My Xmas wish-list this year was basically an Arduino starter's set (Arduino, breadboard, various LEDs and other components), in the hope that kids and I could have fun together trying to build stuff.
As a followup, why would they need to find an SD card? Yes, the data on it might be a threat, but the SD card itself isn't a threat to the flight or the people on it.
Not a threat until someone opens up the headrest screen and inserts the SD card into the computer there, infecting the whole plane with a Mac-virus and forces it to fly into a building!
Things might have changed, but last I flew (even under an I94-W), we still had to apply for the right to travel to the US.
Basically, getting into the US is either with a Visa, or Visa Waiver, but flying to/from the US (independently of you being allowed in) is a separate program, whose name I cannot remember right now.
At its best, the American school systems (esp. higher education) is ahead of the rest of the world. On average, the American school system is still better than most places, but also well behind several countries. When it's at its worst, few areas can keep up with being as shitty and/or dangerous.
My suggestion: look for a school in a different country. Heck, just move north across the border, and the average kid's chances go up.
Citation please. Most major cities do hold people to the law
This is only meant as information, or an anecdote if you will, and not as a counter-point.
In Brussels, there is a round-about* that CANNOT be entered/exited legally if there is any other traffic. I took driving lessons here (because I recognized that given how Belgians drive, the traffic laws must be significantly different from everywhere else), and driving instructors agreed that it could not be done. Even to the point that if your practical exam ends up there, you're bound to fail.
So, if autonomous vehicles will never be allowed to break the law, I'm expecting a recurring pileup there as cars simply refuse to enter/exit the thing, and angry Belgians start ramming them.
*: Don't bother asking for the name - I forgot it long ago, and never cared enough to look it up
I have had close-to EVERY PS4 owner I know ask me to get PS+, so we could play online together - I've told each-and-every-one of them no, since paying monthly rent to play your bought-and-paid-for games is stupid. But this peer-pressure, your mates asking that you please spend 5 Euro/month to play Destiny, or Call of Halo, or Star Wars BattleField or any other full-price, multiplayer-centric game, will make a lot of people go, "fuck it, I'll spend the money", and Sony+MS are basically counting on you breaking under the strain of your friends' pleading... and then you also start pleading the next friend to "please buy non-product so we can use core feature of this 60 Euro game".
Here in Belgium, pretty much all ISP provided routers use channel 1 exclusively (at least the ones from Belgacom/Proximus). Result: I can see up to 30-odd wireless networks, the vast majority on channel 1.
And, no, no channel-hopping going on, as best I can tell.
I know Jolla is in a bit of a rough patch at the mo' (*cough*cough*), but have a 2nd look, perhaps in January when there should be more news about the financials ?
Independent of what options actually exists, American Beer is horribly-tasting, and horribly-smelling, beverage, produced in the US-of-A, sort-of resembling generic Lager after it has been pissed back out.
Previous console generations did similar things - they are allocating a certain amount of hardware for the OS and future features. Later, when plans change, or features are implemented more optimally than expected, the allocated resources are reviewed and released to games where possible. Example from the PS3 is RAM (the locked cores there weren't possible to release, partly due to defects), and now Sony has concluded that they can make-do without the previously-allocated core.
So in a manner of speaking, yeah, the OS and planned features no longer require the core.
I personally went for a PS4 as an "upgrade" to my PS3, but if looking at blankly recommending either, I'd still say PS4 at this point: (cue people calling me a shrill)
There are a few exclusive on XBox that people would be interested in (HALO?), though on the topic of exclusives it is a matter of checking out what games you want to play. The XBox-unique Kinect is dead in the water currently, as are the Playstation's PS-Move things.
A different thing to look at, though, is what do your friends/your children's friends play on - there is something to be said for being able to play with others, especially people you know, and the social features and multiplayer gaming on the 2 platforms are mutually exclusive (XBox support cross-play with MS' gaming platform on Windows, and Sony allows full cross-play with Windows/Mac/Linux games where applicable).
Finally, if you weren't looking at specific games limited to the current gen, I'd say to get a second-hand XBox360 or (and?) PS3 - they are plenty entertaining.
1) Upper management demands it, and keeps pushing for it. 2) Economics. When they start losing customers, and not winning new accounts because it looks old and crufty, then they'll make UI changes.
But according to you, the company is expanding.
I can confirm that #2 will not happen if there are other product sold by the company.
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My Xmas wish-list this year was basically an Arduino starter's set (Arduino, breadboard, various LEDs and other components), in the hope that kids and I could have fun together trying to build stuff.
As a followup, why would they need to find an SD card? Yes, the data on it might be a threat, but the SD card itself isn't a threat to the flight or the people on it.
Not a threat until someone opens up the headrest screen and inserts the SD card into the computer there, infecting the whole plane with a Mac-virus and forces it to fly into a building!
Things might have changed, but last I flew (even under an I94-W), we still had to apply for the right to travel to the US.
Basically, getting into the US is either with a Visa, or Visa Waiver, but flying to/from the US (independently of you being allowed in) is a separate program, whose name I cannot remember right now.
At its best, the American school systems (esp. higher education) is ahead of the rest of the world.
On average, the American school system is still better than most places, but also well behind several countries.
When it's at its worst, few areas can keep up with being as shitty and/or dangerous.
My suggestion: look for a school in a different country. Heck, just move north across the border, and the average kid's chances go up.
Citation please. Most major cities do hold people to the law
This is only meant as information, or an anecdote if you will, and not as a counter-point.
In Brussels, there is a round-about* that CANNOT be entered/exited legally if there is any other traffic.
I took driving lessons here (because I recognized that given how Belgians drive, the traffic laws must be significantly different from everywhere else), and driving instructors agreed that it could not be done. Even to the point that if your practical exam ends up there, you're bound to fail.
So, if autonomous vehicles will never be allowed to break the law, I'm expecting a recurring pileup there as cars simply refuse to enter/exit the thing, and angry Belgians start ramming them.
*: Don't bother asking for the name - I forgot it long ago, and never cared enough to look it up
I still prefer my driver to be an UberMench
Same way that assault rifles sold by US company ends up in the hands of terrorists in Paris?
People are idiots?
I have had close-to EVERY PS4 owner I know ask me to get PS+, so we could play online together - I've told each-and-every-one of them no, since paying monthly rent to play your bought-and-paid-for games is stupid. ... and then you also start pleading the next friend to "please buy non-product so we can use core feature of this 60 Euro game".
But this peer-pressure, your mates asking that you please spend 5 Euro/month to play Destiny, or Call of Halo, or Star Wars BattleField or any other full-price, multiplayer-centric game, will make a lot of people go, "fuck it, I'll spend the money", and Sony+MS are basically counting on you breaking under the strain of your friends' pleading
Yeah, I'm a cheap-ass, why do you ask?
Here in Belgium, pretty much all ISP provided routers use channel 1 exclusively (at least the ones from Belgacom/Proximus).
Result: I can see up to 30-odd wireless networks, the vast majority on channel 1.
And, no, no channel-hopping going on, as best I can tell.
if less than 1/3 of your spaceship, in parts-count, are struts, you're not doing it right.
I know Jolla is in a bit of a rough patch at the mo' (*cough*cough*), but have a 2nd look, perhaps in January when there should be more news about the financials ?
See: American Beer
Independent of what options actually exists, American Beer is horribly-tasting, and horribly-smelling, beverage, produced in the US-of-A, sort-of resembling generic Lager after it has been pissed back out.
What, so suddenly the OS doesn't need them?
Previous console generations did similar things - they are allocating a certain amount of hardware for the OS and future features.
Later, when plans change, or features are implemented more optimally than expected, the allocated resources are reviewed and released to games where possible.
Example from the PS3 is RAM (the locked cores there weren't possible to release, partly due to defects), and now Sony has concluded that they can make-do without the previously-allocated core.
So in a manner of speaking, yeah, the OS and planned features no longer require the core.
Next time it is Snowden's bday, declare proudly that you're staying offline and disconnect! ... or, declare it the day before or something.
So they have computers, DVD players and TVs, but not radios?
I personally went for a PS4 as an "upgrade" to my PS3, but if looking at blankly recommending either, I'd still say PS4 at this point:
(cue people calling me a shrill)
* Larger game library (currently)
* minutely better HW specs
* upcoming VR headset (H1'16)
There are a few exclusive on XBox that people would be interested in (HALO?), though on the topic of exclusives it is a matter of checking out what games you want to play. The XBox-unique Kinect is dead in the water currently, as are the Playstation's PS-Move things.
A different thing to look at, though, is what do your friends/your children's friends play on - there is something to be said for being able to play with others, especially people you know, and the social features and multiplayer gaming on the 2 platforms are mutually exclusive (XBox support cross-play with MS' gaming platform on Windows, and Sony allows full cross-play with Windows/Mac/Linux games where applicable).
Finally, if you weren't looking at specific games limited to the current gen, I'd say to get a second-hand XBox360 or (and?) PS3 - they are plenty entertaining.
1) Upper management demands it, and keeps pushing for it.
2) Economics. When they start losing customers, and not winning new accounts because it looks old and crufty, then they'll make UI changes.
But according to you, the company is expanding.
I can confirm that #2 will not happen if there are other product sold by the company.
Do you know how many engineering hours have gone into teaching drivers to make left-turns?!?
Americans. You call a liquid "gas" and now you call another liquid "coke".
Can't be any worse than referring to a flashlight as a torch.
One word: "Chips"
Well, this explains why some of the N-Space people got all antsy when we asked about VR in SCL :)
Which for me is a big disappointment. I'd already have an iPad Pro if it could pair a Bluetooth mouse to go with the bluetooth keyboard.
No BT mouse support? Damn, was thinking to suggest an iPad Pro for wife, but I'm pretty sure this would be a dealbreaker.
Danish politicians (incl a foreign policy rep) are already on record for recommending bombing women and children in ISIS/ISIL/Daesh areas.
Welcome to the internet, where everything is limited to a single country.
Better: the actually-harder the gameplay is, the fewer kids and newbie trolls there are ..
Example: EVE Online (oh, wait)
Eating my own dog-chow: https://twitter.com/GNious/sta...
Feel free to retwat it at people who need to stop using Flash :)