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Finally, I am not the only one! Feels good.
Finally, I am not the only one! Feels good.
What a phantastic thread!
We have had linguistics, sociology, physics and now biology in the form of colour perception so far.
Cross domain discussions are great! :-)
Well in my case it’s more about where to draw the line between blue and green.
I can differentiate the colours but just still call things blue that my GF (and most of the rest of the world, apart from Japanese and the german dialect I grew up with as it seems) already calls green.
Yes, exactly.
E.g. in Germany I don’t have heard anyone using Indigo and Purpur as major colours but only in combination with blue : “Purpurblau” and “Indigoblau” describing certain forms of blue.
So only blue and violet in german rainbows. And ultraviolet because most of us are more engineer than poet nowadays ;-)
Interesting point.
And I am a little bit with the Japanese in this regard. At least my GF always complains that I am unable to correctly distinguish between green and blue ;-)
I’m confused…
Doesn’t a rainbow contain all colours by definition?
lf it is a region lock than even if you use a VPN you propably won’t be able to buy anything.
Unless you also happen to own a japanese credit card. And a shipping address in Japan for physical stuff.
(Sad European noices…)
No, my fault, I only knew such stuff with real maps up to now.
E.g. a local natural park did something really similar, adding a bunch of plant and animal pictograms to their map as a mini game. You had to count how many you saw. Did really help to not letting the kids get bored during the hike.
And also there is geohashing which is kind of a “roll your destination” game…
Ok, so you don’t do actual hiking, now I think I get the basic idea!
I was propably confused by your “take it on next trip” remark…
Don’t quite get it…
Is it something like geohashing on a physical map?
What are the symbols for? (I guess you didn’t actually encounter 20 bears?)
Sieht gut aus. Wann Kinostart? Die Kühe und die Schaf-Kino-Szene sind phantastisch!
Jetzt wo ich drüber nachdenke, gab es da nicht auch vor kurzem einen Heidi Splatter-Film?
But that’s exactly the point.
E-Ink Displays would have been unable to explain for me from my thoroughly * informed * perspective as an HF and digital communications student.
Active displays in one form or another had been around for 50 years or so at that time. So have been practially all base technology concepts of the much mentioned smartphones. Nothing magical about an optimized version, just extrapolation.
But E-Ink? A * brand new * technology * without prior art * rapidly emerging from obscure theoretical concept to widespread use within just 15 years or so…
I am actually still a little bit awed each time I switch on one of those…
l can think of one magic-technology that appeared during my lifetime:
E-Ink-Readers.
I mean, script suddenly appearing out of thin air on flat, solid surfaces? WTF?
I even studied enginering in the early 90’s and would not have been able to come up with a technological explaination if I had encountered one of those back then…
Genau das. Warum bloß? Ernsthaft, das hasst jeder, den ich kenne. Wer um alles in der Welt mag das??
Oder sind das andere Gründe, warum das drauf ist?
And also: where it found the config file it is actually using at the moment. This would cover the 90% of the cases in which you just want to change a single Key to a different value or something or so…
l really like that one. Probably not the solution but nonetheless a great riddle! … Except the broom of course, that’s silly…
So… what is the actual answer?
lt does but toilette had a different meaning during the time the term Eau de Toilette has been invented. So the funny cross reference is a random artifact of language change.
Although perfume has also been used a lot to cover the smell of unwashed bodies especially during Baroque.
So it is perhaps a fitting reference nonetheless :-)
They mean “Cologne” which is short for “Eau de Cologne” which is fancy french for “Kölnisch Wasser” which is the german scent of geriatric hell but has become an expression for almost any kind of perfume for some reason.
So if using fancy words you should perhaps know the correct spelling…
Yes, Orangina is definitly in another league. My first bottle of it practically ruined all other soft drinks for me, can’t stand them anymore. Besides certain kinds of sparkling mineral water it is practically the only carbonated stuff I drink once in a while. Oh, and I also like Bionade which is also not so sweet and slightly bitter tasting because of its malt basis. But Bionade is probably even harder to get than Orangina in most parts of the world…