One thing worth looking at for camping and backpacking coffee production is the Jetboil french press adaptor. If you have one of their stoves (which I'm a big fan of when going lightweight) it's a nifty little bit of luxury to have around.
You understand that this is still a work in progress, right? Translating ancient texts well can take many years and even then will probably continue to be controversial long after that. The story now may be all about the techniques they're using to make the texts readable but as the project progresses translations will hopefully become available.
In terms more common to Slashdot, it's like they're trying to reverse engineer the drivers for some obscure old piece of hardware. Right now they're mapping out the system calls that the hardware makes and finding out how to communicate with it. The next stage of the project will be to use that to produce a usable product. In this case that usable product is (for most people) the translated version.
I've no idea whether science is conspiring against us punters - I suspect not - but in this case you're just placing unfair demands on a fledgling project. A project which I'll now be following with interest!
For a number of us, the mobile phone is now the primary communications medium. I'm a student and in many halls of residence landlines aren't even an option so everyone needs a mobile if they wish to communicate.
The majority of people talking on mobiles are doing mundane things, the exact same mundane tasks that you do on your home phone. If I'm phoning up my housemates to tell them I'll be back late and will meet them at the pub, that's not a deep or meaningful conversation, it's not even that necessary, but in a world where such a communication is available to me at almost no cost, is it not considerably ruder not to make it?
Mobile phones do occasionally intrude too far into our lives as Richard Griffiths recently discovered, but to resist them because you consider their use impolite is to miss out a whole variety of ways in which we can be more polite through their use.
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One thing worth looking at for camping and backpacking coffee production is the Jetboil french press adaptor. If you have one of their stoves (which I'm a big fan of when going lightweight) it's a nifty little bit of luxury to have around.
You understand that this is still a work in progress, right? Translating ancient texts well can take many years and even then will probably continue to be controversial long after that. The story now may be all about the techniques they're using to make the texts readable but as the project progresses translations will hopefully become available.
In terms more common to Slashdot, it's like they're trying to reverse engineer the drivers for some obscure old piece of hardware. Right now they're mapping out the system calls that the hardware makes and finding out how to communicate with it. The next stage of the project will be to use that to produce a usable product. In this case that usable product is (for most people) the translated version.
I've no idea whether science is conspiring against us punters - I suspect not - but in this case you're just placing unfair demands on a fledgling project. A project which I'll now be following with interest!
Cheers,
Sam
For a number of us, the mobile phone is now the primary communications medium. I'm a student and in many halls of residence landlines aren't even an option so everyone needs a mobile if they wish to communicate.
The majority of people talking on mobiles are doing mundane things, the exact same mundane tasks that you do on your home phone. If I'm phoning up my housemates to tell them I'll be back late and will meet them at the pub, that's not a deep or meaningful conversation, it's not even that necessary, but in a world where such a communication is available to me at almost no cost, is it not considerably ruder not to make it? Mobile phones do occasionally intrude too far into our lives as Richard Griffiths recently discovered, but to resist them because you consider their use impolite is to miss out a whole variety of ways in which we can be more polite through their use.