{"id":437,"date":"2006-12-01T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/01\/antigravity-toilets-flush-and-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T17:20:50","slug":"antigravity-toilets-flush-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/01\/antigravity-toilets-flush-and-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"AntiGravity: Toilets flush and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sciam_flush.jpg\" alt=\"Toilet flush at Microsoft\" align=\"left\"\/>There is no end to jokes about what Microsoft did wrong (they&#8217;re the number one target for many jokes and many grievances, just from their being #1 software company).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to point you to an excellent little paper by Steve Mirsky published in his excellent column in <em>Scientific American<\/em> magazine. In the October 2006 issue, he wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&#038;articleID=00080354-E1F4-150E-A18983414B7F0000&#038;colID=15\">tale of automated toilets<\/a> that ends with one of his wittiest conclusions (about how to flush an automated toilet and how to stop&#8230; Windows).<\/p>\n<p>Available both from the paper magazine and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&#038;articleID=00080354-E1F4-150E-A18983414B7F0000&#038;colID=15\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no end to jokes about what Microsoft did wrong (they&#8217;re the number one target for many jokes and many grievances, just from their being #1 software company). Today, I want to point you to an excellent little paper by Steve Mirsky published in his excellent column in Scientific American magazine. In the October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,18,25,35,14,1,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-sciences","category-social-issues","category-uncategorized","category-web","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}