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Paints? I thought the plan was explicitly not to paint the cases, because it wears off and leaves ugly patches of base colour after a few years.

An interesting set of observations, but with an entirely incorrect conclusion, in my view. Highly repetitive music & lyrics are something of a lowest-common-denominator. Corporate song-writing aims for the greatest appeal to the greatest number of people, to maximise sales. The problem is that...

I thought insurers generally insist on a certain standard of lock for the property they're insuring. The existing testing agencies and processes would fail most smart locks immediately for mechanical reasons, so the increased risk of traceless entry is a bit of a moot point. Of course, most...

Oddly, I don't think the biggest problem with smart locks is their disastrously poor information-security design. Working out how to send an unauthenticated "Unlock now" command over Bluetooth is of comparable difficulty to picking or bypassing a cheapish mechanical lock. Not too hard for an...

I'll second that. Writing scripts to replace instances of "ni" with "ekke-ekke-ekke-ekke-ptang-zooboing" may teach technique, but the motivation that comes from tackling a real problem is indispensable.

To add to those, the Wifi varies widely between units (especially in power-saving mode), largely due to sloppy factory calibration by upstream suppliers. I was lucky enough to get a unit that works well in all the environments I need it to work in. You might be too. If not, you can get tiny USB...

Has anyone mentioned the quirks of the main USB port yet? While the small (miniUSB-A/B) port supports everything - It can be either a host or a slave, and will run at "low", "full" or "high" speed, the big USB host port will only operate at "High speed" 480Mb/s as introduced in the USB2.0...

The rain is a series of mostly-transparent 'curtains' throughout the scene (and one in front of the camera), with reflection/transmission/etc tweaked until I thought it looked about right. I don't think my laptop could have coped with raytracing a storm of optically-correct droplets... The...

I predict that it will all turn around in a couple of decades, when we have a large number of politicians (and voters) who grew up with the blissfully free exchange of information the the internet provides - instead of the current lot, who see it as "other", and therefore a threat.

Replotted with better data: I'm still not sure how I'm meant to show the zero point on a log scale, though... (See edit above)

One of my efforts with Blender, from a few years back: Trams like that were common in most British cities until the mid-20th century - but I wasn't attempting to model any specific prototype.

The data is stitched together from various different people's datasets, with differing resolutions, hence the patchiness. What zero point? The zero on the time axis is an infinite distance to your left! The fit-line does pass through [1day, 340orders]

Xtreme: It hardly seems courteous to complain about other people's language skills! We've lots of non-native users of English here, and there's far more value in being inclusive than in being pedantic. There is nothing to excuse! We know what you mean, and that's the only thing that matters.

The logarithmic model remains remarkably accurate in the long term:

Of course not. Don't you know that dragons have wings?

I suspect ED's worried about the MOQ for a new batch. He'd have to invest a great deal of cash for rather limited sales. That said, a single part that can revive the whole device is worth a lot - and I'd certainly buy more than one.

Utter tosh! - It consistently tells the truth.

Someone hasn't been doing her physics homework? If you assume a spherical, perfectly-elastic guinea-pig with negligible mass, you find the magnitude of its velocity triples! https://sciphile.org/lessons/stacked-ball-drop-lessons-conservation-energy-and-momentum

I'm not!

To echo the above, using a USB-ethernet adaptor on a pandora is dead easy (just remember to enable the USB port) - but I seem to remember it consuming a lot of power. Of course, if you're sitting at desk with wired network access, that isn't really a problem. The only difference with a Pyra is...