The vast majority of the map update goes to the map company, Navteq in our case. It's the most expensive component in the radio by far, more than the screen or OS or ruggedized HDD.
The price is so high it's a struggle to charge as close to nothing for an update CD as you can because people are already outraged at $100 just from the nav company's portion as it is.
The government wishes to encourage fuel efficiency and low carbon emissions, separate but overlapping issues, correct?
This idea does that while maintaining the principle government should consider goals in setting tax rates -- tax to cover what it ostensibly needs.
This is much more honest than tying it to a percent of GDP or other nonsense, which is an inherent admission it's not about services, but how many dollars we can hog out of the economy, and only then decide how to hand it out in ways that maximize our re-election.
Whether computers estimate you're 40% likely to be interested in Depends and 0% interested in Pampers or vice-versa is a tiny evil compared to other monitoring we now know goes on.
I laugh at when we used to think advertising profiling by computer was our "big concern".
I predicted this kind of crap 20 years ago when I saw what the Netherlands did with LPG cars -- they slapped a tax on it such that you had to drive 20km a year to break even.
This supports the theory they just want the money, and environmental concerns are a red herring.
Never forget that parsimonious theory: they just want your money so they can turn around and spend it on you to your, ummm, cheers?
"But...but how are they supposed to pay for roads?". Thus do you fall into their trap. It's about encouraging behaviors to ameliorate the looming end of the world, isn't it?
> Consider how VHS beat Beta (aside from the "having Porn" aspect).
Not everything went VHS' way in the porn department. I'll never forget the day I walked up to the desk with my selection: Blacks & Blondes: Lesbian Edition
Old fart says to me, he says, he says, Ya know this is Beta, right?"
"No I didn't, thanks..." Oh, the sorrow and embarrassment I felt. I quietly put the tape back, hoping nobody was watching my shame at such a stupid mistake.
> "Taking the vaccine through a clinical trial would cost some 700 million euros"
This is why I am always saying the FDA and similar organizations kill more than they save, by several orders of magnitude. All it takes is delaying introduction of one big cure by a few years and you've cost more lives than are lost because bad drugs get introduced too soon.
There were no mass epidemics from snake oil. Just watch "new" drugs carefully and stop as necessary.
It's a political issue, though, and a few hundred ill people before the camera is fodder for politicians to seize power with. Meanwhile nobody points out continued deaths for ancient diseases are far and away the bigger mass murderer than pharmacological companies-qua-snake oil salesmen.
By far the fastest way to talk with a real person on Verizon's phone site is to start liiking at phone models. A little box will appear asking of you want to talk to a sales representative. Click yes and they can then help you for other stuff, or at least know what to do.
It's reasonable to ask them why they allow these postings without so much as a warning or parental filter, given their reason for taking over from MySpace orients around kids and permitting private pages.
Huh. Standard economic theory blames high prices on artificial shortages in housing due to rent control laws making it unappealing for investors to make new buildings. Hence only rich high-end housing, which pleb laws don't apply to, gets built. It's a problem with a known, but politically impossible solution.
> More or less the entire scientific community of the planet has been in a consensus
About the slow, bigger picture, perhaps, in which case adapting and taking advantage of it, to maximize tech development so in 100 years we'll be further ahead of now than now is of 1900. People in that year panicking and hampering their economy would have slowed it and millions more would be dead because we:d only be at, maybe, 1975 tech.
But this concern of this thread, coming right after the drone thread studying drought in nearby Nebraska, shows drfinitevely these 150 scientists also do not understand cyclic weather anymore than the same idiots who keep predicting the hurricane season will be terrible. God help this planet when they inevitably are, coincidentally, right, and the press and politicians jump on it.
They have no understanding of regression to the mean.
Can someone explain to me how this chip could be calculating anything unless the quantum part was working?
Isn't it like a car that has an electric motor or a gas one, but not both? How can they be confused which engine is running? Who builds a backup normal processor then what, it fills in if the quantum one doesn't work right, and they have no way to tell if this backup kicked in?
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of you regurgitating your leftist meme defense mechanisms taught to you by the power hungry people you kneel to.
This isn't even gambling. It's pseudo-precognition, taking advantage of price differentials between computers in different cities or buildings, before the other guy's system promulgates the updated price.
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The vast majority of the map update goes to the map company, Navteq in our case. It's the most expensive component in the radio by far, more than the screen or OS or ruggedized HDD.
The price is so high it's a struggle to charge as close to nothing for an update CD as you can because people are already outraged at $100 just from the nav company's portion as it is.
> I can remember trading up from adaisy-wheel printer todot matrix
You could print diagrams, but would have to put up with awful letters. I would leave a blank spot and paste in or draw a diagram.
Basically.
tl;dr You need a proper warrant to do this because its fishing for info and needs time limits.
The government wishes to encourage fuel efficiency and low carbon emissions, separate but overlapping issues, correct?
This idea does that while maintaining the principle government should consider goals in setting tax rates -- tax to cover what it ostensibly needs.
This is much more honest than tying it to a percent of GDP or other nonsense, which is an inherent admission it's not about services, but how many dollars we can hog out of the economy, and only then decide how to hand it out in ways that maximize our re-election.
Whether computers estimate you're 40% likely to be interested in Depends and 0% interested in Pampers or vice-versa is a tiny evil compared to other monitoring we now know goes on.
I laugh at when we used to think advertising profiling by computer was our "big concern".
Note: The veracity of "end of the world" is irrelevant, and coincidental, in the political realm. L2meme.
I predicted this kind of crap 20 years ago when I saw what the Netherlands did with LPG cars -- they slapped a tax on it such that you had to drive 20km a year to break even.
This supports the theory they just want the money, and environmental concerns are a red herring.
Never forget that parsimonious theory: they just want your money so they can turn around and spend it on you to your, ummm, cheers?
"But...but how are they supposed to pay for roads?". Thus do you fall into their trap. It's about encouraging behaviors to ameliorate the looming end of the world, isn't it?
How's that theory holding up vs. this one?
> Consider how VHS beat Beta (aside from the "having Porn" aspect).
Not everything went VHS' way in the porn department. I'll never forget the day I walked up to the desk with my selection: Blacks & Blondes: Lesbian Edition
Old fart says to me, he says, he says, Ya know this is Beta, right?"
"No I didn't, thanks..." Oh, the sorrow and embarrassment I felt. I quietly put the tape back, hoping nobody was watching my shame at such a stupid mistake.
> "Taking the vaccine through a clinical trial would cost some 700 million euros"
This is why I am always saying the FDA and similar organizations kill more than they save, by several orders of magnitude. All it takes is delaying introduction of one big cure by a few years and you've cost more lives than are lost because bad drugs get introduced too soon.
There were no mass epidemics from snake oil. Just watch "new" drugs carefully and stop as necessary.
It's a political issue, though, and a few hundred ill people before the camera is fodder for politicians to seize power with. Meanwhile nobody points out continued deaths for ancient diseases are far and away the bigger mass murderer than pharmacological companies-qua-snake oil salesmen.
By far the fastest way to talk with a real person on Verizon's phone site is to start liiking at phone models. A little box will appear asking of you want to talk to a sales representative. Click yes and they can then help you for other stuff, or at least know what to do.
It's reasonable to ask them why they allow these postings without so much as a warning or parental filter, given their reason for taking over from MySpace orients around kids and permitting private pages.
> making it a fairly reasonable first step
Step 2: Celebrity crotch hair for an extra fee. Who doesn't want Taylor Swift's atop their middle-aging pathetic pate?
I've seen manhole explosions on Tosh.0. I've seen some stuff, man.
So are electic cars really better, manufacturing included? And does the even lower efficiency of this system change that ratio?
Seriously? "Its" is a possessive pronoun. "It's" is a contraction of "it is".
"Its" is a possessive adjective.
Huh. Standard economic theory blames high prices on artificial shortages in housing due to rent control laws making it unappealing for investors to make new buildings. Hence only rich high-end housing, which pleb laws don't apply to, gets built. It's a problem with a known, but politically impossible solution.
> More or less the entire scientific community of the planet has been in a consensus
About the slow, bigger picture, perhaps, in which case adapting and taking advantage of it, to maximize tech development so in 100 years we'll be further ahead of now than now is of 1900. People in that year panicking and hampering their economy would have slowed it and millions more would be dead because we:d only be at, maybe, 1975 tech.
But this concern of this thread, coming right after the drone thread studying drought in nearby Nebraska , shows drfinitevely these 150 scientists also do not understand cyclic weather anymore than the same idiots who keep predicting the hurricane season will be terrible. God help this planet when they inevitably are, coincidentally, right, and the press and politicians jump on it.
They have no understanding of regression to the mean.
Also, $6 billion is about a day and a half's worth of borrowing, and just a few hours' worth of one year's annual spending.
Still, one wonders what the 80 vs. 50 cores thing is, other than justification.
Can someone explain to me how this chip could be calculating anything unless the quantum part was working?
Isn't it like a car that has an electric motor or a gas one, but not both? How can they be confused which engine is running? Who builds a backup normal processor then what, it fills in if the quantum one doesn't work right, and they have no way to tell if this backup kicked in?
In the article, the doctor said it could happen from a nearby hotel room, for example.
Someone heard about this, because they did exactly this thing on Homeland last year, killed the VP by wirelessly hacking his pacemaker.
> One way to minimise their PR efforts is to create significant Streisand effects on their work.
Perhaps this is why they are changing 10s of thousands of pages recently -- to tire out the other editors.
What a Churchillian response.
I estimate a 1/10 chance you even understand what I just said.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of you regurgitating your leftist meme defense mechanisms taught to you by the power hungry people you kneel to.
This isn't even gambling. It's pseudo-precognition, taking advantage of price differentials between computers in different cities or buildings, before the other guy's system promulgates the updated price.
Chandra :HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid.
Dr. Heywood Floyd : Those sons of bitches. I didn't know. I didn't know!