I'm curious how insurance companies will deal with proper maintenance for automated cars.
It's no mystery that bald tires don't handle as well in bad weather as new tires. What happens when an autonomous vehicle gets into an accident because it attempted to stop, but the lack of tread on the tires caused it to hydroplane much more than normal? I imagine insurance companies will want documentation of regular maintenance to prove that the error was not neglect on part of the owner.
A new game was recently announced on the Xbox that will provide 6-player split-screen running at 60fps.
I'm really excited for this because I am hoping it will spark other developers to emulate it. I'd settle for less visuals if the game is fun and can incorporate more players.
Sadly, more players per game can mean less copies sold, so I suspect that will hold back any possible adoption.
As it is commonly known, the Wii seems to be a great system for children. I have many extended family members who bought the Wii just for their kids.
While most of my family knows the difference between the Wii and Wii U, they refuse to upgrade. The biggest reason? The tablet screen. The screen appears frail and prone to braking. It gives the Wii U an anti-child accessory attached to a system whose biggest market is for children.
From my experience, the unskippable logos at the beginning are actually there because the game is loading and they're nicer to look at than a progress bar. For example, Halo 1 for the Xbox: if you deleted the opening.bik it would display a Loading #% screen instead of the openng video.
Why get a refurb? Because, as other users have mentioned, the refurb isn't too bad. Look at this snippet from the Apple Store: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad/ipad2_wi_fi Apple Certified Refurbished We test and certify all Apple refurbished products and include a 1-year warranty.
All refurbished iPad models also include a brand new battery and outer shell.
Plus, you can add AppleCare if you wish. To me, this makes getting the refurb as good as a new unit, but you save $50.
The best part about the new iPad is that the previous versions have gotten cheaper. So if you really want a iPad 2, you can pickup a refurb from Apple for as low as $350 (or $400 new) which makes it more competitive with some of the Android tablets out there.
I imagine something like Geometry Wars. You have a grid with trippy graphics and a bunch of stuff flying around that you need to destroy, but also you must prevent your weapon (ball, rocket, ect) from leaving the grid with the paddles. You could even play it single player with an Xbox controller by allowing each thumbstick to operate a paddle.
Does this mean no more amusing flash videos to announce new technological breakthroughs?! Okay, so it didn't happen all that often, but I still can't forget Hitachi's "Get Perpendicular" video from 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II. Like others, I'm surprised they aren't the ones consuming WD.
Interesting. Could this be because Google tends to favor results that link to google products? I ask this because I've been using Chrome at home for a while now and have never experienced a single crash, yet I still use IE at work and it tends to have issues/crash frequently enough for me to notice (it is not the latest IE though).
Only 17,000 injuries? I think we're missing the real epidemic here: toilets. There are approximately 40,000 toilet related injuries that occur each year (supposedly), and much like the example in the summary it's mostly children and the elderly at risk.
In my experience, the bus is never on time. However, because I am in a city, it tends to run every 10-15 minutes, so missing one bus isn't that big of a deal. Google has been nice for helping me get places in which I didn't know how or if I needed to transfer. It will give you directions such as "Ride bus 1 to this street, walk a block, then wait for bus 2". It has simplified the Public Transit process about as much as Mapquest* simplified getting from point A to point B in your car (before GPS was common). Sure, it can have errors, but more often than not, it's good.
Interestingly enough, many of these students may never have attempted to steal a laptop because of the legal consequences. Now that they were given permission to become comfortable with the idea, it is more possible that one of them would be inclined to steal a laptop at a later point. After all, they now know how to get past security (assuming nothing is beefed up after the experiment).
My comment was meant to be more entertaining than anything else. Growing up, my parents used to tell me that I wasn't really "driving" because I had power steering, power breaks, and an automatic transmission. You know, the whole "back in my day...." commentary.;)
Though, I will say that many manuals now have a lock that prevents you from shifting into reverse while moving forward.
I wonder how many medical procedures this could speed up across the board. If I recall correctly, most of the initial recovery time for an ACL knee injury is waiting for the bone to grow/fuse around the replaced ligament; until this starts to happen, one can't start to in-depth PT process. Could this even speed up recovery for patients who have had joint replacements by allowing the bone to fuse around the prosthesis quicker? Recovery for these surgeries would still be several months (opposed to 6 months to 1 year), but the joints would be much stronger during what is considered the "delicate" portion of recovery.
I'm surprised no one has yet to point out the best potential target of such a device: women.
We don't even need to know what they're thinking. We simply can use the device as it is currently to see if what we say is what they hear.
Most of the hearing aids I know of costs from $1100-$3000. Not to say this isn't overpriced, but the article makes hearing aid prices seem much more sensational than they really are. This price range is for the BTE (behind the ear) models- not the super hidden in the canal models. Of course, your desire to hear is more important than your desire to be fashionable, right? People hardly notice BTE aids anyway. I've cycled through several BTE hearing aids in the last 10 years (due to loss or damage); all of them were prescribed by an audiologist. My most recent one, which is two years old, cost $1700.
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I'm curious how insurance companies will deal with proper maintenance for automated cars. It's no mystery that bald tires don't handle as well in bad weather as new tires. What happens when an autonomous vehicle gets into an accident because it attempted to stop, but the lack of tread on the tires caused it to hydroplane much more than normal? I imagine insurance companies will want documentation of regular maintenance to prove that the error was not neglect on part of the owner.
A new game was recently announced on the Xbox that will provide 6-player split-screen running at 60fps. I'm really excited for this because I am hoping it will spark other developers to emulate it. I'd settle for less visuals if the game is fun and can incorporate more players. Sadly, more players per game can mean less copies sold, so I suspect that will hold back any possible adoption.
As it is commonly known, the Wii seems to be a great system for children. I have many extended family members who bought the Wii just for their kids. While most of my family knows the difference between the Wii and Wii U, they refuse to upgrade. The biggest reason? The tablet screen. The screen appears frail and prone to braking. It gives the Wii U an anti-child accessory attached to a system whose biggest market is for children.
Yet another reason why the TSA is useless.
Don't confuse this with the 4G update. This requires new hardware!
From my experience, the unskippable logos at the beginning are actually there because the game is loading and they're nicer to look at than a progress bar. For example, Halo 1 for the Xbox: if you deleted the opening.bik it would display a Loading #% screen instead of the openng video.
Why get a refurb? Because, as other users have mentioned, the refurb isn't too bad. Look at this snippet from the Apple Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad/ipad2_wi_fi
Apple Certified Refurbished
We test and certify all Apple refurbished products and include a 1-year warranty.
All refurbished iPad models also include a brand new battery and outer shell.
Plus, you can add AppleCare if you wish. To me, this makes getting the refurb as good as a new unit, but you save $50.
The best part about the new iPad is that the previous versions have gotten cheaper. So if you really want a iPad 2, you can pickup a refurb from Apple for as low as $350 (or $400 new) which makes it more competitive with some of the Android tablets out there.
Note: I am not a tablet user.
I imagine something like Geometry Wars. You have a grid with trippy graphics and a bunch of stuff flying around that you need to destroy, but also you must prevent your weapon (ball, rocket, ect) from leaving the grid with the paddles. You could even play it single player with an Xbox controller by allowing each thumbstick to operate a paddle.
Does this mean no more amusing flash videos to announce new technological breakthroughs?! Okay, so it didn't happen all that often, but I still can't forget Hitachi's "Get Perpendicular" video from 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II. Like others, I'm surprised they aren't the ones consuming WD.
That happened in my neighborhood, so they added speed bumps in the road.
Interesting. Could this be because Google tends to favor results that link to google products? I ask this because I've been using Chrome at home for a while now and have never experienced a single crash, yet I still use IE at work and it tends to have issues/crash frequently enough for me to notice (it is not the latest IE though).
If they made it more modern, people would say "They don't build'em like they used to!".
Only 17,000 injuries? I think we're missing the real epidemic here: toilets. There are approximately 40,000 toilet related injuries that occur each year (supposedly), and much like the example in the summary it's mostly children and the elderly at risk.
Does this mean that the massive polluters, such as airplanes and very large cargo boats are also giving out twice as much black carbon?
Peer review? This is a job for the Mythbusters!
Let's see, we have a fridge, now we just need a nuclear testing facility!
In my experience, the bus is never on time. However, because I am in a city, it tends to run every 10-15 minutes, so missing one bus isn't that big of a deal. Google has been nice for helping me get places in which I didn't know how or if I needed to transfer. It will give you directions such as "Ride bus 1 to this street, walk a block, then wait for bus 2". It has simplified the Public Transit process about as much as Mapquest* simplified getting from point A to point B in your car (before GPS was common). Sure, it can have errors, but more often than not, it's good.
Interestingly enough, many of these students may never have attempted to steal a laptop because of the legal consequences. Now that they were given permission to become comfortable with the idea, it is more possible that one of them would be inclined to steal a laptop at a later point. After all, they now know how to get past security (assuming nothing is beefed up after the experiment).
My comment was meant to be more entertaining than anything else. Growing up, my parents used to tell me that I wasn't really "driving" because I had power steering, power breaks, and an automatic transmission. You know, the whole "back in my day...." commentary. ;)
Though, I will say that many manuals now have a lock that prevents you from shifting into reverse while moving forward.
One could argue that those who drive a manual transmission are the only ones who actually know how to drive. ;)
I would say the probability is higher than if we invested nothing.
I wonder how many medical procedures this could speed up across the board. If I recall correctly, most of the initial recovery time for an ACL knee injury is waiting for the bone to grow/fuse around the replaced ligament; until this starts to happen, one can't start to in-depth PT process. Could this even speed up recovery for patients who have had joint replacements by allowing the bone to fuse around the prosthesis quicker? Recovery for these surgeries would still be several months (opposed to 6 months to 1 year), but the joints would be much stronger during what is considered the "delicate" portion of recovery.
I'm sure this is Google poking at the whole concept that "jobs are on the line here" as that is a sensitive issue right now.
I'm surprised no one has yet to point out the best potential target of such a device: women. We don't even need to know what they're thinking. We simply can use the device as it is currently to see if what we say is what they hear.
Most of the hearing aids I know of costs from $1100-$3000. Not to say this isn't overpriced, but the article makes hearing aid prices seem much more sensational than they really are. This price range is for the BTE (behind the ear) models- not the super hidden in the canal models. Of course, your desire to hear is more important than your desire to be fashionable, right? People hardly notice BTE aids anyway. I've cycled through several BTE hearing aids in the last 10 years (due to loss or damage); all of them were prescribed by an audiologist. My most recent one, which is two years old, cost $1700.