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Wristwatch USB Drive
opwierde writes "For the gadget happy multitude LAKS has made the ultimate wristwatch. It's a USB drive combined with a watch and they've managed to make it look rather nice." (This looks like a nice place to store a persistent homedir to use with Knoppix-MiB ;))
Now my hands can be used for other things! Ohhh wait, 128MB ... hmmm, that's a decent sized porn clip...
Nevermind, there are no new uses for my hands here, sorry.
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i ordered one of these from them over 30 days ago, no watch and no returned emails....anyone get theirs yet?
It's a shame that cord just sticks out like that, it just makes the thing look ridiculous.
Now, if it were Bluetooth enabled for data transfer...
a link in the article would of been nice
www.laks.com
I purchased my first USB drive a couple of months ago. I love it. As the family and friends 'computer guy'(not to mention work), I'm always fixing this or that on other peoples computers. I keep a collection of utilities on my drive so that I can plug it in and have most everything I need.
Wow. It really is an interesting watch. The usb cord seems to hide inside the wristband. I bet this will making cheating my collage harder when testing in the testing lab. The already check you body and your keychain for usb thumbdrives.
I'm getting one i guess. The 128 meg model is only $93...
No.
Nice looking watch
Look at loads of pics from thinkgeek here
I think bluetooth would be ideal for a product like this! After becoming enamored with my sony ericsson bluetooth itunes/dvd/finder hack for OS X i have seen the light on the functionality and ease of use that is bluetooth.
c h
In any case, im sure the next generation will support such standards, but I want one now. Maybe ill beg fossil to impliment bluetooth in their new palm watch:
http://www.fossil.com/tech/default.asp?Tier1=te
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www.laks.com
I wonder if I could use this at work...
"Hey, this server's root drive just crashed!"
"No problem, I'll just boot it off my handyh watch here!"
Have EVDO, will travel.
I'd rather carry a floppy in my pocket
Hottie: Is that a floppy in your pocket or are you just happy... hey wait. That is a floppy in your pocket. Like, you're such a nerd! Forget it!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Okay now, come on!!!
USB watch, toothbrush, shaver, coffee pot, George Foreman grill...
yet there's one thing every nerd still needs by their computer, a USB Girlfriend!!!
Colossians 2:8
Is it just the pr0n you're suggesting he needs the magnifier for or... um... nevermind.
That watch looks very cool from my point of view. I wonder if a good looking watch from your perspective is one that is associated with being rich?
:)
I'd rather have a hottie who thinks a USB watch is cool
Why not just add a bit more memory to your phone or Palm Pilot?
Because your phone and PDA can't act as a disk. They're a USB device, not a USB server.
If you don't like the watch, get the keychain. If you don't like the keychain, get the watch.
OK, I have no need for a Palm Pilot, I don't always carry my phone around with me, but I always wear my watch... now if my watch can hold 128Meg of stuff... that's damn handy... I can have useful tools on there, or funny video clips/trailers etc... just very darn cool.
And my thoughts on the look... it's a nice looking watch.
And having a floppy in your pocket is never going to allow you to date 'hotties' now is it?
I think it would be a little strange-looking keeping the watch on your wrist while sticking it next to a USB port. And how the heck are you supposed to type at the same time, especially if the ports are in the back of the computer!? It would be cool if you could auto-sync your watch time by plugging it in though.
I'm going to be the most popular guy in my cubical farm. The babes will be lining up. Fame. Sex. Better gas mileage. All thanks to my new uber-geek watch.
(PS: Sex for one still counts as sex, no?)
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
I really typed that, and hit submit.
Wow.
A USB Girlfriend? Would that acronym be
Undress Some Baby?
Unsane Serial Bitch?
Unending Soulcrushing Banter?
Unloved Slightly Bloated?
(im going to hell for this)
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Made it look nice? With that honking USB connector wrapped around the wrist strap? Why not brand the word "NERD" across your forehead?
Watches from Laks? Smells fish to me...
--Joey
So, the USB cable doesn't come out any further than that? Still a cool toy, but I guess you gotta take the watch off before plugging it into your puter. I'll probally buy one from thinkgeek once they're back in stock.
Ia agree. My USB keychain fob is smaller, less obstrusive, and there are days I simply do not want to wear a watch. My keychain is almost always with me.
Neat gadget, but not nearly as practical as the key drives.
Generally, anything built into fashion is going to be useless at some point. Clothes, accessories, etc are temporary and best suited just to cover us and make us look good. I don't exactly see the Armageddon Bra (bad example, I know but I cant help but mention it) flying off the shelves and anyone wearing those "PDA pockets dockers" just looks silly.
Personally, I'd love to see the USB key drive replace the floppy. Its easy to use, holds tons of data, and is pretty cheap. My Lexar 128 meg drive was $40 after rebate. Plus it would be nice not to be the only guy in the room with one.
This is a really cool idea, and if I had spare cash I'd probably buy one. . .
But "This looks like a nice place to store a persistent homedir..."
I just don't think 128 megs is practical for the average geeks home directory, I have like 2 gigs+ of stuff in my home directory, and I know I'm not the only one...
Still a cool idea to move files around, and keep a set of handy utilites with you at all times.
Eh, I'll stick to the PalmPilot, if I simply must have a portable geek toy.
Now, if it came with the Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan model 007 attached - yum! Where's my credit card??
Doing my level best to piss off the religious right wing...
Your own illiteracy will add to your credibility as an insider.
Banach-Tarski Overdrive
When I first saw the watch with the cable sticking out if it, I thought of Batman using it in lieu of something in the batbelt. You know, the Penguin pushes him off the top of a skyscraper and he saves himself by shooting a cord out of his watch and attaching it to a flagpole or something.
Then spiderman finds out and sues him for IP or patent infringement or something.
Huh?
Which side will be beaten down first?
I predict the calculator watch will take the most punishment. YMMV.
Is this thing waterproof? If so, how deep can it go before it cracks under pressure?
Cool, but, for the US folks, it needs atomic capability (as in automatic synchonization with the NIST atomic clock in Boulder, CO), as in:
It's way cool to have a watch that's always correct.
there was a USB-boot option in my BIOS, I would think this a very cool thing.
meh
He's an MCSE. Give him a break.
It's too bad it doesn't have an SD slot in it as that way it wouldn't be limited to 128megs. With an SD slot I could stick a 1gig (coming out in a few months) SD card with Knoppix on it in there and on many new PCs (USB2.0) boot from the watch ready to go with networking, KDE and the whole shebang.
Or flexable.
If you actually look at the Thinkgeek USB watch, you'll find that it's the SAME watch.
Which, by the way, looks mighty uncomfortable. Look at the back of the band. It has this huge line on it for the USB cable. Ouch.
T.
I'd love to see the functionality of one of those keyless entry remote dealies for your car embedded in a decent looking watch. Has anyone ever seen such a thing? A quick google turned up nothing.
Knoppix MIB though.... Yummi!
-b
...because you can daisy chain 127 of them together.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
While I'd be the first to agree that maybe a radio isn't cool just because it runs Linux, or a watch isn't cool just because it has USB, this tends to be the theme of Slashdot. Certainly, I take it with something of a grain of salt and read other news sources, but I find Slashdot interesting. If you don't like the common topics (like useless gadgetry), then don't read it. If you read for the sake of pointing out things you don't like, you are little more than a troll.
Please befriend me if you don't like idiots.
Why cant I synch the watches time by writing to a specific mameory address on the watch. Now that would be even more useful.
Mark
/. effect reducer maybe?
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
When you absolutely, positively have to beat off right now, accept no substitutes.
I'd consider buying one like that. The band on the existing one just looks way to unwieldly.
If not now, when?
Actually, it was more RAM.
She's a nympho, you know.
It all goes downhill from first post
It'll suck when the capacity gets bigger and you're doing you're weekly backup at work-
almost done...just half a gig left...damn the progess bar stalled- I hate being tethered to this computer.
[***clicks on the little task bar thingy** >> Safely remove >> Myself ]
Sorry if I got that last part wrong, I don't really use windows to often- I guess on a Apple or Linux it's just about as funny...eject put away or...hmmm...Unmount (eak)
how is having a "floppy" in your pocket likened to being "happy" to see someone?
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(im going to hell for this)
Only if your girlfriend reads it.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
A better idea would be to actually make a watch capable of PDA operations.
Timex will be releasing that...sometime.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
If you're going to be storing files on your watch, you might as well listen to music at the same time with one of these.
You can buy one for the low price of $129.99 USD at your local Radioshack.
Not only does it function as a watch, it also plays mp3 files (4 hours of play time on one AAA battery) and stores data (by way of usb mass storage device).
You get a choice of wearing it on the GripClip cradle, wriststrap, or lanyard. Much more convenient than just a watch.
It works without drivers in winXP (or newer, when we get newer) and MacOSX.
Best of all. Because it acts as a USB mass storage device it works under linux. Simply compile in the usb drivers, usb mass storage drivers, FAT files system drivers, and scsi generic drivers and your ready to go (after a simple mount =)
It even includes the AAA battery =)
-this comment would be modded up if I posted it earlier =)
Where have you been?
(Austin powers voice)
Floppies aren't floppy anymore, they're *hard*, baby. YEAH BABY! YEAH!
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
If your watching porn, you wouldn't have a free hand...
Science will save us. The question is, will it destroy us first?
...in the picture- It's plugged into a Wallstreet G3 with a SCSI connector! It must scream sexy to by that close to the original smooth curves of the classic apple powerbook...
Why is everyone looking at me all funny??! Ok ok, I'll go back to the basement now.
Performing a query for 'drive' on reference.com, I found the following definition:
:)
Computer Science. A device that reads data from and often writes data onto a storage medium, such as a floppy disk.
I would say this watch qualifies as a drive.
Quit holding onto those archaic ideas
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Two of the following are true:
1) Love slashdot.
2) Push nearly everyone I know in IT to read slashdot.
3) Slashdot is still important.
Unfortunately I'm struggling between #2 and #3.
This post is nothing more than an advert for a 128MB USB wrist watch that has been heavily advertised by www.thinkgeek.com. I've seen half a dozen popular web sites today that mention this watch and -every- one mentions thinkgeek yet somehow slashdot manages to find a "submission" that doesn't.
Odd. Yep. Unlikely. Yeppers.
Still, a neat piece of tech, not nearly worth $100. A 128mb keychain is like $30 and few will care if you're keychain is goofy. They're much more likely to notice the geek watch.
I mean, but your friends will dig it, and that's what matters...
-dameron
What is clock speed...?
Do you go to the electronic store, stand at the endcap where they sell usb drives, and tell everybody there not 'real' drives?
sheesh.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Ok, so the powers that be decided to add a link in the main text (yay)....
... but it's a bad link (boo).
1. Why is the cable on the watch and not vice-versa?
2. Why doesn't it use a MicroUSB Connector?
3. Why doesn't it use Bluetooth instead? For that capacity, the lack of speed ain't an issue.
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Hey, for being voted Best Employer in 2003 here in Belgium, Microsoft Belgium gave all employees one of these watches free!
"is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" -- Mae West
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I love the company mission:
"LAKS is about art, dreams and visions, combined with technology, innovation and the magic taste of colors."
from http://www.laks.com/english/welcome.html
So much for their link.
So by those standards would a...oh say, credit card be a drive? It stores information and is read from.
What about my punch card for a free sandwich after you buy 12 (only 7 more to go!). They put a hole in it, it is then read back before they punch another hole in it signifying another purchase.
However, this is definitely a drive.
--Joey
What? You mean your penis isn't square?
Visualize Whirled Peas
This is the type of device I'm looking for in a Secure Digital card reader. I can imagine the possibilities, upgradable memory as SD card become larger and cheaper, easy transfer of data between any computer and my Tungsten and best of all I wouldn't have to worry about not having it when I really need it.
1. Why is the cable on the watch and not vice-versa?
That's kind of a metaphysical question isn't? "You cannot bend the spoon..." Actually, I think it would have been amusing if they could have used the USB connector as the catch for the band. Of course it would have to be modified to include a real latching mechanism and not just a friction fit.
2. Why doesn't it use a MicroUSB Connector?
Do you have a MicroUSB connector on your computer? I don't have one on mine (home, work, laptop, etc.) That's probably the reason, though it would be convenient.
3. Why doesn't it use Bluetooth instead? For that capacity, the lack of speed ain't an issue.
For that size, power must be an issue. I'd really rather not have a recharging cradle to put my watch in ever night.
- time range between 1/8 second and 100 years
- date displayed as day of week/day of month
- date never needs adjusting, it automatically accounts for different months and leap years
- century display (gear ratio 1:~6 billion)
- stop watch
- moon phase (accurate to one day in 122 years)
- self winding
- slider that will chime the current time to the minute
Here's the groovy part: 100% mechanical. Yup, it calculates and adjusts the date with respect to leap years/month length, tracks centuries, and all the rest by the power of micro-mechanics. It's got 600+ parts and 70+ (IIRC) jewels. They only make 50 a year. A credit to human engineering...now if I could only afford one.I think the USB idea is great and all, but as some said, the LAKS isn't the nicest looking watch in the world.
What I'd really like to see is a really teched out digital watch in an oldschool silver pocket watch enclosure. Maybe I'm the only one... but I don't put things on my wrists.
CASIO Databanks (with calculator and other features) with USB drive support. I still use a Databank today for over a decade. I still love them over PDAs. The 128 MB is too small for my taste. 1 GB would be nice.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
The connector problem makes me think that the concept of a USB watch is pretty dumb. You have to provide the connector. With a USB key fob, you just build it into the fob, and provide a cover or make it retractable. Can't do that with a watch.
And a person can forget his watch (God knows I do) but you can't go anywhere without your keys.
But what do I know? I thought nobody would buy those remote control watches.
A shame really. Mod the parent up.
Or just do a google search for USB wristwatch to find even more.
I actually think it sounds very handy for those run-of-the-mill computer jobs. Carry AVG Anti-virus, Spybot S&D, K-Lite Codec pack and some other things. All I need to find now is a way to change USB into Palm's universal connector.
I've been looking for a replacement for my Casio WQV3(Digital Camera Watch) ever since I got my Zire71. For a while, I've been considering the Matsucom OnHand PC, and for the price, I could get BOTH, KEEP the watch, and render myself the Uber-nerd. All I would need to do is get the WQV-10 which has a color screen ON the watch...
Anyone know if this is available over the counter somewhere in Hong Kong?
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
If you're in Germany, you can get one for free! The ISP 1&1 is giving away the 32MB version when you sign up for DSL. The offer ends in a week.
Some features it lists:
Although it doesn't say so, it is the Laks watch that they are offering. Personally, I preferred the combo DSL/ISDN PCI card that 1&1 used to offer.
-- Steve
i looked at the thinkgeek watch
/.ed with only 5 comments posted, with no google cache, as i'd said earlier :P
i didn't look at the site linked in the article, because it was
i do agree that the band looks uncomfy. I agree with the other person who replied to your post, if it plugged into a usb receptor that would be awesome.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
My left arm and right arm are already taken. I don't have any more arms, you insensitive clod!
Take your point about the styling tho', *real* men wear fully-mechanical watches!
Personally I'd rather do without the bundle of pointy keys in my pocket and have everything unlock via a small proximity RFID or similar I could mount on the back of my watch. Hand reaches for lock, door opens. Easy. Why isn't this common? You can get it for cars, why not houses? Keys are pretty nasty things...
Most USB ports are still in the back of computers. The cord seems a little small to reach -- and if I have to take off the watch in order to retrieve data from the USB watch then it isn't worth it. I'd rather buy a cheaper watch and a cheaper USB storage device.
"Why is the cable on the watach and not vice-versa?"
Probably because it would feel a lot worse to have a small plastic rounded watch band, and you would then also have to remove the watch to make use of it. If you're a contortionist, you don't have to now.
"Why doesn't it use a MicroUSB Connector?"
Probably because there are already two different small USB implementations, neither of which are on any standard-design PC. Sony desktop computers do not count. It's much more useful if you can plug it into a slot that *every* modern computer has, rather than having to carry an adapter around with you to use it.
"Why doesn't it use Bluetooth instead? For that capacity, the lack of speed ain't an issue."
Power/heat requirements, probably, and possibly due to a lack of widespread adoption of bluetooth on desktop equipment. If you have one that is bluetooth, you need to supply either a reliable way to turn it off, so its not constantly looking for computers to connect to, and you need to have a much better power source than a dime-battery. As with the previous comment about USB, if you can't find a computer that is aready equipped to handle the device, then there really isn't a point to having the device in the first place.
This all being said, it would have been nice if they would have used a different, thinner USB cable, even with that connector, and if they had hidden the connector inside the body of the watch so that it doesn't stand out like it does, but at least they built it in the first place. Hopefully they'll come out with some better ones now.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Since I have a mobile phone that also shows the time, why bother carrying a wrist watch?
do you use to have a free hand while watching porn in your watch..? Oh, never mind ;)
Mail? Put "slashdot" in the subject to pass the spam filters.
So what if there are multiple implementations? The vendor simply supplies a cable that goes from Mini-USB to standard USB B connector, like the 6-in-one card reader I bought last week (and returned because it wouldn't mount any media under Linux, but I digress).
Mail? Put "slashdot" in the subject to pass the spam filters.
I got one of these myself and it's really nice.
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda
Anyway I wanted to be a bit more sophisticated
and have multiple disk images that I can just
dd to the watch (/dev/sda) as required., rather
than just have the 1 vfat partition on it.
However when you dd a 2 partition disk image to
the watch for e.g. after it's been registered
with having only 1 partition, you can't mount
or do anything with
So you need to get the linux kernel to reread
the partition table, and the handy way to do
this is: blockdev --rereadpt
also the best size to read/write the watch (32MB
version anyway) is: 32k, so to backup the watch
just: dd bs=32k if=/dev/sda of=watch.backup
If he's posting here he probably doesn't have a girlfriend ;)
And if he does she's probably either a nerd too or immune to his nerdy behaviour and quirks (e.g. my wife who just goes "ugh, reading your nerd-rews again") and walks off to watch a TV soap (usually Eastenders, why is that ALWAYS on?).
Hmm.
Troc
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
that's nerd-news of course, she doesn't have a speech impediment. :)
/dev/null of I disagree.
"I wonder what this preview button does"
Hmm
Troc
PS She also uses her USB keyring much more than I use mine. But she tells me she's not a nerd and threatens to kick me to
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
Because having the watch on a cable just didn't pass the consumer testing phase.
Well, to whoever did: Thanks!
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I tend to type almost exclusivly with my left hand. A couple of years ago I broke my right wrist and it was in plaster for over a month. During this time, I had to use my left hand to type, and got up to a respectable speed. Now, when I'm just typing in the odd command, as opposed to writting large amounts of text, I tend to leave one hand on the mouse. Opera makes this worse, since mouse gestures mean I rarely need to touch the keyboard while I'm browsing.
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No! Electric staplers are bad! You put in the paper, wait and they don't do anything then, when you least expect it, 'BANG!' it inserts a staple half into the paper as you try to remove it.
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Hey... isn't that what being A Proud American is all about? :)
Obligatory Simpsons' quote:
Homer: "In case you didn't notice, I was being sarcastic"
Have EVDO, will travel.
They aggregate geeky products into one place and make it fun to shop there. I know I'm paying more for my toys when I shop at ThinkGeek, but I get what I pay for: a fun shopping experience. I trust them to treat me well and to pick good toys. I've never been disappointed.
Remember, the value of something is Whatever The Market Will Bare. If someone is willing to pay 120% of suggested retail for something, it's worth it to them. That's one of the awesome things about a truely free market. I can pay cost + margin at Costco or SAMS and get crappy service, or I can pay double cost at a boutique and get waited on hand and foot. Or I can alternate as my mood (or wallet) changes.
That's a little something we like to call "freedom".
I discovered this when I put the disks in my jacket pocket to move the data from my workstation to the test rig at the other end of the building and got distracted on the way. I only remembered that they were there when I got home...
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Actually, I use both. A digital display inside an analogue face. The analogue display is useful when I only need a rough idea of the time, and the digital display, stopwatch and alarm are useful when I need precision. They are both driven by the same timing crystal, so they stay in sync.
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When?
Think really hard--the robots, unless perpetuating the fraud of the matrix, don't lie. And the oracle is, believe it or not, still on the side of the angels.
that's funny shit!
"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people." --Muhammad Ali
The first 2 1/2 minutes of any movie is the FBI warning message telling you how bad it is to copy the movie. Unless of course you previously copied the movie and removed the FBI message...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
At the very least she told Neo he wasn't the one.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
When she told him that, he wasn't. She said maybe in the next life -- when did he become "the One"? After coming back to life.
Have you looks at the bluetooth spec?
The bandwidth is 723.2/57.6 kbps asymmetric and 433.9 symmetric. While that's pretty damned fast for printing or a mouse or a keyboard, it's nowhere NEAR fast aneough for "transparent" access to the device.
Anyone else think that Slashdot editors should add a "conflict of interest" tag to news items that cross-promote their sister companies?
There've been a few such "news stories" over the past little while.
-psy
The difference is in the shipping. If you go to the LAKS site and set the country to the US, you'll see that it's $93.00 + $42.15 (or euros they're charging the same for both) which brings us to a total of $135.15 including shipping. Now take a look at Think Geek, they charge $119.99 (they had to get it shipped into the country) and another $8.19 for UPS delivery bringing the total to $128.18.
Now which is the better deal?
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Conclusion - I'll buy this watch if it can take my lifestyle. Which has some fairly mundane but demanding requirements like cycling home in the rain, fixing my house and my watch getting knocked around a bit, oops, washed my hands and forgot to take my watch off, etc....
What's wrong with a mini-CD-R, or CD-RW?
Smaller than a floppy; cheaper, and more disposable than a USB drive.
Stick it in your top pocket.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
You're lucky you were able to fit that much on your arms. My wrists have allready been filled up with this.
No, not really.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I just pluged it into my Mandrake 9.1 machine and an icon apeard on the desktop a cople seconds latter. Klick on the icon, open the folder, copy files both ways. Simple.
This was a fresh install of the download eddition. I didn't _do_ anything to make it work.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
Actually, I think Morpheus put it best "She told you what you needed to hear." ...
He wasn't ready to understand/accept that he was the one. And Rescuing Morpheus was part of that experience.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
i can go straight to the store and get one... sucks not to be austrian these days ;)
No, she didn't. Play the scene back again. She asked him his
opinion, told him she was sorry, that he had what it takes, but
that it was like he was _waiting_ for something. He asked what
he was waiting for, and she said she didn't know. (Then she
speculated: "Your next life maybe? Who knows?" -- but she made
it totally clear she didn't know.)
As it turned out, he was waiting for the right motivation, for
Morpheus' life to be on the line.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Remember, 3 1/2" Hard is always better than 5 1/4" Floppy. It's an old bit of nerd party wisdom
-Jason
"but in your case, your opinions seem less backed up by logic and more based on a desire to be contrary for the sake of contrariness."
;)
i disagree.
Also that'd explain why the Oracle (a nice piece of code right?)
Maybe, but way too expensive. MySQL and PostgreSQL suffice for all my needs.
I would buy a drive that does not contain a spinning disk with a R/W head. I would not give my money to lying idiots.
Comeon ... Didn't you notice on their webpage it says: "We start shipping NOW!" No wait, we start shipping NOW! No wait, NOW! NOW! NOW!
... you're already there."
I guess this is comparable to "wherever you are
Well, here's potential for a new spin on the old coffee cup + watch-wearing person joke.. "Hey Tom, what's the time..?" "Sure it's..." + sound of notebook hitting the floor as Tom checks his USB watch and pulls it to the ground. If the strap was carbon-loaded, would the watch serve as an antistatic wrist strap too!? L3K
AT&ROFLMAO
Dude, get a hamburger and chill. Or "cowburger" if you prefer.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
You've been watching Hand Maid May, again, haven't you?
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
What exactly is the point of this regulation?
Do they also ban ZIP drives and floppies?
I can understand this ban only in a few specific industries that also run with very restrictive internet filtering; are you in one of those?
"I filter at +6, and have yet to miss out on an important comment." (#822545)
And a Dislexic one at that :)
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
It's useless unless it can play MP3z, take digital pictures, open my garage door and um... yeah, well, wake me up in the morning. =)
Quit bitcing, all of you, you all act as if bitching is what slashdot is all about :) Now, someone please bitch about my spelling error(s).
Student: "Oh sorry I'm late sir, I've lost my watch"
Teacher: "Not a problem so long as you have brought your assignment"
Student: "Oh... uummm.... would you believe..."
Glenn
The Smrt way to trade CFDs on the ASX
The 21st century's equivalent of the 80's calculator watch?