Self-driving fleets can offer you a better choice of automotive options than any single car you have to buy and maintain. Every day you can summon commuter podcar rides to take you to and from work. But for that one Wednesday a month when you have to bring home a load of supermarket shopping, you check the 'midsize car' option to bring you home. If you just came out of Home Depot with three sheets of plywood and six sacks of fertilizer, you check the 'pickup truck' option.
Has he yet to make a business that actually turns a profit?
Is that your argument against long-term thinking? If a business does turn a profit soon after starting up, you would undoubtedly be carping about "profiteering."
Also, it's definitely not carbon free due to the immense amounts of concrete required to build the plants, never mind mine the Uranium and enrich it.
The more carbon-free the total economy becomes, the sillier this argument gets. At some point all mining and construction equipment will be electric and as carbon-free as the grid mix allows at the time. And in the meantime, ANY type of mining, smelting and construction is carbon-intensive to the same degree as nuclear. Wind turbine blades and towers are not being made by elves at the North Pole.
From any jurisdiction where the legal system allows infrastructure projects to be held up indefinitely by any group of activists with a grudge. With enough lawyers, you can make a local street improvement project cost ten billion dollars and look like the worst investment of all time.
Solar may not be an industrial baseload, but it can be a good residential backup in places as sunny and as sprawling (high ratio of roof area to population) as South Australia. I'm assuming that eventually photovoltaic will be built into roofing material by default. You will have to order special "shade roof" for places that don't get any sun.
Whenever Sen. Ed Markey (D-Salem 1680) lets fly on some science/tech subject, he is invariably dead wrong, and the best course of action is to do the opposite on whatever issue he is spouting about this time. I have never known my personal Markey Index to fail.
First of all, the headline on this article is silly. What are Silicon Valley manufacturers supposed to do - intentionally make their products less attractive to consumers? The linked article focuses on 'tech addiction' as being the problem, and we have been here before. I have been around long enough to remember when tech addiction was phrased in the press as "teenagers" talking for hours on the old black plug-in wall telephone. Young people were offered this new mechanism for keeping in touch when they were not physically together, and they embraced it. Over time, telephony was integrated into the general culture and became part of the human background.
Then there was the time when television was going to make zombies of us all, with nobody stepping outside ever again, and the rise of cars not just as competition for public transit, but as a place for "teenagers" to Have Sex. Note the theme developing here?
So now that "teenagers" have discovered the smartphone this time, it has enabled a fad for social media. Though the idea that we would all drop everything to become addicted to Facebook is already dated, pearls are still being clutched over the possibility that some social medium will become mental Fentanyl. But now that Markey is involved, I know that can't happen.
The savings for commuters will come when fleet cars and mass transit are treated as one system. Whenever you rent a fleet car ride, the app you use will let you know if there is a cost savings for Ubering to a transit station, riding with others and then getting another fleet ride to your destination. For a one-off shopping trip to the big city you're not going to bother with such complexity, but for your daily commute you will think differently. And in the log run, the metadata flowing from such a system will assure that public transit goes where the riders actually want to travel.
The argument that "it will be so popular that customers will overload the system" can apply to ANY technology. It is not an argument against autonomous fleet cars.
Why would I need a parking spot at work if the car can drive back to my house and come back to pick me up on time?
Because having personally owned autonomous cars making two round trips a day to bring one person to work and pick up at quitting time is even more wasteful and congestion-contributing than the present-day system. Either ride in a fleet car that spends the day picking up other passengers or be one of the high rollers who rents a "yacht slip" at the office.
There will be no need to legislate against provately-owned cars, autonomous or otherwise.
As self-driving fleets proliferate, there will be irresistible temptation on the part of urban developers to cut back on parking spaces at businesses, which will be needed only for individually owned cars; instead of a sea of parking spaces for all customers at a movie theater, the business will expand into its parking area, leaving only one row of "VIP spaces" that the diminishing number of car owners will have to pay for. As mass car culture fades, owning your own autonomous car will be like owning your own plane, a niche market for the well off. As hoi polloi buzz around in autonomous fleet cars that park only in industrial-zone warehouses when out of service, the remaining individual owners will pay for parking spaces as though they were airport tiedowns or marina slips.
Encryption could also be built into online photo sync systems like Adobe Creative Cloud, so that encryption would take place when you upload the contents of an SD card to the service using a tablet or phone at the end of a shooting day. By the time you cross a border, all your SD cards can be reformatted in camera (not just erased) and your images are encrypted on a server until you get home. This keeps all of the encryption and decryption off the vulnerable camera.
How do you go about entering a password on a camera? Any virtual keyboard on a camera would be controlled by the arrow keys and Select button, like name entry on the early video games. No photographer would use such a scheme more than once.
I have my iPhone set to automatically Dropbox all pictures I take with it. Even if someone were to grab my phone on the scene I still have my shots.
I mean imagine if it was a real hostage situation and the hostage was sent to open the door.
You jest, but now that SWAT teams are behaving this way, that is exactly what the bad guys are going to do if the cops show up: shove the hostage out the door, and then jump out a back window as he is being reflexively blown to pieces.
I, for one, will not. Remember that the SWAT raid did not occur at the swatter's intended target, but at a mistaken address where some random guy with no experience at being the target of a paramilitary raid just opened his front door and went, "Wha..?" Blasting away at such a person without checking to see whether he was an actual menace is criminal negligence not just on the part of one untrained donut muncher, but on the part of whoever trained this team. Indict them both and take away this town's SWAT toys for good.
It strange that no TV or film version of Butler's work has ever been made, but an adaptation, Dawn, is finally in the works: http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/o...
Years after her death, her work is only getting more relevant so this could be great if done well.
Nnedi Okorafor's "Who Fears Death" is in the works also.
Another Expanse fan here. I'm tired of one-note dystopian futures. Society will be plural and complex, just like today but amplified by emerging technologies.
Dude, I was alive in the 70',s and I can tell you for certain that dystopian science fiction was pretty much the norm.
The Seventies was when that trend started. In my lifetime, the peak year for societal optimism was 1965. W II tech had released a generation-long fountain of civilian advances. We were on our way to the Moon, and Vietnam had not yet become a corrosive social issue.
Epicenter of Sixties/Seventies hot tub party culture, not of feminist theory. At the time I was a lowly young renter, living in singles apartment complexes where the women enthusiastically joined in the fun, defining equality as being able to get as much sex, and under their control, as men. I'm so glad that my youth fell into that halcyon time. I pity today's young people, now that Nehemiah Scudder has won.
The ELT is also in Chile, which has made astronomy into a real industry. It needs a companion instrument in the northern hemisphere, to see different stars and to eventually do advanced long-baseline observations in the band that both instruments have in common.
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Self-driving fleets can offer you a better choice of automotive options than any single car you have to buy and maintain. Every day you can summon commuter podcar rides to take you to and from work. But for that one Wednesday a month when you have to bring home a load of supermarket shopping, you check the 'midsize car' option to bring you home. If you just came out of Home Depot with three sheets of plywood and six sacks of fertilizer, you check the 'pickup truck' option.
Has he yet to make a business that actually turns a profit?
Is that your argument against long-term thinking? If a business does turn a profit soon after starting up, you would undoubtedly be carping about "profiteering."
Also, it's definitely not carbon free due to the immense amounts of concrete required to build the plants, never mind mine the Uranium and enrich it.
The more carbon-free the total economy becomes, the sillier this argument gets. At some point all mining and construction equipment will be electric and as carbon-free as the grid mix allows at the time. And in the meantime, ANY type of mining, smelting and construction is carbon-intensive to the same degree as nuclear. Wind turbine blades and towers are not being made by elves at the North Pole.
Where did you get your numbers from?
From any jurisdiction where the legal system allows infrastructure projects to be held up indefinitely by any group of activists with a grudge. With enough lawyers, you can make a local street improvement project cost ten billion dollars and look like the worst investment of all time.
Solar may not be an industrial baseload, but it can be a good residential backup in places as sunny and as sprawling (high ratio of roof area to population) as South Australia. I'm assuming that eventually photovoltaic will be built into roofing material by default. You will have to order special "shade roof" for places that don't get any sun.
The NBC technical staff were just taking a kneel, apparently.
Whenever Sen. Ed Markey (D-Salem 1680) lets fly on some science/tech subject, he is invariably dead wrong, and the best course of action is to do the opposite on whatever issue he is spouting about this time. I have never known my personal Markey Index to fail.
First of all, the headline on this article is silly. What are Silicon Valley manufacturers supposed to do - intentionally make their products less attractive to consumers? The linked article focuses on 'tech addiction' as being the problem, and we have been here before. I have been around long enough to remember when tech addiction was phrased in the press as "teenagers" talking for hours on the old black plug-in wall telephone. Young people were offered this new mechanism for keeping in touch when they were not physically together, and they embraced it. Over time, telephony was integrated into the general culture and became part of the human background.
Then there was the time when television was going to make zombies of us all, with nobody stepping outside ever again, and the rise of cars not just as competition for public transit, but as a place for "teenagers" to Have Sex. Note the theme developing here?
So now that "teenagers" have discovered the smartphone this time, it has enabled a fad for social media. Though the idea that we would all drop everything to become addicted to Facebook is already dated, pearls are still being clutched over the possibility that some social medium will become mental Fentanyl. But now that Markey is involved, I know that can't happen.
The savings for commuters will come when fleet cars and mass transit are treated as one system. Whenever you rent a fleet car ride, the app you use will let you know if there is a cost savings for Ubering to a transit station, riding with others and then getting another fleet ride to your destination. For a one-off shopping trip to the big city you're not going to bother with such complexity, but for your daily commute you will think differently. And in the log run, the metadata flowing from such a system will assure that public transit goes where the riders actually want to travel.
The argument that "it will be so popular that customers will overload the system" can apply to ANY technology. It is not an argument against autonomous fleet cars.
Why would I need a parking spot at work if the car can drive back to my house and come back to pick me up on time?
Because having personally owned autonomous cars making two round trips a day to bring one person to work and pick up at quitting time is even more wasteful and congestion-contributing than the present-day system. Either ride in a fleet car that spends the day picking up other passengers or be one of the high rollers who rents a "yacht slip" at the office.
There will be no need to legislate against provately-owned cars, autonomous or otherwise.
As self-driving fleets proliferate, there will be irresistible temptation on the part of urban developers to cut back on parking spaces at businesses, which will be needed only for individually owned cars; instead of a sea of parking spaces for all customers at a movie theater, the business will expand into its parking area, leaving only one row of "VIP spaces" that the diminishing number of car owners will have to pay for. As mass car culture fades, owning your own autonomous car will be like owning your own plane, a niche market for the well off. As hoi polloi buzz around in autonomous fleet cars that park only in industrial-zone warehouses when out of service, the remaining individual owners will pay for parking spaces as though they were airport tiedowns or marina slips.
Encryption could also be built into online photo sync systems like Adobe Creative Cloud, so that encryption would take place when you upload the contents of an SD card to the service using a tablet or phone at the end of a shooting day. By the time you cross a border, all your SD cards can be reformatted in camera (not just erased) and your images are encrypted on a server until you get home. This keeps all of the encryption and decryption off the vulnerable camera.
How do you go about entering a password on a camera? Any virtual keyboard on a camera would be controlled by the arrow keys and Select button, like name entry on the early video games. No photographer would use such a scheme more than once.
I have my iPhone set to automatically Dropbox all pictures I take with it. Even if someone were to grab my phone on the scene I still have my shots.
I mean imagine if it was a real hostage situation and the hostage was sent to open the door.
You jest, but now that SWAT teams are behaving this way, that is exactly what the bad guys are going to do if the cops show up: shove the hostage out the door, and then jump out a back window as he is being reflexively blown to pieces.
Put your righteous indignation away, sweetheart.
I, for one, will not. Remember that the SWAT raid did not occur at the swatter's intended target, but at a mistaken address where some random guy with no experience at being the target of a paramilitary raid just opened his front door and went, "Wha..?" Blasting away at such a person without checking to see whether he was an actual menace is criminal negligence not just on the part of one untrained donut muncher, but on the part of whoever trained this team. Indict them both and take away this town's SWAT toys for good.
Plant a wall of ocotillo. That's how our ancestors in the region kept people out.
Gambatte!
It strange that no TV or film version of Butler's work has ever been made, but an adaptation, Dawn, is finally in the works: http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/o...
Years after her death, her work is only getting more relevant so this could be great if done well.
Nnedi Okorafor's "Who Fears Death" is in the works also.
Bryan Singer says differently: https://www.hollywoodreporter....
Another Expanse fan here. I'm tired of one-note dystopian futures. Society will be plural and complex, just like today but amplified by emerging technologies.
Dude, I was alive in the 70',s and I can tell you for certain that dystopian science fiction was pretty much the norm.
The Seventies was when that trend started. In my lifetime, the peak year for societal optimism was 1965. W II tech had released a generation-long fountain of civilian advances. We were on our way to the Moon, and Vietnam had not yet become a corrosive social issue.
Really? And I am looking forward to the one that explains how I ended up in a universe with Trump as President.
And in which Nehemiah Scudder has won. Who knew that he would be an academic feminist?
"Harsh Mistress" is already in production, although Hollywood has already fucked up the title.
Meanwhile, Ron Howard is attempting "Seveneves." Whether this can remotely even be filmed is something we shall have to see.
Epicenter of Sixties/Seventies hot tub party culture, not of feminist theory. At the time I was a lowly young renter, living in singles apartment complexes where the women enthusiastically joined in the fun, defining equality as being able to get as much sex, and under their control, as men. I'm so glad that my youth fell into that halcyon time. I pity today's young people, now that Nehemiah Scudder has won.
The ELT is also in Chile, which has made astronomy into a real industry. It needs a companion instrument in the northern hemisphere, to see different stars and to eventually do advanced long-baseline observations in the band that both instruments have in common.