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Skriven 2009-04-18 11:34:14 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 31406 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Imageshack
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Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Friday April 17 2009 at 12:03:

RB>> I type with two fingers on a US keyboard too, though. Just never
RB>> learned 10-finger touch typing, like (I assme) most people outside
RB>> the business world. If you did, all I can do is congratulate you -

RW> I did and type at least 50wpm still.

Migawd! You're better than I will ever be, and I write for a living
(translator).

RW> Once you learn how to type with all of your fingers, words flow with
RW> ease. You still have to spell them out mentally, but subconsciously
RW> your mind trains itself to type words and not letters.

Dammit, I'm envious. I liked to play the piano when I was a kid, and my folks
booked me for a piano course at the local university. My only problem was that
I played by ear and thus was too lazy to read notes. Can't read them to this
day.

RB>> except if you also have to type German. Then you're the one at a
RB>> disadvantage, since you'll have a problem entering the keys that
RB>> don't exist on a US keyboard (you'll have to use the Alt-number codes
RB>> to enter them).

RW> I don't have a problem entering those, since I use the Character Map
RW> in Windoz...it's a feature many people have overlooked and is quite
RW> useful, cut and paste. As easy as … ...

And as slow as molasses. I do that sometimes too, when I need a special
character like the "o" in Bjorn's name, but it's nothing I'd care to do on a
regular basis. Nor can I do it here in fido, except with Alt-number codes. I
write with a fido editor (GoldED, not MS Word).

RW> ...Not to mention, there are photos there that only my family/friends
RW> can see and photos there that I can show to the public, if they have
RW> an account with Facebook.

RW> Doing the same thing with photos on such places as Imageshack means
RW> that they also have control of them.

Why do you think I advised against publishing ANY private material on ANY
website? And still advise against it, regardless of the website. What leaves
your own personal computer is public domain, regardless of what anyone
promises. Call it paranoia - maybe you're right. But better safe than sorry.

RW> In Facebook, he doesn't worry about it, since only family and friends
RW> can see it, unless he opens it to the public.

Or unless the site is hacked. Lotsa luck.

I send (private) images I want others to see to them personally via email.
Anything else is (or as far as I'm concerned) in the public domain and can land
anywhere in the next 20 years.

Cheers, Bob

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