You could call it "missing goals by 50%". You could also say it's a delay of less than one month, since their original plan was about 100 cars in august and 1500 in September. All of a sudden it doesn't look nearly as bad, does it?
I would bet most of it is in libraries. We need to display this little triangle widget on the screen... ok, found it in this 100 MB library, so we'll just include it and move on to the next problem. Programming is easy!
There's no way you actually need 100 million lines of code to control a car.
And just how do you think auto-join works if WiFi is disabled?
There are quite a few articles about this issue, including here on slashdot. Both WiFi and BlueTooth are switched on again automatically even after you turned them "off" in the control center. You need to dig down into the settings to really disable them.
And then pretty soon they'll get some more great ideas, like: "are the people traveling on Wednesday the same ones as those traveling on Thursday?". So they'll stop discarding the salt and there goes your anonymity.
Slightly off topic - doesn't everyone turn off the phone wifi & bluetooth when not in use?
We do, but Apple just turns it on again when we travel to a new location or in any case at 5am.
(unless we go out of our way to disable it in the system settings rather than through the more convenient control center which tricks us into thinking it's the same thing)
That doesn't make any sense. The system should just download the file, give it to Windows Defender, wait for its reply, and then execute the file if it's OK. Or, if you can't trust the non-defender part of the system, ask Defender to download the file, then let Defender hand it over to the system to execute. No matter how you do it, a single download is faster AND more secure.
Why download a file twice? Bandwidth is too cheap nowadays, I suppose?
Weird how, as a user, when you try to look up three passwords in a row, you need to enter your password three times. But when a rogue app asks for it, it can just get the whole decrypted database without needing a password? Pretty bad design fail, there's something seriously wrong at the very core of keychain.
It is normal for certain apps to have access to the keychain without requiring a password. For example, when Safari autofills a website login. But they are only supposed to have access to whatever they stored there themselves, or require explicit user consent. I suppose that's where they messed up.
I can sort of understand that, as they add more features to the OS, it becomes difficult to keep supporting older hardware. However, they also make it extremely difficult and even impossible for other software authors to support older hardware no matter how much effort they want to put in and no matter what their user base is. For example, if you want to support the iPhone X display (without black borders), you have to use the latest SDK, which only works with the latest version of XCode, which has a minimum deployment target of iOS 7. That means I cannot write software that works full screen on iPhone X and also still works on my kids' old iPad. It's not just hard to do, it's flat out impossible.
Now that wouldn't be so bad if they would not flat out refuse to repair your device.
I had a broken screen on my iPhone 5, which was otherwise just fine. I brought it in, the price would be about 150 euros which is a lot (you can easily get a replacement non-original screen for less than half the price) but I didn't want to risk getting an inferior screen, possibly even containing malware, so I went through the official channel. A bit later I got a call saying they had diagnosed my phone and found a problem with the battery as well. They "had to" repair that, too, and since it was going to be too expensive, I might as well get a replacement refurbished phone for more than 300 euros.
I insisted that my two year old battery was just fine (not quite lasting as long as when it was new, but sufficient for me) and only wanted a new screen, but no, they flat out refused. Apple only delivers devices in perfect working order with a three month warranty, so they could not just repair the screen, end of discussion.
I ended up getting a fake screen from some grubby repair shop after all. Works like a charm, by the way. And the battery still works just fine.
Well, it's a pile, not a stack, they don't have to be exactly on top of each other. One bot is 10^-27 m^3. A billion billion of those would be 10^-9 m^3 which is 1 mm^3. That's a big grain of salt, but not quite as far off.
Actually, this reminds me more of the video game "SpaceChem". It's almost as if these researchers went "hey, here's a crazy idea, let's make one of those waldos for real".
(If you don't know the game, it's really worth checking out, one of the best puzzle games ever invented and I don't say that lightly).
My iPhone automatically connects to known networks (no apparent way to switch that off without turning off WiFi completely) and asks whether or not to connect to unknown ones. That latter feature is annoying enough already, you're just browsing on 4G and it keeps asking "do you want to connect to this network?".
I know connecting to open access points is "stupid" but when I'm in a hotel outside the EU, it's either that or exorbitant roaming charges, or no internet at all. Sometimes you just have to take that chance (taking care not to browse to transmit any sensitive data).
Maybe I once connected to a hotspot, and now it tries to connect to all hotspots of that same company? It really happens frequently, an app suddenly complains that it lost internet connectivity, I open up Safari, and sure enough, "Wifi access, enter your name and password".
After that video you linked to, youTube jumped to another one with Steve Jobs getting upset that too many people in the conference room were using their WiFi, screwing up the Apple demos. He was ordering people to turn their WiFi off and even asking them to police each other. Kind of ironic that Apple itself is now making it more difficult to turn WiFi off.
Jeez, one of the main reasons I often turn WiFi off is because, when I'm in a taxi browsing the internet, WiFi keeps connecting to all sorts of WiFi base stations with captive portals and interrupting my browsing. So now, when I turn it off, it will turn off that portal but a few minutes later, since I 'moved to a new location", according to Apple's documentation it will go "It looks like you want to connect to this new network" and connect without asking. The button is completely useless now.
OK, back to the old iOS 6 routine of opening the settings to turn off WiFi (until they decide to change the behavior there too). Idiots.
They are drone ships, both of them. People still do have to come on board after the landing to secure the rocket so it can be brought back to port. That's not exactly a safe job either. But they're testing a robot to do that job.
Only the most boring parts are automated. The plane can fly a route automatically, climb and descend when we tell it to, fly any speed we set, but we're still the ones telling it what to do. The plane can "autoland", but that's just a very basic bit of software: the plane receives a localizer and glide slope signal from the ground and keeps both indications centered by banking and pitching as required. Then, when the radio altimeter tells it it's just above the runway, it pulls the nose up to reduce the vertical speed to almost zero while still following the localizer until touchdown. All this time, the autothrottles maintain the speed. But that's it. We're still the ones guiding the plane onto the ILS, telling it when to slow down, selecting flaps and gear down. And when something fails (loss of ground signals, receiver failure computer bug, whatever), we need to take control. It doesn't work when it's too windy either. The system is incredibly basic.
They could automate everything a bit more, but already the existing basic systems fail from time to time. Also, the sky is a very dynamic place with lots of older planes flying around as well, so ATC and pilots still have to react to lots of unforeseen events. It will be a long time before everything can be automated.
As for birds: this always puzzled me as well, it's not just flocks but individual birds too. They just don't assume that this big noisy metal thing coming towards them at great speed is going to keep going in the same direction and hit them. It's not only when we come up behind them, quite often they are facing towards us. Animals have very strange avoidance behaviour, just look at how many animals get hit on the road. I once hit a deer that was standing next to the road, looking at my car without moving, and then suddenly crossed right in front of me. I also hit a few birds on the freeway, where it should be even easier for a bird to judge where a car will be going. I guess Darwin will sort them out in a couple of centuries.
After take-off in a busy area like New York, the flying pilot's eyes are supposed to be on the instruments most of the time to fly the trajectory as accurately as possible. We do try to look outside as much as we can to spot traffic, but mostly our eyes are inside. That's not because we're lazy, but because there's just too much stuff to monitor. Meanwhile the other pilot may be busy with the flaps, radio frequency changes, monitoring the flight path (it takes two to make sure), etcetera. It's not a Cessna 150 where you're navigating by sight and feeling. It's just not possible to be looking outside continuously in a large airliner.
Also, with the nose high up, visibility is not all that great. Anything flying up from below is pretty much invisible. And birds are not very big when seen from a kilometer away. I've seen some pretty big birds pass by very closely only a few seconds after I spotted them, while flying a visual approach with both pilots looking outside. They really are hard to spot, especially if they're coming relatively straight towards you because they're not moving against the background.
And even if you did spot the flock, where are they going to go? Birds tend to move in unpredictable ways.
O, and you really think we can safely yank the airplane in any direction in a busy area like New York, with lots of other planes taking off from different runways?
Seriously, you have no idea how complex airline flying is. Oh, why am I even bothering, you just go on believing that we're useless meat bags reading magazines while the autopilot does all the flying.
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You could call it "missing goals by 50%". You could also say it's a delay of less than one month, since their original plan was about 100 cars in august and 1500 in September. All of a sudden it doesn't look nearly as bad, does it?
I would bet most of it is in libraries. We need to display this little triangle widget on the screen... ok, found it in this 100 MB library, so we'll just include it and move on to the next problem. Programming is easy!
There's no way you actually need 100 million lines of code to control a car.
And just how do you think auto-join works if WiFi is disabled?
There are quite a few articles about this issue, including here on slashdot. Both WiFi and BlueTooth are switched on again automatically even after you turned them "off" in the control center. You need to dig down into the settings to really disable them.
And then pretty soon they'll get some more great ideas, like: "are the people traveling on Wednesday the same ones as those traveling on Thursday?". So they'll stop discarding the salt and there goes your anonymity.
Slightly off topic - doesn't everyone turn off the phone wifi & bluetooth when not in use?
We do, but Apple just turns it on again when we travel to a new location or in any case at 5am.
(unless we go out of our way to disable it in the system settings rather than through the more convenient control center which tricks us into thinking it's the same thing)
That doesn't make any sense. The system should just download the file, give it to Windows Defender, wait for its reply, and then execute the file if it's OK. Or, if you can't trust the non-defender part of the system, ask Defender to download the file, then let Defender hand it over to the system to execute. No matter how you do it, a single download is faster AND more secure.
Why download a file twice? Bandwidth is too cheap nowadays, I suppose?
If I understood correctly, it loads websites in an amount of time that is one Planck unit less than Chrome? That's what "quantum" means, right?
I think the model 3, even the base model, probably has more than enough power for towing, and will beat most SUVs out there.
Of course it won't be quite as quick as the Model X drag racing an Alpha 4C Spider while towing another Alpha 4C Spider, but with a 5.6 second 0-60 it should still be well under 10 seconds towing pretty much any load, with sub-millisecond traction control.
Weird how, as a user, when you try to look up three passwords in a row, you need to enter your password three times. But when a rogue app asks for it, it can just get the whole decrypted database without needing a password? Pretty bad design fail, there's something seriously wrong at the very core of keychain.
It is normal for certain apps to have access to the keychain without requiring a password. For example, when Safari autofills a website login. But they are only supposed to have access to whatever they stored there themselves, or require explicit user consent. I suppose that's where they messed up.
Yes, but you have to choose one to submit to the app store.
I can sort of understand that, as they add more features to the OS, it becomes difficult to keep supporting older hardware. However, they also make it extremely difficult and even impossible for other software authors to support older hardware no matter how much effort they want to put in and no matter what their user base is. For example, if you want to support the iPhone X display (without black borders), you have to use the latest SDK, which only works with the latest version of XCode, which has a minimum deployment target of iOS 7. That means I cannot write software that works full screen on iPhone X and also still works on my kids' old iPad. It's not just hard to do, it's flat out impossible.
Now that wouldn't be so bad if they would not flat out refuse to repair your device.
I had a broken screen on my iPhone 5, which was otherwise just fine. I brought it in, the price would be about 150 euros which is a lot (you can easily get a replacement non-original screen for less than half the price) but I didn't want to risk getting an inferior screen, possibly even containing malware, so I went through the official channel. A bit later I got a call saying they had diagnosed my phone and found a problem with the battery as well. They "had to" repair that, too, and since it was going to be too expensive, I might as well get a replacement refurbished phone for more than 300 euros.
I insisted that my two year old battery was just fine (not quite lasting as long as when it was new, but sufficient for me) and only wanted a new screen, but no, they flat out refused. Apple only delivers devices in perfect working order with a three month warranty, so they could not just repair the screen, end of discussion.
I ended up getting a fake screen from some grubby repair shop after all. Works like a charm, by the way. And the battery still works just fine.
Well, it's a pile, not a stack, they don't have to be exactly on top of each other. One bot is 10^-27 m^3. A billion billion of those would be 10^-9 m^3 which is 1 mm^3. That's a big grain of salt, but not quite as far off.
Actually, this reminds me more of the video game "SpaceChem". It's almost as if these researchers went "hey, here's a crazy idea, let's make one of those waldos for real".
(If you don't know the game, it's really worth checking out, one of the best puzzle games ever invented and I don't say that lightly).
My iPhone automatically connects to known networks (no apparent way to switch that off without turning off WiFi completely) and asks whether or not to connect to unknown ones. That latter feature is annoying enough already, you're just browsing on 4G and it keeps asking "do you want to connect to this network?".
I know connecting to open access points is "stupid" but when I'm in a hotel outside the EU, it's either that or exorbitant roaming charges, or no internet at all. Sometimes you just have to take that chance (taking care not to browse to transmit any sensitive data).
Maybe I once connected to a hotspot, and now it tries to connect to all hotspots of that same company? It really happens frequently, an app suddenly complains that it lost internet connectivity, I open up Safari, and sure enough, "Wifi access, enter your name and password".
After that video you linked to, youTube jumped to another one with Steve Jobs getting upset that too many people in the conference room were using their WiFi, screwing up the Apple demos. He was ordering people to turn their WiFi off and even asking them to police each other. Kind of ironic that Apple itself is now making it more difficult to turn WiFi off.
Jeez, one of the main reasons I often turn WiFi off is because, when I'm in a taxi browsing the internet, WiFi keeps connecting to all sorts of WiFi base stations with captive portals and interrupting my browsing. So now, when I turn it off, it will turn off that portal but a few minutes later, since I 'moved to a new location", according to Apple's documentation it will go "It looks like you want to connect to this new network" and connect without asking. The button is completely useless now.
OK, back to the old iOS 6 routine of opening the settings to turn off WiFi (until they decide to change the behavior there too). Idiots.
I sure hope at least airplane mode still does what it says, and doesn't turn itself off at 5 am just before your 5:05 am Cat III automatic landing...
They are drone ships, both of them. People still do have to come on board after the landing to secure the rocket so it can be brought back to port. That's not exactly a safe job either. But they're testing a robot to do that job.
Found the racist.
They were more sexually active than uninfected rats.
I guess that explains why nobody has bothered to find a cure for this disease that affects billions of people. Would they want the cure anyway?
They may use this video to show their people how bad Americans are at making rockets, followed by videos of their own launches played in reverse.
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Only the most boring parts are automated. The plane can fly a route automatically, climb and descend when we tell it to, fly any speed we set, but we're still the ones telling it what to do. The plane can "autoland", but that's just a very basic bit of software: the plane receives a localizer and glide slope signal from the ground and keeps both indications centered by banking and pitching as required. Then, when the radio altimeter tells it it's just above the runway, it pulls the nose up to reduce the vertical speed to almost zero while still following the localizer until touchdown. All this time, the autothrottles maintain the speed. But that's it. We're still the ones guiding the plane onto the ILS, telling it when to slow down, selecting flaps and gear down. And when something fails (loss of ground signals, receiver failure computer bug, whatever), we need to take control. It doesn't work when it's too windy either. The system is incredibly basic.
They could automate everything a bit more, but already the existing basic systems fail from time to time. Also, the sky is a very dynamic place with lots of older planes flying around as well, so ATC and pilots still have to react to lots of unforeseen events. It will be a long time before everything can be automated.
As for birds: this always puzzled me as well, it's not just flocks but individual birds too. They just don't assume that this big noisy metal thing coming towards them at great speed is going to keep going in the same direction and hit them. It's not only when we come up behind them, quite often they are facing towards us. Animals have very strange avoidance behaviour, just look at how many animals get hit on the road. I once hit a deer that was standing next to the road, looking at my car without moving, and then suddenly crossed right in front of me. I also hit a few birds on the freeway, where it should be even easier for a bird to judge where a car will be going. I guess Darwin will sort them out in a couple of centuries.
You are obviously not a pilot.
After take-off in a busy area like New York, the flying pilot's eyes are supposed to be on the instruments most of the time to fly the trajectory as accurately as possible. We do try to look outside as much as we can to spot traffic, but mostly our eyes are inside. That's not because we're lazy, but because there's just too much stuff to monitor. Meanwhile the other pilot may be busy with the flaps, radio frequency changes, monitoring the flight path (it takes two to make sure), etcetera. It's not a Cessna 150 where you're navigating by sight and feeling. It's just not possible to be looking outside continuously in a large airliner.
Also, with the nose high up, visibility is not all that great. Anything flying up from below is pretty much invisible. And birds are not very big when seen from a kilometer away. I've seen some pretty big birds pass by very closely only a few seconds after I spotted them, while flying a visual approach with both pilots looking outside. They really are hard to spot, especially if they're coming relatively straight towards you because they're not moving against the background.
And even if you did spot the flock, where are they going to go? Birds tend to move in unpredictable ways.
O, and you really think we can safely yank the airplane in any direction in a busy area like New York, with lots of other planes taking off from different runways?
Seriously, you have no idea how complex airline flying is. Oh, why am I even bothering, you just go on believing that we're useless meat bags reading magazines while the autopilot does all the flying.