A 12yo can legally drink, they just cannot buy alcohol or drink in a bar until 18yo, or whatever local law says. See how confusing sloppy language gets? You may say I am being pedantic, but someone else will take you literally and really believe that it is illegal for a 12yo to drink beer, and be wrong. Or you believe the wrong thing because someone else was sloppy.
Sloppy language is bad. Calling 1024 "1k" is wrong and asking for trouble.
In name only. In reality it is no more part of China than it was previously part of the UK. It is "owned" by the PRC, but has its own laws, citizenship, currency, foreign reserves, TLD etc. And people regularly protest without being shot or threatened by tanks.
Or, here is a thought, why can't the local bank take a scan of the deposited cheque, instead of shipping them around the country? I think that's how it works outside the US.
Me, I stopped using cheques some time last century, along with telex, telegrams, CB radio, 1c coins, and Imperial measurements.
The only good thing about the US banking system is drive-though teller machines. Why can't we have them here?
I expect most will run Intel's N450 Pinewood, feature about a GB of ram, and use a small factor hard drive.
God, I hope not. I already have a netbook. Give us ARM so it can run for many hours without a heavy battery. And solid-state storage. (16GB is tonnes - let the library live on the server, or the 'net.) A 7" to 10" touchscreen, GPS, wifi & 3G. (and bluetooth for tethering in countries like the US where an extra 3G SIM is expensive.) And a choice of competing OSs would be the nice - say MeeGo, Android and an Ubuntu version all competing on the same hardware.
the Chinese government is scared to death of what might happen to the party minions when ordinary Chinese realize that Mao killed more of them than Tojo.
If so, they worry too much. Bush killed more Americans than bin Laden & KSM by starting a war under false pretences. This is no secret in the US, but he and the neocons still live the high life. No 'net censorship needed, just a little influence over the mass media. (No I'm not equating Bush with Mao, but Hussein was no Tojo either.)
There is a compromise: use a stylus! That way the virtual keyboard is not only smaller, but more accurate. I'd like to see a comparison of stylus vs finger screen-typing. (A proper comparison, not like in TFA.) If multi-touch is really so important, you could build a screen with both resistive and capacitive digitisers.
And don't forget to compare things like Palm's Graffiti.
It's something that you can do with any cheapo netbook and any cheapo phone
Any except Apple! Nothing new here. I got the iPod touch way back and really liked it except it stopped working as soon as out of wifi range. Very frustrating, when I had a 3G phone in Bluetooth range.
Easy solution: ditch the iPhone (you don't need it now that you have an iPad to look cool and run those must-have app's), get an uncrippled phone with wifi, and run a wireless access point on the phone. e.g. Joikuspot on Symbian or Maemo. Some WinMo phones have it built-in.
If you're a poor peasant living in some place where they don't even have toilets,
Where? I've never seen a peasant farmer who did not have a toilet of some sort. In the very first paragraph of TFA it says these are for city slum dwellers.
Only for USB. Most "dumb" 3G phones I've seen at a fraction of the price of the N900 will do tethering over bluetooth or USB. Still, there is an "app" for that:-) The US really is a special case for 3G data. Special as in what I believe the Americans refer to as the "short bus".
I had an old just-a-phone get ran over by a loaded 18-wheeler
While deep-sea fishing 3 years ago, I accidentally dropped my iPhone over the subduction zone of the Mariana Trench.
Last month I got an email from a guy in New Zealand who found it while skiing on Mount Ruapehu after a volcanic eruption. Praised be Apple.
without a complete understanding of where our Universe came from?
It did not come from anywhere. By definition there is no "where", no "outside", no external cause for it to come from. The question makes no sense. The universe does not "exist" - things exist within the universe.
Or, to say the same thing, all possible universes exist:
Now, how about something for the 5% of us with Amblyopia?
Actually, you can still gain benefit from these 3D displays, much more easily than with systems using glasses. You move your one good eye left and right between the two images, thus seeing Motion parallax. I saw a demo with a camera at a sports game, where they bob the camera up and down. This dramatically improved the depth perception.
Of course, especially with a moving picture, you probably have a ton of depth cues already, just like the rest of us. I don't see this latest 3D fad lasting any longer than the one on the 50s did. Stereoscopic still photos are much more useful, as photos lack motion cues. Yet even they had only brief popularity, and are now seen as merely a children's toy.
I predict that in 10 years, the only new 3D movies will be in the Children's section.
oh don't be such a pussy. What is the alternative for someone with a mental age of 5, and a teenage body full of hormones? You think it is better to keep them locked up? Let them breed? Teach them "christian values"?
feeding Illinois state prisoners a diet that is known to cause organ failure
Slashdot Mirror
WP = white phosphorus, for those who are not military nerds.
P.S. The labs down the hall that participate in the collaboration will be partying tonight :)
You can tell because they have undone an extra button on their lab coats, and are drinking full-sugar coke.
A 12yo can legally drink, they just cannot buy alcohol or drink in a bar until 18yo, or whatever local law says.
See how confusing sloppy language gets? You may say I am being pedantic, but someone else will take you literally and really believe that it is illegal for a 12yo to drink beer, and be wrong. Or you believe the wrong thing because someone else was sloppy.
Sloppy language is bad. Calling 1024 "1k" is wrong and asking for trouble.
If the patient thinks this is a moral grey area, he need the treatment stat!
Hong Kong is part of China,
In name only. In reality it is no more part of China than it was previously part of the UK. It is "owned" by the PRC, but has its own laws, citizenship, currency, foreign reserves, TLD etc. And people regularly protest without being shot or threatened by tanks.
if China were this flexible over Tibet
What? Still maintain the old theocracy?
Or, here is a thought, why can't the local bank take a scan of the deposited cheque, instead of shipping them around the country?
I think that's how it works outside the US.
Me, I stopped using cheques some time last century, along with telex, telegrams, CB radio, 1c coins, and Imperial measurements.
The only good thing about the US banking system is drive-though teller machines. Why can't we have them here?
I expect most will run Intel's N450 Pinewood, feature about a GB of ram, and use a small factor hard drive.
God, I hope not. I already have a netbook. Give us ARM so it can run for many hours without a heavy battery.
And solid-state storage. (16GB is tonnes - let the library live on the server, or the 'net.) A 7" to 10" touchscreen, GPS, wifi & 3G. (and bluetooth for tethering in countries like the US where an extra 3G SIM is expensive.)
And a choice of competing OSs would be the nice - say MeeGo, Android and an Ubuntu version all competing on the same hardware.
the Chinese government is scared to death of what might happen to the party minions when ordinary Chinese realize that Mao killed more of them than Tojo.
If so, they worry too much. Bush killed more Americans than bin Laden & KSM by starting a war under false pretences. This is no secret in the US, but he and the neocons still live the high life.
No 'net censorship needed, just a little influence over the mass media. (No I'm not equating Bush with Mao, but Hussein was no Tojo either.)
screen real estate.
There is a compromise: use a stylus! That way the virtual keyboard is not only smaller, but more accurate.
I'd like to see a comparison of stylus vs finger screen-typing. (A proper comparison, not like in TFA.)
If multi-touch is really so important, you could build a screen with both resistive and capacitive digitisers.
And don't forget to compare things like Palm's Graffiti.
It's something that you can do with any cheapo netbook and any cheapo phone
Any except Apple! Nothing new here. I got the iPod touch way back and really liked it except it stopped working as soon as out of wifi range.
Very frustrating, when I had a 3G phone in Bluetooth range.
Easy solution: ditch the iPhone (you don't need it now that you have an iPad to look cool and run those must-have app's), get an uncrippled phone with wifi, and run a wireless access point on the phone.
e.g. Joikuspot on Symbian or Maemo. Some WinMo phones have it built-in.
> the concerns raised by the carbon-based entities
I am a carbon-based entity and I resent the implied slur.
If you're a poor peasant living in some place where they don't even have toilets,
Where? I've never seen a peasant farmer who did not have a toilet of some sort.
In the very first paragraph of TFA it says these are for city slum dwellers.
Tethering is built into the n900.
Only for USB. Most "dumb" 3G phones I've seen at a fraction of the price of the N900 will do tethering over bluetooth or USB. :-)
Still, there is an "app" for that
The US really is a special case for 3G data. Special as in what I believe the Americans refer to as the "short bus".
I had an old just-a-phone get ran over by a loaded 18-wheeler
While deep-sea fishing 3 years ago, I accidentally dropped my iPhone over the subduction zone of the Mariana Trench.
Last month I got an email from a guy in New Zealand who found it while skiing on Mount Ruapehu after a volcanic eruption.
Praised be Apple.
And what makes the Ipad better?
No annoying Flash adverts! Safari on iPad comes with FlashBlock built-in for free.
and is a gas lighter than air.
Bad assumption. In reality it is heavy water. Molecular weight of 20 - still lighter than air, but heavier than regular water vapour.
I also understand that 2.5 million picocuries per liter sounds like a huge amount,
It sure sounds like a lot more than 2½ micro-curies!
hey, I jogged 4 million mm this morning!
The actual ratio depends on whether you are counting flights, or just landings.
They say that, but I'm told all Cretans are liars.
without a complete understanding of where our Universe came from?
It did not come from anywhere. By definition there is no "where", no "outside", no external cause for it to come from.
The question makes no sense. The universe does not "exist" - things exist within the universe.
Or, to say the same thing, all possible universes exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Ensemble
True. Ancient people were just as intelligent as we are.
but any Cretin can build a boat.
And what about the Flynn effect?
"Bricked" means non-responsively broke. Repairable or not.
Get over yourself.
Yes Sir, Mr Dumpty!
Now, how about something for the 5% of us with Amblyopia?
Actually, you can still gain benefit from these 3D displays, much more easily than with systems using glasses.
You move your one good eye left and right between the two images, thus seeing Motion parallax.
I saw a demo with a camera at a sports game, where they bob the camera up and down. This dramatically improved the depth perception.
Of course, especially with a moving picture, you probably have a ton of depth cues already, just like the rest of us.
I don't see this latest 3D fad lasting any longer than the one on the 50s did.
Stereoscopic still photos are much more useful, as photos lack motion cues. Yet even they had only brief popularity,
and are now seen as merely a children's toy.
I predict that in 10 years, the only new 3D movies will be in the Children's section.
on mentally retarded children, sterilized them
oh don't be such a pussy. What is the alternative for someone with a mental age of 5, and a teenage body full of hormones? You think it is better to keep them locked up? Let them breed? Teach them "christian values"?
feeding Illinois state prisoners a diet that is known to cause organ failure
The average western school canteen does that.
Does any netbook screen support 1920*1080 resolution?
No, but atom + ion = HTPC. The 1920*1080 is on your 42"+/- TV set.