I live in the Canadian prairies. The nearest large cities are 5hrs, 7hrs, and 9hrs drive away. If I could sleep or read or watch movies during that time, it'd be *awesome*.
And even better, *any* vehicle could become an emergency vehicle by broadcasting an emergency code and all the other vehicles would automatically get out of their way. This would presumably be logged and tracked, to minimize abuse of the system.
I live in the Canadian prairies, and I've seen traffic lights covered in snow because there wasn't enough heat to melt them. The city had to send out crews to clean the lights off.
It doesn't happen often, and the LED lights are still cheaper overall, but it does happen.
There are limited options for dealing with lousy cyclists (and I say this as a cyclist).
1) Enforce the rules. This basically requires bike cops (to catch the bad cyclists) and many people would rather see them enforcing other rules. 2) Publicity campaign. If the bad apples don't care about perception, this doesn't help.
Around here you're allowed to ride two abreast (presumably so two cyclists can ride together and talk with each other) but you can't go three abreast. You're also supposed to ride on the road rather than the sidewalk, and "...as close as is reasonably practicable to the right hand curb..."
If you've got panel controller chips designed for 1080p, there's a good chance they can be made to work with a laptop display or a huge tv display. There's relatively little demand for a controller chip that can do 1920x1200.
Part of the whole Bluray spec was that they would only allow manufacturers to include component out for X number of years. I think composite out is still allowed, but I could be wrong on that.
I actually gave my Bluray player to a relative who had a nice older LCD TV with no digital inputs because my player was old enough to have component out.
If the speed of light means that you need to physically have a compute in the exchange to react in time, is that information really "public" in the larger sense?
To me, "public" information means that joe trader sitting at home has access to it.
If a general contractor takes in 100K to build a house, but the vast majority of that is actually in materials cost, why should the town get a percentage of the cost of the supplies? And how do you prevent double-dipping, where they get a cut of the cost of the supplies from the general contractor, and the building company, and the lumber yard, and the wholesaler...
1) Rewards. Yes, this currently means that everyone is subsidizing the guys using high-rewards credit cards, because the merchants pass on the fees to everyone. 2) Extended warranty. (I've gotten hundreds of dollars of value from this alone.) 3) Price protection. 4) Some places really prefer credit cards (car rental companies, for example, or gas stations that want to pre-charge you for a fill so you can't run off without paying). 5) Ease of contesting charges. The credit card company will refund your money and go after the vendor to sort things out.
As for fees, there are many credit cards with no fees to the end-user.
I fully believe that much of both law and software development could be done by sufficiently smart AI. As for media, we've already got software composing music and visual art "in the style of" human masters.
What is harder to see is that nearly everyone else in the society is some fractional percent wealthier. The automobile saved people time, which is why it replaced the horse. People who spend less time unproductively can create additional wealth for the rest of society to benefit from.
That assumes that the people that are out of a job can actually find something useful to do somewhere else. Not everyone can be a computer programmer or an engineer. Some fraction of the population has always been suited mainly for menial work--so what do those people do when all the menial work is being done by robots? And as robots become more and more capable, there are fewer and fewer jobs that can only be done by people. (And what about someone who is 60 and gets fired from their menial job. Many aren't going to be able to go back and retrain for a high-tech job.)
Sure, if we cut the population way back you could have everyone living ridiculously opulent lives....but I suspect it's more likely that the population will continue to increase and we'll have welfare slums for the people that can't (or won't) do the high-end jobs.
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I live in the Canadian prairies. The nearest large cities are 5hrs, 7hrs, and 9hrs drive away. If I could sleep or read or watch movies during that time, it'd be *awesome*.
And even better, *any* vehicle could become an emergency vehicle by broadcasting an emergency code and all the other vehicles would automatically get out of their way. This would presumably be logged and tracked, to minimize abuse of the system.
but let them go through otherwise.
As long as they're claiming "better than nothing" and not "as good as an avalanche beacon!" then I have no real problem with it.
so they were not allowed to take them
I live in the Canadian prairies, and I've seen traffic lights covered in snow because there wasn't enough heat to melt them. The city had to send out crews to clean the lights off.
It doesn't happen often, and the LED lights are still cheaper overall, but it does happen.
If the car can drive itself with nobody in it, then it can drive itself home or to a parking lot somewhere.
There are limited options for dealing with lousy cyclists (and I say this as a cyclist).
1) Enforce the rules. This basically requires bike cops (to catch the bad cyclists) and many people would rather see them enforcing other rules.
2) Publicity campaign. If the bad apples don't care about perception, this doesn't help.
Around here you're allowed to ride two abreast (presumably so two cyclists can ride together and talk with each other) but you can't go three abreast. You're also supposed to ride on the road rather than the sidewalk, and "...as close as is reasonably practicable to the right hand curb..."
If you've got panel controller chips designed for 1080p, there's a good chance they can be made to work with a laptop display or a huge tv display. There's relatively little demand for a controller chip that can do 1920x1200.
I'd love to have a 48" 4K computer monitor. Put it an arm's length away and it'd be like four 1080p monitors with no space in between them.
I want it for coding. Much lower performance requirements.
Part of the whole Bluray spec was that they would only allow manufacturers to include component out for X number of years. I think composite out is still allowed, but I could be wrong on that.
I actually gave my Bluray player to a relative who had a nice older LCD TV with no digital inputs because my player was old enough to have component out.
Single-payer seems to work just fine for other countries...
I worked TV tech support one summer and had a guy call in because his TV wasn't working during a power outage. I was just stunned...
If you freeze a movie frame shot at 24fps you'll see that moving objects are blurry. And in a fast pan it still looks anything but fluid.
If the speed of light means that you need to physically have a compute in the exchange to react in time, is that information really "public" in the larger sense?
To me, "public" information means that joe trader sitting at home has access to it.
If a general contractor takes in 100K to build a house, but the vast majority of that is actually in materials cost, why should the town get a percentage of the cost of the supplies? And how do you prevent double-dipping, where they get a cut of the cost of the supplies from the general contractor, and the building company, and the lumber yard, and the wholesaler...
If you need a cancer drug, you don't have much choice.
Since they make money on the financing deals, they're actually happier if you finance the car than if you buy it outright.
1) Rewards. Yes, this currently means that everyone is subsidizing the guys using high-rewards credit cards, because the merchants pass on the fees to everyone.
2) Extended warranty. (I've gotten hundreds of dollars of value from this alone.)
3) Price protection.
4) Some places really prefer credit cards (car rental companies, for example, or gas stations that want to pre-charge you for a fill so you can't run off without paying).
5) Ease of contesting charges. The credit card company will refund your money and go after the vendor to sort things out.
As for fees, there are many credit cards with no fees to the end-user.
it's called Interac e-Transfer
It's not free, though.
so if your bank lets paypal deduct money for free (mine does) then this should be free too.
If your bank is charging for electronic transactions like this, find a better bank.
Reheated coffee is suitable only when there are no more fresh beans available.
I fully believe that much of both law and software development could be done by sufficiently smart AI. As for media, we've already got software composing music and visual art "in the style of" human masters.
What is harder to see is that nearly everyone else in the society is some fractional percent wealthier. The automobile saved people time, which is why it replaced the horse. People who spend less time unproductively can create additional wealth for the rest of society to benefit from.
That assumes that the people that are out of a job can actually find something useful to do somewhere else. Not everyone can be a computer programmer or an engineer. Some fraction of the population has always been suited mainly for menial work--so what do those people do when all the menial work is being done by robots? And as robots become more and more capable, there are fewer and fewer jobs that can only be done by people. (And what about someone who is 60 and gets fired from their menial job. Many aren't going to be able to go back and retrain for a high-tech job.)
Sure, if we cut the population way back you could have everyone living ridiculously opulent lives....but I suspect it's more likely that the population will continue to increase and we'll have welfare slums for the people that can't (or won't) do the high-end jobs.