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Comment: We also received a misdelivered cake (Score 1) 217

by ctrl-alt-canc (#43739871) Attached to: I typically receive X pieces of misdelivered (postal) mail ...
Once we ordered to our local pastry shop a cake, and they delivered it to us on Sunday late morning. We opened the cake at the end of lunch, and to our suprise on the cake surface there was a big "happy birthday, Grandpa!". We called the shop to fix the wrong delivery, but they were closed till the next Monday, too late for the cake to survive...

Comment: Be careful when cutting! (Score 3, Insightful) 484

by ctrl-alt-canc (#42989667) Attached to: There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon
If you apply a 20% reduction to the number of pentagon sides, it shrinks to a square. You can go further, and apply a 40% reduction so that it becomes a triangle. But if you apply a 60% cut the pentagon shrinks to a segment. As a consequence workers will find quite difficult to move along the only remaining hallway. The consequences of a 80% cut are left as an exercise to the reader. It should also be obvious that applying cuts that are not multiple of 20% will change the pentagon into a fractal shape, with unpredictable consequences over the productivity of people working inside.

Comment: Internet radio ? No thanks (Score 2) 101

by ctrl-alt-canc (#42820727) Attached to: Hidden 'Radio' Buttons Discovered In Apple's iOS 6.1
I tried it on my car: I don't have a iPhone but an android smartphone, but I guess the results shouldn't be that different. Consumption of bandwidth is huge and reception is crappy, since on my commuting path I don't have a reliable UMTS/GSM data coverage. Furthermore one hour of reception drains about 50% of the battery.
On the other side, my Sony shortwave receiver needs 4 AA cells every two weeks, and can pick up plenty of stations. Unfortunately BBC, Voice of America and other broadcasters are shutting down their shortwave facilities, since they claim that internet is the future...sigh.

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