One thing that the article fails to mention, and some comments here don't seem to understand, is that Environmental organisations such as Greenpeace NZ sanction the fur trade in some NZ mammals (eg. the possum) as they are regarded as such a destructive pest.
My family has a high country farm in the south of the South Island and it used to be overrun with rabbits. Not cute; more like a biblical plague as there are no predators (aside from the occasional hawk). I recall driving up the farm road and having rabbits part in front of me like water. Crazy numbers.
Don't mistake a cavalier attitude to possums/rabbits/stoats/australians for lack of civilisation. It's just a different set of circumstances than what you may have experienced.
Says someone who has obviously never driven or lived in NZ. The little shits sit in the middle of the road. And these aren't long highways, they're windy little country roads (eg. state highway 1).
The key ingredient is the adjustable monitor pole so that I can sit on the odd occasion that my legs get tired.
The beauty of this setup is that it works in with the fitted desktops that my company has. I wouldn't be able to remove a section and slot in a normal adjustable desk.
This isn't for city riding. It is for riding on country roads. If you've ever done any road cycling outside of city centres, it can get very risky as the cars are going so much faster and there isn't the same road shoulder. Your ears are not enough. Personally I hate cycling on country roads because of this so I would definitely use this radar.
I agree with an earlier comment about non-visual feedback. An audio queue would be good (thinking like the trackers in the Aliens movies)
I've been using the new Maps for a few months since it appeared in the first beta builds. I live in Sydney, Australia and the search struggles to find places. It's not so bad if you put in the entire address, but a search for a store or location regularly returns nothing.
I've noticed that this has been improving lately. When it first came out a search for "Apple Store Chatswood" (2km from my work) would return stores in the USA. Now it returns the correct destination.
It's still not a trustworthy source of directions and I regularly have to use Google Maps via the browser.
So while this is very frustrating, I can see it improving so am not too worried long term.
Mind you if Google Maps was an App in the Store I'd buy it asap.
You're wrong there. I use Java for most things but dive into Groovy when I want features like almost native XML handling (via XmlSlurper & MarkupBuilder). Having a joint Java + Groovy project is simple as it's all just bytecode to the IDE.
