As long as you have your fist or a black magic marker, they can never fully remove that option but they can force you to remove the on option for the next passenger.
The cabbie probably has a mirror or camera to record would be vandals. Better to just bring a roll of duct tape and piece of cardboard with you.
Not unlike the damn TVs they stuck on the back seats of some cabs in Boston. I just want a moment of peace in a cab (even chatting with the driver would be better) not be forced to watch news about the latest disaster or murder. News is like finding pennies, it is available everywhere and you'll get it eventually. I don't need it shoved at me in every venue. Fortunately I was able to turn it off. I'm sure someday they will remove that option.
I was fueling up a rental car somewhere in northern Michigan, at a Shell station IIRC, and suddenly I hear this horribly loud obnoxious music. I figure some ass-hat just pulled up and is sharing his/her lack of musical taste with the world. I turn around and see it is actually a speaker on the gas pump blaring out the offending racket, which transitions into a load of advertising, "... come into the store and find wonderful crap you can buy to further your enjoyment of this visit to Shell Hell..." I spent the last five minutes (slowest pump in the world and by design I reckon) with my hands clamped over the speaker and humming loudly.
Do that in my home town and you can bet that's one gas station I would never return to.
Ah, trains, a safe haven for travelers for decades, now the science of pushing crap on people who don't want it has invaded your vestibules.
I road on Amtrak years ago and could not for the life of me understand why the bar car had an announcer, who broadcast throughout the train, in a voice not unlike a Harley Davidson exhaust tube by your ear, what wonderful deals they still had on drinks... at 10 PM.
So you just take along a little compressed air and repel the stuff before it gets there. This would be one very, very slow avalanche.
Right now, spacecraft are made out of sheet metal and tin foil. Maybe someday when we discover how to tap the vacuum energy we'll build them sturdier. Reminds me of Futurama where they're underwater or something (obviously my memory is a steel trap, with significant rust) and the question comes up as to how many atmospheres of pressure the ship can withstand. And since it was designed to operate between Earth and space, where there is no pressure, the answer is between zero... and one. Even slow-moving rocks have the potential to completely ruin our current vehicles.
Maybe we already have the materials, but the convention is to stick (ha) with what works.
Perhaps also a little static generator could polarize dust so it is more attracted to the asteroid than a craft.
I'm guessing it is about having the dust cover scientifically important parts of the craft, such as lenses and clean sample bins. Also clogging filters or joints could cause issues.
So you just take along a little compressed air and repel the stuff before it gets there. This would be one very, very slow avalanche.
He was acting rather Kingly, in the old oppressive model (unlike the dopey harmless old people model used around Europe and southeast Asia these days) ~14 million Egyptians called out, "Help! Help! We're being oppressed" and the army removed the threat rather efficaciously. The army has learned, too, they don't want to be in charge and blamed if anything goes tits-up. Tough job for that Head of the (now suspended) Constitutional Court.
If you are going to build something like this into a car, it must be upgrade-able and replaceable. Cars are used well over 10 years, any computer system would be hopelessly obsolete in half that time.
And the minute you buy the car some improvement comes out and if you can't upgrade a module easily you're stuck.
Sirius and XM merged about ten minutes after the car radio for my VW was manufactured, so it doesn't go to the higher channels. I'm not about to fork over $700 for a newer radio, when only the tuner needs a fix.
Pioneer AppRadio looks ideal - basically mirrors your phone's screen on it's 7" display. You need to do a bit of hacking to unlock the full potential, but the basic idea is brilliant.
The only real down-side is that the FM radio side sucks. If you mainly listen to playlists on your phone though it isn't a big issue.
Not really an option when you have a fairly sculpted dash, unless you want it to look like something the local maniac hacked together with his own three hands.
Thankfully real space programs prefer to operate with a pretext of a shred of dignity and class. Next thing you know we would have demands to name a moon somewhere after a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Or a warrior princess...
Whose moons are these, some stinkin' committee, which allowed a bunch of frauds to demote Pluto to "dwarf planet" with disgusting act of skulduggery?
Nobody's going to roll this out unless Google or another larger player starts rolling it out and making the existing 6 Mb/s connections unpalatable to consumers.
Correction - just saw it again. Something weird billowed out of the engines at 0:18 or so
So glad this was only 3 satellites, rather than 3 cosmonauts. That 0:18 mystery plume would have been guessed, second guessed and investigated. As it is, they'll still need to retrace the assembly and prep of the rocket to try to identify where a flaw was introduced.
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What is French for "only a fool would be remotely surprised that any technologically advanced nation would be collecting this data"?
Le proper Nelsoning: "Le ha-ha!"
Where we get Espionage from. Seems almost like they invented it, non?
Spy program? I told them we already got one, it's verra nice!
As long as you have your fist or a black magic marker, they can never fully remove that option but they can force you to remove the on option for the next passenger.
The cabbie probably has a mirror or camera to record would be vandals. Better to just bring a roll of duct tape and piece of cardboard with you.
Not unlike the damn TVs they stuck on the back seats of some cabs in Boston. I just want a moment of peace in a cab (even chatting with the driver would be better) not be forced to watch news about the latest disaster or murder. News is like finding pennies, it is available everywhere and you'll get it eventually. I don't need it shoved at me in every venue. Fortunately I was able to turn it off. I'm sure someday they will remove that option.
I was fueling up a rental car somewhere in northern Michigan, at a Shell station IIRC, and suddenly I hear this horribly loud obnoxious music. I figure some ass-hat just pulled up and is sharing his/her lack of musical taste with the world. I turn around and see it is actually a speaker on the gas pump blaring out the offending racket, which transitions into a load of advertising, "... come into the store and find wonderful crap you can buy to further your enjoyment of this visit to Shell Hell ..." I spent the last five minutes (slowest pump in the world and by design I reckon) with my hands clamped over the speaker and humming loudly.
Do that in my home town and you can bet that's one gas station I would never return to.
Makes more room for new growth. How thoughtful! (c:
I'm feelin' dank.
as if that wouldn't be bad enough, but you would have the RIAA and MPAA charging you for thinking of a song or rememberinga scene from a movie.
treppaning.
If anyone ever figures out how telepathy can work, I predict WW III will be between advertisers and a very angry public.
Ah, trains, a safe haven for travelers for decades, now the science of pushing crap on people who don't want it has invaded your vestibules.
I road on Amtrak years ago and could not for the life of me understand why the bar car had an announcer, who broadcast throughout the train, in a voice not unlike a Harley Davidson exhaust tube by your ear, what wonderful deals they still had on drinks ... at 10 PM.
So you just take along a little compressed air and repel the stuff before it gets there. This would be one very, very slow avalanche.
Right now, spacecraft are made out of sheet metal and tin foil. Maybe someday when we discover how to tap the vacuum energy we'll build them sturdier. Reminds me of Futurama where they're underwater or something (obviously my memory is a steel trap, with significant rust) and the question comes up as to how many atmospheres of pressure the ship can withstand. And since it was designed to operate between Earth and space, where there is no pressure, the answer is between zero... and one. Even slow-moving rocks have the potential to completely ruin our current vehicles.
Maybe we already have the materials, but the convention is to stick (ha) with what works.
Perhaps also a little static generator could polarize dust so it is more attracted to the asteroid than a craft.
I'm guessing it is about having the dust cover scientifically important parts of the craft, such as lenses and clean sample bins. Also clogging filters or joints could cause issues.
So you just take along a little compressed air and repel the stuff before it gets there. This would be one very, very slow avalanche.
And perhaps the last when the alien invasion force, of which we observed the launch, reaches earth.
It's Uch Daikaij Dogora!
Doesn't Egypt use a King?
He was acting rather Kingly, in the old oppressive model (unlike the dopey harmless old people model used around Europe and southeast Asia these days) ~14 million Egyptians called out, "Help! Help! We're being oppressed" and the army removed the threat rather efficaciously. The army has learned, too, they don't want to be in charge and blamed if anything goes tits-up. Tough job for that Head of the (now suspended) Constitutional Court.
If you are going to build something like this into a car, it must be upgrade-able and replaceable. Cars are used well over 10 years, any computer system would be hopelessly obsolete in half that time.
And the minute you buy the car some improvement comes out and if you can't upgrade a module easily you're stuck.
Sirius and XM merged about ten minutes after the car radio for my VW was manufactured, so it doesn't go to the higher channels. I'm not about to fork over $700 for a newer radio, when only the tuner needs a fix.
Pioneer AppRadio looks ideal - basically mirrors your phone's screen on it's 7" display. You need to do a bit of hacking to unlock the full potential, but the basic idea is brilliant.
The only real down-side is that the FM radio side sucks. If you mainly listen to playlists on your phone though it isn't a big issue.
Not really an option when you have a fairly sculpted dash, unless you want it to look like something the local maniac hacked together with his own three hands.
They're powering their iCloud with solar panels? I thought clouds blocked the sun?
The spirit of Jobs will continue to shine down upon them and power them. Ye of little belief.
Yeah, Rush and Pink Floyd should be next.
Brace yourself, they're probably Journey fans.
Thankfully real space programs prefer to operate with a pretext of a shred of dignity and class. Next thing you know we would have demands to name a moon somewhere after a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Or a warrior princess...
Whose moons are these, some stinkin' committee, which allowed a bunch of frauds to demote Pluto to "dwarf planet" with disgusting act of skulduggery?
Nobody's going to roll this out unless Google or another larger player starts rolling it out and making the existing 6 Mb/s connections unpalatable to consumers.
We'll probably see this in about 10 years.
There goes the xbox.
Are you kidding?!?
Steve Ballmer's Chair-throwing Battledrome will be a massive hit!
In fairness, London did have those bendy buses for a while, which had an unfortunate habit of catching fire.
True. They also all tend to come at once and then none for ages.
I want to see the dashcam footage!
You'd see Putin running away after lighting the fuse.
I heard that the rocket was also carrying Edward Snowdens political asylum request.
Now that we have that out of the way...
Correction - just saw it again. Something weird billowed out of the engines at 0:18 or so
So glad this was only 3 satellites, rather than 3 cosmonauts. That 0:18 mystery plume would have been guessed, second guessed and investigated. As it is, they'll still need to retrace the assembly and prep of the rocket to try to identify where a flaw was introduced.
Where are the reliable rockets coming and going like London buses?