Bully: Is that a $35 set of headphones you're wearing? Victim: Yes... [quiver] Bully: I'll give you $42 for them, or you can just walk away without telling anyone! [Grrr!] Victim: Erm, okay.
There would be a big market for a "visual basic" style builder for Alexa apps...someone should write one!
There are already more than 10k Alexa skills [1]. I'd prefer an AI that cuts it down to the 5 you need.
On the learning curve, I still haven't discovered how to get the local time your Alexa unit is in. In the end I made my skill get the time from a local web server, since the concept of time zones is still alien to Amazon. I'd describe the API as childishly bureaucratic.
I watched Passengers over the weekend. For all the bad reviews, I enjoyed it: sort of Space Odyssey meets WALL-E, with a touch of over-dramatic romance.
The "dying IRL" part is modestly plausible, as described by the movie. See for example the nocebo effect (and an entertaining IRL experiment here [Red].)
Your head receives less than 10^-12W at 850MHz from the sun [1]. Your phone delivers probably 0.5W. So if you scaled the sun to match microwave radiation levels, then no, you'd be fried in a millisecond. B-)
I was curious as to why Tesla needs special gearboxes, but apparently the Model S uses a 9.73:1 single-gear reduction. I guess this lets the engineering team tweak the voltage to torque ratios (as opposed to rewinding the motors and modifying the drive circuitry).
https://forums.tesla.com/forum...
None of the 4 definitions of "illegitimate" that my dictionary gives fits the nature of an email like that.
il.le.git.i.mate \.il-i-'jit-*-m*t\ adj
1: born of parents not married to each other
2: ILLOGICAL
3: ERRATIC
4: ILLEGAL
-- il.le.git.i.mate.ly adv
-- il.le.git.i.ma.cy \-'jit-*-m*-se_-\ n
Last time I used SlingTV on Dish, every "skip" button press took about 3 seconds to process. Each commercial break is about 10 "skips" (6 to 8 forward-30-seconds and 2 to 4 backward-10-seconds). On the local Dish DVR, each skip takes about a quarter second to process. (And slower skips make me less likely to go back to see a commercial I'm interested in!)
Channel streaming services generally have embedded advertisements.* Netflix, as a content service, does not—they got that correct!
* And the streaming services (apart from Netflix and Amazon) that I've tried have very intrusive, irritating ads, that are frequently broken, so that if you skip to see a part of the show you wanted to recheck, you have to watch minutes of ads. Without DVR features, channel streaming is tedious.
This would be good if someone made a DVR for streaming content. I would need my PC to record the network streams automatically, and then I can skip the irrelevant commercials when watching later. Watching streaming shows from existing online sources (CBS/ABC/etc.) is tedious, and rarely worth the effort. A DVR app could change that balance....
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I feel like I need an interconnect discussion on the relative merits of Thunderbolt and Lightning.
Hmmm. Either your town is full of clown cars (good for the environment) or the buses are mostly empty (bad). B-)
Bully: Is that a $35 set of headphones you're wearing?
Victim: Yes... [quiver]
Bully: I'll give you $42 for them, or you can just walk away without telling anyone! [Grrr!]
Victim: Erm, okay.
There would be a big market for a "visual basic" style builder for Alexa apps...someone should write one!
There are already more than 10k Alexa skills [1]. I'd prefer an AI that cuts it down to the 5 you need.
On the learning curve, I still haven't discovered how to get the local time your Alexa unit is in. In the end I made my skill get the time from a local web server, since the concept of time zones is still alien to Amazon. I'd describe the API as childishly bureaucratic.
[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...
I watched Passengers over the weekend. For all the bad reviews, I enjoyed it: sort of Space Odyssey meets WALL-E, with a touch of over-dramatic romance.
The "dying IRL" part is modestly plausible, as described by the movie. See for example the nocebo effect (and an entertaining IRL experiment here [Red].)
I only use DEs that have wobbly windows (e.g., KDE). Don't ask me why... maybe I feel subliminal guilt when I under-use my GPU?
Your head receives less than 10^-12W at 850MHz from the sun [1]. Your phone delivers probably 0.5W. So if you scaled the sun to match microwave radiation levels, then no, you'd be fried in a millisecond. B-)
[1] http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/prog... fig.1 at 1MHz bandwidth.
Recursion is always the answer:
I was curious as to why Tesla needs special gearboxes, but apparently the Model S uses a 9.73:1 single-gear reduction. I guess this lets the engineering team tweak the voltage to torque ratios (as opposed to rewinding the motors and modifying the drive circuitry). https://forums.tesla.com/forum...
Replying to my own post: apparently TODAY is perihelion day. Who'd have thunk?
2017 January 4, 2017 6:17 am 91,404,322 mi
Context! It's currently about 91Mmiles:* "Earth's closest approach to the sun, called perihelion, comes in early January and is about 91 million miles (146 million km)."
* Admittedly, when God created the Sun several GY ago, the distance was probably different, and immaterial. B-)
God added: "Aren't you lucky that I created a giant source of readily available low-entropy radiation just 91 million miles away?"
None of the 4 definitions of "illegitimate" that my dictionary gives fits the nature of an email like that.
il.le.git.i.mate \.il-i-'jit-*-m*t\ adj
1: born of parents not married to each other
2: ILLOGICAL
3: ERRATIC
4: ILLEGAL
-- il.le.git.i.mate.ly adv
-- il.le.git.i.ma.cy \-'jit-*-m*-se_-\ n
Perhaps you'd be interested in a Bluetooth enabled Smart Lawn?
They're currently posting an ad for an IT Admin (asset mgmt) at UKP 17k (~$20k/yr). Great advertising... any takers? http://jobs.nlg.nhs.uk/job/UK/...
Last time I used SlingTV on Dish, every "skip" button press took about 3 seconds to process. Each commercial break is about 10 "skips" (6 to 8 forward-30-seconds and 2 to 4 backward-10-seconds). On the local Dish DVR, each skip takes about a quarter second to process. (And slower skips make me less likely to go back to see a commercial I'm interested in!)
Thanks for the heads-up about VUE, but it looks like it's more expensive than DishTV (with a DVR) and has fewer channels.
Channel streaming services generally have embedded advertisements.* Netflix, as a content service, does not—they got that correct!
* And the streaming services (apart from Netflix and Amazon) that I've tried have very intrusive, irritating ads, that are frequently broken, so that if you skip to see a part of the show you wanted to recheck, you have to watch minutes of ads. Without DVR features, channel streaming is tedious.
Eve kidnapped her?
This would be good if someone made a DVR for streaming content. I would need my PC to record the network streams automatically, and then I can skip the irrelevant commercials when watching later. Watching streaming shows from existing online sources (CBS/ABC/etc.) is tedious, and rarely worth the effort. A DVR app could change that balance....
They already do this at some power generation stations (e.g., [1] from 2014). There may possibly be issues with suphur poisoning though.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/en...
see what you did there.
Whoosh! *
* Literally.
Don't laugh, but that kind of advertisement would immediately pique my interest.
Oh man, my kettle overheated when that happened.