Yeah, I don't get "I don't watch TV, just Netflix". On my setup, the experience is identical. (And of course the program material might also be identical.)
She was even walking a bike across, which is a giant radar reflector. And she was a moving target, so shouldn't have been filtered out as clutter. That accident still just amazes me that Uber's system was so bad as to have missed her. Lidar missed her. Cameras missed her. Radar missed her. Ultrasonics missed her. No braking attempt whatsoever until the impact. I still want to know how that happened. I can at least understand the high profile Tesla accidents, but I just can't understand this one.
Maybe it evaluated the threat and determined she would cause very little damage to the car, but swerving or stopping suddenly would.
Self preservation is only the 3rd law. No harm to humans is the 1st. It failed the Asimov test.
Is it that hard to imagine? Coca Cola cares about selling more bottles of Coke and not at all about going into outer space (unless we find some aliens out there they can sling Cokes to).
Now I have a mental image of a Coke bottle shaped rocket blasting into deep space with advertising to the aliens!
I'm not sure which bugs me more, the fact that Thunderbird, clunky as it feels, is better than Web gmail, or the fact that I expect this "upgrade" to make web gmail even worse.
Cruise control does one thing: maintain speed. Even adaptive CC just does speed. It's obvious, even to a total idiot, that he can't just take his hands off the wheel to play Angry Birds. "AutoPilot", OTOH, appears to allow that - until it doesn't.
The idea of security questions is in case you forget your password. So, if you lie on the answer, you risk forgetting that too. So I make a mix of truth and falsehood. Favorite pet? True answer is, I don't have one. I "borrow" someones, that person isn't on the internet, and that person's pet died before most of you were born. Spouse questions? Not married, my GF isn't on Facebook, and since I only refer to her as "My GF", it won't be easy for anyone who doesn't know me IRL to get info on her.
They're just more likely to experience a new type of boredom: phone bored.
You really have to be a rather dull person to be bored. Here are some simple suggestions:
- Take a second job. You can use the money to address some of the problems you keep complaining about: student loans, expensive housing, poverty, etc.
- Learn a new skill: between YouTube, Udacity, Kindle, and Google Books you can learn just about anything for next to nothing.
- Volunteer for a charity.
- Do something outdoors, like hiking etc.
I'm going to deal with my boredom by playing Devil's Advocate:
Second job? I barely have time for my first! Volunteer for charity? See above. Outdoors? It's 20F with rain/snow/sleet/hail! New skill? Okay, you got me on that one.
When I was a kid, we didn't have a car. I usually took 2-3 3+ mile walks a day. We had public transportation, but it wasn't very good. Taking the bus often meant long waits and maybe a 10-20 minute walk from the bus stop to where we were going.
Awhile back, I tried to phone my mom. She has ONE number listed, and an easy name, but Siri still couldn't do it right. If I'd actually been driving instead of parked, I probably would have crashed into something while yelling obscenities at the phone. I ended up taking the phone out and dialing the number manually.
If the definition of PC is x86 compatibility, the market may eventually go away. If the definition is full-power, full-size personal computing device, I can't yet imagine a future like that.
This! My tablet isn't even close to replacing my x86 machine. I need a keyboard, mouse, multi-windows, file-system with user-created directories, etc. It might not have to be compatible with my current Wintel machines, but it has to have similar capabilities.
Ok, this is getting off topic, but you'd be surprised at how often I'd see "i" or something similar as a variable name. This was on COBOL programs, which are supposed to have long, readable variable names.:p
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Yeah, I don't get "I don't watch TV, just Netflix". On my setup, the experience is identical. (And of course the program material might also be identical.)
Only the half that's not ads.
She was even walking a bike across, which is a giant radar reflector. And she was a moving target, so shouldn't have been filtered out as clutter. That accident still just amazes me that Uber's system was so bad as to have missed her. Lidar missed her. Cameras missed her. Radar missed her. Ultrasonics missed her. No braking attempt whatsoever until the impact. I still want to know how that happened. I can at least understand the high profile Tesla accidents, but I just can't understand this one.
Maybe it evaluated the threat and determined she would cause very little damage to the car, but swerving or stopping suddenly would.
Self preservation is only the 3rd law. No harm to humans is the 1st. It failed the Asimov test.
that the phone call I got offering to fix my computer came from a Microsoft bot?
The world is a computer and it's running Window's Vista.
That explains a lot.
Octopi doesn't sound that bad to me. OTOH, virii does sound terrible.
Plumber vs IT? Either way, you're dealing with someone else's shit.
Is it that hard to imagine? Coca Cola cares about selling more bottles of Coke and not at all about going into outer space (unless we find some aliens out there they can sling Cokes to).
Now I have a mental image of a Coke bottle shaped rocket blasting into deep space with advertising to the aliens!
It would help if their Terms And Conditions was somewhat shorter than the GoT novels.
I'm not sure which bugs me more, the fact that Thunderbird, clunky as it feels, is better than Web gmail, or the fact that I expect this "upgrade" to make web gmail even worse.
Cruise control does one thing: maintain speed. Even adaptive CC just does speed. It's obvious, even to a total idiot, that he can't just take his hands off the wheel to play Angry Birds. "AutoPilot", OTOH, appears to allow that - until it doesn't.
The idea of security questions is in case you forget your password. So, if you lie on the answer, you risk forgetting that too. So I make a mix of truth and falsehood. Favorite pet? True answer is, I don't have one. I "borrow" someones, that person isn't on the internet, and that person's pet died before most of you were born. Spouse questions? Not married, my GF isn't on Facebook, and since I only refer to her as "My GF", it won't be easy for anyone who doesn't know me IRL to get info on her.
You really have to be a rather dull person to be bored. Here are some simple suggestions:
- Take a second job. You can use the money to address some of the problems you keep complaining about: student loans, expensive housing, poverty, etc.
- Learn a new skill: between YouTube, Udacity, Kindle, and Google Books you can learn just about anything for next to nothing.
- Volunteer for a charity.
- Do something outdoors, like hiking etc.
I'm going to deal with my boredom by playing Devil's Advocate:
Second job? I barely have time for my first!
Volunteer for charity? See above.
Outdoors? It's 20F with rain/snow/sleet/hail!
New skill? Okay, you got me on that one.
When I was a kid, we didn't have a car. I usually took 2-3 3+ mile walks a day. We had public transportation, but it wasn't very good. Taking the bus often meant long waits and maybe a 10-20 minute walk from the bus stop to where we were going.
Well, unless the Dems run another dead pan Hilary Clinton style right of center milktoast.
The scary thing is, I fully expect them to do exactly that!
When I get a telemarketer, I can just flip him the bird, and the phone will hang up on him.
regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
I've seen stores close when their cash registers weren't working. I think the human race has already forgotten how to add and subtract.
Yup. These days, even the fart apps are doing useful business functions.
My workplace used to hit "9" for an outside call. They changed it to "8", possibly for that reason.
We've had Facebook for less than a thousandth of human history. Obviously we can live without it.
You could say the same about indoor plumbing.
It's been said a million times, but it's still true: the users *are* cattle.
That's a bunch of bull!
I sleep some every night. I turned my phone off when I went to a funeral last week. And there was that power outage a couple months ago.
They went haywire, but they replaced the hay with more wire, so they should be okay now.
Awhile back, I tried to phone my mom. She has ONE number listed, and an easy name, but Siri still couldn't do it right. If I'd actually been driving instead of parked, I probably would have crashed into something while yelling obscenities at the phone. I ended up taking the phone out and dialing the number manually.
If the definition of PC is x86 compatibility, the market may eventually go away. If the definition is full-power, full-size personal computing device, I can't yet imagine a future like that.
This! My tablet isn't even close to replacing my x86 machine. I need a keyboard, mouse, multi-windows, file-system with user-created directories, etc. It might not have to be compatible with my current Wintel machines, but it has to have similar capabilities.
Ok, this is getting off topic, but you'd be surprised at how often I'd see "i" or something similar as a variable name. This was on COBOL programs, which are supposed to have long, readable variable names. :p