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Technically not, but imagine if normal gamers can log-in...
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2012-03-28, 21:53 | Link #622 |
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Nuclear fusion research looking rather promising...
If we can figure out how to make this work, the energy problem will cease to be a problem, and it will open all sorts of new opportunities... You can ship anyone you want, but I'll keep steaming around on the deuterium+tritium ship! </verybadpun>
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2012-03-28, 22:16 | Link #623 | |
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2012-03-29, 12:17 | Link #625 |
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National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS -- As Long As It's Completely Useless
So I guess they want us to regress technology now?
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2012-03-29, 12:22 | Link #626 | |
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2012-03-29, 13:27 | Link #627 |
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Basically they are following Aviation regulatios. A GPS is a fine thing to have....but you still need to look out the window to make sure you aren't about to run into a mountain or another airplane.
Along the same vain, a GPS is fine and it can tell you directions and stuff...but you still need to watch the road to evade other cars, or see pedestrians...squirrels...road blocks. Those sorts of things. You can't do that if you watch the GPS the entire time. There recommende changes are impractical, however. While on a large scale map of say a county, having the car move and the map not would be fine...in city driving where you are on the block by block scale to figure out which street to turn...it is not. It takes less time to see where you need to turn if your car is always centered and pointing in your direction of travel that to try to figure our which way is left when you are pointing southeast in the bottom corner of the map. The funny voices might be distracting. Never used one that wasn't a default. The Yoda one...or BRIAN BLESSED, might be distracting.
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2012-03-29, 14:07 | Link #629 | |
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(Two hour drive, it was able to connect for all of 14 seconds. Luckily I was able to read what exit I needed before it lost all connections again.) |
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2012-03-31, 13:31 | Link #630 | |
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And yes, his voice is now (well, has been for a while now) commercially available on TomTom devices. Also, to add some more Tech News: LG begins mass-production of flexible plastic E-ink displays
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2012-04-01, 01:54 | Link #631 | |
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But 'point of view' map rendering or alternate 'north fixed' maps are both essential. Dammit, how about taking the incompetent drivers off the road?
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2012-04-01, 04:41 | Link #633 | ||
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2012-04-01, 04:58 | Link #634 |
temporary safeguard
Join Date: May 2004
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Just give us heads-up displays already.
Give them a standard interface like hdmi for plugging in a 3rd party nav and everyone is happy. The black box car electronic systems with no room for modular upgrades are the real problem. It's just stupid that you have to put the nav on your windshield and have cables run all over the place. Meanwhile the car's built in system are obsolete after 2 years. Instead you should be able to plug these things into standard ports (say 2.5" cartridge slots) and have them feed into your dashboard. Phones should be able to access the car's audio system as a "headset device". Why does the nav have to figure out the car's speed over gps, when the car knows exactly how fast it's going? Just link it to the nav and improve navigation ten fold. And so on... These things would already exist, if car makers would offer open standard interfaces. |
2012-04-01, 05:49 | Link #635 | |
I disagree with you all.
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- size. Though that's mostly because I have an old Kindle. It takes a fairly big pocket to hold it. At the same time, the screen's too small for some of uses I'd like to put it to (basically, reading stuff with pictures in them...). - resolution. Again, watching images is a problem. - contrast. It's not too bad, but it's not that good either. - color. I don't actually miss it, but it might be nice. |
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2012-04-01, 10:03 | Link #636 | |
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2012-04-01, 10:13 | Link #637 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2012-04-02, 02:15 | Link #638 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Just implement a splitscreen mode in your ebook reader, then you could display two pages independently.
Sony actually makes a tablet with dual 5.5 inch screens but it's a bit small for ebook use and I have no idea if the dual screen implementation works well or not. Quote:
j/k (also, for those that aren't aware, the GPS Vexx mentioned exists, but it's Japanese market only)
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2012-04-02, 03:09 | Link #639 | |
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*smashes a GPS system over outfoxzero's head*
She will ONLY call ME that. You hear me? Nobody else! Stop stealing my lolis! Quote:
Come to think of it, since the PSP can be rigged to become a GPS system, we could actually rip the voice from the original system and work from there, homebrewing it onto the PSP.
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