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Regarding keyboard replacements on Android - If you have an Android smartphone, I *strongly* recommend trying out SwiftKey. In my opinion, it is a must-have that no Android user should be without.

You can demo it free for 30 days before you are required to buy it (which I did). It not only has the best predictive technology in my opinion, it keeps track of both the time and keypresses it saves you. In 30 days time it saved me somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 keystrokes and 30 minutes of typing time.

http://www.swiftkey.net/en/

I was deployed an iPhone 4S recently, and I absolutely hate typing on it now.


I had no idea civilian space capsules were considered munitions. Fascinating.

I've learned a lot about ITAR in recent weeks. I didn't make a big deal of it here, but I recently accepted a position as an Application Developer for a major electronics manufacturer. Some of the components we produce go into, how can I say this, finished product that is covered under ITAR.

At best, I can tell you that if you've seen a certain popular US attack helicopter, you've seen the results of some of our work.

*closes his mouth before the black helicopters and unmarked vans are dispatched to his current position*
 
Regarding keyboard replacements on Android - If you have an Android smartphone, I *strongly* recommend trying out SwiftKey. In my opinion, it is a must-have that no Android user should be without.

You can demo it free for 30 days before you are required to buy it (which I did). It not only has the best predictive technology in my opinion, it keeps track of both the time and keypresses it saves you. In 30 days time it saved me somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 keystrokes and 30 minutes of typing time.

http://www.swiftkey.net/en/

I was deployed an iPhone 4S recently, and I absolutely hate typing on it now.

I've tried it. It's just not my thing, but definitely worth trying. Swype is slowly getting some of SwiftKey's functionality. But I'm more interested in just the ability TO swype. And both keyboards are good at letting you totally miss the right keys and still know what you meant to say.
 
I had no idea civilian space capsules were considered munitions. Fascinating.

I had no idea civilian space capsules were considered munitions. Fascinating.

At LEO velocities, *everything* is a munition.

Robinson's first law: "An object impacting at 3 km/sec delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT."

(More seriously, they're worried about stuff that could help with the delivery of nuclear warheads, which makes kinetic yield for anything less than a few percent of c irrelevant, but I like my reasoning better :P).
 
Today is Miku day!

Why?

Because 3 and 9 [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals"]can be read[/ame] as "mi" and "ku", respectively.
 
And because Japanese are intelligent enough to use YYMMDD.
Not only that it's logical (I'm not saying: "Whoa, it's 5 seconds, 10 minutes and 23 hours I have to go to bed!"), but if any of you ever had to sort a database with dates...
 
I don't have the brain for that.
 
Oklahoma looking to allow a horse slaughterhouse. Well then. I suppose if it makes a good burger and is appropriately priced...
 
Speaking of websites down, I was luckily prudent enough to put off buying SimCity '13 until NET late this year to allow for bugs fixes and customization features to arrive (that is, if EA allows that :facepalm:), as well as monitoring if EA will finally abolish the online MP playing limit. Really, seeing SimNations collapsing due to llama traffic, errr player traffic is really the upper dressing of the disaster cake. :dry:
 
My two cent on yesterdays episode of "Tatort", the first one with Til Schweiger (Also seen in "Inglorious Basterds"): Get a new author quickly.

That the style was badly "Die Hard in Germany" isn't actually bad, you can enjoy it. The main character was bruised and battered (See Die Hard) - sadly the bad story lost this quickly. The unconcentrated storyline was really annoying. Constant distractions from the main plot. Often distractions that had no purpose for the following events.

Everytime the episode tried to get to the needed "larger than life" moments for a good action movie (Too much realism isn't really helpful) it ruined it. It had explosions, gunfights and lots of characters that could have been interesting enough for a whole chain of episodes - but by pressing all into just one episode of ~90 minutes, it felt confusing. All too much without real concept.

After a quick research, the author of the episode was found responsible for many many storyline disasters. Please... don't hire him again.

All in all, an episode that you should have seen once. But you will have no real motivation to ever watch it again.
 
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Thus ends March break, with all of the procrastinating, sleeping in and 'totally family-friendly' fun that it implies. It will be missed. :(

And now back to college shenanigans, with a disorienting lost hour thanks to DST coming into effect.
 
Everyday physics: You know that you are terribly charged with static and again likely to produce 1-2 cm sparks when touching a door knob, when you feel how your office chair deflects the hairs on your arm (Charges of the same polarity deflect each other, similar to magnetism).

I am a biological Tesla coil currently.

(Record distance was about 3 cm and thus around 3 kV/mm * 30 mm = 90 kV voltage. Interestingly, longer sparks are not more painful than shorter sparks, only more surprising. More interesting, that wikipedia claims that it is impossible, since humans should be limited to 25 kV under optimal conditions. Maybe they should do tests with humans with long hair.)
 
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