* Adaptive Cruse Control: One less task to pay high attention too and reduces road rage. Teaches proper following distance.
* Rear Assisted Braking / Camera: Get sandwiched between two vans when parking and trying to see out? I don't know how I lived without this. No more inching out and hoping.
* Blind Spot Alert: Nice little yellow light that, if I have my blinker on, beeps at me to let me know there is a car at my 8 o'clock.
* Lane Keeping Assist: So I was checking out the hottie walking the dog. Gives me a gentle nudge back into my lane and beeps at me.
I feel like I'm driving a Model-T when I drive my old pick-up now.
Driving the old pre-1968 VW Microbus made you feel that way. You never tailgated in those things. Your knees were only about 6 inches from the front of the bumper.
My Outback with EyeSight will do its damnest to brake in that situation because the engineers understand that slower is better than doing nothing. I've tested up to about 45mph with cardboard boxes. Very strange felling. Amazing what they can do with two cameras, even in PNW rain.
My Outback with EyeSight would have avoided both. Of course, it also beeps at you if you take your hand off the wheel for more than about 10 seconds. Because it's, you know, an drivers assistance package.
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." Slim Pickens as Major "King" Kong in Dr Strangelove.
I make $15,687.48 each back week some times more Making America Great Again (MAGA!) working at home online 3 hours day. Just by answering few simple questions online about President Trumps' tax reduction make money and help people sign up for Government Assistance of up to $5324.07 a month. This is not Entitlements, this is the actual money that the U.S.A. Government owes true citizens but has not been paid for over 8 years during the corrupt Clinton and Obama administration. President Donald J. Trump is resisting the current Hillary Crooked Clinton administration and empowering us to let true Americans receive the money that is owed to them by the Federal Government.
And who the hell wears a watch to bed? I don't even like one when I'm typing. Besides, I have a phone that tells time. I haven't had a need for a watch in over a decade.
I had grounds duty in training in the Air Force back in '79 picking up butts. I also found quite a few roaches, often enough to make a decent joint out of them. Made for a relaxed weekend.
Agreed, if it weren't for podcasts I could be happy with an old StarTac or Bellboy pager. Hell, even the 2m ham repeater autopatch would do fine for the roadside use. But then my car has a button for that. I have gone out without my phone and it's fine. I never take them into a show or movie, hardly even to eat unless I'm on call that week.
I'm 56 too and don live in not that small of a city north of Seattle. I love the coffee stand that I go to each morning where they will have my order ready when I get to the window if there was a line, where unless there is a new person I don't even have to mention what I want. I love my local bank where my checking account number is lower than my slashdot UID and I don't have to show ID to cash a check. I love my teriyaki joint that only asks if it's for here or to go. I love my Albertsons where I can ask Rachel the butcher to select a nice cut for me. I love being part of a community. It's nice to greet each other by name even if it's just for a mundane transaction. It lets them know I value their work and them as a person no matter how humble the job may be.
On the other hand, I doubt that my cat knows my name.
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* Adaptive Cruse Control: One less task to pay high attention too and reduces road rage. Teaches proper following distance.
* Rear Assisted Braking / Camera: Get sandwiched between two vans when parking and trying to see out? I don't know how I lived without this. No more inching out and hoping.
* Blind Spot Alert: Nice little yellow light that, if I have my blinker on, beeps at me to let me know there is a car at my 8 o'clock.
* Lane Keeping Assist: So I was checking out the hottie walking the dog. Gives me a gentle nudge back into my lane and beeps at me.
I feel like I'm driving a Model-T when I drive my old pick-up now.
Driving the old pre-1968 VW Microbus made you feel that way. You never tailgated in those things. Your knees were only about 6 inches from the front of the bumper.
My Outback with EyeSight will do its damnest to brake in that situation because the engineers understand that slower is better than doing nothing. I've tested up to about 45mph with cardboard boxes. Very strange felling. Amazing what they can do with two cameras, even in PNW rain.
My Outback with EyeSight would have avoided both. Of course, it also beeps at you if you take your hand off the wheel for more than about 10 seconds. Because it's, you know, an drivers assistance package.
I like this one:
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Slim Pickens as Major "King" Kong in Dr Strangelove.
So General Jack D. Ripper is now Chief of Staff?
Touche' old man!
I make $15,687.48 each back week some times more Making America Great Again (MAGA!) working at home online 3 hours day. Just by answering few simple questions online about President Trumps' tax reduction make money and help people sign up for Government Assistance of up to $5324.07 a month. This is not Entitlements, this is the actual money that the U.S.A. Government owes true citizens but has not been paid for over 8 years during the corrupt Clinton and Obama administration. President Donald J. Trump is resisting the current Hillary Crooked Clinton administration and empowering us to let true Americans receive the money that is owed to them by the Federal Government.
I could be so evil if I wanted to be.
Then try monorails.org.
Almost every other failure can be mitigated but not this one.
Oh, we mitigated around it. Thank $deity that Bitcoin was only about $700 back then.
Maybe it's the old Domino files one has to spend hours on DOS command line to pull out of an Enterprise Vault system.
Now you see why I'm paid the nominal bucks!
And who the hell wears a watch to bed? I don't even like one when I'm typing. Besides, I have a phone that tells time. I haven't had a need for a watch in over a decade.
In other news, sales of full sized family wagons have declined for the last 20 years.
Where are the wikipedia nazis when we need them?
They became write supremacists .
I had grounds duty in training in the Air Force back in '79 picking up butts. I also found quite a few roaches, often enough to make a decent joint out of them. Made for a relaxed weekend.
Can I mod this article redundant?
Maybe if you weren't an AC, just sayin'
Exactly. When an AI needs to "sleep" for a third of its uptime, then I'll start to really wonder what it's thinking.
And the AI gets to enjoy all the project planning meetings!
So that's where it went!
https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
Or just tell them to send you their WebEx link. If they don't have WebEx, they aren't really a tech head-hunter.
Agreed, if it weren't for podcasts I could be happy with an old StarTac or Bellboy pager. Hell, even the 2m ham repeater autopatch would do fine for the roadside use. But then my car has a button for that. I have gone out without my phone and it's fine. I never take them into a show or movie, hardly even to eat unless I'm on call that week.
I don't know, the Russians sure did a lot with $100,000 in Facebook buys. Maybe they just know their 'consumers' better.
Google "Everett Avenue Market"
I'm 56 too and don live in not that small of a city north of Seattle. I love the coffee stand that I go to each morning where they will have my order ready when I get to the window if there was a line, where unless there is a new person I don't even have to mention what I want. I love my local bank where my checking account number is lower than my slashdot UID and I don't have to show ID to cash a check. I love my teriyaki joint that only asks if it's for here or to go. I love my Albertsons where I can ask Rachel the butcher to select a nice cut for me. I love being part of a community. It's nice to greet each other by name even if it's just for a mundane transaction. It lets them know I value their work and them as a person no matter how humble the job may be.
On the other hand, I doubt that my cat knows my name.
Seattle too. Westin Building to Amazon campus.
http://www.seattletimes.com/bu...