Except when there is ONE of the following standing in front of the screen:
-Someone who doesn't read English.
-An elderly person.
-Someone who doesn't eat there often.
-A family with kids running around when the parent is trying to enter everything.
-A person with a special request ("No pickles.").
-A person with cash.
-A person with a flaky credit card account (I'm looking at you, Capital One!).
-A person who's blind.
-A person who can't use their hands.
-A person who's too short.
I assume these situations occur frequently; and these are just off the top of my head. It takes 3 SECONDS for me to say "Can I have a #3 with a Coke to go, please?" (Yes, walking in is often faster than the drive-through.) I go to a fast food place for fast food. If things are slowing me down, I will go elsewhere...in 3 seconds.
I thank you for your considered posts (I'm not the AC). As a radio implementer for decades, I long theorized that the superposition principle could explain how non-ionizing radiation could do damage, where billions of "radio waves" (plus their reflections and secondary RF sources) could strike a single atom in a DNA strand, at the same instant. I recognize the overall improbability (even with the constant transmitting), but I don't see how the atom could be impervious such a happenstance.
Interesting. In the 1970s (Midwest), the standard soda 8-pack consisted of 16 ounce glass bottles. My first job involved handling the empties returned for refund/refill. That used-bottle idea would probably sound shocking to kids today.
Yeah, the McDonalds two blocks from our industrial park is attempting this as of last week.
There was no one at the counter and a girl escorted me from the front door to the large touchscreen. She punched my order in for me and I noticed the credit card reader attached to the screen when I mentioned I had cash. She printed a receipt, gave it to me to take to the normal counter where I saw another girl to pay her. I told them "This is not faster..." They apologized to which I said that I understand they have to do what the boss says.
They have been pushing touchscreens for YEARS at different locations, but they don't ever "stick"; it obviously isn't more streamlined than counter-ordering where the employee knows exactly where the right buttons are. One senior citizen, child who's too short, person who can't read English, person who doesn't visit frequently or order for "no ketchup" and the entire lunch-rush line suffers.
I go to McDonalds primarily because it's fast food. If that line grows, I'll go elsewhere.
Fifty fears from now, imagine space aliens come to earth with our satellite, and ask us to play for them what's on the records. We look around, but, embarrassed, can't find a turntable.
And therein lies the answer to this entire thread: Boot the illegal immigrants out (as mandated by law) and the low-skilled Americans can take such jobs, forcing the overall pay to increase due to the dwindled labor supply. You may mod this post as trolling if you find it distasteful, but this is simple economics.
Heh, I still use the 5-year old browser (v12.14) as my main surfing tool ('using it to post this). Alas, it has trouble with more and more websites as time goes on, forcing me to bail on the website (and somehow I still live!) or temporarily switch to some modern tab-based browser the hipsters use.:)
A while ago I read and enjoyed "On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise And Fall Of Commodore" by Brian Bagnall. He interviewed folks there, etc., to write a history of what went wrong. If I recall, it could be summed up as poor management and an eventual disinterest in running a technical company by the higher manager(s) (i.e., greed only).
1) Cost. $600 a year is $1000 pre-tax, which is $10,000 per decade (or a cheap, new car).
2) Cancer. Disagree if you are ignorant to the superposition principle and how it can affect your DNA.
3) Theft. Some people have gotten killed over them.
4) Loss. Some don't need another thing to worry about.
5) Effort. Did I charge its battery? Did I pay my bill this month? Was the bill correct? Did someone steal my information? Did I go beyond my data plan? Have the rates gone up again?
6) Damage. It's easily broken if just dropped.
7) Tracking. Many are tracking its location and use.
8) Need. It doesn't fit my life in any way, but I guess I'll endure the above because everyone else believes I should have one for my tiny commute.
It's the incredibly deep shame felt regarding "the greatest country on earth" being the primary source of the most horrifying acts in recorded human history.
The Waymo car was up at the start of the cones, and it couldn't interpret what the workers were doing and couldn't figure out how to merge-right.
Ad infinitum...
The delirious, ignorant enthusiasm for autonomous vehicles ("Look mom, no steering wheel!") has been rolling over common sense, particularly on this website. There is an INFINITE number of "unusual" situations that a driver will encounter, situations that a human can easily comprehend. In fact, I started writing these down about 2 years ago just to see; I experienced about one abnormal situation per month during my short commute of several miles.
There was another thread on Slashdot discussing whether an autonomous vehicle (AV) would drive over a tree branch in the road. This is a great point because it is SO subjective: How large is the tree branch? Can my car clear it? Is it the kind of branch that will up-end under my car and get stuck? Can the AV even estimate the tree branches' density due to the leaves? A human can make a good guess. An AV will be baffled by such a decision, no matter how much programming. Want a real-life example? There was a big storm that rolled through my town; afterward, there were branches down all over the place. On one street, where there are no trees near the road, what do you think this branch I saw really was? A downed power line - I turned the car around.
As a firmware developer, I predict that these will be forced onto the road/us before they're ready, because I think they can never be ready. I predict this will slow all but highway traffic as the software engineers and car manufacturers use our daily commutes, and lives, has their own personal test beds.
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Imagine being a part of THIS 1%. Women. Everywhere.
I'm starting to like this climate change thing.
Or "how he stopped worrying..."
Everything is just 'thuper!
Except when there is ONE of the following standing in front of the screen:
-Someone who doesn't read English.
-An elderly person.
-Someone who doesn't eat there often.
-A family with kids running around when the parent is trying to enter everything.
-A person with a special request ("No pickles.").
-A person with cash.
-A person with a flaky credit card account (I'm looking at you, Capital One!).
-A person who's blind.
-A person who can't use their hands.
-A person who's too short.
I assume these situations occur frequently; and these are just off the top of my head. It takes 3 SECONDS for me to say "Can I have a #3 with a Coke to go, please?" (Yes, walking in is often faster than the drive-through.) I go to a fast food place for fast food. If things are slowing me down, I will go elsewhere...in 3 seconds.
If you start prosecuting every crime committed, you're doing to need bigger prisons.
Then let's build them. I don't think it's absurd to enforce the laws the citizenry enacted.
Yes but I always forget to pack the whiteboard in the morning...
You could snap a photo of it with your cell phone...
How is this (albeit malfunctioning) technology any different than a cop standing at the airport, scanning the crowd with his eyes?
I thank you for your considered posts (I'm not the AC). As a radio implementer for decades, I long theorized that the superposition principle could explain how non-ionizing radiation could do damage, where billions of "radio waves" (plus their reflections and secondary RF sources) could strike a single atom in a DNA strand, at the same instant. I recognize the overall improbability (even with the constant transmitting), but I don't see how the atom could be impervious such a happenstance.
Interesting. In the 1970s (Midwest), the standard soda 8-pack consisted of 16 ounce glass bottles. My first job involved handling the empties returned for refund/refill. That used-bottle idea would probably sound shocking to kids today.
...sand monkeys...
Were they the ones on Tatooine?
Yeah, the McDonalds two blocks from our industrial park is attempting this as of last week.
There was no one at the counter and a girl escorted me from the front door to the large touchscreen. She punched my order in for me and I noticed the credit card reader attached to the screen when I mentioned I had cash. She printed a receipt, gave it to me to take to the normal counter where I saw another girl to pay her. I told them "This is not faster..." They apologized to which I said that I understand they have to do what the boss says.
They have been pushing touchscreens for YEARS at different locations, but they don't ever "stick"; it obviously isn't more streamlined than counter-ordering where the employee knows exactly where the right buttons are. One senior citizen, child who's too short, person who can't read English, person who doesn't visit frequently or order for "no ketchup" and the entire lunch-rush line suffers.
I go to McDonalds primarily because it's fast food. If that line grows, I'll go elsewhere.
"Gee, a construction cone is out of place, 'better slow down..."
"Gee, a plastic bag blew into the road, 'better stop..."
I predict these cities will have the slowest traffic in the country.
Fifty fears from now, imagine space aliens come to earth with our satellite, and ask us to play for them what's on the records. We look around, but, embarrassed, can't find a turntable.
And therein lies the answer to this entire thread: Boot the illegal immigrants out (as mandated by law) and the low-skilled Americans can take such jobs, forcing the overall pay to increase due to the dwindled labor supply. You may mod this post as trolling if you find it distasteful, but this is simple economics.
Heh, I still use the 5-year old browser (v12.14) as my main surfing tool ('using it to post this). Alas, it has trouble with more and more websites as time goes on, forcing me to bail on the website (and somehow I still live!) or temporarily switch to some modern tab-based browser the hipsters use. :)
Isn't it funny how the bigger companies seem to just "know better" than the rest of the Internet engineers?
But did she blend?
I hope your loved ones don't get harmed by this newfound laziness hiding behind flashy, imperfect technology.
A while ago I read and enjoyed "On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise And Fall Of Commodore" by Brian Bagnall. He interviewed folks there, etc., to write a history of what went wrong. If I recall, it could be summed up as poor management and an eventual disinterest in running a technical company by the higher manager(s) (i.e., greed only).
1) Cost. $600 a year is $1000 pre-tax, which is $10,000 per decade (or a cheap, new car).
2) Cancer. Disagree if you are ignorant to the superposition principle and how it can affect your DNA.
3) Theft. Some people have gotten killed over them.
4) Loss. Some don't need another thing to worry about.
5) Effort. Did I charge its battery? Did I pay my bill this month? Was the bill correct? Did someone steal my information? Did I go beyond my data plan? Have the rates gone up again?
6) Damage. It's easily broken if just dropped.
7) Tracking. Many are tracking its location and use.
8) Need. It doesn't fit my life in any way, but I guess I'll endure the above because everyone else believes I should have one for my tiny commute.
It's the incredibly deep shame felt regarding "the greatest country on earth" being the primary source of the most horrifying acts in recorded human history.
The holocaust?
Whoosh...
And kudos to the parent poster.
The Waymo car was up at the start of the cones, and it couldn't interpret what the workers were doing and couldn't figure out how to merge-right.
Ad infinitum...
The delirious, ignorant enthusiasm for autonomous vehicles ("Look mom, no steering wheel!") has been rolling over common sense, particularly on this website. There is an INFINITE number of "unusual" situations that a driver will encounter, situations that a human can easily comprehend. In fact, I started writing these down about 2 years ago just to see; I experienced about one abnormal situation per month during my short commute of several miles.
There was another thread on Slashdot discussing whether an autonomous vehicle (AV) would drive over a tree branch in the road. This is a great point because it is SO subjective: How large is the tree branch? Can my car clear it? Is it the kind of branch that will up-end under my car and get stuck? Can the AV even estimate the tree branches' density due to the leaves? A human can make a good guess. An AV will be baffled by such a decision, no matter how much programming. Want a real-life example? There was a big storm that rolled through my town; afterward, there were branches down all over the place. On one street, where there are no trees near the road, what do you think this branch I saw really was? A downed power line - I turned the car around.
As a firmware developer, I predict that these will be forced onto the road/us before they're ready, because I think they can never be ready. I predict this will slow all but highway traffic as the software engineers and car manufacturers use our daily commutes, and lives, has their own personal test beds.
"You're going the wrong way!!!"
I admit this crossed my mind.
Just give me a bucket of paint and a 1980s' mix tape for a montage.