Went here to see whether a comment about Virtuix Omni has made it into the top three, was not dissapointed.
Haha, me too! Although combining an Occulus Rift and and Omni is probably a bit too much like actual exercise to really take off in a big way. Yeah it's a neat gimmick, but not conducive to gaming for hours. Unless you are specifically using it to make your exercise routine more interesting, in which case it's a great idea. That would be a different user base than for most video games, though...
It's true that most gamers aren't exactly fitness buffs. However, If VR and the Virtuix Omni makes a game more compelling and gives a player an advantage, then I think that you would see a higher adoption rate than you anticipate.
Personally, I was thinking that if the Virtuix Omni becomes popular, gamers could become as fit as some professional athletes. Think about it, if you game for 6 hours a week using the treadmill, ducking, jumping, etc., all while having fun, you would get into shape fairly quickly.
Nearly any network tech should be faster than Ethernet in certain circumstances. Ethernet is generally good though and appears to be quite good a scaling.
The key word, there, is scaling.
It looks like this is meant to make the network more efficient within a data center that handles a high volume of traffic, including high traffic spikes, by receiving a network time slot request from the end point (i.e. software running on a UNIX server) and sending a response that schedules packets to arrive just-in-time along a specific path to avoid queuing.
However, there is a less complicated way of achieving the same goal: Scalability - Increase your switch and server up-link bandwidth to eliminate congestion and queuing.
Yes, it costs money to add network capacity. But the big question is which would cost more? Adding capacity? or installing a pair of servers, rolling out software clients to all of your endpoints (servers), and supporting the system? Personally, I'd rather add network capacity and be done...
Right, so this is the infamous mac os 7 era right? Powermacs? Where motorola code was emulated to work on PPC? Apple being led by non-jobs? When Macs didnt just needed a restart every 24 hours (like windows did) but would outright ruin there system install every other week?
That was the most shitty Apple period ever.
Windows NT 4.0 never needed a restart every 24 hours, desktop systems maybe. If you had Windows NT servers that needed reboots that often, then you simply had bad Windows NT admins who didn't know how to resolve device driver, memory, or disk issues.
For me, the biggest attraction of a driverless car is that I could go to work, then send it home. Or send it to pick the kids up from school.
I can't believe how many people seem to actually want this!.
The main argument is that automated cars will reduce traffic accidents and save lives. Personally, I'm willing to bet that automated cars will suffer from similar accident statistics, they will just be shifted to things like software bugs, automated network down (solar flares, weather, etc.), failed sensors, hacking, etc.
Personally, I'll never buy an automated car. But, I can understand why some people would want them.
I'm assuming that it will be the same books that are in the Kindle lending library. It's a feature of Amazon Prime where you can check out 1 book at a time (and only one new book per month). It's limited as it currently exists, but I assume when this feature hits, your Prime account will let you have one book out at a time with more than one swap per month.
Our family and friends share an Amazon account for Kindle books.
If the subscription service allows books to be installed on more than one Kindle (i.e. up to 5), then this might work for us. It would allow us to use the same account but have access to the full library. However, if it is limited to the lending library, does not have newer books, or does not allow multiple Kindles then I'll pass.
The ideal would be to to have a subscription service that allows multiple Kindles and has access to the full Kindle library. I'm willing to bet, though, that Publishers would only be willing to sign up for something like this if it is restricted to older books. They will still want the revenue from full priced new books.
I had to get a Windows 8 laptop, Surface 2, and Windows phone for work to test an application we're working on. I use OSX and Android day-to-day so from all the stories I expected to have an awful time trying to navigate through windows to even get to the application to start my testing/dev work but I don't see what the big deal is. The interface was intuitive enough for me...maybe i didn't try to do enough, I just looked at the screen for the app, then click/touch it.:shrug:
The big deal is when you have a laptop or a desktop without touch or you just hate having a screen full of fingerprints. When using a mouse, the windows 8 GUI is inefficient and poor to navigate. Of course, those unhappy with the Windows 8 or 8.1 interface can easily find add-ons that fix the Start menu and re-enable boot to desktop. Personally, I installed Start8 and have been happy ever since.
Here is what I have done in the past with network gear:
1. Make sure that you have a test environment that is as close to your production environment as possible. In the case of network gear, I test on the exact same switches with the exact same firmware and configuration. For servers, VMWare is your friend....
2. Build your script, test, and document the process as many times as necessary to ensure that there are no gotchas. This is easier for network gear as there are less prompts and options.
3. Build in a backup job in your script, schedule a backup with enough time to complete before your script runs, or make your script dependent on the backup job completing successfully. A good backup is your friend. Make a local backup if you have the space.
4. Schedule your job.
5. Get up and check that the job complete successfully either when the job is scheduled to be completed or before the first user is expected to start using the system. Leave enough time to perform a restore, if necessary.
As you can probably tell, doing this in an automated fashion would take more time and effort than baby sitting the process yourself. However, it is worth it if you can apply the same process to a bunch of systems (i.e. you have a bunch of UNIX boxes on the same version and you want to upgrade them all). In our environment we have a large number of switches, etc. that are all on the same version. Automation is pretty much the only option given our scope.
My Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 surround 24-bit 192KHz with an external breakout box (1/4" MIC, optical, etc.) has now been in 3 systems and is still going strong. I'm running Windows 8.1 using the DanielK drivers. It's PCI, so as long as I can buy a modern motherboard with a single PCI slot, I'm golden. In my opinion, is is one of the last great Creative Labs discrete sound cards.
I tried switching to the on-board sound in my latest build but I prefer the sound from the Audigy. My current motherboard is an Asus P8Z77-v deluxe and has a Realtek ALC898 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC.
However, much like computer systems in general, people have different requirements. If you just want something that will play sound, music, videos, games, etc. then the on-board sound should be adequate. If you get into podcasting, video creation, etc. then you might want something that can provide good quality I/O ports (i.e. MIC, Line-in/out, etc.). If you want excellent separation of sound for movies or gaming, then you are better off with a discrete sound card.
Is Creative the best? Probably not. But I haven't researched discrete sound cards since I bought the Audigy 2 about 9-10 years ago....
One of the things I love about programming is the moment you have to remind yourself that your program is simply executing algorithms that you told it. Depending on how clever the algorithms are it can appear as if the computer is thinking for itself. Programming allows you to encode intelligence in non-thinking machines.
No... programming does not encode intelligence in a machine. Intelligence indicates the ability to think for itself and come up with a creative answer that isn't part of it's original programming. When you write a program, all you are doing is telling the computer what to do given a specific input. There is no intelligence involved.
When I see something which says "In 15 years the world will be like this", I think "My, what drivel", and move on.
From what I've seen in my lifetime, futurists and prognosticators are usually dead wrong, clueless, and writing little more than fiction.
It offers a sobering conclusion: We might be able to pull it off. But it will take an overhaul of the way we use energy, and a huge investment in the development and deployment of new energy technologies. Significantly, it calls for an entirely different approach to international diplomacy on the issue of how to combat climate change.
In other words, it will require the impossible, need huge sums of money, depend on a level of consensus and cooperation unlikely to happen, and a near complete re-tooling of societies.
Blah blah blah.
Especially since it takes 15 years+ to get a Nuclear plant off the ground in the US... In order for this to happen, every single power provider in the US would have to submit plans to build Nuclear reactors this year. It's not going to happen, especially with large natural gas reserves and low natural gas prices.
You're just not thinking outside the box enough. *Finally* we have a way of getting rid of all all of our broken electronics without having to pay those exhorbitant recycling fees or sneaking out in the dead of night to dump it at some ad-hoc "landfill" site!
"Sorry, officer, I must have forgotten to charge that one too... here you go! Shall we try this... um..." *wipes dust off logo*...Compaq now, or just move on to the next crate?"
FYI: Your local Best Buy will take back broken or unwanted electronics (assuming you are in the US)....
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What about "the rumor of perl's death has been greatly exaggerated?"
And you heard it here on slashdot first.
Yeah, its only Mostly Dead.
Miracle Max has the cure.
But you either need a compelling reason, like true love (not likely), or a good MLT (Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato) to get him to come out of retirement.
a. Gas is much too cheap in the US. b. We need a lot of infrastructure work.
Of course, I'm sure we could afford to pave all of our roads with gold, have diamond-studded bike lanes, and solid titanium sidewalks if we didn't spend half our budget on wars, but hey, I'm not holding my breath. There's not as much room for corruption in building roads in this country as there is building roads in some 3rd world country that we bombed into oblivion.
Personally, I would love detailed breakdown of where the current gas taxes goes. I'm willing to bet that a good portion of it goes to other programs, pet projects, and expenditures that have nothing to do with highway, bridges, transit, bike, or walking path infrastructure. In other words, I'm pretty sure that there is enough money coming in from gas taxes today. I'm also willing to bet that the Highway Trust Fund would not see the full amount of any tax hike....
This is just another way to get people to pay more taxes.
Part of the contract with Monsanto should be a buyback program. If the farmer has seed left over, say 30 days after the purchase, he can get a refund. 30 days shouldn't be enough time for most crops to go to seed but should be enough time to plant the crops. The point is that Monsanto should have a fair, for the farmer, program in place to prevent seed storage. If they have this, then they are on more solid moral grounds in suing farmers under contract for seed reuse and/or harvesting. Today, I'm willing to bet that Monsanto doesn't buy back seeds and farmers are left absorbing the cost of seed that they didn't use. Normally, this would not be a problem as they would use the seeds the next season. However, with GMO crops they can't do this.
Regarding intelectual property Cisco seems far more advanced on hardware level, so obtaining gear from competitor is not really going to move things forward. Article also does not mention (unless I missed it) obtaining equipment which is in developement. The best way for commercial spying is information exchanged by people - engineers from all those networking Silicon Valley companies know each other, they gossip, they betray secrets. This is how most of information leaks through, straight from the sources, not via reverse-engineering.
You can be also completely sure that Juniper bought Cisco equipment for the same purposes, and so did other companies. Even TFA mentions Alcatel-Lucent buying Cisco. It was an all-out activity.
Actually, Cisco used to be a front runner with more advanced network products. However, more and more network vendors, such as Juniper and Aruba, have caught up and passed Cisco. For example, while Juniper routers aren't as well known in the enterprise space, they are used heavily in the ISP and cloud provider space.
The one area where Cisco still has an edge is the ability to centralize management of all of their devices. Practically every network management solution provider supports Cisco. This will change as Juniper becomes more popular in the Enterprise, but it just isn't there yet.
The article did mention Cisco buying Beta gear. This is usually the last stage before release. It must have been a Beta unit to show customers for the VAR to be able to get their hands on it.
Kids who started out on the Wii, say 5 to 10 year olds, are now in their teens (Wii was released in 2006). They have moved on to the Xbox One and the PS4.
Maybe I'm reading these replies wrong, but it doesn't sound like anyone that has commented understands the actual use of ABS technology.
ABS does NOT stop you any quicker than regular braking. Speed, weight, surface conditions, do no magically change simply because a car has ABS. In fact, you would likely stop a bit quicker, in a straight line, without ABS.
What ABS does do is allow you to steer during heavy breaking, something you can't do with manual breaks without pumping the break pedal. It's purely for avoidance maneuvers while breaking.
Who watches TV anymore, let alone with friends, that is just some cruel torture
Says someone who isn't a hockey, or sports, fan with the Stanley Cup playoffs in progress...
This past weekend my Brother-in-law, nephews, and myself watched a bad Canadian Zombie movie. We were having a ton of fun making up our own Riff track. Granted, it's not exactly "watching TV" when you are actively participating.
I agree with you that watching TV tends to be a solitary experience unless it is a special sporting or broadcast event.
That being said, a majority of the population still watch TV. I know that a good percentage of people on Slashdot have cut the cord, but people who have done so are still the outliers.
oh come now, a person with one cent to their name is infinitely more rich than a person with zero cents to their name
Only in the world of mathematicians and statisticians.
In the real world, both would starve to death in the same amount of time (excluding the possibility that the cent is composed of either a precious metal or is a collector's item that would net the owner a sum larger than 1 cent).
This is no closer to a hoverboard than a skateboard is.
It's three wheels closer.
Just one to go.
75% of the way, by any logical measure.
Um... No... Not even 1% closer.... You do realize that hovering in mid-air is completely different than any wheeled application and requires new technology.
Reducing the wheels from 4 small wheels to 1 big wheel gets you no closer to a hover board than going from a rotary dialed wired phone to a touch tone wired phone got us to a cell phone. The cell phone required a completely different technology than a wired phone, no matter how fancy.
If this had been an article about a skate board that floated over a specialized magnetic surface, then I would agree that some progress was being made...
In my opinion this is somewhat interesting but the comparison to a hover board is simply being used as click bait...
I assume if you buy or rent from a store you're going to visit anyway, this difference vanishes
They accounted for that, only 50% of the trip is assumed to be for the DVD.
You could cycle or walk to the store.
I rent or buy Blu-ray, not DVD. I do stream every so often. However, the local Redbox, which is within walking distance, is cheaper. I did have Netflix for a while, but they suck for new movies so I dropped them.
I'm willing to bet that the energy use would reverse if they did the same study using Blu-ray quality bit-rates. The energy used to go to the store to rent would end up being the same (possibly lowed due to higher fuel efficiency) but the streaming energy cost would increase due to the higher amount of data being stored, streamed, etc.
Given this article mere moments ago on/. indicating that Google's autonomous cars have driven 700,000 miles on public roads with no citations, it's difficult to argue that they're not more competent, if not hyper-competent, compared to human drivers (most of whom get traffic tickets, and most of whom don't drive 700,000 miles between doing so).
Article has many good valid points, though, but that point irked me.
Yet all of it in relatively calm clear conditions with no snow, salt, ice, -20 degree weather, high winds, driving rain, etc. to obscure or break the sensors....
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Went here to see whether a comment about Virtuix Omni has made it into the top three, was not dissapointed.
Haha, me too! Although combining an Occulus Rift and and Omni is probably a bit too much like actual exercise to really take off in a big way. Yeah it's a neat gimmick, but not conducive to gaming for hours. Unless you are specifically using it to make your exercise routine more interesting, in which case it's a great idea. That would be a different user base than for most video games, though...
It's true that most gamers aren't exactly fitness buffs. However, If VR and the Virtuix Omni makes a game more compelling and gives a player an advantage, then I think that you would see a higher adoption rate than you anticipate.
Personally, I was thinking that if the Virtuix Omni becomes popular, gamers could become as fit as some professional athletes. Think about it, if you game for 6 hours a week using the treadmill, ducking, jumping, etc., all while having fun, you would get into shape fairly quickly.
Nearly any network tech should be faster than Ethernet in certain circumstances. Ethernet is generally good though and appears to be quite good a scaling.
The key word, there, is scaling.
It looks like this is meant to make the network more efficient within a data center that handles a high volume of traffic, including high traffic spikes, by receiving a network time slot request from the end point (i.e. software running on a UNIX server) and sending a response that schedules packets to arrive just-in-time along a specific path to avoid queuing.
However, there is a less complicated way of achieving the same goal: Scalability - Increase your switch and server up-link bandwidth to eliminate congestion and queuing.
Yes, it costs money to add network capacity. But the big question is which would cost more? Adding capacity? or installing a pair of servers, rolling out software clients to all of your endpoints (servers), and supporting the system? Personally, I'd rather add network capacity and be done...
So that's how De Beers keeps their monopoly, they dispose of extra diamonds... by crushing them with a really expensive laser...
Right, so this is the infamous mac os 7 era right? Powermacs? Where motorola code was emulated to work on PPC? Apple being led by non-jobs? When Macs didnt just needed a restart every 24 hours (like windows did) but would outright ruin there system install every other week?
That was the most shitty Apple period ever.
Windows NT 4.0 never needed a restart every 24 hours, desktop systems maybe. If you had Windows NT servers that needed reboots that often, then you simply had bad Windows NT admins who didn't know how to resolve device driver, memory, or disk issues.
For me, the biggest attraction of a driverless car is that I could go to work, then send it home. Or send it to pick the kids up from school.
I can't believe how many people seem to actually want this!.
The main argument is that automated cars will reduce traffic accidents and save lives. Personally, I'm willing to bet that automated cars will suffer from similar accident statistics, they will just be shifted to things like software bugs, automated network down (solar flares, weather, etc.), failed sensors, hacking, etc.
Personally, I'll never buy an automated car. But, I can understand why some people would want them.
I'm assuming that it will be the same books that are in the Kindle lending library. It's a feature of Amazon Prime where you can check out 1 book at a time (and only one new book per month). It's limited as it currently exists, but I assume when this feature hits, your Prime account will let you have one book out at a time with more than one swap per month.
Our family and friends share an Amazon account for Kindle books.
If the subscription service allows books to be installed on more than one Kindle (i.e. up to 5), then this might work for us. It would allow us to use the same account but have access to the full library. However, if it is limited to the lending library, does not have newer books, or does not allow multiple Kindles then I'll pass.
The ideal would be to to have a subscription service that allows multiple Kindles and has access to the full Kindle library. I'm willing to bet, though, that Publishers would only be willing to sign up for something like this if it is restricted to older books. They will still want the revenue from full priced new books.
I had to get a Windows 8 laptop, Surface 2, and Windows phone for work to test an application we're working on. I use OSX and Android day-to-day so from all the stories I expected to have an awful time trying to navigate through windows to even get to the application to start my testing/dev work but I don't see what the big deal is. The interface was intuitive enough for me ...maybe i didn't try to do enough, I just looked at the screen for the app, then click/touch it. :shrug:
The big deal is when you have a laptop or a desktop without touch or you just hate having a screen full of fingerprints. When using a mouse, the windows 8 GUI is inefficient and poor to navigate. Of course, those unhappy with the Windows 8 or 8.1 interface can easily find add-ons that fix the Start menu and re-enable boot to desktop. Personally, I installed Start8 and have been happy ever since.
Here is what I have done in the past with network gear:
1. Make sure that you have a test environment that is as close to your production environment as possible. In the case of network gear, I test on the exact same switches with the exact same firmware and configuration. For servers, VMWare is your friend....
2. Build your script, test, and document the process as many times as necessary to ensure that there are no gotchas. This is easier for network gear as there are less prompts and options.
3. Build in a backup job in your script, schedule a backup with enough time to complete before your script runs, or make your script dependent on the backup job completing successfully. A good backup is your friend. Make a local backup if you have the space.
4. Schedule your job.
5. Get up and check that the job complete successfully either when the job is scheduled to be completed or before the first user is expected to start using the system. Leave enough time to perform a restore, if necessary.
As you can probably tell, doing this in an automated fashion would take more time and effort than baby sitting the process yourself. However, it is worth it if you can apply the same process to a bunch of systems (i.e. you have a bunch of UNIX boxes on the same version and you want to upgrade them all). In our environment we have a large number of switches, etc. that are all on the same version. Automation is pretty much the only option given our scope.
My Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 surround 24-bit 192KHz with an external breakout box (1/4" MIC, optical, etc.) has now been in 3 systems and is still going strong. I'm running Windows 8.1 using the DanielK drivers. It's PCI, so as long as I can buy a modern motherboard with a single PCI slot, I'm golden. In my opinion, is is one of the last great Creative Labs discrete sound cards.
I tried switching to the on-board sound in my latest build but I prefer the sound from the Audigy. My current motherboard is an Asus P8Z77-v deluxe and has a Realtek ALC898 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC.
However, much like computer systems in general, people have different requirements. If you just want something that will play sound, music, videos, games, etc. then the on-board sound should be adequate. If you get into podcasting, video creation, etc. then you might want something that can provide good quality I/O ports (i.e. MIC, Line-in/out, etc.). If you want excellent separation of sound for movies or gaming, then you are better off with a discrete sound card.
Is Creative the best? Probably not. But I haven't researched discrete sound cards since I bought the Audigy 2 about 9-10 years ago....
One of the things I love about programming is the moment you have to remind yourself that your program is simply executing algorithms that you told it. Depending on how clever the algorithms are it can appear as if the computer is thinking for itself. Programming allows you to encode intelligence in non-thinking machines.
No... programming does not encode intelligence in a machine. Intelligence indicates the ability to think for itself and come up with a creative answer that isn't part of it's original programming. When you write a program, all you are doing is telling the computer what to do given a specific input. There is no intelligence involved.
When I see something which says "In 15 years the world will be like this", I think "My, what drivel", and move on.
From what I've seen in my lifetime, futurists and prognosticators are usually dead wrong, clueless, and writing little more than fiction.
In other words, it will require the impossible, need huge sums of money, depend on a level of consensus and cooperation unlikely to happen, and a near complete re-tooling of societies.
Blah blah blah.
Especially since it takes 15 years+ to get a Nuclear plant off the ground in the US... In order for this to happen, every single power provider in the US would have to submit plans to build Nuclear reactors this year. It's not going to happen, especially with large natural gas reserves and low natural gas prices.
You're just not thinking outside the box enough. *Finally* we have a way of getting rid of all all of our broken electronics without having to pay those exhorbitant recycling fees or sneaking out in the dead of night to dump it at some ad-hoc "landfill" site!
"Sorry, officer, I must have forgotten to charge that one too... here you go! Shall we try this... um..." *wipes dust off logo* ...Compaq now, or just move on to the next crate?"
FYI: Your local Best Buy will take back broken or unwanted electronics (assuming you are in the US)....
What about "the rumor of perl's death has been greatly exaggerated?"
And you heard it here on slashdot first.
Yeah, its only Mostly Dead.
Miracle Max has the cure.
But you either need a compelling reason, like true love (not likely), or a good MLT (Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato) to get him to come out of retirement.
"Scientists Accidentally Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man"
The result was unintended, though interesting.
Better title:
Scientists treat autoimmune disease with arthritis drug, hair loss reversed
Good!
a. Gas is much too cheap in the US.
b. We need a lot of infrastructure work.
Of course, I'm sure we could afford to pave all of our roads with gold, have diamond-studded bike lanes, and solid titanium sidewalks if we didn't spend half our budget on wars, but hey, I'm not holding my breath. There's not as much room for corruption in building roads in this country as there is building roads in some 3rd world country that we bombed into oblivion.
Personally, I would love detailed breakdown of where the current gas taxes goes. I'm willing to bet that a good portion of it goes to other programs, pet projects, and expenditures that have nothing to do with highway, bridges, transit, bike, or walking path infrastructure. In other words, I'm pretty sure that there is enough money coming in from gas taxes today. I'm also willing to bet that the Highway Trust Fund would not see the full amount of any tax hike....
This is just another way to get people to pay more taxes.
Part of the contract with Monsanto should be a buyback program. If the farmer has seed left over, say 30 days after the purchase, he can get a refund. 30 days shouldn't be enough time for most crops to go to seed but should be enough time to plant the crops. The point is that Monsanto should have a fair, for the farmer, program in place to prevent seed storage. If they have this, then they are on more solid moral grounds in suing farmers under contract for seed reuse and/or harvesting. Today, I'm willing to bet that Monsanto doesn't buy back seeds and farmers are left absorbing the cost of seed that they didn't use. Normally, this would not be a problem as they would use the seeds the next season. However, with GMO crops they can't do this.
Regarding intelectual property Cisco seems far more advanced on hardware level, so obtaining gear from competitor is not really going to move things forward. Article also does not mention (unless I missed it) obtaining equipment which is in developement.
The best way for commercial spying is information exchanged by people - engineers from all those networking Silicon Valley companies know each other, they gossip, they betray secrets. This is how most of information leaks through, straight from the sources, not via reverse-engineering.
You can be also completely sure that Juniper bought Cisco equipment for the same purposes, and so did other companies. Even TFA mentions Alcatel-Lucent buying Cisco. It was an all-out activity.
Actually, Cisco used to be a front runner with more advanced network products. However, more and more network vendors, such as Juniper and Aruba, have caught up and passed Cisco. For example, while Juniper routers aren't as well known in the enterprise space, they are used heavily in the ISP and cloud provider space.
The one area where Cisco still has an edge is the ability to centralize management of all of their devices. Practically every network management solution provider supports Cisco. This will change as Juniper becomes more popular in the Enterprise, but it just isn't there yet.
The article did mention Cisco buying Beta gear. This is usually the last stage before release. It must have been a Beta unit to show customers for the VAR to be able to get their hands on it.
Kids who started out on the Wii, say 5 to 10 year olds, are now in their teens (Wii was released in 2006). They have moved on to the Xbox One and the PS4.
Maybe I'm reading these replies wrong, but it doesn't sound like anyone that has commented understands the actual use of ABS technology.
ABS does NOT stop you any quicker than regular braking. Speed, weight, surface conditions, do no magically change simply because a car has ABS. In fact, you would likely stop a bit quicker, in a straight line, without ABS.
What ABS does do is allow you to steer during heavy breaking, something you can't do with manual breaks without pumping the break pedal. It's purely for avoidance maneuvers while breaking.
Lighten up, Francis.
Not my fault that someone forgot to add their sarcasm tag.... ;-)
Who watches TV anymore, let alone with friends, that is just some cruel torture
Says someone who isn't a hockey, or sports, fan with the Stanley Cup playoffs in progress...
This past weekend my Brother-in-law, nephews, and myself watched a bad Canadian Zombie movie. We were having a ton of fun making up our own Riff track. Granted, it's not exactly "watching TV" when you are actively participating.
I agree with you that watching TV tends to be a solitary experience unless it is a special sporting or broadcast event.
That being said, a majority of the population still watch TV. I know that a good percentage of people on Slashdot have cut the cord, but people who have done so are still the outliers.
oh come now, a person with one cent to their name is infinitely more rich than a person with zero cents to their name
Only in the world of mathematicians and statisticians.
In the real world, both would starve to death in the same amount of time (excluding the possibility that the cent is composed of either a precious metal or is a collector's item that would net the owner a sum larger than 1 cent).
This is no closer to a hoverboard than a skateboard is.
It's three wheels closer.
Just one to go.
75% of the way, by any logical measure.
Um... No... Not even 1% closer.... You do realize that hovering in mid-air is completely different than any wheeled application and requires new technology.
Reducing the wheels from 4 small wheels to 1 big wheel gets you no closer to a hover board than going from a rotary dialed wired phone to a touch tone wired phone got us to a cell phone. The cell phone required a completely different technology than a wired phone, no matter how fancy.
If this had been an article about a skate board that floated over a specialized magnetic surface, then I would agree that some progress was being made...
In my opinion this is somewhat interesting but the comparison to a hover board is simply being used as click bait...
I assume if you buy or rent from a store you're going to visit anyway, this difference vanishes
They accounted for that, only 50% of the trip is assumed to be for the DVD.
You could cycle or walk to the store.
I rent or buy Blu-ray, not DVD. I do stream every so often. However, the local Redbox, which is within walking distance, is cheaper. I did have Netflix for a while, but they suck for new movies so I dropped them.
I'm willing to bet that the energy use would reverse if they did the same study using Blu-ray quality bit-rates. The energy used to go to the store to rent would end up being the same (possibly lowed due to higher fuel efficiency) but the streaming energy cost would increase due to the higher amount of data being stored, streamed, etc.
Given this article mere moments ago on /. indicating that Google's autonomous cars have driven 700,000 miles on public roads with no citations, it's difficult to argue that they're not more competent, if not hyper-competent, compared to human drivers (most of whom get traffic tickets, and most of whom don't drive 700,000 miles between doing so).
Article has many good valid points, though, but that point irked me.
Yet all of it in relatively calm clear conditions with no snow, salt, ice, -20 degree weather, high winds, driving rain, etc. to obscure or break the sensors....