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Science Meets Style In This Cathode Tube Watch
scope-n-SHOUT writes "The Nixie Watch displays the time on nixie tubes, a cold-cathode tube filled with neon, a little mercury and argon at a small fraction of atmospheric pressure. Nixies were used in many early electronic desktop calculators, including the first: the vacuum tube-based Sumlock-Comptometer Anita Mk VII in 1961. This two-digit wristwatch is designed for everyday use, being water-resistant and rugged, not to mention looking really retro-future cool. The watch requires no button pushing to operate - it shows the hours, minutes and seconds in sequence at the flick of the wrist. For the hardcore code tweaker, a programming adapter allows the GPL'd PIC firmware running the watch to be hacked up at will. The Nixie Watch is being sold in very limited edition, with each piece individually numbered and engraved."
i bet i get pipped at the post.
MOD THE PARENT UP!!!
MOD THE PARENT DOWN!!!
MOD THE TROLL UP!!!
MOD THE OVERRATED UP!!!
MOD THE UNDERRATED DOWN!!!
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keke i lied
Eeeeewww - Pus. Yuuck.
... cheap advertising. All that was missing was a "step right up" intro.
but same can't be said about the "sell out" slashdot editor, sick.
geek page at KY speaks
by redheaded_stepchild
I just don't get the dumbing down of "bastard son" to "red-headed stepchild."
I hear it more than I should. What is it? Lack of commitment to an idea? Laziness? Stupidity? Angst? Antipathy? A bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard is a bastard no matter how you candy-coat it.
What's YOUR excuse? Oh, I forgot, YOU are a "redheaded stepchild" -- Oooohhhh! I'm soooooo impressed.
I don't understand how this got modded +5 "Insightful."
Same way Saddam Hussein got modded -1, Dangerous. Herd mentality...
That last dude... holy shit. He is a HARDCASE.
I bow in his general direction.
It's more suggesting that Slashdot editors are accepting bribes to link to products. It's a very easy thing to do, due to the very defense that you quote. There have been a slew of questionable articles lately, and it doesn't take a genius to theorize that Slashdot has become corrupt. The risk versus payoff is just too rewarding to pass up. If I were a Slashdot editor, you can believe that I'd put my ass up for sale.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
The editors need to start acting like editors and edit! If an ad-post occassionally makes through, then alright, I understand, but ones like this one are obvious. It reads like an ad and the only link to the watch is the one to the manufacturer.
I've heard other people say it and I'm starting to agree: a moderation system for stories that make it to the front page might not be a bad idea. If the editors won't do their job, then let us do it for them.
Did you get stuck in cryogenic suspension for the last five years?
Its been a LONG time that the logo should read Slashdot: Ads for Nerds, Repost that Don't Matter.
This watch causes rampant masturbation?
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
You think that the company selling those has money to bribe people with?
HAHAHAHA... You really are funny!
If it makes you feel better, I think that their bandwidth cost just ate up the profit from the one guy here who said, "Neat, I've got to buy one of those!"
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