I've had thoughts of something similar... more along the lines of a wall wart type device that is purchased totally configured. Plug it in and you're connected. Unplug it and you go dark. But same kind of connectivity idea.
I think you're miscalculating on a couple of important fronts. First of all, it isn't evil if people know about it, agree with it, and are paid to participate in it. They already know they're doing it for free anyway. If you were simply up front about it, you could establish safeguards to guarantee anonymity and at the same time vastly optimize the information that can be gleaned from it. Furthermore, ads are no longer the objects that people loathe and ignore, they are simply something else to show your opinion on.
Right, but insuring property against damage is far, far cheaper than insuring a vehicle that I may use improperly and cause damage. Current vehicle insurance factors in the risk of me being a bad driver, but with automated cars if that risk is there than I am not the risk Google is. Think about how cheap house insurance is as opposed to driving insurance, at least it is a lot cheaper where I am. In fact, the automated car could just be something that is tacked onto house insurance for an extra 50/year or whatever. Furthermore, driving insurance is attached to my driving record which shouldn't be the case either with automated cars.
Whether this guy is a crackpot or not, imagine someone did set up a site like facebook that only took enough to run, allocating healthy fair market salaries to all the staff and instead it allocated all the extra billions to the users. Facebook wouldn't last very long.
Perhaps in a very large city, but not where I live. I live where I live because I've always realized I am not my job and family never ceased to be more important to me. But we're talking about my kids here, who might be happy making a million dollars and working their lives away or might be more like me. The important part is to be happy, agreed. This is why I have not ruled out technology for them, but I will ensure they understand what they are getting themselves into by going a certain way.
Copying files, navigating to directories, consistency between the command line and the GUI (which is really off in OSX).. Also window management, ease of resizing and arranging them, ease of running applications that aren't in your menu dock.. In other words, OS operations.
Are you sure.sh works? I tried to name a script.sh and double click it and it didn't work. I did do an OSX script once that worked on the desktop but it had to be done in some completely different OSX macro language. Bash script wouldn't work at all.
I think another thing I had trouble with is, say I want to open a finder window in my home directory from the command line. I couldn't figure out how to do that either. Maybe it is just 'open finder ' or something like that?
I'm not really sure why we're assuming more people are going to go into CS because they took it earlier in school. Computers have been in school for a long time. I am not young, and I remember programming logo in school. There was enough exposure for the kids to find out that it was what they wanted to do. A MUCH bigger motivator is the QUALITY OF LIFE you have when you go in the field. It is up to hiring companies collectively to make it a good and solid career with good earning and a good quality of life if they want people to go into the field. That is really all there is to it, and from what I see today they're totally failing. I don't care what my kids learn in school, I don't see good jobs in tech, and everyone I know in tech is leaving the field or getting let go, so I'm not going to encourage my kids to go into tech at all. If they love it then fine, they can go in as long as they understand what the future will hold for them. But will I encourage them? No way.
Forgot to add, if it were my car I would not consider myself responsible for such an accident, nor should I have to insure myself against such an accident. Perhaps I should have to insure myself against, say, my automated car being parked in a garage and the garage burning down.. So I should possibly insure the property. But property insurance is much cheaper than driving insurance, and if these cars are said to be able to drive themselves and I buy it under the impression it will drive itself, then it should be infallible. Even if it isn't, that's not my problem because I don't control the AI.
Furthermore, it may not be a bug per se.. it may just be a situation that happens to occur that an automated car doesn't deal with properly. Case in point, the Google car that drove into a dubious position in a double lane beside a bus and then proceeded to turn into it. Will all these types of scenarios be resolved and proved solved before these cars are commercially available? I sure hope so!
This kind of explains why it seems important for an executive to be a sociopath then to be intelligent. Also, it kind of explains why intelligent people feel screwed on compensation level. Two equally important qualities, one gets compensated better than the other.
We seem to be really rushing in to this whole automated car thing and people are going end up dead. Seriously...Google gets into an accident with a BUS two weeks ago and this week they are trying to justify cars without steering wheels? Have they gone back to the drawing board and tested all possible scenerios related to the accident two weeks ago? Have they tested in all kinds of weather? I invite them to where I live, where lanes on a road don't matter and a four inch deep rut can send a car sideways if you don't line the tires up with it. Now put that rut in traffic.
Seriously, they are not ready and I wouldn't expect them to be ready for at least another five years at least.
I think I was looking to write a bash script that would switch a soft link for minecraft, backup the minecraft world and then start the game. I wanted the link for this script to be on the desktop so my kid could just double click it and have it happen. I cannot remember if I had issues starting things from the bash script or if it was just that the bash script wouldn't run from the desktop. At any rate, I was never clear on how to use applications from the command line eather, because of course 'applications' are really directories from the command line. It's those kinds of smoke and mirrors I really don't like with OSX. The fact that an application as it shows in the GUI is not really an application, it's a directory.. it's just bizarre to me. Perhaps there is a standard executable that I can start an application with at that point but I wasn't really interested enough in it to look that far. I like the GUI to show me exactly how it is, not pretend it is something different.
It doesn't really matter how safe they are. A bus is safer, but I don't have to pay for insurance when I ride a bus because I'm not the one driving it.
Why would the owner of the car need to have car insurance? The owner of the car isn't the one driving. Perhaps you would need property insurance to protect the replacement of the car, as people have house insurance. But you wouldn't need to protect yourself from what that car might do.
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I've had thoughts of something similar... more along the lines of a wall wart type device that is purchased totally configured. Plug it in and you're connected. Unplug it and you go dark. But same kind of connectivity idea.
And at the same time people complain about 'greed'.. Well you either have sharing or you have greed.. Pick your poison.
Actually, it's called a co-operative and it is a very old business model.
I think you're miscalculating on a couple of important fronts. First of all, it isn't evil if people know about it, agree with it, and are paid to participate in it. They already know they're doing it for free anyway. If you were simply up front about it, you could establish safeguards to guarantee anonymity and at the same time vastly optimize the information that can be gleaned from it. Furthermore, ads are no longer the objects that people loathe and ignore, they are simply something else to show your opinion on.
Right, but insuring property against damage is far, far cheaper than insuring a vehicle that I may use improperly and cause damage. Current vehicle insurance factors in the risk of me being a bad driver, but with automated cars if that risk is there than I am not the risk Google is. Think about how cheap house insurance is as opposed to driving insurance, at least it is a lot cheaper where I am. In fact, the automated car could just be something that is tacked onto house insurance for an extra 50/year or whatever. Furthermore, driving insurance is attached to my driving record which shouldn't be the case either with automated cars.
Google or Amazon could do it pretty easily. People would use Google+ if they were paid to..... maybe.
Damn capitalism.
Whether this guy is a crackpot or not, imagine someone did set up a site like facebook that only took enough to run, allocating healthy fair market salaries to all the staff and instead it allocated all the extra billions to the users. Facebook wouldn't last very long.
Perhaps in a very large city, but not where I live. I live where I live because I've always realized I am not my job and family never ceased to be more important to me. But we're talking about my kids here, who might be happy making a million dollars and working their lives away or might be more like me. The important part is to be happy, agreed. This is why I have not ruled out technology for them, but I will ensure they understand what they are getting themselves into by going a certain way.
So I stand corrected. It's not broken, just awkward.
Copying files, navigating to directories, consistency between the command line and the GUI (which is really off in OSX).. Also window management, ease of resizing and arranging them, ease of running applications that aren't in your menu dock.. In other words, OS operations.
So.. OSX uses open command, which is nonstandard.
.sh works? I tried to name a script .sh and double click it and it didn't work. I did do an OSX script once that worked on the desktop but it had to be done in some completely different OSX macro language. Bash script wouldn't work at all.
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I think another thing I had trouble with is, say I want to open a finder window in my home directory from the command line. I couldn't figure out how to do that either. Maybe it is just 'open finder ' or something like that?
Isn't emotional intelligence just making decisions independent of any kind of emotion? What's the difference?
I'm not really sure why we're assuming more people are going to go into CS because they took it earlier in school. Computers have been in school for a long time. I am not young, and I remember programming logo in school. There was enough exposure for the kids to find out that it was what they wanted to do. A MUCH bigger motivator is the QUALITY OF LIFE you have when you go in the field. It is up to hiring companies collectively to make it a good and solid career with good earning and a good quality of life if they want people to go into the field. That is really all there is to it, and from what I see today they're totally failing. I don't care what my kids learn in school, I don't see good jobs in tech, and everyone I know in tech is leaving the field or getting let go, so I'm not going to encourage my kids to go into tech at all. If they love it then fine, they can go in as long as they understand what the future will hold for them. But will I encourage them? No way.
Forgot to add, if it were my car I would not consider myself responsible for such an accident, nor should I have to insure myself against such an accident. Perhaps I should have to insure myself against, say, my automated car being parked in a garage and the garage burning down.. So I should possibly insure the property. But property insurance is much cheaper than driving insurance, and if these cars are said to be able to drive themselves and I buy it under the impression it will drive itself, then it should be infallible. Even if it isn't, that's not my problem because I don't control the AI.
Furthermore, it may not be a bug per se.. it may just be a situation that happens to occur that an automated car doesn't deal with properly. Case in point, the Google car that drove into a dubious position in a double lane beside a bus and then proceeded to turn into it. Will all these types of scenarios be resolved and proved solved before these cars are commercially available? I sure hope so!
This kind of explains why it seems important for an executive to be a sociopath then to be intelligent. Also, it kind of explains why intelligent people feel screwed on compensation level. Two equally important qualities, one gets compensated better than the other.
We seem to be really rushing in to this whole automated car thing and people are going end up dead. Seriously.. .Google gets into an accident with a BUS two weeks ago and this week they are trying to justify cars without steering wheels? Have they gone back to the drawing board and tested all possible scenerios related to the accident two weeks ago? Have they tested in all kinds of weather? I invite them to where I live, where lanes on a road don't matter and a four inch deep rut can send a car sideways if you don't line the tires up with it. Now put that rut in traffic.
Seriously, they are not ready and I wouldn't expect them to be ready for at least another five years at least.
I think I was looking to write a bash script that would switch a soft link for minecraft, backup the minecraft world and then start the game. I wanted the link for this script to be on the desktop so my kid could just double click it and have it happen. I cannot remember if I had issues starting things from the bash script or if it was just that the bash script wouldn't run from the desktop. At any rate, I was never clear on how to use applications from the command line eather, because of course 'applications' are really directories from the command line. It's those kinds of smoke and mirrors I really don't like with OSX. The fact that an application as it shows in the GUI is not really an application, it's a directory.. it's just bizarre to me. Perhaps there is a standard executable that I can start an application with at that point but I wasn't really interested enough in it to look that far. I like the GUI to show me exactly how it is, not pretend it is something different.
Getting back to the original article, how many of these situations will come up on a standard driving test?
Yup I agree. Furthermore, if Google insists they are safe enough for people then no liability insurance needed.
It doesn't really matter how safe they are. A bus is safer, but I don't have to pay for insurance when I ride a bus because I'm not the one driving it.
Why would the owner of the car need to have car insurance? The owner of the car isn't the one driving. Perhaps you would need property insurance to protect the replacement of the car, as people have house insurance. But you wouldn't need to protect yourself from what that car might do.
Because a serious failure in judgment of an AI car would be vehicular manslaughter if it killed someone.
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