Infamous 4chan often plays various jokes on the users - like "wordfilters", you post one word, the post contains another. You write "moot", your post contains "doug" and so on. Over some time 4chan wordfiltered "loli" to "duck". The anonymous liked the joke so much that once it was removed, users kept posting "links to duck porn" and so on.
I find basic tennis shoes to be much more comfortable than most "designer" stuff. There may be a difference with winter boots but I can still find very comfortable cheap boots, and happened to have uncomfortable expensive boots as well.
And I got very used to simple keyboards. I have a Model M (where the connector went faulty) and it is better than the simplest keyboards. I have an expensive copy of Model M and it sucks. I was using employer-issued Logitech for a year and felt no difference whatsoever from the cheapest one.
This is not an universal rule. Cheap computer mice tend to suck balls. Medium ones don't differ from the top in a noticeable way though. Cheapest coffee is undrinkable, but move a shelf up and it gets quite good - actually the tastiest coffee I even drank was only 30% real coffee. Then they went "quality", bumped natural coffee content to 60% and the taste has gone out the window. I tried some top brands and custom mixes and none gets close.
Still depends on price-quality ratio. I've given up on buying better keyboards, as one that costs 10x the price of the cheapest one will survive maybe 3x the time if I'm lucky. Expensive shoes last 3-5 seasons, shoes for 5% the price last a season or two. It is really sometimes cheaper to buy cheap and replace often.
Most old cities of Europe were laid for city walls. City walls being expensive and hard to expand, the cities were laid out in circular pattern with central market and roads rexpanding radially, street circles connecting them and more radial streets added as the roads were getting further apart. If more towns were near to each other, where they met while expanding the layout was very chaotic, two unequally growing radial patterns meeting. Also, squeezing as much as possible within city walls, with chaotic land purchase/inheritance patterns often led to very chaotic city center layout... see Prague.
Except it's bout Amazon and UPS and Fed Ex and USPS combined vs Joe Schmoe and Wal-Mart and Best Buy and their suppliers combined. As someone said before, wares don't teleport themselves to the malls, and a mall takes more energy to operate than a mailbox.
Believe me, when you do it in class, you do it stealthly. I know some tricks kids employ. First, touch-typing without looking. Yep, doesn't work too well with T9 but perfectly doable with multitap, even in your pocket. Then short vibra alarm, or audible near-ultrasound, inaudible to older people, or a ringtone that is just a piece of background noise, like a little cough or heavier breath, or sound of flipping a page. Then not much training is needed to remember a whole phone screen of text with a glance and read it in your mind - quick-reading techniques applied to bite-size chunks of information. Or an inconspicious earphone and text-to-speech.
It's classes primarily when SMS is abused like that, but it may be preferable when you prefer to keep the convo private in a crowded place (like public transport) or... when you hold two conversations at once - one face to face, one over SMS.
Also, texting with your mouth full is not considered rude;)
Besides, phones being very mobile, texting cuts into time you spend commuting in public transport, waiting, eating, talking to friends during classes. For a skilled texter it's as occupying as talking. They often don't need to look at the screen and can type with the phone and hand in a pocket. By using very high frequency ringtone they can hide the ring signal from older people (like teachers), in result remaining completely stealthy with exception of the short moment for reading the message - and you know reading is faster than listening.
Actual phone calls cut into their time much more, and using a computer (which takes priority attention focus) is far more time-consuming.
You're missing bulk sending. You send "class cancelled" to 30 student friends in the morning, "meet at the pub at 19" in the afternoon and you're already 1/3 down the quota. Also, some people use them like chat apps. 100 lines of active conversation on IRC isn't all that much.
Because right now I'm busy and I don't care to hear your old fart voice, and whatever you're about to tell me is not due to happen in another 5 hours, so stop bothering me and leave me a message.
Also, the address you gave me over voice mail is wrong. I checked Carrington rd, Cammington rd, and Callington rd, and was it thirty nine or fourty one, you better swallow whatever you're eating if you dictate such data if you refuse to text such things.
SMS is not a replacement of calls, it's complementary. Calls are intrusive, require full, unbroken attention, and are obtrusive to people around.
Calls are a valid method to pass urgent important message and the acknowledgment of receiving it is essential, or to ask an urgent short question. They are good when you want to conduct a longer conversation and both parties are not occupied.
Text messages are good for passing an announcement that doesn't require immediate attention or confirmation, to ask a question that may require research, to pass data that should be retained (written down) like addresses, directions, phone numbers (no, mom, don't dictate this to me, just disconnect and text me that address) and for a discrete conversation when normal phone call would be disruptive to others around.
You don't text strangers requiring answer - it's rude when they have to pay to answer unsolicited question. You don't call when you suspect the other person is busy. You may text them to call (or ring) you when they have free time to call instead. You may send text to remind about something. You do not depend on SMS as the only channel with important messages. You only use them when calling fails, and then still try to reach the other party by means that let them acknowledge receiving the message.
SMS is no longer about being cheap. It's an essential element of the culture of communication.
It isn't real HDR. Yes, the readout is in HDR. But the playback isn't.
For real HDR you need a HDR monitor, like the ones with LED array backlight, that can give many orders of magnitude higher contrast range than any existing monitors.
Nope, it's an interesting gimmick, but unless HDR displays enter common use, just a gimmick.
They can -still- lose money like before. It's just another point of failure. Also, money is the obligatory payment for goods. PIN is an arbitrary regulation.
Color transmission was supported by b&w TV sets from day one. The protocol was designed to be backwards-compatible, b&w TV just ignoring the color-bias component while keeping the luminance component.
Not from a physicist point of view, but from engineer's.
I mean, I know it can store data by means of variable resistance. But how do you read and write? Specific voltages, currents, frequencies? If I understand correctly, it has only two terminals like a resistor. You just apply some variable voltage and measure the current. So how can one differentiate between a write and a read?
It means, though, that anyone can copy your tech and produce your "patent pending" products until the patent is actually granted. Given current period between filing a patent and having it granted, this may be a valid business model - your patented tech will be likely obsolete by the time the patent is granted anyway.
My waste bin is designed for Windows XP. I have a Gigabyte brand microwave oven. My TI-82 calculator sports an Intel Dual Core CPU. The flush tank has Intel Inside. My kitchen clock can be overclocked jumper-free. And I have a NVidia VHS video player.
AFAIK, the modchip is a generic microcontroller ( ATmega164PA ) in a simple USB-pluggable board, and the actual jailbreak code is in the wild.
It could be easily done that the microcontroller board is given some minor extras and some legal, common, generic functionality, say, a USB-RS232 converter. Then the customer can buy the dongle, and turn it into a modchip using a PC and a simple package downloaded from torrents.
There's a difference between Free Speech (freedom of expression) and Representing the law (claiming certain rights).
If the information has believable semblance of an actual lawfully binding statement then it is not really protected. If the products read "We believe this product is protected by patents..." all would be right, that's just an opinion. But authoritatively misinforming people about their rights is often illegal. Just like prank-calling 911 is not protected as free speech.
What if it is? My ISP runs a forum for users to discuss problems, needs, shortages, advices and so on. Some discussions are quite heated, especially when people running on 10mbit ethernet demand migration to 100mbit and people on 56k modems oppose, demanding priority in moving them to broadband instead. Bans on the forum happen, definitely.
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Infamous 4chan often plays various jokes on the users - like "wordfilters", you post one word, the post contains another. You write "moot", your post contains "doug" and so on. Over some time 4chan wordfiltered "loli" to "duck". The anonymous liked the joke so much that once it was removed, users kept posting "links to duck porn" and so on.
I can't help but think there's a connection.
I tend to disagree.
I find basic tennis shoes to be much more comfortable than most "designer" stuff. There may be a difference with winter boots but I can still find very comfortable cheap boots, and happened to have uncomfortable expensive boots as well.
And I got very used to simple keyboards. I have a Model M (where the connector went faulty) and it is better than the simplest keyboards. I have an expensive copy of Model M and it sucks. I was using employer-issued Logitech for a year and felt no difference whatsoever from the cheapest one.
This is not an universal rule. Cheap computer mice tend to suck balls. Medium ones don't differ from the top in a noticeable way though. Cheapest coffee is undrinkable, but move a shelf up and it gets quite good - actually the tastiest coffee I even drank was only 30% real coffee. Then they went "quality", bumped natural coffee content to 60% and the taste has gone out the window. I tried some top brands and custom mixes and none gets close.
Still depends on price-quality ratio.
I've given up on buying better keyboards, as one that costs 10x the price of the cheapest one will survive maybe 3x the time if I'm lucky. Expensive shoes last 3-5 seasons, shoes for 5% the price last a season or two.
It is really sometimes cheaper to buy cheap and replace often.
Most old cities of Europe were laid for city walls. City walls being expensive and hard to expand, the cities were laid out in circular pattern with central market and roads rexpanding radially, street circles connecting them and more radial streets added as the roads were getting further apart. If more towns were near to each other, where they met while expanding the layout was very chaotic, two unequally growing radial patterns meeting. Also, squeezing as much as possible within city walls, with chaotic land purchase/inheritance patterns often led to very chaotic city center layout... see Prague.
Except it's bout Amazon and UPS and Fed Ex and USPS combined vs Joe Schmoe and Wal-Mart and Best Buy and their suppliers combined. As someone said before, wares don't teleport themselves to the malls, and a mall takes more energy to operate than a mailbox.
Believe me, when you do it in class, you do it stealthly. I know some tricks kids employ. First, touch-typing without looking. Yep, doesn't work too well with T9 but perfectly doable with multitap, even in your pocket. Then short vibra alarm, or audible near-ultrasound, inaudible to older people, or a ringtone that is just a piece of background noise, like a little cough or heavier breath, or sound of flipping a page. Then not much training is needed to remember a whole phone screen of text with a glance and read it in your mind - quick-reading techniques applied to bite-size chunks of information. Or an inconspicious earphone and text-to-speech.
It's classes primarily when SMS is abused like that, but it may be preferable when you prefer to keep the convo private in a crowded place (like public transport) or... when you hold two conversations at once - one face to face, one over SMS.
Also, texting with your mouth full is not considered rude ;)
You're so deeply uninformed you seem to be a troll.
An example of a skilled multitap writing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJ1wX_aZKs
And this is what happens if you use T9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBbKfOEZa8
Besides, phones being very mobile, texting cuts into time you spend commuting in public transport, waiting, eating, talking to friends during classes. For a skilled texter it's as occupying as talking. They often don't need to look at the screen and can type with the phone and hand in a pocket. By using very high frequency ringtone they can hide the ring signal from older people (like teachers), in result remaining completely stealthy with exception of the short moment for reading the message - and you know reading is faster than listening.
Actual phone calls cut into their time much more, and using a computer (which takes priority attention focus) is far more time-consuming.
You're missing bulk sending. You send "class cancelled" to 30 student friends in the morning, "meet at the pub at 19" in the afternoon and you're already 1/3 down the quota.
Also, some people use them like chat apps. 100 lines of active conversation on IRC isn't all that much.
Because right now I'm busy and I don't care to hear your old fart voice, and whatever you're about to tell me is not due to happen in another 5 hours, so stop bothering me and leave me a message.
Also, the address you gave me over voice mail is wrong. I checked Carrington rd, Cammington rd, and Callington rd, and was it thirty nine or fourty one, you better swallow whatever you're eating if you dictate such data if you refuse to text such things.
SMS is not a replacement of calls, it's complementary. Calls are intrusive, require full, unbroken attention, and are obtrusive to people around.
Calls are a valid method to pass urgent important message and the acknowledgment of receiving it is essential, or to ask an urgent short question. They are good when you want to conduct a longer conversation and both parties are not occupied.
Text messages are good for passing an announcement that doesn't require immediate attention or confirmation, to ask a question that may require research, to pass data that should be retained (written down) like addresses, directions, phone numbers (no, mom, don't dictate this to me, just disconnect and text me that address) and for a discrete conversation when normal phone call would be disruptive to others around.
You don't text strangers requiring answer - it's rude when they have to pay to answer unsolicited question.
You don't call when you suspect the other person is busy. You may text them to call (or ring) you when they have free time to call instead.
You may send text to remind about something.
You do not depend on SMS as the only channel with important messages. You only use them when calling fails, and then still try to reach the other party by means that let them acknowledge receiving the message.
SMS is no longer about being cheap. It's an essential element of the culture of communication.
It isn't real HDR. Yes, the readout is in HDR. But the playback isn't.
For real HDR you need a HDR monitor, like the ones with LED array backlight, that can give many orders of magnitude higher contrast range than any existing monitors.
Nope, it's an interesting gimmick, but unless HDR displays enter common use, just a gimmick.
They can -still- lose money like before. It's just another point of failure. Also, money is the obligatory payment for goods. PIN is an arbitrary regulation.
If the child forgets the PIN, it will go hungry that day?
Still, ALL b&w content is useful on color TV. There was no need for color/b&w switch.
Color transmission was supported by b&w TV sets from day one. The protocol was designed to be backwards-compatible, b&w TV just ignoring the color-bias component while keeping the luminance component.
What, exploding party vans?
I guess they would even contain refresh mechanisms similar to DRAM, run some current in the right direction from time to time.
Not from a physicist point of view, but from engineer's.
I mean, I know it can store data by means of variable resistance. But how do you read and write? Specific voltages, currents, frequencies? If I understand correctly, it has only two terminals like a resistor. You just apply some variable voltage and measure the current. So how can one differentiate between a write and a read?
It means, though, that anyone can copy your tech and produce your "patent pending" products until the patent is actually granted. Given current period between filing a patent and having it granted, this may be a valid business model - your patented tech will be likely obsolete by the time the patent is granted anyway.
I peel them off carefully then stick creatively.
My waste bin is designed for Windows XP.
I have a Gigabyte brand microwave oven.
My TI-82 calculator sports an Intel Dual Core CPU.
The flush tank has Intel Inside.
My kitchen clock can be overclocked jumper-free.
And I have a NVidia VHS video player.
AFAIK, the modchip is a generic microcontroller ( ATmega164PA ) in a simple USB-pluggable board, and the actual jailbreak code is in the wild.
It could be easily done that the microcontroller board is given some minor extras and some legal, common, generic functionality, say, a USB-RS232 converter. Then the customer can buy the dongle, and turn it into a modchip using a PC and a simple package downloaded from torrents.
Once your patents expire I'm gonna sue you for this post.
There's a difference between Free Speech (freedom of expression) and Representing the law (claiming certain rights).
If the information has believable semblance of an actual lawfully binding statement then it is not really protected. If the products read "We believe this product is protected by patents ..." all would be right, that's just an opinion. But authoritatively misinforming people about their rights is often illegal. Just like prank-calling 911 is not protected as free speech.
I wonder if the wording was changed. "This product is protected by patents ######### until they expire"
What if it is?
My ISP runs a forum for users to discuss problems, needs, shortages, advices and so on. Some discussions are quite heated, especially when people running on 10mbit ethernet demand migration to 100mbit and people on 56k modems oppose, demanding priority in moving them to broadband instead.
Bans on the forum happen, definitely.