You can't possibly prepare it for edge cases like dodging a bus with 40 people. Possibly the car might be able to estimate the likely size of another vehicle (by measuring the surface area of the front) and weight decisions that way (better to crash into another small car than an 18 wheeler) but not everything can be avoided.
I don't see any evidence to support this assertion. Of course you can program thousands or even millions of "edge cases" into a proper computer. We may need a few years to develop the hardware and AI software, but there's nothing forbidding us from programming more than an average driver would be able to deal with.
Automated cars won't be perfect.
Nothing is, by definition. But there's nothing stopping them from being better than a human driver, given time and resources. Maybe the real issue is that people are getting afraid of losing control? Look at the fears during the industrial revolution to find parallels. Personally, I'll be glad to give up having to keep my hands on that barbaric human reflex limited device.
What's happened to our dream of using technology to better society? What's with all the gloom and get off my lawn?
This is my exact reasoning why flying cars will never take off (pardon the pun). People keep their cars in terrible condition.... It will never happen because
And I maintain that anyone who insists "never" does not know how to use that word. Of course there will be flying cars. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but they will happen. It's scientifically and technically possible with a bit more knowledge of miniaturization and avionics. Besides, are you implying that they can't happen because everyone would have to switch to them on day one? Only the military, police, service vehicles, and the richest would be able to afford them right off. They can maintain their vehicles fine, plus there would be mandatory inspections. The people with old and badly maintained cars today would be the last people who can afford the 3D model. They'll stick to the roads.
If I were one of Onity's competitors, I would be fast-tracking a replacement system that uses the existing housings at least. Their lunch is right there, on the table, practically begging to get eaten.
Do you really think that the housing design is not patented? That would be a remarkable oversight on Onity's part.
In the US, All coal plants have scrubbers, all new plants used fluidized bed boilers, and many are starting on CO2 sequestration. In most cases, they are as clean as gas plants, and some are ahead of gas plants on sequestration projects.
You can continue to demonize clean coal all you want. It makes you trendy. But it doesn't make you right. Just makes you look uninformed.
I'm not so sure. Google brought up tons of examples of such fluidized bed plants that are still polluting for several reasons, such as not fully implementing the "green" technology to save money, dumping of hazardous coal ash in local wet lands, etc. It looks like coal CAN be a clean form of power, but the power conglomerates are cutting corners.
Also, in the 60s, they avoided a serious departure from Christianity in the US by changing God's personality from fire, brimstone and harsh punishment to a gentle god of love, forgiveness and tolerance. And it worked!
You mean the Christian god who says that killing dark skinned people is great if you think they might be a threat, that carrying a gun is great in case you have to kill someone who might try to "steal your property," that killing doctors is fine if they are "killing innocent fetuses," and that gays are such an abomination that he sent his holy plague of AIDS to kill them? When you look at it, are the Muslim extremists any worse than the Christian ones? Agreed there are issues in the Islamic world that need to be changed, such as their rampant abuse of woman, but that is more cultural than religious. Face it, they are not as different from us (Americans) as we want to believe.
I am not an economist, but I know there is a fundamental difference between futures markets and gambling.
There's supposed to be a difference, or in other words, at one time there was a difference. These days the market is driven by speculation, i.e. gambling, and not to insure that you can sell your grain at a certain price.
It's been obsoleted by PNG for more thanlike 15 years now. They could just as well choose floppy.
Because it takes several years and must meet several requirements in order to become an "official" English word. Otherwise they would be adding thousands of words every year used for one week and then forgotten.
Quick! Someone make a "Let Texas and Louisiana Secede" petition!
But just like the former Soviet states, we will have to disarm them first. There would be great fun when all their military leaves. "Oh, wait, we don't get to keep our nukes?" No, boys, you don't.
Patent trolls suck, but apple has no defense against being victimized for it when they're trying to do the exact same thing. In fact, apple is worse because they have billions of dollars to shut down entire companies with. A troll does not.
I can't name one company that Apple shut down due to patent trolling. Can you?
This may not sound convincing to the nerds who know their way around a computer, but the Surface is a Windows machine, and an iPad is an iPad. The concept of storage device, drive letter, file location is not really required on an iPad. I suppose you can say you need to know whether it is on the iPad or on the Cloud, but that's different from which drive to access to find your movie file, or which memory stick to use (did you label it?). Sure, I'd prefer a device with cheap expandability, but the iPad has sacrificed in a lot of areas to be as simple as possible, and for a vast many people that is a good thing.
Obama, for all his many faults, is at least not a complete moron.
When did we go from Professor at a world class university to "not a complete moron." The man is genius level, at least when it comes to scholastics. Maybe not quite that level when it comes to politics, but he's smarter than most self professed nerds on this site.
Always look at your opponents eyes, (if they're not highly skilled) they will usually look at an area before making a move in that direction.
Please mod this down. Looking at your opponents eyes is the last thing you want to do. Nor do you want to stare at a weapon, or at their chest as someone else posted. You want to see all of the opponent, and not focus at any one particular place. If anything, you want to fix your gaze slightly past the opponent. Then any movement, be it head, foot, hand, can be seen equally. Just watch UFC if you disagree. See that kind of glassy unfocused look in their eyes? That's what you want.
Of course its not unethical. Its your body, you have the right to do what you want to it.
Steroids in sports aren't unethical either. Lying about using them in order to game the system is what makes steroids an ethical issue, not their consumption. People need to stop telling other people what to do with their own bodies and mind their own fucking business.
Steroids are generally not sought by athletes, they are supplied by their coaches, managers, club owners, wrestling promoters, etc. If you were told that you had to take steroids to keep your job, that is no longer your own choice. And these drugs have severe long term effects, including organ failure and death. The situation is not as simple as you make it sound.
Thanks to Non-Prescription use I am not able to get my PRESCRIPTION ADHD meds filled due to the tightening of DEA guidelines on amphetamine salts.... I can't afford it, and unless I can get a decent job I can't get prescription coverage to get my meds, but I can't get my meds without a prescription. Mostly thanks to recreational users and college age drug seekers who want to party all night and still carry a 3.5.
The problem isn't the users of the drugs, it's the way that society is obsesses with keeping them out of their hands, which is to deny them to everyone, including those that need them.
I had an excruciating episode of IBS, was out of pain killers because I had just moved between states, and went to the hospital emergency room for some relief. I told them through clenched teeth that I have IBS, and that the only thing I have found that relieves the pain and symptoms in the past (my previous two emergency room visits) was morphine. They gave me the evil eye, and told me to sit down. After an hour or begging to see a doctor, and watching minor cases go before me, they finally put me in a room. After waiting another hour, I went to the door and yelled at the nurse "look, if I don't see a doctor soon, I'm going to have my wife drive me to the local park and buy some Vicodin off the local dealer." The nurse finally gave me some attention, and said , "now we are going to take a blood sample you know." WTF? After 15 minutes a doctor came in and I got my Morphine, and the episode was over in a half hour.
Turns out that IBS is one of the classic ploys by addicts to get drugs from emergency rooms. They expected to find drugs in my blood, but I hadn't had an episode in months, so I was completely clean of opiates. Reading some nursing blogs, the standard procedure for suspected drug addicts is to make them sit for an hour. Addicts will usually just leave and try to get their drugs somewhere else. People in real pain have to sit and endure their pain.
Do I blame the addicts? To some degree. But the real blame has to be on the so-called health care community, that is denying pain killers to people who need them, just in case they might be giving them to someone who doesn't. This obsession with denying drugs is insane.
To quote the blog: "Another thing that gives the iPad a leg up is the application ecosystem that exists for iOS devices. When I hear about 600,000 apps, I’m just in awe. As I’ve said many times before, however, I don’t think it’s the right number for comparison. Nobody is using more than a couple dozen applications on their device. "
I guess the Microsoft argument that Macs can't compete against Windows because of the installed base of apps was wrong all along?
Microsoft freely admits it, and when everyone jumps on the TypeScript bandwagon, the carpet will be pulled out from under you.
How is this shit modded 'Insightful'? Karma whoring at its best, capitalizing on the nerd rage of geeks frothing at the mouth whenever Microsoft does anything. The fact is it is under an Apache 2.0 license, the spec is available and there are already 5 forks, so unless you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what EEE means you're just trolling.
Under Apache license for all future versions? Not on your life. This is how it starts. Get people hooked, then drag it back to closed source with the latest must have extensions. Have you really been asleep for the last 30 years, or are you just too young to recognize the same old pattern over and over from Microsoft?
The music industry, in attempting to sell the world "the next nirvana" was what ruined POP MUSIC during the 90's. If that's all you listened to, that's your fault. Kurt Cobain was an artist in the truest sense of the word, caring about nothing other than creating what he saw as art.
Except that one of the sources of his depression was that he would be seen as a thief who stole other people's music. There was at least one lawsuit pending when he suicided. That's not a "true artist." It seems that people that vote you up are not able to differentiate the talent of a band that made a few good albums, and the one member who was all angsty and garnered all kinds of attention.
You have two cats, one live an one dead. You put them in identical boxes, shuffle them around, and send one random box to someone across the country. When they get the box, they call you up and ask, "what did you send me?" You open your box, and if it's a live cat, you say "I sent you a dead cat," or visa versa.
Back in the 50's, America's highways started filling up with billboards. There was a huge backlash and laws in many places to ban the billboards so that people can enjoy the scenery. Over time, the advertisers bought and bribed their way to the situation that we have now, where you can't drive anywhere without being inundated with billboard advertising. It is no less evil now then it was then, just along the way people forgot that they do NOT have to look at advertising every minute of the day. When the internet went to a basically advertising model, few complained, and no one tried to enact laws to stop it. We should have. There is no reason to be forced to see advertising, unless you are actually looking for it, like the food section in the local paper. Luckily we have adblock, which will work for now. Use it everywhere you can, and enjoy the scenery, while you can.
"The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?"
None what so ever, since ethernet is a LAN protocol, not WAN. It will be used in data centers that require big pipes between servers, and possibly compete with Fiber Channel for access to storage.
When your country name has "democratic" in it, you can usually count on that not actually being the case:
-Democratic Republic of the Congo (non-functioning government) -Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Communist) -People's Democratic Republic of Laos (Communist)
Democratic is NOT the opposite of Communist. You are looking for dictatorship. There is nothing inherently oxymoronic about Democratic Communism, which is what Trotsky was all about.
Specifically, the term "creationism" is inadequate. What we really mean here is "Christian creationism."
Technically it's Jewish creationism. But the same folks are in denial about that, too. As far as they are concerned, the first bible was the King James.
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So if my auto-driver car had to make a choice between my safety and that of someone else, it better choose me.
So you want every vehicle except yours programmed to harm you in preference to the other driver? What a fine society you envisage.
Does no one read Hume any more, or do we just have such a volume of sociopathic mods these days?
You can't possibly prepare it for edge cases like dodging a bus with 40 people. Possibly the car might be able to estimate the likely size of another vehicle (by measuring the surface area of the front) and weight decisions that way (better to crash into another small car than an 18 wheeler) but not everything can be avoided.
I don't see any evidence to support this assertion. Of course you can program thousands or even millions of "edge cases" into a proper computer. We may need a few years to develop the hardware and AI software, but there's nothing forbidding us from programming more than an average driver would be able to deal with.
Automated cars won't be perfect.
Nothing is, by definition. But there's nothing stopping them from being better than a human driver, given time and resources. Maybe the real issue is that people are getting afraid of losing control? Look at the fears during the industrial revolution to find parallels. Personally, I'll be glad to give up having to keep my hands on that barbaric human reflex limited device.
What's happened to our dream of using technology to better society? What's with all the gloom and get off my lawn?
This is my exact reasoning why flying cars will never take off (pardon the pun). People keep their cars in terrible condition. ... It will never happen because
And I maintain that anyone who insists "never" does not know how to use that word. Of course there will be flying cars. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but they will happen. It's scientifically and technically possible with a bit more knowledge of miniaturization and avionics. Besides, are you implying that they can't happen because everyone would have to switch to them on day one? Only the military, police, service vehicles, and the richest would be able to afford them right off. They can maintain their vehicles fine, plus there would be mandatory inspections. The people with old and badly maintained cars today would be the last people who can afford the 3D model. They'll stick to the roads.
If I were one of Onity's competitors, I would be fast-tracking a replacement system that uses the existing housings at least. Their lunch is right there, on the table, practically begging to get eaten.
Do you really think that the housing design is not patented? That would be a remarkable oversight on Onity's part.
In the US, All coal plants have scrubbers, all new plants used fluidized bed boilers, and many are starting on CO2 sequestration. In most cases, they are as clean as gas plants, and some are ahead of gas plants on sequestration projects.
You can continue to demonize clean coal all you want. It makes you trendy. But it doesn't make you right. Just makes you look uninformed.
I'm not so sure. Google brought up tons of examples of such fluidized bed plants that are still polluting for several reasons, such as not fully implementing the "green" technology to save money, dumping of hazardous coal ash in local wet lands, etc. It looks like coal CAN be a clean form of power, but the power conglomerates are cutting corners.
Also, in the 60s, they avoided a serious departure from Christianity in the US by changing God's personality from fire, brimstone and harsh punishment to a gentle god of love, forgiveness and tolerance. And it worked!
You mean the Christian god who says that killing dark skinned people is great if you think they might be a threat, that carrying a gun is great in case you have to kill someone who might try to "steal your property," that killing doctors is fine if they are "killing innocent fetuses," and that gays are such an abomination that he sent his holy plague of AIDS to kill them? When you look at it, are the Muslim extremists any worse than the Christian ones? Agreed there are issues in the Islamic world that need to be changed, such as their rampant abuse of woman, but that is more cultural than religious. Face it, they are not as different from us (Americans) as we want to believe.
I am not an economist, but I know there is a fundamental difference between futures markets and gambling.
There's supposed to be a difference, or in other words, at one time there was a difference. These days the market is driven by speculation, i.e. gambling, and not to insure that you can sell your grain at a certain price.
It's been obsoleted by PNG for more thanlike 15 years now. They could just as well choose floppy.
Because it takes several years and must meet several requirements in order to become an "official" English word. Otherwise they would be adding thousands of words every year used for one week and then forgotten.
Quick! Someone make a "Let Texas and Louisiana Secede" petition!
But just like the former Soviet states, we will have to disarm them first. There would be great fun when all their military leaves. "Oh, wait, we don't get to keep our nukes?" No, boys, you don't.
live by the sword, die by the sword.
Patent trolls suck, but apple has no defense against being victimized for it when they're trying to do the exact same thing. In fact, apple is worse because they have billions of dollars to shut down entire companies with. A troll does not.
I can't name one company that Apple shut down due to patent trolling. Can you?
This may not sound convincing to the nerds who know their way around a computer, but the Surface is a Windows machine, and an iPad is an iPad. The concept of storage device, drive letter, file location is not really required on an iPad. I suppose you can say you need to know whether it is on the iPad or on the Cloud, but that's different from which drive to access to find your movie file, or which memory stick to use (did you label it?). Sure, I'd prefer a device with cheap expandability, but the iPad has sacrificed in a lot of areas to be as simple as possible, and for a vast many people that is a good thing.
Obama, for all his many faults, is at least not a complete moron.
When did we go from Professor at a world class university to "not a complete moron." The man is genius level, at least when it comes to scholastics. Maybe not quite that level when it comes to politics, but he's smarter than most self professed nerds on this site.
Let's get to the point where no one can make a phone anymore. That seems to be the only way we'll see the patent system get reformed.
What they really want is just one maker of phones with a world monopoly.
Always look at your opponents eyes, (if they're not highly skilled) they will usually look at an area before making a move in that direction.
Please mod this down. Looking at your opponents eyes is the last thing you want to do. Nor do you want to stare at a weapon, or at their chest as someone else posted. You want to see all of the opponent, and not focus at any one particular place. If anything, you want to fix your gaze slightly past the opponent. Then any movement, be it head, foot, hand, can be seen equally. Just watch UFC if you disagree. See that kind of glassy unfocused look in their eyes? That's what you want.
Why didn't T. Rex just use it's hands to pull the head off? Oh wait.
Of course its not unethical. Its your body, you have the right to do what you want to it.
Steroids in sports aren't unethical either. Lying about using them in order to game the system is what makes steroids an ethical issue, not their consumption. People need to stop telling other people what to do with their own bodies and mind their own fucking business.
Steroids are generally not sought by athletes, they are supplied by their coaches, managers, club owners, wrestling promoters, etc. If you were told that you had to take steroids to keep your job, that is no longer your own choice. And these drugs have severe long term effects, including organ failure and death. The situation is not as simple as you make it sound.
Thanks to Non-Prescription use I am not able to get my PRESCRIPTION ADHD meds filled due to the tightening of DEA guidelines on amphetamine salts. ...
I can't afford it, and unless I can get a decent job I can't get prescription coverage to get my meds, but I can't get my meds without a prescription. Mostly thanks to recreational users and college age drug seekers who want to party all night and still carry a 3.5.
The problem isn't the users of the drugs, it's the way that society is obsesses with keeping them out of their hands, which is to deny them to everyone, including those that need them.
I had an excruciating episode of IBS, was out of pain killers because I had just moved between states, and went to the hospital emergency room for some relief. I told them through clenched teeth that I have IBS, and that the only thing I have found that relieves the pain and symptoms in the past (my previous two emergency room visits) was morphine. They gave me the evil eye, and told me to sit down. After an hour or begging to see a doctor, and watching minor cases go before me, they finally put me in a room. After waiting another hour, I went to the door and yelled at the nurse "look, if I don't see a doctor soon, I'm going to have my wife drive me to the local park and buy some Vicodin off the local dealer." The nurse finally gave me some attention, and said , "now we are going to take a blood sample you know." WTF? After 15 minutes a doctor came in and I got my Morphine, and the episode was over in a half hour.
Turns out that IBS is one of the classic ploys by addicts to get drugs from emergency rooms. They expected to find drugs in my blood, but I hadn't had an episode in months, so I was completely clean of opiates. Reading some nursing blogs, the standard procedure for suspected drug addicts is to make them sit for an hour. Addicts will usually just leave and try to get their drugs somewhere else. People in real pain have to sit and endure their pain.
Do I blame the addicts? To some degree. But the real blame has to be on the so-called health care community, that is denying pain killers to people who need them, just in case they might be giving them to someone who doesn't. This obsession with denying drugs is insane.
To quote the blog: "Another thing that gives the iPad a leg up is the application ecosystem that exists for iOS devices. When I hear about 600,000 apps, I’m just in awe. As I’ve said many times before, however, I don’t think it’s the right number for comparison. Nobody is using more than a couple dozen applications on their device. "
I guess the Microsoft argument that Macs can't compete against Windows because of the installed base of apps was wrong all along?
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Microsoft freely admits it, and when everyone jumps on the TypeScript bandwagon, the carpet will be pulled out from under you.
How is this shit modded 'Insightful'? Karma whoring at its best, capitalizing on the nerd rage of geeks frothing at the mouth whenever Microsoft does anything. The fact is it is under an Apache 2.0 license, the spec is available and there are already 5 forks, so unless you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what EEE means you're just trolling.
Under Apache license for all future versions? Not on your life. This is how it starts. Get people hooked, then drag it back to closed source with the latest must have extensions. Have you really been asleep for the last 30 years, or are you just too young to recognize the same old pattern over and over from Microsoft?
The music industry, in attempting to sell the world "the next nirvana" was what ruined POP MUSIC during the 90's. If that's all you listened to, that's your fault. Kurt Cobain was an artist in the truest sense of the word, caring about nothing other than creating what he saw as art.
Except that one of the sources of his depression was that he would be seen as a thief who stole other people's music. There was at least one lawsuit pending when he suicided. That's not a "true artist." It seems that people that vote you up are not able to differentiate the talent of a band that made a few good albums, and the one member who was all angsty and garnered all kinds of attention.
You have two cats, one live an one dead. You put them in identical boxes, shuffle them around, and send one random box to someone across the country. When they get the box, they call you up and ask, "what did you send me?" You open your box, and if it's a live cat, you say "I sent you a dead cat," or visa versa.
No cats were harmed in this description.
Back in the 50's, America's highways started filling up with billboards. There was a huge backlash and laws in many places to ban the billboards so that people can enjoy the scenery. Over time, the advertisers bought and bribed their way to the situation that we have now, where you can't drive anywhere without being inundated with billboard advertising. It is no less evil now then it was then, just along the way people forgot that they do NOT have to look at advertising every minute of the day. When the internet went to a basically advertising model, few complained, and no one tried to enact laws to stop it. We should have. There is no reason to be forced to see advertising, unless you are actually looking for it, like the food section in the local paper. Luckily we have adblock, which will work for now. Use it everywhere you can, and enjoy the scenery, while you can.
"The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?"
None what so ever, since ethernet is a LAN protocol, not WAN. It will be used in data centers that require big pipes between servers, and possibly compete with Fiber Channel for access to storage.
When your country name has "democratic" in it, you can usually count on that not actually being the case:
-Democratic Republic of the Congo (non-functioning government)
-Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Communist)
-People's Democratic Republic of Laos (Communist)
Democratic is NOT the opposite of Communist. You are looking for dictatorship. There is nothing inherently oxymoronic about Democratic Communism, which is what Trotsky was all about.
Specifically, the term "creationism" is inadequate. What we really mean here is "Christian creationism."
Technically it's Jewish creationism. But the same folks are in denial about that, too. As far as they are concerned, the first bible was the King James.