If you happen to have an upper-level car (in my case Model S), you can run an app on your tablet or smartphone that links to your car and can be used in place of your car's key to open the doors, start the engine, and drive off. There is the downside that this fails if either your phone or the car cant make a cellular connection (or, usually, local WiFi).
Try not being so knee-jerky. The Cross Point cinema, Lowell, MA, for example, has a bar. They are very careful about carding people, and I have yet to see anyone get more than 2 drinks over the lenght of a movie. Given the prices, it's hardly the place you go to get drunk; and you have nowhere to sit other than in the theatre, which is a long walk from the bar.
The service will definitely lose money on me, IF my local chain buys in to it -- I just sent them an email inquiring. I've seen approx 75 movies in '16/'17. That would be $170 under their model. Let's call it an average of $12 a ticket, that's $900 in ticket prices, a savings to me of $730, ignoring concessions since we're just talking ticket prices. Add my wife in, and the savings are YUUUUGE.
AFAIK the rule for cinemas is that something like 90% of the ticket price goes to the company releasing the movie. Cineplexes make their money at the concession stands. From their standpoint, this is the perfect way to get more people into the establishment.
I think you need to re-read Minority Report. It (and the movie) have nothing whatsoever to do with a predisposition to commit crimes. The point was that the precogs saw the actual, really truly future as it would be if the precogs' information were not acted upon. PKD wove an excellent story about the difficulty of predicting the future when knowledge of the prediction changes the future.
The reason we keep being told 'dont force close you apps' is that if you do, they cannot continue to do 'their thing' quietly in the background. Their thing is often reporting things back to their developers - your position, actions, etc, etc..
THAT is why every now and then they remind us how foolish we would be not to keep them running.
Methinks both you and your phone need an aluminum foil hat.
At this point, you'd have to be a complete moron to be leading a car company and be against rolling out electric engines.
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car.
First of all, they are not engines. They are motors. Second, the switch to an electric motor immediately implies other major design changes. No more need for a gearbox, distributor, alternator, CCV, muffler, tailpipe,... . New need for massive battery, power management system, charging control system,...
Here's why: all the crash tests do is tell you the outcome of a crash. What people **should** care about is the statistical product of crash probability and crash injury.
I"ll take a car with, say, crash avoidance tech which drops the chance of a crash by a factor of 10 over a car with rotten brakes, high rollover risk (American SUVs I'm looking at YOU) , etc. every time. Regardless of the potential injury risk in one specific type of crash.
Vice is hardly the place to go for coherent explanations, so -- other than apparently being able to cause a buttload (that's the Official Physics Term) of photons to be absorbed by one electron, how is this different from the more or less everyday 2- or 3- photon absorption process in things like passive Q-switch materials? The only way an electron can emit an X-ray is by dropping from a very energetic orbital down to a very weak one. The only way that electron gets bumped up that high is either by absorbing said Buttload of energy all at once or by successive single-transition-energy photons in sequence, which is a much more difficult thing to makehappen anyway.
I understand that lots of editors automagically convert the TAB key into four spaces. That's cute and all, but do any editors have the ability to "remember" that you hit TAB there so if you go back to delete the space, it'll delete all 4 space chars?
I know from experience that none of the standard cheapo editors do, nor does, say, MATLAB's editor.
There, then, is one excellent reason to use actual real TAB characters: the ability to delete them when you want to.
We already have a name for it, strong AI. Conflating strong AI with weak AI has caused no end of confusion in the popular press, at least some of it intentional.
Well.... in my view, it ain't "strong AI" until it's functioning at the level of Iian Banks' AI units.
No, it doesn't say those things. It says if you're an asshole you're not welcome here.
To repeat what should have been bloody obvious to you: Who gets to define "asshole." ? Suppose a college withdraws acceptances for some kids who post that they put their faith in $DEITY over government, for example?
I think there's a strong case for Nazi advocacy to be heavily restricted, and in many cases banned outright, and I think the opposing case is particularly weak in this instance.
The problem you're missing is essentially "who will bell the cat?" We like banning Holocaust deniers because they're liars and so on. But the issue is whether a government gets to define lying. Turkey bans groups who claim the Armenian genocide is real. That's the Turkish gov'ts definition of "lying." You in favor of that too?
I am reminded that the Puritans left England to come to what became the US.
Except that they didn't. They tried to settle on the other side of the North Sea,where the locals were not happy with their extremist religion. They got kicked out and *then* went to the Colonies, where there weren't any (European) folk to get in their way.
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Isn't it just *amazing* how exactly the same set of troll comments come out every single time there's a Hyperloop story!
yeah yeah yeah I know I must be new here -- but I'm not. Just disappointed.
1) Are you still a Nothinghead?
2) Have you considered the advantages provided at your nearest Ethical Suicide Parlor?
If you happen to have an upper-level car (in my case Model S), you can run an app on your tablet or smartphone that links to your car and can be used in place of your car's key to open the doors, start the engine, and drive off. There is the downside that this fails if either your phone or the car cant make a cellular connection (or, usually, local WiFi).
But no key required here.
You seem to be confusing enteric fungus with exoenteric vampires.
>Go to theaters that serve alcohol.
I do not want to go to such theaters
Try not being so knee-jerky. The Cross Point cinema, Lowell, MA, for example, has a bar. They are very careful about carding people, and I have yet to see anyone get more than 2 drinks over the lenght of a movie. Given the prices, it's hardly the place you go to get drunk; and you have nowhere to sit other than in the theatre, which is a long walk from the bar.
The service will definitely lose money on me, IF my local chain buys in to it -- I just sent them an email inquiring. I've seen approx 75 movies in '16/'17. That would be $170 under their model. Let's call it an average of $12 a ticket, that's $900 in ticket prices, a savings to me of $730, ignoring concessions since we're just talking ticket prices. Add my wife in, and the savings are YUUUUGE.
AFAIK the rule for cinemas is that something like 90% of the ticket price goes to the company releasing the movie. Cineplexes make their money at the concession stands. From their standpoint, this is the perfect way to get more people into the establishment.
// chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random.
Dice aren't perfectly random though.
But fair dice are. Read, then post.
They're not Science Journals, they are Science Fiction journals.
You take that back, RIGHT NOW!
Signed,
Gardner Dozois
Donald Wollheim
Terry Carr
Do you really need to have 16 fallback kernels?
64k[ernels] should be enough for anyone.
Ahhhh, c'mon: you knew someone was going to go there.
I think you need to re-read Minority Report. It (and the movie) have nothing whatsoever to do with a predisposition to commit crimes. The point was that the precogs saw the actual, really truly future as it would be if the precogs' information were not acted upon.
PKD wove an excellent story about the difficulty of predicting the future when knowledge of the prediction changes the future.
The reason we keep being told 'dont force close you apps' is that if you do, they cannot continue to do 'their thing' quietly in the background.
Their thing is often reporting things back to their developers - your position, actions, etc, etc..
THAT is why every now and then they remind us how foolish we would be not to keep them running.
Methinks both you and your phone need an aluminum foil hat.
At this point, you'd have to be a complete moron to be leading a car company and be against rolling out electric engines.
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car.
First of all, they are not engines. They are motors. Second, the switch to an electric motor immediately implies other major design changes. No more need for a gearbox, distributor, alternator, CCV, muffler, tailpipe,... . New need for massive battery, power management system, charging control system, ...
Here's why: all the crash tests do is tell you the outcome of a crash.
What people **should** care about is the statistical product of crash probability and crash injury.
I"ll take a car with, say, crash avoidance tech which drops the chance of a crash by a factor of 10 over a car with rotten brakes, high rollover risk (American SUVs I'm looking at YOU) , etc. every time. Regardless of the potential injury risk in one specific type of crash.
Vice is hardly the place to go for coherent explanations, so -- other than apparently being able to cause a buttload (that's the Official Physics Term) of photons to be absorbed by one electron, how is this different from the more or less everyday 2- or 3- photon absorption process in things like passive Q-switch materials?
The only way an electron can emit an X-ray is by dropping from a very energetic orbital down to a very weak one. The only way that electron gets bumped up that high is either by absorbing said Buttload of energy all at once or by successive single-transition-energy photons in sequence, which is a much more difficult thing to makehappen anyway.
No, you'd be the man who really really can't add.
People said that back in the 1950s too. Then along came this thing called greed, and its enabler called power.
I get all my software from Antarctica, those penguins just don't care about political pressure and they do just what they do.
So you're saying all Linux software is safe? //bad joke
I understand that lots of editors automagically convert the TAB key into four spaces. That's cute and all, but do any editors have the ability to "remember" that you hit TAB there so if you go back to delete the space, it'll delete all 4 space chars?
I know from experience that none of the standard cheapo editors do, nor does, say, MATLAB's editor.
There, then, is one excellent reason to use actual real TAB characters: the ability to delete them when you want to.
We already have a name for it, strong AI. Conflating strong AI with weak AI has caused no end of confusion in the popular press, at least some of it intentional.
Well.... in my view, it ain't "strong AI" until it's functioning at the level of Iian Banks' AI units.
Sorry guy, us libs arent simpletons living in a black & white world.
Yeah, some of us have 12-bit grayscale.
Luserz have only 50 shades.
No, it doesn't say those things. It says if you're an asshole you're not welcome here.
To repeat what should have been bloody obvious to you: Who gets to define "asshole." ? Suppose a college withdraws acceptances for some kids who post that they put their faith in $DEITY over government, for example?
I think there's a strong case for Nazi advocacy to be heavily restricted, and in many cases banned outright, and I think the opposing case is particularly weak in this instance.
The problem you're missing is essentially "who will bell the cat?" We like banning Holocaust deniers because they're liars and so on. But the issue is whether a government gets to define lying. Turkey bans groups who claim the Armenian genocide is real. That's the Turkish gov'ts definition of "lying." You in favor of that too?
I am reminded that the Puritans left England to come to what became the US.
Except that they didn't. They tried to settle on the other side of the North Sea,where the locals were not happy with their extremist religion. They got kicked out and *then* went to the Colonies, where there weren't any (European) folk to get in their way.
Oh, c'mon already. The only thing that truly is not AI is any statement that something else is "Not AI"
This is also why there is no US cent symbol on a keyboard. We use to just type c and then backspace and over-type the /. (see what I did there?)
There's a cent symbol on my keyboard. It's the same key as the dollar symbol, except instead of shift you hold option.
Variant of Poe's Law, I guess. I can't tell whether this is a lame joke or you're a complete idiot.