They don't give a shit about our safety - that's why it has to be legislated and why they ALWAYS fight safety legislation. Always.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
There's exactly two ways that UPS delivers packages to my door:
1) They leave it on the front door step, like a thief in the night. 2) They leave it on my front door step and play Ding-Dong-Ditch, or whatever PC name we pretend it's called today.
The mechanism to receive firmware patches doesn't need to be particularly fast nor does it need to bidirectional.
It's obvious that there's no link between *whatever* receivers new cars have (and how many of them have XM?) and the mechanism to deliver updates, so it's largely moot, but the idea that nearly all new cars don't have a device that receives data is absurd.
I wonder how many pairs of sunglasses are sold each year - with their terrible form-factor and all.
I wear glasses by choice. I have contacts, wear them some days, but I find glasses suit me better. Google Glass will be available with prescription lenses both direct from Google and from a number of third parties.
Wearing Glass (or the devices that come after it) will have a lot to do with how they feel on my face.
Glasses feel foreign for a while, and then you sort of forget they're on your face. I'm curious if other Glass wearers who normally wore eyeglasses had similar experiences.
You probably consider Matt Lauer a "personality" at 25M.
Not listed on that report is Brian Williams who makes 10M/year now. Diane Sawyer makes 12M/year. Scott Pelley rounds out the nightly news anchors at a paltry 5M/year.
Leading up cable is Maddow at 7M/year.
CNN says the average anchor makes between "$40,000 and several million" depending on tenure and experience.
Since he doesn't have a use case for the device - or doesn't know that there might be a neat use case that he's not aware of (hence the ask/.) - it's a question of "Is $1500 too much for lunatik to spend on a toy."
Hundreds and hundreds of replies, and you're the only person who mentioned Ingress.
I enjoyed my mostly-solo climb from 1-8, but then I found I didn't like my local group of level 8 players. The people who got their first set the "atmosphere" for the rest of the people who made it to where coordinated group play was necessary. A shame.
The exoskeleton wasn't 3d printed. A liner for the exoskeleton was.
That's like getting 3d printed floor-mats in your car and saying "3d printed car!"
To obtain the perfect fit for Amanda, our designers used 3D scanning to digitize the contours of Amanda’s thighs, shins and spine and create a personalized three-dimensional base to inform the shape of the required assemblies. Sophisticated mechanical actuators and controls, manufactured and provided by Ekso Bionics, were then integrated with the more fluid components that were 3D printed from the customized scans to create the first ever bespoke suit.
When you call the follow-up to the Xbox the "Xbox 360" you get a few choices - you can come up with a new number - 720, 361, 2014 - or you can change the name to convey something else. Microsoft went with "One" to imply that it's the one device you need in your living room, the primary device connected to the TV, one you watch TV through and make your Skype calls from.
Sony has linear numbering and kept it.
Apple wants you to forget the numbering scheme and just think "iPad" apparently.
Slashdot Mirror
Systems that generate passwords like that - that you can't change - pretty much demand users write them down on a post-it note under their keyboard :(
The reset mechanisms exist regardless of how complex I make my passwords. They're generally not my systems.
Cogent sells transit for an average price of $1.31 per megabit, though large volume users like Netflix get discounts.
Wut?
I *seriously* need to start broadcasting Zombies Ahead! to people's stereos.
I wonder if PAD/PDS is even more common in new cars now with "HD" FM radios.
Car dealers plug in their update device, press update and wait for the green light to come on, the box to say "OK" or the horn to beep once.
Then, as long as they can drive the car out of the service bay, they assume everything turned out just fine.
What makes anyone think they do any due diligence beyond that?
You give the car companies way too much credit.
They don't give a shit about our safety - that's why it has to be legislated and why they ALWAYS fight safety legislation. Always.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
There's exactly two ways that UPS delivers packages to my door:
1) They leave it on the front door step, like a thief in the night.
2) They leave it on my front door step and play Ding-Dong-Ditch, or whatever PC name we pretend it's called today.
If the package is "Signature Required", they will not leave it at your doorstep.
Hahaha. Oh, wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder.
The mechanism to receive firmware patches doesn't need to be particularly fast nor does it need to bidirectional.
It's obvious that there's no link between *whatever* receivers new cars have (and how many of them have XM?) and the mechanism to deliver updates, so it's largely moot, but the idea that nearly all new cars don't have a device that receives data is absurd.
Either of them are difficult to use?
I wonder how many pairs of sunglasses are sold each year - with their terrible form-factor and all.
I wear glasses by choice. I have contacts, wear them some days, but I find glasses suit me better. Google Glass will be available with prescription lenses both direct from Google and from a number of third parties.
http://www.google.com/glass/he...
Wearing Glass (or the devices that come after it) will have a lot to do with how they feel on my face.
Glasses feel foreign for a while, and then you sort of forget they're on your face. I'm curious if other Glass wearers who normally wore eyeglasses had similar experiences.
The parent is +5 insightful and my post is trolling?
Most every car today comes with some form of remote data receive ability, from full on cellular data all the way down to lowly RDS.
Which modern car do you think doesn't?
I have way more than 1TB, you insensitive clod.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
You probably consider Matt Lauer a "personality" at 25M.
Not listed on that report is Brian Williams who makes 10M/year now.
Diane Sawyer makes 12M/year.
Scott Pelley rounds out the nightly news anchors at a paltry 5M/year.
Leading up cable is Maddow at 7M/year.
CNN says the average anchor makes between "$40,000 and several million" depending on tenure and experience.
Everyone else appears to live in a world where UPS just doesn't leave everything and anything blindly on their doorstep.
I come home to packages laying at my front door all the time.
We can't. It's the question lunatik has to ask himself.
Your or my $1500 might not be the same.
Since he doesn't have a use case for the device - or doesn't know that there might be a neat use case that he's not aware of (hence the ask /.) - it's a question of "Is $1500 too much for lunatik to spend on a toy."
If I understand correctly, there are at least three distinct sets of handwriting.
Individual may not be correct.
I certainly agree that a custom fitted "suit" onto which the robotics attach is important.
Presumably it would have been done before with such arcane voodoo as plaster casts and latex molds.
This is undoubtedly an advance - but nobody 3D printed a robotic exoskeleton.
Hundreds and hundreds of replies, and you're the only person who mentioned Ingress.
I enjoyed my mostly-solo climb from 1-8, but then I found I didn't like my local group of level 8 players. The people who got their first set the "atmosphere" for the rest of the people who made it to where coordinated group play was necessary. A shame.
The exoskeleton wasn't 3d printed. A liner for the exoskeleton was.
That's like getting 3d printed floor-mats in your car and saying "3d printed car!"
To obtain the perfect fit for Amanda, our designers used 3D scanning to digitize the contours of Amanda’s thighs, shins and spine and create a personalized three-dimensional base to inform the shape of the required assemblies. Sophisticated mechanical actuators and controls, manufactured and provided by Ekso Bionics, were then integrated with the more fluid components that were 3D printed from the customized scans to create the first ever bespoke suit.
Xbone One
Yeah, you seem fairly unbiased.
These are all simply marketing choices.
When you call the follow-up to the Xbox the "Xbox 360" you get a few choices - you can come up with a new number - 720, 361, 2014 - or you can change the name to convey something else. Microsoft went with "One" to imply that it's the one device you need in your living room, the primary device connected to the TV, one you watch TV through and make your Skype calls from.
Sony has linear numbering and kept it.
Apple wants you to forget the numbering scheme and just think "iPad" apparently.
Doom starred The Rock.
Were Doom 2-3 direct-to-video?
Any details on if Doom 4 will have a theatrical release?
303? The retirement communities on Lake Pleasant Parkway need fiber, for sure, but I'm not sure they need faster internet.