Thanks for that its not often I get to see the rest of the story. I just remembered that story from a few years ago. I had not looked into it further since that time.
A few years ago at the darpa challenge every competing vehicle was able to park by itself. Within a year many manufacturers were selling cars with some type of park assist.
That was pretty cool considering a lot of them weren't even able to finish the challenge.
But two years? Yeah I think you are right marketing seems to want to say WE HAVE A SELF DRIVING CAR!!! while selling something that is just fancy cruise control. Like tesla's autopilot many sources reported it as being much more than it is/. included. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I feel the same about this as astronauts do when someone calls the shuttle a spaceship.
Lets not call anything a self driving car until one can actually drive by itself from point a to point b without interaction being required.
Have one go from CA to NY without any driver interaction (other than for fuel) now that would be something worthy of the title.
There are a lot of people working on it and an enormous amount of funding being poured into it I personally think it will be done within the next 10 years hopefully sooner.
Keep in mind here in the US we had to lower the standard of what was considered broadband so it would look like people actually had access to decent service. The limit for broadband is now 25/3 so dsl no longer qualifies.
Oh I'm sure I could cram a large enough diesel tank into a truck assuming you could manage 30mpg (its pretty much all highway it could plausibly be done) you would only need about a 100 gallon tank they sell those that fit in the back of your truck were a toolbox would normally go so still plenty of space left over.
Afaik if you were to attempt the same with electric you wouldn't have anywhere to sit and you still wouldn't have enough battery power to make the trip.
I've yet to see a motel with a ev charging station most do have outdoor outlets but I have no idea if they would let you use those to charge your car or not probably for an extra charge.
I feel electric has a much better chance of sucess than cng or hydrogen. Cng takes a lot more infrastructure and hydrogen is basically electric with extra conversions. (Cng must be shipped while hydrogen has the potential to be made onsite)
Although what I'm really wondering is will there ever be a low end used electric market my understanding is getting the batteries replaced costs more than a cheap used gas vehicle.
Aside from that afaik electric is still completly impractical for freight cng (I've started to see ups and fedex cng vehicles) or possibly hydrogen could possibly replace diesel.
I hope ev's catch on I like the idea of a heater that works without having to start the engine beforehand as you can't get enough watts out of any other type system to have electric heat. If only they weren't so darned expensive.
Either way I would love to see cleaner vehicles catch on.
What if I want to drive from New York, NY to Beverly Hills, CA on a single charge? Hey even a smartphone that would last 4 of use hours with cellular off on a 10 hour flight would be nice.
My biggest complaint about bluetooth keyboards is that every one ive ever owned would go into sleep mode after 10 to 30 minutes to save power and then when I started typing on the keyboard I would have a 5 to 10 second delay while the bluetooth reconnected Ive never had this problem with any keyboard using a proprietary protocol.
Second is the tendacy they have to do thissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss when you are typing.
I've never seen a micro usb keyboard have either of those problems
I have seen very few android tablets with a full size USB port most android phones have a single micro USB port that can be used with a usb otg adapter to connect flash drives/keyboards/mice.
I've always thought QTH locator (aka Maidenhead Locator System) was pretty neat gets you really close with few letters DM26PA13VM is a parking at the hoover dam but if you cut two letters off the end DM26PA13 only gets you to the hoover dam.
A 5MB database shouldn't be a problem considering most gps units have had maps in the 1GB+ range for many years now.
w3w however seems to provide high precision with easy to remember phrases such as "start deflects tuxedos"
And you can turn them into jokes. Why did microsoft bring back the start menu in windows 10? Because start deflects tuxedos. Bad-pun pish.
The root of the problem is I have one of those iPads with only 16GB of memory. So I can only fit a small amount of my library (after apps and whatever else only about 2GB left for media) if i had gotten one of those 128GB iPads or a expandable android tablet I wouldn't have have much of an issue.
So my goal is to be able to in the fewest steps possible be able to transfer files to the oplayer app on the ipad as needed the app only supports http,samba,ftp,Dropbox and wd wifi storage.
The http support is flakey and afaik samba is considered to be unsafe to use as an online sever (not that I haven't seen it done anyway). I've never used Dropbox but I looked at the prices today it seems rather high even compared to a vps. Wd wifi storage sounds like some proprietary mess I'm not going to bother looking up.
If I get a vpn with port forwarding I think I will be able to locally host ftp as well as other services in the future if needed. Same as with a static ip.
A vps running a ftp sever and btsync would also do fine.
Afaik google drive has no ftp access and id rather not invite g+ to any other part of my life as google is clingy enough as it is gah.
I've run services before on my home connection using afraid.org dyndns with a dynamic ip back before isp switched to nat'ed addresses.
Ssh port forward through an external service? What type of external service are you talking about? A vps? Sounds slightly more difficult to setup. But last year I was tunneling my dns traffic through the connection at work as my isp intercepts dns traffic. The line at work has a uplink speed of 1mbps so its pretty useless for forwarding anything high bandwith.
Reasonable speed is a requirement I have roughly 7mbps upload at home a us based vps should be faster as my downlink speed varies depending on where I am from 12 to 40mbps but most of my stuff is in the 100 to 300MB range so even with 7mbps the transfer times are reasonable but 1mbps is friggin ridiculous.
Also I have used a wifi drive in the past but now that have 10mbps+ pretty much everywhere I just don't see the need for it as its one more thing to keep up with and charge.
Gah how do these allways end up so long. Thank you for your advice anyway.
The reason I mention static ip is that's the only thing my isp offers that will bypass their Nat. While a permanent static ipv4 address would be handy it would also cost about the same as 10 years of vpn service.
I would hope that I will be able to get real broadband within 10 years. But att has been saying they would for the last 15 years or so.
As far as I can tell from the first page of google "incoming connections socks proxy" socks doesn't really allow for incoming connections. However I see many vpn providers support port forwarding.
I've been wanting to setup a ftp server at home for a while but I don't want to pay the extra cash for a static ip.
I have a lot more of a problem finding the time to watch the things on my watch list and deciding which one to watch when I have the time than I do looking for things to watch.
Then again I seem to spend a lot of time surfing youtube's related/recommendations i've found a lot of good songs that way.
I am using a 32" sanyo tv and a 19" polaroid tv for vga monitors.
The polaroid has two large annoyances when used as a monitor. First it doesn't align the screen unless you select it from the menu (only 3/4ths of the screen is visible) second it has a very aggressive power save function that will time out and shut off the display before the computer has finished restarting then it has to be manually switched back on.
The sanyo just has one annoyance If I enable the vga power saving feature it will switch on and off with the computer but the screen stays dim so power saving gets left turned off and the screen just sits switched on 24/7.
Has anyone made a stick-on standalone IR device scheduler about the size of an amazon dash button? I could use about 10 of them.
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Thanks for that its not often I get to see the rest of the story. I just remembered that story from a few years ago. I had not looked into it further since that time.
Man robs bank of $1 to get free health care in jail http://idle.slashdot.org/story...
Some people really do need help.
A few years ago at the darpa challenge every competing vehicle was able to park by itself. Within a year many manufacturers were selling cars with some type of park assist.
That was pretty cool considering a lot of them weren't even able to finish the challenge.
But two years? Yeah I think you are right marketing seems to want to say WE HAVE A SELF DRIVING CAR!!! while selling something that is just fancy cruise control. Like tesla's autopilot many sources reported it as being much more than it is /. included. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I feel the same about this as astronauts do when someone calls the shuttle a spaceship.
Lets not call anything a self driving car until one can actually drive by itself from point a to point b without interaction being required.
Have one go from CA to NY without any driver interaction (other than for fuel) now that would be something worthy of the title.
There are a lot of people working on it and an enormous amount of funding being poured into it I personally think it will be done within the next 10 years hopefully sooner.
Keep in mind here in the US we had to lower the standard of what was considered broadband so it would look like people actually had access to decent service. The limit for broadband is now 25/3 so dsl no longer qualifies.
http://portspoof.org/
http://www.saltwaterc.eu/ports...
Now whenever anyone scans you all ports show as open. pretty cool huh?
Also great if you are trying to find out what ports your isp is blocking.
Oh I'm sure I could cram a large enough diesel tank into a truck assuming you could manage 30mpg (its pretty much all highway it could plausibly be done) you would only need about a 100 gallon tank they sell those that fit in the back of your truck were a toolbox would normally go so still plenty of space left over.
Afaik if you were to attempt the same with electric you wouldn't have anywhere to sit and you still wouldn't have enough battery power to make the trip.
I've yet to see a motel with a ev charging station most do have outdoor outlets but I have no idea if they would let you use those to charge your car or not probably for an extra charge.
I feel electric has a much better chance of sucess than cng or hydrogen. Cng takes a lot more infrastructure and hydrogen is basically electric with extra conversions. (Cng must be shipped while hydrogen has the potential to be made onsite)
Although what I'm really wondering is will there ever be a low end used electric market my understanding is getting the batteries replaced costs more than a cheap used gas vehicle.
Aside from that afaik electric is still completly impractical for freight cng (I've started to see ups and fedex cng vehicles) or possibly hydrogen could possibly replace diesel.
I hope ev's catch on I like the idea of a heater that works without having to start the engine beforehand as you can't get enough watts out of any other type system to have electric heat. If only they weren't so darned expensive.
Either way I would love to see cleaner vehicles catch on.
What if I want to drive from New York, NY to Beverly Hills, CA on a single charge? Hey even a smartphone that would last 4 of use hours with cellular off on a 10 hour flight would be nice.
My biggest complaint about bluetooth keyboards is that every one ive ever owned would go into sleep mode after 10 to 30 minutes to save power and then when I started typing on the keyboard I would have a 5 to 10 second delay while the bluetooth reconnected Ive never had this problem with any keyboard using a proprietary protocol.
Second is the tendacy they have to do thissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss when you are typing.
I've never seen a micro usb keyboard have either of those problems
I have seen very few android tablets with a full size USB port most android phones have a single micro USB port that can be used with a usb otg adapter to connect flash drives/keyboards/mice.
I think phones are small enough. How about we work on making them last at least 1 day on a full charge?
They are so big they can afford a gigantic full page nag on every single page.
Yeah even netflix requires 4 characters. You can even use 0000 as a password if you want.
Is that a problem? We already nuked the crap out of space with the rainbow bombs back in the 60s.
I've always thought QTH locator (aka Maidenhead Locator System) was pretty neat gets you really close with few letters DM26PA13VM is a parking at the hoover dam but if you cut two letters off the end DM26PA13 only gets you to the hoover dam.
A 5MB database shouldn't be a problem considering most gps units have had maps in the 1GB+ range for many years now.
w3w however seems to provide high precision with easy to remember phrases such as "start deflects tuxedos"
And you can turn them into jokes.
Why did microsoft bring back the start menu in windows 10?
Because start deflects tuxedos. Bad-pun pish.
Still better than what paypal gives you for sending 5K through their service. For one month they would give you a free hat.. if you asked for one.
You could erase my watch list or my viewing history so I don't know what episode of house i'm on. That would be quite annoying.
Plush really how many netflix accounts can you use at the same time?
My best bet is they were going after the netflix passwords in hopes that they used the same password elsewhere.
Protip don't forget to water the flowers they dry out and become inflammable.
It's probably a good thing.
Seeing as how mozilla has lost their minds and are tearing out core features of firefox just because they can.
Lucky at&t customers your bill is only going up $5 verizon wireless is raising ours $20.
One of those cheap CHIP computers and a hdmi adapter.
The root of the problem is I have one of those iPads with only 16GB of memory. So I can only fit a small amount of my library (after apps and whatever else only about 2GB left for media) if i had gotten one of those 128GB iPads or a expandable android tablet I wouldn't have have much of an issue.
So my goal is to be able to in the fewest steps possible be able to transfer files to the oplayer app on the ipad as needed the app only supports http,samba,ftp,Dropbox and wd wifi storage.
The http support is flakey and afaik samba is considered to be unsafe to use as an online sever (not that I haven't seen it done anyway). I've never used Dropbox but I looked at the prices today it seems rather high even compared to a vps. Wd wifi storage sounds like some proprietary mess I'm not going to bother looking up.
If I get a vpn with port forwarding I think I will be able to locally host ftp as well as other services in the future if needed. Same as with a static ip.
A vps running a ftp sever and btsync would also do fine.
Afaik google drive has no ftp access and id rather not invite g+ to any other part of my life as google is clingy enough as it is gah.
I've run services before on my home connection using afraid.org dyndns with a dynamic ip back before isp switched to nat'ed addresses.
Ssh port forward through an external service? What type of external service are you talking about? A vps? Sounds slightly more difficult to setup. But last year I was tunneling my dns traffic through the connection at work as my isp intercepts dns traffic. The line at work has a uplink speed of 1mbps so its pretty useless for forwarding anything high bandwith.
Reasonable speed is a requirement I have roughly 7mbps upload at home a us based vps should be faster as my downlink speed varies depending on where I am from 12 to 40mbps but most of my stuff is in the 100 to 300MB range so even with 7mbps the transfer times are reasonable but 1mbps is friggin ridiculous.
Also I have used a wifi drive in the past but now that have 10mbps+ pretty much everywhere I just don't see the need for it as its one more thing to keep up with and charge.
Gah how do these allways end up so long.
Thank you for your advice anyway.
The reason I mention static ip is that's the only thing my isp offers that will bypass their Nat. While a permanent static ipv4 address would be handy it would also cost about the same as 10 years of vpn service.
I would hope that I will be able to get real broadband within 10 years. But att has been saying they would for the last 15 years or so.
As far as I can tell from the first page of google "incoming connections socks proxy" socks doesn't really allow for incoming connections. However I see many vpn providers support port forwarding.
I've been wanting to setup a ftp server at home for a while but I don't want to pay the extra cash for a static ip.
How would you go about it?
Vpn?
Web hosted ftp?
Or something else?
Afaik irc is still fairly popular. I figure cable tv will go first.
I have a lot more of a problem finding the time to watch the things on my watch list and deciding which one to watch when I have the time than I do looking for things to watch.
Then again I seem to spend a lot of time surfing youtube's related/recommendations i've found a lot of good songs that way.
I am using a 32" sanyo tv and a 19" polaroid tv for vga monitors.
The polaroid has two large annoyances when used as a monitor. First it doesn't align the screen unless you select it from the menu (only 3/4ths of the screen is visible) second it has a very aggressive power save function that will time out and shut off the display before the computer has finished restarting then it has to be manually switched back on.
The sanyo just has one annoyance If I enable the vga power saving feature it will switch on and off with the computer but the screen stays dim so power saving gets left turned off and the screen just sits switched on 24/7.
Has anyone made a stick-on standalone IR device scheduler about the size of an amazon dash button? I could use about 10 of them.
Yes none of this generations systems has any significant backwards compatibility.
Yes see;
http://www.techeblog.com/index...
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No but Sony and Microsoft seem to think we are.