Does it refuse to accept keyboard and trackpad input when coming back from sleep every morning like OS X does? I hate having to do a force shutdown and restart every morning.
Of course not. It simply doesn't fucking work. At all. But at least you have a Windows machine that doesn't work. So you have that going for you. Which is a good thing.
He appears insincere because, guess fuckin' what, he *is.*
Cruz is a Dominionist. None of this means anything to him except insofar as he can grab the reins of power and usher in some dystopic nightmare fusion of 1984 and The Handmaiden's Tale. Dominionists have been a scary powerful group since the Nixon years and they went absolutely metastaticwhen Bush II was elected.
If he is not stopped, we're going to end up ruled by the Christian Taliban.
Cruz is a Dominionist, and his alliance is not with the US. Dominionists practice a rather interesting religion, which includes waging war on those they consider God's enemies, taking their wealth, and distributing it to their priests. They have two types of leaders, Priests, and Kings. Ted's father is considered a priest. Ted is considered a King.
I suspect a Cruz presidency would look like some bastard cross between Chucky and Willy Wonka. But you can bet there would be war - and by the way, that income redistribution by taking it form God's enemies? That includes anyone they consider God's enemies.
To me, it depends on how many do what as to whether it "makes more sense."
"Makes more sense" is a personal thing. For example, I hate enclosed vehicles. I have owned one of them in my entire life and I hated driving it. I love convertibles and I won't buy a non-convertible.
Like myself and motorcycles. A motorcycle is more like flying than flying an airplane. The unobstructed view, the wind. Only thing missing is the altitude.
Dangerous? I suppose. I don't care though. It's that much fun.
See, everybody seems to want to make this jump. "Oh, da gubmint won't let us own our own vehicles anymore! We'll have to join this socialist collective where da gubmint will watch everywhere we go!"
I'm certainly not doing that. I do suspect that insurance rates might be interesting, relegating archaic vehicles to the very wealthy.
Then again, I would love to see a collectivist hive try to tell motorcycle drivers they are part of the past.
Suppose the vast majority of people decide they prefer to be driven around by a machine while texting their friends rather than having to spend 20 minutes "off-line" while driving a car. So companies decide there isn't enough of a market for people who prefer to drive themselves and stop selling cars which you can drive or they make fewer "drivable" cars and, therefore, have to charge more in order to recoup their costs, pricing you out of the market.
Well, hopefully the dimbulbs who are so addicted to TWD and the little smartphones will lose that addiction and find other annoying habits. But yes, if we are stuck with pre-automated vehicles, it would be a shame.
But the bright side of this whole thing is that fully autonomous vehicles are to me a shade of diminishing returns people might not like to get to.
Many of the safety features are ready to implement now. Lane assist, emergency braking, anti-tailgating radar, IR view. Panoramic rear view. All these things allow the driver control of the vehicle while keeping them from doing stupid things.
on a stochastic level your smartphone is magnitudes more secure than any paper-based communication.
But on a practical level, no. I've never had the contents of my filing cabinets locked, the key changed, and then been told I have to send bitcoin to get the new key. Just think of the paper copy as a backup in the "solid ground" the radical old school backup system.
Please define the acronyms in the summaries so those of us who aren't experts in a particular topic can follow along.
This should be at a +5. My directors always stopped presenters at dry runs every time they made a Alphabet soup statement. All it takes is giving the letters, then what they stand for, and after that people follow it just fine. And in a multi- skillset place like/., its pretty helpful.
And be careful calling anything an acronym around here, the pedants will jump on you like crocodiles on a wildebeest. Then we'll have 50 posts on what an acronym is or isn't.
but seriously, how often do people normally back up? my/home directory is on a NAS with ZFS and keeps 24 hourly snapshots, 7 daily snapshots, 4 weekly snapshots and 6 monthly ones. this gets automatically synced to my secondary (backup) NAS and once a week i manually sync it to a nas at my parents' house. i lost all my data in the late 90s and never want to go through that experience again.
Mine is very similar. I can roll back quite a way, and it has come in very helpful.
But the answer to your question is: Most regular people simply don't back up at all. And professional setups aren't always a whole lot better.
Yeah, you know you guys who are on child protection panels who ask male interns on dates. You who text photos of your weiner to women, you who hang out in airport bathrooms and have a real "wide stance". You who are oftne seriously slimy, and get selfies with child molesters.......
Do you really want a telephone that law enforcement has direct access to at all times?
Its a little difficult to imagine just being a passenger in my own car. In fact, if as so many slash dotters allude to the nirvana like state of incredible safety brought about by our autonomous auto overlords, and auto accidents will be reduced to zero or near enough to it, wouldn't it make much more sense to not have any private automobiles? autonomous mass transit, and not much else.
I mean it will smell like vomit and piss and bad body odor, but hey, it'll be perfectly safe.
I would like to choose the time I cease to be, but no, I doubt I would find immortality palatable for very long.
Yeah, I mean unless I'm reconstituted as a completely different person or spirit, or whatever, I'm seriously terrible at hanging out and doing nothing. The Christian deity would probably kick my sorry backside to hell in about 5 minutes.
Yet God, being outside of "his creation" is timeless. As is heaven. Millenia will not pass, seconds will not pass. There will be no "thought" possible. "You" will be dead. Time exists within the universe, not outside of it.
Frankly, I'll be a bit disappointed if when my time comes, that I'll be conscious after it. Actually a lot disappointed. "Me" being dead is just how I want it. Not in wishing for it, but in a nice quiet cessation of "me" when I'm finished.
I want a machine that Oculus rift runs on, I'll buy that machine. Whats the big deal? It's why I have Mac PC and Linux machines. Each is a tool that has it's purpose.
As it is now, Lucky is just another redneck at the corner gas, spitting his baccy on the woodturner and arguing with the others about "Ferds and Chivvies".
If you don't want to release it for Mac, don't. Don't be a fucking asshole about it. Oops - too late.
Well hell, why didn't you just say that before, an the argument would have been over a long time ago!
Maybe I'm just a poor lonely neocon nutcase clinging to my guns and religion, but in a world where China - which has developed extensive CONVENTIONAL ballistic missile weapons - is drawing closer to a seemingly inevitable confrontation with the US:
Tell me dear neocon, whom in the world do you not want to wage war upon? We simply do not have enough money to take on the entire world, and the likelihood of China going to war with her largest trading partner is like sawing off the limb you are sitting on - financially suicidal.
But if you figure that we are going into a nucllear exchange with our largest trading partner, you at heart want war with the rest of the world.
and sending nuclear-cruise missile armed subs to patrol right off the US East coast,
And we haven't done the same? To anyone? Ever? You are going to have to get it into your head that the US isn't the sole remaining superpower in the world. That is an unstable situation, as the Neocons proved in the early years of this century. Completely squandering America's wealth in one unnecessary war, and now, pissing away our wealth and reputation in the longest war in US history.
Don't get me wrong - under the right circumstances, I'd reluctantly light the rest of the world on fire. then I'd enjoy a good night's sleep. Unfortunately you and your ilk want to light it on fire for almost anything. That's what internalized fear does to ya.
I think I'm entitled to some moderate level of concern. In fact, you'd have to be a god damned idiot to not feel some concern.
Hey, I am an ass, and an idiot. Make no mistake about that. However, I fear very little. I suspect that is beyond your comprehension.
But if there is one thing this ass an idiot has seen in this world, it's that people consumed by fear make really really bad decisions, and have a marked tendency to fuck things up royally. I just have to remember to tell myself, I'm the weird one.
Regardless, enjoy your fear. It's an addiction for some.
Reading the article is illustrative of teh whiny bullshit that gets written today.
I keep having flashbacks to the Talking Barbie who when you pulled her string, said "Math is hard!"
Because the entire gist of th e story is thatbecause algebraII is hard, and some peopel drop out because of math being so hard......
Get ready for it......
We must make school so easy that no one is even remotely put upon. That's the takeaway.
I pretty much sucked at algebra. Turned out I had possibly the worst algebra teacher in the world.
But after a different, non math class where teh instructor taught us how to use slide rules, a miracle happened - I became rather good at it.
Point is, I'm not saying that we have to learn how to use slide rules - although they do illustrate a mathamechanical concept that really worked for me - th epoint is that perhaps it needs taught better.
One thing I do know, the common core mathematics children are being taught today makes the very basic maths darn near incomprehensible, and can turn the simplest problems into gobbledygook. http://toprightnews.com/insani...
While the far right has gone nuts over CC, the fact is that the simplest forms of math should not be so insane.
But I digress.
For as much as I hated algebra and my poor grades in it for one year, I use it on a daily basis now. And others might too, because who among us can say with certainty what skills we learn in our education will be needed in our careers and lives.
This is why there are all these crazy plans to colonize Mars... Those are the people that are ready to say "You want a war, go nutz! I'm out of here, go fight with yourself."
It is the problem when half the population only has the reptile part of their brain functional.
I'm pretty confident that a space-based missile defense would not be "detonating" an enemy missile. If anything could be done, it would be to destroy the missile, almost certainly before it was even armed.
Arm early. Late in the boost phase, have it armed, and any large change in angular momentum, will result in ye olde earth shattering kaboom. Along with resultant EMP.
Oddly enough, that might be a better outcome than us destroying a missile and raining Pu on another country.
Or of course, lotsa dummies. Have the country with the defense system punch itself out so to speak.
Star Wars is merely the last action before MAD. You have to hope you have good intel, then if the threat is credible. immediately and prreduce the offending country to rubble. Then you have the rest of the world's reaction to contend with, but you kept the nucs from being launched in the first place.
The nclear option mostly sucks any way you look at it. But if you have to use it, you can't be half-assed about it.
Meanwhile, more and more unstable third world dictatorships and Islamic theocracies are either on the path to developing or already having nuclear weapons.
This is what happens when you won't get along with your neighbors. Trotskyist Neocon Nirvana.
Anyhow, thanks for revealing your fearful nature.
I support missile defense because I trust American engineers far more than third world lunatics.
They've all been replaced with H1-B visa holders from India. Make certain you trust them.
The original Star Wars was a feelgood pork project. A new version would be much the same. The problem of course is that you have to kill the missile early in the boost phase of operation. That phase doesn't last long, and if you go detonating your enemy's missile over another country, you almost certainly make yourself another enemy. If it makes it to your airspace to be detonated, you still have a failure what with EMP and radioactive snowflakes and all. How are people going to access their facebook? Ooops, sorry, cheap shot.
Are we any better now? Electronics certainly is, but there still isn't much time to react. And in a country where everything is considered "too expensive" any more, And the political situation abroad, I don't think planting the equivalent of ABM's right against the borders of our enemies - which in your case, appears to be everyone - will happen.
These considerations are't even political - they are some physics issues, which in the past have proven remarkably resilient to votes on whether they were true or not.
Of course. Because once you snap your fingers and improved security is added to the next version of the product, it will magically propagate backwards through time to the millions of devices that are currently in use.
You never had a windows forced update bro?
Trivial to install a backdoor with an update.
Maybe not ideally, but what if there's no other choice? Sure if you need an appendectamy in New York City, you have no shortage of skilled surgeons, but what if your appendix bursts in a small village in Alaska, in the middle of winter, or you take a bullet on the battlefield with no evac in site.
Situations like this are where autosurgeons will make inroads.
All the battlefields or the remote villages in Alaska will need is the robot just sitting there, waiting for the appendectomy. Hell my remote village had so many of them, we had to scrap half of them - couldn't get in the garage they were stored in any more.
Think people, these exceptionally expensive machines are quite expensive.
And if they are going to fly ot a more populated place, there might just be a hoomin there to operate.
Amazingly enough, there are PV installations in service in Alaska. I was surprised, because I've only been there once, but yeah, those winter nights are long. But then again, so are the summer days.
But the Alaskan's I met were as likely to install a pv system just to prove a person wrong. Regardless, they tend to integrate with diesel generators.
I'm a complete solar slut, but I'm surprised at this.
Well, for one thing, V2V is coming whether you want it or not.
If my car can tell the person behind me to get the hell off my ass - in the most polite way, I am all for that.
I'm still very interested in scaling upward to real world traffic.
The major manufacturers and OEMs are well aware of the problems and are already working on it, and have been for years. For another thing, the vehicles are already going to have to be able to account for human drivers, so they already have to be acquainted with the idea of leaving a safety buffer and so on. The thing is that they're going to do a better job of that than human drivers, because they don't have blind spots. They're going to know when a vehicle is in the adjacent lane, and they're going to move up or back a bit so that they don't keep the car there so that if either your car wants to swerve, or the other car swerves, there is not a collision.
Cool. Seriously, I'm not against any or all of the aids in the world to help the driver. I want vehicles to stay centered in the lane, I want that jackass who is using my bumper as a target while he texts incredibly important things to someone to have his car back off. I like self parking cars, a whole lot of good things going on in teh world of helpers.
An alerter to prove I'm not bored off my ass and asleep. so my supposedly fully autonomous car doesn't pull off the road. It's not a defense of driving while asleep, but that remaining vigilant while doing nothing sorta sucks. I'll maybe support autonomous cars when it's legal to be intoxicated while travelling in one. Or pull the curtains and become a member of the 75 mph club.
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Does it refuse to accept keyboard and trackpad input when coming back from sleep every morning like OS X does? I hate having to do a force shutdown and restart every morning.
Of course not. It simply doesn't fucking work. At all. But at least you have a Windows machine that doesn't work. So you have that going for you. Which is a good thing.
He appears insincere because, guess fuckin' what, he *is.*
Cruz is a Dominionist. None of this means anything to him except insofar as he can grab the reins of power and usher in some dystopic nightmare fusion of 1984 and The Handmaiden's Tale. Dominionists have been a scary powerful group since the Nixon years and they went absolutely metastaticwhen Bush II was elected.
If he is not stopped, we're going to end up ruled by the Christian Taliban.
Cruz is a Dominionist, and his alliance is not with the US. Dominionists practice a rather interesting religion, which includes waging war on those they consider God's enemies, taking their wealth, and distributing it to their priests. They have two types of leaders, Priests, and Kings. Ted's father is considered a priest. Ted is considered a King.
I suspect a Cruz presidency would look like some bastard cross between Chucky and Willy Wonka. But you can bet there would be war - and by the way, that income redistribution by taking it form God's enemies? That includes anyone they consider God's enemies.
To me, it depends on how many do what as to whether it "makes more sense."
"Makes more sense" is a personal thing. For example, I hate enclosed vehicles. I have owned one of them in my entire life and I hated driving it. I love convertibles and I won't buy a non-convertible.
Like myself and motorcycles. A motorcycle is more like flying than flying an airplane. The unobstructed view, the wind. Only thing missing is the altitude.
Dangerous? I suppose. I don't care though. It's that much fun.
See, everybody seems to want to make this jump. "Oh, da gubmint won't let us own our own vehicles anymore! We'll have to join this socialist collective where da gubmint will watch everywhere we go!"
I'm certainly not doing that. I do suspect that insurance rates might be interesting, relegating archaic vehicles to the very wealthy.
Then again, I would love to see a collectivist hive try to tell motorcycle drivers they are part of the past.
Suppose the vast majority of people decide they prefer to be driven around by a machine while texting their friends rather than having to spend 20 minutes "off-line" while driving a car. So companies decide there isn't enough of a market for people who prefer to drive themselves and stop selling cars which you can drive or they make fewer "drivable" cars and, therefore, have to charge more in order to recoup their costs, pricing you out of the market.
Well, hopefully the dimbulbs who are so addicted to TWD and the little smartphones will lose that addiction and find other annoying habits. But yes, if we are stuck with pre-automated vehicles, it would be a shame.
But the bright side of this whole thing is that fully autonomous vehicles are to me a shade of diminishing returns people might not like to get to.
Many of the safety features are ready to implement now. Lane assist, emergency braking, anti-tailgating radar, IR view. Panoramic rear view. All these things allow the driver control of the vehicle while keeping them from doing stupid things.
Put it back in the commode, man! Or at least wear nitrile gloves and a good respirator.
on a stochastic level your smartphone is magnitudes more secure than any paper-based communication.
But on a practical level, no. I've never had the contents of my filing cabinets locked, the key changed, and then been told I have to send bitcoin to get the new key. Just think of the paper copy as a backup in the "solid ground" the radical old school backup system.
Please define the acronyms in the summaries so those of us who aren't experts in a particular topic can follow along.
This should be at a +5. My directors always stopped presenters at dry runs every time they made a Alphabet soup statement. All it takes is giving the letters, then what they stand for, and after that people follow it just fine. And in a multi- skillset place like /., its pretty helpful.
And be careful calling anything an acronym around here, the pedants will jump on you like crocodiles on a wildebeest. Then we'll have 50 posts on what an acronym is or isn't.
but seriously, how often do people normally back up? my /home directory is on a NAS with ZFS and keeps 24 hourly snapshots, 7 daily snapshots, 4 weekly snapshots and 6 monthly ones. this gets automatically synced to my secondary (backup) NAS and once a week i manually sync it to a nas at my parents' house. i lost all my data in the late 90s and never want to go through that experience again.
Mine is very similar. I can roll back quite a way, and it has come in very helpful.
But the answer to your question is: Most regular people simply don't back up at all. And professional setups aren't always a whole lot better.
I like both paper and digital copies. Both have advantages.
One wonders where your moral crusade will end?
Probably about the same time you get a sense of humor.
Unless you have rack-and-pinion steering and a cable that goes to a fuel valve, you *already* are a passenger...
So Ican sit in the passenger seat and all cars today that meet your requirements will take me wherever I want to go? Who knew?
Do you really want a telephone that law enforcement has direct access to at all times?
Give it a little thought.
I enjoy driving.
Its a little difficult to imagine just being a passenger in my own car. In fact, if as so many slash dotters allude to the nirvana like state of incredible safety brought about by our autonomous auto overlords, and auto accidents will be reduced to zero or near enough to it, wouldn't it make much more sense to not have any private automobiles? autonomous mass transit, and not much else.
I mean it will smell like vomit and piss and bad body odor, but hey, it'll be perfectly safe.
I would like to choose the time I cease to be, but no, I doubt I would find immortality palatable for very long.
Yeah, I mean unless I'm reconstituted as a completely different person or spirit, or whatever, I'm seriously terrible at hanging out and doing nothing. The Christian deity would probably kick my sorry backside to hell in about 5 minutes.
Yet God, being outside of "his creation" is timeless. As is heaven. Millenia will not pass, seconds will not pass. There will be no "thought" possible. "You" will be dead. Time exists within the universe, not outside of it.
Frankly, I'll be a bit disappointed if when my time comes, that I'll be conscious after it. Actually a lot disappointed. "Me" being dead is just how I want it. Not in wishing for it, but in a nice quiet cessation of "me" when I'm finished.
As it is now, Lucky is just another redneck at the corner gas, spitting his baccy on the woodturner and arguing with the others about "Ferds and Chivvies". If you don't want to release it for Mac, don't. Don't be a fucking asshole about it. Oops - too late.
I For starters, you're wrong.
Well hell, why didn't you just say that before, an the argument would have been over a long time ago!
Maybe I'm just a poor lonely neocon nutcase clinging to my guns and religion, but in a world where China - which has developed extensive CONVENTIONAL ballistic missile weapons - is drawing closer to a seemingly inevitable confrontation with the US:
Tell me dear neocon, whom in the world do you not want to wage war upon? We simply do not have enough money to take on the entire world, and the likelihood of China going to war with her largest trading partner is like sawing off the limb you are sitting on - financially suicidal.
But if you figure that we are going into a nucllear exchange with our largest trading partner, you at heart want war with the rest of the world.
and sending nuclear-cruise missile armed subs to patrol right off the US East coast,
And we haven't done the same? To anyone? Ever? You are going to have to get it into your head that the US isn't the sole remaining superpower in the world. That is an unstable situation, as the Neocons proved in the early years of this century. Completely squandering America's wealth in one unnecessary war, and now, pissing away our wealth and reputation in the longest war in US history.
Don't get me wrong - under the right circumstances, I'd reluctantly light the rest of the world on fire. then I'd enjoy a good night's sleep. Unfortunately you and your ilk want to light it on fire for almost anything. That's what internalized fear does to ya.
I think I'm entitled to some moderate level of concern. In fact, you'd have to be a god damned idiot to not feel some concern.
Hey, I am an ass, and an idiot. Make no mistake about that. However, I fear very little. I suspect that is beyond your comprehension.
But if there is one thing this ass an idiot has seen in this world, it's that people consumed by fear make really really bad decisions, and have a marked tendency to fuck things up royally. I just have to remember to tell myself, I'm the weird one.
Regardless, enjoy your fear. It's an addiction for some.
I keep having flashbacks to the Talking Barbie who when you pulled her string, said "Math is hard!"
Because the entire gist of th e story is thatbecause algebraII is hard, and some peopel drop out because of math being so hard......
Get ready for it......
We must make school so easy that no one is even remotely put upon. That's the takeaway.
I pretty much sucked at algebra. Turned out I had possibly the worst algebra teacher in the world.
But after a different, non math class where teh instructor taught us how to use slide rules, a miracle happened - I became rather good at it.
Point is, I'm not saying that we have to learn how to use slide rules - although they do illustrate a mathamechanical concept that really worked for me - th epoint is that perhaps it needs taught better.
One thing I do know, the common core mathematics children are being taught today makes the very basic maths darn near incomprehensible, and can turn the simplest problems into gobbledygook. http://toprightnews.com/insani...
http://twitchy.com/2013/10/04/...
While the far right has gone nuts over CC, the fact is that the simplest forms of math should not be so insane.
But I digress.
For as much as I hated algebra and my poor grades in it for one year, I use it on a daily basis now. And others might too, because who among us can say with certainty what skills we learn in our education will be needed in our careers and lives.
This is why there are all these crazy plans to colonize Mars... Those are the people that are ready to say "You want a war, go nutz! I'm out of here, go fight with yourself."
It is the problem when half the population only has the reptile part of their brain functional.
I'm pretty confident that a space-based missile defense would not be "detonating" an enemy missile. If anything could be done, it would be to destroy the missile, almost certainly before it was even armed.
Arm early. Late in the boost phase, have it armed, and any large change in angular momentum, will result in ye olde earth shattering kaboom. Along with resultant EMP.
Oddly enough, that might be a better outcome than us destroying a missile and raining Pu on another country.
Or of course, lotsa dummies. Have the country with the defense system punch itself out so to speak.
Star Wars is merely the last action before MAD. You have to hope you have good intel, then if the threat is credible. immediately and prreduce the offending country to rubble. Then you have the rest of the world's reaction to contend with, but you kept the nucs from being launched in the first place.
The nclear option mostly sucks any way you look at it. But if you have to use it, you can't be half-assed about it.
Meanwhile, more and more unstable third world dictatorships and Islamic theocracies are either on the path to developing or already having nuclear weapons.
This is what happens when you won't get along with your neighbors. Trotskyist Neocon Nirvana.
Anyhow, thanks for revealing your fearful nature.
I support missile defense because I trust American engineers far more than third world lunatics.
They've all been replaced with H1-B visa holders from India. Make certain you trust them.
The original Star Wars was a feelgood pork project. A new version would be much the same. The problem of course is that you have to kill the missile early in the boost phase of operation. That phase doesn't last long, and if you go detonating your enemy's missile over another country, you almost certainly make yourself another enemy. If it makes it to your airspace to be detonated, you still have a failure what with EMP and radioactive snowflakes and all. How are people going to access their facebook? Ooops, sorry, cheap shot.
Are we any better now? Electronics certainly is, but there still isn't much time to react. And in a country where everything is considered "too expensive" any more, And the political situation abroad, I don't think planting the equivalent of ABM's right against the borders of our enemies - which in your case, appears to be everyone - will happen.
These considerations are't even political - they are some physics issues, which in the past have proven remarkably resilient to votes on whether they were true or not.
Of course. Because once you snap your fingers and improved security is added to the next version of the product, it will magically propagate backwards through time to the millions of devices that are currently in use.
You never had a windows forced update bro? Trivial to install a backdoor with an update.
Maybe not ideally, but what if there's no other choice? Sure if you need an appendectamy in New York City, you have no shortage of skilled surgeons, but what if your appendix bursts in a small village in Alaska, in the middle of winter, or you take a bullet on the battlefield with no evac in site.
Situations like this are where autosurgeons will make inroads.
All the battlefields or the remote villages in Alaska will need is the robot just sitting there, waiting for the appendectomy. Hell my remote village had so many of them, we had to scrap half of them - couldn't get in the garage they were stored in any more.
Think people, these exceptionally expensive machines are quite expensive. And if they are going to fly ot a more populated place, there might just be a hoomin there to operate.
Your lawsuit papers are in the mail and should arrive in the next day or two.
I doubt that the insolation is the same. How should it?
Yes, it is. It is a pretty cloudy place however. Germany? Certainly not. You might mix it up with England or the UK in general.
Here's a link to a decent comparison.
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/f...
The irradiance graphics are on Page 2.
Amazingly enough, there are PV installations in service in Alaska. I was surprised, because I've only been there once, but yeah, those winter nights are long. But then again, so are the summer days.
But the Alaskan's I met were as likely to install a pv system just to prove a person wrong. Regardless, they tend to integrate with diesel generators.
I'm a complete solar slut, but I'm surprised at this.
Well, for one thing, V2V is coming whether you want it or not.
If my car can tell the person behind me to get the hell off my ass - in the most polite way, I am all for that.
I'm still very interested in scaling upward to real world traffic.
The major manufacturers and OEMs are well aware of the problems and are already working on it, and have been for years. For another thing, the vehicles are already going to have to be able to account for human drivers, so they already have to be acquainted with the idea of leaving a safety buffer and so on. The thing is that they're going to do a better job of that than human drivers, because they don't have blind spots. They're going to know when a vehicle is in the adjacent lane, and they're going to move up or back a bit so that they don't keep the car there so that if either your car wants to swerve, or the other car swerves, there is not a collision.
Cool. Seriously, I'm not against any or all of the aids in the world to help the driver. I want vehicles to stay centered in the lane, I want that jackass who is using my bumper as a target while he texts incredibly important things to someone to have his car back off. I like self parking cars, a whole lot of good things going on in teh world of helpers.
I'm just not into the idea of this: http://www.newstimes.com/local...
An alerter to prove I'm not bored off my ass and asleep. so my supposedly fully autonomous car doesn't pull off the road. It's not a defense of driving while asleep, but that remaining vigilant while doing nothing sorta sucks. I'll maybe support autonomous cars when it's legal to be intoxicated while travelling in one. Or pull the curtains and become a member of the 75 mph club.
Or a completely blind person can "drive" one.