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Champions in LoL are usually centered on one controllable unit, with some having a second unit that's controllable through an alt-click.

Model helicopters conventionally used a mechanical flybar in order to make the helicopter less responsive to inputs and more controllable.

This observation holds in environments where the resources are tangible and controllable by force (i.e.

It would however affect cost effective farming as honeybees are both pollinators and quite portable/controllable.

It's a thought, but I think we need to bring trust and security back to our local, controllable environment.

And South Korea is a lot closer than the USA and far more easily controllable/nuke-able if they misbehave and put backdoors into Tizen.

I just wonder how controllable it would be, once AI is more of a ubiquitous technology.

An AI also needs to be very controllable to meet story-line needs or just so that you can tweak it to fix over any issues.

Hint: the reason they're probably looking at Windows--and that you are looking at Steam machines--is that there is a much more controllable environment for deployment.

Tea bags on strings make steeping time really controllable.

How would this work for something less controllable like fear of heights, how does one expose oneself to a height that will not illicit a fear response?

After failing to become one with Nature, the ancient sadhus sought to emulate the wider Cosmos in a controllable microverse, in which they could achieve a limited all-consciousness.

They're good for prototyping high-level "does it work" types of things and exploring concepts - the "quickly iterating over different ideas" that you mention - but once you decide what to do, are a lot less controllable with the details because of their high-level nature.

Heck, out of the 300 million annual PC customers, how many of them buy PCs thinking "This is my personal computer?" And if we really want secure, controllable, personal computers, we'll need to re-invent them because PCs long ago sold out to IT and monitoring and compliance and all that.