But the PP has a good point. I've written a number of client apps using Java. Which doesn't rank too highly. But I don't care. Because these apps don't go onto the Internet. You will never run one or look at the source code. And odds are against you sneaking an exploit in on a USB drive. Because there's a guy with an M-16 guarding the door where they are kept.
Yeah, that's a pretty extreme example. But there are a lot of apps out there that don't have hooks built in for adware and some marketing department.
the grand empire that was the United States collapsed centuries ago
The Chinese will still be around. And they'll mine the dump site and extract the valuable metals for industrial use. Which should have been done before this crap was planted in the ground.
5.8 million years isn't a problem. Stuff that decays over such long time spans is emitting radiation at such a low level its not much of a danger. The bad stuff has half lives of a few years. It's spewing radiation like mad. But it won't be around for very long. Maybe a few hundred years.
As for autonomous vehicles, ethics does not come into it. A car wont know if the person next to it is a Nobel laureate or meth dealer.
That's not ethics. Human life is human life. The AI won't be checking your party affiliation, skin color or membership in a religious cult when deciding how to brake and steer. The only weighting factor is who owns the car. And that is as much in the self interest of the AI and its creators as the vehicle's occupants. Because if AI starts killing its occupants preferentially, nobody will buy it anymore. And those that have it will pull the AI fuse and steer themselves.
Someone is going to get smart and add an option to order these with 0.1" pitch pins already attached.
So we can plug them into a plugboard, just like the old DIP packages.
SMD packaging sort of screwed up the "plug and jumper" method of prototyping.
If you want to get a weapon by security, you smuggle it in a piece at a time. Over many weeks. And hide the pieces somewhere inside the secured area. If one courier gets stopped, you just repeat the process until a complete set of parts gets in. Assemble and walk onto an airplane.
your cost to use it could be lower than your cost per mile owning your own vehicle
Poor person detected. I don't care what my mileage is. I can afford to have enough cars sitting in my garage so that my use factor is less than 1%. If cost is an issue, then pass right by the self driving fleet and jump on the bus. That's even cheaper.
Another thing: If cost and safety are important, then why aren't we seeing proposals and prototypes for self driving city buses?
cheaper to subscribe to and use a low end car service that takes you door to door, than it costs to maintain and gas a beater car.
You have missed the Tesla lesson. Whether electric, autonomous or whatever, the uptake of these technologies will be at the high end of the market. Not the low end. Cars are, and will be for the foreseeable future, status symbols. Because of that, 'gassing up' a car (beater or otherwise) is a non-issue for rich people. In fact, the big, low mileage vehicles are a demonstration of wealth specifically because they are expensive to run.
The benefits of slower driving and fewer stupid human first hand drivers already outweigh the lessened ability to predict what a stupid human in the other car will do.
Or the stupid human cyclists. Or pedestrians. We get those off the roads and maybe autonomous cars will have a chance.
it will quickly become prohibitively expensive to drive human-operated cars
That's not how insurance works. I have to cover my liability, which is governed by my ability to drive safely. Autonomous cars may have lower liability. But that doesn't drive my costs up. Just theirs down.
And in my state, I can buy a bond to cover my liability. If the state says I have to have $100K of liability coverage, I buy a bond for that price. Oh, and I get the interest the bond pays. So I'm actually making some money off that deal.
Odds are he is rich. Older used cars are in pretty high demand and, as a result, expensive. How about a 40 year old truck that sold (new) for less than $10K and now commands $40K to $80K? If you think 'cash for clunkers' is going to get those off the road, you are delusional. Registration won't either. In many cases, older cars are exempt from inspections and annual renewals. They are here forever.
... self driving have to do with climate change? And what will this "huge financial incentive" be for me to go with either the self driving option or the low carbon one?
Anderton (Cruise) is viewing a bunch of files, manipulating them with hand gestures. Then, he drags them to (probably) a disc icon, unplugs some sort of memory module, walks across the room and plugs the module into another machine.
The thing is, if you have only two AOA detectors and they disagree, there is no way for the computer to know which one is wrong.
AoA sensors are typically used for systems like stall warning. That's the thing that shakes the control yoke (plus a few other lights and buzzers) when the angle of attack is too high for a particular flight mode. As part of a warning system, the consequences of a single sensor failure were not as dire. So the captain's stick shaker activates but the first officer's does not. The crew is in the loop to take appropriate action.
Triple redundancy is typically used when a sensor provides an input to a system that can get the airplane into trouble all by itself (the criteria is a bit more complex). MCAS falls into this category. Initially, it was thought not to be so, due to it's maximum stabilizer adjustment of only half a degree. But two things happened: Flight testing revealed a need to increase this authority to 2.5 degrees. And it appears that nobody considered the case where an override command by the pilots would reset the system and allow it to bump the stabilizer down another 2.5 degrees. This should have been a 'back to the drawing board moment' in terms of testing and certification. It was not*.
As to the "behave exactly like the classic 737": Not really. The classic 737 didn't have the 'nose up' problem that the MAX has due to it's new engine placement. Therefore there is no compensating bump the elevator down function needed. The old planes are inherently stable.
*Typical problem at Boeing. I used to work there. They don't have the institutional skills needed to handle change properly. As long as things continue on as always, they are OK. But throw them a curve and the sh*t hits the fan. Schedule is God there.
Rich people invest what they don't spend and generate economic activity.
Scrooge McDuck style money bin hoarders
I see you missed basic economics in school (probably one of those liberal arts places). Rich people don't hide piles of cash in a vault. They invest it in their own businesses or loan it to people who need it.
And if you DO decide to go after all those evil 'wealthy' investors, keep this in mind: The largest and wealthiest single class of investor in this country are pension funds. So you'll be skimming your 50% off of the retirements of school teachers, cops, firefighters, etc. Good luck getting elected to implement a plan like that.
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But the PP has a good point. I've written a number of client apps using Java. Which doesn't rank too highly. But I don't care. Because these apps don't go onto the Internet. You will never run one or look at the source code. And odds are against you sneaking an exploit in on a USB drive. Because there's a guy with an M-16 guarding the door where they are kept.
Yeah, that's a pretty extreme example. But there are a lot of apps out there that don't have hooks built in for adware and some marketing department.
the grand empire that was the United States collapsed centuries ago
The Chinese will still be around. And they'll mine the dump site and extract the valuable metals for industrial use. Which should have been done before this crap was planted in the ground.
5.8 million years isn't a problem. Stuff that decays over such long time spans is emitting radiation at such a low level its not much of a danger. The bad stuff has half lives of a few years. It's spewing radiation like mad. But it won't be around for very long. Maybe a few hundred years.
As for autonomous vehicles, ethics does not come into it. A car wont know if the person next to it is a Nobel laureate or meth dealer.
That's not ethics. Human life is human life. The AI won't be checking your party affiliation, skin color or membership in a religious cult when deciding how to brake and steer. The only weighting factor is who owns the car. And that is as much in the self interest of the AI and its creators as the vehicle's occupants. Because if AI starts killing its occupants preferentially, nobody will buy it anymore. And those that have it will pull the AI fuse and steer themselves.
I paid for the car. I expect it to protect my life first.
they require you to do a bit of soldering
Someone is going to get smart and add an option to order these with 0.1" pitch pins already attached.
So we can plug them into a plugboard, just like the old DIP packages.
SMD packaging sort of screwed up the "plug and jumper" method of prototyping.
Do you know why I pulled you over?
This.
If you want to get a weapon by security, you smuggle it in a piece at a time. Over many weeks. And hide the pieces somewhere inside the secured area. If one courier gets stopped, you just repeat the process until a complete set of parts gets in. Assemble and walk onto an airplane.
your cost to use it could be lower than your cost per mile owning your own vehicle
Poor person detected. I don't care what my mileage is. I can afford to have enough cars sitting in my garage so that my use factor is less than 1%. If cost is an issue, then pass right by the self driving fleet and jump on the bus. That's even cheaper.
Another thing: If cost and safety are important, then why aren't we seeing proposals and prototypes for self driving city buses?
Mint condition FJ40.
cheaper to subscribe to and use a low end car service that takes you door to door, than it costs to maintain and gas a beater car.
You have missed the Tesla lesson. Whether electric, autonomous or whatever, the uptake of these technologies will be at the high end of the market. Not the low end. Cars are, and will be for the foreseeable future, status symbols. Because of that, 'gassing up' a car (beater or otherwise) is a non-issue for rich people. In fact, the big, low mileage vehicles are a demonstration of wealth specifically because they are expensive to run.
The benefits of slower driving and fewer stupid human first hand drivers already outweigh the lessened ability to predict what a stupid human in the other car will do.
Or the stupid human cyclists. Or pedestrians. We get those off the roads and maybe autonomous cars will have a chance.
it will quickly become prohibitively expensive to drive human-operated cars
That's not how insurance works. I have to cover my liability, which is governed by my ability to drive safely. Autonomous cars may have lower liability. But that doesn't drive my costs up. Just theirs down.
And in my state, I can buy a bond to cover my liability. If the state says I have to have $100K of liability coverage, I buy a bond for that price. Oh, and I get the interest the bond pays. So I'm actually making some money off that deal.
You are poor.
Odds are he is rich. Older used cars are in pretty high demand and, as a result, expensive. How about a 40 year old truck that sold (new) for less than $10K and now commands $40K to $80K? If you think 'cash for clunkers' is going to get those off the road, you are delusional. Registration won't either. In many cases, older cars are exempt from inspections and annual renewals. They are here forever.
Anderton (Cruise) is viewing a bunch of files, manipulating them with hand gestures. Then, he drags them to (probably) a disc icon, unplugs some sort of memory module, walks across the room and plugs the module into another machine.
His office LAN must be even worse than mine.
Larry Ellison: "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK."
HAL, Joshua, D.a.r.r.y.l
MCAS
prod the other telcos to roll out faster internet
In that sense it failed. They just rolled out Ajit Pai.
there a numerous tools that will validate your code
Stop calling our users tools.
The thing is, if you have only two AOA detectors and they disagree, there is no way for the computer to know which one is wrong.
AoA sensors are typically used for systems like stall warning. That's the thing that shakes the control yoke (plus a few other lights and buzzers) when the angle of attack is too high for a particular flight mode. As part of a warning system, the consequences of a single sensor failure were not as dire. So the captain's stick shaker activates but the first officer's does not. The crew is in the loop to take appropriate action.
Triple redundancy is typically used when a sensor provides an input to a system that can get the airplane into trouble all by itself (the criteria is a bit more complex). MCAS falls into this category. Initially, it was thought not to be so, due to it's maximum stabilizer adjustment of only half a degree. But two things happened: Flight testing revealed a need to increase this authority to 2.5 degrees. And it appears that nobody considered the case where an override command by the pilots would reset the system and allow it to bump the stabilizer down another 2.5 degrees. This should have been a 'back to the drawing board moment' in terms of testing and certification. It was not*.
As to the "behave exactly like the classic 737": Not really. The classic 737 didn't have the 'nose up' problem that the MAX has due to it's new engine placement. Therefore there is no compensating bump the elevator down function needed. The old planes are inherently stable.
*Typical problem at Boeing. I used to work there. They don't have the institutional skills needed to handle change properly. As long as things continue on as always, they are OK. But throw them a curve and the sh*t hits the fan. Schedule is God there.
If I send forms to the government that I fill out purposely wrong
On the other hand, how could they blame you for:
2018 1040 Tax Form for ~po_~{po ~poz~ppo\~{ o n~po_~{o[po ~y oodsou>#w4ko[NO CARRIRER]
Rich people invest what they don't spend and generate economic activity.
Scrooge McDuck style money bin hoarders
I see you missed basic economics in school (probably one of those liberal arts places). Rich people don't hide piles of cash in a vault. They invest it in their own businesses or loan it to people who need it.
And if you DO decide to go after all those evil 'wealthy' investors, keep this in mind: The largest and wealthiest single class of investor in this country are pension funds. So you'll be skimming your 50% off of the retirements of school teachers, cops, firefighters, etc. Good luck getting elected to implement a plan like that.
Consumption taxes would stagnate the commercial sector.
Claims the commercial sector, which doesn't want to be taxed.
Tax all wealth, the more the better.
Wealth can move beyond tax jurisdictions pretty easily. Consumption can not. Tax what is difficult to hide.