That's not what he's talking about. You still have to load and unload the machines.
I want a dishwasher where I can just set down a dish or glass and it'll load it automatically (no having to figure out the optimal way to load the racks), without having to clean off the unused food first, and then it'll wash and dry them, *and* put them away in the cabinets for me.
Similarly with laundry machines, I want a machine where I can just toss my dirty clothes into a laundry chute, and then the machine automatically sorts them, washes them with the correct temperature, dries them, folds them, and puts them away in my closet or drawers.
We don't have anything approaching this now. We don't even have machines that can automatically dry wet clothes! You still have to manually take the wet clothes out of the washing machine and put them in the dryer. You'd think it'd be easy to combine this into a single machine, but apparently not.
There was a time when I had no less than 3 kids on soccer teams and 2 taking martial arts. It wasn't unheard of to have all 3 in practices on opposite ends of town at once. There were years where my wife and I would come home from work to a nice 4-hour second job of driving kids to activites. Freeing parents from that would be a tremendous boon. We are talking "shut up and take my money" territory.
For older kids, you could just use Uber for this.
For the elderly, they often get to the point where they are afraid to drive when there's traffic, or after dark. This is why the are notorious for having dinner at ridiculously early hours.
The shear physics of backing up such a truck to have it mate with the loading dock hasn't even been studied as far as I know
This isn't necessary. Self-driving 18-wheelers don't need to back up to loading docks, ever. They only need to drive themselves to the loading docks. Once there, a human driver can take over and do the backing up. (Until they figure out how to automate that too, of course.) A Walmart distribution center would only need a small team of drivers on hand to handle this, and an individual store would only need one. For places where they don't get enough deliveries to justify a full-time driver sitting around for this, or for a truck that makes multiple deliveries in town, they can have a driver in the truck for all the local stuff, and use robotrucks for the long-haul driving.
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
Yeah, driving in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic is a real blast! **rolls eyes**
What are you talking about? I lived in Phoenix for 12 years; there's no dirt roads there anywhere, unless you're talking about alleys in the older neighborhoods, or places on the reservations nearby. But yes, street flooding is definitely a problem, and it's not just every 10 years, it's pretty regularly, whenever there's a big rainstorm (but it's usually only select locations).
As the old saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention". So most non-work programming I end up doing is writing short scripts to automate or simplify things I'm already doing on my computer at home. Any serious project will require a serious time commitment, and I have too many other things I really want to spend my free time doing, such as going outside and hiking.
Honestly, I wish I did have one day a week where I could get paid to spend it doing some self-directed programming, such as working on an interesting open-source project, instead of the boring crap I usually have to do for a paycheck.
Why have the car park itself at the mall at all? Why not have it head home so someone else can use it while you shop?
Several reasons: 1) you're wasting a lot of gas having a car drive itself empty back home, 2) that's going to increase the traffic, and 3) how do you know exactly what time you'll be done shopping? Most likely the car won't be able to get back to pick you up when you're ready, so you have to sit around and wait. The whole point of having a car is to go when you want, and not have to wait for someone else's schedule.
For that matter, I think car ownership itself will become much rarer, and membership in car collectives will be a much more common.
Perhaps, but it seems like it'd be a lot cheaper and easier to just use RoboUber or RoboLyft. Big companies like that will be able to buy huge fleets of self-driving cars, and put together the infrastructure to dispatch them most efficiently. With so many of their cars on the road, your wait time will be tiny, whereas if you co-own a robocar (or even a few of them) with a handful of people, that one car won't be able to pick you up quickly since it likely won't be nearby when you summon it, or it'll be in use. I think you're right about car ownership becoming rarer, but not about the collectives. We'll just have a handful of big corporations owning most of the cars and we'll just pay for automated rides. Overall, though, it probably will be better and cheaper overall: far fewer vehicles will be needed (most cars just sit parked most of the time), and the total transportation cost for most people will probably be less, and we can also stop wasting so much land on parking lots, which will improve density.
You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
Yes, they can. There is no technical reason they can't. They just need to adjust their laws and policies to match Microsoft's offerings and policies.
Email calendar office 365 Windows 10 all tied to a single user login. All tied to the cloud. Governments militaries, even most business can't have any of their data exposed to the cloud that way.
You keep making this mistake. Yes, they can. They absolutely can. If they want to use Microsoft software, then they better get used to working this way.
I for one hope Microsoft takes a very hard stance here and makes it impossible for anyone (including enterprises and governments) to not have a network connection when using Microsoft software. That includes computers handling classified information. These computers need to have internet connections so that they can "phone home" to Microsoft. Who do these upstart customers think they are, trying to tell Microsoft how to architect their software?
Hillary is very much disliked among people on the Internet, except for the shills her PACs have hired. However, the media loves her; that's what the OP is referring to. The media painting her as some kind of hero isn't working, and people aren't buying it, but it doesn't stop the media from trying.
As for Trump and the bizarreness, that's easily explained. People on the right (esp. angry white blue-collar people) don't identify with the Dems at all, they hate Hillary, but now they've finally woken up to the fact that the establishment Republicans are playing them for fools by telling them what they want to hear (and really pandering to religious extremists, which these people aren't), so they're voting for the one guy who's different. Basically, they don't have a choice in the matter. It doesn't matter what Trump does; the only way he can possibly lose their votes is to do something so horrendous that it forces them to vote for Hillary, and that sure as hell isn't going to happen. They won't vote for other Republicans because they've had it with them. So he can flip-flop all he wants, he still won't lose their votes. This is what happens when you have an extremely important election with very few choices, and most of them horrible to common people.
The bottom line is we desperately need a new election system.
So you think the government should buy you a Tesla for $108,000?
Even the cheapest economy car these days has excellent crash protection compared to cars made 10, 20, or more years ago. Tesla is working on producing their new Model 3, which costs a fraction of what the Model S costs. The level of safety available to poorer car buyers is constantly improving. You're probably much safer in a brand-new econobox than in a 30-year-old Volvo.
This article is about 18 year olds. There's no such thing as "enabling [them] to be riskier". No matter how safe or unsafe something is, kids that age will test its limits and generally exceed them.
Sounds like a great idea. The problem is that no matter how well you do this work, and create products which will work exactly like how you formulate it will, hordes of morons will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it won't work, or that other products not designed this way will work just as well. And not just random uneducated idiots either, but other "engineers" even! Just look at all the idiotic comments right here in this discussion, trying to convince us that crumple zones aren't necessary, that having giant engine blocks in your front crumple zone isn't a problem because they'll magically disappear in a crash, etc.
The main problem with this "engineering", as you call it, is that the people who practice it ("engineers") don't even believe in it.
So where do you think you're going to find a taxi service that does fingerprinting then? Austin doesn't have it. They only recently made this a law and it isn't implemented yet. Lots of other places don't have it either. Some municipalities do have this, but it's not universal. So apparently, having drivers fingerprinted does NOT qualiy as "basic safety checks". Therefore, if that's important to you, then it's your responsibility to check with every parent company to find one that does this for their drivers.
The problem with your theory is that it sounds great on paper, but almost never works out in practice. Corruption *is* easier to spot in the lowest levels of government, but it's also the hardest to fix there; higher levels of government end up having to jump in and fix the mess, because the locals can't do anything about it for various reasons. Local governments will happily violate state and federal laws, and can only be stopped when those higher-level governments send their enforcers in to stop it and drag people into state or federal court for trials, so that necessitates those higher level governments have a certain amount of power and funding. Local governments are usually a horror show of blatant corruption, and what can anyone do when the local politicians, their rich benefactors (like car dealership owners), and the local cops are all in it together? And who counts the votes in the local elections?
I really wonder if the OP was trying to be sarcastic with that statement (but failing miserably).
There's another great example of this: the GOP primaries. Look at how much Jeb Bush's campaign spent: it was absolutely enormous. But he failed miserably in the primaries, and instead Trump has won, and he didn't spend much at all.
Money can definitely make a difference, but it's not the sole determinant. When voters are pissed, no amount of money will make them vote the way you want. However, if the people who count the votes are corrupted, it doesn't matter so much how the people voted. This has been seen in the Democratic primaries, such as in Illinois, where the elections were blatantly rigged.
Well apparently the Uber and Lyft drivers didn't mind staying up all night so they could make some extra money. Do the taxi drivers not want any business?
If the partiers and the Uber/Lyft drivers are both willing to to cooperate and exchange money for this service, and there's no other competition, then who the fuck are you to tell them they shouldn't be able to?
(like forcing a 15 year old girl to register as a sex offender for the 'crime' of sexting her boyfriend).
What we need to do is somehow convince ALL 15yo girls to do this, and then turn themselves into the police, all at the same time. Get an entire generation of people branded as sex offenders and unable to hold most jobs, and the laws will have to change. Unfortunately, I guess it's an example of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
LMDE has had inconsistent releases.I read they are holding off on systemd for now, but plan to switch at some point, a position calculated to annoy everyone.
How is that annoying? It's an entirely pragmatic and conservative move: systemd is still rather new, so they're holding off on implementing it for a while to make sure the bugs are all worked out before finally adopting it like everyone else. Imagine how things would have been for KDE if more distros had done this back when KDE 4.0 was released, or if more distros had done this back when Gnome 3.0 was released. Jumping on the new & shiny almost always causes massive unforeseen problems, and too many distros have done this too many times. systemd does look like it's shaping up to be a real benefit, but waiting until it's mature is a smart move in an OS that tries to be extremely reliable and easy to use for beginners or anyone who doesn't want to have to tinker. If you want bleeding-edge, Linux Mint is simply not the distro for you, and never was.
and now they're not packaging multimedia libraries any more.
So what? Just a couple of clicks and you can download them, and LM can avoid any legal issues in having them. Blame your country's shitty legal system if you don't like it; the fault is really your own, since you're responsible for your government. I don't complain when I install LM and lots of other software isn't installed by default, such as Google Chrome (needed to watch Netflix), mmv (a handy utility for renaming files in batches), Marble (a 3D earth program), Neverball (a 3D marble game), etc. I just go install it myself. There's no room on installation discs to have the entire repository; they only need to put enough on those discs to make the computer usable, and after that you can get on WiFi and download everything else you need, including a boatload of software updates since the install discs are always out-of-date.
Titanium is a bitch to machine, even now. I don't know who told you it's 'soft'.
I thought the issue with Titanium is that it has poor surface hardness. This is why, if you get a titanium ring, it gets scratched pretty easily and ends up developing a "patina" from accumulated micro-scratches. By contrast, the other metal that's popular for men's rings these days is tungsten carbide, which is valued for its scratch resistance: http://www.tungstenworld.com/t...
I wonder why machining would cost so much. Titanium is a rather soft metal, and doesn't have nearly the hardness of steel, so it should be pretty easy to machine with decent machine tools. Modern mills are made of high-speed steel with various coatings (different variations of titanium nitride usually) and should have long life, certainly longer than if they were machining steel for instance. Of course, the F-14 is a product of the early 1970s so machining technology wasn't as advanced back then.
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That's not what he's talking about. You still have to load and unload the machines.
I want a dishwasher where I can just set down a dish or glass and it'll load it automatically (no having to figure out the optimal way to load the racks), without having to clean off the unused food first, and then it'll wash and dry them, *and* put them away in the cabinets for me.
Similarly with laundry machines, I want a machine where I can just toss my dirty clothes into a laundry chute, and then the machine automatically sorts them, washes them with the correct temperature, dries them, folds them, and puts them away in my closet or drawers.
We don't have anything approaching this now. We don't even have machines that can automatically dry wet clothes! You still have to manually take the wet clothes out of the washing machine and put them in the dryer. You'd think it'd be easy to combine this into a single machine, but apparently not.
There was a time when I had no less than 3 kids on soccer teams and 2 taking martial arts. It wasn't unheard of to have all 3 in practices on opposite ends of town at once. There were years where my wife and I would come home from work to a nice 4-hour second job of driving kids to activites. Freeing parents from that would be a tremendous boon. We are talking "shut up and take my money" territory.
For older kids, you could just use Uber for this.
For the elderly, they often get to the point where they are afraid to drive when there's traffic, or after dark. This is why the are notorious for having dinner at ridiculously early hours.
Uber would work fine here too.
The shear physics of backing up such a truck to have it mate with the loading dock hasn't even been studied as far as I know
This isn't necessary. Self-driving 18-wheelers don't need to back up to loading docks, ever. They only need to drive themselves to the loading docks. Once there, a human driver can take over and do the backing up. (Until they figure out how to automate that too, of course.) A Walmart distribution center would only need a small team of drivers on hand to handle this, and an individual store would only need one. For places where they don't get enough deliveries to justify a full-time driver sitting around for this, or for a truck that makes multiple deliveries in town, they can have a driver in the truck for all the local stuff, and use robotrucks for the long-haul driving.
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
Yeah, driving in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic is a real blast! **rolls eyes**
What are you talking about? I lived in Phoenix for 12 years; there's no dirt roads there anywhere, unless you're talking about alleys in the older neighborhoods, or places on the reservations nearby. But yes, street flooding is definitely a problem, and it's not just every 10 years, it's pretty regularly, whenever there's a big rainstorm (but it's usually only select locations).
As the old saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention". So most non-work programming I end up doing is writing short scripts to automate or simplify things I'm already doing on my computer at home. Any serious project will require a serious time commitment, and I have too many other things I really want to spend my free time doing, such as going outside and hiking.
Honestly, I wish I did have one day a week where I could get paid to spend it doing some self-directed programming, such as working on an interesting open-source project, instead of the boring crap I usually have to do for a paycheck.
Why have the car park itself at the mall at all? Why not have it head home so someone else can use it while you shop?
Several reasons: 1) you're wasting a lot of gas having a car drive itself empty back home, 2) that's going to increase the traffic, and 3) how do you know exactly what time you'll be done shopping? Most likely the car won't be able to get back to pick you up when you're ready, so you have to sit around and wait. The whole point of having a car is to go when you want, and not have to wait for someone else's schedule.
For that matter, I think car ownership itself will become much rarer, and membership in car collectives will be a much more common.
Perhaps, but it seems like it'd be a lot cheaper and easier to just use RoboUber or RoboLyft. Big companies like that will be able to buy huge fleets of self-driving cars, and put together the infrastructure to dispatch them most efficiently. With so many of their cars on the road, your wait time will be tiny, whereas if you co-own a robocar (or even a few of them) with a handful of people, that one car won't be able to pick you up quickly since it likely won't be nearby when you summon it, or it'll be in use. I think you're right about car ownership becoming rarer, but not about the collectives. We'll just have a handful of big corporations owning most of the cars and we'll just pay for automated rides. Overall, though, it probably will be better and cheaper overall: far fewer vehicles will be needed (most cars just sit parked most of the time), and the total transportation cost for most people will probably be less, and we can also stop wasting so much land on parking lots, which will improve density.
No wonder the F-35 is such a disaster.
Yeah, try that with a document made for Office XP, using the very latest version of Office.
You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
Yes, they can. There is no technical reason they can't. They just need to adjust their laws and policies to match Microsoft's offerings and policies.
Email calendar office 365 Windows 10 all tied to a single user login. All tied to the cloud. Governments militaries, even most business can't have any of their data exposed to the cloud that way.
You keep making this mistake. Yes, they can. They absolutely can. If they want to use Microsoft software, then they better get used to working this way.
I for one hope Microsoft takes a very hard stance here and makes it impossible for anyone (including enterprises and governments) to not have a network connection when using Microsoft software. That includes computers handling classified information. These computers need to have internet connections so that they can "phone home" to Microsoft. Who do these upstart customers think they are, trying to tell Microsoft how to architect their software?
Shill detected. Why would anyone want to pay for a program that phones home to China?
You seem to be very confused.
Hillary is very much disliked among people on the Internet, except for the shills her PACs have hired. However, the media loves her; that's what the OP is referring to. The media painting her as some kind of hero isn't working, and people aren't buying it, but it doesn't stop the media from trying.
As for Trump and the bizarreness, that's easily explained. People on the right (esp. angry white blue-collar people) don't identify with the Dems at all, they hate Hillary, but now they've finally woken up to the fact that the establishment Republicans are playing them for fools by telling them what they want to hear (and really pandering to religious extremists, which these people aren't), so they're voting for the one guy who's different. Basically, they don't have a choice in the matter. It doesn't matter what Trump does; the only way he can possibly lose their votes is to do something so horrendous that it forces them to vote for Hillary, and that sure as hell isn't going to happen. They won't vote for other Republicans because they've had it with them. So he can flip-flop all he wants, he still won't lose their votes. This is what happens when you have an extremely important election with very few choices, and most of them horrible to common people.
The bottom line is we desperately need a new election system.
So you think the government should buy you a Tesla for $108,000?
Even the cheapest economy car these days has excellent crash protection compared to cars made 10, 20, or more years ago. Tesla is working on producing their new Model 3, which costs a fraction of what the Model S costs. The level of safety available to poorer car buyers is constantly improving. You're probably much safer in a brand-new econobox than in a 30-year-old Volvo.
This article is about 18 year olds. There's no such thing as "enabling [them] to be riskier". No matter how safe or unsafe something is, kids that age will test its limits and generally exceed them.
Sounds like a great idea. The problem is that no matter how well you do this work, and create products which will work exactly like how you formulate it will, hordes of morons will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it won't work, or that other products not designed this way will work just as well. And not just random uneducated idiots either, but other "engineers" even! Just look at all the idiotic comments right here in this discussion, trying to convince us that crumple zones aren't necessary, that having giant engine blocks in your front crumple zone isn't a problem because they'll magically disappear in a crash, etc.
The main problem with this "engineering", as you call it, is that the people who practice it ("engineers") don't even believe in it.
So where do you think you're going to find a taxi service that does fingerprinting then? Austin doesn't have it. They only recently made this a law and it isn't implemented yet. Lots of other places don't have it either. Some municipalities do have this, but it's not universal. So apparently, having drivers fingerprinted does NOT qualiy as "basic safety checks". Therefore, if that's important to you, then it's your responsibility to check with every parent company to find one that does this for their drivers.
The problem with your theory is that it sounds great on paper, but almost never works out in practice. Corruption *is* easier to spot in the lowest levels of government, but it's also the hardest to fix there; higher levels of government end up having to jump in and fix the mess, because the locals can't do anything about it for various reasons. Local governments will happily violate state and federal laws, and can only be stopped when those higher-level governments send their enforcers in to stop it and drag people into state or federal court for trials, so that necessitates those higher level governments have a certain amount of power and funding. Local governments are usually a horror show of blatant corruption, and what can anyone do when the local politicians, their rich benefactors (like car dealership owners), and the local cops are all in it together? And who counts the votes in the local elections?
Rape is such a rampant problem in Uber/Lyft there is no other valid choice. Women don't feel safe using those services currently.
Citation needed.
Interestingly, did you know that women riding with Austin taxicab services have a 45% chance of being raped on any given ride?
Then you don't use Uber/Lyft. Isn't that obvious in this line of logic? No one is forcing you to use these services.
I really wonder if the OP was trying to be sarcastic with that statement (but failing miserably).
There's another great example of this: the GOP primaries. Look at how much Jeb Bush's campaign spent: it was absolutely enormous. But he failed miserably in the primaries, and instead Trump has won, and he didn't spend much at all.
Money can definitely make a difference, but it's not the sole determinant. When voters are pissed, no amount of money will make them vote the way you want. However, if the people who count the votes are corrupted, it doesn't matter so much how the people voted. This has been seen in the Democratic primaries, such as in Illinois, where the elections were blatantly rigged.
Well apparently the Uber and Lyft drivers didn't mind staying up all night so they could make some extra money. Do the taxi drivers not want any business?
If the partiers and the Uber/Lyft drivers are both willing to to cooperate and exchange money for this service, and there's no other competition, then who the fuck are you to tell them they shouldn't be able to?
(like forcing a 15 year old girl to register as a sex offender for the 'crime' of sexting her boyfriend).
What we need to do is somehow convince ALL 15yo girls to do this, and then turn themselves into the police, all at the same time. Get an entire generation of people branded as sex offenders and unable to hold most jobs, and the laws will have to change. Unfortunately, I guess it's an example of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
LMDE has had inconsistent releases.I read they are holding off on systemd for now, but plan to switch at some point, a position calculated to annoy everyone.
How is that annoying? It's an entirely pragmatic and conservative move: systemd is still rather new, so they're holding off on implementing it for a while to make sure the bugs are all worked out before finally adopting it like everyone else. Imagine how things would have been for KDE if more distros had done this back when KDE 4.0 was released, or if more distros had done this back when Gnome 3.0 was released. Jumping on the new & shiny almost always causes massive unforeseen problems, and too many distros have done this too many times. systemd does look like it's shaping up to be a real benefit, but waiting until it's mature is a smart move in an OS that tries to be extremely reliable and easy to use for beginners or anyone who doesn't want to have to tinker. If you want bleeding-edge, Linux Mint is simply not the distro for you, and never was.
and now they're not packaging multimedia libraries any more.
So what? Just a couple of clicks and you can download them, and LM can avoid any legal issues in having them. Blame your country's shitty legal system if you don't like it; the fault is really your own, since you're responsible for your government. I don't complain when I install LM and lots of other software isn't installed by default, such as Google Chrome (needed to watch Netflix), mmv (a handy utility for renaming files in batches), Marble (a 3D earth program), Neverball (a 3D marble game), etc. I just go install it myself. There's no room on installation discs to have the entire repository; they only need to put enough on those discs to make the computer usable, and after that you can get on WiFi and download everything else you need, including a boatload of software updates since the install discs are always out-of-date.
Titanium is a bitch to machine, even now. I don't know who told you it's 'soft'.
I thought the issue with Titanium is that it has poor surface hardness. This is why, if you get a titanium ring, it gets scratched pretty easily and ends up developing a "patina" from accumulated micro-scratches. By contrast, the other metal that's popular for men's rings these days is tungsten carbide, which is valued for its scratch resistance: http://www.tungstenworld.com/t...
I wonder why machining would cost so much. Titanium is a rather soft metal, and doesn't have nearly the hardness of steel, so it should be pretty easy to machine with decent machine tools. Modern mills are made of high-speed steel with various coatings (different variations of titanium nitride usually) and should have long life, certainly longer than if they were machining steel for instance. Of course, the F-14 is a product of the early 1970s so machining technology wasn't as advanced back then.