>> ^xxovercastxx:
The better strategy would have been to make the shot. Then SC would have still been up by 1 after the 3-pointer dropped.
>> ^rychan:
Is there a better strategy there for the free throw shooter? Violently spike it off the rim?

Your elementary school math teacher just felt a pang of disappointment.


(Either that, or you didn't realize that free throws are 1 point apiece.)

The better strategy would have been to make the shot. Then SC would have still been up by 1 after the 3-pointer dropped.
>> ^rychan:
Is there a better strategy there for the free throw shooter? Violently spike it off the rim?

If Hendrix could give this kid pointers/advice, he'd say something like..."You got it kid, you just need more 25 and hard times..,Nah, huh..fuck that,nah man, don't listen to me, keep doin' what feels right"

nah, it was the side effect of that one time that everyone pointed their laser pointer at the moon simultaneously...

I totally agree. They're great designs.

No sweatshirts quite yet. We're still very young and they'd require a bit more monetary overhead, but once we've grown a bit, definitely.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
I think those holiday cards he has at zazzle would make fabulous Ts. I had a facebook friend ask for pointers to christmas sweatsirts just yesterday (I don't even know if tvirus makes sweatshirts).


In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Ah, good question. I wasn't even considering the idea. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
Look at this one: http://www.zazzle.com/merry_christmas_ambigram_card-137392926579806516

I guess he already has products so he wouldn't want to be in tee virus?

I think those holiday cards he has at zazzle would make fabulous Ts. I had a facebook friend ask for pointers to christmas sweatsirts just yesterday (I don't even know if tvirus makes sweatshirts).


In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Ah, good question. I wasn't even considering the idea. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
Look at this one: http://www.zazzle.com/merry_christmas_ambigram_card-137392926579806516

I guess he already has products so he wouldn't want to be in tee virus?

Oh hey look, its KipKay... that explains it all.

This guy seems to make a living off of useless how-tos that hardly tell you how-to regardless.

Whats even worse is he did this "cheap" laser pointer trick before and was called out on it over how incredibly dangerous this is for others... yet now he does it again? Nearly 2 million views on YouTube like all of his other shit? Fuck me...

Oh yeah, not only will this laser blind you, but has the potential to blind others not even looking into the beam. Stray reflections from a 50mw or greater laser (what you would need to accomplish fire) are enough to also cause either temporary or permanent eye damage. That is, indirectly looking at the laser. Like his last laser video, no warning about danger as usual.

How people think this guy is a clever engineer makes me sick.

Interesting. Too bad it's a marketing video rather than a highlight of a general technology. Ten-Gooey (10/GUI)? Seriously? That's the name that's supposed to sell this thing? Sigh...

The keyboard they showed at the end with the integrated pad would be my worst nightmare. I can't even stand laptops with touch-pads in that position. Every time I type something, my thumb or palm invariably rests on the touch pad causing it to "click" somewhere changing my focus to another window, or another place in a document... sending the text to the wrong place. I can't imagine how bad it'd be if the touchpad were the size of the one at the end of this video.

I think a better idea (at least, for me) would be to have the touch surface as a separate item beside the keyboard (positioned like a mouse) for use by one hand rather than both.

Also, the window manager idea used here is not really new. No one's bothered to implement it because it really doesn't solve the issues present in existing window management systems. Windows still get covered up and lost in a jumble. You can zoom out 1000x but it doesn't eliminate the need for you to go looking through all of the windows you may have open.

The thing I think like most about it is the "pointers" seem to show up wherever you fingers are; relative to the edges of the touch surface. Rather than having to move them from their previous location to the new one. With a mouse, if the pointer's in the upper left corner of the screen, and there's a button on the lower right of the screen, you'd have to slide the mouse down & to the right. With this multi-point touch surface, it seems pointers appear wherever your fingers touch-down. (I think graphics tablets do that).

I don't want to sound like I'm opposed to change, it's important to try new approaches to achieve progress. However I think there are still some other issues that need to be resolved, in addition to those raised by Raverman.

The 10 finger input method could be very interesting for gaming, and applications such as casual web-browsing, but it doesn't seem ready for the work environment yet, in my opinion.

Finger tips have a large surface area, compared to a mouse pointer. Even when the issue of obscuring the screen is removed by using a separate input pad, (as stated in the video), they still lack the precision required for detail work.
This can be mitigated with increased zooming and larger icons, but again this requires additional processing and restricts the overall view of the workspace.

Throughout the video I was wondering how they were going to handle typing. A printed or projected keyboard layout on the touch pad might help for functions such as casual social-networking communications, but for sustained typing I find some form of tactile feedback is needed. I'm only a "partial-touch-typist", glancing down at the keyboard intermittently, but without a physical reference of where the keys are and whether they are being pressed I get "lost" much more frequently. Generating a click sound on each key press, such as with the iPhone, can help with this but it's not a full solution.

I then noticed in the last few moments of the video a shot showing the touch-pad in front of a keyboard, suggesting both are to be used simultaneously and that the pad is replacing only the mouse. Wouldn't this cause posture issues, having to reach over the pad to type, and increased travel time for both hands rather than just the right hand to the mouse?

Finally there's the potential issue of resting fingers accidentally registering as a click. This can probably be tuned through the software to each user's individual preference, but it could be a tough one to nail down.
There are times when I'm browsing a website and my middle finger rests a little heavily on the right mouse button bringing up a context menu. It happens infrequently, and has no real impact as the menu is easy to close by left clicking back on the page. However when ten input points are involved, each having multiple functionality when considered both as individuals and groups of fingers, the issue quickly escalates.

I'm not saying it isn't an interesting concept, I'd love to have a play around with it. I'm just not ready to give up my keyboard and mouse in the work environment quite yet.

As a Christian, I would not call being homosexuality unnatural. I would call it, a deep moral question. IMHO, I would venture that maybe God created the concept of homosexuality as a test of one's compassion and love. Since, destruction and hate are the tools of an entity we Christians are against (the Devil). While I do not have to fall in love with a homosexual, neither do I fall in love with my cat. I show love to my cat by feeding him, and using the laser pointer for fun. Likewise, I show love to a homosexual by being patient, honest, and caring.

But, I do have one question for the author of these words. If all things are natural, because they come, in some form, from the world around us. Would that mean Zombies are natural?

>> ^brycewi19:
You know you can switch your mouse to your left hand, too.


Ahhhh, but I would lose the precision pointer navigation required during... ahem... my sessions, as does gwiz.

^pennypecker, I know I shouldn't encourage your verbose brand of fringe-right madness by responding, but I'm feeling sporting tonight, so here are a couple of pointers.

1) No offense, but you are absolutely terrible at analogies. I see you fail at it time and time again. If you'd like to stop having your ass handed to you as bea has done above, I'd kindly suggest you work harder at finding analogies that evoke at least some vague semblance of parity. This current analogy is going to continue to fail for you no matter how many times you repeat it. Let it go.

2) Unlike you, Bea is (was) actually a Mormon herself. The Mormon Church is famous for encouraging members to cut off communication with family members who have either left the church, been excommunicated or are of different religious beliefs. I've known enough Mormons and ex-Mormons to confirm this is not even controversial within the community, although individual Mormons may choose to frame it in less damning terms. One of my very close friends was disowned by his Mormon father after coming out of the closet in his teens. Luckily, his mother was smart enough to divorce dad and leave the deranged home wrecking fanaticism of the Mormon church far behind in the Utah dust.

I have a good response to this television image, respect for the fans of Andy Kaufman and I hold onto what boasts to be a special edition of the FORMAN film MAN ON THE MOON. On October 31, 2008, I found out my mother had bought me a VHS/DVD unit with which I was able to run tapes like my passed-around MAN ON THE MOON. I like the way Carrey and Giamatti appear in MAN ON THE MOON and I like the song The Great Beyond. That is my favourite R.E.M. song. MAN ON THE MOON co-star Danny DeVito knew Andy Kaufman? They were co-stars at one time in a comedy? I enjoyed Kaufman and DeVito when they were syndicated in an over-the-air broadcast during my childhood and MAN ON THE MOON likewise represents Kaufman's childhood as similarly comic to the one I enjoyed and I am privileged that I got to enjoy with the eyes of a child broadcasts of the DeVito/Kaufman comedy. I was almost getting cynical lately what with the lack of clear comic direction I was encountering to keep me in good spirits and I wanted very much a pointer, more indications that Andy Kaufman-style comedy continues to be effective and an expression of very sweet, funny good-natured sentiments or what have come to be those and my MAN ON THE MOON tape sleeve has a Canadian Home Video Rating of PG which illustrates how sensibilities where Kaufman-type comedy is concerned change.

>> ^EndAll:
ugh, that's sickening what they do to the ears there. dogs can be your pets, but they are not yours to sculpt, fashion or alter physically as you see fit, disregarding the suffering they might endure because of it. this ain't right at all.. unnatural and unnecessary. it's a beautiful dog already. sorry to be a debbie downer about this otherwise hilarious video.


No, what's sickening is that we cannot dock our own progeny. I'm currently raising an attack child and it fucking pisses me off to no end that I cannot continue its docking procedure. I thought this was America. 28th amendment anyone? I have this huge list of things that I think should be legal.

>> ^ReverendTed:
What young dobermen consider "fashionable" these days perplexes me to no end.
(Seriously, does anyone know what the deals are on his ears?)


unfortunately, people mutilate their ears like that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_%28dog%29