I live not too far from highway. I usually cannot hear cars. But large trucks, yeah I hear them. And I guess I am breathing what they are putting out as well. I cannot wait for electric semis to become popular. Sure, in the early days, with a 300-mile limit, it will be a regional solution. But I'll take what I can get. As another poster noted, Seattle is about 150 miles from Portland, OR. An electric truck from Portland could travel to Seattle, charge while being unloaded and then be able to make the trip back. And I suspect most of the trucks on Hwy 26 near me are regional.
If the underlying sensor, optics and image processor hardware is good, then the camera quality can be improved from where it is at today with future software updates. I don't see them having cut corners elsewhere and I doubt that they did with camera hardware. They were probably in a rush to ship the device and camera software was shipped when it got to the good enough point.
I did work as a camera software engineer in a previous life. So I have a rough idea of how these things go.
It should come as a no surprise that the stuff that comes out of tailpipes is not good for you to breathe. It can and does kill people. People who want to kill themselves quickly, breathe a lot of it in a short amount of time. The rest of us are doing it over a longer period of time.
The sooner we switch away from a gas burning engine, the better.
Let's just say this thing is going to put out some serious heat at 180 watts TDP. You will need a big and loud fan. And any money you save on the cost of the CPU, you will pay to the electric company. And you will have to hope that you do not use the CPU for long, because the longer you use it, the more this space heater will cost you over an Intel CPU.
A certain percentage of population is always going to be a little messed up in the head. For just about any country.
We elected Donald Trump, after we found out that he was a thief (Trump Univ.) who stole from the vulnerable, and someone who likes to grab women by their private parts and brags about it to his buddies...
Portland, OR is benefiting from the Bay area tech job departure to some degree. Tech jobs here are increasing and the real estate prices are going up. But they are still way way below Seattle or Bay area prices. I frequently have to travel to Bay area for work. That place is just nuts. I simply do not understand how so many there can afford the rent or mortgage.
As a long time Oregonian, I will happily pay the $15 on my new bike purchase, if the money is used for creating more bike lanes and improving the existing ones.
"Anybody who's planning to commit mass murder will surely stop when he finds out gun ownership is illegal."
Murder is illegal. Though it does not stop all murders. By your argument, we should make it perfectly legal. After all, murders are still happening at an alarming rate. If making murder illegal is not stopping murders, then what is the point?
"If you're willing to pay to go to a school and you've already been given acceptance, then you should have that honored, regardless of your activity, if it's not illegal, thereafter."
That is the most ridiculous statement on this story I have read so far. Back when I went to college, a public college, I understood that there were things I could do, that were not "illegal" but they would get me expelled. Failing all my classes for an extended period of time would be one. Not "illegal" but does not meet the required standards. My free speech rights also did not allow me to stand up in every class and start screaming obscenities at the teacher and everybody around me.
Almost all colleges have standards that you have to meet to stay. And these standards are not necessarily tied to local, state and federal laws.
> Given the choice between two highly toxic candidates a protest vote is not unreasonable.
Regardless of how much anybody may like Hillary. Comparing her to Trump is unfair. If you think Trump and Hillary are "equally" bad for leading this country, then our thought process is different enough that a discussion on any topic would be a useless exercise.
It's like Trump saying that he will actually donate money he raised for veterans, to veterans. Did not happen until somebody found out that he was not doing it and shamed him into following through.
These "commitments" from Infosys are about the same quality. If there is no law behind it, and they can bribe Trump by buying a condo in his tower at high price, then the matter is settled.
Some of you are under the illusion that Trump is working for you. When it is clear that he is working for himself and couldn't give two hoots about you.
> I expect that in the future batteries will continue to get better, and people will stop talking about hydrogen because there won't be any advantage anymore.
I am in agreement. The Japanese bet on the wrong horse and did not anticipate progress the battery industry has made and is making. Now they are just trying to beat that dead horse some more to see if they can get anything out of it at all.
Toyota has been going at this for quite some time. They still haven't produce a single hydrogen car for the consumers. And the prospects are not getting any brighter. If anything it is getting harder and harder to make a case for Hydrogen in consumer vehicles.
Electric cars are become more common. Not just Tesla, but most car manufacturers are jumping in. Electricity is relatively cheap, ubiquitous and easy to make.
Why Hydrogen?
And why is nobody else but the Japanese car manufacturers even slightly interested in it?
If you job requires physical presence here, it is difficult to outsource. Doctors are safe. Lawyers are safe too. They Indian lawyers cannot represent you in US court.
Computer programmers do not enjoy those protections and cannot. Unless govt mandates that businesses cannot outsource. That is not likely to happen. And if it did, the tech industry outside of US would rejoice. As that would bring an end to the near-monopoly US businesses have in this field.
Sergey Brin wasn't born here, Elon Musk wasn't born here, Steve Jobs' father wasn't born here. On and on and on. At some point you will realize that immigrants and their families make a huge contribution to making the US tech industry the best and the biggest in the world.
Don't be short-sighted and try to kill the chicken that is currently laying the golden eggs.
The tech industry in the US is quite healthy. If you are any good, you can easily find a job. In this economy, if anybody cannot find a job as a computer programmer, well, a blame on H1-B program is misplaced.
Why are there so many H1-B stories on Slashdot? Why are you guys fixated on H1-B?
If you create artificial scarcity by cutting off supply, the market will work around you. You remember what happened to manufacturing jobs?
In the short term, your salary may rise because there is a shortage of computer programmers. But businesses will accelerate moving those jobs out to cheaper geographies. This is already happening. You're just trying to make it more of an urgent issue.
There are plenty of issues in Windows, but for me personally, this is the absolute worst offender.
The OS should never ever reboot my computer without my explicit permission. Specially when I have a tonne of stuff open.
Just copy how Mac OS handles this. It is OK to periodically remind me that I need to reboot. But never proceed to do it when and as you see fit. Your guesses on when it is OK to do so are going to be wrong. Resists the temptation. Again, copy Mac OS in this regard. If they can get it right. You can too.
I do not know the details of the Tesla plan, but I would think that at least in this respect, it would be similar to other insurance companies. Want to add more drivers to your policy? It will cost you more. Want to add a 16 year old with no driving history It will cost a lot more.
I have worked in the software industry for over 25 years. Only recently we have started hiring people offshore. We work with people who are essentially contractors. It is very easy to let people go who are not productive. Over the course of a year we have gone through a lot of people, but now have a core team, that is very very good. And very very cheap, compared to a local team.
The H1-B visa restrictions will just push people into that model sooner.
The Internet is the great equalizer. To the detriment of many and the joy of others.
I am baffled.
Why don't more people go out and play sports, instead of sitting on a couch and watching somebody else have fun? And yes, I do have several TVs and I sometime watch some content. But there are no monthly fees involved.
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I live not too far from highway. I usually cannot hear cars. But large trucks, yeah I hear them. And I guess I am breathing what they are putting out as well. I cannot wait for electric semis to become popular. Sure, in the early days, with a 300-mile limit, it will be a regional solution. But I'll take what I can get. As another poster noted, Seattle is about 150 miles from Portland, OR. An electric truck from Portland could travel to Seattle, charge while being unloaded and then be able to make the trip back. And I suspect most of the trucks on Hwy 26 near me are regional.
Electric semis? Get them on the road ASAP please.
If the underlying sensor, optics and image processor hardware is good, then the camera quality can be improved from where it is at today with future software updates. I don't see them having cut corners elsewhere and I doubt that they did with camera hardware. They were probably in a rush to ship the device and camera software was shipped when it got to the good enough point.
I did work as a camera software engineer in a previous life. So I have a rough idea of how these things go.
It should come as a no surprise that the stuff that comes out of tailpipes is not good for you to breathe. It can and does kill people. People who want to kill themselves quickly, breathe a lot of it in a short amount of time. The rest of us are doing it over a longer period of time.
The sooner we switch away from a gas burning engine, the better.
Let's just say this thing is going to put out some serious heat at 180 watts TDP. You will need a big and loud fan. And any money you save on the cost of the CPU, you will pay to the electric company. And you will have to hope that you do not use the CPU for long, because the longer you use it, the more this space heater will cost you over an Intel CPU.
A certain percentage of population is always going to be a little messed up in the head. For just about any country.
We elected Donald Trump, after we found out that he was a thief (Trump Univ.) who stole from the vulnerable, and someone who likes to grab women by their private parts and brags about it to his buddies...
We shouldn't be pointing fingers at others.
"Pretty sure it's Bush's fault. Worked for Obama, didn't it?"
Do you remember Obama constantly acting like a vindictive child?
Me neither.
Everything good. He deserves the credit. Everything bad. Obama's fault.
"big big big"
Portland, OR is benefiting from the Bay area tech job departure to some degree. Tech jobs here are increasing and the real estate prices are going up. But they are still way way below Seattle or Bay area prices. I frequently have to travel to Bay area for work. That place is just nuts. I simply do not understand how so many there can afford the rent or mortgage.
As a long time Oregonian, I will happily pay the $15 on my new bike purchase, if the money is used for creating more bike lanes and improving the existing ones.
"Anybody who's planning to commit mass murder will surely stop when he finds out gun ownership is illegal."
Murder is illegal. Though it does not stop all murders. By your argument, we should make it perfectly legal. After all, murders are still happening at an alarming rate. If making murder illegal is not stopping murders, then what is the point?
"If you're willing to pay to go to a school and you've already been given acceptance, then you should have that honored, regardless of your activity, if it's not illegal, thereafter."
That is the most ridiculous statement on this story I have read so far. Back when I went to college, a public college, I understood that there were things I could do, that were not "illegal" but they would get me expelled. Failing all my classes for an extended period of time would be one. Not "illegal" but does not meet the required standards. My free speech rights also did not allow me to stand up in every class and start screaming obscenities at the teacher and everybody around me.
Almost all colleges have standards that you have to meet to stay. And these standards are not necessarily tied to local, state and federal laws.
> Given the choice between two highly toxic candidates a protest vote is not unreasonable.
Regardless of how much anybody may like Hillary. Comparing her to Trump is unfair. If you think Trump and Hillary are "equally" bad for leading this country, then our thought process is different enough that a discussion on any topic would be a useless exercise.
It's like Trump saying that he will actually donate money he raised for veterans, to veterans. Did not happen until somebody found out that he was not doing it and shamed him into following through.
These "commitments" from Infosys are about the same quality. If there is no law behind it, and they can bribe Trump by buying a condo in his tower at high price, then the matter is settled.
Some of you are under the illusion that Trump is working for you. When it is clear that he is working for himself and couldn't give two hoots about you.
> I expect that in the future batteries will continue to get better, and people will stop talking about hydrogen because there won't be any advantage anymore.
I am in agreement. The Japanese bet on the wrong horse and did not anticipate progress the battery industry has made and is making. Now they are just trying to beat that dead horse some more to see if they can get anything out of it at all.
Toyota has been going at this for quite some time. They still haven't produce a single hydrogen car for the consumers. And the prospects are not getting any brighter. If anything it is getting harder and harder to make a case for Hydrogen in consumer vehicles.
> Because the Japanese think longer term than us.
I am sorry, but your arguments made not a lick of sense to me.
Electric cars are become more common. Not just Tesla, but most car manufacturers are jumping in. Electricity is relatively cheap, ubiquitous and easy to make.
Why Hydrogen?
And why is nobody else but the Japanese car manufacturers even slightly interested in it?
If you job requires physical presence here, it is difficult to outsource. Doctors are safe. Lawyers are safe too. They Indian lawyers cannot represent you in US court.
Computer programmers do not enjoy those protections and cannot. Unless govt mandates that businesses cannot outsource. That is not likely to happen. And if it did, the tech industry outside of US would rejoice. As that would bring an end to the near-monopoly US businesses have in this field.
Sergey Brin wasn't born here, Elon Musk wasn't born here, Steve Jobs' father wasn't born here. On and on and on. At some point you will realize that immigrants and their families make a huge contribution to making the US tech industry the best and the biggest in the world.
Don't be short-sighted and try to kill the chicken that is currently laying the golden eggs.
The tech industry in the US is quite healthy. If you are any good, you can easily find a job. In this economy, if anybody cannot find a job as a computer programmer, well, a blame on H1-B program is misplaced.
Why are there so many H1-B stories on Slashdot? Why are you guys fixated on H1-B?
If you create artificial scarcity by cutting off supply, the market will work around you. You remember what happened to manufacturing jobs?
In the short term, your salary may rise because there is a shortage of computer programmers. But businesses will accelerate moving those jobs out to cheaper geographies. This is already happening. You're just trying to make it more of an urgent issue.
How many outsourcing stories do we need?
Outsourcing is happening. Deal with it. Move on. Change plans if necessary. Complaining about it on Salshdot accomplishes nothing.
IBM outsources to low cost geos. And that is what will happen to Lloyds jobs. Anybody that believes otherwise is not thinking clearly.
Businesses will go where the costs of getting work done is lower. You can erect barriers all you want, but all of that is going to be temporary.
There are plenty of issues in Windows, but for me personally, this is the absolute worst offender. The OS should never ever reboot my computer without my explicit permission. Specially when I have a tonne of stuff open. Just copy how Mac OS handles this. It is OK to periodically remind me that I need to reboot. But never proceed to do it when and as you see fit. Your guesses on when it is OK to do so are going to be wrong. Resists the temptation. Again, copy Mac OS in this regard. If they can get it right. You can too.
I do not know the details of the Tesla plan, but I would think that at least in this respect, it would be similar to other insurance companies. Want to add more drivers to your policy? It will cost you more. Want to add a 16 year old with no driving history It will cost a lot more.
I have worked in the software industry for over 25 years. Only recently we have started hiring people offshore. We work with people who are essentially contractors. It is very easy to let people go who are not productive. Over the course of a year we have gone through a lot of people, but now have a core team, that is very very good. And very very cheap, compared to a local team. The H1-B visa restrictions will just push people into that model sooner. The Internet is the great equalizer. To the detriment of many and the joy of others.
Does it surprise anyone that it is a Republican? I know, Dems can be bought too, but it appears that Republicans have a fire sale going on.
Hey look, the bubble is getting bigger! Last time it went to $1200 before crashing!
I am baffled. Why don't more people go out and play sports, instead of sitting on a couch and watching somebody else have fun? And yes, I do have several TVs and I sometime watch some content. But there are no monthly fees involved.