Particularly here in the UK, a lot of traffic lights have (possibly capacitive) sensors buried in the road which detect the traffic passing over them. Lights will cycle early if no traffic is detected passing through a green, and/or if traffic is detected waiting at a red, especially at night when there is less traffic. That makes it hard to know in advance when they're going to change.
Another 2c from me: yellow times should depend on the speed limit.
Well, considering he was at the British Phonographic Industry trying to drum up votes any politician worth his salt would tell them what they want to hear and therefore why they should vote for his party.
No, he's telling them what they want to hear and therefore why they should donate to his party.
Well, considering he was at the British Phonographic Industry trying to drum up votes any politician worth his salt would tell them what they want to hear and therefore why they should vote for his party. No, he's telling them what they want to hear and therefore why they should donate to his party.
The OP suggested that holes could be punched in current (i.e. holeless) bills, so your suggestion doesn't help unless all the new bills are a different shape from the current ones - in which case, you might as well make them different shapes from each other, as done so successfully in other countries.
Looks like they just scrunched up the QWERTY keys into nine groups and assigned numbers to them. Here, though, are a few things I'd rather they'd considered instead:
Another poster said it, but put the nine most-used letters as the first characters on each number, and then the next nine as the next most-used.
Analyse the English language to find out which letters are most commonly-used adjacent to each other. For example, if the letter "E" comes directly before the letter "S" more than it comes directly before the letter "T", it would be wiser to put E on the same key as T than to put it on the same key as S: when you have to type two letters on the same key, you need to pause. Minimise pauses. (Actually, E, S and T would all be on different keys anyway, they are all in the nine most commonly used letters, but for the sake of argument...)
Put the most commonly-used letter ("E", in English) smack bang in the middle, on the 5 key. It should be in easy reach of every other key.
Put the most commonly-used sequences of keys near to each other (on the same row, on the same column etc.)
Of course, you probably should have a different keypad for each language. Don't do the same keypad in America and France.
While we're at it, are we analysing English or txtspeak? Most people don't bother much with vowels, so maybe E isn't the most frequently-used letter after all.
Is it being optimised for regular key-bashing or for T9-style text input, where you only type in one key for each word and the phone guesses what you want to type? If so, they'd want to manage which letters are on the same key, to minimise the number of ambiguities for the most common words.
...so yeah, there's a lot more to optimising a phone keypad than just scrunching qwerty up into nine keys.
Not to take away from the other comments - it is of course a very serious matter when a vote is miscounted - but there is a potential explanation that is far more amusing. Perhaps the guy didn't bother to vote for himself after all, and he made the story up because he's embarrassed to admit it? Just a thought...
Well, you say that, but Sony's monstrously bad PS2 launch compaign ("Welcome to the Third Place") didn't seem to do them any harm. I mean, how did flating arm and a guy with the head of a talking duck sell PS2?
Why must everything be "Edgy" now a days? When I think of edgy, I think of some dude strung out on too much caffiene and cigs.
If that's cool, whatever, I'm out of touch anymore anyway.But it still doesn't paint a good image.
I used to be with it... but then they changed what "it" was, and what I'm with isn't "it" anymore, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
I am a christian and a scientist... To tell the truth more I learn about cosmology (singularities, string theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal, and other crazy ideas) and evolution the more my belief in God is reinforced.
What kind of scientist doesn't know the difference between a "principle" and a "principal"?
"Hi, I'm the Principal of Heisenberg Uncertainty."
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In some cases, though, this is not pre-set.
Particularly here in the UK, a lot of traffic lights have (possibly capacitive) sensors buried in the road which detect the traffic passing over them. Lights will cycle early if no traffic is detected passing through a green, and/or if traffic is detected waiting at a red, especially at night when there is less traffic. That makes it hard to know in advance when they're going to change.
Another 2c from me: yellow times should depend on the speed limit.
Or non-terrorist Muslims.
If only 1.5% of your cake consisted of strawberries .... but fewer than 0.1% of your cake consisted of feces, what is the real problem with your cake?
Nothing according to the FDA.
So if you had a cake 30cm x 30cm x 10cm the FDA would let you have nine whole cubic centimetres of it be crap?
So, has the app been pulled worldwide, or just in the US store?
Their conclusion was that they didn't interfere with it enough.
The compelling reason is that one day, Microsoft will stop making security patches for XP.
The OP suggested that holes could be punched in current (i.e. holeless) bills, so your suggestion doesn't help unless all the new bills are a different shape from the current ones - in which case, you might as well make them different shapes from each other, as done so successfully in other countries.
What does that map represent? A colour-coded map is nothing without a key.
Looks like they just scrunched up the QWERTY keys into nine groups and assigned numbers to them. Here, though, are a few things I'd rather they'd considered instead:
...so yeah, there's a lot more to optimising a phone keypad than just scrunching qwerty up into nine keys.
Not to take away from the other comments - it is of course a very serious matter when a vote is miscounted - but there is a potential explanation that is far more amusing. Perhaps the guy didn't bother to vote for himself after all, and he made the story up because he's embarrassed to admit it? Just a thought...
Well, you say that, but Sony's monstrously bad PS2 launch compaign ("Welcome to the Third Place") didn't seem to do them any harm. I mean, how did flating arm and a guy with the head of a talking duck sell PS2?
Why must everything be "Edgy" now a days? When I think of edgy, I think of some dude strung out on too much caffiene and cigs.
If that's cool, whatever, I'm out of touch anymore anyway.But it still doesn't paint a good image.
I used to be with it... but then they changed what "it" was, and what I'm with isn't "it" anymore, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
What kind of scientist doesn't know the difference between a "principle" and a "principal"?
"Hi, I'm the Principal of Heisenberg Uncertainty."
Mushroom! Mushroom!