I wonder if it makes sense, from a space-saving perspective, to have interlocking "teeth". A would be an up-triangle, S would be down, D would be up, F would be down... I wonder if a virtual keyboard user would go towards the top or bottom of the key instinctively based on the orientation of the desired key. This way you don't have so much wasted space. For the same real estate, you'd have twice as much width for each key. Maybe you can trim the whole keyboard 25% (keys will still be 1.5 times as wide as square keys), and then can afford to put a little space in between the rows.. maybe even make row spacing customizable.
\Q/W\E/R\T/Y\..and under that you'd have.../A\S/D\F/G\H/
While heat-charging I think is a good idea, the flex-charging also would kick in while being in a pocket and shifted around constantly. It's not like you'd have to actually use it or shake it around to charge it.
Another sob story here. I was job hunting long long ago, and didn't have any sort of long distance plan on my phone. I remembered from commercials I used to see on TV, starring Paul Reiser I think, that I dial 10-10-ATT+the number for long distance calls for 10 cents a minute. Well, apparently they changed this prefix to be for AT&T customers waiting for their land service to get hooked up, and anyone else who used it would pay something ugly like $3 per minute. So I was dismayed at my $150 phone bill. I was too naive and young to realize I should kept fighting, but after complaining to them enough and getting nowhere (they told me no one had any recollection of such a commercial), and worrying about my credit, just starting out in the world, and starting to doubt myself, I relented and paid the bill. I talked to a friend later, and he remembered these exact same commercials. It was too late to do anything about it though. AT&T sucks.
Why do 3rd world countries need computers? Someone brought up an interesting point relating to India in response to another/. story. These third world nations learning valuable high tech skills will let them earn much more money than from a basic "education". A man can earn a lot more working with his head than with his hands. I just wish they can teach ethics at the same time, so Africa didn't have so many scammers.
I'm one homebrewer that has always adored Guinness. Just got back from Dublin, and it's even better out there. They use a different formula for non-exported beer. So smooth and tasty. The tour of the Guinness Storehouse will explain everything to you.
Just a note.. If you want to read some fun swarm-centric sci-fi, pick up Crichton's "Prey", where he writes of simple one pixel cameras injected into the bloodstream, then swarm together to form an eye which acts as a miniature video camera. Among other things, he also writes of how humans are swarms themselves, consisting of tiny little dumb cells that work together to form a supposedly intelligent life-form.
He says this is only good for one player at a time.. if the Wii remote was able to map other colors to other players, it'd be able to handle different players for each window in a split-screen game, no?
I could imagine instant tattoos -- patches with designs on them, subcutaneous injection of inks.
Off-topic, but, tattoo technology *is* improving this year. Dye will be stored in small capsules, that can be burst open by laser and thus removed easily with a single laser treatment:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19845335/
So yes, maybe it'll be easier to get tattoos as well.
Turn your house up 1 degree in the summer and down 1 degree in the winter and you will save more money than that!
For some, including myself, 1 degree higher or lower can really make someone uncomfortable in his/her own home. However, I learned that in the winter, a bit of cardio exercise can really mute this effect. I find that I need my house at 73F during the winter, but after a jog outside, or a bit of time on the treadmill (however much that uses up in energy), I can lower the thermostat down to 65-68F or lower for the night, no problem. I also improve my health and fitness, which is perhaps the most important factor for/. readers.:)
Devoting so much of one's personal time to add high-quality content to Wikipedia, essentially a charitable cause, does not strike me as "run-of-the-mill". He was respected for a reason. Credentials only go so far. I'd rather have the grassroots underling before a tired ol' theologist that probably doesn't have nearly as much time or willpower to contribute like this supposed country bumpkin and/or plebeian.
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I could go on listing items, but you get my point. Everyone that said and signed on with, "I have an idea, let's use the PS3 as a launching platform for Blu-ray!" should be fired, because they just don't get it. People will buy a game console that happens to also play movies, but they're not going to be force-fed a whole new movie format just to own it.
To be honest, I disagree with what you say based on my own experience. I did the whole home theater setup in my house, and when deciding between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, I find the choice pretty easy. I'm not really THAT into video games, but they're nice at times and I figure I'll buy a console that also plays one of the HD formats. I see the hodge-podge XBox 360 + HD-DVD add-on available now, or I can wait for the slightly more future-proofed PS3 with Blu-Ray. I can honestly say I probably would have gone with the Nintendo Wii already if not for the PS3's Blu-Ray.
My point is specifically that there is some data that doesn't need to be secured. Who cares if someone breaks in and steals access to my science homework? It's not that valuable. When I'm doing genuine original research, then I'll pay enough money to secure it on a local machine. But when I'm doing the lab experiment on page 194 of the standard workbook for this semester's textbook, who cares? In the worst case scenario, a cheater breaks in and uses my data for his grade. To protect against that, having a password-protected account on a server is sufficient to protect me from charges of dishonesty.
So what, then? Is it the little league schedule that you want to generate then print and distribute on paper? Uh-oh! Someone might find out when the Fighting Pandas are playing the Twirling Tweeties -- before the release date!
Which grocery store is less expensive? CRAP! Now my $75/month advantage over my neighbors is shot! Dang, and I was hoping to be the lucky winner of natural selection on this one, and pass on my genes more frequently based on my superior shopping abilities.
How in the world does "homework and little league schedules" get interpreted "business documents and credit card (personal) info?" Question -- is there any data that doesn't need to be secured? Should I secure my name? I guess I should encrypt my business card, so that I can distribute it freely, but only people with the secret decoder ring can figure out what it says. Also, I should protect my business's phone number and web URL. It would be TERRIBLE if someone found out what those were without my explicit invitation.
Data being more secure is never a bad thing. You often don't know what can hurt you. For example, as another comment brought up, you do get penalized pretty readily if your homework looks like someone else's. Both of you get 0's... no questions asked. Happened to me once in college.
The little league schedule is much worse. If your kid is in a little league team, do you really want someone to be able to easily see what your children are up to, and where they'll be? Just one of them being lured into the woods and kidnapped is all it takes for you to be a data security activist for life. Privacy by default is a way to keep off the radar of a great deal of evil-doers.
What do you do in the future when one of these is mass-produced and forgets its turn signal and cuts you off? ... driverless vehicles will have no rights in our future society!
If your fears are realized, hopefully they'll have no lefts either.
To state the obvious, it's not accurate to categorize this as paying "extra" taxes. If I, in NJ, work remotely for a company in Tennessee, I'd save on taxes.
When Apple called a project "Sagan", the astronomer got irritated, and told them to cease and desist.
Then they changed it to "Butthead Astronomer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
This is pretty funny. What you guys might've missed in the Wikipedia article is that Sagan actually sued to have the project's name changed, and lost. Apple changed it to Butthead Astronomer anyway, which prompted Sagan to sue again, for libel. He lost again, but Apple changed the project name one more time, to "LAW", which stood for "Lawyers Are Wimps".:)
If every lawsuit was this amusing, perhaps the legal world wouldn't be so sickening.
Take, Strong Bad, for example. I would easily pay like $5/year to watch this creativity a couple times per month. What happens if 30 million others feel the same way? Instant negation of Big Business, that is what.
Millions of people can make their own CDs, but we haven't seen the major record labels "negated" yet. With TV, the major studios are the ones who can supply the cash and resources for sets, special effects, big name actors, etc etc. Although I can imagine there will be a lot more cult followings of low-budget TV shows and the big TV networks will have less control, they'll not have to worry about instant negation. Strong Bad will be bought and whored out like nobody's business long before any one goes out of business.
We will be using some felt that we acquired at the local fabric store. Now I will say this on the note of the fabric store types: Not Geeks! These are the types of people that never get out and experience the world. And their idea of creative or innovative thinking is using a slightly-different-than-recommended shade of embroidery floss for their "There's No Place Like Home" wall hanging or pillow. So don't be surprised if you feel really uncomfortable in a fabric store. I sure as hell did! And people make fun of geeks dressing up like Jedi for star wars premiers and waiting in lines for days to be the first one in the door for the 12:01 AM showing....
He touched on exactly which geeks you might find in a fabric store. Roleplaying geeks! Not just Star Wars fanatics, but trekkologists, otaku, and LARPers. Geeks are everywhere... you just need need the right eyewear to see them.
"Many lenses are coated to improve the optics of the lens. Products like Windex will severely damage these coatings resulting in pilling, fogging, or even etching of the actually glass. FYI, most CRT monitors are subject to the same conditions. Don't ever clean your CRT with Windex or similar products. Of course you would know this if you read the manual."
Didn't know that!:) It's nice to get immediately useful info from an article about something you don't have time for.
Just for a heads up, a couple of the reports cover details on the Patriot Act including provisions that expire at the end of this year. Figured it was a topic of interest on/.
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I wonder if it makes sense, from a space-saving perspective, to have interlocking "teeth". A would be an up-triangle, S would be down, D would be up, F would be down... I wonder if a virtual keyboard user would go towards the top or bottom of the key instinctively based on the orientation of the desired key. This way you don't have so much wasted space. For the same real estate, you'd have twice as much width for each key. Maybe you can trim the whole keyboard 25% (keys will still be 1.5 times as wide as square keys), and then can afford to put a little space in between the rows.. maybe even make row spacing customizable. \Q/W\E/R\T/Y\ ..and under that you'd have... /A\S/D\F/G\H/
While heat-charging I think is a good idea, the flex-charging also would kick in while being in a pocket and shifted around constantly. It's not like you'd have to actually use it or shake it around to charge it.
Another sob story here. I was job hunting long long ago, and didn't have any sort of long distance plan on my phone. I remembered from commercials I used to see on TV, starring Paul Reiser I think, that I dial 10-10-ATT+the number for long distance calls for 10 cents a minute. Well, apparently they changed this prefix to be for AT&T customers waiting for their land service to get hooked up, and anyone else who used it would pay something ugly like $3 per minute. So I was dismayed at my $150 phone bill. I was too naive and young to realize I should kept fighting, but after complaining to them enough and getting nowhere (they told me no one had any recollection of such a commercial), and worrying about my credit, just starting out in the world, and starting to doubt myself, I relented and paid the bill. I talked to a friend later, and he remembered these exact same commercials. It was too late to do anything about it though. AT&T sucks.
Why do 3rd world countries need computers? Someone brought up an interesting point relating to India in response to another /. story. These third world nations learning valuable high tech skills will let them earn much more money than from a basic "education". A man can earn a lot more working with his head than with his hands. I just wish they can teach ethics at the same time, so Africa didn't have so many scammers.
More like 5 and 5/9 miles! *geeky snort*
I'm one homebrewer that has always adored Guinness. Just got back from Dublin, and it's even better out there. They use a different formula for non-exported beer. So smooth and tasty. The tour of the Guinness Storehouse will explain everything to you.
Just a note.. If you want to read some fun swarm-centric sci-fi, pick up Crichton's "Prey", where he writes of simple one pixel cameras injected into the bloodstream, then swarm together to form an eye which acts as a miniature video camera. Among other things, he also writes of how humans are swarms themselves, consisting of tiny little dumb cells that work together to form a supposedly intelligent life-form.
That's not an office. That's a "stick the IT guy in the closet so we don't have to spend money on him" room.
He's the next Milton?He says this is only good for one player at a time.. if the Wii remote was able to map other colors to other players, it'd be able to handle different players for each window in a split-screen game, no?
I could imagine instant tattoos -- patches with designs on them, subcutaneous injection of inks.
Off-topic, but, tattoo technology *is* improving this year. Dye will be stored in small capsules, that can be burst open by laser and thus removed easily with a single laser treatment: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19845335/ So yes, maybe it'll be easier to get tattoos as well.Turn your house up 1 degree in the summer and down 1 degree in the winter and you will save more money than that!
For some, including myself, 1 degree higher or lower can really make someone uncomfortable in his/her own home. However, I learned that in the winter, a bit of cardio exercise can really mute this effect. I find that I need my house at 73F during the winter, but after a jog outside, or a bit of time on the treadmill (however much that uses up in energy), I can lower the thermostat down to 65-68F or lower for the night, no problem. I also improve my health and fitness, which is perhaps the most important factor forDevoting so much of one's personal time to add high-quality content to Wikipedia, essentially a charitable cause, does not strike me as "run-of-the-mill". He was respected for a reason. Credentials only go so far. I'd rather have the grassroots underling before a tired ol' theologist that probably doesn't have nearly as much time or willpower to contribute like this supposed country bumpkin and/or plebeian.
I could go on listing items, but you get my point. Everyone that said and signed on with, "I have an idea, let's use the PS3 as a launching platform for Blu-ray!" should be fired, because they just don't get it. People will buy a game console that happens to also play movies, but they're not going to be force-fed a whole new movie format just to own it.
To be honest, I disagree with what you say based on my own experience. I did the whole home theater setup in my house, and when deciding between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, I find the choice pretty easy. I'm not really THAT into video games, but they're nice at times and I figure I'll buy a console that also plays one of the HD formats. I see the hodge-podge XBox 360 + HD-DVD add-on available now, or I can wait for the slightly more future-proofed PS3 with Blu-Ray. I can honestly say I probably would have gone with the Nintendo Wii already if not for the PS3's Blu-Ray.Result = 42
What do you do in the future when one of these is mass-produced and forgets its turn signal and cuts you off?
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driverless vehicles will have no rights in our future society!
If your fears are realized, hopefully they'll have no lefts either.
First transparent aluminum... now this! I know you're among us, Scotty! Beam me up, damn you!!
Took 13 people to roll this dude over :)
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/ record.asp?recordid=48383
To state the obvious, it's not accurate to categorize this as paying "extra" taxes. If I, in NJ, work remotely for a company in Tennessee, I'd save on taxes.
The ultimate superball! Throw it against a wall and watch it bounce all over for hours!
When Apple called a project "Sagan", the astronomer got irritated, and told them to cease and desist. Then they changed it to "Butthead Astronomer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
This is pretty funny. What you guys might've missed in the Wikipedia article is that Sagan actually sued to have the project's name changed, and lost. Apple changed it to Butthead Astronomer anyway, which prompted Sagan to sue again, for libel. He lost again, but Apple changed the project name one more time, to "LAW", which stood for "Lawyers Are Wimps". :)
If every lawsuit was this amusing, perhaps the legal world wouldn't be so sickening.
Take, Strong Bad, for example. I would easily pay like $5/year to watch this creativity a couple times per month. What happens if 30 million others feel the same way? Instant negation of Big Business, that is what.
Millions of people can make their own CDs, but we haven't seen the major record labels "negated" yet. With TV, the major studios are the ones who can supply the cash and resources for sets, special effects, big name actors, etc etc. Although I can imagine there will be a lot more cult followings of low-budget TV shows and the big TV networks will have less control, they'll not have to worry about instant negation. Strong Bad will be bought and whored out like nobody's business long before any one goes out of business.
We will be using some felt that we acquired at the local fabric store. Now I will say this on the note of the fabric store types: Not Geeks! These are the types of people that never get out and experience the world. And their idea of creative or innovative thinking is using a slightly-different-than-recommended shade of embroidery floss for their "There's No Place Like Home" wall hanging or pillow. So don't be surprised if you feel really uncomfortable in a fabric store. I sure as hell did! And people make fun of geeks dressing up like Jedi for star wars premiers and waiting in lines for days to be the first one in the door for the 12:01 AM showing....
He touched on exactly which geeks you might find in a fabric store. Roleplaying geeks! Not just Star Wars fanatics, but trekkologists, otaku, and LARPers. Geeks are everywhere... you just need need the right eyewear to see them.
When commenting on lenses, it says:
"Many lenses are coated to improve the optics of the lens. Products like Windex will severely damage these coatings resulting in pilling, fogging, or even etching of the actually glass. FYI, most CRT monitors are subject to the same conditions. Don't ever clean your CRT with Windex or similar products. Of course you would know this if you read the manual."
Didn't know that! :) It's nice to get immediately useful info from an article about something you don't have time for.
Just for a heads up, a couple of the reports cover details on the Patriot Act including provisions that expire at the end of this year. Figured it was a topic of interest on /.