Comment Re:Artificial intelligence personified is ... (Score 1) 262
In Texas, it is a crime (misdemeanor) to arm a dillo. ~ CaptainDork
In Texas, it is a crime (misdemeanor) to arm a dillo. ~ CaptainDork
From TFA comments:
If people sing it in a different key, is that copyright infringement?
Yes. (At least in Australia.)
Honestly cable should be crystal clear.
Of course the best part of all this is that to keep with the bazillion different cable channels out there, and the limited (125 or so) RF channels that they also have to share with cable modems, they try to cram as many sub-channels on the same RF channel as possible, at least 10 or so for SD channels, re-compressing them to lower quality. Meanwhile, my antenna gets a full-quality HD signal that maybe only has to share with one or two SD channels. (FWIW, I think cable QAM gives twice the bit rate per channel as antenna ATSC, but still.)
And Europeans can take the train if they want to travel.
Sounds good to me. They certainly enjoy laughing at Americans for not having any kind of decent passenger rail service. If theirs is so much better, then they should use it or shut up.
The main advantage of AC is that you can use higher voltages safely, and higher voltages mean higher wattage with the same wires. And bigger wires are more expensive.
AC versus DC load breaking comparison with a knife switch
That was 220 volts, but 110 volts isn't much better on the DC side. There's a reason why DC-powered telecoms equipment uses 48 volts; much more than that and switches start arcing.
Ohmic loss is an issue when DC power is transmitted over power lines, but not so much when the DC is generated in the same building (solar panels, etc.).
At work I have to use Windows. (At home I use a MacBook Pro so there are basically no danger keys.) While currently I only have the keycaps for F1 and INS removed, in the past I have also pulled F12, caps lock, and the Windows/menu keys. I just leave them in a small plastic bag next to the keyboard.
I don't know how you missed the Windows menu key, since it yanks focus away from your current program if it gets tapped by accident, then you have to waste time getting back to normal. It's almost as bad as F1.
The insert key is bad if you have an editor that tries to implement "overwrite mode" in a mouse-based text editor, which is pretty silly. It can also rarely get engaged by pressing the keypad zero key under certain conditions. (like with the shift key hald down, I think)
Actually there is one important danger key with OS X. I don't know why UI implementers insist on being able to do all sorts of file manipulation functions in contexts where you are supposed to be selecting or viewing a file (instead of, you know, switching to the file manager program), but they do. Windows goes out of its way to support moving and deleting files when you need to select a file, and various OS X programs insist on deleting a file whenever you hit command-delete (aka command-backspace).
The problem is that command-plus and command-minus are used for zoom in and out. (Very useful in the Preview.app image viewer.) Be off by one key when zooming in, and your file is suddenly moved to the trash, and its window (if it has one) closes. In a file viewer program. WITH NO UNDO AVAILABLE. WTF. Now you get to fish it out and put it back where it belongs. At least it also insists on playing a (non-configurable!) sound when it does that, so you can have some idea that something has happened.
Si en tus besos encontrara la escencia de vida, serÃa no besarte el peor pecado que cometerÃa.#HéroesAnÃnimos
Posted by AcciÃn OrtogrÃfica onÂTuesday, February 10, 2015
Their edits range from simple first letter capitalization to a full-sentence overhaul. Their first job contained 13 errors in just two lines of text.
"Thereâ(TM)s a big difference in saying: âNo quiero verteâ(TM) (I donâ(TM)t want to see you) and âNo, quiero verteâ(TM) (No, I want to see you)," one of the members said. "Many times, someone does not realize how a comma or an oversight can completely change the meaning of a sentence. It can change your life."
Recently, they've taken their copy editors' eye to Twitter, where they've corrected spelling and grammar mistakes in tweets by Ecuadorâ(TM)s president Rafael Correaâ"although they stipulate that their concern is strictly linguistic, not political.
Hoy, con @PrensaQuito, corregimos una de tres publicaciones.
#aQUITOdos también nos equivocamos. pic.twitter.com/JA5WAZ02eg
â" AcciÃn OrtogrÃfica Q (@AccionOQ) February 11, 2015
Their plans for the future involve spreading beyond Quito and launching a hotline where passersby can leave tips about graffiti in need of a little editing.
"We recently received a complaint about a nice graffiti that talks about how unbelievable a momâ(TM)s love is. We think itâ(TM)s important that the message get through."
[h/t COLORS Magazine]
Apparently because it's some sort of "drop off" safe.
In the normal operation of the safe, the majority of operations are executed by way of a touch-screen on the safe. Once the money has been inserted into the safe, it is automatically deposited to the retailer's bank, which means that it's the bank's money and a store manager cannot remove cash from the safe. Typically, to remove cash, there is a requirement for both the store manager and a Brink's employee to be present.
That still doesn't explain why people in this sort of industry think you need Microsoft freaking Windows for a simple UI screen. Perhaps they are using Visual Basic? (rolls eyes)
This is 2015, folks, this is the kind of crap you can do with a Raspberry Pi, and if it's long-term support you want, you will still be able to get boards ten years from now, at most needing software changes in the form of a few different kernel drivers.
With your bare hands?!?
