Well, at least it seems that Google has a different opinion . Their prototype doesn't have a steering wheel or any other control that a human driver could take - only an emergency brake button.
And that is exactly what I would expect any other manufacturer to do. After all, if we have - as the poster described "a future where you can watch television, sip cocktails, or snooze all the way home" there is almost no chance at all that a human driver will have the time to realize that something is going wrong, switch his attention to the road, and take the right action before a crash happens.
If that were true, I've been cooked quite a couple of times:-)
BUT - a sauna needs to be VERY dry (less than 20% humidity). Normal humidity and 90C would indeed cook you.
The problem with this idea is - Google won't let it happen. Not unless some government forces them to. A manufacturer is _required_ to load _all_ of Google's proprietary apps onto _all_ of its Android phones (or none at all on any phone). This leaves Samsung, Microsoft and all others in about the same place as Opera and Mozilla back in the ie6 days - yes, you can choose to install some other app with the same functionality, but it will always be a second choice, and by many it will be viewed as 'bloatware'.
What exactly does Bitcoin do to help in reliable voting? If all you're interested in is a searchable public voting track record (and, others here have already given lots of reasons why you should NOT do that...) - then an old-fashioned relational database will do that job just fine - in fact, they are GREAT for this kind of stuff. If you are worried about the integrity of such database - how about the integrity of your blockchain? It depends on no one having a majority of the processing power, doesn't it? Processing power can be bought - and given the importance of the elections, it will.
I suppose the real issue is the fog. Darkness, well you have high-sensitive camera's, spotlights,... - and don't forget, an incoming _rocket_ - that's quite a large candlelight!
Fog, however, is a different beast. There is nothing that you can do that allows you to create sufficient quality video in dense fog.
The problem is - the whole idea of a 'TV Channel' is soooo 20th century. People want to see good TV programs. What 'good' means is subject to taste, of course - but the programs is what they are willing to pay for. And those programs are created by production houses. Of course, some TV channels have their own production house, other programs are created by (more or less) independent producers. The TV channel chooses which programs it wants to carry, schedules them in a particular order, and mixes in publicity. That was a great added value in the 20th century, as there simply was no alternative to get the programs into your living room. Today, what are people complaining about? The TV-schedule doesn't match my schedule and there is too much publicity - the very role of a TV channel is not an added value any more, it is a burden. And there is an alternative, production houses can get the programs you want, when you want it, where you want it. Why would you settle for less?
Umm, no. Nexus devices are supported for 18 months as they specifically say
I've owned nearly all the Nexus devices
18 months? Funny... Here in Belgium all consumer devices have to have a 24 month warranty period minimum. So... still in warranty, but unsupported??
Of course, if you are one of those people standing in line whenever the next model hits the shops, you never have to worry about upgrades, whatever brand you choose.
A wise man, Benjamin Franklin, once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - and will loose them both". You seem to fall in that category.
They use the 'linux' analogy - but that analogy doesn't hold. When linux was in its infancy, there were many people running linux on their own box. And slowly it got better, and got ready for (first) development, and later even for production sites. Compare that to OpenStack. Yes, of course you can run it on 2-3 dev boxes, but it really isn't usefull for anyone except really big companies. And those companies don't care too much about the price of VMWare or similar - they care about the cost of administrators and about reliability. And that means, no one is really interested in OpenStack until it gets on the same level of 'ease of administration' and reliability as the market leaders. And keeping developing for years something that very few, if any, people really use may prove a difficult proposition.
Actually, yes there are. Stratasys uses their own proprietary filament, and consumer-grade Cube 3D printer uses special cartridges - which of course you can't buy anywhere else.
You might be mistaken. Yes, the current manufacturing industry uses AutoDesk, and doesn't care about the price. After all, manufacturing almost anything will set you back at least a few hunderd thousands of dollars before the first product is shipped. Compared to that, the software cost is irrelevant - and if AutoDesk is even just a little bit better in getting everything right the first time, you've saved more than a decade of license costs. So that's their current customer set - big companies shipping products by thousands.
With 3D printing, there will be lots and lots of people and small businesses designing, prototyping and manufacturing (in very small quantities). Unless AutoDesk radically shifts its strategy, these people will not be able or willing to pay AutoDesk licenses. Hence there is a huge opportunity for open source programs, and/or for other software houses, and the 85% marketshare may very quickly drop - even though they will probably maintain their current customer base.
I think that if we were in such a cluster (thousands of stars within a few dozen lightyears) the night sky would be spectacular. Of course, our instruments would measure that the fainter stars far away, the ones of our 'old' galaxy, would move, but I think that 99% of the population wouldn't notice any difference.
As to interstellar travel, with such a huge number of stars that close by, I guess we would have enough interesting destinations for quite a while.
"Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use." Really? And no doubt the BoA would gladly take up that role of central counterparty, if it could? I'd say WITH a central counterpary bitcoin will definitely fail to break into wider use - because what would be the point of bitcoin?
4-6 feet may be a recommended range from the standpoint of the producers of the TV - the ones that want us to buy more expensive, bigger screens to increase their bonuses. If you want a recommendation from someone who doesn't care about how much money you spend on your TV, and is knowledgeable about the capabilities of your eyes - he/she will recommend about 10 feet. Which does mean that for all of us who are not hollywood stars or sportschampions a 40" TV with 1080p is about all the resolution and screen size you'll ever need.
Actually, the researchers didn't find any matching DNA, not from the male side and not from the female side. So your obvious solution is not correct - unless, of course, the living relatives that he contacted are not really relatives.
BTW, Belgium is one of those other countries with 2 months summer vacation. And Belgium (at least Flanders) scores quite well on those international tests. So, with good school education and great creativity, we must be the top-dogs here, right?
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Well, at least it seems that Google has a different opinion . Their prototype doesn't have a steering wheel or any other control that a human driver could take - only an emergency brake button. And that is exactly what I would expect any other manufacturer to do. After all, if we have - as the poster described "a future where you can watch television, sip cocktails, or snooze all the way home" there is almost no chance at all that a human driver will have the time to realize that something is going wrong, switch his attention to the road, and take the right action before a crash happens.
Naked people whipping each other? Have you seen THAT movie?
If that were true, I've been cooked quite a couple of times :-)
BUT - a sauna needs to be VERY dry (less than 20% humidity). Normal humidity and 90C would indeed cook you.
If that gamma burst hits earth, it's not so interesting anym...
The problem with this idea is - Google won't let it happen. Not unless some government forces them to. A manufacturer is _required_ to load _all_ of Google's proprietary apps onto _all_ of its Android phones (or none at all on any phone). This leaves Samsung, Microsoft and all others in about the same place as Opera and Mozilla back in the ie6 days - yes, you can choose to install some other app with the same functionality, but it will always be a second choice, and by many it will be viewed as 'bloatware'.
Yes, exactly what I need - a smoke detector that will show me a personalized add for fire-extingishers INSTEAD OF SOUNDING THE ALARM.
They didn't show you the real successfull video's. They do exist - but just possibly, maybe, they are not very keen to share methods that do work...
I think some far away scientist just said "don't worry, our LHC can not create a black ho..."
What exactly does Bitcoin do to help in reliable voting? If all you're interested in is a searchable public voting track record (and, others here have already given lots of reasons why you should NOT do that...) - then an old-fashioned relational database will do that job just fine - in fact, they are GREAT for this kind of stuff. If you are worried about the integrity of such database - how about the integrity of your blockchain? It depends on no one having a majority of the processing power, doesn't it? Processing power can be bought - and given the importance of the elections, it will.
Has anyone here experience as to how an infrared camera fares when you point it at a rocket exhaust?
I suppose the real issue is the fog. Darkness, well you have high-sensitive camera's, spotlights, ... - and don't forget, an incoming _rocket_ - that's quite a large candlelight!
Fog, however, is a different beast. There is nothing that you can do that allows you to create sufficient quality video in dense fog.
The problem is - the whole idea of a 'TV Channel' is soooo 20th century. People want to see good TV programs. What 'good' means is subject to taste, of course - but the programs is what they are willing to pay for. And those programs are created by production houses. Of course, some TV channels have their own production house, other programs are created by (more or less) independent producers. The TV channel chooses which programs it wants to carry, schedules them in a particular order, and mixes in publicity. That was a great added value in the 20th century, as there simply was no alternative to get the programs into your living room. Today, what are people complaining about? The TV-schedule doesn't match my schedule and there is too much publicity - the very role of a TV channel is not an added value any more, it is a burden. And there is an alternative, production houses can get the programs you want, when you want it, where you want it. Why would you settle for less?
Umm, no. Nexus devices are supported for 18 months as they specifically say I've owned nearly all the Nexus devices
18 months? Funny... Here in Belgium all consumer devices have to have a 24 month warranty period minimum. So ... still in warranty, but unsupported??
Of course, if you are one of those people standing in line whenever the next model hits the shops, you never have to worry about upgrades, whatever brand you choose.
Why do you ask this on slashdot? Just ask Siri...
A wise man, Benjamin Franklin, once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - and will loose them both". You seem to fall in that category.
They use the 'linux' analogy - but that analogy doesn't hold. When linux was in its infancy, there were many people running linux on their own box. And slowly it got better, and got ready for (first) development, and later even for production sites. Compare that to OpenStack. Yes, of course you can run it on 2-3 dev boxes, but it really isn't usefull for anyone except really big companies. And those companies don't care too much about the price of VMWare or similar - they care about the cost of administrators and about reliability. And that means, no one is really interested in OpenStack until it gets on the same level of 'ease of administration' and reliability as the market leaders. And keeping developing for years something that very few, if any, people really use may prove a difficult proposition.
Actually, yes there are. Stratasys uses their own proprietary filament, and consumer-grade Cube 3D printer uses special cartridges - which of course you can't buy anywhere else.
... and 'licensed for free' does not necessarily mean 'open source'. In fact, the term 'freely licensable' suggests to me that it is NOT open source.
You might be mistaken. Yes, the current manufacturing industry uses AutoDesk, and doesn't care about the price. After all, manufacturing almost anything will set you back at least a few hunderd thousands of dollars before the first product is shipped. Compared to that, the software cost is irrelevant - and if AutoDesk is even just a little bit better in getting everything right the first time, you've saved more than a decade of license costs. So that's their current customer set - big companies shipping products by thousands. With 3D printing, there will be lots and lots of people and small businesses designing, prototyping and manufacturing (in very small quantities). Unless AutoDesk radically shifts its strategy, these people will not be able or willing to pay AutoDesk licenses. Hence there is a huge opportunity for open source programs, and/or for other software houses, and the 85% marketshare may very quickly drop - even though they will probably maintain their current customer base.
I think that if we were in such a cluster (thousands of stars within a few dozen lightyears) the night sky would be spectacular. Of course, our instruments would measure that the fainter stars far away, the ones of our 'old' galaxy, would move, but I think that 99% of the population wouldn't notice any difference. As to interstellar travel, with such a huge number of stars that close by, I guess we would have enough interesting destinations for quite a while.
Well, as the previous exercise with creating and releasing a new subspecies in Brazil was such a big success, let's repeat it. What could go wrong?
"Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use." Really? And no doubt the BoA would gladly take up that role of central counterparty, if it could? I'd say WITH a central counterpary bitcoin will definitely fail to break into wider use - because what would be the point of bitcoin?
4-6 feet may be a recommended range from the standpoint of the producers of the TV - the ones that want us to buy more expensive, bigger screens to increase their bonuses. If you want a recommendation from someone who doesn't care about how much money you spend on your TV, and is knowledgeable about the capabilities of your eyes - he/she will recommend about 10 feet. Which does mean that for all of us who are not hollywood stars or sportschampions a 40" TV with 1080p is about all the resolution and screen size you'll ever need.
Actually, the researchers didn't find any matching DNA, not from the male side and not from the female side. So your obvious solution is not correct - unless, of course, the living relatives that he contacted are not really relatives.
BTW, Belgium is one of those other countries with 2 months summer vacation. And Belgium (at least Flanders) scores quite well on those international tests. So, with good school education and great creativity, we must be the top-dogs here, right?