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Comment Re:How big a fuss is it, really? (Score 2) 415

On my 15th work anniversary at my current employer, I was awarded a Blue Angel edition Citizen Skyhawk watch. It's got an EcoDrive invisible solar cell under the watch face. Never hard to recharge it. Never lost a minute. Never worn a watch since I was 18 (I kept loosing them) but nowadays feel like I'm missing something if I dont have that watch when I go out.

The Apple Watch thing is kinda dreadful in design but that's subjective.

The real let down is the charging thing. I long ago ran out of power outlets around my bed and there's no way I'd have another dangling wire on the table.

At the very least, it needs an inline charger to share the same iPhone wire. Serialized or parallel. Or a dual function charge pod.

Since this thing required an iPhone, there's no point in requiring a different charger.

Science

Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function 150

Jason Koebler writes: A team of physicists based at Brown University has succeeded in shattering a quantum wave function. That near-mythical representation of indeterminate reality, in which an unmeasured particle is able to occupy many states simultaneously, can be dissected into many parts. This dissection, which is described this week in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, has the potential to turn how we view the quantum world on its head. Specifically, they found it's possible to take a wave function and isolate it into different parts. So, if our electron has some probability of being in position (x1,y1,z1) and another probability of being in position (x2,y2,z2), those two probabilities can be isolated from each other, cordoned off like quantum crime scenes.

Comment Wasn't limited to drag queens (Score 1) 269

Stage artists where also subjected to the rule. Hence, cEven Key (yes, that's how it's spelt) of Skinny Puppy fame was forced to change his FB account back to his Kevin Crompton causing a very public backslash in his follower's community (incl. myself) where a good number of fans changed their FB name to cEven Key in protest and support.

Eventually FB backtracked and he was able to resume using his stage name (which he has for 30+ years now). But others are still stuck in the bureaucracy of getting their name fixed.

cEven Key was one of many who ended up on ELLO.

Comment Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto (Score 0) 555

Actually I can relate. Got my fiancee off Windows and into Ubuntu (latest stable at the time). Initial install was a nightmare to get a bootable installer but once the hurdle gone, installed just fine. Then it was the carrousel of packages, getting het what she needed. Mandarin music player, OpenOffice (the easiest one to get IMO) and other things so she could enjoy a virus-free setup. It just meant days of screwing with a system she just wanted to USE. Not build.

She eventually got a Mac Mini because of house influence. She's been quite happy with it so far. Her last gripe is her Android phone not satisfying. I'm trying not to push her but... this is also an iOS house...

Medicine

3-D Printed "Iron Man" Prosthetic Hands Now Available For Kids 64

PC World (drawing on an article from 3DPrint.com) notes that inventor Pat Starace has released his plans for a 3-D printable prosthetic hand designed to appeal both to kids who need it and their parents (who can't all afford the cost of conventional prostheses). The hand "has the familiar gold-and-crimson color scheme favored by Ol' Shellhead, and it's designed with housings for a working gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, and other "cool sensors", as well as a battery housing and room for a low-power Bluetooth chip and charging port." It takes about 48 hours in printing time (and "a lot" of support material), but the result is inexpensive and functional.

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