there have been a number of apps which turn a PalmOs handheld into a usb-attached LCD display; Palms with mono and colour displays are cheap on ebay.

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http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/4g-confusion-study/ 34% of iPhone Users Think They Have 4G [STUDY] July 14, 2011 by Charlie White

I have met many clever people who are members of churches, but their time given to their churches is voluntary.

Often the equipment has been donated as well, and so is usually not particularly modern either.

The website design is usually managed by a committee, as is the choice of hosting provider, and costs are kept to a minimum.

The net result is that once the web site is finally done, it may be neglected, or someone inherits the responsibility for it who knows little about its history, and might be more secretarial than technical. Thus security updates get neglected, and quite often there are many user accounts with weak passwords.

unfortunately the USA uses its economic might to force other countries to adopt the same bad practices.

long ago Microsoft sued Stac Electronics because, as I understand it, MS claimed that Stac abused/infringed their copyrighted/proprietary APIs in DOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit

surely if smart people know how to weasel their way out of jury duty, then it means jury members are likely to be more dumb?

a key problem here in the UK is that people and their employers are reluctant to do it if the case is likely to drag on, as it could mean a significant loss of income or cost to the employer, jurors can only claim relatively little expenses: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeAndTheLaw/Juryservice/DG_197055

why, you eggplant-hater, you!
get out of here, you broadbean-lover!!! :-D

mod parent up!

I did a lot of work with embedded processors, so I guess I should use port 8051

Hearing recovers just fine, given time. The ear is much better at healing than had been thought at one time
It is? I thought it was the other way round, that hearing damage has been found to be accumulative, and irreversible.

What does NOT heal with time is the brain's ability to process sound
Actually, the human brain is plastic, in the sense that it can adapt to new things very readily, so that even a stroke victim's brain will relay its circuits to work round damaged areas, and so recovery in hearing is more likely to be attributed to the brain compensating for hearing problems.

there's good evidence that a single exposure to overly loud distorted sound causes some level of permanent hearing damage, which is accumulative.
the more distorted the sound, the more the damage.

A full orchestra playing at full steam can be incredibly loud, but far less likely to damage hearing than a rock band using distortion effects into overloaded speakers.

The entire Internet is just lonely voices screaming in the void.

I have likened twitter to people standing on their roofs shouting sentences in the hope that someone passing by hears them, because very quickly what you might have said is lost in the stream of drivel - some people follow hundreds of others and the chances of any one comment being noticed and is tiny.

The Internet has allowed everyone to have a voice, and they feel the need to use it despite usually having nothing worthwhile to say, and noone actually listening anyway.

ah yes, memories. the more I think about it, the more I realise what a great service teletext, cfax (?) and oracle were in their day.

Teletext was an enormously successful service in the UK, any TV above the most very basic had it. the User interface simply consisted of choosing in a page number on the remote control. Pages were delivered over a data stream hidden in the non-visible parts of the picture, being sent in a cycle with some being sent more frequently such as index pages. Some TVs even incorporated extra memory so as to cache many pages to allow instant page navigation rather than wait sometimes 10+ seconds for one to arrive!

It was used by many companies to carry up to date adverts, with special discounts on holidays being particularly successful, with many travel agents listing their deals and also using them in their retail outlets.

Once the internet began to take off, it began to die. the company tried to transition to internet marketing but was too late: http://www.teletext.co.uk/ is now a spent force.