They have a bit of a metal look going on, so how about Ramm und Stein? - Thomas Brox Røst
\m/ Ramm and Stein is good - I like that! Better than Wig og Wam. (*edit: for those of you not from/familiar with Norway - Wig Wam: http://www.wigwam.no/) - Patricia Hanrahan
But... They look more like Scandinavian vikings than any German /*beeeeep*/ ? - silpol
“Выбираю 20" монитор для дома, бюджет 10-12 тысяч рур. Хочу: VGA выход, никаких "колонок" и "дизайна". Желательно: хорошая цветопередача, регулирующаяся подставка.”
Сейчас читаю обзоры Артамонова, правда, запутаться не мудрено. - Aleksas.flac
Забыл добавить: если уважаемые друзья что-нибудь могут подсказать — буду признателен.. - Aleksas.flac
Еще из плюсов, хочу хорошую четкость изображения, насколько, конечно, мой видео-выход это позволяет. - Aleksas.flac
Было бы замечательно, если в будущем к этому одному можно было купить такой же второй, и их соединить. - Aleksas.flac
Мой выбор был прост: S-IPS матрица. Дальше смотрятся модели, матриц-то мало, а используют их многие. Купил NEC 20WGX2. - 9000
я очень субьективно выбрал - на работе с 04 по 05гг пользовался Viewsonic VP201B (и дальше пользуюсь) и от него мои глаза не умирали после 12-14 часовых code review, после этого купил сeбе VP2030B (201 успели снять с производства) - silpol
@cindy because what I do as my daily job since Nov'04 is open source product series - and I see gap between reality and your post. - silpol
Silpol, if you are working on an OS project for your job, then you aren't part of what I'm talking about. I clearly delineated those companies who OS their software. - Cyndy
@cyndy no, it is not just project - it is long standing program on exploring into open-source as way of thinking in whole company, and we do often go VERY close to what is open source "there, outdoors"... like running particular small projects intentionally as non-company one's... or running it with low costs incurred still outdoors... and going through juggling with licensing nightmare... I can make it longer to make you clear how close we are to true FOSS. - silpol
the only true problem is legal one - US is worst legal territory in world, it is merely shark pool with no real value... I would personally sign order to carpet-bomb whole place if I knew how to get all lawyers in one place (no, this is NO joke), just to clean up and show rest of world what shall be done with all US legal system. - silpol
Wow, silpol, tell us how you really feel. - J. Phil
silpol, we do have a mess, but we aren't the only country like that. Tech moves way too fast for laws to keep up in any country. - Cyndy
@noah no BL business here - I used to serve as officer in USSR Air Force, exactly that part which had US coverage down to Mexico... the joke was that worst part of job is rubbering off America from map ;) - silpol
@cindy I'm sorry but whole notion of precendent law and IPR comes from US - silpol
@silpol: precedent law comes from the UK, and, somehow, from Roman laws (which were 'discovered' by judges, not 'designed' by lawmakers). it has its drawbacks, sure %) but it also have certain merits. OTOH, IPR has only drawbacks. - 9000
@9000 in UK they have at least a decent excuse - they have no Constitution as we know it ;) - silpol
"Katie Grand recently spent £2,000 on dry-cleaning all her clothes, because she'd found moths in the house. The reason it cost £2,000 to dry-clean her clothes was because she has kept every garment she has ever owned since the age of 15. When her last house was completely submerged in clothes, she started putting some of them in storage ... until she realised she was paying £250 a month in storage fees and that it would be cheaper just to buy a bigger house." --- George Carlin talked about this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
is it only me not being able to move my eyeballs from that dotted thing on head left? - silpol
Are silly hats the balancing factor for men's silly ties? - Mark Forman
ahuh... I wouldn't risk my ass to shoot in office building, _especially_ lobby area - we have 3rd party security pals hired as lobby team ad shooting is severely prohibited in our building :-/ - silpol
I'm trying hard 7th or 8th to switch on Python, but it keeps me vomitizing and leaving... probably I'd rather to stay with REXX as I've started with that back in 86 on VM/SP on IBM/360... - silpol
I was always tempted by the Microsphere integrated workstation idea, but I guess they're out of business now. Oddly, my current programming chair isn't on this list... - ⓞnor
I do miss my Steelcase Leap from Google. By the way, does anyone know of a local Bay Area store / showroom where I could try the Herman-Miller Mirra, various Steelcase chairs, and hopefully the HumanScale Liberty as well? - Tudor Bosman
Unfortunately vendors seem sort of disjoint, you might have to visit several. The Chair Place (531 Bryant, SF) looks sort of fun to visit, but they don't seem to carry any Herman Miller or Steelcase. - ⓞnor
Design Within Reach has Mirra and Liberty, but no steelcase. there's a store in palo alto and santana row - David Vasileff
There's also a DWR in SF on Alameda and Potrero. I actually prefer the Eames chairs, but they don't have all the fancy adjustments. Just simple and elegant (and expensive). You can get these from DWR, but they don't list all the models on the website. - Chris White
DWR is also fun for the whole "*this* costs *that* much??!" gawking value. - ⓞnor
I ordered my Celle from officedesigns.com - not to provide advertising, but they were cheap, good selection and free shipping (and no tax, I believe). I remember vaguely having an issue with them not really sure about when they were going to get it back in stock and a little yelling after awhile, but they came through. - felix
“A unique Friendfeed feature would be: A visual map that shows how ideas/links/submissions are spread from one person to another via 'like'. This would show influencers, networks, and communities of interest”
awesome idea Jeremiah! Ooooh I WANT this feature bad!! - Susan Beebe
firstly , time stamps are needed, secondly 'likes on multiple same URI could be difficult. I may Like an entry from a friend's del.ious entry or maybe from another person who actually posts the URI on FF. How can this mapped out ? A visual map normally has one start point/seed and then spawns outwards to various nodes and then branches even more. - Peter Dawson
Exactly how do you determine who or what an influencer is? This is less obvious than it appears. I've seen "big names" retweet ideas of someone with a lower social profile. The original idea came from person A but person B has a larger social network. So, who is the influencer here, the person who came up with the idea or the person who told all of their friends? If it is person B, doesn't that discount the substantial influence person A had on them? You're privileging social capital over creative capital. - Liz
Chris: good point. But my curious side really want to know how all this stuff is really happening! - Susan Beebe
I like the idea of charting how information moves virally to see who the influencers are. Hopefully, this would let you see who infuences the so called "elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change". - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo
Ohhh, that would be awesome. I'd love to sit back and watch an idea spread. - Summer
Mathew, all these ""elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change" are actually pretty mch just with large Social capital. not the creative capital ( +3 goes to Liz !!). This AM, I saw a lot of chatter on Lumosity, to me this was wickedly old in terms of tech tech. http://friendfeed.com/e/8f63f3... however, when looking back onto FF you will find Leo Laporte posting it and many peeps then repurposing that twit/post via many methods, digg, rooms etc. - Peter Dawson
@spragued please no more brands and managers for them - silpol
To respond to those: The influencer could start at the source node (creative capital) as well as those who are sneezers (spread to many others) it can serve the purpose of both. - Jeremiah Owyang
It could look like Digg's swarm ... that would be pretty cool - David Weiner
"In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure." - Alejandro S. via Bookmarklet
Like this idea. I've never really understood by physicists believe that everything started with the Big Bang. "What was before that?" seems to get answered: "Nothing". That's hard to get your mind around. This idea of the multiverse answers that question somewhat ("what was before the multiverse?"...) - Hutch Carpenter
I like to watch what they add to the conversation, and then block them. I have found some really cool new apps and videos from a few that I though for sure were spammers. I did un-follow a few last night. - Blackopsmanners
I see more and more MySpace girls instead of SEO experts doing it. Feel like there's a how-to guide on Twitter that includes "follow 10,000 people or you're doing it wrong." - Mark Trapp
Myspace girls? r sure those are not virtual alts? ;) - silpol
I rarely block anyone. Partly due to laziness, of course. @Mark: I think I have actually read a how-to guide on Twitter that said that. - Cyvros/fyc
That's what I don't get silpol. What's the business plan, get 5,000 folowers & then change all tweets to viagra and cialis? Seems like you'd get banned by the time you got a large number of followers. I follow about 3 or 4 people from back when I first started Twitter and didn't know any better who did the "follow 30,000 people plan" and in the past 3 or 4 months, they haven't actually advertised anything. So when do the big bucks come? Seems unprofitable. - Mark Trapp
Which leads me to believe someone on Myspace wrote a howto explaining how Twitter is like Myspace, and that the person with the most amount of followers wins, and the best way to get followers is to follow thousands of people who will then follow you back. Cyvros/fyc: if you had a link, that would be awesome. - Mark Trapp
There a reason to block them? You won't see their tweets unless you follow them. - Michael Narciso
@Mark: It would, but I still can't find a link. *scratches head* Hopefully, someone else will know which article I'm talking about and have the link. :D - Cyvros/fyc
I don't block them; they only broadcast. If they were to send me messages, then I'd block - Shey
"Атипичная агнозия (Brand-Induced Agnosia, BIA), также известная как брендовая слепота, выражается в неспособности воспринимать объект, если он не несёт обозначения знакомой марки.
Больные с третьей стадией АА не способны выжить за пределами мегаполиса.
Проведённые в последние годы исследования показали, что городское население Земли стоит на пороге глобальной эпидемии атипичной агнозии." - Alex Hussein Kapranoff via Bookmarklet
В жжшном коммунити vstre4i_v_metro каждый второй пост с описанием внешности превращается в описание брендов - ||||||||||||||||||||||||| via Alert Thingy
@kkapp, каждый развлекается как может :) Я повёлся вначале, но к концу заподозрил неладное и это ещё при том, что работаю в маркетинге. Позор мне, позор :) - Бозон Хиггса
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Man, single malt scotch in a ganache. That's genius. - Mark Trapp
"In June of 1945, after the war with Germany had ended, an American Army officer arriving in Frankfurt was told to look for a place to live within a part of the city which the Allies had enclosed with barbed wire. He found an abandoned apartment and did what he could to make it livable. Opening a closet door, he discovered an album of photographs. It had 31 pages, and 116 black-and-white images, the bulk of them a little smaller than a playing card, nearly all of them portraying German officers - at a picnic, at shooting practice, at a resort among fir trees and hills, at the dedication of a hospital, dressed as miners and visiting a coal mine, at a dinner at a long table with a white tablecloth, wine bottles and waiters, lighting candles on a Christmas tree, at a funeral in the snow where the coffins are draped with Nazi flags." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
"Eventually, the officer returned to America. He took a job with the government, in Washington, D.C., and he and his wife lived in Virginia. In December 2006, the officer, elderly and disposing of his possessions, wrote to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, offering it an opportunity to look at the album. The images, he wrote, appeared to depict 'activities in and around Auschwitz, Poland'." - RAPatton
I read about this in The New Yorker a couple of months ago. It's extremely disturbing to contemplate these people singing and having what appears to be a normal, good time while several of them are actively torturing and killing thousands of other people. I can't understand some of the darker parts of human nature sometimes. I've often wondered how some ordinary German citizens who might not have been active Nazis justified to themselves what was going on, if they knew anything about it. - Kamilah Gill
@Kamilah there is no problem to understand that - drinking from propaganda firehose makes your brain and soul not sensitive to other's human pain... - silpol
"English will become more like Chinese in other ways, too. Some grammatical appendages unique to English (such as adding do or did to questions) will drop away, and our practice of not turning certain nouns into plurals will be ignored. Expect to be asked: "How many informations can your flash drive hold?" In Mandarin, Cantonese, and other tongues, sentences don't require subjects, which leads to phrases like this: "Our goalie not here yet, so give chance, can or not?"" - Ana
This article was fascinating. Reshared from Chris's feed. For once, I wish that our FOAFing were less aggressive so I could just "like" it and more people would see it... - Ana
Heh I shared this on Reader as well with my personal favorite "Please do the needful" as a comment. - Erica Baker
Reminds me of a recent episode of Radio Lab on NPR. I never knew about tonal languages before hearing it. Fascinating. - Harvey Simmons
The title is misleading. Languages have been spoken imperfectly by foreign speakers since time immemorial, but has that impacted the way the standard dialects are pronounced? Also iiuc you don't have what's defind as a dialect until you have a group of native speakers. - j1m
@jim Yes. Language is ever mutating in large part to cross-cultural saturaton. Every language historically shows this. - Michael W. May via twhirl
well, we have similar effect in Russian where language norm is kept more stringently (since Russian empire) - like changing noun's gender for irregular (borrowed) nouns, etc - silpol
it is fascinating to see so many French words in english traced back to 1066 normandie conquest. - Pokai
English is very much like Chinese: damn simple grammar and words you can't imagine how to pronounce right given their written form: http://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/... - 9000
@Michael: do you have any links to interesting descriptions of historical examples? (Where foreign-resident populations' grammar choices effect how the language is spoken where it is primary, without invading like the Romans and Normans, and where this is driven primarily be foreign-resident speech, not by speech patterns adopted by immigrants?) But rereading the article, I guess they don't mean to suggest that, just to talk breathlessly about how English is spoken overseas....which of course is a startling new phenomenon this last million years. - j1m
The article doesn't really suggest Chinglish will spread back into core standard English, but that it will become recognized as a first class language variant. I'm not sure about that - people in places like China speak English to engage with English speakers abroad (or with people who do, or to orient themselves in that direction), and I think that prevents their dialect from "centering" in a way that intellectuals will strive to codify and honor its local rules. - ⓞnor
Having spent time in Malaysia & Singapore, Chinglish is already the dominant language but not just Chinglish but throw in a bit of Hakka, a bit of Hokien, a sprinkle of Malay and you have thousands of variants based on an English kernel. metaphorically, English will become Facebook and the variations of English will become the mob wars or super pokes. Even though you may not understand it completely, you get the gist and understand why others use it. - Dedric
Can I enshrine that in some sort of metaphor hall of shame? :) - ⓞnor
@silpol: first and foremost the one that reveals the usernames behind the nicknames =) - Alex
show domains, show likes, friends, sticky search. :) - Nicole Simon
Beware the script that removes the visited links (at least until it plays nicely with FF3)! It bounced me into denial of access the other day. For a while there I thought I was on the twitter.... - Linda Mills
Sure! Son/Daughter I was secretly posting on the internet on the first date with your father. HE doesn't know I have baby fever! - Michelle Miller
Exactly. They will find it cute and quaint that you thought those things you are going to do are fireworks compared to what they do. - RAPatton
well, i was told very different story (about my father & mother) back then, but i still very like it even now - so the very idea is very good ;) - silpol
Not paying much attention here today, but I do seem recall this was to have occurred last night... and you've been suspiciously silent on the topic ;) - Michael W. May
Fossil. How much did you drink? It was the hot tub. It dehydrated you, making the hang over more than it was. Your kids will also like to know about the grouping the night before you met daddy. - RAPatton
I need my 8-9 hrs sleep/night... When I travel now, I can either do the daytime hike/sightseeing or the 4-6 am nightlife. Not both anymore. Sigh. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
Chicken soup, Pepsi and sleeping helps me against being hungover, or once in a year i just grab another beer from the fridge, but that's only on the day after my birthday party. - George The Writer
