In other words, since you have to buy a phone that only works on one carrier, and since only T-Mobile offers a lower-cost plan if you bring your own phone, there is a strong incentive to buy a new phone every two years with the carrier subsidy - you won't get cheaper service if you forgo it.
Also, T-Mobile is the only US carrier that operates on Band I (2100 MHz) so they are the only US carrier that can support the vast majority of phones sold in Europe, Australia and Asia.
but for now the NIMBYs are not the problem - bankers are.
I disagree, the amount of money the government puts into building new coal and gas plants will pay for most of it. As you pointed out, a fuel processing industry will grow around the requirement for one.
Private corps didn't build the plants they now own, they were built using public money and then sold off to private corps (mostly by the Howard govt). Hence power costs are sky-rocketing due to profiteering (mine went up 40%).
The problem remains mainly that there is so much negative public sentiment around nuclear, which is a shame as it's done so well for France and the US. A nuclear industry will take 20 years to set up, which is why it should have been started in the mid 70's oil crisis (in my opinion).
Communications dark ages is a popular exaggeration
No it isn't. For a rich (per person) first world nation we have third world broadband. In speed, quality and service. In Thailand you can get 10 Mbit fiber for approx $150 per month. Here that costs A$1400
And scientific growth? Huh? What? What kind of science requires superfast broadband?
As a sysamin in small scientific company (GIS) we regularly move large amounts of data. You really dont understand just how much data needs to be moved in science do you, I bet you think it's still a bunch of eggheads in coke bottle glasses fumbling with labcoats. To move 40 GB from us to a client (which we do) it takes almost a weekend or we courier a hard disk, courier takes the better part of a day in the city (if we get the order in before 12 Midday) unless you want to pay a fortune.
Kindly learn about science before commenting on it. This nation owes its prosperity to governments who funded the infrastructure that made organisations like CSIRO possible. But like most baby boomers who benefited from it, you're willing to throw all that progress away for a few bucks (and that's really what it costs).
Heck nearly every university is already up the duff with fiber anyway.
I honestly did not know about "better place". Maybe because I live on in Perth (yes, I'm pretty disgusted with it myself). Australia is fairly green for a western industrialised nation, most LGov (local Government) run recycling programs and either dual bin or single bin recycling.
I would like to see a nuclear power industry in Australia as opposed to coal, oil and natural gas that we have currently but I cant see it happening until the baby boomer's die off completely. Too much opposition from those who are scared of the word nuclear despite the fact that it would be powered by 100% local resources (probably built by French or Yanks, likely Yanks as we dont have the industry here).
Over here (west oz), everything is powered by natural gas due to that pipeline they built in the 90's
That's fantastic, a country with a serious water crises in at least 3 states,
Cant do jack against mother nature. With the ENSO event last year this has lessened somewhat. Perhaps if people stopped wasting so much water on lawns and washing their hotted up HSV we wouldn't have such a crisis.
with a housing price epidemic
Limited land, bad land releases and a few companies have a stranglehold on constructions. Do you suggest the government give land away or fix prices for private corporations (because that will go down well on SlashLibertarian). Point in short, problem is procedural and throwing cash at it wont help.
using sweet fuck all sustainable power
Every time someone utters the word "Nuclear" the NIMBYS are up in arms taking torches and pitchforks to parliament house on sixty minutes. The same NIMBYs who complain about housing prices, broadband costs and water crisies but cant stop washing their cars every second day and watering their lawns in the middle of the day (40+ C is not unusual in Australia folks).
but hey we can get really fast internet!
Which will spur economic and scientific growth and get us out of this communications dark age we are currently living in. CLUE: we are competitive with Russia for broadband, that puts us at #42 in the world. Economically we are a first world nations about #12-15 from the top.
You criticise the government for not fixing problems it can do little about by criticising the government when it does do something to fix a problem it can do something about. Jesus H Christ, Australia doesn't need any more people like you.
Lets break down the numbers, out of that 43 billion, 16 billion is being contributed by private entities. So that's 27 billion. Divide that by 11 million households and thats less then A$2500 per household. Amortise that over a 20 year lifespan (20 year minimum, 40 more likely) and its $125 per year, per household. A bloody bargain at twice the price. OTOH, lets look at the Sydney harbour bridge. That cost 60 Million to build in the 20's, we didn't pay it off for 60 years... as long as we dont count the economic benefits of the North Sydney CBD created directly as a result of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (oh and theres a bit of tourism $$$ for that iconic structure).
Online cheating is not as great a problem as with the PC's or consoles.
Iphone gaming is nowhere near as big as PC or consoles. When you have 20 players, a 5% rate of cheating is hardly noticeable, when you have 200,000 players then it is.
But then again, I believe iphone gaming is a fad. Apple are too hostile to game companies who want to be able to update their own code as they can do on the Wii, Xbox, Playstation, PSP or DS. Not being able to directly update game engines is a massive problem for them, considering how complex modern engines are.
And how is the situation you describe any different than every console? If you live in a signed sandbox, you live on the good graces of the signee. Doesn't seem like that's a dealbreaker to anyone.
On the PS3, Xbox and PC a game developer can download signed code without having to plug it into MSTunes on a separate box. On PC, signing is individual rather then centralised with the Xbox and PS, so EA signs it's own code rather then using an MS/Sony provided certificate and MS/Sony allowing EA to update its released products themselves.
Also Sony and MS have been banning hackers left right and centre (so have PC servers, but again on an individual basis and/or subscribing to PBBans), I'd like to see Apple ban jailbreakers. If Apple thought they could get away with it they would have done so already.
Neither will win in the end as all TV manufacturers will include similar options built-in.
Google and Apple will need to produce their own TVs rather than just boxes to plugin.
In that case, Google will win as they've already show they are willing to work with, manufacturers, carriers, content providers and so forth with Android. Google will be more then happy to make a deal with Samsung to put Google TV into the Series 10 or 11 TV's. Samsung will be happy to put withGoogleTV(TM) on the box.
Apple on the other hand is extremely hostile to anyone.
sorry mate! Cricket will work with only people from sub-continent. its funny how geographical association doesn't necessarily give away ethnicity.
It was a joke mate,
Anyone using this study for actual profiling needs their head examined, from the other-side of a jar of formaldehyde. I know enough Asian women (both in Asia and the west) to know half the list is bollocks. Besides, I suspect the list is from prominently English speaking nations, so we'd be talking about western Asians (England and Australia included, where Cricket is popular).
Western guys wanting to meet Asian women in Asia dont use OKCupid, DateInAsia is more popular.
Actually I said basketball, baseball wasn't even mentioned under Asian in the article.
Also they counted India as separate from Asia, I'm not sure about the rest of the sub continent (pakistani, sri lankan) but I suspect the whole thing is based on racial groups based in western countries.
OK, I was going to point out that infringement is closer to fraud then theft but that works too.
I'll add to that, infringement does not have the negative stereotype that theft does, people when they hear "infringement" do not think of it as a crime. To the lay person infringement is when one walks past the "dont walk on the grass sign" not strictly right but no-one actually gets hurt. Copyright infringement works the same way. So studios that still think 1 causal copy == 1 sale need to push the negative stereotype around infringement.
You're assuming asian women are necessarily after asians.
You're also assuming I'm Asian.
Where I live it's not unusual to see mixed race couples, in fact it's almost the norm.
No idea why is that so.
Grass is greener, what to escape some kind of cultural issues, get away from the family. Could be many reasons but for the most part mixed race couples have the same motivation as non-mixed couples, love and money.
I see a lot of mixed race people these days, not just with mixed race white/Asian people but with a lot of mixed race Asians. You'll find a lot of Thai/Korean, Japanese/Thai, Japanese/Chinese people as well as Philipino/American, Malay/English and so forth. There is significantly less stigma in both Asian and Western societies against having a mixed race baby, especially with many Asians wanting to be whiter (in many Asian cultures, brown skin means you work in the sun all day, white skin means you are wealthy enough to stay indoors). I think in modern western societies we place less emphasis on our racial identity and more on our national identity (I'm American/English/German and so forth).
As someone who took a semester of Sociology 101 years ago, I am here to snobbishly inform you that race is a social construction and that you can divvy it up however you wish.
Actually, I was going for +1 pedantic hyperbole, using a pedantic example of the GGP's post to disprove the GGP's post and point out how futile it is to place "not a race" constructs around these issues, as you have pointed out.
But seeing as we are talking about sciences.... Going back to high school level biology where there are only three distinct races, Caucasian, Mongoloid (Asian) or Negroid (African) which can be easily determined by physical evidence. For example hair samples can be used to determine race. Of course with the amount of interbreeding between these races today, it's getting harder to determine.
If I've got this right: British Empire slang since WWII or so for physicist, engineer. medic, or other technical type.
A boffin is a scientist or otherwise bright and logically minded person, so you got the fist part right.
Nearest American English equivalent is "egghead", although "geek" and "nerd" are also in the general vicinity.
Quite incorrect old bean,
"egghead", "geek" or "nerd" are not appropriate substitutions. Boffin is not a negative stereotype, to be referred to as a boffin is to have someone recognise and respect your intelligence. Being called a boffin was never used as an insult. For example, "The boffins from acme testing labs have come up with another fantastic invention".
Now kindly stop butchering the English language or I'm going to have to ask you to stop again.
there's a free wireless port most everywhere, they're even in cars nowadays. Seriously, where do you live, in the boonies?
You've lived a very sheltered life if you think free WiFi is everywhere. Also I can say with near absolute certainty that you've never travelled.
Most people dont want to have to look for someone else's connection to mooch off of when they want to make a phone call. By requiring an external connection, you're taking away the convenience of a mobile phone, which makes it useless as a mobile phone so it essentially just becomes a very very expensive home phone or war-driving kit.
I suppose I could use WiFi tethering on my Android phone and use an Ipad to make the phone call... but why wouldn't I just use the Android phone in the first place.
most phones cost $500 if you take away the carrier subsidy (the 2 year contract they lock you into).
Most phones dont require a separate bit of kit to make phone calls (your wireless router, and why does it need to be N, wont it work with my existing G router that works fine with all my other communication devices).
I live in 3rd world country and our major cellphone networks support hd-voice codecs.
You dont see how it works. It's a lot like hotels, if you stay in a fancy $100 a night hotel you pay $5 an hour for internet access yet at a $20 a night backpackers Wifi is free.
The same with telco's, on Smart in the Philippines I get unlimited SMS for just having one Peso on pre-paid ($US0.0002), in Australia it costs me 25 cents per SMS (US$0.023).
(A) First, we have the "original" netbook concept - small, lightweight, cheap devices with small screens and modest SD-based storage - intended mainly for web browsing, email, media playing, "casual gaming" and maybe some light WP (sometimes running Linux rather than windows) and note-taking. E.g. the original EEE PC.
(B) Then we have what the "netbooks" seemed to turn into: cheap, ultracompact but basically full-featured laptops running (usually) Windows.
Group A is group B. Netbooks have always been cheap, low powered "mini-laptops". I dont get why you make this distinction, naturally they've become a little more powerful with a growing market (more demand == more R&D).
In my experience, the iPad absolutely blows away "type A" in terms of usability as a web/email terminal:
Right, I'll just plug my camera into an Ipad and...
Wait...
Still nothing.
Small, cheap laptops for travel is what has made netbooks popular, this means they need to do everything you do on holidays with a notebook, that includes mass storage.
Tablets will never displace netbooks, I wonder if tablets could even survive with netbooks. Their only real chance of doing so would be with an unrestricted OS which allowed all the functions of a netbook and I see USB Host mode going into Android in the near future, but on IOS.
All applications save. And all offer some means to transfer content off the iPad.
First you have to save it to iCrud, then email it to a service, that service converts it into Sanskrit after which it is sent via Sherpa across the Himalayas to an old monastery where the Sanskrit is covered back to binary when and transported to a Vietnamese sweatshop where it is coded by Khmers back into a dropbox account.
This is hyperbole, but it demonstrates what the GP means, it is difficult and backwards getting data to and from the Ipad (or any Idevice) when it should be as easy as plugging the thing into any computer and accessing it like a USB flash drive.
You can print from some apps now and it's a system supported feature in November.
Wow, in November. I mean my Linux PC has been able to connect to any PnP printer for 3 years now.
Now you really lost me since I can reach any website from the iPad, there are zero browsing restrictions.
Except if you have Flash, or too much Javascript or anything else that Steve doesn't like and if you need to resize the page to make it display better, get used to panning (even Android wraps the text when you resize these days).
The iPad is not that constrained despite the assertions of the Haters.
Calling people "haters" does not make your points valid, in fact it makes you look childish and moronic.
Now when can an Ipad connect to my Canon Camera, load music onto my Creative MP3 player, access files on my portable HDD (WD if you must know) and tether to my Android phone (USB only at the moment). A netbook running Windows or Linux (or OS X theoretically) has no problem connecting to either of these functions because they are all using commonly implemented standards (even USB tethering, only Windows requires the Moto drivers to be installed).
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but the Ipad is horribly restrained, calling me "hater" wont change that.
Was there even a single touch-capible system in there? I don't remember any.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
You see the thing is with touch systems in a professional arena is that you required an extremely sensitive and actuate device for GIS, CAD and design. Now your $200 resistive device is shit, cant disagree there but your $300 capacitive device is as accurate as a Scud missile (or Mac fanboy) so we have US$1700 3M resistive touchscreens which are frighteningly accurate with a stylus but sensitive enough to detect light presses with a finger.
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Also, T-Mobile is the only US carrier that operates on Band I (2100 MHz) so they are the only US carrier that can support the vast majority of phones sold in Europe, Australia and Asia.
I disagree, the amount of money the government puts into building new coal and gas plants will pay for most of it. As you pointed out, a fuel processing industry will grow around the requirement for one.
Private corps didn't build the plants they now own, they were built using public money and then sold off to private corps (mostly by the Howard govt). Hence power costs are sky-rocketing due to profiteering (mine went up 40%).
The problem remains mainly that there is so much negative public sentiment around nuclear, which is a shame as it's done so well for France and the US. A nuclear industry will take 20 years to set up, which is why it should have been started in the mid 70's oil crisis (in my opinion).
No it isn't. For a rich (per person) first world nation we have third world broadband. In speed, quality and service. In Thailand you can get 10 Mbit fiber for approx $150 per month. Here that costs A$1400
As a sysamin in small scientific company (GIS) we regularly move large amounts of data. You really dont understand just how much data needs to be moved in science do you, I bet you think it's still a bunch of eggheads in coke bottle glasses fumbling with labcoats. To move 40 GB from us to a client (which we do) it takes almost a weekend or we courier a hard disk, courier takes the better part of a day in the city (if we get the order in before 12 Midday) unless you want to pay a fortune.
Kindly learn about science before commenting on it. This nation owes its prosperity to governments who funded the infrastructure that made organisations like CSIRO possible. But like most baby boomers who benefited from it, you're willing to throw all that progress away for a few bucks (and that's really what it costs).
Do you know how much that costs?
Thought not.
You're an idiot.
That particular nugget belonged to the GGP but...
I honestly did not know about "better place". Maybe because I live on in Perth (yes, I'm pretty disgusted with it myself). Australia is fairly green for a western industrialised nation, most LGov (local Government) run recycling programs and either dual bin or single bin recycling.
I would like to see a nuclear power industry in Australia as opposed to coal, oil and natural gas that we have currently but I cant see it happening until the baby boomer's die off completely. Too much opposition from those who are scared of the word nuclear despite the fact that it would be powered by 100% local resources (probably built by French or Yanks, likely Yanks as we dont have the industry here).
Over here (west oz), everything is powered by natural gas due to that pipeline they built in the 90's
Cant do jack against mother nature. With the ENSO event last year this has lessened somewhat. Perhaps if people stopped wasting so much water on lawns and washing their hotted up HSV we wouldn't have such a crisis.
Limited land, bad land releases and a few companies have a stranglehold on constructions. Do you suggest the government give land away or fix prices for private corporations (because that will go down well on SlashLibertarian). Point in short, problem is procedural and throwing cash at it wont help.
Every time someone utters the word "Nuclear" the NIMBYS are up in arms taking torches and pitchforks to parliament house on sixty minutes. The same NIMBYs who complain about housing prices, broadband costs and water crisies but cant stop washing their cars every second day and watering their lawns in the middle of the day (40+ C is not unusual in Australia folks).
Which will spur economic and scientific growth and get us out of this communications dark age we are currently living in. CLUE: we are competitive with Russia for broadband, that puts us at #42 in the world. Economically we are a first world nations about #12-15 from the top.
You criticise the government for not fixing problems it can do little about by criticising the government when it does do something to fix a problem it can do something about. Jesus H Christ, Australia doesn't need any more people like you.
Lets break down the numbers, out of that 43 billion, 16 billion is being contributed by private entities. So that's 27 billion. Divide that by 11 million households and thats less then A$2500 per household. Amortise that over a 20 year lifespan (20 year minimum, 40 more likely) and its $125 per year, per household. A bloody bargain at twice the price. OTOH, lets look at the Sydney harbour bridge. That cost 60 Million to build in the 20's, we didn't pay it off for 60 years... as long as we dont count the economic benefits of the North Sydney CBD created directly as a result of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (oh and theres a bit of tourism $$$ for that iconic structure).
Big Apple is watching you.
Iphone gaming is nowhere near as big as PC or consoles. When you have 20 players, a 5% rate of cheating is hardly noticeable, when you have 200,000 players then it is.
But then again, I believe iphone gaming is a fad. Apple are too hostile to game companies who want to be able to update their own code as they can do on the Wii, Xbox, Playstation, PSP or DS. Not being able to directly update game engines is a massive problem for them, considering how complex modern engines are.
On the PS3, Xbox and PC a game developer can download signed code without having to plug it into MSTunes on a separate box. On PC, signing is individual rather then centralised with the Xbox and PS, so EA signs it's own code rather then using an MS/Sony provided certificate and MS/Sony allowing EA to update its released products themselves.
Also Sony and MS have been banning hackers left right and centre (so have PC servers, but again on an individual basis and/or subscribing to PBBans), I'd like to see Apple ban jailbreakers. If Apple thought they could get away with it they would have done so already.
In that case, Google will win as they've already show they are willing to work with, manufacturers, carriers, content providers and so forth with Android. Google will be more then happy to make a deal with Samsung to put Google TV into the Series 10 or 11 TV's. Samsung will be happy to put withGoogleTV(TM) on the box.
Apple on the other hand is extremely hostile to anyone.
It was a joke mate,
Anyone using this study for actual profiling needs their head examined, from the other-side of a jar of formaldehyde. I know enough Asian women (both in Asia and the west) to know half the list is bollocks. Besides, I suspect the list is from prominently English speaking nations, so we'd be talking about western Asians (England and Australia included, where Cricket is popular).
Western guys wanting to meet Asian women in Asia dont use OKCupid, DateInAsia is more popular.
Actually I said basketball, baseball wasn't even mentioned under Asian in the article.
Also they counted India as separate from Asia, I'm not sure about the rest of the sub continent (pakistani, sri lankan) but I suspect the whole thing is based on racial groups based in western countries.
OK, I was going to point out that infringement is closer to fraud then theft but that works too.
I'll add to that, infringement does not have the negative stereotype that theft does, people when they hear "infringement" do not think of it as a crime. To the lay person infringement is when one walks past the "dont walk on the grass sign" not strictly right but no-one actually gets hurt. Copyright infringement works the same way. So studios that still think 1 causal copy == 1 sale need to push the negative stereotype around infringement.
No, I went to school where they still teach you actual science and critical thinking.
You're also assuming I'm Asian.
Where I live it's not unusual to see mixed race couples, in fact it's almost the norm.
Grass is greener, what to escape some kind of cultural issues, get away from the family. Could be many reasons but for the most part mixed race couples have the same motivation as non-mixed couples, love and money.
I see a lot of mixed race people these days, not just with mixed race white/Asian people but with a lot of mixed race Asians. You'll find a lot of Thai/Korean, Japanese/Thai, Japanese/Chinese people as well as Philipino/American, Malay/English and so forth. There is significantly less stigma in both Asian and Western societies against having a mixed race baby, especially with many Asians wanting to be whiter (in many Asian cultures, brown skin means you work in the sun all day, white skin means you are wealthy enough to stay indoors). I think in modern western societies we place less emphasis on our racial identity and more on our national identity (I'm American/English/German and so forth).
Actually, I was going for +1 pedantic hyperbole, using a pedantic example of the GGP's post to disprove the GGP's post and point out how futile it is to place "not a race" constructs around these issues, as you have pointed out.
But seeing as we are talking about sciences.... Going back to high school level biology where there are only three distinct races, Caucasian, Mongoloid (Asian) or Negroid (African) which can be easily determined by physical evidence. For example hair samples can be used to determine race. Of course with the amount of interbreeding between these races today, it's getting harder to determine.
I know, I know, silence physicists.
Yes it is annoying when someone physically removes my stuff so I am deprived of that stuff.
A boffin is a scientist or otherwise bright and logically minded person, so you got the fist part right.
Quite incorrect old bean,
"egghead", "geek" or "nerd" are not appropriate substitutions. Boffin is not a negative stereotype, to be referred to as a boffin is to have someone recognise and respect your intelligence. Being called a boffin was never used as an insult. For example, "The boffins from acme testing labs have come up with another fantastic invention".
Now kindly stop butchering the English language or I'm going to have to ask you to stop again.
You've lived a very sheltered life if you think free WiFi is everywhere. Also I can say with near absolute certainty that you've never travelled.
Most people dont want to have to look for someone else's connection to mooch off of when they want to make a phone call. By requiring an external connection, you're taking away the convenience of a mobile phone, which makes it useless as a mobile phone so it essentially just becomes a very very expensive home phone or war-driving kit.
I suppose I could use WiFi tethering on my Android phone and use an Ipad to make the phone call... but why wouldn't I just use the Android phone in the first place.
Most phones dont require a separate bit of kit to make phone calls (your wireless router, and why does it need to be N, wont it work with my existing G router that works fine with all my other communication devices).
Actually I like reading lists about what Asian women like,
From today I'm a simple person and mechanical engineer who enjoys noodles, cricket and basketball.
Does Caucasian and Negroid make you feel better?
But then again, genetically speaking Latino, Middle Eastern and Indian aren't races (being Caucasian, Caucasian and Asian respectively).
You dont see how it works. It's a lot like hotels, if you stay in a fancy $100 a night hotel you pay $5 an hour for internet access yet at a $20 a night backpackers Wifi is free.
The same with telco's, on Smart in the Philippines I get unlimited SMS for just having one Peso on pre-paid ($US0.0002), in Australia it costs me 25 cents per SMS (US$0.023).
Group A is group B. Netbooks have always been cheap, low powered "mini-laptops". I dont get why you make this distinction, naturally they've become a little more powerful with a growing market (more demand == more R&D).
Right, I'll just plug my camera into an Ipad and ...
Wait...
Still nothing.
Small, cheap laptops for travel is what has made netbooks popular, this means they need to do everything you do on holidays with a notebook, that includes mass storage.
Tablets will never displace netbooks, I wonder if tablets could even survive with netbooks. Their only real chance of doing so would be with an unrestricted OS which allowed all the functions of a netbook and I see USB Host mode going into Android in the near future, but on IOS.
First you have to save it to iCrud, then email it to a service, that service converts it into Sanskrit after which it is sent via Sherpa across the Himalayas to an old monastery where the Sanskrit is covered back to binary when and transported to a Vietnamese sweatshop where it is coded by Khmers back into a dropbox account.
This is hyperbole, but it demonstrates what the GP means, it is difficult and backwards getting data to and from the Ipad (or any Idevice) when it should be as easy as plugging the thing into any computer and accessing it like a USB flash drive.
Wow, in November. I mean my Linux PC has been able to connect to any PnP printer for 3 years now.
Except if you have Flash, or too much Javascript or anything else that Steve doesn't like and if you need to resize the page to make it display better, get used to panning (even Android wraps the text when you resize these days).
Calling people "haters" does not make your points valid, in fact it makes you look childish and moronic.
Now when can an Ipad connect to my Canon Camera, load music onto my Creative MP3 player, access files on my portable HDD (WD if you must know) and tether to my Android phone (USB only at the moment). A netbook running Windows or Linux (or OS X theoretically) has no problem connecting to either of these functions because they are all using commonly implemented standards (even USB tethering, only Windows requires the Moto drivers to be installed).
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but the Ipad is horribly restrained, calling me "hater" wont change that.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
You see the thing is with touch systems in a professional arena is that you required an extremely sensitive and actuate device for GIS, CAD and design. Now your $200 resistive device is shit, cant disagree there but your $300 capacitive device is as accurate as a Scud missile (or Mac fanboy) so we have US$1700 3M resistive touchscreens which are frighteningly accurate with a stylus but sensitive enough to detect light presses with a finger.