I don't think BGP is simple enough for a non-nerd...
Since when did "nerd" only cover people who understand BGP? I don't remember that on the entrance exam...
Heaven forbid anyone should be allowed to come away from reading a story on Slashdot more informed. Can't be having that!
A simple, painless expansion of an acronym would at least give every reader a fighting chance at a rough guess of what it does, or at least what it relates to.
Um... given that BGP is THE core routing protocol for the Internet... Yeah... you should at least know what it is at a basic level. It fits into the same category as DNS, HTML, ISP, etc.
It's a lot like the programmers talking on here about the Waterfall model. It's expected that if you don't know something that you will take 5 seconds to look it up. Just maybe you'll learn something new... oh horrors... (grin)
For those who still don't know, BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol. At a very basic level, it's a routing protocol used to advertise routes between ISPs and other Internet connected organizations. It's these routes that we use to get to Netflix, for example.
This is what it has come to. The cop used to be your friend, right? But now he's not. Well, the cops didn't change, we did. In the old days a copy could say "Stop or I'll shoot" and if you didn't stop, he shot you in the back... Look at "It's a Wonderful Life"... Bert the cop does that to George (but misses)... no question back in the day, the cops could say "get on the ground" and you'd get on the ground. Now, we don't... we won't... go ahead, shoot me... you'll do time in prison Mr. Cop... you'll go down for 2nd Degree Murder. Watch "Cops" and see people who think they'll negotiate their way out of being dumped on the ground and cuffed. And it's all on the cop to make sure he is polite, doesn't use excessive force (which will be decided later, possibly by a jury) and that when someone spits in his face, he doesn't retaliate... Just put that as an additional charge that the prosecutor will drop in exchange for a plea.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're asking cops to do everything all the time now... In addition to protecting us, and bringing in the bad guys, and finding them, we want them to use kid gloves and we've tied their hands over and over again. So we are getting exactly what WE deserve, a bitter police force, who feels that the people are not behind them, and thus they move from serving and protecting us to serving and protecting themselves. Congratulations everyone... you got the police force you deserve. You don't like it? Well further tying their hands, throwing them in jail, etc. is just gonna make it worse. Rock on, morons.
I'd be more convinced if you had started out your argument with the war on drugs. In my opinion, that's when the police forces went from being the neighborhood cop to basically one big SWAT team, having to be prepared for anything from noise complaints to all out war. There is just too much of a gap between the two to do both effectively. In some ways, the police forces would have been a lot better off if the drug war had been an FBI only operation.
The people who are replying that the viewing distance charts are wrong need to understand what the recommendations apply to.
First, they apply to the average person, whoever that may be. Since we all have slightly different eyesight, there are people who will see jaggies at the recommended range and people who will not.
Secondly, the vast majority of the distance recommendations refer to televisions and video, not computer monitors and text or still images. Computer monitors tend to have more precise pixel color and lighting control which makes them sharper but also makes it easier to see jaggies.
The point is that the charts were developed for TVs playing video and they tend to be accurate for this usage. Any application beyond that is pretty much out of scope.
As a result, owning a new car is something that many people only dream of.
And why would you even want to own a car? The utilization factor of privately owned cars sucks. I'm waiting for self-driving flexible rentals. If all you want is to get from place A to place B, let computers figure out how to do that most economically. And I don't mean just finding a route, but, among other things, scheduling vehicles to people with regular schedules. Those vehicles don't need to stand in parking lots. In fact, you'd be able to get rid of a lot of the parking places because the vehicles would be permanently busy.
Typical response from someone who lives in a dense area and who never travels or drives anywhere...
Some of us actually drive long distances to visit relatives, go on vacation, or have special requirements such as towing . Some live in communities where there isn't any public transportation or in areas where public transportation just doesn't go from point A to point B or with low density where a car service just wouldn't be profitable enough. In each of these situations its cheaper (or a requirement) to own or lease a car than it is to rent one.
Yes, having a simple easy way to rent a car in a dense area where you have no special requirements works. But saying that you can't imagine a reason why someone would want to own a car just highlights how little experience you have with the different ways that people actually use their cars and the cost of renting.
Calling them "dirtier" is wrong then. Less-clean-than-expected would be accurate. They didn't get dirtier, they simply sold less vehicles to make the air cleaner than it has been without them.
Older cars and older engines get to the point where seals, gaskets, etc. start to decay enough that they allow oil into the engine. This causes the exhaust to become "dirtier". It's cheaper for most people to burn oil than it is to get the engine seals replaced. So, yes, the cars do get dirtier over time. For example, my 2003 Nissan Murano was going through a quart of oil a month from years 8 through 10 (older Nissan engines are known to do this). About 18 months ago I traded it in for a new Jeep that doesn't burn any oil and gets better gas mileage.
If you are in IT management and feel that your skills are best suited to spend the rest of your career in management, then you should work on a Masters degree (i.e. MBA or Masters in IT Management). Certifications are largely for skilled IT workers who actually do the work. Managers, on the other hand, tend to focus on strategy, keeping track of work and work assignments, reporting, etc. Usually for management positions, relevant experience covers any hands-on IT knowledge needed.
teachers, in general, don't get paid what they would if they were in *any* related industry. As a result, most of the people you get who teach do so because they *want* to be teachers.
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it, is that by not paying teachers very much, the teachers you get are the ones that couldn't do any better (i.e. they are worse than the teachers you would get if you doubled teacher salaries and could attract better talent).
You can't get a *babysitter* for $1.08/hour (it's actually illegal to pay them that little)
You can't pay a teacher $1.08 an hour either... I'm not sure where or why the jump from $1.08/student/hour to $1.08/hour happened...
If we paid teachers $10/student per hour, they'd be making $300/hour which would probably be more than what the CEO of the company I work for makes. So really it makes sense that the $/student/hour number would seem low given that you need to multiply by 30 to get the hourly wage.
In addition, teachers get 3+ months paid time off each year when you factor in federal and state holidays, winter vacation, spring break, summer vacation, etc. This is a major benefit that is very rarely factored into the salary equation...
And unfortunately, this is why the reliability of the Nissan Pathfinder has become utter shit. I wanted to buy a 2014 model, but the horrific reviews of failing transmissions at 30k miles scared me and many others off. For good reason I might add.
I had the 2013 Murano which came out with CVT. 2013-2015 models had CVT problems. Nissan has pretty much solved this and have since added the CVT to even more models. I did lose my transfer case when it was 8 years old and that is still a weak point today for the Murano.
Its one of the reasons why I replaced it with a Jeep last year. The Jeep Grand Cherokee has an 8-speed transmission. The Cherokee now has a 9-speed transmission. At the time that I was researching the Jeep, ZF was saying that they were working on a 10-speed transmission. With that many shift points, they rival CVT in regards to being in the most efficient power band. Only time will tell if these transmissions will be more reliable than the CVT.
When I find open source programs that I use on a daily basis, I will usually donate money instead of time. I spend enough time on the computer at work as it is.
I used to contribute, 7 or 8 years ago, to a program called jalbum by building a couple of different skins. Jalbum is a java based program that lets you build customized photo albums for your web site. However, the program got picked up as an internal engine for a couple of applications and then there was a rapid growth spurt in features and capabilities. I just didn't have the time to keep the skins up to date and have a life away from the computer, so I stopped contributing.
I did learn a lot about Java, photo manipulation, HTML, etc.
The Kindle Voyage does not appear to be included in this sale, which is a shame.
I agree that the definition of "all" is being somewhat loosely used. However, anyone thinking that the "all Kindles" would include the Voyage would just be deluding themselves. After all, the Kindle Voyage was only released a month or so ago.
And 15 years ago I bought a massive 2GB drive for $350.
Computer stuff gets cheaper over time. There's no reason the same won't be true for SSDs. At some point SSDs will be cheap enough that even if HDD are still 1/100th of the price, SSDs will still win because of all their other advantages.
I agree, eventually SSDs will become cheap enough that it won't be worth it to manufacture spinning hard-drives anymore. It's kinda like Plasma TVs today. They are being dropped by TV manufacturers because it's cheaper to scale up LED TVs.
That being said, it's not going to happen overnight. The drive manufacturers need to make their R&D money back, at the very least....
The spent fuel is piling up at a rate of about 2,200 tons a year at U.S. power-plant sites. The industry and government decline to say how much waste is currently stored at individual plants. The U.S. nuclear industry had 69,720 tons of uranium waste as of May 2013, with 49,620 tons in pools and 20,100 in dry storage, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute industry group.
Spent nuclear fuel is about 95 percent uranium. About 1 percent is other heavy elements such as curium, americium and plutonium-239. Each has an extremely long half-life — some take hundreds of thousands of years to lose all of their radioactive potency.
And all of those sites are close to 50 years old with no maintenance and with no fuel storage because of the veto of Yucca mountain, etc....
Yes, there are some nasty by-products of nuclear power. But we have the technology to clean these sites up and store or re-process the waste. The only reason why these sites are left to fester is due to politics. It's pretty bad when the people who complain about these sites and nuclear power are the exact same people who block the solutions....
I would think that the office of the future would consist of people working from home and connecting to VR environments. The only reason why people still go into work is because the boss requires a presence and it aids in ad-hoc communications. If you can accomplish the same thing through VR (i.e. walk around the office, stop at the water cooler, catch side conversations, etc.) then most information workers (those that don't require interaction with physical objects) can simply work from home and pocket the transportation savings. Plus, it would ease road congestion.
I figure you could still drive on dedicated tracks, much like people can still ride horses.
Which doesn't help much if you need to tow things like boats, jetskis, trailers, etc.
The people who think that self-driving cars and not owning cars are a good idea tend to be people who live in dense urban areas and know little to nothing about the rest of the world. What they fail to understand are all of the circumstances where a generic rental and/or self-driving just will not cut it. Like it or not, any self-driving highway is going to have to make accommodations for human guided vehicles.
In addition, I somehow don't think that police, fire, ambulance, politicians, etc. would be willing to use self-driving cars. Just imagine the first political assassination through car hacking....
Indeed. This is the kind of story I like to see here now and then, although I was surprised that the headline didn't start off with "10 year old genius builds super computer on a bread board..." as has been the trend here.
I remember taking logic gate classes in University using Motorola 68000 chips and assembler. It gave me a decent understanding of how things work at the hardware level vs the abstracted software level.
I'm guessing that you are trolling... I too took the NT 4.0 exams and not one of the answers were ever "reinstall Windows". Microsoft also never had answers that ever involved editing the registry.
I do agree that many of the questions could be solved in multiple ways, if you knew how, and that the exams expected the answers from the book or exam guide. That part was very annoying, especially when they listed both correct answers.
AI is made to invent magic tricks. AI starts creating more and more complex magic tricks. Magician stops understanding the tricks but keeps following the given steps and is as surprised as the audience about the result. After a while, the AI starts giving really strange steps and it becomes clear that there is no explanation in current science that justifies the results of the tricks. Humanity has meddled with incomprehensible forces, awakening He who was never dead.
When the "AI" can invent magic tricks outside of the basic programming, then I'll be scared.
Basically, they programmed in one trick and then programmed it to compute more variations of the trick. Not much different than programming a computer to fill out a matrix based on the calculations for a single square.
We'll know that we have a true AI when it can go from calculating new card tricks to counting cards in Vegas.....
in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day
I understand we're all geeks here. However, I think we can be expected to have a basic academic knowledge of environmental facts. For example, even though from my basement I may see very little of The Big Fireball in the Sky, I still know, based on YouTube videos, that clouds don't entomb us in pitch darkness.
True... While that works quite well in a fantasy world where storing and moving energy doesn't involve cost, energy loss, and other real world factors. The sun shining in California doesn't help Denmark as there is no efficient way to transport that energy. Also, with today's solar energy conversion rates, you'll end up covering large swathes of nature with solar panels and wind mills.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
This....! Anyone who trusts a network to pass traffic untouched, maintaining privacy, etc. that is not owned by them is just fooling themselves.
My Windows 7 laptop for work crashes 2 to 3 times a week with a reboot and a popup that says there was a "BSOD Error" After months of diagnostics by the help desk people and days of down time the best they can say is it looks like a "Video Driver issue" but there are no updated drivers. Thus I have to live with it rebooting and crashing tell microsoft/intel/someone releases a new driver.
Windows is still crap in my book and still "Blue Screens" on a regular basses they just call it a BSOD error and use a pop up to tell you instead of a blue screen. Hoping no one will ever realize that BSOD == Blue Screen Of Death
My Daughter has a Windows 8 laptop that I had to get her for school, in the last year we have had to re-install it three times. It gets an update that causes it to continually reboot with an error about the update failing and it rebooting. After the third time she brought it to me and asked me to wipe the crap and put linux on it. Why? Because in 10 year of her running a linux laptop it never crashed on her, yet the first windows laptop she had crashed every couple of weeks and the new one crashes to the point of re-install several times a year.
Don't give me the crap that windows is stable or good. Would you put up with a car that broke down twice a week? or even 3 times a year? Then why put up with windows doing it?
It sounds to me like your support guys are not very good at their jobs, or perhaps, just don't care. I'm willing to bet that you have faulty hardware and not a driver issue. As for your daughter's computer, there is no reason why you should have to reinstall after a patch. I'm wondering if she doesn't have bad sectors on the hard-drive that is corrupting OS files.
I hate however having to boot to windows to play games. It drives me nuts.
Which part? Simply the fact that you have to run Windows or that you have to wait for it to boot?
If it's an amazingly fast boot time that you want, then you need to get a nice fast SSD drive. I installed these in my desktop gaming system and it boots up faster than the consoles....
Another long-term study found a link between empty wallets and gaming PC upgrades.
Ain't that the truth. I just got done doing a little shopping hoping to get my PC up to spec for the games coming out this month and next.
I'll hate to have to tell my daughter, "No college for you", but that Geforce GTX 980 looks sweet.
Get the GTX 970 instead and invest the difference. Your daughter and wallet will thank you. It will also reduce the violence in your household when your wife finds out... (grin)
What the article fails to address is that the Saudis have flooded the market with cheap oil that they can make money on at 30 dollars a barrel while tar sands require about 93 dollars a barrel and fraccing requires about 83 dollars a barrel to remain viable. These groups have already cut back and started layoffs.
If I remember right, Hybernia, off of the coast of Newfoundland, needs about $75 a barrel to make money.
Germany is not the United States. Everyone pointing at Europe seems to miss one large difference: there's a whole hell of a lot more room between people and places they need to go in most the United States than in Europe. If you live in Massachusetts, half an hour is a "long drive,"
Obviously, you have never lived or talked to anyone who lives and commutes in Massachusetts. 30 minutes is a short drive. The average commute for my colleagues is between 30 minutes and 60 minutes. Yes, there are people who live and work in Boston/Cambridge and who take public transportation or even walk/bike. But a large number of people who work in Boston live well outside due to sky-high housing costs. Plus, a large majority of employers have offices along or outside of the i95 belt.
Yes, one benefit of living in a high population area is that various box stores are no more than 5 to 10 miles away. So, running errands, getting groceries, etc is much more efficient. But, commuting to work is a different story.
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I don't think BGP is simple enough for a non-nerd...
Since when did "nerd" only cover people who understand BGP? I don't remember that on the entrance exam...
Heaven forbid anyone should be allowed to come away from reading a story on Slashdot more informed. Can't be having that!
A simple, painless expansion of an acronym would at least give every reader a fighting chance at a rough guess of what it does, or at least what it relates to.
Um... given that BGP is THE core routing protocol for the Internet... Yeah... you should at least know what it is at a basic level. It fits into the same category as DNS, HTML, ISP, etc.
It's a lot like the programmers talking on here about the Waterfall model. It's expected that if you don't know something that you will take 5 seconds to look it up. Just maybe you'll learn something new... oh horrors... (grin)
For those who still don't know, BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol. At a very basic level, it's a routing protocol used to advertise routes between ISPs and other Internet connected organizations. It's these routes that we use to get to Netflix, for example.
This is what it has come to. The cop used to be your friend, right? But now he's not. Well, the cops didn't change, we did. In the old days a copy could say "Stop or I'll shoot" and if you didn't stop, he shot you in the back... Look at "It's a Wonderful Life"... Bert the cop does that to George (but misses)... no question back in the day, the cops could say "get on the ground" and you'd get on the ground. Now, we don't... we won't... go ahead, shoot me... you'll do time in prison Mr. Cop... you'll go down for 2nd Degree Murder. Watch "Cops" and see people who think they'll negotiate their way out of being dumped on the ground and cuffed. And it's all on the cop to make sure he is polite, doesn't use excessive force (which will be decided later, possibly by a jury) and that when someone spits in his face, he doesn't retaliate... Just put that as an additional charge that the prosecutor will drop in exchange for a plea.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're asking cops to do everything all the time now... In addition to protecting us, and bringing in the bad guys, and finding them, we want them to use kid gloves and we've tied their hands over and over again. So we are getting exactly what WE deserve, a bitter police force, who feels that the people are not behind them, and thus they move from serving and protecting us to serving and protecting themselves. Congratulations everyone... you got the police force you deserve. You don't like it? Well further tying their hands, throwing them in jail, etc. is just gonna make it worse. Rock on, morons.
I'd be more convinced if you had started out your argument with the war on drugs. In my opinion, that's when the police forces went from being the neighborhood cop to basically one big SWAT team, having to be prepared for anything from noise complaints to all out war. There is just too much of a gap between the two to do both effectively. In some ways, the police forces would have been a lot better off if the drug war had been an FBI only operation.
At 55" and average viewing distances of 8ft you're not going to notice all the detail of even 1080p. You literally need to be sat a couple of feet away to get the full benefit of 4K on a 55" display.
The people who are replying that the viewing distance charts are wrong need to understand what the recommendations apply to.
First, they apply to the average person, whoever that may be. Since we all have slightly different eyesight, there are people who will see jaggies at the recommended range and people who will not.
Secondly, the vast majority of the distance recommendations refer to televisions and video, not computer monitors and text or still images. Computer monitors tend to have more precise pixel color and lighting control which makes them sharper but also makes it easier to see jaggies.
The point is that the charts were developed for TVs playing video and they tend to be accurate for this usage. Any application beyond that is pretty much out of scope.
As a result, owning a new car is something that many people only dream of.
And why would you even want to own a car? The utilization factor of privately owned cars sucks. I'm waiting for self-driving flexible rentals. If all you want is to get from place A to place B, let computers figure out how to do that most economically. And I don't mean just finding a route, but, among other things, scheduling vehicles to people with regular schedules. Those vehicles don't need to stand in parking lots. In fact, you'd be able to get rid of a lot of the parking places because the vehicles would be permanently busy.
Typical response from someone who lives in a dense area and who never travels or drives anywhere...
Some of us actually drive long distances to visit relatives, go on vacation, or have special requirements such as towing . Some live in communities where there isn't any public transportation or in areas where public transportation just doesn't go from point A to point B or with low density where a car service just wouldn't be profitable enough. In each of these situations its cheaper (or a requirement) to own or lease a car than it is to rent one.
Yes, having a simple easy way to rent a car in a dense area where you have no special requirements works. But saying that you can't imagine a reason why someone would want to own a car just highlights how little experience you have with the different ways that people actually use their cars and the cost of renting.
Calling them "dirtier" is wrong then. Less-clean-than-expected would be accurate. They didn't get dirtier, they simply sold less vehicles to make the air cleaner than it has been without them.
Older cars and older engines get to the point where seals, gaskets, etc. start to decay enough that they allow oil into the engine. This causes the exhaust to become "dirtier". It's cheaper for most people to burn oil than it is to get the engine seals replaced. So, yes, the cars do get dirtier over time. For example, my 2003 Nissan Murano was going through a quart of oil a month from years 8 through 10 (older Nissan engines are known to do this). About 18 months ago I traded it in for a new Jeep that doesn't burn any oil and gets better gas mileage.
If you are in IT management and feel that your skills are best suited to spend the rest of your career in management, then you should work on a Masters degree (i.e. MBA or Masters in IT Management). Certifications are largely for skilled IT workers who actually do the work. Managers, on the other hand, tend to focus on strategy, keeping track of work and work assignments, reporting, etc. Usually for management positions, relevant experience covers any hands-on IT knowledge needed.
Sounds like this guy's plan was a bit too large in scale.
Wait was that a pun? I thought this was the pun thread?
Perhaps your pun was just carp. Or maybe I am just being a pike-r.
With all of this angling for puns, it's time to give this thread the hook.
teachers, in general, don't get paid what they would if they were in *any* related industry. As a result, most of the people you get who teach do so because they *want* to be teachers.
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it, is that by not paying teachers very much, the teachers you get are the ones that couldn't do any better (i.e. they are worse than the teachers you would get if you doubled teacher salaries and could attract better talent).
You can't get a *babysitter* for $1.08/hour (it's actually illegal to pay them that little)
You can't pay a teacher $1.08 an hour either... I'm not sure where or why the jump from $1.08/student/hour to $1.08/hour happened...
If we paid teachers $10/student per hour, they'd be making $300/hour which would probably be more than what the CEO of the company I work for makes. So really it makes sense that the $/student/hour number would seem low given that you need to multiply by 30 to get the hourly wage.
In addition, teachers get 3+ months paid time off each year when you factor in federal and state holidays, winter vacation, spring break, summer vacation, etc. This is a major benefit that is very rarely factored into the salary equation...
And unfortunately, this is why the reliability of the Nissan Pathfinder has become utter shit. I wanted to buy a 2014 model, but the horrific reviews of failing transmissions at 30k miles scared me and many others off. For good reason I might add.
I had the 2013 Murano which came out with CVT. 2013-2015 models had CVT problems. Nissan has pretty much solved this and have since added the CVT to even more models. I did lose my transfer case when it was 8 years old and that is still a weak point today for the Murano.
Its one of the reasons why I replaced it with a Jeep last year. The Jeep Grand Cherokee has an 8-speed transmission. The Cherokee now has a 9-speed transmission. At the time that I was researching the Jeep, ZF was saying that they were working on a 10-speed transmission. With that many shift points, they rival CVT in regards to being in the most efficient power band. Only time will tell if these transmissions will be more reliable than the CVT.
When I find open source programs that I use on a daily basis, I will usually donate money instead of time. I spend enough time on the computer at work as it is.
I used to contribute, 7 or 8 years ago, to a program called jalbum by building a couple of different skins. Jalbum is a java based program that lets you build customized photo albums for your web site. However, the program got picked up as an internal engine for a couple of applications and then there was a rapid growth spurt in features and capabilities. I just didn't have the time to keep the skins up to date and have a life away from the computer, so I stopped contributing.
I did learn a lot about Java, photo manipulation, HTML, etc.
For sufficiently loose definitions of "all".
The Kindle Voyage does not appear to be included in this sale, which is a shame.
I agree that the definition of "all" is being somewhat loosely used. However, anyone thinking that the "all Kindles" would include the Voyage would just be deluding themselves. After all, the Kindle Voyage was only released a month or so ago.
And 15 years ago I bought a massive 2GB drive for $350.
Computer stuff gets cheaper over time. There's no reason the same won't be true for SSDs. At some point SSDs will be cheap enough that even if HDD are still 1/100th of the price, SSDs will still win because of all their other advantages.
I agree, eventually SSDs will become cheap enough that it won't be worth it to manufacture spinning hard-drives anymore. It's kinda like Plasma TVs today. They are being dropped by TV manufacturers because it's cheaper to scale up LED TVs.
That being said, it's not going to happen overnight. The drive manufacturers need to make their R&D money back, at the very least....
Yeah, because nuclear is real clean and stuff.
The spent fuel is piling up at a rate of about 2,200 tons a year at U.S. power-plant sites. The industry and government decline to say how much waste is currently stored at individual plants. The U.S. nuclear industry had 69,720 tons of uranium waste as of May 2013, with 49,620 tons in pools and 20,100 in dry storage, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute industry group.
Spent nuclear fuel is about 95 percent uranium. About 1 percent is other heavy elements such as curium, americium and plutonium-239. Each has an extremely long half-life — some take hundreds of thousands of years to lose all of their radioactive potency.
And all of those sites are close to 50 years old with no maintenance and with no fuel storage because of the veto of Yucca mountain, etc....
Yes, there are some nasty by-products of nuclear power. But we have the technology to clean these sites up and store or re-process the waste. The only reason why these sites are left to fester is due to politics. It's pretty bad when the people who complain about these sites and nuclear power are the exact same people who block the solutions....
I would think that the office of the future would consist of people working from home and connecting to VR environments. The only reason why people still go into work is because the boss requires a presence and it aids in ad-hoc communications. If you can accomplish the same thing through VR (i.e. walk around the office, stop at the water cooler, catch side conversations, etc.) then most information workers (those that don't require interaction with physical objects) can simply work from home and pocket the transportation savings. Plus, it would ease road congestion.
I figure you could still drive on dedicated tracks, much like people can still ride horses.
Which doesn't help much if you need to tow things like boats, jetskis, trailers, etc.
The people who think that self-driving cars and not owning cars are a good idea tend to be people who live in dense urban areas and know little to nothing about the rest of the world. What they fail to understand are all of the circumstances where a generic rental and/or self-driving just will not cut it. Like it or not, any self-driving highway is going to have to make accommodations for human guided vehicles.
In addition, I somehow don't think that police, fire, ambulance, politicians, etc. would be willing to use self-driving cars. Just imagine the first political assassination through car hacking....
Hats off.
Indeed. This is the kind of story I like to see here now and then, although I was surprised that the headline didn't start off with "10 year old genius builds super computer on a bread board..." as has been the trend here.
I remember taking logic gate classes in University using Motorola 68000 chips and assembler. It gave me a decent understanding of how things work at the hardware level vs the abstracted software level.
I'm guessing that you are trolling... I too took the NT 4.0 exams and not one of the answers were ever "reinstall Windows". Microsoft also never had answers that ever involved editing the registry.
I do agree that many of the questions could be solved in multiple ways, if you knew how, and that the exams expected the answers from the book or exam guide. That part was very annoying, especially when they listed both correct answers.
AI is made to invent magic tricks.
AI starts creating more and more complex magic tricks.
Magician stops understanding the tricks but keeps following the given steps and is as surprised as the audience about the result.
After a while, the AI starts giving really strange steps and it becomes clear that there is no explanation in current science that justifies the results of the tricks.
Humanity has meddled with incomprehensible forces, awakening He who was never dead.
When the "AI" can invent magic tricks outside of the basic programming, then I'll be scared.
Basically, they programmed in one trick and then programmed it to compute more variations of the trick. Not much different than programming a computer to fill out a matrix based on the calculations for a single square.
We'll know that we have a true AI when it can go from calculating new card tricks to counting cards in Vegas.....
in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day
I understand we're all geeks here. However, I think we can be expected to have a basic academic knowledge of environmental facts. For example, even though from my basement I may see very little of The Big Fireball in the Sky, I still know, based on YouTube videos, that clouds don't entomb us in pitch darkness.
True... While that works quite well in a fantasy world where storing and moving energy doesn't involve cost, energy loss, and other real world factors. The sun shining in California doesn't help Denmark as there is no efficient way to transport that energy. Also, with today's solar energy conversion rates, you'll end up covering large swathes of nature with solar panels and wind mills.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
This....! Anyone who trusts a network to pass traffic untouched, maintaining privacy, etc. that is not owned by them is just fooling themselves.
My Windows 7 laptop for work crashes 2 to 3 times a week with a reboot and a popup that says there was a "BSOD Error" After months of diagnostics by the help desk people and days of down time the best they can say is it looks like a "Video Driver issue" but there are no updated drivers. Thus I have to live with it rebooting and crashing tell microsoft/intel/someone releases a new driver.
Compared to my Linux Desktop at the house
07:42:39 up 316 days, 19:56, 7 users, load average: 0.97, 1.07, 1.20
Windows is still crap in my book and still "Blue Screens" on a regular basses they just call it a BSOD error and use a pop up to tell you instead of a blue screen. Hoping no one will ever realize that BSOD == Blue Screen Of Death
My Daughter has a Windows 8 laptop that I had to get her for school, in the last year we have had to re-install it three times. It gets an update that causes it to continually reboot with an error about the update failing and it rebooting. After the third time she brought it to me and asked me to wipe the crap and put linux on it. Why? Because in 10 year of her running a linux laptop it never crashed on her, yet the first windows laptop she had crashed every couple of weeks and the new one crashes to the point of re-install several times a year.
Don't give me the crap that windows is stable or good. Would you put up with a car that broke down twice a week? or even 3 times a year? Then why put up with windows doing it?
It sounds to me like your support guys are not very good at their jobs, or perhaps, just don't care. I'm willing to bet that you have faulty hardware and not a driver issue. As for your daughter's computer, there is no reason why you should have to reinstall after a patch. I'm wondering if she doesn't have bad sectors on the hard-drive that is corrupting OS files.
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I hate however having to boot to windows to play games. It drives me nuts.
Which part? Simply the fact that you have to run Windows or that you have to wait for it to boot?
If it's an amazingly fast boot time that you want, then you need to get a nice fast SSD drive. I installed these in my desktop gaming system and it boots up faster than the consoles....
Ain't that the truth. I just got done doing a little shopping hoping to get my PC up to spec for the games coming out this month and next.
I'll hate to have to tell my daughter, "No college for you", but that Geforce GTX 980 looks sweet.
Get the GTX 970 instead and invest the difference. Your daughter and wallet will thank you. It will also reduce the violence in your household when your wife finds out... (grin)
What the article fails to address is that the Saudis have flooded the market with cheap oil that they can make money on at 30 dollars a barrel while tar sands require about 93 dollars a barrel and fraccing requires about 83 dollars a barrel to remain viable. These groups have already cut back and started layoffs.
If I remember right, Hybernia, off of the coast of Newfoundland, needs about $75 a barrel to make money.
Germany is not the United States. Everyone pointing at Europe seems to miss one large difference: there's a whole hell of a lot more room between people and places they need to go in most the United States than in Europe. If you live in Massachusetts, half an hour is a "long drive,"
Obviously, you have never lived or talked to anyone who lives and commutes in Massachusetts. 30 minutes is a short drive. The average commute for my colleagues is between 30 minutes and 60 minutes. Yes, there are people who live and work in Boston/Cambridge and who take public transportation or even walk/bike. But a large number of people who work in Boston live well outside due to sky-high housing costs. Plus, a large majority of employers have offices along or outside of the i95 belt.
Yes, one benefit of living in a high population area is that various box stores are no more than 5 to 10 miles away. So, running errands, getting groceries, etc is much more efficient. But, commuting to work is a different story.