Anyone see that article a couple of weeks ago in New Scientist about Strontium atoms held in standing waves generated by 6 lasers? Mental. A 50 time more accurate (or something).
I live in Hong Kong and back in the day I owned two Newtons, but both of them were the Sharp versions. Sod all memory; I remember installing Grafitti took about all bar a few K of RAM.
Anybody else come across these clones, and if so do you know if they differed from the Apple versions in any way other than aesthetically?
I was talking with a friend (same age, 30) about this the other day. He's a graphics guy and has done a lot of tube time. I'm an irrevocable, lifetime computer geek (never mind monitors, you were happy to plug it into a telly when I was a lad...). The thing is, he's got four eyes, I've still got two. And a nice crisp image I get from them.
Whilst discussing his terrible affliction I speculated that my vision may still be intact as a result of a curious habit I've had ever since I was a child: Often, when I'm daydreaming, bored or contemplating a problem my eyes drop focus and my vision becomes blurred as I gaze vapidly into the distance. He looked at me like I was mental. "You just shift the focus of your eyes?" he asked, raising the finely chiselled brow above his.
I reckon that occasionally staring gormlessly into space, while perhaps not being my most attractive quality, has given whatever muscles, and other nanomadness that do the actual work in my eyes, a little break. Thus providing a little respite from eighteen hour electron burn. It happens when I masturbate too. It could all be down to the porn. Who knows? But has anyone else experienced repeated spontaneous ocular chillin'? (TRUE!)
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Anyone see that article a couple of weeks ago in New Scientist about Strontium atoms held in standing waves generated by 6 lasers? Mental. A 50 time more accurate (or something).
I live in Hong Kong and back in the day I owned two Newtons, but both of them were the Sharp versions. Sod all memory; I remember installing Grafitti took about all bar a few K of RAM.
Anybody else come across these clones, and if so do you know if they differed from the Apple versions in any way other than aesthetically?
I was talking with a friend (same age, 30) about this the other day. He's a graphics guy and has done a lot of tube time. I'm an irrevocable, lifetime computer geek (never mind monitors, you were happy to plug it into a telly when I was a lad...). The thing is, he's got four eyes, I've still got two. And a nice crisp image I get from them.
Whilst discussing his terrible affliction I speculated that my vision may still be intact as a result of a curious habit I've had ever since I was a child: Often, when I'm daydreaming, bored or contemplating a problem my eyes drop focus and my vision becomes blurred as I gaze vapidly into the distance. He looked at me like I was mental. "You just shift the focus of your eyes?" he asked, raising the finely chiselled brow above his.
I reckon that occasionally staring gormlessly into space, while perhaps not being my most attractive quality, has given whatever muscles, and other nanomadness that do the actual work in my eyes, a little break. Thus providing a little respite from eighteen hour electron burn. It happens when I masturbate too. It could all be down to the porn. Who knows? But has anyone else experienced repeated spontaneous ocular chillin'? (TRUE!)