It seems more to me (from having read the summary) like this would benefit the typing speed of hunt-and-peck typists and detract from the typing speed--slow down--touch-typists. *shrug*
I wonder if it could be a way to improve keyboarding skills for programmers, etc., by using macros more efficiently? Hmm...
I think I'll go change my.sig to "Why do I always add a slightly-OT sentence to the end of my posts?" (to increase insightfulness? informative status? or maybe it's just the way my brain fails)
TFA indicates that the screen vibrates to create a thin layer of air between the finger and the screen. That results in low friction. When the finger "touches" a button, the vibration stops, the finger "touches down on" the screen and the friction increases, telling the finger and the brain that a button (or a notch on a scroll bar, etc.) has been reached. That differs from currently-widely-available haptic feedback because the vibration is in the screen itself and not the entire device.
So the mass is about a kilogram, but that describes its weight only when you know the conversion ratio for mass-to-weight for where you are (where it is) at the time.
I was pleased to see that arcade Pac-Man will be playable during the exhibit, but annoyed that the exhibit directors (?) didn't mention whether the version of SMB which will be playable will be the more-difficult "original" arcade version (available here in the States before the NES was released; later included (I think?) in the Playchoice-10 cabinets) or the "tamer" NES version (the controls of which took some getting used to after I had become accustomed to using the arcade stick and buttons for SMB and Excitebike (in separate arcade cabinets at my local Peter Piper Pizza)).
I haven't watched the entire webcast about the exhibit from yesterday (Friday, 06 May 2011), though, so I don't know if they clarified the SMB issue later on. I don't know if they care about details like that, though, since they seem to think it's more important to specify that "this is the Atari VCS, the Video Computer System, not the Atari 2600, which came out later." Huh? Same thing, I've always thought. Redesigning the circuit board to fit into a smaller case does not a different console make. I guess changing the official title of the console by using the "2600" from the CX2600 model number instead of "VCS" makes a difference to that young guy in the webcast...
You really want to hear the techno-babble? It's just a trick played on the eyes of the people of the audience, you see. Distraction, light fade, replacement, boom, nobody was hurt, but everyone was convinced.:)
It might actually have been the stuff people drink for 24 hours prior to having a colonoscopy.
Toiletten Papier, ich lieb' dir!
They should donate the bumf to homeless shelters / charity; I don't live in a shelter, but TP is nice to have if the alternative is a wire brush, no matter how many times the metal has been folded.
If you drink an amount of alcohol sufficient to paralyze your gag reflex, after falling asleep you will probably die because you can't cough up enough green.:)
It is a shorthand log of historic episodes in the mid seventies on (page 1, actually written second, but numbered one to keep events in chrono order) and medications taken with the effects listed. The key at the end is day week month year morning day latenight. It was started on page 2 and then page 1 was added as a log of the earlier childhood which is the basis for diagnosis and the "page 2" is indepth records of changes in meds. The 3 month periods are normal with bipolar episodes in the 4th QTR (September through December in the seventies. These seasons suggest seasonal disorder.
ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE
A: Latenight, Phenergan, taken in evening G: Latenight Serenace/Seroquel or Seroquel/Serenace Extended Release Taken Evening
VLSE MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE V: Late Serenace Morning take Serenace
Seroquel wasn't approved by the FDA until 1997, and Serenace I can find records of only as a drug used internationally for animals... although its primary ingredient, haloperidol, was FDA-approved in 1967 or so as the drug Haldol. So... Serenace is more likely than Seroquel, which didn't exist in the 1970s...
I had an excellent reply ready to type, but then I realized that you had written armchair scholars and not armpit scholars, so my superb reply is no longer superb. *sniff* (pun intended!)
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
But that would never be done in a data centre, that's a service centre activity. They must be signalling or something. I wonder if it's part of testing/monitoring - you can't be sure that your network is working without end-to-end testing from a handset.
You're right. My message was pure speculation; I noticed that someone had responded to a similar question about the same picture elsewhere in the discussion which stated that it was part of testing the network and included a link, the URL of which seemed to indicate that it referenced an explanation of cell phone network testing.
I didn't follow the link, but here is a link to that message and here is a clickable version of the link in that message, which I've now clicked--it contains a video and explains that a script tests the handsets "every couple of minutes" for SMS and wireless-broadband functionality, whereas mobile technicians have the job of testing the off-site network.
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
ST:TOS was more commentary about politics and human nature and showing us here on Earth that our governmental/racial prejudices are meaningless when there exist many other intelligent beings in the galaxy and we've just got the United Federation of Planets unifying Earthlings against and with the others. I'd say the many spinoff series and alternately good/bad/good/etc. movies prove its resilience. Watch the TOS episode "Space Seed" and then watch the movie ST 2: The Wrath of Khan and you'll have a prequel and its sequel. I can still hear Checkov in my mind: "Botany Baay... Botany Bay! Oh, no--Keptin! We have to get out of here NOW!" and "Guess.. who's.. comeenk to dinner!" (quotes from TWoK)
Oh, and TOS featured the first on-screen kiss between a white man (Kirk/Shatner) and a black woman (Uhura/Nichols) on broadcast TV, and it was SO much better than The Partridge Family and Dennis the Menace.
g'night. too late for me. Wee hours of the morning are bad for bedtime if I want to feel productively perspicacious seven hours hence.
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ugh, malware.
I would have no problem quoting someone $200 for a maleware cleanup.
Yeah, maleware can be bad, but sometimes femaleware can be even worse! ;)
Being able to detect the absence of a brain is also important.... "His brain is gone!"
It seems more to me (from having read the summary) like this would benefit the typing speed of hunt-and-peck typists and detract from the typing speed--slow down--touch-typists. *shrug*
I wonder if it could be a way to improve keyboarding skills for programmers, etc., by using macros more efficiently? Hmm...
I think I'll go change my .sig to "Why do I always add a slightly-OT sentence to the end of my posts?" (to increase insightfulness? informative status? or maybe it's just the way my brain fails)
Cool! Also, searching through 24 sliding panel rooms for the remote/keys/random trinket sounds like a nightmare.
Set up a perimeter: Anyone trying to take the remote from the TV cubicle gets shocked. Yeah, I can imagine that causing nightmares also!
(I won't walk about wrestling).
I will! Only if I'm walking AWAY from it, though!
TFA indicates that the screen vibrates to create a thin layer of air between the finger and the screen. That results in low friction. When the finger "touches" a button, the vibration stops, the finger "touches down on" the screen and the friction increases, telling the finger and the brain that a button (or a notch on a scroll bar, etc.) has been reached. That differs from currently-widely-available haptic feedback because the vibration is in the screen itself and not the entire device.
So the mass is about a kilogram, but that describes its weight only when you know the conversion ratio for mass-to-weight for where you are (where it is) at the time.
I was pleased to see that arcade Pac-Man will be playable during the exhibit, but annoyed that the exhibit directors (?) didn't mention whether the version of SMB which will be playable will be the more-difficult "original" arcade version (available here in the States before the NES was released; later included (I think?) in the Playchoice-10 cabinets) or the "tamer" NES version (the controls of which took some getting used to after I had become accustomed to using the arcade stick and buttons for SMB and Excitebike (in separate arcade cabinets at my local Peter Piper Pizza)).
I haven't watched the entire webcast about the exhibit from yesterday (Friday, 06 May 2011), though, so I don't know if they clarified the SMB issue later on. I don't know if they care about details like that, though, since they seem to think it's more important to specify that "this is the Atari VCS, the Video Computer System, not the Atari 2600, which came out later." Huh? Same thing, I've always thought. Redesigning the circuit board to fit into a smaller case does not a different console make. I guess changing the official title of the console by using the "2600" from the CX2600 model number instead of "VCS" makes a difference to that young guy in the webcast...
You really want to hear the techno-babble? It's just a trick played on the eyes of the people of the audience, you see. Distraction, light fade, replacement, boom, nobody was hurt, but everyone was convinced. :)
Where in the world did you get 24 friends???
I'm honestly bewildered... this is not a troll, folks.
I'm sympathetic to your synthetic humanity, android.
Empathy I can't do, however. :)
It might actually have been the stuff people drink for 24 hours prior to having a colonoscopy.
Toiletten Papier, ich lieb' dir!
They should donate the bumf to homeless shelters / charity; I don't live in a shelter, but TP is nice to have if the alternative is a wire brush, no matter how many times the metal has been folded.
That's a good one, right up there with "I swear honey I got it from a toilet seat!". I smell a divorce in the works.....
I'll bet that smells good.
If you drink an amount of alcohol sufficient to paralyze your gag reflex, after falling asleep you will probably die because you can't cough up enough green. :)
It is a shorthand log of historic episodes in the mid seventies on (page 1, actually written second, but numbered one to keep events in chrono order) and medications taken with the effects listed. The key at the end is day week month year morning day latenight. It was started on page 2 and then page 1 was added as a log of the earlier childhood which is the basis for diagnosis and the "page 2" is indepth records of changes in meds. The 3 month periods are normal with bipolar episodes in the 4th QTR (September through December in the seventies. These seasons suggest seasonal disorder.
ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE
A: Latenight, Phenergan, taken in evening G: Latenight Serenace/Seroquel or Seroquel/Serenace Extended Release Taken Evening
VLSE MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
V: Late Serenace Morning take Serenace
Seroquel wasn't approved by the FDA until 1997, and Serenace I can find records of only as a drug used internationally for animals... although its primary ingredient, haloperidol, was FDA-approved in 1967 or so as the drug Haldol. So ... Serenace is more likely than Seroquel, which didn't exist in the 1970s...
(pedant mode off)
I had an excellent reply ready to type, but then I realized that you had written armchair scholars and not armpit scholars, so my superb reply is no longer superb. *sniff* (pun intended!)
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
But that would never be done in a data centre, that's a service centre activity. They must be signalling or something. I wonder if it's part of testing/monitoring - you can't be sure that your network is working without end-to-end testing from a handset.
You're right. My message was pure speculation; I noticed that someone had responded to a similar question about the same picture elsewhere in the discussion which stated that it was part of testing the network and included a link, the URL of which seemed to indicate that it referenced an explanation of cell phone network testing.
I didn't follow the link, but here is a link to that message and here is a clickable version of the link in that message, which I've now clicked--it contains a video and explains that a script tests the handsets "every couple of minutes" for SMS and wireless-broadband functionality, whereas mobile technicians have the job of testing the off-site network.
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
ST:TOS was more commentary about politics and human nature and showing us here on Earth that our governmental/racial prejudices are meaningless when there exist many other intelligent beings in the galaxy and we've just got the United Federation of Planets unifying Earthlings against and with the others. I'd say the many spinoff series and alternately good/bad/good/etc. movies prove its resilience. Watch the TOS episode "Space Seed" and then watch the movie ST 2: The Wrath of Khan and you'll have a prequel and its sequel. I can still hear Checkov in my mind: "Botany Baay... Botany Bay! Oh, no--Keptin! We have to get out of here NOW!" and "Guess.. who's.. comeenk to dinner!" (quotes from TWoK)
Oh, and TOS featured the first on-screen kiss between a white man (Kirk/Shatner) and a black woman (Uhura/Nichols) on broadcast TV, and it was SO much better than The Partridge Family and Dennis the Menace.
g'night. too late for me. Wee hours of the morning are bad for bedtime if I want to feel productively perspicacious seven hours hence.
...and the Internet was first created where English is commonly spoken... (which is a circular reference back to England's past empire)
Circular? Recursive? Ovoid?
You must have forgotten that Unicode snowmen melt at /. temperatures, silly. :)
No wonder wet diapers/nappies are self-cleaning!
I think goatse.cx would only cause musings of blackhole routers to dance in one's head.
You really want to know about the Sith that Broke the Horse's Back ?
I was about to agree with the AC. However...
If I ever find a wife, I'll remember this thread and wax nostalgic about the days when /.ers were mostly spouseless.