A lot of the difference in taste is down to the water used. Look on the ingredients - the primary thing in every soft drink is carbonated water.
The trace chemicals in water are different in different countries ( file that under "no shit, sherlock") - and so the taste can be very different.
In the UK we get "normal" diet Coke, made in Uxbridge. However, in some places you can also get imported (i.e. cheap-ass) stuff from Germany, Georgia, and even Turkey. They all taste different - radically so, in some cases.
The coke syrup (I believe) all comes from Coca Cola in the US. It's the local water used that changes everything.
Currently I use an iMate K-JAM (and who the hell comes up with these shitty names?) which gets round the keyboard issue by using a keyboard that slides out from under the main phone display. So far it seems to work pretty well, and is a lot nicer to use than the standard mobile keypad.
You can use the stylus/PDA stuff too, with an on-screen keyboard, although personally I hate that. The only real problem with the slide-out keyboard so far is that it makes it obvious it's a fairly high-end (and thus stealable/valuable) device.
The really interesting stylus/onscreen-keyboard based input mechanism, though, is SHARK (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) - which uses pattern-recognition to form the words, as you slide the stylus between letters. I've used the demo version a few times now, and it's a superb (and easy to learn) method. I'd hope it'll get used by a lot of devices before long...
Hmmm, nothing at all that's relevant to the story, except things like...
"Geologists have never had the chance before to penetrate the volcanic heart of a mid-ocean-ridge geothermal system and there is much they would like to learn." and "But Iceland stands on an additional plume of volcanic mantle rock that has lifted it above the Atlantic and made it accessible to geologists."
At the end of the day, they're drilling 5km down into a volcanic ridge, and getting water that's heated by magma.
I suspect the easiest way to differentiate with these is to have "copyright holders" and "copyright owners".
The owners of the copyright should be the creators of [media item]. They then effectively 'allow' the corporation to become the holder of the copyright for them. It's this 'holding' of copyright that's unethical.
Therefore, owners are OK, holders aren't.
And your penultimate par is spot on, that's the way it should work. But I'd bet anything that MegaCorp Inc. would lobby like hell against any development like that!
I guess in theory it's to do with the "While it's off in *this* place, it could be on in *that* place, and that means *that* one could've run the program".
Or something.
However, first thing I did was check that it wasn't dated 1st April...
In my experience of Measure Map, I found it wasn't really all that accurate.
It also logs "posts viewed" as including ones visited by spammers, along with counting the spam comments, even though WordPress ignores them completely, or just sticks them straight into the spam filters.
I suppose it's OK, it just didn't seem as accurate or worthwhile as some of the other stats packages I've used.
I just figured that the words "starring Steven Seagal" meant it was going to be an absolute whale-turd of a film.
It's kind of the same way you know an "Alan Smithee" film is going to suck ass, a "Steven Seagal" flick is definite suspension-of-brain-and-logic material.
Didn't the "Plus 4" come out at roughly the same time as the Sinclair Spectrum "Plus 2" or whatever it was called, once Amstrad had bought up Sinclair?
Oh, and my first one was a ZX80. Then a ZX81 - wobbly ram-pack woe and all.
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Only if you want to get a girl that's also underage.
(Maybe that's just the UK version of MySpace, though)
But in this scenario it means you've got to have two or three different screeners who are all prepared to give up their copy of the film in order for you to combine them for the explicit act of movie piracy.
Maybe I've too much faith in human nature (a rarity) but I can't see that happening.
And even if it does happen, it's still tripled the initial workload in that you have to obtain three copies instead of just one. That's a fairly good deterrent to the average work-shy pirater, I'd think...
I was thinking more of "I could use one of those as an anti-burglar device (for car or house) - fit it with paintballs instead, and cocver the perp in paint"
But then, I get warned about that kind of thought quite a lot. Ah well...
Please read my reply again. If you're trying to locate a moving item (whether through your own movement or through the item's movement) then it's best to be able to continually triangulate the distance, rather than just timing the response.
Hence why bats (and most animals) have multiple receptors (eyes, ears, etc.) when distance/triangulation is a factor.
Cats chasing bats is one thing. We've got a dog that chases them when we take her out for a walk. Took us ages to realise that was what she was doing...
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A lot of the difference in taste is down to the water used. Look on the ingredients - the primary thing in every soft drink is carbonated water.
The trace chemicals in water are different in different countries ( file that under "no shit, sherlock") - and so the taste can be very different.
In the UK we get "normal" diet Coke, made in Uxbridge. However, in some places you can also get imported (i.e. cheap-ass) stuff from Germany, Georgia, and even Turkey. They all taste different - radically so, in some cases.
The coke syrup (I believe) all comes from Coca Cola in the US. It's the local water used that changes everything.
See, being Zaphod Beeblebrox does have its uses.
And let's not forget Alias for this, with the super-gizmos.
The "secure server, so you'll need to dangle a wireless modem 3inches above it, and we'll get the data off that way", for example...
Currently I use an iMate K-JAM (and who the hell comes up with these shitty names?) which gets round the keyboard issue by using a keyboard that slides out from under the main phone display. So far it seems to work pretty well, and is a lot nicer to use than the standard mobile keypad.
You can use the stylus/PDA stuff too, with an on-screen keyboard, although personally I hate that. The only real problem with the slide-out keyboard so far is that it makes it obvious it's a fairly high-end (and thus stealable/valuable) device.
The really interesting stylus/onscreen-keyboard based input mechanism, though, is SHARK (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) - which uses pattern-recognition to form the words, as you slide the stylus between letters. I've used the demo version a few times now, and it's a superb (and easy to learn) method. I'd hope it'll get used by a lot of devices before long...
Hmmm, nothing at all that's relevant to the story, except things like...
"Geologists have never had the chance before to penetrate the volcanic heart of a mid-ocean-ridge geothermal system and there is much they would like to learn." and "But Iceland stands on an additional plume of volcanic mantle rock that has lifted it above the Atlantic and made it accessible to geologists."
At the end of the day, they're drilling 5km down into a volcanic ridge, and getting water that's heated by magma.
Pretty f**king volcanic, I'd say.
I'd suggest RTFA yourself - paragraph 1:
"Geologists in Iceland are drilling directly into the heart of a hot volcano."
Hmmm, I'd say that the story involved a volcano, and thus the summary is fairly well on-target.
I suspect the easiest way to differentiate with these is to have "copyright holders" and "copyright owners".
The owners of the copyright should be the creators of [media item]. They then effectively 'allow' the corporation to become the holder of the copyright for them. It's this 'holding' of copyright that's unethical.
Therefore, owners are OK, holders aren't.
And your penultimate par is spot on, that's the way it should work. But I'd bet anything that MegaCorp Inc. would lobby like hell against any development like that!
I guess in theory it's to do with the "While it's off in *this* place, it could be on in *that* place, and that means *that* one could've run the program".
Or something.
However, first thing I did was check that it wasn't dated 1st April...
In my experience of Measure Map, I found it wasn't really all that accurate.
It also logs "posts viewed" as including ones visited by spammers, along with counting the spam comments, even though WordPress ignores them completely, or just sticks them straight into the spam filters.
I suppose it's OK, it just didn't seem as accurate or worthwhile as some of the other stats packages I've used.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. The Ewoks were the start of all that smelled of shit in Star Wars.
There was a scene with a baby Ewok, and half the bloody audience in the cinema went "Aaaah". That was what killed it for me.
And then following it up with the "Luke and Leia are brother and sister" bullshit, Man, that was just crap.
I just figured that the words "starring Steven Seagal" meant it was going to be an absolute whale-turd of a film.
It's kind of the same way you know an "Alan Smithee" film is going to suck ass, a "Steven Seagal" flick is definite suspension-of-brain-and-logic material.
Ah yes, the spectacular build quality. Or glue quality, in the case of the speccy.
:)
Let me guess, you also knackered the Z and X keys playing "Daley Thomson's Decathlon"?
Yeah, I started off with the ZX-80, then "upgraded" to an -81. Now there's a scary concept - upgrading to 1K of RAM...
Didn't the "Plus 4" come out at roughly the same time as the Sinclair Spectrum "Plus 2" or whatever it was called, once Amstrad had bought up Sinclair?
Oh, and my first one was a ZX80. Then a ZX81 - wobbly ram-pack woe and all.
Only if you want to get a girl that's also underage.
(Maybe that's just the UK version of MySpace, though)
In fact, according to TFA, in the US from Feb '06 the car drives you!
*Narwhal* NOT narwhale...
It's obviously dupe week on /. - this one was done back in May...
Even Heinz Tomato Source? *grin*
But in this scenario it means you've got to have two or three different screeners who are all prepared to give up their copy of the film in order for you to combine them for the explicit act of movie piracy.
Maybe I've too much faith in human nature (a rarity) but I can't see that happening.
And even if it does happen, it's still tripled the initial workload in that you have to obtain three copies instead of just one. That's a fairly good deterrent to the average work-shy pirater, I'd think...
I was thinking more of "I could use one of those as an anti-burglar device (for car or house) - fit it with paintballs instead, and cocver the perp in paint"
But then, I get warned about that kind of thought quite a lot. Ah well...
And let's face it, weren't the "From Dusk 'til Dawn" series (while 2 & 3 were woefully bad) all based around vampire cowboys etc. to a degree?
And also stuff by Nancy Collins, such as Walking Wolf (OK, that's more "Werewolves and Indians/Native Americans), Dead Man's Hand, and some short stories in the hard-to-get "Forbidden Acts".
Also, wasn't George R R Martin's "Fevre Dream" based along similar lines?
Please read my reply again. If you're trying to locate a moving item (whether through your own movement or through the item's movement) then it's best to be able to continually triangulate the distance, rather than just timing the response.
Hence why bats (and most animals) have multiple receptors (eyes, ears, etc.) when distance/triangulation is a factor.
Cats chasing bats is one thing. We've got a dog that chases them when we take her out for a walk. Took us ages to realise that was what she was doing...