Not if every brand of car has its own specialized and highly patented plug, they won't. Of course with a minor computer interface to be able to apply the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions against anyone trying to reverse-engineer the plug.
And then Ford manages to monopolize a 100 mile radius, so if you have friends visiting who drive a Honda they need to make special arrangements just to avoid running out of gas.
This would surely be beneficial for all of society.
When you take your CAR out on the ROADS, you are assuming a certain amount of risk that goes along with it. This is well known to any professional DRIVER. You know that each time you DRIVE off, it could be your last. The risk is small and is generally acceptable to those who enjoy the activity as recreation or rely on it as a career. You cannot rely on the POLICE/AAA to always save your bacon, there may come a day when they simply are unable to get to you in time or at all. This is the bargain you strike with the ROAD each time you put yourself at its mercy. All DRIVERS know and understand this.
Is it better to breathe air with or without car exhaust traces?
Is it better to drink water with or without added flavors?
Is it better to have safety or freedom?
Be very careful what you're advocating for - do YOU want a world where nothing can be done for fun because it is 0.00001% more dangerous than not doing it?
Does the study address whether e-cigs help people seriously reduce, but not quit entirely, smoking normal cigarettes?
From a family member I can say that getting an e-cig reduced smoking from about a pack a day to two-three cigs a day; certainly an improvement though I have no idea where that would fall in this kind of either-or study. Probably on the "Didn't try quitting" or "Tried and failed" columns.
No, the professions do give XP, but very small amounts. Possibly used some of the account-wide quests (daily pet battles etc.) for small experience boosts, I don't know. You'd have to ask him.
His name is Doubleagent, and he started on the Pandaren Isle with the only race that starts out neutral - you choose their faction at the end of the starting area.
Except Doubleagent never did that. He stayed on the Isle, picking flowers, mining, and leveling. So much leveling. It's been two more expansions since then, and yes, he's at max level last I heard - and still neutral.
You are forgetting the insanely expensive satellite phones the size of a briefcase that went before the cell phone. Hell, one of the requirements for something to go from rich-only to luxury to commonplace is finding ways of mass-producing and lowering the price. That's the whole POINT and is exactly what happened with the 'modern' cell phone in the 80s and 90s.
For instance, faster planes can fly higher, where air density is much lower, and jet engines can be designed to work better at high speeds and high altitudes, but with the tradeoff that they work worse during the low speed take-off and landing.
I'm not an aerospace engineer, so forgive me for asking a probably stupid question, but would it be possible to build the jets with two sets of engines - one efficient for landing and takeoff, the other efficient for cruising at altitude?
Ten years ago we thought the idea of a global surveillance network was conspiracy theorist territory - then Snowden happened. Things change a lot in ten years.
I don't understand how someone can be forced to give testimony against their will. If you force someone to show up in court and say stuff, how can you trust that stuff is accurate and not a fabricated lie to spite you?
Put up a list of drugs and side effects on the FCC, or CDC, or whatever other won't-go-away-tomorrow place related to illness and medicine you can think of, post the address on the pamphlet and state that a fully up to date list of known side effects can be found there if you're worried.
Alright, let me use an example I run into all the time.
Games.
Usually when stuck in a game back in the late 90s and all of the 2000s, I would look up the game on GameFAQs, search a walkthrough for a keyword of where I am or what I'm having trouble with, and usually get a solution.
Now, walkthroughs are recorded as gameplay videos. If the uploader doesn't think the way you do and put very specific keywords in the video title or summary, you're screwed. You can watch hours of gameplay footage trying to find a solution to what you're looking for, and good luck ignoring everything else to avoid spoiling other parts of the game.
Much the same as WinAMP, really. There comes a point in the development of a software product where you are either DONE, or you get into feature bloat territory. MPC and its incarnations have all been about being lightweight, so feature bloat would be brand destruction.
Since more and more things are recorded as video only, with no transcripts or the like, bookmarks for a video can become more and more necessary.
Imagine you download a two hour lecture on some topic of interest to you. You watch it, take some notes, then stash it in a corner of your hard drive. Four months later you need some info, but your notes have gone missing. Do you watch the entire two hours again to find those ten seconds you need without complaint, or do you swear and curse over the tendency for information to be put in a format that isn't easily searchable?
I have my cellphone literally only in case of emergency - car breaks down or something like that. As a result it's often left to drain the battery even in standby, and I won't notice for days. So not only do I need to remember where I put it, I also need to charge it enough to turn it on and GET that login message!
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The expression you're looking for, I think, is the one about not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Just put it in the safe.
Not if every brand of car has its own specialized and highly patented plug, they won't. Of course with a minor computer interface to be able to apply the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions against anyone trying to reverse-engineer the plug.
And then Ford manages to monopolize a 100 mile radius, so if you have friends visiting who drive a Honda they need to make special arrangements just to avoid running out of gas.
This would surely be beneficial for all of society.
When you take your CAR out on the ROADS, you are assuming a certain amount of risk that goes along with it. This is well known to any professional DRIVER. You know that each time you DRIVE off, it could be your last. The risk is small and is generally acceptable to those who enjoy the activity as recreation or rely on it as a career. You cannot rely on the POLICE/AAA to always save your bacon, there may come a day when they simply are unable to get to you in time or at all. This is the bargain you strike with the ROAD each time you put yourself at its mercy. All DRIVERS know and understand this.
Is it better to breathe air with or without car exhaust traces?
Is it better to drink water with or without added flavors?
Is it better to have safety or freedom?
Be very careful what you're advocating for - do YOU want a world where nothing can be done for fun because it is 0.00001% more dangerous than not doing it?
Does the study address whether e-cigs help people seriously reduce, but not quit entirely, smoking normal cigarettes?
From a family member I can say that getting an e-cig reduced smoking from about a pack a day to two-three cigs a day; certainly an improvement though I have no idea where that would fall in this kind of either-or study. Probably on the "Didn't try quitting" or "Tried and failed" columns.
Oh boy, it's like the WoW forums all over again.
No, the professions do give XP, but very small amounts. Possibly used some of the account-wide quests (daily pet battles etc.) for small experience boosts, I don't know. You'd have to ask him.
Someone went and did this.
His name is Doubleagent, and he started on the Pandaren Isle with the only race that starts out neutral - you choose their faction at the end of the starting area.
Except Doubleagent never did that. He stayed on the Isle, picking flowers, mining, and leveling. So much leveling. It's been two more expansions since then, and yes, he's at max level last I heard - and still neutral.
You are forgetting the insanely expensive satellite phones the size of a briefcase that went before the cell phone. Hell, one of the requirements for something to go from rich-only to luxury to commonplace is finding ways of mass-producing and lowering the price. That's the whole POINT and is exactly what happened with the 'modern' cell phone in the 80s and 90s.
For instance, faster planes can fly higher, where air density is much lower, and jet engines can be designed to work better at high speeds and high altitudes, but with the tradeoff that they work worse during the low speed take-off and landing.
I'm not an aerospace engineer, so forgive me for asking a probably stupid question, but would it be possible to build the jets with two sets of engines - one efficient for landing and takeoff, the other efficient for cruising at altitude?
The data was ten years out of date.
Ten years ago we thought the idea of a global surveillance network was conspiracy theorist territory - then Snowden happened. Things change a lot in ten years.
News? When the article is about something that happened 16 years ago?
So we'll be having a trial to test the testimony of each of these forced witnesses?
Does that seem efficient?
I don't understand how someone can be forced to give testimony against their will. If you force someone to show up in court and say stuff, how can you trust that stuff is accurate and not a fabricated lie to spite you?
Pill bottles are often used for treatment with no set duration - mainly anti-anxiety meds, the "Take when necessary" kind of stuff.
So?
Put up a list of drugs and side effects on the FCC, or CDC, or whatever other won't-go-away-tomorrow place related to illness and medicine you can think of, post the address on the pamphlet and state that a fully up to date list of known side effects can be found there if you're worried.
Alright, let me use an example I run into all the time.
Games.
Usually when stuck in a game back in the late 90s and all of the 2000s, I would look up the game on GameFAQs, search a walkthrough for a keyword of where I am or what I'm having trouble with, and usually get a solution.
Now, walkthroughs are recorded as gameplay videos. If the uploader doesn't think the way you do and put very specific keywords in the video title or summary, you're screwed. You can watch hours of gameplay footage trying to find a solution to what you're looking for, and good luck ignoring everything else to avoid spoiling other parts of the game.
Much the same as WinAMP, really. There comes a point in the development of a software product where you are either DONE, or you get into feature bloat territory. MPC and its incarnations have all been about being lightweight, so feature bloat would be brand destruction.
Since more and more things are recorded as video only, with no transcripts or the like, bookmarks for a video can become more and more necessary.
Imagine you download a two hour lecture on some topic of interest to you. You watch it, take some notes, then stash it in a corner of your hard drive. Four months later you need some info, but your notes have gone missing. Do you watch the entire two hours again to find those ten seconds you need without complaint, or do you swear and curse over the tendency for information to be put in a format that isn't easily searchable?
I never claimed to be well prepared!
Thing is it can often be a full week between getting in the car, so if the phone was only at half charge last time it's DEFINITELY dead now.
I have my cellphone literally only in case of emergency - car breaks down or something like that. As a result it's often left to drain the battery even in standby, and I won't notice for days. So not only do I need to remember where I put it, I also need to charge it enough to turn it on and GET that login message!
It is also completely unreadable. Besides, have you tried indenting a paragraph in HTML since, well, ever?
But EU is so poor that restaurants charge money for water
At least they don't fill the water jug from the broken toilet out back.
Seriously, how did you turn this discussion around to bashing the EU? Got an agenda going there?
So you got rid of a privacy feature in order to get voice chat functionality on a phone?
Sounds legit. It's about time we got the ability to use phones to talk to people!