nowhere in the article does he say that your pizzas will probably be delivered by autonomous cars within 5 years.

Can the submitter/editors be that bad at reading comprehension or is slashdot just making up/ approving clickbait?

Of course there will be experiments and publicity stunts but there is no way that most pizza deliveries will be done by autonomous vehicles within 5 years, current delivery drivers are just too cheap to compete with.

You can only get a grocery list app on a $1000 phone?

> You can purchase an FL/FD to ES adapter and continue to use those lens from 1964 if you wish.

But you lose infinity focus or there is some glass in the adapter which degrades the image quality.

They could have added electronics to the mount and kept it backwards compatible, but they chose not to. To me that says that they might do it again in the future, especially with full frame mirrorless around the corner. Also they usually stop producing parts for lenses after a few decades, so "lifetime" might really only be 20 years if the lens stops working, and with all the electronics in there today I think the rate of failure is much higher than on older mechanical only lenses.

I have canon cameras but have bought a few third party lenses. The canon lenses certainly hold their value much better but in a lot of cases I'm not willing to spend the premium - I don't think they will still be usable for my grandchildren.

According to the produce pages they also removed the gyroscope in the 2017 8" version.

The way to approach this is not explicitly eliminating/reducing left turns, you just need to factor in an average additional time to complete left turns. You would think this would but simple enough but my current Garmin GPS can't even account properly for stoplights. It grossly underestimates how much time will be lost waiting at them, preferring routes with high speed limits and long traffic lights every few miles instead of smaller roads or slightly out of the way freeways. Obviously traffic comes into play more when trying to account for stop lights and left turn delays, but many devices are traffic aware now.

and Rubin wasn't a huge fan of it either:
"If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances. That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle."

I have high hopes for this new theory that can account for the galaxy rotation problem ( and the emDrive ): http://physicsfromtheedge.blog...

from TFA: "At around $4 a subscriber, ESPN is the most expensive channel in the cable business"

I would pay $5 for just ESPN and the online ESPN content that you can't get now without spending $50+/month. You can deliver it online, there is no reason to have $20/mo "capital costs and maintenance" for one company's dedicated cable running to everyone's house just for TV when the internet is already there.

I'm sure they really won't let people choose just the channels they want without first buying a package of basic crap that is available online or OTA for free and that few people really want. I'm not going to pay $50/month now to get ESPN, and I'm not going to pay $25/month for ESPN in some pseudo-a-la-carte plan either.

Despite all the scare mongering, if you are reasonably healthy you can probably get a a high deductible plan for a few hundred dollars a month. I started my own business 6 years ago and have had my own insurance through two different providers. Things are different from state to state, but I used this site: http://www.nationalhealthaccess.com/ to compare and get some basic quotes.

I have a $10000 deductible policy that costs just over $100/mo for me and my wife. We were able to get health insurance for our newborn through a state program and that has a very low deductible and that costs a little over $100/mo. In Wisconsin no matter how much money you make kids under age 18 can get some sort of care for reasonable cost. If we weren't in Wisconsin we'd probably be on a $300/mo plan for all three of us with a $2000 deductible, which is still pretty cheap in my opinion. If your health is one of the most valuable things in your life, it makes sense to me that you should be prepared to spend a corresponding amount of your money on it. I dread the prospect of it becoming "free" in the US.

If you don't have enough money in the bank to cover a few worst case years of $2k-10k medical bills, you probably shouldn't be leaving your corporate job. Make sure you get your new coverage started BEFORE you leave your current job, COBRA is very expensive and in my opinion is a last resort to avoid coverage gaps.

The health insurance situation in the US can be vastly improved with one simple change: Make it ILLEGAL for any group (usually employers) to get preferential pricing from health insurance companies. Insurance should cost the same for any two people in the same situation, including taxes. I have my own business so I have to pay a lot more for health insurance. I know companies pay part of employees premiums, but the total of employer contribution plus employee contribution plus taxes is a lot less than it is for people who are self employed or work for a small business.

This one simple change:
1. makes health insurance companies compete - people will shop around instead of just getting a provider chosen for you by your employer.
2. makes everyone realize what they are really paying for heath care. When things come out of a paycheck like taxes, people seem to accept it more than if they had to write out a check for it each month. If people realized how expensive it is they would be outraged and more likely to shop around or get involved politically. Most people don't need the low deductible, cover-everything plans some of employers offer at low costs - they would probably lower their coverage if paying for it out of pocket. Anytime people aren't paying with their own money costs skyrocket (just ask politicians). "Oh look, he has good insurance, let's run this test and this treatment too, your insurance will cover it"

The issues of pre-existing conditions and people who can't afford any form of health insurance are different. If you let anyone get medical treatment without paying, and cover pre-existing conditions, then you are no longer talking about INSURANCE which is a hedge against unforeseen problems. Then you are talking about government-run health CARE, which would likely be the end of the private health insurance industry as we know it. Whether or not that a good thing is an a different argument, but with all of their lobbyists I don't see it happening anytime soon, so let's start by fixing health insurance, and go from there.

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