So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do. ... Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
I look at the phone industry and think.. hmm this is looking like how the car industry plays out. Aside from actual safety and engine improvements, is there any real benefit to continually changing styling every year - aside from trying to convince buyers that "new is better"?
Sort of related anecdote. Back in the 80's or 90's I saw the motorcycle industry basically go from shiny chrome to matt black and then back to shiny chrome. With both transitions being heralded as "great new styling".
TFA implies that Uber will be using a map based systems plus GPS to identify where the car is and I guess under what parameters it should be driving. This is OK for a reasonably static environment. But that raises questions some questions for me:
1. How do these type of systems know when the traffic lights change? (or even identify which lights they should respond to?) 2. How are they meant to cope when cop/worker directs that you have to take a detour around a transient event (EG car crash)? 3. How does the systems know when a temporary speed limit has been erected? 4. In VA at least, if there is a cop car on the side of a two lane the road you are required to move over when passing them. So how does the system spot that?
I know that this is really early times for driverless cars, but to me the map based systems can't deal with the above scenarios, and they are transient enough that by the time such a situation has been reported to a central mapping location the event could easily have already disappeared.
Five years? Go look up the number of people who have be incarcerated for a lifetime based on a false conviction - including all those people saved from death row.
You can't spin your bullshit so hard that you base *an implied assertion* [need electric cars to save people from being killed by heart attacked drivers]... on craig's list.
Um.. that wasn't my premise. And where did I even mention electric cars?
You are out of your fuckin mind.
The fact remains you will have more problems with spies in control of your car networks than you will have safety from dead drivers wrecking into parades because they had heart attacks.
(This is not totally all my comment, but based on something I saw on CL of all places)
In olden days when someone was driving their car and had a heart attack and died, the car would veer off the road and just crash. But instead in the age of driverless cars that dead body is simply going to be served up at the destination, albeit somewhat ripe.
Imagine the fun when little Johnny runs out to greet the car that brought his dear granddad to Johnny's birthday party!
If you prefer to change your device less frequently, then don't change it. I have an iPhone 4s and it runs the latest iOS. I think the going rate for one is about $60 unlocked. I only get laughed at by hipsters with the 6+ gigantic iPhones in huge otterbox cases. But then I let the air out of their fixie bike tires and they aren't laughing any more.
That's rich.. I'm still using an original 10 year old RAZR flip phone. From my point of view *you* are the hipster, what with all your fancy Apps.. which (dare I say) are for cows.
What is more important is verifying that no-one is running the red light when you enter the intersection.
Which in the US is an all too common occurrence.
And I really wish that some cities hadn't screwed people over by treating red light cameras as revenue sources rather than safety devices. The huge backlash against red light cameras because of shortened yellow light times has not helped road safety and probably made drivers untrusting about any future attempts to fix safety issues. Terrorism can't even come close to touching the number deaths per year cause by car crashes yet who gets all the funding?
Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post
NYC has a population density almost 5 times greater than Tokyo. And there are a huge number of places in the USA with a population density greater than Tokyo.
Do you really think that Japan would put 5g across every square km of its country? So why do you think that 5G roll out in the USA has to cover everywhere?
Use big mirrors and sunlight to heat space rock until it goes lava. Then blow gas inside the molten blob until it is big enough for your needs. Let it cool down, add holes for doors and windows.
Which was central to the plot of the Troy Rising series by John Ringo.
You can do much better than that with Indian fake support guys.
I know I can but I was only using it to take a short work break rather than making a project out of it.
I've said some truly horrible things to them that probably make me an awful human being, but then I remember they were trying to steal from me, which is worse than words, and I don't feel bad at all.
Last year I had a woman from an IRS scam on the phone for about an hour. My plan was guilt trip her and make her understand what she was doing was wrong (and then hopefully she would change her ways). She was eloquent with almost perfect english and obviously educated and in the end admitted to me that she knew it was wrong, but she had a family to support and there was no other work available in her area. She sure sounded like she was more than capable at working any call center job and was genuinely conflicted about the type of work she was doing.
Whenever FB puts an adv. in my feed I flag it as being Offensive and Sexually explicit. It may not screw FB over by much to do so, but it makes me feel good.
(Kinda like yesterday when I strung the Indian "computer support" guy along for 15 minutes by pretending to poking around my windows machine. In the end he asked my what browser I was using, and when I said Safari he swore in his native language and then hung up on me)
And if you squint really hard you'll see that this is the link to the right of the story's headline.
So while the link was there all along, slashdot once again shows how clueless it is with regards to usability. (That plus the link in the TFS is a circular reference).
Not only should voting be considered critical infrastructure, it should be mandatory and a national weekend holiday.
I'm not sure if Americans could cope with compulsory voting (Oh noes the gubmint is forcing my voice to be heard. That's a first amendment violation!!!!).
However there is a movement to shift voting to the weekend: Why Tuesday?
Slashdot Mirror
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
...
Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
I look at the phone industry and think .. hmm this is looking like how the car industry plays out. Aside from actual safety and engine improvements, is there any real benefit to continually changing styling every year - aside from trying to convince buyers that "new is better"?
Sort of related anecdote. Back in the 80's or 90's I saw the motorcycle industry basically go from shiny chrome to matt black and then back to shiny chrome. With both transitions being heralded as "great new styling".
TFA implies that Uber will be using a map based systems plus GPS to identify where the car is and I guess under what parameters it should be driving. This is OK for a reasonably static environment. But that raises questions some questions for me:
1. How do these type of systems know when the traffic lights change? (or even identify which lights they should respond to?)
2. How are they meant to cope when cop/worker directs that you have to take a detour around a transient event (EG car crash)?
3. How does the systems know when a temporary speed limit has been erected?
4. In VA at least, if there is a cop car on the side of a two lane the road you are required to move over when passing them. So how does the system spot that?
I know that this is really early times for driverless cars, but to me the map based systems can't deal with the above scenarios, and they are transient enough that by the time such a situation has been reported to a central mapping location the event could easily have already disappeared.
Poor memory is no excuse for breaking the law.
Yet insanity is.
Five years later, released from jail
Five years? Go look up the number of people who have be incarcerated for a lifetime based on a false conviction - including all those people saved from death row.
Name one person who had a heart attack and veered off the road and died.
Sorry, I couldn't find just one: had heart attack and died while driving
You can't spin your bullshit so hard that you base *an implied assertion* [need electric cars to save people from being killed by heart attacked drivers]... on craig's list.
Um .. that wasn't my premise. And where did I even mention electric cars?
You are out of your fuckin mind.
The fact remains you will have more problems with spies in control of your car networks than you will have safety from dead drivers wrecking into parades because they had heart attacks.
You are out of your fuckin mind, faggot.
Or mention that I was worried about parades?
(This is not totally all my comment, but based on something I saw on CL of all places)
In olden days when someone was driving their car and had a heart attack and died, the car would veer off the road and just crash. But instead in the age of driverless cars that dead body is simply going to be served up at the destination, albeit somewhat ripe.
Imagine the fun when little Johnny runs out to greet the car that brought his dear granddad to Johnny's birthday party!
If you prefer to change your device less frequently, then don't change it. I have an iPhone 4s and it runs the latest iOS. I think the going rate for one is about $60 unlocked. I only get laughed at by hipsters with the 6+ gigantic iPhones in huge otterbox cases. But then I let the air out of their fixie bike tires and they aren't laughing any more.
That's rich .. I'm still using an original 10 year old RAZR flip phone. From my point of view *you* are the hipster, what with all your fancy Apps .. which (dare I say) are for cows.
What is more important is verifying that no-one is running the red light when you enter the intersection.
Which in the US is an all too common occurrence.
And I really wish that some cities hadn't screwed people over by treating red light cameras as revenue sources rather than safety devices. The huge backlash against red light cameras because of shortened yellow light times has not helped road safety and probably made drivers untrusting about any future attempts to fix safety issues. Terrorism can't even come close to touching the number deaths per year cause by car crashes yet who gets all the funding?
Obviously they mean Snapcraft Which is 1st on a google search.
Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post
NYC has a population density almost 5 times greater than Tokyo. And there are a huge number of places in the USA with a population density greater than Tokyo.
Do you really think that Japan would put 5g across every square km of its country? So why do you think that 5G roll out in the USA has to cover everywhere?
Plus they keep their email servers locked in a bathroom closet
Where you need to take a wide stance if you want to get access.
Use big mirrors and sunlight to heat space rock until it goes lava. Then blow gas inside the molten blob until it is big enough for your needs. Let it cool down, add holes for doors and windows.
Which was central to the plot of the Troy Rising series by John Ringo.
I won't buy Soylent's products because of the tiny, tiny chance that the company is run by psychopaths
Do you mean like this guy? Soylent CEO charged over illegal shipping container his neighbors hate
95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.
95% of my friends on FB are relatives that live on 3 different continents.
You can do much better than that with Indian fake support guys.
I know I can but I was only using it to take a short work break rather than making a project out of it.
I've said some truly horrible things to them that probably make me an awful human being, but then I remember they were trying to steal from me, which is worse than words, and I don't feel bad at all.
Last year I had a woman from an IRS scam on the phone for about an hour. My plan was guilt trip her and make her understand what she was doing was wrong (and then hopefully she would change her ways). She was eloquent with almost perfect english and obviously educated and in the end admitted to me that she knew it was wrong, but she had a family to support and there was no other work available in her area. She sure sounded like she was more than capable at working any call center job and was genuinely conflicted about the type of work she was doing.
Whenever FB puts an adv. in my feed I flag it as being Offensive and Sexually explicit. It may not screw FB over by much to do so, but it makes me feel good.
(Kinda like yesterday when I strung the Indian "computer support" guy along for 15 minutes by pretending to poking around my windows machine. In the end he asked my what browser I was using, and when I said Safari he swore in his native language and then hung up on me)
...That, my friends, is a modern long wavelength radar. That thing sees "stealth" planes just fine.
You mean like was discussed here a while ago? Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology
Here's a link to the story. Sadly it doesn't include any more detail than the summary.
And if you squint really hard you'll see that this is the link to the right of the story's headline.
So while the link was there all along, slashdot once again shows how clueless it is with regards to usability. (That plus the link in the TFS is a circular reference).
Windows 10 is the reason I changed my Windows 7 computers at home to Linux Mint 18.
Yes, I could have stayed with "7" if I kept all of Microsoft's updates turned off. But security issues.
I'll throw in the usual "some of us are stuck with MS due to the applications we use" comment to get it out of the way.
And forget Windows 7 .. I just fired up an XP VM in order to work on my current project.
People raising issues about electronic voting go way back further than that. Here is a search on Risks List for Electronic Voting (oldest is at the top)
Link really should be Why Tuesday?
Not only should voting be considered critical infrastructure, it should be mandatory and a national weekend holiday.
I'm not sure if Americans could cope with compulsory voting (Oh noes the gubmint is forcing my voice to be heard. That's a first amendment violation!!!!).
However there is a movement to shift voting to the weekend: Why Tuesday?
I've never heard of this company, but it's called "Basic" twice in the summary, and "Basis" four times. Consistency?
Normally I'd make some comment about "are you new here?", but I know you've been around for a long time and should know better.
Ghostbusters 2016 is still certified fresh?
Just because you didn't like the movie doesn't mean that other people can't like it.
It should more correctly read "Comcast Wants To Charge Broadband Users More"