Yes. And being behind them on a hill was, well, annoying.
As I've said, for those people who are towing things on a regular basis, please buy an SUV. For the other 99.9% of the universe, buy a sedan. They're safer, consume less gasoline, and they're easier for the rest of us to see around.
You do realize that it's 2017? So 10 years ago...2007...so yeah, 21st Century.
Back in the 20th, it was surprising to see someone with a portable DVD player on a flight, but not particularly uncommon. You might see one or two. Now-a-days, I see far more people using their tablet to watch a movie.
In fact, I was surprised that United recently started removing all the TVs from the cabins and they run a video server on the flight. You have to use their United app or have an appropriate DRM plug-in installed in your browser, if you want to watch a movie. But they have pretty good selection of movies on a video server.
So the days of, "Oh, I'm flying westbound so I'm struck watching this movie which I never wanted to see in the first place" are pretty well over, even if you don't rent something. About my only complaint is that I'll rent a movie before I get on the plane only to discover that the plane is outfitted with this service and they have that movie available for watching, so I just wasted money renting a movie I could have watched for free.
I actually got fed--in coach--about six months ago.
Yes, you can get food on an airplane in coach. The difference is, now-a-days, you have to pay for it rather than including it in the price of the ticket.
This is NASA, come on, a science institution. Using Fahrenheit?
(The following is a joke)
I'd like to point out that NASA also lands probes on Mars. The Europeans with their vaunted metric system? They tend to crash.
Heck, the one time NASA used a little bit of the metric system? Whammo!
It's like a virus. Start including the metric system and the whole thing gets screwed up!
(The preceding was a joke. Yes, I know the issue with the ESA lander had nothing to do with the metric system. Yes, I know the issue with the NASA lander was converting between metric and imperial units.)
"APFS has issues with Fusion Drives": News. "OMFG! Apple is gonna make their beta testers reformat their drives! WTF, Apple, not supporting their own drives!": Not News.
I gotta admit, I was kind of curious what APFS did with Fusion drives...
This year's prize in the physics category went to Marc-Antoine Fardin, who used fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?"
A lot of people want a way to unlock their phone quickly and conveniently without using a passcode like 5555 or 1234. Touch ID did a very good job. However, there wasn't a way to have only a screen on the front and still use Touch ID. So it's back to the drawing board. This is what Apple came up with.
I don't think there are a lot of people who specifically want facial-recognition for unlocking their phones. They just want a more convenient way to quickly unlock their phone.
"...Now get off my lawn! These kids today with their edge-to-edge screens and virtual home buttons. Why, back in my day, we have a real home button and we were happy to have that!"
I don't mind not having a real home button. It was a pretty good idea back when Android tablets did it.
And I'd love an edge-to-edge screen...on my iPhone LE. Don't really need one with a phablet.
But it looks nicer without all those controls cluttering up the content. At least until you actually want to do something...
"We have a page with 100 checkboxes and it looks ugly. Can you fix it?" "Sure. We'll come up with less ugly checkboxes." "Do you really need 100 checkboxes?" "Well, figuring out how to do a UI without 100 checkboxes will take time. Coming up with less ugly checkboxes is easier." "Okay..." "And Marketing will love it because they can slap a 'new and improved UI!' sticker on it." "Sounds good to me."
Depends. 20% more and fully funding my insurance contribution is great.
But if I'm working in an open floor-plan for a boss that doesn't know his ass from his elbow at a company that has some shady business practices and they've had a ton of turnover recently and everybody who works there seems really miserable? My mental health is worth more than a 20% raise, thank you.
When you say it doesn't "understand" something, is it not understanding what you want to do or something else?
For example, if I just mutter into Siri, it will show what words it thinks I'm saying and will try to make sense of them. You'll see them show up. ("Pearl for the for the for?" "Macgruder Holbrook?" "Who phone phone phone?")
However, if I clearly say, "Navigate to" and then mutter something, it try to make sense of it ("Navigate to Aruba?" "Navigate to Hoover Woman Ever?" "Navigate to Poopoo poopoo poop?")
So is it not understanding "Navigate to"? Or is it not understanding to where you would like to navigate?
Founded just over six years ago, Postmates has shaped up to be one of the more prominent of the startups leading the challenge against Amazon and others in the world of on-demand deliveries.
Hm. And I've never heard of them. Granted, I don't go for food delivery, but I've heard of Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Doordash.
Well, I have no problem with being spied upon--as long as I benefit from it.
In the above example, if I'm paying good money to go to such-and-such restaurant and I love duck, it might be worthwhile for the restaurant to actually have duck that night. So I have no problem with the restaurant keeping track of what I order when I come in--it ensures that they might have something I enjoy.
On the other hand, the restaurant sells that information to my insurance company which looks over what I eat and decides that I have an unhealthy diet and promptly raises my health insurance premiums. I do not benefit from this and I'm aghast that the restaurant would spy on me!
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Yes. And being behind them on a hill was, well, annoying.
As I've said, for those people who are towing things on a regular basis, please buy an SUV. For the other 99.9% of the universe, buy a sedan. They're safer, consume less gasoline, and they're easier for the rest of us to see around.
Can you bring up a plastic Jesus?
You do realize that it's 2017? So 10 years ago...2007...so yeah, 21st Century.
Back in the 20th, it was surprising to see someone with a portable DVD player on a flight, but not particularly uncommon. You might see one or two. Now-a-days, I see far more people using their tablet to watch a movie.
In fact, I was surprised that United recently started removing all the TVs from the cabins and they run a video server on the flight. You have to use their United app or have an appropriate DRM plug-in installed in your browser, if you want to watch a movie. But they have pretty good selection of movies on a video server.
So the days of, "Oh, I'm flying westbound so I'm struck watching this movie which I never wanted to see in the first place" are pretty well over, even if you don't rent something. About my only complaint is that I'll rent a movie before I get on the plane only to discover that the plane is outfitted with this service and they have that movie available for watching, so I just wasted money renting a movie I could have watched for free.
Meanwhile, here in the 21st Century, the rest of us just rent movies before we get on the flight so we can watch what we want to watch.
Some airlines even have video servers with a batch of movies that I can watch.
I actually got fed--in coach--about six months ago.
Yes, you can get food on an airplane in coach. The difference is, now-a-days, you have to pay for it rather than including it in the price of the ticket.
This is NASA, come on, a science institution. Using Fahrenheit?
(The following is a joke)
I'd like to point out that NASA also lands probes on Mars. The Europeans with their vaunted metric system? They tend to crash.
Heck, the one time NASA used a little bit of the metric system? Whammo!
It's like a virus. Start including the metric system and the whole thing gets screwed up!
(The preceding was a joke. Yes, I know the issue with the ESA lander had nothing to do with the metric system. Yes, I know the issue with the NASA lander was converting between metric and imperial units.)
Depends on how you interpret it.
"APFS has issues with Fusion Drives": News.
"OMFG! Apple is gonna make their beta testers reformat their drives! WTF, Apple, not supporting their own drives!": Not News.
I gotta admit, I was kind of curious what APFS did with Fusion drives...
1) Most important - it will work for the elderly.
Which is pretty important...
This year's prize in the physics category went to Marc-Antoine Fardin, who used fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?"
Choo-Choo Bear!
So it's definitely going to blow up? Cool...
A lot of people want this feature.
I'd debate that.
A lot of people want a way to unlock their phone quickly and conveniently without using a passcode like 5555 or 1234. Touch ID did a very good job. However, there wasn't a way to have only a screen on the front and still use Touch ID. So it's back to the drawing board. This is what Apple came up with.
I don't think there are a lot of people who specifically want facial-recognition for unlocking their phones. They just want a more convenient way to quickly unlock their phone.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? $1000?? For a PHONE?? One that I'm going to be forced to replace in two years?
I dunno. I'm still using my four year-old iPhone 5S, though it is just about at the end of it's life...
"...Now get off my lawn! These kids today with their edge-to-edge screens and virtual home buttons. Why, back in my day, we have a real home button and we were happy to have that!"
I don't mind not having a real home button. It was a pretty good idea back when Android tablets did it.
And I'd love an edge-to-edge screen...on my iPhone LE. Don't really need one with a phablet.
Yeah. I enjoyed the "1 in 1,000,000" comment. "Of course, family members might be a close enough. So if you have an evil twin... (cue laughter)"
Fortunately if electric makes serious inroads on ICE engines I should be able to get gas for 1$
Not necessarily. What will end up happening is that they'll just pump less oil and make less gasoline so that they can keep the price up.
No, I would think the price of gasoline will go up, not down, because there will be fewer customers, eliminating some of the "economy of scale."
Kind of like John Sculley.
I remember being at WWDC in '91 when they were introducing System 7. The man was an utter snooze. Hell, even Bill Gates gave a better presentation...
HTT [...] plans to build networks of tubes [...]
Kind of like the Internet...
But it looks nicer without all those controls cluttering up the content. At least until you actually want to do something...
"We have a page with 100 checkboxes and it looks ugly. Can you fix it?"
"Sure. We'll come up with less ugly checkboxes."
"Do you really need 100 checkboxes?"
"Well, figuring out how to do a UI without 100 checkboxes will take time. Coming up with less ugly checkboxes is easier."
"Okay..."
"And Marketing will love it because they can slap a 'new and improved UI!' sticker on it."
"Sounds good to me."
The vast majority of positions advertised would either go unfilled indefinitely or just get canceled without being filled.
Or would be used as proof that, "Gosh, we just can't find anybody with the necessary skills, which is why we need H1bs..."
Depends. 20% more and fully funding my insurance contribution is great.
But if I'm working in an open floor-plan for a boss that doesn't know his ass from his elbow at a company that has some shady business practices and they've had a ton of turnover recently and everybody who works there seems really miserable? My mental health is worth more than a 20% raise, thank you.
When you say it doesn't "understand" something, is it not understanding what you want to do or something else?
For example, if I just mutter into Siri, it will show what words it thinks I'm saying and will try to make sense of them.
You'll see them show up. ("Pearl for the for the for?" "Macgruder Holbrook?" "Who phone phone phone?")
However, if I clearly say, "Navigate to" and then mutter something, it try to make sense of it ("Navigate to Aruba?" "Navigate to Hoover Woman Ever?" "Navigate to Poopoo poopoo poop?")
So is it not understanding "Navigate to"? Or is it not understanding to where you would like to navigate?
Well, according to the article:
Founded just over six years ago, Postmates has shaped up to be one of the more prominent of the startups leading the challenge against Amazon and others in the world of on-demand deliveries.
Hm. And I've never heard of them. Granted, I don't go for food delivery, but I've heard of Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Doordash.
I'm thinking it's Obama's fault.
What about sites like The Onion or Ironic Times?
Well, I have no problem with being spied upon--as long as I benefit from it.
In the above example, if I'm paying good money to go to such-and-such restaurant and I love duck, it might be worthwhile for the restaurant to actually have duck that night. So I have no problem with the restaurant keeping track of what I order when I come in--it ensures that they might have something I enjoy.
On the other hand, the restaurant sells that information to my insurance company which looks over what I eat and decides that I have an unhealthy diet and promptly raises my health insurance premiums. I do not benefit from this and I'm aghast that the restaurant would spy on me!