Over here in the UK all that is plausible but the customer would still risk the public embarrassment. At Tesco supermarkets, about 1 in every 4 times I use the "Scan as you shop" portable device I get a random check at the till. It's still practical shopping: I take one bag into the shop, scan the barcodes as I pick the products and use a specific group of tills (usually less busy) without having to take the stuff out of the bag. If I get delayed by the "random check" it's their staff that has to unpack and pack my items again. Not a huge problem for anyone involved.
The scan as a you shop is for registered shoppers only, so it would be silly to try fraud after scanning the loyalty card that links the products to your address and identity. Non-registered shoppers using the self-checkout tills possibly get more attention and more sensitive scales to be sure that the 100 grammes of cheap pastry is not really 102 grammes of expensive pastry or cheese.
How about a Nokia 3310, but with 4G and a wifi hotspot for your Nokia PC/tablet? Maybe they cannot compete in a world of $29 Android devices, but they could build PRO laptops and PRO tablets. With USB ports, Courage(tm) sockets, SD card slots, full HD screens and plastic shells with varied designs.
Don't use it. People's eyes glaze over as soon as they see the first slide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Makes sense. A presenter generally boils down what they want to convey to four or five bullet points to make a slide.
This is why good presentation normally feature someone explaining the subject, leaving the screen for showing pictures or schematics. Bullet points are useful for the notes that get distributed with the presentation file. As usual, it's not so much the tool that is bad, it's how people use it:(
A lot of people do sports in a serious and committed manner but only a small % of them make it big. All those millions of other extremely fit people with the right microbiome will be great donors for health enhancing poop transplants.
I can't wait for people to be discussing their transplants in the same enthusiastic manner that bodybuilders talk about their supplements.
Well, if you're already signed up for a service and you need a practical way to press the "order now" button, mobile apps do the job well. I book cinema tickets regularly and all I need to do is pick film, time and seat. Someone else has already pointed out that eBay also works well, so I guess it's a matter of having a solid account functionality, with payment method stored safely in advance of going shopping with your mobile.
If I wanted to buy something expensive or that needed specifying, searching for multiple alternative suppliers and then pressing the Buy now button, then yes, a bigger screen and keyboard is a much better idea.
Last year I got one of those, mainly because it included a 1 year subscription of Office that I could keep in case the hardware was not good enough.
I'll agree that the small screen (1280x800) experience was not great, even after upgrading from 8 to Windows 10. For me, not being able to use Firefox (or Chrome) using just the touchscreen was what convinced me to sell the hardware and just keep the O365 subscription. The tablet was a Lynx 7" with an atom CPU just like what powered the Tesco Hudl2 - a very good budget Android tablet. Overall it was OK hardware, but not really worth having, compared to any comparable mini PC that could be plugged in to the TV.
Suppose it's possible, and she wakes up 100 years from now, aged 14. Takes 2 tablets and cancer is gone. Or has her mind uploaded to another body. Plenty of time to catch up on what's new in the 22nd century. Sooner than you know it, she'll star in 6D adult entertainment named something like "the 21st century tart-bot".
In this case, the Conservative party can have a reasonable expectation to remain in power for a long time, especially if leaving the EU causes Scotland to abandon the union. Scotland represents some 10% of the population and regularly vote everyone-but-Theresa-May's-party.
For those interested in evil genius accomplishments and Bond-style villains, it's a good time to point out that with the chaos and paralysis that followed the recent referendum, Theresa May eventually got the law she had wanted for a long time. Merit where merit is due.
This vote and the calls for protectionism in the USA and UK strike me as odd. Back in my day... it was the Conservatives and Republicans and similar parties defending trickle-down, supply-side, trade leads to growth, which leads to prosperity for everyone.
Now there's support for reducing freedom of movement in the UK (and other places in Europe), and for the USA to erect trade barriers. All this time, the official explanation was that international trade was not a zero-sum game, that if there's more trade, everyone eventually gains and that protectionism was BAD. I can't remember if state investment on infrastructure was even worse than protectionism, but in any case it was something that Chicago school/Republican politicians just would not have.
Sounds like now In Republican America, state interventions Trump China?
I think it's more "Coal is unacceptable as an energy source from now on". The people employed in that industry would never want to hear it, but the price to pay for their retirement is much lower than the alternative that is in the horizon.
Another way is to get that Microsoft Surface Book, the one that has normal USB ports, SD card reader and a 1st party dock for extra USB, 1xGigEthernet and 2x display ports. They claim the SB is faster than the contemporary MacBook Pro, however bear in mind that Microsoft is a software company and Apple is a hardware/consumer electronics company, so they might lack the courage to keep in tune with what the market wants and needs in the way that Apple does.
Purely reversing the referendum result would not go down well with anyone, however having snap election to decide what party (coalition) has a proper mandate for something that will have impact for several decades might be a good way forward.
Would be interesting to see how Labour and Conservative MPs will vote on this issue, if in some cases they either are against their party line or against their constituents.
As things stand, the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Scottish National Party are ready for a coalition that has remaining in the EU as a main policy. If they get enough MPs to join them from the 2 main parties, we could see a proper left wing government in the UK. Unlikely, I know.
For the 2016 MacBook Pro, Apple was able to reach "all-day battery life," which equates to 10 hours of wireless web use or iTunes movie playback. That's an hour improvement over the previous generation in the 15-inch machine
India and China get some of their water from rivers that go across their borders. If these rivers are affected, many millions of people will be affected.
But you are a climate change denier if you deny that climate change is inevitable at this point.
I guess this means that climate change deniers had a winning strategy and they will have a lot of money to show for it. Shareholders will be happy until there are important regional conflicts about water supplies. Then everyone will be unhappy because no amount of money will solve the problem.
Seiko user here. I wear it day and night, whether in the swimming pool, at work or in the sauna. It never stops or needs updates or charging. I use it to find what's the time maybe 1x or 2x a day. Not wearing the watch is like when I forget my belt: the pants don't fall down but it does feel weird. I can easily imagine that younger people are accustomed to having their smartphones for everything and don't miss the watch they never began wearing.
Literally exponential, or hyperbolically exponential?:)
Joking aside, I agree with you and with Musk. I look forward to seeing a majority or self-driven cars to be on the road, or at least for mainstream cars to adopt the sensors and driving aids that Teslas have now, so I can get back to enjoying motorcycling.
It will be interesting to see how insurance companies, car manufacturers and the legislators will address AI driving aids. Will these devices become mandatory in the same way that seat belts have? Sounds like a good way to push for replacing "legacy ICE cars" with less polluting vehicles.
Have they thought of the implications this has on the trucking industry?
Probably they did.
Have they thought what this might do to low-income or fixed-income individuals who can't afford a car and suddenly left without transportation?
Yes they probably did. Even if the question shows only that you didn't read the article properly.
Where is the electricity or energy to create hydrogen fuel going to come from now that they've banned nuclear and don't want fossil fuels?
With those two options discarded, obviously has to be in renewable sources.
What will happen to the jobs of independent gasoline retailers and distributors and other people involved in that part of the economy?
Probably those jobs will be made obsolete. The guys who put whale oil in the street lamps will be happy to have someone to chat.
And what about the total cost of ownership for a vehicle with comparable range?
What about it? Is there a specific objection or just FUD?
Why should anyone in Germany or elsewhere frame the comparison using the criteria of 2016 (well, 1966) when the law is about not building new ICE vehicles from 2030 onwards? The transition from ICE to electric is not about getting a car like you can buy today, but better ("a faster horse"). It's about getting a car that does not produce the emissions that petrol/diesel do. It will look different and drive different. The maintenance is different. The range and re-fuelling are different. Parking, owning and self-driving might work in different ways as well. The auto industry is huge and very sophisticated, they will figure out how to be competitive, and someone will have to be the first to cannibalise their ICE sales. Germany is the HQ of many of the important european car manufacturers, they will do well to lead this transition otherwise some competitor will be taking sales from them.
You are not alone. What surprises me is that I don't see more people carrying a feature phone and a tablet that takes SIM cards. Take the calls on the phone, use the tablet for apps (apper, apps, luddite, etc.). With carefully chosen bluetooth gizmos you might manage to use the same headset for both devices so you can listen to music and make phone calls just by telling the BT device to switch source. One of my colleagues had a Samsung device that did that. Years later I tried the same with a Nokia BH-121 and it's not good enough for quick transitions.
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Over here in the UK all that is plausible but the customer would still risk the public embarrassment. At Tesco supermarkets, about 1 in every 4 times I use the "Scan as you shop" portable device I get a random check at the till.
It's still practical shopping: I take one bag into the shop, scan the barcodes as I pick the products and use a specific group of tills (usually less busy) without having to take the stuff out of the bag. If I get delayed by the "random check" it's their staff that has to unpack and pack my items again. Not a huge problem for anyone involved.
The scan as a you shop is for registered shoppers only, so it would be silly to try fraud after scanning the loyalty card that links the products to your address and identity. Non-registered shoppers using the self-checkout tills possibly get more attention and more sensitive scales to be sure that the 100 grammes of cheap pastry is not really 102 grammes of expensive pastry or cheese.
How about a Nokia 3310, but with 4G and a wifi hotspot for your Nokia PC/tablet?
Maybe they cannot compete in a world of $29 Android devices, but they could build PRO laptops and PRO tablets. With USB ports, Courage(tm) sockets, SD card slots, full HD screens and plastic shells with varied designs.
Don't use it. People's eyes glaze over as soon as they see the first slide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Makes sense. A presenter generally boils down what they want to convey to four or five bullet points to make a slide.
This is why good presentation normally feature someone explaining the subject, leaving the screen for showing pictures or schematics. Bullet points are useful for the notes that get distributed with the presentation file. :(
As usual, it's not so much the tool that is bad, it's how people use it
I was thinking of drying the samples and turning them into tablets, or to make enemas... but whatever floats your boat...
A lot of people do sports in a serious and committed manner but only a small % of them make it big. All those millions of other extremely fit people with the right microbiome will be great donors for health enhancing poop transplants.
I can't wait for people to be discussing their transplants in the same enthusiastic manner that bodybuilders talk about their supplements.
Well, if you're already signed up for a service and you need a practical way to press the "order now" button, mobile apps do the job well. I book cinema tickets regularly and all I need to do is pick film, time and seat.
Someone else has already pointed out that eBay also works well, so I guess it's a matter of having a solid account functionality, with payment method stored safely in advance of going shopping with your mobile.
If I wanted to buy something expensive or that needed specifying, searching for multiple alternative suppliers and then pressing the Buy now button, then yes, a bigger screen and keyboard is a much better idea.
Last year I got one of those, mainly because it included a 1 year subscription of Office that I could keep in case the hardware was not good enough.
I'll agree that the small screen (1280x800) experience was not great, even after upgrading from 8 to Windows 10. For me, not being able to use Firefox (or Chrome) using just the touchscreen was what convinced me to sell the hardware and just keep the O365 subscription.
The tablet was a Lynx 7" with an atom CPU just like what powered the Tesco Hudl2 - a very good budget Android tablet. Overall it was OK hardware, but not really worth having, compared to any comparable mini PC that could be plugged in to the TV.
Suppose it's possible, and she wakes up 100 years from now, aged 14. Takes 2 tablets and cancer is gone. Or has her mind uploaded to another body. Plenty of time to catch up on what's new in the 22nd century. Sooner than you know it, she'll star in 6D adult entertainment named something like "the 21st century tart-bot".
In this case, the Conservative party can have a reasonable expectation to remain in power for a long time, especially if leaving the EU causes Scotland to abandon the union. Scotland represents some 10% of the population and regularly vote everyone-but-Theresa-May's-party.
For those interested in evil genius accomplishments and Bond-style villains, it's a good time to point out that with the chaos and paralysis that followed the recent referendum, Theresa May eventually got the law she had wanted for a long time. Merit where merit is due.
This is why you're confused: Donald Trump isn't a Republican.
I should have written somewhere in that post that I am not from the USA. It all looks quite confusing from my outsider point of view.
This vote and the calls for protectionism in the USA and UK strike me as odd. Back in my day... it was the Conservatives and Republicans and similar parties defending trickle-down, supply-side, trade leads to growth, which leads to prosperity for everyone.
Now there's support for reducing freedom of movement in the UK (and other places in Europe), and for the USA to erect trade barriers. All this time, the official explanation was that international trade was not a zero-sum game, that if there's more trade, everyone eventually gains and that protectionism was BAD. I can't remember if state investment on infrastructure was even worse than protectionism, but in any case it was something that Chicago school/Republican politicians just would not have.
Sounds like now In Republican America, state interventions Trump China?
Instead; "Coal is going out of style."
I think it's more "Coal is unacceptable as an energy source from now on". The people employed in that industry would never want to hear it, but the price to pay for their retirement is much lower than the alternative that is in the horizon.
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
Another way is to get that Microsoft Surface Book, the one that has normal USB ports, SD card reader and a 1st party dock for extra USB, 1xGigEthernet and 2x display ports. They claim the SB is faster than the contemporary MacBook Pro, however bear in mind that Microsoft is a software company and Apple is a hardware/consumer electronics company, so they might lack the courage to keep in tune with what the market wants and needs in the way that Apple does.
Purely reversing the referendum result would not go down well with anyone, however having snap election to decide what party (coalition) has a proper mandate for something that will have impact for several decades might be a good way forward.
Would be interesting to see how Labour and Conservative MPs will vote on this issue, if in some cases they either are against their party line or against their constituents.
As things stand, the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Scottish National Party are ready for a coalition that has remaining in the EU as a main policy. If they get enough MPs to join them from the 2 main parties, we could see a proper left wing government in the UK. Unlikely, I know.
Well at least you could read the summary!
For the 2016 MacBook Pro, Apple was able to reach "all-day battery life," which equates to 10 hours of wireless web use or iTunes movie playback. That's an hour improvement over the previous generation in the 15-inch machine
(Where can I get that job?)
Too many full sized USB and Ethernet ports, legacy headphone jack, Escape key... lame.
And Sarmat means "Muffin" in Russian.
India and China get some of their water from rivers that go across their borders. If these rivers are affected, many millions of people will be affected.
But you are a climate change denier if you deny that climate change is inevitable at this point.
I guess this means that climate change deniers had a winning strategy and they will have a lot of money to show for it. Shareholders will be happy until there are important regional conflicts about water supplies. Then everyone will be unhappy because no amount of money will solve the problem.
Seiko user here. I wear it day and night, whether in the swimming pool, at work or in the sauna. It never stops or needs updates or charging. I use it to find what's the time maybe 1x or 2x a day. Not wearing the watch is like when I forget my belt: the pants don't fall down but it does feel weird. I can easily imagine that younger people are accustomed to having their smartphones for everything and don't miss the watch they never began wearing.
I don't think he meant *that* type of tree hugging...
Literally exponential, or hyperbolically exponential? :)
Joking aside, I agree with you and with Musk. I look forward to seeing a majority or self-driven cars to be on the road, or at least for mainstream cars to adopt the sensors and driving aids that Teslas have now, so I can get back to enjoying motorcycling.
It will be interesting to see how insurance companies, car manufacturers and the legislators will address AI driving aids. Will these devices become mandatory in the same way that seat belts have? Sounds like a good way to push for replacing "legacy ICE cars" with less polluting vehicles.
Have they thought of the implications this has on the trucking industry?
Probably they did.
Have they thought what this might do to low-income or fixed-income individuals who can't afford a car and suddenly left without transportation?
Yes they probably did. Even if the question shows only that you didn't read the article properly.
Where is the electricity or energy to create hydrogen fuel going to come from now that they've banned nuclear and don't want fossil fuels?
With those two options discarded, obviously has to be in renewable sources.
What will happen to the jobs of independent gasoline retailers and distributors and other people involved in that part of the economy?
Probably those jobs will be made obsolete. The guys who put whale oil in the street lamps will be happy to have someone to chat.
And what about the total cost of ownership for a vehicle with comparable range?
What about it? Is there a specific objection or just FUD?
Why should anyone in Germany or elsewhere frame the comparison using the criteria of 2016 (well, 1966) when the law is about not building new ICE vehicles from 2030 onwards? The transition from ICE to electric is not about getting a car like you can buy today, but better ("a faster horse"). It's about getting a car that does not produce the emissions that petrol/diesel do. It will look different and drive different. The maintenance is different. The range and re-fuelling are different. Parking, owning and self-driving might work in different ways as well.
The auto industry is huge and very sophisticated, they will figure out how to be competitive, and someone will have to be the first to cannibalise their ICE sales. Germany is the HQ of many of the important european car manufacturers, they will do well to lead this transition otherwise some competitor will be taking sales from them.
You are not alone. What surprises me is that I don't see more people carrying a feature phone and a tablet that takes SIM cards. Take the calls on the phone, use the tablet for apps (apper, apps, luddite, etc.). With carefully chosen bluetooth gizmos you might manage to use the same headset for both devices so you can listen to music and make phone calls just by telling the BT device to switch source. One of my colleagues had a Samsung device that did that. Years later I tried the same with a Nokia BH-121 and it's not good enough for quick transitions.