I doubt Eric Schmidt stands in a queue waiting for a table to become available and it's a bit of an insult to think he expects other people to do that.
If a place is so busy you have to queue, good chance there is a deserted place just down the road waiting to dole out a nice meal. Or if there isn't simply go home and cook your own food just like in the good old days. Save a pile of money too
Restaurant-queuing seems to be a cultural phenomenon associated mostly with America. It's not unusual to see a mile-long queue for a restaurant in America but in other parts of the world if there's a few waiting by the door people deem it to be busy and quickly move on to the next place.
As far as I know currently available lithium batteries still wear out after 1,000 cycles and slightly more for LiFePo4. There have been lots of breakthroughs but nothing for mass production. So if they go for this they'll have to buy a massive pile of new batteries every 5 years or so? Doesn't seem like a great solution
Yes, that's the word I read out internally to myself when I see 'TBD'.
In a world plagued with three letter acronyms, I suggest that the more common ones should be converted into full fledged words by means of stuffing them with vowels as required to make them easy to pronounce. Are ya with me?
Even before 1888 buggy whips were known to be pretty much useless; people had long figured out it was more effective to whip the horse rather than the buggy
A few million dumbfucks won't be able to use their phones for a few minutes/hours. This is a disaster scenario that companies are planning for well in advance? If you are so important that you can't be missed for a few hours while you go to see an eclipse obviously you shouldn't be going at all.
People are too easily distracted by random nonsense on the internet, kids these days. Look at all the covfefe about Trump this morning. Did that add value to anyone's life? No.
More places should turn off the internet for a while. Even IoT sensors could buffer their stats until it's switched back on. I would recommend switching it off for 2-3 days in the summer and 24th-27th of December. Give people a chance to rediscover the outdoors and all of that.
When the nuclear power plants have 20-30 years left in them. They'll get some feel-good votes from the anti-nuclear crowd now and it's effortless for some other government who'll be in power 15-20 years from now with looming power shortages to decide to keep them open or to build a few more.
It's more of a homage really. It reminds me more of a 6300 than a 3310. I was hoping for a monochrome LCD with maybe a few extra menu options and voice over LTE. I always found the monochrome LCD much easier on the eye than the present-day colour ones. They could have gone e-ink if there wasn't a suitable LCD available without deviating too much from what the 3310 used to be.
Expect the 'Yet more big brother' articles from UK to ramp up a few notches after the Brexit, when they will be the law unto themselves to "protect against terrorists". We had a quiet few years after the last labour government finished
Paying money every month for a couple of sine waves coming out of a cheap tinny Chinese speaker.
Paying money to paypal for the privilege of paying. Paypal fees are f**ing ridiculous
We'll live in a freer world with those tech parasites gone
Self driving cars being the main culprit for making things boring, but the rest of them don't fill me with excitement either. The future seems to be clean, sterilised, free from madness, politically correct and by-the-book. It also seems to be filled with capitalists who want to automate their entire business and live a life of hedonism on the bahamas while everyone else supposedly keeps working for their money.
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Surely there is an AI-Based app that will let them escape the Smog. AI and Apps are the answer to everything now.
I doubt Eric Schmidt stands in a queue waiting for a table to become available and it's a bit of an insult to think he expects other people to do that. If a place is so busy you have to queue, good chance there is a deserted place just down the road waiting to dole out a nice meal. Or if there isn't simply go home and cook your own food just like in the good old days. Save a pile of money too
Restaurant-queuing seems to be a cultural phenomenon associated mostly with America. It's not unusual to see a mile-long queue for a restaurant in America but in other parts of the world if there's a few waiting by the door people deem it to be busy and quickly move on to the next place.
Can f*ck right off.
As far as I know currently available lithium batteries still wear out after 1,000 cycles and slightly more for LiFePo4. There have been lots of breakthroughs but nothing for mass production. So if they go for this they'll have to buy a massive pile of new batteries every 5 years or so? Doesn't seem like a great solution
Same as TBD means
Yes, that's the word I read out internally to myself when I see 'TBD'.
In a world plagued with three letter acronyms, I suggest that the more common ones should be converted into full fledged words by means of stuffing them with vowels as required to make them easy to pronounce. Are ya with me?
Even before 1888 buggy whips were known to be pretty much useless; people had long figured out it was more effective to whip the horse rather than the buggy
Barely enough to supply power to Ireland To really make a difference it would need to be about 450GW
A few million dumbfucks won't be able to use their phones for a few minutes/hours. This is a disaster scenario that companies are planning for well in advance? If you are so important that you can't be missed for a few hours while you go to see an eclipse obviously you shouldn't be going at all.
People are too easily distracted by random nonsense on the internet, kids these days. Look at all the covfefe about Trump this morning. Did that add value to anyone's life? No.
More places should turn off the internet for a while. Even IoT sensors could buffer their stats until it's switched back on. I would recommend switching it off for 2-3 days in the summer and 24th-27th of December. Give people a chance to rediscover the outdoors and all of that.
When the nuclear power plants have 20-30 years left in them. They'll get some feel-good votes from the anti-nuclear crowd now and it's effortless for some other government who'll be in power 15-20 years from now with looming power shortages to decide to keep them open or to build a few more.
It's more of a homage really. It reminds me more of a 6300 than a 3310. I was hoping for a monochrome LCD with maybe a few extra menu options and voice over LTE. I always found the monochrome LCD much easier on the eye than the present-day colour ones. They could have gone e-ink if there wasn't a suitable LCD available without deviating too much from what the 3310 used to be.
Expect the 'Yet more big brother' articles from UK to ramp up a few notches after the Brexit, when they will be the law unto themselves to "protect against terrorists". We had a quiet few years after the last labour government finished
They'll have less work to do. Some might even be made redundant. Who'd a thunk their day in the sun would be so short?
Does this refer to Ballyhooly?
The idea is that you use it for giving Jeff Bezos more money
Stop importing pork from China. You wouldn't know what kind of filth would be in that.
Torrent, cryptocurrency. Spotify uses DRM. DRM is evil. I am surprised to see someone on Slashdot supporting these muppets.
There has been a great centralisation going on since 2005. Be great to see it come to an end
Paying money every month for a couple of sine waves coming out of a cheap tinny Chinese speaker.
Paying money to paypal for the privilege of paying. Paypal fees are f**ing ridiculous
We'll live in a freer world with those tech parasites gone
Hopefully they never come back up! It would be great to live in a world with the above gone. Hopefully the FANG companies are next to go.
You are lucky if they wait till the following week. Most of mine call within the hour
They should try Sailfish OS
The 90's were much better, despite the lack of technology. Even the internet was better before it went all mainstream and commercial
Amen to that, bruvva!
Self driving cars being the main culprit for making things boring, but the rest of them don't fill me with excitement either. The future seems to be clean, sterilised, free from madness, politically correct and by-the-book. It also seems to be filled with capitalists who want to automate their entire business and live a life of hedonism on the bahamas while everyone else supposedly keeps working for their money.
Tl;dr? The future is a load of sh1t really