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  1. Re:Where? on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up Reno on a map. Go just a little bit west and TA DA! You're in california. Summary even says NEAR Reno. That is the major city closest to the site.

  2. Re:But what does it give on a round-trip translati on Google Translate Is About To Get a Lot Better, Thanks To Its Machine Learning Push (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which language did you use to get that? I tried a few. Spanish worked well. Arabic made it a little more flowery. Japanese came close to what you said "Invisible, without mind".

  3. Re:It may well be... on Microsoft Says It Is Winning Its New War Against Macs (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    Dang it, they were supposed to launch early this month...that's why I had been following them. Typical...

  4. Re:It may well be... on Microsoft Says It Is Winning Its New War Against Macs (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 2

    This doesn't change the overall issue you describe, but there is this hub: https://www.bourgedesign.com/s...

    If that helps make the base MBP work for you though, then perhaps that will alleviate your overall issue though.

  5. It is odd that his first post was at the same time I posted mine. His replies are all later but directly above this post is the first...creepy

  6. Haha he must have started posting as I noticed the lack of it. Glad I wasn't disappointed. I would love to one day know if this is really a person taking that much time to post or if "He" is now just a bot or a combination of bots.

  7. This story needs some APK posts.

  8. That's possible but I showed him the card in a very obvious way because I know that even in the US AmEx is slightly less portable than Visa and Mastercard. I assume he wasn't just trying to get cash to make it a cash sale because in the end he got nothing...

  9. My first trip to Montreal on my way to get back to the airport I asked the hotel concierge for a taxi that accepts credit cards. I even showed the driver my American Express card and he said yes yes (oui oui). Get to the airport and I hand him my card and he says no no no cash only. I had zero cash. He still didn't accept credit card. He didn't speak very good English, and I didn't speak anything meaningful in French so I just kept saying I have no cash. Finally he just got my bags out of the trunk and sent me on my way. I felt bad, but come on, what is it about these taxis that they don't have even semi-modern tech? Or even one of those old carbon copy card sliders? Don't blame uber for your demise when you won't even try...

  10. I too was confused by how the post was written, but knew it was wrong if meant about Elon Musk--who has a net worth in the tens of billions. Given the '"shill for Hillary" mode' comment I assumed he meant Sanders and a short google search later confirmed. Sanders has a net worth of just over half a million dollars.

  11. Re:Is this all LG Monitors? on Apple Seemingly Censors UltraFine 5K Monitor Reviews After Poor Feedback (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this could possibly be why my new LG phone will suddenly have everything go through every running service saying "XYZ has stopped" until finally it goes to what usually would be the initial power on screen but just sits there till I take out the battery.

  12. Some people just aren't adept at using the mouth and end up resorting to using the finger instead.

  13. I personally have three options different voice ..Google on my phone, Alexa on my Fire TV, and Cortana on my computer and Xbox One. Three varying experiences. Cortana i barely use because I only use my Xbox for gaming which I seldom have time to do. Alexa on Fire TV i hardly use because once I've got Fire TV on most likely I'm going to netflix which doesn't support voice (lame as fuck). Google I used frequently on my phone till I migrated to a new phone in December and it completely forgot how to listen to me. I get so many errors now with Google that the only good use case is if I literally cannot type and that's rare. Not that there is an obvious solution, but there is definitely a long way before voice really is ubiquitous and easy rather than disjointed and complex. Lots of voice apps doesn't mean shit.

  14. Re:They're getting away with this because rump is. on Microsoft Targets Chrome Users With Windows 10 Pop-up Ad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    People like GP who use plays on the names of people (Obummer, Rump, Drumpf, Killary) or whatever (Micro$oft)...there whole point is lost to me. Use it once perhaps to drive home a point. The rest of the time just refer to the actual name. They aren't Voldemort. There is no fear of summoning them because you said or typed their actual name. GP is an annoying brat, but I'll refer to him mostly as GP and only as other things once.

  15. If you switch back to WQHD there may be something to see here, at that terrible HD resolution it's all too shitty to recognize...

  16. Re:I, for one, welcome our new russian overlords on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It touched him right in the no-no spot

  17. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Secede then and find out if that's really how solid your state is. Spoiler: California folds under its own weight in less than a decade after doing so.

  18. They are working on systems that would support... on Amazon Patent Hints at Self-Driving Car Plans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not actually the cars themselves. Road management system...not car driving system.

  19. Re:A lorry? What the holy hell on Tesla Avoids Recall After Autopilot Crash Death (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Calm down, it's a BBC article linked on Slashdot. They sometimes link completely foreign language articles too. Rare, but it happens

  20. Top queued searches of 2017 on Android Will Now Store Google Searches Offline and Deliver Them When You Get Signal (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Porn-related
    2. Why google not working
    3. Is internet down

  21. Re:What is clickbait, that thou art mindful? on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Something like this then:

    You won't believe what this federal judge did to a patent troll!

    Or...Patent troll was loving life till THIS happened

    Or even...ZOMG KIM K NUDES

  22. Re:But why? on Apple Cuts Tim Cook's Pay After 2016 Performance Falls Short (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you don't understand how public assistance works. The more the government can get you to rely on their services rather than figuring it out for yourself, the more you will continue to be reliant on their services and not try to figure out anything for yourself. Democrats LOVE social services galore because it keeps people in "their place". If you think it's because they are altruistic in their motives, you are sorely mistaken.

  23. Re:Too Bad Facebook already co-opted it on Snapchat Cited False User Numbers in Order To Boost IPO, Alleges Lawsuit by Ex-worker (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I will continue not to go there as it adds nothing to my life. Just like Facebook's snapchat "killer" adds nothing to my life.

  24. Re:No, really? on Minecraft Has Now Sold Over 25 Million Copies on PC and Mac (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Me and my children have minecart rollercoaster building competitions too. It's really only limited by imagination as to how far the game lasts.

  25. Re:No, really? on Minecraft Has Now Sold Over 25 Million Copies on PC and Mac (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Well trial and error for the basic stuff, yes. Some of it really "makes sense" when you think about the patterns you make and the materials you use. However, I will agree that for some of the more complex things a reference is needed for it to not take way too many hours to figure out how to make a redstone switch. I'm sure people figured them out through a combination of hacking the game and trial and error with shared knowledge. Still, when I downloaded the demo I figured out how to get wood, turn it into planks, sticks, a shovel, a pick axe (which I figured out I needed to get stone), and many other basic things with no assistance. But even when looking up patterns, I don't feel I beat the game. At that point the game is to take all these parts you can make and figure out ways to put them together. Build elaborate houses and castles etc...it's more like legos without a specific "right" way to build something. Even when I killed the Ender Dragon I didnt' feel I beat the game. It's not even a game you beat. It's an open ended game with essentially infinite variability. Don't like the world? Start a new one with a new seed and get something completely different. Go digging for caves and diamonds...build elaborate red stone machines....play with friends as a death match...play one of the many servers with dozens or more people with different rules and objectives. There is no end to the game except one you arbitrarily decide.