Saline and cat hair do not mix

[x_maker]

Catseye! The cup full of clear liquid on my desk is NOT water for you to drink! It's pH-balanced saline solution that needs to be kept in a state of static electrolysis for my contacts. If you insist on drinking from it while the little wires are there, not only will it give you one hell of a shock, but you'll also ruin the solution and I'll have to run the salinization cycle all over again.

And if you could return my #8 Torx driver, I'd really appreciate it. Yes, I know it's shiny, but I *need* it for my work, okay?

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Re: ...

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Micro RFID transmitters, actually. The interface language is all on the mobile, hardcoded onto a set of EPROMs. It's cascading menu-driven, off of a system I saw used once for stroke victims, only cleaner, neater, and smaller.

Only real bitch is orienting them when I put them in and getting the calibration set. A tad bit dizzying.

huh.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Toss me a copy of your source code? I'd be interested in taking a look at that.

Yeah, I can see why you'd get dizzy. I take it you put in some kind of code to prevent yourself from totally frelling up the mobile before you've got the contacts in then?

Re: huh.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Wait until I get the patent, THEN I'll toss the source code around. Do I *look* like one of those unwashed granola-crunching patchouli-smelling open source nuts?

Re: huh.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Dude, chill. I just wanted to take a look at it. I'm curious as to how you handeled cross-platform commands with one interface.

And Open Source gave us Mozilla, and don't you -dare- dis Mozilla. Mozilla is awesome. Tabbed browsing, man. You can't tell me tabbed browsing isn't awesome.

Re: huh.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I like Firefox personally. But since that's an offshoot of Mozilla (If I'm remembering my browsers correctly) then I guess that's moot point.

Re: huh.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Open Source gives you people who actually want to give things to the unwashed masses for free. Brilliance belongs only to those who are ready to comprehend it.

Mozilla's a fine piece of code, as far as software goes. Once you strip out all the bells and whistles.

Re: huh.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Um. Yeah, okay. Not getting into the economics of Open Source, man. Obviously you missed a discussion or twelve.

Moz isn't bad. I could probably knock out of couple of the more cludgy places, as it has a few sticky points in the source, but I think it'd just be eaiser to write my own browser from scratch if I wanted to do that.