Han Solo: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Voice: What happened? Han Solo: Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? [winces] Voice: We're sending a squad up. Han Solo: Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a minute to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous. Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number? Han Solo: Uh...
I don't see why this represents a serious objection. You would obviously have the vehicle software / sensor stack optimized for local conditions. Indian designers could rig it so that lights flashed and horns honked. Algorithms could be designed so that you could simulate bluff charges / random aggressive behavior / whatnot.
Really, from what I've seen of third world driving, a simple pseudo random number generator along with five or so stock behaviors (go, stop, go faster, swerve, swerve more) should do just fine.
Delphi is a fuel pump and gasket company, and they're not spectacular at that stuff..
Actually, you're a bit behind the curve. Delphi is big business underneath the hood and chassis. They make crummy gaskets, but they have quite a bit more depth than you seem to believe.
You will NEVER overcome the resistance to people wanting their 'own' transportation space. It may not be a horse, it may not be a car manually driven by a human but it won't be 'mass transit' and, get over it already, bicycles have a very limited role in the greater world.
Utopias are all well and good, but they are typically found only in the fertile human imagination.
Yeah, but put too many of them together and then they start talking to each other, thinking thoughts not intended by their creators. All of this in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, America.
Are you sure you want to leave this for your children?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think somebody needs to translate this from Swiss. Seems like what would be termed a 'design patent' in the US (think rounded corners). But it sure sounds like a trademark issue.
As long as we're in the universe that doesn't include Slashdot beta, then it's OK. If we could get rid of the Kardashians, I would consider it an extra bonus, but reality being what it apparently is, one takes what is served to you.
Powders are a bit easier to package. That said, there is nothing to prevent our dashing entrepreneur from making Margaritas-in-a-bag, especially for camping or other weight / volume challenged activities. A one ounce square foil pack of Everclear.... Hmmm..... Food / Drug / Disinfectant / Cleaner / Industrial solvent. This could be more ground breaking than those foil packs of WD-40.
Kids aren't allowed to buy alcohol, and if the worry is about kids getting into the stuff at home after the parents buy it, then the argument would just as much apply to alcohol of the liquid variety which too comes in colorful and attractive packaging / labeling.
This is already an issue in other spheres. Packaged dishwasher detergents (one of the most ludicrous ideas of the 21st century, an individually wrapped bit of soap that you can -- no fuss, no muss - drop into your dishwasher* without thinking) have been implicated in a number of children's poisionings because they are of a size, color and consistency that mimics a candy. Kids find that under the sink, pop open the foil and - instant GI cleansing routine (plus a bunch a bunch of unsafe chemicals). The CPSC has been pushing manufacturers to make them less appealing / more childproof. Think of the children!
* Dishwashers and garbage disposals being some of the most obvious signs of the Descent of Mankind. Why do you need a complex / fragile / noisy device to rub some dirt off a plate? Do you have to have five extra minutes of your day free to watch the Kardiashians? What happens when they break? (I have to fix the damned things and I hate plumbing). Grump.
Driving with a Big-Gulp sized Hurricane in your lap (no straw of course, *wink* *wink*), that's OK, but powdered alcohol is irresponsible?
Alaska is still trying to figure out how this ever got on the voting ballot.
Most of them were stoned out of their mind and kept thinking how this shit would be really good sprinkled on Taco Bell right about now...
Don't give us any ideas.
The big issue is Alaska is dry / damp towns. There are a number of Native American villages that ban alcohol or limit it very rigorously. Alcoholism is an enormous issue for Native Americans (and, truth be told, the rest of us) and the smaller villages have adopted this form of control. Little tiny one ounce packets would be ridiculously easy to smuggle in. Of course, this is a fool's errand in a sense - you can rarely stop a social problem using prohibition, but the communities feel that it helps.
The rest of us are too stoned and confused to notice much (Where'd the snow go?).
That's what was up. Besides, you really could do quite a bit with BASIC on those machines by linking to Assembly code. Although many of us had to unlearn twisted spaghetti code in order to progress anywhere, I do wonder what horrible PTSD cases we would have created if high school kids in the 1970's had to start out with C. Talk about a dystopian future.
The problem with Cuban's argument is that our current 'screening' labs aren't terribly helpful. They are a weird amalgam of historical accidents, clinical utility and technical issues. They aren't ** designed ** to be used in a prognostic sense. And the pricing structure is all screwed (surprise). There are a couple of research protocols where they are using both DNA and protein chemistries on whole blood to tease out which chemicals might be useful markers in a prognostic or diagnostic set. We will probably get there but it's going to take some time. It isn't any easy question to answer at all.
Much of the argument against Cuban relied on the very, very weird 'cost benefit' analysis that we tend to use to determine if it's 'worth' doing. It's a horribly convoluted set of arguments with a bunch of absolutely pulled-out-of-your-ass coefficients. But you have to start somewhere and as I've said, it's not an easy question to answer. Even if you know what the question is.
Even here in the backwoods of the US, we do exactly the same thing. Patients can leave the ER with a CD containing scans and lab results. If they want to wait awhile, they can have the doctor's notes. We've thought about switching to USB sticks but CDs are just about the right size, dirt cheap and can be used for coasters in an emergency.
Why, we can even photocopy things in an emergency.
Wait until people start figuring out just how much "better-informed" the doctors and medical researchers are. It may first require dropping of the journal paywalls as well, but it is only a matter of time before first engineers and physicists from other fields take a close look at what has been passing for scientific method. Then there will be the authoritative voice to get others to take a closer look, etc. It will be epic when it finally happens.
Oh, everybody knows this. Medical research is a poor, psychotic cousin to 'real' science. It's going to be that way for quite some time. Hard to grow a bunch of humans with a gene deletion, wait until they're old, euthanize them and then slice them up for analysis. Even if you did that with lawyers and politicians, you'd have to wait an awful long time to get any results.
On top of the rather, ah, interesting history of how medicine became forefront in Western society (it makes Alice in Wonderland seem perfectly sane), human hubris, the medical - industrial complex and the plain old fact that biology is hard and you have modern medicine scrabbling for acorns under the tree, finding them occasionally but mostly eating rocks and twigs.
There won't be any 'authoritative' voices telling us how to do things because we know what we need to do. Be very, very patient. Invest lots more in basic research at all levels and continue to be patient. We're much more likely to fully fund NASA than that.
Just be an old codger like anyone with a 5 digit UID. They don't expect that much of us. If we can handle email then we're doing better than our elected representatives.
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Han Solo: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
[winces]
Voice: We're sending a squad up.
Han Solo: Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a minute to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
Han Solo: Uh...
Which is even weirder because Bloom County's creator is ** Berkeley ** Breathed.
I don't see why this represents a serious objection. You would obviously have the vehicle software / sensor stack optimized for local conditions. Indian designers could rig it so that lights flashed and horns honked. Algorithms could be designed so that you could simulate bluff charges / random aggressive behavior / whatnot.
Really, from what I've seen of third world driving, a simple pseudo random number generator along with five or so stock behaviors (go, stop, go faster, swerve, swerve more) should do just fine.
Delphi is a fuel pump and gasket company, and they're not spectacular at that stuff..
Actually, you're a bit behind the curve. Delphi is big business underneath the hood and chassis. They make crummy gaskets, but they have quite a bit more depth than you seem to believe.
You will NEVER overcome the resistance to people wanting their 'own' transportation space. It may not be a horse, it may not be a car manually driven by a human but it won't be 'mass transit' and, get over it already, bicycles have a very limited role in the greater world.
Utopias are all well and good, but they are typically found only in the fertile human imagination.
On a related line ....
"Boat - go fetch me a tuna."
(Then it parks itself, refuels, does it's routine maintenance and pays it's own bills - I can dream, can't I?)
You do realize that you're the poster child as to why we need this particular technology?
Ah, you've just invented ... a train.
Yeah, but put too many of them together and then they start talking to each other, thinking thoughts not intended by their creators. All of this in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, America.
Are you sure you want to leave this for your children?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think somebody needs to translate this from Swiss. Seems like what would be termed a 'design patent' in the US (think rounded corners). But it sure sounds like a trademark issue.
Why can't everybody speak American?
And then Moore's Law takes over and in 10 years it'll cost 50 cents and will be included free in specially marked cereal boxes.
In 10 years it will be part of the cereal itself. Increased fiber and a free colonoscopy by dinner time. The future of American medicine.
You're actually using 123D Catch to 'scan' a landscape? Does it even work at all? Are you then transferring them to DEM files?
Seems like it would never be nearly accurate enough for a landscape. If so, I'm impressed.
As long as we're in the universe that doesn't include Slashdot beta, then it's OK. If we could get rid of the Kardashians, I would consider it an extra bonus, but reality being what it apparently is, one takes what is served to you.
Powders are a bit easier to package. That said, there is nothing to prevent our dashing entrepreneur from making Margaritas-in-a-bag, especially for camping or other weight / volume challenged activities. A one ounce square foil pack of Everclear .... Hmmm ..... Food / Drug / Disinfectant / Cleaner / Industrial solvent. This could be more ground breaking than those foil packs of WD-40.
Kids aren't allowed to buy alcohol, and if the worry is about kids getting into the stuff at home after the parents buy it, then the argument would just as much apply to alcohol of the liquid variety which too comes in colorful and attractive packaging / labeling.
This is already an issue in other spheres. Packaged dishwasher detergents (one of the most ludicrous ideas of the 21st century, an individually wrapped bit of soap that you can -- no fuss, no muss - drop into your dishwasher* without thinking) have been implicated in a number of children's poisionings because they are of a size, color and consistency that mimics a candy. Kids find that under the sink, pop open the foil and - instant GI cleansing routine (plus a bunch a bunch of unsafe chemicals). The CPSC has been pushing manufacturers to make them less appealing / more childproof. Think of the children!
* Dishwashers and garbage disposals being some of the most obvious signs of the Descent of Mankind. Why do you need a complex / fragile / noisy device to rub some dirt off a plate? Do you have to have five extra minutes of your day free to watch the Kardiashians? What happens when they break? (I have to fix the damned things and I hate plumbing). Grump.
Two thermoses of Everclear!
Wait a minute...Louisiana? The state that has drive-through daiquiri bars ?
Driving with a Big-Gulp sized Hurricane in your lap (no straw of course, *wink* *wink*), that's OK, but powdered alcohol is irresponsible?
Alaska is still trying to figure out how this ever got on the voting ballot.
Most of them were stoned out of their mind and kept thinking how this shit would be really good sprinkled on Taco Bell right about now...
Don't give us any ideas.
The big issue is Alaska is dry / damp towns. There are a number of Native American villages that ban alcohol or limit it very rigorously. Alcoholism is an enormous issue for Native Americans (and, truth be told, the rest of us) and the smaller villages have adopted this form of control. Little tiny one ounce packets would be ridiculously easy to smuggle in. Of course, this is a fool's errand in a sense - you can rarely stop a social problem using prohibition, but the communities feel that it helps.
The rest of us are too stoned and confused to notice much (Where'd the snow go?).
Well they could at least show us some tech porn pictures of the insides..... I can't wait until iFixit complains about these things.
BASIC.
Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Beginners.
That's what was up. Besides, you really could do quite a bit with BASIC on those machines by linking to Assembly code. Although many of us had to unlearn twisted spaghetti code in order to progress anywhere, I do wonder what horrible PTSD cases we would have created if high school kids in the 1970's had to start out with C. Talk about a dystopian future.
If you persist in this behavior we shall write you another stern letter.
Scary.
The problem with Cuban's argument is that our current 'screening' labs aren't terribly helpful. They are a weird amalgam of historical accidents, clinical utility and technical issues. They aren't ** designed ** to be used in a prognostic sense. And the pricing structure is all screwed (surprise). There are a couple of research protocols where they are using both DNA and protein chemistries on whole blood to tease out which chemicals might be useful markers in a prognostic or diagnostic set. We will probably get there but it's going to take some time. It isn't any easy question to answer at all.
Much of the argument against Cuban relied on the very, very weird 'cost benefit' analysis that we tend to use to determine if it's 'worth' doing. It's a horribly convoluted set of arguments with a bunch of absolutely pulled-out-of-your-ass coefficients. But you have to start somewhere and as I've said, it's not an easy question to answer. Even if you know what the question is.
Even here in the backwoods of the US, we do exactly the same thing. Patients can leave the ER with a CD containing scans and lab results. If they want to wait awhile, they can have the doctor's notes. We've thought about switching to USB sticks but CDs are just about the right size, dirt cheap and can be used for coasters in an emergency.
Why, we can even photocopy things in an emergency.
USA! USA!
Wait until people start figuring out just how much "better-informed" the doctors and medical researchers are. It may first require dropping of the journal paywalls as well, but it is only a matter of time before first engineers and physicists from other fields take a close look at what has been passing for scientific method. Then there will be the authoritative voice to get others to take a closer look, etc. It will be epic when it finally happens.
Oh, everybody knows this. Medical research is a poor, psychotic cousin to 'real' science. It's going to be that way for quite some time. Hard to grow a bunch of humans with a gene deletion, wait until they're old, euthanize them and then slice them up for analysis. Even if you did that with lawyers and politicians, you'd have to wait an awful long time to get any results.
On top of the rather, ah, interesting history of how medicine became forefront in Western society (it makes Alice in Wonderland seem perfectly sane), human hubris, the medical - industrial complex and the plain old fact that biology is hard and you have modern medicine scrabbling for acorns under the tree, finding them occasionally but mostly eating rocks and twigs.
There won't be any 'authoritative' voices telling us how to do things because we know what we need to do. Be very, very patient. Invest lots more in basic research at all levels and continue to be patient. We're much more likely to fully fund NASA than that.
Just be an old codger like anyone with a 5 digit UID. They don't expect that much of us. If we can handle email then we're doing better than our elected representatives.
And, if you don't mind, off the lawn.
The joke is on you!
It's real! (Or at least a beta).