Samsung’s New Induction Stovetop Projects ‘Virtual Flames’ Onto Pots and Pans
26th October 2014
Much like the artificial noise that some regulators want to impose on electric cars because they’re ‘too quiet’ and therefore unsafe.
The world is full of people who think they know better than you how you ought to live.
October 27th, 2014 at 11:54
When Wang came out with the first popular office text system (for use by secretaries, ’cause we had secretaries back then), each workstation had a discrete volume dial on the back. Secretaries converting from typewriter kept double key-stroking because they didn’t hear the “click” they were used to. You started them out with the volume as high as a Selectric typewriter, then gradually turned it down until the sound was gone.
In the real world, very few secretaries actually had a problem and they were the ones that would have a problem no matter what the equipment was. The only one I remember that really used the fake “click” would print out a document, then white-out the mistakes and try to re-print over the original page. Seriously.