OK, I probably should have checked the reference before releasing the hounds. If this is to be believed then Musk was simply speculating on such a possibility and actually advocating for a right to manual control. If their quotes are accurate, then I must stand corrected. Ahh, the perils of Slashdot, which lacks reddit's delete button. My errors are all there for posterity, not the first time and probably not the last.
Why is this story on the front page *twice*? Look, the technology in and of itself isn't evil. It's a tool. That said, Musk is on the record as wanting to make driving illegal. You can mod me Troll all you want, and throw around pejoratives like "SJW" all you want; but if you have networked cars, automated driving, and it's illegal to drive then that's a fascist enabling tool. Not the "right kind of person"? You don't drive. This is why I hope this particular venture fails hard. Electric cars? Yes. Muskbot control? No.
If these statistics aren't a credible threat then I don't know what is. True though-- people tend not to wear helmets unless there's a ticket involved. For some strange reason, a chance of losing a few days wages correlated with the sight of an available officer is greater motive than the chance to lose your life correlated with seeing accidents. So then I guess I would have to add that Musk should involve himself with lobbying for helmet laws overseas, or maybe what I really should have said is that advertising your cars as having "lane assist and tailgating prevention" is OK, but "autopilot" is an irresponsible marketing term unless it has been proven to be as good as or better than a human driver.
That level of wealth alone would save far more lives. Anybody who could afford a Tesla could also afford clean drinking water, air conditioning, medicine, proper nutrition, etc. Musk is just taking in one figure and ignoring the fact that so much of the world is driving a run-down beater that doesn't have anti-lock brakes, or they're just driving motor scooters which are far more dangerous, or they're driving nothing at all and hauling water from toxic wells because of POVERTY. How about Musk buy a helmet for every 3rd world motor-scooter rider, then get back to us on this?
No. It was the truth, at least it was in the late 90s. All the Linux guys were like, "woohoo, I got it to install". One time I asked them "what's the equivalent of find all files and folders containing X?", and I got 3 different line-noise answers that sort of made sense to me but would have befuddled most regular people. Also, installing was considered an "accomplishment" and as recently as 2007 our solution to "Red Hat doesn't install on that machine" was "Install Ubuntu".
Face it. Although Linux has closed most of the gap, it took its own sweet time.
This. They're killing the "Windows is easier than *NIX" argument. You can trust any free *NIX package manager to only update the packages you need. If you can't, it dies fast and you install one of the many others available.
The trouble is, since these other "vendors" don't sell software you're subject to the whims of their various other funding sources. It used to be we could bypass all that drama simply by ponying up $$$ for Windows, and now we can't because MS is emulating the worst aspects of those other ecosystems.
In kindergarten in the USA, early 70s, we were told to just dial "0" and speak to the operator for an emergency. The roll-out of 911 in our community began shortly after that.
An industry-specific intro, and $199/mo? You could take intro CS at a community college, pay about the same if it's a 3 month course, and get actual credits towards a degree--a few centidegrees if you will, as opposed to a nanodegree. Community college is orders of magnitude better!
You know, you can turn off safe search and get maps of all the bisexual penises you want. If it's not right there on Google, there are sites that cater to that sort of thing. Call me when Google is actually installed on all the routers and dropping offensive packets.
The floppy was already dying. Apple just hammered a few more nails in the coffin. At the time, we were using 100 meg ZIP drives (remember those?) and burning CDs.
This reminds me of a joke, some variation of which has been circulating for a long time. Here's the first version I could find easily:
An assemblage of the most gifted minds in the world were all posed the following question: "What is 2 x 2 ?" The engineer whips out his slide rule and shuffles it back and forth, and finally announces "3.99". The physicist consults his technical references, sets up the problem on his computer, and announces "it lies between 3.98 and 4.02." The mathematician cogitates for a while, oblivious to the rest of the world, then announces: "I don't what the answer is, but I can tell you, an answer exists!" The philosopher says, "But what do you mean by 2 x 2 ?" The logician says, "Please define 2 x 2 more precisely." The accountant closes all the doors and windows, looks around carefully, then asks "What do you want the answer to be?"
This story makes me turn purple and expand until my head is the size of an elephant. Then it explodes into a thousand wiggling little worms, each one brighter than the Sun, each singing a tune so sublime as to transfix the audience into unfathomable reverie. They then go on to found their own individual religions based on the experience. Via astral projection they inspire beings on other worlds inhabited by intelligent life forms, who in a thousand years time converge upon Earth via multi-generation star-ships. There, they consecrate a monument to the event that spawned a million cultures. Curiously, it's a monument to an idiot. An idiot who thought a story like this could be more easily told with video only.
I'm going to lose so much sleep worrying about trumps hair. It's the worst thing since Stalin's and Hitler's moustaches, which we all know were the real problem. Just look at what Gorbachev's red blotch did to the USSR. That's why I'm voting for Hillary. No obvious defect on her face or body to make fun of. Just the pant suits. I'm thinking that polyester can only do so much damage./sarc.
Hell hath no fury like an armed agency losing its sense of purpose. Even if we could snap our finger and de-fund them right now, you've got a bunch of guys who are used to carrying guns and wielding power. Same deal with the gangs on the other side. Pot legalization won't make them go away. They're used to living the easy life, and they'll move into other forms of vice and perhaps get even more violent competing for a share of the smaller pie. At least, that's what I heard happened with alcohol prohibition. Don't get me wrong--prohibition was a mistake, and I oppose it; but I'm being realistic about how difficult it's going to be to un-do that mistake.
Since when was syntax considered the hard part? Most people in introductory courses grasp it quickly, except for maybe a few tricky things like * in C being overloaded for pointers and multiplication. Otherwise, the logic has always been the hard part.
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How about "autoconvoy". With lane assist + adaptive cruise, it's a convoy. 10-4?
OK, I probably should have checked the reference before releasing the hounds. If this is to be believed then Musk was simply speculating on such a possibility and actually advocating for a right to manual control. If their quotes are accurate, then I must stand corrected. Ahh, the perils of Slashdot, which lacks reddit's delete button. My errors are all there for posterity, not the first time and probably not the last.
Why is this story on the front page *twice*? Look, the technology in and of itself isn't evil. It's a tool. That said, Musk is on the record as wanting to make driving illegal. You can mod me Troll all you want, and throw around pejoratives like "SJW" all you want; but if you have networked cars, automated driving, and it's illegal to drive then that's a fascist enabling tool. Not the "right kind of person"? You don't drive. This is why I hope this particular venture fails hard. Electric cars? Yes. Muskbot control? No.
If these statistics aren't a credible threat then I don't know what is. True though-- people tend not to wear helmets unless there's a ticket involved. For some strange reason, a chance of losing a few days wages correlated with the sight of an available officer is greater motive than the chance to lose your life correlated with seeing accidents. So then I guess I would have to add that Musk should involve himself with lobbying for helmet laws overseas, or maybe what I really should have said is that advertising your cars as having "lane assist and tailgating prevention" is OK, but "autopilot" is an irresponsible marketing term unless it has been proven to be as good as or better than a human driver.
You're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say he should abandon the technology--only that his reasoning is specious.
That level of wealth alone would save far more lives. Anybody who could afford a Tesla could also afford clean drinking water, air conditioning, medicine, proper nutrition, etc. Musk is just taking in one figure and ignoring the fact that so much of the world is driving a run-down beater that doesn't have anti-lock brakes, or they're just driving motor scooters which are far more dangerous, or they're driving nothing at all and hauling water from toxic wells because of POVERTY. How about Musk buy a helmet for every 3rd world motor-scooter rider, then get back to us on this?
There is no water in California so, nothing's in the water. I read it as sarcasm.
No. It was the truth, at least it was in the late 90s. All the Linux guys were like, "woohoo, I got it to install". One time I asked them "what's the equivalent of find all files and folders containing X?", and I got 3 different line-noise answers that sort of made sense to me but would have befuddled most regular people. Also, installing was considered an "accomplishment" and as recently as 2007 our solution to "Red Hat doesn't install on that machine" was "Install Ubuntu".
Face it. Although Linux has closed most of the gap, it took its own sweet time.
We demand a sound-based web!
I had that back in the 90s. It sounded like "EEE,EEE,EEE,EEE,EEE,SSHSHSSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHS, be-BONG, be-BONG, RRRRRR, RRRRRR." Then silence.
This. They're killing the "Windows is easier than *NIX" argument. You can trust any free *NIX package manager to only update the packages you need. If you can't, it dies fast and you install one of the many others available.
The trouble is, since these other "vendors" don't sell software you're subject to the whims of their various other funding sources. It used to be we could bypass all that drama simply by ponying up $$$ for Windows, and now we can't because MS is emulating the worst aspects of those other ecosystems.
I recall somebody with knowledge of both saying that C++ definitely lacks full macros, even though templates come close.
I'm still waiting for it to have a poorly specified implementation of *all* of common Lisp.
In kindergarten in the USA, early 70s, we were told to just dial "0" and speak to the operator for an emergency. The roll-out of 911 in our community began shortly after that.
An industry-specific intro, and $199/mo? You could take intro CS at a community college, pay about the same if it's a 3 month course, and get actual credits towards a degree--a few centidegrees if you will, as opposed to a nanodegree. Community college is orders of magnitude better!
I knew the Internet wouldn't disappoint me. Thanks for the chuckle.
You know, you can turn off safe search and get maps of all the bisexual penises you want. If it's not right there on Google, there are sites that cater to that sort of thing. Call me when Google is actually installed on all the routers and dropping offensive packets.
The floppy was already dying. Apple just hammered a few more nails in the coffin. At the time, we were using 100 meg ZIP drives (remember those?) and burning CDs.
Yes, but until you eat the burrito you are not sure exactly how much thrust there is going to be.
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." --Mahatma Ghandi.
This reminds me of a joke, some variation of which has been circulating for a long time. Here's the first version I could find easily:
An assemblage of the most gifted minds in the world were all posed the following question: "What is 2 x 2 ?" The engineer whips out his slide rule and shuffles it back and forth, and finally announces "3.99". The physicist consults his technical references, sets up the problem on his computer, and announces "it lies between 3.98 and 4.02." The mathematician cogitates for a while, oblivious to the rest of the world, then announces: "I don't what the answer is, but I can tell you, an answer exists!" The philosopher says, "But what do you mean by 2 x 2 ?" The logician says, "Please define 2 x 2 more precisely." The accountant closes all the doors and windows, looks around carefully, then asks "What do you want the answer to be?"
This story makes me turn purple and expand until my head is the size of an elephant. Then it explodes into a thousand wiggling little worms, each one brighter than the Sun, each singing a tune so sublime as to transfix the audience into unfathomable reverie. They then go on to found their own individual religions based on the experience. Via astral projection they inspire beings on other worlds inhabited by intelligent life forms, who in a thousand years time converge upon Earth via multi-generation star-ships. There, they consecrate a monument to the event that spawned a million cultures. Curiously, it's a monument to an idiot. An idiot who thought a story like this could be more easily told with video only.
I'm going to lose so much sleep worrying about trumps hair. It's the worst thing since Stalin's and Hitler's moustaches, which we all know were the real problem. Just look at what Gorbachev's red blotch did to the USSR. That's why I'm voting for Hillary. No obvious defect on her face or body to make fun of. Just the pant suits. I'm thinking that polyester can only do so much damage. /sarc.
Q the Enterprise. Picard is in for real trouble in this episode.
Hell hath no fury like an armed agency losing its sense of purpose. Even if we could snap our finger and de-fund them right now, you've got a bunch of guys who are used to carrying guns and wielding power. Same deal with the gangs on the other side. Pot legalization won't make them go away. They're used to living the easy life, and they'll move into other forms of vice and perhaps get even more violent competing for a share of the smaller pie. At least, that's what I heard happened with alcohol prohibition. Don't get me wrong--prohibition was a mistake, and I oppose it; but I'm being realistic about how difficult it's going to be to un-do that mistake.
Since when was syntax considered the hard part? Most people in introductory courses grasp it quickly, except for maybe a few tricky things like * in C being overloaded for pointers and multiplication. Otherwise, the logic has always been the hard part.