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Comment Re:No redundancy (Score 1) 247

But then what about the reliability of that backup hardware, especially if it isn't subject to the same kinds of loads as the primary?

At a certain point, "Shut everything down (safely)" is cheaper than having more redundant valvles, pumps, pipes, and more tubes in a series.

It is like RAID 1: you are more likely to have some kind of hard drive failure, but that hard drive failure is more likely to be recoverable.

Comment "Truly Ergonomic" : Ergonomic with Cherry MX Brown (Score 1) 223

The Truly Ergonomic Keyboard is a smaller ergonomic keyboard that currently only comes with Cherry MX Brown switches.

There are other, larger, keybards like the Maltron or Kinesis that are ergonomic with mechanical switches, but they tend to be enormous, while the "Truly Ergonomic" is similar in size to the "Happy Hacker" keyboard.

Comment Dead Counts as Disability? (Score 1) 147

Any attempt at making voting more accessible should not make the election process easier to tamper with.

For example, have a machine print a voted ballot, and the human-readable parts of that ballot are what are counted.

Imagine a virus that manipulated databases, but only took effect on election day. That would certainly effect systems where the votes are only stored as digital data.

Comment Re:The Little Guy (Score 1) 413

You can't use just the 5-digit zip code, the full Zip+4 has to be used. For example, the Oklahoma tax calculator needs the Zip+4. http://oktax.csa.ou.edu/Rate_Locator/index.jsf

For example, the zip code I live in, 80234, covers more than one county (Adams, and Broomfield), and about 7 different cities.

http://www.zipareacode.net/zip-code-80234.htm

Comment 13-Month Perpetual Calendar Better? (Score 1) 725

I always liked the New Earth Calendar: 13 identical months that start on the same day of week, Monday, and have the same number of days, and are all 4 weeks long. (With a leap week to keep days and dates synchronized)

The calendar in this article still has months that vary, start on different days, and really isn't significantly better than what we have now.

Comment Re:Not a good start (Score 1) 112

No, I don't think that this limitation is about that, but more about an app app that has multiple launchers.

You can register an "intent" as a , which is an activity that is started from the Android launcher. And it seems more reasonable to have a restriction of only one of these.

So, no "Game" and "Settings" icons in the launcher.

Comment Yell "Format C ... Yes, Yes, Yes" at work... (Score 1) 395

Only if the voice input was limited enough, like text input, which we have had for 10+ years, really. I can remember running a Speech to Text program on my 486 that would try to read what I was saying and turn that into a text document.

Google Voice does the same thing for voice mail.

Both suffer from a huge problem: accuracy. A conversation with a human doesn't need every word to be perfectly accurate, but something more than a text message is going to fail if some part of the vocal command is incorrect.

"Did you mean 'Delete *.txt' or 'Delete startdottxt' or 'Delete start.txt'?"

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