An interesting article, to be sure, but WHAT THE HELL just happened to Slashdot? I just refreshed this page and Slashdot disappeared, and I instead got some mobile version of Beta on steroids. On a desktop.
So instead of the vehicle owner reaching under the hood and flipping the "emergency mode" switch, vehicle owners are content to patiently wait until benevolent Tesla, out of the goodness of their hearts, issue a code over the airwaves to unlock this feature in their cars.
So, Earth's atmosphere doesn't slow asteroids down, and therefore the minimum speed of an asteroid falling unimpeded from space is also the minimum speed needed to sling something back into space?
Yeah, I never did see the appeal in standing with a bunch of slack-jawed yokels watching to see who could inflict the most serious concussion on their opponent.
Cruise control amounts to a throttle with a memory so you can dial in a speed until you intervene. Occasionally useful, often overused, occasionally dangerous but very rarely leads to deaths when it goes wrong.
Self-driving cars involve you entrusting your life to software that:
1. Should be able to determine the best route from your location to your destination, with any intermediate waypoints, and maintain a speed in compliance with local restrictions. For travel on common roads, software is getting pretty good at this. 2. Must identify potential hazards correctly, including changes in weather conditions, road conditions (including melted tar, black ice, floodwater), signage, and all types of traffic, and take appropriate action every time, weighing priorities where multiple decision branches exist. Despite what marketing material you may have seen, no software in the world can actually do anything close to this in anything other than the most useless contrived, controlled, conditions. Of course, humans often get it wrong too, but they tend to fail in mostly predictable ways.
Of those two aspects, which do you think is more important?
There's more to driving than Gran Turismo, you know.
Can you please focus on making your electric cars and the batteries that run them better and more affordable instead of getting sidetracked with these bullshit features that nobody wants?
Every initiative I've seen to impose a particular type of device on school kids has been an unmitigated disaster.
The happy ending is that many of these schools have now gone platform agnostic and provide Chromebooks or refurbished Linux laptops and allowing BYOD. So long as they have a working browser and a screen bigger than 8 inches they don't care what you bring.
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An interesting article, to be sure, but WHAT THE HELL just happened to Slashdot? I just refreshed this page and Slashdot disappeared, and I instead got some mobile version of Beta on steroids. On a desktop.
Just like that guy who "accidentally" left a prototype phone in a bar a few years back.
Hook, line and sinker.
So instead of the vehicle owner reaching under the hood and flipping the "emergency mode" switch, vehicle owners are content to patiently wait until benevolent Tesla, out of the goodness of their hearts, issue a code over the airwaves to unlock this feature in their cars.
Let me be clear on this point:
Fuck. That.
So, Earth's atmosphere doesn't slow asteroids down, and therefore the minimum speed of an asteroid falling unimpeded from space is also the minimum speed needed to sling something back into space?
Is that what you're saying?
*ahem*
I don't disagree with what you wrote, but you seem to have missed the point.
This is not about non-practising patents. This is about Software Patents, which are utterly immoral and should not exist in any form.
How are software patents still a thing in these backwards jurisdictions?
Boxing is positively barbaric, but fake it is not.
I suspect you're thinking of professional wrestling.
Yeah, I never did see the appeal in standing with a bunch of slack-jawed yokels watching to see who could inflict the most serious concussion on their opponent.
Barbaric is what it is.
Now you've got me curious - what exactly do you think "autopilot" means, when applied to cars and not aircraft?
No.
Cruise control amounts to a throttle with a memory so you can dial in a speed until you intervene. Occasionally useful, often overused, occasionally dangerous but very rarely leads to deaths when it goes wrong.
Self-driving cars involve you entrusting your life to software that:
1. Should be able to determine the best route from your location to your destination, with any intermediate waypoints, and maintain a speed in compliance with local restrictions. For travel on common roads, software is getting pretty good at this.
2. Must identify potential hazards correctly, including changes in weather conditions, road conditions (including melted tar, black ice, floodwater), signage, and all types of traffic, and take appropriate action every time, weighing priorities where multiple decision branches exist. Despite what marketing material you may have seen, no software in the world can actually do anything close to this in anything other than the most useless contrived, controlled, conditions. Of course, humans often get it wrong too, but they tend to fail in mostly predictable ways.
Of those two aspects, which do you think is more important?
There's more to driving than Gran Turismo, you know.
It's a lot harder for a cell phone or cloud-based content delivery service to kill you or strand you somewhere you don't want to be.
Can you please focus on making your electric cars and the batteries that run them better and more affordable instead of getting sidetracked with these bullshit features that nobody wants?
Thank you,
Everyone
No More 'Install From Unknown Sources' Setting
F-Droid still works though, right?
What did you expect from the department of LIES? As we all know, Nasa is Hebrew for "to deceive".
Clearly they have so many SECRETS and LIES that they can't risk getting out to the general public.
Now excuse me while I go and finish my thesis on the impenetrable deadly Van Halen belt.
Do you mean 1996?
or your face. Some of us would rather not remove our motorcycle helmets every time we want to check our phones.
I'll still use a PIN
Where are the FOSS firmwares for these things, from the likes of which routers have benefited for many years?
Not that I've ever used the verb "Google" for any other search engine, but:
How many of you Hoover or Lux your floor with an actual Hoover or Electrolux vacuum cleaner?
Every initiative I've seen to impose a particular type of device on school kids has been an unmitigated disaster.
The happy ending is that many of these schools have now gone platform agnostic and provide Chromebooks or refurbished Linux laptops and allowing BYOD. So long as they have a working browser and a screen bigger than 8 inches they don't care what you bring.
...earth-abundant elements like iron, cobalt and nickel.
Damn, I was hoping we could shut down those dodgy cobalt mines that exploit child labour.
...these free (and very illegal) TV live streams...
Was this article written by a copyright troll?
I get your point but:
Does it hover?
Yes
Fly?
Yes
Can you do any tricks with it?
Yes
You just described mini-drones, which lots of kids have now.
The link in your sig is dead.
It is impossible to build a battery with higher energy density.
That seems like a rather implausible claim, or a very narrow definition of "battery".