The text reads, (kinjitsu seisan shuuryou yotei), which means, “Production is scheduled to end soon.” After that, the announcement reads “within Japan” ;(or Nihon kokunai).
The pictured Wii U console is the white 32GB “Premium Set” console, which is the only console listed on the Japanese website’s Wii U hardware page. The other Wii U consoles, including the black variation, are listed as “no longer in production.” Last year, Nintendo killed off the 8GB Wii U in Japan.
In the past, Nintendo has often announced the discontinuation of hardware variations by similar notices on its official site.
Last week, Eurogamer reported that multiple sources confirmed to the site that the final Wii U would roll off the production line on November. At that time, Nintendo denied that report to a Japanese news site, stating, “There is no change to our continuing [Wii U] production.” The Nintendo spokesperson also added that the report that the Wii U was ending production “was not true.”
“Even though the Nintendo Switch is slated to go on sale, [Wii U] production is scheduled to continue,” the Nintendo spokesperson said at the time.
Scheduled to continue, that is, until sometime soon when it ends. Maybe Nintendo will launch another Wii U in Japan for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Or maybe that will be a Japanese Switch exclusive...
No word yet as to how this announcement impacts the Wii U in other regions. Kotaku has reached out to Nintendo for comment.
November 10, 2016
Will Automated Trucking Put Me Out Of Work?
It's a meme at the moment. Think more of a cruise control, or auto pilot.
Driving down a road is not hard, a computer can do that easily. All the shit that can and does happen while driving down a road however is very hard to program computers to deal with. Something simple like identifying an empty jug of oil you can crush and identifying a child in a car seat you must not run over is very difficult for computers.
Emulating the visual cortex of humans and their decision making capability is something that is currently a pipe dream. Ignorant people are jumping on the automation bandwagon right now in an attempt give universal basic income legs when in reality is it just Marxist shit in a new package.
It's not a legitimate concern. At least not for me. I drive fork lift and do spot market. It'll probably be another 5 years or so before truck manufacturers start releasing level 3 autonomous trucks. Driverless level 5 trucks probably won't come out in my lifetime. At least that's not the motive of the engineers I know in Freightliner and Volvo. They aren't trying to replace drivers, they just want safer emissions and driving technology, mostly for subsidies and tax credits. It'll take more than a driverless truck to put a trucker out of behind the wheel.
Get your CDL at a community college or private schools. Don't fall for company cuck meme. Then go to a flatbed carrier. Save to buy a truck in cash used for ~$30K and start O/O at Mercer. They're good guys.
Driving down a road is not hard, a computer can do that easily. All the shit that can and does happen while driving down a road however is very hard to program computers to deal with. Something simple like identifying an empty jug of oil you can crush and identifying a child in a car seat you must not run over is very difficult for computers.
Emulating the visual cortex of humans and their decision making capability is something that is currently a pipe dream. Ignorant people are jumping on the automation bandwagon right now in an attempt give universal basic income legs when in reality is it just Marxist shit in a new package.
It's not a legitimate concern. At least not for me. I drive fork lift and do spot market. It'll probably be another 5 years or so before truck manufacturers start releasing level 3 autonomous trucks. Driverless level 5 trucks probably won't come out in my lifetime. At least that's not the motive of the engineers I know in Freightliner and Volvo. They aren't trying to replace drivers, they just want safer emissions and driving technology, mostly for subsidies and tax credits. It'll take more than a driverless truck to put a trucker out of behind the wheel.
Get your CDL at a community college or private schools. Don't fall for company cuck meme. Then go to a flatbed carrier. Save to buy a truck in cash used for ~$30K and start O/O at Mercer. They're good guys.
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