This problem won't apply to SD taxis. Unless you have a valid payment method (such as a credit card tied to your NFC capable smart phone), you won't even be able to open the door.
My baseball bat will make quick work of that problem.
So you got in, now your driverless car quickly and efficiently takes you to the nearest law enforcement officer with a pre-notification of a violent offender needing apprehension.
Or, they use IDs, and those IDs have to be registered, and if you trash a vehicle, your ID (and you) are banned forever. That's most likely going to be a big enough hammer alone, without vandalism and other legal charges, to keep 99.999% of the populace in line.
Try talking to some women about this, who have kids... and a hundred and one different places to go at different times during the week.
How do you know I'm not exactly that person? Are there unexpected trips? Sure. Are the majority unexpected? Then you have a scheduling problem and/or are not in control of your life. No one "needs" a car "parked outside, all the time, in case she needs it unexpectedly". That's like saying you need a fully staffed ambulance, police car and fire truck parked outside your house, 24x7, just in case. They won't be used 99% of the time, but geez, what if?
This would be worth it if I hadn't just upgraded to a lesser technology. In 2-3 years I guess I'll be ready for the next upgrade. Guess I'm no longer on the bleeding edge.
So I have to wait for someone (something?) to pick me up? I can't just get in my own car and drive when I want to?
Seems like a fair trade-off, I'm leaving for work at 9:48.... the car's there at 9:48. Note I haven't said anything about cost here, nor any of a host of other things, because I leapfrogged a whole plethora of issues and concepts to make it short. Basically, this would be a base level of travel in some sort of electric vehicle powered by renewable (essentially free) power generation. (If we're dreaming, might as well go 110%, and I was responding to a "what if" post)
Meaning more societal layering. "You don't have your own car? How quaint."
Yes, there will be more, we're going to see more no matter what future we get to, unless there's a whole lot of turmoil. The question is whether the middle/bottom layers live under bridges or have a reasonable lifestyle. This would be an entire topic on its own.
Meaning working more for the same pay. Employers would be all for this.
Back to futuristic dream world mode - the commute would be part of your 4 hour work day, in a 4 day work week.
Trucks could be scheduled to drive in non-rush hours.
You mean like many are already scheduled to run in non-rush hour times such as 4 AM?
I have no idea where you live, but I can guarantee you that the majority of trucks in a 300 mile radius drive between 7am-10am and 3pm-6pm here, M-Sa, depending upon which freeways/highways you're on. Yes, they try to avoid the bulk of rush hour by avoiding the 8-9 and 4:30-5:30 time periods, I think, but that could just be that there's so many more cars on the road that the trucks just seem less numerous in comparison. If I want to avoid trucks in this area, I start driving at 4am, or after 8pm. IOW - BS.
Methinks you haven't thought through your ideas. Where may I subscribe to your newsletter?
Same place some of these statements came from - that futuristic dreamworld.
I think you're still too short sighted. Imagine not needing to buy a car (Uber driverless anyone?) Just call and boom, there's your vehicle. The masses won't need to own vehicles, and only the truly well off will own their own, primarily to have a known nice clean vehicle. That means there's no parking issue in general. For some, that ride in to work would be work time, so commute time essentially disappears. With truly optimized driverless systems, even rush hour becomes less problematic. Trucks could be scheduled to drive in non-rush hours. Add to that automated lawn care and various other services, and you'll also have a lot less traffic.
There should be no HTTP anything anymore. Everything should be encrypted. Originally, HTTP existed because the server load for encryption was too heavy for the hardware of the time. That is no longer true.
How about a compromise - 10% flat sales tax on everything (consumption tax, also applied at borders) and then a median+ flat income tax. That way only those making above the median pay income tax, at a flat rate. The consumption tax supports a couple of things.
This is easily possible, but realize who you're talking about - this is Google (G), and G makes its money by scanning your plaintext email and building profiles about you to sell ads and marketing metrics. If gmail goes PGP, then G loses the ability to scan that plaintext email, unless it's doing so via a client side process to send the information its interested in prior to encryption, also possible, but kind of defeats the purpose of encryption in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if GTalk goes away soon, because more people are starting to use OTR supported clients. G only sees encrypted messages, pretty useless for gathering data.
Companies are more important than individuals. They generate more tax revenue than any single citizen. The government will side with business over any two-bit shit costumer any day of the week, and with good reason.
Um, there's no good reason you've listed there. Protecting income is not what the government should be about at all, and is a good reason to ditch it.
Modular data centers, or really anything modular in the IT field, has been discussed in various incarnations for decades, either as a product or as a todo. Wikipedia's article even has external references that predate this claim.
That's why there's this universal access fee for phones, and why broadband ISPs were offered billions in subsidies.... So yes, they should offer service.
Most PCs only have 2 or 3 USB controllers tops, which explains the absolutely abysmal performance you get as soon as you start plugging in lots of USB devices, since each controller serves as a hub to 2-4 ports.
Hands down, Apple's HFS system should be replaced with something better, one of the more modern FS's out of Linux/BSD land would be perfect. However, I should mention you can plug other fs's into OSX today, and I've been considering ZFS for a while now, just haven't had the time to plug it in and test it.
They theoretically hit it, I can tell you real world speeds are significantly lower, even for heavy I/O tasks. The Samsung 840s run about 120 MB/s, the 850s are supposed to better than double that, and in RAID0, I should hit a consistent 400MB/s minimum. As soon as I have the time, I'll plug them in and see.
Well, I'm not sure the disk performance crown resides with Linux anymore, unless you're running full bore PCIe X4 at a minimum, however you manage to get there, on a single drive. I'm 100% positive that Linux takes the crown in other configurations, but that won't be on a laptop you can quickly take with you, unless I missed a product announcement recently.
But but but... USB 3.0 is the snizzle! Or so everyone says.
I personally think USB should be retired to the same place as IDE, RLL, ATA and all those other bad idea shared bus solutions. The only ones that worked well, IMNSHO, are SCSI type solutions, including SATA, which can now be overwhelmed by a couple of top end SSDs running in RAID0.
I'm still waiting for the next laptop to even meet 2 years ago Apple's model. Hint: 750Mbs continuous speed is the limit of SATA-III. Show me a standard SSD that hits that. Hint, the brand new relatively well thought of top brand I just bought only comes near that number, and not on continuous mixed R/W operation, even in a 2 drive RAID0. Last year's MBP handily beats it in disk I/O performance. Maybe if I get 4 in RAID0 I'll be equal. Unless, of course, you're talking about those PCIe drives (they're a whole different class of SSD, and priced appropriately.)
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This problem won't apply to SD taxis. Unless you have a valid payment method (such as a credit card tied to your NFC capable smart phone), you won't even be able to open the door.
My baseball bat will make quick work of that problem.
So you got in, now your driverless car quickly and efficiently takes you to the nearest law enforcement officer with a pre-notification of a violent offender needing apprehension.
Or, they use IDs, and those IDs have to be registered, and if you trash a vehicle, your ID (and you) are banned forever. That's most likely going to be a big enough hammer alone, without vandalism and other legal charges, to keep 99.999% of the populace in line.
Try talking to some women about this, who have kids... and a hundred and one different places to go at different times during the week.
How do you know I'm not exactly that person? Are there unexpected trips? Sure. Are the majority unexpected? Then you have a scheduling problem and/or are not in control of your life. No one "needs" a car "parked outside, all the time, in case she needs it unexpectedly". That's like saying you need a fully staffed ambulance, police car and fire truck parked outside your house, 24x7, just in case. They won't be used 99% of the time, but geez, what if?
This would be worth it if I hadn't just upgraded to a lesser technology. In 2-3 years I guess I'll be ready for the next upgrade. Guess I'm no longer on the bleeding edge.
So I have to wait for someone (something?) to pick me up? I can't just get in my own car and drive when I want to?
Seems like a fair trade-off, I'm leaving for work at 9:48.... the car's there at 9:48. Note I haven't said anything about cost here, nor any of a host of other things, because I leapfrogged a whole plethora of issues and concepts to make it short. Basically, this would be a base level of travel in some sort of electric vehicle powered by renewable (essentially free) power generation. (If we're dreaming, might as well go 110%, and I was responding to a "what if" post)
Meaning more societal layering. "You don't have your own car? How quaint."
Yes, there will be more, we're going to see more no matter what future we get to, unless there's a whole lot of turmoil. The question is whether the middle/bottom layers live under bridges or have a reasonable lifestyle. This would be an entire topic on its own.
Meaning working more for the same pay. Employers would be all for this.
Back to futuristic dream world mode - the commute would be part of your 4 hour work day, in a 4 day work week.
Trucks could be scheduled to drive in non-rush hours. You mean like many are already scheduled to run in non-rush hour times such as 4 AM?
I have no idea where you live, but I can guarantee you that the majority of trucks in a 300 mile radius drive between 7am-10am and 3pm-6pm here, M-Sa, depending upon which freeways/highways you're on. Yes, they try to avoid the bulk of rush hour by avoiding the 8-9 and 4:30-5:30 time periods, I think, but that could just be that there's so many more cars on the road that the trucks just seem less numerous in comparison. If I want to avoid trucks in this area, I start driving at 4am, or after 8pm. IOW - BS.
Methinks you haven't thought through your ideas. Where may I subscribe to your newsletter?
Same place some of these statements came from - that futuristic dreamworld.
I think you're still too short sighted. Imagine not needing to buy a car (Uber driverless anyone?) Just call and boom, there's your vehicle. The masses won't need to own vehicles, and only the truly well off will own their own, primarily to have a known nice clean vehicle. That means there's no parking issue in general. For some, that ride in to work would be work time, so commute time essentially disappears. With truly optimized driverless systems, even rush hour becomes less problematic. Trucks could be scheduled to drive in non-rush hours. Add to that automated lawn care and various other services, and you'll also have a lot less traffic.
oh, and maybe lose a couple hundred pounds.
OK, we'll eject you into space. Checked that box.
But those two tainted the entire vat.
It brings into question all evidence brought by said agents. Those agents could have framed him for all you know, to cover their own misdeeds.
There should be no HTTP anything anymore. Everything should be encrypted. Originally, HTTP existed because the server load for encryption was too heavy for the hardware of the time. That is no longer true.
How about a compromise - 10% flat sales tax on everything (consumption tax, also applied at borders) and then a median+ flat income tax. That way only those making above the median pay income tax, at a flat rate. The consumption tax supports a couple of things.
The surveillance state is leading to a situation where the entire country distrusts the government.
Umm, that boat sailed a couple of years ago. I don't believe anyone really trusts the gov at this point, and that's not a good state of affairs.
This is easily possible, but realize who you're talking about - this is Google (G), and G makes its money by scanning your plaintext email and building profiles about you to sell ads and marketing metrics. If gmail goes PGP, then G loses the ability to scan that plaintext email, unless it's doing so via a client side process to send the information its interested in prior to encryption, also possible, but kind of defeats the purpose of encryption in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if GTalk goes away soon, because more people are starting to use OTR supported clients. G only sees encrypted messages, pretty useless for gathering data.
Companies are more important than individuals. They generate more tax revenue than any single citizen. The government will side with business over any two-bit shit costumer any day of the week, and with good reason.
Um, there's no good reason you've listed there. Protecting income is not what the government should be about at all, and is a good reason to ditch it.
Modular data centers, or really anything modular in the IT field, has been discussed in various incarnations for decades, either as a product or as a todo. Wikipedia's article even has external references that predate this claim.
That's why there's this universal access fee for phones, and why broadband ISPs were offered billions in subsidies.... So yes, they should offer service.
the coatings are derived from edible materials
Allegedly so are hotdogs and white bread.
or haggis
Most PCs only have 2 or 3 USB controllers tops, which explains the absolutely abysmal performance you get as soon as you start plugging in lots of USB devices, since each controller serves as a hub to 2-4 ports.
Hands down, Apple's HFS system should be replaced with something better, one of the more modern FS's out of Linux/BSD land would be perfect. However, I should mention you can plug other fs's into OSX today, and I've been considering ZFS for a while now, just haven't had the time to plug it in and test it.
They theoretically hit it, I can tell you real world speeds are significantly lower, even for heavy I/O tasks. The Samsung 840s run about 120 MB/s, the 850s are supposed to better than double that, and in RAID0, I should hit a consistent 400MB/s minimum. As soon as I have the time, I'll plug them in and see.
Well, I'm not sure the disk performance crown resides with Linux anymore, unless you're running full bore PCIe X4 at a minimum, however you manage to get there, on a single drive. I'm 100% positive that Linux takes the crown in other configurations, but that won't be on a laptop you can quickly take with you, unless I missed a product announcement recently.
But but but... USB 3.0 is the snizzle! Or so everyone says.
I personally think USB should be retired to the same place as IDE, RLL, ATA and all those other bad idea shared bus solutions. The only ones that worked well, IMNSHO, are SCSI type solutions, including SATA, which can now be overwhelmed by a couple of top end SSDs running in RAID0.
And what software would this be, other than perhaps FCPX?
I'm still waiting for the next laptop to even meet 2 years ago Apple's model. Hint: 750Mbs continuous speed is the limit of SATA-III. Show me a standard SSD that hits that. Hint, the brand new relatively well thought of top brand I just bought only comes near that number, and not on continuous mixed R/W operation, even in a 2 drive RAID0. Last year's MBP handily beats it in disk I/O performance. Maybe if I get 4 in RAID0 I'll be equal. Unless, of course, you're talking about those PCIe drives (they're a whole different class of SSD, and priced appropriately.)
Let me find that video camera again... how do I hook that up? Oh yeah, IEEE 1394....