Similar in NZ, $1 and $2, and the smallest coin is 10c. However, we have something like 80% of point of sales transactions being electronic (off the top of my head), so it doesn't matter too much. This article is a bit of history really :)

It's quite possible. I have a choice of power companies (and am planning to change some time soon.)

Here, generation, and retailing are all split up (not sure how lines maintenance works, I think that might be regional, but done though your retailer.)

This means a) I can pick my retailer, and b) they can compete, along with the generation companies.

(I'm not really contributing much here, just adding a little bit of possibly interesting information.)

The battery in the Pebble lasts a week.

There's a section 'Dynamic Index', but I just noticed that it also opens in the lightbox, which still has no obvious way to actually add a term. ...oh, maybe it's a data loading error. I poked around the tabs in the lightbox for a bit, and then it populated. It seems to be coming up empty otherwise though.

Hover over your name, and click on 'Options' that appears in the dropdown.

Or click on "Account" on the user info panel on the right, and poke through the options there. This tends to work better, I find the lightbox interface to be a bit buggy in general.

The point of the turing test is that it's a thought experiment that says (loosely) that if you can't be sure if something is human or not, then you might as well consider it an AI. It might be a parlour trick, but that doesn't matter. If it can behave intelligent, then it effectively is. If it can have interesting discussions about the last GoT episode, or help you with that tricky bit on your maths homework, then it is effectively intelligent. Regardless of whether it's an algorithm or a squishy meat-based neural network.

The Turing test is a thought experiment. It's not a test to "prove we have AI" or anything, though people do use it like that.

That's the point of this whole phone. So you can assume that they're not listening.

google maps used to have killer features like being able to save arbitrary rectangles for offline use.

Open maps, press on the search box, scroll to the bottom of the list that pops up. It's sorta hidden, but it's there.

There are societies that have this sort of thing as their purpose, for example the IITP, though not so strong. I don't think there's any need for a requirement that software development become a regulated profession overall, however I think there some cases where it might be a good thing: in particular, things where failures could cause injury or loss of life (which doesn't apply to most jobs.)

To use the example of the medical field, it's not regulated to take someone's temperature to see if they might have a fever, or to give them a panadol. But it is regulated to prescribe medication, or perform surgery. The consequences of failure are potentially much higher in the latter case.

You could jump in and start writing applications on RiscOS directly in BASIC if you wanted. I dabbled a bit with it, but didn't have any access to documentation, so only got so far from reverse-engineering (by which I mean reading the source once you figure out shift-double-click shows you inside the !Application bundle.)

It was a very well done OS though. In some ways, it feels like systems now are only just starting to catch up, and in other ways are still a fair bit behind.

For what it's worth, when connected via 3G, I'm getting a public IP address on VFNZ. It seems to be firewalled inwards, but the device reports the same IP that it uses to connect to external hosts.

He's not smoking. There's no smoke. There's no tobacco involved at all. That's where the health issues come from.

Nicotine is about as bad for you as caffeine in coffee (which are both bad for you when you have too much, but otherwise not very harmful.)

And on that note, you did notice the bit where he said he's using less over time anyway, right?

I gave a definition for AI already. In fact, you quoted it. It's not the most precise one, but I don't have to provide a precise one. All I was doing was demonstrating that your implied definition was far, far too narrow.

There are many things that are considered AI that don't match the range you suggested for it. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, language learning systems, robots that take information from their environment, discard it, and drive into walls. They're never* going to think, but they are rightfully AI.

It's not a requirement of a field that it has tight definitions, especially one where different methods that seem in a similar spirit pop up somewhat regularly.

In essence, writing a computer program that uses heuristical and adaptive methods to generate regexes to match/not match specific lists could be a form of genetic programming (though there are other options) which is comfortably under the AI umbrella.

* never say never, but with the scale they're on at the moment, it seems a long ways off.

Yeah, she's totally not influenced by the myriad of other social cues around the place. Or, you know, one sample might just not be enough of a sample size to support/refute the OP's assertion in capital letters.

The plural of anecdote is not data.