When autonomous cars become ubiquitous, won't it be more convenient for many people to simple "call them up" on a phone and have it arrive at your door in minutes? No hassle parking downtown, it just lets you off where you want to go, and you fetch a new one when you are filling out the tip line after dinner. Want a luxury car instead for that special evening -- just select that preference. Seating arrangement possibilities allow for many new designs. This era might even be as exciting as the arrival of the horse-less carriage almost a century ago.
Pedestrians are safer in the UK (well, in London) because they've painted "look this way" with big arrows on the ground at most crosswalks in an effort to protect visiting pedestrians who are used to driving on the right side of the road from looking the wrong way.
..the government will not only allow autonomous cars to go as fast as they want, they'll let the owners collect toll-road rebates for taking up less space on the freeways. Because, you know, they spend less time on the road going a million miles an hour than you do in your pathetic yugo.
If Ron Paul could go back in time, the best thing he could do for his political career would be to choose a "better" name for his son. Something like moon-unit, or mamma's boy. Or even Betty Sue.
And then in the mid 90's Microsoft added the I/O completion port routines to the API that *significantly* increased the efficiency of dealing with a 1,000+ TCP (or UDP) socket connections by avoiding a dreaded polling call to::select(). "Yeah, but you can still use select" responses from the unix/linux crowd became the litmus test for determining ignorance when discussing socket development.
MSDN in the mid 90's was second to none. It was the gold standard in supporting developers. To this day, there's not a c/c++ debugger that competes with Visual Studio. (You know, on-the-fly modify/update/compile/run code without stopping execution). I sometimes watch expert linux developers debugging, and have almost lost my tongue from biting so hard.
Set a record number of trades in 1 second: Over 12,000.
Over 1.5 million trades by end of day. SPY - often the most active, rarely breaches 1 million/day.
Nasdaq quotes went radio silent for 2 hours, but traded just fine.
Many other stocks were affected right before and after it finally opened (AAPL, NFLX, INTU for example)
I can confirm this. In my field (financial), the number of Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, and Financial Times reporters that understand how trading works is ZERO.
It is unbelievable. I've been saving up emails for writing a memoir when I'm old and gray. Which I get closer to every time I fall for the trap and talk to one of them.
Overbooking.
A person who sold 110 trees when they had only 100 (or had 110 but 10 were destroyed before delivery) has a forest with -10 trees. Street-smart people without math skills will understand this immediately.
The more dangerous of those was obviously given a little more thought, and included attempting to do so while on approach over a large city. You know, in an attempt to kill hundreds or thousands of people.
Citations please?
The odds of airplane parts dropping out of the sky after the explosion killing more people than those on-board is pretty close to zero. So thousands of people? Nope. Not going to happen. Timing a bomb to blow up an airplane so that its parts correctly drop in the current prevailing winds to inflict major damage ? That is rich. Think of all the bombs dropped in wars (like airplane parts, only with high explosives designed for death) that resulted in zero or few casualties. Bombs dropped by people trained to hit targets. Not by some guy who only has a window to look out of. You kill me.
One could argue that setting humanity back a few centuries and wiping out half the population would be good for the planet (and perhaps ultimately save the species). It's not an argument I'd be prepared to make, but it's one I'd take seriously, if someone else were to make it.
That's nothing. Whoever built the wall that exists between my office and the dining room left inside a leather dog collar and a half-dozen pork (I think) rib bones.
We've also found a cast iron floor lamp inside of a wall, as well as several hundred copies of the Saturday Evening Post that are positively impossible to drill through.
Instead of outright pulling the plug, what if each participant in the blackout (google, amazon, etc.) put up a page with a few paragraphs of information and a required captcha-like set of questions the user had to answer to proceed? The information/questions would be relevant to SOPA, copyright, etc.
That way, the black out could extend for longer than a day (if need be), and there would still be a way for users to use the services after a bit of education. This would educate the ignorant to the level of stupidity (or corruption) of our politicians for even considering this legislation.
That's roughly 70 movies at home before it breaks even. It also gave me the luxury of watching TV, or playing video games on it.. It's hooked to a cheap PC with DVI output, so we can even watch via Netflix, Hulu, or whatever.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa...
70 movies! Yikes.
I have kids and I think we go to the movies a lot. I think we see maybe 15 a year. So about 5 years before break even?
I'm not saying the movie experience is awesome, though my kids don't notice any of the things you are complaining about. I do, but hey, if the kids like it, then it's a win.
Of course, I can't wait for the Alamo Draft house to make its way to my area...
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That's one small step for a man, One giant leap for me.
When autonomous cars become ubiquitous, won't it be more convenient for many people to simple "call them up" on a phone and have it arrive at your door in minutes? No hassle parking downtown, it just lets you off where you want to go, and you fetch a new one when you are filling out the tip line after dinner. Want a luxury car instead for that special evening -- just select that preference. Seating arrangement possibilities allow for many new designs. This era might even be as exciting as the arrival of the horse-less carriage almost a century ago.
Pedestrians are safer in the UK (well, in London) because they've painted "look this way" with big arrows on the ground at most crosswalks in an effort to protect visiting pedestrians who are used to driving on the right side of the road from looking the wrong way.
..the government will not only allow autonomous cars to go as fast as they want, they'll let the owners collect toll-road rebates for taking up less space on the freeways. Because, you know, they spend less time on the road going a million miles an hour than you do in your pathetic yugo.
If Ron Paul could go back in time, the best thing he could do for his political career would be to choose a "better" name for his son. Something like moon-unit, or mamma's boy. Or even Betty Sue.
Don't forget Steve Balmer wanted to buy Yahoo.
And then in the mid 90's Microsoft added the I/O completion port routines to the API that *significantly* increased the efficiency of dealing with a 1,000+ TCP (or UDP) socket connections by avoiding a dreaded polling call to ::select(). "Yeah, but you can still use select" responses from the unix/linux crowd became the litmus test for determining ignorance when discussing socket development.
MSDN in the mid 90's was second to none. It was the gold standard in supporting developers. To this day, there's not a c/c++ debugger that competes with Visual Studio. (You know, on-the-fly modify/update/compile/run code without stopping execution). I sometimes watch expert linux developers debugging, and have almost lost my tongue from biting so hard.
Notables:
Set a record number of trades in 1 second: Over 12,000.
Over 1.5 million trades by end of day. SPY - often the most active, rarely breaches 1 million/day.
Nasdaq quotes went radio silent for 2 hours, but traded just fine.
Many other stocks were affected right before and after it finally opened (AAPL, NFLX, INTU for example)
I can confirm this. In my field (financial), the number of Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, and Financial Times reporters that understand how trading works is ZERO.
It is unbelievable. I've been saving up emails for writing a memoir when I'm old and gray. Which I get closer to every time I fall for the trap and talk to one of them.
I keep thinking about poor number 9.
"Why is 6 afraid of 7" ?
"Because 7 ate 9".
Describe to me a forest with -10 trees
Overbooking. A person who sold 110 trees when they had only 100 (or had 110 but 10 were destroyed before delivery) has a forest with -10 trees. Street-smart people without math skills will understand this immediately.
The more dangerous of those was obviously given a little more thought, and included attempting to do so while on approach over a large city. You know, in an attempt to kill hundreds or thousands of people.
Citations please? The odds of airplane parts dropping out of the sky after the explosion killing more people than those on-board is pretty close to zero. So thousands of people? Nope. Not going to happen. Timing a bomb to blow up an airplane so that its parts correctly drop in the current prevailing winds to inflict major damage ? That is rich. Think of all the bombs dropped in wars (like airplane parts, only with high explosives designed for death) that resulted in zero or few casualties. Bombs dropped by people trained to hit targets. Not by some guy who only has a window to look out of. You kill me.
Please tell my wife that!
How is it you are moderated "5" for being on both sides of an issue?
One could argue that setting humanity back a few centuries and wiping out half the population would be good for the planet (and perhaps ultimately save the species). It's not an argument I'd be prepared to make, but it's one I'd take seriously, if someone else were to make it.
Which half?
Function level linkers have been around for a long time now. None of that dead code will end up in the binary.
That's nothing. Whoever built the wall that exists between my office and the dining room left inside a leather dog collar and a half-dozen pork (I think) rib bones.
We've also found a cast iron floor lamp inside of a wall, as well as several hundred copies of the Saturday Evening Post that are positively impossible to drill through.
Pez dispensers seem so...basic.
Those aren't pork bones!
Dog collar.. animal bones.. hmmm.
You DO know how the TSA recruits people, right...? They put adverts on pizza delivery boxes
You couldn't make this shit up it you if you hired a whole team of comedy writers...
Look closely at that pizza box -- it trumpets...
A career where XRay vision comes standard!
A career as a peeping tom. Where you get paid.
Is this country great or what?
officers are offered official office.
Try saying that 3 times quickly.
If only I had mod points and could assign them all to one post. Sigh.
Instead of outright pulling the plug, what if each participant in the blackout (google, amazon, etc.) put up a page with a few paragraphs of information and a required captcha-like set of questions the user had to answer to proceed? The information/questions would be relevant to SOPA, copyright, etc.
That way, the black out could extend for longer than a day (if need be), and there would still be a way for users to use the services after a bit of education. This would educate the ignorant to the level of stupidity (or corruption) of our politicians for even considering this legislation.
I have no idea why your comment is only at 4. I should be at 11.
I wish I had mod points. That is the best satire I have read on slashdot to date.
That's roughly 70 movies at home before it breaks even. It also gave me the luxury of watching TV, or playing video games on it.. It's hooked to a cheap PC with DVI output, so we can even watch via Netflix, Hulu, or whatever.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa... 70 movies! Yikes. I have kids and I think we go to the movies a lot. I think we see maybe 15 a year. So about 5 years before break even? I'm not saying the movie experience is awesome, though my kids don't notice any of the things you are complaining about. I do, but hey, if the kids like it, then it's a win. Of course, I can't wait for the Alamo Draft house to make its way to my area...