UberX works like this; I've driven for UberX for three months:
Neither driver or passanger can see each other's ratings. After a probationary number of trips, the driver gets a rolling lifetime average rating in the app, and a weekly average rating via email. Drivers and riders start out with a 5 star rating, so if you encounter a driver with a five star rating they are still on probation. I don't believe riders get a probation (Uber has never said as much) but if a passenger has a 5 star rating I find that usually means they are new to Uber.
All drivers are obligated to rate their passenger upon exit before they can log back on and continue driving for Uber. The passenger is generally unaware that they are being rated, but can see their lifetime average by logging into the site/app. I'm unaware as to any automatic cut off that would cause a passenger to be banned, though other drivers claim that the rider ratings are occasionally investigated. My lowest rated riders were in the 2.x range.
If the driver's lifetime rating falls below 4.7 that's grounds for being barred (fired) from Uber, though you can start over by taking a paid class from the company. For some drivers their rating is a source of stress, as they are driving cars leased through Uber at a rate of $800-$1600 a month, with a punitive $250-$1000 charge if they are fired.
AFAIK the rider rating isn't fully implemented yet, the drivers can't see the rider rating unless they go out of their way to check it in the app, which they can't legally do while the car is in motion to pick up the rider. Uber assures drivers that they are being kept safe from problem riders via the rider rating system.
Exactly. Elliot Rodger’s was a textbook psychopath, probably somewhere between ASPD and NPD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorders).
That he had hang ups with women was a product of his brain not being capable of the normal range of human emotions, not because he was an introverted nerd.
Well then all we have to do is wrap the earth in a sheath of exotic matter that warps space-time to the point that a single second in the sheath on earth is 1000 years outside of it. Then just send out swarms of self replicating robots programmed to track down habitable planets and encase them in similar sheaths. After that build worm holes between the habitable worlds, easy-peasy!
Actually all the ad money comes from Google. Turn off adblock, hover over an ad, right click, hit "inspect element".
MS, Apple, etc might pay Google for advertising, but I don't think I've ever seen an Apple or MS banner ad on Google (probably because as a general rule businesses don't pay for their rival's services if the don't have to).
penurious
adjective formal
1 extremely poor; poverty-stricken: a penurious old tramp.
characterized by poverty or need: penurious years.
2 parsimonious; mean: he was generous and hospitable in contrast to his stingy and penurious wife.
The US allows a margin of inaccuracy of 10%, plus or minus. That only applies to factory cars. Once someone has made a DIY modification (for instance changing the rim size) all bets are off.
It sounds to me like he might just be getting blocked due to not having SPF records set up properly for all his domains that he's mailing on behalf of. Many mail servers block email from domains that don't bother with SPF.
I don't think most Mac users are too aware of it either. I've used it twice, for the last two OSX upgrades, but that's it. I suppose it's fine for Apple software, but it wouldn't occur to me to go there instead of the internet for 3rd party software. The App store seems to me just a half-hearted attempt to try to recreate the formula that made them so much money with iTunes and iOS.
The alarmist predictions that OSX will go the way of iOS are off base. iOS is consumption oriented, whereas OSX is production oriented. The bottom line is that they simply don't have the leverage to turn OSX into a walled garden. They tried that back in the 80s and nearly went out of business. If Apple loses sight of that the Mac will die, and Apple will effectively be withdrawing from the PC market. I wouldn't put it past them to one day kill the Mac, their consumer electronics division is way more profitable than their computer division, but I don't see that day coming soon. A powerful development platform is still a key to their brand.
I imagine that in urban areas nothing will change. Highways on the other hand, the speed limit will probably go up.
That is one of the major selling points of autonomous cars, they can respond way faster than a human driver ever could. Back in the 80s when science magazines predicted autonomous cars, they were always predicted to be going 200 mph, bumper to bumper. I don't think 200 mph is really feasible, even race cars require minute to minute maintenance at that speed, but 90-100 mph is probably doable.
Though there will need to be advances as far as power sources. Gas would be too expensive at that speed and modern batteries wouldn't be able to cut it for more than an hour or two.
Speaking of robotic doctors, I've always predicted that AI and robotics would eventually specifically replace surgeons. Well, replace might not the right word, maybe: augment to the point that the human surgeon's job would just consist of monitoring the AI driven robotics in case it does something catastrophically wrong.
A robot or team of robots driven by an AI (one advanced enough to react to unexpected circumstances) could be better in the operating room than humans. They're easy to sterilize, they can make more precise movements and manipulate smaller tools, they don't get stressed, they don't get fatigued, they could more accurately calculate probable outcomes, they could be faster, etc.
How far off an AI that is reliable and capable enough for that is another story, but I think it will happen somewhere down the road.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. People who live in NYC are on the whole thinner than people in the rest of the country, mostly because they walk everywhere. But some do have beer guts because since they walk instead of drive, they really, really like to drink.
Ha, I misread the titles as "Amazon Patents Electronic Grifting", and though, "Oh come on! My inbox is full of prior art, going all the way back to the 90!"
Again it doesn't really matter what they do, it's what they have the capacity to do.
Personally, I don't fit the demographic that doesn't have a Facebook profile, I have one. I didn't mean that post as a statement of my personal beliefs on privacy. I just know a few people that are in that demographic and there is nothing you can do to market social networking to them. Google's product launch was flawed in that it targeted them, and that's why Google+ is failing. If anything, Google+ diminished Google's brand identity by making those people more conscious of the data they were already giving Google, whereas before they were just thinking of Google as a tool, and they began to complain loudly.
It's hard to see why anyone would care about Google+. Their entire pitch is "better privacy than Facebook", which isn't a great pitch. Facebook will probably surpassed eventually by a new SN company, but it will be one that will be advertised as "cool" not "discrete".
Cool factor aside, Google+ objectively has worse privacy than Facebook. Anyone that cares enough about privacy to avoid Facebook, will generally avoid all forms of social networking and also take a very dim view of Google in general. It's not what the company does or doesn't do that's an issue, it's what it could potentially do. Having a search history tied to a social profile is a huge problem. No entity no matter how benign can be entrusted with that much information.
You don't need to say full disclosure just because you hold an opinion. That phrase is used if you have a vested interest in something. For instance "Full disclosure: I own Microsoft's competitor's stock" or "Full disclosure: I have an ongoing lawsuit with Steve Ballmer, because he allegedly once threw a chair at me".
You're confusing red dwarves with white dwarves. Red dwarves form small, white dwarves are the stellar cores of G type stars after they have blown off most of their mass during their red giant phase.
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UberX works like this; I've driven for UberX for three months:
Neither driver or passanger can see each other's ratings. After a probationary number of trips, the driver gets a rolling lifetime average rating in the app, and a weekly average rating via email. Drivers and riders start out with a 5 star rating, so if you encounter a driver with a five star rating they are still on probation. I don't believe riders get a probation (Uber has never said as much) but if a passenger has a 5 star rating I find that usually means they are new to Uber.
All drivers are obligated to rate their passenger upon exit before they can log back on and continue driving for Uber. The passenger is generally unaware that they are being rated, but can see their lifetime average by logging into the site/app. I'm unaware as to any automatic cut off that would cause a passenger to be banned, though other drivers claim that the rider ratings are occasionally investigated. My lowest rated riders were in the 2.x range.
If the driver's lifetime rating falls below 4.7 that's grounds for being barred (fired) from Uber, though you can start over by taking a paid class from the company. For some drivers their rating is a source of stress, as they are driving cars leased through Uber at a rate of $800-$1600 a month, with a punitive $250-$1000 charge if they are fired.
AFAIK the rider rating isn't fully implemented yet, the drivers can't see the rider rating unless they go out of their way to check it in the app, which they can't legally do while the car is in motion to pick up the rider. Uber assures drivers that they are being kept safe from problem riders via the rider rating system.
Could have been a couple million stone-age people, or it could have been a freaking comet.
Well, psychopathy is believed to affect about 1% of the population and be primarily a genetic abnormality, so that means about 3.1 million in the USA.
Enough to fill up Youtube.
Exactly. Elliot Rodger’s was a textbook psychopath, probably somewhere between ASPD and NPD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorders).
That he had hang ups with women was a product of his brain not being capable of the normal range of human emotions, not because he was an introverted nerd.
Well then all we have to do is wrap the earth in a sheath of exotic matter that warps space-time to the point that a single second in the sheath on earth is 1000 years outside of it. Then just send out swarms of self replicating robots programmed to track down habitable planets and encase them in similar sheaths. After that build worm holes between the habitable worlds, easy-peasy!
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(novel) (it's a great book)
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/nobody-cares-what-you-think-about-their-phone/
Actually all the ad money comes from Google. Turn off adblock, hover over an ad, right click, hit "inspect element".
MS, Apple, etc might pay Google for advertising, but I don't think I've ever seen an Apple or MS banner ad on Google (probably because as a general rule businesses don't pay for their rival's services if the don't have to).
I've never seen the word "penurious" before:
penurious
adjective formal
1 extremely poor; poverty-stricken: a penurious old tramp.
characterized by poverty or need: penurious years.
2 parsimonious; mean: he was generous and hospitable in contrast to his stingy and penurious wife.
--New Oxford American Dictionary
The US allows a margin of inaccuracy of 10%, plus or minus. That only applies to factory cars. Once someone has made a DIY modification (for instance changing the rim size) all bets are off.
"Let your viewers make the content and make money" was Web 2.0.
Web 3.0 is "Don't make money no matter who builds the content."
No need to Godwin yourself. Checkout what the Canadians were up to (with a little funding from the CIA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#Project_MKULTRA
It sounds to me like he might just be getting blocked due to not having SPF records set up properly for all his domains that he's mailing on behalf of. Many mail servers block email from domains that don't bother with SPF.
Green lasers are the most expensive, not the least. Compare: http://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic $400 for 1.25 W vs http://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton $1000 for 750mW.
I don't think most Mac users are too aware of it either. I've used it twice, for the last two OSX upgrades, but that's it. I suppose it's fine for Apple software, but it wouldn't occur to me to go there instead of the internet for 3rd party software. The App store seems to me just a half-hearted attempt to try to recreate the formula that made them so much money with iTunes and iOS.
The alarmist predictions that OSX will go the way of iOS are off base. iOS is consumption oriented, whereas OSX is production oriented. The bottom line is that they simply don't have the leverage to turn OSX into a walled garden. They tried that back in the 80s and nearly went out of business. If Apple loses sight of that the Mac will die, and Apple will effectively be withdrawing from the PC market. I wouldn't put it past them to one day kill the Mac, their consumer electronics division is way more profitable than their computer division, but I don't see that day coming soon. A powerful development platform is still a key to their brand.
I imagine that in urban areas nothing will change. Highways on the other hand, the speed limit will probably go up.
That is one of the major selling points of autonomous cars, they can respond way faster than a human driver ever could. Back in the 80s when science magazines predicted autonomous cars, they were always predicted to be going 200 mph, bumper to bumper. I don't think 200 mph is really feasible, even race cars require minute to minute maintenance at that speed, but 90-100 mph is probably doable.
Though there will need to be advances as far as power sources. Gas would be too expensive at that speed and modern batteries wouldn't be able to cut it for more than an hour or two.
I'm not sure why US commentators can't see this.
Commentators are propaganda, they are paid to justify those actions.
Many people in the US do see this, but we can't effectively intervene (due to a lot of things, the discussion of which would get off-topic).
Speaking of robotic doctors, I've always predicted that AI and robotics would eventually specifically replace surgeons. Well, replace might not the right word, maybe: augment to the point that the human surgeon's job would just consist of monitoring the AI driven robotics in case it does something catastrophically wrong.
A robot or team of robots driven by an AI (one advanced enough to react to unexpected circumstances) could be better in the operating room than humans. They're easy to sterilize, they can make more precise movements and manipulate smaller tools, they don't get stressed, they don't get fatigued, they could more accurately calculate probable outcomes, they could be faster, etc.
How far off an AI that is reliable and capable enough for that is another story, but I think it will happen somewhere down the road.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. People who live in NYC are on the whole thinner than people in the rest of the country, mostly because they walk everywhere. But some do have beer guts because since they walk instead of drive, they really, really like to drink.
Actually fatties live longer.
Google "obesity paradox".
Ha, I misread the titles as "Amazon Patents Electronic Grifting", and though, "Oh come on! My inbox is full of prior art, going all the way back to the 90!"
Again it doesn't really matter what they do, it's what they have the capacity to do.
Personally, I don't fit the demographic that doesn't have a Facebook profile, I have one. I didn't mean that post as a statement of my personal beliefs on privacy. I just know a few people that are in that demographic and there is nothing you can do to market social networking to them. Google's product launch was flawed in that it targeted them, and that's why Google+ is failing. If anything, Google+ diminished Google's brand identity by making those people more conscious of the data they were already giving Google, whereas before they were just thinking of Google as a tool, and they began to complain loudly.
It's hard to see why anyone would care about Google+. Their entire pitch is "better privacy than Facebook", which isn't a great pitch. Facebook will probably surpassed eventually by a new SN company, but it will be one that will be advertised as "cool" not "discrete".
Cool factor aside, Google+ objectively has worse privacy than Facebook. Anyone that cares enough about privacy to avoid Facebook, will generally avoid all forms of social networking and also take a very dim view of Google in general. It's not what the company does or doesn't do that's an issue, it's what it could potentially do. Having a search history tied to a social profile is a huge problem. No entity no matter how benign can be entrusted with that much information.
You don't need to say full disclosure just because you hold an opinion. That phrase is used if you have a vested interest in something. For instance "Full disclosure: I own Microsoft's competitor's stock" or "Full disclosure: I have an ongoing lawsuit with Steve Ballmer, because he allegedly once threw a chair at me".
You're confusing red dwarves with white dwarves. Red dwarves form small, white dwarves are the stellar cores of G type stars after they have blown off most of their mass during their red giant phase.