Comment Re:Ratios? (Score 1) 34
Pair reading. It's like, totally agile and stuff.
Comment popular schmopular (Score 1) 267
Do we mean popular as in lots of people like it, or as in lots of people use it?
Comment Re:2-Butoxyethanol (Score 1) 328
They require you to place the leach fields of your septic system away from and downhill from your well for a reason.
Mine is both near to and uphill from my well, but my well also goes through a clay cap.
Comment Re:Nothing better than a hidebound engineer. (Score 1) 144
This is not unlike the makers of the first horseless carriages who built them with saddles instead of instead of seats.
Why would they do that? Buckboards, stagecoaches and Surreys (with or without fringes on top) had bench seats.
Comment Re:Morse Code (Score 1) 144
I think Apple patented input by means of varying durations of keypresses. It was in here a few years back.
Comment Re:fear mongering (Score 1) 328
2BE is considered quite safe, otherwise it wouldn't be used in cosmetics:
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this. I guess the question is, are you getting paid to tell this lie? Cosmetics are full of known toxics, just like perfumes.
Comment Re:2-Butoxyethanol (Score 1) 328
And all it would take would be a home mechanic spilling a bottle of one of those products to get to that same parts-per-trillion levels in their own well water.
It would take a lot more than that, in all likelihood. It's usually not trivial for something you spill to wind up in your well unless you've got an open well, and you spill into it.
Comment Re:Why isn't the Water Dept filtering the water? (Score 2) 328
The reason these chemicals are expensive to dispose of is that they are difficult to destroy by any means other than sweet, cleansing flame — and a whole hell of a lot of it. Throwing it in your campfire won't do it. Anything that can't be gotten out of your water by relatively simple means isn't filtered out by your municipal water department.
Comment Re:Not BS. (Score 1) 164
I said, "I have a question about a charge on my bill," and it correctly connected me to the chargeback section.
it eliminated all but the keywords, and got "question", "charge" and "bill". It may only be scanning for about 20 keywords at the most at any given prompt. That's a very easy job compared to natural speech recognition which actually gets all the words. You could get that on a chip 20 years ago.
Comment Re: "The Ego" (Score 1) 553
That may all be true, but it also isn't the reason she got elected to the Senate... She was the first Lady and Bill's wife, that is why...
Interesting. That made it mandatory to vote for her, did it?
Comment Re:Measurements (Score 1) 425
Oh, what's the "talent" of a software developer then? It's shipping working software as a team.
Developer, programmer, and engineer all have their own meanings, and cannot be used interchangeably.
The Challenge of Getting a Usable QWERTY Keyboard Onto a Dime-sized Screen 144
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Spain and Germany are building on Carnegie Mellon's work to attempt to create workable text-input interfaces for wearables, smartwatches and a new breed of IoT devices too small to accomodate even the truncated soft keyboards familiar to phone users. In certain cases, the screen area in which the keyboard must be made usable is no bigger than a dime. Of all the commercial input systems I've used, Graffiti seems like it might be the most suited to such tiny surfaces.
Comment Re:2-Butoxyethanol (Score 1) 328
That is an interesting and completely baseless theory
It's the very first thing I thought when I read the first-released list of fracking chemicals, years back.
If you have evidence to support it I imagine it would make for a pretty juicy story, though.
The list of chemicals they have announced supports it.
Comment Re:Correction (Score 0) 71
WTF does "went sci-fi" even mean in this context?
Was that not a link when you read it? Because how this hypertext thing works is that you click the link for more information.
Comment Re:Not Mutually Exclusive (Score 1) 425
There is no such thing as talent;
That is a lot of shit. We've actually discovered that your activities change your DNA, and that this can be handed down to your offspring. Keep up.
