Comments on: Space Invader button

By: ???

??? — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:07:58 +0000

“i hear it even being illegal in canada for instance for people under 16(?) to buy a lighter” That’s ridiculous. Anyone can buy a lighter in Canada. I should know, ’cause I live there. You can’t buy tobacco under 18, but that’s just common sense.

By: ak77

ak77 — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:25:52 +0000

“i know americans are ecstatic about the iphone, but in europe it’s not that hot, and i for one have never seen one in person.”

Haha.. there are plenty of iPhones in Ireland and UK, loads.

By: Basic A.

Basic A. — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:07:29 +0000

A one world currency would have to be issued by a one world bank… and considering national currencies like the US Dollar have already fallen into the hands of private banks, and the European Union was pushed as a way for the Rothschilds to further gain political control in Europe, it very quickly become obvious that a world currency is simply a way for a single group to obtain world domination….

By: aw4lly

aw4lly — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:50:24 +0000

How about using the standard measurement unit of say, a ruler? If its in inches/mm doesn’t really matter, its not exactly rocket science to convert them!

By: ACentauri

ACentauri — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:04:38 +0000

I like using standard “AA” 1.5V alkaline batteries for size comparison. Same size everywhere in the world, everyone knows it.

Or just place the object in the palm of your hand then take picture (needs a quiet hand though, and not usable if you got huge or tiny hands maybe)

;)

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:48:11 +0000

Incidentally, I know americans are ecstatic about the iphone, but in europe it’s not that hot, and I for one have never seen one in person.
Someone suggested the disposable lighter as universal object to me, but now with the anti-smoke fascist being so succesful and I hear it even being illegal in canada for instance for people under 16(?) to buy a lighter, so even that would not work.
I think a PSP would be more universal than an iphone, except there are now 2 versions.

But wait a sec, here’s a solution: keyboard keys, while typing I realise they are almost everywhere the same size AFAIK, and you can pry one out for the picture! Plus everybody that visit the internet knows them.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:37:21 +0000

“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the LED-Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”

By: neuron

neuron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:37:53 +0000

“so….. what does it do?”

The LED matrix or the Euro?

By: billhates

billhates — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:11:14 +0000

so….. what does it do?

By: cptfalcon

cptfalcon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:47:27 +0000

i’m surprised so many people dont know the size of a euro, clearly it’s about 75% of a 8×8 LED Matrix ;)

By: punmaster

punmaster — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:37:32 +0000

I’ve lived in the US my entire life, so you certainly can’t accuse me of being inherently biased against the US unit systems. But metric is simply more useful and more intuitive, and anyone who has ever done any type of science will hopefully agree. As for currency, the same mentality goes. Today’s business world is too international, especially with the internet being what it is, to be using a thousand different arbitrary exchange systems. We’d all be better off, and economies would be far more stable, if we had a universal currency based on a real-world commodity (such as gold) instead of overinflated numbers pulled straight out of a government’s asshole.

Well there’s my rant. :) On a more practical note, why not use an iphone as a scale comparison reference? It’s not an end-all solution to measuring units, but at least we’d all know how big the damn thing was. :P

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:45:22 +0000

Matches would be a bad idea to compare size, they come in various sizes from tiny to quite large.
We should use a universal thing, like the moon, although of course you’d have to scale up the pictures a bit to fit it in in real-size :)

By: therian

therian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:04:33 +0000

after living 9 years in us I still don’t understand why people continue to use inches and etc. It hard and not natural to use them, hard to calculate, hard to visualize size and this unit just don’t fit with mathematics

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:02:45 +0000

@none hey we are simple american folks here what is this millimeter you speak of?

By: ragnar

ragnar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:57:49 +0000

No, don’t bring them back! It’s only money, I wish we would have one currency worldwide. call it C-Bill, Coins, something, I don’t care it’s just freaking money. do you sleep with your money, or why is it so important to you how it’s called?