As an early 2000's Land Rover owner myself, I can say I have a love hate relationship with it. I do proper off-roading with it and abuse it royally. The things that fail are all small things and the things that should not fail (such as window regulators, door openers/locks, switches, ABS/Traction control electronics, plastic bits etc.) - The odd thing about that is they seem to be targeting the american users who only want the a luxury vehicle - pushing users to all the things that will fail on it... Now it seems now land rover isn't even serious about the off-road aspect, it's all about status and luxury, the thing the landrover cannot deliver.
BMW DOES make AWD vehicles (they are the models that have an X or XI in them). More important then going forward is braking and handling which neither FWD, RWD or AWD has an advantage in low traction... there is no substitute to winter tires. If you actually owned a BMW with 50-50 weight balance and winter tires, you'd realize they are actually really awesome in the snow. The fact your posh neighbours can't make it up the hill is probably more tire choice then anything.
What, you expected a comment with Microsoft "support" from a proper idiot!?
They did post a very easily debatable fact in an open forum full of Microsoft haters... one can debate if his comment was made to be supportive of Microsoft or to be undermined.
I've seen quite a few people who seem to purposely present themselves as dumb or ignorant to get what they want. Just the other day there was a guy at the car rental place argueing that his B class vehicle had an engine flaw (that the staff couldn't find) - after making a big huff and presenting as a complete idiot to everyone in the building he drove away in a C class vehicle (no extra charge). I guess in his case you can still question because he caused such a commotion that he insulted people and the police followed up. I've seen people sucessfully return merchandise they themselves damaged and send back food that they mostly ate. Never over-estimate the stupidity of others.
The majority who were against it, like me voted. The ones who didn't care, didn't.
I am sorry I voted against you because I felt I'd rather have a local candidate who I elected then someone who was appointed by the party. An appointed candidate to me is a shill, and even if I had a local candidate still, a shill would cancel his or her input and be impossible to find when it's lynching time.
I wish our education system did a better job at teaching politics.
Except its intention to slow down is irrelevant and its slowing down should be evident when it hits the brakes... after all this thing needs to be able to drive with vehicles and pedestrians which cannot relay such information. The driverless car shouldn't need advanced warning.
Also, the safest thing is for the vehicles to slow down and stop - if you're expecting to listen to that, its a DoS attack
Why the hell are you guys still going on about this?! Original posters that started this still has a point in that the people who should be concerned about GPS interference are geeks of Slashdot and are often expecting accurate GPS to be accurate do what they want to do with it.
No need for wireless access between cars either as the only data you need and can trust should be collectable from the system itself...
Driverless car 1: I'm going 30 and you're going 20, I better slow down... Driverless car 2: No carry on, I'm going 30 too... Driverless car 1: Oh, okay then...*^*&(^NO CARRIER
The same java exploit used for Flashback in Mac OS was present in the linux version of java. There are often root privilege escalation bugs that are found and affect thousands of systems that take a while for all people to patch... for example Amazon because they run Xen, they would not let you run your own kernel. Did you use EC2. The only propaganda is comming from people who are too daft to accept that Linux isn't a silver bullet for security.
I think the AC still has a point... you install redhat only with a compiz enabled window manager configured to allow snap like features and animation open a decent browser, and then Windows 7 and open IE10, you'll see Windows 7 seems to use less memory.
One of the big problem for most non-windows on the desktop is X - X was designed to be run headless and viewed remotely. It needs to be re-designed. OSX, BeOS and every other somewhat sucessful desktop OS non-linux has not used X and tries to go graphical ASAP.
And then you got all the developers who like to write shit in TCL/TK... and shell scripts everywhere... one of the big positives of linux (uncompiled code/configuration files etc.) makes it slow and inefficient compared to if that was all binary and compiled.
Sure you can argue you can strip down linux, compile everything, and run your own graphics environment...
*nix, BSD, and every other non-windows OS is awesome. Windows is awesome too in some ways. Turns out there are many ways to do basically the same thing... and each OS has "good" things and things and "good enough" things.
I put an SSD in a spam filter... it died in 3 months. Then, it's replacement died in 3 months. It made a huge difference in performance... but replacing the disk every 3 months and loosing mail was unacceptable. I put a WD velociraptor in it, and I think it's still running to this day. The 3rd replacement SSD went into a laptop and died in 2 years. I have had 2 other SSDs fail on me and so far, in laptops, I have had more SSDs fail then regular hard drives. If the real-time/speedieness wasn't so addictive, I'd have given up on SSDs already.
Unused I/O and CPU cycles are wasted unless they are used for something. Take for example the pre-paging case... if you allocate and page stuff out when the system is not doing anything, when the system needs memory it does not need to wait on memory IO being used to transfer the contents to swap. The concern should only be if your inteded use of CPU cycles and IO are being pre-empted on unused efficiency... which I doubt is the case most of the time.
Most raid controllers run a consistency check... and there is an ongoing double write/double read-verify. In case of bad sectors such a read delay will usually fail the drive... but suppose you can find a raid controller that will do anything...
Which is why the british system owns the hospitals and government trys to keep their budget cut back. The thought of private hospitals/schools urks me. Take for example here in the UAE they have the American Hospital and Canadaian Specialist Hospital - although I am sure they are decent hospitals neither are in any way American or Canadian by anything but name. They are both very expensive beautiful buildings, but seem more like businesses then hospitals... are they businesses or hospitals? Same with the schools here. Are they businesses or schools?!
Who are such businesses accountable to? It's in their best interest to screw my insurance out of as much money as possible, what about me?!
^^ What this guy is saying is a MAC book without OSX is now an expensive PC. An iPod/iPad or iPhone without iTunes and iOS is a Zune.
Apple sells the end to end package. Anyone can buy a compatible laptop and throw OSX on it or a MAC Book and put windows on... but this is not how Apple makes a significant portion of its cash.
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Too bad your Corvette doesn't represent the average American car in almost any aspect...
As an early 2000's Land Rover owner myself, I can say I have a love hate relationship with it. I do proper off-roading with it and abuse it royally. The things that fail are all small things and the things that should not fail (such as window regulators, door openers/locks, switches, ABS/Traction control electronics, plastic bits etc.) - The odd thing about that is they seem to be targeting the american users who only want the a luxury vehicle - pushing users to all the things that will fail on it...
Now it seems now land rover isn't even serious about the off-road aspect, it's all about status and luxury, the thing the landrover cannot deliver.
BMW DOES make AWD vehicles (they are the models that have an X or XI in them). More important then going forward is braking and handling which neither FWD, RWD or AWD has an advantage in low traction... there is no substitute to winter tires. If you actually owned a BMW with 50-50 weight balance and winter tires, you'd realize they are actually really awesome in the snow. The fact your posh neighbours can't make it up the hill is probably more tire choice then anything.
What, you expected a comment with Microsoft "support" from a proper idiot!?
They did post a very easily debatable fact in an open forum full of Microsoft haters... one can debate if his comment was made to be supportive of Microsoft or to be undermined.
they need to add another word / that will be another letter to their name then... Open Rights Group of Yonder has a nice ring to it.
I've seen quite a few people who seem to purposely present themselves as dumb or ignorant to get what they want. Just the other day there was a guy at the car rental place argueing that his B class vehicle had an engine flaw (that the staff couldn't find) - after making a big huff and presenting as a complete idiot to everyone in the building he drove away in a C class vehicle (no extra charge). I guess in his case you can still question because he caused such a commotion that he insulted people and the police followed up. I've seen people sucessfully return merchandise they themselves damaged and send back food that they mostly ate. Never over-estimate the stupidity of others.
So, are all civil mass murderes unlawful combatants?
... and his wife.
Now he's a famous, single, bad-ass, batchelor, martyr... once he realizes that, he'll be fine.
I have the strangest feeling of Deja-vu after reading this... almost as if I have read it before...
The majority who were against it, like me voted. The ones who didn't care, didn't.
I am sorry I voted against you because I felt I'd rather have a local candidate who I elected then someone who was appointed by the party. An appointed candidate to me is a shill, and even if I had a local candidate still, a shill would cancel his or her input and be impossible to find when it's lynching time.
I wish our education system did a better job at teaching politics.
Except its intention to slow down is irrelevant and its slowing down should be evident when it hits the brakes... after all this thing needs to be able to drive with vehicles and pedestrians which cannot relay such information. The driverless car shouldn't need advanced warning.
Also, the safest thing is for the vehicles to slow down and stop - if you're expecting to listen to that, its a DoS attack
I might be a row in facebooks database, but I'm sure I'm also a few tables.
Why the hell are you guys still going on about this?! Original posters that started this still has a point in that the people who should be concerned about GPS interference are geeks of Slashdot and are often expecting accurate GPS to be accurate do what they want to do with it.
Back on topic?!
No need for wireless access between cars either as the only data you need and can trust should be collectable from the system itself...
Driverless car 1: I'm going 30 and you're going 20, I better slow down...
Driverless car 2: No carry on, I'm going 30 too...
Driverless car 1: Oh, okay then...*^*&(^NO CARRIER
I think the sun analogy has been avoided intentionally... you dont want the simpletons to think you are planning on building a f-ing sun.
hmmm I nominate toaster power to be a new standard unit of measurement for future slashdot articles and comments where we would normally use watts.
The same java exploit used for Flashback in Mac OS was present in the linux version of java. There are often root privilege escalation bugs that are found and affect thousands of systems that take a while for all people to patch... for example Amazon because they run Xen, they would not let you run your own kernel. Did you use EC2. The only propaganda is comming from people who are too daft to accept that Linux isn't a silver bullet for security.
I think the AC still has a point... you install redhat only with a compiz enabled window manager configured to allow snap like features and animation open a decent browser, and then Windows 7 and open IE10, you'll see Windows 7 seems to use less memory.
One of the big problem for most non-windows on the desktop is X - X was designed to be run headless and viewed remotely. It needs to be re-designed. OSX, BeOS and every other somewhat sucessful desktop OS non-linux has not used X and tries to go graphical ASAP.
And then you got all the developers who like to write shit in TCL/TK... and shell scripts everywhere... one of the big positives of linux (uncompiled code/configuration files etc.) makes it slow and inefficient compared to if that was all binary and compiled.
Sure you can argue you can strip down linux, compile everything, and run your own graphics environment...
*nix, BSD, and every other non-windows OS is awesome. Windows is awesome too in some ways. Turns out there are many ways to do basically the same thing... and each OS has "good" things and things and "good enough" things.
I put an SSD in a spam filter... it died in 3 months. Then, it's replacement died in 3 months. It made a huge difference in performance... but replacing the disk every 3 months and loosing mail was unacceptable. I put a WD velociraptor in it, and I think it's still running to this day. The 3rd replacement SSD went into a laptop and died in 2 years. I have had 2 other SSDs fail on me and so far, in laptops, I have had more SSDs fail then regular hard drives. If the real-time/speedieness wasn't so addictive, I'd have given up on SSDs already.
I think he means the indexing service, for search... which gives you instant search results.
Unused I/O and CPU cycles are wasted unless they are used for something. Take for example the pre-paging case... if you allocate and page stuff out when the system is not doing anything, when the system needs memory it does not need to wait on memory IO being used to transfer the contents to swap. The concern should only be if your inteded use of CPU cycles and IO are being pre-empted on unused efficiency... which I doubt is the case most of the time.
Most raid controllers run a consistency check... and there is an ongoing double write/double read-verify. In case of bad sectors such a read delay will usually fail the drive... but suppose you can find a raid controller that will do anything...
Pfft 007 isn't stupid enough to get married. Your car might have it too - ask your wife what she thinks it is.
It looks like this...
Which is why the british system owns the hospitals and government trys to keep their budget cut back. The thought of private hospitals/schools urks me. Take for example here in the UAE they have the American Hospital and Canadaian Specialist Hospital - although I am sure they are decent hospitals neither are in any way American or Canadian by anything but name. They are both very expensive beautiful buildings, but seem more like businesses then hospitals... are they businesses or hospitals? Same with the schools here. Are they businesses or schools?!
Who are such businesses accountable to? It's in their best interest to screw my insurance out of as much money as possible, what about me?!
^^ What this guy is saying is a MAC book without OSX is now an expensive PC. An iPod/iPad or iPhone without iTunes and iOS is a Zune.
Apple sells the end to end package. Anyone can buy a compatible laptop and throw OSX on it or a MAC Book and put windows on... but this is not how Apple makes a significant portion of its cash.