You are full of shit my friend. I started my career on typewriter which were nothing less than computer screens on paper. I experienced the ascii terminals, the graphics terminals, the modern displays on CRT all sizes and flat displays and I am having two physical displays right now and I would take a third and a fourth without any problem and eye strain. Back in the old days, we were writing simple piece of software with simple interactions and well defined input/output access. The world has changed for the better, the proof being people are ready to pay good money for interactive and smart pieces of hardware and good software. I am very sorry for you, but personally I do not regret anything of the past. I'm old and I enjoy the wonderful gadgets we can imagine, build and have today, including multiple screen displays to work efficiently with many document and testing environments at once.
BTW, I should say that the medical profession in my country and province, yep Quebec, Canada, is asking the government to legalize euthanasia for patients with dementia without any other legal authorization -since these patients cannot agree or not with their own life termination- in order to reduce healthcare costs and grab an hand on what these will leave behind depending if they have family or not. So, at the end, it will be totally pointless to make any efforts to live longer. They don't want you as soon as you are no longer productive and require some healthcare you have paid for you entire life.
If you have fun driving your car, you are probably a contributor to make the roads dangerous today. There is much more people dying on roads these days than in any war or wars combined. So, thinking a self-driving car would be more dangerous than the bunch of kids having fun driving too fast, not paying attention to the road, etc is pretty much an uninformed statement from your part. And on the other hand, there is a lot of people who haven't any fun driving, they even often are subject to road rage, in particular in heavy traffic with a lot of people trying to get the best and making it actually worse.
For the price tag, I would say once you scale something the price tag tends to drop pretty fast.
Lastly, an autonomous and self-driving car doesn't decide when and where you go, you still decide. Obviously you haven't yet assimilate the concept.
I wonder how you got a modup point, it seems you have read the article at all. It is not about Tesla's batteries at all. It is about the idea, whatever batteries or anything else you are talking about to take you off the grid. Tesla's batteries are just accessory in the discussion and the author just don't give a fuck about whom is providing you favorite energy reservoir. The idea to go off the grid is just plain stupid, the self-sufficient idea as well. This thing doesn't scale well it is something for the happy few with deep pockets, the exact customers people like Musk are after. It doesn't do anything to help solving a global problem. In fact, just do the math and count the number of solar panels, small windmills needed and their efficiency compare to large scale windmills, large solar panel farms, etc. Going of the grid is basically a survivalist thing something for believers in the zombie apocalypse. That is what the article is about.
Yeah! Geeks are overrated. However, as a nerd I would say you simply have to target the database instead of trying to confuse the detector. Once you very private characteristics will have been stolen, you will be in deep trouble.
Exactly! The hiking/camping justification for the product is simply idiotic. And even if the weight ratio would be in favor of this product, what are we talking about here? Carrying in the woods massive amounts of alcohol? Unless you want to be totally drunk in the woods, I don't really see the point of this product supposed to target hikkers and campers.
Avionics software isn't open and it doesn't prevent it to be subject to regulations. It is part of the certification for an airplane. The same thing holds for cars.
I'm sorry, but auto manufacturers have a point. Not anyone is competent to reprogram embedded car software. Unfortunately, bugs can be deadly. How would you feel about, say, 10% of the cars on the road running custom software by the next door kid?
Cars are killing much more people than guns. In fact, I would go further than the auto manufacturers. Nobody should be allowed to drive a car. How many people on the roads shouldn't have even a driver's license at all? A lot. And you are ready to see those people hacking their own car software? No way!
(The extremely low pass rate for free online courses provides some evidence for this.)
The extremely low pass rate doesn't mean a shit. This guy is an idiot. The motivation to pass a course that doesn't cost you anything and is most of the time not required and even recognized is not the same as passing a grade. Many people are just sneaking around at MOOC, and it is perfectly acceptable. They start some course just to see. There is not requirements, verification you are having the prerequisite before enrolling into a course. You just cannot compare MOOC and traditional education on this basis. That is plain stupid and full of bullshit to do so.
Many people are dropping a course in the middle because they have other obligations and there is no consequences to do so. Some others are overbooking courses and then drop those they are less interested in, etc. This behavior is responsible for the low pass rate. And the low pass rate doesn't mean anything in the context of MOOC. Beside that, some MOOC courses are just badly designed. Some teachers are just taking the material they have for the on-campus course and put that on the MOOC and expect miracles without further involvement. They forget the on-campus course give students access to other resources which are key to success. Since they do not provide the same kind of support for the MOOC, no wonder many people are dropping before the end or end up investing more time than they should to complete the course. Those who haven't planned for such level of investment are just dropping or failing the course.
I agree. Air drone delivery is the current shittiest idea. Not energy efficient, subject to meteorological conditions, etc. If autonomous vehicle for delivery are not safe for pedestrians, flying drones are worst. It would be a better idea to invest into a road autonomous delivery system. Anyone has every received the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy from 500ft altitude on the head?
Just in fact you never noticed, in 2001: a Space Odyssey, Clarke presumed dematerialization would exist. For what it means, it is very likely what he was actually telling us is exactly what I said. We will never get halfway to this. It is like he decided to imagine the non-existence. You shouldn't interpret this as if he just believe this would be possible. He just explained the conditions for interstellar travel requires to not be physical. From this point, agreeing on the fact we are no longer talking about a physical universe, we can imagine everything as he did.
Guys, don't lose your mind. So far, there is no evidence we can rule out the possibility a sharknado with freakin' laser on their heads have been around Germanwings' flight few minutes before the disaster. Alien anyone?
Apparently yes, even the original poster seems very sad to see them disappear as the end of his summary let us think:
"Still, it's sad to see such an iconic brand killed off like this."
I suspect he is an employee of Past Shop. I really don't see what Past Shop has to do with news for nerds. Any nerd is going at Past Shop for a fix? I am not aware of any. This is a last resort solution when you need a gizmo widely available and you need it NOW.
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You are full of shit my friend. I started my career on typewriter which were nothing less than computer screens on paper. I experienced the ascii terminals, the graphics terminals, the modern displays on CRT all sizes and flat displays and I am having two physical displays right now and I would take a third and a fourth without any problem and eye strain. Back in the old days, we were writing simple piece of software with simple interactions and well defined input/output access. The world has changed for the better, the proof being people are ready to pay good money for interactive and smart pieces of hardware and good software. I am very sorry for you, but personally I do not regret anything of the past. I'm old and I enjoy the wonderful gadgets we can imagine, build and have today, including multiple screen displays to work efficiently with many document and testing environments at once.
Want a chocolate medal for the single monitor performance back in the good old days? Ever used punch cards as well? Or paper typewriter as a terminal?
BTW, I should say that the medical profession in my country and province, yep Quebec, Canada, is asking the government to legalize euthanasia for patients with dementia without any other legal authorization -since these patients cannot agree or not with their own life termination- in order to reduce healthcare costs and grab an hand on what these will leave behind depending if they have family or not. So, at the end, it will be totally pointless to make any efforts to live longer. They don't want you as soon as you are no longer productive and require some healthcare you have paid for you entire life.
Anyway, what's the point of living longer because you are skinny and 'healthy' but unaware of your last 20 years because you got dementia?
If you have fun driving your car, you are probably a contributor to make the roads dangerous today. There is much more people dying on roads these days than in any war or wars combined. So, thinking a self-driving car would be more dangerous than the bunch of kids having fun driving too fast, not paying attention to the road, etc is pretty much an uninformed statement from your part. And on the other hand, there is a lot of people who haven't any fun driving, they even often are subject to road rage, in particular in heavy traffic with a lot of people trying to get the best and making it actually worse.
For the price tag, I would say once you scale something the price tag tends to drop pretty fast.
Lastly, an autonomous and self-driving car doesn't decide when and where you go, you still decide. Obviously you haven't yet assimilate the concept.
I wonder how you got a modup point, it seems you have read the article at all. It is not about Tesla's batteries at all. It is about the idea, whatever batteries or anything else you are talking about to take you off the grid. Tesla's batteries are just accessory in the discussion and the author just don't give a fuck about whom is providing you favorite energy reservoir. The idea to go off the grid is just plain stupid, the self-sufficient idea as well. This thing doesn't scale well it is something for the happy few with deep pockets, the exact customers people like Musk are after. It doesn't do anything to help solving a global problem. In fact, just do the math and count the number of solar panels, small windmills needed and their efficiency compare to large scale windmills, large solar panel farms, etc. Going of the grid is basically a survivalist thing something for believers in the zombie apocalypse. That is what the article is about.
Yeah! Geeks are overrated. However, as a nerd I would say you simply have to target the database instead of trying to confuse the detector. Once you very private characteristics will have been stolen, you will be in deep trouble.
Most stupid comment ever. If you expect to effectively propoagate spyware, you don't pick a narrow and very specialized piece of software as a vector.
Exactly! The hiking/camping justification for the product is simply idiotic. And even if the weight ratio would be in favor of this product, what are we talking about here? Carrying in the woods massive amounts of alcohol? Unless you want to be totally drunk in the woods, I don't really see the point of this product supposed to target hikkers and campers.
Boring marketing BS.
Avionics software isn't open and it doesn't prevent it to be subject to regulations. It is part of the certification for an airplane. The same thing holds for cars.
I'm sorry, but auto manufacturers have a point. Not anyone is competent to reprogram embedded car software. Unfortunately, bugs can be deadly. How would you feel about, say, 10% of the cars on the road running custom software by the next door kid?
Cars are killing much more people than guns. In fact, I would go further than the auto manufacturers. Nobody should be allowed to drive a car. How many people on the roads shouldn't have even a driver's license at all? A lot. And you are ready to see those people hacking their own car software? No way!
On another hand, look at Cat Stevens, he can be Cat and Yusuf at the same time. So Quantum Music must be correct.
Hey, do not complain. We are on /. after all. This site has became mainstream and nerds are a minority now.
The mandatory Nikola Tesla's plug.
So, what about dogs now?
(The extremely low pass rate for free online courses provides some evidence for this.)
The extremely low pass rate doesn't mean a shit. This guy is an idiot. The motivation to pass a course that doesn't cost you anything and is most of the time not required and even recognized is not the same as passing a grade. Many people are just sneaking around at MOOC, and it is perfectly acceptable. They start some course just to see. There is not requirements, verification you are having the prerequisite before enrolling into a course. You just cannot compare MOOC and traditional education on this basis. That is plain stupid and full of bullshit to do so.
Many people are dropping a course in the middle because they have other obligations and there is no consequences to do so. Some others are overbooking courses and then drop those they are less interested in, etc. This behavior is responsible for the low pass rate. And the low pass rate doesn't mean anything in the context of MOOC. Beside that, some MOOC courses are just badly designed. Some teachers are just taking the material they have for the on-campus course and put that on the MOOC and expect miracles without further involvement. They forget the on-campus course give students access to other resources which are key to success. Since they do not provide the same kind of support for the MOOC, no wonder many people are dropping before the end or end up investing more time than they should to complete the course. Those who haven't planned for such level of investment are just dropping or failing the course.
I agree. Air drone delivery is the current shittiest idea. Not energy efficient, subject to meteorological conditions, etc. If autonomous vehicle for delivery are not safe for pedestrians, flying drones are worst. It would be a better idea to invest into a road autonomous delivery system. Anyone has every received the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy from 500ft altitude on the head?
Just in fact you never noticed, in 2001: a Space Odyssey, Clarke presumed dematerialization would exist. For what it means, it is very likely what he was actually telling us is exactly what I said. We will never get halfway to this. It is like he decided to imagine the non-existence. You shouldn't interpret this as if he just believe this would be possible. He just explained the conditions for interstellar travel requires to not be physical. From this point, agreeing on the fact we are no longer talking about a physical universe, we can imagine everything as he did.
Guys, don't lose your mind. So far, there is no evidence we can rule out the possibility a sharknado with freakin' laser on their heads have been around Germanwings' flight few minutes before the disaster. Alien anyone?
Of course, black tape is bad and duct tape is always saving the day. Everyone knows this. I question your nerdiness, aren't you infiltrating us?
Surely not Clarke, he perfectly knew we will never be halfway to anywhere. He was a real scientist.
Wimp! Haven't you ever implemented systemd and make it working fine?
Indeed, they can even sell you two if you want suspenders and a belt with your slacks.
Apparently yes, even the original poster seems very sad to see them disappear as the end of his summary let us think:
"Still, it's sad to see such an iconic brand killed off like this."
I suspect he is an employee of Past Shop. I really don't see what Past Shop has to do with news for nerds. Any nerd is going at Past Shop for a fix? I am not aware of any. This is a last resort solution when you need a gizmo widely available and you need it NOW.