Since I last made an entry about it here, you helped us pay two months rent, catch up on our car loan and insurance and the phone bills, pay grocery bills and gasoline and so on. Really appreciated.
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Then again, in an earlier refererence to Plant's studies, the acquired thumb skills seem to play only a minor rôle.To quote from the article:
Personal Power:Cell phones have given people a new-found personal power, enabling unprecedented mobility and allowing them to conduct their business wherever they go.
Gender Differences:Females tend to value their cell phone as a means of expression and social communication, while males tend to use it as an interactive toy. However, evidence suggests that males are becoming far more chatty and communicative as a result of cell phone use.
Male Status Symbols:Men have a tendency to display their cell phones more proudly, using them to display their aggression in front of other men, and almost like a mating ritual in front of women.
Stereotypes:Dr. Plant identified six distinctive types of cell phone users based upon common traits and characteristics, and compared these types with six different kinds of birds. Owls, for example, tend to keep their cell phone use to a minimum, making and taking only necessary calls, while starlings tend to be more aggressive, pushing their way through crowds while talking loudly on their cell phones.
Innies and Outies:There are two distinct types of cell phone users - ``innies'' are quiet, discreet and unobtrusive with their mobile conversations, while ``outies'' are louder and less concerned with the perceptions of people around them.
Secret Phones:Many cell phone users keep a secret second phone to conduct love affairs or clandestine business deals, or even just as a hotline between friends.
The Thumb Generation:Texting has had a profound effect on the way teenagers use their thumbs in some regions. Because they are used to tapping out numbers and messages with their thumbs, they now point and even ring doorbells with their thumb instead of their forefinger.
Thus the thumb dexterity is mentioned as the last item on the list, and the word mutate doesn't appear at all...
In [the original story] mutation is not mentioned at all [...]
Oh no?First paragraph in the article reads:
Use of hand-held technologies, such as mobile phones, GameBoys andc omputers, has caused a physical mutation in the under-25s, according to new research.
I'd imagine that the birds would eventually figure out that they can just glide and not have to flap their wings? I mean isn't that what airplanes do?
Only if the bird flies ``downhill''. A quote from the page:
The experimenter can control the wind speed and set it to a speed appropriate for the bird species in question. He can also tilt the whole tunnel, so that the wind is inclined upwards or downwards, relative to the horizontal (+8 to -6 degrees). If the wind is inclined upwards, the bird is effectively flying "downhill". If the angle is steep enough, the bird can glide without flapping its wings.
Their platform has been ported to 44 operating systems so far!
Yeah, you get lotsa platforms if you define e.g. "Amiga 68000" as different from "Amiga 68020+" (when, in fact, it's just a matter of adding a compiler switch). A more realistic number is 25, or less -- go to their platforms page and see for yourself.
Well, here in the UK, we already have something called the TPS Register. Basically, you opt-in to this thing, at which point you are not supposed to get any telemarketing calls on your phone.
In Denmark we have a similar thing, affectively called "The Robinson List" by telemaketing people because in their opinion you're living on an island if you do not wish to receive their spam. Danish citizens who wish to opt-out from all snailmail, email and fax spam should read here and here, then contact the closest CPR register.
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This is old news (26th April 2001).
An interesting excerpt from http://lilo.sargasso.net/ :
If Rob Levin reallly wrote that, I'm out of OPN!
However, the website also states that:
A case of schizophrenia, perhaps?
In Denmark, The Camp 2002 - a "do IT yourself" summer camp for nerds - started just yesterday and will last until next saturday.
Could you please point me to your favorite ogg streaming radio? I only know of Radio WOPN and I need some change...
Cheers!
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Thus spake Paul:
There you go...
Perhaps it has mutated? :-)
Then again, in an earlier refererence to Plant's studies, the acquired thumb skills seem to play only a minor rôle.To quote from the article:
Thus the thumb dexterity is mentioned as the last item on the list, and the word mutate doesn't appear at all...
Oh no?First paragraph in the article reads:
.So do we in Denmark, and as of July 2000 Denmark has also banned spam.
Or perhaps it's the other way around: people with various diseases sleep more because the disorders drain their energy?
See the second paragraph in this document.
:-)
Hrm, Treo is also a Danish pain killer.
And then there's the Open Root Server Confederation who has instructions for setting up your own root zone using DJBDNS or BIND. Highly commendable! And you get a whole slew of new TLDs in the process...
Only if the bird flies ``downhill''. A quote from the page:
Yeah, you get lotsa platforms if you define e.g. "Amiga 68000" as different from "Amiga 68020+" (when, in fact, it's just a matter of adding a compiler switch). A more realistic number is 25, or less -- go to their platforms page and see for yourself.
Informative? The comment hadn't even got a URL! Anyway, here's the URL for HandEra.
Except the British aren't that keen on the €, are they? And both the € and the £ symbol require an "8bit clean" charset.
There's no such thing as 8bit ASCII, it's called iso-8859-1 (a.k.a. Latin1).
Unless you mean British English, in which case ASCII is not sufficient to produce a £ sign...
It certainlay adds a whole new meaning to the term "beowulf cluster"...
In Denmark we have a similar thing, affectively called "The Robinson List" by telemaketing people because in their opinion you're living on an island if you do not wish to receive their spam. Danish citizens who wish to opt-out from all snailmail, email and fax spam should read here and here, then contact the closest CPR register.
This morning? Must have been yesterday (24th September) at 10:00 UTC, it's not even 10:00 UTC today yet.