The point is to stand up for principles. He is being targeted by law enforcement because of his political activities, under pressure from the United States, by Sweden, a country that holds itself up as a champion of human rights. The United Kingdom is also caught up in the abuse and hypocrisy. Why else would they try to extradite someone for something (retroactive rape) that isn't even a crime in the UK?
I would be more nervous in the driverless car, but only for the first few trips. After that, I would get used to it, and just relax and enjoy the scenery, or maybe take a nap.
Most other people will be the same. Once the novelty wears off, self-driving cars will just be routine.
The point is that no single truckload of supplies is "essential".
The convey will be monitored by a drone, or several drones. If someone throws paint or mud at the convoy, the drones will see it happen and can follow the perp and direct fire (mortars or artillery) or air support, or even guide nearby infantry to the the target.
You don't win a war by losing lives to steal a few boxes of MREs.
Since the enemy now know that they can kill one person and get all the loot without trucks full of soldiers to defend it.
1. The vehicle with the human can be heavily armored. It could be a truck or hummer with extra steel plate and a sandbagged floor, or it could be a Bradley or even an Abrams. It will not be a soft target.
2. A convoy will be operating in an area covered by artillery or mortars, and monitored by aerial assets, usually a drone. An unmanned convoy will be easier to support with indirect fire since there is much less risk of friendly casualties. So if anyone tries to "loot" the convey, they will be hit within seconds by VT-fused mortar or artillery fire, using the drone to adjust fire.
The numbers are ridiculous even in the metro area. They had to start culling numbers.
In California, the overpopulation of mule deer causes serious environmental destruction, erosion from over grazing, and even the near extinction of some tree species (they eat the seedlings). But every proposal to cull the deer is stopped by urban voters who think they are "saving Bambi's mother".
The problem is a lack of apex predators. The deer population has expanded past a sustainable level.
In the past decade, biologists have recorded strong rebounds in the population of trout in Wyoming rivers, less sediment in the water, and higher oxygen levels. Why? Wolves. When the wolves came back to Yellowstone, the behavior of the deer and elk changed. They spend more time on higher ground, and along ridge lines where they are safer from ambush, and much less time browsing in stream beds where they destroy vegetation and stir up sediment. When the apex predators returned, they had a dramatic effect on the entire ecosystem.
A reintroduction of wolves to central Utah would reduce the deer population, but also change their behavior. Another option would be to use biotechnology to bring back the American lion.
The question for those of us that export goods from the US is "what is this going to do to our shipping costs?"
They will quite likely go down. Under the current system, rates paid by Americans are subsidizing other countries.
An eBay seller in Shenzhen pays less to ship a package to an American than an American pays to ship to his next door neighbor.
If an America company wants to send a lot of small packages to American customers, and is in no particular hurry, it can be cost effective to load them all in a shipping container, ship them to China, and then mail them back to individual addresses in America.
The current system is based on the assumption that there is a similar amount of mail going in each direction, so we pay to send in one direction, and China pays to send in the other direction, and it is a wash. But this is NOT TRUE at all. WAY more stuff comes out of China than goes in. And it is sent from coastal cities and delivered to China Post directly at the airport where it leaves the country. So China Post is bearing NO cost, while USPS is bearing the cost of receiving the package at the destination airport, and then shipping it across the country and delivering the last mile, all for $0.
According to TFA, it is based on mirrors. It will be in GEO, with is at 42,000 km, so it would have to be aimed with extreme accuracy, and to light an entire metropolitan area, it would have to be enormous.
And it is supposed to be ready-to-go in 2020. That is wildly implausible.
The rules on "work for hire" vary by jurisdiction. There may be artistic exceptions. Or the designer could incorporate work from a previous job, or even from a third party.
Get a written contract that nails down the IP, and makes it very clear who owns what, and who has what rights.
Lots of people are paid to work on open source projects
When people are paid to work on open source, they are usually given a specific checklist of things to work on, and are paid by people that have already figured out the UI.
Also, plenty of "UI designers" aren't actually very good at designing UIs. You aren't going to get a world class designer from a Craigslist ad.
Here's a better suggestion: Read some books on UI design. A very good one is Don't Make Me Think.
... and depression causes social isolation. It is hard to break the loop.
sitting alone in a room and pretending some pixels on your monitor are your friends is not a long-term viable substitute for actually spending time with people
Exactly. Pixels are not enough. That's why I got a RealDoll.
traffic merging has to give way to that on the main road. If this is true in California...
It is. Making room for merging traffic is polite, but not a legal obligation. As described in TFA, the accident was the fault of the Camry's human driver.
NN compression is inherently lossy. For instance, denoising autoencoders filter out "salt-and-pepper" noise in an image, so obviously you aren't outputting the original.
... and use the water behind the dam as a heat sink.
Many species in the Colorado River are already threatened because of high temperatures caused by the reservoirs. The last thing the river needs is gigawatts of additional heat.
This, of course, is in addition to all the other economic, technical, legal, and political reasons why trying to build a nuke on the Arizona-Nevada border is completely idiotic.
Most of the CGI, at least character CGI, with today's technology is still pretty obvious to me
It is only obvious when it is obvious. There is plenty of CGI in movies that you don't even notice because it is done so well.
Character CGI is improving rapidly. Fully fake actors are already a thing in Japan. They even have fan clubs. They will be common in American films as well within a few years.
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The treaty was a fig leaf to allow America to abandon South Vietnam with "honor".
What's the point?
The point is to stand up for principles. He is being targeted by law enforcement because of his political activities, under pressure from the United States, by Sweden, a country that holds itself up as a champion of human rights. The United Kingdom is also caught up in the abuse and hypocrisy. Why else would they try to extradite someone for something (retroactive rape) that isn't even a crime in the UK?
I didn't know Republicans had 160-year-olds in their party.
You obviously haven't been to any GOP meetups.
The racist white Southerners were ok with LBJ, Carter, and BJ
Who is "BJ"?
I would be more nervous in the driverless car, but only for the first few trips. After that, I would get used to it, and just relax and enjoy the scenery, or maybe take a nap.
Most other people will be the same. Once the novelty wears off, self-driving cars will just be routine.
The metrics of winning or losing wars is based on supply count.
Nothing more.
An obvious counter-example is Vietnam. We had way more supplies than the NVA. We lost anyway.
The point is that no single truckload of supplies is "essential".
The convey will be monitored by a drone, or several drones. If someone throws paint or mud at the convoy, the drones will see it happen and can follow the perp and direct fire (mortars or artillery) or air support, or even guide nearby infantry to the the target.
You don't win a war by losing lives to steal a few boxes of MREs.
Since the enemy now know that they can kill one person and get all the loot without trucks full of soldiers to defend it.
1. The vehicle with the human can be heavily armored. It could be a truck or hummer with extra steel plate and a sandbagged floor, or it could be a Bradley or even an Abrams. It will not be a soft target.
2. A convoy will be operating in an area covered by artillery or mortars, and monitored by aerial assets, usually a drone. An unmanned convoy will be easier to support with indirect fire since there is much less risk of friendly casualties. So if anyone tries to "loot" the convey, they will be hit within seconds by VT-fused mortar or artillery fire, using the drone to adjust fire.
I recall reading about a subset of Democrats flipping out over states' rights, or at least one states' right, in the 1850s and early 1860s.
Those were Southern Whites. The very same people that are overwhelmingly Republican today.
the ruling class has for centuries tried to goad the working class into violence so they can use it as an excuse to crack down
The goading was successful in 1789 and 1917. Things didn't go well for the ruling class.
Steve Jobs himself wouldn't let his own kids anywhere near an iPhone or an iPad.
So? Was Steve an expert on parenting? Did his kids turn out exceptionally well, compared to the children of other billionaires?
If not, then why should I care about his views on parenting?
The numbers are ridiculous even in the metro area. They had to start culling numbers.
In California, the overpopulation of mule deer causes serious environmental destruction, erosion from over grazing, and even the near extinction of some tree species (they eat the seedlings). But every proposal to cull the deer is stopped by urban voters who think they are "saving Bambi's mother".
The problem is a lack of apex predators. The deer population has expanded past a sustainable level.
In the past decade, biologists have recorded strong rebounds in the population of trout in Wyoming rivers, less sediment in the water, and higher oxygen levels. Why? Wolves. When the wolves came back to Yellowstone, the behavior of the deer and elk changed. They spend more time on higher ground, and along ridge lines where they are safer from ambush, and much less time browsing in stream beds where they destroy vegetation and stir up sediment. When the apex predators returned, they had a dramatic effect on the entire ecosystem.
A reintroduction of wolves to central Utah would reduce the deer population, but also change their behavior. Another option would be to use biotechnology to bring back the American lion.
So it's yet another 80/20 problem?
Right now it is about 50/50, with about half the world online. African women are least likely to be online, European men the most.
Iceland is #1, with 98.2% adoption. Eritrea is at the bottom, with 1.2%.
Internet adoption is still growing at about 6%. That isn't as good as a few years ago, but is still solid growth.
In many places, the problem is not infrastructure, but politics. For instance, Eritrea is one of the world's most repressive countries.
The question for those of us that export goods from the US is "what is this going to do to our shipping costs?"
They will quite likely go down. Under the current system, rates paid by Americans are subsidizing other countries.
An eBay seller in Shenzhen pays less to ship a package to an American than an American pays to ship to his next door neighbor.
If an America company wants to send a lot of small packages to American customers, and is in no particular hurry, it can be cost effective to load them all in a shipping container, ship them to China, and then mail them back to individual addresses in America.
The current system is based on the assumption that there is a similar amount of mail going in each direction, so we pay to send in one direction, and China pays to send in the other direction, and it is a wash. But this is NOT TRUE at all. WAY more stuff comes out of China than goes in. And it is sent from coastal cities and delivered to China Post directly at the airport where it leaves the country. So China Post is bearing NO cost, while USPS is bearing the cost of receiving the package at the destination airport, and then shipping it across the country and delivering the last mile, all for $0.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that this is a mirror.
According to TFA, it is based on mirrors. It will be in GEO, with is at 42,000 km, so it would have to be aimed with extreme accuracy, and to light an entire metropolitan area, it would have to be enormous.
And it is supposed to be ready-to-go in 2020. That is wildly implausible.
The rules on "work for hire" vary by jurisdiction. There may be artistic exceptions. Or the designer could incorporate work from a previous job, or even from a third party.
Get a written contract that nails down the IP, and makes it very clear who owns what, and who has what rights.
Lots of people are paid to work on open source projects
When people are paid to work on open source, they are usually given a specific checklist of things to work on, and are paid by people that have already figured out the UI.
Also, plenty of "UI designers" aren't actually very good at designing UIs. You aren't going to get a world class designer from a Craigslist ad.
Here's a better suggestion: Read some books on UI design. A very good one is Don't Make Me Think.
The Design of Everyday Things is not about software, but is still a good book that every engineer should read.
You should always do "Hallway Usability Tests", as well as the other 12 things on this list.
I'd love to see them broke up like AT&T.
Amazon has 4% of the retail market. For online retail, they have 30%.
They are no where near a monopoly. Almost anything Amazon sells, you can buy elsewhere.
Comparing Amazon to AT&T is silly.
social isolation causes depression.
... and depression causes social isolation. It is hard to break the loop.
sitting alone in a room and pretending some pixels on your monitor are your friends is not a long-term viable substitute for actually spending time with people
Exactly. Pixels are not enough. That's why I got a RealDoll.
Someone gets nearly killed with an Exec. in the car and yet the project continued.
Meanwhile, human drivers kill 3000 people per day worldwide, over a million deaths annually.
Maybe you should be concerned about the million deaths, rather than the zero that Waymo has killed so far.
traffic merging has to give way to that on the main road. If this is true in California ...
It is. Making room for merging traffic is polite, but not a legal obligation. As described in TFA, the accident was the fault of the Camry's human driver.
NN compression is inherently lossy. For instance, denoising autoencoders filter out "salt-and-pepper" noise in an image, so obviously you aren't outputting the original.
Looks like the device sets up a VPN back to them that they can send mail out from with a static IP and reverse dns.
Then you still have to trust a 3rd party. So how is this different from trusting any other provider (other than being really expensive)?
... and use the water behind the dam as a heat sink.
Many species in the Colorado River are already threatened because of high temperatures caused by the reservoirs. The last thing the river needs is gigawatts of additional heat.
This, of course, is in addition to all the other economic, technical, legal, and political reasons why trying to build a nuke on the Arizona-Nevada border is completely idiotic.
Most of the CGI, at least character CGI, with today's technology is still pretty obvious to me
It is only obvious when it is obvious. There is plenty of CGI in movies that you don't even notice because it is done so well.
Character CGI is improving rapidly. Fully fake actors are already a thing in Japan. They even have fan clubs. They will be common in American films as well within a few years.