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On second thought, let's make that: incontrovertible proof that human beings are more stupid than cats. On third thought, let's make that: Cats Masters think up new tricks for their amusing human slaves.
"Since the dawn of time, humans have been confounded by cats, those mystifyingly aloof creatures whose inner thoughts are famously inscrutable. But no longer! Temptations Cat Treats has invented a cat collar that lets your feline speak in a human voice—so you can finally understand (though probably not) exactly what she is trying to tell you.
The Temptations Catterbox, created by London ad agency adam&eveDDB, contains a microphone, speaker, Bluetooth technology and wifi. It captures the cat's meows and translates them into human speech—words that may or may not actually be what they're trying to say:" [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 30-Apr-16 8:36am.
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Linky no worky (You got a <strike></strike> in the URL)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks, Griff, link fixed.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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"Playtime": yeah, that one rings bells - with out the bleep!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Anybody else freaked out by the Stewie Griffin voice?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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"created by London ad agency adam&eveDDB"
That says all that needs be said. It's probably just a soundbox that reacts to sounds picked up by the mic (which is muffled by the cat's fur, so can easily filter out outside noises), and plays a random wav file.
When it pipes up "We'll be friends till the end", it's time to get a new collar.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is it only in the computer I'm or the sound just before logging in is the same than windows 7?
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What, Fred Flintstone yelling "YABBA-DABBA-DOO!"?
That's the noise my Win 7 machine makes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's identical on mine: I press the power button and it goes "beep" and then loads Windows.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OK, this stuck in my head, because I really couldn't remember the Win 7 start-up sound, and I couldn't remember even hearing a Win 10 start-up sound.
So I googled it (with a search engine other than google)[^]
It turns out that the Win 7 start-up sound is the same as that of lots of Win versions, but not Win 10, which doesn't even have a start-up sound.
Did you upgrade, rather than do a clean install? That would explain it
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One of my old fridges was killed by a mouse.
Granted, that's not on the same scale (it cost somewhat less than 4 milliard to replace), but what's interesting about it is that when I mentioned it to the insurance company, they refused to pay up. I should have kept my mouth shut and just taken the cheque.
Check your contents insurance for coverage for damage by animals, and if something is damaged by an animal, don't tell anyone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess they'll have to come up with a new term for "bug"
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Weasels are God's way of telling you not to set off the apocalypse with your interfering! Scientists take heed or next time it'll be you going pop!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Did you forget the joke icon?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The art with apocalyptic prophecies is not to commit to a single interpretation too soon!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Fried weasel anyone? Poor thing, guess it ended up well done
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You can get away with murder, hahaha.
Actually, it's really cool for cross-platform development. I'm doing all the development on Windows, then doing final testing on the Beaglebone. It's also fun to test individual modules with stuff like this:
[edit] Funny, CP's parsing removes the double underscores before and after 'main' [/edit]
if __name__ != '__main__':
import Config
else:
class Config(object):
config = None
def __init__(self):
Config.config = self
def getTid(self):
return "1234"
Because, as with any duck-type interpreter, if the class quacks, use it. Actually makes mocking classes for unit testing really simple.
Don't mock me!!!
Marc
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I agree with you the more I use it the more I like it. Doing some stuff on the RPi 3 and soon on the Pi Zero which is an awesome little device.
I like the pyCharm IDE, its really nice.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Mike Hankey wrote: I like the pyCharm IDE, its really nice.
Yes, thank goodness for JetBrains, we don't have to use Eclipse!
I've been playing around with their C# IDE beta as well and liking it.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yes, thank goodness for JetBrains, we don't have to use Eclipse!
I do use eclipse on Linux machine when writing for the RPi, but that's going to change.
Marc Clifton wrote: I've been playing around with their C# IDE beta as well and liking it.
Didn't know they had a C# IDE will have to check, thanks for the heads up. During the cooler season here in FL we hike, it's too hot and buggy the rest of the year. I'm also a section leader for a 9 mile section for the FL Trail along the Suwannee River so computing gets put on the back burner until it's too hot to hike...like starting now.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Didn't know they had a C# IDE will have to check
Check out Rider, A cross-platform C# IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper[^]
Page takes forever to load!
Mike Hankey wrote: when writing for the RPi
I finally took the plunge and hooked up some hardware to one of the BeagleBoneBlack's I have (part of a client project) to learn about the I2C and GPIO. Got a gyro module working this weekend and passing rotational info, via RabbitMQ, over to a C# app displaying a cube. Fun stuff! It's been years since I read a spec on an IC, gads that was a re-learning experience.
Marc
Marc
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