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Comment: Why pick on technology? (Score 0) 108

by I_Wrote_This (#38030710) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?
Surely the use of anything affects the bairn? It's called your environment. At the age of a few hours I couldn't see or hear very well (and couldn't remember anything for very long, so those are assumptions). But my brain locked in to my environment and made sense of it. Why would it be surprising to anyone to think that it continues to do so, albeit at a less profound rate? There are people who reckon they are useless at adding up. They can, however, multiple any 3 numbers from 1 to 20 by 1, 2 or 3, add them up and subtract the total from another number. They play darts. Their environment changed their brain to perform a function.

Comment: Re:Some already half-do (Score 0) 238

by I_Wrote_This (#37768348) Attached to: Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit

No, I am making the distinction perfectly well, but perhaps I was not clear

You are not listening.
On Windows the timezone is listed as GMT+0 (as it is listed as GMT-5 for the New York).
Neither is correct. Hence my comment.

A logical timezone from the database in question is identified as something like "Europe/London" or "GB" (this happens to be a filename, wheee)

But not on Windows. vide ultra

And BST is always one hour offset from GMT, but for half of the year BST simply doesn't exist.

It always exists - it's just not active. There is a difference. "Wed Oct 19 23:26:25 BST 2011" is still valid, even when you read it on Christmas Day.

Comment: Re:Indeed (Score 0) 862

by I_Wrote_This (#37605480) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It
I can't stand icons either. I can read, and a name means something specific.
Mind you - I also have all of my desktop items (there are only a few - as I use the Start menu for occasional things) rolled into a menu on the toolbar (right next to the Start menu), as I have application windows covering the desktop (not full-screen either - another abomination), and so it's a most unhelpful place to put anything I might want to use.
I suppose that ability will have gone too?

Comment: Re:TRS Connectors Suck (Score 0) 369

by I_Wrote_This (#37136438) Attached to: Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half

And don't try to tell me it's for backwards compatibility.

I won't, as it obviously isn't.
You could get that by putting a thin, flat connector on the device and supplying a very short cable connecting that to a 3.5mm jack (socket) into which you could plug any existing 3.5mm plug.
Mind you that "thin, flat connector" could be what this patent is, except that Apple won't supply it and will expect some vast royalty if anyone tries to make one. Probably.

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