Pollsters failed to quantify the opinions of drivers when asked whether they expect to receive an 80% reduction in rates by adopting automated vehicles; respondents were unable to breathe due to convulsive laughter.
I imagine the SEC would care if they are falsifying data.
You have a remarkable imagination then. My imagination has a mathematician standing in a room in the SEC's Washington headquarters with an analysis that proves Twitters claims violate the very Laws of Thermodynamics, and nobody is interested. The meeting ends and they resume browsing porn back in their offices.
Of course, since my scenario is based on mere history, instead of your immense imaginative powers, I'll defer to you and take it as a given that the SEC has this well in hand.
The average income in Australia is more than double in the US thats why prices are higher.
No, I'm afraid it isn't. Median Household income in the US is about 50k USD. That's across the whole US, podunk cow towns to NYC. The Australian "capital territories" are averaging 60k USD per household. Across all of Australia it's 43k USD.
Not even at parity, much less "more than double." I can't imagine how you became so misguided; carefully reconsider from where it is you've chosen to get your information.
The GP was correct; the cost of the Australian welfare state is built into the cost of consumer goods, among other things.
You voted for it. Pay it. People trying to squirm out from under the weight of the statist utopias they've built should provide guidance to others.
About two weeks ago I briefly fired up a carefully stored old Dell PE2650 that hadn't been run in about 8 years. It immediately smelled strongly of ammonia and I shut it down. Googling around indicates that it may be burning insolation. Some component has decayed and is creating too much heat. I'll figure it out at some point when I start caring again.
WRT these laptops, I suspect there is some bit of insulation or other, possibly excess, material in contact with or too close to some hot component like a VR heatsink or whatever. It's burning the material slightly and would probably cease to emit the smell at some point.
No. A correctly designed and implemented system does not need an excess of power because the amount of computing power necessary is a precisely known quantity.
Safety critical code correctly deals with problems the typical business software programmer has never ever pondered. Recovering from corrupt memory, for example.
The answer isn't a huge CPU and gobs of github best-effort-ware The correct answer is competent design coupled with quality engineering. Hard, expensive work in other words. This actually happens. One can not say it is not possible.
The only real question is; why doesn't it happen at Toyota and other manufacturers? The answer is indifference. The effort is not made, the resources are not spent.
Lack of resources is not the problem. Toyota, for instance, is arguably the largest auto manufacturer on Earth. They certainly have the resources. Whereas NASA was dealing with ~$10e9 annual budgets when they developed STS software, Toyota earned ~$224e9 billion in FY2013. They could to the job right and the cost would be a rounding error.
Hammer them with a big enough judgement and perhaps they'll have the motivation.
Yesterday I bought smoke detectors from Amazon. There are perfectly ordinary smoke detectors, but there is one little problem; these are bit more expensive than some other, similar smoke detectors; a couple extra features the really cheap $9 smoke detectors don't have.
Why should that be a problem? Unfortunately, because these aren't the cheapest conceivable smoke detectors, the Home Depots, ACEs and Lowes of the world won't stock them in store. The retailers almost never stock anything other than the lowest end manifestation of any given product on their shelves.
Many of us are familiar with this phenomenon due to having built a computer from components; you can't find the optimal parts at Best Buy et al. They carry only PNY dreck. The good, full featured items are only available from on-line re-sellers.
If you are thoughtful and do not simply "sort by price" and invariably pick the cheapest item on the list then traditional retailers are useless; they operate only on price. Products that fail to be the cheapest are simply not available in-store.
For me, Amazon is a liberation; before I could get effectively anything from that one site I had a choice; a.) buy exclusively low end stuff from the brick and mortar retailers or b.) hunt down yet another site the specializes in some product, create yet another account, share personal details with yet another online entity and deal with the vagaries and failings of yet another outfit.
Audrey Hudson writes for Newsmax and formerly for the Washington Times. The story has appeared on WND, TheDailyCaller, TheBlaze and other right wing sites. It is being studiously ignored by all other Western media, as per a Google News search, just now.
Selective outrage; the jackboots kick in the door on a conservative reporter and you people and your MSM are fine with it.
Wikipedia has developed a cabal of powerful admins that play Wikipedia ten hours a day instead of completing their degrees. Until their power is curtailed participation will continue to decline.
Iowa agribusiness has been cultivating more land than ever due to high commodity prices. Between 2001 and 2011 Iowa went from under 1700 million bushels of corn to over to almost 2400 million, while soybean is nearly the same during that interval.
We did not become 40% more efficient at growing corn since 2000. That growth represents more land use; land that was considered marginal when commodity prices were low is now viable. Marginal means flood plain, land with poor drainage or limited access to water. What's actually happened here is that since the marginal land is now in the rotation, farmers incur higher risk of big losses during outlier years.
Two bad years after apparently 10 good years (at least) is not Climate. It's weather. And "Weather Is Not Climate." Or so I'm told whenever we get a cold spell.
NVidia would have to change the whole industry for this
We can't have one of the largest purveyors of video hardware influencing display standards now, can we?
NVidia isn't some startup. They put GPUs into millions of devices; desktops, laptops, tablets, consoles, phones, etc. When they offer a new technique for syncing video the world is going to have a look. That doesn't mean it must be accepted, but it won't be dismissed out-of-hand.
Besides, given an advanced bus like DisplayPort I suspect this might amount to a simple video-chip-to-display negotiation with a transparent fallback. DisplayPort devices can be Ethernet peers, among other things; they can coordinate anything they wish. So promoting a display connection to a new syncing technique should be transparent and non-disruptive for all hardware, past and future, without some brand new interface standard.
Turns out that's exactly what is happening. From Anandtech:
Meanwhile we do have limited information on the interface itself; G-Sync is designed to work over DisplayPort (since it’s packet based), with NVIDIA manipulating the timing of the v-blank signal to indicate a refresh. Importantly, this indicates that NVIDIA may not be significantly modifying the DisplayPort protocol, which at least cracks open the door to other implementations on the source/video card side.
that also happens to be vegan except maybe the white sugar in it
What extremes of veganism has white sugar coming from animals? There aren't any sugar cows. Sugar comes from cane or beets, not an animal. Or have we just slouching into equating vegan with "hobby farm diet" now?
There has never been a single negative story around here about the CFPB (if you don't know who they are then you're who I'm writing about) jacking into the private financial business of every swinging dick in the nation. Just NSA hysteria, 24x7x365. ""They're getting metadata from my callz!!!1"" Comprehensive detail about every electronic transaction made on the other hand.... meh.
Selective outrage. That's all it is.
As for the `people', you can do anything to them as long as they think they're still getting their student loans/social security/HUD loans/medicade/care/VA bennies/pell grants/unemployment/Obamacare/EBT refill or whatever else they're holding out for. They couldn't care less if someone records the calls they make to the Section 8 Housing office to get their rent covered. The only thing that really bothers them are the bastards pointing out the end game of all this vote buying.
I'm not calling for bloody revolution. I just convinced it's inevitable.
I wonder if the govt shutdown helped create some of the problems.
You wonder this because you'd like to find some rationale that lets you blame whomever you think is responsible for the shutdown. Not being ignorant, you're well aware that development of the site did not begin in September or October — what went live was developed long before the 15% shutdown of the government. You know this, but you're still looking for a way to tie the two together, because hey; maybe you and your kind can get stupid people to believe it.
people only spend 6% of their media-intake time with print, but advertisers spend 23% of their budgets on print ads
You know, I read that and I'm completely baffled. Either I'm a blithering idiot that has somehow missed the obvious reason why one should expect those two percentages to have a smaller (or larger?) spread, or the statement is bullshit and I've spotted it, which isn't saying much, and it's merely intended to trick other blithering idiots.
Which is it?
Where is it written that it is wrong for the spend percent to diverge from the erm, "media-intake" percent? Maybe that audience and the apparently limited time they spend in print is dramatically more valuable to advertisers.
I'm no advertiser, but if I were and someone said that to me, unqualified with any other factors that might establish a reason why there should be some expected correlation, exactly as it is in the summary, I'm pretty sure I'd write that guy off forever as either an idiot or someone who thinks I'm an idiot.
I've haven't read this story, or the last, or watched the video or anything, and I won't because I don't care enough. I'll take it on faith that the summary and the giant glaring hole right in the middle is representative of the muddle headedness of the whole matter and continue to not care.
You've learned a lesson here; don't rely on those people to fulfill their obligations. We're a banana republic now, printing almost 3 billion a day to keep the balance sheets from turning blood red, and government is actively, deliberately impinging on you to get its way. You should anticipate more, a lot more, of this behavior in the future, because none of this is getting any better.
So prepare. One day that service you rely on so much is going to require bribes. Don't doubt it. The days of "full faith and credit" are ending.
Your job is to know who you're going to need to bribe.
People would rather see boots-on-the-ground Barney Fife cracking skulls like some sort of hollywood detective that can't see the forest through the trees instead of playing the game of large numbers and casting a wide net.
The FBI+CIA+NSA+DEA nets you so admire are too big already.
Highly compensated, highly educated, highly protected cops living in the big picture are a bad thing. I want my cops small, modest and limited. I do not want every cop driving around with a junior law degree, a 250k car, a shotgun and body armor. These people are turning into elitist robocops.
the majority of all crimes will be committed by people with backpacks or in vehicles because both backpacks and car-trunks are the most effective means of transporting visibly conspicuous evidence
99% of what goes on in trunks and backpacks is either drugs or guns, both of which are the objects of a long, long list of laws we would be better off without. If the rent-a-cops hired in Oakland have no motivation to invent probable cause and go fishing through people stuff because they're being paid to deal with real crimes then that is a good thing.
Good to know. Perhaps we should eliminate the capital gains exemption for real estate sales of primary residences. I wonder if a $10,000 tax liability on $50k of profit would "hinder" John Q. Low Information voter when he sells his house.
He might be a little less willing to indulge "progressive" hate mongering about the "rich," at least. Anyhow, you let me know when we elect someone ready to repeal that little tax break because it doesn't "hinder" the economy.
I'd be willing to bet that many, if not most, of those funding this have backed reduced taxes and the subsequent reduction of the police force.
The net effect being fewer quota filling radar gun operators and more people deterring actual crime.
How terrible.
Anyhow, I guess we've found a way to gin up some love for cops on Slashdot; cut government out of the equation. You'd think something that might offset the hoards of power-of-arrest enabled lawmen you all seem loath might be appealing around here.
This technology will go to the moon, Mars and elsewhere. The military applications of this are inevitable in any case; it will be developed whether you like it or not. But you've been trained to believe you must hate anything that might be a weapon, so you shit on people and their work like the hate filled malcontent that you are.
Slashdot Mirror
insurance rates would be reduced by 80%
Pollsters failed to quantify the opinions of drivers when asked whether they expect to receive an 80% reduction in rates by adopting automated vehicles; respondents were unable to breathe due to convulsive laughter.
I imagine the SEC would care if they are falsifying data.
You have a remarkable imagination then. My imagination has a mathematician standing in a room in the SEC's Washington headquarters with an analysis that proves Twitters claims violate the very Laws of Thermodynamics, and nobody is interested. The meeting ends and they resume browsing porn back in their offices.
Of course, since my scenario is based on mere history, instead of your immense imaginative powers, I'll defer to you and take it as a given that the SEC has this well in hand.
I heard monster truck "racing" ads.
His papers and his credibility have been discredited.
One wonders if Hansen is aware of exactly how much hate he is going to suffer by advocating something other than dirt floor yurts and hobby farms.
The average income in Australia is more than double in the US thats why prices are higher.
No, I'm afraid it isn't. Median Household income in the US is about 50k USD. That's across the whole US, podunk cow towns to NYC. The Australian "capital territories" are averaging 60k USD per household. Across all of Australia it's 43k USD.
Not even at parity, much less "more than double." I can't imagine how you became so misguided; carefully reconsider from where it is you've chosen to get your information.
The GP was correct; the cost of the Australian welfare state is built into the cost of consumer goods, among other things.
You voted for it. Pay it. People trying to squirm out from under the weight of the statist utopias they've built should provide guidance to others.
IANA manufacturing/polymer type....
About two weeks ago I briefly fired up a carefully stored old Dell PE2650 that hadn't been run in about 8 years. It immediately smelled strongly of ammonia and I shut it down. Googling around indicates that it may be burning insolation. Some component has decayed and is creating too much heat. I'll figure it out at some point when I start caring again.
WRT these laptops, I suspect there is some bit of insulation or other, possibly excess, material in contact with or too close to some hot component like a VR heatsink or whatever. It's burning the material slightly and would probably cease to emit the smell at some point.
put a real computer in the thing
No. A correctly designed and implemented system does not need an excess of power because the amount of computing power necessary is a precisely known quantity.
Safety critical code correctly deals with problems the typical business software programmer has never ever pondered. Recovering from corrupt memory, for example.
The answer isn't a huge CPU and gobs of github best-effort-ware The correct answer is competent design coupled with quality engineering. Hard, expensive work in other words. This actually happens. One can not say it is not possible.
The only real question is; why doesn't it happen at Toyota and other manufacturers? The answer is indifference. The effort is not made, the resources are not spent.
Lack of resources is not the problem. Toyota, for instance, is arguably the largest auto manufacturer on Earth. They certainly have the resources. Whereas NASA was dealing with ~$10e9 annual budgets when they developed STS software, Toyota earned ~$224e9 billion in FY2013. They could to the job right and the cost would be a rounding error.
Hammer them with a big enough judgement and perhaps they'll have the motivation.
Yesterday I bought smoke detectors from Amazon. There are perfectly ordinary smoke detectors, but there is one little problem; these are bit more expensive than some other, similar smoke detectors; a couple extra features the really cheap $9 smoke detectors don't have.
Why should that be a problem? Unfortunately, because these aren't the cheapest conceivable smoke detectors, the Home Depots, ACEs and Lowes of the world won't stock them in store. The retailers almost never stock anything other than the lowest end manifestation of any given product on their shelves.
Many of us are familiar with this phenomenon due to having built a computer from components; you can't find the optimal parts at Best Buy et al. They carry only PNY dreck. The good, full featured items are only available from on-line re-sellers.
If you are thoughtful and do not simply "sort by price" and invariably pick the cheapest item on the list then traditional retailers are useless; they operate only on price. Products that fail to be the cheapest are simply not available in-store.
For me, Amazon is a liberation; before I could get effectively anything from that one site I had a choice; a.) buy exclusively low end stuff from the brick and mortar retailers or b.) hunt down yet another site the specializes in some product, create yet another account, share personal details with yet another online entity and deal with the vagaries and failings of yet another outfit.
Why AC?? Embrace your hate. Be proud of it.
Hate filled people like you are the best argument I can imagine for an unfettered 2nd Amendment.
If Ann Coulter is associated with it..... I'm NOT
Audrey Hudson writes for Newsmax and formerly for the Washington Times. The story has appeared on WND, TheDailyCaller, TheBlaze and other right wing sites. It is being studiously ignored by all other Western media, as per a Google News search, just now.
Selective outrage; the jackboots kick in the door on a conservative reporter and you people and your MSM are fine with it.
Minimizes intervals between duplicate stories to only 6.5 hours.
And yet you post on slashdot.
Notice how the post didn't get reverted and then attributed to a sockpuppet that may need to be blocked from making posts in the future.
Remarkable, isn't it?
Wikipedia has developed a cabal of powerful admins that play Wikipedia ten hours a day instead of completing their degrees. Until their power is curtailed participation will continue to decline.
Iowa agribusiness has been cultivating more land than ever due to high commodity prices. Between 2001 and 2011 Iowa went from under 1700 million bushels of corn to over to almost 2400 million, while soybean is nearly the same during that interval.
We did not become 40% more efficient at growing corn since 2000. That growth represents more land use; land that was considered marginal when commodity prices were low is now viable. Marginal means flood plain, land with poor drainage or limited access to water. What's actually happened here is that since the marginal land is now in the rotation, farmers incur higher risk of big losses during outlier years.
Two bad years after apparently 10 good years (at least) is not Climate. It's weather. And "Weather Is Not Climate." Or so I'm told whenever we get a cold spell.
NVidia would have to change the whole industry for this
We can't have one of the largest purveyors of video hardware influencing display standards now, can we?
NVidia isn't some startup. They put GPUs into millions of devices; desktops, laptops, tablets, consoles, phones, etc. When they offer a new technique for syncing video the world is going to have a look. That doesn't mean it must be accepted, but it won't be dismissed out-of-hand.
Besides, given an advanced bus like DisplayPort I suspect this might amount to a simple video-chip-to-display negotiation with a transparent fallback. DisplayPort devices can be Ethernet peers, among other things; they can coordinate anything they wish. So promoting a display connection to a new syncing technique should be transparent and non-disruptive for all hardware, past and future, without some brand new interface standard.
Turns out that's exactly what is happening. From Anandtech:
Meanwhile we do have limited information on the interface itself; G-Sync is designed to work over DisplayPort (since it’s packet based), with NVIDIA manipulating the timing of the v-blank signal to indicate a refresh. Importantly, this indicates that NVIDIA may not be significantly modifying the DisplayPort protocol, which at least cracks open the door to other implementations on the source/video card side.
that also happens to be vegan except maybe the white sugar in it
What extremes of veganism has white sugar coming from animals? There aren't any sugar cows. Sugar comes from cane or beets, not an animal. Or have we just slouching into equating vegan with "hobby farm diet" now?
So that's why Slashdot has that friend thing.
There has never been a single negative story around here about the CFPB (if you don't know who they are then you're who I'm writing about) jacking into the private financial business of every swinging dick in the nation. Just NSA hysteria, 24x7x365. ""They're getting metadata from my callz!!!1"" Comprehensive detail about every electronic transaction made on the other hand.... meh.
Selective outrage. That's all it is.
As for the `people', you can do anything to them as long as they think they're still getting their student loans/social security/HUD loans/medicade/care/VA bennies/pell grants/unemployment/Obamacare/EBT refill or whatever else they're holding out for. They couldn't care less if someone records the calls they make to the Section 8 Housing office to get their rent covered. The only thing that really bothers them are the bastards pointing out the end game of all this vote buying.
I'm not calling for bloody revolution. I just convinced it's inevitable.
I wonder if the govt shutdown helped create some of the problems.
You wonder this because you'd like to find some rationale that lets you blame whomever you think is responsible for the shutdown. Not being ignorant, you're well aware that development of the site did not begin in September or October — what went live was developed long before the 15% shutdown of the government. You know this, but you're still looking for a way to tie the two together, because hey; maybe you and your kind can get stupid people to believe it.
people only spend 6% of their media-intake time with print, but advertisers spend 23% of their budgets on print ads
You know, I read that and I'm completely baffled. Either I'm a blithering idiot that has somehow missed the obvious reason why one should expect those two percentages to have a smaller (or larger?) spread, or the statement is bullshit and I've spotted it, which isn't saying much, and it's merely intended to trick other blithering idiots.
Which is it?
Where is it written that it is wrong for the spend percent to diverge from the erm, "media-intake" percent? Maybe that audience and the apparently limited time they spend in print is dramatically more valuable to advertisers.
I'm no advertiser, but if I were and someone said that to me, unqualified with any other factors that might establish a reason why there should be some expected correlation, exactly as it is in the summary, I'm pretty sure I'd write that guy off forever as either an idiot or someone who thinks I'm an idiot.
I've haven't read this story, or the last, or watched the video or anything, and I won't because I don't care enough. I'll take it on faith that the summary and the giant glaring hole right in the middle is representative of the muddle headedness of the whole matter and continue to not care.
So stop publishing this crap. I don't care.
You've learned a lesson here; don't rely on those people to fulfill their obligations. We're a banana republic now, printing almost 3 billion a day to keep the balance sheets from turning blood red, and government is actively, deliberately impinging on you to get its way. You should anticipate more, a lot more, of this behavior in the future, because none of this is getting any better.
So prepare. One day that service you rely on so much is going to require bribes. Don't doubt it. The days of "full faith and credit" are ending.
Your job is to know who you're going to need to bribe.
Did I miss anything else?
That whole fire thing.
Should have secured the IP on that before we let it get away from us.
People would rather see boots-on-the-ground Barney Fife cracking skulls like some sort of hollywood detective that can't see the forest through the trees instead of playing the game of large numbers and casting a wide net.
The FBI+CIA+NSA+DEA nets you so admire are too big already.
Highly compensated, highly educated, highly protected cops living in the big picture are a bad thing. I want my cops small, modest and limited. I do not want every cop driving around with a junior law degree, a 250k car, a shotgun and body armor. These people are turning into elitist robocops.
the majority of all crimes will be committed by people with backpacks or in vehicles because both backpacks and car-trunks are the most effective means of transporting visibly conspicuous evidence
99% of what goes on in trunks and backpacks is either drugs or guns, both of which are the objects of a long, long list of laws we would be better off without. If the rent-a-cops hired in Oakland have no motivation to invent probable cause and go fishing through people stuff because they're being paid to deal with real crimes then that is a good thing.
capital gains does NOT at all hinder the economy
Good to know. Perhaps we should eliminate the capital gains exemption for real estate sales of primary residences. I wonder if a $10,000 tax liability on $50k of profit would "hinder" John Q. Low Information voter when he sells his house.
He might be a little less willing to indulge "progressive" hate mongering about the "rich," at least. Anyhow, you let me know when we elect someone ready to repeal that little tax break because it doesn't "hinder" the economy.
I'll be right here, not holding my breath.
I'd be willing to bet that many, if not most, of those funding this have backed reduced taxes and the subsequent reduction of the police force.
The net effect being fewer quota filling radar gun operators and more people deterring actual crime.
How terrible.
Anyhow, I guess we've found a way to gin up some love for cops on Slashdot; cut government out of the equation. You'd think something that might offset the hoards of power-of-arrest enabled lawmen you all seem loath might be appealing around here.
Guess not.
abject disgust for anyone involved in the project
Narrow minded hate filled asshole.
This technology will go to the moon, Mars and elsewhere. The military applications of this are inevitable in any case; it will be developed whether you like it or not. But you've been trained to believe you must hate anything that might be a weapon, so you shit on people and their work like the hate filled malcontent that you are.