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The real problem with shifts like this is the transition period.

I agree that that, considering every luddite separately, that each did have valid concerns. Every person cares forst on foremost about themselves and/or their immediate family.

And when new things make old things redundant, of course it negatively affects the person whose job revolved around the old thing. And this in turn negatively affects their families.

So, they are srewed. But the new thing is staying and from that point on, every "new" adult that looks for a job in that area will know nothing but the new thing. Will operate this new thing and will make a nice life for himself.

In the end it will be viewed that the new thing is so much better and maybe society is actually better of having the new thing instead of how things would be if the old thing was still used, but the persons who were the last to rely on the old thing of jobs and thus prosperity will always be the ones who were screwd by this new technological advancement.

Same here. Although it's been a very long time since I bought on eBay as well.

Now that I make some serious money, I'd rather buy from Amazon. Not the marketplace either. Just plain old Amazon. Where I know I am dealing with a company should problems come up and not some kid in their parents basement.

As far as selling goes, I come to know that all the buyer has to do is complain to eBay they never got the goods. How do they proof that? As far as I know they don't. They just write a colorful mail to eBay claiming nothing arrived and they sent the money via paypal and just as easy, the payment gets reversed.

I use gmail and search for stuff. That is about it. And because of that, I only log in like once a day into gmail, check mails and log out. Why would I want to stay logged in after that? This site only showed me that it knows nothing about me which is intended.

That's too bad. The light bleeding makes playing games like Elite Dangerous really cumbersome. You can even dial down the cockpit LED brightness but that doesn't help with the bleeding. Because then the LEDs are too dull to read everything allright. Since the game plays mostly in space and the only light sources are the cockpit LEDs makes this problem really stand out.

Also, the general blurryness of everything outside of the center of the lenses make racing games way less fun than they are supposed to be. Everyone who drives in teh real world knows you keep your head mostly in one position and then peek down by moving your pupils to take a short glance at your instruments or the mirrors. All you see with the Vive is a blurry mess unless you move your entire head down until the intruments are dead center of your field of view. Not really the realism one would expect from a VR racing game, imho.

All this is just too bad. Because I think while roomscale is pretty neat it is still very much work to set up. I mean by clearing your room, moving furiture etc. And then you still don't get to act freely because you will always know that you can't go very far because you would run into something. Kinda immersion breaking if you ask me. But where VR could really shine is with cockpit simulation games. No furniture moving needed. Just sit down, put the VR goggles on and of you go. Too bad that the light bleeding and the off center blurryness hinders this at the moment. Heres hoping this will be changed in the future.

I feel you on the boring parts of F1. This, coupled with the idiotic halo they just have to put on the cars next year will mean that I spend my weekends a bit differently.

But, to the matter at hand, the vid only seems to be blocked when it is embedded on websites. I had a "watch this on youtube" link in the message and when I clicked there it took me to youtube.com and the vid started playing. Whatever the reasoning is to block embedded vids but not the vid altogether is beyond me. But then again, so is uglyfying the car with apendages that make it look like a flipflop...

Yup, that's the other thing. Obviously, the greens don't want nuclear power but so far, the renewable energy can't satisfy the current demand. Let alone an incresed one because of EV's.

I get nightmares thinking what that will do to electricitry prices. The graph of how they rose is already awful.

And now imagine if the tax collected on mineral oil for gas falls away cause everyone drives electric. And know that there isn't a specific car electricity to tax.

Thinking the government would just eat this loss without thinking of ways to make the people pay would just be naive.

>go to whole foods and use their monster-fast chargers. You can do a whole car in just a few hours

I'm sorry but things like this always come up and I can't keep my head from shaking at these types of comments. So, you don't have other options to charge and simply go somewhere else where there is a charger that can do a car in "a few hours"?!

So, I guess you say if you can do it, everybody else in that situation can, too? A short thought experiment, if everybody else did exactly that, how often would you say you will find your charger occupied? And since it is "a few hours" per car, you are in for a nice long shopping spree in whole foods while you wait for the guy in front of you to finally drive off. IF you are already next in line, that is. "Hi Honey, sorry, it'll be a couple of hours till I'm home. What? No, I'm not working late, I just want to gas up the EV and there is one person in front of me."

And before you say "But there are two or three chargers there" I say: And all would be constantly occupied if EV adoption would take of as many here wanted it to. The only way this could technically happen would if if at a snap of a finger suddenly every parking space had a charger available. Then the EV industry could go "Buy an EV today, no matter where you park, you can always charge it" Before something like that is in place, the odd charger at whole foods ONLY works as a solution as long as only a tiny subset of driver choose an EV. If not, you will find yourself cursing all the other EV drivers that constantly block your charging spot and you curse at anyone who still tries to drum up support for EV adoption. Cause that just means an even longer queue to get to your charger.

My Win7 Ultimate installation is looking better and better. At least three more years of peace of mind while being entertained by stories like this.

One can only imagine the state of this mess in three years. Let's not forget that win10 is basically just one year old. And they already have it in such a ridiculous state.

Battery life seems not like a surprise. Isn't Apple only selling 2015 MacBooks without a discrete GPU? So you basically only have Intel Graphics in there which would mean a charge lasts much longer if it doesn't need to drive an NVidia or AMD card as well.

Sounds fine for people who are resistent to motion sickness.

But, especially in a medical setting, what would they do if the patient became nauseated during surgery? Surely that can't be beneficial.

And lying in bed while all senses tell your body you are stationary and only your eyes say "no, we are actually standing and the world is moving around us" will cause motion sickness. It is a normal response from the body.

So you would be basically switching the sedatives with drugs to combat motion sickness when you want to use VR.

>I instinctively think it's a risk, but reality says otherwise.

What an argument. Do you happen to have Auto insurance? How about fire insurance? Did your house burn down even once? Mine didn't so far and yet here I am still saying fire insurance is very much needed if you own a house.

And that is exactly what the MagSafe was. Insurance incase this happens. And as you can already tell by the other responses, this does happen. And even if it only happens once, you will look at thousands of dollars worth of damage.

So, no thank you with the non MagSafe MacBooks. Having a choice if I want that yanked off my table to the left or the right depending on which USB-C connector I used to charge it is not a selling point.

>Why have a popular vote if the majority winner doesn't determine the outcome?

Except you dont have one. The popular vote in US elections is nothing but a meaningless statistic. Nobody in their right mind would compaign pretending its all about the popular vote when it really is about EC votes.

Plus, since it is about EC votes, republicans in California would never even bother to go vote cause it would never change the outcome that California will be blue while democrats do likewise in Texas.

If you want to take the popular vote into account, you need to make the election alla bout the popular vote before election season starts. You can't keep the existing system and then critize the result when it doesn't fit your wanted outcome.

I don't think the whole point of the game could have been to "clear" the levels. I mean, Mario auto runs and auto hops enemies. Save from having to manually jump pits its not really that hard to get to the end of a level.

I think the whole point is to get a coin highscore and/or collect the purple coins in every level.