Tesla is clear in their manual and click-through agreement that autopilot is not a self-driving car, but a sophisticated driver assist. Most people won't read anything, though, so I suspect the majority of Tesla owners don't understand this.
What's the point? Most things people like about cars are subjective. I like the (fairly limited) driver assists in my car a lot. The intelligent cruise control is great for limiting your top speed when a cop is around, the "beep if you're in a dangerous situation" feature has helped me a couple of times when my mind was wandering when the guy in front of me decided to stand on his brakes. I think it's good stuff.
For the upper middle class, the room already has vaulted ceilings, and I'd expect the installation to include either a false wall or dressing up the wall the screen is on anyway, to properly hide all the equipment and wiring and make it all built-in and kid-safe. Making that surface reasonably dead acoustically would be good enough I think. I see the real product here as making that wall look good (non-geeky and female-approved) with all the crap in it.
For the low end, this will not be an audiophile product. It will be a "room shaking splosions" product, which will mostly be used to "have the guys over to watch the game" anyway.
Most American houses already have a room set up like a religious shrine, except with the TV in place of the holy object. Dedicating a room to the viewing of TV won't be an obstacle. Sure, for the average family it won't have theater seats, it will instead have furniture arranged conventionally so that a parent can watch TV while keeping the kids in sight, but people will still pay to have good AV gear integrated into that room so it's not in the way of the kids playing on the floor.
Yeah cos their customers are world renowned penny-pinchers.
Today. But this will come downmarket.
IMO, this is exactly the sort of business that will be creating new jobs, and lots of them, as automation does its thing. Not at this price point, of course, but a $40k version will come soon enough, with 100x the customer base. Give it a few years, and there will be a $8k version, transform an existing room into a well set up home theater with top-notch gear, that no upper-middle-class house will be complete without - an industry with several million customers.
The price of theater-quality AV gear for home use will only drop, as that's just technology. The disposable income of working professionals will buy more toys like this. But the handyman know-how to put it all together, and the bit of creativity to make it look nice, and the willingness to have good customer service? That's something people will pay for.
That's the story of automation - what the rich are paying for today, the upper middle class will find affordable due to automation (with less prestigious branding), and the median family will have in a generation after that.
and 4000 of those people came to the area specifically for those jobs
Those jobs can be done form any area and frequently are. Those 4000 people are already working, already competing with you, and currently have a very low cost of living. You should want them to have a high cost of living.
You are not adding workers through immigration. You're moving your existing competition to the US where they have a higher cost of living. You're competing with these guys for jobs wherever they live, so you should want them to live someplace expensive.
Not a surprise. I've worked with IT guys who had worked on porn sites. They're obsessive about security. Competition is so fierce that anything that would give the user the least hesitation simply isn't tolerated.
Whatever HTML you were hoping for in that post, it looks like goatse. Slashcode is terrible and especially the list tags are broken beyond belief. (Also, you just gave a detailed response to some rhetorical questions.)
Imagine taking the hit for moving between kernel space and user space and setting up a sandbox.
Sandboxing can be minimal in user space, and anyway only needs to be done once. There shouldn't be any performance hit for doing the parsing work in user space - you don't have to copy the data around or anything, just arrange for the user-mode process to see the page. Latency for detection would get worse, due to the wait for the user-mode thread to notice it had work to do, but that should be sub-millisecond in a modern system.
to import cheap labor in the form of H1-B visas--are we now to add a further disincentive by saying that anybody who can slither under the wire to get accepted to a U.S. university (and graduate) is now your permanent competition inside the United States?
Seems like we see this same idiocy on every/. story related to immigration. Here's the thing: an immigrant has the same cost of living I do, the overseas guy doesn't. Every single developer who immigrates get paid more as a result. The average pay for the work increases with every immigrant.
Your competition has never been "workers in the US" in software development, but "workers in the world".
Looks more like regulatory capture to me. We gave the government the power to determine the details of net neutrality, which is to say we gave them the power to throttle traffic the government doesn't like, since the ISPs will throttle everything the government lets them.
Copyright lobbys dump cash on government officials, and suddenly it's OK to throttle BitTorrent. This is my surprised face.
There's an in-between alternative where the remote pilot picks the target, and the drone takes it from there (much like firing a missile). But then, jamming is pretty much LOS, and so won't necessarily be a factor in most air-to-air fights.
been to San Francisco? Where would they build new housing? They can't make the houses or apartments any narrower than they already are
One look at Seattle would answer your question. Any lot downtown that used to have a building less than 5 stories now has a highrise in some state of construction, or recently finished. There are about 50 highrise buildings (depending on how you define that) currently under construction, and the 5-10 story buildings are being eyed by developers for replacement now.
You can always go up, assuming the city lets you. Seattle lets you (at least in some areas, there are height restrictions in some places, but it's the minority), SF doesn't.
Normal DDG search for lyrics will show you the start of the lyrics above the search results (much the way most searches show the start of the wikipedia article above the other results).
!lyrics would be nice though.
You left off the absolute best DDG feature though: !wa for Wolfram Alpha Try this search:
!wa e^x+e^-x
Best online calculator in the world, because it does so much more than compute results. It will show you graphs of the above, tell you that's the same as 2cosh(x), and so on. The integral solver is very handy for physics problems.
Ah, your terminology is confusing me. "Automatic plane" and "self-flying plane" are different than a remotely piloted drone, and TFA was also about the AI winning dogfights.
For what we have today, jamming would be a serious problem as we've sort of ignored that problem (which I find baffling). The military has a remarkable number of comms channels that are very hard to jam (or listen in on), but drones don't use them. Jammers can be easily removed by HARM missiles, but there's no protocol for that.
When is that going to be any different than a human pilot? Even if you're thinking about "aiming guns with iron sights" there's not much advantage of the eyeball over the military camera. In any other situation, the human is relying on the computer for all the shooty parts anyway.
he big advantage of a pilot over a drone is that you can't jam or spoof a pilot.
How does that apply when you're engaging outside of visual range? Even in a "dogfight with guns" the HUD is showing the pilot where and when to shoot. For other missions, sure, that's relevant, but not so much for air-to-air.
The main thing the pilot adds is judgement that can't be jammed or spoofed in a situation short of war. Is that incoming plane attacking, or an airliner on an unfortunate approach? You need eyeballs on the target, and humans are better than cameras for that in a situation when hostility is unlikely.
If the drone can pull 20G turns, it's game over for the human pilot.
How much dogfighting do you imagine will ever happen? Most combat will remain missile combat. Getting missile lock against your opponent's stealth before he does likewise will decide who wins most fights, and the pilot has little to do with that.
What the hell could pear-shaped nuclei possible have to do with any of that?
TFA adds nothing of value - it's just an unsubstantiated claim. The nuclei point "in a particular direction", whatever that means. If they all point in the same direction that would certainly be interesting, but it's not clear.
Hopefully will get some better science journalism on this one. Where's the Sixty Symbols video when we need it?
Another commenter suggested the idea of a public search engine, if that happened would it mean Google would be off the hook?
If people actually knew about it and used it? Yes. Wouldn't need to be public, either. If enough people used DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc that it was easy for the average person, unaware of the censorship by Google, to discover the content.
Google already makes a "heroic" effort to hide from you results you won't like, to trap you in a echo chamber of beliefs similar to those you've selected before, or your demographic selected. That's bad enough even without pushing Google's agenda (or, worse, the government's).
There are viable (IMO better) search alternatives already, but as long as almost everyone uses Google, they should have responsibility to match that power.
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Sure, just be perfect. Great plan for humans.
Tesla is clear in their manual and click-through agreement that autopilot is not a self-driving car, but a sophisticated driver assist. Most people won't read anything, though, so I suspect the majority of Tesla owners don't understand this.
What's the point? Most things people like about cars are subjective. I like the (fairly limited) driver assists in my car a lot. The intelligent cruise control is great for limiting your top speed when a cop is around, the "beep if you're in a dangerous situation" feature has helped me a couple of times when my mind was wandering when the guy in front of me decided to stand on his brakes. I think it's good stuff.
For the upper middle class, the room already has vaulted ceilings, and I'd expect the installation to include either a false wall or dressing up the wall the screen is on anyway, to properly hide all the equipment and wiring and make it all built-in and kid-safe. Making that surface reasonably dead acoustically would be good enough I think. I see the real product here as making that wall look good (non-geeky and female-approved) with all the crap in it.
For the low end, this will not be an audiophile product. It will be a "room shaking splosions" product, which will mostly be used to "have the guys over to watch the game" anyway.
Most American houses already have a room set up like a religious shrine, except with the TV in place of the holy object. Dedicating a room to the viewing of TV won't be an obstacle. Sure, for the average family it won't have theater seats, it will instead have furniture arranged conventionally so that a parent can watch TV while keeping the kids in sight, but people will still pay to have good AV gear integrated into that room so it's not in the way of the kids playing on the floor.
Yeah cos their customers are world renowned penny-pinchers.
Today. But this will come downmarket.
IMO, this is exactly the sort of business that will be creating new jobs, and lots of them, as automation does its thing. Not at this price point, of course, but a $40k version will come soon enough, with 100x the customer base. Give it a few years, and there will be a $8k version, transform an existing room into a well set up home theater with top-notch gear, that no upper-middle-class house will be complete without - an industry with several million customers.
The price of theater-quality AV gear for home use will only drop, as that's just technology. The disposable income of working professionals will buy more toys like this. But the handyman know-how to put it all together, and the bit of creativity to make it look nice, and the willingness to have good customer service? That's something people will pay for.
That's the story of automation - what the rich are paying for today, the upper middle class will find affordable due to automation (with less prestigious branding), and the median family will have in a generation after that.
and 4000 of those people came to the area specifically for those jobs
Those jobs can be done form any area and frequently are. Those 4000 people are already working, already competing with you, and currently have a very low cost of living. You should want them to have a high cost of living.
You are not adding workers through immigration. You're moving your existing competition to the US where they have a higher cost of living. You're competing with these guys for jobs wherever they live, so you should want them to live someplace expensive.
Not a surprise. I've worked with IT guys who had worked on porn sites. They're obsessive about security. Competition is so fierce that anything that would give the user the least hesitation simply isn't tolerated.
Whatever HTML you were hoping for in that post, it looks like goatse. Slashcode is terrible and especially the list tags are broken beyond belief. (Also, you just gave a detailed response to some rhetorical questions.)
Imagine taking the hit for moving between kernel space and user space and setting up a sandbox.
Sandboxing can be minimal in user space, and anyway only needs to be done once. There shouldn't be any performance hit for doing the parsing work in user space - you don't have to copy the data around or anything, just arrange for the user-mode process to see the page. Latency for detection would get worse, due to the wait for the user-mode thread to notice it had work to do, but that should be sub-millisecond in a modern system.
to import cheap labor in the form of H1-B visas--are we now to add a further disincentive by saying that anybody who can slither under the wire to get accepted to a U.S. university (and graduate) is now your permanent competition inside the United States?
Seems like we see this same idiocy on every /. story related to immigration. Here's the thing: an immigrant has the same cost of living I do, the overseas guy doesn't. Every single developer who immigrates get paid more as a result. The average pay for the work increases with every immigrant.
Your competition has never been "workers in the US" in software development, but "workers in the world".
Looks more like regulatory capture to me. We gave the government the power to determine the details of net neutrality, which is to say we gave them the power to throttle traffic the government doesn't like, since the ISPs will throttle everything the government lets them.
Copyright lobbys dump cash on government officials, and suddenly it's OK to throttle BitTorrent. This is my surprised face.
There's an in-between alternative where the remote pilot picks the target, and the drone takes it from there (much like firing a missile). But then, jamming is pretty much LOS, and so won't necessarily be a factor in most air-to-air fights.
Let me think of the things I want in an Earthquake zone.
Look, if you want high-density residential complexes, pick somewhere else.
Tokyo would disagree. I'd bet more people live in high rises in Tokyo than in all of SF (given Tokyo is about 10x the size of SF).
been to San Francisco? Where would they build new housing? They can't make the houses or apartments any narrower than they already are
One look at Seattle would answer your question. Any lot downtown that used to have a building less than 5 stories now has a highrise in some state of construction, or recently finished. There are about 50 highrise buildings (depending on how you define that) currently under construction, and the 5-10 story buildings are being eyed by developers for replacement now.
You can always go up, assuming the city lets you. Seattle lets you (at least in some areas, there are height restrictions in some places, but it's the minority), SF doesn't.
Well, the thing is that the "Designated Hitter Rule" has been a subject of controversy for quite a while now
Far less controversial than the Designated Hitler rule, let me assure you.
You've certainly added a lot to the conversation. Were you motivated by anything other than "virtue signalling" about Trump and the Brexit?
Normal DDG search for lyrics will show you the start of the lyrics above the search results (much the way most searches show the start of the wikipedia article above the other results).
!lyrics would be nice though.
You left off the absolute best DDG feature though: !wa for Wolfram Alpha Try this search:
!wa e^x+e^-x
Best online calculator in the world, because it does so much more than compute results. It will show you graphs of the above, tell you that's the same as 2cosh(x), and so on. The integral solver is very handy for physics problems.
Ah, your terminology is confusing me. "Automatic plane" and "self-flying plane" are different than a remotely piloted drone, and TFA was also about the AI winning dogfights.
For what we have today, jamming would be a serious problem as we've sort of ignored that problem (which I find baffling). The military has a remarkable number of comms channels that are very hard to jam (or listen in on), but drones don't use them. Jammers can be easily removed by HARM missiles, but there's no protocol for that.
When is that going to be any different than a human pilot? Even if you're thinking about "aiming guns with iron sights" there's not much advantage of the eyeball over the military camera. In any other situation, the human is relying on the computer for all the shooty parts anyway.
he big advantage of a pilot over a drone is that you can't jam or spoof a pilot.
How does that apply when you're engaging outside of visual range? Even in a "dogfight with guns" the HUD is showing the pilot where and when to shoot. For other missions, sure, that's relevant, but not so much for air-to-air.
The main thing the pilot adds is judgement that can't be jammed or spoofed in a situation short of war. Is that incoming plane attacking, or an airliner on an unfortunate approach? You need eyeballs on the target, and humans are better than cameras for that in a situation when hostility is unlikely.
If the drone can pull 20G turns, it's game over for the human pilot.
How much dogfighting do you imagine will ever happen? Most combat will remain missile combat. Getting missile lock against your opponent's stealth before he does likewise will decide who wins most fights, and the pilot has little to do with that.
Motion sickness will start to become a more common problem without windows.
I thought I was the only one with that first reaction to Linux.
What the hell could pear-shaped nuclei possible have to do with any of that?
TFA adds nothing of value - it's just an unsubstantiated claim. The nuclei point "in a particular direction", whatever that means. If they all point in the same direction that would certainly be interesting, but it's not clear.
Hopefully will get some better science journalism on this one. Where's the Sixty Symbols video when we need it?
Another commenter suggested the idea of a public search engine, if that happened would it mean Google would be off the hook?
If people actually knew about it and used it? Yes. Wouldn't need to be public, either. If enough people used DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc that it was easy for the average person, unaware of the censorship by Google, to discover the content.
Google already makes a "heroic" effort to hide from you results you won't like, to trap you in a echo chamber of beliefs similar to those you've selected before, or your demographic selected. That's bad enough even without pushing Google's agenda (or, worse, the government's).
There are viable (IMO better) search alternatives already, but as long as almost everyone uses Google, they should have responsibility to match that power.