Wrong. In the US, the FCC has mandated that home owners associations & landlords *must* allow dishes. I have fought an HOA, and won. Summary: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/...
More to the point, why do you assume that you will even need a dish? The GPS in your phone is currently receiving signals from space. Existing Iridium cell phones have no dish. It's a fair guess that the Elon network would have at least as good technology.
Weaponized? Why do you say that? This was a classified mission, but no payload details. Do you have access to some classified information that we don't?
The coming development of horseless carriages will destroy the economy! Think of the stable boys, the feed mills, the blacksmiths, the buggy whip makers! Oh, the masses of people that will be on the streets in poverty!
And THIS time it's different, unlike every other technology innovation. Really- this time the sky IS falling!
The 1st stage landed at LZ1 again. I believe this was a new booster on this launch (as opposed to a "flight proven" stage).
These landing are becoming so routine that it's almost boring. Almost.
Also,the live feed this time around showed a ground based view of the first stage from launch, to separation, to boost back burn, to landing. Some very long stretches of single shots. Clear weather made for a very interesting perspective!
Perhaps there's another solution here. Today's traffic is mainly moving *people* around. Perhaps we can reduce/replace those trips.
The last one on your list is a good example: going to a movie. The vast majority of movies I see now are in my home. I don't go to the movie theater. Didn't even drive to a BlockBuster. No travel involved at all.
Other things are harder to replace, but we're getting there. With technology, having lunch or your shopping delivered is becoming a practical option- and there's a lot more delivery options for a small package than a car full of humans.
Why should pizza shop have to also build & own a fleet of cars?
Let NASA make the cool new space probes, and get a lift up there from commercial rockets. Getting into obit is easy enough that multiple private companies can do it. The real science out there is hard and doesn't (yet) have commercial payback. That's NASA's niche.
Rushing things was NOT the lesson to be learned from Challenger. The lesson there was this: Listen to your engineers. If they say the air temp is outside of design limits, listen to them. Don't let middle managers overrule them.
The overall lesson of the Shuttle was this: Sporks designed by a committee look cool, but don't do any one job well.
I dunno. I can buy a Tesla today with a pretty good auto-pilot that works now. Traditional car companies have, um, cruise control? Beeping if a car is in my blind spot?
Everyone who's anyone SAYS they have a group working on autonomous driving. Your pay-walled link (hidden nested behind 2 layers of fluffy blogs) doesn't seem to be based on anything but R&D department press releases.
I welcome the idea of multiple competent approaches to the problem - but I stand by my original post. Humans can drive just fine without memorizing roads to within millimeters. We drive by figuring out the road as we come to it. Makes sense for technology to use a flexible approach like that as well.
In the original article, the Cadillac rep seems to be bragging that their system doesn't work on roads in general, and has a very limited use case. Strange things to brag about.
I think Tesla's "on the fly" approach is the right one long term. If Caddy is depending on historical saved maps, any change at all will be a serious challenge. Road construction, parade barriers, broken down vehicles, etc. You can't rely on what a road was yesterday.
And yearly updates? That alone tells me Cadillac doesn't get it. Tesla's algorithm updates, what, every 2 weeks or so - with major car OS updates very few months. And Cadillac thinks that a yearly map update (probably only for 2 or 3 years) is going to make them competitive. That's cute.
We already have pooled driving and shared cars. It's called a taxi. The only thing a self-driving vehicle does is take out the cost of the human driver. That's it.
People also carpool. That's been around forever.
Self-driving vehicles will change a lot of things: delivery trucks will go cross-country without sleep breaks, off-site parking will be more practical, highway deaths will drop like crazy - but nothing about city traffic will fundamentally change.
My prediction is that within 10 years, half of new cars will have some level of self-driving ability. High-end cars will be almost all autonomous capable. I also predict that 1 or more of the classic "big 3" auto makers will go under or be purchased.
Imagine if you only had to eat because you'd become dizzy and weak eventually, and food wasn't really that palatable; eating would be terrible, but necessary.)
That's me about half the time. Eating & food is such a huge pain in the neck. Huge waste of time & money. And yet I get the shakes and fuzzy headed if I don't keep the calories coming in on a regular schedule. Because it's a social thing, you can't just find a nerd replacement like Soylent or some other "get it out of the way" solution - the wife & kids need & want food too.
The human body is just an awful thing to have to maintain.
>bus+metro trip that can last up to 2 hours How much more would a poor person pay to trim that 2 hour ride to, say 30 minutes? Subsidized Uber sounds like a perfect answer.
Time has value, especially to those working an hourly wage.
Depends. What was the baseline cost of riding the city bus? If it was anywhere close to that amount, the net result is faster travel for the same user cost, with a massively lower cost to the city.
If it takes off, this may create a stream of side income for a lot of people with working used cars - instead of a bus factory far, far away.
Even more so - this sounds like uploading historian data to an outsourced company for analysis. Uploading log files is a long way from internet controlled.
Nuts, this kind of analysis should be done in-house on a real-time basis, if you're doing predictive fault analysis. Costs of down-time are too high to wait for actual failure.
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Wrong.
In the US, the FCC has mandated that home owners associations & landlords *must* allow dishes. I have fought an HOA, and won.
Summary: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/...
More to the point, why do you assume that you will even need a dish? The GPS in your phone is currently receiving signals from space. Existing Iridium cell phones have no dish. It's a fair guess that the Elon network would have at least as good technology.
I looked around for a while, and ended up using ProtoPage. I still miss iGoogle.
Weaponized? Why do you say that?
This was a classified mission, but no payload details. Do you have access to some classified information that we don't?
Don't spread rumors if all you have is FUD.
So anything less than perfection is a failure. Gotcha.
Dude, come on. They have the BEST reuse of rocket parts of any flying rocket on the planet. That's sad?
Plus, at least with the previous launch, they are recovering that fairings. And there are plans for 2nd stage recovery, but that's a ways off.
This.
The coming development of horseless carriages will destroy the economy! Think of the stable boys, the feed mills, the blacksmiths, the buggy whip makers! Oh, the masses of people that will be on the streets in poverty!
And THIS time it's different, unlike every other technology innovation. Really- this time the sky IS falling!
The 1st stage landed at LZ1 again. I believe this was a new booster on this launch (as opposed to a "flight proven" stage).
These landing are becoming so routine that it's almost boring. Almost.
Also,the live feed this time around showed a ground based view of the first stage from launch, to separation, to boost back burn, to landing. Some very long stretches of single shots. Clear weather made for a very interesting perspective!
Perhaps there's another solution here. Today's traffic is mainly moving *people* around. Perhaps we can reduce/replace those trips.
The last one on your list is a good example: going to a movie. The vast majority of movies I see now are in my home. I don't go to the movie theater. Didn't even drive to a BlockBuster. No travel involved at all.
Other things are harder to replace, but we're getting there. With technology, having lunch or your shopping delivered is becoming a practical option- and there's a lot more delivery options for a small package than a car full of humans.
Why should pizza shop have to also build & own a fleet of cars?
Let NASA make the cool new space probes, and get a lift up there from commercial rockets. Getting into obit is easy enough that multiple private companies can do it. The real science out there is hard and doesn't (yet) have commercial payback. That's NASA's niche.
>SpaceX is notorious for delays.
You misspelled "every rocket maker ever". Name me one manned rocket system that was on-time and on-budget.
Space is hard.
Rushing things was NOT the lesson to be learned from Challenger.
The lesson there was this: Listen to your engineers. If they say the air temp is outside of design limits, listen to them. Don't let middle managers overrule them.
The overall lesson of the Shuttle was this: Sporks designed by a committee look cool, but don't do any one job well.
Survivor bias strikes again.
Just because she did this, doesn't mean that's normal or expected.
>What's Offensive today?
Oh, for mod points. Best comment on this article.
I dunno. I can buy a Tesla today with a pretty good auto-pilot that works now. Traditional car companies have, um, cruise control? Beeping if a car is in my blind spot?
Everyone who's anyone SAYS they have a group working on autonomous driving. Your pay-walled link (hidden nested behind 2 layers of fluffy blogs) doesn't seem to be based on anything but R&D department press releases.
I welcome the idea of multiple competent approaches to the problem - but I stand by my original post. Humans can drive just fine without memorizing roads to within millimeters. We drive by figuring out the road as we come to it. Makes sense for technology to use a flexible approach like that as well.
In the original article, the Cadillac rep seems to be bragging that their system doesn't work on roads in general, and has a very limited use case. Strange things to brag about.
I think Tesla's "on the fly" approach is the right one long term. If Caddy is depending on historical saved maps, any change at all will be a serious challenge. Road construction, parade barriers, broken down vehicles, etc. You can't rely on what a road was yesterday.
And yearly updates? That alone tells me Cadillac doesn't get it. Tesla's algorithm updates, what, every 2 weeks or so - with major car OS updates very few months. And Cadillac thinks that a yearly map update (probably only for 2 or 3 years) is going to make them competitive. That's cute.
We already have pooled driving and shared cars. It's called a taxi.
The only thing a self-driving vehicle does is take out the cost of the human driver. That's it.
People also carpool. That's been around forever.
Self-driving vehicles will change a lot of things: delivery trucks will go cross-country without sleep breaks, off-site parking will be more practical, highway deaths will drop like crazy - but nothing about city traffic will fundamentally change.
>, it pays for itself because of increase in population density that occurs as a result.
You say that like it's a good thing.
I think that number is very, very low.
My prediction is that within 10 years, half of new cars will have some level of self-driving ability. High-end cars will be almost all autonomous capable.
I also predict that 1 or more of the classic "big 3" auto makers will go under or be purchased.
Define "productive".
Maybe your definition is flawed.
Imagine if you only had to eat because you'd become dizzy and weak eventually, and food wasn't really that palatable; eating would be terrible, but necessary.)
That's me about half the time. Eating & food is such a huge pain in the neck. Huge waste of time & money. And yet I get the shakes and fuzzy headed if I don't keep the calories coming in on a regular schedule.
Because it's a social thing, you can't just find a nerd replacement like Soylent or some other "get it out of the way" solution - the wife & kids need & want food too.
The human body is just an awful thing to have to maintain.
"Workbar attracts the coveted millennial generation, "
Wait, since when were millennials coveted as employees? Given their stereotyped work ethic, I'd think it would be the opposite.
And yet again, the Gen X'res are forgotten and passed over again by the media.
You're missing the point. Users certainly are free to repair the phones. Establish law there.
Apple's way around this is to not sell replacement parts. There might be something to the security angle, but sounds mighty fishy.
And ya, this is old news, since at least the iPhone 5.
>bus+metro trip that can last up to 2 hours
How much more would a poor person pay to trim that 2 hour ride to, say 30 minutes? Subsidized Uber sounds like a perfect answer.
Time has value, especially to those working an hourly wage.
Depends. What was the baseline cost of riding the city bus? If it was anywhere close to that amount, the net result is faster travel for the same user cost, with a massively lower cost to the city.
If it takes off, this may create a stream of side income for a lot of people with working used cars - instead of a bus factory far, far away.
Even more so - this sounds like uploading historian data to an outsourced company for analysis.
Uploading log files is a long way from internet controlled.
Nuts, this kind of analysis should be done in-house on a real-time basis, if you're doing predictive fault analysis. Costs of down-time are too high to wait for actual failure.
(Hangs head in shame)