"Pet charter school"? That seems to say the submitter thinks this isn't a good idea.
Dude. If someone want to shake up education to try something new, and wants to give a boat load of money - what's not to love?
What if this turns up something that works better? What if it doesn't, and all we get is rich people giving money towards educating a bunch of children?
Security in depth, dude. You can't get 100% prefect security day 1, so you add security to every layer of the whole process, adding it in as you can. Security in this case, meaning locking down who has control of audio. Analog is insecure, because Apple/licensing agreements can't control it.
That's a mighty big assumption. That and you're not factoring in that Tesla's system in an opt-in beta feature with a big disclaimer you must agree to. Changing one word in the description of the feature isn't going to negate all those hurdles to just get it turned on...
It's to support legacy hardware. Printing presses using physical typeset would have problems with a tiny period or comma in the middle of open space (away from text and under the quote marks) - it would tear paper or break off the typeset. The get around that, they moved the dot closer to other text - to the left of the quote mark.
Somehow that hack implemented for hardware support changed the language structure to become official, even though that's not logical or even the original standard.
There are actually a lot of universal, non-learned human gestures. The first pump in the air is a good example - a sign of pride & victory. Saw that on a documentary a while back. Basic body language study will show a ton more. Crossed arms, smiles, covering the face/mouth with a hand - all other examples. Fascinating stuff.
>Apple has a long history of deprecating stuff that (at the time) people thought was premature - but in essentially all the other cases it turns out that the new thing really is better
I'll grant the examples you cite, but Apple also has a history of that strategy failing miserably. Firewire to kill off SCSI and USB, The Newton to kill off small keyboards (I type on my iPhone keyboard constantly). There are more, but people just don't remember them.
My money is on Apple returning the headphone jack in the iPhone. It's that bad a decision. Stand you ground people & make some noise. We don't have to take this sitting down.
Unless a specific song has been specifically downloaded in a non-DRM format, it's nearly impossible to get a song/show/movie off of an i-Device. iTunes will merrily prompt you to overwrite your phone if it doesn't recognize your DRM authentication (limit 5 per account). The whole scheme is based around keeping you inside the DRM walled garden. Granted, it's a nice garden, but that wall makes it really tough to move things in & out.
The whole non-DRM music thing was an experiment to see if the market wanted it. Most people didn't care. It's not an active thing anymore.
Totally agree. BUT - if this passes, it's a great proving grounds for winter driving. Nevada has hot & dry down pat. Cars need to be tuned for driving in sub-optimal weather, and man, do we ever have that.
Drop an autonomous car in the lake-effect snow region, and that problem will get solved real quick.
Michigan being protectionist in favor of old established companies? Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
This will change once the sales tax folks start noticing how many of us are hopping over to Ohio or Indiana to buy Tesla's direct. Takes money to fight money.
And crime is illegal too, therefore it can't happen.
I'm in Michgian, and I've been hit by an idiot with no insurance. I had to pay out of pocket the deductible that was legally the responsibility of the person at fault. They were broke, and taking them to court would get me squat. No point in trying. As the saying legal saying goes "There's power in poverty"
Back on topic - no fault might actually be good for automous cars. Can you imagine the size of a lawsuit between 2 large auto manufactures who's cars collide?
Michigander reporting in. Auto manufacturing is leaving the state, and has been for a long time. (Ever see photos of Detroit?) The "Big 3" aren't even domestic brands anymore, and non-Detroit brands like Tesla are threatening to take market-share once model 3 start rolling out.
I'd wager this is out of fear. Michigan is a has-been in the auto world, and we need to get back into the game. I like this proposal.
No, it hasn't. Most farmable land today (90%) lies at less than 100 ft above sea level. If sea levels rise, a large portion of it will be subdued.
Umm, [citation needed] on that. Even within the USA, that's not even close to true. The so-called "flyover states" are all well above that, and are producing mindboggling amounts of food. I'd be shocked if more than 1% of farm land globally is actually 100ft or lower above sea level.
Genuinely curious here - how is wifi useful for determining location? Only a very, very small number of wifi access points can have pre-determined GPS locations, and you can't get an address from them.
I've seen that annoying iPhone pop-up saying that GPS works better with wifi turned on, but always assumed that was a frequency/chipset conflict issue.
If you're genuinely curious, you really do need to download the free demo of the game "Kerbal Space Program". You really can't grock space travel & orbital mechanics unless you play around with them.
Ideas like "faster is higher, slower is lower", and "burn at the low point to change the high point" don't make sense until you play with them. That and, there is no such thing as a straight line in space. Everything's an orbit.
Seriously, give it a try. You might just learn more than a year of college by just paying a game.
The advent of modern HVAC created freedom to design buildings any way we want now- we are no longer constrained by a small number of design parameters. Citing the large number of boring buildings as a sign of laziness and decline is just lazy thinking itself.
Sure, 90% of modern buildings are crap designs. That's because 90% of everything is crap- always has been, always will be. The good stuff now has a much wider variety and more innovative thinking.
Have mod points, would rather educate. You have a lawsuit against your landlord. Federal law grants you the right to mount a dish. I have personally fought a home owners association, and won. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/...
With self driving cars, will soon come cars without passengers. Think long-haul trucks without drivers. Who's going to "refuel" these trucks for cross-country trips?
Or consider the self-driving Uber (remember Johnny cab?). At some point during the day, it's going to need to recharge.
Thinking about it that way, this makes a lot of sense. I'm OK with rich & lazy people paying for the R&D, and shaking out the bugs. Makes for a better product when it's down to my price point.
They already thought of that- part of the "hey siri" setup is training your voice. You have to say the trigger phrase 3 or 4 times to teach it your individual voice. I guess it also helps with false positives with background noise.
Personally, I like to keep control over when the phone is listening and taking actions.
>For every 1000 jobs eliminated, only a few dozens will be created. Kinda like how everyone involves in stables, horse shoes, and buggy driving are all out of work begging on the streets now that we have cars?
Seriously, that tired old argument gets drug out with every advance in technology. Things change, people change jobs. The sky is not (and never will) be falling.
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"Pet charter school"? That seems to say the submitter thinks this isn't a good idea.
Dude. If someone want to shake up education to try something new, and wants to give a boat load of money - what's not to love?
What if this turns up something that works better?
What if it doesn't, and all we get is rich people giving money towards educating a bunch of children?
Security in depth, dude. You can't get 100% prefect security day 1, so you add security to every layer of the whole process, adding it in as you can.
Security in this case, meaning locking down who has control of audio. Analog is insecure, because Apple/licensing agreements can't control it.
So if the port disappears, we know to blame you.
Thanks a lot.
That's a mighty big assumption.
That and you're not factoring in that Tesla's system in an opt-in beta feature with a big disclaimer you must agree to. Changing one word in the description of the feature isn't going to negate all those hurdles to just get it turned on...
It's to support legacy hardware.
Printing presses using physical typeset would have problems with a tiny period or comma in the middle of open space (away from text and under the quote marks) - it would tear paper or break off the typeset. The get around that, they moved the dot closer to other text - to the left of the quote mark.
Somehow that hack implemented for hardware support changed the language structure to become official, even though that's not logical or even the original standard.
Think of it as an IE6 of the English Language.
There are actually a lot of universal, non-learned human gestures. The first pump in the air is a good example - a sign of pride & victory. Saw that on a documentary a while back. Basic body language study will show a ton more. Crossed arms, smiles, covering the face/mouth with a hand - all other examples.
Fascinating stuff.
Link?
>Apple has a long history of deprecating stuff that (at the time) people thought was premature - but in essentially all the other cases it turns out that the new thing really is better
I'll grant the examples you cite, but Apple also has a history of that strategy failing miserably. Firewire to kill off SCSI and USB, The Newton to kill off small keyboards (I type on my iPhone keyboard constantly). There are more, but people just don't remember them.
My money is on Apple returning the headphone jack in the iPhone. It's that bad a decision. Stand you ground people & make some noise. We don't have to take this sitting down.
You've clearly never used iTunes.
Unless a specific song has been specifically downloaded in a non-DRM format, it's nearly impossible to get a song/show/movie off of an i-Device. iTunes will merrily prompt you to overwrite your phone if it doesn't recognize your DRM authentication (limit 5 per account). The whole scheme is based around keeping you inside the DRM walled garden. Granted, it's a nice garden, but that wall makes it really tough to move things in & out.
The whole non-DRM music thing was an experiment to see if the market wanted it. Most people didn't care. It's not an active thing anymore.
Wow, a straw man, true Irishman, and ad hominem all in one post. Good job!
Totally agree. BUT - if this passes, it's a great proving grounds for winter driving. Nevada has hot & dry down pat. Cars need to be tuned for driving in sub-optimal weather, and man, do we ever have that.
Drop an autonomous car in the lake-effect snow region, and that problem will get solved real quick.
Michigan being protectionist in favor of old established companies?
Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
This will change once the sales tax folks start noticing how many of us are hopping over to Ohio or Indiana to buy Tesla's direct.
Takes money to fight money.
And crime is illegal too, therefore it can't happen.
I'm in Michgian, and I've been hit by an idiot with no insurance. I had to pay out of pocket the deductible that was legally the responsibility of the person at fault.
They were broke, and taking them to court would get me squat. No point in trying.
As the saying legal saying goes "There's power in poverty"
Back on topic - no fault might actually be good for automous cars. Can you imagine the size of a lawsuit between 2 large auto manufactures who's cars collide?
Michigander reporting in.
Auto manufacturing is leaving the state, and has been for a long time. (Ever see photos of Detroit?)
The "Big 3" aren't even domestic brands anymore, and non-Detroit brands like Tesla are threatening to take market-share once model 3 start rolling out.
I'd wager this is out of fear. Michigan is a has-been in the auto world, and we need to get back into the game. I like this proposal.
No, it hasn't. Most farmable land today (90%) lies at less than 100 ft above sea level. If sea levels rise, a large portion of it will be subdued.
Umm, [citation needed] on that. Even within the USA, that's not even close to true. The so-called "flyover states" are all well above that, and are producing mindboggling amounts of food.
I'd be shocked if more than 1% of farm land globally is actually 100ft or lower above sea level.
Genuinely curious here - how is wifi useful for determining location? Only a very, very small number of wifi access points can have pre-determined GPS locations, and you can't get an address from them.
I've seen that annoying iPhone pop-up saying that GPS works better with wifi turned on, but always assumed that was a frequency/chipset conflict issue.
Anyone know?
If you're genuinely curious, you really do need to download the free demo of the game "Kerbal Space Program". You really can't grock space travel & orbital mechanics unless you play around with them.
Ideas like "faster is higher, slower is lower", and "burn at the low point to change the high point" don't make sense until you play with them. That and, there is no such thing as a straight line in space. Everything's an orbit.
Seriously, give it a try. You might just learn more than a year of college by just paying a game.
The advent of modern HVAC created freedom to design buildings any way we want now- we are no longer constrained by a small number of design parameters. Citing the large number of boring buildings as a sign of laziness and decline is just lazy thinking itself.
Sure, 90% of modern buildings are crap designs. That's because 90% of everything is crap- always has been, always will be. The good stuff now has a much wider variety and more innovative thinking.
Have mod points, would rather educate.
You have a lawsuit against your landlord. Federal law grants you the right to mount a dish.
I have personally fought a home owners association, and won.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/...
With self driving cars, will soon come cars without passengers. Think long-haul trucks without drivers. Who's going to "refuel" these trucks for cross-country trips?
Or consider the self-driving Uber (remember Johnny cab?). At some point during the day, it's going to need to recharge.
Thinking about it that way, this makes a lot of sense. I'm OK with rich & lazy people paying for the R&D, and shaking out the bugs. Makes for a better product when it's down to my price point.
Did no one at Domino's ever hear of the Oprah/KFC fiasco?
Elon is on record as loving KSP. Wouldn't be surprised if that's where the term came from.
Googe'ing for the relevant Reddit thread is left as an exercise for the reader.
They already thought of that- part of the "hey siri" setup is training your voice. You have to say the trigger phrase 3 or 4 times to teach it your individual voice.
I guess it also helps with false positives with background noise.
Personally, I like to keep control over when the phone is listening and taking actions.
>For every 1000 jobs eliminated, only a few dozens will be created.
Kinda like how everyone involves in stables, horse shoes, and buggy driving are all out of work begging on the streets now that we have cars?
Seriously, that tired old argument gets drug out with every advance in technology.
Things change, people change jobs. The sky is not (and never will) be falling.
Anyone have a link to join a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft?
If there isn't one yet, there will be soon. Someone needs to send them a message, and I'm game to pile on.