In a time where we are trying to get away from fossil fuels, aren't allowed to build nuclear power plants, have yet to solve storage for renewables and electric plug-in cars are a thing, do you really think we should make charging our devices less efficient?
So... would installing a wireless, GMS or even just bluetooth interface on all cars have cost more or less than recalling over 600k vehicles?
OTOH, unless you do it like Tesla, where internet access is part of the sale price, we'd have the same syndrome as with gaming consoles where software is released in a buggy state since it can be patched easily later on. With cars, that would not be a good thing.
Considering how much the US invested in a fighter plane that's barely usable, how much they invested in fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq... I don't know, seems 6 billion is a sum Obama regularly finds stuck between his couch cushions.
Also, my bicycle is less expensive than a Mercedes... but how the hell do I travel from one coast to the other without dying on the ruddy thing (be it of exhaustion or old age, I'll leave that for you to decide)? Seems to me there is a lot more to feasibility calculations beside initial cost.
Oh, wait... You actually study for those? Most people don't. There's braindumps for that.
Any company who tries to judge my skill by my certs will turn me off the very instant I notice the behavior. Certs are there to get your company partner status. Nothing more.
It may be different in the states, but in my country, there aren't even many companies large enough to warrant even using the technology some of these cert tests are asking about. So that leaves you learning from the books... which are huge. On top of that, in the course they will always tell you about certain functions and that on the test you should answer wrongly, because that's what the manufacturer wants to hear.
Also, in my case I am the storage and virtualization guy. That means I oversee installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of four different SAN environments of two different vendors, at times three different hypervisors with multiple clusters and all the surrounding systems AND thus far two different backup solutions.
Do you think I have the time to study for a silly cert exam? Perhaps my attitude sucks, quite possibly, but I have yet to find an employer loyal enough to me to warrant doing these things in my free time. I am an above average employee as it is.
Also, when you get offered free Q&A sheets along your exam so you'll definitely pass, you know the system's rigged.
But that still implies that for highly precise operations, you'd need to build either a stepper motor with a lot of steps per revolution or you have to make absolutely sure that the frequenzy you apply is precise.
To my thinking, with such a gear ratio you'd need only a 11 millionth of the precision on the motor side to reach the same outcome or, converesely, you achieve 11 million times the precision of the motor you use. Of course, it would be really, really slow, but for tiny applications? You could attach a V8 and count the days to let it run in order to engrave your initials on a grain of rice, basically. That example, of course, is pretty useless, but I think applications could be found for this.
Unless I have an error in my understanding of physics, I don't see the main application in moving big weights or anything of the sort. I'm thinking of another thing: Precision.
I'm not really all that well versed in electric motors but isn't the precision of an electric motor dependent on how precise the bursts of current are applied to it? I am assuming that any electric motor has a set minimal step it must take... well, now you can up the precision by a factor of 11 million. Or you can use a much, much less sophisticated or less precise motor and still position your extruder to within a thousandth of a millimeter.
Again, I'm no engineer so I may be completely wrong here.
Even with the sarcasm, why does this get modded interesting?
Also: Considering their neighbours, I can understand their desire for nuclear capabilities. And believe you me, the rest of the world can really understand the desire for the US to take their fat fingers out of one's own affairs. Considering the history between Iran and the US I'm willing to consider nuclear armament an apropriate measure of self-defense.
Color aside, haven't we already arrived at the point where each manufacturers product lineup resembles the one of every other competitor in certain vehicle classes?
Small cars all look like bulbous potatos in my opinion. There are no more minivans in Europe... Either you get an SUV, of which all look similar, or a shoebox (as in repurposed bus) on four wheels... of which all look very similar.
The only individuality lies in concept cars... which never go into production until they have been transformed into the above.
The first party is you, the second the credit card company... So how exactly would you ever use a credit card if you don't trust any third party with it?
Am I the only one who thought to himself "Do I actually have anything to hide that would justify this much effort?"
If somebody hacks my ebanking account, chances are the bank would be liable unless they could prove I have been negligent. And besides, this whole security thing becomes rather funny when you think that my bank is the only site which limits my password length to seven digits.
This is like a company that puts up draconian password restrictions, does not trust just hypervisors but also switches, cables and the air when it comes to DMZ but at the same time has the SAME admin credentials for every customer and their own environment that they NEVER change. So basically, every fired employee could walk into a customer's office and connect to just about anywhere.
This discussion is like trying to fix a nail hole in your barn when somebody's blown through the barn door with a tractor.
I'm really sorry to have to be so direct but that is the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
Driving is not a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of reaction. Sure, intelligence and experience help you anticipate when other drivers are being idiots, but there is very little involved in driving that can not be compensated by reaction time and adhering to proper distances.
The biggest hurdle to take is to correctly measure the surroundings. If you did that via image recognition, then yes, AI would be important. But there is laser, radar, GPS and so many other sensors involved that do nothing more than note distances to targets, location on road etc.
Autonomous driving certainly isn't trivial, but the other thing you have to keep in mind is that your oh so intelligent human drivers are actually driving like morons a lot of the time.
Please stop putting the bar for autonomous driving so high the systems have to practically be perfect the be viable. The moment they are twice as good as a human should be the moment we start switching. And we're not far from that.
Remember how badly the average driver actually drives. And then remember that half of them drive worse than that.
Add on top of that networked driving, where cars coordinate over several hundred meters and you'll see so much potential gain even from non-perfect systems it's staggering.
Looking at our own educational systems, both in the US and Europe, I'm not too sure that we're the right one's to show the Africans how to do it properly.
We're so geared towards diplomas that our higher education facilities have turned into diploma printing machines. Whether people learn actual skills or are able to actually use the knowledge that is ground into their heads seems less and less important.
So I'm not really too sure whether we shouldn't just eat a slice of humble pie in that regard. OTOH, perhaps this startup truly will be effective. In that case, I'm all for applying what they'll learn to our own schools.
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Don't worry about that, we've been working on that problem for a few decades. We've had quite a bit of success with the ozone layer already.
You need to be upvoted all the way to mars. Seriously, common sense is a rare thing on the net.
They would never do that. These are Jews we're talking about! They can do no wrong after what's been done to them generations ago.
I don't think your comparison is fair to prostitutes.
Last time I checked, there already is a fan on about every CPU. What are you running, a 486 DX?
And soon, so will be the English language because that blow you just dealt it sure looks fatal...
In a time where we are trying to get away from fossil fuels, aren't allowed to build nuclear power plants, have yet to solve storage for renewables and electric plug-in cars are a thing, do you really think we should make charging our devices less efficient?
Data cap? Is that really still a thing?
I don't need the fancy audio but I like the front facing speakers and the modest hardware. Now if ony screen and battery size were larger...
So... would installing a wireless, GMS or even just bluetooth interface on all cars have cost more or less than recalling over 600k vehicles?
OTOH, unless you do it like Tesla, where internet access is part of the sale price, we'd have the same syndrome as with gaming consoles where software is released in a buggy state since it can be patched easily later on. With cars, that would not be a good thing.
Considering how much the US invested in a fighter plane that's barely usable, how much they invested in fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq... I don't know, seems 6 billion is a sum Obama regularly finds stuck between his couch cushions.
Also, my bicycle is less expensive than a Mercedes... but how the hell do I travel from one coast to the other without dying on the ruddy thing (be it of exhaustion or old age, I'll leave that for you to decide)? Seems to me there is a lot more to feasibility calculations beside initial cost.
Get certs... they're not time consuming.
Oh, wait... You actually study for those? Most people don't. There's braindumps for that.
Any company who tries to judge my skill by my certs will turn me off the very instant I notice the behavior. Certs are there to get your company partner status. Nothing more.
It may be different in the states, but in my country, there aren't even many companies large enough to warrant even using the technology some of these cert tests are asking about. So that leaves you learning from the books... which are huge. On top of that, in the course they will always tell you about certain functions and that on the test you should answer wrongly, because that's what the manufacturer wants to hear.
Also, in my case I am the storage and virtualization guy. That means I oversee installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of four different SAN environments of two different vendors, at times three different hypervisors with multiple clusters and all the surrounding systems AND thus far two different backup solutions.
Do you think I have the time to study for a silly cert exam? Perhaps my attitude sucks, quite possibly, but I have yet to find an employer loyal enough to me to warrant doing these things in my free time. I am an above average employee as it is.
Also, when you get offered free Q&A sheets along your exam so you'll definitely pass, you know the system's rigged.
But that still implies that for highly precise operations, you'd need to build either a stepper motor with a lot of steps per revolution or you have to make absolutely sure that the frequenzy you apply is precise.
To my thinking, with such a gear ratio you'd need only a 11 millionth of the precision on the motor side to reach the same outcome or, converesely, you achieve 11 million times the precision of the motor you use. Of course, it would be really, really slow, but for tiny applications? You could attach a V8 and count the days to let it run in order to engrave your initials on a grain of rice, basically. That example, of course, is pretty useless, but I think applications could be found for this.
Unless I have an error in my understanding of physics, I don't see the main application in moving big weights or anything of the sort. I'm thinking of another thing: Precision.
I'm not really all that well versed in electric motors but isn't the precision of an electric motor dependent on how precise the bursts of current are applied to it? I am assuming that any electric motor has a set minimal step it must take... well, now you can up the precision by a factor of 11 million. Or you can use a much, much less sophisticated or less precise motor and still position your extruder to within a thousandth of a millimeter.
Again, I'm no engineer so I may be completely wrong here.
Even with the sarcasm, why does this get modded interesting?
Also: Considering their neighbours, I can understand their desire for nuclear capabilities. And believe you me, the rest of the world can really understand the desire for the US to take their fat fingers out of one's own affairs. Considering the history between Iran and the US I'm willing to consider nuclear armament an apropriate measure of self-defense.
All the more reason to push back against this creeping corruption all the more vehemently, is it not?
So what? The following generations might just as well embrace scientific methods and knowledge exactly because their leaders talk rubbish.
The counter trend will follow.
None of them will be alive by then, most probably.
Color aside, haven't we already arrived at the point where each manufacturers product lineup resembles the one of every other competitor in certain vehicle classes?
Small cars all look like bulbous potatos in my opinion. There are no more minivans in Europe... Either you get an SUV, of which all look similar, or a shoebox (as in repurposed bus) on four wheels... of which all look very similar.
The only individuality lies in concept cars... which never go into production until they have been transformed into the above.
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted.
The first party is you, the second the credit card company... So how exactly would you ever use a credit card if you don't trust any third party with it?
As opposed to a non-nuclear nuke?
Am I the only one who thought to himself "Do I actually have anything to hide that would justify this much effort?"
If somebody hacks my ebanking account, chances are the bank would be liable unless they could prove I have been negligent. And besides, this whole security thing becomes rather funny when you think that my bank is the only site which limits my password length to seven digits.
This is like a company that puts up draconian password restrictions, does not trust just hypervisors but also switches, cables and the air when it comes to DMZ but at the same time has the SAME admin credentials for every customer and their own environment that they NEVER change. So basically, every fired employee could walk into a customer's office and connect to just about anywhere.
This discussion is like trying to fix a nail hole in your barn when somebody's blown through the barn door with a tractor.
I'm really sorry to have to be so direct but that is the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
Driving is not a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of reaction. Sure, intelligence and experience help you anticipate when other drivers are being idiots, but there is very little involved in driving that can not be compensated by reaction time and adhering to proper distances.
The biggest hurdle to take is to correctly measure the surroundings. If you did that via image recognition, then yes, AI would be important. But there is laser, radar, GPS and so many other sensors involved that do nothing more than note distances to targets, location on road etc.
Autonomous driving certainly isn't trivial, but the other thing you have to keep in mind is that your oh so intelligent human drivers are actually driving like morons a lot of the time.
Please stop putting the bar for autonomous driving so high the systems have to practically be perfect the be viable. The moment they are twice as good as a human should be the moment we start switching. And we're not far from that.
Remember how badly the average driver actually drives. And then remember that half of them drive worse than that.
Add on top of that networked driving, where cars coordinate over several hundred meters and you'll see so much potential gain even from non-perfect systems it's staggering.
Looking at our own educational systems, both in the US and Europe, I'm not too sure that we're the right one's to show the Africans how to do it properly.
We're so geared towards diplomas that our higher education facilities have turned into diploma printing machines. Whether people learn actual skills or are able to actually use the knowledge that is ground into their heads seems less and less important.
So I'm not really too sure whether we shouldn't just eat a slice of humble pie in that regard. OTOH, perhaps this startup truly will be effective. In that case, I'm all for applying what they'll learn to our own schools.