I'm sure that it will use a lookup table, but it's also going to have to build those tables dynamically because due to the nature of mechanical devices. 1) no two are identical and 2) they wear while in use, especially while running near the edge of materials technology, further exacerbating point #1. You really do need a learning control system if you're not in a perfect world, or doing something hilariously easy — which this isn't.

Unfortunately, even the furnace won't function in most places without power, so electricity is a necessity. Most of our equipment is very poorly thought-out like this. When I installed a replacement on-demand water heater in this house, I could get the same model with different suffixes corresponding to three different ignition systems: a plug-in, on-demand spark ignition; a dynamo-based, on-demand spark ignition; or a tradtional pilot, with a piezo igniter. I chose the piezo igniter because I know I live in the boonies and the power can go off here, and I still want to have hot water if that happens. Of course, having flow takes a generator, but it doesn't take a whole-house generator and the pump house is significantly distant from the house.

You forgot to remove the line breaks, C&P troll.

Just what we need. When they can stamp this out for pennies, they will truly be able to spread 'democracy' to every corner of the earth.

You don't. You just expect it to be washed away, and you don't expect help. And anyone who expects to be able to depend on you in situations with heavy weather is a tool who deserves to fail. We keep propping up idiots and we wonder why the world keeps looking more and more like Idiocracy. Nobody but farmers should be living on a flood plain, and we should be farming it. Nothing but disposable (and once fallen, biodegradable) summer homes should be built on the beach. No flammable structures should be built in wildfire zones. No fragile structures in common quake zones. Yet we still have all of that. Yes, even that last one, California is still building shit-shacks made of nothing. They might not fall down in a quake, but they will slop themselves apart, and they're highly flammable even though this is wildfire country.

In short, we are not even using the most basic common sense when siting and building. It's all for profit, and there is no sense to the system whatsoever. In fact, people who try to do the right thing are usually hampered so as to continue to produce more business for the system, ye olde broken window fallacy in action.

FTFY

Luis Suarez was essentially forced out of England for using the word negrito while speaking Spanish because it happened to sound like nigger.

Because something like that could never happen in the good old US of A.

Exactly. My home router is only 100 Mbps because i bought it a few year back and that's all they had for a decent price. None of my computers have 10 Gbps network cards in them. A quick google shows that a 10 Gbps network card costs around $400. Mind you I could run 10 computers, each at 1 Gbps, but I don't see how I would possibly use such a connection at home. I don't think I could really saturate 1 Gbps connection for any appreciable length of time. Even on my 30 Mbps connection we can stream multiple videos at the same time.

If video games go into the Olympics, there's a lot of other things that have to make it in there first like darts and snooker. While video games are a good form of competition between people, I don't think that they are a good fit for the Olympics.

I really don't understand the hype that goes along with 3D printed guns. You can get safer (for the operator), longer lasting, more accurate guns with less expertise by making guns the old fashioned way. A gun is a good way to show off that a 3D printer can print some interesting things, but a 3D printer is probably the last piece of machinery you'd need if you wanted to create a good gun.

Notably absent among the services to provide The Interview is Apple.

Actually, most notably not in the list is Netflix. The number one streaming service on the planet doesn't have it. That's the big story here.

The USA is still referred to as a democracy more often than not, but even the ways in which the system is democratic on paper have primarily been subverted. Why should I suspect the situation is any different anywhere else?

I don't think they'll do either, actually. If they raise rates, more people will choose to suffer with crappy access from AT&T.

They're not potential competitors because in most markets they have monopolies on the right-of-way.

They will need just as much janitorial staff, but you're right, they won't need as many marketers, or HR employees. So that's a major win in my book. Are you sure you know what you're arguing?

That's how it is now. The "porn" sites are on the list, but the religious sites aren't, and their works are much more harmful to children, least because they include material which could be considered pornography under the government's own guidelines but primarily because of all the violence with specious justification.