The rest of the first world with our Commie governments have given us such nasty socialist things such as universal healthcare free at the point of use, minimum mandatory annual paid vacation (4 weeks minimum in the EU, 5.6 weeks here in the UK), in work benefits and far superior employment rights in regards to being laid off so we don't have to work like slaves. Americans are at the whim of their employers who can pull the plug on their healthcare plan at a whim should an employee get a little out of line. All they have to do is threaten to fire you which they can do instantly without notice and you'll do just what you're told because you can't afford to lose that healthcare plan.
People don't want to work to be entertained. They just want to play the damned game, watch the damned show, etc. And most people don't find fiddling with Wine settings and other "technical" things to be excessively entertaining.
Which is why after spending a decade and a half endlessly patching, updating drivers etc just to get games to work without doing things like crashing to desktop (BF2 you were the last straw) I now game on a console as I've had enough of the PC gaming merry go round just to get games to run as they should. Checking the READMEs of new graphics drivers for nVidia and AMD it would seem that "fixes X issue with game Y" is still a common reason drivers get updated.
We don't need huge 18 wheelers for the short delivery from rail to store. It's more efficient from a labor standpoint, I suppose, but Tracy Morgan, for one, would likely prefer smaller vehicles.
What an excellent idea. Lets replace an 18 wheeler which can carry 27 tonnes of goods/26 standard pallets and return 10MPG with a small truck which can only carry 1/4 of that and returns just an extra 5/6MPG.
.....I'm royally fucked. 12-15hr shifts mostly sat on my arse driving or waiting, 6hrs a day of broken sleep and to top it off I work nights as well. Already got a fucked back and am overweight, both of which are very common in the job. On the bright side at least I'll be dead long before my medical care gets really expensive.
Then look at the countless number of people who have had their lives wrecked by it and not only those who were taking it. Long distance truckers on Amphetamine have had many accidents where they've killed some poor bastard in their car who was unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the truck driver on speed.
It does not happen when they stay with psychedelics drugs, see ELP, Jethro Tull and the Grateful dead's. Ice cream, opiates and alcohol, and to some extends stimulants are what kill musicians.
Jethro Tull's front man, Ian Anderson, has never done drugs.
Agreed. This is another anachronism in a world where cheap, reliable sat nav is readily available.
Using Satnav in lots of parts of London, especially the older parts, is a fucking nightmare. When you can actually get a GPS signal the streets are so close together and turns so near to each other that usually you find that the voice guidance is still playing the first turn when you've driven past the next one you needed to take. Then there's the main thing about the knowledge, knowing how London traffic behaves, knowing what the effects of a problem at any given point in the city would cause not only in that immediate area but further out and being able to route taking those into account long before the Satnav intelligent routing would even be aware of an issue because the effects of that problem had not yet rippled out but would've done long past the point where you could've taken an alternative to avoid the mayhem.
It had nothing to do with Uber and everything to do with the fact that this year in the UK more transactions were done by card than cash and the UK is quite quickly heading towards a cashless society and would be if it weren't for refusenik retailers. Lots of people in the UK, myself included, quite simply don't carry cash around anymore.
Back in the early 2000s resolutions above 1080p were found in many mid-range CRT monitors. They might be this years high end displays but historically they're not without precedence.
OMG you're going to DDoS their website or name ISIS members. I can see someone who has just hacked off someone's head with a blunt spoon being really bothered about anything that Anonymous could do.
One wonders what the response from the scriptkiddies would be if ISIS posted a Youtube saying they knew who the Anon members were and they were coming to get them. Given their record for doing real actual physical harm to people and not just taking websites offline or posting to Pastebin then the Anon mob are likely to find themselves running more scared than the ISIS mob are.
If its very minor stuff then its fair to ignore it or make a brief mention however if they're bugs affecting gameplay to any extent and/or system stability should be taken into account and the marks given adjusted accordingly. Its because reviewers are all too willing to overlook some seriously show stopping bugs that allows companies to think its OK to continue to release games like COD and BF series which are notorious for taking at least 3-4 patches before major "wanna throw my controller at the screen" issues are resolved.
Computers can hit the breaks a lot faster than a human, and better too.
That isn't my experience of the system fitted to my 44 tonne truck. The times its chosen to hit the brakes because it "thinks" there's going to be a collision even though there isn't, if I'd been carrying any load other than the one I was at the time or being empty, there would've been a serious accident.
For many scenarios where a human will have to fave that decision the autonomous car never will because it would have chosen option C, avoid situation long before it became an issue.
Autonomous cars are subject to the same laws of physics as any other car. If something steps out in front of it at a distance too close to be able to stop in time then depending on what other traffic is on the road and what is around the vehicle its choice is going to be hit that thing that has just stepped out in front of it or hit something else. As the occupant of that car I want it to be the option that does the least harm to me. Problem is that the AI may not share the same concern for me as I do.
As a truck driver who has a little of this tech fitted to my truck already (adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking) I'm not worrying about losing my job any time soon. I live in a country which has lots of rain, fog and where it snows. The ACC and AEBS shit themselves and turn off when it rains heavy or as soon as the front of the truck gets a light covering of snow. Currently no autonomous car can drive in rain, fog or snow. The AEBS also has false positives ocassionally giving heart stopping collision warnings when I pass under certain bridges and more than once its slammed on the brakes when taking a gentle corner that has had metal posts put up along the kerb. Fortunately when it happened I wasn't carrying the load I was on the return journey otherwise there would've been a nasty accident.
And then there's the fact that with a truck there's a massive range of variables to consider compared to a car. A car never changes its dimensions, its weight is relatively constant. My truck changes length by over 40ft, its weight changes by up to 37 metric tonnes. Where the fifth wheel pin is, where the axles are, how many axles there are and whether the rear one is a steering axle on the semi-trailer all affect its cornering, manoeuvrability and reversing characteristics. All the loads on it have different effects on the handling characteristics and themselves need the vehicle driven to accommodate them. A tanker filled with 20 tonnes of milk for example requires a lot different driving technique to a flatbed carrying a 20 tonne slab of aluminium.
As I said, they can't yet even get the self driving cars to work anywhere where there's inclement weather which is why they're being tested in California so I'm not planning a change of job because of automated trucks any time soon.
We used to play outside, eat mud, get covered in dirt and our bodies built up an immunity to a lot of things. Nowadays kids spend their time glued to a TV, laptop or games console and their parents have houses with higher than hospital levels of cleanliness so the resistance to stuff we built up as kids never happens. When they're then exposed to the outside world they then catch all kinds of nasty stuff.
There may be a lot of new shows, but there sure aren't a lot of good new shows. I'm not having any trouble at all trying to choose what to watch. I'm having trouble finding anything worth watching
In the immortal words of Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home", "Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from"
Except its no longer 13, more like several hundred....
Because the £8Billion the British motorist pays more in tax than is spent on the roads goes on funding the NHS so we don't end up in the situation that you have in the USA where the prime cause of bankruptcy is medical bills and people die from really easy to treat shit because they can't afford treatment.
You would even be surprised to find out how many wind farms have been slowly going up too. I watch the giant blades heading out on the highway north of my little town.
The worlds' largest offshore windfarm is in the UK. Its about to be dwarfed by one currently being constructed which is 4 times the size which is being built just a few miles off the east coast of the UK. In my county in England there is not a single place you can stand and not see a wind turbine. The USA has a long way to go.
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The rest of the first world with our Commie governments have given us such nasty socialist things such as universal healthcare free at the point of use, minimum mandatory annual paid vacation (4 weeks minimum in the EU, 5.6 weeks here in the UK), in work benefits and far superior employment rights in regards to being laid off so we don't have to work like slaves. Americans are at the whim of their employers who can pull the plug on their healthcare plan at a whim should an employee get a little out of line. All they have to do is threaten to fire you which they can do instantly without notice and you'll do just what you're told because you can't afford to lose that healthcare plan.
Linux on Raspberry is so slow compared to what? Windows on i7? Shouldn't you compare it with Windows on Raspberry?
No because you'd be even more depressed as Windows 10 IOT runs quite well on a Raspberry.
People don't want to work to be entertained. They just want to play the damned game, watch the damned show, etc. And most people don't find fiddling with Wine settings and other "technical" things to be excessively entertaining.
Which is why after spending a decade and a half endlessly patching, updating drivers etc just to get games to work without doing things like crashing to desktop (BF2 you were the last straw) I now game on a console as I've had enough of the PC gaming merry go round just to get games to run as they should. Checking the READMEs of new graphics drivers for nVidia and AMD it would seem that "fixes X issue with game Y" is still a common reason drivers get updated.
US 18 wheeler at 60 mph averages just under 6 mpg, under highway driving conditions.
Is it broke? Here in Europe we run at 97000lb (US) and manage to return over 8MPG (US)
We don't need huge 18 wheelers for the short delivery from rail to store. It's more efficient from a labor standpoint, I suppose, but Tracy Morgan, for one, would likely prefer smaller vehicles.
What an excellent idea. Lets replace an 18 wheeler which can carry 27 tonnes of goods/26 standard pallets and return 10MPG with a small truck which can only carry 1/4 of that and returns just an extra 5/6MPG.
Never underestimate stupid.
.....I'm royally fucked. 12-15hr shifts mostly sat on my arse driving or waiting, 6hrs a day of broken sleep and to top it off I work nights as well. Already got a fucked back and am overweight, both of which are very common in the job. On the bright side at least I'll be dead long before my medical care gets really expensive.
Then look at the countless number of people who have had their lives wrecked by it and not only those who were taking it. Long distance truckers on Amphetamine have had many accidents where they've killed some poor bastard in their car who was unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the truck driver on speed.
It does not happen when they stay with psychedelics drugs, see ELP, Jethro Tull and the Grateful dead's. Ice cream, opiates and alcohol, and to some extends stimulants are what kill musicians.
Jethro Tull's front man, Ian Anderson, has never done drugs.
What uses and functions does one giant screen serve that can't be cleverly redistributed to smaller screens?
Sitting in your living room with your friends all watching the game whilst drinking beer and eating pizza.
Agreed. This is another anachronism in a world where cheap, reliable sat nav is readily available.
Using Satnav in lots of parts of London, especially the older parts, is a fucking nightmare. When you can actually get a GPS signal the streets are so close together and turns so near to each other that usually you find that the voice guidance is still playing the first turn when you've driven past the next one you needed to take. Then there's the main thing about the knowledge, knowing how London traffic behaves, knowing what the effects of a problem at any given point in the city would cause not only in that immediate area but further out and being able to route taking those into account long before the Satnav intelligent routing would even be aware of an issue because the effects of that problem had not yet rippled out but would've done long past the point where you could've taken an alternative to avoid the mayhem.
It's one thing to ship a couple thousand OLED screens, it's an entirely different thing to ship millions of them.
Samsung has sold hundreds of millions of phones with OLED screens in. Even their new entry level Galaxy J3 will have an OLED screen.
It had nothing to do with Uber and everything to do with the fact that this year in the UK more transactions were done by card than cash and the UK is quite quickly heading towards a cashless society and would be if it weren't for refusenik retailers. Lots of people in the UK, myself included, quite simply don't carry cash around anymore.
Back in the early 2000s resolutions above 1080p were found in many mid-range CRT monitors. They might be this years high end displays but historically they're not without precedence.
One wonders what the response from the scriptkiddies would be if ISIS posted a Youtube saying they knew who the Anon members were and they were coming to get them. Given their record for doing real actual physical harm to people and not just taking websites offline or posting to Pastebin then the Anon mob are likely to find themselves running more scared than the ISIS mob are.
If its very minor stuff then its fair to ignore it or make a brief mention however if they're bugs affecting gameplay to any extent and/or system stability should be taken into account and the marks given adjusted accordingly. Its because reviewers are all too willing to overlook some seriously show stopping bugs that allows companies to think its OK to continue to release games like COD and BF series which are notorious for taking at least 3-4 patches before major "wanna throw my controller at the screen" issues are resolved.
Actually, it would just hit the breaks.
What if the braking distance is too long?
Or, you know, swerve the other way.
Into oncoming traffic?
Computers can hit the breaks a lot faster than a human, and better too.
That isn't my experience of the system fitted to my 44 tonne truck. The times its chosen to hit the brakes because it "thinks" there's going to be a collision even though there isn't, if I'd been carrying any load other than the one I was at the time or being empty, there would've been a serious accident.
I don't see the issue.
For many scenarios where a human will have to fave that decision the autonomous car never will because it would have chosen option C, avoid situation long before it became an issue.
Autonomous cars are subject to the same laws of physics as any other car. If something steps out in front of it at a distance too close to be able to stop in time then depending on what other traffic is on the road and what is around the vehicle its choice is going to be hit that thing that has just stepped out in front of it or hit something else. As the occupant of that car I want it to be the option that does the least harm to me. Problem is that the AI may not share the same concern for me as I do.
Whether the user knows the Android system he is using is Linux is irrelevant to the fact that it is Linux and not one of your precious paytard OSes.
Which "paytard" OS would that be given that the entire computing world can get Windows 10 for free and OS X has been free for some time?
As a truck driver who has a little of this tech fitted to my truck already (adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking) I'm not worrying about losing my job any time soon. I live in a country which has lots of rain, fog and where it snows. The ACC and AEBS shit themselves and turn off when it rains heavy or as soon as the front of the truck gets a light covering of snow. Currently no autonomous car can drive in rain, fog or snow. The AEBS also has false positives ocassionally giving heart stopping collision warnings when I pass under certain bridges and more than once its slammed on the brakes when taking a gentle corner that has had metal posts put up along the kerb. Fortunately when it happened I wasn't carrying the load I was on the return journey otherwise there would've been a nasty accident.
And then there's the fact that with a truck there's a massive range of variables to consider compared to a car. A car never changes its dimensions, its weight is relatively constant. My truck changes length by over 40ft, its weight changes by up to 37 metric tonnes. Where the fifth wheel pin is, where the axles are, how many axles there are and whether the rear one is a steering axle on the semi-trailer all affect its cornering, manoeuvrability and reversing characteristics. All the loads on it have different effects on the handling characteristics and themselves need the vehicle driven to accommodate them. A tanker filled with 20 tonnes of milk for example requires a lot different driving technique to a flatbed carrying a 20 tonne slab of aluminium.
As I said, they can't yet even get the self driving cars to work anywhere where there's inclement weather which is why they're being tested in California so I'm not planning a change of job because of automated trucks any time soon.
We used to play outside, eat mud, get covered in dirt and our bodies built up an immunity to a lot of things. Nowadays kids spend their time glued to a TV, laptop or games console and their parents have houses with higher than hospital levels of cleanliness so the resistance to stuff we built up as kids never happens. When they're then exposed to the outside world they then catch all kinds of nasty stuff.
There may be a lot of new shows, but there sure aren't a lot of good new shows. I'm not having any trouble at all trying to choose what to watch. I'm having trouble finding anything worth watching
In the immortal words of Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home", "Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from"
Except its no longer 13, more like several hundred....
Doesn't work that way in the UK. "Named drivers" do not get told of anything, only the person taking out the insurance policy does.
Jesus Christ man why do you tolerate it ?
Because the £8Billion the British motorist pays more in tax than is spent on the roads goes on funding the NHS so we don't end up in the situation that you have in the USA where the prime cause of bankruptcy is medical bills and people die from really easy to treat shit because they can't afford treatment.
You would even be surprised to find out how many wind farms have been slowly going up too. I watch the giant blades heading out on the highway north of my little town.
The worlds' largest offshore windfarm is in the UK. Its about to be dwarfed by one currently being constructed which is 4 times the size which is being built just a few miles off the east coast of the UK. In my county in England there is not a single place you can stand and not see a wind turbine. The USA has a long way to go.