I don't think you use gray water for washing things, you use it for flushing the toilet, unless it's filtered and cleaned first. I don't know though, I don't have a gray water system or anything.
Actually, the words most similar across all the language in the world are those for "mother" and "father", and for a good reason. Most use the sounds M and P, which are among the easiest for a baby to learn
Where is the P in "father"? And in English (IME anyway) babies learn to call their parents "ma" and "da" or ("mama", "mommy", "dada", "daddy"). I think you're right about learning - I understand "da" is often among the first sounds a baby makes - but that doesn't explain "father".
Usually when someone says the battery died they mean it ran out of charge. That isn't what's happening here. It could be fully charged, or at least nowhere near dead, and still unable to provide the voltage needed. When that happens, the phone shuts off. If you turn it on again, it will boot immediately because the battery is still charged. Maybe you have some other definition of "dead battery".
If you ask a glorified vending machine to cut your burger in two
That one is probably not going to happen. Hold the pickles, no ice, extra mustard, spoon + straw, etc. are all perfectly feasible. Different kind of bun - that is certainly possible; as you say it's a matter of whether it's programmed in.
I'd guess general distaste at dealing with a machine is going to be a bigger deterrent than not having that special option someone asks for. And that's for the people who prefer ordering from a human. Plenty of others would prefer an automated system for better accuracy, or just because they don't like talking to strangers.
Other than asking questions, a decent automated system will allow just about any possible customization, and have a better chance of getting it right. And how often do people ask questions that can't be pre-empted by a well designed system? I would guess most of the questions are things like "does that come with fries?" and "how much extra for a large?"
Also I'm not 100% sure here but you cannot legally pay someone under minimum wage just because they have the potential to receive tips; as in your example of the restaurant employee.
In the US, there's a separate, much lower minimum wage for workers who are tipped.
Of course people would be screaming on internet forums. That happens every day no matter what. I'm talking about protracted national news coverage, expensive remedies, public apologies, Senate hearings. Do you think all that would have happened if they'd been transparent about this from before they started doing it? It seems unlikely to me.
It's really fun to get achievements in Overwatch. Every character has two achievements specific to that hero, and you get a "spray" for unlocking them (you can paint a picture on a surface in the game when playing as that hero). Some are fairly easy and some are really hard. I also like that it will show you what percentage of players have unlocked that achievement.
My understanding is that without the change the phone wouldn't just run out of battery sooner, it would completely shut off if the system demanded more voltage than the battery could supply. I doubt many people would prefer that.
I think the issue is mainly not telling anyone what they were doing. If they had announced what they were doing and why, there would have been some grumbling but probably nothing like the outrage we're seeing now.
However, I think it should be pointed out that bats navigate by sonar and thus probably will not be greatly bothered by smoke or rain.
First, the story is about drones, not bats. Second, the suggestion is they could be powered by lasers, which would be disrupted or attenuated by rain, fog, dust, or smoke.
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It's not hard to imagine this causing mayhem on an assembly line or explosions in an oil refinery.
Yeah I can imagine a lot of things. Can these flaws actually be used to blow something up, or just imagine it?
I guess many americans call her dad not dad but pa, or at least grandpa, is called grandpa ...
Grandpa is very common, but Dad and Daddy are much more common than Pa or Papa, barring regional variations.
I drink more than that per day. Just drinking, forget about toilet, shower, etc. No thanks!
I don't think you use gray water for washing things, you use it for flushing the toilet, unless it's filtered and cleaned first. I don't know though, I don't have a gray water system or anything.
Actually, the words most similar across all the language in the world are those for "mother" and "father", and for a good reason. Most use the sounds M and P, which are among the easiest for a baby to learn
Where is the P in "father"? And in English (IME anyway) babies learn to call their parents "ma" and "da" or ("mama", "mommy", "dada", "daddy"). I think you're right about learning - I understand "da" is often among the first sounds a baby makes - but that doesn't explain "father".
Aka, the battery died.
Usually when someone says the battery died they mean it ran out of charge. That isn't what's happening here. It could be fully charged, or at least nowhere near dead, and still unable to provide the voltage needed. When that happens, the phone shuts off. If you turn it on again, it will boot immediately because the battery is still charged. Maybe you have some other definition of "dead battery".
If the law doesn't say the court can draw their own map, then the court does not have the power to simply draw their own map,
And they did not.
If you ask a glorified vending machine to cut your burger in two
That one is probably not going to happen. Hold the pickles, no ice, extra mustard, spoon + straw, etc. are all perfectly feasible. Different kind of bun - that is certainly possible; as you say it's a matter of whether it's programmed in.
I'd guess general distaste at dealing with a machine is going to be a bigger deterrent than not having that special option someone asks for. And that's for the people who prefer ordering from a human. Plenty of others would prefer an automated system for better accuracy, or just because they don't like talking to strangers.
My first digital camera was a Kodak, it was great (for the time). Since then it's been HP and Canon.
You ask that as though those are things automation is not capable of.
Other than asking questions, a decent automated system will allow just about any possible customization, and have a better chance of getting it right. And how often do people ask questions that can't be pre-empted by a well designed system? I would guess most of the questions are things like "does that come with fries?" and "how much extra for a large?"
Also I'm not 100% sure here but you cannot legally pay someone under minimum wage just because they have the potential to receive tips; as in your example of the restaurant employee.
In the US, there's a separate, much lower minimum wage for workers who are tipped.
It seems that if they demand more, they get replaced with robots.
If you are creating something that costs more to produce than it does to sell, you are actually destroying wealth.
That sounds more like transferring wealth from the company to its customers.
Of course people would be screaming on internet forums. That happens every day no matter what. I'm talking about protracted national news coverage, expensive remedies, public apologies, Senate hearings. Do you think all that would have happened if they'd been transparent about this from before they started doing it? It seems unlikely to me.
It's really fun to get achievements in Overwatch. Every character has two achievements specific to that hero, and you get a "spray" for unlocking them (you can paint a picture on a surface in the game when playing as that hero). Some are fairly easy and some are really hard. I also like that it will show you what percentage of players have unlocked that achievement.
My understanding is that without the change the phone wouldn't just run out of battery sooner, it would completely shut off if the system demanded more voltage than the battery could supply. I doubt many people would prefer that.
I think the issue is mainly not telling anyone what they were doing. If they had announced what they were doing and why, there would have been some grumbling but probably nothing like the outrage we're seeing now.
Or maybe - and this is a bizarre idea - it's NOT corn starch and water.
Yeah that took me a minute too. Sounds like a failed attempt at being cute.
However, I think it should be pointed out that bats navigate by sonar and thus probably will not be greatly bothered by smoke or rain.
First, the story is about drones, not bats. Second, the suggestion is they could be powered by lasers, which would be disrupted or attenuated by rain, fog, dust, or smoke.
You didn't bother reading the summary before commenting, did you?
If I could get one of these with a modern processor, screen, etc. I would.
https://www.androidcentral.com...
Phone storage is all solid state, isn't it pretty fast? Or do you need really super fast?
For a phone, you're looking for this [indiegogo.com], at 5.99.
Extraneous decimal point there, it's $599.