I think most will agree that at some point, cars controlled by a computer will be statistically safer than cars controlled by a human. That point might have been reached a year ago, it might be reached next year, it might be reached in 10 years. For the sake of this discussion lets assume that point was reached today.
If I own a trucking company, I know I can make my trucks safer by adding a self driving module. Maybe this module costs $50,000. If I have to pay for a driver to sit in the seat as a backup anyway, I may decide that I can not afford to add $50,000 to the cost of every truck. So I may decide to go with the cheaper option of having the less safe human controlling the truck full time. If my $50,000 module replaces the driver, then I have a financial incentive to go with the safer option.
If this laptop was worth anywhere near that amount, he should surely have a full disk backup running every hour. Just spin up a virtual machine of the laptop from the backup image, should take about 10 minutes. He can work off the VM from any computer with an RDP client to get him through the day. Then restore the backup to the laptop, should take a few hours depending on size and speed.
I'm sorry. Random price increases / decreases happen all the time. All businesses have to deal with them. Smart businesses plan for them. Every farmer worth his salt knows that sometime in the next five years the price of diesel will shoot up for some reason. In another year the price of the grain he is selling will fall for some reason. He may not know what year or what budget item will cause him trouble, but he will budget for SOMETHING to go wrong.
Should't the people writing budgets for scientific projects be smart enough to add some margin, just like everyone else does?
Journals are peer reviewed. Wiki pages are reviewed by peoplel interested in following the odd wiki rules.
Are there not odd peer reviewing rules for Journals? Actual question, not trying to be sarcastic or flippant. I have no experience, I am just assuming there would be.
If it were just a matter of being hard to determine, then roughly half of all such projects would come in under budget. I don't know what the stats are, but I am going to go out on a limb and guess that is not the case.
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Don't be so sure, your mother-in-law might be 1337 H4x0r
They can kick you out if you're winning, that seems like cheating to me as it also changes the odds.
You can stop playing if you are loosing. Why should they be obligated to play with you if you are not obligated to play with them? If you stop playing does that "change the odds"?
Many people are just afraid of things that are dirty and sharp
I don't think it is the dirty and sharp part that most people are afraid of. I think it is the last sentence of the summary that scares off most people
To take a person used to a carefree life on the road and stick them in a cubicle. Thats cruel and unusual punishment
A carefree life of sitting in a glass and steel walled box, staring out a screen, unable to get out of your chair, unable to even take your hands off the wheel, for hours on end, even closing your eyes for 10 seconds could cause death. A trip to the bathroom costs 30 minutes and requires planing and a review of its impact on a successful project.
I think I found one that does this. Named 'mute tab'. Just installed it, seems to work ok for the first five minutes. Oddly enough, when looking at the settings, the one site in the whitelist was facebook.com
I don't really use facebook. However, I would love a chrome extension that would allow me to have the sound turned off in the browser and selectively enable on a tab by tab basis.
I understand your point, you are talking about way overpriced coffee shops. However, most places I buy coffee it is about $10 for a 24oz can. Makes about 20 pots containing 10 cups each. So about $0.05 / cup.
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It's really astonishing how a statement so at odds with the law, and maybe even common sense, could be up-moderated on Slashdot.
I was going to say "you must be new here", but you have a four digit ID.
511s.... pffft. I upgraded to 550s 35 years ago and never looked back.
The economic benefits can add to safety.
I think most will agree that at some point, cars controlled by a computer will be statistically safer than cars controlled by a human. That point might have been reached a year ago, it might be reached next year, it might be reached in 10 years. For the sake of this discussion lets assume that point was reached today.
If I own a trucking company, I know I can make my trucks safer by adding a self driving module. Maybe this module costs $50,000. If I have to pay for a driver to sit in the seat as a backup anyway, I may decide that I can not afford to add $50,000 to the cost of every truck. So I may decide to go with the cheaper option of having the less safe human controlling the truck full time. If my $50,000 module replaces the driver, then I have a financial incentive to go with the safer option.
If this laptop was worth anywhere near that amount, he should surely have a full disk backup running every hour. Just spin up a virtual machine of the laptop from the backup image, should take about 10 minutes. He can work off the VM from any computer with an RDP client to get him through the day. Then restore the backup to the laptop, should take a few hours depending on size and speed.
I'm sorry. Random price increases / decreases happen all the time. All businesses have to deal with them. Smart businesses plan for them. Every farmer worth his salt knows that sometime in the next five years the price of diesel will shoot up for some reason. In another year the price of the grain he is selling will fall for some reason. He may not know what year or what budget item will cause him trouble, but he will budget for SOMETHING to go wrong.
Should't the people writing budgets for scientific projects be smart enough to add some margin, just like everyone else does?
Journals are peer reviewed. Wiki pages are reviewed by peoplel interested in following the odd wiki rules.
Are there not odd peer reviewing rules for Journals? Actual question, not trying to be sarcastic or flippant. I have no experience, I am just assuming there would be.
don't kid yourself, you can't do intensive training like that while working full time to support yourself
Good thing I did not read your post before I did exactly that.
they are so often wrong and too trivial to worry about.
Right there with you on the wrong part, but there is nothing so trivial that it will not be worried about on slashdot.
If it were just a matter of being hard to determine, then roughly half of all such projects would come in under budget. I don't know what the stats are, but I am going to go out on a limb and guess that is not the case.
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Don't be so sure, your mother-in-law might be 1337 H4x0r
The reconfiguration to enable numeric keypad is fairly minimal. You have to press the NumLock key. Then it works.
They can kick you out if you're winning, that seems like cheating to me as it also changes the odds.
You can stop playing if you are loosing. Why should they be obligated to play with you if you are not obligated to play with them? If you stop playing does that "change the odds"?
Many people are just afraid of things that are dirty and sharp
I don't think it is the dirty and sharp part that most people are afraid of. I think it is the last sentence of the summary that scares off most people
It was three days of hard work.
To take a person used to a carefree life on the road and stick them in a cubicle. Thats cruel and unusual punishment
A carefree life of sitting in a glass and steel walled box, staring out a screen, unable to get out of your chair, unable to even take your hands off the wheel, for hours on end, even closing your eyes for 10 seconds could cause death. A trip to the bathroom costs 30 minutes and requires planing and a review of its impact on a successful project.
I assume some people here must wipe their digital bums with pdfs!
Sure you can use a PDF if you want. I prefer the far superior iWipe, with rounded corners.
These perks are shit. How about some god damn price stability? I have seen a product I routinely buy vary in price from $8 to $16.
I will be happy to stabilize that price for you at $20 if you always buy through me.
GM makes more than 100,000 Sierra/Silverado pickup trucks per year
Your numbers are quite low. Acording to wiki, 2015 sales for Sierra/Silverado were 824,683, just in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, it is pretty much the same thing. I was going more for humorous, then actually trying to argue a point.
The Apple buyers are not actually clamoring for thinner and lighter. They are clamoring for whatever Apple tells them to clamor about.
Halt and Catch Fire? Am I missing something 'attractive' about the title?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Someone already posted that this was a dupe story. Would you please stop dupe posting about dupe stories.
I think I found one that does this. Named 'mute tab'. Just installed it, seems to work ok for the first five minutes. Oddly enough, when looking at the settings, the one site in the whitelist was facebook.com
I don't really use facebook. However, I would love a chrome extension that would allow me to have the sound turned off in the browser and selectively enable on a tab by tab basis.
There are 16 Superchargers a hours drive from NYC.
Exactly which hours are you talking about? Now I don't live in NYC, but I expect it often takes more than an hour to just get out of the city.
I understand your point, you are talking about way overpriced coffee shops. However, most places I buy coffee it is about $10 for a 24oz can. Makes about 20 pots containing 10 cups each. So about $0.05 / cup.