Can't wait to see this in practice. Without manual controls, how do you adjust it's position in a parking space or garage? How would you go thru a typical drive up window? How would you maneuver around a barricade, accident or temporary police detour? How about going around and around a parking lot or underground garage?
None of these things will be possible from GPS maps, nor radar images. Not in 2019 or 2030.
CO2 levels just from advanced countries is probably enough to cause damaging warming. There is no stopping billions of Asians, Africans and South Americans from becoming wealthier and demanding the same lifestyle. So the world is screwed. There will be flooding and mass extinctions -- when we do not know.
At some point, perhaps in 100-200 years oil, gas and coal will run out. Then the world will begin a slow healing process. If nuclear energy is still expensive, populations will naturally decline as well.
Unless you would deny billions the comfy high-energy lifestyle westerners have enjoyed, it is too late. Stop wasting time and money fighting the inevitable.
For those who would be flooded out -- you have at least 5 decades to move. Don't expect handouts if you neglect to act in that amount of time.
Open source for me forever. I don't own a smart phone precisely because of this constant drip of outrages. I never will own one that cannot be easily rooted and flushed of android or iOS.
Same with computers. Linux only forever. It's a shame linux still can't get power management right after how many decades? I have a desktop and a laptop that won't hibernate/sleep under mint. When they can consistently fix this windows and mac have no reason for living.
Yep, and this is why I won't DOWNGRADE to firefox 57. I'll stay frozen on 50 until NoScript has the full functionality it had before. Note, it's been released as of today but users are complaining of missing features and a terrible UI. Keep waiting.
The internet is almost un-usable without an ad blocker and a JS blocker. I don't know how anyone can stand the slow load times and blinking/flashing ads in your face. Perhaps TV has made all this normal for most people.
We should stop worrying. It's already too late to stop warming, and it will correct itself in 100-200 years when oil and coal run out.
Long before this was a popular topic, I worried about what the planet would look like when billions of Asians start living like Americans. That time is now and for the next 50 years. Someday India, China, Africa and South America will have as many cars per capita as Americans. As soon as they make enough money they will want what everyone else has, and it will be sold to them. So as far as warming -- you ain't seen nothin' yet.
The end game is when oil/gas/coal run out. I'm guessing 100-200 years, but who knows? Humans will have to live on much more expensive nuclear power. That means population reduction and the earth will slowly return to a more natural state.
They didn't mention the stored fuel pools. The region is still in grave danger until they get the stored fuel to higher ground. This is many times the amount of material as the cores, and it's not well contained.
Another quake/tsunami can happen at any time. Six years is already a lot of risk taken. Are they going to take decades for this too?
Until there is a fully functioning version of NoScript, the new firefox is a big step backward.
What good is a few ms of speed improvement, if you are forced to load tons of unwanted junk? Penny saved, pound foolish. Not to mention the security risk of allowing all kinds of JS to run.
I'm frozen on FF 50 until everything I have works with webextention.
Science is often bogged down by dogma. If he funds different approaches it might bear fruit. If he takes the lazy approach and asks the "experts", the money will most likely be wasted.
It's just code with a 4-letter chemical alphabet. While it may be difficult and expensive NOW, imagine the world in 100 years. Or 10,000.
How long before those chemicals can be designed in CAD and precisely laid out by something akin to a 3-D printer? In utero, you say. Perhaps someday in printero.
Can anyone answer in plain english if these things are actually useful for anything, or is it all a theoretical maybe? We shouldn't have to read phd thesis just to get a basic understanding. You guys can do enough of that on your own.
These constant press articles that basically state 50 > 40 so we win are beyond worthless.
While quarks may have a lifetime too short to use as a DIRECT weapon, quantum action at a distance should allow us to attack North Korea without them being aware.
Trigger Kim's bombs to explode in their silos. Then play Trump's tweets over an over again in his head until he goes (even more) mad.
He is complaining that computers fail to make people creative, or fail to educate. I think he has it backwards.
Creative people have a gift for using tools in innovative ways. Give them a PC and they start building something. Most people are only capable of being consumers. You give them a super computer and they'll ask you, where is ESPN? A tiny number of people can design microprocessors, yet members of the same species are stumped by 200 year old math and science.
It's not a failure of education, or a failure for apple. It's biology. He sounds like a curmudgeon and a socialist when he blames this "failure" on tech companies.
So-called settled science is rocked by new discoveries LITERALLY ALL THE TIME.
Just a few short years ago, astronomers thought they knew everything. Big bang from a point source, expansion, stop and maybe contraction.
Now it's completely different. Big bang happened everywhere at once. Accelerating expansion. Missing 90% of matter. Unknown *fudge factor* dark matter/energy. Might as well call this ether, as poorly as it's understood.
Much of science is really just zealotry or religion in it's ability to tolerate dissent.
Science is never settled. Science is corrupted by politics and money. Science leaves out important caveats. Conclusion -- science is no more trustworthy than your taxi driver or janitor. Make up your own mind when it comes to your health and well being.
If science is trying to bully people to get a point across, then obviously they haven't made a strong enough case. Try for full disclosure instead of lies. Many vaccines are only partially or slightly effective. The UNSPOKEN hope is herd immunity. When you leave out this important information, you are committing a fraud and this perpetuates the myths.
I will NEVER TRUST a pharmaceutical company, politician or news reporter. Once you lie, trust is nearly impossible to get back.
The data that needs to be explained is galaxies are repelling each other, and the red shifts accelerate the further out you look. Black holes cannot explain this because black holes are an attractive force.
Both astrophysics and particle physics are in chaos now. Somehow stars and galaxies are created by coalition of matter, yet on the larger scale they are being pushed apart. This is so bizarre it may never be explained. At the same time, the energy level of the newly discovered higgs boson has trashed decades of string theory.
Our understanding of physics has been set back to the 1930s. It seems like God played a good prank.
All government does is spend. They never save. I'm sure they still have buggy whip inspectors because nobody ever gets laid off, no matter how useless.
Nothing will happen because congress won't do anything Trump wants. If it were approved, they would spend $1 trillion and get no savings at all. How many decades have they been trying to upgrade the air traffic control systems from the 60s?
If you feed them a healthy diet there is no litter box smell. Dry cat food is far too high carb for cats (despite what the manufacturer may claim), and it results in an unhealthy cat and stinky box.
Religiously trained people tend to think animals are robots that can only react to base survival needs. Nature is to be conquered, rather than understood/respected. Much too simplistic and ignores obvious facts.
Story time. My cat sensed danger -- a significant change in the world -- and woke me up. This happened twice. A power outage and a snow storm. In each case, I immediately noticed something WAS wrong. It was much quieter than usual.
The cat didn't think only of itself, i.e to hide or run away. It was concerned about others.
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Can't wait to see this in practice. Without manual controls, how do you adjust it's position in a parking space or garage? How would you go thru a typical drive up window? How would you maneuver around a barricade, accident or temporary police detour? How about going around and around a parking lot or underground garage?
None of these things will be possible from GPS maps, nor radar images. Not in 2019 or 2030.
CO2 levels just from advanced countries is probably enough to cause damaging warming. There is no stopping billions of Asians, Africans and South Americans from becoming wealthier and demanding the same lifestyle. So the world is screwed. There will be flooding and mass extinctions -- when we do not know.
At some point, perhaps in 100-200 years oil, gas and coal will run out. Then the world will begin a slow healing process. If nuclear energy is still expensive, populations will naturally decline as well.
Unless you would deny billions the comfy high-energy lifestyle westerners have enjoyed, it is too late. Stop wasting time and money fighting the inevitable.
For those who would be flooded out -- you have at least 5 decades to move. Don't expect handouts if you neglect to act in that amount of time.
Open source for me forever. I don't own a smart phone precisely because of this constant drip of outrages. I never will own one that cannot be easily rooted and flushed of android or iOS.
Same with computers. Linux only forever. It's a shame linux still can't get power management right after how many decades? I have a desktop and a laptop that won't hibernate/sleep under mint. When they can consistently fix this windows and mac have no reason for living.
Yep, and this is why I won't DOWNGRADE to firefox 57. I'll stay frozen on 50 until NoScript has the full functionality it had before. Note, it's been released as of today but users are complaining of missing features and a terrible UI. Keep waiting.
The internet is almost un-usable without an ad blocker and a JS blocker. I don't know how anyone can stand the slow load times and blinking/flashing ads in your face. Perhaps TV has made all this normal for most people.
We should stop worrying. It's already too late to stop warming, and it will correct itself in 100-200 years when oil and coal run out.
Long before this was a popular topic, I worried about what the planet would look like when billions of Asians start living like Americans. That time is now and for the next 50 years. Someday India, China, Africa and South America will have as many cars per capita as Americans. As soon as they make enough money they will want what everyone else has, and it will be sold to them. So as far as warming -- you ain't seen nothin' yet.
The end game is when oil/gas/coal run out. I'm guessing 100-200 years, but who knows? Humans will have to live on much more expensive nuclear power. That means population reduction and the earth will slowly return to a more natural state.
They didn't mention the stored fuel pools. The region is still in grave danger until they get the stored fuel to higher ground. This is many times the amount of material as the cores, and it's not well contained.
Another quake/tsunami can happen at any time. Six years is already a lot of risk taken. Are they going to take decades for this too?
Until there is a fully functioning version of NoScript, the new firefox is a big step backward.
What good is a few ms of speed improvement, if you are forced to load tons of unwanted junk? Penny saved, pound foolish. Not to mention the security risk of allowing all kinds of JS to run.
I'm frozen on FF 50 until everything I have works with webextention.
Science is often bogged down by dogma. If he funds different approaches it might bear fruit. If he takes the lazy approach and asks the "experts", the money will most likely be wasted.
Yep -- Pandora's box is wide open. No way to close it. What ever CAN be done, eventually WILL be done. Both great and terrible things will happen.
It's just code with a 4-letter chemical alphabet. While it may be difficult and expensive NOW, imagine the world in 100 years. Or 10,000.
How long before those chemicals can be designed in CAD and precisely laid out by something akin to a 3-D printer? In utero, you say. Perhaps someday in printero.
Unless Si Valley can use quantum computing to sell more ads, the technology will simply fade away.
Can anyone answer in plain english if these things are actually useful for anything, or is it all a theoretical maybe? We shouldn't have to read phd thesis just to get a basic understanding. You guys can do enough of that on your own.
These constant press articles that basically state 50 > 40 so we win are beyond worthless.
50 years is far too optimistic. With no working theories for energy gain, containment or collection, it really is infinity years away.
While quarks may have a lifetime too short to use as a DIRECT weapon, quantum action at a distance should allow us to attack North Korea without them being aware.
Trigger Kim's bombs to explode in their silos. Then play Trump's tweets over an over again in his head until he goes (even more) mad.
He is complaining that computers fail to make people creative, or fail to educate. I think he has it backwards.
Creative people have a gift for using tools in innovative ways. Give them a PC and they start building something. Most people are only capable of being consumers. You give them a super computer and they'll ask you, where is ESPN? A tiny number of people can design microprocessors, yet members of the same species are stumped by 200 year old math and science.
It's not a failure of education, or a failure for apple. It's biology. He sounds like a curmudgeon and a socialist when he blames this "failure" on tech companies.
Healthy people don't have a problem with this. She has a form of OCD. Look it up.
The corps selling this stuff know exactly what they are doing. Get your customer hooked and you have a customer for life.
Caffeine, nicotine, sugar/hfcs, the original coke with cocaine, etc... It's an endless cycle of sociopaths who will sell anything for a profit.
This is a troll comment. You might as well blame your troubles on immigrants/illegals/migrants/tourists bringing in new microbes.
Live in a closed society or never go outside and perhaps you will be safer.
So-called settled science is rocked by new discoveries LITERALLY ALL THE TIME.
Just a few short years ago, astronomers thought they knew everything. Big bang from a point source, expansion, stop and maybe contraction.
Now it's completely different. Big bang happened everywhere at once. Accelerating expansion. Missing 90% of matter. Unknown *fudge factor* dark matter/energy. Might as well call this ether, as poorly as it's understood.
Much of science is really just zealotry or religion in it's ability to tolerate dissent.
Science is never settled. Science is corrupted by politics and money. Science leaves out important caveats. Conclusion -- science is no more trustworthy than your taxi driver or janitor. Make up your own mind when it comes to your health and well being.
If science is trying to bully people to get a point across, then obviously they haven't made a strong enough case. Try for full disclosure instead of lies. Many vaccines are only partially or slightly effective. The UNSPOKEN hope is herd immunity. When you leave out this important information, you are committing a fraud and this perpetuates the myths.
I will NEVER TRUST a pharmaceutical company, politician or news reporter. Once you lie, trust is nearly impossible to get back.
The data that needs to be explained is galaxies are repelling each other, and the red shifts accelerate the further out you look. Black holes cannot explain this because black holes are an attractive force. Both astrophysics and particle physics are in chaos now. Somehow stars and galaxies are created by coalition of matter, yet on the larger scale they are being pushed apart. This is so bizarre it may never be explained. At the same time, the energy level of the newly discovered higgs boson has trashed decades of string theory. Our understanding of physics has been set back to the 1930s. It seems like God played a good prank.
All government does is spend. They never save. I'm sure they still have buggy whip inspectors because nobody ever gets laid off, no matter how useless.
Nothing will happen because congress won't do anything Trump wants. If it were approved, they would spend $1 trillion and get no savings at all. How many decades have they been trying to upgrade the air traffic control systems from the 60s?
If you feed them a healthy diet there is no litter box smell. Dry cat food is far too high carb for cats (despite what the manufacturer may claim), and it results in an unhealthy cat and stinky box.
If an insect is buzzing around the blinds, they are toast. It is too attractive a target.
Religiously trained people tend to think animals are robots that can only react to base survival needs. Nature is to be conquered, rather than understood/respected. Much too simplistic and ignores obvious facts. Story time. My cat sensed danger -- a significant change in the world -- and woke me up. This happened twice. A power outage and a snow storm. In each case, I immediately noticed something WAS wrong. It was much quieter than usual. The cat didn't think only of itself, i.e to hide or run away. It was concerned about others.