The long distance truck driver is actually, really essential for in-city driving and for unexpected events
This.
The first iteration will require a driver to be 'at the wheel' and ready to respond. But as the AI progresss, the driver can relax, take a nap, watch TV, whatever while the rig is on the highway. And this will result in drivers being rested and ready to take over when they reach the city. It's possible that trucks could operate coast to coast with no stops (other than for fuel) and not have truckers half asleep when they take the wheel. Or popping uppers along the way.
The economics of this are interesting even if a driver must ride along for the highway portion of the route. Some drivers try to push regulatory limits and fake log book entries just to stay on the road for a few more hours a day. This technology will allow them to do so without endangering public safety. The idea that trucks will drive themselves unattended, park in a lot and wait for a local driver to show up and take them over is a market that probably could be served today by rail freight.
Imagine working toward a college degree by enrolling in a MOOC from your truck cab while driving long haul routes.
Several houses, each with their own set of keys. Some other facilities as well. Numerous vehicles, many with hitch, spare and roof rack locks needing their own keys. Boats with cabin and locker keys. Vehicles all have alarm dongles if that's not a part of the key. Most keychains have an LED light of some kind.
I take the keychain(s) with me applicable to what I'm doing on any day. If all the keys were on one ring, I'd look like the worst stereotype of the apartment superintendant.
This will make searching for other porn featuring the subject of 4chan threads more efficient. Even a quarter of a percent improvement in performance is going to save companies millions of dollars as their employees browse/b/.
Oddly enough, Simplified Technical English, which was developed for aerospace process and specification writing (and which has been modified for other industries' use) mandates the use of the active voice. Both for procedural and descriptive sentences. It is easily machine parsable/execulable and is designed to reduce ambiguity.
So when I hear management saying passive writing is needed, I think someone is trying to weasel out of some regulation or responsibility.
... of interest regarding the potential to hack planes, United offers rewards for finding vulnerabilities in their ground-based systems. But no trying to hack planes, or you'll be in trouble.
Who is going to use these stored documents? How will they be used (read-only, revise and check in, etc.)? What tools are authors generating these documents with? Answers to these questions will help determine the best storage format.
For documents intended to be downloaded and read or string searched, PDF is a good choice. There are a lot of PDF readers for different O/Ss available.
This is a good point. And it's something that technical writers seem to have developed a love for (the passive voice) for some unfathomable reason.
Back when I used to write engineering documentation for Boeing, management used to throw a hissy-fit whenever someone would use the active voice. By hiding the subject of a sentence, it was felt that responsibility for some action or decision could be side-stepped. (See how that reads?) "By using the ACME brand fasteners, it is believed that the wings could fall off." Well, who belived it? And why did they keep attaching wings with that kind of junk? I guess we'll never know, so good luck suing anyone.
I imagine the 911 operators can collect statistics on this. If it is people who genuinely don't have a clue that 911 is not to be used if your McDonalds order is wrong, then these calls will be made as frequently from phones with active accounts. If people have the presence of mind to select an 'anonymous' phone when placing such a call, that goes a long way toward proving intent to disrupt service.
If Miami Beach gets flooded the US economy will crash?
Yes. Because your bank's assets consist of mortgages on that property. When it floods and people walk away from their payments, your bank collapses.
In 2008, the economy was fine at first. But when banks stopped loaning money to companies, they couldn't buy materials and pay wages to conduct business.
That depends on whether this is a salaried or hourly job, assorted state and federal labor laws and regulations, etc., etc. It's possible that the job description was written such that this was a legitimate contract term and that overtime and on call pay did not apply.
IANAL, but this is a case in which one (with some labor law expertise), is needed. Now, whether one can extend the idea of being on call 24 hours a day to being tracked is yet another question.
Shit traveling near the speed of light experiences much less time than shit at non-relativistic speeds.
I don't think relativity enters into this. In space, light travels at the speed of light. And to a photon, time means nothing.
What we have here is a direct path length from the supernova to earth of 11,000 ly. Something went 'bang' 11,300 years ago, so we missed the first signals. But there are gas clouds and other crud floating around which reflect the pulse, making it travel longer paths. We are now seing the reflections with path lengths of 11,300 ly. And as time goes by, we will see reflections with longer and longer path lengths.
This will (in time) be an interesting opportunity to map the structures of the gas clouds surrounding the supernova using successive images (over dozens or hundreds of years) and calculating path differences and the underlying 3D structures causing the reflections.
Video games also stimulate the flight or fight response flight or fight response.
But note the effect on self control:
They also display a decrease of activity in "self-control" areas of the brain typical of the primal "fight or flight" response.
Yes, video games can give you a thrilling adrenaline rush*. But in a more advanced society, self control is at least as important as the ability to react and club an agressor to death.
*And then there's the issue of what the physical effects of such an adrenaline rush are on a 300 pound sperglord living in mom's basement with zero actual physical conditioning.
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So do I. I'm just getting too lazy to walk to the toilet.
The long distance truck driver is actually, really essential for in-city driving and for unexpected events
This.
The first iteration will require a driver to be 'at the wheel' and ready to respond. But as the AI progresss, the driver can relax, take a nap, watch TV, whatever while the rig is on the highway. And this will result in drivers being rested and ready to take over when they reach the city. It's possible that trucks could operate coast to coast with no stops (other than for fuel) and not have truckers half asleep when they take the wheel. Or popping uppers along the way.
The economics of this are interesting even if a driver must ride along for the highway portion of the route. Some drivers try to push regulatory limits and fake log book entries just to stay on the road for a few more hours a day. This technology will allow them to do so without endangering public safety. The idea that trucks will drive themselves unattended, park in a lot and wait for a local driver to show up and take them over is a market that probably could be served today by rail freight.
Imagine working toward a college degree by enrolling in a MOOC from your truck cab while driving long haul routes.
Where's the obligatory dash-cam video?
Several houses, each with their own set of keys. Some other facilities as well. Numerous vehicles, many with hitch, spare and roof rack locks needing their own keys. Boats with cabin and locker keys. Vehicles all have alarm dongles if that's not a part of the key. Most keychains have an LED light of some kind.
I take the keychain(s) with me applicable to what I'm doing on any day. If all the keys were on one ring, I'd look like the worst stereotype of the apartment superintendant.
If anything this is a testament to Bach's genius,
Of course, you mean PDQ Bach.
This will make searching for other porn featuring the subject of 4chan threads more efficient. Even a quarter of a percent improvement in performance is going to save companies millions of dollars as their employees browse /b/.
Apparently, it's a validation thing.
Oddly enough, Simplified Technical English, which was developed for aerospace process and specification writing (and which has been modified for other industries' use) mandates the use of the active voice. Both for procedural and descriptive sentences. It is easily machine parsable/execulable and is designed to reduce ambiguity.
So when I hear management saying passive writing is needed, I think someone is trying to weasel out of some regulation or responsibility.
I see a certain logic fail here.
Who is going to use these stored documents? How will they be used (read-only, revise and check in, etc.)? What tools are authors generating these documents with? Answers to these questions will help determine the best storage format.
For documents intended to be downloaded and read or string searched, PDF is a good choice. There are a lot of PDF readers for different O/Ss available.
This is a good point. And it's something that technical writers seem to have developed a love for (the passive voice) for some unfathomable reason.
Back when I used to write engineering documentation for Boeing, management used to throw a hissy-fit whenever someone would use the active voice. By hiding the subject of a sentence, it was felt that responsibility for some action or decision could be side-stepped. (See how that reads?) "By using the ACME brand fasteners, it is believed that the wings could fall off." Well, who belived it? And why did they keep attaching wings with that kind of junk? I guess we'll never know, so good luck suing anyone.
F* Starbucks
I imagine the 911 operators can collect statistics on this. If it is people who genuinely don't have a clue that 911 is not to be used if your McDonalds order is wrong, then these calls will be made as frequently from phones with active accounts. If people have the presence of mind to select an 'anonymous' phone when placing such a call, that goes a long way toward proving intent to disrupt service.
The killer app for Apple Pay.
Almost. It was doing fine until it told the service rep to kiss its shiny metal ass.
Or its possible that some people can't recognize personal ethics if they don't contain a book:chapter:verse reference.
Religious wackos delegate their ethical decision making to some scripture that cannot be questioned or examined critically.
If Miami Beach gets flooded the US economy will crash?
Yes. Because your bank's assets consist of mortgages on that property. When it floods and people walk away from their payments, your bank collapses.
In 2008, the economy was fine at first. But when banks stopped loaning money to companies, they couldn't buy materials and pay wages to conduct business.
By longitude.
How would you stop the NSA from fucking your life over?
By not having a life.
That depends on whether this is a salaried or hourly job, assorted state and federal labor laws and regulations, etc., etc. It's possible that the job description was written such that this was a legitimate contract term and that overtime and on call pay did not apply.
IANAL, but this is a case in which one (with some labor law expertise), is needed. Now, whether one can extend the idea of being on call 24 hours a day to being tracked is yet another question.
Shit traveling near the speed of light experiences much less time than shit at non-relativistic speeds.
I don't think relativity enters into this. In space, light travels at the speed of light. And to a photon, time means nothing.
What we have here is a direct path length from the supernova to earth of 11,000 ly. Something went 'bang' 11,300 years ago, so we missed the first signals. But there are gas clouds and other crud floating around which reflect the pulse, making it travel longer paths. We are now seing the reflections with path lengths of 11,300 ly. And as time goes by, we will see reflections with longer and longer path lengths.
This will (in time) be an interesting opportunity to map the structures of the gas clouds surrounding the supernova using successive images (over dozens or hundreds of years) and calculating path differences and the underlying 3D structures causing the reflections.
Every time I talk to a pig,
Just hand him your license and registration and shut up.
- She was required to keep the phone on her person (and turned on) 24/7 to handle customer calls.
I went swimming.
Condition of employment. You want the job or not?
Video games also stimulate the flight or fight response flight or fight response.
But note the effect on self control:
They also display a decrease of activity in "self-control" areas of the brain typical of the primal "fight or flight" response.
Yes, video games can give you a thrilling adrenaline rush*. But in a more advanced society, self control is at least as important as the ability to react and club an agressor to death.
*And then there's the issue of what the physical effects of such an adrenaline rush are on a 300 pound sperglord living in mom's basement with zero actual physical conditioning.