Using markers on the roads will not work because they are not constant.
Until they install new ones. If they focused on the Interstates, this would only take a few months and would provide a uniform marker across all of the states. While this wouldn't make end-to-end self-driving possible, it would allow a LOT of trucking to be self-driving - drive truck to the Flying J outside of Los Angeles; tell it to drive the Interstates to the Flying J outside of Chicago, Dallas, Memphis, or wherever; then have a driver meet it there and drive it into the city.
If you are worried about damage or vandalism, you could have the vehicles report in if they don't see a sign that should be there and a crew can be dispatched. Heck you could also put grooves in the pavement itself and have the vehicles use that as a guide.
The rest must be melt water from glaciers and snow on land.
It's not quite that straightforward since the polar ice is made up of fresh water, and the ocean is salt water. That means the melting ice with change the density of the oceans making the math more complicated.
Yet...he did absolutely NOTHING to make them pay tax. If anything, the tax plan made sure they paid even less in taxes.
This just shows you have no idea how the Federal Government works. The President isn't the one who sets taxes. That would be Congress. Also, as for the wall, that's ALSO Congress. In fact, the wall was authorized in 2006 with the Secure Fence Act (which Obama and Biden both voted for.)
So, instead of reveling in your hatred of all things Trump, watch some Schoolhouse Rock, read the Constitution, or do something to be informed about how things work instead of complaining about the wrong person.
Also, the whole "Dictator" thing is laughable. It reminds me of the "OMG! He will have The Button and kill us all!" when he was first elected. It is full of sound and fury but, in the end, signifies nothing.
Yes, people can get bored doing nothing. While some will continue to due nothing, most people want to feel useful, needed, and accomplish something meaningful to THEIR life.
I'm guessing that the number of hours people spend playing video games, watching TV, gambling, and other non-productive pursuits far, FAR outweighs the number of hours people spend on "building, creating, inventing, researching, work on my games, etc"
The way it works is: say company X, paying the carbon tax, decides to pass the extra cost to the customer. But another company, Y, who has better technology or better process, generates less or no carbon emissions, so it will not pay the same tax, and won't have any extra cost to pass to customers! And, here's the trick, customers will say "why should we pay the bigger price for company X, when we can get a similar product more cheaply from company Y?".
Except that oil/gas/energy is a mature industry. Sure, there are efficiencies to be gained, but all the low-hanging fruit was picked decades ago. It's why gas prices have stayed the same (or close to it) over the past several decades if you account for inflation. Gas prices have a far greater difference based on location than on production method efficiency, so there really isn't a golden goose to be had.
I don't see the benefit of being the only one not pissing in the pool. i.e. Being the only ones to massively reduce our CO2.
Why? Because we know that catastrophic issues start to happen at 2C of warming. That will happen globally, and not just in countries that continue with high CO2 output. It doesn't matter if we have 3.1C of warming or "only" 3.0C of warming - the catastrophic issues will still happen. So, why should we pay trillions of dollars when we (and the world) will still get 95% of the problems - but only the U.S. will get the bill.?
As a car analogy... It doesn't matter if we are driving towards a cliff at 75 MPH or just 55 MPH or even 10 MPH. If we get to the cliff Bad Things happen to everyone in the car. So, the U.S. could go to zero emissions and slow the climate change car from 75 MPH to 55 MPH, but we still hit that cliff - and the U.S. ends up paying trillions on top of everything else.
I would recommend contacting the CS department or Engineering College at the local University.
First, since it is only an 8-person company, it is something that doesn't need a full-time person, which means you won't be the consultant's only priority; and, odds are, they will have a bigger customer that will always be their higher priority.
Second, there are usually many students who help run the University/College/Department systems - including computer labs - which means they have some experience with actual networks and figuring out work-arounds. The risk here is to make sure they think like admins instead of college students, but that should come out in an interview.
Third, Universities/Departments/Faculty like to keep a good reputation with their communities, so they generally only recommend good students.
Fourth, students charge less than professionals. If you offer a student something anywhere near a "professional" hourly rate, they will bust their butts for you - since it is going to be a really sweet gig for them and they don't want to lose it.
Nature is a peer reviewed publication. So, there were multiple, independent levels of error. That's not how it's supposed to work.
Ideally it works that way. However, it often fails in one way or another (skipped reviews, for profit models, no one wants to say a leader in a field is wrong, etc.) Which is why publication to a wide audience is, essentially, the final fail safe.
This is what science does. People find something and publish the results for everyone to look at. If there is something wrong, other people point it out, and they go back to the drawing board.
This is how science is supposed to work; although, ideally, the errors are caught prior to publication - the process still worked correctly.
All of the unstable ecosystems have failed, and their participants extinct or changed. That's the crazy part of hundreds of millions or billions of years of adaptation and evolution and environmental change - there are probably trillions of ecosystems that became unstable and collapsed - they just happened long before scientists showed up to track things.
Which isn't to say that collapses can't happen again (or that ecosystems don't fail on a daily basis) but the ones still around have whatever "secret sauce" nature requires for those groups to survive and even thrive. So far...
Are you willing to take a "good" camera and add an integrated FLIR camera? If so, you just described the Caterpillar S61. Milspec for drop, water, and dust. Giant battery. The optical camera is a generation old, but the FLIR more than makes up for it. I used the FLIR to check my repairs on my dryer vent and my air conditioning. Plus, I use it to check the heat dissipation on my laptop. The air quality sensor, and the laser measuring tool (which is accurate to the millimeter) are just gravy.
I switched from the iPhone to the S61 a few months ago and haven't regretted it at all.
Don't assume that because you don't know about it it's not a big deal.
Well, if a lot of people haven't heard about it, then maybe it isn't a big deal. I'm not saying the programs don't exist, or that there aren't people who feel strongly about it. However, if the average person hasn't heard about it, then - by the media or society as a whole - it isn't being treated like a big deal.
"The youth" has been worthless for at the very least 3000 years now.
They have. What you fail to realize is that Greece was conquered, its influence began to wane, and it split into warring factions during Aristotle's lifetime.
Aristotle lived from 384 B.C. to 322 B.C. and the "Classical Era" ended in 338 when Phillip of Macedon conquered Greece, and the height of its influence died with Alexander in 323 B.C. After that, the country fractured into the Achaean League and the Aetolian League which began decades of warfare until the Romans conquered them.
So, yes. The youth during Aristotle's time were worthless, and they failed to defend the Greek Empire, or even hold together as a single nation once their conqueror died and his empire tore apart.
I can't speak for others but at least insofar as novels are concerned, I don't think that anybody writes them primarily for the money. It's for fun or a kind of obsession. However, that doesn't mean that authors shouldn't get more money.
Just because you do something time consuming, for fun, doesn't mean you should get paid for it - even if others enjoy what you create. If you raise your prices, then others will find other books that are less expensive, and also enjoyable. It's just the substitution effect - and books (especially those used for entertainment) are easily substituted with other ones.
What do you mean "indicated they are going to increase it"? They've been increasing it for almost 3 years now, with the increases starting back in 2015. They have raised the rate almost every quarter for the last 2 of those years. So, I'm not sure what you are getting at by saying "indicated" since they are already doing it..
Also, CPI may be a lagging indicator, but how much of a lag are you claiming? Like I said, increases have been happening for 3 years, with steady increases for the last 2. When does this "lag" kick in? Or is it just a matter of having no time bounds and, when it does kick in, you point at it and say, "See! Told you!"
You don't need to find a parking spot with a dump truck. Just bring some traffic cones and block off an area like it is going to be under construction. Bonus points for bringing one of the construction barriers with the blinking orange light. No cop is going to give a ticket when they think someone is doing emergency road repair.
They could add infrared cameras, laser distance sensors, air quality sensors, and maybe a better way to adapt accessories to the phone such as a low powered connected hardware keyboard designed and produced by the manufacture.
The Caterpillar S61 phone does a number of those - FLIR camera, air particulate sensor, and a measuring app which does way more than just give you distance. It also has incredible battery life (mine has been sitting for over a week and still has over 50% battery), and is ruggedized to MILSPEC for being dropped (5' to concrete) and being underwater (10 feet for over an hour). In fact, you can even go into "underwater mode" which deactivates the touchscreen, and modifies the camera for underwater use.
The OS may run on the older hardware, but it is almost unusable. I upgraded from my 5S (to an SE) a year ago because apps would, on occasion, take 10+ seconds to load. So, if I wanted to check a movie time and traffic to get there, it would take a minute to switch back and forth between Flixster and Google Maps to see if I could make a movie time. God help me if I was comparing 2 different theaters! Also, if I was out running and wanted to take a picture it took way too long to actually get the shot.
Tsunami and Highlands were also really good. I remember back in '99 I logged into Tsunami after 5+ years of being gone (I had joined the Marine Corps) and my character was still there!
Free schooling for their kids. Free medical via emergency rooms. Use of community resources - parks, community centers, pools, etc. Ability to call emergency services such as the police - which is a big reason they flee their home (i.e. - violence by thugs, gangs, etc.). Just to name a few.
It's systematically biased by sex.
It's systematically biased by country of citizenship - which means by race, ethnicity, CHANGES in ethnicity due to immigration, residence, educational system, language, media exposure, diet, political events, disease exposure, environmental stresses (weather, pollution,...), healthcare system, and I could go on.
This strikes me as complaining about a study regarding birds because it doesn't include elephants.
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Using markers on the roads will not work because they are not constant.
Until they install new ones. If they focused on the Interstates, this would only take a few months and would provide a uniform marker across all of the states. While this wouldn't make end-to-end self-driving possible, it would allow a LOT of trucking to be self-driving - drive truck to the Flying J outside of Los Angeles; tell it to drive the Interstates to the Flying J outside of Chicago, Dallas, Memphis, or wherever; then have a driver meet it there and drive it into the city.
If you are worried about damage or vandalism, you could have the vehicles report in if they don't see a sign that should be there and a crew can be dispatched. Heck you could also put grooves in the pavement itself and have the vehicles use that as a guide.
The rest must be melt water from glaciers and snow on land.
It's not quite that straightforward since the polar ice is made up of fresh water, and the ocean is salt water. That means the melting ice with change the density of the oceans making the math more complicated.
Yet...he did absolutely NOTHING to make them pay tax. If anything, the tax plan made sure they paid even less in taxes.
This just shows you have no idea how the Federal Government works. The President isn't the one who sets taxes. That would be Congress. Also, as for the wall, that's ALSO Congress. In fact, the wall was authorized in 2006 with the Secure Fence Act (which Obama and Biden both voted for.)
So, instead of reveling in your hatred of all things Trump, watch some Schoolhouse Rock, read the Constitution, or do something to be informed about how things work instead of complaining about the wrong person.
Also, the whole "Dictator" thing is laughable. It reminds me of the "OMG! He will have The Button and kill us all!" when he was first elected. It is full of sound and fury but, in the end, signifies nothing.
Yes, people can get bored doing nothing. While some will continue to due nothing, most people want to feel useful, needed, and accomplish something meaningful to THEIR life.
I'm guessing that the number of hours people spend playing video games, watching TV, gambling, and other non-productive pursuits far, FAR outweighs the number of hours people spend on "building, creating, inventing, researching, work on my games, etc"
The way it works is: say company X, paying the carbon tax, decides to pass the extra cost to the customer. But another company, Y, who has better technology or better process, generates less or no carbon emissions, so it will not pay the same tax, and won't have any extra cost to pass to customers! And, here's the trick, customers will say "why should we pay the bigger price for company X, when we can get a similar product more cheaply from company Y?".
Except that oil/gas/energy is a mature industry. Sure, there are efficiencies to be gained, but all the low-hanging fruit was picked decades ago. It's why gas prices have stayed the same (or close to it) over the past several decades if you account for inflation. Gas prices have a far greater difference based on location than on production method efficiency, so there really isn't a golden goose to be had.
I don't see the benefit of being the only one not pissing in the pool. i.e. Being the only ones to massively reduce our CO2.
Why? Because we know that catastrophic issues start to happen at 2C of warming. That will happen globally, and not just in countries that continue with high CO2 output. It doesn't matter if we have 3.1C of warming or "only" 3.0C of warming - the catastrophic issues will still happen. So, why should we pay trillions of dollars when we (and the world) will still get 95% of the problems - but only the U.S. will get the bill.?
As a car analogy... It doesn't matter if we are driving towards a cliff at 75 MPH or just 55 MPH or even 10 MPH. If we get to the cliff Bad Things happen to everyone in the car. So, the U.S. could go to zero emissions and slow the climate change car from 75 MPH to 55 MPH, but we still hit that cliff - and the U.S. ends up paying trillions on top of everything else.
I would recommend contacting the CS department or Engineering College at the local University.
First, since it is only an 8-person company, it is something that doesn't need a full-time person, which means you won't be the consultant's only priority; and, odds are, they will have a bigger customer that will always be their higher priority.
Second, there are usually many students who help run the University/College/Department systems - including computer labs - which means they have some experience with actual networks and figuring out work-arounds. The risk here is to make sure they think like admins instead of college students, but that should come out in an interview.
Third, Universities/Departments/Faculty like to keep a good reputation with their communities, so they generally only recommend good students.
Fourth, students charge less than professionals. If you offer a student something anywhere near a "professional" hourly rate, they will bust their butts for you - since it is going to be a really sweet gig for them and they don't want to lose it.
Good luck!
Nature is a peer reviewed publication. So, there were multiple, independent levels of error. That's not how it's supposed to work.
Ideally it works that way. However, it often fails in one way or another (skipped reviews, for profit models, no one wants to say a leader in a field is wrong, etc.) Which is why publication to a wide audience is, essentially, the final fail safe.
This is what science does. People find something and publish the results for everyone to look at. If there is something wrong, other people point it out, and they go back to the drawing board.
This is how science is supposed to work; although, ideally, the errors are caught prior to publication - the process still worked correctly.
All of the unstable ecosystems have failed, and their participants extinct or changed. That's the crazy part of hundreds of millions or billions of years of adaptation and evolution and environmental change - there are probably trillions of ecosystems that became unstable and collapsed - they just happened long before scientists showed up to track things.
Which isn't to say that collapses can't happen again (or that ecosystems don't fail on a daily basis) but the ones still around have whatever "secret sauce" nature requires for those groups to survive and even thrive. So far...
Are you willing to take a "good" camera and add an integrated FLIR camera? If so, you just described the Caterpillar S61. Milspec for drop, water, and dust. Giant battery. The optical camera is a generation old, but the FLIR more than makes up for it. I used the FLIR to check my repairs on my dryer vent and my air conditioning. Plus, I use it to check the heat dissipation on my laptop. The air quality sensor, and the laser measuring tool (which is accurate to the millimeter) are just gravy.
I switched from the iPhone to the S61 a few months ago and haven't regretted it at all.
Don't assume that because you don't know about it it's not a big deal.
Well, if a lot of people haven't heard about it, then maybe it isn't a big deal. I'm not saying the programs don't exist, or that there aren't people who feel strongly about it. However, if the average person hasn't heard about it, then - by the media or society as a whole - it isn't being treated like a big deal.
"The youth" has been worthless for at the very least 3000 years now.
They have. What you fail to realize is that Greece was conquered, its influence began to wane, and it split into warring factions during Aristotle's lifetime.
Aristotle lived from 384 B.C. to 322 B.C. and the "Classical Era" ended in 338 when Phillip of Macedon conquered Greece, and the height of its influence died with Alexander in 323 B.C. After that, the country fractured into the Achaean League and the Aetolian League which began decades of warfare until the Romans conquered them.
So, yes. The youth during Aristotle's time were worthless, and they failed to defend the Greek Empire, or even hold together as a single nation once their conqueror died and his empire tore apart.
I can't speak for others but at least insofar as novels are concerned, I don't think that anybody writes them primarily for the money. It's for fun or a kind of obsession. However, that doesn't mean that authors shouldn't get more money.
Just because you do something time consuming, for fun, doesn't mean you should get paid for it - even if others enjoy what you create. If you raise your prices, then others will find other books that are less expensive, and also enjoyable. It's just the substitution effect - and books (especially those used for entertainment) are easily substituted with other ones.
What do you mean "indicated they are going to increase it"? They've been increasing it for almost 3 years now, with the increases starting back in 2015. They have raised the rate almost every quarter for the last 2 of those years. So, I'm not sure what you are getting at by saying "indicated" since they are already doing it..
Also, CPI may be a lagging indicator, but how much of a lag are you claiming? Like I said, increases have been happening for 3 years, with steady increases for the last 2. When does this "lag" kick in? Or is it just a matter of having no time bounds and, when it does kick in, you point at it and say, "See! Told you!"
Tesla's 52-week high was $389. As of Friday's close it was at $305; which means it is more like 22% off its all time high.
Which means your "15%" is only off by 50% or so.
You don't need to find a parking spot with a dump truck. Just bring some traffic cones and block off an area like it is going to be under construction. Bonus points for bringing one of the construction barriers with the blinking orange light. No cop is going to give a ticket when they think someone is doing emergency road repair.
They could add infrared cameras, laser distance sensors, air quality sensors, and maybe a better way to adapt accessories to the phone such as a low powered connected hardware keyboard designed and produced by the manufacture.
The Caterpillar S61 phone does a number of those - FLIR camera, air particulate sensor, and a measuring app which does way more than just give you distance. It also has incredible battery life (mine has been sitting for over a week and still has over 50% battery), and is ruggedized to MILSPEC for being dropped (5' to concrete) and being underwater (10 feet for over an hour). In fact, you can even go into "underwater mode" which deactivates the touchscreen, and modifies the camera for underwater use.
Disclaimer: I love that fricking phone!
might as well use ethernet, or tin cans with a string...
That would require multiple dongles if he has a Mac.
The OS may run on the older hardware, but it is almost unusable. I upgraded from my 5S (to an SE) a year ago because apps would, on occasion, take 10+ seconds to load. So, if I wanted to check a movie time and traffic to get there, it would take a minute to switch back and forth between Flixster and Google Maps to see if I could make a movie time. God help me if I was comparing 2 different theaters! Also, if I was out running and wanted to take a picture it took way too long to actually get the shot.
So, supported: Yes.
Usable/practical: No.
RealmsMUD was the best MUD. EVER!
Tsunami and Highlands were also really good. I remember back in '99 I logged into Tsunami after 5+ years of being gone (I had joined the Marine Corps) and my character was still there!
Good times.
Free schooling for their kids. Free medical via emergency rooms. Use of community resources - parks, community centers, pools, etc. Ability to call emergency services such as the police - which is a big reason they flee their home (i.e. - violence by thugs, gangs, etc.). Just to name a few.
Damage from birds is orders of magnitude more likely than from a drone, and occurs on a regular basis...
A bird getting in the way of an aircraft is considered a capital crime, and the bird is executed on the spot.
It was in Dragon Magazine, Issue #84. The comic was "What's New with Phil & Dixie!"
You can find a PDF of the issue at: https://annarchive.com/files/D...
It's systematically biased by sex. It's systematically biased by country of citizenship - which means by race, ethnicity, CHANGES in ethnicity due to immigration, residence, educational system, language, media exposure, diet, political events, disease exposure, environmental stresses (weather, pollution, ...), healthcare system, and I could go on.
This strikes me as complaining about a study regarding birds because it doesn't include elephants.