont need to use a mouse. really fast people can use a keyboard way faster than a mouse on its own. I think the reason people use a mouse for general pc interaction is because its incredibly simple and intuitive.

This system to me looks far more complicated than a mouse not because its "new" but because you have to have 2 hands on the serfice and you have up to 10 graphical points of interaction on the screen you allso have to be thinking about 2 hands not just one , manny people strugle to use 2 hands on a piano granted this is infantly more simplistic than that but its still more complex than 1 hand on a mouse.

I would like tactile force of keys of some kind , I think a good solution would be a mostly flat keyboard but the serfice is touch sensitive ( they do exist already just not that refined) you can have it so that soft touching would do multituch and give access to all the benefits of multi touch systems / wacom pads. however it would be able to be used 100% like a old school querty keybord along with a mouse.

If you observe history of PC HCI devices its a simple fact that people are not going to drop there learned method of interaction , unless it is Radically more eficent , if its within 30% more efficiency people would rather just stick with the old and comfortable HCI device. ~( this explains the reason why a pc keyboard is accentually a 1860s design. http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/IMAGES/sgtablesm.jpeg what's funny is the first ever type writers key interface is not that dissimilar to the most modern of laptops)

people are generaly open to different methods of interaction if it is a compleaty new or perceived as a different device , or there is no better way to control the device at point of the device invention.

I think Mind controle of Pcs would be a good compliment to keybord , mouse , / keybord no mouse but maby thats 10 years away.


Interestingly and not so unsurprisingly the whole "Still using something that is fairly shitty way of doing things but it works" is mirrored all the time in the progression biological evolution.

UM WTF ??? LOL !!! IS THIS FOR REAL ? SO STUPID he has not done annything , what a joke , infact his policies are pretty much as shit as Clintons. This accentually makes the noble piece prize a joke.

Sorry, I stopped the video after about a minute. I mostly stopped listening when she said she "knew" the protests of her day made a difference "kind of spiritually? [sic] in a way? Like, people were being changed." First, if I "know" something, I don't put a verbal question mark after it. Second, people were being changed huh? That's spiritual? Political change has nothing to do with changing people? You were younger. You were personally affected by your experiences much more strongly. You identify that as "spiritual" because of your Haight-Ashbury hippy-dippy upbringing. Step outside yourself for 5 minutes if you want to talk about activism. Why do people have such strong inward focus when it comes to activism? Especially older activists. Maybe you derive your beliefs internally, but you're expressing them externally, to the world, to the people you need to change. Switch gears for fuck's sake if you want to accomplish anything.

A couple people made this point: people are afraid of getting arrested and think that they are entitled to break the law without punishment. I think part of the problem is that our "activists" are wearing gray tweed blazers that accentuate their bustline and cleavage and have highlights in their hair. Your cause is most likely bullshit m'lady, that's why your protest is failing. Try sticking "overpermitisization" on a placard. Now that a cause the masses can get behind!

Like I said, didn't watch it. Is her point that protests don't work because government, presumably the people protests are targeted towards, have created bureaucracy to make it harder? That's the game lady! You fight them, they fight you. You don't win by saying, "hey, stop making this harder." Try something else! Mass protest worked before. Now it doesn't. Stop trying to sell me 8-tracks and get some new methodology. Christ, I did not like this woman.

>> ^TheFreak:
This is one of the least appealing things I've ever seen.
The fact that the fabric of your pants gets stuck in the layers of fat under your ass when you walk doesn't seem to be the type of thing you want to accentuate.
Call me crazy.


You're fuckin crazy man.

This is one of the least appealing things I've ever seen.

The fact that the fabric of your pants gets stuck in the layers of fat under your ass when you walk doesn't seem to be the type of thing you want to accentuate.

Call me crazy.

To be honest, every sound except the らりるれろ is in the English language in some way or another, it's just that people generally aren't very good at forming new speech habits. I got pretty lucky in sort of inheriting a talent for language study (my great grandfather spoke five or six languages semi-fluently, plus his native English). It also helps that I've been to Japan twice and have been studying the language for five years, lol. I get annoyed at how quickly it deteriorated to merely "okay" Japanese both times after I returned from Japan...using it as your primary language day in and day out really gets it flowing smoothly. When I came back, I found myself using あいづち while my Dad and I talked on the way back from the airport, lol.

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考えられなかった is practically a tongue twister, and I'm really rusty, lol. Thanks for the compliment.

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What impresses me more is hearing a person of English mother tongue pronouncing Japanese almost correctly! マジ感心.

Yeah, those られる are a mouthful. But I was most stricken by how well you can hold off your English stress accentuation. Stress-timing also massacres the rhytym of Japanese mora-timed sentences. You regularly hear English-as-mother-tongue naturalized Japanese speak with a worse accent than a Chinese grandma, even after some ten to twenty years hearing and speaking nothing but Japanese. I have it easy though, as my mother tongue is French (no stress + all mora except ら り る れ ろ).

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考えられなかった is practically a tongue twister, and I'm really rusty, lol. Thanks for the compliment.

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What impresses me more is hearing a person of English mother tongue pronouncing Japanese almost correctly! マジ感心.

Yeah, those られる are a mouthful. But I was most stricken by how well you can hold off your English stress accentuation. Stress-timing also massacres the rhytym of Japanese mora-timed sentences. You regularly hear English-as-mother-tongue naturalized Japanese speak with a worse accent than a Chinese grandma, even after some ten to twenty years hearing and speaking nothing but Japanese. I have it easy though, as my mother tongue is French (no stress + all mora except ら り る れ ろ).

>> ^thepinky:
Don't get me wrong. I think she's fantastically gorgeous, funny, and smart, but I also think that she lives in "the bubble." Did you guys see the last episode of 30 Rock? It's about the bubble of encouragement and approval that beautiful people live in. I thought of that when I watched this video because both the studio and the VS audiences seem overly-enthusiastic, if you ask me.


I don't disagree with you that this lady is probably in her own bubble. But in this interview Letterman came across as being in even more of a bubble of his own, accentuated by his apparent ignorance of her, her life, and the culture from which she had come. After seeing the clip where her character decries the businessman's proposal of creating an Indian getaway where people would not have to deal with India, I can see how Letterman asking her if she would ever consider moving permanently to Hollywood could have been insulting to her. Hence her barbed reaction.

Now from what I have seen of Letterman, I would never describe him as an ignorant person. He usually comes across to me as intelligent, well read, witty, and generally a pleasant fellow. This may just have been a case of being (uncharacteristically) poorly prepped for the interview --an honest mistake. Letterman will probably not remembered this as one of his favorite interviews (even if it was fun to watch).

I love Anais. I feel a spiritual connection to her.

I'm glad you liked her bio. Like I said, I only skimmed it, but what I read really got under my skin. I thought it was very unfair. It...accentuated the banal and down-played the wonder.

She has a little book of short stories, that's really good.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays.

Worth a read.



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Really? It made me like her more, but I already started liking Anais so maybe I was only reading good into it.

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This process has really brought out the texture, and also accentuated what I believe to be the heart of the famous A$$ Gr@v33 aroma. Save it for a special occasion.

>> ^legacy0100:
lol yeah it's kinda hypocritical for saying 'we all should forgive', then go on to say 'i would never forgive you'.
But Lance is doing that to accentuate how offended he was by the guy's statement. No biggie.


This is exactly how I interpreted his statement. He's saying something after the fact of what he just said as an exception, to present how upset he is with the reporter.

I'm sure if he were to write it down on paper, he might take that part out in a revision, but giving an impromptu answer there's almost always going to be some type of fallacy existent in your words. It was an eloquent answer and seeks to remind me what a heroic personality Lance Armstrong is.

lol yeah it's kinda hypocritical for saying 'we all should forgive', then go on to say 'i would never forgive you'.

But Lance is doing that to accentuate how offended he was by the guy's statement. No biggie.

The quintina is simply an harmonic singing you can hear a similar effect much more clearly in this sift http://www.videosift.com/video/Overtone-singing. Note that he's not whistling while singing he's reinforcing particular harmonic with is mouth, like we do in a less accentuated way when pronouncing particular vowel.

Frum may have sounded intelligent, but his points were almost nonsensical.

He made the argument of false equivalency, which is something conservatives do often, e.g. they punch you in the nose, and you slap them on the wrist, and it means it's all equal.

A bad example, but that's basically what he did: he equated Rachel Maddow's show with somebody shouting out "kill Obama."

Frum is a loathsome creature who is in many ways responsible for the mess that is the Bush administration.

And for him to promote Paul Wolfowitz, who has already admitted to lying about the reason to invade Iraq, accentuates the point all the more clearly.

They illustrate a point, one that has been robustly supported by evidence since the 50s. If you want, you can go and spend hours reading about intergroup behaviour, social cognition, social identity theory, the accentuation effect, the relative homogeneity effect, etc etc. It was just easier to sum up in 2 simple graphs. In actual fact, the graphs don't represent the extremity of the accentuation effect.

>> ^deedub81:
Those "graphs" are so vague and so far from being scientific it's ridiculous.