The movie is better because if you sit there for 2 hours, it's done. No effort required. The book takes so much longer, and much more effort to just sit there.
And an atmosphere so unstable that any radiation sets off a chain reaction that destroys the planet? They must be well shielded from cosmic radiation and other things, which would cause problems with evolution, since radiation is believed to introduce mutations, most likely helping with the random mutations that got the planet where it is today.
Or the ancient fighter jet that flies with no maintenance. I'm sure he just skipped the part where the hero read a book on aircraft maintenance and fuel and rebuilt the thing, and distilled fuel for it.
Yeah, if you were to make a good movie about the book, it wouldn't be good. The book has too many holes that readers just skip over that would be made clear on screen.
When Brain Smasher: A Love Story gets rated so much higher, then there's a problem with the ratings system. They knew the thing was bad, so bad, they skipped editing/post-production. The wires on the ninja are clearly visible, and other obvious "we know this is crap, so we aren't spending any more in post-prod" evidence.
The ratings system misses when a movie is so bad it's good. There should be negative stars for a movie that's unintentionally good. When they miss the point so bad, that it's something else. The funny parts aren't, but the action is funny.
You trust the infrastructure between you and the second party, but only in the US (and some tourist areas) is it considered acceptable to hand over your card to a 3rd party who disappear with it for a while. The rest of the world, the third party never, or rarely even touches your card. So you don't have to trust a 3rd party with your card to use it. At most, you trust the infrastructure between you and the credit card company.
It was also one of the few with lots of local numbers if you traveled a lot. So the $20 bought you an automatic dialer that just worked almost anywhere in the US. Calling LD for Internet was painful, both for the cost, and because speeds often suffered.
Because the Passport is considered ID, so the government does checks on the information to verify it, and those checks may be specialized or troublesome, so they contract them out. Though, they don't do a good job of it.
But who background checks the background checkers?
Back when free pop servers weren't common, got a free email and used it for years, then they server shut down, taking with it my first Slashdot account, among other things. Didn't even get a warning to point people to another server.
If you don't need windows, you put a bumper-bar where the head would hit. I've seen the windows of multiple people who put their head through the windshied. I've heard of one who went clean through, and the recoil caught their neck, decapitating them. But they were all unbelted. So many people still don't use belts.
Having the windows eliminated and replaced with flexible/form fitting screens that are impact safe would be an improvement. The people won't miss anything, and the motion sickness will be 10x worse.
Yeah, but the recover password doesn't work for me. Perhaps it's because I signed up to claim my name when they first offered free email, and I may have never even logged in.
My 4 year old fit fine back there, though I broke the law because I didn't use a car seat. It didn't fit, and was the same size as the rear seats.
The RX-8 has quite usable back seats. I've had humans back there, and aside from a lack of legroom if you move the front seats all the way back, it's fine.
As a non-resident who doesn't file (And is known by the IRS), I say they still don't. If they did go after me, they'd file for me, then charge me for what I owe, plus penalties. For the working class, that's zero.
So they could spend money forcing me to file, and getting nothing, or ignore me. They ignore me. And the millions like me. They go after the 10,000 or so that make millions, not the millions that make a living wage.
Only if you are a billionaire fleeing to avoid paying income tax. The average Joe, if he were to move to Canada. he can keep 100% of what he had, and never file or pay taxes again. Illegal, but unenforced against the average Joe.
How is a story about the most automated vehicle class on the planet, with some of the most powerful mobile engines not be of interest to people who like technology? Nerds like trains.
You've run off the cats. My cat loves to stick her head out of the window. Sure, she doesn't stick her tongue out (dogs do to "taste" the air), but she likes the wind on her face as much as any dog.
I've never owned anything but 2-seater sports cars,
Yeah, because the Porsche 911 and Supra TT are too pedestrian. Or do the back seats not count if you can't fit a real human in them? Though not sure where that'd leave the RX-8, as regular humans fit in the back of those.
Again, you fail to understand how statistics work, trying to address the single items, instead of the problem, which is that there is any fucking numbers of unforeseen things that can happen.
No, it's you who fails to understand that they don't program the car to deal with 1,000,000,000 individual possibilities. Brown items about 2 cubic feet or smaller and moving will be an object that can be ignored. Whether it's a small cat, a dog, a squirrel, or an empty paper bag, it's too small to be human, so won't trigger "save a life" actions, and it's too small to harm the vehicle.
So that one generalization will take care of a fucking large number of your "unforeseen" things. They aren't unforeseen. The only question is which of the generalized rules it falls under.
You don't understand how the self-driving AI works, so you assume it does it wrong. That's stupid and wrong.
You can't solve that problem from the bottom up, addressing specifics.
I didn't. You did. I solved it from the top down, using generalities that cover all the specifics you came up with. Everything on your specific list is obviously in a general rule. That was what I said, that is what I showed. Not sure why you are still arguing the point. I read back over the thread, and it's obvious what I said and that I'm not the one dealing with irrelevant specifics from the bottom up. That's you. I solved them from the top down, with generalities, but yes, still addressing your specifics to show they'll be covered.
I'd hope that if they don't know, they are contracting in experts to talk with the BAs to get the requirements well documented. In my experience even cops don't know the law. I had one pull out his pocket law book to show me I was wrong, read for a bit, and changed his mind.
It's perfectly legal in Texas to drive the speed limit on the shoulder for hours (in certain conditions, with exceptions, and all that). Not even the cops know that. I can't imagine the complexity of making a self-driving car that can cross all 50 states, the laws are quite diverse. Do the cars do right-turn on red? Do they change that behavior in NYC vs NJ? I was in a NYC rental in NJ, and got honked at for coming to a complete stop before making a right on red. The law says I must, but local convention says "close your eyes and go".
- Pollen blocked a small part of my backing camera.
"Blocked sensor" is in the well-known 90%
- A neighbor had blown a big pile of leaves onto the street. I had to drive around it.
"obstruction" is in the well-known 90%
It started drizzling lightly. Too lightly for my car's auto-rain sensor to kick in.
Not a problem.
A police car without sirens, just blinking lights came in the opposite direction.
emergency vehicles (code 1, code 2, and code 3, your example being code 2) is in the well known 90%, yes, including: same side, other side of undivided, other side of divided, and crossing street.
A crow was pecking on roadkill.
Not a problem.
Children were "dancing" around on the sidewalk on their way to school. It's a 50 zone, but prudence told me 20 was plenty when driving past them.
Called "driving to conditions" and within the well known 90%.
Most things you are listing aren't interesting or unique. They are common, and happen all the time. they were *all* in the well-known 90%.
If you want an example of something that isn't:
I was driving back from Girdwood to Anchorage and the person in front of me was pulling a trailer. It wasn't safe to pass. I noticed a mechanical fault with his trailer,. I concluded it was a chain falling out of a storage box. If it were secured inside the box, when it got to the trailer wheel, it would damage the trailer and cause road damage and obstruction. If it weren't secured, when it was run over by a wheel it would merely cause an obstruction. So I illegally and unsafely passed because I decided that informing him of the issue was more important than following the law, and the "unsafe" was mitigated by completing the pass in the safest manner possible on a winding road.
Yes, he thanked me for illegally passing him and forcing him to the side of the road.
Of course, I signaled him from behind, but he thought I was just trying to pass him, and didn't get the message.
That's one of the once-in-a-lifetime edge case I don't expect a self-driving car to deal with. But a crow in the street? As an "unusual" case? Where do you live, Antarctica? I don't expect more than 10% of human drivers to deal with that situation well, so a computer that fails that 0.00001% incident but far outperforms the human 90% of the time will still be well ahead.
You are required to give way to them. You have. They chose to give way to you. So why not go, now that you are the one sitting there with the right of way being a jackass?
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The movie is better because if you sit there for 2 hours, it's done. No effort required. The book takes so much longer, and much more effort to just sit there.
And an atmosphere so unstable that any radiation sets off a chain reaction that destroys the planet? They must be well shielded from cosmic radiation and other things, which would cause problems with evolution, since radiation is believed to introduce mutations, most likely helping with the random mutations that got the planet where it is today.
Or the ancient fighter jet that flies with no maintenance. I'm sure he just skipped the part where the hero read a book on aircraft maintenance and fuel and rebuilt the thing, and distilled fuel for it.
Yeah, if you were to make a good movie about the book, it wouldn't be good. The book has too many holes that readers just skip over that would be made clear on screen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...
When Brain Smasher: A Love Story gets rated so much higher, then there's a problem with the ratings system. They knew the thing was bad, so bad, they skipped editing/post-production. The wires on the ninja are clearly visible, and other obvious "we know this is crap, so we aren't spending any more in post-prod" evidence.
The ratings system misses when a movie is so bad it's good. There should be negative stars for a movie that's unintentionally good. When they miss the point so bad, that it's something else. The funny parts aren't, but the action is funny.
You can buy Android smartphones for under $100. What price would they need to be to not be "overpriced"?
You trust the infrastructure between you and the second party, but only in the US (and some tourist areas) is it considered acceptable to hand over your card to a 3rd party who disappear with it for a while. The rest of the world, the third party never, or rarely even touches your card. So you don't have to trust a 3rd party with your card to use it. At most, you trust the infrastructure between you and the credit card company.
They've never been good at anything.
Then name someone with more local numbers spread across the US. It was great for travelers. A local number anywhere.
It was also one of the few with lots of local numbers if you traveled a lot. So the $20 bought you an automatic dialer that just worked almost anywhere in the US. Calling LD for Internet was painful, both for the cost, and because speeds often suffered.
Because the Passport is considered ID, so the government does checks on the information to verify it, and those checks may be specialized or troublesome, so they contract them out. Though, they don't do a good job of it.
But who background checks the background checkers?
Back when free pop servers weren't common, got a free email and used it for years, then they server shut down, taking with it my first Slashdot account, among other things. Didn't even get a warning to point people to another server.
If you don't need windows, you put a bumper-bar where the head would hit. I've seen the windows of multiple people who put their head through the windshied. I've heard of one who went clean through, and the recoil caught their neck, decapitating them. But they were all unbelted. So many people still don't use belts.
Having the windows eliminated and replaced with flexible/form fitting screens that are impact safe would be an improvement. The people won't miss anything, and the motion sickness will be 10x worse.
Yeah, but the recover password doesn't work for me. Perhaps it's because I signed up to claim my name when they first offered free email, and I may have never even logged in.
My 4 year old fit fine back there, though I broke the law because I didn't use a car seat. It didn't fit, and was the same size as the rear seats.
The RX-8 has quite usable back seats. I've had humans back there, and aside from a lack of legroom if you move the front seats all the way back, it's fine.
As a non-resident who doesn't file (And is known by the IRS), I say they still don't. If they did go after me, they'd file for me, then charge me for what I owe, plus penalties. For the working class, that's zero.
So they could spend money forcing me to file, and getting nothing, or ignore me. They ignore me. And the millions like me. They go after the 10,000 or so that make millions, not the millions that make a living wage.
Only if you are a billionaire fleeing to avoid paying income tax. The average Joe, if he were to move to Canada. he can keep 100% of what he had, and never file or pay taxes again. Illegal, but unenforced against the average Joe.
How is a story about the most automated vehicle class on the planet, with some of the most powerful mobile engines not be of interest to people who like technology? Nerds like trains.
You've run off the cats. My cat loves to stick her head out of the window. Sure, she doesn't stick her tongue out (dogs do to "taste" the air), but she likes the wind on her face as much as any dog.
I've never owned anything but 2-seater sports cars,
Yeah, because the Porsche 911 and Supra TT are too pedestrian. Or do the back seats not count if you can't fit a real human in them? Though not sure where that'd leave the RX-8, as regular humans fit in the back of those.
Again, you fail to understand how statistics work, trying to address the single items, instead of the problem, which is that there is any fucking numbers of unforeseen things that can happen.
No, it's you who fails to understand that they don't program the car to deal with 1,000,000,000 individual possibilities. Brown items about 2 cubic feet or smaller and moving will be an object that can be ignored. Whether it's a small cat, a dog, a squirrel, or an empty paper bag, it's too small to be human, so won't trigger "save a life" actions, and it's too small to harm the vehicle.
So that one generalization will take care of a fucking large number of your "unforeseen" things. They aren't unforeseen. The only question is which of the generalized rules it falls under.
You don't understand how the self-driving AI works, so you assume it does it wrong. That's stupid and wrong.
You can't solve that problem from the bottom up, addressing specifics.
I didn't. You did. I solved it from the top down, using generalities that cover all the specifics you came up with. Everything on your specific list is obviously in a general rule. That was what I said, that is what I showed. Not sure why you are still arguing the point. I read back over the thread, and it's obvious what I said and that I'm not the one dealing with irrelevant specifics from the bottom up. That's you. I solved them from the top down, with generalities, but yes, still addressing your specifics to show they'll be covered.
I'd hope that if they don't know, they are contracting in experts to talk with the BAs to get the requirements well documented. In my experience even cops don't know the law. I had one pull out his pocket law book to show me I was wrong, read for a bit, and changed his mind.
It's perfectly legal in Texas to drive the speed limit on the shoulder for hours (in certain conditions, with exceptions, and all that). Not even the cops know that. I can't imagine the complexity of making a self-driving car that can cross all 50 states, the laws are quite diverse. Do the cars do right-turn on red? Do they change that behavior in NYC vs NJ? I was in a NYC rental in NJ, and got honked at for coming to a complete stop before making a right on red. The law says I must, but local convention says "close your eyes and go".
If the guys working on this don't know more than me, they should find a new job.
- Pollen blocked a small part of my backing camera.
"Blocked sensor" is in the well-known 90%
- A neighbor had blown a big pile of leaves onto the street. I had to drive around it.
"obstruction" is in the well-known 90%
It started drizzling lightly. Too lightly for my car's auto-rain sensor to kick in.
Not a problem.
A police car without sirens, just blinking lights came in the opposite direction.
emergency vehicles (code 1, code 2, and code 3, your example being code 2) is in the well known 90%, yes, including: same side, other side of undivided, other side of divided, and crossing street.
A crow was pecking on roadkill.
Not a problem.
Children were "dancing" around on the sidewalk on their way to school. It's a 50 zone, but prudence told me 20 was plenty when driving past them.
Called "driving to conditions" and within the well known 90%.
Most things you are listing aren't interesting or unique. They are common, and happen all the time. they were *all* in the well-known 90%.
If you want an example of something that isn't:
I was driving back from Girdwood to Anchorage and the person in front of me was pulling a trailer. It wasn't safe to pass. I noticed a mechanical fault with his trailer,. I concluded it was a chain falling out of a storage box. If it were secured inside the box, when it got to the trailer wheel, it would damage the trailer and cause road damage and obstruction. If it weren't secured, when it was run over by a wheel it would merely cause an obstruction. So I illegally and unsafely passed because I decided that informing him of the issue was more important than following the law, and the "unsafe" was mitigated by completing the pass in the safest manner possible on a winding road.
Yes, he thanked me for illegally passing him and forcing him to the side of the road.
Of course, I signaled him from behind, but he thought I was just trying to pass him, and didn't get the message.
That's one of the once-in-a-lifetime edge case I don't expect a self-driving car to deal with. But a crow in the street? As an "unusual" case? Where do you live, Antarctica? I don't expect more than 10% of human drivers to deal with that situation well, so a computer that fails that 0.00001% incident but far outperforms the human 90% of the time will still be well ahead.
Why not just go? It's legal. Everywhere.
You are required to give way to them. You have. They chose to give way to you. So why not go, now that you are the one sitting there with the right of way being a jackass?
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Front fender is a "wing" back fender is a "mudguard".