Also Japanese keyboards have a weirdy, small space bar compared to our occidental and lengthy one.
And lest anyone be tempted to descend into racist genital-comparison jokes I should point out that the reason for this is that Japanese text does not have spaces in it, so it is only used when typing phrases in English.
On my recent trip to Tokyo what most impressed me was the new Vaio, model PCG-U1. You can check it out here.
Basically it's even smaller than the last series of Picturebooks (C1-XX series), but has even better stats- e.g. Transmeta over 800Mhz, 20G, 256MB etc- and the screen is finally the right aspect ratio.
Trust me, when you see it in the flesh you will fall in love... (I nearly broke down when I discovered I couldn't afford it despite the fact it cost only 750 UKP, which is probably less than half what it will cost me if it ever gets to the UK).
Most companies are evil. The whole point of companies is to lie to and cheat consumers to get them to part with their hard-earned money.
Frogs, on the other hand, are gentle creatures, and neither coerce nor intimidate.
Well, uh, OK, frogs eat flies, but that's frog nature, and not even nature (red in tooth and claw) is as cruel as a company with a hyped-up marketing division.
Why are all the American IQs I see so high ? Is it similar to the having bigger golf balls thing ?
I was of the opinion that about 1% of the population (of anywhere) had an IQ of above 120. I tested mine at 117 I think. Phhhhht. Even if I tested as 5000 points I would still say that intelligence can't be measured- there are too many biases and even tests that have supposedly been carefully controlled rely too much on knowledge rather than intelligence.
Thanks for replying anyway. I just wonder sometimes how many people actually agree with statements and quotes in their own.sigs. At least it looks like you've thought about it...
Your.sig is stupid if you think about it. No, really, I was just thinking. If a bunch of neo-nazis were chanting "kill all jews" or something- and someone fired a gun at them, would you leap in the way? Thought not.
No-one said that the same universe comes out again- it's a different universe. Well, that's how I read the article anyway, but who gives a toss, because it's all a load of unscientific crap anyway.
I wish I had patented it. I had this idea about 2 years' ago, and to be fair probably a lot of other people did too.
The concept is simple- putting tags on everything which just gives them a unique id. Then you create a bridge between the internet and the physical world.
Examples:
1) Your car HUD can warn you of drivers who have been "modded down" when you see them on the road.
2) In the store, you can look up reviews of consumer electronics items by scanning the item.
3) Email people you walk past on the street if they have made their email public- also dating services can tell you if you are compatible, if they are single etc.
4) Scan tags on famous landmarks and get taken to pages of info on them.
5) Each shop and cafe you walk past has a tag so you can go to its home page and check its prices and offers.
6) Returning stolen items to their owners (if you make the tags non-removeable).
I'm sure you can think of many more applications...
The article is talking about microwave EMF, not RF, and a jammer wouldn't help, because no-one would know so they would all still be trying to use their devices anyway- hence microwave radiation in carriages...
I (when I had a job) always thought that sick days should be treated like holidays. I mean you get a maximim allowance per year of them, so why not use them?
You should be able to book them in advance too:
"Erm, Jack's taking that week off with 'flu, could you take the week after that ? Actually, if you wait until two weeks on Friday, I can let you have ten days off with prostate trouble. OK? I'll pencil you in..."
Heh, we evil-doer Middle-East types kidnap/. readers to learn about American defenses.
We learn much! They have killer tyranosaur named "Carnivore" and have removed all rights from their citizens. Also we now have the secrets of how to make jpegs smaller!
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To quote Typing of the Dead:
"How could anyone do this?"
graspee
You could buy a genuine supercomputer for that kind of money.
(And then run a Doom 3 server on it).
Ha- couldn't resist.
graspee
Also Japanese keyboards have a weirdy, small space bar compared to our occidental and lengthy one.
And lest anyone be tempted to descend into racist genital-comparison jokes I should point out that the reason for this is that Japanese text does not have spaces in it, so it is only used when typing phrases in English.
On my recent trip to Tokyo what most impressed me was the new Vaio, model PCG-U1. You can check it out here.
Basically it's even smaller than the last series of Picturebooks (C1-XX series), but has even better stats- e.g. Transmeta over 800Mhz, 20G, 256MB etc- and the screen is finally the right aspect ratio.
Trust me, when you see it in the flesh you will fall in love... (I nearly broke down when I discovered I couldn't afford it despite the fact it cost only 750 UKP, which is probably less than half what it will cost me if it ever gets to the UK).
graspee
Most companies are evil. The whole point of companies is to lie to and cheat consumers to get them to part with their hard-earned money.
Frogs, on the other hand, are gentle creatures, and neither coerce nor intimidate.
Well, uh, OK, frogs eat flies, but that's frog nature, and not even nature (red in tooth and claw) is as cruel as a company with a hyped-up marketing division.
graspee
Why are all the American IQs I see so high ? Is it similar to the having bigger golf balls thing ?
I was of the opinion that about 1% of the population (of anywhere) had an IQ of above 120. I tested mine at 117 I think. Phhhhht. Even if I tested as 5000 points I would still say that intelligence can't be measured- there are too many biases and even tests that have supposedly been carefully controlled rely too much on knowledge rather than intelligence.
Whatever.
graspee
I really actually haven't had sex since 1989. In fact George Micheal has had sex with a woman more recently than me.
But guess what? My goal is not to have sex. My goal is to live in Shinjuku.
graspee
Thanks for replying anyway. I just wonder sometimes how many people actually agree with statements and quotes in their own .sigs. At least it looks like you've thought about it...
graspee
I think the actual quote is more like:
"When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for the safety catch on my pistol"
graspee
Your .sig is stupid if you think about it. No, really, I was just thinking. If a bunch of neo-nazis were chanting "kill all jews" or something- and someone fired a gun at them, would you leap in the way? Thought not.
graspee
I don't need other people to laugh for me. This is why I dislike canned laughter on comedy programmes on TV.
graspee
I think you must have forgotten to log in or something, because that was a pretty damn insightful AC post...
graspee
Way to lone-gunmen-are-dead us, dude.
graspee
" it really seemed like too much of a cross between Alien, Terminater, and 9 other Friday the 13th movies."
Whoah! Sounds awesome!
graspee
Nicely done- I was laughing.
graspee
No-one said that the same universe comes out again- it's a different universe. Well, that's how I read the article anyway, but who gives a toss, because it's all a load of unscientific crap anyway.
graspee
Welcome to the philosophy of the stoics. If they'd had /. 2500 years' ago, they would have been posting on it.
graspee
I don't have deodorant, therefore I have no friends.
In other news, I just took a lego referee and a lego coffee machine and built a wicked lego coffee cyborg out of them. Heheh. Oh the joy.
graspee
I wish I had patented it. I had this idea about 2 years' ago, and to be fair probably a lot of other people did too.
The concept is simple- putting tags on everything which just gives them a unique id. Then you create a bridge between the internet and the physical world.
Examples:
1) Your car HUD can warn you of drivers who have been "modded down" when you see them on the road.
2) In the store, you can look up reviews of consumer electronics items by scanning the item.
3) Email people you walk past on the street if they have made their email public- also dating services can tell you if you are compatible, if they are single etc.
4) Scan tags on famous landmarks and get taken to pages of info on them.
5) Each shop and cafe you walk past has a tag so you can go to its home page and check its prices and offers.
6) Returning stolen items to their owners (if you make the tags non-removeable).
I'm sure you can think of many more applications...
graspee
There are small heating effects from mobile phones. Just 'cos the power is less doesn't mean you shouldn't be concerned about the frequency...
graspee
??
The article is talking about microwave EMF, not RF, and a jammer wouldn't help, because no-one would know so they would all still be trying to use their devices anyway- hence microwave radiation in carriages...
graspee
No, the UK uses the American definition of billion as a thousand million now. (It used to be a million million).
graspee
I (when I had a job) always thought that sick days should be treated like holidays. I mean you get a maximim allowance per year of them, so why not use them?
You should be able to book them in advance too:
"Erm, Jack's taking that week off with 'flu, could you take the week after that ? Actually, if you wait until two weeks on Friday, I can let you have ten days off with prostate trouble. OK? I'll pencil you in..."
graspee
Nice one, heh heh, you just spoiled it for everyone who was psychic enough to block stories by chrisd in advance. ;)
graspee
"What is the the operating system running?"
Hyper Operating System.
graspee
Heh, we evil-doer Middle-East types kidnap /. readers to learn about American defenses.
We learn much! They have killer tyranosaur named "Carnivore" and have removed all rights from their citizens. Also we now have the secrets of how to make jpegs smaller!
graspee