Comment Re:Brazil aims low, film at 11 (Score 1) 130
Google will have to change their company toilet rolls from $100 bills to $50 bills to cover this.
On the bright side, they'll have twice as much toilet paper.
Google will have to change their company toilet rolls from $100 bills to $50 bills to cover this.
On the bright side, they'll have twice as much toilet paper.
I suppose it wouldn't be fair to go back to when the Earth was a molten glob and the proto-Moon collided with it.
You're absolutely correct when you say that.
Now that's one helluva typhoon.
No, no it is not. A typhoon is an atmospheric event and requires, you know, an actual atmosphere in which to occur.
Seems like someone is totally &ed about this book!
Max? As I live and breathe, it's Max Headroom!
To me "Internet" means "freedom of information"
To me "The Internet" is a series of tubes... Or a dump truck.
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, "The Internet is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".
"Shut the fuck up, two-million ID boy", thought by everyone who remembers when Slashdot was still relevant and not swarming with fuckwits.
Huh, must've been before my time!
About Mr. Krwzyk - That's about pronunciation of words in another language. What's your point? I knew a Chinese guy whose name could not even be correctly written in English, but there are accepted conventions (dogma, if you will) on how to write, in English, the phonetic representation of such names.
It's been my experience that people in the IT world are very comfortable with the use of abbreviations and acronyms and rarely "wordify" the unpronounceable ones to make them pronounceable (EBCDIC qualifies, but only just). The naturally pronounceable ones, on the other hand usually are pronounced (NAT, FIDO, IMAP, BIOS). While sequel is an acceptable, if unnecessary, pronunciation of SQL, I have found it rare except in the specific case of users of Microsoft SQL server, where it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But it doesn't actually bother me as I am not a dogmatic anal retentive. And I'm fine with that. My shrink's got enough to deal with as it is.
The vowels in "SCUBA" go a long way to making it acceptable as an individual word. There are no vowels in "SQL". Unlike SQL, SCUBA is not commonly encountered in the areas of Information Technology and Computer Science, in which the use of acronyms is commonplace and well accepted. (Cue the story* of the IBM engineer who had to ask his client what was meant by F.A.N. in a maintenance request. Upon being told that fan was a word, not an acronym, the engineer informed the client that the correct term was in fact A.M.D., meaning Air Movement Device.)
*probably urban legend
Canada is also switching to plastic bills. Rumour has it that running a bill through the dryer will shrink it.
That rumour is somewhere between a gross exaggeration and outright lie - unless Canada is using a very different polymer than that which has been in use by Australia for the last twenty odd years. Yes, very hot air will shrink Australian banknotes (I've actually done it with a fiver), but it has to be a lot hotter than anything available in a clothes dryer.
No after, no ones wants swatches.
Right. Before he was mugged, he only had one Swatch!
The problem is Islam.
Close.
The problem is religion.
Closer yet, but still not quite accurate. You see, religion is just fine until people get involved in it. Only then does it become dangerous.
Undoing mod points to ask: Does the screen permanently display the time - as a normal watch does - or do you need to 'wake' the watch up?
I've only seen one phone that boasted an 'always on' time display, and that was my old Nokia N8 with an AMOLED screen (very low power). This thing needs to work as a watch first and foremost! TIA
I don't know about this particular device, but it got me thinking that, at least in similar devices, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to include an accelerometer and have it wait for a gesture to wake up the display. For example, a quick flick of the wrist through 120 degrees and back again would be sufficiently unusual to not be done accidentally, not so odd that you'd look conspicuous doing it, and very easy to remember. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna try it with a Starbucks soy chai latte in your hand, but regular watches have similar issues on that front.
my favorite beer! I'll have to visit. what is there to do there?
Those trees really do spoil your view of the wood, don't they?
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
