This is a guess, but since usually the consequence of not using one's options to put out the fires are to have fires the burn out of control, I'm not really surprised that these things aren't well tested. In emergencies a lot of things are overlooked.
If there are consequences to exposure, then this needs to be addressed before it kills the very people that are trying to save us.
Heads' up displays in cars have been available on and off since the eighties. They're typically projector-based and use glass or an applique on the glass that reflects only where the projector points.
I've actually given this some thought, and I'd still own a car, even if it were entirely autonomous in its operation, assuming I continue to live where I either have on-site parking or have ready access to inexpensive or free parking close by. If I want to go somewhere I don't want to wait for the car to come fetch me, I want to be able to essentially hop-in and go.
I think that my wife and I could probably get away with only one car if that car were truly autonomous, assuming that traffic-related issues don't prevent that car from making its rounds to drops us off at each of our jobs or pick us up on time, but we'd still want to own.
I don't think that Uber is even being all that original through the idea of applying a smartphone to electronic dispatch. I'd bet that some cab companies had already toyed with the idea of allowing one to summon without having to speak with a dispatcher.
It'll be interesting to see how privacy rights and property rights collide on this issue. I admit I'm not wild about sitting with a camera pointed at me for the duration of a paid ride, even without any intention of committing a crime. I have no control over the recording or its use after it's created, after all.
Well, it's not exactly easy when food is so damn abundant, and lots of prepacked things are "portioned" for more than one person but are sized where one person can eat the contents easily.
I think that for prepackaged food products, if there's no way to reseal the packaging provided, then the calorie content and other information on the packaging needs to state the total for the entire contents, not for some obtuse 2.5 servings. For prepackaged food where there is a way to reseal, the number of servings needs to be prominently displayed on the front and both the nutritional information per-serving and the total sum for the entire package need to be displayed.
No, but the insinuation was that a vote for the Republican was a vote for private enterprise. Musk is proving to be successful without the kind of sweet-deal contracts that the existing military-industrial complex has enjoyed with regard to space launch technology. That was my point, he's not Republican.
I'm a lot more patient today than I was ten years ago, and my hobbies are a lot wider in scope now too. Back then, I didn't want to wait for a mailorder item to arrive. Now I'll find something else to do, but a retail store offered me instant gratification and an ability to inspect items before purchase if I needed to do that in order to decide.
The saddest thing of all is that Sears was in a position to be what Amazon has become, but with an even better distribution chain and at the time, far more product. The Sears Catalog was the gold standard for catalog sales in the United States for decades, and Sears screwed the pooch when they discontinued it without having a good Internet-based catalog to replace it. Given the ubiquity of Sears locations, I bet that more than 90% of the population of the United States was within a reasonable same-day delivery period too, as opposed to Amazon's Prime not being feasible in many rural areas due to a lack of nearby fulfillment center.
Sears could have used their warehouses, their parts centers, their service centers, and even square footage that had been retail floorspace or the auto center or such to warehouse items for distribution to reach that huge number of people it had ready access to. Instead it launched a poorly-executed, nearly impossible to use online catalog and let it stagnate for years before adding a broken marketplace and a halfhearted facelift to make it somewhat work.
I guess the whole flamewar in the other discussion thread was for nothing; if autonomous cars become the norm then the bigger issue will be passengers not leaving the car in usable shape after a ride, and other passengers having to report that when the car comes for them.
I suspect that private car ownership, even in an era of autonomous vehicles, will still be more the norm than not so long as people have places to park them.
If Google is the majority shareholder, are they required to not maintain a conflict of interest?
Years ago, even though eBay owned a percentage of Craigslist, they sued Craigslist, then bought Kijiji and have attempted to bring it to the United States as eBay Classifieds, with only limited success...
Perhaps. My workplace instituted an internal driver training for those driving fifteen passenger vans after all of the rollovers through the years with school and church vans, and then added that requirement to those of us that drive technical vans, even if only occasionally and solo. We got to put a fifteen passenger van through a relatively high-speed slalom once, so that was kind of fun, but the training was mostly unnecessary.
You need to factor-in people in both gender categories that liked tech when the got into it, but now don't like tech or don't enjoy it as a hobby anymore now that it's a profession.
He also pitted the different sections of the company against each other. Rather than cooperatively working as a whole unit to make profits, he seems to think that making the online regular store compete with the brick-and-mortar store, and making the online outlet store compete with the brick-and-mortar outlet stores is a good idea. It's not. It just pisses off customers when they attempt to buy something they saw on the website by going in to get it, and find a different price on it and a store unable to match that price even though they can pull it up on their own computers.
If you want Chinese-sourced tools now for the same price as the previous American-manufactured stuff, sure. Remember those black-anodized spline-drive sets from Christmas a couple of years back? That was the turning point for the modern Chinese-sourced product line. They sold well enough at Christmas time because wives and kids didn't know to consider country of origin and it probably convinced execs to go all-in.
On the other hand, Harbor Freight now offers a lifetime warranty on their mechanics' hand tools too, and at 1/3 to 1/10 the price, if I had to do it all over again I'd probably go HF. Same quality, cheaper tools.
Some Sears Outlets still have American-made Craftsman sets in-stock as they're slowly clearing all of their domestic-production inventory.
Discrete components used to be worth the 500% markup, if you needed one capacitor and didn't want to mailorder 5000 to get it.
Unfortunately they sold their souls to the cell phone market, a market that didn't really need them.
When the Tech America stores were rebranded Radioshack.com and then closed, I bought $2000 worth of stuff for 90% off. I guess I'm preversely looking forward to doing that with the local Radioshack retail locations. Get all of the buttons, switches, LEDs, capacitors, and the like that I can conceive of a use for. Maybe even get a handmic for my ancient Realistic 10m ham radio if they've got any dusty boxes in the back.
There's no formula that works for everyone. Some people want cash. Some (especially those with dependents) want benefits. Some want guarantees that respect their free-time during the workweek. Some want vacation.
What it comes down to is either treating people well so they want to stay, or paying them so well that they stay even if they're unhappy. Trouble with the latter is that they don't necessarily do any better work, even if they're trying, because unhappiness can hurt productivity.
If you want to build a core that works well together, don't let problems fester, don't let middle-management screw things up, and do what you can to make the employees content and motivated toward the goal. So, pretty much read Dilbert and don't do whatever Scott Adams has illustrated.
That last one is actually why there are laws in most places that make it a crime to not pick up passengers that have called for a cab. It may be hard to enforce where cabs are hailed-down on the street, but for those that are called-in, there can be ramifications for both the taxi company and the driver.
I suppose I should add that licensing for passenger livery is not a function of the driver's license, so other licenses may come to play, in the same way that a hairdresser has to hold a cosmetology license.
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I doubt that most of us will even read snippets of transcripts, beyond the cherry-picked ones that might end up on the news.
I wonder if the nature of this trial and conviction will work against him even more in the murder-for-hire trial he's to face next...
This is a guess, but since usually the consequence of not using one's options to put out the fires are to have fires the burn out of control, I'm not really surprised that these things aren't well tested. In emergencies a lot of things are overlooked.
If there are consequences to exposure, then this needs to be addressed before it kills the very people that are trying to save us.
The inside of a privately-owned car is not public space though. It's not like you're walking down the street in the open air.
Heads' up displays in cars have been available on and off since the eighties. They're typically projector-based and use glass or an applique on the glass that reflects only where the projector points.
I've actually given this some thought, and I'd still own a car, even if it were entirely autonomous in its operation, assuming I continue to live where I either have on-site parking or have ready access to inexpensive or free parking close by. If I want to go somewhere I don't want to wait for the car to come fetch me, I want to be able to essentially hop-in and go.
I think that my wife and I could probably get away with only one car if that car were truly autonomous, assuming that traffic-related issues don't prevent that car from making its rounds to drops us off at each of our jobs or pick us up on time, but we'd still want to own.
I don't think that Uber is even being all that original through the idea of applying a smartphone to electronic dispatch. I'd bet that some cab companies had already toyed with the idea of allowing one to summon without having to speak with a dispatcher.
It'll be interesting to see how privacy rights and property rights collide on this issue. I admit I'm not wild about sitting with a camera pointed at me for the duration of a paid ride, even without any intention of committing a crime. I have no control over the recording or its use after it's created, after all.
Well, it's not exactly easy when food is so damn abundant, and lots of prepacked things are "portioned" for more than one person but are sized where one person can eat the contents easily.
I think that for prepackaged food products, if there's no way to reseal the packaging provided, then the calorie content and other information on the packaging needs to state the total for the entire contents, not for some obtuse 2.5 servings. For prepackaged food where there is a way to reseal, the number of servings needs to be prominently displayed on the front and both the nutritional information per-serving and the total sum for the entire package need to be displayed.
No, but the insinuation was that a vote for the Republican was a vote for private enterprise. Musk is proving to be successful without the kind of sweet-deal contracts that the existing military-industrial complex has enjoyed with regard to space launch technology. That was my point, he's not Republican.
I'm a lot more patient today than I was ten years ago, and my hobbies are a lot wider in scope now too. Back then, I didn't want to wait for a mailorder item to arrive. Now I'll find something else to do, but a retail store offered me instant gratification and an ability to inspect items before purchase if I needed to do that in order to decide.
The saddest thing of all is that Sears was in a position to be what Amazon has become, but with an even better distribution chain and at the time, far more product. The Sears Catalog was the gold standard for catalog sales in the United States for decades, and Sears screwed the pooch when they discontinued it without having a good Internet-based catalog to replace it. Given the ubiquity of Sears locations, I bet that more than 90% of the population of the United States was within a reasonable same-day delivery period too, as opposed to Amazon's Prime not being feasible in many rural areas due to a lack of nearby fulfillment center.
Sears could have used their warehouses, their parts centers, their service centers, and even square footage that had been retail floorspace or the auto center or such to warehouse items for distribution to reach that huge number of people it had ready access to. Instead it launched a poorly-executed, nearly impossible to use online catalog and let it stagnate for years before adding a broken marketplace and a halfhearted facelift to make it somewhat work.
And then came K-mart...
I guess the whole flamewar in the other discussion thread was for nothing; if autonomous cars become the norm then the bigger issue will be passengers not leaving the car in usable shape after a ride, and other passengers having to report that when the car comes for them.
I suspect that private car ownership, even in an era of autonomous vehicles, will still be more the norm than not so long as people have places to park them.
If Google is the majority shareholder, are they required to not maintain a conflict of interest?
Years ago, even though eBay owned a percentage of Craigslist, they sued Craigslist, then bought Kijiji and have attempted to bring it to the United States as eBay Classifieds, with only limited success...
Perhaps. My workplace instituted an internal driver training for those driving fifteen passenger vans after all of the rollovers through the years with school and church vans, and then added that requirement to those of us that drive technical vans, even if only occasionally and solo. We got to put a fifteen passenger van through a relatively high-speed slalom once, so that was kind of fun, but the training was mostly unnecessary.
You need to factor-in people in both gender categories that liked tech when the got into it, but now don't like tech or don't enjoy it as a hobby anymore now that it's a profession.
He also pitted the different sections of the company against each other. Rather than cooperatively working as a whole unit to make profits, he seems to think that making the online regular store compete with the brick-and-mortar store, and making the online outlet store compete with the brick-and-mortar outlet stores is a good idea. It's not. It just pisses off customers when they attempt to buy something they saw on the website by going in to get it, and find a different price on it and a store unable to match that price even though they can pull it up on their own computers.
If you want Chinese-sourced tools now for the same price as the previous American-manufactured stuff, sure. Remember those black-anodized spline-drive sets from Christmas a couple of years back? That was the turning point for the modern Chinese-sourced product line. They sold well enough at Christmas time because wives and kids didn't know to consider country of origin and it probably convinced execs to go all-in.
On the other hand, Harbor Freight now offers a lifetime warranty on their mechanics' hand tools too, and at 1/3 to 1/10 the price, if I had to do it all over again I'd probably go HF. Same quality, cheaper tools.
Some Sears Outlets still have American-made Craftsman sets in-stock as they're slowly clearing all of their domestic-production inventory.
Some of the stores around me started carrying components again. That's what I'll be going-in for.
Discrete components used to be worth the 500% markup, if you needed one capacitor and didn't want to mailorder 5000 to get it.
Unfortunately they sold their souls to the cell phone market, a market that didn't really need them.
When the Tech America stores were rebranded Radioshack.com and then closed, I bought $2000 worth of stuff for 90% off. I guess I'm preversely looking forward to doing that with the local Radioshack retail locations. Get all of the buttons, switches, LEDs, capacitors, and the like that I can conceive of a use for. Maybe even get a handmic for my ancient Realistic 10m ham radio if they've got any dusty boxes in the back.
And that same private industry leader is pushing electric cars and home-use solar panels. Sounds like quite the Republican...
Probably because there are people that are into things that you're not into?
Life would be incredibly dull if we were all into only the same things.
Tell them the route that they're to use. If they deviate from the route step-out of the vehicle and call the taxi company.
There's no formula that works for everyone. Some people want cash. Some (especially those with dependents) want benefits. Some want guarantees that respect their free-time during the workweek. Some want vacation.
What it comes down to is either treating people well so they want to stay, or paying them so well that they stay even if they're unhappy. Trouble with the latter is that they don't necessarily do any better work, even if they're trying, because unhappiness can hurt productivity.
If you want to build a core that works well together, don't let problems fester, don't let middle-management screw things up, and do what you can to make the employees content and motivated toward the goal. So, pretty much read Dilbert and don't do whatever Scott Adams has illustrated.
That last one is actually why there are laws in most places that make it a crime to not pick up passengers that have called for a cab. It may be hard to enforce where cabs are hailed-down on the street, but for those that are called-in, there can be ramifications for both the taxi company and the driver.
I suppose I should add that licensing for passenger livery is not a function of the driver's license, so other licenses may come to play, in the same way that a hairdresser has to hold a cosmetology license.