Especially when the yellow is too short because the traffic camera company severely reduced their duration shortly after installing the cameras. That's what they did around here. 4 second yellows became 1 second yellows and suddenly people doing what they had always been doing were getting tickets. The worst part is that it made the roads less safe, because people slam on their brakes when they see the light go yellow when they're just about to enter the intersection and cause more rear-end collisions.
He's a funny guy with excellent comedic timing. Doesn't mean he's going to run for Parlament or anything. Sort of a Dave Berry of British car enthusiasts.
So why not let me swipe my card and auto-fill the fields for those poor people at the desk? It is seriously dumb to force them to type all of that stuff in.
Firefox (and I'm pretty sure all of the other major browsers) will remember that a plugin is disabled even when it is updated. Just let it install and then go and disable it in your browser(s).
My impression was that they were thrashing the heck out of the car (it's a track after all) and that's what blew the fuse. Repeated full stops from maximum speed in rapid succession probably overheated the circuit and caused the fuse to pop.
I wouldn't take any car review on Top Gear seriously, it's a comedy show first and a car show second. Clarkson is also highly opinionated and doesn't mind showing it. James May probably would have given the Tesla a much more positive review, much like how he gushed over that prototype fuel cell Honda a few years ago.
Are you sure you're not just doing it wrong? If I don't have much in my cart I tend to prefer those self-checkout terminals because they're so hassle free. That said, I never use the ones at Warmart or Food Lion because they're badly designed and horrible. Even the old annoyances of "This item is 1/4 gram different than its database weight, you thieving con artist!" have largely disappeared over the years.
This is also true at airports. When I do a self-service checkin it's 2 minutes of "scan credit card", hit "decline offer" half a dozen times, and get my printout. If I go to a person they are apparently required to type out War and Peace to complete every single transaction on their terminal and it takes ten times as long to check in.
That's a Valve game though, and they've always prioritized customer service a lot more than traditional game companies. How many of HL1s contemporaries got substantial support after release? Almost none right? That's the model I'm talking about. EA or Activision or whatever moved everybody to a new project and maybe left one lone guy on part time for a few months to make the inevitable patches before abandoning the project entirely.
DLC that is extra content tacked onto the game is nice, it's basically a form of support you wouldn't get in the old days.
DLC that is made by cutting features before the game is released and then selling them separately is what people hate. A good example of this is the recent XCOM game. There is Day-0 DLC that opens up the option to change the visual appearance of your soldiers, including armor colors, that was obviously chopped out of the game at the last minute just to make the DLC pack. That's just bullshit straight up. A 6 week delay on it would have just added insult to injury.
The second DLC offering consisted of map packs and a scenario, and is much more what I would consider legitimate DLC. It wasn't very good, but it doesn't make me angry like the day 0 DLC did.
Plus they are surveillance/ground attack aircraft. A Cessna 182 new costs roughly $400k, but I would still give the edge to the F-18 in a dogfight even though it is grossly outnumbered.
For what it's worth, the Super Hornet shares very little with the original Hornet. It's only called the Super Hornet because it was easier to sell it as an "upgrade" instead of a new aircraft.
I guess this is better than a motorcycle because it's harder to flip? The picture in the article says "Impossible to Flip!", "Impossible to Skid!". I can see where it's harder to flip, but I fail to see how the big heavy gyro and reduced surface area contact between the wheels and the road are going to prevent skidding.
I fail to see what advantages this vehicle has over a traditional automobile. It seems more like a science demonstration on wheels than a practical vehicle.
One of the tragedies of an all volunteer professional army is that the politicians seem to feel obligated to use it. When you spend that much money on something every year, it's natural to want to get some use out of it.
They still cost one hundred million dollars each (referring to F-35s retrofitted with drone controls here), so you can't just throw them away in the face of air defense.
I remember when fingerprint scanners first started getting widespread use people asked about "what if someone lifts my fingerprint, or worse, cuts off my finger?" and the manufacturers all said "Don't worry, it only works on live fingers." Then people tried it and discovered that yes, you can lift someone's fingerprint duplicate it, and the scanner is more than happy to take it. Luckily the latter has not proven popular (I don't know of any case of someone having a body part severed to defeat a biometric lock), but the former put a huge black eye on the concept of fingerprint scanners as security. Your average person leaves fingerprints everywhere and you'll never know if someone has gone and lifted them.
In the last generation the Wii proved dominant by simply setting a reasonable price point and being somewhat novel. Most Wii owners will admit that the machine only sees occasional use (sometimes only as a Netflix player at that) outside of major first party releases. If the WiiU "wins" this generation it won't be due to any brilliance on its part, it will be because Sony and Microsoft both made colossal blunders.
I can almost guarantee that if Microsoft releases an XBox 720 (only one SKU) for $200 that they will be the undisputed champions of this generation. Sony is clearly going for the high end again and will struggle to meet even a $300 price point. Fanboys will deride the console as not nearly as powerful as the PS4, but it won't matter because your games will still work and you'll have a lot more of them to choose from because publishers tend to flock to the most successful console.
Then they'll just have to find some third world country to offload their pollution to. Maybe the government of North Korea could be convinced to let them open factories there in exchange for whatever riches the Chinese can dump on the Kim family.
I think you're greatly overestimating the technical prowess of your typical smash and grab thief. Most just want to unload the merchandise as fast as possible so they can get money for their next hit.
It really depends. You can get very good laptops for $1500 easily if you shop around, so that's $4500 and leaves you roughly $1k for each TV. I assume they weren't all huge widescreens originally, many were probably little $100 or $200 TVs for the den or whatever. I don't see where this will be all that hard unless he wants 5 new 80" 4k 3D displays or something. Say one nice TV at $2k, 4 cheapies for $200 each, $1500 worth of stereo gear, and $1000 for everything else.
Of course if I were in that situation, I would probably hold off on buying the extra 2 laptops and 4 displays and pocket the money if I could. Maybe buy them if I feel a need later. I don't know how big his family is though.
A nonlethal trap that will contain a guy carrying a gun and/or knife is harder to make than you might think. Iron bars that fly down can easily break bones/sever arteries. Deadfalls are always dangerous. Tazers kill dozens of people every year and don't last very long anyway. Cloth nets/bags are useless against a guy with a knife. A properly non-lethal trap is a very difficult design challenge, especially since it has to be hidden and smart enough not to trigger on you, your family, your pets, police, etc...
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Especially when the yellow is too short because the traffic camera company severely reduced their duration shortly after installing the cameras. That's what they did around here. 4 second yellows became 1 second yellows and suddenly people doing what they had always been doing were getting tickets. The worst part is that it made the roads less safe, because people slam on their brakes when they see the light go yellow when they're just about to enter the intersection and cause more rear-end collisions.
He's a funny guy with excellent comedic timing. Doesn't mean he's going to run for Parlament or anything. Sort of a Dave Berry of British car enthusiasts.
So why not let me swipe my card and auto-fill the fields for those poor people at the desk? It is seriously dumb to force them to type all of that stuff in.
And frankly, I suspect that Ask.com bar is full of security holes too.
Firefox (and I'm pretty sure all of the other major browsers) will remember that a plugin is disabled even when it is updated. Just let it install and then go and disable it in your browser(s).
My impression was that they were thrashing the heck out of the car (it's a track after all) and that's what blew the fuse. Repeated full stops from maximum speed in rapid succession probably overheated the circuit and caused the fuse to pop.
I wouldn't take any car review on Top Gear seriously, it's a comedy show first and a car show second. Clarkson is also highly opinionated and doesn't mind showing it. James May probably would have given the Tesla a much more positive review, much like how he gushed over that prototype fuel cell Honda a few years ago.
Are you sure you're not just doing it wrong? If I don't have much in my cart I tend to prefer those self-checkout terminals because they're so hassle free. That said, I never use the ones at Warmart or Food Lion because they're badly designed and horrible. Even the old annoyances of "This item is 1/4 gram different than its database weight, you thieving con artist!" have largely disappeared over the years.
This is also true at airports. When I do a self-service checkin it's 2 minutes of "scan credit card", hit "decline offer" half a dozen times, and get my printout. If I go to a person they are apparently required to type out War and Peace to complete every single transaction on their terminal and it takes ten times as long to check in.
That's a Valve game though, and they've always prioritized customer service a lot more than traditional game companies. How many of HL1s contemporaries got substantial support after release? Almost none right? That's the model I'm talking about. EA or Activision or whatever moved everybody to a new project and maybe left one lone guy on part time for a few months to make the inevitable patches before abandoning the project entirely.
DLC that is extra content tacked onto the game is nice, it's basically a form of support you wouldn't get in the old days.
DLC that is made by cutting features before the game is released and then selling them separately is what people hate. A good example of this is the recent XCOM game. There is Day-0 DLC that opens up the option to change the visual appearance of your soldiers, including armor colors, that was obviously chopped out of the game at the last minute just to make the DLC pack. That's just bullshit straight up. A 6 week delay on it would have just added insult to injury.
The second DLC offering consisted of map packs and a scenario, and is much more what I would consider legitimate DLC. It wasn't very good, but it doesn't make me angry like the day 0 DLC did.
Well, if you didn't have them and Russia invaded, you would automatically lose the air battle, which is bad in modern warfare.
It's hard to imagine a scenario where this actually happens though. MAD worked and first world countries just don't invade each other anymore.
Plus they are surveillance/ground attack aircraft. A Cessna 182 new costs roughly $400k, but I would still give the edge to the F-18 in a dogfight even though it is grossly outnumbered.
For what it's worth, the Super Hornet shares very little with the original Hornet. It's only called the Super Hornet because it was easier to sell it as an "upgrade" instead of a new aircraft.
Those are all great advantages of motorcycles...
I guess this is better than a motorcycle because it's harder to flip? The picture in the article says "Impossible to Flip!", "Impossible to Skid!". I can see where it's harder to flip, but I fail to see how the big heavy gyro and reduced surface area contact between the wheels and the road are going to prevent skidding.
I fail to see what advantages this vehicle has over a traditional automobile. It seems more like a science demonstration on wheels than a practical vehicle.
One of the tragedies of an all volunteer professional army is that the politicians seem to feel obligated to use it. When you spend that much money on something every year, it's natural to want to get some use out of it.
They still cost one hundred million dollars each (referring to F-35s retrofitted with drone controls here), so you can't just throw them away in the face of air defense.
I remember when fingerprint scanners first started getting widespread use people asked about "what if someone lifts my fingerprint, or worse, cuts off my finger?" and the manufacturers all said "Don't worry, it only works on live fingers." Then people tried it and discovered that yes, you can lift someone's fingerprint duplicate it, and the scanner is more than happy to take it. Luckily the latter has not proven popular (I don't know of any case of someone having a body part severed to defeat a biometric lock), but the former put a huge black eye on the concept of fingerprint scanners as security. Your average person leaves fingerprints everywhere and you'll never know if someone has gone and lifted them.
In the last generation the Wii proved dominant by simply setting a reasonable price point and being somewhat novel. Most Wii owners will admit that the machine only sees occasional use (sometimes only as a Netflix player at that) outside of major first party releases. If the WiiU "wins" this generation it won't be due to any brilliance on its part, it will be because Sony and Microsoft both made colossal blunders.
I can almost guarantee that if Microsoft releases an XBox 720 (only one SKU) for $200 that they will be the undisputed champions of this generation. Sony is clearly going for the high end again and will struggle to meet even a $300 price point. Fanboys will deride the console as not nearly as powerful as the PS4, but it won't matter because your games will still work and you'll have a lot more of them to choose from because publishers tend to flock to the most successful console.
Then they'll just have to find some third world country to offload their pollution to. Maybe the government of North Korea could be convinced to let them open factories there in exchange for whatever riches the Chinese can dump on the Kim family.
The cuts haven't happened yet.
I think you're greatly overestimating the technical prowess of your typical smash and grab thief. Most just want to unload the merchandise as fast as possible so they can get money for their next hit.
It really depends. You can get very good laptops for $1500 easily if you shop around, so that's $4500 and leaves you roughly $1k for each TV. I assume they weren't all huge widescreens originally, many were probably little $100 or $200 TVs for the den or whatever. I don't see where this will be all that hard unless he wants 5 new 80" 4k 3D displays or something. Say one nice TV at $2k, 4 cheapies for $200 each, $1500 worth of stereo gear, and $1000 for everything else.
Of course if I were in that situation, I would probably hold off on buying the extra 2 laptops and 4 displays and pocket the money if I could. Maybe buy them if I feel a need later. I don't know how big his family is though.
A nonlethal trap that will contain a guy carrying a gun and/or knife is harder to make than you might think. Iron bars that fly down can easily break bones/sever arteries. Deadfalls are always dangerous. Tazers kill dozens of people every year and don't last very long anyway. Cloth nets/bags are useless against a guy with a knife. A properly non-lethal trap is a very difficult design challenge, especially since it has to be hidden and smart enough not to trigger on you, your family, your pets, police, etc...