The company that starts a branded line of electronic products and services with simple/familiar and definitely rarely updated interfaces is going to make a nice chunk of change.
A quick rant. One thing I'd like to see personally are beepers for seniors. Knew a senior (now passed) who lived well enough alone but was often unreachable because she would never use or charge her simple cellphone and would sometimes not hang up the house phone properly. I figure Get her a beeper! Runs for over a month on two AAAs! She can just leave it on in her purse and we could always beep her and have her call us. And she was a retired nurse, so she'd be familiar with the technology. But by the mid-2000s beepers had gone the way of the dodo.
I'm looking forward to the possible end of traffic jams, which is usually the result of thousands of people making seemingly rational but actually very poor decisions. When you get past the jam the cause is either not evident at all or its something head-thumpingly trivial like a merge or something on the side of the road. "That's it? That's the reason? What the hell is wrong with you people!?
I'm sorry, Zyan. It's a bummer. In this reality, you're as dumb as they come. But we're gonna go on even more adventures, Zee. And you're gonna keep your mouth shut about it, Zee! Because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important, and they'll tear us apart, Zee! But if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, Zyan, and you're gonna be part of 'em. And together we're gonna run around, Zee, we're gonna- (uurp) do all of kinds of wonderful things, Zyan. Just you and me, Zyan. The outside world is our enemy, Zee! We're the only fehh-friends we got, Zyan! It's just Steve and Zee! St-uurp-eve and Zee and their adventures, Zyan! Steve and Zyan forever and forever, 100 years, Steve and Zee's things! Me and Steve and Zee running around and... Steve and Zee time! All day long, forever... all- a hundred days! Steve and Zee forever a hundred times! Over and over, steveandzyanadventures.com! Www.steveandzyan.com! Www.steveandzeeadventures! All 100 years. Every minute, steveandzee.com! [closing garage door inside] Www.100timessteveandzee.com!
Tourist Mode - "Ooooh, a 3D view of Paris! Let's see what our hotel looks like!"
Resident Mode - "I need to confirm the directions to the restaurant I'm meeting my wife at in fifteen minutes and see if my bank has an ATM nearby and I need it right f*cking now."
Ah, you're right, my bad. I'd stand by the rest of it though. And in this case they changed the winning probability from 1000:1 to 8:1 and only got caught because they bought too many tickets. Changing the odds from 29,144,841:1 to 1:1 by messing with the ping pong balls and not getting caught is another story.
That was for six balls, not 40. And you can certainly put a myriad of safeguards in place to protect them from tampering, and to check them before and after the drawing. (Right off the top of my head, run an unofficial draw right before the official one and look for improbable results, like the same draw happening twice.) Put the folks that handle Las Vegas security in charge of them and see how far an interloper would get.
~ Peter Pan. I'm captain of the Dream Chaser. Grumpy Bear here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Narnia system.
~ Yes indeed, if it's a fast ship.
~ "Fast ship"? You've never heard of the Dream Chaser?
~ Should I have?
~ It's the ship that made the Emerald City Run in less than twelve cowznofskis. I've outrun Middle Kingdom dragons. Not the local luckdragons mind you, I'm talking about the big Morgoth-bred firedrakes now. She's fast enough for you, Santa Claus.
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And we had our hearts set on getting that F-35 jet fighter!
Well, 3/4 of one anyway...
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Search any technology with "for seniors" after it and you'll find companies designing products with them in mind. Like this tablet, for instance:
http://www.techhive.com/articl...
The company that starts a branded line of electronic products and services with simple/familiar and definitely rarely updated interfaces is going to make a nice chunk of change.
A quick rant. One thing I'd like to see personally are beepers for seniors. Knew a senior (now passed) who lived well enough alone but was often unreachable because she would never use or charge her simple cellphone and would sometimes not hang up the house phone properly. I figure Get her a beeper! Runs for over a month on two AAAs! She can just leave it on in her purse and we could always beep her and have her call us. And she was a retired nurse, so she'd be familiar with the technology. But by the mid-2000s beepers had gone the way of the dodo.
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The real trick is to keep working your upper body while standing.
http://i.imgur.com/4XCcwQa.gif...
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They don't even test these glasses on prisoners!
http://i.imgur.com/j2WzJdj.png
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Hold up to wife's belly one full month! Still no baby!
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"It's just a game... isn't it?"
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It's the competition.
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I'm looking forward to the possible end of traffic jams, which is usually the result of thousands of people making seemingly rational but actually very poor decisions. When you get past the jam the cause is either not evident at all or its something head-thumpingly trivial like a merge or something on the side of the road. "That's it? That's the reason? What the hell is wrong with you people!?
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http://fullypsyched.com/wp-con...
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Plug in monitor, throw off roof.
Pretty....
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...can it play The Hole in the Wall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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"Another month in outer space? (sigh) Oh, darn... (smirk)" or "Man, this is bullshit!"
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This became the default option in 2018 as the seemingly endless Jebvilles began to line the LA/SF Xpress+ Corridor.
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And this of course would be their anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Wake me when they make real advances in holography, like holographic video.
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I'm sorry, Zyan. It's a bummer. In this reality, you're as dumb as they come. But we're gonna go on even more adventures, Zee. And you're gonna keep your mouth shut about it, Zee! Because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important, and they'll tear us apart, Zee! But if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, Zyan, and you're gonna be part of 'em. And together we're gonna run around, Zee, we're gonna- (uurp) do all of kinds of wonderful things, Zyan. Just you and me, Zyan. The outside world is our enemy, Zee! We're the only fehh-friends we got, Zyan! It's just Steve and Zee! St-uurp-eve and Zee and their adventures, Zyan! Steve and Zyan forever and forever, 100 years, Steve and Zee's things! Me and Steve and Zee running around and... Steve and Zee time! All day long, forever... all- a hundred days! Steve and Zee forever a hundred times! Over and over, steveandzyanadventures.com! Www.steveandzyan.com! Www.steveandzeeadventures! All 100 years. Every minute, steveandzee.com! [closing garage door inside] Www.100timessteveandzee.com!
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So the fee makes you a fi foe?
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Tourist Mode - "Ooooh, a 3D view of Paris! Let's see what our hotel looks like!"
Resident Mode - "I need to confirm the directions to the restaurant I'm meeting my wife at in fifteen minutes and see if my bank has an ATM nearby and I need it right f*cking now."
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Ah, you're right, my bad. I'd stand by the rest of it though. And in this case they changed the winning probability from 1000:1 to 8:1 and only got caught because they bought too many tickets. Changing the odds from 29,144,841:1 to 1:1 by messing with the ping pong balls and not getting caught is another story.
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That was for six balls, not 40. And you can certainly put a myriad of safeguards in place to protect them from tampering, and to check them before and after the drawing. (Right off the top of my head, run an unofficial draw right before the official one and look for improbable results, like the same draw happening twice.) Put the folks that handle Las Vegas security in charge of them and see how far an interloper would get.
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Seth could get satellite service, but his work requires a VPN connection, which would be unreliable with satellite's high latency.
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~ Peter Pan. I'm captain of the Dream Chaser. Grumpy Bear here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Narnia system.
~ Yes indeed, if it's a fast ship.
~ "Fast ship"? You've never heard of the Dream Chaser?
~ Should I have?
~ It's the ship that made the Emerald City Run in less than twelve cowznofskis. I've outrun Middle Kingdom dragons. Not the local luckdragons mind you, I'm talking about the big Morgoth-bred firedrakes now. She's fast enough for you, Santa Claus.
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As long as were the ones doing the thinking.
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Doomsday Dashboard: Live at Budokan - now available on iTunes!
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THIS. IS. SPARTAN!!
// (prerequisite additional lowercase text to avoid the yelling error.)
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