I love the idea of self-driving cars, but I think it's going to be hard to get it to work acceptably "as is", that is, the way the problem is being approached.
Much of the decision-making must remain "onboard" the car but I think self-driving vehicles will be vastly improved with some feedback and control signals from the road or a locale-specific traffic guidance computer.
In other words, in addition to its own decision-making software, the vehicle should also be receiving some sort of signals or guidance info from the road in the area it's currently passing through.
Sort of an air-traffic control system where responsibility for air traffic is handed off from control center to control center as the plane makes its way from point A to point B. The difference is that this guidance should be completely automated, and be an adjunct to what the car does, not its primary means of navigation. I'm see this primarily as speed and road condition management info.
I know, I know- what about hackers? Yeah, that'll be an issue for sure, but it can be mitigated by the use of some solid encryption routines and boundary-monitoring, i.e. to make sure that a Bad Guy(tm) doesn't hack the controller and tell all the vehicles in its area to all speed up to 100mph or whatever. Or to tell 1/2 to speed up and 1/2 to come to a dead stop. Some things shouldn't be able to be overridden, such as max speed and collision avoidance.
In short, I think autonomous vehicles would be better (and probably safer) if they not only thought for themselves, but also were receiving some sanity-checking and guidance info specific to the road or area they travel on.
Please fuck off. I've lived in Seattle for 30+ years and I've watched the city go downhill in real time. Social services have gone to shit, the infrastructure is crumbling, and hipsters infest the sidewalks like swarms of cockroaches, each desperately trying to be hipper than the loser behind him on his fixie.
Yes, my house has tripled in value, but so what- that only means anything if I'm planning on moving, which won't be for a while. It's nice to have a low house payment though- I pay way less per month for a 3,000 sq foot home than most apartments rent for around here, and it's even worse in the city. Ugh.
I just got back a few minutes ago from a trip downtown, and the beautiful place that used to be Seattle is now a grimy, trash-laden maze of torn up one-way streets. Echh.
And yes, I've known enough MS and Amazon employees to know that they think they're the hot shit, when most of them are just basic wankers who fooled the hiring team into taking them on. I've worked for MS several times as a contractor and I can tell you firsthand that the place is bursting at the seams with vacuous dickheads.
So feel free to move here and be one of the dipsticks that clog the freeways in your Prius while grumbling about the traffic and housing prices. I'll be sleeping in while you curse at the commute, lol. I'll also be laughing at your $4000/month house payment for the 1200 sq foot crackerbox you got in Monroe.
Could an employee live in a central location and reasonably commute to any of the three? (Honest question; I've never lived there.) If so, then it makes sense to treat them as a single employment market.
Not really. Your commute will be hellish and your housing costs won't be that much lower because you're not the first person to come up with this idea.
Seattle is turning into the same kind of over-priced shithole as Silicon Valley. Yuppies clog the city holding their Starbucks cup as if it was the Holy Grail.
Too many people, too many cars, housing is very expensive and is going up daily, infrastructure is overwhelmed and underfunded. As a result, homeless people are everywhere. You have to move out to one of the meth-head dumps like Sultan or Monroe or Lake Stevens to find remotely affordable housing or a house under $400K. That might sound affordable but $400K only buys you a rat-infested fixer-upper. Make sure you buy yourself a top-of-the-line alarm system because the bicycle-pedaling meth-heads that roam your neighborhood will steal anything not nailed down or locked up.
The tech-pricks who work for companies like Amazon and Microsoft think their shit don't stink. They make a modest living wage but not enough to really stand out and they're all mortgaged to the hilt. They get their ego fulfillment from their employer, as if working for Microsoft or Amazon is a great achievement and something to brag about. Mostly they're just insufferable pricks.
No teen or millennial gives a shit about what some egghead scientist with decades of experience says,...
I supect many of these straw man "millennials" you're railing against would point out that a Nobel Lauriate in Economics or Physics (or Peace) doesn't have decades of experience in a field relevant to the discussion.
Yeah, but my point still stands. Even if you had 109 GMO scientists talking about GMOs, they still would give a shit because LOOK KIM KARDASHIAN HAS A NEW DRESS!!!
Yeah, what the fuck is up with that, anyway? It makes them look retarded. Especially when I see one of these backwards-hat douchebags shielding their eyes from the Sun as they look at something. Sometimes I laugh out loud but usually I just shake my head and keep moving.
worthwhile social interaction totally alien to them. Have some fucking pity, man. They are so lost.
^^^This. I genuinely feel sorry for these obsessive, cellphone-addicted babies. Their attention span is so short I wonder how they can accomplish getting dressed in the morning. If they aren't getting a constant stream of IMs and facebook feed updates they act like they've been marooned in outer space. They can barely look you in the eye, and talking to them is like talking to Rain Man. Most of them get flustered and fidgety and look like they want to flee the scene of a crime or something. How they'll ever manage to find a mate and breed is a mystery to me.
I'm not kidding, I truly do feel sorry for many of them. It's like they're slightly brain damaged.
Now if 109 music, movie and sports stars came forward we may be talking some actual change in perception.
I think you hit the nail on the head. No teen or millennial gives a shit about what some egghead scientist with decades of experience says, but if Kanye or Kim Kardashian or Daenerys Targaryen came out in favor of GMOs then you'd get a tidal wave of popular support. Facebook would explode with 'Likes" for GMOs and the debate would be over.
But seriously, you're right. No one under 30 or 40 is going to waste their time listing to "facts" and "research" and boring old stuff like that. They want titties and sick pop beats that they can chill to, dawg.
"Microsoft Will Be Largest Infrastructure As A Service Vendor By 2019"
What with them changing Windows to a subscription service and the insane success of their Azure stuff, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this turns out to be true in a year or two.
I don't know what it is about Azure that's so compelling, but it does seem like a shitload of businesses are going for it in a big way. MS can't build datacenters fast enough to keep up with demand and that's gotta mean something.
Okay, that looks kinda cool, and potentially very useful. I can see a boatload of possible uses and places where it would be great to have something like this.
Then there is something Samsung knows but Dell doesn't. Samsung introduces multiple tablet models every year.
They may do that out of a desire to find a good fit for various perceived levels or niches in the market, or it may just be artificial differentiation. That is, float lots of "different" versions of something and see which one people gravitate towards even though they're basically the same thing.
But either way, I'm all for having lots of choices in electronic gear, and by and large I've found Samsung to be fairly decent stuff. Some of their older tablets were built like tanks and stood up to a lot of abuse.
I'd bet that it'll probably be fine. I've installed Mint on about a half-dozen different PCs, two of which were laptops and so far it's installed and run great on all of them.
If you believe that I have a bridge in New York to sell you. Chinese company sells a product that opens your network to a server conveniently located in China. I have a hard time believing that was a mistake.
Even if it was a mistake, the potential for harm is the same.
(I also have a hard time believing that was a mistake, but either way it's got "Bad News" written all over it.)
"The AuYou representative insisted she would be fired if the review was not updated."
Why would I care, as long as my review was factual and accurate?
It's not my problem that her company is run by pieces of shit that fire people for events outside of her control, or that they're making a shitty product, or for the fact that they got caught doing so.
Seriously, it's too bad but I'm not going to lie just because someone somewhere might get fired. Here's a tip: don't make a shitty product and you won't get shitty reviews.
..and on my To-Do List is to migrate my computers off of Windows and onto some version of Linux. Enough is too much.
FWIW, I recently moved to Linux Mint and I'm pretty damn happy with it. You may find something (another distro) you like better but all in all I have zero complaints with Mint.
It loaded/installed without a hitch, everything worked right off (wifi, sound, mouse, bluetooth, DVD/CD player, etc) and updating it is a snap. I like not having to reboot every time I update something. WINE runs the few niche Windows apps I want to keep (a cardfile app and some other junk) but I'm sure I'll find native replacements for those when I stop being lazy about it (I'm actually testing a few now).
So, yeah, I can recommend Linux Mint without reservation.
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I love the idea of self-driving cars, but I think it's going to be hard to get it to work acceptably "as is", that is, the way the problem is being approached.
Much of the decision-making must remain "onboard" the car but I think self-driving vehicles will be vastly improved with some feedback and control signals from the road or a locale-specific traffic guidance computer.
In other words, in addition to its own decision-making software, the vehicle should also be receiving some sort of signals or guidance info from the road in the area it's currently passing through.
Sort of an air-traffic control system where responsibility for air traffic is handed off from control center to control center as the plane makes its way from point A to point B. The difference is that this guidance should be completely automated, and be an adjunct to what the car does, not its primary means of navigation. I'm see this primarily as speed and road condition management info.
I know, I know- what about hackers? Yeah, that'll be an issue for sure, but it can be mitigated by the use of some solid encryption routines and boundary-monitoring, i.e. to make sure that a Bad Guy(tm) doesn't hack the controller and tell all the vehicles in its area to all speed up to 100mph or whatever. Or to tell 1/2 to speed up and 1/2 to come to a dead stop. Some things shouldn't be able to be overridden, such as max speed and collision avoidance.
In short, I think autonomous vehicles would be better (and probably safer) if they not only thought for themselves, but also were receiving some sanity-checking and guidance info specific to the road or area they travel on.
"Japan's First VR Porn Festival Shut Down Due To Unprecedented Popularity"
Truly an example of both "modern problems" and "first world problems" together in one place.
"A Chinese Ad Firm Is Using Malware to Get More Clicks"
An ad company breaking the rules and using malware to increase profits? Lol, say it isn't so!
And they wonder why we use ad blockers....
Gee, chip on your shoulder much?
Please fuck off. I've lived in Seattle for 30+ years and I've watched the city go downhill in real time. Social services have gone to shit, the infrastructure is crumbling, and hipsters infest the sidewalks like swarms of cockroaches, each desperately trying to be hipper than the loser behind him on his fixie.
Yes, my house has tripled in value, but so what- that only means anything if I'm planning on moving, which won't be for a while. It's nice to have a low house payment though- I pay way less per month for a 3,000 sq foot home than most apartments rent for around here, and it's even worse in the city. Ugh.
I just got back a few minutes ago from a trip downtown, and the beautiful place that used to be Seattle is now a grimy, trash-laden maze of torn up one-way streets. Echh.
And yes, I've known enough MS and Amazon employees to know that they think they're the hot shit, when most of them are just basic wankers who fooled the hiring team into taking them on. I've worked for MS several times as a contractor and I can tell you firsthand that the place is bursting at the seams with vacuous dickheads.
So feel free to move here and be one of the dipsticks that clog the freeways in your Prius while grumbling about the traffic and housing prices. I'll be sleeping in while you curse at the commute, lol. I'll also be laughing at your $4000/month house payment for the 1200 sq foot crackerbox you got in Monroe.
Could an employee live in a central location and reasonably commute to any of the three? (Honest question; I've never lived there.) If so, then it makes sense to treat them as a single employment market.
Not really. Your commute will be hellish and your housing costs won't be that much lower because you're not the first person to come up with this idea.
Seattle is turning into the same kind of over-priced shithole as Silicon Valley. Yuppies clog the city holding their Starbucks cup as if it was the Holy Grail.
Too many people, too many cars, housing is very expensive and is going up daily, infrastructure is overwhelmed and underfunded. As a result, homeless people are everywhere. You have to move out to one of the meth-head dumps like Sultan or Monroe or Lake Stevens to find remotely affordable housing or a house under $400K. That might sound affordable but $400K only buys you a rat-infested fixer-upper. Make sure you buy yourself a top-of-the-line alarm system because the bicycle-pedaling meth-heads that roam your neighborhood will steal anything not nailed down or locked up.
The tech-pricks who work for companies like Amazon and Microsoft think their shit don't stink. They make a modest living wage but not enough to really stand out and they're all mortgaged to the hilt. They get their ego fulfillment from their employer, as if working for Microsoft or Amazon is a great achievement and something to brag about. Mostly they're just insufferable pricks.
It's been days since we had a Bitcoin story, I was growing nostalgic for one, and whaddya know, one pops up like a gift from Heaven.
Face it - you have become a grouchy old man.
Oh hell, I faced that years ago. I was a grouchy old man at 25 or so.
"You can watch the ceremony on YouTube."
Oh yeah, I'll get right on that. On second thought, hell no.
No teen or millennial gives a shit about what some egghead scientist with decades of experience says, ...
I supect many of these straw man "millennials" you're railing against would point out that a Nobel Lauriate in Economics or Physics (or Peace) doesn't have decades of experience in a field relevant to the discussion.
Yeah, but my point still stands. Even if you had 109 GMO scientists talking about GMOs, they still would give a shit because LOOK KIM KARDASHIAN HAS A NEW DRESS!!!
and their backwards ball caps
Yeah, what the fuck is up with that, anyway? It makes them look retarded. Especially when I see one of these backwards-hat douchebags shielding their eyes from the Sun as they look at something. Sometimes I laugh out loud but usually I just shake my head and keep moving.
worthwhile social interaction totally alien to them. Have some fucking pity, man. They are so lost.
^^^This. I genuinely feel sorry for these obsessive, cellphone-addicted babies. Their attention span is so short I wonder how they can accomplish getting dressed in the morning. If they aren't getting a constant stream of IMs and facebook feed updates they act like they've been marooned in outer space. They can barely look you in the eye, and talking to them is like talking to Rain Man. Most of them get flustered and fidgety and look like they want to flee the scene of a crime or something. How they'll ever manage to find a mate and breed is a mystery to me.
I'm not kidding, I truly do feel sorry for many of them. It's like they're slightly brain damaged.
Now if 109 music, movie and sports stars came forward we may be talking some actual change in perception.
I think you hit the nail on the head. No teen or millennial gives a shit about what some egghead scientist with decades of experience says, but if Kanye or Kim Kardashian or Daenerys Targaryen came out in favor of GMOs then you'd get a tidal wave of popular support. Facebook would explode with 'Likes" for GMOs and the debate would be over.
But seriously, you're right. No one under 30 or 40 is going to waste their time listing to "facts" and "research" and boring old stuff like that. They want titties and sick pop beats that they can chill to, dawg.
"Microsoft Will Be Largest Infrastructure As A Service Vendor By 2019"
What with them changing Windows to a subscription service and the insane success of their Azure stuff, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this turns out to be true in a year or two.
I don't know what it is about Azure that's so compelling, but it does seem like a shitload of businesses are going for it in a big way. MS can't build datacenters fast enough to keep up with demand and that's gotta mean something.
Stop with the crazy talk!
Long live the "free market", which never existed and never will if we have anything to say about it!
Did anyone think Alexa was created just to make life better for humanity?
Not anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
More and easier ways to spend my money, woo hoo!
Oh, wait.....
Okay, that looks kinda cool, and potentially very useful. I can see a boatload of possible uses and places where it would be great to have something like this.
Then there is something Samsung knows but Dell doesn't. Samsung introduces multiple tablet models every year.
They may do that out of a desire to find a good fit for various perceived levels or niches in the market, or it may just be artificial differentiation. That is, float lots of "different" versions of something and see which one people gravitate towards even though they're basically the same thing.
But either way, I'm all for having lots of choices in electronic gear, and by and large I've found Samsung to be fairly decent stuff. Some of their older tablets were built like tanks and stood up to a lot of abuse.
I'd bet that it'll probably be fine. I've installed Mint on about a half-dozen different PCs, two of which were laptops and so far it's installed and run great on all of them.
If you would, please let me know how it goes.
If you believe that I have a bridge in New York to sell you. Chinese company sells a product that opens your network to a server conveniently located in China. I have a hard time believing that was a mistake.
Even if it was a mistake, the potential for harm is the same.
(I also have a hard time believing that was a mistake, but either way it's got "Bad News" written all over it.)
"The AuYou representative insisted she would be fired if the review was not updated."
Why would I care, as long as my review was factual and accurate?
It's not my problem that her company is run by pieces of shit that fire people for events outside of her control, or that they're making a shitty product, or for the fact that they got caught doing so.
Seriously, it's too bad but I'm not going to lie just because someone somewhere might get fired. Here's a tip: don't make a shitty product and you won't get shitty reviews.
Why should I see it one time at all? How many times do I have to tell Microsoft that I do not want Windows 10 on my PCs????
That number would be "infinity plus 37 kabillion".
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Did Microsoft management fail the "no means no" sex education classes?
The fact that a number of Microsoft's employees and executives have been accused of rape would seem to indicate that they did indeed fail the "no means no" class.
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Microsoft intentional deafness on this matter has completely and irretrievably soured my opinion on them.
Lol, what took you so long? :) I moved to Linux Mint months ago, and I'm never going back.
..and on my To-Do List is to migrate my computers off of Windows and onto some version of Linux. Enough is too much.
FWIW, I recently moved to Linux Mint and I'm pretty damn happy with it. You may find something (another distro) you like better but all in all I have zero complaints with Mint.
It loaded/installed without a hitch, everything worked right off (wifi, sound, mouse, bluetooth, DVD/CD player, etc) and updating it is a snap. I like not having to reboot every time I update something. WINE runs the few niche Windows apps I want to keep (a cardfile app and some other junk) but I'm sure I'll find native replacements for those when I stop being lazy about it (I'm actually testing a few now).
So, yeah, I can recommend Linux Mint without reservation.
...on behalf of everyone who hasn't already been forced into an "upgrade", allow me to say "NO".
"Rails 5.0 is without a doubt the best, most complete version of Rails yet."
And yet it's still a dreadful, bloated, pokey sack of nuts and bolts that have to be stuck together with Unicorn Glue.
"Bug fixes for older versions? Fuck you, because, umm, fuck you!"
So all you have to do when you get too many bugs is to just roll a new release and magically your support obligations disappear. Excellent plan.
It's brilliant. It also sucks, but it's brilliant suckage, so hey just web-scale it, flip the paradigm, and order some more Mountain Dew.
In other words, "We don't support all that other dreadful shit we just released, so move to our new Awesome Extreme Version(tm)!"