I wished he would write a sequel to Aristoi, I loved that book. And there is anothe SF where two siblings have kind of mental hacking powers and discover an allian race, that consists of 'queen like' biological mother ships and spawns worker dornes at will, with various levle of inteligence and autonomie. In the end the sinlings control the drug and pharmaceutics market because the alliens trade chemicals for novels etc. I forgot the name of that book, no idea where I put it.
Except for the swarm queen. In the book she is the most beautiful being Ender ever has seen, in the movie it is a plain greyish monster.
The 2 follow up books are good, too. Sratching at the edge how a world with (sub) light speed travel but instant communication would look like. Or how to breed humans with super human intelligence but keep them in check with mental deseases...
Rofl... no idea what you are scared off. When all cars are autonomous you basically don't need an insurance anymore. Prices for insurance will drop to 1% or less.
then the accident is their fault and goes against their insurance and driving record not mine No it does not. It goes against your insurance. You have to convince the driver, by "friendship" or by a court suit to swap. If you own a house and wind loses a shingle and kills a pedestrian: your insurance pays. Who else would be liable? Why should that be different for a parked car that suddenly gets lose and hits one? And where would be the difference with a self driving car, that is not parked but running?
Why is this suddenly different for an autonomous car? It is not different, it is the same thing. First the owner is liable, then probably, if laws get formed like it, the maker.
Probably the officer can tell the car himself what to do. And when he gets annoyed about needing to tell so man cars what to do, he finally follows the "normal" traffic organizing protocol again.
I'm also often quite amused what kind of show traffic regulators are giving... once I saw one dancing (a fat male).
The self driving cars/autonomous cars/driver assistance systems, I was involved with, run on 4 - 6 ARM Cortex, 160MHz and are mostly idle all the time.
You don't need such absurd computing power for a self driving car.
but I am a passenger in this scenario, not the driver. I'm not willing to be held liable for a coding or sensor error any more than I would be liable if I were in a bus or a taxi
If you are just riding in an autonomous car you are obviously not liable.
If you are the owner you are liable for everything your car is involved in. It is enough if it is standing on the road, the breaks fail and the car is going downhill and hits something. It may not be your fault but simply material failure, but you, aka your insurance is liable. Driving accidents might be shifted to the car maker though. However: they will be several magnitudes lower than with human driven cars.
Structural failure of a component responsible for maintaining control of the car is one. Same thing as in an non autonomous car. Failure of a sensor. They are redundant, and a failure is usually recognized. A software bug. Unlikely as the cars have millions of miles of test drives.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in. As it has no driver... of course not:D
Ever notice how disappointed people are if there is an accident, and the talking head notes at the end - "No charges have been filed"? No, never noticed that. In ordinary accidents, there are no charges. Hence we call them "accidents". That is completely different when neglenience, recklessness or bad intent is involved.
The car software is not deciding that. Why should it? Unlike for humans for an autonomous car it is super simple to avid any scenarios like this: thy never get distracted or run with inappropriated speeds. And if it is my car and I have it insured and that makes my insurance rise (very unlikely btw.), of course I take the financial hit. Who else would? OTOH with autonomous cars on the rise: I don't need my own car. Actually living in Europe I don't need my own car anyway.
doesn't work in the cold and wet but it really isn't all that hard to punch six numbers on a keypad Depends on the lightening conditions.
I have "auto adjust brightness" of, as it always adjusts the iPad to be to bright.
But that again means when I forget to turn it up at night, and I first use it at the bus station around 10:00 or later, in bright sun it is hard to enter the passphrase.
So, I dont see any logic in them inventing an incompatable ISA rather than just using x86. That does not wonder me, as every claim you make in your post is wrong.
RISC is basically dead as a serious idea, Wrong. most chips today are CISC Wrong. Wrong by chip type, and wrong by sold units.
And K put my phone into my keft front pocket, pullit with my left hand and switch it to my richt one as needed. Glass pointing to my body, backside outward. Headphone jack upward, so I can easy listen... A hig deal of people I know, do it likewise. The other part uses the back left pocket, and there your trick would not work...
And a phone with the head phone jack on the wrong side would be a no buy for me...
Well, you claimed I need a passport to enter the UK. I don't. I pointed out: the UK citizens usually have no passport or lower level "Personalausweis" equivalent.
Which ID is enough for you I don't know. But I doubt a UK citizen can travel with a driving license only to Switzerland. Hence: he needs a passport. I don't.
Old Personalausweise don't have RFID. Nor did my last Passport have. Got a new one in May. However depending on age: they are still valid.
You are nitpicking and have no clue.
Half of the countries have besides a "passport" also a national "mini passport" We call it "Personalausweis". An "ID Card".
With such an id card you can travel all over Schengen and everywhere the other country agrees to, e.g. as a German: Tunesia, Marocco, Switzerland etc. But you e.g. can not travel to Japan or Thailand. The UK has no such "id card" hence they need a passport to enter the rest of the EU.
So: we don't need a passport. And we don't need a passport to enter the UK. Because our mini passport/id card is enough.
A "simple ID card" wouldn't follow ePassport standards, like the wojewodztwa, UK driving license, voting card etc. This are not ID cards. I already told you: you have no proper translation for "Personalausweis!".
The UK people need a passport to travel in other areas of the EU: because they have no "proper" ID card. E.g. no equivalent of our Personalausweis.
Again: I don't need a passport to go to the UK. At lest not until BREXIT. And: my driving license is not an ID card, not in Germany, and no where in the EU.
And all this has nothing to do with ePassport standards.
So: no one from any Schengen country needs a passport to enter the UK. And probably nearly no one from other EU countries.
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I wished he would write a sequel to Aristoi, I loved that book.
And there is anothe SF where two siblings have kind of mental hacking powers and discover an allian race, that consists of 'queen like' biological mother ships and spawns worker dornes at will, with various levle of inteligence and autonomie. In the end the sinlings control the drug and pharmaceutics market because the alliens trade chemicals for novels etc. I forgot the name of that book, no idea where I put it.
Except for the swarm queen.
In the book she is the most beautiful being Ender ever has seen, in the movie it is a plain greyish monster.
The 2 follow up books are good, too. Sratching at the edge how a world with (sub) light speed travel but instant communication would look like. Or how to breed humans with super human intelligence but keep them in check with mental deseases ...
I believe someone is working on that.
I saw kind of trailers in youtube last months.
M favourites are:
Johnny Mnemonic and Virtual Light
Rofl ... no idea what you are scared off.
When all cars are autonomous you basically don't need an insurance anymore.
Prices for insurance will drop to 1% or less.
then the accident is their fault and goes against their insurance and driving record not mine
No it does not. It goes against your insurance.
You have to convince the driver, by "friendship" or by a court suit to swap.
If you own a house and wind loses a shingle and kills a pedestrian: your insurance pays. Who else would be liable? Why should that be different for a parked car that suddenly gets lose and hits one? And where would be the difference with a self driving car, that is not parked but running?
Why is this suddenly different for an autonomous car?
It is not different, it is the same thing. First the owner is liable, then probably, if laws get formed like it, the maker.
Probably the officer can tell the car himself what to do.
And when he gets annoyed about needing to tell so man cars what to do, he finally follows the "normal" traffic organizing protocol again.
I'm also often quite amused what kind of show traffic regulators are giving ... once I saw one dancing (a fat male).
The self driving cars/autonomous cars/driver assistance systems, I was involved with, run on 4 - 6 ARM Cortex, 160MHz and are mostly idle all the time.
You don't need such absurd computing power for a self driving car.
Yeah, but who cares about america in our days? :D
Rofl
but I am a passenger in this scenario, not the driver. I'm not willing to be held liable for a coding or sensor error any more than I would be liable if I were in a bus or a taxi
If you are just riding in an autonomous car you are obviously not liable.
If you are the owner you are liable for everything your car is involved in.
It is enough if it is standing on the road, the breaks fail and the car is going downhill and hits something. It may not be your fault but simply material failure, but you, aka your insurance is liable.
Driving accidents might be shifted to the car maker though. However: they will be several magnitudes lower than with human driven cars.
Structural failure of a component responsible for maintaining control of the car is one.
Same thing as in an non autonomous car.
Failure of a sensor.
They are redundant, and a failure is usually recognized.
A software bug.
Unlikely as the cars have millions of miles of test drives.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in. ... of course not :D
As it has no driver
Ever notice how disappointed people are if there is an accident, and the talking head notes at the end - "No charges have been filed"?
No, never noticed that. In ordinary accidents, there are no charges. Hence we call them "accidents".
That is completely different when neglenience, recklessness or bad intent is involved.
The car software is not deciding that. Why should it?
Unlike for humans for an autonomous car it is super simple to avid any scenarios like this: thy never get distracted or run with inappropriated speeds.
And if it is my car and I have it insured and that makes my insurance rise (very unlikely btw.), of course I take the financial hit. Who else would?
OTOH with autonomous cars on the rise: I don't need my own car. Actually living in Europe I don't need my own car anyway.
The owners, I would say, just like with humans.
doesn't work in the cold and wet but it really isn't all that hard to punch six numbers on a keypad
Depends on the lightening conditions.
I have "auto adjust brightness" of, as it always adjusts the iPad to be to bright.
But that again means when I forget to turn it up at night, and I first use it at the bus station around 10:00 or later, in bright sun it is hard to enter the passphrase.
what happens when one loses control, and plows into my house? Who covers that?
And how should that happen?
Bottom line the same insurance that would cover a human drier that "loses control".
So, I dont see any logic in them inventing an incompatable ISA rather than just using x86.
That does not wonder me, as every claim you make in your post is wrong.
RISC is basically dead as a serious idea,
Wrong.
most chips today are CISC
Wrong. Wrong by chip type, and wrong by sold units.
And K put my phone into my keft front pocket, pullit with my left hand and switch it to my richt one as needed. ... ...
Glass pointing to my body, backside outward. Headphone jack upward, so I can easy listen
A hig deal of people I know, do it likewise.
The other part uses the back left pocket, and there your trick would not work
And a phone with the head phone jack on the wrong side would be a no buy for me ...
HÃ?
Perhaps you are putting your phone the wrong way into your back pocket (why do you actually put it there?)
Well,
you claimed I need a passport to enter the UK.
I don't. I pointed out: the UK citizens usually have no passport or lower level "Personalausweis" equivalent.
Which ID is enough for you I don't know. But I doubt a UK citizen can travel with a driving license only to Switzerland. Hence: he needs a passport. I don't.
No idea what you are talking about.
I only wanted to point out that a text based email program for terminals hardly can be a valid option for working with emails in our time.
The only text based program I ever used was: mail (and sometimes I still use it). And then we suddenly already had XWindows.
And what has that to do with the parent idiots rants about POP and IMAP anyway?
Reading problems or simply a week mind?
"While" obviously meant to be "why" ...
How can one be so dumb?
What has "gain" to do with it?
People want their freedom. Probably they want to (re)join the EU.
When the richest part of Spain drops from the EU because it gets independent, why would the EU not want it back?
Same for the next regions to drop ...
Up to yoou to find Schleswig-Holstein on the map: http://www.geni.org/globalener...
In the US .... perhaps.
But tat are only 330M people on a 7B planet ...
Old Personalausweise don't have RFID. Nor did my last Passport have. Got a new one in May. However depending on age: they are still valid.
You are nitpicking and have no clue.
Half of the countries have besides a "passport" also a national "mini passport" We call it "Personalausweis". An "ID Card".
With such an id card you can travel all over Schengen and everywhere the other country agrees to, e.g. as a German: Tunesia, Marocco, Switzerland etc. But you e.g. can not travel to Japan or Thailand.
The UK has no such "id card" hence they need a passport to enter the rest of the EU.
So: we don't need a passport. And we don't need a passport to enter the UK. Because our mini passport/id card is enough.
A "simple ID card" wouldn't follow ePassport standards, like the wojewodztwa, UK driving license, voting card etc. This are not ID cards. I already told you: you have no proper translation for "Personalausweis!".
The UK people need a passport to travel in other areas of the EU: because they have no "proper" ID card. E.g. no equivalent of our Personalausweis.
Again: I don't need a passport to go to the UK. At lest not until BREXIT.
And: my driving license is not an ID card, not in Germany, and no where in the EU.
And all this has nothing to do with ePassport standards.
So: no one from any Schengen country needs a passport to enter the UK. And probably nearly no one from other EU countries.