As soon as electrical cars became a thing some stations started to install charging station as a way to attract even more customer to the shops and cafes.
And that might bring in some traffic, but most people are going to be recharging from home on their daily commute. Charging walls will never be as popular or bring in as much traffic as petrol pumps did.
Worse yet for these convenience stores, it might be easy for Grocery stores, Department stores like Walmart, etc... to put up charging ports outside their stores - maybe even give free power if you spend over £X ($Y). The fuel station/convenience store concept is long-term doomed in most places. Touristy areas they may survive longer.
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
Nah, you'll still drive the batteries powering your home around.
In the future we're all going to be dead-ass broke and living out of our cars (which are all going to be electric so we can mooch power using an extension cord from Starbucks.
Someone in a chat area of a site with start a survey. One popular one is: "What would be your porn star name?" Take the maiden name of your mother, and put it after the name of the city you were born. As in Topeka Smith.
Surprised that a lot of people will add an answer.
Are you talking about the 40% increase in the stock market since he took office
The Dow was 19,826 on the day Donald Trump took office, and it's 24,005 as of a few minutes ago. Now math is not my best subject, but I'm not sure that's a 40% increase.
If 24,005 is not 40% more than 19,826 to you, you're obviously doing fake math then or not using alternative statistics. You probably don't think Trump had a record turn out at his inauguration either do you.
Yes several. You can explore the earth and the heavens without ever leaving the comfort of your living room or doing something dangerous, like breaking a sweat.
This exactly. I'm always amused by the sci-fi trope of an immortal being eventually getting tired of life, or people needing jobs, no matter how pointless, to "give them purpose". There is so much to see, do and learn to last countless lifetimes. Anyone that would get bored of life has no intellectual curiosity.
I imagine the brain would forget things too fast to get completely bored. What is old will be new again once you've forgotten it the first time (because you're that old your brain has overwritten the original memory).
When I was a kid we made up a game called "Kill the man with the ball". One player would pick up a playground ball and start running, everyone else would either punch him or wrestle him to the ground. Once tackled you had to drop the ball so someone else could pick it up and run off with it.
I realized years later that without knowing it, we had invented Rugby.
We would line up against a brick wall with our arms and legs spread like a giant letter "X". Then our friends would kick a football (soccer ball) at us as hard as they could. The idea is, whoever is against the wall was not allowed to flinch or move any of their body, or protect themselves (or their groins)... even if the balls hit us.
Battery life has been pretty much solved at this point. My current phone goes 14 hours without needing a charge, except when I'm excessively on screen.
For the first year...
My phone could go all day the first year (got one with good battery) - I'm on year 2 now and it starts to whine about battery low after 4 hours of use. Year 3... I'm dreading.
It's an answer to a problem nobody has. What I want them to do is make a phone with a better battery life. They could double the thickness of all but the biggest phones and I would not care.
Just about every phone designer is missing the point. Phones have been thin enough for a long time now. They have had small enough bezels for years. Most consumers don't care about that, but phone developers seem to have this holy grail of getting the ultimately slim phone with no bezel instead of solving the one problem that bothers consumers the most. Battery life.
When did "notch" become a technology thing we're expected to know? Maybe explain what it is for people who don't have any Apple friends FFS.
To me when I hear the word notch, I assume that means that there is part of the phone cut out; but that doesn't make any sense and I can't imagine why anyone would want that.
A "notch" in phonespeak must be something than a notch? Maybe a section of the screen that is left blank for some reason- or to be prefilled with ads for other apple products or something equally obnoxious.
Spot on, it's not that 200 is a large number when you consider the population of the US, it's that that 200 could potentially grow.
We'd be foolish if 10 years from now this number balloons and we had done nothing to nip it in the bud. 200 cases isn't the end of the world, but it's a sign we need to do something.
Mr. Binary number above pointed out the number of car deaths and Smoking each year... yes, of course those are much larger (for now) but we also spend an awful lot of time and money as a society fighting both those issues already.
Considering how fucking stupid Trump and his staff are, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Whitehouse is running a public-facing open SMTP relay. Not like that would be a big surprise anyway, it's not like all his tweets are SPAM to start with.
That's really not down to Trump; I wouldn't expect any President, past, present, or future, to know anything about setting up an e-mail server. That's really not part of the job description of the President. That's down to the staff hired for the job, and I have no way of determining if they are smart or otherwise.
There is this checklist that pops up here on Slashdot once in a while. There is no way of making e-mail secure. Yes, I could send an e-mail from obama@whitehouse.gov from my personal e-mail server and nobody would be able to prevent it. There are ways of verifying, but all parties have to agree on the method of verification and how that is done depends on whether you're Yahoo, Microsoft or Google
I've long enjoyed sending e-mails to my co-workers from other people by setting the from-address to various things. It's amazing how many times they've fallen for the same joke.
Usually, Phishing e-mails can be identified by misspellings and poor grammar. In Trump's case, if an e-mail was sent with correct spelling and grammar it almost certainly wasn't from the real President.
Were there so many items there that it wouldn't fit on the screen? No?
So why didn't you leave it the fuck alone? Stupid millenials.
Actually, they don't do it much anymore, but a common tactic in the old days at grocery stores and department stores would be to periodically change the layout of the store and move things around. The purpose of which was to make it hard for shoppers to find what they were looking for and perhaps see some items they wouldn't typically seem and maybe buy them.
Thankfully, that's a practice that has been more or less abandoned as stores these days try to make it easier for you to find things so you have a positive experience and come back. They take the long-term approach to profits rather than the short-term approach of 30 or 40 years ago. So you can't blame changing things when they didn't need to change on Millenials... Baby Boomers and earlier generations were doing that first.
Generation X is the only common sense generation.:P
Because it otherwise makes no sense. Either you know what "you did it first" means your moronic bunch of merkins OR you know that *China* isn't claiming anything. Contries have no vocal chords and can say nothing to humans.
But I guess your butthurt needed distracting.
I'm not American and regardless you should probably double check grammar when calling someone a moron.
For me personally, it was primarily Rocket League or other mostly casual non-competitive games with a multiplayer aspect like Don't Starve, Terraria, Dead Island, Borderlands, etc. Even a game like Civ, where timeliness isn't crucial like some other RTS's, play surprisingly well with the Steam controller and when I still had a PC in the living room it worked just fine from the couch. Built my man cave a couple years back and most of my equipment went out with it and that's when I started considering the Link. If they had some kind of USB bus back to the main rig it would've been great.
Very well, I may give it a try next time they're $5 again like they were last time. If it works well that will be great, if it doesn't I haven't lost too much.
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As soon as electrical cars became a thing some stations started to install charging station as a way to attract even more customer to the shops and cafes.
And that might bring in some traffic, but most people are going to be recharging from home on their daily commute. Charging walls will never be as popular or bring in as much traffic as petrol pumps did.
Worse yet for these convenience stores, it might be easy for Grocery stores, Department stores like Walmart, etc... to put up charging ports outside their stores - maybe even give free power if you spend over £X ($Y). The fuel station/convenience store concept is long-term doomed in most places. Touristy areas they may survive longer.
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
Nah, you'll still drive the batteries powering your home around.
In the future we're all going to be dead-ass broke and living out of our cars (which are all going to be electric so we can mooch power using an extension cord from Starbucks.
Someone in a chat area of a site with start a survey. One popular one is: "What would be your porn star name?" Take the maiden name of your mother, and put it after the name of the city you were born. As in Topeka Smith.
Surprised that a lot of people will add an answer.
Lewinsky Washington
My online street address has always been 22 Acacia Avenue.
29 Acacia Road is better!
What was your first humiliating, deviant, or illegal thought?
I once found an Anonymous Coward sexy.
What was your first felony that you got away with?
I stole an Anonymous Coward's intellectual property.
What was your first object you dry humped?
An Anonymous Coward.
Favorite color? #550077
This is Slashdot after all.
The Dow was 19,826 on the day Donald Trump took office, and it's 24,005 as of a few minutes ago. Now math is not my best subject, but I'm not sure that's a 40% increase.
If 24,005 is not 40% more than 19,826 to you, you're obviously doing fake math then or not using alternative statistics. You probably don't think Trump had a record turn out at his inauguration either do you.
My phone is 4 years old now and the battery still is at 92% capacity.
Then you have a good battery. Most are not that good.
Just stay the fuck off my lawn!
You can't tell me where to zoom in on google maps!
Cool! Is there an app for that ?
Yes several. You can explore the earth and the heavens without ever leaving the comfort of your living room or doing something dangerous, like breaking a sweat.
This exactly. I'm always amused by the sci-fi trope of an immortal being eventually getting tired of life, or people needing jobs, no matter how pointless, to "give them purpose". There is so much to see, do and learn to last countless lifetimes. Anyone that would get bored of life has no intellectual curiosity.
I imagine the brain would forget things too fast to get completely bored. What is old will be new again once you've forgotten it the first time (because you're that old your brain has overwritten the original memory).
When I was a kid we made up a game called "Kill the man with the ball". One player would pick up a playground ball and start running, everyone else would either punch him or wrestle him to the ground. Once tackled you had to drop the ball so someone else could pick it up and run off with it.
I realized years later that without knowing it, we had invented Rugby.
We would line up against a brick wall with our arms and legs spread like a giant letter "X". Then our friends would kick a football (soccer ball) at us as hard as they could. The idea is, whoever is against the wall was not allowed to flinch or move any of their body, or protect themselves (or their groins)... even if the balls hit us.
Battery life has been pretty much solved at this point. My current phone goes 14 hours without needing a charge, except when I'm excessively on screen.
For the first year...
My phone could go all day the first year (got one with good battery) - I'm on year 2 now and it starts to whine about battery low after 4 hours of use. Year 3... I'm dreading.
Why would someone with so little interest in phones click on this story?
Not everyone uses an iPhone or cares to use an iPhone.
It's an answer to a problem nobody has. What I want them to do is make a phone with a better battery life. They could double the thickness of all but the biggest phones and I would not care.
Just about every phone designer is missing the point. Phones have been thin enough for a long time now. They have had small enough bezels for years. Most consumers don't care about that, but phone developers seem to have this holy grail of getting the ultimately slim phone with no bezel instead of solving the one problem that bothers consumers the most. Battery life.
When did "notch" become a technology thing we're expected to know? Maybe explain what it is for people who don't have any Apple friends FFS.
To me when I hear the word notch, I assume that means that there is part of the phone cut out; but that doesn't make any sense and I can't imagine why anyone would want that.
A "notch" in phonespeak must be something than a notch? Maybe a section of the screen that is left blank for some reason- or to be prefilled with ads for other apple products or something equally obnoxious.
The only notches I want are on my bedpost.
Spot on, it's not that 200 is a large number when you consider the population of the US, it's that that 200 could potentially grow.
We'd be foolish if 10 years from now this number balloons and we had done nothing to nip it in the bud. 200 cases isn't the end of the world, but it's a sign we need to do something.
Mr. Binary number above pointed out the number of car deaths and Smoking each year... yes, of course those are much larger (for now) but we also spend an awful lot of time and money as a society fighting both those issues already.
Considering how fucking stupid Trump and his staff are, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Whitehouse is running a public-facing open SMTP relay. Not like that would be a big surprise anyway, it's not like all his tweets are SPAM to start with.
That's really not down to Trump; I wouldn't expect any President, past, present, or future, to know anything about setting up an e-mail server. That's really not part of the job description of the President. That's down to the staff hired for the job, and I have no way of determining if they are smart or otherwise.
There is this checklist that pops up here on Slashdot once in a while. There is no way of making e-mail secure. Yes, I could send an e-mail from obama@whitehouse.gov from my personal e-mail server and nobody would be able to prevent it. There are ways of verifying, but all parties have to agree on the method of verification and how that is done depends on whether you're Yahoo, Microsoft or Google
I've long enjoyed sending e-mails to my co-workers from other people by setting the from-address to various things. It's amazing how many times they've fallen for the same joke.
They'd be indistinguishable.
Usually, Phishing e-mails can be identified by misspellings and poor grammar. In Trump's case, if an e-mail was sent with correct spelling and grammar it almost certainly wasn't from the real President.
Were there so many items there that it wouldn't fit on the screen? No?
So why didn't you leave it the fuck alone? Stupid millenials.
Actually, they don't do it much anymore, but a common tactic in the old days at grocery stores and department stores would be to periodically change the layout of the store and move things around. The purpose of which was to make it hard for shoppers to find what they were looking for and perhaps see some items they wouldn't typically seem and maybe buy them.
Thankfully, that's a practice that has been more or less abandoned as stores these days try to make it easier for you to find things so you have a positive experience and come back. They take the long-term approach to profits rather than the short-term approach of 30 or 40 years ago. So you can't blame changing things when they didn't need to change on Millenials... Baby Boomers and earlier generations were doing that first.
Generation X is the only common sense generation. :P
Because it otherwise makes no sense. Either you know what "you did it first" means your moronic bunch of merkins OR you know that *China* isn't claiming anything. Contries have no vocal chords and can say nothing to humans.
But I guess your butthurt needed distracting.
I'm not American and regardless you should probably double check grammar when calling someone a moron.
For me personally, it was primarily Rocket League or other mostly casual non-competitive games with a multiplayer aspect like Don't Starve, Terraria, Dead Island, Borderlands, etc. Even a game like Civ, where timeliness isn't crucial like some other RTS's, play surprisingly well with the Steam controller and when I still had a PC in the living room it worked just fine from the couch. Built my man cave a couple years back and most of my equipment went out with it and that's when I started considering the Link. If they had some kind of USB bus back to the main rig it would've been great.
Very well, I may give it a try next time they're $5 again like they were last time. If it works well that will be great, if it doesn't I haven't lost too much.
How come you whine about them pretending they invented stuff when you did it first
I have never pretended to invent anything.
But they still don't sell any of their hardware to Australia, so thats a bit of a missed opportunity for Steam.
That's because steam rises and can't make it down-under.