Spain, Andorra, France (and also Italy, that you don't mention but is also on the same list) are all part of the latin-language-speaking mostly southern countries of europe.
So you say Europe, then exclude most of Europe? I was also in the UK, Netherlands, Germany etc and although I didn't take the wheel personally, I noticed similar behaviours as the other 15 odd countries I have been fortunate to drive in. Humans everywhere do not like being caught behind slow drivers.
A 100% autonomous cars drives itself. It doesn't need your attention. Suddenly you have a lot of time: dozing/sleeping, reading, chatting on your smartphone, checking your e-mails, browsing on your laptop, eating, putting on make-up, etc.
I already have that choice on the train/bus. I choose not to do it because it takes longer than when I drive myself, just like a robot car will.
- Also: no drivers. This type of car could drive around and pick another passenger without needing your control. The cars could really be part of some car-sharing plan. Think them not as driving around. Think them like some kind of public transportation, but that picks you up at your door and drops you at your destination. Basically: a driverless taxi or uber.
I realise what it could be in a perfect world. My point is that the world isn't perfect.
What happens when a drunk throws up in one, then comes to pick you up? Oh now you're late, how often will you put up with that?
What about when the kids up the street put cardboard boxes down the end of your street effectively preventing the vehicle from operating?
What happens when that guy in front of you decides to have a laugh and emergency brakes, speeds up, and emergency brakes again, just to piss you off and make you car sick?
How do the roads scale when the millions of people who normally take public transport now choose the robot car? So even if it operated perfectly it doesn't address the major issue of transport in large cities. Scale.
Far too many potential issues in the real world that the marketing hype doesn't answer...
You're moving the goal posts. 'Real uncontrolled situation' is incompatible with 'ideal circumstances'.
The goal posts are firmly fixed. Operate on a public road, just like I do, under every circumstance that I face every day, and do it as well as me, or better
I have no emotional attachment to this, if the robot car does that, and costs similar to a regualr car, I'll buy one. Based on what I've seen so far, this is a long way away.
Bullshit. I just got back from Europe, driving through Spain, Andorra, and France. If you are driving slowly, people get pissed off where-ever you are.
This also doesn't address my point. Who wants to drive *in* a slow over cautious vehicle? If you've ever been a passenger of an old driver, you'll know what
I mean. A Robot car will be like going everywhere with your grandmother. Most people won't pay a premium for that.
That's because when you investigate the issue close enough to be 'insightful', you realize that self-driving cars can, at least theoretically, handle themselves just fine up to around 100 mph in ideal circumstances;
Let me know when this has been demonstrated in real life, on a real road, in a real uncontrolled sitiation just like I face on the road everyday. Until then, your claims will sit in the 'marketing bullshit' pile.
In Linux, sometimes you have to use a package manager. In Windows, all you need to do is,
For Joe Sixpack they do nothing, because they don't care about tracking so just leave it on. MS and Apple win because it looks polished, and mostly just works. I run Linux at home purely because I hate the corporate evil, but I still accept that Apple and MS win hands down on the total user experience front
I have a surface pro 3, I find the tablet/laptop combo good for work because I have twin screen and keyboard/mouse on my desk.
But when mobile the keyboard is a shit to work with. It passes for casual holiday type use, but I trying to type a day's work with it is impossible.
No it isn't. Having spent quite bit of time in Indonesia, generally it's the ring leaders that are executed, any mules are merely jailed.
And I've never heard heard of anyone claiming they were setup apart from Shappelle Corby, whose brother and father were both drug dealers, so take that claim with a grain of salt.
Out of the tonnes of press about how great robot cars are, and how safe they can be, I'm yet to see anything insightful about how much slower they will have to drive.
The simple fact is, the road is dangerous, and a human accepts risk when driving. A robot will not be allowed to accept that same level of risk, hence will have to drive a LOT more carefully (read slowly).
This is the elephant in the room that will hold back robot cars for decades.
I am intelligent enough to know how intelligent I am not.
Which is the real test. I consider myself smart compared to ordinary people, but stupid next smart people.
I'm fortunate enough to work with PhD and expert in their field types, and I honestly wonder each day how I don't get fired. I feel like the dumbest guy in the room sometimes. Even then I tend to do well in those IQ and aptitude tests which leads me to conclude that they must be a con.
I am a British history graduate and a member of Mensa...
The whole Mensa thing is a trick question. You are the 1 millionth visitor click here for your free prize, and you fell for it.
Did you ever wonder why the only people claiming to be from Mensa are actors and entertainers who are too stupid to figure it out that by passing you've actually failed?
We record all our shows so we can FF the BS. It's amazing how little content there is once you FF past the "coming up next" and "here's what happened last time" segments. I reckon an hour show is down to about 13 minutes of actual unique content now.
Even the news, it's actually funny to watch when a story breaks, and they have no actual information to report, so they bounce back and forth speculating about what might be happening just to fill minutes.
Even if the other guys insist on meeting face-to-face; someone who has reasonable charisma, isn't an idiot; and knows how to wear a suit and an unobtrusive earpiece should be a great deal cheaper than a CEO;.
Someone who has reasonable charisma, isn't an idiot, knows how to wear a suit, and knows all the nuances and detail of the company strategy, is the CEO.
And if you have these skills, why would you offer them for less than market value?
These kinds of disruptions to local economies we are not prepared for. At all.
Speak for yourself. As retail is shifting online and offshore, we have seen massive increase in local transport industries to cater for all the shipping.
We've also seen an increase in demand for quality local made goods as cheap Chinese brands bring no bragging value among the middle class eg local microbreweries, coffee shops and butchers are taking off here, because it's now cool to have boutique, quality foodstuffs over generic global brands.
So just like the rest of history, it's swings and roundabouts. Some industries will die, new ones will take their place.
Shhh... don't tell anyone about SSL Labs. I know next to nothing about security but am now the security expert thanks to this site.
I can test a site, come back and throw around some security jargon about why the site isn't secure, "Oh your cipher suites appear to be incompatible, and your hashing algorithm is out of date" and customers throw money at me to fix it.
I don't even know what half of that stuff means, but if more people know about it, I'll be forced to find real work...
I've been around IT a bit, and found the demands vary greatly between industries. I don't like working much, so over time have maneuvered myself into what I consider the one of best work-life balance roles, in one of the least demanding industries.
I now work Mon-Fri, two days from home each week. Supposed to be 9-5 but quite often start late and finish early, and have long lunches.
Fuck working, it's for chumps.
Seeking asylum doesn't mean finding a more comfortable place to live. If the choice is death/torture/persecution, or learning a new language and being safe, then I think the latter is satisfactory.
Whoa, you had me for a sec there so I went and looked it up. Apparently Millennial means the same as Gen Y, ie birthdays from the 80's to the 00's. So I think I'm still ok:)
Of course they're fleeing to the richer parts of Europe where some Muslims already live, they're rational people who want them and their children to have good lives, why wouldn't they?
This sounds nice, but the reality is that there is a queue of people on the French border trying to get smuggle themselves into the UK. Any argument for asylum evaporates if France isn't good enough for you.
Robot Chef will fail for the same reason as Robot Car. Too many variables, changing too quickly, requiring too many senses that AI simply doesn't have.
And really, why do we call it AI? Has anyone ever seen a demonstration of any AI anywhere ever that was even remotely intelligent? It really should be called Artificial Stupidity instead.
Even though it nominally solves these problems, I still wouldn't trust the thing to do something as simple as cook a steak properly, a process that requires experience, judgement, and touch.
My oven at home is capable of doing something similar. It has a setting to blast high temp to brown the outside, then cools down to keep it pink inside.
Once you know the timing, you can set and forget based purely on the size of meat, and get it right more times than manually frying in a pan.
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Actually, after 15 years, either you're doing it wrong, or you should already have enough money saved to semi-retire in a low-rent area.
What if where I want to live has no low-rent areas?
Bangalore is pretty good. You can literally live like a king on tech money.
This is probably true for very small values of "king".
And large ones too. That's the thing with the 1%, it is all realitve.
Spain, Andorra, France (and also Italy, that you don't mention but is also on the same list) are all part of the latin-language-speaking mostly southern countries of europe.
So you say Europe, then exclude most of Europe? I was also in the UK, Netherlands, Germany etc and although I didn't take the wheel personally, I noticed similar behaviours as the other 15 odd countries I have been fortunate to drive in. Humans everywhere do not like being caught behind slow drivers.
A 100% autonomous cars drives itself. It doesn't need your attention. Suddenly you have a lot of time: dozing/sleeping, reading, chatting on your smartphone, checking your e-mails, browsing on your laptop, eating, putting on make-up, etc.
I already have that choice on the train/bus. I choose not to do it because it takes longer than when I drive myself, just like a robot car will.
- Also: no drivers. This type of car could drive around and pick another passenger without needing your control. The cars could really be part of some car-sharing plan. Think them not as driving around. Think them like some kind of public transportation, but that picks you up at your door and drops you at your destination. Basically: a driverless taxi or uber.
I realise what it could be in a perfect world. My point is that the world isn't perfect.
What happens when a drunk throws up in one, then comes to pick you up? Oh now you're late, how often will you put up with that?
What about when the kids up the street put cardboard boxes down the end of your street effectively preventing the vehicle from operating?
What happens when that guy in front of you decides to have a laugh and emergency brakes, speeds up, and emergency brakes again, just to piss you off and make you car sick?
How do the roads scale when the millions of people who normally take public transport now choose the robot car? So even if it operated perfectly it doesn't address the major issue of transport in large cities. Scale. Far too many potential issues in the real world that the marketing hype doesn't answer...
You're moving the goal posts. 'Real uncontrolled situation' is incompatible with 'ideal circumstances'.
The goal posts are firmly fixed. Operate on a public road, just like I do, under every circumstance that I face every day, and do it as well as me, or better
I have no emotional attachment to this, if the robot car does that, and costs similar to a regualr car, I'll buy one. Based on what I've seen so far, this is a long way away.
Meanwhile, in european countries,
Bullshit. I just got back from Europe, driving through Spain, Andorra, and France. If you are driving slowly, people get pissed off where-ever you are.
This also doesn't address my point. Who wants to drive *in* a slow over cautious vehicle? If you've ever been a passenger of an old driver, you'll know what I mean. A Robot car will be like going everywhere with your grandmother. Most people won't pay a premium for that.
that's driving erratically, suspiciously, unusually or whatever. not for 'driving 10mph under the limit'.
"Whatever" includes driving too slowly. Trust me, I know from experience.
That's because when you investigate the issue close enough to be 'insightful', you realize that self-driving cars can, at least theoretically, handle themselves just fine up to around 100 mph in ideal circumstances;
Let me know when this has been demonstrated in real life, on a real road, in a real uncontrolled sitiation just like I face on the road everyday. Until then, your claims will sit in the 'marketing bullshit' pile.
This isn't 100 of them, but it's 57 known domains that need to be blocked.
I managed to whittle it down to 16...
microsoft.com
nsatc.net
bing.net
live.com
cloudapp.net
v0cdn.net
a-msedge.net
akadns.net
footprintpredict.com
microsoft-hohm.com
msn.com
doubleclick.net
msads.net
adnexus.net
adnxs.com
msecnd.net
In Linux, sometimes you have to use a package manager. In Windows, all you need to do is,
For Joe Sixpack they do nothing, because they don't care about tracking so just leave it on. MS and Apple win because it looks polished, and mostly just works. I run Linux at home purely because I hate the corporate evil, but I still accept that Apple and MS win hands down on the total user experience front
I have a surface pro 3, I find the tablet/laptop combo good for work because I have twin screen and keyboard/mouse on my desk. But when mobile the keyboard is a shit to work with. It passes for casual holiday type use, but I trying to type a day's work with it is impossible.
And a first offense there is death.
No it isn't. Having spent quite bit of time in Indonesia, generally it's the ring leaders that are executed, any mules are merely jailed.
And I've never heard heard of anyone claiming they were setup apart from Shappelle Corby, whose brother and father were both drug dealers, so take that claim with a grain of salt.
I've never heard of a cop pulling over a car for going too slowly. Never once in my life.
It's pretty much how a lot of drunk/stoned drivers get caught...
Out of the tonnes of press about how great robot cars are, and how safe they can be, I'm yet to see anything insightful about how much slower they will have to drive.
The simple fact is, the road is dangerous, and a human accepts risk when driving. A robot will not be allowed to accept that same level of risk, hence will have to drive a LOT more carefully (read slowly).
This is the elephant in the room that will hold back robot cars for decades.
I am intelligent enough to know how intelligent I am not.
Which is the real test. I consider myself smart compared to ordinary people, but stupid next smart people.
I'm fortunate enough to work with PhD and expert in their field types, and I honestly wonder each day how I don't get fired. I feel like the dumbest guy in the room sometimes. Even then I tend to do well in those IQ and aptitude tests which leads me to conclude that they must be a con.
I am a British history graduate and a member of Mensa...
The whole Mensa thing is a trick question. You are the 1 millionth visitor click here for your free prize, and you fell for it. Did you ever wonder why the only people claiming to be from Mensa are actors and entertainers who are too stupid to figure it out that by passing you've actually failed?
We record all our shows so we can FF the BS. It's amazing how little content there is once you FF past the "coming up next" and "here's what happened last time" segments. I reckon an hour show is down to about 13 minutes of actual unique content now.
Even the news, it's actually funny to watch when a story breaks, and they have no actual information to report, so they bounce back and forth speculating about what might be happening just to fill minutes.
Even if the other guys insist on meeting face-to-face; someone who has reasonable charisma, isn't an idiot; and knows how to wear a suit and an unobtrusive earpiece should be a great deal cheaper than a CEO; .
Someone who has reasonable charisma, isn't an idiot, knows how to wear a suit, and knows all the nuances and detail of the company strategy, is the CEO.
And if you have these skills, why would you offer them for less than market value?
These kinds of disruptions to local economies we are not prepared for. At all.
Speak for yourself. As retail is shifting online and offshore, we have seen massive increase in local transport industries to cater for all the shipping.
We've also seen an increase in demand for quality local made goods as cheap Chinese brands bring no bragging value among the middle class eg local microbreweries, coffee shops and butchers are taking off here, because it's now cool to have boutique, quality foodstuffs over generic global brands.
So just like the rest of history, it's swings and roundabouts. Some industries will die, new ones will take their place.
Shhh... don't tell anyone about SSL Labs. I know next to nothing about security but am now the security expert thanks to this site.
I can test a site, come back and throw around some security jargon about why the site isn't secure, "Oh your cipher suites appear to be incompatible, and your hashing algorithm is out of date" and customers throw money at me to fix it.
I don't even know what half of that stuff means, but if more people know about it, I'll be forced to find real work...
I've been around IT a bit, and found the demands vary greatly between industries. I don't like working much, so over time have maneuvered myself into what I consider the one of best work-life balance roles, in one of the least demanding industries.
I now work Mon-Fri, two days from home each week. Supposed to be 9-5 but quite often start late and finish early, and have long lunches.
Fuck working, it's for chumps.
Seeking asylum doesn't mean finding a more comfortable place to live. If the choice is death/torture/persecution, or learning a new language and being safe, then I think the latter is satisfactory.
Whoa, you had me for a sec there so I went and looked it up. Apparently Millennial means the same as Gen Y, ie birthdays from the 80's to the 00's. So I think I'm still ok :)
Of course they're fleeing to the richer parts of Europe where some Muslims already live, they're rational people who want them and their children to have good lives, why wouldn't they?
This sounds nice, but the reality is that there is a queue of people on the French border trying to get smuggle themselves into the UK. Any argument for asylum evaporates if France isn't good enough for you.
Robot Chef will fail for the same reason as Robot Car. Too many variables, changing too quickly, requiring too many senses that AI simply doesn't have.
And really, why do we call it AI? Has anyone ever seen a demonstration of any AI anywhere ever that was even remotely intelligent? It really should be called Artificial Stupidity instead.
Even though it nominally solves these problems, I still wouldn't trust the thing to do something as simple as cook a steak properly, a process that requires experience, judgement, and touch.
My oven at home is capable of doing something similar. It has a setting to blast high temp to brown the outside, then cools down to keep it pink inside.
Once you know the timing, you can set and forget based purely on the size of meat, and get it right more times than manually frying in a pan.