I'm pretty sure I played the Spectrum Holobyte version on the PC as my introduction to the game -- the Russian-themed backgrounds bring back some EGA memories:)
A lot of cars have unique form-factors, that's for sure, but a good number of the manufactures have holes that accept DIN and double-DIN devices with a sleeve to match your old front.
Can you recommend your device? Hard to find informative reviews that aren't shills....already have the FreedomPop hotspot waiting to serve this sucker.
Watson doesn't have a self preservation instinct (beyond, say, scheduled backups), but the idea that "Watson" isn't smart enough to get out of the way is silly.
You could easily load Watson inside of an autonomous vehicle that has, in a limited way, a self preservation instinct -- or at least enough programming to keep itself from smacking into oncoming traffic.
The problem isn't "killer machines." We've had killer machines forever. Land mines work great. The problem comes when land mines (or automated turret systems with indiscriminate firing controls) also learn to self replicate. Then, if they're better at resource gathering than we are, we lose.
...except when it needs a battery, or when it doesn't.
The Kinect system isn't perfect (despite going 4-for-4 on the four commands I gave it last night), but I've still got my remote too. I don't lose my "100%" remote by also having a Kinect.
"XBox On" also turned on the rest of my entertainment center, without the need for a fancy remote to do the same.
I turn on my XBox One every day by saying "XBox On" generally followed by "XBox Watch TV."
Every once in a while, I have to say "On" twice. Rarely, if ever, do I have to repeat the command to watch TV.
Turning it off every night comes sometimes with an "XBox Stop" (which stops playback on my connected media device (which my XB1 knows as the TV), "XBox Turn Off" which works about 80% of the time, and "Yes" which also works about 80% of the time.
The "hack" was to get the operator of the video poker machine to enable the "double or nothing" bonus, which had a unique bug.
Most newer video poker and slot machines allow (or can allow) you to play at various coin values. Each credit can be $0.01, $0.05, $0.25, $1, $5, etc.
This particular machine would allow you to wager at $0.01, reach the Double or Nothing screen, use a combination of keys to get to the credit value change screen, and return to the Double or Nothing wager with your bet still pending.
In short, you would put in a $100 bill. You would wager 100 of your 10,000 credits at $0.01/credit ($1) until you won, and when reaching the Double or Nothing screen, you would navigate out to the change credit screen. You'd change your credit value to $5 per credit (dropping you down to ~20 credits in the bank), return to the DoN screen with your bet IN CREDITS, NOT DOLLARS still pending and then you'd stand a chance to win 400 credits (twice your original CREDIT win) on your DoN bet. you could win $400 on $1, on what should have been a simple 2-1 (doubled) 4-1 payout.
The spread likely wasn't $0.01/$5.00, probably was $0.25/$2.00 at the most, but by picking and choosing good payouts to DoN on, they were essentially playing machines with a winning paytable. [Since DoN's didn't pay double or zero, they paid 16x or zero.]
Right now when someone buys a cell phone, they have it in their brains that they're making an "investment", that the phone will last for the next 20 years, or even forever.
They do? Who are these people?
For a sufficiently true portion of "everyone," "everyone" just gets a new phone every two years on contract anyway.
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I'm pretty sure I played the Spectrum Holobyte version on the PC as my introduction to the game -- the Russian-themed backgrounds bring back some EGA memories :)
A lot of cars have unique form-factors, that's for sure, but a good number of the manufactures have holes that accept DIN and double-DIN devices with a sleeve to match your old front.
Can you recommend your device? Hard to find informative reviews that aren't shills. ...already have the FreedomPop hotspot waiting to serve this sucker.
Watson doesn't have a self preservation instinct (beyond, say, scheduled backups), but the idea that "Watson" isn't smart enough to get out of the way is silly.
You could easily load Watson inside of an autonomous vehicle that has, in a limited way, a self preservation instinct -- or at least enough programming to keep itself from smacking into oncoming traffic.
The problem isn't "killer machines." We've had killer machines forever. Land mines work great. The problem comes when land mines (or automated turret systems with indiscriminate firing controls) also learn to self replicate. Then, if they're better at resource gathering than we are, we lose.
Please don't anthropomorphize microwaves. They don't like it.
Killing humans now, even for us atheists, is utilitarian calculus.
We know we have to spend less time watching our own backs, and tending to the wheat fields, if we don't kill each other.
But 'murica!
...except when it needs a battery, or when it doesn't.
The Kinect system isn't perfect (despite going 4-for-4 on the four commands I gave it last night), but I've still got my remote too. I don't lose my "100%" remote by also having a Kinect.
"XBox On" also turned on the rest of my entertainment center, without the need for a fancy remote to do the same.
Your command might also be by gesture, which requires the XB1 continue to track your human form as it moves about in meatspace.
I turn on my XBox One every day by saying "XBox On" generally followed by "XBox Watch TV."
Every once in a while, I have to say "On" twice. Rarely, if ever, do I have to repeat the command to watch TV.
Turning it off every night comes sometimes with an "XBox Stop" (which stops playback on my connected media device (which my XB1 knows as the TV), "XBox Turn Off" which works about 80% of the time, and "Yes" which also works about 80% of the time.
You could just turn off their power too, if your goal is to be a dick.
...except the Kinect is used for system commands -- to exit to the dashboard, or shut off the system, for example.
Ideally you'd drop to voice only, and stop accepting gestures.
At best, the lasers are "only distracting."
Distraction clearly raises the chance of an error.
Errors by pilots can lead to crashes.
Multiple pilots have commented to exactly that in this thread.
Do you know how diffused the beam is by the time it gets to the cockpit's dirty plexiglas window?
Plenty of first-hand observations in this thread tell you that you're flat out wrong.
In Texas, sure.
Thanks for the summary.
[Apparently /. editors think tumblr is a great place to link people to. Nobody ever blocks that at work...]
I had that font selected somehow years ago, made a few posts with it, realized how attention-whoring it looked, gave it up.
This seems like the sort of problem solved by a Google Search.
http://www.myworldphone.com/un...
The 512 is $224, which is $0.43
http://www.amazon.com/s/?_enco...
You haven't ruled out the possibility that I'm a Luddite, curmudgeon or better yet, both.
Slots? Impossible :)
http://www.wired.com/images_bl...
The "hack" was to get the operator of the video poker machine to enable the "double or nothing" bonus, which had a unique bug.
Most newer video poker and slot machines allow (or can allow) you to play at various coin values. Each credit can be $0.01, $0.05, $0.25, $1, $5, etc.
This particular machine would allow you to wager at $0.01, reach the Double or Nothing screen, use a combination of keys to get to the credit value change screen, and return to the Double or Nothing wager with your bet still pending.
In short, you would put in a $100 bill. You would wager 100 of your 10,000 credits at $0.01/credit ($1) until you won, and when reaching the Double or Nothing screen, you would navigate out to the change credit screen. You'd change your credit value to $5 per credit (dropping you down to ~20 credits in the bank), return to the DoN screen with your bet IN CREDITS, NOT DOLLARS still pending and then you'd stand a chance to win 400 credits (twice your original CREDIT win) on your DoN bet. you could win $400 on $1, on what should have been a simple 2-1 (doubled) 4-1 payout.
The spread likely wasn't $0.01/$5.00, probably was $0.25/$2.00 at the most, but by picking and choosing good payouts to DoN on, they were essentially playing machines with a winning paytable. [Since DoN's didn't pay double or zero, they paid 16x or zero.]
Right now when someone buys a cell phone, they have it in their brains that they're making an "investment", that the phone will last for the next 20 years, or even forever.
They do? Who are these people?
For a sufficiently true portion of "everyone," "everyone" just gets a new phone every two years on contract anyway.
Is that font 2.3 times larger?
You brew and serve at the same temperature, 'eh?
Note to self: Send Linus some mean tweets.