What I don't get is why someone would shit in a barrel and then bury it.
I, for one, try not to keep barrels of shit in the living room.
Subterranean storage seems like a good idea. Since I don't have a cave to put barrels in, burying them seems reasonable.
Will they discover what electric sheep dream of?
Engraving on a removable panel sort of defeats the purpose...
Like my cat, I just pee on everything that's mine. Or that I want to be mine. Works like a charm.
I imagine this makes dating and courtship more interesting.
Working in one of those factories, I actually learned which solvents take permanent marker right off.
FYI: Sharpie doesn't hold up well against G3.
Won a bet that way. A guy told me that permanent marker was permanent. I told him to write his name on something with one. Rag with flux remover, wiped it right off.
The immediate problem I see is that a laser engraver is a cool tech toy, and a lot of geeks might actually want to buy one rather than hire the engraving done.
Once you own one, you'll probably want to take it to a LAN party and show it off... which means it will need to be engraved.
This basically means you need to buy two.
I would have expected a question like this on a website where they post things like "This is now a Spiderman thread" and the like.
("Post ending in trips decides", and "Lunatick delivars!" etc.)
Most phone use is download.
AFAIK, most "download" protocols are bidirectional - there's a confirmation that each block was properly received. (TCP vs UDP)
The portable device may not need to transmit much, but there's likely a string of "Yup, Checksum OK"'s getting transmitted, even when "just" streaming a video.
These days, it's mostly Blackjack.
Advanced strategies for simple games are interesting to me, and potentially lucrative.
As far as electronic games, it's typically a simulated cribbage game against an AI. Again, simple games and advanced strategies.
Maybe I'll have a look for a Mancala implementation for the phone.
AFAIK, a "standard" LoC is 10TB... around 769 times larger than this file. Comparing this to an LoC is technically valid, but not particularly useful for the typical reader.
They make these devices specifically. Talk to a local support organization for blind (and hard-of-sight) people.
The purpose built devices do offer advantages over a tablet or pad - generally better battery life, close focus, better magnification, and - the killer app - color swapping (image inversion, replacing blue/yellow... these things really can help in some cases).
It's amusing to me to see the old ones reboot - they're often still running XP (or 2000).
maybe IBM is getting into the Patent Trolling business?
This is remarkably insightful.
Selling products and services is boring. The protection racket ("pay us and we won't sue you") should be similarly lucrative, with less overhead.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
