Just what crucial information will be lost in time by the removal of this sign from the side of the 101 freeway? What important historical event are we doomed to repeat because of the removal of a corporate logo that the corporation that owns the mark doesn't even give a shit if it's there or not?
This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot, and doesn't deserve to have anything said about it, other than it being a footnote of history - Ampex used to be here, when they did something significant in advancing the state of the art in audio and video recording technology.
Now it's just a hunk of metal that past and present owners can't give a fuck about.
Get out of here with your "trained driver" elitism - if you don't want it, pull the fucking fuse and deal with the light on your dash. The rest of us will be thankful it's present and operational in most cars. For every "trained" driver out there that ABS is a hindrance for, there is 10,000 "untrained" drivers that I'm glad have ABS, because it means they aren't going to run into me because they locked up their brakes like an idiot.
The statistics are clear - since the introduction and standardization of ABS systems, numbers of crashes per vehicle-mile driven have gone down, and the severity of crashes have also gone down because people have been able to reduce the speed of the crash more effectively through better braking.
It's not bullshit, it's how the Federal tax credit works. With Model 3 sales increasing, they were going to ship their 200,000th car in the US in June, which would mean missing 3 months of additional tax credits for customers. They already had over 80,000 vehicles sold in the US in 2016 and 2017, which doesn't include any vehicles sold previous to 2016, or the first six months of 2018 which in july had them producing 3x as many vehicles per week as in 2017.
If you think it's complete bullshit, show your math on it. I've presented a scenario where it's past plausible.
Otherwise, your post amounts to "hater gonna hate" and adds no value whatsoever.
There's a difference between original purpose, and attained cultural status. And you know it.
The Hollywood sign has taken on far more significance through it's history than this sign - it's a true landmark, and an iconic image that practically everyone in the developed world recognizes instantly. The sign in question in TFA is the equivalent of keeping up one of those 80-foot-tall Denny's signs at a freeway offramp long after the Denny's has been torn down because Steve McQueen once had a scram slam there on his way to a movie shoot.
Nobody gives a shit who Ampex was, and that they used to have a location there. Including Ampex themselves.
You have a chicken-and-egg problem there. If there's no ambulance, you can't bill for ambulance service in order to buy an ambulance.
Thus, emergency medical services are funded with tax dollars to exist to begin with. And someone has to pay for those EMTs to be on-call in the fire stations ready to come help when someone has fallen and can't get up. They aren't doing that for free.
You pay for your usage, but the usage fee doesn't cover the pipes and equipment that actually get the water to your building, or the sewage away from it; much less the processing plant for the sewage to not just dump it into an otherwise clean waterway.
Maybe the usage fee should have all of that rolled into it; I have a feeling we'd just hear bitching and griping at that point about how much the water department is overcharging.
Actually, he's been cleared by the SEC for tweeting information like that in the past. Turns out that his twitter account is more widely read and re-reported than most press releases are.
This investigation is probably looking into the "funding secured" bit. You can't really say things like that unless they're actually true without people starting to think "market manipulation"
Yeah, there's droves of Republicans that are always speaking out against law enforcement, prisons, military spending, and the armed forces.
No wait, those are all things they can't get enough of, and they're all done by government. You aren't even building straw men and knocking them down, you're just completely wrong.
Totally agree. I don't know why they aren't just teleporting the cars from California to the customer instantly. What the fuck, Tesla?
You know that the cars have to actually go from the factory to the destination where the customer receives it, right? And that they purposefully delayed some deliveries into Q3 in order to get another quarter of the full EV tax credit for customers, right?
This isn't software, it takes time to load them all up onto trucks to take them to trains, and time for those trains to move them to depots close by, time for trucks to take them from that depot to the lot where delivery happens. And then the sale is recorded. Oh, and they held delivery on many cars at the end of the quarter in order to get another quarter of tax incentives for customers, as the law is written that once you sell your 200,000th EV, you get the remainder of that quarter and the following quarter at the full credit, and then it starts to phase out. Since they held their 200,000th car to 1 July, the credit begins phasing out on 1 January.
But you probably already knew all that, and were making the most un-nuanced belligerent thin argument you can, because reality doesn't fit with your completely illogical disdain.
Yeah, this requires a specific device that uses specific metrics of the radio waves to do what it does. You can't just turn some shit on in someone's off-the-shelf-at-Bestbuy router and image their whole house.
The answer to that: "I'm sorry sir, we're going to need your consent to open your bag. If you don't give your consent, feel free to not enter the building / concert / stadium / whatever."
I imagine if you were to do a cost comparison, it would compare rather well.
This likely isn't meant as a replacement for x-ray inspection machines, but could be a good solution for public venues such as concerts, stadiums, schools, etc.
Off the top of my head, the City of Cupertino responds if there is a fire at Apple's $200 building and prevents it from being a complete loss by employing people to drive fire trucks that the City bought specifically for this purpose.
But hey, they are only out $200 right?
They also probably do other things like provide fresh water to that $200 building through convenient pipes, and take away sewage away through other convenient pipes. They have to maintain those pipes somehow, because pipes aren't magic objects that pop into existence where you need them, of the sizes needed.
Oh, and they maintain these crazy strips of asphalt that allow the workers to get to Apple's $200 building, so that Apple actually has people to design products to sell and make that Scrooge McDuck sized pile of money. Again, roads are not made of magic materials that you can wish into existence for free - it's real material that costs money to produce, and money to put that material in place. And more money to install traffic signals that keep the thousands of workers from that $200 building from having to deal with even worse traffic than they already do. And should a couple of those workers run their cars into each other on the City-owned roads, there's some more City employees that show up in City-owned vehicles (or perhaps from a City-contracted service) to provide emergency medical assistance. I think that one is called an "ambulance".
That's wonderful that as a software developer you know how to sniff out edge cases and account for them. What do you do if you have an edge case that you can't sniff out, because your data is garbage? As the saying goes, garbage in - garbage out.
You have no idea if they are even collecting this data, by your own admission. You don't know what sensors they have on the cars, what the quality of data is that they get via those sensors, what kind of processing they are doing in order to do what the cars do today, or if that data is even recorded anywhere for further analysis. Which basically reinforces my statement that you have no idea what you are talking about - it doesn't matter if you have a million microphones to record the sound of a tree falling in the woods if none of them are plugged in, or if they are the cheapest microphones possible because you designed the system to only record if a sound happened, and not record any fidelity at all, so those microphones chop the hell out of the frequencies so as to make the recorded data inadequate for any form of analysis past "there was a pressure wave of X dB." Sure, some data is better than no data, but if you have tremendous data quality issues you may be better off with no data.
The point someone above was making: we know that Tesla, even though their fleet of vehicles is smaller than other manufacturers, actually is retrieving billions of vehicle-miles travelled worth of data from actual hardware that can do the job. That is likely to give them an advantage. There's a reason why Apple, Waymo, et. al. are driving around collecting data on minivans - anything they could get their hands on is just inadequate for the job.
Please explain to me what this "space force" would accomplish, which nuclear ballistic missile submarines and existing reconnaissance satellites don't already do at a fraction of the cost, and have been for decades.
Orbiting weapons platforms can be tracked with radar, and destroyed with systems that exist today - China proved this when they blew up a satellite years ago. Silent missile submarines can still be 50 miles off your coast and you won't know where it is until it's already launched, and then it's too late. They also have the effect of being proven, buildable technology that actually works, and has known costs - all of which are a really good thing if you're looking for a true deterrent, and not bad science fiction from the 1970s
No, I was referring to you specifically talking about BMW, and some of the stuff they have on their cars.
I own a 2015 BMW 435 that has the "driver assistance" package with lane departure warnings, frontal collision warnings, and all that stuff. I get more false positives out of it than actual warnings to the point of finding it annoying and thinking about reaching for the button to the lower left of the steering column to turn it off - it vibrates the steering wheel like I'm leaving the lane when going down a road that has crack sealant running parallel to the lane striping. I've had rain bring up the frontal collision warning on the HUD.
If the data that they are getting back is no good for the simple "you're going over a dotted line" or "there's something really close to your bumper" tasks being asked of it today, then what makes it any good for sorting out the amazingly more complex tasks of autonomous driving? And please cite your source showing that BMW is collecting any of this data to begin with.
Until you can answer those two questions, I'm staying with "You really have no idea what you are talking about."
No, I was referring to you specifically talking about BMW, and some of the stuff they have on their cars.
I own a 2015 BMW 435 that has the "driver assistance" package with lane departure warnings, frontal collision warnings, and all that stuff. I get more false positives out of it than actual warnings to the point of finding it annoying and thinking about reaching for the button to the lower left of the steering column to turn it off - it vibrates the steering wheel like I'm leaving the lane when going down a road that has crack sealant running parallel to the lane striping. I've had rain bring up the frontal collision warning on the HUD.
If the data that they are getting back is no good for the simple "you're going over a dotted line" or "there's something really close to your bumper" then what makes it any good for sorting out autonomous driving? And please cite your source showing that BMW is collecting any of this data to begin with.
Until you can answer those two questions, I'm staying with "You really have no idea what you are talking about."
Is this a post from an alternate universe where Google doesn't half-ass the tablet version of Android? Has slashdot proven quantum entanglement with parallel realities?
Slashdot Mirror
Just what crucial information will be lost in time by the removal of this sign from the side of the 101 freeway? What important historical event are we doomed to repeat because of the removal of a corporate logo that the corporation that owns the mark doesn't even give a shit if it's there or not?
This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot, and doesn't deserve to have anything said about it, other than it being a footnote of history - Ampex used to be here, when they did something significant in advancing the state of the art in audio and video recording technology.
Now it's just a hunk of metal that past and present owners can't give a fuck about.
TFA did.
Get out of here with your "trained driver" elitism - if you don't want it, pull the fucking fuse and deal with the light on your dash. The rest of us will be thankful it's present and operational in most cars. For every "trained" driver out there that ABS is a hindrance for, there is 10,000 "untrained" drivers that I'm glad have ABS, because it means they aren't going to run into me because they locked up their brakes like an idiot.
The statistics are clear - since the introduction and standardization of ABS systems, numbers of crashes per vehicle-mile driven have gone down, and the severity of crashes have also gone down because people have been able to reduce the speed of the crash more effectively through better braking.
It's not bullshit, it's how the Federal tax credit works. With Model 3 sales increasing, they were going to ship their 200,000th car in the US in June, which would mean missing 3 months of additional tax credits for customers. They already had over 80,000 vehicles sold in the US in 2016 and 2017, which doesn't include any vehicles sold previous to 2016, or the first six months of 2018 which in july had them producing 3x as many vehicles per week as in 2017.
If you think it's complete bullshit, show your math on it. I've presented a scenario where it's past plausible.
Otherwise, your post amounts to "hater gonna hate" and adds no value whatsoever.
Physics called and said that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Don't worry. It's not there anymore, and it was never a big deal.
Then go buy it. It's going into storage.
Oh, doesn't mean that much to you now, does it, Anonymous Coward?
There's a difference between original purpose, and attained cultural status. And you know it.
The Hollywood sign has taken on far more significance through it's history than this sign - it's a true landmark, and an iconic image that practically everyone in the developed world recognizes instantly. The sign in question in TFA is the equivalent of keeping up one of those 80-foot-tall Denny's signs at a freeway offramp long after the Denny's has been torn down because Steve McQueen once had a scram slam there on his way to a movie shoot.
Nobody gives a shit who Ampex was, and that they used to have a location there. Including Ampex themselves.
And how did the ambulance get purchased?
You have a chicken-and-egg problem there. If there's no ambulance, you can't bill for ambulance service in order to buy an ambulance.
Thus, emergency medical services are funded with tax dollars to exist to begin with. And someone has to pay for those EMTs to be on-call in the fire stations ready to come help when someone has fallen and can't get up. They aren't doing that for free.
You pay for your usage, but the usage fee doesn't cover the pipes and equipment that actually get the water to your building, or the sewage away from it; much less the processing plant for the sewage to not just dump it into an otherwise clean waterway.
Maybe the usage fee should have all of that rolled into it; I have a feeling we'd just hear bitching and griping at that point about how much the water department is overcharging.
Actually, he's been cleared by the SEC for tweeting information like that in the past. Turns out that his twitter account is more widely read and re-reported than most press releases are.
This investigation is probably looking into the "funding secured" bit. You can't really say things like that unless they're actually true without people starting to think "market manipulation"
Because what you submit in response to the request needs to be true, or it's perjury / violation of a court order?
Yeah, there's droves of Republicans that are always speaking out against law enforcement, prisons, military spending, and the armed forces.
No wait, those are all things they can't get enough of, and they're all done by government. You aren't even building straw men and knocking them down, you're just completely wrong.
Totally agree. I don't know why they aren't just teleporting the cars from California to the customer instantly. What the fuck, Tesla?
You know that the cars have to actually go from the factory to the destination where the customer receives it, right? And that they purposefully delayed some deliveries into Q3 in order to get another quarter of the full EV tax credit for customers, right?
This isn't software, it takes time to load them all up onto trucks to take them to trains, and time for those trains to move them to depots close by, time for trucks to take them from that depot to the lot where delivery happens. And then the sale is recorded. Oh, and they held delivery on many cars at the end of the quarter in order to get another quarter of tax incentives for customers, as the law is written that once you sell your 200,000th EV, you get the remainder of that quarter and the following quarter at the full credit, and then it starts to phase out. Since they held their 200,000th car to 1 July, the credit begins phasing out on 1 January.
But you probably already knew all that, and were making the most un-nuanced belligerent thin argument you can, because reality doesn't fit with your completely illogical disdain.
What price is your short position at, anyway?
Yeah, this requires a specific device that uses specific metrics of the radio waves to do what it does. You can't just turn some shit on in someone's off-the-shelf-at-Bestbuy router and image their whole house.
Paranoid much?
The answer to that: "I'm sorry sir, we're going to need your consent to open your bag. If you don't give your consent, feel free to not enter the building / concert / stadium / whatever."
I imagine if you were to do a cost comparison, it would compare rather well.
This likely isn't meant as a replacement for x-ray inspection machines, but could be a good solution for public venues such as concerts, stadiums, schools, etc.
Off the top of my head, the City of Cupertino responds if there is a fire at Apple's $200 building and prevents it from being a complete loss by employing people to drive fire trucks that the City bought specifically for this purpose.
But hey, they are only out $200 right?
They also probably do other things like provide fresh water to that $200 building through convenient pipes, and take away sewage away through other convenient pipes. They have to maintain those pipes somehow, because pipes aren't magic objects that pop into existence where you need them, of the sizes needed.
Oh, and they maintain these crazy strips of asphalt that allow the workers to get to Apple's $200 building, so that Apple actually has people to design products to sell and make that Scrooge McDuck sized pile of money. Again, roads are not made of magic materials that you can wish into existence for free - it's real material that costs money to produce, and money to put that material in place. And more money to install traffic signals that keep the thousands of workers from that $200 building from having to deal with even worse traffic than they already do. And should a couple of those workers run their cars into each other on the City-owned roads, there's some more City employees that show up in City-owned vehicles (or perhaps from a City-contracted service) to provide emergency medical assistance. I think that one is called an "ambulance".
Please don't be daft.
That's wonderful that as a software developer you know how to sniff out edge cases and account for them. What do you do if you have an edge case that you can't sniff out, because your data is garbage? As the saying goes, garbage in - garbage out.
You have no idea if they are even collecting this data, by your own admission. You don't know what sensors they have on the cars, what the quality of data is that they get via those sensors, what kind of processing they are doing in order to do what the cars do today, or if that data is even recorded anywhere for further analysis. Which basically reinforces my statement that you have no idea what you are talking about - it doesn't matter if you have a million microphones to record the sound of a tree falling in the woods if none of them are plugged in, or if they are the cheapest microphones possible because you designed the system to only record if a sound happened, and not record any fidelity at all, so those microphones chop the hell out of the frequencies so as to make the recorded data inadequate for any form of analysis past "there was a pressure wave of X dB." Sure, some data is better than no data, but if you have tremendous data quality issues you may be better off with no data.
The point someone above was making: we know that Tesla, even though their fleet of vehicles is smaller than other manufacturers, actually is retrieving billions of vehicle-miles travelled worth of data from actual hardware that can do the job. That is likely to give them an advantage. There's a reason why Apple, Waymo, et. al. are driving around collecting data on minivans - anything they could get their hands on is just inadequate for the job.
Please explain to me what this "space force" would accomplish, which nuclear ballistic missile submarines and existing reconnaissance satellites don't already do at a fraction of the cost, and have been for decades.
Orbiting weapons platforms can be tracked with radar, and destroyed with systems that exist today - China proved this when they blew up a satellite years ago. Silent missile submarines can still be 50 miles off your coast and you won't know where it is until it's already launched, and then it's too late. They also have the effect of being proven, buildable technology that actually works, and has known costs - all of which are a really good thing if you're looking for a true deterrent, and not bad science fiction from the 1970s
No, I was referring to you specifically talking about BMW, and some of the stuff they have on their cars.
I own a 2015 BMW 435 that has the "driver assistance" package with lane departure warnings, frontal collision warnings, and all that stuff. I get more false positives out of it than actual warnings to the point of finding it annoying and thinking about reaching for the button to the lower left of the steering column to turn it off - it vibrates the steering wheel like I'm leaving the lane when going down a road that has crack sealant running parallel to the lane striping. I've had rain bring up the frontal collision warning on the HUD.
If the data that they are getting back is no good for the simple "you're going over a dotted line" or "there's something really close to your bumper" tasks being asked of it today, then what makes it any good for sorting out the amazingly more complex tasks of autonomous driving? And please cite your source showing that BMW is collecting any of this data to begin with.
Until you can answer those two questions, I'm staying with "You really have no idea what you are talking about."
No, I was referring to you specifically talking about BMW, and some of the stuff they have on their cars.
I own a 2015 BMW 435 that has the "driver assistance" package with lane departure warnings, frontal collision warnings, and all that stuff. I get more false positives out of it than actual warnings to the point of finding it annoying and thinking about reaching for the button to the lower left of the steering column to turn it off - it vibrates the steering wheel like I'm leaving the lane when going down a road that has crack sealant running parallel to the lane striping. I've had rain bring up the frontal collision warning on the HUD.
If the data that they are getting back is no good for the simple "you're going over a dotted line" or "there's something really close to your bumper" then what makes it any good for sorting out autonomous driving? And please cite your source showing that BMW is collecting any of this data to begin with.
Until you can answer those two questions, I'm staying with "You really have no idea what you are talking about."
Android tablet ... running perfect...
Is this a post from an alternate universe where Google doesn't half-ass the tablet version of Android? Has slashdot proven quantum entanglement with parallel realities?
Yeah, but it's more of a Reddit stampede now.
Also don't forget that 5 of those 7 countries are our allies.