Girl: Did I fall asleep?

Doctor: For a little while.

Girl: Shall I go now.

Doctor: If you like.

Only because the market has developed around boat owners who all have trucks and trailers. In places where this isn't the case, dry and wet docks are plentiful and affordable. How much better would it be to have a service come pickup the boat and drop it in the lake for you and by the time you get there Saturday morning it is fueled and ready to go.

The post WWII rugged, independently capable of all feats American has been a horrible target for the populous. Weird given that WWII was the epitome of teamwork and interdependence in all things. Really the only distinguishing feature from today's specialization to the point of incompetence 2 degrees to the left or right, is entirely the idea of having perspective enough to go grab the right person for a given job or realize one must imitate it for a bit.

I love trucks, but I f***ing hate all the guys who drive one for status or compensation. I would never daily drive a truck for commuting (long term). It's a working class tool that should look well utilized. If you like trucks for show, get one for show and drive a midsize car for commuting. You can pay for it with the gas savings.

At least the sports car guys can claim to actually drive their cars in the intended fashion on a regular basis, and put money back into society with speeding tickets. Maybe we need a fine for driving down a highway every day with an empty truck bed.

No, no battery technology has not gone significantly further. You are confused with CPU / RAM / Flash trends in the mobile market which have markedly improved battery life (e.g. Surface Pro 1 vs 2: Ivy Bridge vs Haswell - battery didn't change). We're still on Li-ion variants and will be for some time.

Tesla building there own battery plant allows some optimization of form factor and cell packaging which will come out to appreciable but nothing huge in weight savings and increased safety.

A bigger portion with aluminum is the stamping / machining / welding / inspection / prep & paint steps are all massively more expensive. Aluminum parts have higher manufacturing fail rates and you run the machinery way slower because the metal is more sensitive.

They might be able to go with aluminum skin and select non-structural parts with a steel body. Several Japanese and a few European luxury cars use this technique. The Infinity G / Q series uses aluminum hoods (and skin?) with steel bodies for example. Structural aluminum is just pricey and difficult to work. From a material science / engineering standpoint, aluminum always fatigues to failure by definition; so designing, building, and validating aluminum parts takes a lot more time and expense.

Linux is just as crashy as Windows. Sure that means about a 100x decrease in frequency from the 90's, but it's still absurdly buggy and subject to the constant patch cycle bullshit. That said, it's fine as an isolated from the ECU / BCM as an infotainment system. Heck, it can even control the A/C for all I care as long as it never hooks as software into the ECU (a hotline to tell the ECU to engage the A/C clutch is fine).

Let's keep automotive ECU systems in the stone age with assembly or occasionally QNX. I suppose I could get behind a BSD variant if the code was stripped down enough and custom tested against fixed hardware enough.

Actually, the US military has already been playing with drones like this that use inductive latch hooks to recharge off the local grid.

So it sounds like it really catches the cusp of income ranges. I make an upper 5 and can pull the trigger, but this seems like a toy for the low 6 figure incomes.... A teaser for the 4k denied so long by the bulls**t adoption of 1080P in the computing space.

For gaming (not text or web) if the refresh is high enough (30 hz is not), scaled resolutions look fine. We've hit high enough resolutions where certain scaling operations just look like anti-aliasing instead of blurring.

Scaling rightfully got a bad name when it was upscaling 800x600 content to a 1024x768 or 1280x1024 17" monitor. It looked blurry. Scaling 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 on a 27" monitor looks really good. I'm more interested on the gaming side if these 4K TVs will take 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 at 60 hz and maintain refresh rate (technically if it is 120 hz it should, but I have my doubts about their scaler). Doing productivity work at full resolution would mostly be fine at 30 hz, if occasionally annoying.

Not fishy at all imho. PST files are a bitch, and a surprising number of organizations, public and private use crappy email systems with no auditing, backups, or archival systems.

This should be a throw the damn meter maids and other officers who were writing tickets for that spot in jail for conspiracy. They should have been turning in work orders for the the roads department to fix the paint arrangement.

Same fate should befall any judges who were presented with pictures of the spot as defense by people ticketed there.

Most of our government problems can be quickly remedied by apply the law equally to government agents. Arrest them regularly for fraud and conspiracy when it is easy to prove and the incentive to be corrupt goes away.

Diverse might mean all men versus men and women though. Give a similar age range, experience level, and size of group; an all white males group are unlikely to come close to a group of white males and females. Competition for mating opportunities works in the workplace amazingly well. This is fine as long as the engagement term of the group is of a length where no poisonous amorous relationships or jealousies develop... so in the software world of 3-6 month long projects, it's great.

The effects can be further exaggerated on shorter projects by using more single and unwed males and females of similar backgrounds.

The bumpy surface they have is going to be horrendous for noise pollution and suspension damage. An amorphous glass surface with a friction texturing is probably also going to cause more tire wear than concrete. They only vaguely guess at lifespan of the friction texture and don't address how it handles loading up (bits of rubber and car oil getting caught in the pores)

Further the bumpy surface will likely cost commuters more in mileage due to being a rough road than it will produce in electricity. It's an economy of scale thing where everyone loses a few tenths of a mile to a gallon, but that adds up quick over thousands of cars per day.

The implementation cost issues are being completely ignored. We use asphalt and concrete because of economies of scale. This technology is orders of magnitude more expensive per mile.

How about the hallmarks for what qualifies as dementia...

It's dementia when they are stealing your medicine.

It's sweet old lady / kind delusions when they tell you how much they love the cake you brought them last week for their birthday (who is this person? --just go with it).

An interesting remedy would be a "code view" mode for spreadsheets where calculations were displayed as nested operations and such. It would require a stronger intent manager that could recognize the same sequence of code running on rows 4-53 until column N, but it could work. Sure, this mostly sounds like a database, but instead give it the modularity and ease of current spreadsheets and everything works out.