"Why not record GPS/GLONASS track constantly into a text file on say twenty flash USB drives enclosed into orange styrofoam with the serial aircraft number on it? In case of an accident, these waterproof USB flash drives are released outside overboard. Certainly the text file is encrypted.
Such a floating USB flash drive would cost maximum a hundred USD even if equipped with a tiny LED lamp; while an aircraft costs millions, and a search may costs billions let alone thousands of tons of burned fossil fuel."
Congrats, you just reinvented a black box and they don't always surface or float based on impact, depth of water, if it's caught in something or the blame hit with such violence that there wasn't much left.
At least you were smart enough to avoid a Chrysler product. On the Camaro, what's it like driving a car where window glass isn't available as a factory option? It boggles my mind that they're allowed to sell a car with suck poor visibility. Then again I suppose it's no worse then a box truck.
I see people complain about that all the time. I don't have any visibility issues. People that tend to have those don't have their side mirrors correctly aligned and such blind themselves. Now, it's not a bubble setup up like a C6 Grand Sport. It's not like I've got 0 visibility.
Honestly, the C7 Z06 w/ Z07 package had much less rear visibility than my '16 SS.
For my car, a 2016 Camaro SS, there's little that will be broken. The only things you would lose are the ability to make/take call on the car's phone number, you can still pair your BT phone just fine as with most modern cars. If you bought the Nav system, that is independent and will function just fine, but you don't get Directions and Connections from OnStar anymore.
Your XM channels and traffic are a fully separate thing you can choose to continue or not.
Honestly outside of the remote diagnostics and the OnStar App functions, you don't lose much. (for me, anways).
So new cars have built in celphones, things like onstar. Who pays for this? I assume there is some monthly fee required. The consumer? the auto maker? the dealership?
I've never had a car with that kind of thing in it. Generally curious.I guess if you pay 20k for a car, they can throw in a cel phone contract for a few years in the purchase price. But maybe its an optional add on?
It comes with a trial period with OnStar remote assistance, navigation/concierge, diagnostics, cell minutes and data, etc.
You can opt to continue these various services for a fee depending on which options you purchase.
I don't continue with any of them because my car has integrated nav, I have a cell w/ BT that pairs easily to the MyLink system, I'm a shade tree mechanic, so I don't see the remote diags, I have friends that work for dealers, so I don't need that service and I have 0 use for the WiFi tethering and have my AP shut off in the OnStar portal.
The cell plan works just like others. You have monthly talk minutes and in my case, a data plan as well to use with the WiFi tethering it provides.
It's going to cost you a buck or two to get that all removed, but it can be done.
I'm not going to remove any of it as it's all tightly integrated in to the control systems of the car. You can easily have it fully disabled by telling OnStar to kill it. The blue light will even turn red and they're very clear that it means 0 crash response and assistance, no remote diagnostics, no auto generated monthly vehicle status emails, etc.
I've turned it off on my prior Corvettes and Camaros because I simply don't use or need it. I also Road Course and Drag Race, so I don't need it keeping track of vehicle telemetry for me as I will put the car in to very hard G turns on some courses and will brake rapidly and suddenly.
Most of my cars get modded anyways, so it's not really an issue.
I bought a 2016 Camaro SS earlier in the year, OnStar comes will Cellular minutes as a freebie (intro). I don't use the cell in my car, nor do I really like OnStar all that much. The OnStar module and related data channel may use the same signal back, but you don't have to have cell minutes for it to work. You do have to subscribe to the OnStar packages though for them to continue past your initial trail time.
I just have my cell phone BT paired to my MyLink and it handles incoming and outgoing calls for me. It even handles sending and receiving texts.
The car also has built in WiFi that provides local network data, which also rides your 4G LTE via the car.
If those are the only tweaks you've had to do, then you're not even close to playing games on PC to the extent that they can be as most all publishers, even in the UI, don't have provisions to set games to their Max PC potential -- and as such, you're shooting yourself in the foot, by not doing that as you're functionally no better than the non-editable settings that a console game provides.
Not always having to tinker with drivers, settings, game tweaks and tuning that get undone in the next patch or update
You mean, no advantages like that?
I'm speaking as someone that has a PS4 and XBOne on a 70" TV and a 3x 24" monitor setup on my PC running at 5760x1080, so this isn't an anti-PC thing so much of a "There's advantages to console and PC" thing.
Innovation and automation have been happening continuously for the past 250 years. Go visit a modern factory. They are already 90% automated. If you look at the slow rate of productivity growth, automation appears to be slowing down rather than accelerating, since most of the repetitive manufacturing jobs are already automated, and automating service jobs is much more difficult.
the automobile actually increased domestic employment
All previous waves of technological change increased employment. So why do you believe "This time is different"?
Personally, I see it because machines are getting smarter and smarter faster. Once Machine Intelligence matures a little further and is coupled with automation, we're going to see this type of thing cut in to more markets.
We'll create this "human organ farm" deep underground and convince all the organisms that they're the world's last hope for survival. We'll explain that a nuclear war made the vast majority of the world too contaminated for life, but a lone island presents hope for survival. We'll convince them that we'll use a lottery to "randomly select" who to send to this "island". All the while, we'll keep them ignorant and secluded, distracting them with organizational tasks like mixing particular organic molecules together to help feed growing organism embryos, and entertaining them with VR live-action versions of X-Box video games. Then, as long as we keep them secluded in this "distraction-dystopia", we don't need to worry about their consciousness, right?
Your analogy is off. Instead of banning skydiving pics, ban pics of junkies shooting up.
Incorrect. People skydiving are needlessly endangering themselves with an activity that has 0 value to me. They are the same and my analogy was correct.
I fail to see the need to be fair to that 350+ pound beshemoth. She left 'plus sized' behind a tenth of a ton ago. If it is harmful to show young girls images of models considered too thin to be healthy, it must be equally harmful to show images of "models" that are three cupcakes away from losing a foot, or exploding their overburdened hearts. The "healthy at every size" thing is dangerous nonsense.
So, what about "healthy" sized people that are smoking, vaping, dipping, are doing something risky and dangerous with their life that could also be teaching people it's ok to partake in these dangerous and potentially fatal activities?
I personally think it's 100% insane to bungie jump, sky dive, base jump, etc just for the thrill and every one of those people are 1 mechanical failure from death. Does that mean I should be allowed to ban their pics?
Well, awesome.. My "password" to everything will be my couch. Guess it's fitting that would be the key to my online world, it's already the key to my real life one.
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LOL @ Myself.. "the blame hit with such violence that there wasn't much left."
I mean to say plane
"Why not record GPS/GLONASS track constantly into a text file on say twenty flash USB drives enclosed into orange styrofoam with the serial aircraft number on it? In case of an accident, these waterproof USB flash drives are released outside overboard. Certainly the text file is encrypted.
Such a floating USB flash drive would cost maximum a hundred USD even if equipped with a tiny LED lamp; while an aircraft costs millions, and a search may costs billions let alone thousands of tons of burned fossil fuel."
Congrats, you just reinvented a black box and they don't always surface or float based on impact, depth of water, if it's caught in something or the blame hit with such violence that there wasn't much left.
It's stuck to and rides upon rails. It's not a bus, it's a train or tram.
At least you were smart enough to avoid a Chrysler product.
On the Camaro, what's it like driving a car where window glass isn't available as a factory option? It boggles my mind that they're allowed to sell a car with suck poor visibility. Then again I suppose it's no worse then a box truck.
I see people complain about that all the time. I don't have any visibility issues. People that tend to have those don't have their side mirrors correctly aligned and such blind themselves. Now, it's not a bubble setup up like a C6 Grand Sport. It's not like I've got 0 visibility.
Honestly, the C7 Z06 w/ Z07 package had much less rear visibility than my '16 SS.
Jeez,Corvettes and Camaros.
A serial bad-decision maker, you sure you don't want OnStar?
Man, you really got me there... I don't know how I'm ever going to survive such an awful anonymous comment...
For my car, a 2016 Camaro SS, there's little that will be broken. The only things you would lose are the ability to make/take call on the car's phone number, you can still pair your BT phone just fine as with most modern cars. If you bought the Nav system, that is independent and will function just fine, but you don't get Directions and Connections from OnStar anymore.
Your XM channels and traffic are a fully separate thing you can choose to continue or not.
Honestly outside of the remote diagnostics and the OnStar App functions, you don't lose much. (for me, anways).
So new cars have built in celphones, things like onstar. Who pays for this? I assume there is some monthly fee required. The consumer? the auto maker? the dealership?
I've never had a car with that kind of thing in it. Generally curious.I guess if you pay 20k for a car, they can throw in a cel phone contract for a few years in the purchase price. But maybe its an optional add on?
It comes with a trial period with OnStar remote assistance, navigation/concierge, diagnostics, cell minutes and data, etc.
You can opt to continue these various services for a fee depending on which options you purchase.
I don't continue with any of them because my car has integrated nav, I have a cell w/ BT that pairs easily to the MyLink system, I'm a shade tree mechanic, so I don't see the remote diags, I have friends that work for dealers, so I don't need that service and I have 0 use for the WiFi tethering and have my AP shut off in the OnStar portal.
The cell plan works just like others. You have monthly talk minutes and in my case, a data plan as well to use with the WiFi tethering it provides.
It's going to cost you a buck or two to get that all removed, but it can be done.
I'm not going to remove any of it as it's all tightly integrated in to the control systems of the car. You can easily have it fully disabled by telling OnStar to kill it. The blue light will even turn red and they're very clear that it means 0 crash response and assistance, no remote diagnostics, no auto generated monthly vehicle status emails, etc.
I've turned it off on my prior Corvettes and Camaros because I simply don't use or need it. I also Road Course and Drag Race, so I don't need it keeping track of vehicle telemetry for me as I will put the car in to very hard G turns on some courses and will brake rapidly and suddenly.
Most of my cars get modded anyways, so it's not really an issue.
I bought a 2016 Camaro SS earlier in the year, OnStar comes will Cellular minutes as a freebie (intro). I don't use the cell in my car, nor do I really like OnStar all that much. The OnStar module and related data channel may use the same signal back, but you don't have to have cell minutes for it to work. You do have to subscribe to the OnStar packages though for them to continue past your initial trail time.
I just have my cell phone BT paired to my MyLink and it handles incoming and outgoing calls for me. It even handles sending and receiving texts.
The car also has built in WiFi that provides local network data, which also rides your 4G LTE via the car.
Have you never seen The Core? You're going to kill people with an EMP.
Maybe that's just their DESTINI
If those are the only tweaks you've had to do, then you're not even close to playing games on PC to the extent that they can be as most all publishers, even in the UI, don't have provisions to set games to their Max PC potential -- and as such, you're shooting yourself in the foot, by not doing that as you're functionally no better than the non-editable settings that a console game provides.
I don't buy games from UBISOFT, so no I have not been required to use Origin.
You may not, but you aren't the whole market.
There is no advantage to a console today
Unified Achievement and Profile rating systems
Have you even tried using Origin?
Not always having to tinker with drivers, settings, game tweaks and tuning that get undone in the next patch or update
You mean, no advantages like that?
I'm speaking as someone that has a PS4 and XBOne on a 70" TV and a 3x 24" monitor setup on my PC running at 5760x1080, so this isn't an anti-PC thing so much of a "There's advantages to console and PC" thing.
Your comment is a great example of the Cockburn Effect in action.
I thought the Cockburn Effect happened when you weren't using enough lube...
Innovation and automation have been happening continuously for the past 250 years. Go visit a modern factory. They are already 90% automated. If you look at the slow rate of productivity growth, automation appears to be slowing down rather than accelerating, since most of the repetitive manufacturing jobs are already automated, and automating service jobs is much more difficult.
the automobile actually increased domestic employment
All previous waves of technological change increased employment. So why do you believe "This time is different"?
Personally, I see it because machines are getting smarter and smarter faster. Once Machine Intelligence matures a little further and is coupled with automation, we're going to see this type of thing cut in to more markets.
We'll create this "human organ farm" deep underground and convince all the organisms that they're the world's last hope for survival. We'll explain that a nuclear war made the vast majority of the world too contaminated for life, but a lone island presents hope for survival. We'll convince them that we'll use a lottery to "randomly select" who to send to this "island". All the while, we'll keep them ignorant and secluded, distracting them with organizational tasks like mixing particular organic molecules together to help feed growing organism embryos, and entertaining them with VR live-action versions of X-Box video games. Then, as long as we keep them secluded in this "distraction-dystopia", we don't need to worry about their consciousness, right?
Jordan Two Delta was hot.
Sh*t... Al Gore was right!
Your analogy is off. Instead of banning skydiving pics, ban pics of junkies shooting up.
Incorrect. People skydiving are needlessly endangering themselves with an activity that has 0 value to me. They are the same and my analogy was correct.
I fail to see the need to be fair to that 350+ pound beshemoth. She left 'plus sized' behind a tenth of a ton ago. If it is harmful to show young girls images of models considered too thin to be healthy, it must be equally harmful to show images of "models" that are three cupcakes away from losing a foot, or exploding their overburdened hearts. The "healthy at every size" thing is dangerous nonsense.
So, what about "healthy" sized people that are smoking, vaping, dipping, are doing something risky and dangerous with their life that could also be teaching people it's ok to partake in these dangerous and potentially fatal activities? I personally think it's 100% insane to bungie jump, sky dive, base jump, etc just for the thrill and every one of those people are 1 mechanical failure from death. Does that mean I should be allowed to ban their pics?
Did you see that picture? I nearly went blind. Why would anyone want to look at that.
Well, to be fair... The concept of beauty is widely debated now and has changed greatly over the years.
Did you see that picture? I nearly went blind. Why would anyone want to look at that.
Please, do post a picture of your ugly self so we can laugh at the irony of your post.
Says the Anonymous Coward that can't even login as him/herself. Baby steps, AC. Baby steps.
Well, awesome.. My "password" to everything will be my couch. Guess it's fitting that would be the key to my online world, it's already the key to my real life one.
There are plenty of Humans that can't do that.
I wanna s/experiment. That sounds fun.
They're not always good.