And now your average home costs $10 million, and a salad costs $100.
But hey, you paid half price for gas!
Yay!
My 80 year old house was built from bricks made in the kilns at the end of my street. It closed down 30 years ago because you could order in bricks interstate for 10cents less.
So yeah, a house will cost more, but likely 10%-20% more not twenty times as much. But for your 10%-20% increase, more local people will have jobs. Same goes for your salad.
RFID is superfluous, the automatic plate readers work quite well...
We have the RFID readers on our toll roads here, plus the number plate readers to catch those without tags. Motorcycles aren't required to have tags so rely on the number plate readers for tolling. I wrote the toll operator a letter to ask why even bother with overhead and cost of RFID tags, infrastructure and billing etc if number readers are already there and work. I'm yet to hear a reasonable response.
Like multitasking, the swipe down/up menu on the home screen, Apple Maps, iPad "mini", the iPhone 6 plus etc etc?
Why, then did APPLE cold-copy Android/Samsung?
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
Here in Australia we're already past chip and pin. Contactless is the new normal (either card or NFC on phone). I use it everywhere, supermarket, pub, shops, anywhere. It seems absurd that a so-called advanced economy like the US is so backward in this space.
Look at what people actually buy. Very few people buy an...
The claim wasn't "the most bought line item". Most popular, means most of, and there lots and lots of things that number more than the iPhone.
As I said, it's marketing wank, from one of the wankiest companies in the world.
This is the problem with technology, it makes lines disappear quite easily. eg If all I'm doing is reporting data, in extreme detail, but it's still just data, and then you have some tool that can construct that data into some sort of easily viewable format, then you're effectively doing the same thing, but off the hook from a legal standpoint. All the is being reported is data, the location and description of every photon 60 times per second.
Information wants to be free. Technology is only going to make the information laws harder and harder to enforce.
But please, stop trying to convince Americans that asking someone to share Hillary's self-described non-work related emails is an act of treason - you just sound stupid.
Note: I'm not American.
Which do you consider worse, the Secretary of State conducted business on a private server, similar to how every Secretary of State operated since time began when there was no electronic record. Or the enemy of the state has copies of that data?
Hate Hillary all you like, but hoping your enemy has access to government data just so you can nitpick a politician you dislike seems a bit misguided to me.
We all hate politicians, but loyalty to country should come first, especially if you are running for president.
Don't even pretend that Trump's obnoxious behaviour is in anyway comparable to any previous candidate, red or blue.
All sides of politics get up to sneaky tricks, but Trump is an obnoxious bully that has no place in the White House. If for some reason he wins, we (us non-Americans too) are all fucked, make no mistake about that.
Announcer1: Look! There's an American running in this race. He hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but we're going to keep the camera trained on him, because we know you don't care about who wins if it's some foreigner.
If it makes you feel better, I've lived in four different countries and the coverage was all pretty similar. I don't bother any more, the production is always dumbed down to idiot level and removes any of the interest of the global nature of the event.
Indeed. Last I checked, facts aren't copyrightable, trademarked, or otherwise protected by intellectual property rights...
There must be limits to this, otherwise I could film Olympic events and broadcast them, since it is all just facts. Those photons did in fact reflect those wavelengths at those exacts points in time...
I was at Atlanta in 1996, (Dept of Defense, Joint Task Force-Olympics (JTF-0)) big difference between what the public sees, the MSM decides to show the public and what happens behind the scenes. Knowing how well Atlanta went, and what a train-wreck it was behind the scenes, I can't imagine what kind of horror storey Rio is going to be.
How is this different from anything ever? I'm a consultant and have been in a lot of large organisations, and they're all the same. Billion dollar businesses that look all big and shiny and professional on the outside, but are a complete clusterfuck behind the scenes.
This is all quite normal behaviour.
I made an observation a few years ago that up until the early 90s, I would use computers to get away from people for a few hours. Now when I want to get away from people, I stop using them for a few hours.
The social media hivemind empowered by the smartphone is not for everybody.
Every evening I sit on my porch with my 16-year-old cat and watch people out walking their dogs or taking an evening stroll. It's astonishing how many people do so with their nose attached to a smartphone. Furthermore, it's really really sad to see.
You know you can buy a phone and use however you want to? I don't use any any of the social media crap, and I'm not a fan of using it as a boredom buster. It's a tool, like any other that has a place, and has value when required.
You can say a lot of things about the iPhone; but "Hard to use" is not one of them.
Depends on what you're trying to do. It's hard to use your "pocket computer" to store and transfer files.
It's also hard to tailor the UI to your liking as most computers have done for the last 30 years.
And if the iPhone was so hard to use, why, then did EVERY SINGLE PHONE cold-copy the iPhone?
You mean by copying the rectangle form factor? I'm pretty sure someone else already invented that...
Yes but few people buy an ARM processor; they buy the electronic device which has an ARM processor.
Why does this matter? Whoever buys it, it is still a product being sold, which is the claim here "most popular product of all time"
If I had to add something to contention, I'd nominate grains of rice. Choose any brand of rice producer you like, I bet most of them sell more in a day than Apple would sell in a lifetime. The claim is marketing wank and we all know that.
You don't "manage" to do jack shit when it comes to multitasking behind the wheel.
What I meant was, those of us who already manage to operate a vehicle without being distracted, drunk or multitasking...
Most people manage to operate their vehicles and not die, just a small percentage of idiots can't, why should the rest of us be punished for their poor choices?
GPS has improved navigation for the masses. If it hasn't for you for some reason, then you are an anomaly; a mere outlier that will be ignored for the greater good.
GPS has made improvements because we can choose when and when not to use it. You couldn't say the same thing if every single person was forced to use it, all the time.
I agree in that it becomes tricky to justify autonomous systems to replace those who genuinely pay attention on the road and minimize risk as much as possible. But as they improve autonomous systems over any human's reaction time, proving that even the best of drivers are no match for the computer, then the argument becomes less and less relevant.
Well get back to me when that day comes, because today and the next few years, it is the same dream as the flying car, or the time machine.
And don't say it's 'just around the corner', that is pure hype.
My point here was more of the "greater good" principle,
Yes we all know what the greater good principle is, the difference is that a lot of medicine has proven to be a greater good, you are making claims based on some imaginary technology that doesn't yet exist. Many men have made fools of themselves making the exact same predictions. Why is this different?
People only file reports for things that are insured and worth filing a claim on
Citation? I personally lodged a claim when someone broke into my car. No insurance claim but filed a report so there was a record. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has ever done this.
Depending on neighborhood that will be between 10% and 25% of thefts. Nice crime rate reduction.
It's only a reduction if people previously were reporting it and now no longer are. You're implying no-one does this anyway so how can be reducing?
Now there is a criminal mastermind: spending days, even weeks, prepping the parking lot for his attack. Now with the guards attention turned, he strikes and steals a $70 car radio. Good job guy.
I take it you've had no experience in this area. Kicking the tyre each night to trigger the alarm a few days before the job was 5 minutes of effort for guaranteed return.
Also these days no-one steal car radios, you bring a flatbed truck and hoist the whole car on the back and drive off. Tens of thousands of dollars for a few minutes work, but you can pretend this doesn't exist if it makes you feel better.
This was never about "saving the world", but this IS about saving lives lost every year due to ignorant humans who think they can safely operate 3,000 pounds of steel at 60MPH while eating/drinking/reading/texting/putting on makeup, while falling asleep at the wheel because they're drunk.
What about those of us who already manage to do that? It sounds suspiciously nanny state to me, lowest common denominator etc...
Even if 10,000 lives are lost a year due to autonomous vehicles, it will be seen as a massive improvement over human navigation.
And you base this on what exactly? I have a GPS now, it is still much worse at me than navigating.
The difference the robot car fanboys don't get is that 20000 lives lost to to people who probably had some part in the cause (not always but sometimes), is still better than 10000 lives lost at complete random. Because for the other 320000000 million people that don't die on the road, they've had some control over that outcome.
Apple could buy the major three no problems. Apple Corps, however, is NOT part of the major three. The question is, would THEY sell themselves to Apple Inc.? My guess is, most probably not.
You think Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI want to sell either? Money has a funny way of changing people's standards
It doesn't matter, Apple don't need Apple if the own the whole industry. Whether they own everyone except the Beatles as well is no biggie, they can call the new label Oranges to avoid trademark issues, and carry on with world domination.
None of what you say stops Apple from doing what they want if it makes commercial sense.
You've indicated you think the system will be a single grid with a single failure taking out everything,
I think such a system can be no more reliable than an IP network, which as an former network engineer, I wouldn't bet my life with.
It might improve overall safety numbers in theory, but current road deaths are not purely random, so comparing stats of a somewhat controllable environment to a completely uncontrolled (by the vehicle occupant's input capability) is not an accurate comparison.
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And now your average home costs $10 million, and a salad costs $100.
But hey, you paid half price for gas!
Yay!
My 80 year old house was built from bricks made in the kilns at the end of my street. It closed down 30 years ago because you could order in bricks interstate for 10cents less.
So yeah, a house will cost more, but likely 10%-20% more not twenty times as much. But for your 10%-20% increase, more local people will have jobs. Same goes for your salad.
RFID is superfluous, the automatic plate readers work quite well...
We have the RFID readers on our toll roads here, plus the number plate readers to catch those without tags. Motorcycles aren't required to have tags so rely on the number plate readers for tolling. I wrote the toll operator a letter to ask why even bother with overhead and cost of RFID tags, infrastructure and billing etc if number readers are already there and work. I'm yet to hear a reasonable response.
Like multitasking, the swipe down/up menu on the home screen, Apple Maps, iPad "mini", the iPhone 6 plus etc etc?
Why, then did APPLE cold-copy Android/Samsung?
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
Here in Australia we're already past chip and pin. Contactless is the new normal (either card or NFC on phone). I use it everywhere, supermarket, pub, shops, anywhere. It seems absurd that a so-called advanced economy like the US is so backward in this space.
Look at what people actually buy. Very few people buy an...
The claim wasn't "the most bought line item". Most popular, means most of, and there lots and lots of things that number more than the iPhone.
As I said, it's marketing wank, from one of the wankiest companies in the world.
This is the problem with technology, it makes lines disappear quite easily. eg If all I'm doing is reporting data, in extreme detail, but it's still just data, and then you have some tool that can construct that data into some sort of easily viewable format, then you're effectively doing the same thing, but off the hook from a legal standpoint. All the is being reported is data, the location and description of every photon 60 times per second.
Information wants to be free. Technology is only going to make the information laws harder and harder to enforce.
No, it sounds like a fairly typical Trump sarcastic joke/jab.
How do we know? I mean he has no actual policy so do we assume everything he says is a joke/jab? When can we expect some real policies?
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Sounds like a form of Treason if true.
How do we know? I mean he has no actual policy so do we assume everything he says is a joke/jab? When can we expect some real policies?
But please, stop trying to convince Americans that asking someone to share Hillary's self-described non-work related emails is an act of treason - you just sound stupid.
Note: I'm not American.
Which do you consider worse, the Secretary of State conducted business on a private server, similar to how every Secretary of State operated since time began when there was no electronic record. Or the enemy of the state has copies of that data?
Hate Hillary all you like, but hoping your enemy has access to government data just so you can nitpick a politician you dislike seems a bit misguided to me.
We all hate politicians, but loyalty to country should come first, especially if you are running for president.
If the US government fails to care about blatant disregard of law because...
... you say so? That is not how the law works.
Don't even pretend that Trump's obnoxious behaviour is in anyway comparable to any previous candidate, red or blue.
All sides of politics get up to sneaky tricks, but Trump is an obnoxious bully that has no place in the White House. If for some reason he wins, we (us non-Americans too) are all fucked, make no mistake about that.
Announcer1: Look! There's an American running in this race. He hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but we're going to keep the camera trained on him, because we know you don't care about who wins if it's some foreigner.
If it makes you feel better, I've lived in four different countries and the coverage was all pretty similar. I don't bother any more, the production is always dumbed down to idiot level and removes any of the interest of the global nature of the event.
Indeed. Last I checked, facts aren't copyrightable, trademarked, or otherwise protected by intellectual property rights ...
There must be limits to this, otherwise I could film Olympic events and broadcast them, since it is all just facts. Those photons did in fact reflect those wavelengths at those exacts points in time...
I was at Atlanta in 1996, (Dept of Defense, Joint Task Force-Olympics (JTF-0)) big difference between what the public sees, the MSM decides to show the public and what happens behind the scenes. Knowing how well Atlanta went, and what a train-wreck it was behind the scenes, I can't imagine what kind of horror storey Rio is going to be.
How is this different from anything ever? I'm a consultant and have been in a lot of large organisations, and they're all the same. Billion dollar businesses that look all big and shiny and professional on the outside, but are a complete clusterfuck behind the scenes.
This is all quite normal behaviour.
I made an observation a few years ago that up until the early 90s, I would use computers to get away from people for a few hours. Now when I want to get away from people, I stop using them for a few hours.
The social media hivemind empowered by the smartphone is not for everybody.
Every evening I sit on my porch with my 16-year-old cat and watch people out walking their dogs or taking an evening stroll. It's astonishing how many people do so with their nose attached to a smartphone. Furthermore, it's really really sad to see.
You know you can buy a phone and use however you want to? I don't use any any of the social media crap, and I'm not a fan of using it as a boredom buster. It's a tool, like any other that has a place, and has value when required.
You can say a lot of things about the iPhone; but "Hard to use" is not one of them.
Depends on what you're trying to do. It's hard to use your "pocket computer" to store and transfer files.
It's also hard to tailor the UI to your liking as most computers have done for the last 30 years.
And if the iPhone was so hard to use, why, then did EVERY SINGLE PHONE cold-copy the iPhone?
You mean by copying the rectangle form factor? I'm pretty sure someone else already invented that...
Yes but few people buy an ARM processor; they buy the electronic device which has an ARM processor.
Why does this matter? Whoever buys it, it is still a product being sold, which is the claim here "most popular product of all time"
If I had to add something to contention, I'd nominate grains of rice. Choose any brand of rice producer you like, I bet most of them sell more in a day than Apple would sell in a lifetime. The claim is marketing wank and we all know that.
You don't "manage" to do jack shit when it comes to multitasking behind the wheel.
What I meant was, those of us who already manage to operate a vehicle without being distracted, drunk or multitasking...
Most people manage to operate their vehicles and not die, just a small percentage of idiots can't, why should the rest of us be punished for their poor choices?
GPS has improved navigation for the masses. If it hasn't for you for some reason, then you are an anomaly; a mere outlier that will be ignored for the greater good.
GPS has made improvements because we can choose when and when not to use it. You couldn't say the same thing if every single person was forced to use it, all the time.
I agree in that it becomes tricky to justify autonomous systems to replace those who genuinely pay attention on the road and minimize risk as much as possible. But as they improve autonomous systems over any human's reaction time, proving that even the best of drivers are no match for the computer, then the argument becomes less and less relevant.
Well get back to me when that day comes, because today and the next few years, it is the same dream as the flying car, or the time machine.
And don't say it's 'just around the corner', that is pure hype.
My point here was more of the "greater good" principle,
Yes we all know what the greater good principle is, the difference is that a lot of medicine has proven to be a greater good, you are making claims based on some imaginary technology that doesn't yet exist. Many men have made fools of themselves making the exact same predictions. Why is this different?
People only file reports for things that are insured and worth filing a claim on
Citation? I personally lodged a claim when someone broke into my car. No insurance claim but filed a report so there was a record. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has ever done this.
Depending on neighborhood that will be between 10% and 25% of thefts. Nice crime rate reduction.
It's only a reduction if people previously were reporting it and now no longer are. You're implying no-one does this anyway so how can be reducing?
Wearing a helmet comes with a significant penalty in the form of inconvenience.
You mean just like on motorbike? Or just like a seat belt in a car?
I don't think you've thought this through very well...
Yeah but how many miles has autopilot driven and how many miles have you driven?
Before crashing into a truck. You can't divide by zero.
All you can really infer is you haven't driven into a truck yet.
That's a win for me.
Plus you have the advantage of having eyes.
Also a win.
So it's Me 3, Telsa 0.
Now there is a criminal mastermind: spending days, even weeks, prepping the parking lot for his attack. Now with the guards attention turned, he strikes and steals a $70 car radio. Good job guy.
I take it you've had no experience in this area. Kicking the tyre each night to trigger the alarm a few days before the job was 5 minutes of effort for guaranteed return.
Also these days no-one steal car radios, you bring a flatbed truck and hoist the whole car on the back and drive off. Tens of thousands of dollars for a few minutes work, but you can pretend this doesn't exist if it makes you feel better.
This was never about "saving the world", but this IS about saving lives lost every year due to ignorant humans who think they can safely operate 3,000 pounds of steel at 60MPH while eating/drinking/reading/texting/putting on makeup, while falling asleep at the wheel because they're drunk.
What about those of us who already manage to do that? It sounds suspiciously nanny state to me, lowest common denominator etc...
Even if 10,000 lives are lost a year due to autonomous vehicles, it will be seen as a massive improvement over human navigation.
And you base this on what exactly? I have a GPS now, it is still much worse at me than navigating.
The difference the robot car fanboys don't get is that 20000 lives lost to to people who probably had some part in the cause (not always but sometimes), is still better than 10000 lives lost at complete random. Because for the other 320000000 million people that don't die on the road, they've had some control over that outcome.
Apple could buy the major three no problems. Apple Corps, however, is NOT part of the major three. The question is, would THEY sell themselves to Apple Inc.? My guess is, most probably not.
You think Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI want to sell either? Money has a funny way of changing people's standards
It doesn't matter, Apple don't need Apple if the own the whole industry. Whether they own everyone except the Beatles as well is no biggie, they can call the new label Oranges to avoid trademark issues, and carry on with world domination.
None of what you say stops Apple from doing what they want if it makes commercial sense.
I've not seen that. Do you have date for that, or are you making it up as an example?
https://infrastructure.gov.au/...
You've indicated you think the system will be a single grid with a single failure taking out everything,
I think such a system can be no more reliable than an IP network, which as an former network engineer, I wouldn't bet my life with.
It might improve overall safety numbers in theory, but current road deaths are not purely random, so comparing stats of a somewhat controllable environment to a completely uncontrolled (by the vehicle occupant's input capability) is not an accurate comparison.