This 'survery' was basically a collection of message board posts. 350 respondents, but the article doesn't say how respondents reported results with so many miles. I looked at the first few pages of respondents and none reported having driven near 100K miles yet. So I assume the actual sample of high mileage owners was quite small. Too bad the author neglected that obviously important info.
OK, here is the actual data if anyone is interested;
This 'survery' was basically a collection of message board posts. 350 respondents, but the article doesn't say how respondents reported results with so many miles. I looked at the first few pages of respondents and none reported having driven near 100K miles yet. So I assume the actual sample of high mileage owners was quite small. Too bad the author neglected that obviously important info.
Please tell us how you would do it for less -- paying for kit at Puerto Rican prices.
Rebuild the existing infrastructure and use as much buried distribution as possible/affordable. There is no perfect solution, but when you factor in cost and time to recover there is little choice.
I guess I didn't fully appreciate that restriction. As I understand you can install GApps for individual use legally. But the more I think about it, its not a simple APK install, so not necessarily something that would 'idiot proof' for customer install.
They can't ship with Google apps installed, but the customer could install them during setup. They could probably include the link in the setup process and legally be compliant.
I worked part time as a machinist while I was in college. I got to be pretty good with lathes and vertical mills, and even learned G-code before I learned Fortran.
The most awe inspiring machine shop I ever saw was onboard a ship. They had every tool you could ever dream of, and could repair anything, or even build entire assemblies from raw sheets and blocks of metal. Today, it is likely all replaced by one 3D printer.
It would be interesting to know how much they've adopted 3D printing in the large ship machine shops, and to what extent it has offset the traditional methods. You'd still want to store the common maintenance parts and not wait to print. To print an unusual part you need the model, which would need to exist already because they take a while to produce. They certainly could reduce stores and if they used the one part they have they could begin printing the next one for stores.
There are still things that can be produced faster with CNC and milling.
Just retrofit the local water tower with a lower tank and a turbine to act as the neighborhood's battery for wind and solar power,
Methinks you WAY overestimate the amount of power that can be generated from a windmill mounted on a water tower. And the assumption that any given water tower is in a place that gets usable winds is one you might want to do a little research on.
Please stop with idiotic comments about "the left" or "the right," and what they may or may not know. There are smart people across the spectrum, and it doesn't help discussion to denigrate broad, unspecific groups of people. Interest rates being tied to risk is pretty darn basic.
The right just wants Puerto Rico to pay a higher interest rate because they're brown.
What happens when they start selling them and the courts find that all liability is with the software/hardware manufacturer? I guess its nothing a quick chapter 7 bankruptcy can't fix...
What happens if other car companies offer a better solution while Tesla is still working on theirs? Its seems that Tesla is falling behind in that race. I imagine many owners would not be too happy. Unfortunately, Tesla depends on that up-sell to be able to get operating margins to pay for development going forward. Refunds would be quite painful. Not being able to upsell that feature would be as well.
The people who think it takes hard AI to achieve full autonomy in a self driving car vastly overestimate the cognitive abilities of human drivers..
And others vastly underestimate the challenges of designing a system that can perform better than humans without human oversight. Particularly in an environment that was designed specifically for human drivers interacting with other human drivers. We have a very long way to go.
is a really dumb idea. Why would I want my fridge, lightbulbs, toaster and so on to ever be hooked up to the public internet?
None of those would be useful to me. However, I find being able to read and change my home thermostats to be very useful. I am , at this moment, watching some workers in my neighborhood in front of my house. They have the street blocked off and it will be nice to see when they are gone.
I'd like to do the same, but I am considering a third for guests. I've noticed in the last few years that "can I get on your wi-fi?" has become as common as "can I use your restroom?"
A thoughtful host will place a wifi QR code in the bathroom.
Apple is too valuable of a brand, and if people realize Apple, FBI, NSA etc. are all up in your "private" shit, then people would stop buying.
It's a simple case of "let's do and say we couldn't". There is no such thing as secure devices in the U.S., because that's the way government needs it to be, and neither Apple nor Google are above the law.
They also may have been happy to instill false confidence, so some may be less careful as to what they do on their phone.
Any such article sounds encouraging, but from the article linked there is no way to gain any sense of how likely this 'new' information will lead to a cure, if it is indeed even correct.
Alzheimer's is a big deal, so if this is correct we'll see a lot more attention on it.
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This 'survery' was basically a collection of message board posts. 350 respondents, but the article doesn't say how respondents reported results with so many miles. I looked at the first few pages of respondents and none reported having driven near 100K miles yet. So I assume the actual sample of high mileage owners was quite small. Too bad the author neglected that obviously important info.
OK, here is the actual data if anyone is interested;
https://docs.google.com/spread...
This 'survery' was basically a collection of message board posts. 350 respondents, but the article doesn't say how respondents reported results with so many miles. I looked at the first few pages of respondents and none reported having driven near 100K miles yet. So I assume the actual sample of high mileage owners was quite small. Too bad the author neglected that obviously important info.
Oh, wait, I just read the rest of the summary. They are going to use blockchains, so nevermind, that solves everything. Whew.
Eventually we'll need to blockchain all of our blockchains.
Yes, its easy to pay a bit to play accounting games in order to make PR claims, much harder to actually reduce emissions.
Please tell us how you would do it for less -- paying for kit at Puerto Rican prices.
Rebuild the existing infrastructure and use as much buried distribution as possible/affordable. There is no perfect solution, but when you factor in cost and time to recover there is little choice.
No need to spend that much money
Obviously I meant to ship for sale in the US. You don't need to stop a ship to severely limit the ability to sell something in the US.
I guess I didn't fully appreciate that restriction. As I understand you can install GApps for individual use legally. But the more I think about it, its not a simple APK install, so not necessarily something that would 'idiot proof' for customer install.
Thanks
They can't ship with Google apps installed, but the customer could install them during setup. They could probably include the link in the setup process and legally be compliant.
I worked part time as a machinist while I was in college. I got to be pretty good with lathes and vertical mills, and even learned G-code before I learned Fortran.
The most awe inspiring machine shop I ever saw was onboard a ship. They had every tool you could ever dream of, and could repair anything, or even build entire assemblies from raw sheets and blocks of metal. Today, it is likely all replaced by one 3D printer.
It would be interesting to know how much they've adopted 3D printing in the large ship machine shops, and to what extent it has offset the traditional methods. You'd still want to store the common maintenance parts and not wait to print. To print an unusual part you need the model, which would need to exist already because they take a while to produce. They certainly could reduce stores and if they used the one part they have they could begin printing the next one for stores.
There are still things that can be produced faster with CNC and milling.
Can the robots take the stuff out of the box and get all those nuts and bolts out of the bubble packaging?
One of my favorite films.
^My error, I read your post wrong. I thought you were recommending adding a wind turbine to the water tower. Ignore my other post.
Just retrofit the local water tower with a lower tank and a turbine to act as the neighborhood's battery for wind and solar power,
Methinks you WAY overestimate the amount of power that can be generated from a windmill mounted on a water tower. And the assumption that any given water tower is in a place that gets usable winds is one you might want to do a little research on.
Please stop with idiotic comments about "the left" or "the right," and what they may or may not know. There are smart people across the spectrum, and it doesn't help discussion to denigrate broad, unspecific groups of people. Interest rates being tied to risk is pretty darn basic.
The right just wants Puerto Rico to pay a higher interest rate because they're brown.
Signed - the Left
http://wizbangblog.com/wp-cont...
And others vastly underestimate the challenges of designing a system that can perform better than humans without human oversight
And still OTHERS appear to be utterly ignorant as to the state of the art in self-driving car research and delivery.
Kind of strange for a place like Slashdot to have some many people so very, very ignorant of technology.
Please explain the "state of the art" for all those ignorant people. You could be one of them as far as I know.
What happens when they start selling them and the courts find that all liability is with the software/hardware manufacturer? I guess its nothing a quick chapter 7 bankruptcy can't fix...
What happens if other car companies offer a better solution while Tesla is still working on theirs? Its seems that Tesla is falling behind in that race. I imagine many owners would not be too happy. Unfortunately, Tesla depends on that up-sell to be able to get operating margins to pay for development going forward. Refunds would be quite painful. Not being able to upsell that feature would be as well.
The people who think it takes hard AI to achieve full autonomy in a self driving car vastly overestimate the cognitive abilities of human drivers..
And others vastly underestimate the challenges of designing a system that can perform better than humans without human oversight. Particularly in an environment that was designed specifically for human drivers interacting with other human drivers. We have a very long way to go.
I never thought about that. I'd have just naturally set the second network to a different subnet.
/. was becoming totally useless.
And I thought
is a really dumb idea. Why would I want my fridge, lightbulbs, toaster and so on to ever be hooked up to the public internet?
None of those would be useful to me. However, I find being able to read and change my home thermostats to be very useful. I am , at this moment, watching some workers in my neighborhood in front of my house. They have the street blocked off and it will be nice to see when they are gone.
I'd like to do the same, but I am considering a third for guests. I've noticed in the last few years that "can I get on your wi-fi?" has become as common as "can I use your restroom?"
A thoughtful host will place a wifi QR code in the bathroom.
Apple is too valuable of a brand, and if people realize Apple, FBI, NSA etc. are all up in your "private" shit, then people would stop buying.
It's a simple case of "let's do and say we couldn't". There is no such thing as secure devices in the U.S., because that's the way government needs it to be, and neither Apple nor Google are above the law.
They also may have been happy to instill false confidence, so some may be less careful as to what they do on their phone.
Interesting. Thanks
Before social media so much knowledge was public, but hard to access. Now it is quick to access
The only 'quick access' information is the information that someone else decides to feed you. Ain't it great.
Any such article sounds encouraging, but from the article linked there is no way to gain any sense of how likely this 'new' information will lead to a cure, if it is indeed even correct.
Alzheimer's is a big deal, so if this is correct we'll see a lot more attention on it.