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Binary Watch
sovereignclass writes: "IDG in Sweden ran a little story about a firm in Norway that has built a binary wrist watch. It look way cool and I am definitely in line for getting one myself. With a price-tag of 250 norwegian kronor it's not a tough buy either. Yes, it shows time in decimal too... In Sweden we often poke fun at the Norwegians (like the Germans do to the Ostfriesen) and this almost sounds too good to be true."
I was hoping for blinkenlights, not numbers!
I once read a book circa 1975 called "Computer Lib" It contained the machine code for a digitl wristwatch. It was only like 64 bytes. I'm surprised no one ever thought of this earlier. Just hook it up to a display and whammo binary watch. Commercialising it should have been done long ago
All a coder really wants, are fast cars, fast women and fast algorithms.
The product shots are CG renders! I doubt this product really exists...
This would be fun, I hear they mgiht be sale in the US on 0110101101110000101110101, 01101101301EST.
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
Right, I can think of thousands of uses right now! And not one of them involves telling time. This is a novelty item.
It says:
This page is under construction
In a few days we will present a complete new type of watch.
This watch will communicate with other similar watches and send virus to each other.
Wow, nothing like truth in marketing, I guess.
What's your damage, Heather?
and get a matching binary "ties suck tie", and the "you are dumb" binary t-shirt!
Sell all three together as a set.... Then head to work for the day..... That will keep you from getting a date for at least the next year!
On a side note, the idea is cool for the watch and I like it, I just wish they looked a little cooler... They kinda look cheap.
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
it already takes me a long time to figure out an analog watch... now this...
I think these have been discussed here before smoe time ago, but here is a link to BCD software and hardware clocks. I think Gnome comes with one, too?
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
cat
...the people from Denmark and Norway take the Swedes on a ride all the time (at least some Danish boyscouts told me).
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
"Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"
"Yes, it's... uhhh... 12.. no, 14! I mean, er, do you have a pencil?"
"Uh, never mind. Thanks anyway, you fucking dork."
Now if they had a hex watch, THAT would be cool... :->
But yeah, blinking led's would be far cooler. ;-) I wonder how long it would take to get quick at telling the time at a glance? The digits are not grouped in 4 bits (which would have made it easier but subject to overflow). 4, 5, 5.
23:59:50 on the pictures.
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
They must be working with Microsoft on that one.
Anyone that looks at the pictures sees that it is a 3D rendered image not a real picture. I look at the site design and anyone could have made that site.
I like the idea of a binary watch. I prefer hex personally but hey! : )
Who would buy from a site with their online catalogue being only 3D studio max renditions?
But the word "gay" is not an insult...
Does it do metric time.
Web site for that is http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, if you're not Swedish."
The Swedes are well known to believe anything you say to them. It is a well known fact both in Denmark and Norway.
ChrisX
Find a currency converter.
The little bar at the bottom of my screen has the time.
Which also leeds to the question, why do I need to wear pants? My cube desk pretty much covers the lower half of my body.
Someone you trust is one of us.
My favorite time format is
d2x(date('B'))'.'d2x((time('S')*65536%86400),4)
(this is REXX). Currently it's B26C9.AA7F A.D.
Plus, of course, the watch isn't even true binary. It's binary coded sexagesimal. There used to be an X11 clock (I cant' remember what it was called) that showed the time in thousandths of a day. Now that'd be a truly geeky watch...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Nice joke, but the website design could have been a tad better, if only to look more real.
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
Is that display little-endian or big-endian? Or will you be able to change endian mode? Or buy a separate model for each, maybe?
--
Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Does anyone know of a watch that does this?
How about a clock that shows the number of seconds since the Epoch in binary 32 bit format?
1/1000th of a day is a Swatch .beat that they use in their 'Internet Time'. You can buy all sorts of Swatches that will display the time in .beats (@500 == 12:00 noon in their system).
As the pictures are apparently CG I would say that this is fake - someone is having fun :)
Real life is overrated.
"Hey buddy, what time is it?"
"It's 110101000100101101000101"
"Nevermind then."
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Let me give you the lowdown
Binary is OK, but what we really need is a watch that count telling UNIX time - seconds since the epoch.
"Do you have the time?"
"Yeah, it's 2,000,230,293"
"Go away."
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If your answer is Microsoft, you obviously didn't understand the question.
My clock is fuzzier than yours... right now the time is "End of week".
-- If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide --
You know, the kind with hands pointing at numbers that are scattered about a dial? They used to be fairly common, and are why you hear about "half past" the hour or "quarter til" the hour. They are also why we use AM/PM instead of 24 hour clocks.
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An article on ITAvisen.no claims that IBM is considering to bundle this watch with new computers in the Asian market.
I've come to... anesthetize you!
Now I last longer in the sack.....
Darling, I hope I wasn't too much of an animal last night for those 101 mintes.
Would be cool if it could have physical switches who moved on/off. :-)
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$11111010 Norway Kroner = $11011.1011100 United States
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Sig
As a guest of the norwegians, I find it amusing that they were given the hardest, rockiest land in all of Sweden as their own, only to become the some of the most valuable land on earth, because of the oil, gas, fish, and other wealth just off the shoreline.
It's lots of fun tho, the tit-for-tat between them and you. I saw a widely circulated map the other day which shows scandanavia without sweden. Very popular here.
Closest thing to it in the States that I can think of is the ongoing rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas. (although there is probably more physical violence in that one, heh.)
Stillig klokke, dudes.
You can find a real shot here.
Plain 'ol LCD stuff. Still pretty cool for the price though.
the other cool part is that the .beat thing is also a timezone-less time. @500 is 1200 GMT, @999 is 2359 GMT.
kinda a sad part to it, it used to be one of the ways that the time was displayed on cnn.com (a fairly mainstream site, if I had to find one) but when the internet bubble started to collapse, then they removed it in favor of more traditional time stuff.
oh well. It would be cool to have a global timesystem that gained wide use. I tried setting my personal time to GMT once, but it was kinda tough always having to subtract 8 (or 7 in the summer) whenever someone asked me the time. Wellm to be honest, every once in a while, if i was in a surly mood, I would just give them the time in GMT when they ask.
but then again, i'm a bit of a jerk.
You can find it here .
The promotional video is pretty funny too (in an MST3K, bad movie kinda way...).
I have been wanting a watch that displays Unix Enoch time in decimal seconds.
Set to GMT, it would be a real internet time.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
That's my bet, either that or complete vapor. These pictures look like CGI to me, and the arrangement of the binary digits is just plain ugly. No prices, no shipping info... I say hoax.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
The displays on the models shown are all showing:
10111
111011
110010
But every watch marketer knows that you should be showing:
01010
001010
000000
which is 10:10 AM. Apparently it's recommended for digital watches as well, so I don't see why they shouldn't use it for binary watches.
What do you mean they cut the power? How can they cut the power, man? They're animals!
This is cool. Sending virii to each others watches! It'd work like this:
I set up my virus to give the message 'all your squares are belong to torus' and walk about with my watch blasting that out in IR. Any other watch I pass gets infected with the virus!
Then everytime a watch links to a base unit it puts all its messages (along with where they are geographically) into a website.
I can call up 'all your squares are belong to torus' and see how far its spread.
I walk past someone on a street in London who flies off to Tokyo and goes dancing allnight - soon most of Japan is infected with 'all your squares are belong to torus'. How cool a game is that! I'd play!
The best locations to get your virus to would be Antrctica and the ISS I'd have thought. Oh, and Manchester.
This has a GREAT geekness factor, but it's not hugely practical really. Instead of a quick 1/2 second (0.101 in binary) glance at the watch to see what the time is, you'll now have to stare at it for several seconds to work out what the time is. The hours wouldn't be too bad, but the minutes and seconds would be up to 6 digits each, and how many of us can convert a 6 digit binary number instantly - ok you could probably do it quite rapidly with practice, but you'd never be able to tell the time as quicky as glancing at normal digital or analogue hands.
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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5
(Disclaimer: The following is IMHO)
... oh, a game, perhaps?)
... new idea? GPL it. This post counts as prior art :)
...
Well they got this one wrong. Seven-segment displays for binary numbers? So they might be taking the piss with that, but they could at least offer up a true binary watch at the same time.
All it would need is 17 binary indicators, or three seven-segment display units (which would leave 4 bits over, for
Swatch did ".beat"-time, but the maximum would be ".otherBeat" with 1024 beats per day (
Gah. If you want something done properly
yes, we have no bananas
@500 is 1200 GMT, @999 is 2359 GMT
I'm not too familiar with "beat time" or whatever, but technically, 999 would probably be 23:58:33.6 GMT, since each beat(?) is 1 minute, 26.4 seconds.
Is this only funny if you're American?
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Cool idea, but why this cheezy pr0n movie music in the video clip?
...I don't know, 1000 geeks perhaps? Only thing I care about when it comes to time is that it's correct for where I'm at, and that if someone asks me for it, I can use my social engineering skills to give them the time in a way they can understand.
If it's the same one that I am thinking of, that's a BCD clock and not binary (seconds since Unix epoch?
I have a BCD watch with flashing LEDs, which is made by Citizen (an `Independent 1481010 model'). It was only available in Japan, and I can't find any pages or pictures of it right now, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
BCD is easy enough to read once you get the hang of it, but I think the extra level of complexity of a real binary number-of-seconds-since-01/01/1970 watch will be too much to cope with.
Having said that, I'll probably get one anyway to add to my collection
I got it for Christmas a long time ago. Didn't look to cool (cheap case), but hey, it was binary. The digits looked like a couple of slashes, forward and backward so they made nice looking trangles:
/\/\
Mh, the pictures look like coming from a ray tracer. Does this watch exist or is this just a funny Web page?
http://erichsieht.wordpress.com/category/english/
Hi. The norwegian currency is "Norske Kroner" (NOK), not Norwegian Kronor.
:)
f*** the swedish
--larsw.
--larsw
Does anyone know of a watch that shows unix time?
As if the renders weren't enough to prove it, how about this little tidbit from the "infrared watch" page:
:-)
"This page is under construction
In a few days we will present a complete new type of watch.
This watch will communicate with other similar watches and
send virus to each other."
Run a whois on the domain. The registrants adress's don't match up with what's on the site, and the site is hosted in sweden. So I suppose it's just a swedish mockery of the norwegians..
In Sweden we often poke fun at the Norwegians (like the Germans do to the Ostfriesen)
Ya, we make fun because their lederhosen have blue suspenders and the feather in their peter-pan style hat is mostly yellow. Our suspenders of course are green and our feather is red. Also, our wooden clogs are much better!
And those Ostfriesen are ridiculous too. Can't stop ribbing them!
--- -- - -
Give me LIBERTY, or give me a check.
Personally, I'm waiting for the Binary Keyboard ... so I can sit back, and type my emails using my feet.
Heh, this is a poorly-executed hoax. Good to know that this company is working on a watch that can get the GonerWatch virus. Instead of the time, it'll flash "Hi" and if I press a button, it will blow up my wrist.
feh. Two hoaxes in two days. Seriously, what would be the point of a binary watch?
thousands of compassionate citizens continue to give money, time and service to various charitable organizations in an attempt to help others that are less fortunate. Most of these whom have given so freely (and in complete anonymity) of themselves do indeed notice the ironic way that those who are so free with supporting tax funded (as in coercion and violence) and inefficient methods of 'welfare' that basically just support the status quo and the politicians (at all levels) that gain by it like an old fashioned arms dealer sticking it to 'both' sides in a war... all of these supporters however do not ever give voluntarily. One quotes, "Why should I worry about them, after all I EARNED what I have and they are scum.... it is being 'taken care of' by my good buddies in the government. Oh wait, you are recording this? Then... I care deeply. I care more than those nasty freedom loving types that think that their free will and sovereignty are better than the state. Did you get that sir? Did I present my usual facade correctly in order to cover up the fact that I really don't give a crap?"
I just wanted to plug my currency converter browser button because it rocks. http://www.joelman.com/currency
24-hour banking!?! I don't have time for that.
-- Steven Wright
In a week I'll be reading it faster than I can read analogs. Geesh, analog is medieval...
:-)
I'm considering building a wall model.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
nobody cares, they're boring.
and if you had a good sense of your own identity, you wouldn't cling to this aspect of group membership either.
Where can I short their stock?
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
Real men use octal
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Very nice renderings I would say.
Privacy is terrorism.
They should make a watch that displays a GUID, making each instant truly unique.
HH:MM:SS time is actually called "sexagesimal."
Yes, it is called sexagesimal, but that's a misnomer. It's three decimal components with distinct modulo periods.
For mathematicians, sexagesimal numbering would use sixty different digit symbols, for every component. The Babylonians used sexagesimal numbering for a range of things, not just counting minutes, but that's where we got the hour/minute/second convention.
Someone below also mentioned that the watch is "binary coded sexagesimal". That's closer to the mark, as the minutes and seconds digits are shown in distinct groupings of six binary digits (wasting four permutations for 60, 61, 62, 63). It does not count for the hours position, though, as that is shown with only five binary digits.
A twelve-hour system would be "binary coded duodecimal," but the watch appears to use a twenty-four hour system which would be called "binary coded tetravigesimal."
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Of course if you really do prefer binary, you can divide the day into 2^N equal time segments. This way your binary watch can also function as a relatively understandable progress bar of the time of day.
-Justin
That's enough posting for now lads, there're trolls afoot.
I'll be waiting for the analog version, with one pointer thing going round/12h, and a couple smaller ones going twise the angular speed the previous one has.
this page tells about their next project: a watch that can transmit viruses to other watches! I want one!
At the tone the time will be A F and 31 seconds. beep
Get off my lawn.
the other cool part is that the .beat thing is also a timezone-less time. @500 is 1200 GMT, @999 is 2359 GMT.
Why is that cool? When I say something happens at @500, you then need to translate that to, lets see, maybe 4 am your time to figure out if it was light or dark. I suppose if it really was universal, so you knew what time dawn, dusk, lunch and midnight are where you are, it might be OK, but otherwise it's annoying.
I guess these are the same sorts of arguments people have against metric weights and measures, to some degree.
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
A real rivalry exists in the mind of Alaskans, though Texans are totally unaware of it.
Texan: Y'all know Texas is the biggest state, right?
Alaska: Only if you cut Alaska into three states, moron!
Texan: ok... whatever....
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas"
Sen. Davy Crocket to US Congress, Nov. 1, 1835
From the looks of their video, they definitely need to hang out with some marketing folks, if only for a couple hours over a few beers. Still, the video has an enduring, ineffable charm. All the qualities of amateur pr0n. Without the pr0n. (Be sure to turn up the volume in order to hear the dialogue in the live-action scene -- unlike pr0n, the dialogue makes the magic.)
-dwd-
I think that sums it up pretty nicely. You can have normal mode, or binary (abnormal; screwed up; what the hell do you want a binary watch for you freak?) mode.
"I am a cipher, a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce" -Jimmy James
Ok maybe you know 2 people that will get it. The rest will just be assured of your complete geekyness.
Wearing one of these will most definatly scare away the last 2 girls who would even give you the time of day(no pun untended)
Of course, confusion over the format could lead to some funny times...
The Binary watch from RSI -- Perfect for the geek with RSI!
Or will you just get carpal tunnel syndrome from wearing it?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
"Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
-Shaunak.
but, what in the hell is a "Ostfriesen"?
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
In Norway, swedish people are concidered rather dumb. For instance, get the spelling of our currency (Kroner, not Kronor) right! ;)
To read it, you would need bi-colour LEDs..
0101010
or
1 1 1 1
Whats easier to read at a glance?
Jason
Why _normal_time_ in binary, not miliseconds from The Epoch?
May The TRue Time be with you!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I am selling a ring that projects on the wall PI to 85,000 digits. My web site is not up yet.
If you want one by Christmas please sent $29.95 to
Brent's PI ring
P.O. Box 3.14....
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No shipping fees and I can promise you delivery before Christmas.
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There is another, cooler watch underw eb sale/m}{s/museumsmarket/s}{l/Deutsch/l}{g/1/g}{g/0 /g}{g/0/g}{p/0/p}{any/unt.htm/any}{i/0/i}{ctx/fffe cbc1/ctx}{st/15/st}{cmd/0/cmd}{ver/2/ver}{md5/2a63 7086c038e05b2feeac41c7d100f5/md5}&list-file=gesche .wsp
:)
http://www.websale.net/cgi/websale5.cgi?Ctx={m/
looks much better than the screenshot suggests.
Takes you some time to get used to it though
Ohio-Michigan and Kentucky-Tennessee are pretty bad, too. Likewise Alabama and all other states in the south :)
there is another binary wrist watch at http://www.museumsmarket.de/ for about 40$. Have that watch for years. Looks much better than the photo suggests.
After some time you can read the time as fast as you can read it from a normal watch.
Before it is actually produced, I would hope the trendy designer would be smart enough to ask a computer-literate person beforehand and *right align* the digits ( and replace the digits with lights, as already mentioned ).
It's nice now that the world and his dog wants to be a geek, but they need to realise that should still ask us real geeks before doing anything technical.
Did anyone watch the promotional video?
It's got the production quality of a middle-school extra credit assignment--though, maybe it's because the designers are just better engineers than they are video producers.
- Leigh
What I should have said was nothing.
When I was growing up my parents had a Spartacus Backwards Clock, a popular item from the 1950's, I guess. Unfortunately for me, though, I am now completely broken about clockwise and counter-clockwise. I have gotten to where I can now figure it out, but it is definitely a cognitive task, not an immediate perception as it is with normal people.
A friend reports a similar confusion with orange and purple, but it was purposefully engendered by her many cooperating (all older) siblings...
But if you're trying to schedule something, like a clan meeting (I'm not talking about them white-clad texans here :) or a squadron-gathering , it's quite useful.
:)
All the invited parties only need to adjust to one "time zone", instead of trying to figure out what GMT+1 while winter time saving in Ulan Bator is FSCK-4. Next week someone schedules something at 0200 PST etc. Whatever. It seems cool.
In Sweden we often poke fun at the Norwegians (like the Germans do to the Ostfriesen)
Yeah, have you heard de vun about de Norveegian terrorists?
Dey took over a cessna and crashed it into a cemetary. Dey've recovered 234 bodies so far...
http://www.aebius.com/rpm2html/contrib/libc5/i386/ xchrom-1.0.4-2.i386.html
Swatch started this in 1998, and you can still buy Swatch watches that use it, but it's only marginally more useful than the binary watch.
I don't see why you need swatch "beat" time to have a universal time system. The fact that 12 o'clock is noon is a little arbitrary. If noontime were called five o'clock all along you wouldn't think twice about it. I say that if everyone used the same time (say, greenwich mean time), then in two weeks we'd be pretty used to it and in a year we'll nearly have forgotten the whole thing.
When will slashdot learn? These watches don't exists. Well ok they do inside 3DStudio max or some such proggy.
Isnt it ironic - a binary watch that only exists in binary form...?!?
I was half expecting to read 23:59:59 on the watch, but it reads 23:59:50. Didn't I hear Norway moved to a 50 second minute somewhere...
:)
hah - gotta get my slams on Norwegians when I can. I went to school with a girl who used the e-mail sig the Norwegan goddess, so we of course made fun of her as the Nor-WEGG-An goddess rather than the Nor-Weeg-An goddess. Ah, the good old days
Anyhow, straying offtopic. Not much you can say about a friggin watch, tho (ooh - mine does base 2!).
I can just imagine a conversation here:
So, is there a time I can take you home and show you the true meaning of love?
Scrawling on a bar napkin: 11001
Um, is that supposed to be a time? It looks like you forgot the colon... what's the extra one for?
It's in binary - see? Look at my watch.
That's a weird watch... it looks like it's almost that time now... you're not trying to pull something over on me, are you?
Naw. Ask one of your buddies over there, maybe they can figure it out.
Smiling slyly - by the looks of things, it's almost that time now.
I'm waiting...
(asking buddies) What the f*ck is binary? For that matter, what the f*ck does 11011 mean in it?
(shrugging) The heck if I know.
Me either. Hey, your friend over there just headed out the door... did you get a phone number?
Shit!
(for the technically challenged or lazy, 11001 binary is 25 decimal [16+8+1=25] - thanks go out to the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] for their strange and weirdly inspiring song 25 O'Clock)
Dude, you know way too much about clocks... hey wan't to fix the time on my VCR?
Goddamn people, i know we're all nerds here, but that is amazingly lame. Find a willing girl (it will be tough if you're wearing that watch), have sex with her; i guarantee you won't want that watch anymore.
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'
There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.
A couple years ago when I first started getting into watches I found the following:
. ht ml
http://www.snoopy.net/jbc/
http://www.electronicsusa.com/bc10.html
http://www.california.com/~binard/java/Binclock
I actually used jbc on my desktop for a bit. Once you get used to it, it's not that hard to read. It may take some time to get used to it though....
-Z
You're right gay is not the correct word. I mean no disrespect in saying this, but if he had said "how queer" that would have been more appropriate since one of the meanings of queer deals with the odd or unconventional. As we all know the word gay has several meanings, one of which is happiness another meaning deals with sexual orientation. On the other hand, one meaning of queer has to do with the unconventional. Another meaning of queer is geared towards those of the same sex. Therefore, many people cross the use of the slang term gay as a synonym for the "unconventional" since it is a synonym for sexual orientation. Obviously, this is incorrect because the watch can not be happy and cannot choose its fate as you have. However, we are free to label the watch as queer since it is very odd and very unconventional :)
JOhn
Campaign for Liberty
If you always used .beats, you would have to think about when light was, you'd know, the same way you don't have to think about when it is light now.
When you go east or west, however, you may have problems
-no broken link
I have a Swatch .beat watch. I like the little animation that pops up after holding down the light button for a few seconds. Anyway...
.beat time: I synchronized it with my time zone, GMT-5, Eastern Standard. I could have used GMT, but it's not practical to me in day-to-day use. Now, when I see the beat time of @000, it's midnight EST. @500 is 12noon EST. Right now I can see that 75.9% of the day has passed.
Even though the beat system is supposed to be used as a "world" time, it is not based upon good old GMT. Instead, the base time zone for beats is located in Switzerland, using Swatch headquarters as some sick, perverted prime meridian. Beat time is truly useless.
Here is what I did with my
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
Ever heard of a dictionary?
1. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
2. Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
3. Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
4. Given to social pleasures.
5. Dissolute; licentious.
Now, which definition of gay do you use? Hmm? It is neither 1) homosexual, 2)overly happy, 3)"bright or lively" (it's rather dark and crude), 4) a party watch, or 5) immoral.
I hate to be a PC nag here, but there is a reason that many gay youth commit suicide. While it seams trivial to use gay in a derogatory fashion, it creates non-trivial psychological damage to homosexual youths, especially in the social climate we have here in the states.
In the future, please watch your language. Would it be funny if I said, "Damn, what a nigger of a watch?"
I assume from what little they have at the website (haven't watched the movie yet) that you can switch from binary time to sexagesimal (i know i must have spelled that wrong) I actaully like the idea. I';m lousy at converting binary to decimal. This could be a great learning tool and nifty to boot.
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Just a question, how is the time encoded?
Is it seperately hours, minutes, seconds?
I hope so, otherwise calculating the time would be much more difficult.
In the picture, there are 5/6/6 binary digits.
It's most likely hhhhhmmmmmmssssss
(maximum values 31,63,63 [24 hour time])
So the time is 01:00:31? Am I correct?
I hate to be a PC nag here, but there is a reason that many gay youth commit suicide. While it seams trivial to use gay in a derogatory fashion, it creates non-trivial psychological damage to homosexual youths, especially in the social climate we have here in the states.
In the future, please watch your language. Would it be funny if I said, "Damn, what a nigger of a watch?"
And for the longest time Dork and Geek referred to Penis and Clown who bit off chicken heads. The slang term for its most common meaning was not a formal definition. As for your last comment being funny... Funny you should mention that... When I lived in LA, people actually have used that EXACT SAME SENTENCE... You'd be surprised at the multitude of meanings words like that can have.
None of this binary stuff for me -- too complicated. What I need is a watch that will give me the seconds since Jan 1, 1970!
1007771123
1007771124
1007771125
1007771126....
Maybe I can just get a watch that has a perl interpreter:
perl -e "while() {print time; sleep(1);} "
A thought.
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
Actually if you ignore the fact 'gay' and 'queer' are now considered synonym's for being homosexual... they used to have totally seperate meanings...
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gay meaning happy... "showing cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement" or "Bright or lively, especially in color"
and queer meaning something that is quite odd or out of the ordinary.
But anyways... calling someting gay could be considered quite the complement. So this could mean that this binary watch is bright and lively... or rather cheerful
So next time someone calls you gay... you might as well say in return: "What a queer comment, I am not at all happy right now... but thanks for the complement"
eraa okay.. I think I am tired
Luke