My keyboard has a trackball built in, its a Compaq (or Cherry officially) MX 11800 made in Germany!
Back on topic; I've used it some times a few years back, but I never got used to the concept. It's like those classic rolling ball mice from the Windows 98 era, and I cannot be the only one who turned those rolling balls upside down and tried to use Windows UI that way, right? Anyone tried doing that?
Speaking of another niche input device, who else uses a trackpoint on a regular basis?
Context:
A classic hardcore single from 1992!
The direct cause for this release was the ongoing rivalry between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and how the media even blew this up beyond proportion. So the producers decided to disguise themselves as countryside farmers, unaware of anything about urban life. Artist name Harm Reefboer: "boer" is Dutch for "farmer", "reef" is Dutch phonetic spelling for "rave", and Harm was a popular first name on the countryside (there even was a song named "Boer Harms", about a farmer who loved disco). Artist name Teun Hooihouse: I guess "house" is obvious, "hooi" is Dutch for "hay" and Teun was another popular first name on the countryside. Studio de Reefschuur: "schuur" is Dutch for "shed".
The title "Alles Naar De Kl--te" is actually a censored version of "Alles Naar De Klote". The censored version of the title is only heard on the radio version (more about that later). Title means something like "(destroy) everything to utter mess". Both the 7" and the 12"/CDM contain a "Rotterdam mix" but these are different. The version on the 7" will be named "radio version" further in this text.
The Rotterdam mix starts with sounds of a horse carriage ("Hu peerd" is Dutch slang to put a horse to a standstill). "Rotterdam? Amsterdam? Ik weet allebei nie waar da lech, of da-da bestaat..." this dialogue is about being unaware of any big cities in our country. Dimitri is questioned; this is supposed to be popular Amsterdam house DJ Dimitri Kneppers. He is offered a little house record, surely of his liking, maybe he would like to remix it. After Dimitri is requested to listen closely, the mayhem starts. "Mien, haal de koeien van stal" is a typical Dutch line heard on the countryside and means "Mien, get those cows out of the stable!". The line is followed by cow sounds done by humans. "Wij doen niet mee aan de moduh" means "We do not follow the fashion" and is not only a statement of not following what goes on regarding house music in Amsterdam, but also a pun towards Amsterdam as our country's fashion capital. At the end of the track, we hear "Wat denk je? Zal Robin hem draaien?". This means "what do you think, will Robin play it?". This refers to Robin Albers and his then popular radio show "For Those Who Like To Groove" which also used to contain rave but was drifting towards more melodic house and club.
You don't even need to compare a century old exams, you can notice a drop in subjects and depths even in college (hard) engineering degrees such as electrical engineering.
In my country the good ol' Netherlands (where both taxes and sea levels are too high) a hts (hogere technische school, or higher technical schools) of few decades ago included far more in depth mathematics and practical approaches to circuit problems compared to todays bachelor schools. Back then you had to understand the subject fully in either class or in library. You practically could not fill the gaps of education with the aid of online tutorials or online teacher's resources on Youtube. Compared to my current hbo (hoger beroepsonderwijs or higher professional education) bachelors degree education, there is a noticeable gap in knowledge and way more fluff courses which take away time and depth from the core of electrical engineering.
As a personal anekdote, I have tried analogue circuits exams from few decades ago and I did not know answers or made way too many mistakes in them, which signifies a gap in knowledge compared to older/ senior electrical engineers in a typical engineering firms.
I'm not surprised, once a critical mass of the population have nothing to loose for then it would light up. And for the record, General Patton was right.
Aren't we already living in one? Minus the good uniforms.
If it also involves an A10 strafing run on those traitors for sole purpose of demonstrating how a fluid body reacts when penetrated by super sonic anti materiel projectile, then yeah sure.
This does make me think how much potential is wasted in this dreaded, al consuming, cycle.
They are bunch of faggots. I still remember climate gate of 10+ years ago.
Its funny how those dumbasses told me that this country won't go into another hard lockdown. Ahh, fun memories.
I don't really get it, what am I looking for?
Never visited Aussie, however I like cars and if I were to design my ideal sedan it would definitely include a deep blue metallic paint, blower powered straight six, manual in the middle and RWD. An Ferd Falcon XR6T FG fits that picture perfectly.
Yep, this protest was quite the spectacle. Saw a live feed on Telegram of that evening. More protests and riots were organized in my lovely country (such as in Enschede, Leeuwarden and Groningen abeit on smaller scale) that weekend in sympathy to those who were shot*.
*that's what I read on some groups, but the main theme was "Fuck de corona maatregelen" with lots of heavy fireworks, stones and burnt bicycles (cop cars included), so yeah.
Some background: a week before this there was a large demonstration at Rotterdam harbor by harbor men from the group #DockersUnited against the measurements. The riot police reacted quite harshly against them (imo anyway). This could have contributed to the large Rotterdam centrum riot of Friday evening.
Wouldn't the letter X also be considered problematic, since men have XY chromosomes and Adolf Hitler was a man as well? I mean come on, its 2021!
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And this time don't include a guard at the gate with an AK 47.
Who do you mean, if I may ask?
With raytracing enabled!
Based and rice pilled.
What would you otherwise think, its Reddit anyways. Nothing is spared from those jannies.
Well, where are those social workers when you need them?
What are you supposed to call these people, genuine question.
Well, I was wondering why certain content was not available on liveleak anymore.
Lol at right wing accelerationists, as if right wingers are rioting in cities across the world right now. Weren't AHS faggots behind the ban of the sub /r/coomers by posting CP in the first place? I suggest to close posts down when they're inactive for more than a day or two and advertise this site as an alternative when the ban hammer hit reddit.
One major drawback for using that Compaq, especially with those new generation motherboards, is the lack of dedicated PS/2 ports. Those el cheapo PS/2 to USB converters have too many reliability issues. Its in my to do list in my next holidays to utilize an Arduino Nano (or equivalent) as a dedicated converter.
About those cheap keyboards, I used to have an old membrane Windows 95 era Microsoft Internet keyboard. That thing was a rock, never let me down and had decent feedback.