The cars will be manufactured with a full tank and when you order one with your credit card online it will drive itself into a shipping container and then over roads to outside your house, stopping to refuel as needed.
A computer may have faster reaction times, but it first needs to determine that an emergency is in fact happening and decide just *how* to react. How much do you trust an AI to recognise a pot hole ahead, a damaged bridge, a cyclist, a child? How much do you trust an AI to make the call whether it's best to hit something or try and avoid it? Hazards such as other accidents, breakdowns, stock crossing, officers directing traffic happen *all the time* on roads.
Ability to make these split-second decisions is vital for any driver, human or otherwise. Are you trying to tell me that an AI exists that can cope with these situations? If so, where's Myles Dyson when we need him?
I would be curious to know how well home servers (www, email, SSH) perform when on this, especially given Google Fiber's original prohibitive TOS and Google's desire for you to keep everything on their servers. I see they have updated their TOS since the EFF kicked up a stink, but would like to hear from anyone who is actually using it.
I use OwnCloud for that sort of thing. It's a little slower, but it's a hell of a lot more secure than Dropbox and no silly limits on storage, other than what size hard drives my company can afford:)
Also drop the " censor, censor, censor" rhetoric... You are free to publish this anywhere else. Why don't you just make a site with rejected wikipedia articles, where people can work on them till wikipedia is ready to accept them.
Re-install/re-image, effectively the same thing in this context.
An upgrade trashing all of/etc/ is a new one on me though. I'd be keen to hear what upgrade event, if you recall, led to that result.
The newest fun here is that Windows 7, even when sysprepped, will still occasionally barf when cloned to a computer with different hardware. An operation that is trivial in nearly every Linux-based configuration.
You'll have to wait for the next "average Linux user" there, sonny. I have been doing system administration for two decades and have seen Linux systems, yes both rpm and deb based, badly messed up from updates. Some have required several hours work to get back running again. But, repeating myself, nothing that has required a complete reinstall. And it has been several years since I have seen an update require more than a few minutes work post-install.
It's undeniable that dams have a significant environmental impact. However these are a one-off expense, an overhead. They are not dependent on the amount of energy produced so while it gives *some* argument against building new dams, existing ones should be maintained and upgraded so they can generate as much power as possible with effectively zero environmental impact per GW. or diminishing impact per GW if you factor the overheads over time.
Funnily enough I saw an article yesterday about a fish cannon, purportedly to send fish over dams to spawning areas.
I have never seen a Linux distribution where one botched update has resulted in the need to completely wipe and re-install the operating system from media.
I have seen this with Windows 7 and 8.
I have seen this to a lesser extent with Windows XP, but that at least still has the option to re-install system files without affecting the user/program environment. Not so with Windows 7 or 8.
Windows 8 has some nice recovery tools, but they are buggy as all buggery and just as likely to render your system even less usable.
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That is to say, precedent.
Precident.
Car carrier? Were they like buggy whips?
The cars will be manufactured with a full tank and when you order one with your credit card online it will drive itself into a shipping container and then over roads to outside your house, stopping to refuel as needed.
I'm only half joking.
Most automatics have a manual release button somewhere that lets you shift into any gear you like when it's held down.
Apparently you'd wait fr your authorized service agent to come and tow it for you. You *did* get that extended service contract didn't you?
You have just provided another compelling argument against driverless cars.
A computer may have faster reaction times, but it first needs to determine that an emergency is in fact happening and decide just *how* to react. How much do you trust an AI to recognise a pot hole ahead, a damaged bridge, a cyclist, a child? How much do you trust an AI to make the call whether it's best to hit something or try and avoid it? Hazards such as other accidents, breakdowns, stock crossing, officers directing traffic happen *all the time* on roads.
Ability to make these split-second decisions is vital for any driver, human or otherwise. Are you trying to tell me that an AI exists that can cope with these situations? If so, where's Myles Dyson when we need him?
Is there anyone here who is using Google Fiber?
I would be curious to know how well home servers (www, email, SSH) perform when on this, especially given Google Fiber's original prohibitive TOS and Google's desire for you to keep everything on their servers. I see they have updated their TOS since the EFF kicked up a stink, but would like to hear from anyone who is actually using it.
Complete with a screenshot of a computer and a randomly-placed red circle.
Are you sure you weren't just watching YouTube with the HTML5 renderer?
I use OwnCloud for that sort of thing. It's a little slower, but it's a hell of a lot more secure than Dropbox and no silly limits on storage, other than what size hard drives my company can afford :)
It's nice that all these huge companies are so interested in control of everyone's data.
I think I'll stick with my OwnCloud server for syncing files across devices for the time being, thanks.
You must be new here.
Surely Social Security is just a savings scheme for the wealthy, no? What's the pension worth where you live? Still enough to live on I hope.
Man I remember those BT878 cards. Leadtek WinFast 2000 in my case. Terrific cards that, as you say, just worked in Linux.
That is not discoverable.
Where's the command for "Please show me the DTP programs on this computer"?
For a FLOSS alternative to Ghost I now use and highly recommend Clonezilla.
It's amazing what an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Bahamas can do for one's point of view...
Also drop the " censor, censor, censor" rhetoric... You are free to publish this anywhere else. Why don't you just make a site with rejected wikipedia articles, where people can work on them till wikipedia is ready to accept them.
Using MediaWiki as a nice touch.
I guess I think of it as if you leave your front door open, how much blame must you accept when thieves come in and take your stuff?
Re-install/re-image, effectively the same thing in this context.
An upgrade trashing all of /etc/ is a new one on me though. I'd be keen to hear what upgrade event, if you recall, led to that result.
The newest fun here is that Windows 7, even when sysprepped, will still occasionally barf when cloned to a computer with different hardware. An operation that is trivial in nearly every Linux-based configuration.
You'll have to wait for the next "average Linux user" there, sonny. I have been doing system administration for two decades and have seen Linux systems, yes both rpm and deb based, badly messed up from updates. Some have required several hours work to get back running again. But, repeating myself, nothing that has required a complete reinstall. And it has been several years since I have seen an update require more than a few minutes work post-install.
It's undeniable that dams have a significant environmental impact. However these are a one-off expense, an overhead. They are not dependent on the amount of energy produced so while it gives *some* argument against building new dams, existing ones should be maintained and upgraded so they can generate as much power as possible with effectively zero environmental impact per GW. or diminishing impact per GW if you factor the overheads over time.
Funnily enough I saw an article yesterday about a fish cannon, purportedly to send fish over dams to spawning areas.
I have never seen a Linux distribution where one botched update has resulted in the need to completely wipe and re-install the operating system from media.
I have seen this with Windows 7 and 8.
I have seen this to a lesser extent with Windows XP, but that at least still has the option to re-install system files without affecting the user/program environment. Not so with Windows 7 or 8.
Windows 8 has some nice recovery tools, but they are buggy as all buggery and just as likely to render your system even less usable.
And, or course, the fact that the phone was bricked for no reason. Also, the video will be recoverable.
If video is recoverable then the bricking process is defective.
I don't think they are talking about putting a button in every police car that bricks phones.
Not yet they're not.