Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity
Although coal and other fossil fuels remain the largest source of electricity generation
So, renewables are the largest source of power... except for the fact that coal and fossil fuels are the largest source of electricity generation? WTH? Is there a difference between power capacity and electricity generation?
What, exactly, would they do if I did dare go against the wishes of Elon Musk and (gasp) use the car the way that I want to use it? And also, how would they even know if I was 'auto-driving' my friend around town or 'auto-driving' an Uber customer around town?
Elon can go suck it. I'm really getting tired of his attitude on a lot of things.
Call me about your 'kind-of-autonomous-vehicle-but-not-really-but-I-want-to-sound-cool-that-we-have-autonomous-vehicles' when they don't do stupid shit like run smack into a giant semi-trailer in the middle of the road. Until then, stop saying you have an autonomous vehicle.
Who is going to buy a car that puts the life of somebody else above your own? How would that conversation go at the dealership?
Salesguy: Yeah, the autopilot is great. Especially for pedestrians.
Buyer: The autopilot sounds gr... wait, what? What was that about the pedestrians?
Salesguy: Oh, if it thinks it is about to run over a pedestrian, it will swerve off of the road. Possibly off a bridge or into a solid object like a tree or something, possibly killing you in the process. Makes thing safer for pedestrians.
Buyer: Well, what about me? Why am I being sacrificed? Shouldn't it just come to a stop as fast as it can and try to save us both? After all, I'm the one that paid for the car.
Salesguy: But it might not stop in time and kill the pedestrian. We can't have that.
Buyer: I'm, uh, going to go check out the next dealership. Bye!
You're assuming that the human would have made a better decision.
I think most humans would have NOT kept driving at full speed into a giant tractor trailer. But that's just a guess.
Now, don't think that I am against self driving cars. My post specifically mentioned Tesla's autopilot. In the long term, I think self driving cars will prevent many, many more deaths than they might cause. My issue is that the very first thing any self driving car should be able to do is know if something is blocking it's path. Literally the first thing it should 'learn' to do. Given that it failed this test (spectacularly, I might add), I wouldn't touch a Tesla autopilot system for a long time.
Yet here we have a case where in the future this accident won't likely happen.
Really? Why would you think that? Tesla didn't properly program/test this scenario the first time. Why do you think they would get it right the next time? See my examples of other, similar modes of failure that could cause this.
Assuming any system is perfect on day one is asinine.
I'm not asking for perfection. I'm asking that an autopilot system deployed to consumers can do the first, basic task of any autopilot system: Know if something is in your way, and stop if there is. If it can't do that bare minimum task, I won't use it.
I will happily tolerate many deaths...
Thanks for offering to Beta Test the Tesla autopilot system:-)
When I found out the cause of the fatal wreck (the sky was cloudy white, and so was the trailer!) I couldn't believe it. You would think that the FIRST thing you do with an autopilot program is to make sure it can see properly in front of the vehicle. Or combine it with radar. Or... something. But an autopilot that runs full speed into a giant truck/trailer without even realizing that it is even there is a complete and utter failure. What would happen if there was a blue trailer that was a similar color of the blue sky? Or an empty flatbed trailer. Would it run into those as well?
Now officials at the local record office say they have finally been able to confirm that remarkable date as genuine.
Really? There were no details given on this. Did they find his original birth certificate? I didn't realize Indonesia had such great recordkeeping that long ago. Frankly, I find this whole story as BS. Dec. 31st, 1870? Sounds like somebody just filled in a random date because they had no idea how old he was.
in which somebody described losing 8000 (sic!) DVDs of data after 4 years of storage.
I'm trying to figure out which part is less believable: That somebody took the time to write stuff to 8000 DVDs (rather than just a few TB hard drives), or that all 8000 went bad.
I'm curious. When there is flooding due to heavy rains, it is because of climate change that makes the oceans warmer, etc. Does that mean that California (in a severe drought for the last several years), is NOT experiencing climate change? We would kill for some flooding around here.
Given the horrible design, layout, and execution of the parts of yahoo I visit, they have outsourced all of their web design to a guy living in a hut in India. About the only thing I hang onto yahoo for is fantasy sports. If my league ever folds, I'm outta there.
This guy isn't right at all. Because if he is right, then all I have to do to keep my incriminating papers out of a court of law is to write everything in some obscure language that I know. Then, when they try to present it in court, it will be incomprehensible to the court and jury. They will then have to have it translated... which will fundamentally alter it. This guy is trying to be too clever, but his argument falls apart really quickly.
But if you take that package you are saying you can be bought for the cost of the package
Um, yeah. It's called a salary. They are saying, "If you do this job, we will give you this money." I'm not sure what your issue is with this.
Personally I prefer to not dig my own grave.
No, your grave has already been dug, and you will be in the grave at some point. It's just a matter of how long do you want to delay it.
Now if the severance package has two commas in the number that's a different story because then they aren't paying me to train my replacement, they are paying me to retire.
Sooooo... you CAN be bought, if the price is right? Sounds like you don't have a spine either.
H1Bs are for when they cannot find domestic talent. If they are training their replacement then clearly the talent already exists domestically.
Agree 100%. I'm shocked that they aren't being prosecuted for abuse of the H1-B system.
People on the left believe there should be more legal immigration,
Which is why they want to give illegal immigrants here citizenship? If they were really for legal immigration, they would push to open up quotas for LEGAL immigrant applications, and streamline the immigration process. Yet they are out there fighting deportations and trying to go around congress to grant permanent residence to illegal immigrants.
a former employee of Korn/Ferry International research firm,
This person was not an employee of the company. Any reasonable person would conclude that using another employee's password to access a database to a company that you no longer work for is not authorized. Authorization would be acquiring your own password from the company's IT staff, or a direct statement from management that you could use the employee's credentials to access said database.
Trying to equate this with sharing my Netflix account is wrong. The Netflix account belongs to me, so I can give authorization for another person to use it. I paid for access to Netflix.
So, some kids wreck their parents' car, and survive. Why was this such a big deal? There aren't many details of the crash. We don't even know if the front end was damaged by a head on hit, or sheared off sideways during the flips/rolls. The other details (flying through the air, rolling), aren't that big a deal. In my area, a mother and daughter flew down a very steep hill far more than 80 feet (at highway speeds, no less), and walked away from the wreck. My wife flipped her car on ice into a ditch, and everybody walked away. Some of the kids in this accident were AIRLIFTED to hospitals. Why was Tesla's performance in this crash so spectacular that/. had to post it?
They all 'suspend' their campaigns. They are politicians, so they use weaselly words to make things sound better than they really are. 'Suspend' sounds much better than 'quit'. Also, I think there may be a campaign donation reason to suspend rather than quit, but I'm too lazy to look up the details...
It's actually difficult to say if Kaisch staying in would have made any difference. I saw several states where Cruz and Kasich were sort of splitting the not-Trump vote. Give a lot of the votes to one or the other, and you might see a big swing in delegates away from Trump. True, Kasich couldn't catch Trump, but he may have grabbed enough delegates to make it a contested convention, where anything could have happened. I'm actually surprised that Cruz and/or Kaisch didn't stay in the race at least until California voted. Lots of delegates were up for grabs there.
I was considering a Tivo, until I found out you had to pay a monthly fee to use a Tivo. How ridiculous is that? I'm not even sure what the monthly fee pays for. If Rovi can make something that has no monthly fee, I might be interested.
I'm confused as to how this works. We are assuming that people that can't look down to see TRAIN TRACKS will actually notice the lights on the ground right next to the TRAIN TRACKS. I use to think Germans and European leaders were a little smarter than us here in the US, but apparently they have plenty of stupid people in charge, too.
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Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity
Although coal and other fossil fuels remain the largest source of electricity generation
So, renewables are the largest source of power... except for the fact that coal and fossil fuels are the largest source of electricity generation? WTH? Is there a difference between power capacity and electricity generation?
What, exactly, would they do if I did dare go against the wishes of Elon Musk and (gasp) use the car the way that I want to use it? And also, how would they even know if I was 'auto-driving' my friend around town or 'auto-driving' an Uber customer around town?
Elon can go suck it. I'm really getting tired of his attitude on a lot of things.
Call me about your 'kind-of-autonomous-vehicle-but-not-really-but-I-want-to-sound-cool-that-we-have-autonomous-vehicles' when they don't do stupid shit like run smack into a giant semi-trailer in the middle of the road. Until then, stop saying you have an autonomous vehicle.
Who is going to buy a car that puts the life of somebody else above your own? How would that conversation go at the dealership?
Salesguy: Yeah, the autopilot is great. Especially for pedestrians.
Buyer: The autopilot sounds gr... wait, what? What was that about the pedestrians?
Salesguy: Oh, if it thinks it is about to run over a pedestrian, it will swerve off of the road. Possibly off a bridge or into a solid object like a tree or something, possibly killing you in the process. Makes thing safer for pedestrians.
Buyer: Well, what about me? Why am I being sacrificed? Shouldn't it just come to a stop as fast as it can and try to save us both? After all, I'm the one that paid for the car.
Salesguy: But it might not stop in time and kill the pedestrian. We can't have that.
Buyer: I'm, uh, going to go check out the next dealership. Bye!
You're assuming that the human would have made a better decision.
I think most humans would have NOT kept driving at full speed into a giant tractor trailer. But that's just a guess.
Now, don't think that I am against self driving cars. My post specifically mentioned Tesla's autopilot. In the long term, I think self driving cars will prevent many, many more deaths than they might cause. My issue is that the very first thing any self driving car should be able to do is know if something is blocking it's path. Literally the first thing it should 'learn' to do. Given that it failed this test (spectacularly, I might add), I wouldn't touch a Tesla autopilot system for a long time.
Yet here we have a case where in the future this accident won't likely happen.
Really? Why would you think that? Tesla didn't properly program/test this scenario the first time. Why do you think they would get it right the next time? See my examples of other, similar modes of failure that could cause this.
Assuming any system is perfect on day one is asinine.
I'm not asking for perfection. I'm asking that an autopilot system deployed to consumers can do the first, basic task of any autopilot system: Know if something is in your way, and stop if there is. If it can't do that bare minimum task, I won't use it.
I will happily tolerate many deaths...
Thanks for offering to Beta Test the Tesla autopilot system :-)
When I found out the cause of the fatal wreck (the sky was cloudy white, and so was the trailer!) I couldn't believe it. You would think that the FIRST thing you do with an autopilot program is to make sure it can see properly in front of the vehicle. Or combine it with radar. Or... something. But an autopilot that runs full speed into a giant truck/trailer without even realizing that it is even there is a complete and utter failure. What would happen if there was a blue trailer that was a similar color of the blue sky? Or an empty flatbed trailer. Would it run into those as well?
I question your definition of 'perfect sense':
So, the 325i is a 2.5 liter? OK, sounds good.
So the 2.7 liter should be 327i, right? Oh, no, wait it's 325e?
Oh, there is ANOTHER 2.7 liter model? THAT one must be the 327i, correct? What? It's the 528e? Where did the 8 come from?
You already lost me.
Now officials at the local record office say they have finally been able to confirm that remarkable date as genuine.
Really? There were no details given on this. Did they find his original birth certificate? I didn't realize Indonesia had such great recordkeeping that long ago. Frankly, I find this whole story as BS. Dec. 31st, 1870? Sounds like somebody just filled in a random date because they had no idea how old he was.
in which somebody described losing 8000 (sic!) DVDs of data after 4 years of storage.
I'm trying to figure out which part is less believable: That somebody took the time to write stuff to 8000 DVDs (rather than just a few TB hard drives), or that all 8000 went bad.
I'm curious. When there is flooding due to heavy rains, it is because of climate change that makes the oceans warmer, etc. Does that mean that California (in a severe drought for the last several years), is NOT experiencing climate change? We would kill for some flooding around here.
1. We can use my wife's car.
Given that this is /., that isn't going to be an option for about 90% of the people here...
What do you do when you have a trip that exceeds your car's range?
Given the horrible design, layout, and execution of the parts of yahoo I visit, they have outsourced all of their web design to a guy living in a hut in India. About the only thing I hang onto yahoo for is fantasy sports. If my league ever folds, I'm outta there.
...is looking better and better every day. I still need to take some time to figure out how to stop the annoying upgrade warnings on Win 7.
This guy isn't right at all. Because if he is right, then all I have to do to keep my incriminating papers out of a court of law is to write everything in some obscure language that I know. Then, when they try to present it in court, it will be incomprehensible to the court and jury. They will then have to have it translated... which will fundamentally alter it. This guy is trying to be too clever, but his argument falls apart really quickly.
But if you take that package you are saying you can be bought for the cost of the package
Um, yeah. It's called a salary. They are saying, "If you do this job, we will give you this money." I'm not sure what your issue is with this.
Personally I prefer to not dig my own grave.
No, your grave has already been dug, and you will be in the grave at some point. It's just a matter of how long do you want to delay it.
Now if the severance package has two commas in the number that's a different story because then they aren't paying me to train my replacement, they are paying me to retire.
Sooooo... you CAN be bought, if the price is right? Sounds like you don't have a spine either.
H1Bs are for when they cannot find domestic talent. If they are training their replacement then clearly the talent already exists domestically.
Agree 100%. I'm shocked that they aren't being prosecuted for abuse of the H1-B system.
Amen!
People on the left believe there should be more legal immigration,
Which is why they want to give illegal immigrants here citizenship? If they were really for legal immigration, they would push to open up quotas for LEGAL immigrant applications, and streamline the immigration process. Yet they are out there fighting deportations and trying to go around congress to grant permanent residence to illegal immigrants.
a former employee of Korn/Ferry International research firm,
This person was not an employee of the company. Any reasonable person would conclude that using another employee's password to access a database to a company that you no longer work for is not authorized. Authorization would be acquiring your own password from the company's IT staff, or a direct statement from management that you could use the employee's credentials to access said database.
Trying to equate this with sharing my Netflix account is wrong. The Netflix account belongs to me, so I can give authorization for another person to use it. I paid for access to Netflix.
So, some kids wreck their parents' car, and survive. Why was this such a big deal? There aren't many details of the crash. We don't even know if the front end was damaged by a head on hit, or sheared off sideways during the flips/rolls. The other details (flying through the air, rolling), aren't that big a deal. In my area, a mother and daughter flew down a very steep hill far more than 80 feet (at highway speeds, no less), and walked away from the wreck. My wife flipped her car on ice into a ditch, and everybody walked away. Some of the kids in this accident were AIRLIFTED to hospitals. Why was Tesla's performance in this crash so spectacular that /. had to post it?
They all 'suspend' their campaigns. They are politicians, so they use weaselly words to make things sound better than they really are. 'Suspend' sounds much better than 'quit'. Also, I think there may be a campaign donation reason to suspend rather than quit, but I'm too lazy to look up the details...
It's actually difficult to say if Kaisch staying in would have made any difference. I saw several states where Cruz and Kasich were sort of splitting the not-Trump vote. Give a lot of the votes to one or the other, and you might see a big swing in delegates away from Trump. True, Kasich couldn't catch Trump, but he may have grabbed enough delegates to make it a contested convention, where anything could have happened. I'm actually surprised that Cruz and/or Kaisch didn't stay in the race at least until California voted. Lots of delegates were up for grabs there.
You'll still need to rent a cablecard...
Depends on the cable company. My (1st) cablecard is free, and they even take $2.50 off my bill each month for providing my own set top box.
I was considering a Tivo, until I found out you had to pay a monthly fee to use a Tivo. How ridiculous is that? I'm not even sure what the monthly fee pays for. If Rovi can make something that has no monthly fee, I might be interested.
I'm confused as to how this works. We are assuming that people that can't look down to see TRAIN TRACKS will actually notice the lights on the ground right next to the TRAIN TRACKS. I use to think Germans and European leaders were a little smarter than us here in the US, but apparently they have plenty of stupid people in charge, too.