I agree having human driven cars mixing with computer driven cars is a bad idea, but other than that, what you're saying sounds like someone looking at the horse and cart industry 300 years ago and saying that rail travel will never catch on. If someone bought land between two major cities, built an automated road infrastructure and then got a couple of large car makers to support it, people would pay money to use it. Especially if they could travel at 160mph without having to do anything and without having to share their personal space with anyone else. I know it would be a huge investment, but so was building the rail infrastructure. I know there would be competing standards but the fact that vendors are pushing their own standard will drive up quality - I know I'd pay more for the "safer" standard.
I know that some people disagree with me on this but Jesus was predicting the destruction of Jerusalem when he mentioned the "lifetime" thing. He starts the whole discourse by pointing out that "not one stone [of the temple] will be left on top of another". What he predicted actually happened in 70AD when Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans, so he was spot on.
It would be more correct to say that the atomic clock, in situations of normal operation, is accurate to one part in 10^18.
The point I'm making is that in order to know how accurate the clock is, we must have some more accurate measure that we're compaing it against.
Imagine I build a steel rod 1 meter long, and I then announce that it's one nano-meter under a full meter. How can I tell? Surely there must be some other 1 meter rod (or something else) that I'm compating it with? Otherwise, for all I know it could be exactly one meter long.
Yeah but that's my point, what is the strict physical measure of a second and why don't we build clocks that measure that instead of inventing clocks that aren't quite right?
how do we know how accurate it is?
The thing is, the amount of time the earth takes to go round the sun varies ever so slightly, as does the amount of time it takes the earth to rotate on it's axis. So what exactly are we measuring this new clock against in order to determine its accuracy? Surely, in order to dermine that it is accurate down to 1 second off over 30 bln years, we must be using some other more accurate measure that isn't off by 1 second over 30 bln years (say for example the amount of time it takes light to travel 3mx10^8 in a vacuum), so why don't we just continue using that more accurate measure?
Only last weekend I spent 1.5 hours doing 0-5mph on the M6 (UK) because a truck had overturned on the OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN MOTORWAY and the cumlitive effect of everyone slowing down a little bit to have a look created a huge jam...
Autopilot on cars wouldn't just remove the human error, it'd remove human stupidity too.
Most people have to keep using IE for one reason or another. Perhaps for Windows Update, or a corperate Intranet site that they have to use. So to get more people using firefox, mozilla should consider adding the ability to keep your IE favourites synchronised with your firefox bookmarks. I know I/someone could write a plugin for this, but this sort of feature isn't aimed at a tech savy/. reader like myself, it's aimed at the average windows user who might not like moving away from IE for something as "silly" as not being able to switch back to IE easily.
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I agree having human driven cars mixing with computer driven cars is a bad idea, but other than that, what you're saying sounds like someone looking at the horse and cart industry 300 years ago and saying that rail travel will never catch on. If someone bought land between two major cities, built an automated road infrastructure and then got a couple of large car makers to support it, people would pay money to use it. Especially if they could travel at 160mph without having to do anything and without having to share their personal space with anyone else. I know it would be a huge investment, but so was building the rail infrastructure. I know there would be competing standards but the fact that vendors are pushing their own standard will drive up quality - I know I'd pay more for the "safer" standard.
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I know that some people disagree with me on this but Jesus was predicting the destruction of Jerusalem when he mentioned the "lifetime" thing. He starts the whole discourse by pointing out that "not one stone [of the temple] will be left on top of another". What he predicted actually happened in 70AD when Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans, so he was spot on.
...oh, wait, my mistake.
It would be more correct to say that the atomic clock, in situations of normal operation, is accurate to one part in 10^18. The point I'm making is that in order to know how accurate the clock is, we must have some more accurate measure that we're compaing it against. Imagine I build a steel rod 1 meter long, and I then announce that it's one nano-meter under a full meter. How can I tell? Surely there must be some other 1 meter rod (or something else) that I'm compating it with? Otherwise, for all I know it could be exactly one meter long.
Yeah but that's my point, what is the strict physical measure of a second and why don't we build clocks that measure that instead of inventing clocks that aren't quite right?
how do we know how accurate it is? The thing is, the amount of time the earth takes to go round the sun varies ever so slightly, as does the amount of time it takes the earth to rotate on it's axis. So what exactly are we measuring this new clock against in order to determine its accuracy? Surely, in order to dermine that it is accurate down to 1 second off over 30 bln years, we must be using some other more accurate measure that isn't off by 1 second over 30 bln years (say for example the amount of time it takes light to travel 3mx10^8 in a vacuum), so why don't we just continue using that more accurate measure?
Only last weekend I spent 1.5 hours doing 0-5mph on the M6 (UK) because a truck had overturned on the OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN MOTORWAY and the cumlitive effect of everyone slowing down a little bit to have a look created a huge jam... Autopilot on cars wouldn't just remove the human error, it'd remove human stupidity too.
Most people have to keep using IE for one reason or another. Perhaps for Windows Update, or a corperate Intranet site that they have to use. So to get more people using firefox, mozilla should consider adding the ability to keep your IE favourites synchronised with your firefox bookmarks. I know I/someone could write a plugin for this, but this sort of feature isn't aimed at a tech savy /. reader like myself, it's aimed at the average windows user who might not like moving away from IE for something as "silly" as not being able to switch back to IE easily.
Looks like he finally got married!