So if the effect persisted 6 months later, then those who had the current put in the 'bad' direction were left with slower running brains during those 6 months?!

This reminds me of the input method used on the Palm: Graffiti. With Graffiti, you had to learn how the Palm expected you to write the letters. Most was just uppercase versions of the letters, but some were quite different. It took a while to learn.

It's easy enough to learn, but there was a case reported of someone saying that handwriting of those people using Graffiti was suffering. Sometimes they'd write a Graffiti version of the letter they were writing, or somewhere between the letter and the graffiti version. Flow of handwriting was an issue, and stunted writing doesn't look clear.

I'm curious whether this method would cause a similar issue. It may not, as you are not writing with strokes that approximate the letters themselves, but will be interesting in the long run to see the effect.

If I had 2.2 on my phone, I'd download this when it's available to try it out. Unfortunately, I have an X10, and am still waiting for the 2.1 upgrade to be make available to me... :(

T. (repost - wasn't logged in last time)

If not typing in a word processor, 2 spaces are required in order to make the text more legible. This follows for forums, HTML, text editors, comments in code, etc.

Yes, a Word Processor will space things out for you, but I, for one, will configure OO.org or Word with the '2 spaces' option. I don't like being reliant on technology to do stuff like this for me - personally, I feel that (certainly in some cases) it's dangerous. Extreme example - if a pilot always lands a plane on autopilot, then he's out of practise for when an emergency comes along.

I learned to type on a computer (a commodore 64, actually), and I learned to hit space twice. Now, when I hit a full stop (period, of you US guys), I automatically hit space twice before starting a new sentence. It's like automatically pressing the clutch before changing gears, or automatically putting the indicator on before turning the a corner - when you learn to do something, you do it automatically.

Yep, let the word processors adjust stuff automatically, but don't stop teaching the double-space. And don't stop using it either. If you get out of the habit of using it because your word processors will adjust the width of the space automatically, then you won't use it in place where this adjustment won't happen automatically.

Wow, a comment suddenly becomes me bitching. Even with a :-P in there.

Maybe that SarcMark is required after all... (insert SarcMark here, 'cos you obviously need it)

Indeed. Easier to calculate if it's linear - it's only for the purposes of showing that I'm not going to make $150,000 a year from it! ;-P

They are welcome to swap jobs with me. I'd be more that happy with $150,000 a year.

Currently, I'm unemployed. I've written a Google Android app and uploaded it to the Market. I'm not in a country where I can charge for my app, so I have ads in it to try to generate some revenue. The app has been on the market place for 17 days so far, and I've made $2.65. That equates to about 15.5c/day, or $56.90 a year. I had to pay $25 to create my account, so that makes it $31.90 for the year!

So only too happy to swap, guys.

(for those interested, the app is on the market here: market://details?id=org.thetomahawk.spreadsheet )

If I'm reading something, I move the mouse out of the way. So, if Google want to track what I'm interested in, they'll need to look at what the mouse is _not_ hovering over, or certainly not stopped over.

If sarcasm is done right, as a previous poster mentioned, then it should be obvious, and thus a symbol is not needed.

If the inventor of the sarcasm symbol needs help understand sarcasm, why should the rest of us point it out to him? And, for that matter, why should we pay him for the privilege of point it out to him.

Anyway, there is already a well know symbol that doesn't require any addition to the Unicode standard, nor any addition to any existing fonts. :-p

Easy as that, really!

Reminds me of a joke where an American actually 'got' sarcasm for the first time. It was raining outside, and his non-American friend says 'Isn't the weather just great!'.
The American bloke realises that his buddy just said the exact opposite to what he meant. Wow! What an amazing thing.
He then went on to use this device himself...
The following week in work, a friend closed a filing cabinet on his finger. Our friend, now endowed with his new found sense of sarcasm, pounced on the opportunity to put this into practise...
"Isn't the weather great!", says he.

*sigh*

Was is just me, or does it appear that the water the came out was cleaner than the water be used (before mixing it with the oil)?

Would this be a valid way of cleaning up other (non-oil) polluted water supplies?
(repost - wasn't logged in... :( )

ReadyNAS

I have some questions here

1st, who in their right minds leaves a loaded gun on a table?
2nd, who leaves a loaded gun on a table with a 3 year old in the house?
3rd, who lets a 3 old play shooting games?
4th, who lets that 3 old play shooting games with a gun-shaped controller?
5th, who makes a gun shaped controller for a Wii?! It's a platform mainly aimed at KIDS!!!

This points to a real issue with the 2nd amendment (rights to bear arms bit) - maybe people like this step-dad should no longer be legally a person, and thus not allowed to bear arms. Let's legally call him a Retard, or something. Seems fitting.

He was the step-dad - says so in the article. So it wasn't actually _his_ child.