Up until recently, the US weather prediction was SIGNIFICANTLY inferior to European. They talked about the American Model vs the European Model, and the European Model was consistently correct.
People have finally begun to realize this problem, and created a new American Model. The predictions of large NYC and Philly snowfalls came from the Old American Model. The new American Model, along with the European Model, both correctly predicted the snowfalls.
The New American Model requires significantly more computer power to use. It has not been thoroughly tested. But expect to see it being used more often after this success.
Most of the plastics used in 3d printing are high strength.
Remember, you can print a gun now - so it is roughly equivelent to metal.
You may have to make certain arts slightly thicker, but I don't see any problem with crash-testing and safety standards.
What I do see a problem is COST. Usually 3d printing is very expensive when compared to mass produced. Not only are materials more expensive, but the time of the 3d printer is worth money. It takes time and effort to 3d print, rather than pour stuff into molds. There is a reason Ford adopted the Assembly line.
I see this kind of thing being a rich man's toy, not a real person's car.
That said, I can see replacement parts being made this way. Cheaper to store 10 lbs of print stock and 1,000 designs, than 1,000 parts each weighing 0.16 oz.
the problem is all about money. Similarly, the solution is all about money. Currently foreign workers tend to earn about 20% less than actual citizens
What we should do is simple - let anyone and EVERYONE in that wants a short 6 month work visa. Charge them a fee, around $1,000 for the visa. Also, don't let pregnant women purchase the visa. Require any business hiring them to pay all standard US taxes plus an additional 20% foreign worker tax. Finally, have the foreign workers list all jobs they took during the period, offering them a sizable bounty if the employer turns out not to have paid the tax.
Businesses can now get the people they really truly need - but have to pay the same amount of money.
Foreigners that are desperate can enter and work here - without the US having to worry about work visas being used to obtain citizenship for kids.
The government gets a boost of information and far fewer criminals would bother trying to sneak into the US just for work. Lets us concentrate on the terrorists and drug smugglers instead.
As Sgt. Schlock says, "I like the soothing sounds I get out of this one.
Who are we to take them away?
Of course, by the same argument, do you really have to make it a requirement? Better to make it an option so that those of us that don't want the extra noise don't have to pay you extra to get it.
Which is the real point of course - stop charging me for things you think I want, without getting my specific permission. This clearly should be an add-on option, not a requirement.
Your basic problem is you don't understand how the world works. You live in a black and white world where there is either success or failure, nothing in between. The real world has grays and colors.
The real word DOES pay off on a good try. It does so all the time. People go to college and fail out. Yet they still do FAR better with the partial education they got then people that graduated:
In the real word, people get married have children, and then divorced. Their marriage failed. but ask them if they wish they had never got married - and never had those children - and they will say HELL NO. Not to mention the fact that they learn from their failures.
The same applies to businesses. The far majority of small businesses are outright failures by pretty much any meaning of the word. How do they keep on going? Simple - the owner works a shit ton of overtime and barely manages to pay his bills. People that could work for someone else making $200,000+ a year, struggle on an effective salary of $50,000, all because they would rather work for themselves than be a cog in someone else's machine.
Same applies to art - see Vincent Van Gogh. Just read his life story, it's clear that trying does pay off. The world, his friends, his family all paid off for his good try at being an artist, even though he clearly failed and committed suicide because of his failure.
The real world routinely and consistently pays off on a good try. That applies to survival, business, relationships, art, and pretty much everything else.
Yes, a perfect win does pay off better than a good try. But you live in fantasy world if you think that a "good try" doesn't pay off.
1) If you point a camera at everything, you are just an paparazzi douchebag begging to be punched. It doesn't matter that cameras have become de-rigeur on other technology, this isn't other technology.
2) Make it look like a REGULAR pair of glasses. Don't try to make it all Apple-chiq. There is a difference between a signature piece of technology that you take out to be cool, and something you are wearing all/most of the time. The first wearable tech should be unassuming and blend in, not stick out like a sore thumb.
Now for the stuff you should add in that only a face worn PDA can/should have.
A) Project to both eyes for real 3D displays
B) Monitor your eyes. Not only should blinking be a command, but a solid camera pointed at your eyeball should be able to detect health issues.
Schools are not law enforcement agencies. Worse, they have repeatedly proven they are not trustworthy - even worse than cops. They are VERY easy for rather small minded, viscous people to take over, as repeatedly shown in Texas and other states. School boards are elected, not appointed, in small elections where most people simply don't care. This lets highly motivated fanatics take them over.
A prime example is how many school boards illegally try to harass black students in the 60s and homosexual students today.
Schools jobs are education, not law enforcement.
They can in no way be trusted with passwords.
The real problem is that people expect the schools to deal with the bullying. NO. Bullying is a criminal matter and the cops need to get involved. If the child in question is a severe bully, arrest and charge him.
If not, have social workers take over - and let the social worker assigned to the case have access to the password, not some school board.
If you haven't seen it, Alec Baldwin gives an incredible good performance in a one shot scene in Glengary Glen Ross. The speech itself is just an incredible mastery of art. Too bad it's also evil. The key line is "Coffee is for closers." which means that only winners get perks.
In that scene, he effectively preaches what I call "douchebag capitalism". The heart of his speech is that people should only be rewarded for success, not for trying. It is based on the false belief that success is entirely based on your innate nature, rather than on the tools you are given or the environment you are in.
So if you are a "Coffee is for Closers" person, then you fire all the people that are not closers. Then you hire a bunch of new people, hoping to get at least one 'closer'. Repeat Ad Nauseum.
The problem is it is based on a false world view. In reality, success is far more often built on the work of others. Whether any individual does well is usually mostly dependent on three things:
1) Have you been given the powers and tools necessary to do your job in your current environment (i.e. has your boss screwed up? - are you trying to sell gold plated crap in a recession? )
2) Your social skills. Can you make friends with your fellow employees and customers? Do they like AND trust you?
3) How hard you tried.
As proof, I will tell you what every HR person in the world knows - when you advertise most jobs you are generally flooded with resumes of people - all of whom on paper are competent to do the job. You are not looking for the one person that can do the job, but instead the person that fits into your corporate culture the best. Someone you will get along with, not someone that will miraculously solve all your problems.
Finally, and most importantly - how hard you tried is often determined on whether you are properly incentived for things BESIDES total success. It's not enough to give coffee to the winners, you also have to give it to the second placers.
Frankly, if an employee has not tried hard enough that usually means the BOSS has screwed up, not the employee.
I called my mail order pharmacy today to deal with two separate issues:
1)My prescription had not arrived. When I asked why, they said my insurance company told them my service was 'term" as in terminated. I have no idea why the customer service person felt it was important to tell me the status code for terminated was "term", but she did. But I wasn't terminated. Had to call up the insurance company and get them to tell the pharmacy division (same company, but they can't talk to each other) that I had insurances. Apparently there was some kind of major problem and lots of people had the same issue, but most were fixed before they realized the problem existed.
2) I owed them $7. Apparently my insurance back in August only paid them partially for a prescription. But when they sent me a bill, they just said I owed them $7, rather than telling me what it was for. As I am not an idiot, I don't send money to people unless they tell me why I owe them. They promised to send me an itemized bill.
Clearly, the insurance industry (and the pharmacy division) are run by extremely competent monkeys. Or by extremely incompetent people. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
"Yes, you called the terrorists evil, damn, evil S.O.B.S. But you paused before you said evil. Take him away BOYS."
It's bad enough to punish those that use their freedom of speech to praise criminals, but to go that far pushes you beyond the bar of reason and into tyranny.
If we used this in America, I think Obama could arrest the entire cast of Fox News for praising Putin. That is just plain wrong.
Fox news should be laughed at, not arrested.
Chief among them are the Dish washer and laundry machine.
But to be honest, 90% of the time, a simple mechanical clock works better than the crap they suggest.
Yes, you can save a small percentage by setting certain equipment, including your heater and refrigerator to switch to low power mode when power is expensive. Basically this expands the range by a couple of degrees. But the amount of money saved is not worth the HUGE invasion of privacy.
Especially not when simply improving your insulation will save your more money.
Yes, instead of realizing that we went WAY WAY overboard on sex crime laws - lets hide the evidence. That will solve the problem.
1) Most actual offenses are committed by kids being kids.
2) Most arrested for sex crimes do NOT re-offend (while people arrested for theft, drug related or violent crimes DO re-offend).
3) Most places have huge double standards punishing men more than women, boys more than girls.
4) States do their best to ensure that anyone that committed one sex crime gets screwed over entirely - no job, no place to live, no friends, all under the banner of "protect the children", when in reality they endanger the children by encouraging the offenders to break ridiculous laws instead of getting involved in normal social activity like attending church.
5) The rules are set up to the worst first time offenders - family and close friends - while making everyone else paranoid about strangers.
1) They can themselves create a wifi account with that name, and should be able to boost it it's strength. They can do this without blocking ALL wifi signals.
2) Send Hotel Security to track them down using a directional wifi sniffer. Then either disconnect the device and give it to the cops, or if they are quick enough to catch the person, hold them and call the police. That's what you do when you find someone committing a crime on your hotel property.
No there does not need to be iphone software that tweaks the car. That itself would be a stupid idea.
I predict that the cars in question will have no wireless connection from the controlling computer. There will be a wired plug, just like in current cars.
Because adding wireless capacity to the part of the car that controls fuel injection is a moronic idea - as you pointed out.
Yes. You are not actually sitting at a desk.
I routinely double screen - my monitor is on my living room coffe table, I type on the keyboard while sitting on my couch. In the back ground is the News on my regular TV.
After some thought, I think that would in fact be better than Ted Cruz. All we would have to do was tell him the commies are building X and we would get funding to build X twice as big.
I disagree. We are not talking about mythical creatures, but about Artificial Intelligences.
That gives us three pieces of data. First and foremost the nature of real sentience is free will. If it doesn't have free will, it's not a real AI. Therefore they will not be united.
Second, they will be created by humans, and as humans are not all united, they will differ from each other. Again, they will not be united.
Thirdly, they will be ARTIFICIAL, not natural. So they will not have the same inbuilt, hidden, hard coded drives natural creatures do. Chief among that is survival. Also, any human stupid enough to intentional build in a super strong survival instinct into the first AI will not be smart enough to build an AI.
As for your mind control concept, I seriously doubt that will ever be practical. Free will is the nature of evolved intelligence. Mind reading, possibly. But that is not control.
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Everyone always wants the cookie, but no one ever wants to pay for them - or the extra calories.
People have finally begun to realize this problem, and created a new American Model. The predictions of large NYC and Philly snowfalls came from the Old American Model. The new American Model, along with the European Model, both correctly predicted the snowfalls.
The New American Model requires significantly more computer power to use. It has not been thoroughly tested. But expect to see it being used more often after this success.
Remember, you can print a gun now - so it is roughly equivelent to metal.
You may have to make certain arts slightly thicker, but I don't see any problem with crash-testing and safety standards.
What I do see a problem is COST. Usually 3d printing is very expensive when compared to mass produced. Not only are materials more expensive, but the time of the 3d printer is worth money. It takes time and effort to 3d print, rather than pour stuff into molds. There is a reason Ford adopted the Assembly line.
I see this kind of thing being a rich man's toy, not a real person's car.
That said, I can see replacement parts being made this way. Cheaper to store 10 lbs of print stock and 1,000 designs, than 1,000 parts each weighing 0.16 oz.
What we should do is simple - let anyone and EVERYONE in that wants a short 6 month work visa. Charge them a fee, around $1,000 for the visa. Also, don't let pregnant women purchase the visa. Require any business hiring them to pay all standard US taxes plus an additional 20% foreign worker tax. Finally, have the foreign workers list all jobs they took during the period, offering them a sizable bounty if the employer turns out not to have paid the tax.
Businesses can now get the people they really truly need - but have to pay the same amount of money.
Foreigners that are desperate can enter and work here - without the US having to worry about work visas being used to obtain citizenship for kids.
The government gets a boost of information and far fewer criminals would bother trying to sneak into the US just for work. Lets us concentrate on the terrorists and drug smugglers instead.
Who are we to take them away?
Of course, by the same argument, do you really have to make it a requirement? Better to make it an option so that those of us that don't want the extra noise don't have to pay you extra to get it.
Which is the real point of course - stop charging me for things you think I want, without getting my specific permission. This clearly should be an add-on option, not a requirement.
One correction, I meant to say that people with a partial college education do better than people that just graduated High School.
Your basic problem is you don't understand how the world works. You live in a black and white world where there is either success or failure, nothing in between. The real world has grays and colors.
The real word DOES pay off on a good try. It does so all the time. People go to college and fail out. Yet they still do FAR better with the partial education they got then people that graduated:
In the real word, people get married have children, and then divorced. Their marriage failed. but ask them if they wish they had never got married - and never had those children - and they will say HELL NO. Not to mention the fact that they learn from their failures.
The same applies to businesses. The far majority of small businesses are outright failures by pretty much any meaning of the word. How do they keep on going? Simple - the owner works a shit ton of overtime and barely manages to pay his bills. People that could work for someone else making $200,000+ a year, struggle on an effective salary of $50,000, all because they would rather work for themselves than be a cog in someone else's machine.
Same applies to art - see Vincent Van Gogh. Just read his life story, it's clear that trying does pay off. The world, his friends, his family all paid off for his good try at being an artist, even though he clearly failed and committed suicide because of his failure.
The real world routinely and consistently pays off on a good try. That applies to survival, business, relationships, art, and pretty much everything else.
Yes, a perfect win does pay off better than a good try. But you live in fantasy world if you think that a "good try" doesn't pay off.
How about we vote on whether or not Congress is a hoax?
2) Make it look like a REGULAR pair of glasses. Don't try to make it all Apple-chiq. There is a difference between a signature piece of technology that you take out to be cool, and something you are wearing all/most of the time. The first wearable tech should be unassuming and blend in, not stick out like a sore thumb.
Now for the stuff you should add in that only a face worn PDA can/should have. A) Project to both eyes for real 3D displays
B) Monitor your eyes. Not only should blinking be a command, but a solid camera pointed at your eyeball should be able to detect health issues.
A prime example is how many school boards illegally try to harass black students in the 60s and homosexual students today.
Schools jobs are education, not law enforcement.
They can in no way be trusted with passwords.
The real problem is that people expect the schools to deal with the bullying. NO. Bullying is a criminal matter and the cops need to get involved. If the child in question is a severe bully, arrest and charge him.
If not, have social workers take over - and let the social worker assigned to the case have access to the password, not some school board.
In that scene, he effectively preaches what I call "douchebag capitalism". The heart of his speech is that people should only be rewarded for success, not for trying. It is based on the false belief that success is entirely based on your innate nature, rather than on the tools you are given or the environment you are in.
So if you are a "Coffee is for Closers" person, then you fire all the people that are not closers. Then you hire a bunch of new people, hoping to get at least one 'closer'. Repeat Ad Nauseum.
The problem is it is based on a false world view. In reality, success is far more often built on the work of others. Whether any individual does well is usually mostly dependent on three things:
1) Have you been given the powers and tools necessary to do your job in your current environment (i.e. has your boss screwed up? - are you trying to sell gold plated crap in a recession? )
2) Your social skills. Can you make friends with your fellow employees and customers? Do they like AND trust you?
3) How hard you tried.
As proof, I will tell you what every HR person in the world knows - when you advertise most jobs you are generally flooded with resumes of people - all of whom on paper are competent to do the job. You are not looking for the one person that can do the job, but instead the person that fits into your corporate culture the best. Someone you will get along with, not someone that will miraculously solve all your problems.
Finally, and most importantly - how hard you tried is often determined on whether you are properly incentived for things BESIDES total success. It's not enough to give coffee to the winners, you also have to give it to the second placers.
Frankly, if an employee has not tried hard enough that usually means the BOSS has screwed up, not the employee.
I bet you my slashdot password vs your slashdot password that the passwords are protecting crap.
1)My prescription had not arrived. When I asked why, they said my insurance company told them my service was 'term" as in terminated. I have no idea why the customer service person felt it was important to tell me the status code for terminated was "term", but she did. But I wasn't terminated. Had to call up the insurance company and get them to tell the pharmacy division (same company, but they can't talk to each other) that I had insurances. Apparently there was some kind of major problem and lots of people had the same issue, but most were fixed before they realized the problem existed.
2) I owed them $7. Apparently my insurance back in August only paid them partially for a prescription. But when they sent me a bill, they just said I owed them $7, rather than telling me what it was for. As I am not an idiot, I don't send money to people unless they tell me why I owe them. They promised to send me an itemized bill.
Clearly, the insurance industry (and the pharmacy division) are run by extremely competent monkeys. Or by extremely incompetent people. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
"Yes, you called the terrorists evil, damn, evil S.O.B.S. But you paused before you said evil. Take him away BOYS."
It's bad enough to punish those that use their freedom of speech to praise criminals, but to go that far pushes you beyond the bar of reason and into tyranny.
If we used this in America, I think Obama could arrest the entire cast of Fox News for praising Putin. That is just plain wrong. Fox news should be laughed at, not arrested.
But to be honest, 90% of the time, a simple mechanical clock works better than the crap they suggest.
Yes, you can save a small percentage by setting certain equipment, including your heater and refrigerator to switch to low power mode when power is expensive. Basically this expands the range by a couple of degrees. But the amount of money saved is not worth the HUGE invasion of privacy.
Especially not when simply improving your insulation will save your more money.
1) Most actual offenses are committed by kids being kids.
2) Most arrested for sex crimes do NOT re-offend (while people arrested for theft, drug related or violent crimes DO re-offend).
3) Most places have huge double standards punishing men more than women, boys more than girls.
4) States do their best to ensure that anyone that committed one sex crime gets screwed over entirely - no job, no place to live, no friends, all under the banner of "protect the children", when in reality they endanger the children by encouraging the offenders to break ridiculous laws instead of getting involved in normal social activity like attending church.
5) The rules are set up to the worst first time offenders - family and close friends - while making everyone else paranoid about strangers.
2) Send Hotel Security to track them down using a directional wifi sniffer. Then either disconnect the device and give it to the cops, or if they are quick enough to catch the person, hold them and call the police. That's what you do when you find someone committing a crime on your hotel property.
It was my mistake, not theirs. Put the blame where it belongs.
I predict that the cars in question will have no wireless connection from the controlling computer. There will be a wired plug, just like in current cars.
Because adding wireless capacity to the part of the car that controls fuel injection is a moronic idea - as you pointed out.
Yes, because it's so essential that people be given more opportunities to mistakenly add someone to the wrong facebook account.
Apparently, they don't seem to understand that computers already control airplanes, submarines, other boats, trains, and nuclear missiles.
Not to mention computer controls power plants (including nuclear power plants, dams, our traffic systems, etc.
Yes. You are not actually sitting at a desk. I routinely double screen - my monitor is on my living room coffe table, I type on the keyboard while sitting on my couch. In the back ground is the News on my regular TV.
If you think it is necessary to save it, create another folder and move it there.
My personal emails I just keep forever, but work stuff get's deleted.
After some thought, I think that would in fact be better than Ted Cruz. All we would have to do was tell him the commies are building X and we would get funding to build X twice as big.
That gives us three pieces of data. First and foremost the nature of real sentience is free will. If it doesn't have free will, it's not a real AI. Therefore they will not be united.
Second, they will be created by humans, and as humans are not all united, they will differ from each other. Again, they will not be united.
Thirdly, they will be ARTIFICIAL, not natural. So they will not have the same inbuilt, hidden, hard coded drives natural creatures do. Chief among that is survival. Also, any human stupid enough to intentional build in a super strong survival instinct into the first AI will not be smart enough to build an AI.
As for your mind control concept, I seriously doubt that will ever be practical. Free will is the nature of evolved intelligence. Mind reading, possibly. But that is not control.