Wow, am I unique in my views of automated driving? First, I think it will completely change things as we know it. 1) Wouldn't all cars go to be the same or even provided by the state? What incentive would there be to have a nice car if all have to drive the same? Maybe nice interior, but handling, performance, and the notion of "youness" in the car is gone if you are not driving it. Its just a box. 2) I would expect car pooling to increase. Why would the 1 person per car be needed if they can go around and pick up neighbors and pick up your kids for you and so on. Right now a husband and wife work at the same place and drive separate (gas guzzling) cars where I work. This silliness will end with automatic cars. 3) Kids. No driving licensense or anything anymore. No DUI, no checkpoints. None of the "routine traffic stops" gone bad. 4) Odds are better speeds and throughput. Traffic lights will be better optimized. Tailgating will be normal.
I look forward to this. The changes will be immense, and the transition will be interesting. I would love to not drive and do other things while commute in safety and not have to worry about my car and just have a car.
Taking the best thing from a normal computer and using the worst things about android and what do you get???? hopefully they are not using swipe and having it crash all the time.
Yes, I've found it strange that the lower intelligence/class people breed more than those in the opposite stance. But, doesn't it work out? Its almost like the latter group are a sub-species. To support my lifestyle, I have people in China and all over the world making stuff for me. Convenience store people, gas attendants, people that built my house, etc, etc. I need these people to continue breeding to keep my lifestyle going.
As an aside and on topic, I find the recent rise in things like autism to be interesting. I would say its more environment than genetics because evolution is usually a pretty slow process.
The largest filesystem I admin is just shy of 1/2 petabyte. And its one in number. Backing up everything on that filesystem is simply not feasible. To put it in perspective 1 stream @ 200 MiB/s would take almost 28 days to backup the whole thing. I would imagine a restore would take about the same order. Telling hundreds of users their files are unavailable for reading or writing for 30 days is not really an option, so I run fsck.
Backups simply are not really an option past 20+ terabytes of storage, and simply not feasible if the storage is volatile in nature. AFAIK everyone has gone to redundancy over backups at scale.
My point was that I didn't vote for Facebook, Google or Wikipedia nor for the MPIAA, et al that proposed such a thing. Who can I vote for? US government is not about the people. I have no problem with the opposition, but the position was not posited by a government official, but rather private enterprise, and this is not how I learned that the US government worked.
That when the radio was talking about companies like Facebook, Google, and Wikipedia protesting legislation put to Congress by the Motion Picture Industry that there is nothing that I can do. US government isn't much about people anymore. I have no clue how SOPA got this far.
I believe I read on the antipolygraph site about a guy that got a job at the CIA by lying. In fact, since they ask questions like "have you every done X" where X is something that everyone has done to some degree in one's life, then the only way to "pass" these tests is to lie and like well. Nobody in science believes that polygraphs are reliable or valid. But will certainly scare off certain people.
Can we please stop this shit? Blaming doctors doesn't help you, and they are generally not overpaid. For the length and stress of their training, the debt they incur, and the difficult lifestyle many specialties must endure permanently, most doctors are actually underpaid - in overall salary, in compensation per hour, or both.
They are overpaid. Its by design. Its not a free market like programmers, engineers, etc.
I also know surgeons, many of whom do make $300,000 a year, and I've never seen one of them sit still for more than 15 minutes, to watch a movie or lecture, without passing out. They work a minimum of 60 hours a week and constantly get paged for surgery in the middle of the night, whether or not they're actually 'on call'.
Again, this is because doctors are not a free market. The AMA controls how many doctors are produced each year and which schools can make doctors. No other field in the USA is controlled this way. There is no inherent need for the cost of training to be a doctor to be so high, and no reason they are so scarce that they have to work 60 hours a week. In a repressed job market like there is today, I'm sure many, many people would be fine doctors if given the opportunity. Being a doctor is not significantly different than getting a PhD. On average, I would guess that MDs make 2x that of a PhD. That is overpaid.
For example, in China doctors don't make that much. And there are 4 year medical degrees where people work in pharmacies and dispense OTC medication where many of the meds are only by doctor's prescription in the US. Seems like a better system to me.
I'll chime in and say that if open source isn't a core part of your business plan, then why expend the time and money making your project open source? It costs you more to open source something than keeping the code to yourself _unless_ you have something compelling enough that people will want to help you with the code, which is very unlikely. Keep in mind that you can open source the code at any time, so the question is what is it compelling to you now to have it open source?
I would think this would be accurate, but everyone in this thread seems to be missing that TV has a 98-99% penetration in at least American homes. I gave up on it, and everyone thinks I'm nuts. Aside from the paper tv guide (WTF?), I agree with every point AC has put up there. Personally, I found TV an expensive and laborious task. And the content is not even worth just torrenting and watching. I just gave up, and don't miss it. I can't separate the content from the ads. Skipping through them with the PVR remote was just a chore. Most of what I watched was PBS that had no ads anyway, so I guess I could do that again, but why bother?
Oh, some more reasons to add to the pretty complete list:
- content never seems to fit my screen's resolution. Content always fit my screen before widescreen tvs came out, and now my tv is either too wide or too tall for the content. - picture quality sucks. HDTV is a misnomer. Picture quality peaked when cable HD was new, and degraded after that. - sound is inconsistent between channels and within a channel - Annual or multi-annual contracts. I thought this was only designed for cellphones, but TV too? What is next? All of my monthly services having multi-year contracts that only potentially hurt me? No thanks. - Its a time killer. And can be pretty expensive. - Many of the ads actually make me embarrassed even when I am alone. - To get "premium content" you have to pay out the nose with all the non-premium content as well.
There is no way anybody can design a modern processor from scratch without reverse engineering. Think of how many man years is in a processor. Even with the reverse engineering they were only able to obtain 45nm technology which is a few years old. If china started today, it would take them 10-20 years to make a processor 10-20 years out of date. What good is that?
This machine is impressive nonetheless. It uses good power 1MW. Only uses off-the-shelf networking (Infiniband). Only uses 9 racks of space. If they put those on the market, they would sell quite well (at the right price).
The reason that Sun failed is because they failed as at being a Dell or HP and sell cheaper x86 linux based stuff like Dell and HP does. Almost nobody needs an E10k, E15k, E25k, and most of the people that think they need one are wrong. Remember that compute capacity goes up and power usage goes down, whereas the maintenance price of an E*k stays the same or goes up over time, and its relative computing power goes down.
Most everyone today does replication (optionally geographically as well) and hardware redundancy. And E*k is not going to give you geographical redundancy. I've never seen the point in having a 3-5 year server's lifetime cost more than 2x the cost of a regular server when having 2x of them is usually preferable. Sure the most expensive guy may have hot swappable CPUs and motherboards, but so does complete hardware redundancy.
If its any consolation, the website still sucks. WTF is up with not being able to click on the web browser window without it doing some kind of repositioning or folding things up and down? WTF is up with phantom comments with no score being floated to the top? Where have the useful comments gone? It seems as though the moderation system is broken. Why is hijacking a thread the "way to do it?" Where did the login to post a comment go? As far as web design goes, slashdot has become the worst of all popular sites that I visit. I can't think of a close second.
On the other hand there is nothing stopping Google putting limitations how the Android trademark is used and what gets to use their market place.
That is what they do. The Android name and robot logos are trademarked and your hardware and use of software must meet some criteria from Google to use the Android trademarks.
Maybe I should read the FTA (ducks), but to me it would seem as though this trademark limitations would to some degree limit the fragmentation of the Android market. I guess that the trademarks could not limit things like replacing and adding apps on the phone. I have an Android phone. A Samsung Fascinate. And I would trade it for an iPhone in a heartbeat.
It simply reminds me too much of the Windows and Linux user experience. My phone was preloaded with crapware (like most OEM Windows installations). The version of Android is 2.1/Eclair which is old (like most "Enterprise" Linux installations). Using the USB data on the phone broke in January due to a forced software update. There has been another update and still USB does not work. I can't root the phone anymore due to USB issues. The calendar does not work correctly. This is a "known issue" and the fix is to wipe and load the phone and repurchase all of my purchased apps. The software is frequently sluggish and does not respond quickly, which causes frustration and incorrect input from me.
I mean, on the iPhone there was a bug in the alarm clock, and a few people overslept one morning. I'd take that level of dissatisfaction any day.
It's not like offering spreadsheets on line is a viable business.
In 2011, I believe its much more viable than shipping perpetually outdated binaries around. We are in a service economy, not an industrial one.
Even the whole Android phone thing is mostly there to prevent Microsoft from monopolizing that space.
You mean the computing as a service industry? Lets be very clear here. Microsoft has 2 products in a service economy: Windows and Office. And those products are very threatened by lightweight OSes and networked applications. gmail works on phones, linux, OS X, Windows, netbooks. Windows and Office do not.
Also, the change here is the shift from the multi-hundred dollar application with a moderate install base to.99 apps and application services. Its like music today. Nobody wants to "own" music anymore. Its a chore. People just want to listen to music.
This is why I don't use Firefox. Its a tweaker/developer toy (which is fine), but its not a web browser to browse the web. Its what I call perpetually broken software because every time you start it up, it says "I'm broken. Please download updates".
Thinking back to browser history, I thought of my first tabbed browser. I started using it in 2001 or 2002. It was called galeon, here is an embarrassing screenshot: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/shots/fonts.png That is from 2003, the same year I switched to Macs and Safari web browser. That screenshot looks like MSWord6 from 1994 or so, back when toolbars and buttons took preference over your documents. Also when there was only 600-800 vertical rows of pixels on most displays. FF currently uses 10-15 more vertical pixels for its tabs and whatnot at the top when compared to Safari or Chrome. In the netbook era, this seems a bit wasteful.
Someone erroneously posted below that homosexuality is a preference. Its not. I had a friend who was a male married to a female with 2 kids and he was homosexual. AFAIK they had no plans for divorce. I work with a m2f transgender, and I've known many male and female homosexuals and bisexuals. Honestly, I can't understand it fully, but I just look at it as gender being a bimodal distribution that has overlap between the modes. Personally, I think it takes balls to go m2f and in no way be fooling anybody.
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Wow, am I unique in my views of automated driving? First, I think it will completely change things as we know it. 1) Wouldn't all cars go to be the same or even provided by the state? What incentive would there be to have a nice car if all have to drive the same? Maybe nice interior, but handling, performance, and the notion of "youness" in the car is gone if you are not driving it. Its just a box. 2) I would expect car pooling to increase. Why would the 1 person per car be needed if they can go around and pick up neighbors and pick up your kids for you and so on. Right now a husband and wife work at the same place and drive separate (gas guzzling) cars where I work. This silliness will end with automatic cars. 3) Kids. No driving licensense or anything anymore. No DUI, no checkpoints. None of the "routine traffic stops" gone bad. 4) Odds are better speeds and throughput. Traffic lights will be better optimized. Tailgating will be normal.
I look forward to this. The changes will be immense, and the transition will be interesting. I would love to not drive and do other things while commute in safety and not have to worry about my car and just have a car.
Taking the best thing from a normal computer and using the worst things about android and what do you get???? hopefully they are not using swipe and having it crash all the time.
news at 12
Preface: I'm a white dude, arguably a pig.
Yes, I've found it strange that the lower intelligence/class people breed more than those in the opposite stance. But, doesn't it work out? Its almost like the latter group are a sub-species. To support my lifestyle, I have people in China and all over the world making stuff for me. Convenience store people, gas attendants, people that built my house, etc, etc. I need these people to continue breeding to keep my lifestyle going.
As an aside and on topic, I find the recent rise in things like autism to be interesting. I would say its more environment than genetics because evolution is usually a pretty slow process.
Its ugly enough and almost big enough that the wealthy Americans might buy it.
The largest filesystem I admin is just shy of 1/2 petabyte. And its one in number. Backing up everything on that filesystem is simply not feasible. To put it in perspective 1 stream @ 200 MiB/s would take almost 28 days to backup the whole thing. I would imagine a restore would take about the same order. Telling hundreds of users their files are unavailable for reading or writing for 30 days is not really an option, so I run fsck.
Backups simply are not really an option past 20+ terabytes of storage, and simply not feasible if the storage is volatile in nature. AFAIK everyone has gone to redundancy over backups at scale.
My point was that I didn't vote for Facebook, Google or Wikipedia nor for the MPIAA, et al that proposed such a thing. Who can I vote for? US government is not about the people. I have no problem with the opposition, but the position was not posited by a government official, but rather private enterprise, and this is not how I learned that the US government worked.
That when the radio was talking about companies like Facebook, Google, and Wikipedia protesting legislation put to Congress by the Motion Picture Industry that there is nothing that I can do. US government isn't much about people anymore. I have no clue how SOPA got this far.
I wonder if Microsoft intends this type of switchability in Windows 8..
Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
I believe I read on the antipolygraph site about a guy that got a job at the CIA by lying. In fact, since they ask questions like "have you every done X" where X is something that everyone has done to some degree in one's life, then the only way to "pass" these tests is to lie and like well. Nobody in science believes that polygraphs are reliable or valid. But will certainly scare off certain people.
Can we please stop this shit? Blaming doctors doesn't help you, and they are generally not overpaid. For the length and stress of their training, the debt they incur, and the difficult lifestyle many specialties must endure permanently, most doctors are actually underpaid - in overall salary, in compensation per hour, or both.
They are overpaid. Its by design. Its not a free market like programmers, engineers, etc.
I also know surgeons, many of whom do make $300,000 a year, and I've never seen one of them sit still for more than 15 minutes, to watch a movie or lecture, without passing out. They work a minimum of 60 hours a week and constantly get paged for surgery in the middle of the night, whether or not they're actually 'on call'.
Again, this is because doctors are not a free market. The AMA controls how many doctors are produced each year and which schools can make doctors. No other field in the USA is controlled this way. There is no inherent need for the cost of training to be a doctor to be so high, and no reason they are so scarce that they have to work 60 hours a week. In a repressed job market like there is today, I'm sure many, many people would be fine doctors if given the opportunity. Being a doctor is not significantly different than getting a PhD. On average, I would guess that MDs make 2x that of a PhD. That is overpaid.
For example, in China doctors don't make that much. And there are 4 year medical degrees where people work in pharmacies and dispense OTC medication where many of the meds are only by doctor's prescription in the US. Seems like a better system to me.
I'll chime in and say that if open source isn't a core part of your business plan, then why expend the time and money making your project open source? It costs you more to open source something than keeping the code to yourself _unless_ you have something compelling enough that people will want to help you with the code, which is very unlikely. Keep in mind that you can open source the code at any time, so the question is what is it compelling to you now to have it open source?
I would think this would be accurate, but everyone in this thread seems to be missing that TV has a 98-99% penetration in at least American homes. I gave up on it, and everyone thinks I'm nuts. Aside from the paper tv guide (WTF?), I agree with every point AC has put up there. Personally, I found TV an expensive and laborious task. And the content is not even worth just torrenting and watching. I just gave up, and don't miss it. I can't separate the content from the ads. Skipping through them with the PVR remote was just a chore. Most of what I watched was PBS that had no ads anyway, so I guess I could do that again, but why bother?
Oh, some more reasons to add to the pretty complete list:
- content never seems to fit my screen's resolution. Content always fit my screen before widescreen tvs came out, and now my tv is either too wide or too tall for the content.
- picture quality sucks. HDTV is a misnomer. Picture quality peaked when cable HD was new, and degraded after that.
- sound is inconsistent between channels and within a channel
- Annual or multi-annual contracts. I thought this was only designed for cellphones, but TV too? What is next? All of my monthly services having multi-year contracts that only potentially hurt me? No thanks.
- Its a time killer. And can be pretty expensive.
- Many of the ads actually make me embarrassed even when I am alone.
- To get "premium content" you have to pay out the nose with all the non-premium content as well.
thats all I can think of now
There is no way anybody can design a modern processor from scratch without reverse engineering. Think of how many man years is in a processor. Even with the reverse engineering they were only able to obtain 45nm technology which is a few years old. If china started today, it would take them 10-20 years to make a processor 10-20 years out of date. What good is that?
This machine is impressive nonetheless. It uses good power 1MW. Only uses off-the-shelf networking (Infiniband). Only uses 9 racks of space. If they put those on the market, they would sell quite well (at the right price).
MSFT hasn't kept up with inflation or bank rates. I don't know why they have stockholders.
If you want to hire me send a mail to hpc.hackstraw@spamgourmet.com. Expert in the field.
There's an app for that.
The reason that Sun failed is because they failed as at being a Dell or HP and sell cheaper x86 linux based stuff like Dell and HP does. Almost nobody needs an E10k, E15k, E25k, and most of the people that think they need one are wrong. Remember that compute capacity goes up and power usage goes down, whereas the maintenance price of an E*k stays the same or goes up over time, and its relative computing power goes down.
Most everyone today does replication (optionally geographically as well) and hardware redundancy. And E*k is not going to give you geographical redundancy. I've never seen the point in having a 3-5 year server's lifetime cost more than 2x the cost of a regular server when having 2x of them is usually preferable. Sure the most expensive guy may have hot swappable CPUs and motherboards, but so does complete hardware redundancy.
If its any consolation, the website still sucks. WTF is up with not being able to click on the web browser window without it doing some kind of repositioning or folding things up and down? WTF is up with phantom comments with no score being floated to the top? Where have the useful comments gone? It seems as though the moderation system is broken. Why is hijacking a thread the "way to do it?" Where did the login to post a comment go? As far as web design goes, slashdot has become the worst of all popular sites that I visit. I can't think of a close second.
OK, PayPal and Canada Revenue Agency are not trustworthy and allow remote brute force password attacks.
Please tell me which bank also allows this?
Thanks.
On the other hand there is nothing stopping Google putting limitations how the Android trademark is used and what gets to use their market place.
That is what they do. The Android name and robot logos are trademarked and your hardware and use of software must meet some criteria from Google to use the Android trademarks.
Maybe I should read the FTA (ducks), but to me it would seem as though this trademark limitations would to some degree limit the fragmentation of the Android market. I guess that the trademarks could not limit things like replacing and adding apps on the phone. I have an Android phone. A Samsung Fascinate. And I would trade it for an iPhone in a heartbeat.
It simply reminds me too much of the Windows and Linux user experience. My phone was preloaded with crapware (like most OEM Windows installations). The version of Android is 2.1/Eclair which is old (like most "Enterprise" Linux installations). Using the USB data on the phone broke in January due to a forced software update. There has been another update and still USB does not work. I can't root the phone anymore due to USB issues. The calendar does not work correctly. This is a "known issue" and the fix is to wipe and load the phone and repurchase all of my purchased apps. The software is frequently sluggish and does not respond quickly, which causes frustration and incorrect input from me.
I mean, on the iPhone there was a bug in the alarm clock, and a few people overslept one morning. I'd take that level of dissatisfaction any day.
It's not like offering spreadsheets on line is a viable business.
In 2011, I believe its much more viable than shipping perpetually outdated binaries around. We are in a service economy, not an industrial one.
Even the whole Android phone thing is mostly there to prevent Microsoft from monopolizing that space.
You mean the computing as a service industry? Lets be very clear here. Microsoft has 2 products in a service economy: Windows and Office. And those products are very threatened by lightweight OSes and networked applications. gmail works on phones, linux, OS X, Windows, netbooks. Windows and Office do not.
Also, the change here is the shift from the multi-hundred dollar application with a moderate install base to .99 apps and application services. Its like music today. Nobody wants to "own" music anymore. Its a chore. People just want to listen to music.
Thats only because you have the "Whats new in Firefox 4" addon installed. The page actually looks like crap in all browsers.
This is why I don't use Firefox. Its a tweaker/developer toy (which is fine), but its not a web browser to browse the web. Its what I call perpetually broken software because every time you start it up, it says "I'm broken. Please download updates".
Thinking back to browser history, I thought of my first tabbed browser. I started using it in 2001 or 2002. It was called galeon, here is an embarrassing screenshot: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/shots/fonts.png That is from 2003, the same year I switched to Macs and Safari web browser. That screenshot looks like MSWord6 from 1994 or so, back when toolbars and buttons took preference over your documents. Also when there was only 600-800 vertical rows of pixels on most displays. FF currently uses 10-15 more vertical pixels for its tabs and whatnot at the top when compared to Safari or Chrome. In the netbook era, this seems a bit wasteful.
The good news is that FF 8 is due out next week!
Considering "Jane" used to be "John" http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html . Sexier pic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jane-fae
Someone erroneously posted below that homosexuality is a preference. Its not. I had a friend who was a male married to a female with 2 kids and he was homosexual. AFAIK they had no plans for divorce. I work with a m2f transgender, and I've known many male and female homosexuals and bisexuals. Honestly, I can't understand it fully, but I just look at it as gender being a bimodal distribution that has overlap between the modes. Personally, I think it takes balls to go m2f and in no way be fooling anybody.