In the lifestyle sense, my father had tools and fixed things instead of blowing his hard earned savings on paying others to do what anyone could.
In the computer sense, magazines provided basic programs you could manually type in.
In the practical sense, I had a need, I wanted to read late at night but mom would catch me with a flashlight. I used a 12-volt toy train transformer, a 12-volt taillight bulb from a car, wires running to two thumbtacks in the doorframe of my bedroom door to act as a switch, so when mom opened the door the light went off and all I had to do was close to hide the book and pretend to be asleep--was successful for years.
When I becme older, there were free PD programs. Nowadays that there are no magazines, and kids grow up with tablets and expensive apps, I have no clue. (Heck, people were getting in car accidents from heavy key-chains turning off their ignitions instead of simply doing rolling restarts.)
I loved it, felt like manual rack and pinion at high speed, felt similar to hydraulic power steering at low speed but far smoother. Humans are dynamic/adaptive creatures, and it doesn't feel any different at different speeds--if you didn't know it was an adaptive electronic system, you'd have no clue. Congrats Ford on catching up to what Honda was doing a decade and half ago.
Hear, hear, as a consumer, eye candy is wasted on me, artificial behaviors are the "life" of the game. There are a couple games I experience regularly, one has really old tech (like 1990s era) with fabulous AI that keep me on the edge of my seat, the other undergoes regular development, receives compliments on it's visuals, but feels lifeless.
Making it's way? Historically was used in bicycles, I have pics from a bicycle museum along the Rhine River with bamboo framed bikes. Looking at a pic now, even the rim was wood (or at least matching color).
Those cheap jet skis you see for sale along the road have shot hoses from ethanol use.
In the car, I hate the higher cost from worse mileage. It's awesome traveling to a different state (southern) and getting a full tank of gasoline and all the miles that entails.
Funny you mention Toyota and Honda, a decade and half ago Honda made the most efficient hybrid, getting over 60 mpg, which only had two seats, they sold far fewer than Toyota's horrible Prius, which had a rear seat and got lower mpg than more efficient gas and diesel vehicles.
Honda was smart, not taking nearly as big a hit as Toyota did, with a loss on every vehicle sold.
That reminds me of a college student back in the 80s or early 90s who studied the amount of bacteria on jeans and learned single wear washings of them was pointless.
I've heard the song many a time but never read the story behind it, thank you.
On another topic, they talk about adoption rates in the article, as the US vehicle fleet apparently takes about 20 years to turn over. I imagine there'll be significant insurance benefits in vehicle to vehicle systems that will encourage adoption in existing cars. Even more so if enabled cars are permitted a higher legal speed limit, or left/commuter lane only permissions.
I would really like a minimap showing me nearby vehicles à la video games. As it stands now, at night the headlights of another will reveal its existence around a bend, data sorely lacking in daytime. The liability however will be the same as currently, the most likely damage in my area (densely populated suburban) is deer.
Huh? I couldn't get past the, "people clicking an inbound link don't know"...who clicks a link without first glancing to see what the displayed URL it is? That would be like opening your front door to whomever knocks and saying come in without looking who is there, or leaving your car's keys sitting in the door with a note scrawled in the dust on the door, "drive me".
URL shorteners have specific abilities to expose the destination link before taking you there, since people started avoiding them back when Twitter was a thing.
I suppose it could be a drinking game, don't look at what the URLs are of the links you are clicking, and drink every time you get served malware?
Likely this using-cash-only anonymity costs more...
Huh? *tilts head, why might that be a presumption? In my case cash saves lots annually...
About 15% discount for cash at one of my car repair shops, 10% discount at the closer/less expensive one.
Discount for cash on rent.
Discount for cash with every service person I've ever had do work for me (plumbers, roofing, furnace repair, appliances, etc.) Heck, just yesterday, tow truck...who also offered a post-payment lift wherever I wanted to go afterward.
Card price is 4% more at many gas stations, although Discover gives 2% of that back to you, cash is 2% less than that (if you are at a station that doesn't charge different prices, that just means the cash buyers are subsidizing the card fees).
The only places I can think of that don't discount for cash that I regular pay for locally would be haircut, groceries and box store type purchases, but if there's still a local shop instead of Home Despot or BLowes, they are typically cheaper/better quality and discount for cash (thankfully there are still plumbing shops around here, if not general hardware stores anymore).
Heck, local property taxes are more via card, but same check/cash, so no discount truly there.
Worse, it's burying the most important/useful part of the URL, and displaying the I-already-knew-I-was-here part. I most often want to edit the end, or see the end, not caring about the domain and middle nearly as much.
Wait, so they want more of these industries to be cash based and perhaps un/under-report income tax??? I know plenty of people who have been moving more toward cash in the past several years, but it seems counter-intuitive the government would want to track less.
Yes, there are procedures in place since this happens occasionally.
If you want to invest in something, get a fireproof safe. You don't even need to lock it (since the odds of a break-in are generally lower than fire). But former tax records may be obtained from the IRS, former bank statements from the credit union, birth certificate copies from town halls, etc. The only tricky one is receipts spent on capital gains to your real estate, since municipal government only documents original purchase price, and contractors tend not to maintain such records for decades. Your insurance agent/company may be of some help here, if you send them documentation of upgrades.
But the odds of having left your wallet at home the exact day a meteor blows up your house are astronomical (pun intended). Spending on that "un-eventuality" is like paying for an electronics warranty at checkout, wasting time, money and emotional fortitude on something that is cheaper to repair in the unlikely event of it happening.
If you were interviewing for the position, would your first thought be, "I so don't want to work there as that guy is going to be second guessing my every move, countermanding my decisions, ruining my job satisfaction and making me regret ever joining there"?
It's not your baby, it's your job, let it go. Think if it like a rebellious teenager, you've invested all you can in it, you are done. Now it's time for the cruel world to influence it for better or worse (which is subjective anyway). Others have suggested you need to let it go already, so you obviously can't see your own short-coming in this regard.
If it helps, go on vacation, travel out of the country, only respond to inquiries from your replacement in that time, never check in or up on them. If it all goes south, they will fix it. If mistakes are made, they will learn and grow. You, however, need to stop looking backward, and look forward instead.
No sympathy for complainers, especially those who are aware there are add-ons that do what they want, but invest energy in a complaint rather than having their customizable tools perform how they desire. That's not being lazy, that's being obstinate. Lazy is not capitalizing "Chrome" or including all the letters in the word "too". One would imagine you, of all people, would know the difference!;-)
According to the DGF investigation, the company only sends Google Ireland contracts, but they are written in French with French clauses, and therefore considered French contracts.
They should stop reading them via translate.google.com.
Most memorable games I've played? Chess. I can tell you great experiences I've had, wonderful stories. Why would I care about a fictional story someone wrote when I want to play a game? If I wanted that, I'd read a book.
I've experienced story driven games, Lord of the Rings Online, the story is by some guy named Tolkien, if you haven't heard of him, he wrote some well received books. None of the stories provided by the company that makes LoTRO are part of my gaming memories. But I can tell you about hilarious moments with friends and people, great stories.
Games need to get out of the way and stop trying to be focal points. A good example, one of the most popular games so far this year, 2048. Gamers and non-gamers alike are loving it, and it's spawned many a conversation and rivalry thread on Google+ among not just gamer circles, but others as well.
Which isn't to say there aren't gamers who enjoy passive entertainment in their games, a good friend of mine doesn't hit X or Escape the moment a loading video pops up, but will actually sit through them. Keeping the story from negatively impacting the game experience, as others have expressed here, is obviously key, but yes, I would agree too much focus is put on something that should be an aside.
This is similar to how we used to run role-playing games, or when I was on the plot committee of a LARP, provide the framework to make the player(s) the star of their own story--that is what memorable experiences are made of.
Sarcasm aside, it's obviously beneficial to both parties, the sign of a good deal, users get a tool that offers the best aspects of email, Twitter, SMS, and Flickr/Pinterest all combined in an easier to use environment, without the liabilities of each of those; the provider gets slightly improved demographics to pay for it all, as well as other services they provide, and competitive market share to bolster their declining revenues.
No button embedded on any pages I see with their.com and.net blocked by my Hosts file, slightly faster page loads without needing to wait for their servers too.
Um, the real name thing was resolved a long time ago, you can make pages with any names you want, I have several for different purposes and venues (such as one for my character in an MMO).
That is one great thing about G+ unlike Twitter or others, they actually listen to their users and design the system for users rather than solely their own whims/needs.
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In the lifestyle sense, my father had tools and fixed things instead of blowing his hard earned savings on paying others to do what anyone could.
In the computer sense, magazines provided basic programs you could manually type in.
In the practical sense, I had a need, I wanted to read late at night but mom would catch me with a flashlight. I used a 12-volt toy train transformer, a 12-volt taillight bulb from a car, wires running to two thumbtacks in the doorframe of my bedroom door to act as a switch, so when mom opened the door the light went off and all I had to do was close to hide the book and pretend to be asleep--was successful for years.
When I becme older, there were free PD programs. Nowadays that there are no magazines, and kids grow up with tablets and expensive apps, I have no clue. (Heck, people were getting in car accidents from heavy key-chains turning off their ignitions instead of simply doing rolling restarts.)
I loved it, felt like manual rack and pinion at high speed, felt similar to hydraulic power steering at low speed but far smoother. Humans are dynamic/adaptive creatures, and it doesn't feel any different at different speeds--if you didn't know it was an adaptive electronic system, you'd have no clue. Congrats Ford on catching up to what Honda was doing a decade and half ago.
And my 2001 Honda had it.
Who can I upset enough to buy my properties for a hundred and sixty times more than I paid?
Hear, hear, as a consumer, eye candy is wasted on me, artificial behaviors are the "life" of the game. There are a couple games I experience regularly, one has really old tech (like 1990s era) with fabulous AI that keep me on the edge of my seat, the other undergoes regular development, receives compliments on it's visuals, but feels lifeless.
News from the future, rhinos find success adapting to suburban environments with discarded carpet camouflage, people slow to adapt.
Making it's way? Historically was used in bicycles, I have pics from a bicycle museum along the Rhine River with bamboo framed bikes. Looking at a pic now, even the rim was wood (or at least matching color).
Those cheap jet skis you see for sale along the road have shot hoses from ethanol use.
In the car, I hate the higher cost from worse mileage. It's awesome traveling to a different state (southern) and getting a full tank of gasoline and all the miles that entails.
Funny you mention Toyota and Honda, a decade and half ago Honda made the most efficient hybrid, getting over 60 mpg, which only had two seats, they sold far fewer than Toyota's horrible Prius, which had a rear seat and got lower mpg than more efficient gas and diesel vehicles.
Honda was smart, not taking nearly as big a hit as Toyota did, with a loss on every vehicle sold.
That reminds me of a college student back in the 80s or early 90s who studied the amount of bacteria on jeans and learned single wear washings of them was pointless.
That might not be in the article, but neither is Connecticut.
Hear, hear...integrity. A willingness to stick to his principles no matter the cost, so admirable.
I've heard the song many a time but never read the story behind it, thank you.
On another topic, they talk about adoption rates in the article, as the US vehicle fleet apparently takes about 20 years to turn over. I imagine there'll be significant insurance benefits in vehicle to vehicle systems that will encourage adoption in existing cars. Even more so if enabled cars are permitted a higher legal speed limit, or left/commuter lane only permissions.
I would really like a minimap showing me nearby vehicles à la video games. As it stands now, at night the headlights of another will reveal its existence around a bend, data sorely lacking in daytime. The liability however will be the same as currently, the most likely damage in my area (densely populated suburban) is deer.
Huh? I couldn't get past the, "people clicking an inbound link don't know"...who clicks a link without first glancing to see what the displayed URL it is? That would be like opening your front door to whomever knocks and saying come in without looking who is there, or leaving your car's keys sitting in the door with a note scrawled in the dust on the door, "drive me".
URL shorteners have specific abilities to expose the destination link before taking you there, since people started avoiding them back when Twitter was a thing.
I suppose it could be a drinking game, don't look at what the URLs are of the links you are clicking, and drink every time you get served malware?
Hehe...
Likely this using-cash-only anonymity costs more...
Huh? *tilts head, why might that be a presumption? In my case cash saves lots annually...
About 15% discount for cash at one of my car repair shops, 10% discount at the closer/less expensive one.
Discount for cash on rent.
Discount for cash with every service person I've ever had do work for me (plumbers, roofing, furnace repair, appliances, etc.) Heck, just yesterday, tow truck...who also offered a post-payment lift wherever I wanted to go afterward.
Card price is 4% more at many gas stations, although Discover gives 2% of that back to you, cash is 2% less than that (if you are at a station that doesn't charge different prices, that just means the cash buyers are subsidizing the card fees).
The only places I can think of that don't discount for cash that I regular pay for locally would be haircut, groceries and box store type purchases, but if there's still a local shop instead of Home Despot or BLowes, they are typically cheaper/better quality and discount for cash (thankfully there are still plumbing shops around here, if not general hardware stores anymore).
Heck, local property taxes are more via card, but same check/cash, so no discount truly there.
Worse, it's burying the most important/useful part of the URL, and displaying the I-already-knew-I-was-here part. I most often want to edit the end, or see the end, not caring about the domain and middle nearly as much.
Wait, so they want more of these industries to be cash based and perhaps un/under-report income tax??? I know plenty of people who have been moving more toward cash in the past several years, but it seems counter-intuitive the government would want to track less.
But seriously, how will this decrease fraud?
Yes, there are procedures in place since this happens occasionally.
If you want to invest in something, get a fireproof safe. You don't even need to lock it (since the odds of a break-in are generally lower than fire). But former tax records may be obtained from the IRS, former bank statements from the credit union, birth certificate copies from town halls, etc. The only tricky one is receipts spent on capital gains to your real estate, since municipal government only documents original purchase price, and contractors tend not to maintain such records for decades. Your insurance agent/company may be of some help here, if you send them documentation of upgrades.
But the odds of having left your wallet at home the exact day a meteor blows up your house are astronomical (pun intended). Spending on that "un-eventuality" is like paying for an electronics warranty at checkout, wasting time, money and emotional fortitude on something that is cheaper to repair in the unlikely event of it happening.
Deal in reality, instead of fantasy.
If you were interviewing for the position, would your first thought be, "I so don't want to work there as that guy is going to be second guessing my every move, countermanding my decisions, ruining my job satisfaction and making me regret ever joining there"?
It's not your baby, it's your job, let it go. Think if it like a rebellious teenager, you've invested all you can in it, you are done. Now it's time for the cruel world to influence it for better or worse (which is subjective anyway). Others have suggested you need to let it go already, so you obviously can't see your own short-coming in this regard.
If it helps, go on vacation, travel out of the country, only respond to inquiries from your replacement in that time, never check in or up on them. If it all goes south, they will fix it. If mistakes are made, they will learn and grow. You, however, need to stop looking backward, and look forward instead.
Heck no, why do you think Chrome is avoided?
No sympathy for complainers, especially those who are aware there are add-ons that do what they want, but invest energy in a complaint rather than having their customizable tools perform how they desire. That's not being lazy, that's being obstinate. Lazy is not capitalizing "Chrome" or including all the letters in the word "too". One would imagine you, of all people, would know the difference! ;-)
According to the DGF investigation, the company only sends Google Ireland contracts, but they are written in French with French clauses, and therefore considered French contracts.
They should stop reading them via translate.google.com.
Most memorable games I've played? Chess. I can tell you great experiences I've had, wonderful stories. Why would I care about a fictional story someone wrote when I want to play a game? If I wanted that, I'd read a book.
I've experienced story driven games, Lord of the Rings Online, the story is by some guy named Tolkien, if you haven't heard of him, he wrote some well received books. None of the stories provided by the company that makes LoTRO are part of my gaming memories. But I can tell you about hilarious moments with friends and people, great stories.
Games need to get out of the way and stop trying to be focal points. A good example, one of the most popular games so far this year, 2048. Gamers and non-gamers alike are loving it, and it's spawned many a conversation and rivalry thread on Google+ among not just gamer circles, but others as well.
Which isn't to say there aren't gamers who enjoy passive entertainment in their games, a good friend of mine doesn't hit X or Escape the moment a loading video pops up, but will actually sit through them. Keeping the story from negatively impacting the game experience, as others have expressed here, is obviously key, but yes, I would agree too much focus is put on something that should be an aside.
This is similar to how we used to run role-playing games, or when I was on the plot committee of a LARP, provide the framework to make the player(s) the star of their own story--that is what memorable experiences are made of.
Sarcasm aside, it's obviously beneficial to both parties, the sign of a good deal, users get a tool that offers the best aspects of email, Twitter, SMS, and Flickr/Pinterest all combined in an easier to use environment, without the liabilities of each of those; the provider gets slightly improved demographics to pay for it all, as well as other services they provide, and competitive market share to bolster their declining revenues.
No button embedded on any pages I see with their .com and .net blocked by my Hosts file, slightly faster page loads without needing to wait for their servers too.
Um, the real name thing was resolved a long time ago, you can make pages with any names you want, I have several for different purposes and venues (such as one for my character in an MMO).
That is one great thing about G+ unlike Twitter or others, they actually listen to their users and design the system for users rather than solely their own whims/needs.