I can think of dozens of professions that need and drive cars and pickup trucks all day every day. Some companies are so small that they're made up of just one or two people. Think: plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, small delivery vehicles, home health care nurses, etc. Are they going to "summon" their work vehicle every morning? Get a ride with ALL of their tools with Uber? LOL! Look around at the traffic during the work day and notice how many vehicles out there are actually driven by people who are working, not just going shopping or wasting time. We don't all work in offices, with parking lots or parking decks nearby. And I sure as hell don't want cop cars to be self-driving!
I drive a company truck that's one of a "fleet" of eight pickup trucks. I drive it home, to the store, and just about wherever else I need to go. Today I'll drive it 51 miles to work and spend the day driving it with the truck being half on the road and half off the road, at about 1.5 mph. Visualize a vehicle driving on the shoulder of the road, except most roads don't have a shoulder wide enough to get completely off the road. That's with traffic on busy streets and sometimes against traffic in residential neighborhoods. I've even driven it many times through the woods on pipeline right-of-ways. How's a self-driving vehicle going to do that? Sometimes we need several trucks to block traffic when pipe repair work is being done. How's a self-driving truck going to do that?
Speaking of which, how does a self-driving car park in a parking lot with no spaces painted? Or park in an open field next to an athletic field. I don't even know how they got the cars in this discussion to drive into a car wash to begin with!
No, millions of vehicles will still be privately owned despite your vision of Utopia.
What "required expenses" do brick and mortar stores have that Amazon doesn't have? Amazon has employees, pays property taxes, pays utilities, pays insurance on their properties, etc.
Besides the flu shot, my strategy is washing my hands constantly, never shaking another person's hand, staying away from groups of people, and staying as healthy as I can. I'm lucky that I don't work around many people. When I'm actually working I'm alone and I live by myself. Hard to catch a virus if you're rarely exposed to it.
I've had flu three times in my life (diagnosed as influenza) and I hope to never have it again. When it hits you, you know it. It's not like a cold or an upper respiratory infection. It will knock you down hard.
with my eyes! Seriously, the maps lack decent contrast. What I could see a few years ago is nearly impossible to see now. I would like to blame them, but I know it's really my aging eyes that are at fault.
Their maps have never really had decent contrast. You sure as hell can't print them. Plus, I wonder how many car accidents have been caused by people squinting at their phones trying to see a street name.
A few years ago I was headed to a job and I already knew the way there, but I was using my Garmin to give me some idea of the ETA. Approaching an intersection where I knew I was going to be turning left, Garmin told me to "take a right and make a u-turn". Some people would blindly follow such directions, but a human who has been that way before would know better.
To this day Garmin wants me to take a dead-end dirt road to come home from Guntersville, Alabama. What's up with that?
That's quite a jump you made there. The article said the men drove faster. It didn't say they were speeding. It could very well be that the women drivers simply drove s-l-o-w-e-r.
I'm hoping they find a ton of Mayan scripts. We have so few and finding more would tell us a great deal about their civilization. The Spanish priests burned every scrap of Mayan script they could find. Shameful.
My calculations show that your average scientist has a much larger carbon footprint than your average bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. Therefore, you should kill one scientist for every 1000 such biscuits you eat.
My math may be off a bit; it could very well be one scientist equals 10,000 or 10,000,000 bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits. Depends on the scientist's age, weight, eating habits, etc..
Maybe, but I see it as an ignorant kid who doesn't know how things work, where they came from, and what things are used for. They're the kind who, when they grow up, won't know how to do simple things like change a light bulb or repair a toilet.
It's a bit like the Spectrum commercial where the kids are watching television on a phone and a tablet. They're bewildered by the notion of watching television on an actual television. Kids like that irritate me.
The way it looks right now is that we'll be using it forever. There's no timeline for when TabMixPlus will be ready for the new Firefox. When, or if, it is finally ready, I'll take another look at Firefox 57 or 58.
I also like having the status bar, and I see no way to do it in the new Firefox.
Sometimes I think I'd be willing to PAY for a good browser that works right and respects my privacy.
No, what we want is California kicked out of the United States. They haven't been American in years. After we kick them out we can build a wall to keep them out.
If anything in this post offends you, believe me, I tried my best to do so.:p
I can see something like this being bought and used by hospitals, but I don't think we're going to see such devices in homes in our lifetime, if ever.
There was an article in the NYT about hospitals getting together to get into the generic drug manufacturing business. I think that's a great idea for lowering costs.
I started to say it would depend on how bright the nine-year-old was, but since he's already asking, it means he's curious and that's the best time to teach a child about something. One of my teachers used to say, "Seize the moment of excited curiosity."
I have seen a few books (and own a couple of them) written on the subject specifically targeted to young people. Just a quick search on Amazon yielded this one - "Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities and Thought Experiments". I know there are others out there.
Let the kid read one or two of those books and then have a discussion with him to see how much he learned. If he's a bright as I suspect he is, I think you'll be surprised.
I have all of my computers (all with AMD and all with Windows 7) set up to tell me about updates but let me decide which ones and when to install them.
If they had been set up to automatically update, at least one, or all of them, would have been stuck by now. I can't imagine the fear of living with Windows 10, never knowing when the next automatic update will brick your computer. Or being right in the middle of something important, like work, and having the computer decide that this would be a nice time to update. No, thank you, Microsoft.
So far I haven't seen the new update listed. I think I'll still let other users go first before I risk it.
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I can think of dozens of professions that need and drive cars and pickup trucks all day every day. Some companies are so small that they're made up of just one or two people. Think: plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, small delivery vehicles, home health care nurses, etc. Are they going to "summon" their work vehicle every morning? Get a ride with ALL of their tools with Uber? LOL! Look around at the traffic during the work day and notice how many vehicles out there are actually driven by people who are working, not just going shopping or wasting time. We don't all work in offices, with parking lots or parking decks nearby. And I sure as hell don't want cop cars to be self-driving!
I drive a company truck that's one of a "fleet" of eight pickup trucks. I drive it home, to the store, and just about wherever else I need to go. Today I'll drive it 51 miles to work and spend the day driving it with the truck being half on the road and half off the road, at about 1.5 mph. Visualize a vehicle driving on the shoulder of the road, except most roads don't have a shoulder wide enough to get completely off the road. That's with traffic on busy streets and sometimes against traffic in residential neighborhoods. I've even driven it many times through the woods on pipeline right-of-ways. How's a self-driving vehicle going to do that? Sometimes we need several trucks to block traffic when pipe repair work is being done. How's a self-driving truck going to do that?
Speaking of which, how does a self-driving car park in a parking lot with no spaces painted? Or park in an open field next to an athletic field. I don't even know how they got the cars in this discussion to drive into a car wash to begin with!
No, millions of vehicles will still be privately owned despite your vision of Utopia.
"By consent" for now. Who knows about tomorrow? Once Salon goes down this dark road, they may be tempted to do other nefarious shit.
And they may not even tell you about it.
You just don't realize that if you ever get the kind of world you keep hoping for, you'll probably be one of the first to go in the dustbin.
How in hell am I supposed to hold my newspaper with both hands on the steering wheel?!?
Give them an episode or two of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and nobody out there will ever visit us!
What "required expenses" do brick and mortar stores have that Amazon doesn't have? Amazon has employees, pays property taxes, pays utilities, pays insurance on their properties, etc.
Besides the flu shot, my strategy is washing my hands constantly, never shaking another person's hand, staying away from groups of people, and staying as healthy as I can. I'm lucky that I don't work around many people. When I'm actually working I'm alone and I live by myself. Hard to catch a virus if you're rarely exposed to it.
I've had flu three times in my life (diagnosed as influenza) and I hope to never have it again. When it hits you, you know it. It's not like a cold or an upper respiratory infection. It will knock you down hard.
with my eyes! Seriously, the maps lack decent contrast. What I could see a few years ago is nearly impossible to see now. I would like to blame them, but I know it's really my aging eyes that are at fault.
Their maps have never really had decent contrast. You sure as hell can't print them. Plus, I wonder how many car accidents have been caused by people squinting at their phones trying to see a street name.
A few years ago I was headed to a job and I already knew the way there, but I was using my Garmin to give me some idea of the ETA. Approaching an intersection where I knew I was going to be turning left, Garmin told me to "take a right and make a u-turn". Some people would blindly follow such directions, but a human who has been that way before would know better.
To this day Garmin wants me to take a dead-end dirt road to come home from Guntersville, Alabama. What's up with that?
That's quite a jump you made there. The article said the men drove faster. It didn't say they were speeding. It could very well be that the women drivers simply drove s-l-o-w-e-r.
I'm hoping they find a ton of Mayan scripts. We have so few and finding more would tell us a great deal about their civilization. The Spanish priests burned every scrap of Mayan script they could find. Shameful.
#metoo
Are you saying "Pound me, too"?
If your website pisses me off because of the way it loads (no matter which browser I'm using), I'm simply never coming back there.
While I'm bitching, if you use light gray text on a barely darker gray background, may you rot in Hell forever.
Usually, when people use X to mean times, they do it with a lowercase x.
They can take Target's slogan and turn it around.
Expect less, pay more!
I'll be 65 next month and I like Fortran, or FORTRAN as we knew it back in the day.
My calculations show that your average scientist has a much larger carbon footprint than your average bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. Therefore, you should kill one scientist for every 1000 such biscuits you eat.
My math may be off a bit; it could very well be one scientist equals 10,000 or 10,000,000 bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits. Depends on the scientist's age, weight, eating habits, etc..
Maybe, but I see it as an ignorant kid who doesn't know how things work, where they came from, and what things are used for. They're the kind who, when they grow up, won't know how to do simple things like change a light bulb or repair a toilet.
It's a bit like the Spectrum commercial where the kids are watching television on a phone and a tablet. They're bewildered by the notion of watching television on an actual television. Kids like that irritate me.
The way it looks right now is that we'll be using it forever. There's no timeline for when TabMixPlus will be ready for the new Firefox. When, or if, it is finally ready, I'll take another look at Firefox 57 or 58.
I also like having the status bar, and I see no way to do it in the new Firefox.
Sometimes I think I'd be willing to PAY for a good browser that works right and respects my privacy.
No, what we want is California kicked out of the United States. They haven't been American in years. After we kick them out we can build a wall to keep them out.
:p
If anything in this post offends you, believe me, I tried my best to do so.
I can see something like this being bought and used by hospitals, but I don't think we're going to see such devices in homes in our lifetime, if ever.
There was an article in the NYT about hospitals getting together to get into the generic drug manufacturing business. I think that's a great idea for lowering costs.
I started to say it would depend on how bright the nine-year-old was, but since he's already asking, it means he's curious and that's the best time to teach a child about something. One of my teachers used to say, "Seize the moment of excited curiosity."
I have seen a few books (and own a couple of them) written on the subject specifically targeted to young people. Just a quick search on Amazon yielded this one - "Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities and Thought Experiments". I know there are others out there.
Let the kid read one or two of those books and then have a discussion with him to see how much he learned. If he's a bright as I suspect he is, I think you'll be surprised.
I have all of my computers (all with AMD and all with Windows 7) set up to tell me about updates but let me decide which ones and when to install them.
If they had been set up to automatically update, at least one, or all of them, would have been stuck by now. I can't imagine the fear of living with Windows 10, never knowing when the next automatic update will brick your computer. Or being right in the middle of something important, like work, and having the computer decide that this would be a nice time to update. No, thank you, Microsoft.
So far I haven't seen the new update listed. I think I'll still let other users go first before I risk it.
I wonder if the Echo product page should say:
Sold by the NSA, Fulfilled by Amazon
They can read my thoughts even through my tin foil hat? Wow!
Good thing I don't own an Echo.
Though I have thought about buying an Echo string trimmer . . . . may have to rethink that one.