Any advancement that gives us the ability to use airways as the primary channel of day to day travel would probably signify sufficient advancement to automate ground travel, making traffic shaping more effective and congestion a non-issue.
I don't think so. There's an inherent difference between 2d (having to wait for each other at intersections) and 3d (going under/over each other without slowing down). That's why we have on/offramps, but they take too much space to be used at every intersection. Also, driving on the ground is constricted to roads, so you can only use a tiny portion of even the planar surface. The air doesn't have that problem.
Besides, a large portion of people drive the same routes each day, so they aren't dumb about it. So I'd be surprised if traffic shaping is worth more than a few percentage increase in road capacity - though I'm certainly interested in evidence to the contrary.
I do think automated driving should be able to pack cars much closer on the roads, making them more like trains which re-link dynamically at intersections.
Anyways, flying cars are a stupid idea. Three dimensional traffic would be a major headache, just ask a flight controller how they would feel about adding several billion more vehicles to the sky in order to make flying cars ubiquitous.
If only we could invent some sort of thinking machine to rapidly process more information than the human mind could ever handle!?
Transportation really needs to move into 3 dimensions, it's the only way to resolve congestion. Being stuck in 2 dimensions is just causing a lot of congestion and is too dangerous.
That said, my fanciful wish is for digging tunnels all over the place so we don't have to look up at a sky clogged with millions of aircraft. Having a mechanical failure in a tunnel is safer than in the sky, too.
Free vs. commercial software is a misdirection in this discussion anyways. The law forcing people to pay you for use of your software is copyright, not patents. The case for patents on software is harder to make, which is (no doubt) why Microsoft is confusing the issue by dragging free software into it when it doesn't belong.
I say this with out detracting from the success of the program, but hasn't it already run its course (and then some?) What are they doing with the rovers lately anyways?
That is why I don't understand all this talk of either or.Why not both? Why not a cheap 8-20Gb SSD for the OS in my desktop/laptop,and a good old fashioned fat hard drive for when I need the space?
Hard drive capacity hasn't been growing nearly as fast as solid state capacity for the last several years. HDDs may lose even their capacity advantage towards the end of that 5-year window.
Forget the temperature for a minute. These use about 0.1 the energy to produce the same amount of light, so the amount of (fire-starting) energy is vastly less than the lightbulbs you're using right now. If something is super-hot but also super-tiny, it can't do much damage. The sparks from static cling are super-hot, too.
That's why I agree with the blurb that this breaks the "trust agreement" with users. The more a security utility risks unintended system modifications, the less useful it is.
Microsoft can choose to support whichever companies that they want.
And we can choose to point out how limited their products are as a result. So?
only Novell has signed the Munich Agreement with Microsoft, so it makes sense for Microsoft to exclude the others.
And most people don't use Suse, so it makes sense for them to exclude Microsoft's Hyper-V in favor of, say, VMWare. Glad to see we're all on the same page here.
To me it would seem to inspire false confidence on the part of the driver, where they might think that they could stay up and not have to worry about falling asleep driving since they had their blue lights blinking or whatever.
Sounds like we'd better remove airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones, and antilock brakes too. Wouldn't want to inspire false confidence.
Does it even matter what some poll says? The fact is, domestic spying has increased, people know about it, and they (we) have done nothing. So no, the evidence is that we don't care - that is, not enough of us care enough to make any difference.
The "bat" is going to be working against the wind, generating vibrations, and (presumably) flying at night. Which makes all those charge methods about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
You are assuming the battery would only charge while the bat is flying. I can't imagine why they would do that.
What's the big deal with this "can't be reproduced by a normal RGB cluster"? All the colors in the screenshots look pretty normal to me, nothing out of the regular gamut. Just like all these suckers and their (so-called) "high-def" TVs, which I've seen in many commercials yet none showing a better picture than the fine Trinitron I already have. Nothing to see here...
They certainly should do that, it seems obvious. But unfortunately I have yet to see the solid state drive with kick-butt sustained read/write speed. I noticed Intel's announcement of their entry to the market promised drives with several times the sustained read/write of hard drives, so maybe they'll be the ones to finally do it right.
I hope none of these so-called robots are simply radio-controlled devices.
Autonomous-vs-not-autonomous is a nonsense argument since neither extreme is practical. There will always be a level of human control (at minimum, to specify the commander's intent) and a level of autonomous control (at minimum, coordinated moving of wheels or legs to move as directed). In between is where all practical applications lie.
And haven't retired generals criticized the DoD in the last couple of decades for developing the tank technology we wished that we had in World War II instead of concentrating on anti-guerilla strategy?
And in the next conflict, they could just as easily be criticized for assuming all future conflicts would be insurgencies.
I disagree. The telecoms' defense amounts to "the president made me do it." If that's a valid defense, then essentially there is no rule of law, just the whim of the king. So which is higher, the president or the law? That's the real question at issue here.
Just a few years ago I thought broadcast TV and "rabbit ears" were pretty much gone forever. Now, broadcast TV is often the best quality high-def signal available. What makes broadcast relevant again is having the Internet to compliment it. With cable TV you get something like 120 channels, which is both too many to flip through, yet not enough to get whatever you want whenever you want it. I think a great combination in the future will be Broadcast TV for shows with huge audiences (like football and network news) plus Internet for pre-recorded stuff people want on demand.
Some people have a mindset that the software should be as reliable as the electrical or mechanical systems. Is that based on anything but wishful thinking? Getting the software right is the hardest part, just look at the history of failed space missions in the last couple decades.
This is why i felt the telcos deserve some immunity - they were illegally requested to do things in a way that may have appeared valid to their legal counsel.
If so, they didn't break the law and their prosecution at trial will fail. So why do they need blanket immunity?
3x the sustained read/write at 3x the price of a winchester drive is too good to be true. Keep in mind the access time for SSD destroys a hard drive. When you consider the value of data on a drive, and what it costs to have a tech replace one, I'd think winchester drives will quickly be obsolete in PCs for business users.
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Besides, a large portion of people drive the same routes each day, so they aren't dumb about it. So I'd be surprised if traffic shaping is worth more than a few percentage increase in road capacity - though I'm certainly interested in evidence to the contrary.
I do think automated driving should be able to pack cars much closer on the roads, making them more like trains which re-link dynamically at intersections.
Transportation really needs to move into 3 dimensions, it's the only way to resolve congestion. Being stuck in 2 dimensions is just causing a lot of congestion and is too dangerous.
That said, my fanciful wish is for digging tunnels all over the place so we don't have to look up at a sky clogged with millions of aircraft. Having a mechanical failure in a tunnel is safer than in the sky, too.
Free vs. commercial software is a misdirection in this discussion anyways. The law forcing people to pay you for use of your software is copyright, not patents. The case for patents on software is harder to make, which is (no doubt) why Microsoft is confusing the issue by dragging free software into it when it doesn't belong.
I say this with out detracting from the success of the program, but hasn't it already run its course (and then some?) What are they doing with the rovers lately anyways?
Forget the temperature for a minute. These use about 0.1 the energy to produce the same amount of light, so the amount of (fire-starting) energy is vastly less than the lightbulbs you're using right now. If something is super-hot but also super-tiny, it can't do much damage. The sparks from static cling are super-hot, too.
That's why I agree with the blurb that this breaks the "trust agreement" with users. The more a security utility risks unintended system modifications, the less useful it is.
Does it even matter what some poll says? The fact is, domestic spying has increased, people know about it, and they (we) have done nothing. So no, the evidence is that we don't care - that is, not enough of us care enough to make any difference.
What's the big deal with this "can't be reproduced by a normal RGB cluster"? All the colors in the screenshots look pretty normal to me, nothing out of the regular gamut. Just like all these suckers and their (so-called) "high-def" TVs, which I've seen in many commercials yet none showing a better picture than the fine Trinitron I already have. Nothing to see here...
Slashdot is not a primary news source. ALL the stories reference another source. The value is in putting the more interesting things in one place.
They certainly should do that, it seems obvious. But unfortunately I have yet to see the solid state drive with kick-butt sustained read/write speed. I noticed Intel's announcement of their entry to the market promised drives with several times the sustained read/write of hard drives, so maybe they'll be the ones to finally do it right.
The only possible explanation is the idea that breaking the law is OK if the President says so, which would mean the President is above the law.
Now if you're suggesting to go after the President in addition, well, fine with me.
I disagree. The telecoms' defense amounts to "the president made me do it." If that's a valid defense, then essentially there is no rule of law, just the whim of the king. So which is higher, the president or the law? That's the real question at issue here.
Just a few years ago I thought broadcast TV and "rabbit ears" were pretty much gone forever. Now, broadcast TV is often the best quality high-def signal available. What makes broadcast relevant again is having the Internet to compliment it. With cable TV you get something like 120 channels, which is both too many to flip through, yet not enough to get whatever you want whenever you want it. I think a great combination in the future will be Broadcast TV for shows with huge audiences (like football and network news) plus Internet for pre-recorded stuff people want on demand.
Some people have a mindset that the software should be as reliable as the electrical or mechanical systems. Is that based on anything but wishful thinking? Getting the software right is the hardest part, just look at the history of failed space missions in the last couple decades.
Bush would just use it as an excuse to never tell Congress anything again.
3x the sustained read/write at 3x the price of a winchester drive is too good to be true. Keep in mind the access time for SSD destroys a hard drive. When you consider the value of data on a drive, and what it costs to have a tech replace one, I'd think winchester drives will quickly be obsolete in PCs for business users.
I'd like to know what happened in the cockpit of United 93 on 911, the audio recordings didn't make it clear.