Holy crap! A phone that still has a replaceable battery!
This is definitely my next phone, my GS3 is starting to show its age.
I really don't give a rats ass about phones being super slim. I want a phone with a user replaceable battery, because they are only good for so many charges and the battery will have to be replaced. I'm already on my second battery in my GS3. Apple's solution of sending in your phone and getting a completely different refurb unit is crap, because you don't know what you are getting. I suppose the GS6 will be doing something similar.
I still say any device with a battery needs to be user serviceable. Of course the manufacturers don't want that because when the battery dies they want you to buy another device!
I work for an organization where women outnumber men 12:1. Every time someone makes a comment like this, I immediately suspect they've never been around that many women before...
Aspartame itself appears to have neurological effects as well, which in sufficient quantities causes problems. I personally know that any more than 20 oz of Diet Coke starts making me feel "odd" for lack of a better way to put it. It's not the caffeine. I don't get the effect from non-aspartame caffeinated drinks.
Aspartame has always given me an instant headache, even in small quantities (like a 300 ml can.) It's not just me, either - I was surprised to find out a few people at work are the same way.
I've discovered recently that I've been mistaking thirst for hunger. So now when I think I'm hungry I have a glass of water and wait a half an hour, then if I'm still hungry I eat something. It's pretty amazing, about 3 out of 4 times I'm thirsty, not hungry. Go figure.
I have a good blind spot monitor too: It's called setting your side mirrors properly.
Pretty much everyone uses their side mirrors as rear view mirrors - if you can see the side of your car in your side mirror it isn't set right.
My mirrors (on both my car and my truck) are set so that when a vehicle leaves my rear view mirror it is in my side mirror, and when I can't see it in my side mirror, the car is directly next to me. Neat, huh?
Also: If I had a car binging at me with some sort of notification, I'd look down at the dash to see what it was, and I suspect that won't help my odds in avoiding a collision.
If you do attempt an in-house solution keep in mind that fire is the first step - don't forget about all the water the fire department will use to put the fire out!
There are fire rated safes that are waterproof that are made specifically for media. You can source one of these out and use it - the safe will list what mediums it can protect. If all you are protecting is a single hard drive or memory stick, you don't need a huge internal capacity safe. Also, remember to look at the internal dimensions as media safes have much thicker walls than normal safes.
Correction: They regulate the minimum temperature for rentals. The landlord has to provide a heating system that can heat to a minimum temperature for the winter, typically 20-21 C.
I have rented several units, I've never seen a unit where there was no temperature control. One of my friends, however, liked to rent basement suites, and they often had no separate heat controls. The thermostat would be in the upstairs part of the house.
Seat-belts and airbags also occasionally kill people, but they save ten lives for every one they take, and people accept the tradeoff.
Unless you or your family has been affected, then you tend to think a little differently. I've had the misfortune of having ABS fail thinking I was in a skid, so during a low speed stop I almost rearended the car in front of me. I did have the reflexes and quick thinking to go to the shoulder to miss an accident. However, as a result, I don't completely trust the ABS on any car now.
I for one am eagerly looking forward to autonomous cars purely because of the minor few that make the roads dangerous for everyone else.
I'm eagerly awaiting a time where people stop being so focused on getting cars around and start focusing on moving people around. I think the amount of infrastructure required to have millions of cars moving around is a waste, there must be other ways. And no, I'm not suggesting that trains are a solution. But there must be better ways that nobody has bothered to think up yet.
I find it interesting that now that some areas are passing laws that this type of functionality should be standard the manufacturers are doing something about it. I kind of wonder if these laws wouldn't be tabled if any of them would have even bothered.
As such, you can bet that any model that hits the road is going to be DAMN safe.
I don't know about that. We still get safety recalls today that involve airbags deploying after a bump, cars shutting off while driving, cars accelerating out of control... these three examples are different manufacturers.
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No, it's "u r an id10t".
What?? No pepper?
Holy crap! A phone that still has a replaceable battery!
This is definitely my next phone, my GS3 is starting to show its age.
I really don't give a rats ass about phones being super slim. I want a phone with a user replaceable battery, because they are only good for so many charges and the battery will have to be replaced. I'm already on my second battery in my GS3. Apple's solution of sending in your phone and getting a completely different refurb unit is crap, because you don't know what you are getting. I suppose the GS6 will be doing something similar.
I still say any device with a battery needs to be user serviceable. Of course the manufacturers don't want that because when the battery dies they want you to buy another device!
Clouds don't explode into fireballs, but they do drift away, leaving them back at square one.
I work for an organization where women outnumber men 12:1. Every time someone makes a comment like this, I immediately suspect they've never been around that many women before...
Aspartame has always given me an instant headache, even in small quantities (like a 300 ml can.) It's not just me, either - I was surprised to find out a few people at work are the same way.
For me startup is very quick with systemd, it's the shutdown that's slow. About three minutes to shutdown.
Of course! See the government's "balanced" budget that keeps putting us in debt!
I've discovered recently that I've been mistaking thirst for hunger. So now when I think I'm hungry I have a glass of water and wait a half an hour, then if I'm still hungry I eat something. It's pretty amazing, about 3 out of 4 times I'm thirsty, not hungry. Go figure.
I have a good blind spot monitor too: It's called setting your side mirrors properly.
Pretty much everyone uses their side mirrors as rear view mirrors - if you can see the side of your car in your side mirror it isn't set right.
My mirrors (on both my car and my truck) are set so that when a vehicle leaves my rear view mirror it is in my side mirror, and when I can't see it in my side mirror, the car is directly next to me. Neat, huh?
Also: If I had a car binging at me with some sort of notification, I'd look down at the dash to see what it was, and I suspect that won't help my odds in avoiding a collision.
Why would it? You're already using Google's search engine!
Nobody said how big the circle was. Maybe it's spinning in one place?
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
Sure, there's no way it's going to get abused. Or cracked.
If you do attempt an in-house solution keep in mind that fire is the first step - don't forget about all the water the fire department will use to put the fire out!
There are fire rated safes that are waterproof that are made specifically for media. You can source one of these out and use it - the safe will list what mediums it can protect. If all you are protecting is a single hard drive or memory stick, you don't need a huge internal capacity safe. Also, remember to look at the internal dimensions as media safes have much thicker walls than normal safes.
I know someone who used to have one of those, the "turbo" button wouldn't have helped at all...
I was more thinking what happens when your pets step on it...
Nah, it flies towards your front door, releases the package, and shouts "NO CARRIER" and moves on to the next delivery.
I don't know about that. He's slowly warming up to the electric car. He reviewed one recently and he didn't hate it.
Lucky you. I guess you weren't affected by the GPU failures in that line of laptops. Overheating is pretty common.
No, but he can be much more cynical. That could be amusing.
Correction: They regulate the minimum temperature for rentals. The landlord has to provide a heating system that can heat to a minimum temperature for the winter, typically 20-21 C.
I have rented several units, I've never seen a unit where there was no temperature control. One of my friends, however, liked to rent basement suites, and they often had no separate heat controls. The thermostat would be in the upstairs part of the house.
Unless you or your family has been affected, then you tend to think a little differently. I've had the misfortune of having ABS fail thinking I was in a skid, so during a low speed stop I almost rearended the car in front of me. I did have the reflexes and quick thinking to go to the shoulder to miss an accident. However, as a result, I don't completely trust the ABS on any car now.
I'm eagerly awaiting a time where people stop being so focused on getting cars around and start focusing on moving people around. I think the amount of infrastructure required to have millions of cars moving around is a waste, there must be other ways. And no, I'm not suggesting that trains are a solution. But there must be better ways that nobody has bothered to think up yet.
I find it interesting that now that some areas are passing laws that this type of functionality should be standard the manufacturers are doing something about it. I kind of wonder if these laws wouldn't be tabled if any of them would have even bothered.
I don't know about that. We still get safety recalls today that involve airbags deploying after a bump, cars shutting off while driving, cars accelerating out of control... these three examples are different manufacturers.