Americans already pay close to 40% of their income in taxes and the government STILL runs a deficit every year. The state is beggaring the taxpayers with interest and inflation.
Yes.. for the neocons it would be religious belief, and for progressives it would be 'social justice'. Neither would want the school system teaching students to apply critical thought on these subjects.
You forgot what'll happen when one of those now safer citizens falls off the treadmill and loses access to the transport system (for some artificially linked issue). I'd rather not relinquish control over my mobility until we work the control freakery out of our culture. It demonstrates a level of insecurity far more dangerous than any human controlled vehicle.
I will never understand the enthusiasm for living under the rule of risk adverse soccer mom mentality.
assuming the machine has been properly maintained, programmed, and designed. A big 'if' in today's technological state of affairs for far simpler devices and software.
You should expand your viewpoint beyond the technology itself and include the 'few' people at the top who will control access to your centralized utopia. There are those of us wise enough to know that such systems have tendencies to trample those who don't quite march in lockstep. This is why they ultimately fail. We also know that resorting to name calling does not make an argument.
Such as? The majority of software is redundant meaninglessness, designed to model the shuffling of paper from one end of a desk to another, or from one desk to another. How is that meaningful? It might get one a paycheck, but otherwise..
No. These people understand value and wish to retain access to doing the things they're used to doing with gaming. Three big ones are
1. user generated content 2. user run dedicated servers 3. not getting ripped off by treadmill dlc schemes. 4. no headaches from oppressive drm schemes
The existing traditional platform supports your plants vs zombies just fine. There's no reason to limit it with obviously consumer hostile 'app stores'. I don't get this relatively recent negative attitude towards open, diverse platforms. Windows has had this for decades, supporting casual and hardcore gaming quite well. MS shouldn't fuck with it.
If you're not a 'neckbeard' (your derogatory term for enthusiast) anymore, why do you still post to slashdot? Perhaps reddit or a gawker gaming site is more your speed?
Well, on the one hand, it's good to know that there was possible bad behavior, but on the other, the trend of vendors locking down their ecosystems is hurting those who do not wish to accept whatever they're willing to push through the needle.
Only situational awareness is more important, and computers win there too.
You couldn't be more wrong on this.
Also, if reaction time were that important, than teenagers would be safer drivers than the elderly. Obviously, if it's way off, (say by intoxication), accident rates go up, but the difference between 20ms and 200 is lost in the noise of being able to see that obstacle for what it is long before 20ms reactions are needed.
That's not the point. This isn't about replacing cars with trains or living in rat warrens where overpriced crap is shipped in (by truck drivers no less). This is about replacing self driving cars with 'autonomous' ones. Just because you would be happy with 35Mph doesn't mean the rest of us should slow down and lose liberty because you want to be lazy. If you don't want to drive, pay someone to drive or move to the rat warren nearest you.
There's a reason we still put humans behind the controls of already mostly automated vehicles. Even there, look what happens to airline pilots: they get bored, drink, fall asleep, and when something does go wrong they're not in a condition to deal with it. Same thing with train operators, and that solution only has to deal with a fixed path. Since ground-based free-roving is much more complex than air or track, I have strong doubts about these ever being safer. Maybe if/when quantum computing really takes off and sensor tech is better than it is now...
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Americans already pay close to 40% of their income in taxes and the government STILL runs a deficit every year. The state is beggaring the taxpayers with interest and inflation.
Yes.. for the neocons it would be religious belief, and for progressives it would be 'social justice'. Neither would want the school system teaching students to apply critical thought on these subjects.
You forgot what'll happen when one of those now safer citizens falls off the treadmill and loses access to the transport system (for some artificially linked issue). I'd rather not relinquish control over my mobility until we work the control freakery out of our culture. It demonstrates a level of insecurity far more dangerous than any human controlled vehicle.
I will never understand the enthusiasm for living under the rule of risk adverse soccer mom mentality.
assuming the machine has been properly maintained, programmed, and designed. A big 'if' in today's technological state of affairs for far simpler devices and software.
You should expand your viewpoint beyond the technology itself and include the 'few' people at the top who will control access to your centralized utopia. There are those of us wise enough to know that such systems have tendencies to trample those who don't quite march in lockstep. This is why they ultimately fail. We also know that resorting to name calling does not make an argument.
It still has the self awareness and understanding of a rock which negates those advantages.
You might if the chauffeur was a braindead idiot with crappy vision.
Such as? The majority of software is redundant meaninglessness, designed to model the shuffling of paper from one end of a desk to another, or from one desk to another. How is that meaningful? It might get one a paycheck, but otherwise..
It's a bit more complicated than that. The 'app stores' are the antithesis of freedom.
No. These people understand value and wish to retain access to doing the things they're used to doing with gaming. Three big ones are
1. user generated content
2. user run dedicated servers
3. not getting ripped off by treadmill dlc schemes.
4. no headaches from oppressive drm schemes
What, a shitty port of an fps that went full derp on console game'play' mechanics years ago?
I bet if you grepped the logs for the site for user agents, you'd find quite the variety of operating systems.
The existing traditional platform supports your plants vs zombies just fine. There's no reason to limit it with obviously consumer hostile 'app stores'. I don't get this relatively recent negative attitude towards open, diverse platforms. Windows has had this for decades, supporting casual and hardcore gaming quite well. MS shouldn't fuck with it.
If you're not a 'neckbeard' (your derogatory term for enthusiast) anymore, why do you still post to slashdot? Perhaps reddit or a gawker gaming site is more your speed?
Well, if you don't care, and have no reason to, why are you posting here?
Well, on the one hand, it's good to know that there was possible bad behavior, but on the other, the trend of vendors locking down their ecosystems is hurting those who do not wish to accept whatever they're willing to push through the needle.
No, you misunderstood or purposely misrepresented my point.
No, this is about setting dangerous precedence. If the phone is cryptoed properly, apple cannot break it without brute forcing.
ad hominem attack.
The culture at the fbi has become tyrannical. They want to be the next KGB. I'll pass.
Not when you have to convert them to something else.. Also, it depends on the source and the encoder used.
Yup.. there's already too much 'lossy' in hd for the term to mean much anymore.. I don't want to compound it with lossy in my display connection.
No, it's pretty much rejected by sanctimonious leftists with axes to grind.
Only situational awareness is more important, and computers win there too.
You couldn't be more wrong on this.
Also, if reaction time were that important, than teenagers would be safer drivers than the elderly. Obviously, if it's way off, (say by intoxication), accident rates go up, but the difference between 20ms and 200 is lost in the noise of being able to see that obstacle for what it is long before 20ms reactions are needed.
You are seriously comparing elevators and movement within a single building with automated cars, aircraft, trains, and movement around the country?
Being in the minority does not make one's position invalid.
That's not the point. This isn't about replacing cars with trains or living in rat warrens where overpriced crap is shipped in (by truck drivers no less). This is about replacing self driving cars with 'autonomous' ones. Just because you would be happy with 35Mph doesn't mean the rest of us should slow down and lose liberty because you want to be lazy. If you don't want to drive, pay someone to drive or move to the rat warren nearest you.
There's a reason we still put humans behind the controls of already mostly automated vehicles. Even there, look what happens to airline pilots: they get bored, drink, fall asleep, and when something does go wrong they're not in a condition to deal with it. Same thing with train operators, and that solution only has to deal with a fixed path. Since ground-based free-roving is much more complex than air or track, I have strong doubts about these ever being safer. Maybe if/when quantum computing really takes off and sensor tech is better than it is now...