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It needs some work. I haven't tried it out with a friend so take the lack of social function commentary with a grain of salt. Gerbil and Ethan mentioned the lack of in-app chat and social aspects. There's some nice things that could use a more robust chat/social function like the Miimoto voices and the Miifoto. The Miimoto voices can be a social/chat goldmine, as with the Miifotos. The Miifotos are really nice since you can say position your Miimoto to be sitting on a mountain ridge, cursing the screwed up landscape but then you have to share it via some other app. One of the most common apps I use is Snap Chat and it feels odd using it to share a Miifoto. An in-app Miifoto with Miimoto voice message would be amazing. Performance wise, one of the things that's been annoying me is the amount of loading required. Barring network/wifi issues, my apps are snappy. Miimoto is doing local loading and it's doing it every single time I change the screen. It's annoying. It's a 3D app so maybe I should give it some slack?

Ethan, I'm just trying to not pull in science fiction in predicting where we will be. I'm also not saying it is impossible. There are many ways to go about it which are already said by the article you posted. Besides signage/road markings, a car can use parked cars, side walks and other common static fixtures as reference points. Signage and road markings are just the (ideally) most consistent. There are also modeling/database to check up against which is mentioned in the article. All these solutions will have costs attached to them, along with margin of error that leads to discussions about safety and ultimately, liability if all these systems fail.

I was surprised to learn that they used LiDAR. LiDAR is the best surveying tool I know of. It's awesome for research purposes and to see it having practical use is neat. While the research LiDAR are detailed as hell (you can pick out different type of trees, cut through the trees to get just the ground surface and/or see features that would be hard to see otherwise due to lighting), I can see it having problems with reading the road due to the low angles. Car learning the road is pretty much the only thing I know of that could solve the line-of-sight issue that camera, radar and LiDAR have and still have the car be self sufficient. If cars can have a local database/cache of what to expect for XYZ Road to compare to what they see, then it should work even with degraded roads. For covered up markings... I would take a page from snow country and suggest poles. Sure it makes the car less self sufficient but for most places, it's just an upgraded light/power pole. It also goes back to my signal broadcaster suggestion. It would also be a good opportunity to add a sort of broadcaster to serve as a benchmark every couple of poles. As for rural roads... well, this is why I don't think cars will be completely self driving. For most people, it should stay auto but there are times it should hand control of the car to you... people might be too inexperience to drive at that point if the car doesn't know how to handle it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZyMx2NXZM

That would mean interpolating between crappy lane markings and with any modeling, there will always be a chance of error and an error here means a crash. This could be pinned on the car manufactures. Telling countries, states and cities to improve their roads (they really should around here in LA...) is shifting consequences to them if an self driving car do fail. It's part of the growing pains of this tech that needs to happen. And it's not a bad thing to tell states DOT and cities to get their acts together. I don't think an adversarial tone is good though since manufactures and state DOT and cities should work together on this problem.

While only one short episode is out, Uchuu Patrol Luluco is a pretty neat short (as in airing time, 5 minutes without OP+ED) series from Trigger. It's pretty much what would happen if Mako met Inferno Cop.

Since it's Berserk, it has a neat CGI look to it and since it's not a rehash of the Golden Age arc. Carefully optimistic.

More putting money where my mouth is and support the artists I like. There's EvocationHK (Cantonese death metal), Dowman Seiman (manga artist) and Utsu-P (Japanese Vocaloid metal).

I'm going to relive the Eclipse twice with watching the Berserk anime series and OVA. Impressions so far: my Guts voice and what I'm hearing is totally different. Make sense since Guts is older in my head. The OP is... odd but the ED is quite nice, especially the visuals. This is going to hurt again. The new series is totally not going to suck.

Wait for the magnetic spring and latch. Blew my god damn mind. This video also explains how my car phone holder works without screwing with the electronics. It's not like the metal plate behind my phone cover is blocking the magnetic field but the magnetic field is just that short and it might have something to do with poly-magnets.

I'm not too sure how I feel about this. It's neat but it has tons of potential for abuse if done correctly.

You all need to have HIGH ENERGY.

Rubio bows out from the race but it's due to Trump... I'm kind of with Ethan and think Trump could defeat Hillary. Even I'm having questions if I could vote for Hillary.

Modders will force it to work with a PC like they did with the Kinect. At that price point, it's too tempting to not to try. Honestly, with the PS4 specs and what this headset can do... I'm curious on how they pulled it off and at that price point. Are they eating a huge chunk of the price like they did with the PS3?

Things seems normal on my end. Anywhere on PXOD on a single tab is registering about 450-460 MB of RAM with Firefox. That's about the baseline of RAM usage for Firefox for me. I will note that sometimes I will get video ads which I haven't gotten with this quick check. I never complained about them since they load up muted. The only indication that I get that they are there is when my tabs shows me that there's sound coming from them. Maybe RAM usage will be way different if they show up.