Death to KILLograms!
Ounces and pounds were way a head of the time and are becoming even more useful with the advent of computer systems and the common use of base16.
16 ounces in a Pound is not just coincidence.
F=15 ounces
10 = a pound
We can all agree, I am sure, it's easier to look at 89 and go, 8 pounds 9 ounces. With metric I have to keep moving the decimal place around and remember how many 0s there were in huge words like kilogram, milligram, centigram.
But if this really was a time traveler on a cell phone in 1928, isn't that how it would work out?
What if the footage was of a lady wearing a "I love Joss Whedon" baby doll t-shirt, or a shirt that said "All your base are belong to us!" or t-shirt that said, "I'm a Slashdot Karma Whore!"?
30 to 40 years ago we wouldn't have thought anything about a t-shirt like the above if we saw it in old footage. We'd probably just assume it was some saying or something from back in the day.
If there was a time traveler, there's a span of time where we wouldn't see anything out of place with the footage, but then we pass a point in time where we would recognize that their is something in the footage that is out of place. Then our brains would recognize the t-shirt for what it is and say "How did that get to 1928?"
There is also the idea that no one noticed it for 70+ years because it up until now we didn't recognize what it was. In 1983, if we saw that footage,well, we wouldn't really know what was on the film and not give it a second thought. No we've come to a point in time where we recognize what she is doing.
Imagine for a minute that the lady was talking with sign language. Real internationally know sign language. So let's say/pretend in 1928 we know there was no sign language. Ok, now we pretend sign language was invented until 1990. So 1990 was the first use of sign language.
Now it's 1983, we see the footage of this lady doing all this weird stuff with her hands. Would we think twice about it? No. We don't know what she is doing. She could be having a seizure for all we know. Maybe she had a bug on her hand, or something sticky and she was trying to get it off. No one would think twice about the footage. Why would they?
Now in 2010, some one sees the footage. It would be a whole different story, because now we know what technology that looks like she is using. ie. sign language. We could see what she was saying so to speak. So we come to a point in time where we realize she is using something that didn't exist in 1928. Our 1983 selves, would have know way to know she was a time traveler.
If you have an iDen phones and you are were there is no towers then you can still use them "ad-hoc" for lack of knowing the technical term.
I know people are saying that most likely a time traveler would have a smaller hidden phone, which just 5 years ago I think is the direction everybody pictured the phone of the future to be, i.e. hidden in our teeth or built into our body somehow, or even a simple cell phone watch. Reality is that we moved in a different direction and that is an all in one computing device/phone. If you are going to have a small iPhone/Droid sized device as a computer anyway why have a second phone device, even if it was built into a tooth or something.
Now you could argue that phones will be integrated into our heads and computer screens into our eyeballs . But in the near future I don't think it is that unrealistic to think communication and computing devices will be one device. Think it will taken something interesting to get us to use 2 separate devices again.
We'll all be back to Gopher! Reminds me of Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam:
"Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks."
I'm going out on limb here and assuming ABC, CBS and NBC have created a business model where by they "make" money, presumably by ads, every time a show is streamed.
The more views the more money, correct?
So why do they care if I use IE, Firefox, Orb, GoogleTV, etc.? Are they suggesting the more people watch the less they make? If so then why do they have this online business model at all?
From the article Hulu is blocking viewing from Google TV as well. Again, what do they care if I use Opera, IE, Google Chrome, Google TV, as long as I am "watching" at all?
Or is Google TV stripping away the ads that generate money?
This is like friend running DOS 3.o (his first computer purchase). That thing is still running.
Every time I'd talk him about getting a new computer he says he is just about ready to. I remember when he was going to get that 386, but while at the store he read a magazine about the 486. He actually went to the store and was going to buy a 486DX 25mhz computer and the guy was telling him pretty soon the 486 DX2 was coming. 50MHz!!! So he decided to wait. Same happened with the DX4 and then the Pentium. The Pentium II, III, PIV.
I talked to him the other day about the Intel i9. He said the current one uses 22nm process, but in a month the new i9 using an 18nm process should be shipping, so he'll just wait and get one then.
So we know unlocked iPhones are limited to running at Edge speed on the T-Mobile network cannot work in the faster 3G mode. But what does the word "iPhone" have to do with this anyway?
Aren't the people using "any" phone on the T-Mobile network, presumably, paying monthly to use that network?
By the same token, isn't it an advantage for T-Mobile that people are using unlocked iPhones at "only" Edge speeds? If those 300,000 users switched right now to using 3G (read "4G speeds") regular T-Mobile phones, wouldn't that cause more strain on the network and not the other way around?
It seems to me T-Mobile is getting the win with this situation. People pay and then also lock themselves into slow speed too! Just so they have an iPhone in their hand. If I was T-Mobile I would think they would encourage this.
I thought this was already solved? You don't move the asteroid... you move the Earth! With lots of giant hydrogen powered rocket tubes at the South Pole!
Again, the company making an the A1-X1000 (http://www.a-eon.com/) has no right to word Amiga. The company is a partner with the guy that trademarked "AmigaOne" and so I do believe they use that.
However you will notice that company never calls their computer an "Amiga".
These are people that think the Amiga name has some value and are trying to confuse people that they are releasing stuff with the Amiga name when they are not.
Think about that. It's lame enough to release something Amiga that is just modern motherboard. Yet, these people are trying to release a motherboard AND pretend to be an Amiga. WTF??
The company you are talking about uses the word "Amigaos".
After they're lawsuit with "Amiga" Inc. they are careful now to never used the word "Amiga". You can find much of their old product/news items use to use the word "Amiga Operating System", but like I said, after the lawsuit they are very careful always using "Amigaos" and never "Amiga"
The "Amigaos" word that has never been trademarked nor copyrighted as you can see if you do a search.
"Amiga" is owned by a company named Amiga Inc. They hardly do anything as you can see by their blank webpage Amiga.com
These guys are just trying to re-write history.
They don't even have a right to use the name Amiga.
Somehow they got an agreement from these other crooks to use the name "Amigaos".
They have no legal right to call anything an Amiga.
Even the hardware companies that are making "PPC" hardware have no license to use the word "Amiga". All the machines are "AmigaOne" which is a trademark from a company named Eyetech in 2001 and not related to "Amiga" at all.
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Death to KILLograms!
Ounces and pounds were way a head of the time and are becoming even more useful with the advent of computer systems and the common use of base16.
16 ounces in a Pound is not just coincidence.
F=15 ounces
10 = a pound
We can all agree, I am sure, it's easier to look at 89 and go, 8 pounds 9 ounces. With metric I have to keep moving the decimal place around and remember how many 0s there were in huge words like kilogram, milligram, centigram.
Context~
:)
Context.
I agree it is ambiguous and this footage could be anything.
But if there really was a time traveler the fact that we didn't recognize it until now would actually be very plausible.
But if this really was a time traveler on a cell phone in 1928, isn't that how it would work out?
What if the footage was of a lady wearing a "I love Joss Whedon" baby doll t-shirt, or a shirt that said "All your base are belong to us!" or t-shirt that said, "I'm a Slashdot Karma Whore!"?
30 to 40 years ago we wouldn't have thought anything about a t-shirt like the above if we saw it in old footage. We'd probably just assume it was some saying or something from back in the day.
If there was a time traveler, there's a span of time where we wouldn't see anything out of place with the footage, but then we pass a point in time where we would recognize that their is something in the footage that is out of place. Then our brains would recognize the t-shirt for what it is and say "How did that get to 1928?"
There is also the idea that no one noticed it for 70+ years because it up until now we didn't recognize what it was. In 1983, if we saw that footage,well, we wouldn't really know what was on the film and not give it a second thought. No we've come to a point in time where we recognize what she is doing.
Imagine for a minute that the lady was talking with sign language. Real internationally know sign language. So let's say/pretend in 1928 we know there was no sign language. Ok, now we pretend sign language was invented until 1990. So 1990 was the first use of sign language.
Now it's 1983, we see the footage of this lady doing all this weird stuff with her hands. Would we think twice about it? No. We don't know what she is doing. She could be having a seizure for all we know. Maybe she had a bug on her hand, or something sticky and she was trying to get it off. No one would think twice about the footage. Why would they?
Now in 2010, some one sees the footage. It would be a whole different story, because now we know what technology that looks like she is using. ie. sign language. We could see what she was saying so to speak. So we come to a point in time where we realize she is using something that didn't exist in 1928. Our 1983 selves, would have know way to know she was a time traveler.
If you have an iDen phones and you are were there is no towers then you can still use them "ad-hoc" for lack of knowing the technical term.
I know people are saying that most likely a time traveler would have a smaller hidden phone, which just 5 years ago I think is the direction everybody pictured the phone of the future to be, i.e. hidden in our teeth or built into our body somehow, or even a simple cell phone watch. Reality is that we moved in a different direction and that is an all in one computing device/phone. If you are going to have a small iPhone/Droid sized device as a computer anyway why have a second phone device, even if it was built into a tooth or something.
Now you could argue that phones will be integrated into our heads and computer screens into our eyeballs . But in the near future I don't think it is that unrealistic to think communication and computing devices will be one device. Think it will taken something interesting to get us to use 2 separate devices again.
Yeah, get rid of FTP, IRC, NNTP, SMTP, then HTTP.
We'll all be back to Gopher! Reminds me of Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam:
"Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks."
I'm going out on limb here and assuming ABC, CBS and NBC have created a business model where by they "make" money, presumably by ads, every time a show is streamed.
The more views the more money, correct?
So why do they care if I use IE, Firefox, Orb, GoogleTV, etc.? Are they suggesting the more people watch the less they make? If so then why do they have this online business model at all?
From the article Hulu is blocking viewing from Google TV as well. Again, what do they care if I use Opera, IE, Google Chrome, Google TV, as long as I am "watching" at all?
Or is Google TV stripping away the ads that generate money?
This is like friend running DOS 3.o (his first computer purchase). That thing is still running.
Every time I'd talk him about getting a new computer he says he is just about ready to. I remember when he was going to get that 386, but while at the store he read a magazine about the 486. He actually went to the store and was going to buy a 486DX 25mhz computer and the guy was telling him pretty soon the 486 DX2 was coming. 50MHz!!! So he decided to wait. Same happened with the DX4 and then the Pentium. The Pentium II, III, PIV.
I talked to him the other day about the Intel i9. He said the current one uses 22nm process, but in a month the new i9 using an 18nm process should be shipping, so he'll just wait and get one then.
I think we need to all start tagging every /. article with http://officerbubbles.com/ for the rest of the year.
http://officerbubbles.com/
http://officerbubbles.com/
http://www.t-mobile.com/
"T-Mobile G2
Introducing 4G speeds on
T-Mobile's new network"
So we know unlocked iPhones are limited to running at Edge speed on the T-Mobile network cannot work in the faster 3G mode. But what does the word "iPhone" have to do with this anyway?
Aren't the people using "any" phone on the T-Mobile network, presumably, paying monthly to use that network?
By the same token, isn't it an advantage for T-Mobile that people are using unlocked iPhones at "only" Edge speeds? If those 300,000 users switched right now to using 3G (read "4G speeds") regular T-Mobile phones, wouldn't that cause more strain on the network and not the other way around?
It seems to me T-Mobile is getting the win with this situation. People pay and then also lock themselves into slow speed too! Just so they have an iPhone in their hand. If I was T-Mobile I would think they would encourage this.
I thought this was already solved?
You don't move the asteroid... you move the Earth! With lots of giant hydrogen powered rocket tubes at the South Pole!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2lvRStVdg
Taller than Big Ben? I assume they mean the "Clock Tower" as Big Ben is actually just the bell inside the tower.
it's a good thing it's only $99
That's like saying:
Comcast cable boxes are FREE!!
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the best selling Sega Genesis game of all time, sold 6 million copies. (Released in 1992 and calculating sales through 2006)
Halo: Reach has just sold 5 million copies in 2 weeks.
You have a 10' satellite dish? The first thing that comes to mind is a 1/8th scale Eric Cartman.
http://www.facespace.com/
released an Amiga X1000.
Again, the company making an the A1-X1000 (http://www.a-eon.com/) has no right to word Amiga. The company is a partner with the guy that trademarked "AmigaOne" and so I do believe they use that.
However you will notice that company never calls their computer an "Amiga".
These are people that think the Amiga name has some value and are trying to confuse people that they are releasing stuff with the Amiga name when they are not.
Think about that. It's lame enough to release something Amiga that is just modern motherboard. Yet, these people are trying to release a motherboard AND pretend to be an Amiga. WTF??
The company you are talking about uses the word "Amigaos".
After they're lawsuit with "Amiga" Inc. they are careful now to never used the word "Amiga". You can find much of their old product/news items use to use the word "Amiga Operating System", but like I said, after the lawsuit they are very careful always using "Amigaos" and never "Amiga"
The "Amigaos" word that has never been trademarked nor copyrighted as you can see if you do a search.
"Amiga" is owned by a company named Amiga Inc. They hardly do anything as you can see by their blank webpage Amiga.com
These guys are just trying to re-write history. They don't even have a right to use the name Amiga. Somehow they got an agreement from these other crooks to use the name "Amigaos". They have no legal right to call anything an Amiga.
Even the hardware companies that are making "PPC" hardware have no license to use the word "Amiga". All the machines are "AmigaOne" which is a trademark from a company named Eyetech in 2001 and not related to "Amiga" at all.
Nothing Amiga to see here people.
0.3 percent of traffic is not going above the speed limit.
Uh huh. So I guess they will have about 2 visitors a month to this site?