As a PSA (for those who haven't discovered this wonder): If you'd rather not get out a pencil and paper and look up conversions of measurements, you can simply type "[some measurement of some unit] in [some other unit]" into Google, it should give you a boldface conversion at the top of the search results page, along with all of the normal search results. For example you could type: "10 kilometers in miles", and it would tell you "10 kilometers = 6.21371192 miles". You can also use the syntax "convert [this] to [that]" if you please.
More details/features here, but I assume a good portion of slashdotters already know about this feature.
I like the idea of even more external distractions for people as they drive.
To be sure, this is a huge step for marketing and advertising, and was one of the cooler, more realistic ideas pictured in Minority Report, but I'd rather not see it on the road and instead have drivers focus on... well, driving.
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It worked for the Cat in Shrek ...
I like how on the main page of cisco's website, under "Latest News", the first two links are "Cisco sues Apple ..." and "Podcast: Cisco Exec ..."
A nice dichotomy between suing a company at the same time as you use their product.
As a PSA (for those who haven't discovered this wonder): If you'd rather not get out a pencil and paper and look up conversions of measurements, you can simply type "[some measurement of some unit] in [some other unit]" into Google, it should give you a boldface conversion at the top of the search results page, along with all of the normal search results. For example you could type: "10 kilometers in miles", and it would tell you "10 kilometers = 6.21371192 miles". You can also use the syntax "convert [this] to [that]" if you please.
More details/features here, but I assume a good portion of slashdotters already know about this feature.
I like the idea of even more external distractions for people as they drive.
... well, driving.
To be sure, this is a huge step for marketing and advertising, and was one of the cooler, more realistic ideas pictured in Minority Report, but I'd rather not see it on the road and instead have drivers focus on
It seems like a modest proposal to me.
If Collada is a file format for the "exchange of 3D game and interactive content", what's the file format for a descriptive submission title?
I invented the internet.
He has a machine that talks for him. Apparently the British accent wasn't designed into the machine.
But he was born in Oxford