Holy shiitake. How could anyone possibly imagine that might be okay in a professional context? Wear it at home or to the beach... but that ain't a work shirt.
Yep. The best part about Tribes was the super-huge open environments and skiing over huge amounts of terrain and practically flying. I made a mod that sped up the skiing a bunch so you'd be swinging in huge circles around your opponent trying to nail them with a disc. Of course, you could ski off the edge of the map and then you were toast. Whoops.
Can we do both? Kvetching is a time-honored tradition on Slashdot, and it lets the other readers know that they're not alone in being pissed off. I'd say that it serves a valuable function in that regard, especially if it motivates others to take action, be it donating or spamming their favorite <insert-representative-here>.
Okay, maybe not 'favorite'. I almost gagged while typing that.
Try throwing a spark plug at your window. The brick will bounce off. The spark plug (ceramic) will shatter it. No window left to have a hole in. It will just appear to be rolled down.
Safety mechanisms are one thing, but that's clearly not what this article is focused on, and it's usually not what people mean when they say "smart home". This article is primarily about IoT.
Most of smart devices available today can be controlled and synchronized with your smart phone or your tablet, using frameworks such as Apple’s HomeKit or other. But we figured that one of the obvious extensions of home robots would be that it will act as the master control of your home’s smart devices.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a robot that does its own thing – perhaps vacuuming, or perhaps just being social – but that also smartly controls your home? In general, our readers seem to be open to having a robot that does the smart controlling (39%), as well as being able to use more recent technologies of using voice and gestures to command the system (32%).
What's your point? I don't need or want my house monitoring my actions. Why should I bother buying all this extra garbage that I have no desire or use for? You're about as dense as the rocks in the field down below the house. You keep harping on one thing and not addressing the other point that the person you replied to made.
The poster you replied to made a point that there are extra failure modes because--get this--there's more stuff to go wrong! That's extra stuff to fix potentially, as well as consuming more electricity during an outage (where the electricity is supplied by the generator), unless I put in still *more* effort to program it not to do all this automation stuff during an outage. Yet another set of points of failure.
Why would I want any of this? The house works just fine. It will outlast me and still work just fine, regardless of whether or not the sawmill that supplied the lumber goes out of business. Much of this home automation stuff is complexity for the sake of complexity, with diminishing returns. I suspect you're a city kid, but I'm not. I live in a farm house, in a small farm town. I've got the modern comforts I need and want, and the old fashioned backups, and none of the shiny glittery crap I don't need or want.
I keep them around for outages which might be especially severe, not for regular usage. (Additionally, I collect and maintain antique lanterns because I like them.) I have a headlamp and AAA batteries out the wazoo too (as well as other flashlights). The headlamp sees a great deal of usage since I very often don't want to turn on the overhead lights and wake others up, being a night person. At the risk of stating the obvious, the house has grid electricity as well.
TT helped Holly double his original IQ but shortened his life to three and a half minutes. He won 793 consecutive chess games against Holly. During this time, the Toaster also saved the crew from death: while Holly was a genius, he explained to the Toaster how to escape from a Black Hole, information which later came in useful when the crew encountered one. The Toaster did not, however, merely volunteer this information: it practically tortured the crew by forcing them to eat ridiculous amounts of toast before talking (The Cat later explains that the toast was burnt, cold and soggy). When the crew is attacked by a polymorph, and the crew loses a certain emotion (Rimmer loses his anger, Lister loses his fear, The Cat loses his vanity and Kryten loses his guilt), the Toaster is destroyed by Kryten before the Polymorph is destroyed and their personalities are returned to normal - except for Talkie Toaster.
Talkie Toaster was subsequently repaired, but its personality circuits were damaged to the point where it believed it was a moose, and was reduced to making loud bellowing noises and threatening to charge the crew with its antlers.
Congratulations, your prayers have been fulfilled! Check these out. All you really need to add is a photoeye or a proximity sensor, although this particular person decided to go with a manual switch.
Oh yeah, one more point: if you made your assumption based on my username, you need to learn some history about your own language. It's from Old English and still exists, albeit with a sightly different spelling, in modern English. Not Chinese, or any other asian language. But you wouldn't know that, because you're a racist fuck who can't be bothered to look anything up.
My dam? My high speed rail? Where do you think I live? You're making some pretty crazy assumptions.
I was born in the US, live in the US, and have always been a US citizen. I'm not any asian ethnicity, either, nor do I want to, or plan on moving to China.
All of which we in the US knew would happen
You don't get to speak for me either. Speak for yourself. Just because I don't agree with your viewpoint doesn't mean I'm Chinese. You're one hell of a racist fuck (as shown by how you jump to the conclusion that I'm Chinese.)
My point was simply that you can't assume we could have or would have done something. That's speculation and it's bullshit. The fact is, the world's largest dam and the world's longest bridge are over there. Not here. History did not take a different course, so you can't assign a truth value to your speculations. Extrapolation is a cardinal sin in engineering, so you most definitely cannot say we could have done it, until we've actually gone and done it. History of full of examples of people going, "yeah sure, we could do that on a larger scale," and then falling flat on their face.
Whining about someone else doing something you haven't done yourself is just sour grapes. The real solution, instead of being a whiner, is to go and do something.
Sometimes the officers must drive faster than normal traffic to find problem drivers.
Really? Your argument is that they NEED to break the law? Because they won't go flying by a speed trap or, failing that (radar detectors and whatnot), an unmarked cop moving at the limit?
Tap a pin into the door opposite the sliding chain or put a small hook (or even tape to the flat of the door) in the hinge if you dislike damage. Attach a (sturdy, long stretching) rubber band to the pin or hook. Exit room. Attach rubber band to the head of the sliding chain. Close door. Jiggle back and forth until it seats itself. May take a few tries. Open door (pulling chain into the lock) and snip rubber band.
Walk away. Use inverse procedure to enter.
The hook needs to be lined up directly across from the sliding latch. The rubber band needs to stretch enough to pull the chain straight over the hole, but not break too easily. You could also use a flat shim of metal through the hinge-side opening to hold the rubber band, allowing you to attach the rubber band to the chain before you exit, then pull the shim out to tighten it up/break the rubber band once it's seated.
You may now facepalm. I don't have a video of this trick, sadly. Always did like magic tricks though...
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Holy shiitake. How could anyone possibly imagine that might be okay in a professional context? Wear it at home or to the beach... but that ain't a work shirt.
I've some some blu-tack they can scrape off my wall! That stuff never comes off.
Of course, I'm referring to the wall, not the object it's supposed to hold...
Jeez people, watch your units!
260.7 fortnights and 2.535x10^9 furlongs
FTFY.
We posted the password on the front door of the library
Then you wouldn't be doing much guessing, would you now?
Yep. The best part about Tribes was the super-huge open environments and skiing over huge amounts of terrain and practically flying. I made a mod that sped up the skiing a bunch so you'd be swinging in huge circles around your opponent trying to nail them with a disc. Of course, you could ski off the edge of the map and then you were toast. Whoops.
I miss Tribes. Won't someone bring that back?
Can we do both? Kvetching is a time-honored tradition on Slashdot, and it lets the other readers know that they're not alone in being pissed off. I'd say that it serves a valuable function in that regard, especially if it motivates others to take action, be it donating or spamming their favorite <insert-representative-here>.
Okay, maybe not 'favorite'. I almost gagged while typing that.
Try throwing a spark plug at your window. The brick will bounce off. The spark plug (ceramic) will shatter it. No window left to have a hole in. It will just appear to be rolled down.
Thieves know this stuff. Consumers, not so much.
Safety mechanisms are one thing, but that's clearly not what this article is focused on, and it's usually not what people mean when they say "smart home". This article is primarily about IoT.
Most of smart devices available today can be controlled and synchronized with your smart phone or your tablet, using frameworks such as Apple’s HomeKit or other. But we figured that one of the obvious extensions of home robots would be that it will act as the master control of your home’s smart devices.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a robot that does its own thing – perhaps vacuuming, or perhaps just being social – but that also smartly controls your home? In general, our readers seem to be open to having a robot that does the smart controlling (39%), as well as being able to use more recent technologies of using voice and gestures to command the system (32%).
For reference, the safety thing only got 18%.
What's your point? I don't need or want my house monitoring my actions. Why should I bother buying all this extra garbage that I have no desire or use for? You're about as dense as the rocks in the field down below the house. You keep harping on one thing and not addressing the other point that the person you replied to made.
The poster you replied to made a point that there are extra failure modes because--get this--there's more stuff to go wrong! That's extra stuff to fix potentially, as well as consuming more electricity during an outage (where the electricity is supplied by the generator), unless I put in still *more* effort to program it not to do all this automation stuff during an outage. Yet another set of points of failure.
Why would I want any of this? The house works just fine. It will outlast me and still work just fine, regardless of whether or not the sawmill that supplied the lumber goes out of business. Much of this home automation stuff is complexity for the sake of complexity, with diminishing returns. I suspect you're a city kid, but I'm not. I live in a farm house, in a small farm town. I've got the modern comforts I need and want, and the old fashioned backups, and none of the shiny glittery crap I don't need or want.
I keep them around for outages which might be especially severe, not for regular usage. (Additionally, I collect and maintain antique lanterns because I like them.) I have a headlamp and AAA batteries out the wazoo too (as well as other flashlights). The headlamp sees a great deal of usage since I very often don't want to turn on the overhead lights and wake others up, being a night person. At the risk of stating the obvious, the house has grid electricity as well.
With my luck, I'd get The Toaster.
TT helped Holly double his original IQ but shortened his life to three and a half minutes. He won 793 consecutive chess games against Holly. During this time, the Toaster also saved the crew from death: while Holly was a genius, he explained to the Toaster how to escape from a Black Hole, information which later came in useful when the crew encountered one. The Toaster did not, however, merely volunteer this information: it practically tortured the crew by forcing them to eat ridiculous amounts of toast before talking (The Cat later explains that the toast was burnt, cold and soggy). When the crew is attacked by a polymorph, and the crew loses a certain emotion (Rimmer loses his anger, Lister loses his fear, The Cat loses his vanity and Kryten loses his guilt), the Toaster is destroyed by Kryten before the Polymorph is destroyed and their personalities are returned to normal - except for Talkie Toaster.
Talkie Toaster was subsequently repaired, but its personality circuits were damaged to the point where it believed it was a moose, and was reduced to making loud bellowing noises and threatening to charge the crew with its antlers.
Mine does. Wood stove. Kerosene lanterns. Generator. Puppies.
In defense of the Roomba, I don't think it was ever meant to replace your upright.
You're darn tootin' it's not! There is one minor flaw; they left off the lasers.
Congratulations, your prayers have been fulfilled! Check these out. All you really need to add is a photoeye or a proximity sensor, although this particular person decided to go with a manual switch.
I want my home to be stupid, to not have a telescreen, and to not track me or sell my habits to third parties. ;)
Oh yeah, one more point: if you made your assumption based on my username, you need to learn some history about your own language. It's from Old English and still exists, albeit with a sightly different spelling, in modern English. Not Chinese, or any other asian language. But you wouldn't know that, because you're a racist fuck who can't be bothered to look anything up.
My dam? My high speed rail? Where do you think I live? You're making some pretty crazy assumptions.
I was born in the US, live in the US, and have always been a US citizen. I'm not any asian ethnicity, either, nor do I want to, or plan on moving to China.
All of which we in the US knew would happen
You don't get to speak for me either. Speak for yourself. Just because I don't agree with your viewpoint doesn't mean I'm Chinese. You're one hell of a racist fuck (as shown by how you jump to the conclusion that I'm Chinese.)
My point was simply that you can't assume we could have or would have done something. That's speculation and it's bullshit. The fact is, the world's largest dam and the world's longest bridge are over there. Not here. History did not take a different course, so you can't assign a truth value to your speculations. Extrapolation is a cardinal sin in engineering, so you most definitely cannot say we could have done it, until we've actually gone and done it. History of full of examples of people going, "yeah sure, we could do that on a larger scale," and then falling flat on their face.
Whining about someone else doing something you haven't done yourself is just sour grapes. The real solution, instead of being a whiner, is to go and do something.
Sometimes the officers must drive faster than normal traffic to find problem drivers .
Really? Your argument is that they NEED to break the law? Because they won't go flying by a speed trap or, failing that (radar detectors and whatnot), an unmarked cop moving at the limit?
They don't like being monitored all the time? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Too bad they won't get the hint and realize that regular everyday citizens^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcriminals don't like it either.
And that's clearly stopped every burglar ever. Congratulations on solving the problem. Perhaps you can tackle cancer next?
Tap a pin into the door opposite the sliding chain or put a small hook (or even tape to the flat of the door) in the hinge if you dislike damage. Attach a (sturdy, long stretching) rubber band to the pin or hook. Exit room. Attach rubber band to the head of the sliding chain. Close door. Jiggle back and forth until it seats itself. May take a few tries. Open door (pulling chain into the lock) and snip rubber band.
Walk away. Use inverse procedure to enter.
The hook needs to be lined up directly across from the sliding latch. The rubber band needs to stretch enough to pull the chain straight over the hole, but not break too easily. You could also use a flat shim of metal through the hinge-side opening to hold the rubber band, allowing you to attach the rubber band to the chain before you exit, then pull the shim out to tighten it up/break the rubber band once it's seated.
You may now facepalm. I don't have a video of this trick, sadly. Always did like magic tricks though...
Shows how much you know about locks and chains.
</locksmith>
Which of these represent something the US couldn't have done a half century ago?
How about 3 and 4?
You can speculate all you like, but until it's done, it's just sour grapes to complain that the US could have done it.
Congratulations on getting it.
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