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Apple maps has competition![^]
I can see so many reasons why it never caught on ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's the most amazing technology and amazing thing that some GENIUS put their mind to solving.
Also, it is the utterly the stupidest thing someone has ever even thought about doing.
This is the idiot-genius at work!!! We need more products from this type of individual.
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Actually, with enough infrastructure in place it could work.
It's accurate over around twenty miles, so you'd need hubs every 20 miles. Each hub contains cassettes with direction to every location within the twenty mile range, including all the neighbouring hubs.
You drive to a hub, get the next hub cassette, drive there, hand it over and get the next, and so on until you reach your target hub and collect the "local destination" cassette.
With enough tapes and trucks to return them to the appropriate hubs, it'd work. Total Genius!
But it's spectacularly inefficient, and a bloody stupid idea! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Total Genius!
But it's spectacularly inefficient, and a bloody stupid idea!
Just like twitter. 
We must promote this and get everyone to use it.
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Well ... it'd sell well to hipsters ... :EvilGrinSmiley:
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Once the "right people" used it and blathered on and on about it every day everywhere then it'd be a huge success. Then they'd say, "Well, it's Science, so of course we are using it." And then you wouldn't be allowed to ignore it, because if you did then they'd call you a flat-earther and a rube. That's when you know you have a really great product.
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There was an even earlier US prototype that showed sequential printed instructions; IIRC from the 20s or 30s and covering trips around NYC.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If you used to love the smell of flowers, are you being scentimental?
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I suppose you'll petal flower-based puns all week, odor other option, aroma stinkers. That's a bloomin' horror about to take root that will soil my spirit as I cannot leaf them alone but must pun in kind. A thorny issue.
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modified 30-Nov-20 11:22am.
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Nah, you're just SCOVID. Scarred by COVID.
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Every time one of my Windows 10 devices reboots now (while I wasn't watching) and asks me about "settings", I automatically respond with "Remind me later" based on others' experiences (e.g. OG).
Yesterday it was my Surface and something about "crypto / bit locker keys" missing.
MS employees lying awake at night dreaming this stuff up.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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My total resolve to never allow Win10 on any of my systems is, if it ware possibly, further reinforced.
I knew, "from day one", when the unstable updates became part of the deal, that no good would come of it. Apparently I was overly optimistic.
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I am quite thoroughly disgusted with it. Every damned time it updates itself some setting or another is changed with no easily apparent way to revert it. This is very tiresome.
The latest is a utility program I have used for years on this very machine has now been "blocked by an administrator" yet my account is an administrator and I didn't do it. I changed no settings to allow this but that's the way it is now.
Visual Studio did something similar to me too. My software does NOT do this nonsense. Previous behavior is always the default.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Last weeks update killed the network settings of an SMB customer. Twice. Today it forgot all the firewall rules including their own file share rules. Network is the same.
If I turn on my developer machine and the UPC/Vodafone box is not ready, I don't have an IP, not even after the box came to life (dual-boot W7 don't have this problem). W10's solution proposition is always to reset the IP stack.
My card is made of a relative unknown manufacturer called Realtek ...
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Don't understand the mentality that has to "demonstrate" against masking and distancing policies.
Why not just go away and get infected and shut up about it?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Yep! I can, (sort of), understand some people not getting the point of wearing a mask, but to actively demonstrate against it, is a whole new level. 
And we also have the anti-vaccine brigade.
I try hard not to be judgemental, (it's not my job), but 
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I try hard not to be judgmental No need to judge. Darwin will eventually take care of the sunshines. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Normally I don't care but these morons inflict collateral damage and that is unacceptable.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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This may rapidly degenerate to soapbox and a locked thread.
It would be best solved if those who wore masks, social-distanced, and etc., got priority when hospital beds get scarce (or scarcer in many places).
For those who call it a hoax . . . we'll be kind enough to send the meat-wagon.
It's all the continuing dialectic set up with the concept "your rights end where the next person's rights begin" - but everyone, some more than others, seem to want to spray more territory than is, in fact theirs. From each side . . . . obviously it's the "them".
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I took that same position very early on ... but you can bet those same "demonstrators" will bring their squirrel guns if Mama can't get into the emergency room.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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They way some of these fanatics behave - kidnapping plots on public officials or even earlier, entering the state house (Michigan if I recall) with weapons.
I'd say the hospital security guards should gun them down if they arrive at the hospital armed.
As the Army Rangers say, in their unofficial motto: "Shoot 'em all, let G-d sort them out".
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: This may rapidly degenerate to soapbox and a locked thread.
If I was the OP, posting this crap here in the Lounge, I would be banned. Just saying...
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Slacker007 wrote: Just saying...
And you've "said" before.
I will suggest a difficult task: If you are particularly singling out my posts then perhaps you need to try to determine if there's a qualitative difference. I have no illusions as to how difficult this would be if you asked the same of me.
Now, if it's the topic as a whole and you're pointing it out to me for historical purposes, I do agree it's something I'd not have initiated, either. It's just begging for an outbreak.
At the least, take note of my final statement: fully recognizing that opinions vary and stealing a bit from Proverbs: ". . . every man is right in his own eyes . . ."
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Balboos, I am referring to the OP of this thread. OP == Original Poster and the original post.
I was not referring to you or anything you wrote.
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As I noted in my post and pointed it out - I understand fully what you mean.
As to how and why what happens to what? I don't know the full history of everything that goes on around here. I've made, certainly in the soapbox days, some pretty nasty posts. I hope they're gone from the data and not stored in the Wayback archive.
I have the weakness of not being able to leave some things unanswered/uncommented. Outside the soapbox I try to be more measured and an anti-inflammatory whilst still maintaining my principals. Or so I tell myself.
We are all trapped: we see the world from behind our own eyes.
You know, walking a few miles in someone else's moccasins and all that.
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