The Volvo will have rear-facing cameras for pyroclastic flow detection and in the event one is seen approaching the vehicle, the speed limiter is lifted.
I'd suggest you take more care with your wording. "Institutionalized" means there is something codified within an institution, For example, if there were a police procedure document that states "Always pull your gun on black men during traffic stops". There is no such thing. In fact, our institutions attempt to suppress racist tendencies with their official procedures. The problem is that cops are still human and, without sufficient training, they remain the unwitting racists all of us were born to be. There has been much research over the last few decades that makes clear that humans are associative machines. We make assumptions, biases and generalizations at a sub-conscious level and react to those biases before we even have a chance for our higher-level reasoning abilities to tell us "Calm down, this black man means you no harm". All of us could use better training to counter our natural racist instincts.
But it was not one Dane who set an example, it was all (or most) of them. The larger group is the entity with real power. I could not even rely on my own family to set the proper example on some issues, unfortunately. For that matter, I'm not sure I've changed any of their minds either. I've no experience as a salesman.
IBM CEO Ginny Rometty gives speeches at Fintech conferences all the time. They are available on YouTube. One oft-repeated phrase: "Blockchain will do for transactions what the internet did for information". BitCoin had no buy-in from large multinationals or any governments, yet, it was successful. These new business-friendly blockchain implementations absolutely DO.
I am still on 1st gen MotoG. I got the 16MB model but it is nearly unusable. To upgrade the phone, I need to upgrade the plan which will cost an extra $60/year with Republic Wireless. Grrrr.
Workers in 3rd world countries have few wage earning opportunities. This depresses wages and also makes it possible for companies to find workers to disassemble obsolete electronics at a (very) small profit and recycle any parts that have value. Personally, I think this work should be done in the 1st world countries where the obsolete products are disassembled by robots and in adherence with the strict environmental standards of those countries. Part of the attractiveness of sending those electronics to poor countries, in addition to low wages, are the lack of environmental protections.
And which of those class of ailments is more common? Having a campaign against homeopathy may be throwing the baby out with the bath water. But yes, I agree, cancer needs real Dr.s and real medicine.
This makes no sense. It has been proven that placebos work when people think they are getting "real" medicine. I personally do not believe in homeopathic remedies but, if other people do, I would expect those "treatments" to have efficacy for them beyond taking no treatment at all!
This nice thing about the old 72mhz and newer DSM-based RC control schemes is that they have really, really low latency. There was no need for encryption in the good old days. But now, we have high-speed, low power chips that could handle encryption on both ends of the data stream without too much extra latency. There is not a great deal of data that needs to be moved so, the load on the encrypt-er and the fattening of the data pipe should be modest.
I modded you insightful for the article reference and this reply will remove that. Sorry, but the article was exceptionally long. Dude must be getting paid by the word! Also, it neglected to make any mention of bitcoin, distributed ledger or blockchain technology.
Apple and other financial industry players wanting to supplant cash is a DEFENSIVE movement against the rise of open-source digital currencies like bitcoin. https://www.hyperledger.org/
Government-backed pieces of paper will no longer be needed for "the people" to be able to transfer value between each other, in private. "blockchain will do for money what the internet did for information". Governments and financial institutions are quite worried that they will lose control and will no longer benefit from acting as the middle man in all these transactions. Personally, that is a little scary to me because I believe governments provide much needed regulation. I wonder if the modern Mafia uses blockchain... this should be a terrifying prospect. The lack of trust relationships between parties engaged in criminal enterprises is a big advantage from the perspective of law-abiding citizens and law enforcement. Distributed ledgers like bitcoin could help them with that trust relationship.
Well, I guess you've never bought bulbs from "Feit electric". I am a cheapskate and so, I've gone with the lowest-cost brand (Feit). Both their CFs AND LEDs fail after not much time. Mystery to me how they remain in business.
You may be right. But evolution requires there to be selection pressure. Does such pressure exist today? Any human living in a Western democracy can have offspring without worry of the birth canal being too narrow; one or more members of the family being eaten by wolves; Diseases; I mean, the environment in which modern humans presently exist is just so radically different from that which nearly _ALL _ our ancestors evolved in. Maybe evolution is over!
Maybe you are imagining a future where selection pressure returns - the earth scorches and only those living off-planet survive. But those surviving humans will not have physical characteristics that are well-adapted to their new environment because there were not thousands of years of evolution to mold them. They will simply have brains that contain the memes (thoughts, skills, behavior) that were needed to get them off-planet. Personally, I cannot imagine a catastrophe on earth that would make ANY known place in the universe an improvement!
Cute comment, but, it masks the reality - modern humans were molded by the force of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to be well adapted to tribal life here on Earth. Not only should we NOT leave earth, we should seriously re-consider the radical departure we've made in the last few hundred years from the tribal life 99% of our ancestors experienced to the bizarre un-reality we all experience as "normal" today. I am becoming a conservative at the evolutionary-time scale.
Umm, the DJI phantom is a modern consumer level drone and makes extensive use of machine vision to avoid obstacles and receive gesture commands from the "pilot". Some claim that Iran spoofed US drone GPS a few years ago. I imagine current military drones are making extensive use of on-board optical sensors for things like horizon detection and target acquisition. Hell, with an accurate on-board clock, the aircraft could determine good-enough position using celestial bodies! This tech is dirt-cheap by military standards. You can buy pitot-tube speed sensor for your hobby aircraft along with very accurate barometer for altitude. This microwave thing sounds pretty pathetic. Communication of any kind will be a "Nice to have" feature in military drones but, completely unnecessary thanks to modern machine vision.
GAH! I just wrote a long reply disagreeing with your assertion that wireless connection to PC is the future. Then I changed from html to text option and it pissed away my response. Anyway, check http://www.movidius.com/ Gyro-based positional detection is going away. It will switch to image-based. That is some graphics processing being done on the HMD. There will be "synergies" when the display processor is also moved onto the HMD. Got to shorten runs on the bus - just like in the good old days on a PC. Having to be connected to a separate graphics processor is not the direction the industry is leaning towards and consumers will always prefer a simple HMD setup if it can get the job done - and it will, as incremental improvements continue to be made. Note that we already have HMDs. Current usage of wireless transfers of HD video are limited to places where some latency is acceptable (drones) and where wires are not possible.
I am not sure what country that image is from but, Those people are not living like rats! Notice the fishing nets and boats. They are "self-actualized". Also, they are a step up from the hunter/gatherers that most humans have been since we started walking the earth.
Also note that "poverty" levels seems to be correlated with happiness :
http://www.livescience.com/502...
But, from a political perspective, I agree with you - we need to bring production local again.
Those people are not living like rats! Those look like some pretty nice tents.
I just bought a tent for my family and I and plan to use it in the woods. But Downtown Portland would be nice too as there are many more cultural events to see and better food than I could cook over the campfire.
Not sure I could get the Wife and kids on board with urban camping but, that sounds like an awesome vacation to me!
I notice you left out the part about GMOs:
http://www.jill2016.com/plan
"Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe."
This is not smart thinking - it is reactionary fear-of-science ideology.
I am an environmentalist but there is too much bleeding-heart, hippie baggage with Stein.
What makes you think you need home owners insurance? You don't!...unless, that is, you do not own your home and it's the bank that is requiring you hold insurance.
Another example - I have tenants. They do not pay home insurance. They purchase a housing service from me. The bank is a lien holder on that property, so, they require I keep it insured. I could probably drop the insurance if I owned the property outright.
OTOH, being a landlord does incur additional liability, so, I should probably keep my umbrella policy.
With self-driving cars, I do not plan to own one. I will rent the transportation service as needed and let someone else pay to insure it.
Think Uber without the drivers.
A house only makes good financial sense if the value appreciates at a rate = or GT inflation. Cars depreciate quickly. It is very expensive to own one.
You are going to see MUCH better value paying for transportation service on an ad-hoc basis because those rented vehicles will be well utilized rather than spending most of the time in your parking lot or garage depreciating.
You are the one that brought up firewall and authenticating to another companies servers. You were right to mention those because they are a crucial part of this discussion.
How are you going to control your thermostat remotely without a connection (a secure one) ?
" real estate agent keeping the keys to your house." is not a fair comparison. It is a tortured metaphor, designed to persuade. I am not persuaded.
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The Volvo will have rear-facing cameras for pyroclastic flow detection and in the event one is seen approaching the vehicle, the speed limiter is lifted.
I'd suggest you take more care with your wording.
"Institutionalized" means there is something codified within an institution, For example, if there were a police procedure document that states "Always pull your gun on black men during traffic stops". There is no such thing. In fact, our institutions attempt to suppress racist tendencies with their official procedures. The problem is that cops are still human and, without sufficient training, they remain the unwitting racists all of us were born to be.
There has been much research over the last few decades that makes clear that humans are associative machines. We make assumptions, biases and generalizations at a sub-conscious level and react to those biases before we even have a chance for our higher-level reasoning abilities to tell us "Calm down, this black man means you no harm".
All of us could use better training to counter our natural racist instincts.
But it was not one Dane who set an example, it was all (or most) of them. The larger group is the entity with real power.
I could not even rely on my own family to set the proper example on some issues, unfortunately.
For that matter, I'm not sure I've changed any of their minds either. I've no experience as a salesman.
Another linguist explaining these kinds of techniques:
https://georgelakoff.com/2016/...
I've always been a free-speech supporter but, many people have no intellectual defense against these attacks on their minds.
Sorry to bring up politics. It's just the most available example.
...you stop aging in it's tracks.
IBM CEO Ginny Rometty gives speeches at Fintech conferences all the time. They are available on YouTube. One oft-repeated phrase:
"Blockchain will do for transactions what the internet did for information".
BitCoin had no buy-in from large multinationals or any governments, yet, it was successful. These new business-friendly blockchain implementations absolutely DO.
I am still on 1st gen MotoG. I got the 16MB model but it is nearly unusable.
To upgrade the phone, I need to upgrade the plan which will cost an extra $60/year with Republic Wireless. Grrrr.
Workers in 3rd world countries have few wage earning opportunities. This depresses wages and also makes it possible for companies to find workers to disassemble obsolete electronics at a (very) small profit and recycle any parts that have value.
Personally, I think this work should be done in the 1st world countries where the obsolete products are disassembled by robots and in adherence with the strict environmental standards of those countries.
Part of the attractiveness of sending those electronics to poor countries, in addition to low wages, are the lack of environmental protections.
...was already powered by Smug?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...!
And which of those class of ailments is more common?
Having a campaign against homeopathy may be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But yes, I agree, cancer needs real Dr.s and real medicine.
This makes no sense. It has been proven that placebos work when people think they are getting "real" medicine.
I personally do not believe in homeopathic remedies but, if other people do, I would expect those "treatments" to have efficacy for them beyond taking no treatment at all!
This nice thing about the old 72mhz and newer DSM-based RC control schemes is that they have really, really low latency. There was no need for encryption in the good old days. But now, we have high-speed, low power chips that could handle encryption on both ends of the data stream without too much extra latency. There is not a great deal of data that needs to be moved so, the load on the encrypt-er and the fattening of the data pipe should be modest.
I modded you insightful for the article reference and this reply will remove that. Sorry, but the article was exceptionally long. Dude must be getting paid by the word!
Also, it neglected to make any mention of bitcoin, distributed ledger or blockchain technology.
Apple and other financial industry players wanting to supplant cash is a DEFENSIVE movement against the rise of open-source digital currencies like bitcoin.
https://www.hyperledger.org/
Government-backed pieces of paper will no longer be needed for "the people" to be able to transfer value between each other, in private.
"blockchain will do for money what the internet did for information".
Governments and financial institutions are quite worried that they will lose control and will no longer benefit from acting as the middle man in all these transactions.
Personally, that is a little scary to me because I believe governments provide much needed regulation. I wonder if the modern Mafia uses blockchain... this should be a terrifying prospect. The lack of trust relationships between parties engaged in criminal enterprises is a big advantage from the perspective of law-abiding citizens and law enforcement. Distributed ledgers like bitcoin could help them with that trust relationship.
Well, I guess you've never bought bulbs from "Feit electric". I am a cheapskate and so, I've gone with the lowest-cost brand (Feit). Both their CFs AND LEDs fail after not much time. Mystery to me how they remain in business.
You may be right. But evolution requires there to be selection pressure. Does such pressure exist today? Any human living in a Western democracy can have offspring without worry of the birth canal being too narrow; one or more members of the family being eaten by wolves; Diseases; I mean, the environment in which modern humans presently exist is just so radically different from that which nearly _ALL _ our ancestors evolved in. Maybe evolution is over!
Maybe you are imagining a future where selection pressure returns - the earth scorches and only those living off-planet survive. But those surviving humans will not have physical characteristics that are well-adapted to their new environment because there were not thousands of years of evolution to mold them.
They will simply have brains that contain the memes (thoughts, skills, behavior) that were needed to get them off-planet.
Personally, I cannot imagine a catastrophe on earth that would make ANY known place in the universe an improvement!
Cute comment, but, it masks the reality - modern humans were molded by the force of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to be well adapted to tribal life here on Earth. Not only should we NOT leave earth, we should seriously re-consider the radical departure we've made in the last few hundred years from the tribal life 99% of our ancestors experienced to the bizarre un-reality we all experience as "normal" today.
I am becoming a conservative at the evolutionary-time scale.
Umm, the DJI phantom is a modern consumer level drone and makes extensive use of machine vision to avoid obstacles and receive gesture commands from the "pilot". Some claim that Iran spoofed US drone GPS a few years ago. I imagine current military drones are making extensive use of on-board optical sensors for things like horizon detection and target acquisition. Hell, with an accurate on-board clock, the aircraft could determine good-enough position using celestial bodies!
This tech is dirt-cheap by military standards. You can buy pitot-tube speed sensor for your hobby aircraft along with very accurate barometer for altitude. This microwave thing sounds pretty pathetic. Communication of any kind will be a "Nice to have" feature in military drones but, completely unnecessary thanks to modern machine vision.
GAH! I just wrote a long reply disagreeing with your assertion that wireless connection to PC is the future.
Then I changed from html to text option and it pissed away my response.
Anyway, check http://www.movidius.com/ Gyro-based positional detection is going away. It will switch to image-based. That is some graphics processing being done on the HMD. There will be "synergies" when the display processor is also moved onto the HMD. Got to shorten runs on the bus - just like in the good old days on a PC.
Having to be connected to a separate graphics processor is not the direction the industry is leaning towards and consumers will always prefer a simple HMD setup if it can get the job done - and it will, as incremental improvements continue to be made.
Note that we already have HMDs. Current usage of wireless transfers of HD video are limited to places where some latency is acceptable (drones) and where wires are not possible.
buy coal in to run it.???
The problem is similar: blahblahblah
Nonsense!
I am not sure what country that image is from but, Those people are not living like rats! Notice the fishing nets and boats. They are "self-actualized". Also, they are a step up from the hunter/gatherers that most humans have been since we started walking the earth. Also note that "poverty" levels seems to be correlated with happiness : http://www.livescience.com/502... But, from a political perspective, I agree with you - we need to bring production local again.
Those people are not living like rats! Those look like some pretty nice tents. I just bought a tent for my family and I and plan to use it in the woods. But Downtown Portland would be nice too as there are many more cultural events to see and better food than I could cook over the campfire. Not sure I could get the Wife and kids on board with urban camping but, that sounds like an awesome vacation to me!
I notice you left out the part about GMOs: http://www.jill2016.com/plan "Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe." This is not smart thinking - it is reactionary fear-of-science ideology. I am an environmentalist but there is too much bleeding-heart, hippie baggage with Stein.
What makes you think you need home owners insurance? You don't! ...unless, that is, you do not own your home and it's the bank that is requiring you hold insurance.
Another example - I have tenants. They do not pay home insurance. They purchase a housing service from me. The bank is a lien holder on that property, so, they require I keep it insured. I could probably drop the insurance if I owned the property outright. OTOH, being a landlord does incur additional liability, so, I should probably keep my umbrella policy.
With self-driving cars, I do not plan to own one. I will rent the transportation service as needed and let someone else pay to insure it. Think Uber without the drivers.
A house only makes good financial sense if the value appreciates at a rate = or GT inflation. Cars depreciate quickly. It is very expensive to own one. You are going to see MUCH better value paying for transportation service on an ad-hoc basis because those rented vehicles will be well utilized rather than spending most of the time in your parking lot or garage depreciating.
Site: ACME Jet Propulsion Lab, Utah branch.
Lab technician : "Hey Barry, WarJolt from the internet says we'd better have fire extinguishers"
Other tech Barry : "OK, hold on a sec..."
You are the one that brought up firewall and authenticating to another companies servers. You were right to mention those because they are a crucial part of this discussion. How are you going to control your thermostat remotely without a connection (a secure one) ? " real estate agent keeping the keys to your house." is not a fair comparison. It is a tortured metaphor, designed to persuade. I am not persuaded.