There is a huge difference between being killed or injured by a human driver and being killed or injured by a self-driving mechanism. In the first case, the human driver is either to be blamed or not. In the second case, you or your next of kin have to deal with a large corporation that is guaranteed to have top lawyers, and they will be constantly shifting the blame.
True unfortunately. Also wonder what will be the position insurance company? How are these cars insured and does fault have to be assigned before they will payout?
The speaker has to sit directly on the surface to get good base response. Using a coaster affects listening. So ironically, a glass iBass(@TM- I'm calling dibbs) for $49.99 might be the best solution.
But reality is different. There have been times that I wanted to listen to some music that I own on CD or vinyl, and I was at work, so I just downloaded it. Sigh
I was pretty critical of this guy for a while. But this shows me he really is having fun with the tech entrepreneur life, and doesn't worry too much about all the "what if?s". I'm starting to think he is okay.
A great book, I've read it a bunch of times. There was a movie of it some time ago that was just terrible. I would love to see a talented young director do that book justice.
I have the X. Face ID works pretty well, better than I expected . Does seem to learn as well, even with sunglasses on. I was skiing over the holidays, and I found that ID worked with sunglasses but not goggles (what I would expect.) I also grew out a beard for this trip and phone keeps up with your change in look. The day I shaved I though maybe it would fail, but it did not.
I use apple pay fairly often, and I have found that face ID works about as fast as using your finger. Also, I needlessly worried that I would feel like a dork staring at my phone to pay. Once you get used to it, a quick wrist flip is all you need
So, by my experience Face ID is ready for prime time.
Sometimes she roots out weird stuff and tech you would never have guessed. I remember her interview with a Dr. so & so who wrote a bio on Kellogg family. their story had weird religion & social engineering, but also very science oriented. Legit nutrition science for cereals as a quick breakfast for children back when that was not a simple thing. I learned a lot on that interview. So, yeah, there is good nerdy tech in her interviews, but it's surrounded by thoughts and stories of the artists, scientists, people etc.
If the image was a true unknown, then who would know if the sticker or the banana is more "key?". Just need a time constraint for AI to write off a weird thing as "weird thing" and move on to the next pattern in the image.
Now that I think about it, I would be curious how the AI would handle a jumble photo, and be able to identify all the stuff in the picture?
I just want to actually remember to do things, and actually know things.
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
As my daughter said to me "Smart devices lead to dumb people"
What was I thinking, trying to save a few measly million dollars?
You on the other hand will make a great senator or congressman with your sound financial insight.
But US Gov. is a financial train wreck. We just passed "TAX CUT" with expected 1 trillion added to deficit, and we find out how wasteful stuff like this happens all around us.
Library of Congress is part of Judicial branch with budget of about 700M USD.
My current pet peeve is getting into delivery race-condition. They leave a note a the door - someone must sign but no option to sign and leave at front door? So then you miss day two, and when you get home from work you call, only to find that package won't be at local facility until after 8 blah blah... Spent extra for overnight shipping and you don't get package for three days.
I'm still waiting for a solution to the text messages that people send me that insist on using stupid abbreviations for actual words. We don't pay by the character to send/receive text messages any more, please use real words. Even respectable companies do that with their text messages from time to time; please don't use "R" in place of "are", "U" in place of "you", "B" in place of "be", "2" in place of "to" (or "too") or make other such idiotic assaults on our language.
Top 5 funny retorts:
5) sincerely, Mrs. Brossiot, Asst. Dean English Dept., Luzr U
4) BR, old guy
3) tl;dr
2) now, get the hell off my lawn!
1) STFU
The street lights on the road behind my house were damaged by hurricane Irma and still have not been fixed, and I'm loving it. The darkness outside at night is beautiful and serene; I hate the ugly yellow-orange glow of sodium lighting.
I wish people would appreciate darkness at night. And even then, "security" lighting can be done so that an area is softly lit without blasting bright light in all directions.
I used to be a bike commuter in SoCal. Too many Prius roll up on you to cut in front for a right turn (while you are in bike lane legally); you can't hear them coming so as to evade or protect yourself. I had so many close call - one reason I quit biking from the train station. I always thought those things should have some kind of engine-noise required for safety reasons.
... they still produce a multiple of what US does. Even if US reduces 20 percent, it is far outweighed by India and China alone, even in your example. This is why its a bad deal.
Oh, and per capita means nothing. Molecules in the atmosphere don't care how many people are walking around on the surface of the earth. Mods, what were you thinking on this AC post . . .
If you can afford direct flights in business class, good hotels, taxi or Uber instead of public trans, can get TSA or global traveller etc., long distance travel isn't that bad. If you can't afford that stuff, then travel does kind of suck and cutting it short as possible sounds good. But in that case you won't be able to afford it either.
U don't have to give up if you don't want to: just need to find those 1 or 2 people in your city that think like you. meet up once in a while. call & listen to their voice. make random plans off of random comments or observations. What life is supposed to be, not fodder for social media.
WSJ just ran article from noted phycologist that kids are better off having one or two friends they care about than fostering attention from a whole group.
I think this says more about the kabuki-show of voting in the US than it does about young people. Too many people 18-34 have figured out that voting has little or nothing to do with who ends up in power. You can vote for "outsiders" and "change agents" and you still end up with some guy from Goldman Sachs making decisions about your life while he flies his trophy wife to Fort Knox to perform some satanic sexual ritual over the gold during a total eclipse.
Seriously, a show of hands: in an age of gerrymandered, electoral colleged, voter suppressed, primary rigged, black box voting machine, foreign government influenced elections, where the guy who loses the vote gets to rule, who wouldn't give up their right to this meaningless exercise in exchange for the forgiveness of $100,000.00 in debt?
good points you have made (can't disagree at all.)
But you still vote with your wallet. You tell the elite puppeteers what you think by not buying crap their company owns. Buy local, be local. Might not really matter either, but you are going to wear clothes, eat food, and talk to your friends anyway; you can think about those choices.
I saw the live webcast, and actually the apple guy (don't remember his name) handled it pretty smoothly. Knowing it was a live demo in front of millions of people, the average VP might've hesitated, but demo was smooth overall. He went right back to opening the phone with facial without hesitation just a couple minutes later, so again I would say he seemed confident on how system would behave.
Wow this is super shady. When you gave, were there clear terms and conditions, is that something that is typical or no? Seems like bare minimum terms should be that first units are shipped out to Crowdfunding supporters prior to commercial release.
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There is a huge difference between being killed or injured by a human driver and being killed or injured by a self-driving mechanism. In the first case, the human driver is either to be blamed or not. In the second case, you or your next of kin have to deal with a large corporation that is guaranteed to have top lawyers, and they will be constantly shifting the blame.
True unfortunately. Also wonder what will be the position insurance company? How are these cars insured and does fault have to be assigned before they will payout?
The speaker has to sit directly on the surface to get good base response. Using a coaster affects listening. So ironically, a glass iBass(@TM- I'm calling dibbs) for $49.99 might be the best solution.
But reality is different. There have been times that I wanted to listen to some music that I own on CD or vinyl, and I was at work, so I just downloaded it. Sigh
Apple wins this round.
I was pretty critical of this guy for a while. But this shows me he really is having fun with the tech entrepreneur life, and doesn't worry too much about all the "what if?s". I'm starting to think he is okay.
A great book, I've read it a bunch of times. There was a movie of it some time ago that was just terrible. I would love to see a talented young director do that book justice.
I have the X. Face ID works pretty well, better than I expected . Does seem to learn as well, even with sunglasses on. I was skiing over the holidays, and I found that ID worked with sunglasses but not goggles (what I would expect.) I also grew out a beard for this trip and phone keeps up with your change in look. The day I shaved I though maybe it would fail, but it did not.
I use apple pay fairly often, and I have found that face ID works about as fast as using your finger. Also, I needlessly worried that I would feel like a dork staring at my phone to pay. Once you get used to it, a quick wrist flip is all you need
So, by my experience Face ID is ready for prime time.
Sometimes she roots out weird stuff and tech you would never have guessed. I remember her interview with a Dr. so & so who wrote a bio on Kellogg family. their story had weird religion & social engineering, but also very science oriented. Legit nutrition science for cereals as a quick breakfast for children back when that was not a simple thing. I learned a lot on that interview. So, yeah, there is good nerdy tech in her interviews, but it's surrounded by thoughts and stories of the artists, scientists, people etc.
If the image was a true unknown, then who would know if the sticker or the banana is more "key?". Just need a time constraint for AI to write off a weird thing as "weird thing" and move on to the next pattern in the image.
Now that I think about it, I would be curious how the AI would handle a jumble photo, and be able to identify all the stuff in the picture?
I see that you are taking a while can I suggest ... ?
... a 52 ounce bottle of Metamucil?
I just want to actually remember to do things, and actually know things.
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
As my daughter said to me "Smart devices lead to dumb people"
What was I thinking, trying to save a few measly million dollars? You on the other hand will make a great senator or congressman with your sound financial insight.
Okay, this is a rant I admit it.
But US Gov. is a financial train wreck. We just passed "TAX CUT" with expected 1 trillion added to deficit, and we find out how wasteful stuff like this happens all around us.
Library of Congress is part of Judicial branch with budget of about 700M USD.
OP is right. The only "stunned" people here are the dopes that come from other states. Real Cali's know to take it all is stride.
My current pet peeve is getting into delivery race-condition. They leave a note a the door - someone must sign but no option to sign and leave at front door? So then you miss day two, and when you get home from work you call, only to find that package won't be at local facility until after 8 blah blah... Spent extra for overnight shipping and you don't get package for three days.
I'm still waiting for a solution to the text messages that people send me that insist on using stupid abbreviations for actual words. We don't pay by the character to send/receive text messages any more, please use real words. Even respectable companies do that with their text messages from time to time; please don't use "R" in place of "are", "U" in place of "you", "B" in place of "be", "2" in place of "to" (or "too") or make other such idiotic assaults on our language.
Top 5 funny retorts:
5) sincerely, Mrs. Brossiot, Asst. Dean English Dept., Luzr U
4) BR, old guy
3) tl;dr
2) now, get the hell off my lawn!
1) STFU
... The only way to realibly buy is to buy KI or iodate from a pharmacy or a survivalist type place in pill form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Iodized salt. You can buy it at the store. So, there's that.
The street lights on the road behind my house were damaged by hurricane Irma and still have not been fixed, and I'm loving it. The darkness outside at night is beautiful and serene; I hate the ugly yellow-orange glow of sodium lighting.
I wish people would appreciate darkness at night. And even then, "security" lighting can be done so that an area is softly lit without blasting bright light in all directions.
sincerely,
The Island of Puerto Rico
I used to be a bike commuter in SoCal. Too many Prius roll up on you to cut in front for a right turn (while you are in bike lane legally); you can't hear them coming so as to evade or protect yourself. I had so many close call - one reason I quit biking from the train station. I always thought those things should have some kind of engine-noise required for safety reasons.
... they still produce a multiple of what US does. Even if US reduces 20 percent, it is far outweighed by India and China alone, even in your example. This is why its a bad deal.
Oh, and per capita means nothing. Molecules in the atmosphere don't care how many people are walking around on the surface of the earth. Mods, what were you thinking on this AC post . . .
If you can afford direct flights in business class, good hotels, taxi or Uber instead of public trans, can get TSA or global traveller etc., long distance travel isn't that bad. If you can't afford that stuff, then travel does kind of suck and cutting it short as possible sounds good. But in that case you won't be able to afford it either.
U don't have to give up if you don't want to: just need to find those 1 or 2 people in your city that think like you. meet up once in a while. call & listen to their voice. make random plans off of random comments or observations. What life is supposed to be, not fodder for social media.
WSJ just ran article from noted phycologist that kids are better off having one or two friends they care about than fostering attention from a whole group.
I think this says more about the kabuki-show of voting in the US than it does about young people. Too many people 18-34 have figured out that voting has little or nothing to do with who ends up in power. You can vote for "outsiders" and "change agents" and you still end up with some guy from Goldman Sachs making decisions about your life while he flies his trophy wife to Fort Knox to perform some satanic sexual ritual over the gold during a total eclipse.
Seriously, a show of hands: in an age of gerrymandered, electoral colleged, voter suppressed, primary rigged, black box voting machine, foreign government influenced elections, where the guy who loses the vote gets to rule, who wouldn't give up their right to this meaningless exercise in exchange for the forgiveness of $100,000.00 in debt?
good points you have made (can't disagree at all.)
But you still vote with your wallet. You tell the elite puppeteers what you think by not buying crap their company owns. Buy local, be local. Might not really matter either, but you are going to wear clothes, eat food, and talk to your friends anyway; you can think about those choices.
I saw the live webcast, and actually the apple guy (don't remember his name) handled it pretty smoothly. Knowing it was a live demo in front of millions of people, the average VP might've hesitated, but demo was smooth overall. He went right back to opening the phone with facial without hesitation just a couple minutes later, so again I would say he seemed confident on how system would behave.
Wow this is super shady. When you gave, were there clear terms and conditions, is that something that is typical or no? Seems like bare minimum terms should be that first units are shipped out to Crowdfunding supporters prior to commercial release.
Howard Hughes comparison is apt: when does Elon start collecting his pee in Jars in the mansion?