Gasoline engines are prohibited at a lot of industrial sites not because of the exhaust but because the fuel itself - unlike diesel - its highly volatile and highly flammable. So not only can it poison in a confined space, its also highly likely to cause an explosion if there's a spark.
"Diesel produce larger particles which are easier to filter."
Wrong. As well as large soot particles it produces particles 2.5 um in size which are almost impossible to filter and need to be burned away.
Unless they can somehow embed binaries for ALL OS's as well as Windows and for different types of CPU (ARM for example) and find a way to launch and run the software behind the OS's or hypervisors back, then I won't be putting my tin foil hat on anytime soon. If it works by the HD somehow injecting hooks into any binary launched I reckon it'll be spotted pretty quickly.
Well I'm damn sure it wasn't a high speed train where they're not only testing the entire train systems including emergency systems, but signalling, catenary and track too. Good like automating the testing for all that genius.
At least in europe on numerous metro systems. Welcome to the 21st century USA!
However you can't expect automated systems to test themselves. You'll still need humans in the test loop somewhere. Plus for the sort of speeds the TGV gets up to I imagine most people would still prefer someone to be up front if even all he does is to feed the dog that bites him if he touches the controls.
I'm sure a PS2 emulator has novelty value but I'm not sure many people will really be that interested. Wouldn't a PS3 emulator make more sense given a lot of PS4 owners may still have a PS3 to play PS3 games and might prefer one console to do both? Or is the PS4 simply not powerful enough to do it?
Sadly most of the ignorant bleeting sheep that makes up the population are too stupid to understand that touch and pay isn't for their convenience, its so the banks can track their spending habits even more. Ditto Apple Pay.
"because it's our consciousness that makes us distinctly human vis-a-vis the (rest of) the animal or plant kingdom."
Err , I think its been pretty well demonstrated numerous times that all animals have conciousness in varying degrees. If you think humans are special in that regard then I'm afraid you're wrong. What makes us special is our opposable thumb and our intelligence , but thats not the same as conciousness.
"So will the CEO do hard time if there is a felony car accident?"
I think we know the answer to that - liability will be strictly limited to the company and there will be so many get-out clauses in the purchasing contract that they'll never be succesfully charged with anything short of a major failure of the vehicle.
Also I suspect "its cars cause" doesn't include the time when the car isn't driving itself - ie just after its detected an unavoidable accident and hands over to the human!
"However, once self driving cars are a reality, I will certainly consider buying one."
Why , can't you drive? If you're such a poor driver please stay away from autonomous cars too and continue taking public transport, because if the car needs you to take over suddenly your fellow motorists won't want you having a panic in the middle of the highway.
We could just harness all the politicians hot air thats been produced about this over the last 15 years.
I'm really beginning to believe that technically pig ignorant people should not be in politics. It seems to me that they Just Dont Get that we're have hardly any spare capacity and closing another load of stations without any new ones to immediately replace them is only going to make things worse especially if we have another cold winter.
FFS , if they can't even formulate and carry out a sensibly policy for building basic infrastructure what fecking chance do we have if there's a real emergency?
You're joking right? Phone hardware is pretty standardised and does most of the heavy lifting internally. Writing a GUI pales into insignificance compared to writing the core OS kernel and supporting frameworks and plumbing.
I'm pretty sure the Ipad & Iphone kernels are based if not the same as the OS/X one, and most of the surrounding programs & libraries taken from OS/X recompiled for ARM. All they need is a different GUI and specific drivers for the phone baseband hardware.
"Modern ethics understands that the means are what's important - not the ends."
Then modern ethics - read "liberal" values - are full of shit. The means might be important but the end is far more so unless its trivia like a kids egg and spoon race. The whole "he played fair but lost, what a good chap" ethos fails miserably in war if by playing fair you and your whole family end up dead.
"Violence has only one place - in response to unprovoked aggression"
So you think terrorists should be allowed to commit an act before they're captured or killed then?
"An eye for an eye' will leave the whole world blind."
Spare us the hackneyed Ghandi quotes. He sure as hell was no Plato, never mind Aristotle.
" challenge you to find ANY public spending "down here on earth" with that kind of economic and technological return to society that a space program demonstrably has"
Ok , perhaps down here on earth was the wrong phrase to use. There are better things to be spending space research money on that yet another orbiting can. A new form of space propulsion would be a start. Perhaps its not physically possible but some blue sky research with a decent budget would be a good place to start. Even our most advance ion engines still consist of chucking stuff backwards to go forwards. There must be a better way.
"Earths space and resources will deplete, and we could build a large rotating space station even with today's technology."
Sure, we *could*. But are you willing to pay for it? Personally I think there are better things to spend a few trillion on down here on earth. And no, I'm not a luddite going down the "there's starving kids and yet we spend money on space" argument. But an orbiting station is not an end in itself - it needs a purpose other than just being the worlds most expensive funfair ride , and until we come up with a better space motor than chemical rockets humans ain't going anywhere further than the moon anytime soon.
Why couldn't it have been a combination of water from the proto earth and asteroids and comets later on? There's little doubt the earth was bombarded for millions of years after it formed so it seems silly to pretend that didn't deliver any water to the planet.
In a desperate effort to follow the "trendy" herd they've made the browser much harder to use. eg: Bookmark folders - good luck trying to create them in the latest versions on OS/X.
We don't want trendy - we just want a browser thats simple and easy to use. Its the web page contents I'm interested in , the not browser developers showboating efforts.
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Gasoline engines are prohibited at a lot of industrial sites not because of the exhaust but because the fuel itself - unlike diesel - its highly volatile and highly flammable. So not only can it poison in a confined space, its also highly likely to cause an explosion if there's a spark.
"Diesel produce larger particles which are easier to filter."
Wrong. As well as large soot particles it produces particles 2.5 um in size which are almost impossible to filter and need to be burned away.
Unless they can somehow embed binaries for ALL OS's as well as Windows and for different types of CPU (ARM for example) and find a way to launch and run the software behind the OS's or hypervisors back, then I won't be putting my tin foil hat on anytime soon. If it works by the HD somehow injecting hooks into any binary launched I reckon it'll be spotted pretty quickly.
Well I'm damn sure it wasn't a high speed train where they're not only testing the entire train systems including emergency systems, but signalling, catenary and track too. Good like automating the testing for all that genius.
"Huh? Of course, I can... I used to write unit-tests for a living"
Testing some bit of software in a PC is not the same as testing 400 tons of hardware that can do 200+mph you idiot.
At least in europe on numerous metro systems. Welcome to the 21st century USA!
However you can't expect automated systems to test themselves. You'll still need humans in the test loop somewhere. Plus for the sort of speeds the TGV gets up to I imagine most people would still prefer someone to be up front if even all he does is to feed the dog that bites him if he touches the controls.
I'm sure a PS2 emulator has novelty value but I'm not sure many people will really be that interested. Wouldn't a PS3 emulator make more sense given a lot of PS4 owners may still have a PS3 to play PS3 games and might prefer one console to do both? Or is the PS4 simply not powerful enough to do it?
Sadly most of the ignorant bleeting sheep that makes up the population are too stupid to understand that touch and pay isn't for their convenience, its so the banks can track their spending habits even more. Ditto Apple Pay.
"because it's our consciousness that makes us distinctly human vis-a-vis the (rest of) the animal or plant kingdom."
Err , I think its been pretty well demonstrated numerous times that all animals have conciousness in varying degrees. If you think humans are special in that regard then I'm afraid you're wrong. What makes us special is our opposable thumb and our intelligence , but thats not the same as conciousness.
"So will the CEO do hard time if there is a felony car accident?"
I think we know the answer to that - liability will be strictly limited to the company and there will be so many get-out clauses in the purchasing contract that they'll never be succesfully charged with anything short of a major failure of the vehicle.
Also I suspect "its cars cause" doesn't include the time when the car isn't driving itself - ie just after its detected an unavoidable accident and hands over to the human!
"However, once self driving cars are a reality, I will certainly consider buying one."
Why , can't you drive? If you're such a poor driver please stay away from autonomous cars too and continue taking public transport, because if the car needs you to take over suddenly your fellow motorists won't want you having a panic in the middle of the highway.
"China and France are building the new plants."
Go and count how many cupcake, then get back to us.
We could just harness all the politicians hot air thats been produced about this over the last 15 years.
I'm really beginning to believe that technically pig ignorant people should not be in politics. It seems to me that they Just Dont Get that we're have hardly any spare capacity and closing another load of stations without any new ones to immediately replace them is only going to make things worse especially if we have another cold winter.
FFS , if they can't even formulate and carry out a sensibly policy for building basic infrastructure what fecking chance do we have if there's a real emergency?
You're joking right? Phone hardware is pretty standardised and does most of the heavy lifting internally. Writing a GUI pales into insignificance compared to writing the core OS kernel and supporting frameworks and plumbing.
I'm pretty sure the Ipad & Iphone kernels are based if not the same as the OS/X one, and most of the surrounding programs & libraries taken from OS/X recompiled for ARM. All they need is a different GUI and specific drivers for the phone baseband hardware.
Sorry idiot - if you're plotting to kill people that make you a terrorist , whether or not you get to carry the act out.
"Modern ethics understands that the means are what's important - not the ends."
Then modern ethics - read "liberal" values - are full of shit. The means might be important but the end is far more so unless its trivia like a kids egg and spoon race. The whole "he played fair but lost, what a good chap" ethos fails miserably in war if by playing fair you and your whole family end up dead.
"Violence has only one place - in response to unprovoked aggression"
So you think terrorists should be allowed to commit an act before they're captured or killed then?
"An eye for an eye' will leave the whole world blind."
Spare us the hackneyed Ghandi quotes. He sure as hell was no Plato, never mind Aristotle.
" challenge you to find ANY public spending "down here on earth" with that kind of economic and technological return to society that a space program demonstrably has"
Ok , perhaps down here on earth was the wrong phrase to use. There are better things to be spending space research money on that yet another orbiting can. A new form of space propulsion would be a start. Perhaps its not physically possible but some blue sky research with a decent budget would be a good place to start. Even our most advance ion engines still consist of chucking stuff backwards to go forwards. There must be a better way.
"Earths space and resources will deplete, and we could build a large rotating space station even with today's technology."
Sure, we *could*. But are you willing to pay for it? Personally I think there are better things to spend a few trillion on down here on earth. And no, I'm not a luddite going down the "there's starving kids and yet we spend money on space" argument. But an orbiting station is not an end in itself - it needs a purpose other than just being the worlds most expensive funfair ride , and until we come up with a better space motor than chemical rockets humans ain't going anywhere further than the moon anytime soon.
The problem is experts tell you what can't be done NOW. They rarely speculate about what might be possible in the future.
Why couldn't it have been a combination of water from the proto earth and asteroids and comets later on? There's little doubt the earth was bombarded for millions of years after it formed so it seems silly to pretend that didn't deliver any water to the planet.
"Granted I haven't created a new one in years, but I tried Show All Bookmarks, Right-Click, New Folder."
I don't have the New Folder option.
In a desperate effort to follow the "trendy" herd they've made the browser much harder to use. eg: Bookmark folders - good luck trying to create them in the latest versions on OS/X.
We don't want trendy - we just want a browser thats simple and easy to use. Its the web page contents I'm interested in , the not browser developers showboating efforts.
Call me skeptical but I'd love to know how they've managed that short of a major breakthrough in RF transmitter or DSP technology.
"Why do we think that we have the rights to distribute what is on the asteroids?"
Why shouldn't we? Do you think ET has summer houses on them?
Idiot.
Must be getting boring in that cell.