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From: Die Wahrheit on 30 May 2010 15:51 On Sat, 29 May 2010 22:19:03 -0700 (PDT), Twibil <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On May 29, 5:33�pm, Die Wahrheit <diewahrh...(a)somewherehonest.net> >wrote: >> >> >> For people with emotional or mental disorders: forums, newsgroups, chat >> rooms, and other forms of online text communications are possibly *the* >> worst place for them to get their needs met. Due to the very nature of >> being able to read anything they want to or project into others' written >> words, they only end up compounding their psychoses and skewed emotional >> states. > >This is mostly true and fairly insightful. > >> They are purposely choosing to make themselves worse, never better. > >This is just plain wrong: psychotics by their very nature almost never >think that there's anything really wrong with themselves, so from >their viewpoint they're not choosing to make themselves "worse". I guess that's what you get for reading into words. It was not written from their perspective, it was written from an observer's POV. I find it interesting, from whose POV that you chose to read it.
From: Rich on 2 Jun 2010 18:57 Me <user(a)domain.invalid> wrote in news:httjcp$3oj$1(a)news.albasani.net: > On 28/05/2010 5:05 p.m., RichA wrote: >> And yet they look so pristine in the commercials... >> Like on Star Trek, all the touch-screen computer and ship control.. >> They probably went through more Windex than anti-matter. >> >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268602440574 >> 716.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird >> > There's an "oleophobic coating" on the screen, to resist oily > fingerprints. It appears to be a fluorochemical coating. > These are quite effective as oleophobic treatments, but for one > problem - they don't repel silicones. Silicone oils tend to spread > out as a monolayer over the fluoropolymer surface, and as the silicone > isn't oleophobic, then the surface completely loses it's oleophobic > property. > It's then very hard to remove the silicone oil without damaging the > fluoropolyomer or substrate. > So, perhaps a useless fact for the day, but particularly for women who > use hand cremes and moisturiser, most of those contain silicone oil > (often stated in ingredients as dimethicone, sometimes PDMS), then I > wouldn't expect the oil/finger grease resistant treatment to last very > long at all. > I can just SEE the paranoid soccer moms, with their little purse bottles of alcogel, "Don't touch it, Johnny!!"
From: George Kerby on 2 Jun 2010 20:00 On 6/2/10 5:57 PM, in article G-KdnSP3z-V_fJvRnZ2dnUVZ_oGdnZ2d(a)giganews.com, "Rich" <none(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Me <user(a)domain.invalid> wrote in news:httjcp$3oj$1(a)news.albasani.net: > >> On 28/05/2010 5:05 p.m., RichA wrote: >>> And yet they look so pristine in the commercials... >>> Like on Star Trek, all the touch-screen computer and ship control.. >>> They probably went through more Windex than anti-matter. >>> >>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268602440574 >>> 716.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird >>> >> There's an "oleophobic coating" on the screen, to resist oily >> fingerprints. It appears to be a fluorochemical coating. >> These are quite effective as oleophobic treatments, but for one >> problem - they don't repel silicones. Silicone oils tend to spread >> out as a monolayer over the fluoropolymer surface, and as the silicone >> isn't oleophobic, then the surface completely loses it's oleophobic >> property. >> It's then very hard to remove the silicone oil without damaging the >> fluoropolyomer or substrate. >> So, perhaps a useless fact for the day, but particularly for women who >> use hand cremes and moisturiser, most of those contain silicone oil >> (often stated in ingredients as dimethicone, sometimes PDMS), then I >> wouldn't expect the oil/finger grease resistant treatment to last very >> long at all. >> > > I can just SEE the paranoid soccer moms, with their little purse bottles of > alcogel, "Don't touch it, Johnny!!" Your mother told you the same thing. You should have listened to her, now you got hair interfering with your keyboard. Pity...
From: mike on 8 Jun 2010 19:16
In article <fbd4d798-a2a2-4871-8490- 7a9b4ff4ea4d(a)v18g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, rander3127(a)gmail.com says... > On May 28, 5:15 am, DanP <dan.pe...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 May, 06:05, RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > And yet they look so pristine in the commercials... > > > Like on Star Trek, all the touch-screen computer and ship control.. > > > They probably went through more Windex than anti-matter. > > > > >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870471700457526860244057.... > > > > Well, it is because you can see the grease on the screen. > > I keep my HTC Dream in its pouch and I avoid touching my cameras LCD > > and my computer monitor. > > > > There is more filth on a door handle but you you cannot see it. > > Think about that. > > > > DanP > > I was referring only to the visible aspect. You can't avoid touching > dirty surfaces somewhere, but at least you don't have to look at it. > Nothing is UGLIER than an LCD with filth on it. Keyboards are bad > enough. > Keyboards need a bit of finger-grease build up. Otherwise how can you visually tell which keys you press the most and the least? Mike (least used key is the single-back-quote) |