Yes. But your old career was a dead end. All our careers are dead ends. Life is a dead end. We all have to deal with it. You can give up, or enjoy what you have while you have it.
yup. think about how many parking lots we can reclaim. for most of us, transportation will become a subscription service with various tiers of luxury offered...although there will always be a few peeps who will want to own their car despite the added cost and hassle.
When our roads are autonomous, you will get to point B faster, safer, with less fuel, less wear on the car, and better rested. You can also stop worrying about parking, fueling, and maintaining you car as it can go and do all these things automatically while you go about your business.
It's not all about you. When one of those shitty/distracted drivers slams into your car on the highway while your kids are onboard, you won't think standard lane departure and blind spot warning are such a bad idea...for those few seconds you have left.
We could use that same line of thinking for a host of now standard safety features that were once premium add-ons
seat belts ABS air bags steel belted radial tires shatter proof windshield/glass bluetooth hands free calling
There will be a time in the next 5-10 yrs when all the safety features I named will be as cheap as ABS or airbags. Besides, poor people don't need to buy new cars.
1. in many cars, prior to the anticipated accident it tightens the seat belts and applies the brakes 2. post accident it cuts off the fuel lines, unlocks the doors, turns on the hazard lights, and calls 911 and reports your GPS coords.
storage is cheap these days. esp for what they are doing
1. doesn't need redundancy 2. doesn't need to be fast access 3. doesn't need to be indexed in real time 4. older stuff can be written over as space runs out 5. txt is cheap to store 6. companies are already storing all this stuff...gov just needs hooks into it
Paying even a trivial fee like $1.99/month will lead users to claim higher levels of satisfaction with the service which is good for Google. It's been shown empirically over and over that we come to value those things which we pay for more than those which are free.
Can't help but think that if TED had done this on its own it would have cost a fraction of the $1M that PBS is spending. But maybe I'm naive about the costs involved.
Not a bad idea at all, but in my environment, the real take away from a demo is usually a concept, algorithm, approach, or user interaction paradigm.
If people like it, funding increases by 1 to 2 orders of magnitude (i.e. going from $100K to $10M) and a ground up reimplementation and expansion of the idea ensues.
because naturally you need a defensive swarm of drone that move with you through the world, forming a dome around you, to shield you from the potentially bad drones that are coming to get you, or perhaps happen to be a part of the drone shield of the guy standing next to you.
I had an intern try to optimize and clean up my code on his own initiative. It was pretty irritating.
It was an internal demo and I had written the code quick and simple to get the job done. It didn't need to be clean or optimal. I wanted the intern to spend his time doing better things.
OTOH, if I had tasked him to clean up my code and optimize, I might have been happy with his work.
There will be a time when these devices are so ubiquitous that it will just seem obvious to everyone that if you claim something is true, or that it happened, you be able to back that up with some video/audio. Imagine a car accident in 50 yrs, where both parties produce a recording of the accident to their insurance companies...ha..well...if we were still driving ourselves around then.
And as the gov increases their surveillance of the general population, citizens will need the ability to document their actions for the purposes of self defense.
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And once that has happened, they will buy them and leverage their technology and user base.
Is my new-born career a dead end?
Yes. But your old career was a dead end. All our careers are dead ends. Life is a dead end. We all have to deal with it. You can give up, or enjoy what you have while you have it.
Truly inspiring words.
yup. think about how many parking lots we can reclaim. for most of us, transportation will become a subscription service with various tiers of luxury offered...although there will always be a few peeps who will want to own their car despite the added cost and hassle.
http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Innovations/onething.aspx
"The Ultimate Driving Machine"
When our roads are autonomous, you will get to point B faster, safer, with less fuel, less wear on the car, and better rested. You can also stop worrying about parking, fueling, and maintaining you car as it can go and do all these things automatically while you go about your business.
In 20 yrs of driving, I've never had an ABS system fail or require maintenance. I have had it save my life.
In a time when you can buy a brand new car for $14K (or a used car for $5K) that includes 6 airbags and ABS, how can you say it isn't cheap.
Ahh....that's why you hire the recent college grad...who else is going to want to do this stuff?
It's not all about you. When one of those shitty/distracted drivers slams into your car on the highway while your kids are onboard, you won't think standard lane departure and blind spot warning are such a bad idea...for those few seconds you have left.
We could use that same line of thinking for a host of now standard safety features that were once premium add-ons
seat belts
ABS
air bags
steel belted radial tires
shatter proof windshield/glass
bluetooth hands free calling
There will be a time in the next 5-10 yrs when all the safety features I named will be as cheap as ABS or airbags. Besides, poor people don't need to buy new cars.
Ugh. Well...
1. in many cars, prior to the anticipated accident it tightens the seat belts and applies the brakes
2. post accident it cuts off the fuel lines, unlocks the doors, turns on the hazard lights, and calls 911 and reports your GPS coords.
the tech I care about is safety related...I can't wait until all this stuff is standard equip
blindspot detection
lane departure
collision detection
adaptive cruise control
electronic brake distribution / ABS
navigation
storage is cheap these days. esp for what they are doing
1. doesn't need redundancy
2. doesn't need to be fast access
3. doesn't need to be indexed in real time
4. older stuff can be written over as space runs out
5. txt is cheap to store
6. companies are already storing all this stuff...gov just needs hooks into it
because there are taxes to be made there...
community service and fines? for writing rap lyrics? please...
Paying even a trivial fee like $1.99/month will lead users to claim higher levels of satisfaction with the service which is good for Google. It's been shown empirically over and over that we come to value those things which we pay for more than those which are free.
Epic Rap Battles of History.
Can't help but think that if TED had done this on its own it would have cost a fraction of the $1M that PBS is spending. But maybe I'm naive about the costs involved.
Not a bad idea at all, but in my environment, the real take away from a demo is usually a concept, algorithm, approach, or user interaction paradigm.
If people like it, funding increases by 1 to 2 orders of magnitude (i.e. going from $100K to $10M) and a ground up reimplementation and expansion of the idea ensues.
because naturally you need a defensive swarm of drone that move with you through the world, forming a dome around you, to shield you from the potentially bad drones that are coming to get you, or perhaps happen to be a part of the drone shield of the guy standing next to you.
I had an intern try to optimize and clean up my code on his own initiative. It was pretty irritating.
It was an internal demo and I had written the code quick and simple to get the job done. It didn't need to be clean or optimal. I wanted the intern to spend his time doing better things.
OTOH, if I had tasked him to clean up my code and optimize, I might have been happy with his work.
the google glassess will come first. google contacts are many generations down the road, but slightly ahead of the google neural interface tech.
There will be a time when these devices are so ubiquitous that it will just seem obvious to everyone that if you claim something is true, or that it happened, you be able to back that up with some video/audio. Imagine a car accident in 50 yrs, where both parties produce a recording of the accident to their insurance companies...ha..well...if we were still driving ourselves around then.
And as the gov increases their surveillance of the general population, citizens will need the ability to document their actions for the purposes of self defense.
If the celebs all wear it and the movies and tv shows show people with it as well, people will start accepting it.
Ok, not Linux, but so similar that you could argue that that between Android and iOS, the most popular computer OS these days is Linux/Unix.
What were you wanting the internet for 20 yrs ago? To read updates to your favorite news group as you walked around?