That's exactly when you DO need a cell. Frankly, only a twit focuses on the day-to-day convenience of these devices before the massive gains in travel safety. If your phone doesn't work in the middle of nowhere, it's broken.
I find walkie talkies and other forms of radio much more reliable than any cell coverage I've had (ATT, T-Mobile, VZW, and Virgin Mobile/Sprint) when out in the boonies. But that's just me.....
a gun that might not fire.
Sounds like a good gun for the police to use. Get back to us when every police officer in the country has one of these and is forbidden to use a traditional weapon.
Considering gun owners are more likely to get shot by their own gun than shoot an intruder, I'd consider this a win.
I don't know what USPS service you have, but... if you have USPS service so exceptional that you find it to be truly better than all other alternatives, well, great, good for you. It just doesn't seem to mirror the experience that I and everyone else I know has.
Society determined (relatively, for the US) long ago that every resident must be able to have access to mail delivery services for a variety of functions, such as:
Civic responsibilities (e.g. voting, being informed of jury duty, &c.)
Delivery of goods (e.g. medicine)
Communications (e.g. letters for correspondence)
This not only includes city dwellers which constitute the vast majority of
So no legal reason no to donate food.
When considering the court of law, correct.
When considering the court of public opinion, incorrect.
Who watches the watchmen?
Yes, the NSA and the greater intelligence community clearly needs oversight, but will anyone trust someone with that much power any more than we currently trust the NSA?
And to preach to the choir, but shouldn't the conversation shift to asking:
The truth from the consumer's perspective, though, is that the consumer will likely look at more than just a $15 price difference when assessing the value proposition between a $699 HP and a $684 Dell.
Isn't Netflix using Amazon's hosting solutions, though? If so, then the decision to use Cogent would come down to Bezos & Co.
How sweet a victory would it have been if RSA had "accidentally" swapped said weakened & hardened encryptions, resulting in the NSA using the compromised method while the rest of the world continued to humm along as usual?
That's a bit harsh. Did you say the same thing when Samuel Clemens's autobiography was released, 100 years after his death?
And like all proper researchers, the duo concludes that further research is necessary to determine "the optimal approach for urinal usage"
I believe the HR issue is money related and more related to SAP upgrade costs than key card (and I believe we paid SAP to integrate our key card access).
Aha! So that's why Elon builds his own IT backend system!
FFS, load the thing.
Or he can take a play out of Raising Arizona's playbook:
Well Boy, you done served your twenty 'munce, and seeing as you never use live ammo, we got no choice but to return you to society.
By your definition arrows, cannonballs, and cows thrown via trebuchet are also "bullets."
Cannonballs are large bullets. Compare cannons to muskets and then ask yourself what ammunition muskets used.
It's not a lens problem. The lenses are trying to correct for the fact that current games display 3D images meant for display on flat surfaces. The lense is there to distort to image and make it wrap around your eyes, but the portion of the image you're wrapping is distorted and lacking detail, even before the lens smears it across your peripheral vision. This is a method for making the initial image much better and full of data so that less aggressive smearing is necessary, and the per-smear image has more data in it to begin with.
Wouldn't the next-step solution be to use curved OLED screens and develop rendering engines which take into account the spherical nature of the monitors?
I'll second Brother for the occasional printing at home. We have the MFC-7860DW, which replaced our old Dell USB laser printer (similar to the 1110) I used for the previous 8 or so years. The MFC has been very nice for us, however I've noticed that the ethernet connection has been more reliable than the wireless connection (wireless has sometimes had issues waking up from standby.) IPv6 support, duplex support, both wired & wireless support for when you need to use the printer on the go, it's been well worth the investment.
I've thought about adding a dye-sub/thermal photo printer to our collection at home, but concluded that they're too expensive for us. Photo printing at home is more expensive than either shutterfly or CVS/Walgreens, and we've determined that the price premium for the convenience of printing at home isn't worth it for us since we feel comfortable waiting for a package to arrive from Shutterfly or swinging by the pharmacy when we're in the area.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
