"While the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands).[18] Scandinavia can thus be considered a subset of the Nordic countries. Furthermore, the term Fennoscandia refers to Scandinavia, Finland and Karelia, excluding Denmark and overseas territories; however, the usage of this term is restricted to geology, when speaking of the Fennoscandian Shield (Baltic Shield)."
Assuming those cars have a blackboxed drive log, it should be easier to determine what specifically is at fault and where.
Just like now, you'll still have to carry insurance, just in case your car is the one that screws up or you want coverage for others' faults. You'll still want to read that contract to verify that it covers what you want so that you aren't waiting for a lawsuit to resolve.
If I'm in an accident, my insurance company writes me check if I'm covered. If it's my fault (within certain limits) I still get medical and mechanical paid, because I pay them for that coverage. I have Un/under-insured coverage, because the minimum isn't really adequate. I have road hazard insurance. Etc... Someday I'll probably have Automated Driving System Failure coverage.
But wrecks should be MUCH less common. Comprehensive insurance policies will get cheaper (right, I'm an optimist) to encourage more expensive coverages that guard against stuff that doesn't happen that often.
On the flip side, I prefer to watch foreign films subtitled. I feel that I connect with the story more when I hear their words and vocal inflections, connect that with their visual language and read a translation.
I perfectly OK with Hollywood just making Chinese movies. Pacific Rim would've been a passable film if they'd done in in Japanese and subtitled it in English.
No one is going to twist your arm and make you have a smartphone that can double as a PC. It's just something else that quadcore computer with a gig or two memory in you pocket could already be doing. In a couple of years these could be the $100 prepaid phone that you can buy at the supermarket.
I don't any downside to being "allowed" to use my pocket computer to its "god intended" potential.
I hadn't really thought about that. There's nothing that distinguishes a smartphone from a PC with a 4G Card. Still, I bet there's a patent submarining around somewhere waiting for us to dare try using a very small computer as something more than a consumption device.
The main proposed feature of Ubuntu Phone (the name of the OS under development) is to turn a fast quadcore phone with HDMI out and Bt into a Desktop PC when you plug it into a monitor/TV/projector. So you might get your wish, but it'll be for a PC that you can carry in your pocket and use as a standard Android phone the rest of the time
While I was not interested in the piece of bling that the Edge represented, I would pay for the finished OS for my next phone in maybe 6mos to a year.
Is this an example of the latest we used meteoritic iron before learning to smelt it, the earliest example of melting a rock down for something better than copper, or just something in between?
I made a kinda sarcastic remark about this earlier, but what I see is the MozPhone is based on a modern browser that can run programs. So no need for Flash or Java or any of that BS and we can go to webapps that don't care if they're running on a specific phone os/hardware or intel or whatever.
But of course that doesn't mean shit for the life of this phone, 'cause there's no rush to rewrite everything for HTML5. That would kill the App Market which, so far, has been much more profitable than begging on the internet for subscribers.
The idea is that HTML5 doesn't need all the add on crap to make programs work in a browser. It obsoletes third party stuff like java and flash. So you just write for the spec instead of the plugins. This replaces third party support for you browser and/or OS for dedicated support for your device through Mozilla.
WebOS was pretty elegant adaptation of Linux for mobile devices. It was very good mobile OS. But there wasn't anything about it that distinguished it from the highest end Android or iOS devices it was competing against, except a lack of apps.
This is the same problem Microsoft has ran into with Surface RT,
Even Ubuntu, who are marketing a super sexy limited edition phone (that runs a full desktop OS as well as Android) can't scrounge up 50000 semi affluent geeks.
I hope so. I am a pessimist about how quickly it will happen, however. I could see Google saying "Hey our car works. License our patents." and then all the car manufacturers dragging their heels about implementing the tech for 20 years.
Added thought: What makes anyone think the future would want them?
That's the rub. If you did something still relevant (somebody like Hawking) and I could revive you, fix you up, I'd say "You've got a pass, go play or work or do whatever."
But maybe in the magic happy utopian future they'd just see a couple of hundred people that wanted to be there and grant their wish.
Don't be a fucktard. There are about 10 million individual "millionaires" in the USA. Their kids and grandchildren will inherit that money some day. So say you got 90 million people with a vested interest in no estate tax at any level. That isn't even counting working professionals with poor parents that are investing and saving for their offspring. Every fucking one of them is going to vote for that shit.
And that's because freezing kills you anyways, which would be murder or suicide.
Freezing people is not "suspended animation". Even if the future want's to thaw you out and inject you with magic juice that makes you all better for some reason, your brain cells are probably going to be so fucked up, that you won't even know who you were once they are repaired.
On the other hand, 28grand to be entombed in LN (with some faint hope of waking up again someday) sounds less silly than a fancy satin lined box in the dirt.
I'm more of a burn my body and spend the remainder on a wake sorta guy, tho'
I haven't seen too many 50MPH Speed limit signs. 25 is common in schoolzones. 45 is common on multilane roads inside city limits. 55 is typical for high traffic expessways inside citylimits or on highways near populated areas. Federal Interstate asphalt is usually 65 or 75mph.
Nit picking aside. Citizens of the USA do not have the right to drive, at any speed, on public roads. We also do not have the right to keep and bear arms any more, not even a pointy stick. Some semi-automatic weapons are still allowed if you are a citizen in good standing, but even standard, infantry issued, automatic small arms require per weapon federal approval.
True, there aren't a lot of reasons for your phone's wifi to be spamming its MAC all the time, unless it is also configured to connect to any open AP in range. That itself is a BadIdeaTM without an autostarting VPN client.
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"While the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands).[18] Scandinavia can thus be considered a subset of the Nordic countries. Furthermore, the term Fennoscandia refers to Scandinavia, Finland and Karelia, excluding Denmark and overseas territories; however, the usage of this term is restricted to geology, when speaking of the Fennoscandian Shield (Baltic Shield)."
Assuming those cars have a blackboxed drive log, it should be easier to determine what specifically is at fault and where.
Just like now, you'll still have to carry insurance, just in case your car is the one that screws up or you want coverage for others' faults. You'll still want to read that contract to verify that it covers what you want so that you aren't waiting for a lawsuit to resolve.
If I'm in an accident, my insurance company writes me check if I'm covered. If it's my fault (within certain limits) I still get medical and mechanical paid, because I pay them for that coverage. I have Un/under-insured coverage, because the minimum isn't really adequate. I have road hazard insurance. Etc... Someday I'll probably have Automated Driving System Failure coverage.
But wrecks should be MUCH less common. Comprehensive insurance policies will get cheaper (right, I'm an optimist) to encourage more expensive coverages that guard against stuff that doesn't happen that often.
Or the baggage handler or TSA person opened the lock to see if the hardcase held a model to add to his collection.
On the flip side, I prefer to watch foreign films subtitled. I feel that I connect with the story more when I hear their words and vocal inflections, connect that with their visual language and read a translation.
I perfectly OK with Hollywood just making Chinese movies. Pacific Rim would've been a passable film if they'd done in in Japanese and subtitled it in English.
Note to self: open a bar in Destin Fla named The Destin Nation.
No one is going to twist your arm and make you have a smartphone that can double as a PC. It's just something else that quadcore computer with a gig or two memory in you pocket could already be doing. In a couple of years these could be the $100 prepaid phone that you can buy at the supermarket.
I don't any downside to being "allowed" to use my pocket computer to its "god intended" potential.
I hadn't really thought about that. There's nothing that distinguishes a smartphone from a PC with a 4G Card. Still, I bet there's a patent submarining around somewhere waiting for us to dare try using a very small computer as something more than a consumption device.
The main proposed feature of Ubuntu Phone (the name of the OS under development) is to turn a fast quadcore phone with HDMI out and Bt into a Desktop PC when you plug it into a monitor/TV/projector. So you might get your wish, but it'll be for a PC that you can carry in your pocket and use as a standard Android phone the rest of the time
While I was not interested in the piece of bling that the Edge represented, I would pay for the finished OS for my next phone in maybe 6mos to a year.
Is this an example of the latest we used meteoritic iron before learning to smelt it, the earliest example of melting a rock down for something better than copper, or just something in between?
I made a kinda sarcastic remark about this earlier, but what I see is the MozPhone is based on a modern browser that can run programs. So no need for Flash or Java or any of that BS and we can go to webapps that don't care if they're running on a specific phone os/hardware or intel or whatever.
But of course that doesn't mean shit for the life of this phone, 'cause there's no rush to rewrite everything for HTML5. That would kill the App Market which, so far, has been much more profitable than begging on the internet for subscribers.
The idea is that HTML5 doesn't need all the add on crap to make programs work in a browser. It obsoletes third party stuff like java and flash. So you just write for the spec instead of the plugins. This replaces third party support for you browser and/or OS for dedicated support for your device through Mozilla.
WebOS was pretty elegant adaptation of Linux for mobile devices. It was very good mobile OS. But there wasn't anything about it that distinguished it from the highest end Android or iOS devices it was competing against, except a lack of apps.
This is the same problem Microsoft has ran into with Surface RT,
Even Ubuntu, who are marketing a super sexy limited edition phone (that runs a full desktop OS as well as Android) can't scrounge up 50000 semi affluent geeks.
Ah! The original Smartphone. They should call it the Samsung Max 86.
LG? They're making a phone for Mozilla. Rebranding their assembly of chips and plastic makes them money.
I hope so. I am a pessimist about how quickly it will happen, however. I could see Google saying "Hey our car works. License our patents." and then all the car manufacturers dragging their heels about implementing the tech for 20 years.
Added thought: What makes anyone think the future would want them?
That's the rub. If you did something still relevant (somebody like Hawking) and I could revive you, fix you up, I'd say "You've got a pass, go play or work or do whatever."
But maybe in the magic happy utopian future they'd just see a couple of hundred people that wanted to be there and grant their wish.
Don't be a fucktard. There are about 10 million individual "millionaires" in the USA. Their kids and grandchildren will inherit that money some day. So say you got 90 million people with a vested interest in no estate tax at any level. That isn't even counting working professionals with poor parents that are investing and saving for their offspring. Every fucking one of them is going to vote for that shit.
And that's because freezing kills you anyways, which would be murder or suicide.
Freezing people is not "suspended animation". Even if the future want's to thaw you out and inject you with magic juice that makes you all better for some reason, your brain cells are probably going to be so fucked up, that you won't even know who you were once they are repaired.
On the other hand, 28grand to be entombed in LN (with some faint hope of waking up again someday) sounds less silly than a fancy satin lined box in the dirt.
I'm more of a burn my body and spend the remainder on a wake sorta guy, tho'
We do need to make sure it's not "either/or"
I want a self driving car to get me to work in rush hour traffic and home on a late Friday night.
I want to keep driving the AWD C300 SRT up and down Big Cottonwood Canyon Rd, It's a really fun Tank.
I will own a self driving car. ASAP. I want it now.
Having everyone as a healthy adult in their prime will change a lot of things. It won't be better or worse, just different.
That sounds way too civilized for any American employer to abide by.
I haven't seen too many 50MPH Speed limit signs. 25 is common in schoolzones. 45 is common on multilane roads inside city limits. 55 is typical for high traffic expessways inside citylimits or on highways near populated areas. Federal Interstate asphalt is usually 65 or 75mph.
Nit picking aside. Citizens of the USA do not have the right to drive, at any speed, on public roads. We also do not have the right to keep and bear arms any more, not even a pointy stick. Some semi-automatic weapons are still allowed if you are a citizen in good standing, but even standard, infantry issued, automatic small arms require per weapon federal approval.
"Not having the skills" just means they lack a breadth of training.
True, there aren't a lot of reasons for your phone's wifi to be spamming its MAC all the time, unless it is also configured to connect to any open AP in range. That itself is a BadIdeaTM without an autostarting VPN client.