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Comment Re:Gross (Score 1) 60

In some upscale apartments trare was a phone socket in the bathroom, because before cellphones and before wireless phones it always happened that wile you were in the toilet the phone rang. It was a nuisance interrupting inbetween to answer the phone.
I have also seen a wired wireless reciever in the bathroom.

Comment Re:Sometimes it surprises him? (Score 1) 127

I'm Italian and live in Italy. I like Chinese food and I never had a problem to order in a Chinese restaurant, because all the waiters have a basic knowledge of Italian and anyway the menus are always dual language and with a number near the food. Some restaurant give you an order card where you mark what you want. You can solve the problem literally with a sheet of paper and a pencil: no AI has to be involved.

Comment Maybe they are tring to use "AI" to compress video (Score 5, Informative) 46

I've seen some of these AI videos and the sensation was that I was looking to a VHS tape that was upscaled and enhanced too look native HD. Especially the flattened skin tones of faces looks like it.
So maybe they are trying an aggressive compression and using a complex upscaling system.

Comment Re:Details? (Score 1) 55

You can't wire a payphone to a POTS line, at least not with a lot of modifications. Analog payphone ran on a 4-wire line, while more modern ones ran on ISDN.
You could use them on a POTS line, but basically you have to disconnect most of the circuits and and the ones from a regular telephone.

Comment Re:Most cities really need this (Score 1) 108

You are thinking about classic heavy trains, with signalling meant both for long freight trains and long passenger trains capable to 200 km/h speeds, not to mention high speed rail.
But one could go down one step and use a tram-like service, in that case, if there's an human driver, the signalling is going to be the same used for cars. If you go with automatic self driving systems the signalling is going to be more complex, but not much more than an elevator, and having some door on station to prevent people going on the tramway.
A tram could have problem with steep rises, but you could solve this building a trolleybus like system, that is less efficient than a tram but it's still more efficient to have a bunch of cars.

Comment I made my gmail account in 2005 (Score 1) 37

So I think that for me the age verification is easy peasy. Failing that I'm ok that instead of an advert they put an Leisure Suit Larry question before playing a video, even if this is sometimes a problem because some questions are based on USA public, so, while I could answer some question about '90s football players, I don't know anything about the american football.

Comment Re:The problem isn't DRM. (Score 2, Insightful) 132

The monetary loss they claim it's completely fictional, but the real monetary loss the have is that they overpaid the contents to the football team, and now they can't sell enough subscriptions to get even.
They tried to rise the subscription costs, but this had the unintended effect that some people stopped it and didn't go to pirated content, especially because they also added advertising.

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