Agreed. This article is not just wrong, it's obviously so. It was written by someone who know nothing about the topic. We see a lot of these. It shows a fundamental problem with the story acceptance system of slashdot.
As soon as self-driving cars are marginally affordable, you hitting someone will be partial negligence because you didn't have a SDC. This will force insurance rates up, which will reduce the comparative price of SDCs. This will in turn increase SDC sales, which will drive prices down. This will increase the negligence aspect of any crash in an HDC and increase lawsuit payouts, increasing insurance, etc.
There's a tipping point where you won't be able to afford an HDC -- you'll only be able to afford time-share SDCs and may later afford personal SDCs.
So yes, first the rich have them, then ultimately only the rich will be able to drive their own car.
Are you not paying attention? It used to be a planet. Now it's too small to be a planet. They've blown 70% of the thing to bits. As space cannon is the only explanation.
The question is, what are they doing with the bits? Making bitcoins?
No, the answer is easy: Hire some smart people to look at efficiency, and honestly try to solve the problems.
The sign-age isn't in multiple languages. The rules are absurd, arcane and stress causing. Open up the process enough to reassure people so you don't get as much passive aggressiveness from the passengers. Inspect and overhaul the hiring process: The current hires vary, and include scum. They don't include Mandarin speakers. No effort is made to communicate beyond shouting. Even one well-done wordless picture-book with smiling faces handed out at the BEGINNING of the line and collected at the end would speed things up.
We have the same utter stupidity at the immigration side of this. Planes full of foreigners get stuffed into lines with only English. The video telling you what to do is in English and one I saw contained only one foreign word: In Korean "Welcome" -- they used the noun. (Imagine someone walking up to you presenting his hand to shake and saying "Homecoming.") They picked it from a book and didn't ask any Korean speaker "Hey, is this right?" They even used the Latin alphabet to spell it. IDIOTS.
We need one smart person to walk through those lines and suggest the obvious, and then we need to do it.
Do not give them more hires. That just gives them more money to move/skim and power. It's the only thing these groups seem to want. Doing their job is not on their radar at all.
You only see well in your fovea. You may see movement in your peripheral vision, but you have no idea what it is. It sees well in 360 degrees.
Humans think slowly. If you have time enough to decide whether the baby or the adult dies then, in the same situation, the car should have plenty of time not to hit EITHER of them.
And it's taken WAY more driving tests than we have.
All the lead-up to the real problem is just noise. Here's the real take-away:
The google car had a sudden obstacle come up. It was only moving two miles an hour, and yet it did not get out of the way fast enough. Its reflexes were too slow.
This is PRECISELY what autonomous vehicles should be able to do massively better than humans.
Probably Moore's law will solve this in a few years, but we need them to be much faster than humans now, because this is how we keep people running out from between cars from getting killed by autonomous cars going faster than 2 miles an hour. We can't let them on the roads in numbers and on their own without this. One death and it's no autonomous cars for an extra decade. So Google needs to figure out how to make its collision avoidance stuff faster.
It's a huge problem, it's their problem, and they have to fix it now.
I think that's actually a GREAT idea. And they'd confirm her. They want her out of the race.
She might even want it. Being beaten AGAIN in the primaries would be a little tiresome. It'll be clear in less than a month if that's going to happen, which puts us right about when the appointment needs to be made.
That said, the Republicans running for president would love it, but the rank and file wouldn't understand it as a political maneuver. And Hillary has no experience as a judge.
The article has some small, honest mistakes. The paragraphs:
Hertz is trying to improve its IT operations. It hired a new CIO last year with experience in the car rental industry, Tyler Best.
The firm seeks a "transformative IT agenda," said Hertz CEO John Tague, in a conference call with analysts last year, according to a transcript at Seeking Alpha.
Tom Kennedy, Hertz CFO, told analysts in an earning call last year that "we have 1,500 people in the back office, which is quite double what it should be. Our call centers are probably double what they should be," according to the Seeking Alpha transcript. He said the firm's IT spend is over $400 million a year.
should actually read
Hertz is sacrificing customer service for short-term profits. It hired a new CIO last year with experience in the car rental industry, Tyler Best.
The firm seeks a "seppuku IT agenda," said Hertz CEO John Tague, in a conference call with analysts last year, according to a transcript at Seeking Alpha.
Tom Kennedy, Hertz CFO, told analysts in an earning call last year that "we have 1,500 people in the back office. We can reduce that by 750 people by eliminating time spent actually doing things. We need to completely change that to people filling out forms to get IBM to do things for us vastly slower and for vastly higher costs. Ideally, once this is done, our change control costs will drop because nothing will ever get done. Our call centers are probably double what they should be -- having enough staff to serve customers is so 1990," according to the Seeking Alpha transcript. He said the firm's IT spend is over $400 million a year. "Tyler and I should be able to get at least a few million of that as a kickback from IBM, once we're parachuted out for destroying the company."
There's this thing in the world called OLD PEOPLE. Turns out they still kinda know how to shamble around and can still twiddle a potentiometer with a plastic tool.
I don't know why the recovery company didn't talk to one of these. Was it the smell? Or was it that they wouldn't be able to bill for a year of work if they got the problem solved in an afternoon?
The disk was fine until you put it in the other drive. Floppies work fine in any drive, no matter how badly aligned it was. Then when you went to another disk drive and wrote ANYTHING, you'd written data half in one track, half in another, thus destroying the data for the first computer.
CP/M standardized the dirs and file system. Even ZCPR3 added on top was straightforward and wouldn't take you an hour to figure out.
Yes, there were different sector setups. You run through them all until you find the format. That takes an hour. So complex? No.
And no, most word processors used text files. Things were WAY more straight-forward in the days of CP/M. DOC, RTF and ODF are nightmares compared to CP/M-based word-processor formats. OK, let's say this was an odd one. So you run the damn software he used under a CP/M emulator and you print the files to the emulated rs232 port and capture the output.
This is a trivial problem and there's absolutely no way anyone with a half a brain could have taken a year to do it.
The frog boiling thing is a myth. If you put frogs in cold water and heat the water, when it gets sufficiently hot they jump out.
It's been tested, and it's been known to be false for at least 150 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Find another metaphor.
Folks, take a couple of minutes and add a review of the Hue products you own on Amazon. A naive buyer will think that he/she can use it with the LED lights from Cree, for example, because there are websites showing this pairing -- we need to inform buyers that this will not work.
It's a service we owe other consumers.
Hue hubs currently enjoy an average of approximately 4 stars. That number seems overly high.
The do have competition. It only looks like they don't because they've been working so hard to consistently beat them. There was a time when AMD leapfrogged them and taught them what happens when they moved slowly. AMD had better chips for a good while, there. Intel had to scramble to catch back up, then pass AMD. Now Intel stays ahead of them, always. They improve because they have competition.
And if they hadn't been improving consistently, ARM would be currently eating their lunch in the server market. Which it's not.
If I could get 5 Mb/s out of Comcast and have it RELIABLE I'd be way better off than I am now with 20+Mb/s to Comcast servers and VPN connections dropping 5 times a day.
Yesterday I gave up and tethered up my cell phone. It was slower, but rock solid.
Comcast tech: "Go to speedtest.net -- what does it say?"
451 is not about censorship. It is about television, as Mr. Bradbury himself explained.
In F451 they're not burning SOME books, they're burning ALL BOOKS. If you wrote a book saying how wonderful the government was, they'd burn THAT. That's not censorship, that's removing competition.
I don't think this is what Google had in mind, but I hope this will become part of their plan:
The real problem with Comcast isn't the connections to the home or to Comcast's servers, it's the routers which move traffic to other networks. Not just their peering relationships, but the hardware they overload along the way.
These devices have a network test function. They provide Google with a whole bunch of edge devices in the consumer Internet space which openly say they're going to communicate with Google. I'm hoping that Google will use these to map out ISP network and use the information to A. spoof DNS results to avoid overloaded equipment, B. Tattle on problems to partners to adjust BGP (or whatever ISPs are using now for routing tables), C. Use the information to bludgeon the ISPs (OK, really that just means Comcast) in the press and in Congress to force change to facilitate faster, cheaper connections.
There's nothing wrong with giving foreigners who just graduated from an American college the chance to stay and work. These are people who competed to get into school and won, had the money to pay for it, and then learned more at the school. These are precisely the folks we want to stay here.
This should be extended to graduates with good grades in all disciplines, not dialed back.
The real problem is H1Bs and the difficulty in getting a green card. It's the indentured servitude nature of the immigration-work-model which allows companies to pay less and force down American wages. We should provide enough protection to foreign workers that they can tell an employer to shove it.
People can apply for work visas if they have something to offer, and they can come and help pay for our college system and prove that they can work VERY hard and learn fast via the school-visa program. We should embrace everybody coming in on that path. H1Bs are simply destructive.
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Agreed. This article is not just wrong, it's obviously so. It was written by someone who know nothing about the topic. We see a lot of these. It shows a fundamental problem with the story acceptance system of slashdot.
As soon as self-driving cars are marginally affordable, you hitting someone will be partial negligence because you didn't have a SDC. This will force insurance rates up, which will reduce the comparative price of SDCs. This will in turn increase SDC sales, which will drive prices down. This will increase the negligence aspect of any crash in an HDC and increase lawsuit payouts, increasing insurance, etc.
There's a tipping point where you won't be able to afford an HDC -- you'll only be able to afford time-share SDCs and may later afford personal SDCs.
So yes, first the rich have them, then ultimately only the rich will be able to drive their own car.
I'm wondering when someone will make an argument in court that ignoring robots.txt demands a warrant.
Are you not paying attention? It used to be a planet. Now it's too small to be a planet. They've blown 70% of the thing to bits. As space cannon is the only explanation.
The question is, what are they doing with the bits? Making bitcoins?
Let's get a similar image which includes the US, shall we?
http://fm.cnbc.com/application...
No, the answer is easy: Hire some smart people to look at efficiency, and honestly try to solve the problems.
The sign-age isn't in multiple languages. The rules are absurd, arcane and stress causing. Open up the process enough to reassure people so you don't get as much passive aggressiveness from the passengers. Inspect and overhaul the hiring process: The current hires vary, and include scum. They don't include Mandarin speakers. No effort is made to communicate beyond shouting. Even one well-done wordless picture-book with smiling faces handed out at the BEGINNING of the line and collected at the end would speed things up.
We have the same utter stupidity at the immigration side of this. Planes full of foreigners get stuffed into lines with only English. The video telling you what to do is in English and one I saw contained only one foreign word: In Korean "Welcome" -- they used the noun. (Imagine someone walking up to you presenting his hand to shake and saying "Homecoming.") They picked it from a book and didn't ask any Korean speaker "Hey, is this right?" They even used the Latin alphabet to spell it. IDIOTS.
We need one smart person to walk through those lines and suggest the obvious, and then we need to do it.
Do not give them more hires. That just gives them more money to move/skim and power. It's the only thing these groups seem to want. Doing their job is not on their radar at all.
It's never too early to say that.
"Fuck you, oil companies!"
The article doesn't enable that, or make it any more useful, but it also doesn't make it any less satisfying.
You only see well in your fovea. You may see movement in your peripheral vision, but you have no idea what it is. It sees well in 360 degrees.
Humans think slowly. If you have time enough to decide whether the baby or the adult dies then, in the same situation, the car should have plenty of time not to hit EITHER of them.
And it's taken WAY more driving tests than we have.
All the lead-up to the real problem is just noise. Here's the real take-away:
The google car had a sudden obstacle come up. It was only moving two miles an hour, and yet it did not get out of the way fast enough. Its reflexes were too slow.
This is PRECISELY what autonomous vehicles should be able to do massively better than humans.
Probably Moore's law will solve this in a few years, but we need them to be much faster than humans now, because this is how we keep people running out from between cars from getting killed by autonomous cars going faster than 2 miles an hour. We can't let them on the roads in numbers and on their own without this. One death and it's no autonomous cars for an extra decade. So Google needs to figure out how to make its collision avoidance stuff faster.
It's a huge problem, it's their problem, and they have to fix it now.
I think that's actually a GREAT idea. And they'd confirm her. They want her out of the race.
She might even want it. Being beaten AGAIN in the primaries would be a little tiresome. It'll be clear in less than a month if that's going to happen, which puts us right about when the appointment needs to be made.
That said, the Republicans running for president would love it, but the rank and file wouldn't understand it as a political maneuver. And Hillary has no experience as a judge.
The article has some small, honest mistakes. The paragraphs:
Hertz is trying to improve its IT operations. It hired a new CIO last year with experience in the car rental industry, Tyler Best.
The firm seeks a "transformative IT agenda," said Hertz CEO John Tague, in a conference call with analysts last year, according to a transcript at Seeking Alpha.
Tom Kennedy, Hertz CFO, told analysts in an earning call last year that "we have 1,500 people in the back office, which is quite double what it should be. Our call centers are probably double what they should be," according to the Seeking Alpha transcript. He said the firm's IT spend is over $400 million a year.
should actually read
Hertz is sacrificing customer service for short-term profits. It hired a new CIO last year with experience in the car rental industry, Tyler Best.
The firm seeks a "seppuku IT agenda," said Hertz CEO John Tague, in a conference call with analysts last year, according to a transcript at Seeking Alpha.
Tom Kennedy, Hertz CFO, told analysts in an earning call last year that "we have 1,500 people in the back office. We can reduce that by 750 people by eliminating time spent actually doing things. We need to completely change that to people filling out forms to get IBM to do things for us vastly slower and for vastly higher costs. Ideally, once this is done, our change control costs will drop because nothing will ever get done. Our call centers are probably double what they should be -- having enough staff to serve customers is so 1990," according to the Seeking Alpha transcript. He said the firm's IT spend is over $400 million a year. "Tyler and I should be able to get at least a few million of that as a kickback from IBM, once we're parachuted out for destroying the company."
No. If they'd done that research, they'd have way less billable hours.
Research bad.
There's this thing in the world called OLD PEOPLE. Turns out they still kinda know how to shamble around and can still twiddle a potentiometer with a plastic tool.
I don't know why the recovery company didn't talk to one of these. Was it the smell? Or was it that they wouldn't be able to bill for a year of work if they got the problem solved in an afternoon?
Yes. This press-release really irks me, because it took them a YEAR to do this easy task. They milked this client and then they crow about it?
The disk was fine until you put it in the other drive. Floppies work fine in any drive, no matter how badly aligned it was. Then when you went to another disk drive and wrote ANYTHING, you'd written data half in one track, half in another, thus destroying the data for the first computer.
Quick summary: It's what Seattle DOS ripped off. Seattle DOS was what Bill Gates bought and sold to IBM, labelled MS-DOS.
No.
CP/M standardized the dirs and file system. Even ZCPR3 added on top was straightforward and wouldn't take you an hour to figure out.
Yes, there were different sector setups. You run through them all until you find the format. That takes an hour. So complex? No.
And no, most word processors used text files. Things were WAY more straight-forward in the days of CP/M. DOC, RTF and ODF are nightmares compared to CP/M-based word-processor formats. OK, let's say this was an odd one. So you run the damn software he used under a CP/M emulator and you print the files to the emulated rs232 port and capture the output.
This is a trivial problem and there's absolutely no way anyone with a half a brain could have taken a year to do it.
Yeah, the CP/M stuff was just "far more work" for them because they had to lift a finger. CP/M disk formats are not hard.
The frog boiling thing is a myth. If you put frogs in cold water and heat the water, when it gets sufficiently hot they jump out. It's been tested, and it's been known to be false for at least 150 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Find another metaphor.
Folks, take a couple of minutes and add a review of the Hue products you own on Amazon. A naive buyer will think that he/she can use it with the LED lights from Cree, for example, because there are websites showing this pairing -- we need to inform buyers that this will not work.
It's a service we owe other consumers.
Hue hubs currently enjoy an average of approximately 4 stars. That number seems overly high.
The do have competition. It only looks like they don't because they've been working so hard to consistently beat them. There was a time when AMD leapfrogged them and taught them what happens when they moved slowly. AMD had better chips for a good while, there. Intel had to scramble to catch back up, then pass AMD. Now Intel stays ahead of them, always. They improve because they have competition.
And if they hadn't been improving consistently, ARM would be currently eating their lunch in the server market. Which it's not.
If I could get 5 Mb/s out of Comcast and have it RELIABLE I'd be way better off than I am now with 20+Mb/s to Comcast servers and VPN connections dropping 5 times a day.
Yesterday I gave up and tethered up my cell phone. It was slower, but rock solid.
Comcast tech: "Go to speedtest.net -- what does it say?"
451 is not about censorship. It is about television, as Mr. Bradbury himself explained.
In F451 they're not burning SOME books, they're burning ALL BOOKS. If you wrote a book saying how wonderful the government was, they'd burn THAT. That's not censorship, that's removing competition.
I don't think this is what Google had in mind, but I hope this will become part of their plan:
The real problem with Comcast isn't the connections to the home or to Comcast's servers, it's the routers which move traffic to other networks. Not just their peering relationships, but the hardware they overload along the way.
These devices have a network test function. They provide Google with a whole bunch of edge devices in the consumer Internet space which openly say they're going to communicate with Google. I'm hoping that Google will use these to map out ISP network and use the information to A. spoof DNS results to avoid overloaded equipment, B. Tattle on problems to partners to adjust BGP (or whatever ISPs are using now for routing tables), C. Use the information to bludgeon the ISPs (OK, really that just means Comcast) in the press and in Congress to force change to facilitate faster, cheaper connections.
So they can push more ads.
There's nothing wrong with giving foreigners who just graduated from an American college the chance to stay and work. These are people who competed to get into school and won, had the money to pay for it, and then learned more at the school. These are precisely the folks we want to stay here.
This should be extended to graduates with good grades in all disciplines, not dialed back.
The real problem is H1Bs and the difficulty in getting a green card. It's the indentured servitude nature of the immigration-work-model which allows companies to pay less and force down American wages. We should provide enough protection to foreign workers that they can tell an employer to shove it.
People can apply for work visas if they have something to offer, and they can come and help pay for our college system and prove that they can work VERY hard and learn fast via the school-visa program. We should embrace everybody coming in on that path. H1Bs are simply destructive.