When there's fewer accidents, insurance won't be that costly, but we may still need it.
If you implement no-fault insurance, a the province I live in doe, you won't need to settle who's at fault. That's an example of how laws may change.
The isurance companies themselves might want to keep some kind of fault statistics, soo they can tell which kinds of self-driving cars are a greater risk and therefore require higher premiums, though.
there'll be plenty of other things for the police to do.
For pizza and grocery delivery, you may still to have someone who knows which pizza to give you at the door and to accept payment. Otherwise you'll be dependent on everyone taking the right pizza from the truck themselves... I suppose there are security technologies that can automate some of this, but I think an actual delivery person will be appropriate.
Quite a few of you have been explaining that those put out of work by increased productivity can find other jobs; in the long run there's no net loss of jobs.
True, as far as it goes, for any given disruptive technology.
What that ignores is that disruption is becoming the norm. Things don't settle down. At any given moment there are many displaced workers from the last few disruptions. And new ones happening all the time. So instead of having a suite of new technologies throwing may out of work, who eventually find new stable jobs, there are no stable jobs, and the slow rate of social adaptation to change is simply not keeping up with innovation.
Would this help people with locked-in syndrome? Would they be able to use someone else's hand to act? to communicate? Which one of the two people would have to have Parkinson's to make the resulting hand movements irregular? Etc., Etc.
reminds me of a Popular Science magazine from the 50's. It had cylindrical cars ahot through long tubes form one city to another. A vacuum in front, air pressure behind to keep them going.
Different in detail, updated by 60 years, but much the same.
Maybe feasible now. Maybe Elon Musk has a good collection of old pulp science magazines.
All I really lack in Android is sshfs, ssh -X, and a decent X server (like the ones the X teminals provided decades ago) to be present and all work well together.
Nothing that isn't usually available for free in any normal Linux system. All that would be needed is for Google not to take them out.
Oh yes, a decent Linux-supported file system on large external sd cards wouldn't hurt.
Some time ago I used GTK to do a scrollable tree display, and discovered a stupid limit of about 32K pixels high (I might misremember, it might be something like 64K). If I went past that, further tree expansions would show up at the top of the scroll region overwriting what was already there, instead of at the bottom where they belonged.
Not a limit of 32K pixels isn't too bad for what's actually on a screen, but if it's a limit on what you can scroll through, well, it's ridiculous. Does anyone know whether this kind of limitation is still there?
Yes, I have a Kobo, bought at least partly because the company's long-term stance has been to allow ebooks of arbitrary provenance (but not necessarily DRM) on their devices. Books on their store are DRM-free when that's what the publisher wants. And although Calibre is great, you don't even need it to put books on a Kobo.
But I still can't experiment with free ebook-reading software on the Kobo. Despite using a Linux kernel and followint the GPL licencing rules, there still don't seem to be enough hardware and UI specs around for people really start porting free software to a kobo. The latest models seem no longer even to have a boot-from-sdcard feature.
I suspect that most other e-paper book readers are also hostile to user code, though.
But although a few welcome publishers are DRM-free, most of them, and thus most things that people want to read, are still DRM-bound. This limits the opportunities for truly free ereading software.
I'd say the science-fiction community is lucky to have publishers like Baen and Tor on-side.
There's evidence that the decline in violent crime may be because of the replacement of leaded gasoline by unleaded. The lead did end up in the environment, and it is a brain poison that reduces impulse control.
I like ebools. I don't like DRM, which is why I preferentially buy from publishers like Baen and Tor. I like brick and mortar bookstores. I'd like to browse in a bookstore, go to the cash, pay the money and have them put the corresponding ebok on my computer.
I'd like to read the books with open-source readers. This doesn't seem to be legally possible with DRMed ebooks, or any of the locked-down epaper devices. But if there were wider applicability for these open ereaders, we'd probably see quite a few on the free/libre market, and they's evolve to the point where they *were* good for mathematics and illustrated books.
I seem to remember hearing once (I have no citation, so you can disregard this if you wish) that versions of the golden rule were floating around in the rabinical culture of the time.
Check the mailing lists of the project you're considering contributing to. Some are welcoming, some not. It won't take long to figure out which projects you'll likely enjoy contributing to.
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When there's fewer accidents, insurance won't be that costly, but we may still need it.
If you implement no-fault insurance, a the province I live in doe, you won't need to settle who's at fault. That's an example of how laws may change.
The isurance companies themselves might want to keep some kind of fault statistics, soo they can tell which kinds of self-driving cars are a greater risk and therefore require higher premiums, though.
there'll be plenty of other things for the police to do.
For pizza and grocery delivery, you may still to have someone who knows which pizza to give you at the door and to accept payment. Otherwise you'll be dependent on everyone taking the right pizza from the truck themselves ... I suppose there are security technologies that can automate some of this, but I think an actual delivery person will be appropriate.
Quite a few of you have been explaining that those put out of work by increased productivity can find other jobs; in the long run there's no net loss of jobs.
True, as far as it goes, for any given disruptive technology.
What that ignores is that disruption is becoming the norm. Things don't settle down. At any given moment there are many displaced workers from the last few disruptions. And new ones happening all the time. So instead of having a suite of new technologies throwing may out of work, who eventually find new stable jobs, there are no stable jobs, and the slow rate of social adaptation to change is simply not keeping up with innovation.
-- hendrik
Would this help people with locked-in syndrome? Would they be able to use someone else's hand to act? to communicate?
Which one of the two people would have to have Parkinson's to make the resulting hand movements irregular?
Etc., Etc.
-- hendrik
If we're onto medical work now,
The majority of doctors-in-training now are female.
There's no shortage of male nurses, and a lot of them are gay.
Somehow this has a different demographic from computing.
There. FTFY.
Yeah.. They need those special cameras that can see through clothes.
If that's the only use you have for wife, you're doing it wrong.
-- hendrik
"Canada, which does /not/ allow non-profits to register for software licenses."
What does this mean? What. specifically, would a Canadian nonprofit have to do in order to be slapped down for registering for a software license?
--hendrik
There's no point arguing with an idiot. The idiot won't understand when he has lost.
-- hendrik
Well, in the GP's model, there is a limit.
At less than 30 calories, you can no longer store 30 calories as fat.
Actually, you hit that limit earlier unless you also stop pooping.
-- hendrik
reminds me of a Popular Science magazine from the 50's. It had cylindrical cars ahot through long tubes form one city to another. A vacuum in front, air pressure behind to keep them going.
Different in detail, updated by 60 years, but much the same.
Maybe feasible now. Maybe Elon Musk has a good collection of old pulp science magazines.
-- hendrik
No, I didn't. And after counting the letters, I realize that I still don't know that.
All I really lack in Android is sshfs, ssh -X, and a decent X server (like the ones the X teminals provided decades ago) to be present and all work well together.
Nothing that isn't usually available for free in any normal Linux system. All that would be needed is for Google not to take them out.
Oh yes, a decent Linux-supported file system on large external sd cards wouldn't hurt.
-- hendrik
Some time ago I used GTK to do a scrollable tree display, and discovered a stupid limit of about 32K pixels high (I might misremember, it might be something like 64K). If I went past that, further tree expansions would show up at the top of the scroll region overwriting what was already there, instead of at the bottom where they belonged.
Not a limit of 32K pixels isn't too bad for what's actually on a screen, but if it's a limit on what you can scroll through, well, it's ridiculous. Does anyone know whether this kind of limitation is still there?
Or whether Qt does similar?
Yes, I have a Kobo, bought at least partly because the company's long-term stance has been to allow ebooks of arbitrary provenance (but not necessarily DRM) on their devices. Books on their store are DRM-free when that's what the publisher wants. And although Calibre is great, you don't even need it to put books on a Kobo.
But I still can't experiment with free ebook-reading software on the Kobo. Despite using a Linux kernel and followint the GPL licencing rules, there still don't seem to be enough hardware and UI specs around for people really start porting free software to a kobo. The latest models seem no longer even to have a boot-from-sdcard feature.
I suspect that most other e-paper book readers are also hostile to user code, though.
But although a few welcome publishers are DRM-free, most of them, and thus most things that people want to read, are still DRM-bound. This limits the opportunities for truly free ereading software.
I'd say the science-fiction community is lucky to have publishers like Baen and Tor on-side.
-- hendrik
There's evidence that the decline in violent crime may be because of the replacement of leaded gasoline by unleaded. The lead did end up in the environment, and it is a brain poison that reduces impulse control.
-- hendrik
How do they put a corporation in jail?
I like ebools. I don't like DRM, which is why I preferentially buy from publishers like Baen and Tor. I like brick and mortar bookstores. I'd like to browse in a bookstore, go to the cash, pay the money and have them put the corresponding ebok on my computer.
I'd like to read the books with open-source readers. This doesn't seem to be legally possible with DRMed ebooks, or any of the locked-down epaper devices. But if there were wider applicability for these open ereaders, we'd probably see quite a few on the free/libre market, and they's evolve to the point where they *were* good for mathematics and illustrated books.
-- hendrik
I'll tell you the *big* difference between them.
One is just trying to find good routing.
The other has to find the *best* routing.
-- hendrik
I seem to remember hearing once (I have no citation, so you can disregard this if you wish) that versions of the golden rule were floating around in the rabinical culture of the time.
-- hendrik
There's a more general law. I suspect it's a consequence of the seond law of thermodynamics:
There's always a typo.
-- hendrik
Check the mailing lists of the project you're considering contributing to. Some are welcoming, some not. It won't take long to figure out which projects you'll likely enjoy contributing to.
-- hendrik
The alternative you've apparently never encountered is:
People who tell you you've made a mistake.
That's all that's really needed.
Well. he doesn't seem to have started and new wars.
The Nobel peace prize, unlike the other Nobel prizes, s often given while a peace process is under way, as an encouragement. Yes, they often fail.