Or rather have the drones *in* the delivery truck (where they can recharge). One problem though - this does not work for apartment units (well, unless Amazon does balcony delivery;-)
If they *must* use drones, who not *wheeled* delivery drones that can identify a doorbell and 'knock' for permission, deliver and scurry back to the truck?
Air delivery is not sensible at all. Cue the celebrities getting unwanted, anonymous gifts by the thousands, all delivered by metallic whirlybirds.
Get yourself a healthy dose of skepticism young man!
You cannot believe everything you read on the internet. Here, read this, then google the text to confirm provenance. -- "Molins said in a press conference that Mostefai had an "S" file on him for years, which means investigators believe he had been "radicalized" in some way, though it was not clear whether he would act on his radicalization."
Do you actually live there, or are you a victim of confirmation bias?
"The 2007 CIA World Factbook lists the religion of France as: Roman Catholic 83–88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%–10%, unaffiliated 4%."
"The mood in Paris following the worst attack in peacetime history, is something of bewilderment, numbness but also huge outpouring of grief with locals openly weeping and making signs of the cross as they pass the many street fronts where their country men and women died."
More and more CEOs *are* the "souless corporate automaton running the business".
Those using technology to rachet-up online and television ads without considering societal costs found their comeuppance with technology (Adblock and Netflix respectively).
The same way, CEOs whose sole aim is to maximise personal and shareholder profit must reap what they sow... they will be automated and/or outsourced.
Or better, a human-driven truck will drive into a street, and 3 drones come out and make deliveries, while the driver makes other deliveries himself, or use drone-assist delivering a heavy or delicate item (say, a fridge).
You're on the right track, but the order would be call local security/medical personnel first, then call 911.
Its better that 911 get 5 calls for the same incident, than get a single call 8-9 minutes after security was called and had the chance to inspect the person (as happened here)
> While you're on the phone to 911, your first aiders are sitting around blissfully unaware that someone may be dying.
I agree that the local first-aider should be called *first* but that should not preclude someone calling 911 *right after* they call the local first aider.
In this case, the local first-aider delayed 9 minutes before calling 911. Better 911 show up for a broken finger, than show up 9 minutes later than they can for a heart attack!
Why abuse the poor AC? There are known issues with Amazon EMTs (see links in article). If your "large campus" is really a University, its less profit-driven than Amazon is.
Also, there was a 9-minute delay calling 911. If someone called 911 straight after calling the local EMTs, this man would have gotten to a hospital 9 minutes sooner!
Amazon's "Don't call 911!" corporate mandate prevented this from happening.
> There are plenty of cities with pretty low crime, quiet streets, and affordable rent.
And those are mostly farming towns, with few jobs.
But I'm not knocking what you're saying.
Under the right conditions (well-watered farmland, sustainable farming practises, no debt), farming is the ideal occupation -- one where high-technology (self-renewing, self-replicating edible machines) uses free resources (sun, water, wind, bees and soil) to create your product.
QR codes - many of them, printed out on large stickers stuck to the hallways doors, etc.
Your smartphone app would display a live camera feed. When held up to a specific QR code, it gets a position and orientation fix (using an internal database of codes in the app). The app then overlay arrows on the camera feed (possibly augmented with audio cues to the relative in your voice).
This is similar to how Amazon's Kiva robots scan QR codes that are placed on warehouse floors.
Imagine there's a fire, and police is turning traffic the 'wrong' way down a one-way street, but away from the path of the blaze. What must your driverless car do?
Now imagine its your unaccompanied 7-year old nephew or niece in the driverless car.
The simple driverless technology we currently have (simple in comparison to our capabilities) can only augment humans, not supplant humans.
"Second, you are pushing for a non-sustainable approach which ultimately destroys that thing you obviously want."
it cuts both ways.
As website owners got greedy and began to occupy more and more of their precious pages with flashing banners, add popups, add popunders, they began to destroy the very thing they sought, that which had sustained them: user attention.
Adblocks have been a long time coming. We got to this point slowly
> This will be an interesting challenge for the 21st century, what do we do with all the people who are no longer required to make stuff?
Those people will still need to eat, need a place to stay.The answer is farming - either collective, or individually - everyone has the option to own in a piece of land and grow food to feed his family
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Are you kidding? He's basically owned this thread. And done it politely too!
Imagine God runs a benovelent society with many chapters. Membership is free. Donations are gladly accepted.
'Tithing' is the local elected president getting on the road to becoming a mafioso.
I agree. Perhaps a browser addon for Thunderbird... :)
http://www.news.com.au/lifesty...
To avoid unknown 5-ton trucks in your driveway, you can fence and gate. Will drones obey this?
Or rather have the drones *in* the delivery truck (where they can recharge). One problem though - this does not work for apartment units (well, unless Amazon does balcony delivery ;-)
If they *must* use drones, who not *wheeled* delivery drones that can identify a doorbell and 'knock' for permission, deliver and scurry back to the truck?
Air delivery is not sensible at all. Cue the celebrities getting unwanted, anonymous gifts by the thousands, all delivered by metallic whirlybirds.
"X-files... i want to believe".
Get yourself a healthy dose of skepticism young man!
You cannot believe everything you read on the internet. Here, read this, then google the text to confirm provenance.
--
"Molins said in a press conference that Mostefai had an "S" file on him for years, which means investigators believe he had been "radicalized" in some way, though it was not clear whether he would act on his radicalization."
Do you actually live there, or are you a victim of confirmation bias?
"The 2007 CIA World Factbook lists the religion of France as: Roman Catholic 83–88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%–10%, unaffiliated 4%."
"The mood in Paris following the worst attack in peacetime history, is something of bewilderment, numbness but also huge outpouring of grief with locals openly weeping and making signs of the cross as they pass the many street fronts where their country men and women died."
More and more CEOs *are* the "souless corporate automaton running the business".
Those using technology to rachet-up online and television ads without considering societal costs found their comeuppance with technology (Adblock and Netflix respectively).
The same way, CEOs whose sole aim is to maximise personal and shareholder profit must reap what they sow... they will be automated and/or outsourced.
Or better, a human-driven truck will drive into a street, and 3 drones come out and make deliveries, while the driver makes other deliveries himself, or use drone-assist delivering a heavy or delicate item (say, a fridge).
Not really. Wait until apple medical services comes along.
The problem with the current crop of agents is they do not work for you. They work for whoever created them and 'hosts' their intelligence facilities
You're on the right track, but the order would be call local security/medical personnel first, then call 911.
Its better that 911 get 5 calls for the same incident, than get a single call 8-9 minutes after security was called and had the chance to inspect the person (as happened here)
Yes, an Amazon warehouse has the same medical care as a non-profit childrens hospital - right!
> While you're on the phone to 911, your first aiders are sitting around blissfully unaware that someone may be dying.
I agree that the local first-aider should be called *first* but that should not preclude someone calling 911 *right after* they call the local first aider.
In this case, the local first-aider delayed 9 minutes before calling 911. Better 911 show up for a broken finger, than show up 9 minutes later than they can for a heart attack!
Why abuse the poor AC? There are known issues with Amazon EMTs (see links in article). If your "large campus" is really a University, its less profit-driven than Amazon is.
Also, there was a 9-minute delay calling 911. If someone called 911 straight after calling the local EMTs, this man would have gotten to a hospital 9 minutes sooner!
Amazon's "Don't call 911!" corporate mandate prevented this from happening.
Would they? If someone had called 911 straight after calling the local EMTs, he would be in a hospital 9 minutes earlier!
> There are plenty of cities with pretty low crime, quiet streets, and affordable rent.
And those are mostly farming towns, with few jobs.
But I'm not knocking what you're saying.
Under the right conditions (well-watered farmland, sustainable farming practises, no debt), farming is the ideal occupation -- one where high-technology (self-renewing, self-replicating edible machines) uses free resources (sun, water, wind, bees and soil) to create your product.
QR codes - many of them, printed out on large stickers stuck to the hallways doors, etc.
Your smartphone app would display a live camera feed. When held up to a specific QR code, it gets a position and orientation fix (using an internal database of codes in the app). The app then overlay arrows on the camera feed (possibly augmented with audio cues to the relative in your voice).
This is similar to how Amazon's Kiva robots scan QR codes that are placed on warehouse floors.
Regarding dementia - try virgin, cold-pressed coconut oil. See: http://www.coconutketones.com/
Imagine there's a fire, and police is turning traffic the 'wrong' way down a one-way street, but away from the path of the blaze. What must your driverless car do?
Now imagine its your unaccompanied 7-year old nephew or niece in the driverless car.
The simple driverless technology we currently have (simple in comparison to our capabilities) can only augment humans, not supplant humans.
You could also install win 7 ...same effect :)
So 1 minute x a million systems. Efficient.
"Second, you are pushing for a non-sustainable approach which ultimately destroys that thing you obviously want."
it cuts both ways.
As website owners got greedy and began to occupy more and more of their precious pages with flashing banners, add popups, add popunders, they began to destroy the very thing they sought, that which had sustained them: user attention.
Adblocks have been a long time coming. We got to this point slowly
> This will be an interesting challenge for the 21st century, what do we do with all the people who are no longer required to make stuff?
Those people will still need to eat, need a place to stay.The answer is farming - either collective, or individually - everyone has the option to own in a piece of land and grow food to feed his family
Thanks - good advice.
> Printer ink isn't interchangeable between all printers.
Oh OK... didn't know that. Mine is a Lexmark S415
Ideally, I'd refill generic ink but...
I am not sure about
(a) the ink vapors being carcinogenic
(b) ink damaging the print head.
Anyone got a source for 'safe' black & color inks?
Three short blasts of the horn when its doing this...
Gets everyone around you alerted to the fact your car thinks an accident is likely.