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I've noticed a few websites here and there that are not working (various excuses are given), but methinks that something happened in the internet hosting business world that caught website managers by surprise - something akin to the way that Photobucket blew up the internet a few years ago by starting to charge everyone a ransom for its use.
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K 5 Smart Control[^]
It's a Bluetooth pressure washer.
Yes, that's right - it's a pressure washer you control from your phone.
I'll let that sink in, shall I?
And they think this is a USP: I'm hoping the first word is the applicable one.
1) It's a pressure washer. It's designed to push water out at high pressure so it gets into everything.
2) It's only of any use when you are holding it.
So, the thing it's most likely to get very, very wet is the most expensive toy you own, and that isn't likely to be high pressure friendly, or indeed waterproof ...
Who comes up with these plans? Apple? 
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How the elephant are you supposed to use it while holding your phone? 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Very.
Very.
Carefully ... 
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For those that won't read the manual? (But love their phone)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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OriginalGriff wrote: Who comes up with these plans? Apple?
Or someone HEAVILY invested in Apple... 
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Just a question to satisfy my curiosity:
The evaluations (from owners) were all in French . . . so what, exactly, is your observation if you take that into consideration?
(Hopefully, not being used as a "fountain Syringe[^]" surrogate).
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Tom Sawyer effect?
Hey neighbor I got a new smart pressure washer, here hold this wand and I'll show you how it works.
Start on the south side please!
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Another way to ensure your precious device is completely hosed.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've been noticing that when my articles are edited by the wonderful folks at CP, they are removing my double-space after a period.
So I did some research[^], and well, yup, I'm over 40, lol.
I doubt I can give up the habit of tapping the spacebar. Twice. After a period. Period. ;)
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Only on space, after you had yours.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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I'm old enough to need a telescope to see 40, but I have never used double space after a period on a computer. As best I can recall, that was for typewriters only, mimicking the style used by traditional lead type printing.
Of which I did a fair amount at school, after they found out my mother was a printer (offset litho for her, hand set lead type for me).
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I think you got your N-Quads and M-Quads mixed up. I won't get into ligatures (KSS and all that).
QWERTY is as QWERTY does.
This isn't just big-endians and little-endians - this is serious!
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40 is definitely a distant dream, but we were never taught about double spacing after periods. Maybe a US thing... But I'll put a double space here just for you Marc 
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A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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And ... the browser will automatically remove it, as it does with all multiple whitespace ... it's part of the HTML specification ... 
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It's space space the space space thought space space that space space counts.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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This is for those who love history!
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My dad does it too.
I never even knew this was a thing until recently[^].
To me, double spaces is just wrong, grammatically incorrect.
And age no be excuse to are grammatically not correct 
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Remember that grammar correctness changes over time: when I was at school "Joe and I" was the only acceptable form - now it's incorrect, and "Joe and me" or "me and Joe" are grammatically correct (and flagged as such by Word!)
Back in Ye Olde Days, paragraphs and all nouns were initially majuscule, now it's sentence starters and Proper Nouns only. (Mind you, that wasn't a "Y" back then either!)
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Two spaces is also what I learned in typing class. It's a hard habit to break, but I'm slowly getting there. When it matters, I try to remember to search for ". " before submitting. (Had to insert non-breaking spaces there!)
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Marc Clifton wrote: yup, I'm over 40
Ditto...way over!
And yes I still put 2 spaces after...
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I do the double space all the time. I hate it when the ankle biters remind me that double-space is so old school.
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