We played games coded in BASIC that we had to read into the timesharing system off punched paper tape. The system had no program storage facility for our accounts, so we had to read it on off spools of paper tape on the ASR-33 teletypes, at 10 characters per second. No lower case, and printing the grid patterns for the zones in Star Trek was noisy and took time.
I had played through all the levels of Wolfenstein 3D by the time Doom came out, and I played all of Doom too, of course but it wasn't anything I hadn't already played a lot. That was the era when there were a pretty good number of maze FPS games out. My favorite was Heretic, which had more of a fantasy/magical than a militaristic theme going for it.
Doom really wasn't anything new from Wolf 3D so I didn't notice that much about it. I was given the full version of Wolf 3D on floppy disks by a lover; she was actually a Mac head at the time but had a PC for games.
This is just a science-fiction what-if topic. Nerds love this sort of thing. This is a centre of nerds on the Internet. Also, nerds are easily offended by people who tell them to 'get a life.'
The attraction of ditching car payments, insurance payments and the whole parking mess will just be too irresistible for ordinary people
I am not that out-of-the-ordinary, and my last car payment ($250/mo for five years) was about five years ago. Insurance is still a cost, a few hundred a year for our dual car household. We have two driveways to park in at home and both work in places with a parking lot.
So all the 'solutions' that haven't worked for traffic congestion with our present vehicles will magically become attractive in the new era of self driving cars? Even though they have nothing to do with the implementation of self driving cars?
Perhaps those changes can be forced on society by the 'Clogged Highways' mentioned in the original article. But it won't be a magic process.
When the car that is dispatched to you is full of puke or garbage or blood from the last passenger, what will be the mechanism to refuse it and request another? Will that be possible without being billed double?
Are you kidding? The old cars from the 50's and 60's didn't even have six digit odometers, because it was an oddity for a car's odometer to roll over 100,000 miles. And carburetors required regular tuneups and attention. The gas station attendant would check your oil because it was much more important to maintain your oil level.
Today, I have an inexpensive (it was $15k with zero% interest) 2006 model light truck with over 170,000 miles on it and I'm actually pretty irresponsible about watching my oil level, and I've never had my truck in for a tuneup.
People are nostalgic about old cars, because the only 'old' cars still on the road are the rather exceptional ones from back then. The more typical lemons almost everybody drove are all crushed and recycled.
Imagine cities where only autonomous cars are allowed........The real problem becomes pedestrians.
I imagine with all the zooming around, we can simply do away with pedestrians. Certainly anybody who can't afford an autonomous car can be safely stored in a compound somewhere. There are so many places for the autonomous cars to soar around! Why would anybody ever exit their vehicle!?!
Oh, please. This is nothing new. For years, for example, that guy who wrote that Cryptography* book has been referred to here as a 'Security Expert,' when he wrote the book more like a science populist or journalist. We're nerds, and more welcoming of opinions that are far from 'expert' than any 'True Professional' (or True Scotsman) would ever want.
(*had to go scan the bookshelf to find the name- that guy named Schneier who launched a career off that book)
I wouldn't be too certain that anything that affords teenagers the ability to behave even more irresponsibly without consequence is a good thing. Teens are creative and will find new ways to make lunging around the city without consequence horrendous for the rest of us.
Yes, puking teens, do get off my lawn, and don't think we haven't jotted down your vehicle number before you got away.
There will be some interesting technical challenges here. The self-driving lanes will need to prevent non-self-driving vehicles from entering them, but also have an easy mechanism for the self-driving vehicles to exit the lanes into regular driving zones. Self driving vehicles won't be able to just shoot out of those lanes into regular traffic in an immediate fashion. And regular cars will have to be prevented from entering said lanes arbitrarily, with more than just 'laws' prohibiting them. Unless there are mandatory retrofits on the regular cars that make it impossible for them to traverse over to the special self driving lanes, there are some limits to how the big streams of self driving cars can maneuver.
It will be interesting wether the trust and reliability will ever reach the point where a single autonomous vehicle will ever be safe enough to just fall asleep and expect to wake at your arrival point. With piloted mass transit vehicles this is possible because there is an attendant and/or security measure in place.
With individual vehicles, unless a lot of freedom is given up with regard to travel options, it's easy to expect there will be risks and uncertainties. Where might you wake up indeed?
Only if self driving cars have been made mandatory and the only vehicles on the road are self driving. Otherwise the efficiencies will be eaten up by compromises with human driven cars.
Stupid bubbas paw all over interesting stuff and bring in an 'expert' who is just a guy they play poker with who hoards whatever the item is in their barn so are 'experts' on whatever it is.
The Antiques Road Show made at least a pretense of being something other than people ripping apart the historical record to make big bucks selling stuff to rich people in the cities.
Right now all that self-driving cars are clogging is our blogs and forums. It will be awhile before we know what they'll do in the real world. A variable, still to be determined 'awhile', mind you.
Where we live, our address wasn't even on the online mapping software until about six years ago. I'm not that expectant that a 'self driving car' will figure everything out immediately. Though I suppose they will 'learn' obscure locations by one or two manual drives there in 'learn mode.'
Sadly, that's just a tendency still, not that much of an accomplishment. Freedom from govt. tyranny is something many people have striven for, and there is a long history of push-pull success and failure. The French tried around the same time 200 years ago as the USians and failed in a short while, where the Americans tried and sorta got it running. Many other places have succeeded to one degree or another. Nation states are not a good 'container' to capture the framework within to found freedom from government, so there's also always that dialectic going on.
The invention of the Laser Printer, so that computer operators (a drudge job) could relabel themselves 'IT' and push carts around the office with reams of paper and toner cartridges, while taking over the jobs of countless file clerks, etc.
Translation: The microprocessor? You're kidding. Turn off the main switch in the server room and go out of doors for a bit.
My wife was renewing her license at the DMV. A really, really old man bumped into a chair and begged it's pardon. He then walked up to the counter and renewed his driver's license.
My Raspberry Pi 3 uses a MicroSD card for it's main mass storage. All the Raspberry Pi's do that. It's really convenient in a classroom, because if a kid corrupts his filesystem, you pop out the SD and reimage it.
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We played games coded in BASIC that we had to read into the timesharing system off punched paper tape. The system had no program storage facility for our accounts, so we had to read it on off spools of paper tape on the ASR-33 teletypes, at 10 characters per second. No lower case, and printing the grid patterns for the zones in Star Trek was noisy and took time.
The modems were 110 baud.
I had played through all the levels of Wolfenstein 3D by the time Doom came out, and I played all of Doom too, of course but it wasn't anything I hadn't already played a lot. That was the era when there were a pretty good number of maze FPS games out. My favorite was Heretic, which had more of a fantasy/magical than a militaristic theme going for it.
Doom really wasn't anything new from Wolf 3D so I didn't notice that much about it. I was given the full version of Wolf 3D on floppy disks by a lover; she was actually a Mac head at the time but had a PC for games.
HAL only opens the cargo bay door if he thinks it would be the right thing to do.
This is just a science-fiction what-if topic. Nerds love this sort of thing. This is a centre of nerds on the Internet. Also, nerds are easily offended by people who tell them to 'get a life.'
I am not that out-of-the-ordinary, and my last car payment ($250/mo for five years) was about five years ago. Insurance is still a cost, a few hundred a year for our dual car household. We have two driveways to park in at home and both work in places with a parking lot.
So all the 'solutions' that haven't worked for traffic congestion with our present vehicles will magically become attractive in the new era of self driving cars? Even though they have nothing to do with the implementation of self driving cars?
Perhaps those changes can be forced on society by the 'Clogged Highways' mentioned in the original article. But it won't be a magic process.
When the car that is dispatched to you is full of puke or garbage or blood from the last passenger, what will be the mechanism to refuse it and request another? Will that be possible without being billed double?
Are you kidding? The old cars from the 50's and 60's didn't even have six digit odometers, because it was an oddity for a car's odometer to roll over 100,000 miles. And carburetors required regular tuneups and attention. The gas station attendant would check your oil because it was much more important to maintain your oil level.
Today, I have an inexpensive (it was $15k with zero% interest) 2006 model light truck with over 170,000 miles on it and I'm actually pretty irresponsible about watching my oil level, and I've never had my truck in for a tuneup.
People are nostalgic about old cars, because the only 'old' cars still on the road are the rather exceptional ones from back then. The more typical lemons almost everybody drove are all crushed and recycled.
I imagine with all the zooming around, we can simply do away with pedestrians. Certainly anybody who can't afford an autonomous car can be safely stored in a compound somewhere. There are so many places for the autonomous cars to soar around! Why would anybody ever exit their vehicle!?!
Oh, please. This is nothing new. For years, for example, that guy who wrote that Cryptography* book has been referred to here as a 'Security Expert,' when he wrote the book more like a science populist or journalist. We're nerds, and more welcoming of opinions that are far from 'expert' than any 'True Professional' (or True Scotsman) would ever want.
(*had to go scan the bookshelf to find the name- that guy named Schneier who launched a career off that book)
For the foreseeable future, the roads will be mixed use and the more efficient use of road infrastructure a mirage.
I wouldn't be too certain that anything that affords teenagers the ability to behave even more irresponsibly without consequence is a good thing. Teens are creative and will find new ways to make lunging around the city without consequence horrendous for the rest of us.
Yes, puking teens, do get off my lawn, and don't think we haven't jotted down your vehicle number before you got away.
There will be some interesting technical challenges here. The self-driving lanes will need to prevent non-self-driving vehicles from entering them, but also have an easy mechanism for the self-driving vehicles to exit the lanes into regular driving zones. Self driving vehicles won't be able to just shoot out of those lanes into regular traffic in an immediate fashion. And regular cars will have to be prevented from entering said lanes arbitrarily, with more than just 'laws' prohibiting them. Unless there are mandatory retrofits on the regular cars that make it impossible for them to traverse over to the special self driving lanes, there are some limits to how the big streams of self driving cars can maneuver.
It will be interesting wether the trust and reliability will ever reach the point where a single autonomous vehicle will ever be safe enough to just fall asleep and expect to wake at your arrival point. With piloted mass transit vehicles this is possible because there is an attendant and/or security measure in place.
With individual vehicles, unless a lot of freedom is given up with regard to travel options, it's easy to expect there will be risks and uncertainties. Where might you wake up indeed?
Only if self driving cars have been made mandatory and the only vehicles on the road are self driving. Otherwise the efficiencies will be eaten up by compromises with human driven cars.
And if human driven cars are abolished, it will DEFINITELY make the trains run on time.
I get so tired of the hock shop shows.
Stupid bubbas paw all over interesting stuff and bring in an 'expert' who is just a guy they play poker with who hoards whatever the item is in their barn so are 'experts' on whatever it is.
The Antiques Road Show made at least a pretense of being something other than people ripping apart the historical record to make big bucks selling stuff to rich people in the cities.
Isn't organic brain-in-a-tank basically a process of disconnecting all the sense neurons from a brain and isolating it in a tank of fluid?
How will the ever amount to anything?
Right now all that self-driving cars are clogging is our blogs and forums. It will be awhile before we know what they'll do in the real world. A variable, still to be determined 'awhile', mind you.
Where we live, our address wasn't even on the online mapping software until about six years ago. I'm not that expectant that a 'self driving car' will figure everything out immediately. Though I suppose they will 'learn' obscure locations by one or two manual drives there in 'learn mode.'
Virtual Box is still free from Oracle, and does an excellent job of running XP on a Windows 7 host.
Sadly, that's just a tendency still, not that much of an accomplishment. Freedom from govt. tyranny is something many people have striven for, and there is a long history of push-pull success and failure. The French tried around the same time 200 years ago as the USians and failed in a short while, where the Americans tried and sorta got it running. Many other places have succeeded to one degree or another. Nation states are not a good 'container' to capture the framework within to found freedom from government, so there's also always that dialectic going on.
The invention of the Laser Printer, so that computer operators (a drudge job) could relabel themselves 'IT' and push carts around the office with reams of paper and toner cartridges, while taking over the jobs of countless file clerks, etc.
Translation: The microprocessor? You're kidding. Turn off the main switch in the server room and go out of doors for a bit.
thepiratebay.org works pretty good.
My wife was renewing her license at the DMV. A really, really old man bumped into a chair and begged it's pardon. He then walked up to the counter and renewed his driver's license.
My Raspberry Pi 3 uses a MicroSD card for it's main mass storage. All the Raspberry Pi's do that. It's really convenient in a classroom, because if a kid corrupts his filesystem, you pop out the SD and reimage it.
We are supposed to keep all our content on 'the cloud.'
Me, I like having hundreds of television programs on my Galaxy Tab so I can watch one if I like at lunch break.