Near field communication tags, instead of wireless, since all these things listed complete based on time, I just set the tag to start a timer on my device. When it's done, ding!
Boil a pot of water for cooking? 8 minutes. Preheat the oven? Ditto. Cycle of laundry (both drier and washer complete and ready for unloading), 50 minutes.
The other benefit of this method is being able to see how much is remaining for planning, rather than waiting for a wireless update to know what's going on, and lacking info in the meantime.
NFC tags are also useful for other stuff, "nap" tag stuck to the side of my bed turns off certain phone sounds, sets a 25 min. timer and disables auto-rotation of the screen.
NFC tag on dash the car, disables wireless, enables dashcam (and/or nav software), enables autorotation of the screen.
The NFC stickers cost pennies per, so you end up buying at least a dozen and putting them to various uses.
In my state the cost of damages factors in, which was set when the law was written, and back in the 80s meant every accident passed the threshold. So you're only leaving if there isn't an apparent scratch that would need paint.
Of course, last two incidents I've been part of (rear-ended on highway, and hit by a boat when stopped) had no damage for either. So just a handshake for one, and wave and "no worries" for the other.
First thought, I can fly up at maximum rate to a toll booth line, or line of traffic at a red traffic light, and the car will stop me without collision in dry conditions? That'll be TERRIFYING to the car in line. That'll mean MORE accidents for those accustomed to such systems in the wet or snow.
(It's like antilock brakes, they increase the stopping distance for those who properly apply brakes, but reduce it for those that don't, but nowadays everyone has to adapt to a different technique that is a greater stopping distance.)
Second thought, I can push a button to keep the guy next to me from going anywhere because his brakes are now activated? I can get the guy on the highway who is a jerk to suddenly be stopped by using an app on my phone? The hacking potential is awesome!
Third thought, now if you drive over the speed limit, your car will brake wherever people decide you shouldn't be going faster than some amount, regardless of reasons for doing so, or your brakes will be worn down and overheated. Great.
Rush's "Red Barchetta" song is no longer the future, it's hear.
PS: Just like it has come time to stop updating Windows to prevent MS from installing malware via updates, it might be time to stop buying new cars.
Yeah, I'm very happy w/my 2013 Nexus 7, $70ish, rooted, just works nicely. Cheap enough to not have to worry about, easily opened, battery can be replaced if willing, not sure newer have these attributes or significant enough different performance.
If by sand trickling down through a funnel into a lower repository which holds about an hours worth, and can be flipped over to repeat the process, yes, they haven't suspended gravity there...yet.
Erm, drones typically navigate by GPS signals, without direct control necessarily. They won't continue "straight", they'll follow their flightpath. If under remote control, typical programming has them maintain location for a period of time to regain lost signal, then return to launch site via retracing the previous flight path (presumed clear of obstructions) if signal is not restored within that period of time.
IE, jamming control signals might induce more intrusive behavior than physical disabling, such that they plummet. Jamming GPS signals has other more intrusive complications nowadays.
We use it extensively, it's replaced email, texting, all sorts of other services as you can just contact on G+ and the right people get the message in the manner they prefer without any spam.
Admittedly most of my social spheres aren't active users of other networks, just keeping them for grandma or that one outlier.
A human driver, aware of a likely rear end would (should) lighten the pressure on the brakes, to allow their vehicle to more forward slightly (not enough to hit the car in front, for which the driver would be liable), thereby minimizing property damage to their own vehicle, the colliding vehicle, and reducing injury.
There is no time to "go" anywhere in these circumstances, in fact usually it all happens faster than a conscious brain can react and is just instinctive.
As a human, when I was rear ended, I saw it coming, I verified my wheels were straight, I was out of gear, and I lessened the brake pressure to reduce damage by allowing my vehicle to move forward a bit before braking more to bring us both to a stop.
The video makes it appear the self driving vehicle just stayed stopped, thereby exacerbating the injuries of the occupants.
(The time I was rear-ended, the car that hit me was totaled, the front end completely crushed up to the passenger compartment, my vehicle was fine, I was unharmed and continued on my way.)
The video makes it appear like a very low impact yet three occupants were injured in a modern vehicle with crumple zones?
I'm a big fan of self-driving systems and can't wait until humans are removed from the equation, but that sounds bad, not an improvement.
Train takes twenty minutes to drive to the station, pay to park, walk to station another 5 minutes, wait for train ten to fifteen minutes, ride train for over an hour, then need a way to get from the station to work/destination for however long that takes.
Admittedly currently the train costs about three times driving, but if you make it free, you'd need to find a way to reduce the time.
A car driving itself turns that uninterrupted time into nap time (or productivity time), a luxury rather than a hassle.
If by free public transportation you mean a private car pulls up to where I am, I get in, it drives me to where I need to go while I have wifi access, then I'll sell one of my cars.
If by free public transportation you mean the bus or train, I'm sorry but I don't have time for those.
I don't know about being logged in, but my home page has Verbatim Google search rather than raw Google (and Verbatim set in my search prefs--which requires being logged in, for when I don't access it from my own page form). Quotes help too of course for specific purposes, and -uselessresultterm as well. I do wish for original Alta Vista back though.
I didn't view my A500 being called a PC an insult, why would I? It was a personal computer far ahead of the Apple PCs (Macs didn't exist yet), IBM personal computers and a bit more advanced than Atari personal computers.
I didn't view my A2000 being called a PC an insult, nor my A4000, why would I? It was a personal computer that ran Amiga software, Mac software and MS-DOS software all on the same hardware, and at speeds faster than actual Macs ironically.
I don't view my current "Amiga" installation being called a PC an insult, I think it's pretty cool to still be using software productively in my daily life under emulation. I always wanted a portable Amiga, and for the past decade I've had and used one.
It was pretty hard to insult such a device, that performed in every aspect better than the more expensive alternatives. The only thing it lacked was effective marketing in the States, but it was the predominant player overseas.
I never heard anyone use your term "home computer" and it wasn't mentioned in computer classes that came into being later that I saw. Personal computers, microcomputers and mainframes were, dumb terminals too of course.
Actually the other main processor, the Fat Agnus, ran on alternate clock cycles from the 68k. That's why it had a 28 Mhz clock crystal for a 7 Mhz processor from my understanding.
I do not know which timing the gate array (Gary), video chip (Denise), or sound (Paula) were on however.
Yes, half of a clothespin (sans spring), saved having to order a hard drive mounting assy for my laptop's second drive port, perfect size to keep it snug. That'd probably be my most unusual, all the others were relatively mundane.
Oh wait, as a kid, not allowed to read after bedtime, I ran a wire from a train transformer to the room door frame wrapped around a metal tack, a matching thumbtack on the top of the door with wire going to a spare 12v auto parking light bulb and back to the transformer completed the circuit. I got away with reading at night for years just needing to hide just the book, not flashlight too, if Mom checked on me from seeing light spilling out under the door.
But I don't consider turning my door into a knife switch unusual.
The day she pounded on my ground floor window from outside shouting "go to sleep" did make me jump and lay awake a long time though!
You'd have access to the Play store, also could use the Amazon market, as well as FDroid, the free focused app resource--I have all three on my Cyanogenmod wifi-only tablet.
I'd say the OnePlus One which comes with CyanogenMod already. No extras, no gop, all the good parts of Android without extras, it just works and is less expensive. https://oneplus.net/one
Otherwise, any of the phones that have CyanogenMod available for them, but that requires the user download and click an app along with running windows software to install, so easier to just buy the phone that uses it directly.
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Near field communication tags, instead of wireless, since all these things listed complete based on time, I just set the tag to start a timer on my device. When it's done, ding!
Boil a pot of water for cooking? 8 minutes. Preheat the oven? Ditto. Cycle of laundry (both drier and washer complete and ready for unloading), 50 minutes.
The other benefit of this method is being able to see how much is remaining for planning, rather than waiting for a wireless update to know what's going on, and lacking info in the meantime.
NFC tags are also useful for other stuff, "nap" tag stuck to the side of my bed turns off certain phone sounds, sets a 25 min. timer and disables auto-rotation of the screen.
NFC tag on dash the car, disables wireless, enables dashcam (and/or nav software), enables autorotation of the screen.
The NFC stickers cost pennies per, so you end up buying at least a dozen and putting them to various uses.
In my state the cost of damages factors in, which was set when the law was written, and back in the 80s meant every accident passed the threshold. So you're only leaving if there isn't an apparent scratch that would need paint.
Of course, last two incidents I've been part of (rear-ended on highway, and hit by a boat when stopped) had no damage for either. So just a handshake for one, and wave and "no worries" for the other.
It's Slashdot, you can't edit mistypes.
First thought, I can fly up at maximum rate to a toll booth line, or line of traffic at a red traffic light, and the car will stop me without collision in dry conditions? That'll be TERRIFYING to the car in line. That'll mean MORE accidents for those accustomed to such systems in the wet or snow.
(It's like antilock brakes, they increase the stopping distance for those who properly apply brakes, but reduce it for those that don't, but nowadays everyone has to adapt to a different technique that is a greater stopping distance.)
Second thought, I can push a button to keep the guy next to me from going anywhere because his brakes are now activated? I can get the guy on the highway who is a jerk to suddenly be stopped by using an app on my phone? The hacking potential is awesome!
Third thought, now if you drive over the speed limit, your car will brake wherever people decide you shouldn't be going faster than some amount, regardless of reasons for doing so, or your brakes will be worn down and overheated. Great.
Rush's "Red Barchetta" song is no longer the future, it's hear.
PS: Just like it has come time to stop updating Windows to prevent MS from installing malware via updates, it might be time to stop buying new cars.
Yeah, I'm very happy w/my 2013 Nexus 7, $70ish, rooted, just works nicely. Cheap enough to not have to worry about, easily opened, battery can be replaced if willing, not sure newer have these attributes or significant enough different performance.
...since the courthouse will be filled with not just wifi, but other radio waves too. *smh
If by sand trickling down through a funnel into a lower repository which holds about an hours worth, and can be flipped over to repeat the process, yes, they haven't suspended gravity there...yet.
Erm, drones typically navigate by GPS signals, without direct control necessarily. They won't continue "straight", they'll follow their flightpath. If under remote control, typical programming has them maintain location for a period of time to regain lost signal, then return to launch site via retracing the previous flight path (presumed clear of obstructions) if signal is not restored within that period of time.
IE, jamming control signals might induce more intrusive behavior than physical disabling, such that they plummet. Jamming GPS signals has other more intrusive complications nowadays.
We use it extensively, it's replaced email, texting, all sorts of other services as you can just contact on G+ and the right people get the message in the manner they prefer without any spam.
Admittedly most of my social spheres aren't active users of other networks, just keeping them for grandma or that one outlier.
Not "release". *smh
You have a complete lack of reading comprehension, among other issues. I really hope you don't have a driver's license with that attitude.
I'm guessing you didn't read my post?
A human driver, aware of a likely rear end would (should) lighten the pressure on the brakes, to allow their vehicle to more forward slightly (not enough to hit the car in front, for which the driver would be liable), thereby minimizing property damage to their own vehicle, the colliding vehicle, and reducing injury.
There is no time to "go" anywhere in these circumstances, in fact usually it all happens faster than a conscious brain can react and is just instinctive.
As a human, when I was rear ended, I saw it coming, I verified my wheels were straight, I was out of gear, and I lessened the brake pressure to reduce damage by allowing my vehicle to move forward a bit before braking more to bring us both to a stop.
The video makes it appear the self driving vehicle just stayed stopped, thereby exacerbating the injuries of the occupants.
(The time I was rear-ended, the car that hit me was totaled, the front end completely crushed up to the passenger compartment, my vehicle was fine, I was unharmed and continued on my way.)
The video makes it appear like a very low impact yet three occupants were injured in a modern vehicle with crumple zones?
I'm a big fan of self-driving systems and can't wait until humans are removed from the equation, but that sounds bad, not an improvement.
3 GB of ram is 2 GB and 1,016 MB more RAM than I need for anything I run on my Amiga. (That's presuming 2 MB of CHIP RAM separate from the Fast RAM.)
Heck, with that much RAM I could multitask every title and application I ever had. *glances over at rack of 3.5" floppies in bookcase
Sadly here, drive takes an hour and half.
Train takes twenty minutes to drive to the station, pay to park, walk to station another 5 minutes, wait for train ten to fifteen minutes, ride train for over an hour, then need a way to get from the station to work/destination for however long that takes.
Admittedly currently the train costs about three times driving, but if you make it free, you'd need to find a way to reduce the time.
A car driving itself turns that uninterrupted time into nap time (or productivity time), a luxury rather than a hassle.
If by free public transportation you mean a private car pulls up to where I am, I get in, it drives me to where I need to go while I have wifi access, then I'll sell one of my cars.
If by free public transportation you mean the bus or train, I'm sorry but I don't have time for those.
A likely sanitized version of Han Solo? No thanks.
I donate spare CPU cycles, and my efforts in citizen science projects. It's not monetary, but more practical, and less of the donation is wasted.
I don't know about being logged in, but my home page has Verbatim Google search rather than raw Google (and Verbatim set in my search prefs--which requires being logged in, for when I don't access it from my own page form). Quotes help too of course for specific purposes, and -uselessresultterm as well. I do wish for original Alta Vista back though.
I didn't view my A500 being called a PC an insult, why would I? It was a personal computer far ahead of the Apple PCs (Macs didn't exist yet), IBM personal computers and a bit more advanced than Atari personal computers.
I didn't view my A2000 being called a PC an insult, nor my A4000, why would I? It was a personal computer that ran Amiga software, Mac software and MS-DOS software all on the same hardware, and at speeds faster than actual Macs ironically.
I don't view my current "Amiga" installation being called a PC an insult, I think it's pretty cool to still be using software productively in my daily life under emulation. I always wanted a portable Amiga, and for the past decade I've had and used one.
It was pretty hard to insult such a device, that performed in every aspect better than the more expensive alternatives. The only thing it lacked was effective marketing in the States, but it was the predominant player overseas.
I never heard anyone use your term "home computer" and it wasn't mentioned in computer classes that came into being later that I saw. Personal computers, microcomputers and mainframes were, dumb terminals too of course.
Actually the other main processor, the Fat Agnus, ran on alternate clock cycles from the 68k. That's why it had a 28 Mhz clock crystal for a 7 Mhz processor from my understanding.
I do not know which timing the gate array (Gary), video chip (Denise), or sound (Paula) were on however.
Yes, half of a clothespin (sans spring), saved having to order a hard drive mounting assy for my laptop's second drive port, perfect size to keep it snug. That'd probably be my most unusual, all the others were relatively mundane.
Oh wait, as a kid, not allowed to read after bedtime, I ran a wire from a train transformer to the room door frame wrapped around a metal tack, a matching thumbtack on the top of the door with wire going to a spare 12v auto parking light bulb and back to the transformer completed the circuit. I got away with reading at night for years just needing to hide just the book, not flashlight too, if Mom checked on me from seeing light spilling out under the door.
But I don't consider turning my door into a knife switch unusual.
The day she pounded on my ground floor window from outside shouting "go to sleep" did make me jump and lay awake a long time though!
Of course, it was on sale!
Just because I don't have an occasion to use it now, doesn't mean such an occasion won't come up.
It matches my bag.
But isn't it just too cute?
You'd have access to the Play store, also could use the Amazon market, as well as FDroid, the free focused app resource--I have all three on my Cyanogenmod wifi-only tablet.
Maintaining a consistent email address? Good.
Using a service that scans your correspondence to market directly to you? Bad.
People who value their, and my, privacy? Good.
I'd rather communicate with an AOL user than gmail user, and I'm not an overly private individual.
Worse is a company like Google opening up that door encourages other companies to start scanning what was previously considered private.
I'd say the OnePlus One which comes with CyanogenMod already. No extras, no gop, all the good parts of Android without extras, it just works and is less expensive. https://oneplus.net/one
Otherwise, any of the phones that have CyanogenMod available for them, but that requires the user download and click an app along with running windows software to install, so easier to just buy the phone that uses it directly.