I think I saw a mention of these phones on a website devoted to expat retirees living in Mexico. If they're not legal, they're at least tolerated by the authorities. Or maybe it's a case of flying below the radar. (joke)
Not much help against the thought detection devices the government is secretly putting into the bases of household light bulbs. Household lightbulbs, Mandrake!
What we really need is for someone to invent a faraday cage hair gel or styling mousse, so that paranoid kookie-biscuit conspiracy theorist can be protected and stylish at the same time.
All you need are a pair alligator clips and a cheap telephone. Wear an orange jumpsuit, a tool belt, and a construction hard hat, and no one will find it remarkable that you're wandering around a neighborhood.
Not that I've done the orange jump suit thing, but the home made lineman's telephone is good to have if you do your own inside wiring. And at under $10, it's a lot cheaper than this one.
GPS is not very accurate. Not accurate enough to say park your car or guide a cruise ship into a dock and stationkeep.
I think you mean "consumer level GPS". For engineering much more fine grained GPS is available. By engineering, I'm referring to bridge building and like endeavors.
or how about theft alarms. Set you laptop to sound an alarm if it is moved out of a certain area without the pass code.
You might already be aware that this is currently available.
or how about for automatic screen orientation. Tilt you powerbook on it's side and the display rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode. Would be killer for presentations / demonstrations to small groups.
This could be really cool. Imagine having a surprise or whatnot hidden off screen. By changing the orientation (say sliding the book to the left, or your idea of rotating 90%), you could reveal the surprise.
Interestingly, I don't think Amit used a Powerbook with AMS in this experiment, other than to borrow one for a short period to retrieve the orientation data.
Oh, and BTW, much as I like to toot the Apple horn, this isn't an Apple innovation. They've been in IBM Thinkpads for a while. (It's a little ironic that Amit uses a 17" Powerbook because he works as a researcher for IBM.)
Not only that, but it takes over 20 minutes to transfer a 17 MB file from one folder to another. 20 Minutes.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else will grind to a halt. Even Pages will straining to keep up if you want to type anything.
Shouldn't be impossible to buy a development kit from whatever company makes the AMS and hack it into your keyboard. It will probably mean a second cable, but you can always use cable ties to secure it to the primary cable. Lemme check something. ..
That's all well and good until your PowerBook gets motion sickness and pukes all over your lap. Well, at least you'll (hopefully) have a tissue or an old sock handy to clean up the mess.
And I guess with the internet speeding everything up, the Golden Age happened so fast, I missed it when I got up to use the toilet. Damn. I hate when that happens. =(
Maybe time to immigrate? Both China and India have big borders and coastlines, so it shouldn't be too hard to sneak in. Fitting in might be a little harder. What's hindi for wetback? (for those who choose to swim ashore).
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I think I saw a mention of these phones on a website devoted to expat retirees living in Mexico. If they're not legal, they're at least tolerated by the authorities. Or maybe it's a case of flying below the radar. (joke)
Not much help against the thought detection devices the government is secretly putting into the bases of household light bulbs. Household lightbulbs, Mandrake!
What we really need is for someone to invent a faraday cage hair gel or styling mousse, so that paranoid kookie-biscuit conspiracy theorist can be protected and stylish at the same time.
The worst I foresee happening is a loss of sense of direction.
Only when you're migrating, in which case you'll probably be out of range of the base station
No, you carry a multimeter and a tone generator.
.. uh, generate a tone!"
"Stop! Or I'll . .
Besides, how often do you get a chance to tease Bruce?
All you need are a pair alligator clips and a cheap telephone. Wear an orange jumpsuit, a tool belt, and a construction hard hat, and no one will find it remarkable that you're wandering around a neighborhood.
Not that I've done the orange jump suit thing, but the home made lineman's telephone is good to have if you do your own inside wiring. And at under $10, it's a lot cheaper than this one.
If you really want to be cool, pose as a secret agent, and talk into your shoe.
Maybe part of the confusion was that they weren't understanding the way you spoke Japanese? Pronunciation is key!
Maybe they have a computer somewhere that sends them a report any time one of us says something of interest to them.
And then what? They mod it up? =)
Actually, I think the biggest barrier to interstellar communication is that we don't know what they use for carriage return.
maybe DonkeyHote is an alien trying to communicate, but we just can't understand him/her/it?
My guess is that he's using encryption. Maybe a spy, maybe a terrorist. Any crypto geeks wanna test my hypothesis?
You'd soon find out that clipping doesn't work in real life, and you might break your nose or get a concussion from running into the wall.
GPS is not very accurate. Not accurate enough to say park your car or guide a cruise ship into a dock and stationkeep.
I think you mean "consumer level GPS". For engineering much more fine grained GPS is available. By engineering, I'm referring to bridge building and like endeavors.
or how about theft alarms. Set you laptop to sound an alarm if it is moved out of a certain area without the pass code.
You might already be aware that this is currently available.
or how about for automatic screen orientation. Tilt you powerbook on it's side and the display rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode. Would be killer for presentations / demonstrations to small groups.
This could be really cool. Imagine having a surprise or whatnot hidden off screen. By changing the orientation (say sliding the book to the left, or your idea of rotating 90%), you could reveal the surprise.
Interestingly, I don't think Amit used a Powerbook with AMS in this experiment, other than to borrow one for a short period to retrieve the orientation data.
Oh, and BTW, much as I like to toot the Apple horn, this isn't an Apple innovation. They've been in IBM Thinkpads for a while. (It's a little ironic that Amit uses a 17" Powerbook because he works as a researcher for IBM.)
Not only that, but it takes over 20 minutes to transfer a 17 MB file from one folder to another. 20 Minutes.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else will grind to a halt. Even Pages will straining to keep up if you want to type anything.
Doh!! I should have read your reply (or thought of that myself) before posting anything to the parent post.
Thanks for making me feel like an idiot. Not that it is very hard to do. =)
Shouldn't be impossible to buy a development kit from whatever company makes the AMS and hack it into your keyboard. It will probably mean a second cable, but you can always use cable ties to secure it to the primary cable. Lemme check something. . .
. . . back. Check out this link, that might help someone track down the mfgr. Another option might be to disassemble one of those anti-theft motion detector PC cards. like this one
IIRC, in the first article (which I didn't re-read), he advised about parking the drive before we experiment.
I think you've accidentally come to the wrong site. You must have been looking for grouchyoldman.com.
You left out the rabbits, George. Tell me about the rabbits!
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Lenny
This could also be the answer for the single button touch pad. Instead of right clicking, you throw you PowerBook up in the air.
That's all well and good until your PowerBook gets motion sickness and pukes all over your lap. Well, at least you'll (hopefully) have a tissue or an old sock handy to clean up the mess.
Ha ha! All those flooz don't add up to a hill of beenz!
And I guess with the internet speeding everything up, the Golden Age happened so fast, I missed it when I got up to use the toilet. Damn. I hate when that happens. =(
You were expecting copy editing before the dupe^Wsecond draft?
Maybe time to immigrate? Both China and India have big borders and coastlines, so it shouldn't be too hard to sneak in. Fitting in might be a little harder. What's hindi for wetback? (for those who choose to swim ashore).