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Soviet spacecraft famously featured a particularly intuitive navigational device, a five inch globe, a 1-to-100-million scale map of the world with a crosshair corresponding to You Are Here. This "Globus" dashboard detail was present on every manned spaceflight from Yuri Gagarin until 2002.
Celebrate
this mechanical marvel by investing in a Personal Globus. This five inch globe stands proudly, and unsupported, on your executive desk. Inside, a GPS module shifts internal weights so that the centre of gravity holds the globe the right way up, with your position on top, just like that bigger globe underneath your feet.
The unit is recharged by rolling it around, but when it comes to a stop, it'll always be the right way up.
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I like this, especially as it will show me as being on top of
the world wherever I am. [+] |
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There needs to be a projected datum arrow showing your direction of relative motion. [+] |
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Yes how does it orient itself around a vertical axis? |
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Proof, if further proof were needed, that Apple are in league with Satan. And probably like cats, too. Satanic evil and cat-lovers are pretty much the same thing. |
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[marked-for-exorcism], dealing with Dark Powers, being Death-Eaters, foisting overpriced underspecified crap on idiots. |
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//foisting overpriced underspecified crap on idiots.// Sp. "I
can't afford one." |
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Sp."We wouldn't have one if you paid us to take it away, even if we had a table with a short leg". |
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"Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you're under ..." |
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.... aaaaaand KERCHING ! The price of a small car gone that you'll never see again ... |
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But, [8th], what use is a small car to any man? |
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A quick fack-of-the-bag-packet calculation suggests that I
spend approximately 15 times more time at my computer
than I do in my car. I also only change my laptop every five
years or so, giving it about twice the useful lifespan of a
car. On that basis, my MacBook ought to cost around £2.4M
but, strangely, it didn't. |
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// what use is a small car to any man? // |
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So does poached ivory, rhino horn, and blood diamonds, but that doesn't make it morally right either. |
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No doubt you need something profitable to occupy your time when the eight year olds are in class and there's no point in you hanging round the school gates to flog them Class A narcotics ... |
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//but that doesn't make it morally right either// And, right
there, you see the advantage of Macs - someone has clearly
hacked into [8th]'s PC. |
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