if I could ride somewhere in this thing, get out of it and have it fly off and park itself elsewhere, then fine.
Exactly.
Flying cars need to be fully robotic to catch on. If they can be safely used by a child or a drunk, and they can navigate by themselves to pick people up, drop them off, and park somewhere, then their advantages over ground cars become compelling.
The rotors are small enough that if one hits you, you get a nasty bruise instead of a life-threatening laceration. Smaller rotors also means much less noise, since higher frequencies don't carry as far.
But as I've said many times since then, I'll switch when something better comes along. That time has come. Swift is a major improvement over Obj-C, and it was developed to meet Apple's internal needs, by engineers who know Obj-C inside out.
It's kind of a kick being a beginner again. Swift takes some getting used to, but I expect it to give me as much of a productivity improvement over Obj-C as Obj-C gave me over C++.
That's a very long-winded pile of bullshit you posted there. How much of your neighbor's earnings do you believe you're entitled to take and use for your purposes?
What is it with governments and wanting to spy on every citizen, just because the technology might allow for it?
As Robert Heinlein pointed out, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek to control others, and those who have no such desire. Governments are comprised of the assholes in the first category, and mass surveillance is all about power.
Let's abolish the personal income tax altogether, disband the IRS, and fund the government's very limited constitutional obligations by selling off the land that the federal government has no business owning in the first place.
Gosh, what a clever deflection. Yes, we should all praise the TelePrompter In Chief because the asshole that the other brand of the Ruling Party nominated was just as bad.
I didn't bother with college. When I graduated from high school, I figured that four years of experience would be worth more than the degree, and that proved to be the case.
It's a buzzword for demanding federal control of the internet, to remedy the government-caused problem of last mile providers who are protected from competition by local cable monopoly privileges.
All we need to solve the problem of the Comcasts and the Time-warners of the world is to expose them to competition.
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Let's drop the pretense that the Nobel prizes carry any prestige at all. They've given them to the likes of Kissinger and Arafat, for fuck's sake.
-jcr
if I could ride somewhere in this thing, get out of it and have it fly off and park itself elsewhere, then fine.
Exactly.
Flying cars need to be fully robotic to catch on. If they can be safely used by a child or a drunk, and they can navigate by themselves to pick people up, drop them off, and park somewhere, then their advantages over ground cars become compelling.
-jcr
The rotors are small enough that if one hits you, you get a nasty bruise instead of a life-threatening laceration. Smaller rotors also means much less noise, since higher frequencies don't carry as far.
-jcr
Something like this?
-jcr
Has he ever flown it off of the tether?
-jcr
Seems there was a purpose in letting public education degenerate into nothing more than obedience conditioning.
-jcr
It involves writing tons of boilerplate code for the GUI
That statement alone tells any experienced Mac or IOS developer that you have no idea what you're talking about.
-jcr
But as I've said many times since then, I'll switch when something better comes along. That time has come. Swift is a major improvement over Obj-C, and it was developed to meet Apple's internal needs, by engineers who know Obj-C inside out.
It's kind of a kick being a beginner again. Swift takes some getting used to, but I expect it to give me as much of a productivity improvement over Obj-C as Obj-C gave me over C++.
-jcr
nobody liked Pascal/Delphi and there was very little useful business logic implemented in those languages
I beg to differ. While I never used it myself, I do know of several trading systems implemented in Delphi that worked very well indeed.
-jcr
The popularity of Java demonstrated just how desperately the world needed something better than C++.
-jcr
Anyone who says 'X' language is crap, can safely be ignored.
Unless they're saying it about Java.
That's a very long-winded pile of bullshit you posted there. How much of your neighbor's earnings do you believe you're entitled to take and use for your purposes?
-jcr
What is it with governments and wanting to spy on every citizen, just because the technology might allow for it?
As Robert Heinlein pointed out, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek to control others, and those who have no such desire. Governments are comprised of the assholes in the first category, and mass surveillance is all about power.
-jcr
Governments can not be trusted. Privacy on the internet is an engineering problem, and will only be solved by technical means.
-jcr
Let's abolish the personal income tax altogether, disband the IRS, and fund the government's very limited constitutional obligations by selling off the land that the federal government has no business owning in the first place.
-jcr
But it seems to me that if you have to pay someone to use your product, your product probably sucks.
-jcr
The IRS scandal is pretty much all hogwash.
Only if by "hogwash" you mean a systematic harassment of political groups that oppose the expansion of the government.
Demanding membership lists is definitely beyond the pale.
-jcr
So how is this different, functionally, from state owned media like the soviet union's pravda?
Pravda doesn't bother pretending to be an objective outlet for factual information.
-jcr
Gosh, what a clever deflection. Yes, we should all praise the TelePrompter In Chief because the asshole that the other brand of the Ruling Party nominated was just as bad.
-jcr
..and I fly far less often than I would if coach were tolerable.
-jcr
I didn't bother with college. When I graduated from high school, I figured that four years of experience would be worth more than the degree, and that proved to be the case.
-jcr
It's a buzzword for demanding federal control of the internet, to remedy the government-caused problem of last mile providers who are protected from competition by local cable monopoly privileges.
All we need to solve the problem of the Comcasts and the Time-warners of the world is to expose them to competition.
-jcr
End every punishment doled out by the government without a trial by jury.
-jcr
There is a mountain of evidence that so called "no-fly" lists have prevent unspeakable acts of terrorism and violence.
Bullshit. Show me even one case of a would-be attacker getting arrested because his name came up when he showed up at an airport.
"period" isn't an argument.
Who said it was? It's a rhetorical device for emphasis. Do you have some kind of cogent point to make, or are you just wasting my time?
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