Threatening someone with the apparent intent to harm them is assault - and a felony in most states, I think - even if the assailant doesn't intend to cause harm. All that must be proven is that the victim believed harm was a potential outcome. Put the fuckers in jail, I don't have time for shit like this.
Having endured 2 hours on i-95 south of Washington last Friday, the two biggest wins for self driving cars are (1) self driving cars don't slow down 30% to look at oddities on the side of the road, like broken down vehicles or wrecks which are clearly out of the flow of traffic and (2) know how to fucking merge when lanes reduce or at on-ramps. That alone would reduce traffic enough to accommodate all the new driver miles.
No, the cognitive dissonance is that it's absolutely 100% legal to record a cop on his beat with your cellphone - even surreptitiously - in a public place, but it's illegal for the FBI to do it.
These are people (the jury) who failed geometry in high school. And that was when he subject material of proofs and theorms (and logical arguments like programming) was fresh in their minds. The average American struggles with 6th grade pre-algebra - and I'm talking college grads more than 10 years out! Most of my (non-tech, 40-something, BS or MS degreed, commercially successful) parent friends are basically tapped out of helping their own kids in math by 7th grade.
You could explain APIs from now until 2020 and half of them still wouldn't get it. An analogy involved food/restaurants (which they DO understand) may be your only hope, since sex and excretory functions are off the table in terms of polite conversation.
You didn't even bother to read the article, obviously (guess that makes you a good/.er). A 3 year old would have stopped the car as it's forward and rear sensors automatically disengage movement for any obstacle in the way which is at or below hood level. This is a shoulder case of an obstacle suspended in the air above the sensor range for the entire duration of the activity, but low enough to catch the windshield. Obstacles larger than an inch and below the vehicles fascia automatically prevent the operation in this mode - which is intended, specifically, to slowly approach a stationary barrier in order to assist in parking.
It happened because the obstacle was not actually in the path of the bumpers or side panels, but was hovering in mid air, outside of the detection zone for collisions. Had there been a 3 year old in the way, the car would not have pulled forward.
So you could say that this problem could have been fixed by a 3 year old.
These asshats http://www.androidcentral.com/... were going to do 512GB - and as late as January of this year were saying the just hadn't released them because they hadn't sold their stocked supplies of smaller cards.
At least Samsung will probably deliver. And just in time for me not to need it as Dropbox introduces Infinity.
What are your generation rates for residential? The costs on that graph (admittedly wholesale rates, I presume) are around 2-2.5c/kWh. My overall electric costs are around 12c (USD)/kWh, including generation, transmission, and tax. Other parts of the US are double that.
Isn't this how France and Switzerland worked? The Swiss buy surplus power from French nuclear plants when demand was low, and used that power to pump water into reservoirs above dams. Then when the demand (and prices) increased the Swiss sold the power back to the French at (higher demand) rates.
I'm not sure that there was a specific causal relationship with building the dams, but it worked out for both sides.
Most older copper systems top out at 7/768k, and long runs frequently result in speeds about half that. Moving the bar from 4Mb to 10Mb would make nearly every DSL cabinet obsolete and disqualify them.
OTOH, since Verizon has chosen not to upgrade my town to fiber, I say fuck 'em - raise it and kick their asses out of the program.
MS has paid back about 60% of their profits in dividends, and hold $100+B in cash APPL has paid back, we presume, less than 20% of their profits as dividents, and hold $200B in cash
Or are you talking about the 3/4T dollars which has been paid to suppliers, vendors, employees, and in taxes as part of normal business operations?
How many bank tellers do you know? Yes, they still exist, but as someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I can tell you that most of those jobs are gone - done by robots. And the maintenance on an ATM doesn't even come close to the number of hours it eliminates at the teller window.
On July 30th, you just know that there's going to be some goober out there who tries to upgrade, gets hit with the fee, and then bitches up and down because he thought that his computer was going to update automatically and he shouldn't have to pay the upgrade fee.
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So it WAS a flaw in the medical device. An error thrown to indicate logging was non-functional is the proper result for a remote file being locked, not a system crash. Who QA'd this device, Microsoft?
That's not the way I read it. It sounds more like the Saudis aren't buying a plant - they're promising to buy thge electricity generated by that plant. They don't give a flying fuck how much it costs to build - they're going to pay 2.99c/kWh generated, at up to 800MW delivery rate, for a set term - probably with an escalation clause in the out years. Whether the plant costs $1 or $1T to build doesn't matter to the Saudis.
That's not really applicable here, because the governments aren't buying kW of capacity - they're guaranteeing purchase of kWh of produced electricity. Now, there's an advantage on the builders side that they know they have a buyer for every last drop of juice they're going to produce, whether or not there is demand for it, but generally they're not going to get paid unless the taps are flowing.
Yeah, you can, just as long as you don't want to actually watch a popular game in any sort of decent quality. I don't know about you, but having the quality drop to 320x180 @ 15FPS isn't exactly what I'd call a quality transmission. Yeah, it's better than nothing...but just barely. Luckily, the ESPN app works with Sling as a provider, and their feed it better - though still not immune from bandwidth choking.
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Maybe he should have filmed it and put it on his youtube channel. Then it wouldn't have been a real crime, right?
Threatening someone with the apparent intent to harm them is assault - and a felony in most states, I think - even if the assailant doesn't intend to cause harm. All that must be proven is that the victim believed harm was a potential outcome. Put the fuckers in jail, I don't have time for shit like this.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Having endured 2 hours on i-95 south of Washington last Friday, the two biggest wins for self driving cars are (1) self driving cars don't slow down 30% to look at oddities on the side of the road, like broken down vehicles or wrecks which are clearly out of the flow of traffic and (2) know how to fucking merge when lanes reduce or at on-ramps. That alone would reduce traffic enough to accommodate all the new driver miles.
No, the cognitive dissonance is that it's absolutely 100% legal to record a cop on his beat with your cellphone - even surreptitiously - in a public place, but it's illegal for the FBI to do it.
These are people (the jury) who failed geometry in high school. And that was when he subject material of proofs and theorms (and logical arguments like programming) was fresh in their minds. The average American struggles with 6th grade pre-algebra - and I'm talking college grads more than 10 years out! Most of my (non-tech, 40-something, BS or MS degreed, commercially successful) parent friends are basically tapped out of helping their own kids in math by 7th grade.
You could explain APIs from now until 2020 and half of them still wouldn't get it. An analogy involved food/restaurants (which they DO understand) may be your only hope, since sex and excretory functions are off the table in terms of polite conversation.
You didn't even bother to read the article, obviously (guess that makes you a good /.er). A 3 year old would have stopped the car as it's forward and rear sensors automatically disengage movement for any obstacle in the way which is at or below hood level. This is a shoulder case of an obstacle suspended in the air above the sensor range for the entire duration of the activity, but low enough to catch the windshield. Obstacles larger than an inch and below the vehicles fascia automatically prevent the operation in this mode - which is intended, specifically, to slowly approach a stationary barrier in order to assist in parking.
It happened because the obstacle was not actually in the path of the bumpers or side panels, but was hovering in mid air, outside of the detection zone for collisions. Had there been a 3 year old in the way, the car would not have pulled forward.
So you could say that this problem could have been fixed by a 3 year old.
These asshats http://www.androidcentral.com/... were going to do 512GB - and as late as January of this year were saying the just hadn't released them because they hadn't sold their stocked supplies of smaller cards.
At least Samsung will probably deliver. And just in time for me not to need it as Dropbox introduces Infinity.
What are your generation rates for residential? The costs on that graph (admittedly wholesale rates, I presume) are around 2-2.5c/kWh. My overall electric costs are around 12c (USD)/kWh, including generation, transmission, and tax. Other parts of the US are double that.
Isn't this how France and Switzerland worked? The Swiss buy surplus power from French nuclear plants when demand was low, and used that power to pump water into reservoirs above dams. Then when the demand (and prices) increased the Swiss sold the power back to the French at (higher demand) rates.
I'm not sure that there was a specific causal relationship with building the dams, but it worked out for both sides.
Ugh, I really don't need longer videos. It's a shame intros and filler are being incentivized.
Most older copper systems top out at 7/768k, and long runs frequently result in speeds about half that. Moving the bar from 4Mb to 10Mb would make nearly every DSL cabinet obsolete and disqualify them.
OTOH, since Verizon has chosen not to upgrade my town to fiber, I say fuck 'em - raise it and kick their asses out of the program.
Well, since their profits are in the 260B range:
MS has paid back about 60% of their profits in dividends, and hold $100+B in cash
APPL has paid back, we presume, less than 20% of their profits as dividents, and hold $200B in cash
Or are you talking about the 3/4T dollars which has been paid to suppliers, vendors, employees, and in taxes as part of normal business operations?
How many bank tellers do you know? Yes, they still exist, but as someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I can tell you that most of those jobs are gone - done by robots. And the maintenance on an ATM doesn't even come close to the number of hours it eliminates at the teller window.
On July 30th, you just know that there's going to be some goober out there who tries to upgrade, gets hit with the fee, and then bitches up and down because he thought that his computer was going to update automatically and he shouldn't have to pay the upgrade fee.
Congratulations, your computer has been upgraded! Please find the invoice for your upgrade in your Documents folder. You may enter a credit card number now, or wait until your free evaluation is completed. Thank you for using Microsoft!
*You may revert to your previous windows for 30 days. After the 30 day free evaluation is completed, your old system files will be deleted and you will be required to enter your credit card number to continuous using your machine.
So it WAS a flaw in the medical device. An error thrown to indicate logging was non-functional is the proper result for a remote file being locked, not a system crash. Who QA'd this device, Microsoft?
That's what they make epoxy for.
That's not the way I read it. It sounds more like the Saudis aren't buying a plant - they're promising to buy thge electricity generated by that plant. They don't give a flying fuck how much it costs to build - they're going to pay 2.99c/kWh generated, at up to 800MW delivery rate, for a set term - probably with an escalation clause in the out years. Whether the plant costs $1 or $1T to build doesn't matter to the Saudis.
That's not really applicable here, because the governments aren't buying kW of capacity - they're guaranteeing purchase of kWh of produced electricity. Now, there's an advantage on the builders side that they know they have a buyer for every last drop of juice they're going to produce, whether or not there is demand for it, but generally they're not going to get paid unless the taps are flowing.
Yeah, you can, just as long as you don't want to actually watch a popular game in any sort of decent quality. I don't know about you, but having the quality drop to 320x180 @ 15FPS isn't exactly what I'd call a quality transmission. Yeah, it's better than nothing...but just barely. Luckily, the ESPN app works with Sling as a provider, and their feed it better - though still not immune from bandwidth choking.
I have a tap, a full bar, and a lot of friends who like to watch the game at my place (or at least drink my beer), you insensitive clod.
Amirite?
Everything pales in comparison to large military contracts.