The big red button. If you press it, the car will continue to your destination unless physically disabled or completely blocked, regardless of non-traffic signals. It needs to be there for times when it is unsafe, or the occupant feels unsafe, with questionable external conditions (fake emergency vehicle signals, etc). And cops should be just fine with that because self-driving cars will otherwise obey the rules of the road (i.e. not speeding or running traffic signals), so if they really need to stop the car they can (a) surround it and slow down/stop to prevent the car from moving or (b) follow it to its destination - which in an emergency should be selectable by the operator as the original destination, the closest police precinct, or closest hospital emergency room entrance. There is no need or reason to offer electronic remote kill capabilities.
By choosing a fully automatic car, you give up a level of independence in return for convenience. I, for example, don't carry a sidearm or wear protective body armor today. That puts me in an inferior position to those who do, or those who have greater physical strength. It doesn't bother me because I evaluate the chance of needing such things is smaller than, say, being struck by lightning. I trade the convenience of lower kitted weight and bulk for an inferior defensive position.
The money is in a rental-only model. For a mere $649/month you can get coverage of the 2.4GHz spectrum. The $929 version will cover you for 2.4 and 5GHz. Specialty versions which can cover you over the 1.6-2.2GHz LTE bands to reduce or eliminate effects of cell phone towers are $2349/mo, but include the 2.4 and 5 GHz dampers as well.
You may ask if $25k a year is expensive. The question you should really be asking is - is your health, or the health of your child, worth it?
The cap will grow when more people start hitting it. It may seem like a revenue center, but it's a management tool. They'll set the bar somewhere in the top 1-5% of customers usage to keep those with voracious appetites down. They know there would be backlash if all of a sudden many of their customers started getting overage charges. Now that may change if more and more people get used to such a thing, but I expect those caps will rise with the overall usage patterns - again, just to make sure that everybody on the network (who doesn't have to call CS*) stays happy with their speeds.
I still haven't had a single note from Comcast, and last month I uploaded about 2TB of data (Crashplan decided to re-sync my entire server after a version upgrade, even though the server had just uploaded that same chunk 4 months ago).
*There is no such thing as a happy customer that has to deal with Comcast CS, so the more people they can keep from calling, the better off they are.
With any kind of load balancing, you're still going to get at least 1/300 of it. And 1/300 of 10Gbit is 33Mbps. Now, that's not the best speed in the world, but it's your *floor*. Based on the actual performance of my internal Gb network, I could have about 20 big fat teenagers all hammering the network and still be limited by my internal bandwidth.
If I could have had DSL in 2000, that would have been awesome. When I called the local telco in 2000 about they're "new, high-speed internet" options, I was cheerfully informed that they had just upgraded their entire infrastructure to 56kB modems!
"Eventually all of us will have more free time as we can create businesses with a fraction of the capital and sell them to other people in poorer countries who will ahve an expanding middle class like China and soon Africa hopefully"
You've managed to come to the correct realization by taking the wrong path.
The people who will make money in the coming decades will be (already are, actually) the ones who own the robots. The advantage is that the good robots won't go out and become competitors for your business like the human workers of old and they never need a raise to keep them. See, if you had a business of 20 people, you'll have two that are smart enough to run their own business. You need them, of course, to oversee the other 18 already - which is why they're your foremen. One of those two, and possibly both, are going to want more money for that. And they're good enough that if you don't give it to them, they'll go start a competing business, probably taking your best workers with them with the lure of a salary premium.
With robots, this won't happen. You can control them all so you need fewer foremen. And even if you have someone "good" working for you, they can't lure your robots away with the lure of an extra day off a month or $1.50 more on their hourly rate. And they can't compete with your business as an individual because they can't actually *do* the work with anywhere near the efficiency of the robots.
Now, as long as either you have minimal competition or everyone in your industry goes along with a wink and a nod about "value", you can continue to charge what you used to for the work, but pay less in operating costs thanks to the robots. And you and all your people will still work 40 nominal hours a week because, let's face it, if you don't someone else will get ahead of you. And if they get ahead they'll drive down prices until somebody folds, and they'll pick up all their robots and keep going until there are as few players as the government will allow. Overhead per robot is down, prices drives out competitors, and then prices rebound. And half a dozen executives retire to private islands, a hundred managers stay on at 50 hours a week, and 1000 people go without any job at all.
You're scenario only works when there are poor countries to which you can sell your stuff, but eventually the tables will be leveled and you'll have ultra-rich robot owners, an upper crust of people with jobs, and a shitload of humans with nothing to do. Then we'll be truly and utterly fucked.
Business men who run plumbing companies make more than doctors who are merely employees.
Just because you're a plumber doesn't mean you can't have business acumen. Just as being a doctor doesn't mean you do have it. I know plenty of both, and the rich ones are the ones that run a business, either instead of or in addition to their hands-on work. And the doctors running the business end of things are still making a shitload more than the plumbers who are running the business end of things, by a factor of 3 or more (similar to the plain-old-employee ratio).
That's one of the big problems with college loans: they'll give you 100k for a career path with no clear ability to pay back that cost in a reasonable timeframe (say, 5 years). If you took out a $100k to get a music degree, an education degree, a social sciences or philosophy or religion degree there's no way that's going to pay off in a reasonable period. Chemical engineering? Yeah. MD or JD? Yup. Accounting - maybe.
If, all of a sudden there were no loan guarantees and banks based loans on actual salaries and job prospects, you'd find that your max loan amounts would be in the 0.8-1.2x starting annual salary range, and there would be whole degree types that would be simply ineligible.
And when nobody had (seemingly) free money to go to school, those colleges would find a way to reduce costs and tuition for the non-money jobs. Or they'd drop the programs entirely and the supply would be reduced until there were a decent salary for those left.
Yeah, but then you'd really need a pixel-accurate stylus interface, and that's not how Steve would have used the iPad so it's not allowed to exist. I waiting for 4 iterations of iPad, and tried about every passive and bluetooth-active pen replacement on the market before giving up on that pipe dream. I bought a convertible windows laptop last year, but the software is just now catching up (Bluebeam seems to understand and almost gets it right). Sadly, my screen cracked entirely of it's own volition and I can't even buy a replacement (fuck you, Sony), so I'm hoping that the Surface 4 will fit the bill. (and, honestly, be a little lighter - a 15.6" tablet seems great until it weighs 3.5 pounds).
Cintiq's are only good for essentially fixed workspaces. The 13" model is only 2.6 pounds, but the 22" model weighs 19 pounds and the 27" is 20 pounds - and none of them come with a battery. Panasonic had a 5lb, 20" 4k model (at least as vaporware), but at $6-7k, it was definitely a pricey option.
I'm, honestly, not sure if it's really worth it to get an 18"+ screen at the severe cost of portability. I'm kind of hoping that the Surface 4 comes in a 14" size with a super thin bezel, as it would be barely longer (and nearly as wide) as a sheet of letter paper. That's enough for about 95% of my technical sketching, and possibly all of it with competent stylus input + multitouch pan/zoom. Of course, I also want to be able to dock it into a pair of 4k screens for reviewing large-format prints, but I might be able to get away with a single external 4k (and I thing the 3pro can already do that).
"Standalone 18.4-inch tablet powered with an NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core processor" " detach its 18.4-inch Full HD display and it instantly transforms into a multi-touch Android tablet."
That's the problem - it becomes an over-glorified pda as soon as you undock it. And there's no pen support. Nobody does technical drawings with their fingers, or crayon-sized markers.
There's an expectation that, while public, what you do in your day to day life tends to be an anonymous undertaking. nobody is tracking and cataloging all of your various excursions and foibles.
Being private and being functionally anonymous are two very different things.
That's *exactly* why presentation is copyrightable. It's not the science part, but the art and skill used to assemble the individualized work. You can't reproduce a photo of a painting, or a photo of a sculpture, or (in some cases) even a building. Why would you think food is any different?
[note: (c) is out of control, but the arguments on the face of it are valid - even if the underlying premise is bad]
Most rich people don't continue to work because they love what they're doing, they keep working so they can stay rich/get richer or to complete their conquest. People who truly love their work and would do it regardless are a rare, rare breed.
The danger is that people on the bubble might just say "fuck it" and quit. If you're making less than $15/hr, you're not working because you want the conquest, you're working to make bills. It's like a losing battle, where the time you spend barely gets you what you need, and you know that some things are costing your money just because you don't have time to do them (ie. daycare).
Now, the value to the arts might indeed be great - though with even more artists the average value of art might decrease.
That's the key - if you're getting a "basic income" it's going to based on the lowest cost of living areas, or at least a median. Getting what you need to live does not equate to living wherever you want. You may have to move to a lower cost of living area to afford your lower-income lifestyle. If you want to live in a higher cost area, you're going to have to work a bit harder, but the actual, basic reimbursement are the same.
It's like going on travel when you work for the gov't or a big corp - they'll cover your lodging, meals and incidentals - up to a fixed amount. You can stay somewhere nicer, or grab dinner at Morton's, but you're going to have to foot the bill for the extra.
Not a death sentence at all. Seizure and forfeiture of all assets, permanent retirement of the name of the corporation (i.e. can never be registered again), and barring all officers from starting or being an officer in another registered corporation would be the death sentence.
In 2 or 10 or 20 or 50 years, the assets will still exist, the name will be reusable, and - if it hasn't expired - the intellectual property will still be there.
Besides - if you put a human behind bars for 10 years, what really happens to their life? It's ruined, destined for low wage positions poor quality of life. Put them away for 50 years, and how much life is really left? At least corporations can live forever so, in a way, the punishment wouldn't be as harsh as it is for a human.
Only stockholders holding the corporate officers to account - who are generally immune due to corporate law - will change the system. And the large pension funds are the ones who actually wield the power in the boardroom, because they *do* own so much stock.
Investing in an unethical company in order to maximize returns should not be a situation where risk is minimized or it will breed an entire industry which will fund anything just to get an extra few percent. Oh, wait - that's the system we have already! Maybe we should consider fixing it?
Yes and yes. I would be hard pressed to buy anything that isn't a convertible form factor after having a Sony flip for a while. W10 is made with touch and pen input in mind. Throwing that away by buying a mac is giving up some of the coolest features.
Of course, it would still be a waste because the battery life of a mac running windows sucks (or, at least, is no standout). Sadly, macs fare no better under windows when it comes to battery life than regular windows. Windows simply does not prioritize battery life and optimize the overall system like OSX does, and there's no getting around the straight up physics of the backlight, graphics, processor and memory when it comes to using power.
Well, this will help alleviate the zombie food problem if they can scale it up to industrial proportions. We could even put them in head-shaped bowls and have large pens so the zombies are more "free range" like they would be in the wild.
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The big red button. If you press it, the car will continue to your destination unless physically disabled or completely blocked, regardless of non-traffic signals. It needs to be there for times when it is unsafe, or the occupant feels unsafe, with questionable external conditions (fake emergency vehicle signals, etc). And cops should be just fine with that because self-driving cars will otherwise obey the rules of the road (i.e. not speeding or running traffic signals), so if they really need to stop the car they can (a) surround it and slow down/stop to prevent the car from moving or (b) follow it to its destination - which in an emergency should be selectable by the operator as the original destination, the closest police precinct, or closest hospital emergency room entrance. There is no need or reason to offer electronic remote kill capabilities.
By choosing a fully automatic car, you give up a level of independence in return for convenience. I, for example, don't carry a sidearm or wear protective body armor today. That puts me in an inferior position to those who do, or those who have greater physical strength. It doesn't bother me because I evaluate the chance of needing such things is smaller than, say, being struck by lightning. I trade the convenience of lower kitted weight and bulk for an inferior defensive position.
The money is in a rental-only model. For a mere $649/month you can get coverage of the 2.4GHz spectrum. The $929 version will cover you for 2.4 and 5GHz. Specialty versions which can cover you over the 1.6-2.2GHz LTE bands to reduce or eliminate effects of cell phone towers are $2349/mo, but include the 2.4 and 5 GHz dampers as well.
You may ask if $25k a year is expensive. The question you should really be asking is - is your health, or the health of your child, worth it?
Better yet, have ever used a microwave oven, or been in any restaurant over the past two decades.
I just realized that my LG G3 has the exploit vulnerability - and I'm freaking out because I know that it has been exploited!!!
Oh, wait...I put that on there so I could root my device.
Nevermind.
The cap will grow when more people start hitting it. It may seem like a revenue center, but it's a management tool. They'll set the bar somewhere in the top 1-5% of customers usage to keep those with voracious appetites down. They know there would be backlash if all of a sudden many of their customers started getting overage charges. Now that may change if more and more people get used to such a thing, but I expect those caps will rise with the overall usage patterns - again, just to make sure that everybody on the network (who doesn't have to call CS*) stays happy with their speeds.
I still haven't had a single note from Comcast, and last month I uploaded about 2TB of data (Crashplan decided to re-sync my entire server after a version upgrade, even though the server had just uploaded that same chunk 4 months ago).
*There is no such thing as a happy customer that has to deal with Comcast CS, so the more people they can keep from calling, the better off they are.
With any kind of load balancing, you're still going to get at least 1/300 of it. And 1/300 of 10Gbit is 33Mbps. Now, that's not the best speed in the world, but it's your *floor*. Based on the actual performance of my internal Gb network, I could have about 20 big fat teenagers all hammering the network and still be limited by my internal bandwidth.
If I could have had DSL in 2000, that would have been awesome. When I called the local telco in 2000 about they're "new, high-speed internet" options, I was cheerfully informed that they had just upgraded their entire infrastructure to 56kB modems!
"Eventually all of us will have more free time as we can create businesses with a fraction of the capital and sell them to other people in poorer countries who will ahve an expanding middle class like China and soon Africa hopefully"
You've managed to come to the correct realization by taking the wrong path.
The people who will make money in the coming decades will be (already are, actually) the ones who own the robots. The advantage is that the good robots won't go out and become competitors for your business like the human workers of old and they never need a raise to keep them. See, if you had a business of 20 people, you'll have two that are smart enough to run their own business. You need them, of course, to oversee the other 18 already - which is why they're your foremen. One of those two, and possibly both, are going to want more money for that. And they're good enough that if you don't give it to them, they'll go start a competing business, probably taking your best workers with them with the lure of a salary premium.
With robots, this won't happen. You can control them all so you need fewer foremen. And even if you have someone "good" working for you, they can't lure your robots away with the lure of an extra day off a month or $1.50 more on their hourly rate. And they can't compete with your business as an individual because they can't actually *do* the work with anywhere near the efficiency of the robots.
Now, as long as either you have minimal competition or everyone in your industry goes along with a wink and a nod about "value", you can continue to charge what you used to for the work, but pay less in operating costs thanks to the robots. And you and all your people will still work 40 nominal hours a week because, let's face it, if you don't someone else will get ahead of you. And if they get ahead they'll drive down prices until somebody folds, and they'll pick up all their robots and keep going until there are as few players as the government will allow. Overhead per robot is down, prices drives out competitors, and then prices rebound. And half a dozen executives retire to private islands, a hundred managers stay on at 50 hours a week, and 1000 people go without any job at all.
You're scenario only works when there are poor countries to which you can sell your stuff, but eventually the tables will be leveled and you'll have ultra-rich robot owners, an upper crust of people with jobs, and a shitload of humans with nothing to do. Then we'll be truly and utterly fucked.
Business men who run plumbing companies make more than doctors who are merely employees.
Just because you're a plumber doesn't mean you can't have business acumen. Just as being a doctor doesn't mean you do have it. I know plenty of both, and the rich ones are the ones that run a business, either instead of or in addition to their hands-on work. And the doctors running the business end of things are still making a shitload more than the plumbers who are running the business end of things, by a factor of 3 or more (similar to the plain-old-employee ratio).
That's one of the big problems with college loans: they'll give you 100k for a career path with no clear ability to pay back that cost in a reasonable timeframe (say, 5 years). If you took out a $100k to get a music degree, an education degree, a social sciences or philosophy or religion degree there's no way that's going to pay off in a reasonable period. Chemical engineering? Yeah. MD or JD? Yup. Accounting - maybe.
If, all of a sudden there were no loan guarantees and banks based loans on actual salaries and job prospects, you'd find that your max loan amounts would be in the 0.8-1.2x starting annual salary range, and there would be whole degree types that would be simply ineligible.
And when nobody had (seemingly) free money to go to school, those colleges would find a way to reduce costs and tuition for the non-money jobs. Or they'd drop the programs entirely and the supply would be reduced until there were a decent salary for those left.
Yeah, but then you'd really need a pixel-accurate stylus interface, and that's not how Steve would have used the iPad so it's not allowed to exist. I waiting for 4 iterations of iPad, and tried about every passive and bluetooth-active pen replacement on the market before giving up on that pipe dream. I bought a convertible windows laptop last year, but the software is just now catching up (Bluebeam seems to understand and almost gets it right). Sadly, my screen cracked entirely of it's own volition and I can't even buy a replacement (fuck you, Sony), so I'm hoping that the Surface 4 will fit the bill. (and, honestly, be a little lighter - a 15.6" tablet seems great until it weighs 3.5 pounds).
Cintiq's are only good for essentially fixed workspaces. The 13" model is only 2.6 pounds, but the 22" model weighs 19 pounds and the 27" is 20 pounds - and none of them come with a battery. Panasonic had a 5lb, 20" 4k model (at least as vaporware), but at $6-7k, it was definitely a pricey option.
I'm, honestly, not sure if it's really worth it to get an 18"+ screen at the severe cost of portability. I'm kind of hoping that the Surface 4 comes in a 14" size with a super thin bezel, as it would be barely longer (and nearly as wide) as a sheet of letter paper. That's enough for about 95% of my technical sketching, and possibly all of it with competent stylus input + multitouch pan/zoom. Of course, I also want to be able to dock it into a pair of 4k screens for reviewing large-format prints, but I might be able to get away with a single external 4k (and I thing the 3pro can already do that).
"Standalone 18.4-inch tablet powered with an NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core processor"
" detach its 18.4-inch Full HD display and it instantly transforms into a multi-touch Android tablet."
That's the problem - it becomes an over-glorified pda as soon as you undock it. And there's no pen support. Nobody does technical drawings with their fingers, or crayon-sized markers.
What makes you think the Verizon browser would be anything but a shit sandwich with extra advertising on top?
Remember that Verizon still hasn't adopted IMAP for their email protocol. To view them as competent at anything is a farce.
"...is the height of stupid."
And that's our current system in a nutshell, folks.
There's an expectation that, while public, what you do in your day to day life tends to be an anonymous undertaking. nobody is tracking and cataloging all of your various excursions and foibles.
Being private and being functionally anonymous are two very different things.
"Cooking is an art"
That's *exactly* why presentation is copyrightable. It's not the science part, but the art and skill used to assemble the individualized work. You can't reproduce a photo of a painting, or a photo of a sculpture, or (in some cases) even a building. Why would you think food is any different?
[note: (c) is out of control, but the arguments on the face of it are valid - even if the underlying premise is bad]
Better question: would it matter - you're still making $30k, right?
Most rich people don't continue to work because they love what they're doing, they keep working so they can stay rich/get richer or to complete their conquest. People who truly love their work and would do it regardless are a rare, rare breed.
The danger is that people on the bubble might just say "fuck it" and quit. If you're making less than $15/hr, you're not working because you want the conquest, you're working to make bills. It's like a losing battle, where the time you spend barely gets you what you need, and you know that some things are costing your money just because you don't have time to do them (ie. daycare).
Now, the value to the arts might indeed be great - though with even more artists the average value of art might decrease.
That's the key - if you're getting a "basic income" it's going to based on the lowest cost of living areas, or at least a median. Getting what you need to live does not equate to living wherever you want. You may have to move to a lower cost of living area to afford your lower-income lifestyle. If you want to live in a higher cost area, you're going to have to work a bit harder, but the actual, basic reimbursement are the same.
It's like going on travel when you work for the gov't or a big corp - they'll cover your lodging, meals and incidentals - up to a fixed amount. You can stay somewhere nicer, or grab dinner at Morton's, but you're going to have to foot the bill for the extra.
Not a death sentence at all. Seizure and forfeiture of all assets, permanent retirement of the name of the corporation (i.e. can never be registered again), and barring all officers from starting or being an officer in another registered corporation would be the death sentence.
In 2 or 10 or 20 or 50 years, the assets will still exist, the name will be reusable, and - if it hasn't expired - the intellectual property will still be there.
Besides - if you put a human behind bars for 10 years, what really happens to their life? It's ruined, destined for low wage positions poor quality of life. Put them away for 50 years, and how much life is really left? At least corporations can live forever so, in a way, the punishment wouldn't be as harsh as it is for a human.
Only stockholders holding the corporate officers to account - who are generally immune due to corporate law - will change the system. And the large pension funds are the ones who actually wield the power in the boardroom, because they *do* own so much stock.
Investing in an unethical company in order to maximize returns should not be a situation where risk is minimized or it will breed an entire industry which will fund anything just to get an extra few percent. Oh, wait - that's the system we have already! Maybe we should consider fixing it?
When two planets truly love one another...
Yes and yes. I would be hard pressed to buy anything that isn't a convertible form factor after having a Sony flip for a while. W10 is made with touch and pen input in mind. Throwing that away by buying a mac is giving up some of the coolest features.
Of course, it would still be a waste because the battery life of a mac running windows sucks (or, at least, is no standout). Sadly, macs fare no better under windows when it comes to battery life than regular windows. Windows simply does not prioritize battery life and optimize the overall system like OSX does, and there's no getting around the straight up physics of the backlight, graphics, processor and memory when it comes to using power.
Well, this will help alleviate the zombie food problem if they can scale it up to industrial proportions. We could even put them in head-shaped bowls and have large pens so the zombies are more "free range" like they would be in the wild.