For 3 and 4, I would expect that when more cars are google driven, this issue goes away. Now the driver on the phone is not a problem, as the car is in control, no longer weaving. Now the car ahead can warn all other cars that are going to pass through that area (a note for that location on google maps) that there is thin/black ice on the road.
For 1, the people operating a construction zone, who are now used to the fact that all cars are AI driven, place a update into google maps marking where they are working as a construction zone. They have a licensed device that allows them to 'mark' out the beginning and end of the single lane of traffic, and all the cars approaching that area are given a ticket/join a queue (assuming that the driving algorithm doesn't automatically reroute).
For 2, you simply have to have faith that a computer will react faster to a child running out onto the road than any human ever could. Also, chipping all children with a GPS tracker at birth (for the[ir safety]/[children]) so that cars know their location and trajectory at all times will help with this.
The key thing to remember is that if all cars are self driving, then the roads will be a LOT emptier, Imagine if the average commute is 1 hour long, and you have one car leaving a minute between 6am and 8am, then between 7am and 8am you have 60 cars on the road. but if you can reduce the commute by 1 minute, then your 'rush hour' is suddenly one car less, and that one car less might reduce the commute time by 30 seconds for the rest. Now that you are 30 seconds less for the other cars, you have 1/2 a car gone from rush hour traffic again and that might speed up everyone by 15 seconds... and so on. Eventually as more and more cars make their commute faster, more and more cars are off the road making the commute faster until you have a much reduced amount of traffic on the road at any particular time, making navigation much easier.
Also, if people are no longer required to drive themselves, and can instead telepresence into that early morning meeting, the actual duration of the commute is no longer a major burden, thus you won't have people wanting to go above the speed limit (especially since because all cars are computer driven, the commute time is already lower than when we puny humans were driving). If you don't want to start work early, then you can recline the seat and nap, or have your coffee while listening/watching the news/music/paper or playing a game.
Cars might only drive 25-30 kph in a residential area, and then be able to speed up to 150-180 (or higher, know knows) on commuter routes, because they can. This should reduce incidences of (2).
I felt that Surface detail was quite depressing in times, the Hells (and being forced to kill other people there) and the soldier, ultimately trapped in a 600 year cycle of wars, still atoning for what happened in use of weapons. Sure the baddies get their due, but overall not a happy book.
Surface Detail too. The Hells were pretty depressing, and finding out who the soldier was at the end, and knowing that he's still fighting wars after 600 years.
From what I've seen of the US (I watch a lot of TV) garages are where the men operate industrial machinery, teenagers play in rock bands and large quantities of drugs are 'cooked'. I was not surprised by the comment, as all these activities likely use significant electricity.
Mixed 4x100m Relay: 2 women, 2 men on each team Mixed Gymnastics (Men: Rings, Pommel, High Bar, Parallel bars. Women: Uneven bars, Floor, Vault, Balance Beam) Mixed Archery: Team of 3-4 containing 1-2 women.
Have a look at Tag Rugby, a very fun and successful game that brings the sexes together in the same sport.
Making mixed sports along the same lines as Tennis is perfectly viable.
Sorry forgot to add: There's nothing to stop team games like Mixed Tennis being copied to create to make mixed relay races (swimming and track and field) or Mixed Gymnastics or Mixed Archery etc.
Well clearly she understood that there was a physical difference ("the weaker woman") but just wasn't bright enough to follow that process to its conclusion. It's true that women as just as smart as any man, but yes, there's more than enough stupid men around.
You gotta take the equally good with the equally bad.
What she should have said is that there must be areas of firefighting where an adult with a smaller frame would prove useful, and that this niche is being overlooked due to all entrants requiring to pass a strength test. I think that women firefighters would be much better operating in confined spaces than men, for example.
I don't think the person who told me this would like to demean himself by describing himself as eating too much watermelon and sitting on the porch all day.
Ignorance and idiocy are two different things. Thankfully I can cure my ignorance with education. Your idiocy on the other hand, that's permanent.
Thanks Hognoxious for clearing my misconception up.
Either way, the point still stands, while certain races dominate some sports, other races have shown to dominate others. That evens out any unfairness you can say by keeping the different races performing together. The same cannot be said about Genders.
Would you prefer an olympics w/o women altogether? That's what would happen if you didn't separate the competitions by gender (except equestrian ofc). Option B would be to include events that favour women, like making Balance Beam and adapting the Floor Exercise to men to include music and dance elements.
There are very few black swimmers (I hear it's because the melanin makes them denser and thus slower through the water) So while running might be dominated by blacks due to genetic advantages, swimming appears to be dominated by Asians and Caucasians because of their genetic advantages. So that evens out.
If you merge the genders, then you will have to include events that are not purely strength based, but instead favour women. Otherwise you are not testing the full spectrum.
Women did not fight for equal treatment in a physical arena, they wanted to be treated (rightly so) as equals intellectually. Thus the right to equal work for equal pay, and the right to vote. They have never asked to be treated as equals physically. That might be because (shock) they are smart enough to admit that there is a physical difference.
The summary seemed quite clear to me, all music is being converted to 256kbps. It didn't say 'upgraded to', though I suspect Amazon may try to spin it like that.
What is likely happening here is that Amazon has a file of "Stairway to Heaven" in 256kbps on their server, and in order to save space everybody who uploads their own personal copy of "Stairway to Heaven" has it substituted with Amazon's version, so instead of 100 copies of various version of the song on their server, you just have 100 people accessing the same file, and guess what! Yes, that file you share with 99 other people, it counts towards your quota.
It's brilliant, they sell the same piece of hard drive space 100's and 100's of times over.
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So, what went wrong and how can they, or any other software developer, prevent something similar from happening again?
There one sure fire way of preventing this from happening again, and it is a quite obvious one too. Stop.
I've been warned against googling "google". I'm told it breaks the internet.
For 3 and 4, I would expect that when more cars are google driven, this issue goes away. Now the driver on the phone is not a problem, as the car is in control, no longer weaving. Now the car ahead can warn all other cars that are going to pass through that area (a note for that location on google maps) that there is thin/black ice on the road.
For 1, the people operating a construction zone, who are now used to the fact that all cars are AI driven, place a update into google maps marking where they are working as a construction zone. They have a licensed device that allows them to 'mark' out the beginning and end of the single lane of traffic, and all the cars approaching that area are given a ticket/join a queue (assuming that the driving algorithm doesn't automatically reroute).
For 2, you simply have to have faith that a computer will react faster to a child running out onto the road than any human ever could. Also, chipping all children with a GPS tracker at birth (for the[ir safety]/[children]) so that cars know their location and trajectory at all times will help with this.
The key thing to remember is that if all cars are self driving, then the roads will be a LOT emptier, Imagine if the average commute is 1 hour long, and you have one car leaving a minute between 6am and 8am, then between 7am and 8am you have 60 cars on the road. but if you can reduce the commute by 1 minute, then your 'rush hour' is suddenly one car less, and that one car less might reduce the commute time by 30 seconds for the rest. Now that you are 30 seconds less for the other cars, you have 1/2 a car gone from rush hour traffic again and that might speed up everyone by 15 seconds... and so on. Eventually as more and more cars make their commute faster, more and more cars are off the road making the commute faster until you have a much reduced amount of traffic on the road at any particular time, making navigation much easier.
Also, if people are no longer required to drive themselves, and can instead telepresence into that early morning meeting, the actual duration of the commute is no longer a major burden, thus you won't have people wanting to go above the speed limit (especially since because all cars are computer driven, the commute time is already lower than when we puny humans were driving). If you don't want to start work early, then you can recline the seat and nap, or have your coffee while listening/watching the news/music/paper or playing a game.
Cars might only drive 25-30 kph in a residential area, and then be able to speed up to 150-180 (or higher, know knows) on commuter routes, because they can. This should reduce incidences of (2).
I remember that Frank Herbert took part in that bet too, hence Dune having the religious theme. I forget which work Heinlein wrote as part of the bet.
Personally Identifying PIN Numbers, surely.
Somebody call Barbara, we have a job for her unique talents.
We've known for a long time that the guys in Hollywood have been pretty bad at math, though usually they are only out by a factor of a million.
I felt that Surface detail was quite depressing in times, the Hells (and being forced to kill other people there) and the soldier, ultimately trapped in a 600 year cycle of wars, still atoning for what happened in use of weapons. Sure the baddies get their due, but overall not a happy book.
Surface Detail too. The Hells were pretty depressing, and finding out who the soldier was at the end, and knowing that he's still fighting wars after 600 years.
Yeah, I felt Ender's Game to be a bit depressing. Finding out you are responsible for Xenocide, harsh.
Was there Cake?
I got my wormhole device all warmed up and ready to go!
I'm waiting for the "Defenestration" edition
From what I've seen of the US (I watch a lot of TV) garages are where the men operate industrial machinery, teenagers play in rock bands and large quantities of drugs are 'cooked'. I was not surprised by the comment, as all these activities likely use significant electricity.
Mixed 4x100m Relay: 2 women, 2 men on each team
Mixed Gymnastics (Men: Rings, Pommel, High Bar, Parallel bars. Women: Uneven bars, Floor, Vault, Balance Beam)
Mixed Archery: Team of 3-4 containing 1-2 women.
Have a look at Tag Rugby, a very fun and successful game that brings the sexes together in the same sport.
Making mixed sports along the same lines as Tennis is perfectly viable.
Sorry forgot to add: There's nothing to stop team games like Mixed Tennis being copied to create to make mixed relay races (swimming and track and field) or Mixed Gymnastics or Mixed Archery etc.
Definitely, hence the equestrian comment, where they already compete together.
Well clearly she understood that there was a physical difference ("the weaker woman") but just wasn't bright enough to follow that process to its conclusion. It's true that women as just as smart as any man, but yes, there's more than enough stupid men around.
You gotta take the equally good with the equally bad.
What she should have said is that there must be areas of firefighting where an adult with a smaller frame would prove useful, and that this niche is being overlooked due to all entrants requiring to pass a strength test. I think that women firefighters would be much better operating in confined spaces than men, for example.
I don't think the person who told me this would like to demean himself by describing himself as eating too much watermelon and sitting on the porch all day.
Ignorance and idiocy are two different things. Thankfully I can cure my ignorance with education. Your idiocy on the other hand, that's permanent.
Thanks Hognoxious for clearing my misconception up.
Either way, the point still stands, while certain races dominate some sports, other races have shown to dominate others. That evens out any unfairness you can say by keeping the different races performing together. The same cannot be said about Genders.
Would you prefer an olympics w/o women altogether? That's what would happen if you didn't separate the competitions by gender (except equestrian ofc). Option B would be to include events that favour women, like making Balance Beam and adapting the Floor Exercise to men to include music and dance elements.
There are very few black swimmers (I hear it's because the melanin makes them denser and thus slower through the water) So while running might be dominated by blacks due to genetic advantages, swimming appears to be dominated by Asians and Caucasians because of their genetic advantages. So that evens out.
If you merge the genders, then you will have to include events that are not purely strength based, but instead favour women. Otherwise you are not testing the full spectrum.
Women did not fight for equal treatment in a physical arena, they wanted to be treated (rightly so) as equals intellectually. Thus the right to equal work for equal pay, and the right to vote. They have never asked to be treated as equals physically. That might be because (shock) they are smart enough to admit that there is a physical difference.
Why not just lights? Works for F1.
Another experiment would be to record yourself singing a song and see what Amazon replaces it with.
I tried that, but all it came up with was "The Very Best of Assorted Cat Mating Calls"
Fuckit, who needs stealth craft, just go out there and hand out puppies! Convert them with shock and AWWWWWW.
The summary seemed quite clear to me, all music is being converted to 256kbps. It didn't say 'upgraded to', though I suspect Amazon may try to spin it like that.
What is likely happening here is that Amazon has a file of "Stairway to Heaven" in 256kbps on their server, and in order to save space everybody who uploads their own personal copy of "Stairway to Heaven" has it substituted with Amazon's version, so instead of 100 copies of various version of the song on their server, you just have 100 people accessing the same file, and guess what! Yes, that file you share with 99 other people, it counts towards your quota.
It's brilliant, they sell the same piece of hard drive space 100's and 100's of times over.