This story is stupid. MP3s work just as well as they did a month ago, and they will continue to be just fine for the near future. The only thing that has changed in the past month is that the patents expired, so you no longer need to purchase a license to use it. It’s only became “obsolete” in the sense that the…

Just a note: I think this only works with new-ish TVs. We have a couple TVs that are ~8-9 years old, our Chromecasts do not turn those on. But we got a cheap WalMart TV a year and a half ago, and the Chromecast turns that on when we cast to it. So I think this part of the spec is only ~5 years old or so.

Well, a week ago we thought this bill was DOA in the House, and now it’s passed. And moderates and ultra conservatives in the house rejecting the re-negotiated version is hardly a given either considering the assumptions about them rejection this version. So Doomsday 2017 is one step closer to actually happening, and…

No YouTube TV?

Back when I was a kid with slot cars, I always thought that would be awesome if we could turn freeways into slot car tracks with our cars hooking on automatically when they got on the freeway. Then the freeway could guide you along without driving until you got to your exit. Of course Minority Report pretty much…

I think it’s the muscle memory part that is the problem - you get so used to doing it without thinking that you don’t even remember doing it. Combine that with that one time you forgot to close the garage door and you get that panicky feeling just after you get out of sight of your house.

It’s pretty useful as an opener too if you are taking things besides your car in and out of the garage.

I know it will still have Google Now/Assistant on it, will it respond to the “OK
Google” call?

I can’t understand how anyone could use a Chromecast regularly. Having to unlock my phone and open a certain app every time I want to pause the TV, or skip a commercial, or change a channel? Why bother? Chromecast is a horrible device for anyone who watches TV in the traditional sense. 

You get a free Chromecast with your first payment, and additional Chromecasts for other TVs are cheap and easy to use.

Depends on what you mean by “visited voluntarily”. If it’s just specifically going there on purpose, maybe Delaware. But I-95 runs through the state, and it gets a ton of “visitor” traffic going between Baltimore/DC and Philly/NYC/New England. That’s how I visited Delaware. I was in the state for 10 miles and (IIRC)…

New Mexican here. Carlsbad Caverns, Santa Fe, and Taos bring in more visitors than anything in North Dakota.

The little paper ones they give you at fratty bars always end up sticking. Ditto bar napkins.

What Waze really needs to do is get Android Auto support going, then it will be really easy to pop between Waze and any audio app.

Does a 12 month old need 27 shots for 23 various diseases while their immune system is still developing?

Thank you Barney Stinson

That’s not a fallacy. This assumes that the person in question *does* also pay in to the roads, to the schools, and to the police and the fire department. They paid in as well. But they should pay more. Because we need to make sure the next generations benefit from the same social contract they did.

Sure Google would have to compete “fairly” with Frank’s Search System (or whatever) but Google is betting they can deliver a better experience than Frank’s so they would rather have lower costs to provide their content, and then use that experience to crush Frank.

WTF?

Paging Stealth Mountain