Having read the article and looked at all the pretty graphs, I cannot help but wonder why the laser mice get such terrible results for "malfunction speed" compared to the non-laser mice. It would be interesting to dissect the mice and compare the physical size of the sensors, the diopters of the lenses, etc.
Could higher DPI mice (such as the laser mice) be merely lower DPI mice incorporating a different lens? (The lower DPI modes of configurable mice are almost certainly just a downsampling of the high-DPI sensor data.)
Personally, I see no reason coherent light would be any better than incoherent light when it comes to a small illuminator and camera, which is all an optical mouse really is (plus buttons and software). Resolutions on the order of less than 3000 dots per inch are orders of magnitude larger than physical limits due to wavelengths of light and what-have-you. Without the quality of the light being a factor, all that remains are the optics and sensors.
For several years now, I've been carrying my personal card collection (credit, discount, ID, etc) in an Altoids tin. It's the perfect size for such cards, and it protects them from me. Also, it has the added benefit of being quite the faraday cage. Unlike foil, which can easily tear, an Altoids tin can take *quite* the beating without any significant damage.
At work, we have RFID security badges. Mine is, obviously, in my Altoids tin. I can hold the tin against the sensor as long as I want; it won't scan. I pop it open (which is really easy to do one-handed once you get used to it), and it'll read from several inches away.
They also have several designer colors: red peppermint, aqua wintergreen, tan ginger, and my personal favorite -- black liquorice.:)
Little Boy, the first atomic bomb (dropped on Hiroshima), was about 15 kilotons. Using that, one would get 3.75e19 kilograms of matter, or about 1/2000th of our moon.
On the other hand, if you use a 10 megaton device as an example, you get 2.5e21 kilograms of matter. That's roughly 1/30th of our moon.
Now, if you use a 1 gigaton device, instead, you'd get 2.5e23, which would be 3.4 moons worth of matter.
Finally, of course, you could just go with "BOOM!"
The reason they added the auxiliary blade to the main five is that everyone was talking about their surround sound system's "5.1" channels. "5.1" channels? "5.1" blades.
When you consider the advancement of surround sound systems, the future of razors looks quite scary, indeed.
As far as the end-game goes, you keep adding blades, then you add a vibration "feature", and then you add even more blades. Eventually, you run out of room to add blades to the front, so you start moving them (spinning, perhaps) to fit them all in. Next thing you know, you've invented the electric shaver.
If businesses buy lots of applications, each of which narrowly applies to its own small niche, eventually the small expenditures use up the whole budget. While this was always possible, the existence of so many "web services" and other such things makes it easier than it used to be to do this. Oh, and if you spend *all* your money, you can't pay people to do things, and one of the things they could've been doing is coding.
"Standby power" is what you have when you can use the remote control to turn on the TV, DVD player, etc. It is powered up enough to be able to respond to the remote, i.e. it is standing by for your commands. It need not be a remote, however. A printer with an electronic power button (like a little HP inkjet, for example) is in standby mode, as opposed to the gargantuan EPSON 132-column industrial dot matrix printers that have what looks like a circuit breaker to turn them on and off. A touch-lamp would be using standby power, while a bulb on a mechanical pull-chain switch would not.
This is only very loosely related to your idea of laptop-style standby mode.
You think *that's* disconcerting? How about my situation? I read "seven hundred seventy-five" as "725", and I didn't even *realize* it until I read your reply.
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Well, let's see...
I could get a GPS receiver with a custom Li-Ion, or I could get one for which I can easily carry spare AAs for the hike. Which will be more useful on the third day of the backpacking trek?
Let's just say that after I get back from the backpacking trek, I want to do some photography with my nice collection of SLRs and lenses, but I need a little fill flash off camera... That's four AAs each for the Canon flashes, and several sets if I'm shooting a lot, and I can't bring huge softbox/umbrella/strobe/power setups where I shoot.
Okay, now that I'm done with photography, I decide that I'd really like to do some night dives. My backup lights all run off AAs (or C cells, if I'm carrying the bigger ones). Why bother with the big can light for a little clear, shallow water (and the can light's well over an order of magnitude more expensive, anyway).
Well, I get done diving, and... Oh, just forget it.
(Incidentally, if the USBCELLs were a joke, I'd chuckle at a fun Rube Goldberg device. If they're not a joke, I'd shake my head and wonder what *idiot* would buy them... and what else I can sell to him.)
Actually, the atomic weight of chlorine is 35.4527, and the atomic weight of sodium is 22.989768. That being the case, you'll have to ship just over 2.54 pounds of salt in order to ship a pound of sodium.
To be kind, you should also include the disassembly instructions -- "Heat in crucible (sold separately) until molten. Insert suitable electrodes (sold separately) and apply direct current. Collect sodium."
I keep all my ID badges, discount cards, etc. in an old Altoids tin (the "Liquorice" version is in a nice black-based color scheme). When I get to work, I have to pop the cover open to be able to scan through the door. Far cheaper than a "tinfoil wallet", and it has the added benefit of being something that few people would steal on first notice (old stale Altoids, and liquorice Altoids, even!).
Must be some hubris over there to name a mission Phoenix. Sure, people will say it's a hoax, but to openly state it? That's guts.
What? But... but... You mean "Phoenix" *isn't* pronounced "foe-knee"? Look at the first part, "Phoe". You pronounce "hoe" with a long 'O' sound, so logically, this would be "foe". Then there's the ending, "ix". There aren't many 'ix' words, but everyone remembers "prix" (as in racing), which is pronounced "pree". So, logically, "Phoenix" should be pronounced "foe-knee", right?:)
Nice to see another Babylon 5 fan in here, but for those that don't know, "Baywatch meets Wrestling in Space" is how jms described what TNT wanted Crusade to be. He would not allow it to be so, which directly lead to TNT aborting it before it even began its run. See the original CIS post for reference.
(And to appease the topic furies, I find it very difficult to see Matt Damon as Kirk, but then again, The Bourne Identity wasn't half bad, so I'm willing to give him a chance, as long as Berman The Barbarian isn't involved in any way.)
For quite a while, we've had three categories. Black and white, color, and "digitally manipulated" (i.e. doing creative things with Photoshop, etc). Strangely, there are very few entries in the manipulated category, which I suppose shows that we've got mainly traditionalists in our group, but hey.
I entered a time-composite of over about 90 minutes at dawn. The left edge was half an hour before sunrise, the right edge was an hour after sunrise, and by dissolving through about 30 frames, I created an even time-gradient across the shot. Sadly, I didn't win that contest because it apparently looked too natural (almost like a storm front blowing in) -- the judges went for the garish "spin/zoom-filter" style of Photoshopping over my subtle and non-headache-inducing masterpiece (okay, it wasn't a masterpiece, but amateurpiece isn't a word).
Anyway, if even my 90-minute, 30-frame composite could pass without question for most people, I imagine you *could* get away with a lot. (Then again, so did all the classic darkroom vets.)
I shoot mostly with a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR (the 1.6x sensor crop and smaller pixel pitch it great for extending your telephoto shots). Anyway, there is a "custom function" (i.e. a user-configurable parameter) in the camera (and all high-end Canon dSLRs) that enables "image verification". It basically digitally signs the original image, and then with the $700 Canon DVK-E2 Data Verification Kit, you can verify the signature. Apparently, this is used a lot in the insurance fields.
Now, when it'll come to your little point-and-shoot...;)
When you hook up two dissimilar electrodes through an electrolyte (which in this case is nicely packaged within a tree and the nearby ground), you get an electrochemical potential. In the case of copper and aluminum as your electrodes, the potential is about two volts.
An easy way to get 12 volts? Connect six tree-cells in series.
If you live in a major metropolitan area, you may be able to buy locally, but if you live in, say, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you're just plain out of luck. For example, I wanted to buy a "Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM" lens (about $1600-1800), and I tried to find it locally. No luck. Then I tried the major stores. They don't carry it either. I searched anywhere with a website and local stores, and I finally found it listed in stock... in New Orleans... in the flooded part.
Needless to say, I ended up making yet another purchase from B&H, as they have extensive inventory, respectable prices, excellent service, and (perhaps most importantly) a long history of existence. It's just not an option to buy locally in Baton Rouge.
"This makes absolutely no difference because the content was just as inaccessible to the player."
Anyway, think of it this way, if you will. (Hehe, here comes the stretched analogy.)
If you sell someone a decorative glass bottle of hydrogen cyanide, even if you tell them not to open it, you're still going to be treated as if you're selling them cyanide. On the other hand, if you sell decorative glass bottles and someone comes out with an "easy cyanide refill" pack, you're not going to be held accountable for selling people cyanide.
Now, sure, in either case, you're not intending to poison anyone. However, the fact that you packaged the cyanide in the bottle is going to rather significantly hurt your case.
(And the rather stretched part of the analogy is that game content and poisons are not even remotely alike, but hey.)
"We need to stop adding sections to bills that are wholly unrelated..."
Did you know that it's already against the rules to add an unrelated rider to a bill? It is. Fortunately for the bureaucrats, they practiced for years on "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" -- they're *quite* skilled at finding relations between topics that mere common-sense-wielding constituents would have likely overlooked.
Why not just do away with DST completely, and by congressional mandate, require all businesses (banks, stores, employers, etc.) shift their hours back one hour? Requiring such a shift by legislative means is no worse than DST, and it need only happen once.
As far as staying on DST and dropping the shift back to Standard Time, that is one thing that I cannot allow. Noon was traditionally the moment when the sun was directly over the longitude of the observer. With Standard Time, this was quantized in order to create a manageable time system -- this is a perfectly acceptable optimization which was necessary for an interconnected civilization.
Admittedly, we do not directly depend on sunlight as much as in times past, however arbitrarily redefining "noon" to mean "1:00 'PM'" is completely preposterous. Why not just go all the way to metric time while we're at it? (Has the Swatch patent expired yet?)
With the whole 2000 versus 2001 thing, I can let mathematics slide a little due to the sociological significance of changing four digits at once. Declaring that we use the wrong time in perpetuity? That would be the real life analogue of the urban legend about redefining "pi" as equal to the integer value "3".
"I never watched B5 very much, but from what I did see, the story arc was there but..."
You *do* realize that's like saying, "I only read a couple chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, but from what I did read, it's all about the se Vogon aliens.";)
Or, to put it in BSG terms, if you only watched a couple episodes, how would you know BSG's arc-driven? I agree that BSG is refreshing in its continuity, characters, and plot, but if you haven't watched B5 end-to-end, you're really not in a place to make "insightful" comments comparing things to B5.
I only wish they'd have toned down the... "mature" (I'm at work)... references a bit. My friend J. has issues with Enterprise; she wouldn't be able to get 1/3 of the way through a BSG episode. (Shame, too.)
As I remember my aspect ratios, the theatrical 1.85:1 ratio is filmed non-anamorphically on regular 35mm film, and then the tops and bottom are matted off. The full-frame versions of these films always have more picture than the matted versions (saying so is completely redundant when you consider that they are non-anamorphic, which means they *can't* be wider than a 35mm frame). Incidentally, when a film is made in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, there is no such thing as pan-and-scan -- it is literally full-frame.
Anamorphic aspect ratios (such as 2.35:1) have a wider picture than the 35mm film frame, and that widescreen picture is optically compressed horizontally (i.e. if you look at a film frame, everybody looks supermodel skinny -- even Peter Jackson). With anamorphic aspect ratios, the widescreen version is "full-frame" on the 35mm film, which means that a 4:3 television formatted version must "pan and scan" across the widescreen frame.
I won't even get onto Super35, the special film technique used in The Abyss (among other films) except to say that neither the 4:3 version nor the widescreen version contain the whole 35mm frame. In fact, the pan-and-scan version has more picture height, and the widescreen version has more picture width, but part of the 35mm frame (normally the "corners") does not show up in either the theatrical nor the television-format versions.
Basically, what we have here is people who don't understand aspect ratios and the relationships between film, theatrical projections, and television formats. Apparently enough people are clueless as to win a case about it, but then again, Windows and IE are still in the lead in market share.;)
I hate to break it to you, but the shoe phone wasn't from Inspector Gadget (although it did figure prominently in that cartoon). It was from Get Smart.
Would you believe I have the original right here?
Um, okay, then, would you believe an immaculate copy?
How about a cheap knock-off?
*sigh*... Okay, I only have an older, functional GAIT phone with a non-color LCD screen and a monophonic ring tone I composed myself (a musical interpretation of Phi, the golden ratio). Don't think I'd want to hike with the newest whiz-bang break-when-you-drop-it gadget phone, even if logging a geocache from the top of a mountain would be cool.
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Having read the article and looked at all the pretty graphs, I cannot help but wonder why the laser mice get such terrible results for "malfunction speed" compared to the non-laser mice. It would be interesting to dissect the mice and compare the physical size of the sensors, the diopters of the lenses, etc.
Could higher DPI mice (such as the laser mice) be merely lower DPI mice incorporating a different lens? (The lower DPI modes of configurable mice are almost certainly just a downsampling of the high-DPI sensor data.)
Personally, I see no reason coherent light would be any better than incoherent light when it comes to a small illuminator and camera, which is all an optical mouse really is (plus buttons and software). Resolutions on the order of less than 3000 dots per inch are orders of magnitude larger than physical limits due to wavelengths of light and what-have-you. Without the quality of the light being a factor, all that remains are the optics and sensors.
For several years now, I've been carrying my personal card collection (credit, discount, ID, etc) in an Altoids tin. It's the perfect size for such cards, and it protects them from me. Also, it has the added benefit of being quite the faraday cage. Unlike foil, which can easily tear, an Altoids tin can take *quite* the beating without any significant damage.
:)
At work, we have RFID security badges. Mine is, obviously, in my Altoids tin. I can hold the tin against the sensor as long as I want; it won't scan. I pop it open (which is really easy to do one-handed once you get used to it), and it'll read from several inches away.
They also have several designer colors: red peppermint, aqua wintergreen, tan ginger, and my personal favorite -- black liquorice.
Little Boy, the first atomic bomb (dropped on Hiroshima), was about 15 kilotons. Using that, one would get 3.75e19 kilograms of matter, or about 1/2000th of our moon.
On the other hand, if you use a 10 megaton device as an example, you get 2.5e21 kilograms of matter. That's roughly 1/30th of our moon.
Now, if you use a 1 gigaton device, instead, you'd get 2.5e23, which would be 3.4 moons worth of matter.
Finally, of course, you could just go with "BOOM!"
The reason they added the auxiliary blade to the main five is that everyone was talking about their surround sound system's "5.1" channels. "5.1" channels? "5.1" blades.
When you consider the advancement of surround sound systems, the future of razors looks quite scary, indeed.
As far as the end-game goes, you keep adding blades, then you add a vibration "feature", and then you add even more blades. Eventually, you run out of room to add blades to the front, so you start moving them (spinning, perhaps) to fit them all in. Next thing you know, you've invented the electric shaver.
If businesses buy lots of applications, each of which narrowly applies to its own small niche, eventually the small expenditures use up the whole budget. While this was always possible, the existence of so many "web services" and other such things makes it easier than it used to be to do this. Oh, and if you spend *all* your money, you can't pay people to do things, and one of the things they could've been doing is coding.
I think that's what it's saying.
"...my chainsaw is incompatible with my text editor."
You should've used emacs.
"Standby power" is what you have when you can use the remote control to turn on the TV, DVD player, etc. It is powered up enough to be able to respond to the remote, i.e. it is standing by for your commands. It need not be a remote, however. A printer with an electronic power button (like a little HP inkjet, for example) is in standby mode, as opposed to the gargantuan EPSON 132-column industrial dot matrix printers that have what looks like a circuit breaker to turn them on and off. A touch-lamp would be using standby power, while a bulb on a mechanical pull-chain switch would not.
This is only very loosely related to your idea of laptop-style standby mode.
You think *that's* disconcerting? How about my situation? I read "seven hundred seventy-five" as "725", and I didn't even *realize* it until I read your reply.
Well, let's see...
I could get a GPS receiver with a custom Li-Ion, or I could get one for which I can easily carry spare AAs for the hike. Which will be more useful on the third day of the backpacking trek?
Let's just say that after I get back from the backpacking trek, I want to do some photography with my nice collection of SLRs and lenses, but I need a little fill flash off camera... That's four AAs each for the Canon flashes, and several sets if I'm shooting a lot, and I can't bring huge softbox/umbrella/strobe/power setups where I shoot.
Okay, now that I'm done with photography, I decide that I'd really like to do some night dives. My backup lights all run off AAs (or C cells, if I'm carrying the bigger ones). Why bother with the big can light for a little clear, shallow water (and the can light's well over an order of magnitude more expensive, anyway).
Well, I get done diving, and... Oh, just forget it.
(Incidentally, if the USBCELLs were a joke, I'd chuckle at a fun Rube Goldberg device. If they're not a joke, I'd shake my head and wonder what *idiot* would buy them... and what else I can sell to him.)
Actually, the atomic weight of chlorine is 35.4527, and the atomic weight of sodium is 22.989768. That being the case, you'll have to ship just over 2.54 pounds of salt in order to ship a pound of sodium.
To be kind, you should also include the disassembly instructions -- "Heat in crucible (sold separately) until molten. Insert suitable electrodes (sold separately) and apply direct current. Collect sodium."
I keep all my ID badges, discount cards, etc. in an old Altoids tin (the "Liquorice" version is in a nice black-based color scheme). When I get to work, I have to pop the cover open to be able to scan through the door. Far cheaper than a "tinfoil wallet", and it has the added benefit of being something that few people would steal on first notice (old stale Altoids, and liquorice Altoids, even!).
Must be some hubris over there to name a mission Phoenix. Sure, people will say it's a hoax, but to openly state it? That's guts.
:)
What? But... but... You mean "Phoenix" *isn't* pronounced "foe-knee"? Look at the first part, "Phoe". You pronounce "hoe" with a long 'O' sound, so logically, this would be "foe". Then there's the ending, "ix". There aren't many 'ix' words, but everyone remembers "prix" (as in racing), which is pronounced "pree". So, logically, "Phoenix" should be pronounced "foe-knee", right?
Nice to see another Babylon 5 fan in here, but for those that don't know, "Baywatch meets Wrestling in Space" is how jms described what TNT wanted Crusade to be. He would not allow it to be so, which directly lead to TNT aborting it before it even began its run. See the original CIS post for reference.
(And to appease the topic furies, I find it very difficult to see Matt Damon as Kirk, but then again, The Bourne Identity wasn't half bad, so I'm willing to give him a chance, as long as Berman The Barbarian isn't involved in any way.)
For quite a while, we've had three categories. Black and white, color, and "digitally manipulated" (i.e. doing creative things with Photoshop, etc). Strangely, there are very few entries in the manipulated category, which I suppose shows that we've got mainly traditionalists in our group, but hey.
I entered a time-composite of over about 90 minutes at dawn. The left edge was half an hour before sunrise, the right edge was an hour after sunrise, and by dissolving through about 30 frames, I created an even time-gradient across the shot. Sadly, I didn't win that contest because it apparently looked too natural (almost like a storm front blowing in) -- the judges went for the garish "spin/zoom-filter" style of Photoshopping over my subtle and non-headache-inducing masterpiece (okay, it wasn't a masterpiece, but amateurpiece isn't a word).
Anyway, if even my 90-minute, 30-frame composite could pass without question for most people, I imagine you *could* get away with a lot. (Then again, so did all the classic darkroom vets.)
I shoot mostly with a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR (the 1.6x sensor crop and smaller pixel pitch it great for extending your telephoto shots). Anyway, there is a "custom function" (i.e. a user-configurable parameter) in the camera (and all high-end Canon dSLRs) that enables "image verification". It basically digitally signs the original image, and then with the $700 Canon DVK-E2 Data Verification Kit, you can verify the signature. Apparently, this is used a lot in the insurance fields.
;)
Now, when it'll come to your little point-and-shoot...
When you hook up two dissimilar electrodes through an electrolyte (which in this case is nicely packaged within a tree and the nearby ground), you get an electrochemical potential. In the case of copper and aluminum as your electrodes, the potential is about two volts.
An easy way to get 12 volts? Connect six tree-cells in series.
If you live in a major metropolitan area, you may be able to buy locally, but if you live in, say, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you're just plain out of luck. For example, I wanted to buy a "Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM" lens (about $1600-1800), and I tried to find it locally. No luck. Then I tried the major stores. They don't carry it either. I searched anywhere with a website and local stores, and I finally found it listed in stock... in New Orleans... in the flooded part.
Needless to say, I ended up making yet another purchase from B&H, as they have extensive inventory, respectable prices, excellent service, and (perhaps most importantly) a long history of existence. It's just not an option to buy locally in Baton Rouge.
"This makes absolutely no difference because the content was just as inaccessible to the player."
Anyway, think of it this way, if you will. (Hehe, here comes the stretched analogy.)
If you sell someone a decorative glass bottle of hydrogen cyanide, even if you tell them not to open it, you're still going to be treated as if you're selling them cyanide. On the other hand, if you sell decorative glass bottles and someone comes out with an "easy cyanide refill" pack, you're not going to be held accountable for selling people cyanide.
Now, sure, in either case, you're not intending to poison anyone. However, the fact that you packaged the cyanide in the bottle is going to rather significantly hurt your case.
(And the rather stretched part of the analogy is that game content and poisons are not even remotely alike, but hey.)
"We need to stop adding sections to bills that are wholly unrelated..."
Did you know that it's already against the rules to add an unrelated rider to a bill? It is. Fortunately for the bureaucrats, they practiced for years on "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" -- they're *quite* skilled at finding relations between topics that mere common-sense-wielding constituents would have likely overlooked.
"Only a Sith thinks in absolutes"
- Obi Wan Kenobi
Therefore, Obi Wan Kenobi is either a liar or a Sith.
Why not just do away with DST completely, and by congressional mandate, require all businesses (banks, stores, employers, etc.) shift their hours back one hour? Requiring such a shift by legislative means is no worse than DST, and it need only happen once.
As far as staying on DST and dropping the shift back to Standard Time, that is one thing that I cannot allow. Noon was traditionally the moment when the sun was directly over the longitude of the observer. With Standard Time, this was quantized in order to create a manageable time system -- this is a perfectly acceptable optimization which was necessary for an interconnected civilization.
Admittedly, we do not directly depend on sunlight as much as in times past, however arbitrarily redefining "noon" to mean "1:00 'PM'" is completely preposterous. Why not just go all the way to metric time while we're at it? (Has the Swatch patent expired yet?)
With the whole 2000 versus 2001 thing, I can let mathematics slide a little due to the sociological significance of changing four digits at once. Declaring that we use the wrong time in perpetuity? That would be the real life analogue of the urban legend about redefining "pi" as equal to the integer value "3".
"I never watched B5 very much, but from what I did see, the story arc was there but..."
;)
You *do* realize that's like saying, "I only read a couple chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, but from what I did read, it's all about the se Vogon aliens."
Or, to put it in BSG terms, if you only watched a couple episodes, how would you know BSG's arc-driven? I agree that BSG is refreshing in its continuity, characters, and plot, but if you haven't watched B5 end-to-end, you're really not in a place to make "insightful" comments comparing things to B5.
I only wish they'd have toned down the... "mature" (I'm at work)... references a bit. My friend J. has issues with Enterprise; she wouldn't be able to get 1/3 of the way through a BSG episode. (Shame, too.)
As I remember my aspect ratios, the theatrical 1.85:1 ratio is filmed non-anamorphically on regular 35mm film, and then the tops and bottom are matted off. The full-frame versions of these films always have more picture than the matted versions (saying so is completely redundant when you consider that they are non-anamorphic, which means they *can't* be wider than a 35mm frame). Incidentally, when a film is made in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, there is no such thing as pan-and-scan -- it is literally full-frame.
;)
Anamorphic aspect ratios (such as 2.35:1) have a wider picture than the 35mm film frame, and that widescreen picture is optically compressed horizontally (i.e. if you look at a film frame, everybody looks supermodel skinny -- even Peter Jackson). With anamorphic aspect ratios, the widescreen version is "full-frame" on the 35mm film, which means that a 4:3 television formatted version must "pan and scan" across the widescreen frame.
I won't even get onto Super35, the special film technique used in The Abyss (among other films) except to say that neither the 4:3 version nor the widescreen version contain the whole 35mm frame. In fact, the pan-and-scan version has more picture height, and the widescreen version has more picture width, but part of the 35mm frame (normally the "corners") does not show up in either the theatrical nor the television-format versions.
Basically, what we have here is people who don't understand aspect ratios and the relationships between film, theatrical projections, and television formats. Apparently enough people are clueless as to win a case about it, but then again, Windows and IE are still in the lead in market share.
I hate to break it to you, but the shoe phone wasn't from Inspector Gadget (although it did figure prominently in that cartoon). It was from Get Smart.
Would you believe I have the original right here?
Um, okay, then, would you believe an immaculate copy?
How about a cheap knock-off?
*sigh*... Okay, I only have an older, functional GAIT phone with a non-color LCD screen and a monophonic ring tone I composed myself (a musical interpretation of Phi, the golden ratio). Don't think I'd want to hike with the newest whiz-bang break-when-you-drop-it gadget phone, even if logging a geocache from the top of a mountain would be cool.