Arrive from Free World on filthy A340 Get into strange bus Do common-criminal fingerprinting BS Collect bag (W) Wheel bag past completely uninterested Customs agent (T) Dump bag (F?) Freedom Feel Get into strange bus Leave on connecting flight - except it's United and they broke it.
There are no scanners on the way into the U.S. You were either in the U.S. leaving (or an internal flight), or you encountered the scanner in the UK.
That must have changed recently, then. In May, I flew MAN-IAD-SLC (via SFO - thanks United! - and an epic TSA screw-up, but that's another story). On arrival at IAD I did indeed have to go through security again, and was indeed directed towards a pornoscanner. I opted out - at least the US gives you the option - and was yelled at. For opting out, then again for standing a foot away from where I was supposed to (but exactly where the thug in question pointed), then a third time for leaning against something while they bothered their arses to find someone to do the pat-down. Wonderful experience.
One eye is definitely dominant, but both work. They just don't work together; I'm reasonably sure that the right eye is being suppressed when both are open. I can see the difference between my left and right eye by closing each in turn, but I can't merge the two images into a 3D picture of the world. I rely entirely on knowing the size and shape of objects (the monitor is rectangular, and how trapezoidal it looks tells me how far off straight it is), and on occlusion of one object by another (I'll sometimes catch myself moving my head slightly, or more than slightly, to make that happen). Friends have commented that I have a habit of bumping into things when walking - but I'm fine at driving. No, really!:) And I suck at catching, although that might just be a Slashdotter thing...
I only discovered that I had no proper 3D when I was specifically tested for it as part of a pre-employment medical. Of course, this came as something of a surprise to me, given that I'd been landing planes quite happily for ten years (which came as something of a surprise to the doctor), although thinking back to my training, I can see how it wouldn't be an issue. I was taught to look for the runway to be a certain 2D shape on approach, symmetrical with a given height:width ratio, and for the flare and touchdown all I had to do was look at the far end.
So yes, I have ways to cope, but I don't have 3D vision in the conventional sense, and a doctor can prove it.
Except in the cinema... which I find intriguing. And I do see the subtle 3D, not just the in-your-face 3D (which I really hate, because it completely destroys my immersion in the story just to make me feel like the extra two bucks were worth it....grrrr....). Clearly I can still do it, and all the relevant hardware and software does work. Just not in the real world.
Close one eye. It isn't a horrible view of the world but it isn't what things look like.
It's what they look like to me: I have two functioning eyes but 3D vision just doesn't happen in the real world. (It did a few times in my teens, when I was really tired, but at that point I didn't know I wasn't seeing 3D the rest of the time, so it was just "something weird".)
3D movies are the *only* time I see in 3D. 2D movies just look like the world does anyway.
Last year, my employer spent half a million euros on a new X-ray source for protein crystallography. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that there was a 3.5" floppy drive in the middle of it, holding some critical piece of code that needed updating. The service engineer's laptop didn't have a floppy drive; fortunately, we have some ancient kit elsewhere that does......but man, it makes you feel old when you have to show your sysadmin how to format a floppy. Kids these days...
What's worse, when the plane finally arrived, it was packed in a giant welded plastic clamshell. It took two weeks for a crew at the airline to extract the aircraft without damaging it.
Unfortunately for them, they soon discovered that the giant welded plastic clamshell was the aircraft....
I just got cycling directions for Oulu, Finland, and it's definitely using the cycleways. But it appears to use those for the walking directions, too; I haven't yet found routes for which these are different.
Unfortunately the Street View car didn't go down those, so you can't get that nice print-out with the Street View shots... but all the junctions look like two cycleways meeting in a forest anyway. You have to like trees if you live here:P
(Oh, and for some algorithm fun, try getting walking directions from Hull, England to Esbjerg, Denmark. It seems to be trying to minimise the walking distance, with rather amusing results.)
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I hope for their sake that the Scunthorpe problem has been resolved...
...you find yourself stuck with IE6 on XP, and installing Firefox is a sackable offence.
...marketers won't use this to hijack my phone anywhere they can get hold of a speaker.
Please, please start raising the bar again, huh?
I've got a couple of reams of paper that you can put under it if you like...
You can tell when my projects are going badly by the proliferation of modular origami balls...
...and here was me thinking the editors had no shame...
Arrive from Free World on filthy A340
Get into strange bus
Do common-criminal fingerprinting BS
Collect bag (W)
Wheel bag past completely uninterested Customs agent (T)
Dump bag (F?)
Freedom Feel
Get into strange bus
Leave on connecting flight - except it's United and they broke it.
CPH-IAD, even. They're all starting to blur into each other....
That must have changed recently, then. In May, I flew MAN-IAD-SLC (via SFO - thanks United! - and an epic TSA screw-up, but that's another story). On arrival at IAD I did indeed have to go through security again, and was indeed directed towards a pornoscanner. I opted out - at least the US gives you the option - and was yelled at. For opting out, then again for standing a foot away from where I was supposed to (but exactly where the thug in question pointed), then a third time for leaning against something while they bothered their arses to find someone to do the pat-down. Wonderful experience.
5,000 single-site frontends and 10,000 fart apps.
One eye is definitely dominant, but both work. They just don't work together; I'm reasonably sure that the right eye is being suppressed when both are open. I can see the difference between my left and right eye by closing each in turn, but I can't merge the two images into a 3D picture of the world. I rely entirely on knowing the size and shape of objects (the monitor is rectangular, and how trapezoidal it looks tells me how far off straight it is), and on occlusion of one object by another (I'll sometimes catch myself moving my head slightly, or more than slightly, to make that happen). Friends have commented that I have a habit of bumping into things when walking - but I'm fine at driving. No, really! :) And I suck at catching, although that might just be a Slashdotter thing...
I only discovered that I had no proper 3D when I was specifically tested for it as part of a pre-employment medical. Of course, this came as something of a surprise to me, given that I'd been landing planes quite happily for ten years (which came as something of a surprise to the doctor), although thinking back to my training, I can see how it wouldn't be an issue. I was taught to look for the runway to be a certain 2D shape on approach, symmetrical with a given height:width ratio, and for the flare and touchdown all I had to do was look at the far end.
So yes, I have ways to cope, but I don't have 3D vision in the conventional sense, and a doctor can prove it.
Except in the cinema... which I find intriguing. And I do see the subtle 3D, not just the in-your-face 3D (which I really hate, because it completely destroys my immersion in the story just to make me feel like the extra two bucks were worth it....grrrr....). Clearly I can still do it, and all the relevant hardware and software does work. Just not in the real world.
Close one eye. It isn't a horrible view of the world but it isn't what things look like.
It's what they look like to me: I have two functioning eyes but 3D vision just doesn't happen in the real world. (It did a few times in my teens, when I was really tired, but at that point I didn't know I wasn't seeing 3D the rest of the time, so it was just "something weird".)
3D movies are the *only* time I see in 3D. 2D movies just look like the world does anyway.
Last year, my employer spent half a million euros on a new X-ray source for protein crystallography. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that there was a 3.5" floppy drive in the middle of it, holding some critical piece of code that needed updating. The service engineer's laptop didn't have a floppy drive; fortunately, we have some ancient kit elsewhere that does... ...but man, it makes you feel old when you have to show your sysadmin how to format a floppy. Kids these days...
Steve Jobs, is that you?
One more thing, surely...
Unfortunately for them, they soon discovered that the giant welded plastic clamshell was the aircraft....
While that does save some screen real estate, I prefer the Seamonkey approach that leaves some more controls in plain sight.
Firefox user here, but I have to agree with this. If I want more space, that's what F11 is for.
SOMEbody's gonna be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog sh!t out of Hong Kong....
Performance-enhancing drugs in the fuel! Genius!
I have one like that! So annoying when the secretary goes on holiday and I have to change the toner myself... ;)
turning tools into cash overnight
Ah yes, the "reality TV" business model...
I think I'm going to submit feedback on feedback, pointing out that feedback needs feedback.
Yo dawg...
...and I'll kill everyone who has a problem with that!
I just got cycling directions for Oulu, Finland, and it's definitely using the cycleways. But it appears to use those for the walking directions, too; I haven't yet found routes for which these are different.
Unfortunately the Street View car didn't go down those, so you can't get that nice print-out with the Street View shots... but all the junctions look like two cycleways meeting in a forest anyway. You have to like trees if you live here :P
(Oh, and for some algorithm fun, try getting walking directions from Hull, England to Esbjerg, Denmark. It seems to be trying to minimise the walking distance, with rather amusing results.)
When else would it cause a miscarriage, if not during pregnancy?