1 real guitar
1 audio cable (nothing special)
1 smartphone with HDMI output
1 TV
Has anyone tried anything like this before? I'd guess many decent phones have the necessary processing power for this.
(Simpler version: use the phone's microphone and sing.)
For most people, driving a race car or playing professional football are unrealistic activities. They also involve a large amount of physical danger.
Driving a car does, but there's room for debate on whether particular sports are more or less safe than sitting on the couch for long periods.
For example, the guitar would not be a cheap piece of plastic, but perhaps a real one that can be strung and played as normal once someone got tired of the game.
My sister has that, I think it might be this: http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocks...
In any case, it's a real guitar that does something like Guitar Hero.
Make different instruments. Allow multiple players to play the instruments at the same time, either coop, or one after the other in a battle of the bands.
Don't they do this already? Again, my sister has a drumkit and microphone for Guitar Hero, and I'm sure I've played both with and against her, consecutively and concurrently.
Even go with odd things, such as a chainsaw
OK, that would be new.
I'm single, so carrying enough food isn't difficult. I have some panniers for my bike. I'd guess many more people live within a few minutes walk or cycle to a decent shop in the UK than the USA. Mine is about 2 minutes out of my way when I'm on my way home. (And I'm not in the middle of a city, I'm in monotonous London suburbia.)
I was more impressed when I visited a friend in Sweden a couple of weeks ago for a party his parents put on. His mother had bought food for the week + for the party in one bicycle trip. She had a trailer for the bike. I don't know why they didn't own a car — both parents are software developers, so it's not through lack of money. Perhaps to stay healthy? Or for the environment?
I mixed up my units, it must have been about 40km, with 325m of ascent according to Google.
I don't know if that counts as mostly flat. I didn't know the man very well, it's possible he only cycled one way each day and took the train back (either alternating cycling to work or from work, or taking the bike on the train).
How many miles? I wonder if anyone bike over 35 miles 1/one way to commute for work. I don't mean electronic types like motorcycles.
Google says 5 miles. The off-road path is really off-road, it's not paved -- avoiding the bumps and ruts slows me down quite a bit.
I used to have a colleague who cycled about 40 miles each way around three days a week. There was a fast train parallel with his route, which gave him good flexibility in case of unexpected rain, tiredness etc.
Where I live in Illinois there are no bike lanes and no shoulders large enough to allow for safe cycling.
Cycling infrastructure didn't appear in countries like the Netherlands by itself, it took a lot of campaigning. There's a summary here: http://lcc.org.uk/pages/hollan...
I'd like to see something similar in the UK, perhaps based on childhood obesity rather than road danger. There's some progress in some areas, but nothing national.
Oh, other relevant things:
- Southern English climate, so a temperature range of about -2 to 30C and relative humidity 50-90%. 30-50% "wet days" (although it's not so frequent for the rain to coincide with my commute, and "wet day" is defined as over 0.1mm rain, which really isn't much). See the bottom of http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2...
- I rent my home, so it was easy to live such that cycling to work includes about 500m on quiet roads, then the rest on an off-road cycle path. For most other trips I pick a route avoiding any busy roads, which makes learning the route a bit harder, but the journey so much more enjoyable (and safer).
I cycle to work, which takes about 30 minutes. I don't go fast enough to need to change clothes when I arrive, but sometimes I go faster on the way home.
It's free exercise. I doubt I'd find the motivation to go to a gym, or run round a park, in my spare time. Cycling to work is easy: it's about 10-15 minutes faster than the bus, and at most 5 minutes slower than driving (which can take a *lot* longer if there's bad traffic). It's also a lot cheaper than either of those, even with a nice bicycle.
I do miss not having an obvious time to check email, read the news, read a magazine or book etc — I used to do that when sitting on the train.
Remarkable feat! Guys from Bletchley Park — who also intercepted and decrypted everything they possibly could — would've been proud...
These are the "guys from Bletchley Park" -- in the sense that it's the same government organisation.
"During the Second World War, GC&CS was based largely at Bletchley Park
If there's a market, somebody will exploit it.
The reason this expensive cable exists is to market the "mid-range" ethernet cables, which are around $200-400.
My employer is migrating, with the justification that they will no longer need to maintain Exchange servers, support will be easier (just a web browser), the included storage can replace some local SANs, and computers will require less RAM.
I'm particularly sceptical of the last claim.
I installed LibreOffice on my mum's computer in December (she no longer had a license to use MS Office, having retired from teaching). She was skeptical at first, but after a week phoned me to say it was working fine with her "complicated" accounting spreadsheet.
I don't know what she'd say to Linux at the moment, but $20-30/year could provide some motivation to switch.
Alternatively, some money to Canonical, RedHat, SuSE etc could fund improvements, and MS changing a subscription should make it easier for them to get donations.
That's brilliant!
I found the Dark Map you show, http://www.blue-marble.de/nigh... -- I'd guess it's not worth trying to do this in a place with mega light pollution, like South East England / East Coast USA? (I'm in London, where it doesn't get dark enough to not be able to see around outside at night anyway, but the nearest sky as dark as yours looks to be thousands of miles away, perhaps northern Norway or the Sahara.)
Oh yes we would, most people aren't going to want to take the gamble of being picked up by a car that the last person smoked in, left covered with fast food wrappers and stains, plus not having to wait for a pickup for an unexpected trip to the store.
I take that gamble whenever I use a train, and it's very rare that someone has smoked inside (it's illegal), and unusual for there to be food smells.
Maybe people from your country can't behave in public, in which case the rest of the world will be first to have fleets of self-driving cars.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
