CTRL+TAB is faster than turning and focusing on a different monitor. Next challenger, please.
Not really. Yes, if you are turning 180 degrees and trying to find something, then maybe. If I am just cocking my head 30 degrees or so in any direction, my eyes and neck are considerably faster. Anything in the generally forward area is going to MUCH faster than alt/ctrl tab.
Tabbing requires me to refocus my attention and try to understand the new things being displayed to me. Moving my gaze about does not require rediscovery.
it's several hundred KILOMETERS (that's a unit of measure, common in the rest of the world - think of it as something like half a mile) down.
Erm... half a mile? Not quite. 160 kilometers could be considered within the range of several hundred kilometers. 160 kilometers would be 100 miles. Not half a mile.:)
the majority of companies are sitting on trillions of dollars worth of cash. it is just sitting there collecting dust. why aren't they investing it in the future of their company?
The United States government has a vested interested in having corporations (or individuals) sit on large sums of cash. The value of that cash is being sucked out of it every minute of every day. Where does this value go? Yeah...
The database they are constructing is being used to conduct performance reviews on originated mortgages. The database won't pick you up unless you start a mortgage. Once you originate the mortgage this database is being put into place in order to monitor your performance on that mortgage and your corresponding financial condition.
Why are they doing this? To stop the next credit crisis as the system would allow surveillance over mortgages originated by banking institutions.
It does not matter what it is intended to be used for or why. The problem is what it could be used for. Does the FBI have access to it? Nope. Will they have access to it at some point in the future? You can bet your ass they will. How about other government agencies? Why not just start entering people into it as soon as they open a bank account instead of a mortgage? It will help prevent bad loans.
This monstrosity is a huge bag of evil. Kill it with fire! Now.... and this post just got me onto another list. It shows that I am anti-American and only want to help the terrorists win. Jesus fucking H Christ.
Google has sexist/racist hiring policies....that's the cause of this TFA
I fail to see how that has been proven. Read: http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... to gain a different view than the one that you seem to believe is true.
Affirmative action in the context of a large corporation means *acknowledging society's inherent inequality* and taking steps to offer ****equal opportunity****
I am glad that you have your own personal private definition for Affirmative Action; however, your definition is merely the act of not showing prejudice in hiring practices. What Affirmative Action ACTUALLY IS, is taking notice of the race of the person that you are interviewing and if they are of the correct race, you hire them. In other words, Affirmative Action is in actuality legalized discrimination.
Was this necessary to try and get the descendents of former slaves to be able to integrate into a more modern American society? Sadly, it probably was. Is the time for it LONG past? Most assuredly. Should prejudice be attacked whenever it is seen? Definitely. Will prejudice EVER be 100% eliminated? Never.
Perhaps you were brought up with the Great White Guilt and believe that the only racist people are old white guys. All other races are peaceful and happy and glad to work with everyone else. Same with women. Hell, white women especially love black men. Of course white women are never racist... but white men. Oh my god. They treat every other race and women as inferior. Nobody else does.
I got news for you. The Great White Guilt is a fucking lie. Women are racist. Japanese are racist. Blacks are racist (even against other blacks as there are actually many subsets). Indians are racist. The only group that ever gets shit for being racist is white men. Women routinely get away with murder. Black business owners are never questioned when they fail to hire Mexicans or whites.
Affirmative Action can only make things worse at this point. Just stop.
The only thing you can do to make this world a better place is to not practice discrimination and hatred yourself and to call it out in others when it is clearly observed. Affirmative Action is pure evil.
Bullshit. Fuck off. Your words are worthless and you are a terrible boss... if you are even a boss.
Emotional intelligence does not solve problems. Diversity does not do the heavy lifting. Do you know what does? People who work hard and cooperate. Touchy feely happy go lucky bullshit is not needed. If women can hack it, fine, if Mexicans can hack it, then fine. None of that shit is relevant and measuring it is should only be done when there are strong suspicions of discrimination. Even, then, "unbalanced" numbers are not a guarantee of discrimination.
Are you a gay HR manager by chance? I've got nothing against gay people so do not take it as an insult.
Sounds idiotic to me. Non-linear steering is great, but any sort of dynamic/adaptive steering that changes according to conditions is stupid beyond belief and will cause an endless stream of accidents because the driver can no longer predict how the car will react to similar steering motions.
I used to think like you do. Driving American made cars is what made me think that way. Drive a high end Mercedes at some point to see what adaptive steering is REALLY like. You can drive at 150 miles per hour and the steering feels like it does at 40 miles per hour. Same at 180 miles per hour.
At no time does it ever act "weird". What it does do is make the steering feel the same no matter what the conditions, which actually makes the vehicle much easier to control. I have driven an SL 65 AMG (and a lot of other high end cars) at Pikes Peak International Raceway and it handled beautifully in the high speed and low speed turns. It turns as you would intuitively expect, which is actually different than a linear steering device.
Really, it is a great thing; however, this specific article is talking about it being in an American made vehicle... which means your fears are reasonable. The bean counters will never allow the engineers to actually test it and fine tune it. It will be garbage.
By the way, thanks for DICE. Dillon's Integrated C Environment is what I used to learn programming in C on my Amiga. I saved up for half a year (iirc) to be able to buy it from you (I was extremely poor at the time).
That advice will kill people. At a minimum, you need to consume as much as you burn or else in the long run, you will starve... but it does not end there.
The digestion system is not perfect. That implies that the total calorie count actually needs to be higher since you will be excreting some portion of those calories without processing them. This is where it gets tricky, it depends on the bacteria in your gut (and how well you chew!) to fully digest your food.
Your advice concerning exercise is correct. The body is a type of machine and it needs to be utilized to stay healthy.
I try to avoid responding to Mr. Anonymous Coward but...
There's no point arguing with him, because he doesn't care about the facts.
Facts are such a pain in the ass. I know what I see. I am told it is not a fact. All I can do is agree and say that what I see is not a fact.
Nevertheless, I see what I see. Perhaps I am doing it wrong? I do not know. I see imperfections and I do not like it. I really really want 4K but some people seem dead set on thinking 4K is just a gimmick. I actually want even more than 4K but still, 4K is better than what we have now.
Sadly, that is true; otherwise, they would not be able to say it. Unfortunately, it is the most plausible reading of their statement considering the situation and the clearly careful wording.
Taking what I say at face value and analyzing what you say minus the skepticism of my words, you should be able to figure out quite a bit about me... especially if I posit that I am not a researcher.
I am from the US. I am old enough to have received the vaccine as a small child. I am currently located in a place where terrorism is a major concern.
If I were a betting man and did not know my situation, I would bet with you that I am thinking of another vaccine; however, since I do know my situation, I would be stupid to bet on the chances that you propose.:)
On the bright side, the newer version of the vaccine does not leave an odd scar like the older one did. It does leave a bump though.
Huh? That is not what I interpreted it to mean. What I saw was this:
We deeply respect your privacy and we want to deliver your goods unmolested by everyone except the lazy loader who throws your box around but does not open it... and of course for subpoenas, but you already knew that. What you did not not know is that we are in actuality being forced, via National Security letters, to allow the Federal Government to molest your packages.
Definitely not meaningless. The meaning is clear as day. They are being forced to divert your packages but they can not directly tell you that.
Nah. I am not trying to be a douche but I am undoubtedly succeeding. *sigh* Such is life. Here is where I am coming from:
While the Commodore Amiga 500 was not my first computer, it was the one that brought me very deeply into computing. I first hooked it up to an NTSC television set. The fonts were extremely jagged and the images were extremely blurry. I should probably add that the color was absolutely terrible too. But it worked. I fell deeply in love with my Amiga 500. It was the most awesome computer on the planet. It had a flat 32 bit memory space and preemptive multitasking. It was god compared to the standard IBM PC and Microsoft DOS.
I eventually was able to afford to buy a used "real" monitor for it. Essentially the same resolution but much higher quality. The fonts were still jagged though.
Through the years, I have upgraded my monitors continuously, with one of the best monitors being the Apple 30 inch Cinema Display running at something like 3560x1600 or somesuch. A _very_ nice monitor. Currently, I am using a Samsung 48 inch 1920x1080 screen as a display.
One thing that was common across ALL of the displays is that curves never looked like continuous curves and fonts always looked blocky. It is possible that problem may not be resolution, but I doubt it. I look at photographs of handwriting, images that should show continuous curves, and it still does not look "right". Either it is fuzzy or the pixels intrude.
Maybe I put my face too close to the monitor. Maybe I just expect too much. Maybe I notice things that other people do not notice. Regardless, No matter how much anti-aliasing I use in Grand Theft Auto IV, lines that are not perfectly vertical or horizontal have a staircase effect. No matter what type of font hinting I use, fonts seem blocky and or fuzzy. Perhaps 1920x1080 is enough and I just want too much.
4K screens look gorgeous. I look at them at the Sony store in the mall. My eyes are still drawn to the imperfections in the red headed girl's hair (in the demo) despite the fact that it is mathematically and scientifically impossible to see them. *shrug*
Today nobody has to take Smallpox vaccine and suffer the side effects of it (as an older vaccine it has quite a few).
That is not entirely true. I was just vaccinated against smallpox a year and a half ago (due to missing shot records). Before that, I was vaccinated in 2005 because the last time I was vaccinated against smallpox was when I was a very young child.
The only problem with this gimmick is that we're basically running into a resolution dead-end here, there's only so far you can go before the improved detail becomes meaningless.
Why would you even discuss this now. We are NOWHERE near the types of resolutions that my eyes are happy with. Yes, I am an elitist snob who couldn't tell a pixel from a hole in the ground. I do not care. Stop whining about how none of us can tell the difference. I can tell the difference and even if I can not, I believe I can tell the difference.
I do NOT want to see even a hint of blockiness or fuzziness at the edge of a font. I want curves that appear to be perfect curves. As it stands now, I can clearly see blockiness in all fonts. With hinting turned on, some aspects of the blockiness goes away but it is still there... and now the fonts are fuzzy too. Will 4K solve that? Not even close. Will it be much much better than what we have now? Yes!
Stop blocking progress with your negative whining about arcs and distinguishability. I may not be able to argue against your science and maths, but science always loses out to reality. Look at the blocks and fuzziness in this message and dare to tell me that I am wrong.
What I can't quite get my head around is the suggestion to use BitLocker though. I know MS resisted an NSL recently, but that doesn't meant we can trust BitLocker.
As someone else already pointed out: It is a huge red flag that you simply can not miss that warns you that there is a problem that can not be discussed directly.
LOL, think about it: Duh! Suggesting a Microsoft product for security is like suggesting Satan as a babysitter for your children.:)
The software market would not tank even if file sharing became easier.
I mostly agree.
There are risks in downloading software from untrusted sources, and people who can afford it (or cannot afford the risk) normally buy it.
Hm. Some software is so hostile from the publishers that the illegal version is safer to use. I am unsure if Starforce is still used but when I would buy a game and find that Starforce was used, I would immediately go download the warez version and use that instead. I also routinely download the warez version of software that I purchase so I can have a backup copy in perpetuity. It seems that many publishers do not want you to use their software 5 to 10 years down the line. Think of online activation and such if you can not think of any other examples.
To me, it is a shame that your early post is directing this discussion. It is insightful and informative, but the thrust is wrong.
Ultimately, this is about facial recognition and finding that two virtually identical photos do not result in the same person being identified accurately. Yes, I know, the proposed example is cats, but everyone should know by now, nobody cares about identifying cats. At a minimum, the cat identifies you.
But more to the point about the thrust of your post: You are speaking of entirely misclassifying (why is Firefox telling me that is not a word? If it is not, it should be.) while the doctors in question are speaking of misidentification (another not-word? wtf?). They want to know whether or not it is the same cat, not whether it is a cat or a paper bag.
there are waves of people who have spent about five minutes thinking about the subject and are sure that they have come up with a laundry list of show-stopping issues that the people who've been working on this problem for a decade could not have possibly thought of.
What is scary is that there are probably a few of these issues that actually have NOT been examined as thoroughly as they should. Corporate programmers are notoriously bad about thinking of edge cases. Think of DBASEIII ROT13 password encryption in relation to decision trees employed by autonomous vehicles. Some shortcut will be taken, approved by management, and at some point in the future, some dreadful thing will occur because of it.
It is a confidence issue relating to organizations, not to professions and professionals.
What happens when it sees a vehicle coming the wrong way down the highway and there are cars in the adjacent lanes? How does it choose whether to smash into the car on the right, which has kids in it, or the one on the left, which is a big truck, or take the head-on?
Most likely do the exact same thing I would do: Reduce speed and stay in lane.
Why should an emergency that affects me also affect the people next to me? It does not matter if there are innocents or gang bangers to the left and right of me. I reduce speed and stay in my lane.
Other than the moral implications of purposefully smashing into the cars next to me, there is another consideration: Just because the car is coming straight at you now, that does not mean it will continue to do so. What if the oncoming vehicle breaks right to squeeze in between you and the person next to you? Breaks left? You do not know what will happen.
To be more frank, for the past 7 years, I have been dealing with EXACTLY this situation (long story about convoys and two lane roads) on a fairly regular basis. Everyone, so far, that has tried to avoid the head on collision has died a horrible death. Only one person, so far, who has just went ahead and accepted the inevitable has died. Six others have survived; although I am unsure of any permanent injuries.:/
In conclusion, trying to avoid a head on collision is stupid. You will be MUCH worse off if your inertia is rotating along an axis that is not aligned with your direction of travel. Just reduce speed. This is an easy one for an autonomous car; it is not afraid of death. You are. You will do something stupid like trying to avoid the collision.
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CTRL+TAB is faster than turning and focusing on a different monitor.
Next challenger, please.
Not really. Yes, if you are turning 180 degrees and trying to find something, then maybe. If I am just cocking my head 30 degrees or so in any direction, my eyes and neck are considerably faster. Anything in the generally forward area is going to MUCH faster than alt/ctrl tab.
Tabbing requires me to refocus my attention and try to understand the new things being displayed to me. Moving my gaze about does not require rediscovery.
it's several hundred KILOMETERS (that's a unit of measure, common in the rest of the world - think of it as something like half a mile) down.
Erm... half a mile? Not quite. 160 kilometers could be considered within the range of several hundred kilometers. 160 kilometers would be 100 miles. Not half a mile. :)
Kind regards,
strike
the majority of companies are sitting on trillions of dollars worth of cash. it is just sitting there collecting dust. why aren't they investing it in the future of their company?
The United States government has a vested interested in having corporations (or individuals) sit on large sums of cash. The value of that cash is being sucked out of it every minute of every day. Where does this value go? Yeah...
Have a nice day :)
The database they are constructing is being used to conduct performance reviews on originated mortgages. The database won't pick you up unless you start a mortgage. Once you originate the mortgage this database is being put into place in order to monitor your performance on that mortgage and your corresponding financial condition.
Why are they doing this?
To stop the next credit crisis as the system would allow surveillance over mortgages originated by banking institutions.
It does not matter what it is intended to be used for or why. The problem is what it could be used for. Does the FBI have access to it? Nope. Will they have access to it at some point in the future? You can bet your ass they will. How about other government agencies? Why not just start entering people into it as soon as they open a bank account instead of a mortgage? It will help prevent bad loans.
This monstrosity is a huge bag of evil. Kill it with fire! Now. ... and this post just got me onto another list. It shows that I am anti-American and only want to help the terrorists win. Jesus fucking H Christ.
Google has sexist/racist hiring policies....that's the cause of this TFA
I fail to see how that has been proven. Read: http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
to gain a different view than the one that you seem to believe is true.
Affirmative action in the context of a large corporation means *acknowledging society's inherent inequality* and taking steps to offer ****equal opportunity****
I am glad that you have your own personal private definition for Affirmative Action; however, your definition is merely the act of not showing prejudice in hiring practices. What Affirmative Action ACTUALLY IS, is taking notice of the race of the person that you are interviewing and if they are of the correct race, you hire them. In other words, Affirmative Action is in actuality legalized discrimination.
Was this necessary to try and get the descendents of former slaves to be able to integrate into a more modern American society? Sadly, it probably was. Is the time for it LONG past? Most assuredly. Should prejudice be attacked whenever it is seen? Definitely. Will prejudice EVER be 100% eliminated? Never.
Perhaps you were brought up with the Great White Guilt and believe that the only racist people are old white guys. All other races are peaceful and happy and glad to work with everyone else. Same with women. Hell, white women especially love black men. Of course white women are never racist... but white men. Oh my god. They treat every other race and women as inferior. Nobody else does.
I got news for you. The Great White Guilt is a fucking lie. Women are racist. Japanese are racist. Blacks are racist (even against other blacks as there are actually many subsets). Indians are racist. The only group that ever gets shit for being racist is white men. Women routinely get away with murder. Black business owners are never questioned when they fail to hire Mexicans or whites.
Affirmative Action can only make things worse at this point. Just stop.
The only thing you can do to make this world a better place is to not practice discrimination and hatred yourself and to call it out in others when it is clearly observed. Affirmative Action is pure evil.
Bullshit. Fuck off. Your words are worthless and you are a terrible boss... if you are even a boss.
Emotional intelligence does not solve problems. Diversity does not do the heavy lifting. Do you know what does? People who work hard and cooperate. Touchy feely happy go lucky bullshit is not needed. If women can hack it, fine, if Mexicans can hack it, then fine. None of that shit is relevant and measuring it is should only be done when there are strong suspicions of discrimination. Even, then, "unbalanced" numbers are not a guarantee of discrimination.
Are you a gay HR manager by chance? I've got nothing against gay people so do not take it as an insult.
Mercedes has it. My 2004 E55 AMG has it.
Sounds idiotic to me. Non-linear steering is great, but any sort of dynamic/adaptive steering that changes according to conditions is stupid beyond belief and will cause an endless stream of accidents because the driver can no longer predict how the car will react to similar steering motions.
I used to think like you do. Driving American made cars is what made me think that way. Drive a high end Mercedes at some point to see what adaptive steering is REALLY like. You can drive at 150 miles per hour and the steering feels like it does at 40 miles per hour. Same at 180 miles per hour.
At no time does it ever act "weird". What it does do is make the steering feel the same no matter what the conditions, which actually makes the vehicle much easier to control. I have driven an SL 65 AMG (and a lot of other high end cars) at Pikes Peak International Raceway and it handled beautifully in the high speed and low speed turns. It turns as you would intuitively expect, which is actually different than a linear steering device.
Really, it is a great thing; however, this specific article is talking about it being in an American made vehicle... which means your fears are reasonable. The bean counters will never allow the engineers to actually test it and fine tune it. It will be garbage.
By the way, thanks for DICE. Dillon's Integrated C Environment is what I used to learn programming in C on my Amiga. I saved up for half a year (iirc) to be able to buy it from you (I was extremely poor at the time).
Consume less than you burn.
That advice will kill people. At a minimum, you need to consume as much as you burn or else in the long run, you will starve... but it does not end there.
The digestion system is not perfect. That implies that the total calorie count actually needs to be higher since you will be excreting some portion of those calories without processing them. This is where it gets tricky, it depends on the bacteria in your gut (and how well you chew!) to fully digest your food.
Your advice concerning exercise is correct. The body is a type of machine and it needs to be utilized to stay healthy.
I try to avoid responding to Mr. Anonymous Coward but...
There's no point arguing with him, because he doesn't care about the facts.
Facts are such a pain in the ass. I know what I see. I am told it is not a fact. All I can do is agree and say that what I see is not a fact.
Nevertheless, I see what I see. Perhaps I am doing it wrong? I do not know. I see imperfections and I do not like it. I really really want 4K but some people seem dead set on thinking 4K is just a gimmick. I actually want even more than 4K but still, 4K is better than what we have now.
Sadly, that is true; otherwise, they would not be able to say it. Unfortunately, it is the most plausible reading of their statement considering the situation and the clearly careful wording.
Taking what I say at face value and analyzing what you say minus the skepticism of my words, you should be able to figure out quite a bit about me... especially if I posit that I am not a researcher.
I am from the US.
I am old enough to have received the vaccine as a small child.
I am currently located in a place where terrorism is a major concern.
If I were a betting man and did not know my situation, I would bet with you that I am thinking of another vaccine; however, since I do know my situation, I would be stupid to bet on the chances that you propose. :)
On the bright side, the newer version of the vaccine does not leave an odd scar like the older one did. It does leave a bump though.
Huh? That is not what I interpreted it to mean. What I saw was this:
We deeply respect your privacy and we want to deliver your goods unmolested by everyone except the lazy loader who throws your box around but does not open it... and of course for subpoenas, but you already knew that. What you did not not know is that we are in actuality being forced, via National Security letters, to allow the Federal Government to molest your packages.
Definitely not meaningless. The meaning is clear as day. They are being forced to divert your packages but they can not directly tell you that.
Yep. You are exactly correct. Thank you for posting. I made a mistake. :)
Nah. I am not trying to be a douche but I am undoubtedly succeeding. *sigh* Such is life. Here is where I am coming from:
While the Commodore Amiga 500 was not my first computer, it was the one that brought me very deeply into computing. I first hooked it up to an NTSC television set. The fonts were extremely jagged and the images were extremely blurry. I should probably add that the color was absolutely terrible too. But it worked. I fell deeply in love with my Amiga 500. It was the most awesome computer on the planet. It had a flat 32 bit memory space and preemptive multitasking. It was god compared to the standard IBM PC and Microsoft DOS.
I eventually was able to afford to buy a used "real" monitor for it. Essentially the same resolution but much higher quality. The fonts were still jagged though.
Through the years, I have upgraded my monitors continuously, with one of the best monitors being the Apple 30 inch Cinema Display running at something like 3560x1600 or somesuch. A _very_ nice monitor. Currently, I am using a Samsung 48 inch 1920x1080 screen as a display.
One thing that was common across ALL of the displays is that curves never looked like continuous curves and fonts always looked blocky. It is possible that problem may not be resolution, but I doubt it. I look at photographs of handwriting, images that should show continuous curves, and it still does not look "right". Either it is fuzzy or the pixels intrude.
Maybe I put my face too close to the monitor. Maybe I just expect too much. Maybe I notice things that other people do not notice. Regardless, No matter how much anti-aliasing I use in Grand Theft Auto IV, lines that are not perfectly vertical or horizontal have a staircase effect. No matter what type of font hinting I use, fonts seem blocky and or fuzzy. Perhaps 1920x1080 is enough and I just want too much.
4K screens look gorgeous. I look at them at the Sony store in the mall. My eyes are still drawn to the imperfections in the red headed girl's hair (in the demo) despite the fact that it is mathematically and scientifically impossible to see them. *shrug*
lol
For seniors it can cause nerve damage and crippling pain, even blindness if you are very unlucky.
You do not have to be a senior to start experiencing nerve damage. It can start in your mid 40s. :(
Today nobody has to take Smallpox vaccine and suffer the side effects of it (as an older vaccine it has quite a few).
That is not entirely true. I was just vaccinated against smallpox a year and a half ago (due to missing shot records). Before that, I was vaccinated in 2005 because the last time I was vaccinated against smallpox was when I was a very young child.
The only problem with this gimmick is that we're basically running into a resolution dead-end here, there's only so far you can go before the improved detail becomes meaningless.
Why would you even discuss this now. We are NOWHERE near the types of resolutions that my eyes are happy with. Yes, I am an elitist snob who couldn't tell a pixel from a hole in the ground. I do not care. Stop whining about how none of us can tell the difference. I can tell the difference and even if I can not, I believe I can tell the difference.
I do NOT want to see even a hint of blockiness or fuzziness at the edge of a font. I want curves that appear to be perfect curves. As it stands now, I can clearly see blockiness in all fonts. With hinting turned on, some aspects of the blockiness goes away but it is still there... and now the fonts are fuzzy too. Will 4K solve that? Not even close. Will it be much much better than what we have now? Yes!
Stop blocking progress with your negative whining about arcs and distinguishability. I may not be able to argue against your science and maths, but science always loses out to reality. Look at the blocks and fuzziness in this message and dare to tell me that I am wrong.
Sorry, but in video games, women are sex objects
Sorry, but in movies, women are sex objects.
Sorry, but in TV shows, women are sex objects.
Sorry, but in books, women are sex objects.
I think you are confused and likely to be following a narrative that is not really your own. Stop. Relax. Evaluate.
Kind regards,
strike
What I can't quite get my head around is the suggestion to use BitLocker though. I know MS resisted an NSL recently, but that doesn't meant we can trust BitLocker.
As someone else already pointed out: It is a huge red flag that you simply can not miss that warns you that there is a problem that can not be discussed directly.
LOL, think about it: Duh! Suggesting a Microsoft product for security is like suggesting Satan as a babysitter for your children. :)
The software market would not tank even if file sharing became easier.
I mostly agree.
There are risks in downloading software from untrusted sources, and people who can afford it (or cannot afford the risk) normally buy it.
Hm. Some software is so hostile from the publishers that the illegal version is safer to use. I am unsure if Starforce is still used but when I would buy a game and find that Starforce was used, I would immediately go download the warez version and use that instead. I also routinely download the warez version of software that I purchase so I can have a backup copy in perpetuity. It seems that many publishers do not want you to use their software 5 to 10 years down the line. Think of online activation and such if you can not think of any other examples.
To me, it is a shame that your early post is directing this discussion. It is insightful and informative, but the thrust is wrong.
Ultimately, this is about facial recognition and finding that two virtually identical photos do not result in the same person being identified accurately. Yes, I know, the proposed example is cats, but everyone should know by now, nobody cares about identifying cats. At a minimum, the cat identifies you.
But more to the point about the thrust of your post: You are speaking of entirely misclassifying (why is Firefox telling me that is not a word? If it is not, it should be.) while the doctors in question are speaking of misidentification (another not-word? wtf?). They want to know whether or not it is the same cat, not whether it is a cat or a paper bag.
there are waves of people who have spent about five minutes thinking about the subject and are sure that they have come up with a laundry list of show-stopping issues that the people who've been working on this problem for a decade could not have possibly thought of.
What is scary is that there are probably a few of these issues that actually have NOT been examined as thoroughly as they should. Corporate programmers are notoriously bad about thinking of edge cases. Think of DBASEIII ROT13 password encryption in relation to decision trees employed by autonomous vehicles. Some shortcut will be taken, approved by management, and at some point in the future, some dreadful thing will occur because of it.
It is a confidence issue relating to organizations, not to professions and professionals.
What happens when it sees a vehicle coming the wrong way down the highway and there are cars in the adjacent lanes? How does it choose whether to smash into the car on the right, which has kids in it, or the one on the left, which is a big truck, or take the head-on?
Most likely do the exact same thing I would do: Reduce speed and stay in lane.
Why should an emergency that affects me also affect the people next to me? It does not matter if there are innocents or gang bangers to the left and right of me. I reduce speed and stay in my lane.
Other than the moral implications of purposefully smashing into the cars next to me, there is another consideration: Just because the car is coming straight at you now, that does not mean it will continue to do so. What if the oncoming vehicle breaks right to squeeze in between you and the person next to you? Breaks left? You do not know what will happen.
To be more frank, for the past 7 years, I have been dealing with EXACTLY this situation (long story about convoys and two lane roads) on a fairly regular basis. Everyone, so far, that has tried to avoid the head on collision has died a horrible death. Only one person, so far, who has just went ahead and accepted the inevitable has died. Six others have survived; although I am unsure of any permanent injuries. :/
In conclusion, trying to avoid a head on collision is stupid. You will be MUCH worse off if your inertia is rotating along an axis that is not aligned with your direction of travel. Just reduce speed. This is an easy one for an autonomous car; it is not afraid of death. You are. You will do something stupid like trying to avoid the collision.