In Florida, we have a toll transponder system too. Recently waves of notices have been going out that the older style transponders are being deprecated for newer ones. I always thought that was kind of silly because the new style transponders are currently compatible with the existing system just like old ones are, so it's not really a "protocol" type change (I'm a software guy, not an EE, so there is likely some RFID stuff I don't know about).
The biggest change? The older transponders would beep when scanned, the newer ones no longer have that functionality. Sounds like perpetual tracking is coming to my state.
People will absolutely find out if their prints are indeed uploaded or stored on their device. Apple knows this, they've learned it the hard way when someone found out about the storing of geo-data and made an app to show the travel log of any iPhone user a few years ago.
Did anything change as a result? Did iPhone users suddenly wake up and not use their iPhones? Or switch to Android (ha ha, same privacy concerns, different companies)?
They got caught, took a few licks from the press, but ultimately the future refused to change.
Egyptians got rid of their dictator and then their elected government without using lethal force against them. Sure, afterwards the military did kill some Islamists, but the protesters themselves never had to kill anyone. The police were unwilling to fight the protesters too much because they basically supported them.
The price for change remained, it was merely the payment terms that were rescheduled.
It's a cheap second machine for anyone who plans to play the new Pokemon games. You need one to play, and one to trade, in order to get the interesting evolutions and version exclusives. It works like this. You play A all the way through. Then you play B, trade over the pokemon from A, get version exclusives, and breed. Then you play A one more time, trading all the eggs/babies over for a great starter set. Yes, the Pokemon franchise forces you to own two machines.
Or you can just enjoy the game on one machine, with one Pokemon title. Come across someone with the alternate game and can make a trade or two? Great! Filling up the Pokedex completely isn't fun at all, it's more of a chore than grinding in a JRPG.
I have never "caught 'em all" ever, and I don't feel like I've had a diminished game experience in any way whatsoever. It's actually quite liberating.
Do they, really? Tablet/phone games are rarely anything to write home about unless you like incredibly simplistic games, akin to playing browser games. They will never properly compete with full game releases when actual gamers are concerned. It just won't happen. There will always be a market for those seeking more substance in their games. The fact that they haven't gone belly up despite the iPhone/iPad being out as long as it has is a testament to that. We always hear about how doomed the handheld console market is over phones because of "99 cent games", but it never actually happens.
The lack of good inputdev is the main thing holding back phone and tablet games. And good controllers and buttons add weight and bulk, so, complete agreement, portable dedicated consoles are here to stay.
At least until telepathic control becomes a thing.
Lets be honest: 3d is a failure in this space. A huge nummber of 3DS users never turn the 3d on, and for a lot of the market it's not a selling feature. Making a cheaper unit without it is smart, as price is a huge factor in portable gaming sales.
But then they also stripped out a speaker (going to mono instead of stereo) and came up with this really awkward form factor. Why did they do that? This thing is going to be a lot more awkward to carry around because of that.
It's a proper sequel to the ill-fated Game Boy Advance Micro. GBAM removed classic Game Boy / Game Boy Color compatibility, 2DS removes 3D compatibility. Kill compatibility with existing accessories (all GBA and GBASP attachments for the former; circle pad pro, charging dock for the latter).
... the screen and main control button protection a clamshell design gave you.
it seems it will come with a protection case. At least is what the kid used to put away his 2DS on Nintendo's video at YouTube.
Heh, "accessories sold separately" I'd bet.
It's wild that a portable system aimed at the under-7 crowd would intentionally have less protection from scratches. I think Big N is counting on children crying about how scratched up their 2DS is so they can get a second one.
Believe it or not, some people do still buy and play board games. You almost always have to go to a solid game shop to get decent ones, but they exist.
The idea, perhaps, is more along the lines that 95% of board games are crap and would never ever get published, and therefore, would never ever get played.
Except, of course, Kickstarter lets you self-publish. Unfortunately, that doesn't put the game in the 5% category with all the other published games, it's still crap except people will play it once or twice before forgetting about it on a shelf and hoping it's be worth something in 50 years since the print run was so small.
Because the US throwing it's military weight around has served us so well in the past. All we're doing is breeding next-generation terrorists this generation and bad blood to last many more generations.
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.
I was thinking the same thing. The country as it is today is, in my opinion, not much of something to be proud of.
Take a poll and you'll see what the majority thinks. Flags are all up and high all over!
Depends on the poll. When you start seeing polls about how "the majority of Americans xyz" where xyz is something controversial, it's to manipulate us into thinking we stand alone in the minority. The questions are asked several different ways until they get the numbers they want, and those numbers are then used to isolate and discourage the outraged.
Personally, I would like to see -1 posts lose anonymity and have the username or IP address exposed. People obviously not adding to the discussion and trying to be disruptive should be exposed.
I'm not old enough to tell for sure, but there's a huge movement in modern discourse for the acceptance of ad hominem attacks as substitutions for actual discussion of ideas. "You must be republican", "you must be white", "check your privilege", "seriousness of the charge".
Of course anonymous comments have less value. It's boring to actually argue the message with logic and reason. They'd rather just call them names and attack the person.
Interesting observation about those dumb CNN non-anonymous threads: with a global audience, an individual's name doesn't even mean that much. It's value as an identifier only applies to data-mining. A name "Sally Smithers" might mean something in a small town, but with a few billion people online, it might as well be "Anonymous Nobody".
A drug that tricks the body to respond as if it has been exercising will work on all muscles. Real exercise only works on the muscles that you use. Overuse of this drug would be expected to cause muscle growth where you don't want it. Bulk up those facial muscles.
Why yes I would like to lift a car by wiggling my ear.
Steroids, contrary to the public perception, can be used responsibly and with few health consequences, especially by men, to more easily lose fat and gain muscle.
It's not quite a free lunch, you can't sit on your couch and become Ronnie Coleman, but it will accelerate things.
Oops, sorry. Because we must protect the "integrity" of sports (and the money they bring in) we decided Steroids should be scheduled drugs
They'd probably do the same thing if something like this actually worked.
Considering all the pressure on athletes to break records, I would expect a Juice League to earn much more than their non-steroid counterpart, as it would be more exciting for the fans.
Or you could read the article and see that in the areas considered for the tests, many of the common safety tests wouldn't even work, they couldn't roll the car over with standard techniques, they couldn't crush the passenger compartment with a standard crusher, and they had a HUGE crumple zone.
Also, for the roof crush test the crushing machine broke before the roof did.
The Tesla Model S is an extremely well-engineered machine. It's expensive, yes, but in most respects it's simply superior to equivalently-priced luxury cars. I'm really looking forward to their next generation, which is intended to be priced more mid-market (probably in the 30s).
As the price comes down, I wouldn't expect these testing results to stay the same. The safety far exceeded the ratings by quite a bit and extremely exceeded minimums required. There is a cost to overengineering, which is likely to get trimmed when building down to a price.
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"and accident rates haven't significantly changed."
false.
The have been dropping significantly.
Accident rates haven't.
Death rates have.
We have safety technology to thank for that, not cops writing tickets to drivers stopped at a light.
In Florida, we have a toll transponder system too. Recently waves of notices have been going out that the older style transponders are being deprecated for newer ones. I always thought that was kind of silly because the new style transponders are currently compatible with the existing system just like old ones are, so it's not really a "protocol" type change (I'm a software guy, not an EE, so there is likely some RFID stuff I don't know about).
The biggest change? The older transponders would beep when scanned, the newer ones no longer have that functionality. Sounds like perpetual tracking is coming to my state.
People will absolutely find out if their prints are indeed uploaded or stored on their device. Apple knows this, they've learned it the hard way when someone found out about the storing of geo-data and made an app to show the travel log of any iPhone user a few years ago.
Did anything change as a result? Did iPhone users suddenly wake up and not use their iPhones? Or switch to Android (ha ha, same privacy concerns, different companies)?
They got caught, took a few licks from the press, but ultimately the future refused to change.
it isnt that we have something to hide. the reason we are all upset is that the NSA is spying on people illegally without any repercussions at all.
Isn't that what our government says every time they propose a new invasive search? "If you're not doing anything illegal, you have nothing to hide."
Of course, I suppose that's why it's No Such Agency.
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No turns out I'm just dumb and can't read.
Dang, you're cold /.
Egyptians got rid of their dictator and then their elected government without using lethal force against them. Sure, afterwards the military did kill some Islamists, but the protesters themselves never had to kill anyone. The police were unwilling to fight the protesters too much because they basically supported them.
The price for change remained, it was merely the payment terms that were rescheduled.
It's a cheap second machine for anyone who plans to play the new Pokemon games. You need one to play, and one to trade, in order to get the interesting evolutions and version exclusives. It works like this. You play A all the way through. Then you play B, trade over the pokemon from A, get version exclusives, and breed. Then you play A one more time, trading all the eggs/babies over for a great starter set. Yes, the Pokemon franchise forces you to own two machines.
Or you can just enjoy the game on one machine, with one Pokemon title. Come across someone with the alternate game and can make a trade or two? Great! Filling up the Pokedex completely isn't fun at all, it's more of a chore than grinding in a JRPG.
I have never "caught 'em all" ever, and I don't feel like I've had a diminished game experience in any way whatsoever. It's actually quite liberating.
Do they, really? Tablet/phone games are rarely anything to write home about unless you like incredibly simplistic games, akin to playing browser games. They will never properly compete with full game releases when actual gamers are concerned. It just won't happen. There will always be a market for those seeking more substance in their games. The fact that they haven't gone belly up despite the iPhone/iPad being out as long as it has is a testament to that. We always hear about how doomed the handheld console market is over phones because of "99 cent games", but it never actually happens.
The lack of good inputdev is the main thing holding back phone and tablet games. And good controllers and buttons add weight and bulk, so, complete agreement, portable dedicated consoles are here to stay.
At least until telepathic control becomes a thing.
Hey, if your kid can live without those
Kid?
The number of adults I see playing Pokemon whenever I fly across the country is legion.
Also I really need to stop forgetting to pack my 3DS.
Also I need a 2DS so I can trade Pokemon with myself. MY POKEMANS. LET ME SHOW U THEM.
Even if you don't intend to play it, Streetpass makes merely carrying it around useful. :)
Lets be honest: 3d is a failure in this space. A huge nummber of 3DS users never turn the 3d on, and for a lot of the market it's not a selling feature. Making a cheaper unit without it is smart, as price is a huge factor in portable gaming sales.
But then they also stripped out a speaker (going to mono instead of stereo) and came up with this really awkward form factor. Why did they do that? This thing is going to be a lot more awkward to carry around because of that.
It's a proper sequel to the ill-fated Game Boy Advance Micro. GBAM removed classic Game Boy / Game Boy Color compatibility, 2DS removes 3D compatibility. Kill compatibility with existing accessories (all GBA and GBASP attachments for the former; circle pad pro, charging dock for the latter).
... the screen and main control button protection a clamshell design gave you.
it seems it will come with a protection case. At least is what the kid used to put away his 2DS on Nintendo's video at YouTube.
Heh, "accessories sold separately" I'd bet.
It's wild that a portable system aimed at the under-7 crowd would intentionally have less protection from scratches. I think Big N is counting on children crying about how scratched up their 2DS is so they can get a second one.
On top of that, 2DS is a ridiculous name and it made me think I'd transported into April Fools' Day 2014.
I'll admit I did a calendar check that today wasn't April Fool's day
Believe it or not, some people do still buy and play board games. You almost always have to go to a solid game shop to get decent ones, but they exist.
The idea, perhaps, is more along the lines that 95% of board games are crap and would never ever get published, and therefore, would never ever get played.
Except, of course, Kickstarter lets you self-publish. Unfortunately, that doesn't put the game in the 5% category with all the other published games, it's still crap except people will play it once or twice before forgetting about it on a shelf and hoping it's be worth something in 50 years since the print run was so small.
Because the US throwing it's military weight around has served us so well in the past. All we're doing is breeding next-generation terrorists this generation and bad blood to last many more generations.
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.
I was thinking the same thing. The country as it is today is, in my opinion, not much of something to be proud of.
Take a poll and you'll see what the majority thinks. Flags are all up and high all over!
Depends on the poll. When you start seeing polls about how "the majority of Americans xyz" where xyz is something controversial, it's to manipulate us into thinking we stand alone in the minority. The questions are asked several different ways until they get the numbers they want, and those numbers are then used to isolate and discourage the outraged.
For all of those not old enough to remember Star Wars was ret-con'd to Star Wars Episode IV
Personally, I would like to see -1 posts lose anonymity and have the username or IP address exposed. People obviously not adding to the discussion and trying to be disruptive should be exposed.
I'm not old enough to tell for sure, but there's a huge movement in modern discourse for the acceptance of ad hominem attacks as substitutions for actual discussion of ideas. "You must be republican", "you must be white", "check your privilege", "seriousness of the charge".
Of course anonymous comments have less value. It's boring to actually argue the message with logic and reason. They'd rather just call them names and attack the person.
Interesting observation about those dumb CNN non-anonymous threads: with a global audience, an individual's name doesn't even mean that much. It's value as an identifier only applies to data-mining. A name "Sally Smithers" might mean something in a small town, but with a few billion people online, it might as well be "Anonymous Nobody".
A drug that tricks the body to respond as if it has been exercising will work on all muscles. Real exercise only works on the muscles that you use. Overuse of this drug would be expected to cause muscle growth where you don't want it. Bulk up those facial muscles.
Why yes I would like to lift a car by wiggling my ear.
Do you get to choose the gender(s) of the person(people) you get laid with (by)? Or do you not really care?
I'm not gay, but it's nice to get a little attention every now and then.
You do all realize that muscles are not the whole story? You need parallel development of capillaries, veins, ligaments, joints, lungs, and bones.
If it doesn't do those, you might end up with huge muscles that tear away from their connections the first time you exert them.
For the average person, muscles are just there to look good, not actually to climb mountains or run farther.
Steroids, contrary to the public perception, can be used responsibly and with few health consequences, especially by men, to more easily lose fat and gain muscle.
It's not quite a free lunch, you can't sit on your couch and become Ronnie Coleman, but it will accelerate things.
Oops, sorry. Because we must protect the "integrity" of sports (and the money they bring in) we decided Steroids should be scheduled drugs
They'd probably do the same thing if something like this actually worked.
Considering all the pressure on athletes to break records, I would expect a Juice League to earn much more than their non-steroid counterpart, as it would be more exciting for the fans.
So where do you live that you produce no garbage?
Only ABS or PLA plastic, cleaned and ground into small pieces.
Those clear and crinkly plastic berry boxes are PLA.
Or you could read the article and see that in the areas considered for the tests, many of the common safety tests wouldn't even work, they couldn't roll the car over with standard techniques, they couldn't crush the passenger compartment with a standard crusher, and they had a HUGE crumple zone.
Also, for the roof crush test the crushing machine broke before the roof did.
The Tesla Model S is an extremely well-engineered machine. It's expensive, yes, but in most respects it's simply superior to equivalently-priced luxury cars. I'm really looking forward to their next generation, which is intended to be priced more mid-market (probably in the 30s).
As the price comes down, I wouldn't expect these testing results to stay the same. The safety far exceeded the ratings by quite a bit and extremely exceeded minimums required. There is a cost to overengineering, which is likely to get trimmed when building down to a price.