I personally have always wondered why some cell phones did not have a little proximity switch much like an RFID thing. The proximity tag (RFID) could be put in ones wallet or handbag, or on ones personal effects.
Set the distance on the phone, and then if you happen to leave the phone on the table where you just ate, and walk away, once the distance hits 5 feet or so the phone starts chirping or screaming..
You would not believe how many cell phones I see misplaced like this, and people do not even know they forgot the phone, or where they did for that matter.
For a couple more cents, and possibly even in conjunction with the highly annoying ringtone market, the manufactureres could make the warning customizable.
Me: Finishes the opera and begins to file down aisle exiting crowded concert hall.
Phone (talking in sexy voice after 5 feet is passed): Hey you sexy, do you want me? I want you! Come get me you devil. Don't leave me hanging...
Me: Continues to walk away, unable hear the phone.
Phone: (7 feet away now, and getting louder): Hey you absent minded deaf bastard at number (423) 745-3453 get your ass over here and collect your phone.
Then if I am obviusly too distracted to get my phone this little screaming feature might come in really handy.
I've read some posts about "good for you", and "bad for you" discussion here that this article seems to have brought up.
As we sit baking in EM radiation from our monitors and every other circuit in our immediate environment, while not getting enough exercise, and breathing formaldehyde from carpets and furnishings, and ingesting copious amounts of additives in our food, and taking risks like driving, walking, or blinking, and a few (at least one of us here has had sex)... Omg the risks...
Its amazing that all of us aren't dead.
Personally I intend on living until I die, and yes its a fact. Living is bad for your health.(TM)
This sounds very sane and quite promising, but people will freak out over it because it sounds wierd. Maybe they could give the strains cartoon names and splashy little cartoon characters. They need a little ad campaign to educate folks. Seriously. People are programmed to think that all virii are bad.
I am all for more safety and better assurances on quality, but I wonder if the public will be able to understand it. From some of the comments here, I think a lot of folks will look at the phages in a strange way.
The thing is.. almost everything we touch is already freaking nasty, so we need some little guys on our side. I would eat a something treated with this without a doubt. Well without a second doubt. Its hard to overcome all the social programming about viruses, etc.. Truth is though a lot of them are beneficial. We just hardly ever hear about them.
" * The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake on a cheque that investors wrote to the founders.
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Google is okay with me, but one quick bit. Google is a number. A very large number. There is also google-plex. I never understood how they hijacked a public domain term like Google in the first place. IIRC, a google is a number constituted by a one with a hundred or so zeros after it.
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So before you go telling me that I can't use the term Google, let me remind you that you are already borrowing the damn term from humanity.
They don't own it, they can't control it. Sure its a trademark, but its also stolen.
Okay so I signed up to test the new comment system. I like it a lot, but I find that on my monitor that the threshold control box/.js/ajaxy whatever thing... Well its in the way.
Could it be a rounded edge thing? It stands out like it is.It almost even *infringes*. It has potential but it could be better. WTF do i know? Nothing.
And where should I post this? Paters journal?
Open is best. Its good advertising and it works from a community development point of view. Open is just open.......
Well; Open is sometimes painful. But so is life..
I was reading Tacos journal, and read about the new widgets being prepared.
Tim has been working on an improved control widget which hopefully will make a lot more sense then the terrible UI we kludged together to get things started. We're going to start buy giving access to the system from a random sampling of users. There are bugs in various browsers that will need to be worked out, and the UI will need to be refined, but I think everyone will be happy with how it works. It's definitely becoming very clear where the performance problems in different browsers are. It's a pain.
Hmm.......
Checks version number....;)
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I was just thinking the same thing. Who would listen to an ipod in the car? Sounds dangerous. I mean what this world doesn't need is more distraction on the road. Someone with a cell phone, Ipod, and blackberry all going at the same time while trying to pilot a vehicle would be an accident waiting to happen.
The talking thing is cool I suppose, but its probably just one more feature that 99% of the people will not use.
Techgranny has some thoughts on the subject that you can listen too. She is not very coherent today, but felt strongly enough about this story to record something.
Apparently TechGranny thinks Google is trying to invent a new kind of internet plane.
Wow, this is really cool. Maybe in a few years nanotech will be far enough along to allow for wires that have amazing tensile strengths and light wieght to pput a sail all the way up into the Jet Stream. It may sound far fetched and probably is, but jeez that could really get a ship zinging along...
Cool Stuff.
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Set the distance on the phone, and then if you happen to leave the phone on the table where you just ate, and walk away, once the distance hits 5 feet or so the phone starts chirping or screaming..
You would not believe how many cell phones I see misplaced like this, and people do not even know they forgot the phone, or where they did for that matter.
For a couple more cents, and possibly even in conjunction with the highly annoying ringtone market, the manufactureres could make the warning customizable.
Me: Finishes the opera and begins to file down aisle exiting crowded concert hall.
Phone (talking in sexy voice after 5 feet is passed): Hey you sexy, do you want me? I want you! Come get me you devil. Don't leave me hanging...
Me: Continues to walk away, unable hear the phone.
Phone: (7 feet away now, and getting louder): Hey you absent minded deaf bastard at number (423) 745-3453 get your ass over here and collect your phone.
Then if I am obviusly too distracted to get my phone this little screaming feature might come in really handy.
Do you bitch and moan and whine or do you fight even more?
I've read some posts about "good for you", and "bad for you" discussion here that this article seems to have brought up.
As we sit baking in EM radiation from our monitors and every other circuit in our immediate environment, while not getting enough exercise, and breathing formaldehyde from carpets and furnishings, and ingesting copious amounts of additives in our food, and taking risks like driving, walking, or blinking, and a few (at least one of us here has had sex)... Omg the risks...
Its amazing that all of us aren't dead.
Personally I intend on living until I die, and yes its a fact. Living is bad for your health.(TM)
The sugar crop is easy enough to produce. We can always invade Cuba!
I am all for more safety and better assurances on quality, but I wonder if the public will be able to understand it. From some of the comments here, I think a lot of folks will look at the phages in a strange way.
The thing is.. almost everything we touch is already freaking nasty, so we need some little guys on our side. I would eat a something treated with this without a doubt. Well without a second doubt. Its hard to overcome all the social programming about viruses, etc.. Truth is though a lot of them are beneficial. We just hardly ever hear about them.
Aren't preconceptions fun? :)
" * The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake on a cheque that investors wrote to the founders. [edit]
. So before you go telling me that I can't use the term Google, let me remind you that you are already borrowing the damn term from humanity.
They don't own it, they can't control it. Sure its a trademark, but its also stolen.
Could it be a rounded edge thing? It stands out like it is.It almost even *infringes*. It has potential but it could be better. WTF do i know? Nothing.
And where should I post this? Paters journal?
Now I am freaking out about the plant matter...
Well; Open is sometimes painful. But so is life..
Get over it. Open it up. :),
Tim has been working on an improved control widget which hopefully will make a lot more sense then the terrible UI we kludged together to get things started. We're going to start buy giving access to the system from a random sampling of users. There are bugs in various browsers that will need to be worked out, and the UI will need to be refined, but I think everyone will be happy with how it works. It's definitely becoming very clear where the performance problems in different browsers are. It's a pain.
Hmm.......
Checks version number.... ;)
The talking thing is cool I suppose, but its probably just one more feature that 99% of the people will not use.
Apparently TechGranny thinks Google is trying to invent a new kind of internet plane.
TechGranny on the internet planes.
Wow, this is really cool. Maybe in a few years nanotech will be far enough along to allow for wires that have amazing tensile strengths and light wieght to pput a sail all the way up into the Jet Stream. It may sound far fetched and probably is, but jeez that could really get a ship zinging along...
Cool Stuff.
Seriously though, even though he should have had backups, its impossible to say something would make money for sure. Lots of "sure bets" lose money.
Also, the accidental deletion did not delete his brain did it? I mean its not like his premise characters and story were deleted along with the data.
I call BS. Peace.