There are plenty of road-able airplanes that meet the minimum specs to be called, "flying cars." The current obstacle to mass production seems to be that no one trusts the driver, so they're trying to find ways to automate the whole thing.
Leaving tabs open is the workaround for a problem that all major browsers currently have:
They refresh the damn page when you navigate back to it.
This may not seem like a big deal to people living in Mountain View or the Bay area, but in the entire rest of the country, the javascript include cascade that results form this combined with the lag per-request due to the network delay of having to cross the country to get to where all the internet apparently is, adds unacceptable re-loading times to very common navigational events. And it gets worse if the page is a web-app like google docs or sheets.
As a workaround, people often open links in "another tab" (it's an option on the context menu of most major browsers, probably for just this reason...). While you're only ever "using" a few at a time, it's quite easy over the course of a day with a lot of task-switching, to accumulate a large number tabs per browser window and have several such browser windows open at once as you flip through your various duties and occasionally clean things up a window-at-a-time.
If you want to cut down on tab usage, then put the user in control of when the page refreshes and how many rendered pages to keep in memory or in the on-disk cache (which would let the OS decide when to actually put it on-disk if done right). Browsers used to have a "snap-back" feature to do pretty much exactly this, for one page back. Why did that go away instead of getting generalized?
I think the GP was proposing doing some freelancing during that time, or that the video games might be more valuable to you (but more difficult to quantify the value of, so just extrapolate your regular hourly rate as a proxy).
It seems counterproductive to argue about whether or how much getter each of the myriad of things you could be doing instead of wearing yourself out trying to maintain full alertness for every second you're on the road is. Any of those things would be better than having to be in control for commute driving.
Sure, they don't cost $40,000. But neither does the human-driven vehicle, when you add in the 2k+ man-hours * you're going to need for the control system.
What's the deal with that? How can they justify converting a paid app into an ad-supported one?
Surely there will have been some legal cases by now for the times that has happened. I mean, I personally just delete the app and never* buy from that publisher again, but surely some class action lawyers have been able to get a lot of money for themselves and a small coupon for the many many victims of this practice over the years.
Same way shipping ports do it. You have professional a pilot meet the vehicle in a place it can reach on it's own, and take over driving to specific last-mile destinations.
Little tiny one ounce packets would be ridiculously easy to smuggle in.
And would contain about.6 oz of alcohol. It's not magic pixie dust that converts water into alcohol. Stop imagining kool-aid and thinking tiny amount of this stuff is going to turn a liter of water into a liter of booze.
I'm not sure who you're buying from if you're burning out a refrigerator in less than 5 years, but if you're buying any of the major brands, you shouldn't really be seeing functional issues five years. Are you running it off of an inverter?
Smartphones already are capable of measuring three different things, and with a bluetooth measuring device for any other measurements you might want to make, are pretty much what a tricorder appears to be, except they fit in your pocket.
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Users are already saving the state, in the form of tabs. Wouldn't it make sense to have a built-in dedicated and optimized version of that?
Why are they giving away the electricity? Is it difficult to meter or something?
There are plenty of road-able airplanes that meet the minimum specs to be called, "flying cars." The current obstacle to mass production seems to be that no one trusts the driver, so they're trying to find ways to automate the whole thing.
Well sure.. but shouldn't it be fine to fly a RC helicopter to take some pictures in a national park?
Leaving tabs open is the workaround for a problem that all major browsers currently have:
They refresh the damn page when you navigate back to it.
This may not seem like a big deal to people living in Mountain View or the Bay area, but in the entire rest of the country, the javascript include cascade that results form this combined with the lag per-request due to the network delay of having to cross the country to get to where all the internet apparently is, adds unacceptable re-loading times to very common navigational events. And it gets worse if the page is a web-app like google docs or sheets.
As a workaround, people often open links in "another tab" (it's an option on the context menu of most major browsers, probably for just this reason...). While you're only ever "using" a few at a time, it's quite easy over the course of a day with a lot of task-switching, to accumulate a large number tabs per browser window and have several such browser windows open at once as you flip through your various duties and occasionally clean things up a window-at-a-time.
If you want to cut down on tab usage, then put the user in control of when the page refreshes and how many rendered pages to keep in memory or in the on-disk cache (which would let the OS decide when to actually put it on-disk if done right). Browsers used to have a "snap-back" feature to do pretty much exactly this, for one page back. Why did that go away instead of getting generalized?
I think the GP was proposing doing some freelancing during that time, or that the video games might be more valuable to you (but more difficult to quantify the value of, so just extrapolate your regular hourly rate as a proxy).
It seems counterproductive to argue about whether or how much getter each of the myriad of things you could be doing instead of wearing yourself out trying to maintain full alertness for every second you're on the road is. Any of those things would be better than having to be in control for commute driving.
Also, for complex plotlines (see: "Lost"), people tend to forget important events that happened weeks prior and have trouble keeping up with the plot.
Interesting example, but how do you propose preventing the writers from losing track of the plot?
Why would dumping high-salinity "waste" water back into the ocean be monumentally stupid?
How are you defining, "as good as humans"? How many hours have humans put in at the fake city to calibrate expectations?
"Door Close" works when the fireman's key is in place. Not every button in the panel is for use in all of the modes of operation.
Conspicuously absent form your list of things you might prefer to be doing while not getting paid is driving in traffic
Sure, they don't cost $40,000. But neither does the human-driven vehicle, when you add in the 2k+ man-hours * you're going to need for the control system.
*more if you actually take it off-road...
Ahh.. forgot the *
*never - or until I forget their name, or they change it and I don't notice, whichever comes first. It's not like I keep a list.
What's the deal with that? How can they justify converting a paid app into an ad-supported one?
Surely there will have been some legal cases by now for the times that has happened. I mean, I personally just delete the app and never* buy from that publisher again, but surely some class action lawyers have been able to get a lot of money for themselves and a small coupon for the many many victims of this practice over the years.
Same way shipping ports do it. You have professional a pilot meet the vehicle in a place it can reach on it's own, and take over driving to specific last-mile destinations.
Little tiny one ounce packets would be ridiculously easy to smuggle in.
And would contain about .6 oz of alcohol. It's not magic pixie dust that converts water into alcohol. Stop imagining kool-aid and thinking tiny amount of this stuff is going to turn a liter of water into a liter of booze.
Ok, so the top marginal tax rate was 90%. How much did those millionaires actually end up paying, though?
I'm not sure who you're buying from if you're burning out a refrigerator in less than 5 years, but if you're buying any of the major brands, you shouldn't really be seeing functional issues five years. Are you running it off of an inverter?
What objects are moving away from us faster than light and how was this determined?
Plus, what's with the business license requirement?
So.. they should learn from the dutch and build a series of walls?
Unfortunately, that solution is so obvious that the condiment makers have made it for us. Where can you even get a glass bottle of ketchup any more?
It sounds like he's saying that the way to get service is to pretend to be a shoplifter?
Smartphones already are capable of measuring three different things, and with a bluetooth measuring device for any other measurements you might want to make, are pretty much what a tricorder appears to be, except they fit in your pocket.
Good question - does the bus speed match the ram convention, or the hard drive storage convention and all other communication speed conventions?