Not to mention whom to hit in a pinch. The child crossing the street, the ambulance, a lamp post, or the school bus?
The obstacles are legal as well as engineering -- the above is a valid question. Humans can be assigned responsibility as the courts see fit. Autonomous cars will need specific rules of some type.
Also, why Volvo XC-90s? Seems a waste to have a 300 hp guzzle-wagon in an application that will primarily require it to obey traffic laws in a city religiously. Better off with Priuses or even straight electric cars.
I don't see self-driving cars without a "check driver" being legal in any (US) city where rideshare is popular by 2019 (in a year and 2 months). Still a lot of unanswered questions: (1) How to get them to deal with snow (2) Cyclists/pedestrians -- none of which behave like normal vehicles obeying traffic laws exactly. (3) Construction areas
They also currently require very detailed mapping to work -- any truly autonomous vehicle should be able to take info from GPS, a general map of the street network, visual/IR/mmWave sensors, and street markings/signs in order to operate safely. Details of roads change too frequently (by the hour, sometimes) to be reliable.
Theoretically - most amps pass signal one way, and speakers make poor microphones. It's unlikely Apple would design the thing to use speakers as microphones, but an always-on mic is more likely.
Apple has made a business out of catering to the 90%, not to the 1% who'd icepick their mic.
This is an iMac, not a laptop. No battery other than the NVRAM backup.
This being said, can Apple, please, please, please NOT glue the screen over the internals of future iMacs. The current models (from 2013+) require a scalpel or pizza cutter to replace anything internal to them!
No one concentrates on good photography and techniques anymore -- just runs their selfies through a bunch of filters to post on the latest soshul meedjuh fad app.
Honestly, camera phones do have their advantages (for recording abuse by police, etc), but I wish everyone wasn't snapping (touching?) pictures every few minutes. It distracts from real-life enjoyment of an event or place. Form a picture in your head, take pictures like you have 24 exposures before you need a new roll.
I think the cheap/ubiquitous smartphone camera is one of the worst things to happen to social lives in the past decade.
Problem is that MacOS is increasingly locked down (hiding the disable for Gatekeeper) and hobbled by Apple. It's also tied to Apple hardware. Some of us want to run a really free OS, not the watered-down thing that OS X has become.
Better yet, divorce the boot source and "BIOS" firmware -- load most firmware into a special area of RAM (or dedicated RAM) from a specially-formatted micro-SD card. Removable ROM would also remove any possible issues with "bricking" a system due to a bad update.
Designed to grow quickly and fix carbon quickly... but need something not found in nature to grow -- thus preventing them from becoming an invasive species.
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Unity isn't terrible -- hopefully someone will take over development from Canonical.
Not to mention whom to hit in a pinch. The child crossing the street, the ambulance, a lamp post, or the school bus?
The obstacles are legal as well as engineering -- the above is a valid question. Humans can be assigned responsibility as the courts see fit. Autonomous cars will need specific rules of some type.
Also, why Volvo XC-90s? Seems a waste to have a 300 hp guzzle-wagon in an application that will primarily require it to obey traffic laws in a city religiously. Better off with Priuses or even straight electric cars.
I don't see self-driving cars without a "check driver" being legal in any (US) city where rideshare is popular by 2019 (in a year and 2 months). Still a lot of unanswered questions:
(1) How to get them to deal with snow
(2) Cyclists/pedestrians -- none of which behave like normal vehicles obeying traffic laws exactly.
(3) Construction areas
They also currently require very detailed mapping to work -- any truly autonomous vehicle should be able to take info from GPS, a general map of the street network, visual/IR/mmWave sensors, and street markings/signs in order to operate safely. Details of roads change too frequently (by the hour, sometimes) to be reliable.
Will this just turn off response, or will this still send audio to Apple's clown servers in case someone turns Siri on in the next 5 seconds?
Thinkpad P-series. Run Ubuntu, virtualize anything unavailable on Ubuntu.
Intel is not requiring Secure Boot, even after 2020 -- you'll still be able to install an OS of choice.
Theoretically - most amps pass signal one way, and speakers make poor microphones. It's unlikely Apple would design the thing to use speakers as microphones, but an always-on mic is more likely.
Apple has made a business out of catering to the 90%, not to the 1% who'd icepick their mic.
This is an iMac, not a laptop. No battery other than the NVRAM backup.
This being said, can Apple, please, please, please NOT glue the screen over the internals of future iMacs. The current models (from 2013+) require a scalpel or pizza cutter to replace anything internal to them!
Icepick through the internal mic and use of an external mic when needed (and turned on) should fix that problem.
I don't like Apple, but we've found us an Einstein, judging by his refined way of putting things.
do you want your computer listening all the time? Is there any way to turn Siri off short of pulling the plug out?
No one concentrates on good photography and techniques anymore -- just runs their selfies through a bunch of filters to post on the latest soshul meedjuh fad app.
Honestly, camera phones do have their advantages (for recording abuse by police, etc), but I wish everyone wasn't snapping (touching?) pictures every few minutes. It distracts from real-life enjoyment of an event or place. Form a picture in your head, take pictures like you have 24 exposures before you need a new roll.
I think the cheap/ubiquitous smartphone camera is one of the worst things to happen to social lives in the past decade.
The 7+ has a depth camera but does't allow portrait mode.
If you can't afford to pay someone at least $10/hr (or whatever min wage is in your city) to do it, go by yourself. What's a half hour every week?
Problem is that MacOS is increasingly locked down (hiding the disable for Gatekeeper) and hobbled by Apple. It's also tied to Apple hardware. Some of us want to run a really free OS, not the watered-down thing that OS X has become.
Better yet, divorce the boot source and "BIOS" firmware -- load most firmware into a special area of RAM (or dedicated RAM) from a specially-formatted micro-SD card. Removable ROM would also remove any possible issues with "bricking" a system due to a bad update.
How about designing it to read a boot ROM, including install keys, off of a micro-SD card?
Surface Laptop is a Windows 10S device -- AFAIK, Secure Boot can be turned off on it, though it has compatibility issues with its keyboard and Linux.
Discontinued in the 1940s, long before the Wars on Drugs/Terror/etc became a major issue.
I'm pretty sure that the MAJORITY of transactions worldwide are NOT done via cr@p card. Yet.
for maximum safety, you want a negative void coefficient.
i.e., you want output power to reduce by design when voids (from steam bubbles) develop in the cooling system.
Chernobyl actually had a positive void coefficient, one of many design issues that lead to the accident.
American design, by good old GE...
Houses might lose 50-60% of their value. Bitcoin might lose 99%. There's the difference.
Designed to grow quickly and fix carbon quickly ... but need something not found in nature to grow -- thus preventing them from becoming an invasive species.
Encryption scams are bad, but easily defeated by good backup "hygiene."
Drug buys? Legalize it for consenting adults, treat abuse as a medical issue.