Uber is nothing like any taxi company that has ever been.
Taxi companies around the world have been small operators limited to cities and states with almost no budget to deliver the kind of tech Uber is going to deliver. The kind of tech needed for a future world in which we'll have to economise on everything we do to accommodate the burgeoning populous.
The world is currently heading for a cliff. Technology is the only thing which can possibly help us avert disaster.
You ever considered how much waste there is in a system where everyone owns a car and how much less waste there would be in which every vehicle on the roads is shared?
As the world population grows owning your own car will be considered a luxury. Many things are going to have to change as the world's population expands. It seems like a harsh reality but that's the sort of future where heading into if we keep increasing the population from 7 to 8? to 9? to X billion people on the planet?
Of course Uber can see where its all going and it wants to be the company managing a fully automated networked urban transportation system of the future.
These systems are destined to exist, it's simply a matter of who is going to control them.
Who needs direct governance in a world dominated by global corporates?
There are old ways of doing things and new ways. But essentially they end up being the same thing. e.g. Old fashion slavery is rare in this day and age, i.e. people being made to work shackled with a slave master standing over them 24/7. However there is more slavery today than there ever has been, the common form of slavery in this day and age is debt slavery, where workers are tricked into employment situations which requires them to work for several years to pay off a debt manufactured by the employer.
These are big companies with lots of employees, they are already bleeding huge amounts of cash to fund health programs for their employees in a broken healthcare system. They're going to pool their resources together to create a new company, not with the goal of making money out of the venture, but with the goal of reducing the costs they already have within their existing companies. Due to their size they'll receive immediate benefits by having the clout to bargain with the big pharmas and that clout will only increase as they offer this to the rest of corporate america.
It does when you're creating an environment or taking actions which necessitate the purchase of those arms. The war on drugs. The war on terror. It's all really a war on any decline in arms revenue. The US isn't interested in peace and stability, quite the contrary, war and instability is very good for business.
The US is the biggest exporter of arms on the planet, by some sources the US exports more arms than the rest of the world combined. Your argument is based on hysteria and rhetoric. The industrial military complex is real and has been dominating the US financially and politically for more than half a century. I think it's time to pull your head of the sand/propaganda bubble.
And how do they spend this 2% of their GDP? The answer would be a fair chunk of that would be on US made weapon systems.
Most of what the US does that could be classified as "neo-colonial" is forcing or creating situations that ultimately result in the sale of US weapon systems. e.g. the sale of anti-ballistic missile systems to Korea and Japan that you could argue is a result of the bad relations between Trump and "little rocket man"
What's your reasoning for thinking 5G is not a serious security issue? In a time of war would you like to have an off switch or the ability to listen in on any phone call over a national 5G network of the country you're in conflict with?
Spot on. Totally agree, especially about the Germans not putting up with a bs web site with zero or no moderation over the content being posted.
I mean seriously to all the knuckle heads commenting about liberties and freedoms... Just go and post a off topic comment and maybe throw in some abusive, pornographic or other illicit / illegal content on this discussion and just see how long your comment lasts before it is MODERATED.
I think the judge will consider the nature of what the Megaupload business was and come to the conclusion that the business was worth nothing within the confines of the legal system by which he has to make a decision.
I just uninstalled 360 security for exactly this reason. Some time ago they added this "feature", which wasn't too much of a problem as they had an option to switch off the retarded add filled custom lock screen. However, after installing a update it now ignores this setting, which caused me to immediately uninstall it.
1 billion dollars will look like very cheap compared to the value of the market they'll have when the only way for an average joe to get from A to B is via Uber .
Seriously reading through the majority of the comments that list inane things like "what about children crossing the road?", "what about cats and dogs?", "what if there's an ambulance?", "what if the road is blocked and there's construction work, how does GPS work then?"
I mean seriously do you guys have no understanding of information systems?
To those of you think driverless cars are too hard, and they can't possibly work, just watch, the only issues driverless cars will have will be trust, in the same way people trusted a horse and cart over a car 100 years ago.... The technology is already all here and those who understand it know that driverless cars will be safer and result in less congestion than roads filled with cars driven by people.
And computers are already doing exactly this. Such information is already available in google maps with real time data collection they know where the congestion is and the traffic hazards are.
The technology is such these days that all the examples you site would be probably better detected by computers than they would by human beings. Driving a car safely is actually a very deterministic process, it a simple process of data collection and applying very simple rules e.g... While approach child on side of road, decrease speed by 10%...
How many times have you seen some idiot in a car get in the way of an ambulance or driving through an intersection and nearly colliding with an ambulance? Well the day will come when driverless cars know the position of every emergency vehicle and react to make way for these vehicles before they would even be within sight of a human.
I can see the day coming when they start to think about banning humans from driving vehicles as they will be regarded as a hazard compared to automated vehicles. I don't think people who make these kinds of arguments against driverless vehicles have much of an understanding about technology or software development.
Sounds like you don't understand money or bitcoin. The governments and banks create money, people converting their money to bitcoin doesn't take it away money from governments and banks. They still control the world financial systems, which none of the players in bitcoin have any control over.
Models are wrong by definition. Otherwise they wouldn't be models. Modelling an analogue systems with infinite levels of complexity will always involve a degree of error.
This notion that we can simply ignore scientific models and not act on them just because they have some degree of error in them is idiotic. If throughout history we based all our decisions on such logic we would still be in the stone age, which is what climate change deniers will return us to if we choose to listen to their moronic arguments.
Just because they did it 40 years ago doesn't mean it's OK to do it now.
Four million years ago we ran around clubbing each other over the head, didn't farm and ate raw meat. Four hundred years ago an unmarried women with a cat could be justifiably burnt to death for being witch. Forty years ago it wasn't unheard of for people to be lynched because of the colour of their skin.
Do you see now just how stupid your argument is? Just because they did it in the past doesn't make it OK for them to do it now, only on a much bigger scale.
This is the kind of thinking somehow distorts, fraud, dishonesty, immorality and turns it into virtues defined by a single word "winner".
It honestly turns my stomach.
We've got about 50-100 years to come up with something better than law of the jungle, if we can't evolve socially we're just going to wipe ourselves out along with most of the other species on this planet.
So no I disagree, this sort of perversion, fraud, corruption, immorality, dishonesty shouldn't be a part of the election process and when it is, it should be called out and the candidate thrown out on his/her ass or better still put in jail.
No it's not called campaigning, if it were Robert Mueller and his team wouldn't be investigating Trump for links to this activity.
Fraud, subversion and collusion with foreign governments may have been part of many elections in the past but not on this scale and in the past when candidates conducting these sorts of activities have been exposed it's meant the end of their campaign.
Social media providers will be taking this very seriously as it undermines their systems credibility as genuine platforms for social interaction. If they don't take credible actions to reduce the flow of spam on their systems, people will eventually catch on that their whole system is a waste of time and move on.
I think it's very obvious players like Facebook etc can do a lot more than they currently are to prevent spam. I'd say it hasn't been a high priority for them and they have actually profited from providing the spammers a platform. However, after Trump's election and the inquiries into foreign state influence on the election, the spotlight has been firmly placed on Facebook and others and the priority on developing counter measures against this sort of abuse of their systems would be going way up.
I disagree. I've used both Windows Phone and Android, I can say without doubt I got more mileage on the battery of my old Samsung Focus Windows Phone than I did my present Samsung Galaxy A3 Android. On Windows Phone I always had +40% battery at the end of a day on a single charge, whereas my Android phone gets charged twice a day. So if they've made big improvements since v7, on the right device, it could easily be true.
I think the biggest irony for Microsoft is that Windows Phone is both the finest OS they've ever produced and also their biggest failure.
The failure of Windows Phone I think has to be laid firmly at the feet of Balmer and his decision to buy Nokia. I never liked Nokia's devices.... neither did anyone else.
If Windows Phone hadn't spurned phone makers like Samsung by buying Nokia, it might have been a very different story for Windows Phone.
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This little gem...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bill Gates Microsoft farewell video
Uber is nothing like any taxi company that has ever been.
Taxi companies around the world have been small operators limited to cities and states with almost no budget to deliver the kind of tech Uber is going to deliver. The kind of tech needed for a future world in which we'll have to economise on everything we do to accommodate the burgeoning populous.
The world is currently heading for a cliff. Technology is the only thing which can possibly help us avert disaster.
Or maybe it does.
Does everyone really need their own vehicle?
You ever considered how much waste there is in a system where everyone owns a car and how much less waste there would be in which every vehicle on the roads is shared?
As the world population grows owning your own car will be considered a luxury. Many things are going to have to change as the world's population expands. It seems like a harsh reality but that's the sort of future where heading into if we keep increasing the population from 7 to 8? to 9? to X billion people on the planet?
Of course Uber can see where its all going and it wants to be the company managing a fully automated networked urban transportation system of the future.
These systems are destined to exist, it's simply a matter of who is going to control them.
Who needs direct governance in a world dominated by global corporates?
There are old ways of doing things and new ways. But essentially they end up being the same thing. e.g. Old fashion slavery is rare in this day and age, i.e. people being made to work shackled with a slave master standing over them 24/7. However there is more slavery today than there ever has been, the common form of slavery in this day and age is debt slavery, where workers are tricked into employment situations which requires them to work for several years to pay off a debt manufactured by the employer.
These are big companies with lots of employees, they are already bleeding huge amounts of cash to fund health programs for their employees in a broken healthcare system. They're going to pool their resources together to create a new company, not with the goal of making money out of the venture, but with the goal of reducing the costs they already have within their existing companies. Due to their size they'll receive immediate benefits by having the clout to bargain with the big pharmas and that clout will only increase as they offer this to the rest of corporate america.
It's another game changer from Amazon.
It does when you're creating an environment or taking actions which necessitate the purchase of those arms. The war on drugs. The war on terror. It's all really a war on any decline in arms revenue. The US isn't interested in peace and stability, quite the contrary, war and instability is very good for business.
I think my argument is based on fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The US is the biggest exporter of arms on the planet, by some sources the US exports more arms than the rest of the world combined. Your argument is based on hysteria and rhetoric. The industrial military complex is real and has been dominating the US financially and politically for more than half a century. I think it's time to pull your head of the sand/propaganda bubble.
And how do they spend this 2% of their GDP? The answer would be a fair chunk of that would be on US made weapon systems.
Most of what the US does that could be classified as "neo-colonial" is forcing or creating situations that ultimately result in the sale of US weapon systems. e.g. the sale of anti-ballistic missile systems to Korea and Japan that you could argue is a result of the bad relations between Trump and "little rocket man"
What's your reasoning for thinking 5G is not a serious security issue? In a time of war would you like to have an off switch or the ability to listen in on any phone call over a national 5G network of the country you're in conflict with?
*Cough* NATO and half the other countries not in NATO...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Spot on. Totally agree, especially about the Germans not putting up with a bs web site with zero or no moderation over the content being posted.
I mean seriously to all the knuckle heads commenting about liberties and freedoms... Just go and post a off topic comment and maybe throw in some abusive, pornographic or other illicit / illegal content on this discussion and just see how long your comment lasts before it is MODERATED.
I think the judge will consider the nature of what the Megaupload business was and come to the conclusion that the business was worth nothing within the confines of the legal system by which he has to make a decision.
The going market rate for selling out a child's future is at least $500
I just uninstalled 360 security for exactly this reason. Some time ago they added this "feature", which wasn't too much of a problem as they had an option to switch off the retarded add filled custom lock screen. However, after installing a update it now ignores this setting, which caused me to immediately uninstall it.
So if you're that worried about telemetry, do you block Google analytics and Facebook?
And have you done any research at all into how to disable Windows 10 telemetry, or what that telemetry is doing and whether it might actually be beneficial?
To me you sound like you're letting your own personal biases get in the way of doing your job properly.
1 billion dollars will look like very cheap compared to the value of the market they'll have when the only way for an average joe to get from A to B is via Uber .
Seriously reading through the majority of the comments that list inane things like "what about children crossing the road?", "what about cats and dogs?", "what if there's an ambulance?", "what if the road is blocked and there's construction work, how does GPS work then?"
I mean seriously do you guys have no understanding of information systems?
To those of you think driverless cars are too hard, and they can't possibly work, just watch, the only issues driverless cars will have will be trust, in the same way people trusted a horse and cart over a car 100 years ago.... The technology is already all here and those who understand it know that driverless cars will be safer and result in less congestion than roads filled with cars driven by people.
Welcome to the 21st century.
And computers are already doing exactly this. Such information is already available in google maps with real time data collection they know where the congestion is and the traffic hazards are.
The technology is such these days that all the examples you site would be probably better detected by computers than they would by human beings. Driving a car safely is actually a very deterministic process, it a simple process of data collection and applying very simple rules e.g... While approach child on side of road, decrease speed by 10% ...
How many times have you seen some idiot in a car get in the way of an ambulance or driving through an intersection and nearly colliding with an ambulance? Well the day will come when driverless cars know the position of every emergency vehicle and react to make way for these vehicles before they would even be within sight of a human.
I can see the day coming when they start to think about banning humans from driving vehicles as they will be regarded as a hazard compared to automated vehicles. I don't think people who make these kinds of arguments against driverless vehicles have much of an understanding about technology or software development.
"Take money away from banks and goverments?"
Sounds like you don't understand money or bitcoin. The governments and banks create money, people converting their money to bitcoin doesn't take it away money from governments and banks. They still control the world financial systems, which none of the players in bitcoin have any control over.
Models are wrong by definition. Otherwise they wouldn't be models. Modelling an analogue systems with infinite levels of complexity will always involve a degree of error.
This notion that we can simply ignore scientific models and not act on them just because they have some degree of error in them is idiotic. If throughout history we based all our decisions on such logic we would still be in the stone age, which is what climate change deniers will return us to if we choose to listen to their moronic arguments.
Just because they did it 40 years ago doesn't mean it's OK to do it now.
Four million years ago we ran around clubbing each other over the head, didn't farm and ate raw meat. Four hundred years ago an unmarried women with a cat could be justifiably burnt to death for being witch. Forty years ago it wasn't unheard of for people to be lynched because of the colour of their skin.
Do you see now just how stupid your argument is? Just because they did it in the past doesn't make it OK for them to do it now, only on a much bigger scale.
What a depressing take on it all.
This is the kind of thinking somehow distorts, fraud, dishonesty, immorality and turns it into virtues defined by a single word "winner".
It honestly turns my stomach.
We've got about 50-100 years to come up with something better than law of the jungle, if we can't evolve socially we're just going to wipe ourselves out along with most of the other species on this planet.
So no I disagree, this sort of perversion, fraud, corruption, immorality, dishonesty shouldn't be a part of the election process and when it is, it should be called out and the candidate thrown out on his/her ass or better still put in jail.
No it's not called campaigning, if it were Robert Mueller and his team wouldn't be investigating Trump for links to this activity.
Fraud, subversion and collusion with foreign governments may have been part of many elections in the past but not on this scale and in the past when candidates conducting these sorts of activities have been exposed it's meant the end of their campaign.
Social media providers will be taking this very seriously as it undermines their systems credibility as genuine platforms for social interaction. If they don't take credible actions to reduce the flow of spam on their systems, people will eventually catch on that their whole system is a waste of time and move on.
I think it's very obvious players like Facebook etc can do a lot more than they currently are to prevent spam. I'd say it hasn't been a high priority for them and they have actually profited from providing the spammers a platform. However, after Trump's election and the inquiries into foreign state influence on the election, the spotlight has been firmly placed on Facebook and others and the priority on developing counter measures against this sort of abuse of their systems would be going way up.
I disagree. I've used both Windows Phone and Android, I can say without doubt I got more mileage on the battery of my old Samsung Focus Windows Phone than I did my present Samsung Galaxy A3 Android. On Windows Phone I always had +40% battery at the end of a day on a single charge, whereas my Android phone gets charged twice a day. So if they've made big improvements since v7, on the right device, it could easily be true.
I think the biggest irony for Microsoft is that Windows Phone is both the finest OS they've ever produced and also their biggest failure.
The failure of Windows Phone I think has to be laid firmly at the feet of Balmer and his decision to buy Nokia. I never liked Nokia's devices.... neither did anyone else.
If Windows Phone hadn't spurned phone makers like Samsung by buying Nokia, it might have been a very different story for Windows Phone.