Don't kid yourself, the much larger issue is the fact that we need autonomous cars in the first place, because distracted humans are doing a pretty fucking shitty job of responding to an "infinite number of scenarios" and killing tens of thousands of humans every year as a result.
We don't 'need' autonomous cars. At current rates of progress, mass-produced autonomous cars will arrive just about the time that telepresense has made cars obsolete.
The idea that you could react faster or make a better critical decision than the computer is sort of funny actually.
Belief in the infallibility of computers and programmers is sort of funny, actually.
I test-drove an SUV last year which would beep if you started crossing the lines in the road. Wow, brilliant, right? Except, for at least six months a year, you can't see the lines on the road around here.
Instead, wouldn't the car be programmed to avoid ALL obstacles and apply the brakes with maximum efficiency?
Yes, because cars can always stop instantly when a kid runs out in front of them.
Ultimately, someone's going end up programming the 'what to do when you have a choice between hitting a kid or a bus full of nuns' case, either intentionally, or as a consequence of general obstacle programming.
A vehicle won't be 100% autonomous, and least not for the foreseeable future. Meaning, there's still a steering wheel and peddles for human interaction.
But the fanboys keep telling us that all the human drivers will be gone in five years because Google.
Why would I want a 'driverless car' if I can't sit in the back drinking whiskey because the car might expect me to take over at any second? What's the point?
Gun control actually works in a lot of other countries.
[citation needed]
Hint: I'll save you some trouble, by pointing out that there's no correlation between gun ownership and crime rates, and the governments of some of those disarmed nations you love so much have killed millions of their people in the last century alone.
The thing is, going to the moon in the 60s is the reason why you have nice things like smartphones today.
ICs already existed before Apollo. At worst, computers would be a few years behind where we are today.
If you really want to find the money we used to be able to throw at expensive technological boondoggles, it's easy. It's in the massively increased post-60s welfare state.
The hard part of 'bread and circuses' is funding both.
The overall mood at the organization isn't fantastic, the've lost a lot of top talent, a significant percentage the IT department is contractors now, and some very large on-going IT infrastructure projects halted or failed outright.
I only know of two groups that care about the desktop: Outlook users and Word users. No one else cares.
Basically, just about anyone who does real work cares about the desktop. People who just need a computer to post funny cat pictures are fine with their phones.
If the desktop is becoming irrelevant, it's because Microsoft made it so when they pushed a phone UI onto desktop machines.
Are you a fucking idiot? If I send a continuous spike through an entire range of frequencies, that'd kill your "spread spectrum. Sure, you can go use other frequencies, but I can generate noise or just overwhelm any signal you can put out.
Yes, if someone is actively trying to prevent me from talking to my wi-fi base station, they can do that. But what kind of idiot would throw gigawatts of power across gigahertz just so they'd interfere with my signal? Radio Moscow?
Without regulation, giant telcos and broadcast entities could stomp all over whichever spectrum they choose without regard to whether it's ruining your WiFi.
Without regulation, we'd be using wideband spread spectrum for our signals, and our signals would be stomping all over any attempt by big telcos to take over the radio spectrum.
By arguing for regulation, you're arguing for big business. Are you a 1%-er?
We should maybe aspire to something greater than a 3000 year old model?
Sadly, most people think the big government they keep voting for is there to help them, not to help those who buy the politicians they vote for. With enemies like the left, the 1% don't need friends.
Rather than view it in terms of "the right way" versus "the wrong way", how about we agree that on average men PREFER a certain communication style that is different from women's average preferred communication style.
No, because that would require agreeing that men and women are different.
(Kerry) even as he is jetting off for the TPP signing that is 100% guaranteed to remove whatever trivial impediments remain to frictionless off-shoring the last of our manufacturing base to whatever seething pollution hell-hole is cheapest this week.
The interesting part is that I was reading an article the other day about companies who are planning to save money by building automated factories in the West, so they no longer have to ship stuff thousands of miles from China.
International trade is about to collapse. But, then, you can't really expect politicians to be anything but twenty years behind the times.
Of course, the 'social media' bubble is about to collapse too.
Prior to the rise of advertising, almost all sites were 'independent'. They'll be around for a long time after the end of Internet advertising, because they're run for love, not money.
It's the sites which exist solely to capture search results to bring in ad revenue that will die. And the rest of the world will celebrate.
I've no idea what's taking Google so long supporting plugins on Chrome on Android, but I no longer care.
Why would an advertising company want you to block ads in their web browser?
Google must be crapping themselves at the growth of ad-blocking. And, to be fair, their ads aren't the kind that people really want to block, but they'll be collateral damage as everyone starts blocking everything.
Wikipedia is usually accurate for purely technical articles. It's when the SJWs get involved that it goes to crap. I can't see them caring much about the dimensions of Russian rockets, except to the extent that long, cylindrical things glorify the evil whitemale patriarchy and encourage rape culture.
I wonder who is for it. Why did Congress pass the fast track? I leave the answer as an exercise for the reader.
The support for this treaty is clear and obvious: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The Coporate-Government Complex is fully in favour. No-one else wants anything to do with it. Which is exactly why they want to keep it secret, until they can push it through without debate.
And a big 'screw you' to Slashdot's 'junk character' filter.
There were automated cameras: for example, on the rockets to record behaviour for post-launch analysis, and. I believe, on the LEM to record the landing. But the ones I looked at from this set would all have been taken by astronauts.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Can't talk about phones, but my girlfriend's iPad had been out for a year or two when I bought it for her a couple of years ago, and it's still getting the latest iOS releases. I believe only the original iPad has been made obsolete by Apple so far.
Meanwhile, the local electronics store is still selling the Nexus 7, which probably gets its last OS upgrade from Google next week.
If Google don't fix this crap, they're going to toss the cheap phone/tablet market to Microsoft.
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Don't kid yourself, the much larger issue is the fact that we need autonomous cars in the first place, because distracted humans are doing a pretty fucking shitty job of responding to an "infinite number of scenarios" and killing tens of thousands of humans every year as a result.
We don't 'need' autonomous cars. At current rates of progress, mass-produced autonomous cars will arrive just about the time that telepresense has made cars obsolete.
The idea that you could react faster or make a better critical decision than the computer is sort of funny actually.
Belief in the infallibility of computers and programmers is sort of funny, actually.
I test-drove an SUV last year which would beep if you started crossing the lines in the road. Wow, brilliant, right? Except, for at least six months a year, you can't see the lines on the road around here.
Instead, wouldn't the car be programmed to avoid ALL obstacles and apply the brakes with maximum efficiency?
Yes, because cars can always stop instantly when a kid runs out in front of them.
Ultimately, someone's going end up programming the 'what to do when you have a choice between hitting a kid or a bus full of nuns' case, either intentionally, or as a consequence of general obstacle programming.
A vehicle won't be 100% autonomous, and least not for the foreseeable future. Meaning, there's still a steering wheel and peddles for human interaction.
But the fanboys keep telling us that all the human drivers will be gone in five years because Google.
Why would I want a 'driverless car' if I can't sit in the back drinking whiskey because the car might expect me to take over at any second? What's the point?
And Linux is being overrun by hipsters who can't see something that works without wanting to replace it.
In any case, I heard they dropped Wayland support because systemd will soon be the new Linux GUI.
Gun control actually works in a lot of other countries.
[citation needed]
Hint: I'll save you some trouble, by pointing out that there's no correlation between gun ownership and crime rates, and the governments of some of those disarmed nations you love so much have killed millions of their people in the last century alone.
The thing is, going to the moon in the 60s is the reason why you have nice things like smartphones today.
ICs already existed before Apollo. At worst, computers would be a few years behind where we are today.
If you really want to find the money we used to be able to throw at expensive technological boondoggles, it's easy. It's in the massively increased post-60s welfare state.
The hard part of 'bread and circuses' is funding both.
That's what happens when you let SJWs run things.
Ooh, I see we have an SJW as a mod today. Truth hurts, don't it?
Seems that losing some of their talent is having a negative impact.
But the ones who are left are 'thrilled and fulfilled'.
Which is what really matters.
The overall mood at the organization isn't fantastic, the've lost a lot of top talent, a significant percentage the IT department is contractors now, and some very large on-going IT infrastructure projects halted or failed outright.
That's what happens when you let SJWs run things.
I only know of two groups that care about the desktop: Outlook users and Word users. No one else cares.
Basically, just about anyone who does real work cares about the desktop. People who just need a computer to post funny cat pictures are fine with their phones.
If the desktop is becoming irrelevant, it's because Microsoft made it so when they pushed a phone UI onto desktop machines.
Which is not available for nexus 7 (2012) and older devices...
Or, indeed, many newer devices.
Why is it that Free Energy True Believers can barely produce a coherent sentence?
You have that question backwards. Ask the correct question, and it answers itself.
Are you a fucking idiot? If I send a continuous spike through an entire range of frequencies, that'd kill your "spread spectrum. Sure, you can go use other frequencies, but I can generate noise or just overwhelm any signal you can put out.
Yes, if someone is actively trying to prevent me from talking to my wi-fi base station, they can do that. But what kind of idiot would throw gigawatts of power across gigahertz just so they'd interfere with my signal? Radio Moscow?
Without regulation, giant telcos and broadcast entities could stomp all over whichever spectrum they choose without regard to whether it's ruining your WiFi.
Without regulation, we'd be using wideband spread spectrum for our signals, and our signals would be stomping all over any attempt by big telcos to take over the radio spectrum.
By arguing for regulation, you're arguing for big business. Are you a 1%-er?
We should maybe aspire to something greater than a 3000 year old model?
Sadly, most people think the big government they keep voting for is there to help them, not to help those who buy the politicians they vote for. With enemies like the left, the 1% don't need friends.
Rather than view it in terms of "the right way" versus "the wrong way", how about we agree that on average men PREFER a certain communication style that is different from women's average preferred communication style.
No, because that would require agreeing that men and women are different.
Which is SEXIST!
(Kerry) even as he is jetting off for the TPP signing that is 100% guaranteed to remove whatever trivial impediments remain to frictionless off-shoring the last of our manufacturing base to whatever seething pollution hell-hole is cheapest this week.
The interesting part is that I was reading an article the other day about companies who are planning to save money by building automated factories in the West, so they no longer have to ship stuff thousands of miles from China.
International trade is about to collapse. But, then, you can't really expect politicians to be anything but twenty years behind the times.
Of course, the 'social media' bubble is about to collapse too.
Prior to the rise of advertising, almost all sites were 'independent'. They'll be around for a long time after the end of Internet advertising, because they're run for love, not money.
It's the sites which exist solely to capture search results to bring in ad revenue that will die. And the rest of the world will celebrate.
I've no idea what's taking Google so long supporting plugins on Chrome on Android, but I no longer care.
Why would an advertising company want you to block ads in their web browser?
Google must be crapping themselves at the growth of ad-blocking. And, to be fair, their ads aren't the kind that people really want to block, but they'll be collateral damage as everyone starts blocking everything.
Wikipedia is usually accurate for purely technical articles. It's when the SJWs get involved that it goes to crap. I can't see them caring much about the dimensions of Russian rockets, except to the extent that long, cylindrical things glorify the evil whitemale patriarchy and encourage rape culture.
If I remember correctly, those photos weren't planned, they just saw the Earth rising outside the window and grabbed a camera.
I wonder who is for it. Why did Congress pass the fast track? I leave the answer as an exercise for the reader.
The support for this treaty is clear and obvious: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The Coporate-Government Complex is fully in favour. No-one else wants anything to do with it. Which is exactly why they want to keep it secret, until they can push it through without debate.
And a big 'screw you' to Slashdot's 'junk character' filter.
There were automated cameras: for example, on the rockets to record behaviour for post-launch analysis, and. I believe, on the LEM to record the landing. But the ones I looked at from this set would all have been taken by astronauts.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Can't talk about phones, but my girlfriend's iPad had been out for a year or two when I bought it for her a couple of years ago, and it's still getting the latest iOS releases. I believe only the original iPad has been made obsolete by Apple so far.
Meanwhile, the local electronics store is still selling the Nexus 7, which probably gets its last OS upgrade from Google next week.
If Google don't fix this crap, they're going to toss the cheap phone/tablet market to Microsoft.