As the sign on the back of the vehicle in the article shows it's "self driving". This is not as driverless or autonomous as has been applied to airplanes up till now. If / when cars like these are available to purchase, that's a big difference. This is essentially autopilot, though a pretty advanced one with collision avoidance. Airplanes have had autopilot for decades now, and they are viewed very differently from AUVs or drones.
The State of Nevada does refer to them as autonomous though. The requirement for two people though makes them far from driverless. The NV DMV site says that when these sort of cars are available for public use that motorists will need a special endorsement for their drivers license.
People here in CA were nudged to get a hybrid in no small part due to the ability to get a sticker that allowed solo driver access to the HOV lanes. Once that went away, a big part of the incentive went with it. I know some people who sold their hybrids in advance of the change, anticipating that the car would sell for more while they still could use the lanes.
So while hybrid owners might be unlikely to buy another, it could be due in part that without the HOV lane access they wouldn't have bought one in the first place. The story then would be "Car buyers follow temporary gov't incentive, move on when incentive goes away"
Most hybrids didn't offer better economy in the long run, once the added cost was factored in. They relied heavily on other incentives to make them more desirable in the first place. I'm surprised that those incentives didn't show up in the survey, or at least weren't mentioned in the report.
I was thinking I'd love to see it as a layer in Google Earth, being able to see the wind flowing over and around the topography would be very interesting. I see a few null areas with little wind showing so I plan to check them out in GE to see if some local hills or mountains that I don't remember are creating them.
You can buy an Android phone for a prepaid cell account for under $100. (used phones are doable too ) Various camera apps will do scene detection and emailing of stills or video or can do periodic image capture. Powered by a microUSB is easy enough, with it's internal battery as a backup for short power outages.
WiFi works fine, and with a home UPS will be up and running for most local power outages. Having a $X a day plan from the carrier will allow the mobile network to be used as a backup to the the WiFi without providing a continuous additional monthly bill.
Images / Video can be sent to an online email account, so while immediate notification can be on your own mobile, there's a ready built server for storing the images.
Arduino or similar hardware could be used as additional sensor inputs,or possibly an alarm output, but using built in cameras alone gives you a useful device out of the box.
That might be correct for other carriers, but T-Mobile does offer plans that are cheaper if they don't involve them "giving" you a new phone. Bring your own phone to them and you can get a lower rate. Do that with the other carriers and you get the same rate. If you get a subsidized phone you can switch to the cheaper plan when you're out of contract.
Apple tried to change the whole "free phone" mentality when the first iPhones were offered at full price, but that didn't last long. The G1 and Nexus One Android phones were also sold for full price. This didn't turn out to be popular as consumers were hooked on the 'free" or cheap phone prices.
It doesn't matter if chalk dust causes lung problems, it appears to be enough if the 'safety of this technology has not thoroughly been researched'. The health effects of WiFi signals has more likely been much more heavily researched than graphite dust from pencils, dry-erase marker dust or the liquid that evaporates from them. For that matter any additional un-tested off-brand pens and markers brought in from students.
I like the comments above from others. If the union is successful then also absolutely prohibit any teacher from bringing a mobile phone on to campus. Remove microwave ovens from the schools as well. If a 600mw WiFi radio on a ceiling is thought to be dangerous, then a powered up phone in a closed metal vehicle should be viewed as reckless. In keeping with standard school policies, a teacher with a powered on mobile phone anywhere on campus, including their cars, be subject to a zero-tolerance policy and result in immediate termination.
Also, using an initial terrestrial based concept and moving it to satellite based doesn't transfer well when the power and noise thresholds differ by several orders of magnitudes from the former.
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That's a little backwards. It was an initial satellite based system (with terrestrial fill-in) and LightSquared desires to offer terrestrial only devices. Having terrestrial-only means there needs to be a greater number of towers ( or higher power towers ) to offer coverage.
The waiver issued a year ago was conditional. It was conditioned on not interfering
You've got it all a bit twisted. There's no entity called "LTE". The company is LiqhtSquared ( name is in the article title ) LTE stands for "Long Term Evolution" and refers to one of the newer mobile phone/data schemes.
With Apple being early to add USB and drop the floppy I could see them dropping the tuner altogether. I haven't used a tuner in a TV since 1993 ( bought a monitor only then ) When there was the big switch in the US from analog to digital TV the numbers mentioned for people who get their television OTA was ~ 10%. That means that 90% of the TV buyers have no need for a tuner. Connecting to a cable or satellite box isn't using the ATSC tuner at all. Maybe Apple could leverage their iTunes deals for a streaming package that can compete with cable/satellite.
Considering they make money on the content the pricing could be no different than a conventional TV. Apple would be happy to have everyone overestimating the pricing only to announce it at half the price of the estimates.
The only tuner that might make sense would be for wireless HD of some sort. Then you can beam video, audio or other content to it w/o wiring.
To be exact- miss the target, punch through a cinder block wall, THEN skip off the hill, fly 1/3rd of a mile, through a door, skip UP the stairs, through an adobe and plaster wall, hit the neighbor's roof, before rolling off the roof onto a minivan windshield, bounced of the dashboard into the back seats floorboards.
Not too exact. House is not likely made of adobe, California has advanced in it's building construction just a little since the Spanish owned the place. The house doesn't show up in satellite photos from 2000, so it would be of modern construction.
The problem is that news stories are very often wrong. Then someone quotes it wrong. Then someone makes wrong comments on a website wrong and they get quoted wrong.
I've yet to see a significant news story where I had some direct knowledge get it all right. It's happened enough that I NEVER believe a story I read is all correct, and I really wouldn't ever expect someone's recounting of a story they read to be all correct.
I could see it not being that he was truly calling 911 to fix his phone, but rather the screen was locked. While I don't have an iPhone, my phone does allow 911 calls if the screen is locked, so I'm guessing the i-thing is similar. If he was too drunk to remember his unlock code he may have drunkenly hit the emergency call button multiple times.
Of course that's still pretty stupid sounding, but not as bad a confusing the police with a Genius Bar.
"Rubin said Ice Cream Sandwich will be open source "in a couple of weeks" when Samsung's Galaxy Nexus ships and manufacturers will be free to push the update to their current range of devices. Going open source means manufacturers will be able to put Android 4.0 into their own devices and cut their own ROMs for existing products."
They're his movies and it's for Lucas to do with them what he wants. Anyone enamored with a particular iteration should snag a copy of that vintage ( and recording quality) and just live with it
If Lucas, the "owner" of Star Wars can't make tweaks then others shouldn't be performing Shakespeare except in Olde English and never anything in prose if it was written in poetry. (No women performers either ) Wagner should never be re-arranged and only performed acoustically, no mics, no amps. No stereo releases of Beatles songs that weren't recorded that way. Homer should only be printed in the original Greek. Disney shouldn't have made the version of Cinderella that didn't include a sister cutting off toes to fit in the shoe. I would probably be amused if James Cameron made "Titanic: The Happy Ending Edition" where the boat steams into NY Harbor, scratched but not sunk, but not likely I'd pay to see it. The quickest way to get Lucas to stop tweaking things is not not buy any of the next variant, that would stop the process. But if people do purchase each new one, then I guess the fans have spoken. ( The paying fans, not the whiny ones )
I'll always know that Han shot first, new versions won't change that.
Actually, Zagat did a survey of people's fast food preferences. http://www.zagat.com/fastfood The survey was from a whopping 6,000 people where the requirement for a large chain had to have at least 5,000 locations.
Good for KFC, bad for Zagat's credibility that most people read that to mean that Zagat rated their chicken the best. Rather is points out the crowd isn't always the smart thing to take your advice from. If you took popularity into account Bud Light would be the "best" beer.
Agree. By default Android isn't locked down like where you need to get Steve's permission to run something. I can't imagine someone familiar with Android using that term. Android phones aren't usually in the walled garden where they need to be broken out. Rooting, and/or running an alternative OS is another thing altogether.
"Joe Gutheinz... has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by the US to governments around the world"
A retired guy who now acts like he's on a mission for God re-assembling the old rock group. He does sound like a tool. First he goes on about the astronauts not given rocks to keep. (Me, I wouldn't bet more than $5 that there's an Apollo astronaut with a rock ). Then to make his quest sound even more noble invokes the memory of dead astronauts, the number of which he seems to have pulled out of the air.
My first thought was Bookman on Seinfeld with his dogged quest to find the missing copy of "Tropic of Cancer", though Inspector Javert chasing Jean Valvaljean sounds better than a pop culture reference.
I've been waiting for a pure home phone Android version. Give it DECT, or even just WiFi, but a phone format. With either I could connect to my Vonage "land line". Synced to the same account my phone book would be the same as the mobile, as would email and calendar, but I'd tailor apps loaded differently. I wouldn't need lights and other items controlled by my mobile phone and wouldn't need navigation apps on my home phone.
A non mobile phone version would also be fine w/o GPS ( put in a faux postion once to replace that ) and local wireless only should mean much longer battery life. Size/weight could be less of an issue for one you don't carry around.
The same thoughts could be extended to a desk phone with handset. It might be more like a tablet with a handset, more screen real estate and other options suited for a desk. A small remote camera for video conferencing perhaps?
Alternate keyboards can be an issue with passwords as they are used now. I have some longish ones that I never get wrong on the laptop, but fumble with on the phone. Some level of muscle memory kicks in on the full keyboard that's absent on the touch screen.
The description in the article might be useful, but only if the entry device is static. A numeric keypad for a door entry might work, or the keyboard attached to a specific machine, like with a laptop. But a password used for access to a remote system will be entered differently depending on the access method.
Perhaps there could be a method for linking the "how they are typed" to a particular access devices. Attempting to enter a password from an unrecognized device might necessitate additional screening, similar to what my bank does if I access my account from a computer I haven't previously used.
Of course there's still the whole "save passwords" or cut and pasting of a lengthy passwords to deal with.
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As the sign on the back of the vehicle in the article shows it's "self driving". This is not as driverless or autonomous as has been applied to airplanes up till now. If / when cars like these are available to purchase, that's a big difference. This is essentially autopilot, though a pretty advanced one with collision avoidance. Airplanes have had autopilot for decades now, and they are viewed very differently from AUVs or drones.
The State of Nevada does refer to them as autonomous though. The requirement for two people though makes them far from driverless. The NV DMV site says that when these sort of cars are available for public use that motorists will need a special endorsement for their drivers license.
2.4% of all car purchasers buy a hybrid.
0.84% of all car purchasers would buy another hybrid.
Yeah, there are other ways to put that
Or "It's almost 3x harder to sell a hybrid to someone who's owned one before than to someone who hasn't".
People here in CA were nudged to get a hybrid in no small part due to the ability to get a sticker that allowed solo driver access to the HOV lanes. Once that went away, a big part of the incentive went with it. I know some people who sold their hybrids in advance of the change, anticipating that the car would sell for more while they still could use the lanes.
So while hybrid owners might be unlikely to buy another, it could be due in part that without the HOV lane access they wouldn't have bought one in the first place. The story then would be "Car buyers follow temporary gov't incentive, move on when incentive goes away"
Most hybrids didn't offer better economy in the long run, once the added cost was factored in. They relied heavily on other incentives to make them more desirable in the first place. I'm surprised that those incentives didn't show up in the survey, or at least weren't mentioned in the report.
I was thinking I'd love to see it as a layer in Google Earth, being able to see the wind flowing over and around the topography would be very interesting. I see a few null areas with little wind showing so I plan to check them out in GE to see if some local hills or mountains that I don't remember are creating them.
You can buy an Android phone for a prepaid cell account for under $100. (used phones are doable too ) Various camera apps will do scene detection and emailing of stills or video or can do periodic image capture. Powered by a microUSB is easy enough, with it's internal battery as a backup for short power outages.
WiFi works fine, and with a home UPS will be up and running for most local power outages. Having a $X a day plan from the carrier will allow the mobile network to be used as a backup to the the WiFi without providing a continuous additional monthly bill.
Images / Video can be sent to an online email account, so while immediate notification can be on your own mobile, there's a ready built server for storing the images.
Arduino or similar hardware could be used as additional sensor inputs,or possibly an alarm output, but using built in cameras alone gives you a useful device out of the box.
It's probably even worse than it sounds. Here in the US we use up minutes for both incoming and outgoing calls.
That might be correct for other carriers, but T-Mobile does offer plans that are cheaper if they don't involve them "giving" you a new phone. Bring your own phone to them and you can get a lower rate. Do that with the other carriers and you get the same rate. If you get a subsidized phone you can switch to the cheaper plan when you're out of contract.
Apple tried to change the whole "free phone" mentality when the first iPhones were offered at full price, but that didn't last long. The G1 and Nexus One Android phones were also sold for full price. This didn't turn out to be popular as consumers were hooked on the 'free" or cheap phone prices.
It doesn't matter if chalk dust causes lung problems, it appears to be enough if the 'safety of this technology has not thoroughly been researched'. The health effects of WiFi signals has more likely been much more heavily researched than graphite dust from pencils, dry-erase marker dust or the liquid that evaporates from them. For that matter any additional un-tested off-brand pens and markers brought in from students.
I like the comments above from others. If the union is successful then also absolutely prohibit any teacher from bringing a mobile phone on to campus. Remove microwave ovens from the schools as well. If a 600mw WiFi radio on a ceiling is thought to be dangerous, then a powered up phone in a closed metal vehicle should be viewed as reckless. In keeping with standard school policies, a teacher with a powered on mobile phone anywhere on campus, including their cars, be subject to a zero-tolerance policy and result in immediate termination.
Some steals his über saber. But just his luck, his web site advertises ultra sabers. Sounds close enough to me.
Also, using an initial terrestrial based concept and moving it to satellite based doesn't transfer well when the power and noise thresholds differ by several orders of magnitudes from the former.
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That's a little backwards. It was an initial satellite based system (with terrestrial fill-in) and LightSquared desires to offer terrestrial only devices. Having terrestrial-only means there needs to be a greater number of towers ( or higher power towers ) to offer coverage.
The waiver issued a year ago was conditional. It was conditioned on not interfering
You've got it all a bit twisted. There's no entity called "LTE". The company is LiqhtSquared ( name is in the article title ) LTE stands for "Long Term Evolution" and refers to one of the newer mobile phone/data schemes.
With Apple being early to add USB and drop the floppy I could see them dropping the tuner altogether. I haven't used a tuner in a TV since 1993 ( bought a monitor only then )
When there was the big switch in the US from analog to digital TV the numbers mentioned for people who get their television OTA was ~ 10%. That means that 90% of the TV buyers have no need for a tuner. Connecting to a cable or satellite box isn't using the ATSC tuner at all. Maybe Apple could leverage their iTunes deals for a streaming package that can compete with cable/satellite.
Considering they make money on the content the pricing could be no different than a conventional TV. Apple would be happy to have everyone overestimating the pricing only to announce it at half the price of the estimates.
The only tuner that might make sense would be for wireless HD of some sort. Then you can beam video, audio or other content to it w/o wiring.
To be exact- miss the target, punch through a cinder block wall, THEN skip off the hill, fly 1/3rd of a mile, through a door, skip UP the stairs, through an adobe and plaster wall, hit the neighbor's roof, before rolling off the roof onto a minivan windshield, bounced of the dashboard into the back seats floorboards.
Not too exact. House is not likely made of adobe, California has advanced in it's building construction just a little since the Spanish owned the place. The house doesn't show up in satellite photos from 2000, so it would be of modern construction.
The ball appears to have crashed through a side window of the minivan, not the windshield based on the picture here:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/portlet/article/html/render_gallery.jsp?articleId=19483521&siteId=571&startImage=4
The problem is that news stories are very often wrong. Then someone quotes it wrong. Then someone makes wrong comments on a website wrong and they get quoted wrong.
I've yet to see a significant news story where I had some direct knowledge get it all right. It's happened enough that I NEVER believe a story I read is all correct, and I really wouldn't ever expect someone's recounting of a story they read to be all correct.
The article was short on details.
I could see it not being that he was truly calling 911 to fix his phone, but rather the screen was locked. While I don't have an iPhone, my phone does allow 911 calls if the screen is locked, so I'm guessing the i-thing is similar. If he was too drunk to remember his unlock code he may have drunkenly hit the emergency call button multiple times.
Of course that's still pretty stupid sounding, but not as bad a confusing the police with a Genius Bar.
I thought it odd I saw this thread on Slashdot after I'd read this article:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/android-4-0-to-be-open-source-in-coming-weeks-62302580.htm
"Rubin said Ice Cream Sandwich will be open source "in a couple of weeks" when Samsung's Galaxy Nexus ships and manufacturers will be free to push the update to their current range of devices. Going open source means manufacturers will be able to put Android 4.0 into their own devices and cut their own ROMs for existing products."
There's nothing wrong with making new editions. The problem is that he is trying to eradicate the originals from history.
Ahh, that was Lucas who broke into my house and scratched up my 1993 laserdisc copies
They're his movies and it's for Lucas to do with them what he wants. Anyone enamored with a particular iteration should snag a copy of that vintage ( and recording quality) and just live with it
If Lucas, the "owner" of Star Wars can't make tweaks then others shouldn't be performing Shakespeare except in Olde English and never anything in prose if it was written in poetry. (No women performers either ) Wagner should never be re-arranged and only performed acoustically, no mics, no amps. No stereo releases of Beatles songs that weren't recorded that way. Homer should only be printed in the original Greek. Disney shouldn't have made the version of Cinderella that didn't include a sister cutting off toes to fit in the shoe.
I would probably be amused if James Cameron made "Titanic: The Happy Ending Edition" where the boat steams into NY Harbor, scratched but not sunk, but not likely I'd pay to see it. The quickest way to get Lucas to stop tweaking things is not not buy any of the next variant, that would stop the process. But if people do purchase each new one, then I guess the fans have spoken. ( The paying fans, not the whiny ones )
I'll always know that Han shot first, new versions won't change that.
Actually, Zagat did a survey of people's fast food preferences. http://www.zagat.com/fastfood
The survey was from a whopping 6,000 people where the requirement for a large chain had to have at least 5,000 locations.
Good for KFC, bad for Zagat's credibility that most people read that to mean that Zagat rated their chicken the best. Rather is points out the crowd isn't always the smart thing to take your advice from.
If you took popularity into account Bud Light would be the "best" beer.
Most people don't eat when they are getting laid.
That's what chocolate pudding skin singles were made for!
Agree. By default Android isn't locked down like where you need to get Steve's permission to run something. I can't imagine someone familiar with Android using that term. Android phones aren't usually in the walled garden where they need to be broken out.
Rooting, and/or running an alternative OS is another thing altogether.
"Joe Gutheinz... has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by the US to governments around the world"
A retired guy who now acts like he's on a mission for God re-assembling the old rock group. He does sound like a tool. First he goes on about the astronauts not given rocks to keep. (Me, I wouldn't bet more than $5 that there's an Apollo astronaut with a rock ). Then to make his quest sound even more noble invokes the memory of dead astronauts, the number of which he seems to have pulled out of the air.
My first thought was Bookman on Seinfeld with his dogged quest to find the missing copy of "Tropic of Cancer", though Inspector Javert chasing Jean Valvaljean sounds better than a pop culture reference.
They predicted one of three hand movements and it wasn't Rock, Paper, Scissors? They missed a huge opportunity to upend the RPS wagering market
I've been waiting for a pure home phone Android version. Give it DECT, or even just WiFi, but a phone format. With either I could connect to my Vonage "land line". Synced to the same account my phone book would be the same as the mobile, as would email and calendar, but I'd tailor apps loaded differently. I wouldn't need lights and other items controlled by my mobile phone and wouldn't need navigation apps on my home phone.
A non mobile phone version would also be fine w/o GPS ( put in a faux postion once to replace that ) and local wireless only should mean much longer battery life. Size/weight could be less of an issue for one you don't carry around.
The same thoughts could be extended to a desk phone with handset. It might be more like a tablet with a handset, more screen real estate and other options suited for a desk. A small remote camera for video conferencing perhaps?
Put the transmitter on a garter and Paris Hilton and her friends would then be free to exit vehicles w/o giving the paparazzi another bonus shot.
Alternate keyboards can be an issue with passwords as they are used now. I have some longish ones that I never get wrong on the laptop, but fumble with on the phone. Some level of muscle memory kicks in on the full keyboard that's absent on the touch screen.
The description in the article might be useful, but only if the entry device is static. A numeric keypad for a door entry might work, or the keyboard attached to a specific machine, like with a laptop. But a password used for access to a remote system will be entered differently depending on the access method.
Perhaps there could be a method for linking the "how they are typed" to a particular access devices. Attempting to enter a password from an unrecognized device might necessitate additional screening, similar to what my bank does if I access my account from a computer I haven't previously used.
Of course there's still the whole "save passwords" or cut and pasting of a lengthy passwords to deal with.