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Comment Re:What about Netflix? (Score 1) 79

by peteMG on Friday August 02, 2013 @06:06PM (#44461715) Attached to: Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft

Also with iTunes I don't know how much I am going to be paying. At $2 minimum per show it would take a lazy rainy Saturday in this house to blow by my monthly fee for Netflix. I could see a household that didn't really monitor its iTunes to blow past $1000 in a month.

Wait a sec. $1000 in a month at $34/season is 29 complete seasons of TV. You're going to watch that much in 31 days?

Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin 58

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @07:32PM from the so-skin-is-actually-useful-for-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist says that attaching electrodes to the skin for monitoring brain activity (for example when 'installing brain implants that can allow disabled people to control machines using their mind') is tricky, especially on a hairy scalp, so the new solution from the University of Pittsbugh is an electrode that screws into the skin: its 'teeth dig into the upper layer of skin and become fixed in place, maintaining good electrical contact.' They say that the thing 'should be pain-free.' (Note: it does not go through the skull!)"

Comment Re:A Force Feedback Mouse Existed in 2000 (Score 1) 41

by peteMG on Friday March 07, 2008 @01:50PM (#22677562) Attached to: Consumer-Level Haptics On the Way

I worked for a consulting company in 2000-2001 that did a contract for Immersion. They developed the haptic tech that went into the Logitech mice. They hired us to put together some demos that showed off what the thing could do for the web. We brainstormed a couple different ideas; most involved the mouse vibrating when you moved the cursor over interesting areas of the page. For example, if you were reading a financial news page, and moused over a paragraph with stock ticker symbols, you could tell whether the stock was rising or falling by the behavior of the mouse.

Yeah, the client was more excited about it than we were. We couldn't bring ourselves to call it haptic feedback. "It's a vibrating mouse "

Comment This Just In: Newspapers Not Reliable!! (Score 1) 1120

by lemonlimeandbitters on Monday November 06, 2006 @07:41PM (#16744457) Attached to: Global Warming Debunked?

So, to paraphrase, you are asking "I know how to read science papers, so should I base my stance on the preeminent issue of the day on an article in (an admittedly) reactionary newspaper?". (I pose the paraphrase in the best tradition of answering the question you wish you were asked, rather than the one that is actually asked).

OK. Well, I'm not a climate scientist, but I am an atmospheric scientist, and the answer to your question is: For the love of God man, what are you thinking? Did you think about the question before you posted it? I haven't read the article and I don't intend to. I can't imagine a more pure waste of time than trying to get educated on a science issue by reading a newspaper.

The more polite version of my answer is that if you want to get some measure of the science on climate change you'd better start reading review articles in the literature. They're not that hard to read, especially if you've got a career wading through papers in some other discipline. If you really want to start off with some light reading there are some easily digested summaries is things like EOS Transactions and such. I'd link all these nice things, but it's kinda pointless, you only have free access to the things you need if you have access to online journals via your school libraries and such.

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