Nah, must be climate change. It can't be the human population doubling every 40 years. We need to ignore the elephant in the room.
Double the human pop = more forests need to be cut down for roads, farms, housing, businesses, etc... Climate scientists pretending to be dumb, because talking about birth control in the 3rd world is inconvenient.
Reports coming in that tesla is telling customers their car is ready. People are paying full price then being put on indefinite hold.
Just saying buyer beware. Protect yourself from the possibility that Musk needs cash so bad his companies will sell moon tickets for some unannounced future date.
This boring company stuff is beyond nonsense. Pick the most expensive way to do commuting. Pick the least flexible when commuter needs change. You got it -- tunnels.
I thought self driving was gonna revolutionize commuting. There is NO NEED for this worthless company, except to promote Musk and his *genius*.
The article is pure marketing. Are we to believe that EVERY ASPECT of this battery is better than the rest? No downsides at all?
Every new product has pluses and minuses. Since only the benefits are mentioned we can safely say the article is merely an unaltered company press release with no questions asked.
Tried mint on my desktop and laptop. Neither hibernate/suspend correctly. Microsoft has nailed this since 2000. So frustrating.
It would be nice if they worked on getting the basics right after all these years. Until then linux will remain a minor player for consumers. The chicken and egg never seem to hatch. Need to fix the basics in order to drive market share in order to get driver/OEM support.
I'm starting to think x86 CPU performance gains (especially intel) the past 10 years are nothing but a marketing scam. If you turn good security practices back on, these chips will likely be much slower and not worth half the price.
I think we are looking at end of life for x86. You can choose fast processors that are full of security holes (i.e. never use them in a cloud), or you can choose much slower processors that are safe for clouds.
Smart companies and individuals can use the fast/unsafe chips because we host our own apps and never let strangers share computer resources.
This is not true. You are only responsible if you are NEGLIGENT. Look up the legal meaning of that word.
If your toaster causes a fire, that is not your fault unless you were careless or used it improperly. For example you were using it to light newspapers. Or you knew it was faulty (perhaps it sparked before) and you didn't do anything about it.
There is no way you could be held responsible for a self driving car with no user controls. Unless there was reason to believe you didn't properly maintain it, or you hacked the software, etc...
Self driving will be an unreliable novelty until major road improvements are made. A system of cameras/radar fails under too many circumstances. There will have to be road bed sensors marking out the lanes. There will have to be a central control unit that controls traffic flow. There will have to be 5g wireless comm that has very little lag and very high reliability. None of this is happening in under 20 years, and gov't hasn't started the clock yet.
Electric cars will be a drain on the economy. Higher adoption rates will run smack against grid improvements. There will be a need for many more charging stations. Since charging takes hours, we would need probably 10x as many as there are gas stations. Once again, the clock hasn't started on this yet.
Where will the money come from in a sluggish economy with debt out the kazoo at every level? Answer, it won't. Not for decades.
Fine. Let small companies either pay for their bandwidth or stop using so much. Let their investors raise more money or go out of business. If I as a consumer wish to have their content, I can choose to pay for it. What I DO NOT want is a socialist system which FORCES ME to pay for their business model.
That which is free is wasted. Should be taught in 3rd grade or at least econ 101.
I'd love to see content monopolists like google have to compete again. They are certainly beyond evil now, and start ups in either video content or advertising have no chance.
Net neutrality sounds nice, but it's just another form of socialism. Socialism benefits a few large service providers at every one else's expense. It has prevented network providers from investing in more than the bare minimum because parasitic companies like google/netflix could do as they please. All the large tech companies with cash COULD HAVE built out nation wide networks a decade ago, but didn't. Now they can rethink the benefits this might have.
It shouldn't be outrageously expensive. There is nothing to patent here, therefore no company can run a monopoly and charge what they like. That is the main reason for sky high medical costs.
Yes, it takes some equipment and skilled workers. Provided this works widely, many people can be trained and before long it will just be another assembly line. The same work can be done all over the world if first world labs try to keep it to themselves.
"At no point is it acceptable to upgrade major revisions without absolute user (or admin) consent. "
True. I would also add that at no point is it acceptable to let software auto update itself.
Is there any user out there who has not been burned by software devs that think only they matter? You've got to be nuts at this point. Let microsoft, google, FF or anybody else decide when my system should be changed? After every install I look at preferences/services and disable this "helpful" service.
Same here. Only use chrome for gmail and other google apps. Use FF 52 with noscript, ublock origin and disconnect for all other browsing. Google knows how I use google and nothing else.
I also don't use ANY social media. So all facebook, twatter, etc domains are blocked by default. Cookies only enabled for sites that need them for actual commerce relationships I have with them.
Are 7 billion people wanting to EAT greedy types? How about when that's 10 or 20 billion? The planet will be fine, I'm sure.
All those poor people, now 5 billion, in the 3rd world want the high energy lifestyle they see us living. Are they greedy as well? Perhaps you'd like them to live a pre-industrial lifestyle while you live in comfort.
It will take 50 years to produce all the solar/wind power needed to replace coal/gas. And another 50 for the CO2 to return to lower levels. So if the corals are that sensitive, they are dead already.
Proof of that is NOBODY is talking about population control. It's not politically correct, but 7 billion people becoming 12 billion is death to habitats.
All those people need housing, farm land and work. They all want to live the high energy lifestyle they see in western culture. There is no fair way to tell them they have to live like pre-industrial people because CO2 and a coral reef somewhere.
Is some world dictator going to turn large parts of each continent into a wildlife refuge and keep people away by force? There is no leadership capable even if there was the will.
Nothing can be done anyway. Global populations will continue to advance and demand high energy lifestyles. Also, populations will rise from 7 billion to 10-12 over 100 years.
If most of the CO2 was created by 600 million north americans and euros, how can we deny the same lifestyle to 5 billion poor people? We can demand rich people drive electric cars and airplanes, but poor people are going to burn coal/wood/oil in huge amounts. So there is really no way to fight CO2 buildup until carbon fuels run out and populations decline significantly.
If corals are this sensitive to change, they will have to be preserved for re-seeding hundreds of years from now.
I experienced this in california. If you only drive 10 mph over the speed limit people are so angry you will experience road rage all the time. Even in the far right lane people try driving very fast and weaving in and out with no following distance. Occasionally there are massive accidents involving dozens of vehicles because nobody can stop in time. They don't care. That is the culture there.
I finally figured out how to play defense against this. I would drive in the left lane, shoulder to shoulder with someone in the next lane. When the crazies appear (almost constantly) they have to go 2 lanes around both of us. This ensures nobody is cutting you off and almost taking off your front bumper doing it. It also allows you to keep a comfortable distance from the cars ahead.
"Easily 100+ people in a 50' radius around the car."
Your insignificant move was probably not the reason for the emergency stop. For all you know it was a bird flying by, a glint of sunlight, or one of the other people milling around. Don't be so full of yourself.
The uber cars will blast ads in your face for the whole ride. Or it will stink from the dirty hippies who rode last week. Or it will cost 3x as much as you can afford because uber decided it's peak time and they had you at a disadvantage.
People won't give up their private ownership, especially once they've experienced everything evil corps will have in store for them. Adoption will be fast for a few taxi-like fleets. But slow for regular people. The sensors/computers will push the cost over $100k until mass production can lower the cost.
There are a lot of false assumptions in play here. First, that insurance will go up on manual cars. Insurance cost is based on claims rates. If self drivers lower the overall number of accidents in the system, insurance rates should go down, not up. Even the manual drivers will be living in a safer system, with lower accident claims.
Second, self drivers will be great for the disabled. Maybe in the long term, but not early on. Disabled people can't just be dropped off near a building. Yet GPS maps don't know where the entrances are located. Like the dominos pizza tester that you have to meet on the side of the road to get your pizza out of a lock box.
The last few meters of navigation will be very difficult for decades until a system of sensors and maps can be developed. Until then it will be very frustrating or even impossible to tell your car how to navigate thru a parking garage, to a drive up window, temporary barricade/detour. This makes me very skeptical that a car without manual steering will be anything but a reason for users to tear their hair out in frustration.
Remember, the biggest complaint about cars today is hard-to-use infotainment systems. If software engineers can't get something like this right in 2018, we are a long way off from frustration free self driving.
Remember, this article is about a car WITHOUT MANUAL CONTROLS. On your cross country trip, how are you going to maneuver thru gas station lines, parking lots, drive thru's, etc.
Yes, it's pretty easy to just send a computer down a freeway via GPS. But that last few meters of getting the car positioned correctly. Very hard without a human driver.
Computer, park on the left side of the garage. Computer, park next to the second gas pump for regular unleaded. Answer... .
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True statement if you are asian, south american or african. Why can't these people join last century and discover birth control?
Couldn't agree more. Hey doc, I'm depressed because I only have fake friends and an AI to talk to.
Go out and play, like mom of 40 years ago told you to do.
Nah, must be climate change. It can't be the human population doubling every 40 years. We need to ignore the elephant in the room.
Double the human pop = more forests need to be cut down for roads, farms, housing, businesses, etc... Climate scientists pretending to be dumb, because talking about birth control in the 3rd world is inconvenient.
Too lazy to investigate the actual cause. Just blame it on climate change, like a parrot.
Didn't they just have a hurricane that devastated everything?
Reports coming in that tesla is telling customers their car is ready. People are paying full price then being put on indefinite hold.
Just saying buyer beware. Protect yourself from the possibility that Musk needs cash so bad his companies will sell moon tickets for some unannounced future date.
This boring company stuff is beyond nonsense. Pick the most expensive way to do commuting. Pick the least flexible when commuter needs change. You got it -- tunnels.
I thought self driving was gonna revolutionize commuting. There is NO NEED for this worthless company, except to promote Musk and his *genius*.
The article is pure marketing. Are we to believe that EVERY ASPECT of this battery is better than the rest? No downsides at all?
Every new product has pluses and minuses. Since only the benefits are mentioned we can safely say the article is merely an unaltered company press release with no questions asked.
Tried mint on my desktop and laptop. Neither hibernate/suspend correctly. Microsoft has nailed this since 2000. So frustrating.
It would be nice if they worked on getting the basics right after all these years. Until then linux will remain a minor player for consumers. The chicken and egg never seem to hatch. Need to fix the basics in order to drive market share in order to get driver/OEM support.
They are all safe for home use. The problems only arise in clouds, shared multi user environments.
I'm starting to think x86 CPU performance gains (especially intel) the past 10 years are nothing but a marketing scam. If you turn good security practices back on, these chips will likely be much slower and not worth half the price.
I think we are looking at end of life for x86. You can choose fast processors that are full of security holes (i.e. never use them in a cloud), or you can choose much slower processors that are safe for clouds.
Smart companies and individuals can use the fast/unsafe chips because we host our own apps and never let strangers share computer resources.
This is not true. You are only responsible if you are NEGLIGENT. Look up the legal meaning of that word.
If your toaster causes a fire, that is not your fault unless you were careless or used it improperly. For example you were using it to light newspapers. Or you knew it was faulty (perhaps it sparked before) and you didn't do anything about it.
There is no way you could be held responsible for a self driving car with no user controls. Unless there was reason to believe you didn't properly maintain it, or you hacked the software, etc...
Self driving will be an unreliable novelty until major road improvements are made. A system of cameras/radar fails under too many circumstances. There will have to be road bed sensors marking out the lanes. There will have to be a central control unit that controls traffic flow. There will have to be 5g wireless comm that has very little lag and very high reliability. None of this is happening in under 20 years, and gov't hasn't started the clock yet.
Electric cars will be a drain on the economy. Higher adoption rates will run smack against grid improvements. There will be a need for many more charging stations. Since charging takes hours, we would need probably 10x as many as there are gas stations. Once again, the clock hasn't started on this yet.
Where will the money come from in a sluggish economy with debt out the kazoo at every level? Answer, it won't. Not for decades.
Fine. Let small companies either pay for their bandwidth or stop using so much. Let their investors raise more money or go out of business. If I as a consumer wish to have their content, I can choose to pay for it. What I DO NOT want is a socialist system which FORCES ME to pay for their business model.
That which is free is wasted. Should be taught in 3rd grade or at least econ 101.
I'd love to see content monopolists like google have to compete again. They are certainly beyond evil now, and start ups in either video content or advertising have no chance.
Net neutrality sounds nice, but it's just another form of socialism. Socialism benefits a few large service providers at every one else's expense. It has prevented network providers from investing in more than the bare minimum because parasitic companies like google/netflix could do as they please. All the large tech companies with cash COULD HAVE built out nation wide networks a decade ago, but didn't. Now they can rethink the benefits this might have.
It shouldn't be outrageously expensive. There is nothing to patent here, therefore no company can run a monopoly and charge what they like. That is the main reason for sky high medical costs.
Yes, it takes some equipment and skilled workers. Provided this works widely, many people can be trained and before long it will just be another assembly line. The same work can be done all over the world if first world labs try to keep it to themselves.
"At no point is it acceptable to upgrade major revisions without absolute user (or admin) consent. "
True. I would also add that at no point is it acceptable to let software auto update itself.
Is there any user out there who has not been burned by software devs that think only they matter? You've got to be nuts at this point. Let microsoft, google, FF or anybody else decide when my system should be changed? After every install I look at preferences/services and disable this "helpful" service.
Same here. Only use chrome for gmail and other google apps. Use FF 52 with noscript, ublock origin and disconnect for all other browsing. Google knows how I use google and nothing else.
I also don't use ANY social media. So all facebook, twatter, etc domains are blocked by default. Cookies only enabled for sites that need them for actual commerce relationships I have with them.
Are 7 billion people wanting to EAT greedy types? How about when that's 10 or 20 billion? The planet will be fine, I'm sure.
All those poor people, now 5 billion, in the 3rd world want the high energy lifestyle they see us living. Are they greedy as well? Perhaps you'd like them to live a pre-industrial lifestyle while you live in comfort.
It will take 50 years to produce all the solar/wind power needed to replace coal/gas. And another 50 for the CO2 to return to lower levels. So if the corals are that sensitive, they are dead already.
Proof of that is NOBODY is talking about population control. It's not politically correct, but 7 billion people becoming 12 billion is death to habitats.
All those people need housing, farm land and work. They all want to live the high energy lifestyle they see in western culture. There is no fair way to tell them they have to live like pre-industrial people because CO2 and a coral reef somewhere.
Is some world dictator going to turn large parts of each continent into a wildlife refuge and keep people away by force? There is no leadership capable even if there was the will.
Nothing can be done anyway. Global populations will continue to advance and demand high energy lifestyles. Also, populations will rise from 7 billion to 10-12 over 100 years.
If most of the CO2 was created by 600 million north americans and euros, how can we deny the same lifestyle to 5 billion poor people? We can demand rich people drive electric cars and airplanes, but poor people are going to burn coal/wood/oil in huge amounts. So there is really no way to fight CO2 buildup until carbon fuels run out and populations decline significantly.
If corals are this sensitive to change, they will have to be preserved for re-seeding hundreds of years from now.
I experienced this in california. If you only drive 10 mph over the speed limit people are so angry you will experience road rage all the time. Even in the far right lane people try driving very fast and weaving in and out with no following distance. Occasionally there are massive accidents involving dozens of vehicles because nobody can stop in time. They don't care. That is the culture there.
I finally figured out how to play defense against this. I would drive in the left lane, shoulder to shoulder with someone in the next lane. When the crazies appear (almost constantly) they have to go 2 lanes around both of us. This ensures nobody is cutting you off and almost taking off your front bumper doing it. It also allows you to keep a comfortable distance from the cars ahead.
"Easily 100+ people in a 50' radius around the car."
Your insignificant move was probably not the reason for the emergency stop. For all you know it was a bird flying by, a glint of sunlight, or one of the other people milling around. Don't be so full of yourself.
The uber cars will blast ads in your face for the whole ride. Or it will stink from the dirty hippies who rode last week. Or it will cost 3x as much as you can afford because uber decided it's peak time and they had you at a disadvantage.
People won't give up their private ownership, especially once they've experienced everything evil corps will have in store for them. Adoption will be fast for a few taxi-like fleets. But slow for regular people. The sensors/computers will push the cost over $100k until mass production can lower the cost.
There are a lot of false assumptions in play here. First, that insurance will go up on manual cars. Insurance cost is based on claims rates. If self drivers lower the overall number of accidents in the system, insurance rates should go down, not up. Even the manual drivers will be living in a safer system, with lower accident claims.
Second, self drivers will be great for the disabled. Maybe in the long term, but not early on. Disabled people can't just be dropped off near a building. Yet GPS maps don't know where the entrances are located. Like the dominos pizza tester that you have to meet on the side of the road to get your pizza out of a lock box.
The last few meters of navigation will be very difficult for decades until a system of sensors and maps can be developed. Until then it will be very frustrating or even impossible to tell your car how to navigate thru a parking garage, to a drive up window, temporary barricade/detour. This makes me very skeptical that a car without manual steering will be anything but a reason for users to tear their hair out in frustration.
Remember, the biggest complaint about cars today is hard-to-use infotainment systems. If software engineers can't get something like this right in 2018, we are a long way off from frustration free self driving.
Remember, this article is about a car WITHOUT MANUAL CONTROLS. On your cross country trip, how are you going to maneuver thru gas station lines, parking lots, drive thru's, etc.
Yes, it's pretty easy to just send a computer down a freeway via GPS. But that last few meters of getting the car positioned correctly. Very hard without a human driver.
Computer, park on the left side of the garage. Computer, park next to the second gas pump for regular unleaded. Answer... .