Flying cars make sense to me as point to point between hubs, with regular flying cars to take.
Tunnels make a lot of sense for that as well, but it's a lot quicker and easier to stand up transfer hubs and start flying craft between them...
I've noticed in almost every city I've been in, that it is absolutely terrible to get from one side to another if you aren't along a major road or subway route on both ends. Flying cabs/buses would be a great way to solve that for a limited set of people.
On a side note, also can't have protestors messing with tunnels or aerial traffic, unlike bus routes and roads.
I sure wouldn't want the responsibility of transferring everything from an older computer to a newer one on a regular basis. Easy for a system migrator to miss something a user stuck in an odd place... or if apps don't work on the new system in the same way, you have to talk through all the changes with the user.
So my hat is off to the techs that have to handle this...
Too bad that Trump's voter base just does not hear the incessant "fuck you, plebes" messages from the Republican party and their president.
It's funny you say that when the economy is booming and the populace is receiving exactly the opposite message from Trump.. which is why his approval numbers have been climbing.
Now the Democrats... they are the one who pretend there is not problem at the border while thousands a day stream over, or people die all over from horrific imported gang violence. Talk about a giant "fuck you" to the minorities they supposedly represent. Whose jobs will all of those incoming minors be taking after all... when you import lot of poor people, the poor people already here suffer worse than anyone from increases in crime and job shortages.
Not sure why Trump would do anything like that with his approval numbers among minorities increasing steadily.
After a few years most minorities have started to realize that living is prosperity is far better than living on a Democratic plantation being mined for votes...
You want bitter white nationalism, look no further than the majority of Democrat presidential candidates. If Hillary had won for sure we'd see a DWHS, not a surprise from an elderly southern white woman.
I don't know if these "You Tube Moderators" have looked around much, but you can find hateful comments on pretty much any video. Why block comments on just this one?
If YouTube wants to block "hateful comments" why do they allow comments anywhere?
Actually, by definition, their actions are conservative. âoe(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform.â
Fine, if you want to claim all Democrats are conservative, since they all oppose Trump reforms for example.
However since we live in the real world perhaps lay off the grammar nazi bit a little, Mkay? It just makes you look petty.
Rural areas (which it was) are dominated by Republican voters
If you bothered reading your own link you'd find it happened in Massachusetts. Huh, I wonder who carried Massachusetts...
Don't seem much for facts do you? Guess you are also a Conservative Democrat, since you hate having your mind changed from its unfactual representation to a more likely one...
Could one of them be a closet Democrat? Sure... but it's rather improbable.
Or in fact as I have shown with actual facts, rather likely and it's you who are conjuring up your political enemies as the hatemongers. But given your petty attitude at my offering corrections to help you, we find you are just another hate-filled bigoted liberal who assumes bad == Republican. Sad.
Because Tesla is green and liberals like green so therefore they hate Tesla.
As I said, just bigoted... some of the largest environmental support groups are composed of largely Republican hunters, and I myself am a fervent environmentalist (vastly more than any other poster on Slashdot I've ever seen).
I'll let you have the last post, since you are too conservative to understand or be convinced of what is really happening.... beyond my help at this time. Maybe eventually you will heal.
that we could have right wingers shunning and harassing Teslas and Tesla owners to make an anti-Democrat statement.
From the Reddit thread you linked to:
It's weird that guys like this think that people who drive expensive electric cars vote differently than they do. I only know 3 Tesla drivers, and they're all Republicans.
From a comment nearby:
A lot of guys I work with drive lifted up trucks. You'd think we were all redneck Trump supporters, especially since we are construction tradesmen. We are union and we vote for our paycheck and for our union. We are mostly all democrats.
Further points - none of the trucks have any right wing bumper stickers. All I can discern from the highest resolution photo is two of them have "Mint" logos, which I have not been able to match up with a company but it doesn't SOUND very right-wing.
To me this is way different than right/left, this is car owners just being jerks probably because they see Tesla drivers as elite - could honestly be either conservative or liberal or just lifelong members of the Asshole Party.
I think most reasonable people would understand a "viable" business to be one that is able to sustain itself in an undistorted market.
That also describes Tesla now since they are still maintaining sales even though tax credits have mostly evaporated for the cars they sell.
If you compare Tesla's to other cars the price they charge is really reasonable, especially considering what you save in gasoline and some other routine petrol engine related maintenance over time.
Lookout's analysis found that the iOS variant is a bit cruder than its Android counterpart, and it lacks the ability to exploit device vulnerabilities. However, the apps were still able to use documented APIs to exfiltrate contacts, photos, videos and user-recorded audio recordings, device information and location data
Since it only uses documented API's, that means separate prompts each to access location, photos/video, and contacts. I'm not even sure how it would get to user-recorded audio recordings outside the app unless it also popped up a browser for iCloud Drive files... That's a pretty big set of permission asks for any one app, between that and having to download and trust the enterprise certificate for the apps (in itself a bit of a process) I wonder how many takers they actually get.
So, with Tesla being the only automaker who can realistically deliver cars and charging stations for fleets around the globe needing to meet standards in this way, perhaps it starts to become clear just how incredibly valuable Tesla is becoming...
I always wondered about those loose easily grabbable and expensive cameras sitting where they could be easily plucked.
This is yet another case where Star Wars has important life lessons to offer us, this time on the subject of door security.
Do you think anyone tried to grab Jabba the Hutt's door security camera? Hell no and if they tried to grab it even after it came out from the shielding, you can bet the camera could take care of itself (and the grabber).
So, still waiting for some company to produce the armored and active Jabba door cam. Been waiting for a while now, come on guys!
I agree that a lot of police activity these days has become about revenue collusion from those who can least afford the losses.
Fines proportional to income may be a good idea, the only concern I have there is someone with no job at all should not be able to live consequence free... I just think there are a lot of things that are illegal now, that we need to make not illegal any longer.
I read the article but it didn't talk about my biggest concern - are these video calls monitored/recorded? I expect that they are...
Even if they were not, there's no way I'd want to tay things over this service that I might want to say in person.
I think it's a great idea to offer this as an additional service, maybe curtailing personal visits or making that a charge - but it seems really wrong to do away with in-person visits altogether.
I also wonder if it would have a dehumanizing aspect on inmates not to see friends and families in person on a regular basis....
Mostly they do not know, but from time to time stores like this come along in the mainstream that explain things to people, then lots do know - but it doesn't seem to change usage much.
Hell, I do know and it doesn't affect my use much at all, except that I shy away from Google a little more than I would if they were not as sketchy in behavior. But I still have my email through them, and use them for search a lot because I need a search engine that returns good results which in repeated attempts to switch away I've simply not found a decent replacement for.
So if even I who do know at a deeper level than most people keep using Google and Facebook, you can understand where a lot of people even knowing more, would still not stop them from using these services because they offer a lot of value to a lot of people.
I've worked in both collocated and distributed environments and I've actually measured (objectively) the effects of both. Business people; don't be fooled! Distributed teams usually cost more than they are worth!
Maybe at one point that was true, but I highly doubt that is the case now as group communication has become really efficient.
Also I question how objective your measurements really were. If they were not with the same PEOPLE over that entire time, they mean nothing - some people and teams work well as a remote group, some do not.
What is an absolutely objective fact is how much time is saved every day by the remote worker in terms of not commuting. That is time that can either be used for work (often true) or sometimes for personal errands, which would have eventually been taken out of work time anyway. Distributed workers have more time and energy to give a company, point blank.
Anyone who says otherwise has not experienced a lifetime of calls or out of work errands to try and deal with stuff on company time, that has to be dealt with during the day.
I'm sure few people expect what Google actually does, as it would require technical understanding to realize what is possible and what is probable...
But here's the truly important thing - how many people truly CARE what Google or Facebook is doing?
People say they don't want to be tracked across Google, but then they keep on using it. People say they don't want Facebook tracking, but they keep on using it as well. They are saying "I would like everything this does today but disable the tracking". That's nice and all but by continuing to use those services even when they know what is going on, they are indicating they really don't care that much at all and are willing to make the tradeoff of privacy for service.
Because, in my experience, meetings are absolutely useless
At some places I've worked at, we always did an in-person physical standup every day.
Far more simpler is to broadcast things done yesterday and planned to do today on Slack - if a team has a lot of remote people everyone is paying attention to the Slack (or similar group chat) and no-ones time is taken up on things they don't need to know directly.
I do disagree that all meetings are worthless, I have been to a lot of small in-person meetings that were very useful for everyone to come together on a common approach to a problem we were all trying to solve or how someone would use a system. While that can be done over chat to some degree even chat is a lot slower than voice/video to get through ideas quickly. But only with a small number of people, any meeting with more than say 3-4 people seems like it can quickly get non-productive or take a lot longer to arrive at some shared goal.
They will eventually far overtake traditional battery cars.
They need a huge amount of infrastructure putting in
Incorrect because you can easily convert gas stations, and "recharge" time is minutes like gas today.
VASTLY more difficult is putting in the infrastructure required to support ALL cars being electric. Tesla superchargers work today only because Teslas are somewhat rare compared to other cars. But there are already reports of them getting full. you may have to wait an hour before you are charged up enough to carry on. Not going to work at full scale.
That is why the future is inevitably hydrogen, because if it's not it means a majority go vehicles are still metro cars, and I just can't see that being the long term truth.
the fuel is still expensive and difficult to produce cleanly
Why are you wasting time talking about what is, not what will be in ten years?
they aren't as convenient or cheap to run as EVs.
With a much faster recharge time they are way more convenient than an EV, and eventually hydrogen will be cheap enough the costs will be similar. Even currently that Toyota car I liked to included 15k worth of hydrogen with the car for free, so it's the same price to owners as a supercharger for most Tesla drivers.
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Flying cars make sense to me as point to point between hubs, with regular flying cars to take.
Tunnels make a lot of sense for that as well, but it's a lot quicker and easier to stand up transfer hubs and start flying craft between them...
I've noticed in almost every city I've been in, that it is absolutely terrible to get from one side to another if you aren't along a major road or subway route on both ends. Flying cabs/buses would be a great way to solve that for a limited set of people.
On a side note, also can't have protestors messing with tunnels or aerial traffic, unlike bus routes and roads.
I sure wouldn't want the responsibility of transferring everything from an older computer to a newer one on a regular basis. Easy for a system migrator to miss something a user stuck in an odd place... or if apps don't work on the new system in the same way, you have to talk through all the changes with the user.
So my hat is off to the techs that have to handle this...
It only took two bills before Slashdot readers / trolls started accusing House Democrats of sending unworkable bills to the Senate
Well two is a pretty good start to a trend, that you can obviously see is coming.
Or at least anyone who knows Democrats these days knows is coming.
Too bad that Trump's voter base just does not hear the incessant "fuck you, plebes" messages from the Republican party and their president.
It's funny you say that when the economy is booming and the populace is receiving exactly the opposite message from Trump.. which is why his approval numbers have been climbing.
Now the Democrats... they are the one who pretend there is not problem at the border while thousands a day stream over, or people die all over from horrific imported gang violence. Talk about a giant "fuck you" to the minorities they supposedly represent. Whose jobs will all of those incoming minors be taking after all... when you import lot of poor people, the poor people already here suffer worse than anyone from increases in crime and job shortages.
No federally elected Democrat is arguing that,
Multiple elected Democrats in the House and Senate are for totally open borders and minimum wage at $15.
Just the facts, man.
Not sure why Trump would do anything like that with his approval numbers among minorities increasing steadily.
After a few years most minorities have started to realize that living is prosperity is far better than living on a Democratic plantation being mined for votes...
You want bitter white nationalism, look no further than the majority of Democrat presidential candidates. If Hillary had won for sure we'd see a DWHS, not a surprise from an elderly southern white woman.
I don't know if these "You Tube Moderators" have looked around much, but you can find hateful comments on pretty much any video. Why block comments on just this one?
If YouTube wants to block "hateful comments" why do they allow comments anywhere?
Real danger, as always, is global cooling.
Actually, by definition, their actions are conservative. âoe(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform.â
Fine, if you want to claim all Democrats are conservative, since they all oppose Trump reforms for example.
However since we live in the real world perhaps lay off the grammar nazi bit a little, Mkay? It just makes you look petty.
Rural areas (which it was) are dominated by Republican voters
If you bothered reading your own link you'd find it happened in Massachusetts. Huh, I wonder who carried Massachusetts...
Don't seem much for facts do you? Guess you are also a Conservative Democrat, since you hate having your mind changed from its unfactual representation to a more likely one...
Could one of them be a closet Democrat? Sure... but it's rather improbable.
Or in fact as I have shown with actual facts, rather likely and it's you who are conjuring up your political enemies as the hatemongers. But given your petty attitude at my offering corrections to help you, we find you are just another hate-filled bigoted liberal who assumes bad == Republican. Sad.
Because Tesla is green and liberals like green so therefore they hate Tesla.
As I said, just bigoted... some of the largest environmental support groups are composed of largely Republican hunters, and I myself am a fervent environmentalist (vastly more than any other poster on Slashdot I've ever seen).
I'll let you have the last post, since you are too conservative to understand or be convinced of what is really happening.... beyond my help at this time. Maybe eventually you will heal.
that we could have right wingers shunning and harassing Teslas and Tesla owners to make an anti-Democrat statement.
From the Reddit thread you linked to:
It's weird that guys like this think that people who drive expensive electric cars vote differently than they do. I only know 3 Tesla drivers, and they're all Republicans.
From a comment nearby:
A lot of guys I work with drive lifted up trucks. You'd think we were all redneck Trump supporters, especially since we are construction tradesmen. We are union and we vote for our paycheck and for our union. We are mostly all democrats.
Further points - none of the trucks have any right wing bumper stickers. All I can discern from the highest resolution photo is two of them have "Mint" logos, which I have not been able to match up with a company but it doesn't SOUND very right-wing.
To me this is way different than right/left, this is car owners just being jerks probably because they see Tesla drivers as elite - could honestly be either conservative or liberal or just lifelong members of the Asshole Party.
Tesla makes $60,000+ cars
Fake News, Tesla Hater!
Get your head out of three years ago... or wherever else it may have ended up.
I think most reasonable people would understand a "viable" business to be one that is able to sustain itself in an undistorted market.
That also describes Tesla now since they are still maintaining sales even though tax credits have mostly evaporated for the cars they sell.
If you compare Tesla's to other cars the price they charge is really reasonable, especially considering what you save in gasoline and some other routine petrol engine related maintenance over time.
his is just going to shift a bunch of money around at the top
Yes that is true.
What is also true is a bunch of that money is in fact shifting to Tesla, a company that not that long ago it was claimed was not viable.
Now it's the only company that can fulfill fleet requirements for large numbers of electric cars and infrastructure.
Of note is this last part:
Lookout's analysis found that the iOS variant is a bit cruder than its Android counterpart, and it lacks the ability to exploit device vulnerabilities. However, the apps were still able to use documented APIs to exfiltrate contacts, photos, videos and user-recorded audio recordings, device information and location data
Since it only uses documented API's, that means separate prompts each to access location, photos/video, and contacts. I'm not even sure how it would get to user-recorded audio recordings outside the app unless it also popped up a browser for iCloud Drive files... That's a pretty big set of permission asks for any one app, between that and having to download and trust the enterprise certificate for the apps (in itself a bit of a process) I wonder how many takers they actually get.
So, with Tesla being the only automaker who can realistically deliver cars and charging stations for fleets around the globe needing to meet standards in this way, perhaps it starts to become clear just how incredibly valuable Tesla is becoming...
I had no idea they did that, very cool and impressive...
I always wondered about those loose easily grabbable and expensive cameras sitting where they could be easily plucked.
This is yet another case where Star Wars has important life lessons to offer us, this time on the subject of door security.
Do you think anyone tried to grab Jabba the Hutt's door security camera? Hell no and if they tried to grab it even after it came out from the shielding, you can bet the camera could take care of itself (and the grabber).
So, still waiting for some company to produce the armored and active Jabba door cam. Been waiting for a while now, come on guys!
I agree that a lot of police activity these days has become about revenue collusion from those who can least afford the losses.
Fines proportional to income may be a good idea, the only concern I have there is someone with no job at all should not be able to live consequence free... I just think there are a lot of things that are illegal now, that we need to make not illegal any longer.
I read the article but it didn't talk about my biggest concern - are these video calls monitored/recorded? I expect that they are...
Even if they were not, there's no way I'd want to tay things over this service that I might want to say in person.
I think it's a great idea to offer this as an additional service, maybe curtailing personal visits or making that a charge - but it seems really wrong to do away with in-person visits altogether.
I also wonder if it would have a dehumanizing aspect on inmates not to see friends and families in person on a regular basis....
They do not know, so how can they care?
Mostly they do not know, but from time to time stores like this come along in the mainstream that explain things to people, then lots do know - but it doesn't seem to change usage much.
Hell, I do know and it doesn't affect my use much at all, except that I shy away from Google a little more than I would if they were not as sketchy in behavior. But I still have my email through them, and use them for search a lot because I need a search engine that returns good results which in repeated attempts to switch away I've simply not found a decent replacement for.
So if even I who do know at a deeper level than most people keep using Google and Facebook, you can understand where a lot of people even knowing more, would still not stop them from using these services because they offer a lot of value to a lot of people.
I was curious if it was just x86 assembly, or all assembly across all processors (like ARM)?
Some curious changes on that list...
I've worked in both collocated and distributed environments and I've actually measured (objectively) the effects of both. Business people; don't be fooled! Distributed teams usually cost more than they are worth!
Maybe at one point that was true, but I highly doubt that is the case now as group communication has become really efficient.
Also I question how objective your measurements really were. If they were not with the same PEOPLE over that entire time, they mean nothing - some people and teams work well as a remote group, some do not.
What is an absolutely objective fact is how much time is saved every day by the remote worker in terms of not commuting. That is time that can either be used for work (often true) or sometimes for personal errands, which would have eventually been taken out of work time anyway. Distributed workers have more time and energy to give a company, point blank.
Anyone who says otherwise has not experienced a lifetime of calls or out of work errands to try and deal with stuff on company time, that has to be dealt with during the day.
I'm sure few people expect what Google actually does, as it would require technical understanding to realize what is possible and what is probable...
But here's the truly important thing - how many people truly CARE what Google or Facebook is doing?
People say they don't want to be tracked across Google, but then they keep on using it. People say they don't want Facebook tracking, but they keep on using it as well. They are saying "I would like everything this does today but disable the tracking". That's nice and all but by continuing to use those services even when they know what is going on, they are indicating they really don't care that much at all and are willing to make the tradeoff of privacy for service.
Because, in my experience, meetings are absolutely useless
At some places I've worked at, we always did an in-person physical standup every day.
Far more simpler is to broadcast things done yesterday and planned to do today on Slack - if a team has a lot of remote people everyone is paying attention to the Slack (or similar group chat) and no-ones time is taken up on things they don't need to know directly.
I do disagree that all meetings are worthless, I have been to a lot of small in-person meetings that were very useful for everyone to come together on a common approach to a problem we were all trying to solve or how someone would use a system. While that can be done over chat to some degree even chat is a lot slower than voice/video to get through ideas quickly. But only with a small number of people, any meeting with more than say 3-4 people seems like it can quickly get non-productive or take a lot longer to arrive at some shared goal.
Hydrogen cars will never be mass market.
They will eventually far overtake traditional battery cars.
They need a huge amount of infrastructure putting in
Incorrect because you can easily convert gas stations, and "recharge" time is minutes like gas today.
VASTLY more difficult is putting in the infrastructure required to support ALL cars being electric. Tesla superchargers work today only because Teslas are somewhat rare compared to other cars. But there are already reports of them getting full. you may have to wait an hour before you are charged up enough to carry on. Not going to work at full scale.
That is why the future is inevitably hydrogen, because if it's not it means a majority go vehicles are still metro cars, and I just can't see that being the long term truth.
the fuel is still expensive and difficult to produce cleanly
Why are you wasting time talking about what is, not what will be in ten years?
they aren't as convenient or cheap to run as EVs.
With a much faster recharge time they are way more convenient than an EV, and eventually hydrogen will be cheap enough the costs will be similar. Even currently that Toyota car I liked to included 15k worth of hydrogen with the car for free, so it's the same price to owners as a supercharger for most Tesla drivers.