No, it means having to do with physical motion or machinery. In Shoten's defense, "mechanical keyboard" is a complete misnomer in that ANY keyboard in which the keys physically move to actuate a switch is, in a strict technical sense, mechanical. For some reason we've mistakenly taken to calling classic (non-membrane) keyboards "mechanical," but if you're unaware of that redefinition it can be an understandably confusing phrase (particularly now that we live in a world where we interact with truly non-mechanical [ie touchscreen based] keyboards on a regular basis).
It is a "native print-to-printer" thing. Tap the share button, choose "Print." The only caveat is the printer must be AirPrint compatible, which most (if not all) consumer printers sold now are. For people with older printers or in corporate environments with larger office printers, there is both free and commercial AirPrint server software that can make any printer available to an iOS device.
And yes, the casino owners were under the belief that the machine worked correctly, and the people in question initiated monetary transactions with them while omitting their knowledge that said machines were not, in fact, working correctly. This is deception even if you ignore the fact that the transaction occurs with the explicit, posted stipulation that payouts from machine errors are void.
I mean, seriously - by your logic it would be okay for the casino owners to just silently make every other transaction have a 0% probability of winning, ripping off customers who expect a chance at a payout, as long as the customer never specifically asks them about it. If you discover a machine is either broken (ie. an accident) or intentionally set up to steal your money (ie. fraud), wouldn't you want your money back? There is an implicit contract in any financial transaction; in this case, that the machine works as intended. The owner is protected by this as much as the consumer is.
Don't be a dumbass. The people in question was clearly aware of what they were doing and were actively and intentionally exploiting it. Same as the difference between getting overpaid change from a mathematically-challenged cashier and not noticing, and noticing the mistake and returning to engage in more transactions to fleece the idiot cashier.
If it's set up to do that intentionally, of course it did (well more specifically whoever controls the machine did). If it was accidental (as is likely, given that mechanical dispensers aren't flawless) it's not fraud but they do still owe you the money back - just like if the gambling machine accidentally gives you too much money, it's not fraud if you report the error and return the extra cash.
That's false, actually. If you don't attempt to correct the error, you've deceived the owner of the machine/money, who thinks the machine is disbursing correct payments while you know it is not. This may be passive deception (ie. a "lie of omission"), but it is deception nonetheless.
The owner of the money is under the impression that the machine is giving you the correct payout. You know this is not the case, but allow them to continue to believe that. That is deception, and fraud, whether you like it or not.
They make no mention of public transportation because that would point a finger at one of the many gaping holes in their premise. Constraining your problem areas to a very tiny subset does not make your research any more valid...
Hahahahahahaha hahaha.... Hahahaha... Wait a second while I peel myself off the floor here. Heh... Okay, what was that you were saying about private transportation being a tiny "very tiny subset" of people's transport usage? Also, the equation you gave your third-grader is wrong; you need separate variables for distance1 and distance2, and at that point the equation is not solvable until you do some research to determine what those distances would be in various real-world situations. Like, say, the research described in TFA.
Windows may be a problem here, but the built-in guest account on OS X is perfect for this purpose. Enable it, and guests can log in the guest account (no password), which acts like a standard user account (they have full access to the browser and any other globally-installed apps) except that at logout, the entire account is wiped clean. Since your guests don't have administrator access to your computer they can't mess up anything outside the guest account, and anything they do inside that account is automatically cleaned up for you when they're done.
They have great prepaid plans, so I use them for that despite the major down side: They give you absolutely no accounting of your usage. Whatsoever. Money just disappears from your prepaid account, and you have to hope they're pulling it legitimately - which they aren't. My prepaid account is for a rarely-used spare phone, and in the first month alone over $20 mysteriously disappeared from the account while the phone was completely off for that month. I contacted support and they simply claimed there must have been calls and texts to the phone, but "there's no way to see who or when because we don't keep records of that information." I nearly dumped them there and then but their competitors plans are terrible and I found a workaround (switch to the absolute cheapest, dataless per-minute plan so only a few tens of cents disappear in any given month). Sad that sticking with a company that actively steals my money is currently my best option.
For another anecdote, a friend of mine switched to T-Mobile a couple months ago. He noticed a couple days later that while the T-Mobile employee was installing the new SIM card, he removed the back of my friend's Galaxy S3 and replaced it with one bearing a T-Mobile logo. Flat-out theft, again.
Portable gaming systems have used 3-5" screens for decades quite successfully.
...due to price
Due primarily to portability. Being able to slip your portable game system into your pocket is a pretty big plus. However, even price-wise I already pointed out buying separate controls is cheaper for a lot of people who already have a phone or tablet.
Sorry the iPhone is an American\GB mainly in places like China Android outsells 25:1 with Apples Market dropping. It means that Apple simply will not the the posts, as Android continues to pick up market share, while Apple continues to throw away its for short term profitability.
You're definitely right here; Android is certainly winning the market in China (I'd point out that as far as game sales goes the Chinese market isn't all that big, but we're talking about hardware here so that's not very relevant). That said, this has no bearing whatsoever on the utility of separate controls. Your entire anti-iPhone rant was a non-sequitur in this discussion, which was the purpose behind my "what?" though I apparently didn't make that clear.
Most people definitely do not have a tablet, but the gaplet will appeal to those whose main use of a tablet is for *gaming* over *surfing* *reading* *videos*...or simply as a secondary device [the price make it cheap enough] like every other handheld console out there [with the power of Android]
I never said the Archos gamepad was useless or that nobody would buy it; I simply disagreed with you on the utility of separate controls for many people. You have yet to present any solid argument in that regard.
I cannot disagree more. The reason why handheld consoles don't include separate controls...is its a stupid idea
That was a convincing argument!
, but the suggestion that the pitiful screen sizes [albeit average resolution] of the iphone [its less true for large...and I mean note size android phones]can compete with this *larger* [if weaker DPI] tablet is laughable.
Portable gaming systems have used 3-5" screens for decades quite successfully. Not to mention that's not an argument against separate controls, it's an argument to use a Nexus or iPad Mini (or even a full-size tablet) rather than an iPhone/Android phone if you want a larger screen.
Due to the failure of the iPhone in major gaming markets...
What?
but the price is amazing.
The Archos Gamepad's pricing is definitely a plus, if you have to buy an entire device. But a lot of (most?) people now already have a portable Android or iOS device they use for other purposes; a set of attachable controls would give them the same abilities with a better screen for only $50-$100.
Are you going to truck pumps? In all my decades of owning a diesel car, the only time I've come across differently-sized nozzles is at truck stops, where semi-truck pumps will have a larger nozzle (often truck stops will have at least one pump labeled "car diesel" with the standard-size nozzle). But this isn't a recent issue and has nothing to do with old vs new cars or pumps. If your local gas station has the larger high-flow semi-truck nozzles I'd say that's pretty damn unusual.
It wasn't just two miles in Manhattan, either - two miles was just the total added mileage. It's unlikely the reporter stuck to the original route, got off the freeway and drove one mile out and then one mile back, and then resumed the original route - in fact, by the reporter's own admission he took the Lincoln Tunnel rather than the GW Bridge, so we know the route through Manhattan was significantly different and probably encompassed a lot more than just two miles of surface streets. Until we see the detailed GPS data (is it out there yet?) we don't know for sure how many of those miles was surface streets through Manhattan rather than freeway.
I see you keep repeating this. It's not the two extra miles that made the difference, it's the difference in driving style. How many of those miles ended up in stop-and-go traffic on surface streets rather than a freeway? As a simple thought experiment, imagine driving from one end of Los Angeles to the other on the 405 freeway, and then again using the surface streets that parallel that same freeway. The milage will be very, very similar but one of those trips will consume a lot more fuel and take a lot more time. I'll leave you to guess which.
She said to shut off the cruise control to take advantage of battery regeneration from occasional braking and slowing down. Based on that advice, I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.
This demonstrates a distinct lack of understanding of basic physics: you can't magically get extra energy from regenerative braking, even if it were 100% efficient (which it certainly isn't). The reporter is an idiot. The supposed Tesla employee he talked to is probably also an idiot, though for all we know the reporter misunderstood something she was trying to explain (how many of us have had customers leap to startlingly illogical conclusions after an attempt at explaining something technical to them?).
The other thing to note is that while the overall mileage of the drive is nearly the same, the detour involved much more city driving. That means slower driving, and that means running the car for a much longer period. If the detour through the city added an extra 30 minutes of running-time to the trip, that would have meant more energy use regardless of the nearly-identical distance. Especially if the reporter was running the heater (I'm curious if that was the case, but seems likely given the weather), since an electric vehicle probably doesn't produce waste heat and has to generate heat for the heater by further sapping juice from the battery.
It is a niche product. But that's the great thing about having such easy access to "the masses" - there are enough people buying apps now that you can target just a small percentage of them and still make a buck. Great for a side job / hobby.
I can't believe you got modded insightful for responding to someone who at least cited some personal experience with "I have no experience with this but you're wrong..."
FWIW, a friend came to me a bit over a year ago with a simple idea and I threw it together over the course of a couple weekends and put it on the Mac App Store. Literally 4 days of coding and we've made thousands of sales at $1.99 each. That's not make-us-rich money, but it is damn good pay for a few days' work - and it's still selling with no additional effort from us.
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No, it means having to do with physical motion or machinery. In Shoten's defense, "mechanical keyboard" is a complete misnomer in that ANY keyboard in which the keys physically move to actuate a switch is, in a strict technical sense, mechanical. For some reason we've mistakenly taken to calling classic (non-membrane) keyboards "mechanical," but if you're unaware of that redefinition it can be an understandably confusing phrase (particularly now that we live in a world where we interact with truly non-mechanical [ie touchscreen based] keyboards on a regular basis).
It is a "native print-to-printer" thing. Tap the share button, choose "Print." The only caveat is the printer must be AirPrint compatible, which most (if not all) consumer printers sold now are. For people with older printers or in corporate environments with larger office printers, there is both free and commercial AirPrint server software that can make any printer available to an iOS device.
I don't know how you got up modded for implying it is possible to put a stop to an internet meme. Especially considering the Streisand effect.
Too bad so sad? Are you five years old?
And yes, the casino owners were under the belief that the machine worked correctly, and the people in question initiated monetary transactions with them while omitting their knowledge that said machines were not, in fact, working correctly. This is deception even if you ignore the fact that the transaction occurs with the explicit, posted stipulation that payouts from machine errors are void.
I mean, seriously - by your logic it would be okay for the casino owners to just silently make every other transaction have a 0% probability of winning, ripping off customers who expect a chance at a payout, as long as the customer never specifically asks them about it. If you discover a machine is either broken (ie. an accident) or intentionally set up to steal your money (ie. fraud), wouldn't you want your money back? There is an implicit contract in any financial transaction; in this case, that the machine works as intended. The owner is protected by this as much as the consumer is.
Don't be a dumbass. The people in question was clearly aware of what they were doing and were actively and intentionally exploiting it. Same as the difference between getting overpaid change from a mathematically-challenged cashier and not noticing, and noticing the mistake and returning to engage in more transactions to fleece the idiot cashier.
If it's set up to do that intentionally, of course it did (well more specifically whoever controls the machine did). If it was accidental (as is likely, given that mechanical dispensers aren't flawless) it's not fraud but they do still owe you the money back - just like if the gambling machine accidentally gives you too much money, it's not fraud if you report the error and return the extra cash.
That's false, actually. If you don't attempt to correct the error, you've deceived the owner of the machine/money, who thinks the machine is disbursing correct payments while you know it is not. This may be passive deception (ie. a "lie of omission"), but it is deception nonetheless.
The owner of the money is under the impression that the machine is giving you the correct payout. You know this is not the case, but allow them to continue to believe that. That is deception, and fraud, whether you like it or not.
They make no mention of public transportation because that would point a finger at one of the many gaping holes in their premise. Constraining your problem areas to a very tiny subset does not make your research any more valid...
Hahahahahahaha hahaha.... Hahahaha... Wait a second while I peel myself off the floor here. Heh... Okay, what was that you were saying about private transportation being a tiny "very tiny subset" of people's transport usage? Also, the equation you gave your third-grader is wrong; you need separate variables for distance1 and distance2, and at that point the equation is not solvable until you do some research to determine what those distances would be in various real-world situations. Like, say, the research described in TFA.
Quite simple: in 2011 the company was running on the 2000-2009 decade's old hardware! Now don't you feel silly for questioning our infallible editors?
Whoosh. Sense of humor. Get one.
I have the sneaking suspicion that a book containing an orgy just might be "objectionable" at the middle-school level.
Windows may be a problem here, but the built-in guest account on OS X is perfect for this purpose. Enable it, and guests can log in the guest account (no password), which acts like a standard user account (they have full access to the browser and any other globally-installed apps) except that at logout, the entire account is wiped clean. Since your guests don't have administrator access to your computer they can't mess up anything outside the guest account, and anything they do inside that account is automatically cleaned up for you when they're done.
"The least evil" unfortunately doesn't mean much.
They have great prepaid plans, so I use them for that despite the major down side: They give you absolutely no accounting of your usage. Whatsoever. Money just disappears from your prepaid account, and you have to hope they're pulling it legitimately - which they aren't. My prepaid account is for a rarely-used spare phone, and in the first month alone over $20 mysteriously disappeared from the account while the phone was completely off for that month. I contacted support and they simply claimed there must have been calls and texts to the phone, but "there's no way to see who or when because we don't keep records of that information." I nearly dumped them there and then but their competitors plans are terrible and I found a workaround (switch to the absolute cheapest, dataless per-minute plan so only a few tens of cents disappear in any given month). Sad that sticking with a company that actively steals my money is currently my best option.
For another anecdote, a friend of mine switched to T-Mobile a couple months ago. He noticed a couple days later that while the T-Mobile employee was installing the new SIM card, he removed the back of my friend's Galaxy S3 and replaced it with one bearing a T-Mobile logo. Flat-out theft, again.
Portable gaming systems have used 3-5" screens for decades quite successfully.
...due to price
Due primarily to portability. Being able to slip your portable game system into your pocket is a pretty big plus. However, even price-wise I already pointed out buying separate controls is cheaper for a lot of people who already have a phone or tablet.
Sorry the iPhone is an American\GB mainly in places like China Android outsells 25:1 with Apples Market dropping. It means that Apple simply will not the the posts, as Android continues to pick up market share, while Apple continues to throw away its for short term profitability.
You're definitely right here; Android is certainly winning the market in China (I'd point out that as far as game sales goes the Chinese market isn't all that big, but we're talking about hardware here so that's not very relevant). That said, this has no bearing whatsoever on the utility of separate controls. Your entire anti-iPhone rant was a non-sequitur in this discussion, which was the purpose behind my "what?" though I apparently didn't make that clear.
Most people definitely do not have a tablet, but the gaplet will appeal to those whose main use of a tablet is for *gaming* over *surfing* *reading* *videos*...or simply as a secondary device [the price make it cheap enough] like every other handheld console out there [with the power of Android]
I never said the Archos gamepad was useless or that nobody would buy it; I simply disagreed with you on the utility of separate controls for many people. You have yet to present any solid argument in that regard.
I cannot disagree more. The reason why handheld consoles don't include separate controls...is its a stupid idea
That was a convincing argument!
, but the suggestion that the pitiful screen sizes [albeit average resolution] of the iphone [its less true for large...and I mean note size android phones]can compete with this *larger* [if weaker DPI] tablet is laughable.
Portable gaming systems have used 3-5" screens for decades quite successfully. Not to mention that's not an argument against separate controls, it's an argument to use a Nexus or iPad Mini (or even a full-size tablet) rather than an iPhone/Android phone if you want a larger screen.
Due to the failure of the iPhone in major gaming markets...
What?
but the price is amazing.
The Archos Gamepad's pricing is definitely a plus, if you have to buy an entire device. But a lot of (most?) people now already have a portable Android or iOS device they use for other purposes; a set of attachable controls would give them the same abilities with a better screen for only $50-$100.
Are you going to truck pumps? In all my decades of owning a diesel car, the only time I've come across differently-sized nozzles is at truck stops, where semi-truck pumps will have a larger nozzle (often truck stops will have at least one pump labeled "car diesel" with the standard-size nozzle). But this isn't a recent issue and has nothing to do with old vs new cars or pumps. If your local gas station has the larger high-flow semi-truck nozzles I'd say that's pretty damn unusual.
No, you missed the point, as indicated by your repeating the "2 miles of city driving" assumption yet again.
It wasn't just two miles in Manhattan, either - two miles was just the total added mileage. It's unlikely the reporter stuck to the original route, got off the freeway and drove one mile out and then one mile back, and then resumed the original route - in fact, by the reporter's own admission he took the Lincoln Tunnel rather than the GW Bridge, so we know the route through Manhattan was significantly different and probably encompassed a lot more than just two miles of surface streets. Until we see the detailed GPS data (is it out there yet?) we don't know for sure how many of those miles was surface streets through Manhattan rather than freeway.
I see you keep repeating this. It's not the two extra miles that made the difference, it's the difference in driving style. How many of those miles ended up in stop-and-go traffic on surface streets rather than a freeway? As a simple thought experiment, imagine driving from one end of Los Angeles to the other on the 405 freeway, and then again using the surface streets that parallel that same freeway. The milage will be very, very similar but one of those trips will consume a lot more fuel and take a lot more time. I'll leave you to guess which.
She said to shut off the cruise control to take advantage of battery regeneration from occasional braking and slowing down. Based on that advice, I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.
This demonstrates a distinct lack of understanding of basic physics: you can't magically get extra energy from regenerative braking, even if it were 100% efficient (which it certainly isn't). The reporter is an idiot. The supposed Tesla employee he talked to is probably also an idiot, though for all we know the reporter misunderstood something she was trying to explain (how many of us have had customers leap to startlingly illogical conclusions after an attempt at explaining something technical to them?).
The other thing to note is that while the overall mileage of the drive is nearly the same, the detour involved much more city driving. That means slower driving, and that means running the car for a much longer period. If the detour through the city added an extra 30 minutes of running-time to the trip, that would have meant more energy use regardless of the nearly-identical distance. Especially if the reporter was running the heater (I'm curious if that was the case, but seems likely given the weather), since an electric vehicle probably doesn't produce waste heat and has to generate heat for the heater by further sapping juice from the battery.
It is a niche product. But that's the great thing about having such easy access to "the masses" - there are enough people buying apps now that you can target just a small percentage of them and still make a buck. Great for a side job / hobby.
I can't believe you got modded insightful for responding to someone who at least cited some personal experience with "I have no experience with this but you're wrong..."
FWIW, a friend came to me a bit over a year ago with a simple idea and I threw it together over the course of a couple weekends and put it on the Mac App Store. Literally 4 days of coding and we've made thousands of sales at $1.99 each. That's not make-us-rich money, but it is damn good pay for a few days' work - and it's still selling with no additional effort from us.
Didn't realize that was a map of the original 13 colonies. My history classes must have been wildly inaccurate!
The math may win, but the spelling sure doesn't. Reagen??