I don't want a Windows based one I don't want an OS/X based one I don't want a BSD based one
What I want is a system specifically designed to run a CAR. Not some desktop kernel thats been massaged and kicked into shape until it can do an ok job at it. I want a kernel thats been designed FROM THE GROUND UP to run a vehicle. Is that too much to ask these days?
Naturally you won't get modded up for stating the facts. Fanbois don't like facts - they're an incovenient weapon against the teenage dreamworld they live in.
It proves our country is governed by the rule of law, not by the rule of Assange fanbois who would probably cheer him on no matter what.
Lets not forget Hans Reiser and all the moronic fanboi cheerleaders claiming he was a victim of [insert paranoid delusion here] even when he was finally convicted. Eventually they all STFU when he led police to his wifes body. I see the same thing going on here - Assange being treated as some sort of 2nd coming who can do no wrong.
Lets get something straight - Assange is a narcissistic egomaniac who doesn't give a stuff about rights. All he cares about is getting getting one over on a western system he doesn't like. Fine - he's off to a country where western democracy and rights are a pipe dream. Bon Voyage Jules!
"world seems to have to allow first the violation of Assange's human rights,"
Care to elaborate? Are you saying the UK justice system is a patsy for the UK government and every judge and juror was knobbled?
And what about the human rights or the women in sweden who may (or may not) have been raped. Assange may (or may not) have done it but this isn't the sort of thing decided in the court of public opinion my friend. THIS is why the law exists. If you dont' like that tough , but don't pretend Assange is making some grand jesture against "The Man". He's not. He's saving his own arse and the fact that he's willing to give live in a fleepit 3rd world country to get away from justice tells me all I need to know about how he sees his guilt.
Almost everywhere you go in britain now (certainly in big cities) you see ANPR cameras slung up above the road. Sure, it has helped catch a few criminals but at what cost to personal privacy? You could argue that no one should be allowed curtains in their house because that way the police could see any crimes being committed such as burglary or rape. But I can't see many people going along with that. The current generation of politicians and police commanders just can't see the road to hell they're leading us down.
"There is a very very strong statistical link between heart valve infections (which will kill you DRT if undetected) and dental hygine. Bacterial loads on gums or tooth infections can directly lead to not only infections in the head, but infections in the blood stream and cardiovascular system. "
Excuse me if I'm not 100% convinced. The human gut has trillions of bacteria but you'd be dead or at least seriously ill without them. I find it doubtful that the far far smaller amount in the mouth has any serious affect on health one way or the other. It sounds like some piece of puff from a dental hygiene company trying to sell its products. Point me in the direction of some peer reviewed papers and I might change my mind.
Do you for Colgates PR dept or something? I've managed for 43 years without using it and I still have all my teeth. Besides that, people who have a low sugar diet have very little decay because there's little for the bacteria to eat. Perhaps advocating a sane diet instead of the over sweetened gunk we eat in the west would be a better approach.
"Dental hygiene seems to me to be the one application where you're better off using wide-spectrum antibiotics all the time"
Nonsense. Tooth decay is only caused by a small subset of bacteria and most of them are removed by physical brushing. The only use for the toothpaste is mainly for the flouride. There are thousands of different types of bacteria in the human mouth and no one knows if any of them are useful to our health as the ones in our guts and on our skin are. Just killing the lot of them every day is probably foolish.
No idea why. Its mostly women that the utter nonsense known as toilet cleaner is marketed to. Why do I care if there are no bacteria in my toilet? I don't drink out of it , I piss and crap in it. And as soon anyone does that its full of bacteria again so why do I want to spend $$$ on some blue coloured gunk (thats probably a pollutant) to kill the bacteria??
"I'm afraid of the flying cars being controlled by the average driver or an AI that's only a bit better. Imagine thousands of 2 ton flying cars whizzing around at 100kph controlled by people texting each other etc."
Well so would I be and hopefully this flying car nonsense will remain in sci fi films. But that doesn't mean the terrorist threat wouldn't exist.
"Terrorists can already hit buildings from the air if they want to. They just have to use private planes."
Except planes have to file flight plans and its a bit more obvious doing that sort of thing at a controlled airport than doing it in a garage then just wheeling your flying car outside and taking off.
Good luck trying that with an aircraft when you have maybe 30 seconds notice. Or perhaps every building should have a huge net surrounding it?
Whether you like it or not terrorists attacks ARE still possible and any government that didn't take account of that would be remiss in its duties since one of the basic duties of government is to protect its citizens. Most governments don't get that balance right but that doesn't mean the issue should be ignored altogether just to keep a bunch of anarchist hippies happy who'd be quite happy with NO government.
"When these companies can no longer compete with the rest of the world, they'll either move out of Europe or seek special favors from the EU politicians to help keep them afloat."
If the rules apply to all companies why shouldn't they be able to compete? Or are you suggesting that all companies are going to suddenly stop selling all electronics in europe?
If manufacturers have to go to the trouble of recycling their goods they might be tempted to make them more reliable rather than having 10K TVs that died 1 day after their warranty ran out sitting in their warehouse. Or alternatively perhaps we'll go back to goods that are designed to be repaired more easily instead of being junked just because 1 capacitor blew that could be replaced for pennies.
"The point about voice control and steering wheel controls is to REDUCE DISTRACTION over the current UIs, and especially reduce the amoutn of time the driver is looking away from the road."
So dump the silly UIs that manufacturers brought in and go back to buttons. Its quite easy to mentally know where a button is without looking after a very short time. Do you think F1 drivers keep looking at their steering wheels to figure out which button to press when they're doing 200mph?
"Have a button or grip on the steering wheel that mutes the audio and then allows for voice input."
You're missing the point - voice input is inefficient and doesn't work well. Its an order of magnitude quicker to press a button or 2 than describe what action you want done.
"Certainly a single display can replace all of the current dials,"
Sure it can, but that doesn't mean its better.
""Engine Warning" icon lighting up, it can say "Your O2 sensor is broken""
They could do that already in the LCD or VFD screens that most cars have. They don't because car manufacturers want you to take it down the dealers and pay for a diagnostic.
"or voice control, the display can alter to show what you're changing directly"
Oh wonderful, so you change the radio station and suddenly your speedo vanishes. Genius!
"Hmm, pretty close to the buttons on an Android phone really."
We're not talking about phones or toys , we're talking about large powerful vehicles which can kill people if the driver is distracted by playing around with silly technology-for-its-own-sake gimmicks.
"Still, the latest version of Eclipse is available in a version for car application development"
Excelllent , so we can look forward to some really reliable efficient java apps running our cars can we? I can't wait. Actually I'll probably have to when I'm stuck at the side of the road with a java exception dump showing on the dashboard.
"I think the primary input has to be voice, with steering wheel buttons as a backup"
I think you're talking out of your arse. Why would I want to have to press some push to talk button (unless the computer can figure out when you're talking to it) then fucking DESCRIBE what I want the car to do such as turn down the volume when in 1 second I can reach over and do it myself on a proper volume control without even looking??!
"You're confusing statistical ranking (the government's policy) with fair grading.
Everyone should be getting a fair education and A-C grades."
Giving everyone a good grade regardless of whether they deserve it is what has led to the mess we have now where the grades are increasingly becoming meaningless and employers and top universities are ignoring them. If you want to go that be nice to everyone and make them feel good about themselves by giving them all good grades liberal lefty route then fine , but don't expect the real world to take them seriously.
"OK, the science. What we buy is a copy. We can't sell that copy without selling the physical device that it's on. Really, we can't. To get it on someone else's device, we'd have to make another copy. "
You think its that simple? You might want to go read the smallprint in amazons agreement.
Oh , and good luck being able to read anything when your expensive toy inevitably breaks.
If someone today invented a device that was always on, could always be accessed , was available to anyone at any time and didn't require recharging it would be hailed as a miracle. Except its already around and is called a book and yet people laugh. Talk about being suckered by Oooh-shiny! tech.
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I wouldn't call a non working dashboard "just fine" , would you?
I don't want a Windows based one
I don't want an OS/X based one
I don't want a BSD based one
What I want is a system specifically designed to run a CAR. Not some desktop kernel thats been massaged and kicked into shape until it can do an ok job at it. I want a kernel thats been designed FROM THE GROUND UP to run a vehicle. Is that too much to ask these days?
Naturally you won't get modded up for stating the facts. Fanbois don't like facts - they're an incovenient weapon against the teenage dreamworld they live in.
"After having been arrested and imprisoned"
There, FTFY.
"That is the human rights violation"
No it isn't. No country should make deals with a criminal to get him to face justice.
"Assange is being very reasonable,"
Funny how only a 3rd world dictatorship sees it that way.
It proves our country is governed by the rule of law, not by the rule of Assange fanbois who would probably cheer him on no matter what.
Lets not forget Hans Reiser and all the moronic fanboi cheerleaders claiming he was a victim of [insert paranoid delusion here] even when he was finally convicted. Eventually they all STFU when he led police to his wifes body. I see the same thing going on here - Assange being treated as some sort of 2nd coming who can do no wrong.
Lets get something straight - Assange is a narcissistic egomaniac who doesn't give a stuff about rights. All he cares about is getting getting one over on a western system he doesn't like. Fine - he's off to a country where western democracy and rights are a pipe dream. Bon Voyage Jules!
"world seems to have to allow first the violation of Assange's human rights,"
Care to elaborate? Are you saying the UK justice system is a patsy for the UK government and every judge and juror was knobbled?
And what about the human rights or the women in sweden who may (or may not) have been raped. Assange may (or may not) have done it but this isn't the sort of thing decided in the court of public opinion my friend. THIS is why the law exists. If you dont' like that tough , but don't pretend Assange is making some grand jesture against "The Man". He's not. He's saving his own arse and the fact that he's willing to give live in a fleepit 3rd world country to get away from justice tells me all I need to know about how he sees his guilt.
Almost everywhere you go in britain now (certainly in big cities) you see ANPR cameras slung up above the road. Sure, it has helped catch a few criminals but at what cost to personal privacy? You could argue that no one should be allowed curtains in their house because that way the police could see any crimes being committed such as burglary or rape. But I can't see many people going along with that. The current generation of politicians and police commanders just can't see the road to hell they're leading us down.
"There is a very very strong statistical link between heart valve infections (which will kill you DRT if undetected) and dental hygine. Bacterial loads on gums or tooth infections can directly lead to not only infections in the head, but infections in the blood stream and cardiovascular system. "
Excuse me if I'm not 100% convinced. The human gut has trillions of bacteria but you'd be dead or at least seriously ill without them. I find it doubtful that the far far smaller amount in the mouth has any serious affect on health one way or the other. It sounds like some piece of puff from a dental hygiene company trying to sell its products. Point me in the direction of some peer reviewed papers and I might change my mind.
Then use a fecking toilet brush.
Who says it has to be a little prop plane? A business jet can carry a lot more payload.
As for detonating - I'm not going to pretend to be an expert. But where there's a will....
Do you for Colgates PR dept or something? I've managed for 43 years without using it and I still have all my teeth. Besides that, people who have a low sugar diet have very little decay because there's little for the bacteria to eat. Perhaps advocating a sane diet instead of the over sweetened gunk we eat in the west would be a better approach.
"Dental hygiene seems to me to be the one application where you're better off using wide-spectrum antibiotics all the time"
Nonsense. Tooth decay is only caused by a small subset of bacteria and most of them are removed by physical brushing. The only use for the toothpaste is mainly for the flouride. There are thousands of different types of bacteria in the human mouth and no one knows if any of them are useful to our health as the ones in our guts and on our skin are. Just killing the lot of them every day is probably foolish.
No idea why. Its mostly women that the utter nonsense known as toilet cleaner is marketed to. Why do I care if there are no bacteria in my toilet? I don't drink out of it , I piss and crap in it. And as soon anyone does that its full of bacteria again so why do I want to spend $$$ on some blue coloured gunk (thats probably a pollutant) to kill the bacteria??
"I'm afraid of the flying cars being controlled by the average driver or an AI that's only a bit better. Imagine thousands of 2 ton flying cars whizzing around at 100kph controlled by people texting each other etc."
Well so would I be and hopefully this flying car nonsense will remain in sci fi films. But that doesn't mean the terrorist threat wouldn't exist.
"Terrorists can already hit buildings from the air if they want to. They just have to use private planes."
Except planes have to file flight plans and its a bit more obvious doing that sort of thing at a controlled airport than doing it in a garage then just wheeling your flying car outside and taking off.
So you can protect vulnerable or vital buildings.
Good luck trying that with an aircraft when you have maybe 30 seconds notice. Or perhaps every building should have a huge net surrounding it?
Whether you like it or not terrorists attacks ARE still possible and any government that didn't take account of that would be remiss in its duties since one of the basic duties of government is to protect its citizens. Most governments don't get that balance right but that doesn't mean the issue should be ignored altogether just to keep a bunch of anarchist hippies happy who'd be quite happy with NO government.
"When these companies can no longer compete with the rest of the world, they'll either move out of Europe or seek special favors from the EU politicians to help keep them afloat."
If the rules apply to all companies why shouldn't they be able to compete? Or are you suggesting that all companies are going to suddenly stop selling all electronics in europe?
If manufacturers have to go to the trouble of recycling their goods they might be tempted to make them more reliable rather than having 10K TVs that died 1 day after their warranty ran out sitting in their warehouse. Or alternatively perhaps we'll go back to goods that are designed to be repaired more easily instead of being junked just because 1 capacitor blew that could be replaced for pennies.
"The point about voice control and steering wheel controls is to REDUCE DISTRACTION over the current UIs, and especially reduce the amoutn of time the driver is looking away from the road."
So dump the silly UIs that manufacturers brought in and go back to buttons. Its quite easy to mentally know where a button is without looking after a very short time. Do you think F1 drivers keep looking at their steering wheels to figure out which button to press when they're doing 200mph?
"And WHOOSH for missing a joke too."
Fair cop.
"Have a button or grip on the steering wheel that mutes the audio and then allows for voice input."
You're missing the point - voice input is inefficient and doesn't work well. Its an order of magnitude quicker to press a button or 2 than describe what action you want done.
"Certainly a single display can replace all of the current dials,"
Sure it can, but that doesn't mean its better.
""Engine Warning" icon lighting up, it can say "Your O2 sensor is broken""
They could do that already in the LCD or VFD screens that most cars have. They don't because car manufacturers want you to take it down the dealers and pay for a diagnostic.
"or voice control, the display can alter to show what you're changing directly"
Oh wonderful, so you change the radio station and suddenly your speedo vanishes. Genius!
"Hmm, pretty close to the buttons on an Android phone really."
We're not talking about phones or toys , we're talking about large powerful vehicles which can kill people if the driver is distracted by playing around with silly technology-for-its-own-sake gimmicks.
"Still, the latest version of Eclipse is available in a version for car application development"
Excelllent , so we can look forward to some really reliable efficient java apps running our cars can we? I can't wait. Actually I'll probably have to when I'm stuck at the side of the road with a java exception dump showing on the dashboard.
"I think the primary input has to be voice, with steering wheel buttons as a backup"
I think you're talking out of your arse. Why would I want to have to press some push to talk button (unless the computer can figure out when you're talking to it) then fucking DESCRIBE what I want the car to do such as turn down the volume when in 1 second I can reach over and do it myself on a proper volume control without even looking??!
"In fact, the Microsoft Steering Wheel "
Now you're just trolling.
"You're confusing statistical ranking (the government's policy) with fair grading.
Everyone should be getting a fair education and A-C grades."
Giving everyone a good grade regardless of whether they deserve it is what has led to the mess we have now where the grades are increasingly becoming meaningless and employers and top universities are ignoring them. If you want to go that be nice to everyone and make them feel good about themselves by giving them all good grades liberal lefty route then fine , but don't expect the real world to take them seriously.
"OK, the science. What we buy is a copy. We can't sell that copy without selling the physical device that it's on. Really, we can't. To get it on someone else's device, we'd have to make another copy. "
You think its that simple? You might want to go read the smallprint in amazons agreement.
Oh , and good luck being able to read anything when your expensive toy inevitably breaks.
If someone today invented a device that was always on, could always be accessed , was available to anyone at any time and didn't require recharging it would be hailed as a miracle. Except its already around and is called a book and yet people laugh. Talk about being suckered by Oooh-shiny! tech.
Otherwise you could claim any device supports any format so long as you convert it first!
Oh look , chickens dropping out of the Cloud and coming home to roost.