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"scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote in message
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> >> I've heard of TV casualties from the wrist band snapping. LCDs and
> >> Plasmas.
> >> The glass on a CRT is usually strong enough to survive,
>
> Yup, whereas the glass in an LCD is usually under 1mm thick - the
polarisers
> stop it shattering, but it still cracks easily and then it's useless.
Don't remind be. I cracked a laptop's LCD panel last year. The surface was
fine, something was cracked underneath. Large portions of the screen are now
black.
Repair place quoted me R8000 to replace the panel, and that was a 17" laptop
screen. I'd hate to see the price to replace a 40" LCD TV's panel.
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>
> Of course 1 N is the force required to induce an acceleration of 1 m/s^2
> on a mass of 1 Kg. But how much *is* that in real-world terms?
Well gravitational acceleration is 9.8m.s^-2, so gravity exerts a force of
9.8N on 1 kg object.
Does that help?
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Invisible wrote:
>> There are lots around 10 pounds if you want to spend a bit more.
> ....so it's a tax on stupidity then?
It's an ongoing argument. HDMI is digital, so it shouldn't make a
difference. But it's a very poorly designed digital standard
(physical-layer-wise) so EEs who ought know what they're talking about
say it's important to keep the cables short if they're not really good
quality. I suspect it's more like "it's important to keep the cables
short, period."
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Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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scott wrote:
>> You now have fingerprints all over your viewing area. Good luck
>> cleaning skin oil off a plastic display. ;-)
>>
>> You get no tactile feedback from the "keyboard".
>
> Previously Nokia and still today many car manufacturers rejected the
> touchscreen keyboard approach for those very two reasons.
I read Nokia actually has a touchscreen that gives tactile feedback.
There's something behind it that "taps" from behind when the key would
click, or some such silliness. :-)
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Check your feather pillows for holes
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Invisible wrote:
> Damnit, I wish I knew some people IRL who possess such encyclopedic
> knowledge... I'd never be bored again!
<RainbowsEnd>
"You seem to know an awful lot about what's going on."
"Hey, I'm wearing."
</RainbowsEnd>
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Check your feather pillows for holes
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Invisible wrote:
> I still can't figure out what good it's supposed to do.
I was like that for a long time. Then I realized it's basically
learning all the social macros, if you will.
One can make a reference to a piece of literature, or some other social
or literary context, and invoke an entire background to what you're
saying. Boss says "Time to go visit the customer," and coworker say
"Yep, back down the rabbit hole." If you never heard of Alice in
Wonderland, you'd have no idea what that meant, or why your coworker
would say it. If you'd read your literature, you'd know your coworker is
calling your customer and their entire environment crazily surreal.
If you want a nerdier example, when friends (who I know will get the
reference) ask me how the weather is where I am, I've been known to
answer "It's very Windows 98 out."
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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Warp wrote:
> I knew that Newtons and kiloponds both measure the same thing (force),
FWIW, I never even *heard* of a "pond" as a unit of measure. I knew
"pounds" were a measure of weight (rather than mass), but I never heard
of a "pond". Good explanation. :-)
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Check your feather pillows for holes
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Invisible wrote:
> Presumably this is why all schoolchildren [in the UK at least] have
> Shakespear inflicted upon them as a mandatory component of their
> education. I still can't figure out what good it's supposed to do.
Consider another example. Imagine this:
You're in the conference room, along with several coworkers, waiting for
someone you haven't met before to show up so you can start. This person,
who has been around the company a while but you just never happened to
meet, walks past the window on the way into the conference room. You
coworker whistles a tune under his breath,
... which you don't recognise.
... which you recognise as the Darth Vadar theme.
... which you recognise as the Wicked Witch of the West theme.
... which you recognise as the Indiana Jones theme.
OK? Your different opinions, of this person who you still haven't met,
have been shaped by a string of otherwise-meaningless tones. That's
culture. (Assuming you've actually seen those movies, see...)
The reason you read Shakespeare is because others do too, and when they
make references to a Shylock, a pound of flesh, or "Lead on, McDuff", or
things like that, they're bringing *that* entire story into context.
Sort of like that Star Trek NG episode where the aliens communicate
*only* in cultural references, and they kidnap the two captains and beam
them down to the hostile planet surface so they'll have some cultural
story in common to start communicating with?
(Yes, thank you, I appreciate just how f'ing nerdy this sounds. :-)
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Check your feather pillows for holes
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Darren New wrote:
> Consider another example. Imagine this:
>
> You're in the conference room, along with several coworkers, waiting for
> someone you haven't met before to show up so you can start. This person,
> who has been around the company a while but you just never happened to
> meet, walks past the window on the way into the conference room. You
> coworker whistles a tune under his breath,
>
> ... which you don't recognise.
>
> ... which you recognise as the Darth Vadar theme.
>
> ... which you recognise as the Wicked Witch of the West theme.
>
> ... which you recognise as the Indiana Jones theme.
>
> OK? Your different opinions, of this person who you still haven't met,
> have been shaped by a string of otherwise-meaningless tones. That's
> culture. (Assuming you've actually seen those movies, see...)
Wait... The WWW had a *theme*??
Maybe I'm just strange, but I don't think it would matter what a person
is whistling. The fact that they're whistling something would be more
significant...
> The reason you read Shakespeare is because others do too, and when they
> make references to a Shylock, a pound of flesh, or "Lead on, McDuff", or
> things like that, they're bringing *that* entire story into context.
See, now, in all the years I've been alive, I've never [knowingly] heard
of anybody making any Shakespeare references at all. [Except maybe to
Romeo and Juliet.]
> Sort of like that Star Trek NG episode where the aliens communicate
> *only* in cultural references, and they kidnap the two captains and beam
> them down to the hostile planet surface so they'll have some cultural
> story in common to start communicating with?
>
> (Yes, thank you, I appreciate just how f'ing nerdy this sounds. :-)
...as nerdy as me saying "yeah, I remember that silly episode"?
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Darren New wrote:
> One can make a reference to a piece of literature, or some other social
> or literary context, and invoke an entire background to what you're
> saying. Boss says "Time to go visit the customer," and coworker say
> "Yep, back down the rabbit hole." If you never heard of Alice in
> Wonderland, you'd have no idea what that meant, or why your coworker
> would say it. If you'd read your literature, you'd know your coworker is
> calling your customer and their entire environment crazily surreal.
Oh, is *that* what that's supposed to mean?
Obviously I've had the misfortune of reading Alice in Wonderland, but I
didn't understand a word of it. It just seemed to completely defy any
kind of logic... Just left me feeling really confused. [And wondering
why I just wasted several months of my life reading such an utterly
horrid book!]
> If you want a nerdier example, when friends (who I know will get the
> reference) ask me how the weather is where I am, I've been known to
> answer "It's very Windows 98 out."
Wuh?! o_O
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