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Comment I use something other than touch/home keys (Score 2) 362

I never learned touch correctly, but I do type pretty fast without looking by using a weird combination of fingers. I rest my hands in a sort of home-position, but then I use fewer fingers to type. It's what have worked best for me. To describe how I use my fingers would be very weird, but one could say for most of my typing I use 3 fingers on each hand, in addition to right thumb for space and right pinky for enter/return.

When I write code I usually spend more time thinking than typing, so speed haven't really been an issue. I score 60+ WPM and allthough that is a far cry from the 120WPM mentioned in the article it really is fast enough for me.

Comment Expedia eats up profit margins for the hotels (Score 3, Informative) 279

According to a hotel manager I know expedia wanted 1/3 commision on hotel rooms.

Sure, he appreciated the extra business, but at the same time it was a major cut in their profit margin.

And expedia (and other hotel booking services) now wield so much power that it's hard for hotels to say now. More so for hotels that are not part of a chain that can afford to say no.

Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 175

A ~0.2 kg block of pure Gd148 (~1 in^3) initially yields ~120 watts, sufficient in theory to meet the complete basal power needs of an entire human body for ~1 century (given suitable nucleochemical energy conversion and load buffering mechanisms, and a sufficiently well-divided structure).

So, could this also be used to power a laptop?

Imagine a laptop battery that doesn't have to be recharged, ever.

Sure, the cost would be greater, but imagine the savings.

How much is the price of Gd148 anyway? :-)

Comment Re:First (Score 1) 272

If you have 7 feet and divide by 3, you still have 7.33.. feet, and you can write it that way. To write 7 ft. 4 in. is more accurate, but the two are synonymous.

Likewise to 7 meters divided by 3 is 7.33.. meters or 7 meter 3 decimeters 3 centimeters...3 nanometers...etc.

I don't think divide means what you think it means.

7 meters divided by 3 is 2.33 meters.
7 feet divided by 3 is 28 inches (2 ft 4 in)

Comment Re:What About the Light Beam? (Score 1) 236

And how doe every photo of the formation, from all kinds of different angles, all see the same spiral that the 3D twisting project into to the observer? Someone watching on-axis would see that perfect spiral, but not all the observers at all the angles.

Have you seen northern Norway?

http://www.virtualsources.com/Countries/Europe%20Countries/no-map.gif

It would take maybe 1-2 hours to cross Norway from west to east so far north. So if the missile was launched north-east of norway most of northern norway would be on the same axis.

Comment web of trust (Score 1) 174

When posting things to facebook I usually limit pictures etc to "friends of friends". I like to think my friends are just as selective on who they add as friends as I am. The whole web-of-trust-thing.

By adding everyone you shred that web. Imagine someone stalking a friend of you. Instead of stalking him/her directly, they try to add friends from her friendlist to get close to him/her.

Adding people you don't know is stupid.

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