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Researchers discover that ultrasonic vibrations reduce friction on flat screens by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air. Can it do anything about greasy fingerprints?
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"Discover"? - what exactly were they doing when they chanced on this discovery?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air.
Finger-hockey, anyone? 
Marc
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If my future phone starts to tickle my finger while I swipe it gently, I'll throw it right out again.
//Without mobile phone since 2007 - Born in 1992 - You can imagine how much more of an outcast that made me 
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What if the problem isn’t where where looking, though, but when? "Alone, alone with a sky of romance above "
To varying definitions of "best"
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That won't be true. I'm here hung up with Bob. 
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IMHO it is how we are looking.
It strikes me that point-to-point communications are far more efficient than broadcast and therefore any advanced civilisation would use some form of point-to-point communication to do their far-talking. Therefore not radio waves and probably not something we'll be able to eavesdrop in on (or even notice given our technology).
Any such aliens would in turn only be on the look out for unidentifiable uses of their type of communications and wouldn't consider the (as near as random as makes no difference) emissions from our little blue dot to be of interest.
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We should send XML into outer space. Also make sure it's compatible with IE6. It will most likely increase our chances of finding anything
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That would prove that there is no intelligent life on Earth!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I thought we had proven that a million times by now 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And if you allow aliens not be made of water and needing of oxygen, then the probability of life somewhere sometimes is a gazillion times bigger
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I was speaking of mediocre research recently. Well, this is a good example of it.
Nothing they've said, not a thing, is new.
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The best explanation is that there isn't any. The arguments in the article are simply wild guesses since they can't be confirmed.
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I often wonder what the state of "intelligent life" on Earth would be had the dinosaurs not been wiped out.
Did it set us back? Did it allow us to accelerate?
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I think that someone forgot the size! of the (un)known universe. The 'where' (should be everywhere) didn't took us to see not even a small fraction of it, so how one can tell we didn't saw?!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So far, the only examples of sentient life we’ve found are right here on our own planet.
But I'm just visiting
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I don't know what is worst:
To discover that we do are alone in the universe.
or
To discover that we are not.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... the sort of vacuous argument that caused me to stop reading gizmodo. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm sure I found it lurking in the top corner of the CP site. Up there somewhere ...
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"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I personally love an idea in presented in this absolute gem of a video of why we haven't found alien life:
Simulated Reality - YouTube[^]
Once you can explore inwards, it takes much less energy and time and unleashes a world of possibilities that the physical realm can't offer, making outward exploration rather pointless. Your mind becomes the universe and much more
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This includes creating and consuming local .NET Standard Libraries, but also adding .NET Standard Libraries from NuGet directly to your Xamarin apps. Cross-platform .NET apps: now cross-platformer
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Wonde Tadesse
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/ravi
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You can now buy Microsoft’s HoloLens Development Edition, the company’s futuristic augmented reality helmet, without having to go through an application process. I can think of other ways I'd rather augment my reality for $3K
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A more accurate subject.
This space for rent
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