In thinking about the future of cars when explaining what self-driving cars are to friends and family, I often am asked and ponder the question “why would someone buy one?” If you had one, there is, of course, the ability to do other things while you're en route, like read, work, watch media, sleep (perhaps this won't be allowed?), etc. This benefit in itself “adds value” to that vehicle over a traditional one, especially for those with long commutes. I also imagine the navigational complexity of them eventually including real-time traffic/hazard avoidance so that they can arrive faster than cars without those systems.
There will be some consumers which will see self-driving vehicles' lack of ability to “drive aggressively” as a deal breaker. However, I imagine a solution where at some point (a tipping point may be where there are as many self-driving cars as traditional ones) traffic lights will only need to be respected by traditional cars since the self-driving ones will be on a mesh network talking to each other and traffic controllers and can safely avoid hitting each other looking like something akin to controlled chaos. Again, this efficiency of arriving to your destination much quicker than a traditional car would add value. Time is money.
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?
The same way you "get through" to homophobics, sexists, religious zealots, murderers, etc.: society decides that a certain behavior is not optional (at least without penalties) and legally requires you to live within certain parameters. In this case, only in extreme circumstances is it allowed to opt-out of vaxing your children.
Now *this* is one on my complaints against Facebook. It seems they actively encourage throwaway comments. If it's not easy to go back and search for a link/comment/post/etc., then why bother with anything of any importance as it's not effectively archived...
I feel exactly the same way about political donations. Yeah it's public knowledge, but it shouldn't be so easy as putting my name into a Google search.
IANAL so don't know full ramifications of the "subject only to your privacy settings", but seems to me that means if I set something as private then it's private between myself and the person(s) I shared it with.
I logged in and didn't see the usage information, so I entered a chat with one of them. She informed me that if you don't see it on your User page that it's not available in your area. She said, "We have just launched the usage meter and we are doing our best to have this accessed by all users". I find this ironic since I live within the city limits of the sixth largest city in the US, and, get this, it's the HEADQUARTERS of Comcast.
I'll tell you what's crap. I want to use CFL and (even better) LED bulbs, but it's very difficult (if not sometimes impossible) to find sockets which support them properly. I'm talking about 3 way (low/med/hi) switches, dimmers, motion detecting, dusk/dawn, etc. I've found no CFL or LED bulbs which work in existing 3 way switches, nor dimmers, even any specifically made for those types of bulbs, and a vast majority of motion detecting sockets and dusk/dawn sockets don't support them either.
Come on inventors! We need these new fancy bulbs to work in these situations before we can really phase out incandescent bulbs!
Your example illustrates to me a difference between radio and TV however.
I, probably like many folks, enjoy a wide array of music: industrial, rock, jazz, talk, reggae, electronic, 80's, etc.
However, there is a much smaller array of TV show genres I enjoy: the major networks, PBS, science (like Discovery/TLC), Food, Syfy, and History. I will NEVER want to watch: online shopping, soaps, Spanish/foreign language, sports, kids (Disney, Nickelodeon), MTV, CSPAN, BET, E!, Fox News, Golf, Halmark, etc. Making me pay for these is a waste of my money.
I attended The Evergreen State College in the mid-90s. Matt Groening was there in the 70s. One day I was deep cleaning out some lab space and came across an old mock newspaper Matt had done when he was a student there. In the comics section there was a Family Circus; the mom was in the background in the kitchen, and the kids were in the foreground gathered around the TV. On the TV was a man's ass, and the caption was "Shut the fuck up mommy we're watching TV".
I'm glad to see others making fun of such an easy target.
I'm assuming when he says "I don't want to give my data away", he means he doesn't want the cloud hosting company access to his data, not that he's concerned with data transport sniffers. Of course, using a TrueCrypt container (with a strong password of course) solves both those problems.
Agreed. I have a Sonos system, it is nice and works, but really is really overpriced for what you get. It was revealed to me how stingy they were when I bought one of their controller units for $300 (which they now have upgraded) and it didn't even come with a docking station, no that was another $40. Just greedy bastards. I would instead look at a squeezebox or look into these.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Google suggest phrases combed from other websites (with fairly high pagerank) and not some 'best of' type questions people are typing directly into the google search box? If so, it's *other* websites, not google which are getting (and presumably answering) these questions, and the article is misleading about them being "popular searches".
I have a C2D Macbook Pro. I love my old wired Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical 5-button mouse.
I tried using a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 (in bluetooth mode). I had two show-stopping problems:
If it stopped moving for more than about a second or two, when I moved it again, the cursor would hang and hesitate to move for a frustrating fraction of a second (I suppose that was the laptop and mouse reestablishing contact with each other).
This was the only time I found my notebook *hot* in my packpack because it had been awakened somehow (maybe a mouse click), looking for that mouse, and didn't go back to sleep.
I'd at least avoid that model mouse, but very possible you will have similar probs with any bluetooth mouse on your MBP.
Even in 1988 I was using these as an aviational weather forecaster for the USAF. It was used to communicate weather watches/warnings to the tower, Base Ops, and others, and they used it for base wide announcements. It was strange to watch someone's writing style being broadcast in real-time and you could, obviously, even see differences in styles and handwriting. I thought it was funny to have such a system in place when we also had "hotline" phones which rung to all those same places as well as teletype machines, and even a PC or two, since it was sometimes hard to read because there was a lot of noise in the legibility as well as an importance in that person's penmanship.
The uploaded blob to the cloud is encrypted. But there resides a local index for searching it.
I haven't had a need for this (as I inherently don't trust the cloud) but if someone knows of this type of implementation perhaps it's enough for the poster.
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In thinking about the future of cars when explaining what self-driving cars are to friends and family, I often am asked and ponder the question “why would someone buy one?” If you had one, there is, of course, the ability to do other things while you're en route, like read, work, watch media, sleep (perhaps this won't be allowed?), etc. This benefit in itself “adds value” to that vehicle over a traditional one, especially for those with long commutes. I also imagine the navigational complexity of them eventually including real-time traffic/hazard avoidance so that they can arrive faster than cars without those systems. There will be some consumers which will see self-driving vehicles' lack of ability to “drive aggressively” as a deal breaker. However, I imagine a solution where at some point (a tipping point may be where there are as many self-driving cars as traditional ones) traffic lights will only need to be respected by traditional cars since the self-driving ones will be on a mesh network talking to each other and traffic controllers and can safely avoid hitting each other looking like something akin to controlled chaos. Again, this efficiency of arriving to your destination much quicker than a traditional car would add value. Time is money.
A great, objective resource is charitynavigator.org. Only give to charities with a 4 rating.
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?
The same way you "get through" to homophobics, sexists, religious zealots, murderers, etc.: society decides that a certain behavior is not optional (at least without penalties) and legally requires you to live within certain parameters. In this case, only in extreme circumstances is it allowed to opt-out of vaxing your children.
Now *this* is one on my complaints against Facebook. It seems they actively encourage throwaway comments. If it's not easy to go back and search for a link/comment/post/etc., then why bother with anything of any importance as it's not effectively archived...
I feel exactly the same way about political donations. Yeah it's public knowledge, but it shouldn't be so easy as putting my name into a Google search.
IANAL so don't know full ramifications of the "subject only to your privacy settings", but seems to me that means if I set something as private then it's private between myself and the person(s) I shared it with.
I logged in and didn't see the usage information, so I entered a chat with one of them. She informed me that if you don't see it on your User page that it's not available in your area. She said, "We have just launched the usage meter and we are doing our best to have this accessed by all users". I find this ironic since I live within the city limits of the sixth largest city in the US, and, get this, it's the HEADQUARTERS of Comcast.
I'll tell you what's crap. I want to use CFL and (even better) LED bulbs, but it's very difficult (if not sometimes impossible) to find sockets which support them properly. I'm talking about 3 way (low/med/hi) switches, dimmers, motion detecting, dusk/dawn, etc. I've found no CFL or LED bulbs which work in existing 3 way switches, nor dimmers, even any specifically made for those types of bulbs, and a vast majority of motion detecting sockets and dusk/dawn sockets don't support them either.
Come on inventors! We need these new fancy bulbs to work in these situations before we can really phase out incandescent bulbs!
Your example illustrates to me a difference between radio and TV however.
I, probably like many folks, enjoy a wide array of music: industrial, rock, jazz, talk, reggae, electronic, 80's, etc.
However, there is a much smaller array of TV show genres I enjoy: the major networks, PBS, science (like Discovery/TLC), Food, Syfy, and History. I will NEVER want to watch: online shopping, soaps, Spanish/foreign language, sports, kids (Disney, Nickelodeon), MTV, CSPAN, BET, E!, Fox News, Golf, Halmark, etc. Making me pay for these is a waste of my money.
That's the thing about the scientific method: reproducibility! (I say let them do it!)
I attended The Evergreen State College in the mid-90s. Matt Groening was there in the 70s. One day I was deep cleaning out some lab space and came across an old mock newspaper Matt had done when he was a student there. In the comics section there was a Family Circus; the mom was in the background in the kitchen, and the kids were in the foreground gathered around the TV. On the TV was a man's ass, and the caption was "Shut the fuck up mommy we're watching TV".
I'm glad to see others making fun of such an easy target.
I'm assuming when he says "I don't want to give my data away", he means he doesn't want the cloud hosting company access to his data, not that he's concerned with data transport sniffers. Of course, using a TrueCrypt container (with a strong password of course) solves both those problems.
I don't want to give my data away to some server outside without strong encryption
Use dropbox with a Truecrypt encrypted container as the file which gets synchronized.
Agreed. I have a Sonos system, it is nice and works, but really is really overpriced for what you get. It was revealed to me how stingy they were when I bought one of their controller units for $300 (which they now have upgraded) and it didn't even come with a docking station, no that was another $40. Just greedy bastards. I would instead look at a squeezebox or look into these.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Google suggest phrases combed from other websites (with fairly high pagerank) and not some 'best of' type questions people are typing directly into the google search box? If so, it's *other* websites, not google which are getting (and presumably answering) these questions, and the article is misleading about them being "popular searches".
You can be sure the "normal people" walking around malls haven't. Hell, you'd be lucky if they can name the vice president.
In this interview on Wired, Luis von Ahn explains that they do indeed warp it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuZ55kyf7E
Your linky no worky. This one does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuZ55kyf7E (interview on Wired)
As Eternauta3k said, but this is the exact link:
heavens-above.com
I tried using a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 (in bluetooth mode). I had two show-stopping problems:
I'd at least avoid that model mouse, but very possible you will have similar probs with any bluetooth mouse on your MBP.
Even in 1988 I was using these as an aviational weather forecaster for the USAF. It was used to communicate weather watches/warnings to the tower, Base Ops, and others, and they used it for base wide announcements. It was strange to watch someone's writing style being broadcast in real-time and you could, obviously, even see differences in styles and handwriting. I thought it was funny to have such a system in place when we also had "hotline" phones which rung to all those same places as well as teletype machines, and even a PC or two, since it was sometimes hard to read because there was a lot of noise in the legibility as well as an importance in that person's penmanship.
Can you smoke in there? Is there a real risk of explosion or fire? Seems like a fad.
Just throwing out an idea for an implementation:
The uploaded blob to the cloud is encrypted. But there resides a local index for searching it.
I haven't had a need for this (as I inherently don't trust the cloud) but if someone knows of this type of implementation perhaps it's enough for the poster.
If on a Mac, here's two you may consider (neither have a web interface).
Skim is open source and is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
Yep is not open source, but will scan, tag and search PDFs ("like iTunes for PDFs").
http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/
I think you're neglecting to consider that many gamers are using (want to use) Bootcamp to dual-boot their Apple boxes into Windows.