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More on the Jackito Tactile PDA
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, I wrote a column about a new Tactile Digital Assistant (TDA), the Jackito. Several Slashdot readers questioned the existence of the product and thought it might be an elaborate scam. I also had serious doubts. But as both the company behind this TDA, Novinit, and myself are French, I decided to investigate and contacted the company. And I spent several hours with the CEO and the CTO. I told them about the mistakes they made in their early announcement and asked what kind of corrective actions they were taking to fix the situation and build trust in their product. I also discussed their vision of this TDA, the history of the project and its possible future. But more importantly, I used an early prototype. I don't know if this TDA will be a success, but one thing is sure: it's real. Read this interview for more details."
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isn't that spanish for michael jackson's baby?
Whats the big deal with this product? What is more innovative about this then say a crackberry? I mean black berry :)
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add wi-fi capabilities, and rename it to Hackito, and your company will be a step closer to the PDA world domination :)
Well, so's Nigeria. And so's all that money I have coming my way from there!
But at least he actually went out and did some work. Usually, he just writes clueless re-hashes of published articles.
yes but jackito is "real" unlike most of Pamela Anderson
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How do we know Roland Piquepaille is real? Having a blog you like to link to from slashdot is hardly proof of identity.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but the PDA market (and Tablet PC market for that matter) isn't really going to take off (in the way it should take off) until we can give people more than the 72/100 dots per inch on the screen.
Its hard to convince people to completly drop paper when any standard laser will spit out printouts at 600dpi (or greater) yet the best displays are still only pitched at 100 dpi.
If you had a choice, which would you pick ?
The same applies to the sensitivity of the touch-screen.
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i can already use my fingers as a stylus on my iPAQ. i found that my pinky fingernail works great as a stylus. that being said, how is this new?
Looks a little strange. I do like the fact that they seem to let you customize it however you want, B&W or color screen, memory size, built-in modules. That would be pretty neat to custom build your own PDA just as you can custom build your own PC.
What does that mean? 60 times less? The reference is a device that used 9 Watts. One time less would be 0 Watts. (9 - 9*1 = 0) Does 60 times less mean the device yields 531 Watts?
Maybe he means one-sixteth. Hopefully this was the CEO talking and not the CTO.
Holy crap... that was hilarious :-)
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Except, for a company behind it's release schedule it's bad form not to update your schedule on your companies website. It makes it look like you have a product, but aren't selling it.
He's got a valid point, Roland is just one hell of an annoying guy.
don't worry, there will be no shortage of funny posts for this story!
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I'm not sure how well this company is going to do. Reading the interview it's clear that they're making huge mistakes marketing wise.
Hopefully they learn from their mistakes fast.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Or is it? Should I investigate whether this is similar to JBoss astroturfing? How do we know you aren't an employee (tongue firmly implanted in cheek)
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From the demo on their website, that this doesn't look like it would be easy to use at all. It looks more like a gameboy than a pda. Looks like you have to drag your thumbs on the screen to choose menu's and options. I know I won't be buying one...
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The submitter is a long known troll.. I don't trust this for one minute.
I can't believe that Slashdot would run this story without some type of vertification from multiple sources.
When it gets proven that this is a total fraud, don't say I didn't worn you.
Good stuff...
Before SWG went live, the French players unofficially picked a server they could all play on. The running joke was would the rebels or the alliance surrender first.
france satrated the war and lost the vietnam and surrendered in the 50's before switching sides (check france-indochina war)
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
And you misspelled "Freedom Fries"
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
If that doesn't, the hepatitis should...
...we'll have to change PDA to mean Patriot Digital Assistant.
Just kidding.
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Details of this TDA has only been released by this Roland Piquepaille fellow who is a known fraud.
Until someone, say Wired, Anandtech, or Toms Hardware, gets a hand on this, there is no reason to believe any of it. He is probably a shill for the company paid to astroturf the company to attract investors to defraud.
Uh, you DO know the French got their asses kicked out of Vietnam before the U.S. did, right?
You tell me. Where is the independent verification, where is the review by Wired or AP?
How do I know this isn't a shill?
Still laughing at this joke when you have had ample evidence in these columns that M. Chirac was right on this Iraq thing (arguably for the only time in his career but still)? When will both of our nations cease competing for being the most stupid on earth? Sheesh.
P.S.: Roland Piquepaille is real, but don't trust me on that, use Google. Oh, and you misspelt "misspelt" by the way.
This whole anti-French thing is getting really old. . .
Indeed, Julius Caeser indulged in it. When something gets that old we give it new name:
Tradition.
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did anybody else read that as "Tactical PDA?" Which then begs the question, what would a tactical PDA have as accessories? Stylus that doubles as a stun gun? IR port that doubles as a LASER weapon? Explosive batteries?
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Yea, but you're assuming the bias existed only because of the WMD stance. (Which you are correct on, by the way; I am not disputing that.)
The anti French jokes have been a running joke in my circle of friends since I began strategy war gaming eighteen years ago. For us it started when we began attempting to be the first to invade France... because we wouldn't take any losses from fighting white flags.
So... it may be old, but it's good to have running jokes.
My reality check bounced.
Oh Great! Now we are at the point where we have NO WAY to distinguish between a GOOD SPAM and a REAL Bussines. This is one of the next big issues on the internet: Credibility. I know it has been an issue all along, but it is slowly moving more into the forground of the battles fought out in public.
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Right. This is July! There aren't any French people in France. Just Germans. The French are in Spain, half-or-more-naked, overturning tomato trucks.
...or at least, that's how it looks from here in 'murrica, where we milk our two weeks of vacation and wonder why Europe doesn't return our phone calls all summer. ;-)
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However, even if it's not a sham, it still seems like pretty shady business. Besides, how is it that only this Rolad fellow seems to know anything about it's existence (while of course having no ties to the actual company)?
Umm, how about because they suck? Not to mention, it's their attitude people hate, not their race or color.
..and there is the answer to this earlier post, on omitting "FF" from the their product's name, the Jackito. The FF model will be marketed towards pro-war americans ;)
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I thought this was a tactical PDA. I clicked the link, fully expecting to see a PDA with a hardened outer shell and fully waterproof... Now that is something I could use... :-)
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Funny thing...not long after reading the original article about this PDA, I was at the city bus transfer station waiting for the bus...and I happened to see a fellow fiddling with something that looked a lot like that Jackito PDA illustration. At least, it had a similar form factor and the braille strip in the same place, even though it wasn't identical. So, I can't speak for the Jackito PDA--heck, I'm not even entirely sure that what the guy was fiddling with was a PDA--but I can say I've seen someone using something that looked a lot like the picture of that thing. Didn't get to ask him about it, because he put it away and went to catch the bus I got off of.
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dude, they were not. Just becase the ny times wont report the finding of WMD does not mean that there were none. This AP article was not on headlines in the US, wonder why?.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
...the submitter of the first story!
Way to go Slashdot. Those night school lessons in journalism must really be paying dividends.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I like PnP organizers. They're cheap, versatile, and nobody will steal them unless they want your data. I can drop mine, get it wet(ish), drill a hole through it, or leave it in the lobby overnight.
It will work right away and requires no batteries. It automatically intergrates with every single device I own. If I want to use it to email a contact, all I have to do is open my book next to a computer and type the email address I have written down into any email program. It is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. It will seamlessly integrate into legacy analog machines (e.g. the phone network) using the same interface.
I can even rip out a page and hand someone a note if I really want to. What's the PDA equivalent - giving someone the battery cover?
Best of all, they're a fraction of the price of the electronic versions. I can get an organizer for $0 (from my old University).
I've been called a bad example by other Engineers. "Wait, you're an Electrical Engineer and you don't have a cell phone or a PDA?" I just like paper. It's easier to use and works with any number of contacts. (How many of the "hundreds" of people in your PDA have you called this week? This month?)
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I did RTFA but I could not view the video (/.-ed probably) My Palm will do this. I usually use my fingertips for a quick search and don't bother pulling out the stylus. If app designers made buttons and scrollbars bigger, and the Palm had a bit more screen real estate this kind of interface would be more universal.
Well, more power to them if it's a real product. But who in their right mind is going to put down an advance? I have friends making a similar product and they way to get into this market is to get someone like UPS or a public utility's meter readers to advance-order 100,000 at a time.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Now, if you wanted to trash 'mericuns, well, that's a different matter.
Two ageing Sarin warheads? Doesnt sound like a mobile chemical weapon laboratory to me. I seem to remember that being on the news but when they realised it was two ancient sarin warheads they all shut up about it because it was more than likely an administrative error as opposed to a 'secret chemical weapons cache'
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Possibly it was a hiptop? Or heck, maybe it was a Newton.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
last week when it was a reply to the orginal story.
Apple has never claimed not to be evil, they're just very stylish about it.
Some of us are English and we've never liked the French, WMD's or not.
the article mentions 17 shells. Additional info revealed that the one that was used a in radside bomb was not effectivce because it was a more sophisticated variety which only mixed the cahmicals to produce the cytosrin in flight. I think whist these 17 alone was enought o kill something around 150000 people. This is however proof that there were WMD found in Iraq. I think i remember people saying that nothing was found. Expect more "administrative errors" in the future as more caches are found.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
No...it didn't actually have a screen at all. Just a braille strip, and those finger controls.
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what is this fucking FARK now? *barf*
This thing is more than the price of a new Treo. $600? You've got to be kidding. No phone, no wifi, no camera, and you even pay extra for a usb cord. It's not clear what the OS is or whether it will play well with my computer (on the list of software is included "PC Synchro" but no explanation). It's not clear how the input interface will allow you to input more than a few clicks at a time -- not great for entering significant amounts of text. I like that you can choose your GUI, but with names like "Ghost," "Femina," and "Leather" (and no other indication besides the name of what the gui looks like) you really gotta wonder.
Sony released their LIBRIÉ earlier this year utilizing e-ink with a scren resolution of 170 dpi.
It's not 600dpi, but according to users does it look as crisp as paper.
The new screen-tech does apparently also save on batteries since it only needs power to refresh.
To bad it only supports Sony's DRMed books so far. Can't wait until one of these baibies (or the DRM-format) gets hacked.
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I'm sorry but I have no plans to visit Paris in the forseeable future
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If such an amount of chemical ammunition (BTW classified as left-over from the Iraq-Iran war back when the US supported Saddam) justifies an invasion your army will be kept very busy for the forseeable future. Best of luck with that!
Obviously you never read the article referenced either.
From the article:
"There is no doubt that the warheads contain chemical weapons," Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told TVN24. "The problem is what period they came from, whether the (Persian) Gulf War or earlier, and whether they were usable, partly usable or not at all."
The other dozen were quoted as:
"Some of them are very corroded. They are probably not usable, but are dangerous to the local environment," Szmajdzinski said.
I hope that you realize that when they reference the "Persian Gulf War", they mean the first US invasion of Iraq. Not the second invasion.
Since you have no problem sharing baseless opinions, I will leave you with this: I would not be suprised to find that due to the age of these weapons, the designs probably came from Rumsfeld trip in the mid 80's to hand over chemical weapons to Iraq.
Some of us are German and we are used to be hated by everyone else although we've been trying sooo hard for the last 59 years.
Frankly, I simply do not get national stereotyping. What's the point of it?
dont think so, the Nepalese army has not fought a war since we beat the british 200 years ago
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
I personally tend to do the same thing, mainly because I like to write fiction and I never know when ideas will come to me, but there are additional hassles of keeping your pens and pencils sharpened, filled with lead, or filled with ink. You generally have to have a steady surface to write on (problem reduced with a good hard-backed notebook, but those are more bulky and there's still some instability of the writing surface. And because of the cheapness/ubiquitousness of paper and pencil, there's a greater chance of you losing it or bringing a different one, resulting in lost/unavailable data. *shrug* Plusses and minusses.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
I've been in Germany last summer. It was the hottest summer in history. Most buildings in Europe - residential as well as commercial - do not have air conditioning because historically you didn't need it.
Most of the people who died because of the heat in France and Germany were elderly and their circulatory system could simply not cope with the temperature. To blame this on too many people being on vacation is pretty silly.
children should take care of their elderly parents. yes most of them were on vacation including people working for the government run health care system. Over 15,000 dying in one summer is unexcusable and I would rather be modded down 1000 times than be silent on this issue.
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This is however proof that there were WMD found in Iraq.
Sorry, nope, you're wrong. If this was the case, why wouldn't W Bush be screaming this from every street corner?
How long are you going to keep looking for justification for this war? War should be simple to justify. Bush has switched his justification which I believe to be a morally objectionable thing to do. I'm sure you're going to try to help re-elect a world leader that can't do this simple thing. Hell, not even Ron Reagan likes this guy because of how his religious beliefs get in the way of scientific progress.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
... while they seem to have updated some of the English language product pages to 7 processors (which, if you follow numerologists who might be among the class of subjects targeted could be a better choice as a figure - along the lines 6~incomplete 7~complete ;), their French page still tells us (at the time of this post) "Notre architecture électronique fondée sur un réseau de 6 processeurs cablés permet l'utilisation de plusieurs applications à la fois (multitâches) dans plusieurs fenêtres (multifenêtres), en temps réel, pour une convivialité maximale.".
Please also note that the French pages deliver quite different content. Interesting that with a product at the bleeding edge they never seem to have heard that cmsses came to life that are well adapted to deliver a more credible multilingual appearance.
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Actually, no they weren't. The French were as convinced as anybody else that Saddam had WMDs. About the only point of real difference was whether he had a credible nuclear threat. Everybody, *including* the French, were convinced that he had substantial chemical and at least some biological weaponry. The French just thought we shouldn't do anything effective about it.
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Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.
The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam
The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.
Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the
Slashdot audience in exchange.
Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he
"wrote".
Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.
This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.
Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.
it's looks rather elaborate for a hoax, but then again.. a good hoax is.. :)
:)
the interface also looks useful.. especially if you are used to joypads
now the information on the website still look inconsistant to me.. and a bit odd.. only 150mw total usage? how would you power your screen?
or that bluetooth?
and what the hell is an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) speaker?
now this could be just marketing.. and they do allow creditcard info.. won't be my pda (bad text interface, how do you type on this thing anyway? if you're gonna type with your thumbs not many letters will fit on the screen) but could be an interesting idea..
this might all be bad marketin/planning.. I'm not sure
so let see some decent reviews by some known magazines.. that should take away any doubts
"Everyone"? Speak for yourself. I, and around a million of my fellow countrymen were convinced there were no WMDs, and marched in London to demostrate against the war on those grounds. Turns out we were right.
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just to continue a bit: the machine offers a potential wifi interface.. but internetting what would you do with it? typing would be clumsy and websites would need to be optimised for the interface.. (the website really doesn't explain how to type) so if you have a pda.. but can hardly type on it.. what would you do with it.. ?
If it's real, it's way too expensive. The thing has comparable specs to a 1999-2000 Palm or Visor, apart from the screen size. The main CPU is a little slower, even, and the way they count processors the later Dragonball chips in the Palm have 2 or 3 all by themselves... ignoring the graphics accelerators that started showing up in the Sony Clie to support hi-res, built-in modems and other communications processors...
I don't see anyone but ardent Francophiles buying it because it's from France. Well, at that price that's probably a big enough market to keep them in business a while.
Is this a reference to Micheal Jackson's penis (jackson's mosquito)?
no one will want a B&W model. everybody expects color nowadays. ...
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how does the jackito do math? is it fast? can it replace my Hp 48 (dif, integral, vector)?
is it really going to have bluetooth? i hope so.
i'll buy if above is fullfilled and the mp3 playback quality is good.
good luck! a potential customer
p.s. usb might be a good idea too
Hmmm, okay, judging from the "demo" it's a touch sensitive screen that allows you to drag objects around using your thumbs? Sorry folks, PDAs have been doing that for *years*. It's called a touchscreen.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
.. but who was the marketing genius who put the words "Jackito" and "tactile" in the same sentence? Michael Jackson touching? WTF?
One possibility: pattern recognition, human blessing and curse. Fuzzy things hard to put a finger on but clearly 'sensed' - we're all insanely good at identifying such things (for better or worse..). And we do it all the time without even thinking about it.
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We seem to clearly notice the most miniscule differences. So, when comparing two cultures, say German and British, there are thousands of tiny discrepancies; it builds up to a mental framework helping us both relate to this 'same-but-different' culture, and define ourselves by what sets us apart (if only by this much *putting thumb really close to index finger*).
Adding to that, with people pretty much identical (like a real Brit and a real German - rather than the stereotypes), when we joke about the other - in quite over-the-top ways (and a good joke is often about something familiar, but twisted into something else by surprising exaggerations[1]), it's often because "they" are just like "us". I.e. the joke is as much about ourselves / both 'groups', as it is about "them".
Even with people/cultures very different from our own, we want/need to joke about it and pointificate about what's different. It's a way to deal with the unknown, trying to make sense of it.
Of course, these things can be done with malicious intent, to harass and demean. Probably tells a lot more about the ones doing the mudslinging... [1] one of the reasons joking about a neighboring country's people works so well: they're very familiar, but different in surprising ways - automatic humor
I am certain every French person who lost somebody due to failings in the health care system or mistakes of their own feel very passionate about this. What I do not see is how your taking on France over this matter is supposed to achieve?
And again, having lived through this summer I can attest that it was without precedence. In France even nuclear reactors needed to be taken of the grid because rivers couldn't provide enough coolant any more. Nothing neither health system nor buildings nor nuclear power plants were designed for such an extended heat wave because it was without historic precedence.
If you need to blame somebody blame my country for the holocaust after all this was cold blooded mass murder. To blame France for a failing health system dealing with a crisis never encountered before is in my opinion rather hypocritical especially when done in a context were it pretty much just looks like you try to shift blame away from your own nation (assuming you are a US citizen).
We had a unprecedented major blackout that took out a quarter of the country's power that same summer and only a couple died because people helped each other instead of hoping some "system" run by the government will do it for them.
Now I apologise for making some comments about france that were way out of line. The whole thread was set up for joking. But seriously, ~15000 dead in one summer has to lead to major changes in french society and policy just like ~4000 in one day led to many changes in ours.
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Isn't the question about if the French, Germans and Russians were more concerned about their local businesses investments in Iraq and debts that Saddam owned them then protecting Iraqi rights?
I mean France and Russia have both a recent history of doing nasty things if it fits them.
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The truth is finally revealed!
Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.
The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam
The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.
Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the
Slashdot audience in exchange.
Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he
"wrote".
Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.
This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.
Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.
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To spell incorrectly.
it makes me want to invent the stylus all over again.
I can see your point, and it may not make a difference to you, but generally it seems that speaking derogatorily of a group is much more tolerated that speaking derogatorily of an individual.
Slashdot may not have the political humor for those jokes but they remain in currency today. Hell, most of us in my department make fun of ourselves and our own problems than anyone else. I, for instance, am a fat lazy Polack with a complexion that more closely matches a teenager than a near thirty year old.
When man loses the ability to laugh he loses the ability to deal with issues of stress. Laughter blows off steam, it provides an out. No matter the source or "correctness" of the feelings cracking a joke about the French, or blacks, or Muslims, or Polacks -- allows the individual to relieve that pressure.
You probably won't agree. I do, because I think "political correctness" is bullshit and is nothing more than a pretty facade that the political machine has put on for us, the American public, in order to buy our votes.
Is it right to tear down another man, for any reason? No. Then again if I were in the presence of a Frenchman I would respect him enough to not crack jokes such as the above, unless I knew he wouldn't mind. Same for a black, a Muslim, or wherever. My world is loose, fast, and fun. Others aren't. It's all about respect, but respect is about *time* and *place* as much as anything else.
My reality check bounced.
What you saw was a piece of alien technology in use by the MIB. You're lucky you didn't ask about it or you'd have been deneuralized. As a matter of fact, they may track you down now because of this post. Which means anyone who read this today is also in danger of getting the 'flashy thingy'! Keep your sunglasses handy...
Why the fuck was this modded offtopic? It seems to be a very good point to me. Didn't we just have discussion in a recent poll about people touching computer screens and messing them all up with their oily hands????
I can't wait to buy thse Los Souvenir Jackitos myself...
Speak for myself, and for every major government on this planet, including those who were dead set against intervention. They *all* believed Saddam had WMDs.
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That would explain why you're sketchy on the use of the word "myself". :^)
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You are totally wrong, you crack smoking moron...
Chirac has never been right, about Iraq or anything else. The French suck, always have, and always will. The fact that Michael is French explains a lot about his dumbass posts. It would be now surprise to find out that brainless lib fart-bag Timothy is French, too.
...read the words "Jackito Tactile PDA" and immediately think of that pop singer who used to wear only one glove?
I'll leave it to your imagination what PDA might stand for.
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I can't believe that Slashdot would run this story without some type of vertification from multiple sources.
You must be new here. Slashdot runs any story, the verification comes from the user comments, some of which do come from multiple sources.
Short guide to Slashdot: download linked article but don't read, read the first 2 sentences of the summary, post a comment, read others' comments, re-read the summary, ignore the article.
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whoop-dee-doo. I guess with the Intarweb and all, the world really got smaller. I mean, we all experience the same weather, right?
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It just seems highly unlikely that a belegured press and government that is being accused of lying to it's people would attempt to cover up or ignore a significantly dangerous cache of chemical weapons. When the press and the people scream where are the WMD's would the Bush adminstration just forget to mention these? Explain it to me? The only reason I can think for the govt. and the press covering it up and not mentioning it is some sort of cover up, whereby those weapons were sold to the Iraqis by the US recently or something? In which case the motive for the war becomes even murkier...
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
offtopic? insightful is more like it.
The only reason they were on the money about the WMDs is because they had a direct relationship with saddam smuggling oil out against un sanctions. (yes, it is true and was in the papers).
On the other hand, it was french inteligence reports that originaly broke the storry of saddam trying to gain weapons grade nuclear material from Niger in africa. Of course this was widley discredited becasue everyone looking into it couldn't read a map and started asking questions in Nigeria. Also you have other countries that seamed to think there were and the popular belief now is that they were removed. Russia and france have also turn thier statements around on the WMDs and now cliam thier inteligence said there were some there.
Frances bigest disagrement with going to war with iraq was the billions of dollars they stood a chance to loose from oil deals tha t would no longer be honored. I guess all those protest ers chanting "it about the oil" were corect in thats why they were against the way. (france still wanted thier oil).
i would agree the jokes are getting old but only because of a lack of creativity in them.
I'am scandalized by the remarks I'm reading since two weeks concerning the advertisement of launching of the Jackito product. People don't take time to check before react. I personally handled and used Jackito. I also used its SDK and simulator, As a Scientist (Professor at Univesity of Applied Sciences - Geneva, Switzerland) I can say that Jackito is a revolutionary product. It's the concretisation of what we are calling "Disappearing Computing" (http://www.disappearing-computer.net/). Jackito is "humanizing" the computer systems by making them more integrated into people's day-to-day life. Its OS is a real multi-tasking and the hardware platform supports real parallel processing. The same program can use all the processors at the same time. However, the most important features of Jackito are not these technologies but the intuitivity carried out by this technology. We don't need to have a computer culture to use it. Contrary to other PDAs, Jackito can target mass-market. In November 2003, I found a Swiss company called TunACT (Web site not on line), which aims to develop and market mobile learning software for young people (5-15 old). After a deep study, we decide to choose the Jackito support as a hardware platform. With its touch screen and its multi-processor architecture, this device is more intuitive than usual PDAs. It also consumes less power while having several standard interfaces (serial, USB, memory card, Bluetooth, etc.). Such a device makes it possible to bring the required functionality to people who do not have access to ICT otherwise. We plan to purchase some 50,000 units over the next two years. Since it was considered as innovative project by the Swiss confederation, TunACT is supported (since April 2004), by the CTI start up institution (http://www.ctistartup.ch/). A research project is already in progress at University of Applied Sciences of Geneva (Switzerland) in order to develop E-learning solutions on Jackito platform.
Some of us English are French (Norman).
Why is Brittany in France?
It's all a pretty mixed brew in any case.