I wouldn't invest in them. After being the first company to successfully kill someone with their self-driving car and for all the other crazy stuff the company's done, it's not a company I would trust.
At some point you run out of people wanting to buy your stuff so growth slows. Is this really a surprise? Either try something new or enjoy the profits and keep sailing forward.
I've tried using Google Maps as a Car Navigation tool and it works reasonably well but the biggest problem is that you need to be Online for it to work properly. If it worked almost as well offline, I'd pay for such a service. I know you download offline maps which is fine for in city use but they don't work too well when you go cross-country.
It's not too hard to figure out what google is tracking even if you aren't an expert. When your phone asks you to give reviews of places you've visited, it's pretty obvious that google is picking up your GPS locations and trying to find your opinion on places that you've visited. Or if you look up some item on Amazon and it follows you around page after page. (A sign that google sort of knows where you're going via Chrome...). In theory Google only uses it to analyse trends, not you as an individual but with any large corporation that has that much personal data, there's a risk of slipping.
The only issue I see with this is that he'll be fine so long as he can play and Fortnite doesn't go away. Also playing for 18 hours a day isn't healthy. No sane person works that many hours at any job even if you love it because it will most definitely hurt your health in time.
From everything I've heard it can be extremely difficult and thankless working for a large Video Game corporation. So this is hardly a surprise. It's a lot more rewarding I imagine if you're an Indy Game designer who succeeds.
Lidar hacking would actually be more difficult because it's a scanning laser system. They're not used for identifying lane markers but 3D physical objects. You'd almost need something like a holographic plate to trick a Lidar system which isn't going to be that easy to stick to the road and even then it'd basically at best be tricking Lidar to either believe there's a hole or lump in the road that's not there.
These and other funky glitches are reasons why I wouldn't really want to fully depend on the Tesla system. Google Car on the other hand uses a much larger complement of sensors and a 3D space mapping LIDAR to avoid these issues, unless you're going to go as far as placing a styrofoam lifesized car or panel onto the road which would almost fool real-life drivers as well. Google believes in the concept of making sure the system fully works instead of taking dangerous compromises.
You can't tell if someone is lying online from just text. Humans tell if people are lying by their Facial expressions, Tone of voice and body language. It's actually very hard to lie without slipping in one of these areas unless you're a psychopath or a very skilled actor. It's much harder to tell from say a chat.
Over the years I've exclusively used opensource projects such as "Tomato" to run on my routers because not only are they extremely stable but they're also extremely useful too often having more features than you normally need. And in the case of Tomato firmware (and it's sucessors) often a much nicer interface to boot too. I specifically won't buy any router that isn't supported. My last major router which handles all the traffic in my household is a monster dual 1Ghz ARM Netgear R 7000 router which I hopefully won't need to replace anytime soon.
Umm maybe that's because you can't kill what you can't see? Realistically thou of course there's an upper limit because at some rate the screen is changing faster than it is humanly possible to see.
People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?
Too many people don't understand that the climate is actually a fine tuned and self-regulated system. We're doing the equivalent of throwing dice into the clockworks which doesn't necessarily mean our extinction but the extinction of many of our fellow species. A much bigger problem is that it's highly likely to be less habitable in the future. What if say our food production or water supply was cut in half? It won't kill us but it would make the planet uncomfortable to live on.
I'm pretty careful on managing my own massive collection of Video data on my own NAS systems (Anime, personal photos, media) and various other things and I'm pretty sure I would be upset if someone got a hold of that system even if there isn't anything really incriminating on there aside from the fact that I have pirate copies of media like almost everyone else. Personal information that I give out to say register for a google account is something I'm not too upset about google having and is what I consider fair trade for the "free" services they provide.
I went through a huge mess to find a properly working LG V20 and from everything I've read it was one of the last and fastest fixable phones. It features a replacable battery, sim and microSD slots. It was held together by about 22 regular micro screws and nothing was permo glued causing Ifixit to jokingly say V stands for "Very Repairable". I hope it lasts a long time compared to the epic glued together phones of today.
4 Days admittedly might be pushing it. A Nissan Leaf has about a 24 KwH battery. It means it can run a 1000 watt microwave non-stop for 24 hours. If you're not excessively using power it should last at least 1-2 days thou.
Not many people realize how much power EVs are capable of. I own a Chevy Volt which is a mixed battery / gas generator type vehicle and so I have a view of exactly what KWatt's I use when I drive around on my dashboard. Your average house rarely exceeds 10 KWatts at peak power use. Travelling on a straight highway uses about 21 Kwatts of power while slow speed urban driving can be as low as 7 Kwatts. Volt's peak battery output is around 107 Kwatts which could easily cover several houses all at once, it's amazing to think that's how much power is used when a car is accelerating. The Volt's gas engine / generator is about 80hp which is way above any of your camping portable generators which are probably a measly 1-4 hp. The issue is how to hook up the house power safely. Volt's primary power line off the battery is about 360v DC with enough amperage to more than put you in the grave. Unless the car maker safely designed a way to tap the system, it's difficult to do.
It seems like fun unless you get nailed in the wrong place. Thou I wonder if plastic stick dueling (which is more accurate) would take the fun out of it.
I just had a hilarious thought, maybe google assumed that customers would realize there is a microphone in their product when you can talk to it? Unless they suddenly good at lip reading.
I would have thought that most employers might be interested in your ability to perform under stress as well or at least your ability to handle it? If you can't program at all when under stress, that's not going make you a very effective programmer in the real world.
Before investing your life savings into something, it would be wise to do a lot of research into what you're doing. With all the disaster stories from Bitcoin (Mt. Grox) you'd think someone would at least look into history to realize that although there might be legitimate Exchanges, some are completely unregulated scams as well.
I wonder what happened to the Chevy Volt or is it off the list because GM is discontinuing it this year. As a plugin hybrid like the Prius Prime, it's a popular car among owner and very reliable too compared to a Tesla.
At this point with all the overwhelming evidence, most would agree that Einstein is probably correct. The reason they keep doing things like this is to see if they can find something unusual or unexpected. It's often the weird / unexplained phenomena that leads to new theories or even technology that we can use. So yes, it seems redundant but it's how new things are discovered.
Umm maybe this didn't occur to the designers but sure you might be able to sap a little more power to charge the cellphone but I'll bet you'll be losing a lot more from the cellphone desperately trying to find a cell tower to connect to because you've killed it's signal reception.
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I wouldn't invest in them. After being the first company to successfully kill someone with their self-driving car and for all the other crazy stuff the company's done, it's not a company I would trust.
At some point you run out of people wanting to buy your stuff so growth slows. Is this really a surprise? Either try something new or enjoy the profits and keep sailing forward.
I've tried using Google Maps as a Car Navigation tool and it works reasonably well but the biggest problem is that you need to be Online for it to work properly. If it worked almost as well offline, I'd pay for such a service. I know you download offline maps which is fine for in city use but they don't work too well when you go cross-country.
It's not too hard to figure out what google is tracking even if you aren't an expert. When your phone asks you to give reviews of places you've visited, it's pretty obvious that google is picking up your GPS locations and trying to find your opinion on places that you've visited. Or if you look up some item on Amazon and it follows you around page after page. (A sign that google sort of knows where you're going via Chrome...). In theory Google only uses it to analyse trends, not you as an individual but with any large corporation that has that much personal data, there's a risk of slipping.
The only issue I see with this is that he'll be fine so long as he can play and Fortnite doesn't go away. Also playing for 18 hours a day isn't healthy. No sane person works that many hours at any job even if you love it because it will most definitely hurt your health in time.
From everything I've heard it can be extremely difficult and thankless working for a large Video Game corporation. So this is hardly a surprise. It's a lot more rewarding I imagine if you're an Indy Game designer who succeeds.
Lidar hacking would actually be more difficult because it's a scanning laser system. They're not used for identifying lane markers but 3D physical objects. You'd almost need something like a holographic plate to trick a Lidar system which isn't going to be that easy to stick to the road and even then it'd basically at best be tricking Lidar to either believe there's a hole or lump in the road that's not there.
These and other funky glitches are reasons why I wouldn't really want to fully depend on the Tesla system. Google Car on the other hand uses a much larger complement of sensors and a 3D space mapping LIDAR to avoid these issues, unless you're going to go as far as placing a styrofoam lifesized car or panel onto the road which would almost fool real-life drivers as well. Google believes in the concept of making sure the system fully works instead of taking dangerous compromises.
You can't tell if someone is lying online from just text. Humans tell if people are lying by their Facial expressions, Tone of voice and body language. It's actually very hard to lie without slipping in one of these areas unless you're a psychopath or a very skilled actor. It's much harder to tell from say a chat.
Over the years I've exclusively used opensource projects such as "Tomato" to run on my routers because not only are they extremely stable but they're also extremely useful too often having more features than you normally need. And in the case of Tomato firmware (and it's sucessors) often a much nicer interface to boot too. I specifically won't buy any router that isn't supported. My last major router which handles all the traffic in my household is a monster dual 1Ghz ARM Netgear R 7000 router which I hopefully won't need to replace anytime soon.
Umm maybe that's because you can't kill what you can't see? Realistically thou of course there's an upper limit because at some rate the screen is changing faster than it is humanly possible to see.
People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?
Too many people don't understand that the climate is actually a fine tuned and self-regulated system. We're doing the equivalent of throwing dice into the clockworks which doesn't necessarily mean our extinction but the extinction of many of our fellow species. A much bigger problem is that it's highly likely to be less habitable in the future. What if say our food production or water supply was cut in half? It won't kill us but it would make the planet uncomfortable to live on.
I'm pretty careful on managing my own massive collection of Video data on my own NAS systems (Anime, personal photos, media) and various other things and I'm pretty sure I would be upset if someone got a hold of that system even if there isn't anything really incriminating on there aside from the fact that I have pirate copies of media like almost everyone else. Personal information that I give out to say register for a google account is something I'm not too upset about google having and is what I consider fair trade for the "free" services they provide.
Lots of poop emoji's. Ha...
I went through a huge mess to find a properly working LG V20 and from everything I've read it was one of the last and fastest fixable phones. It features a replacable battery, sim and microSD slots. It was held together by about 22 regular micro screws and nothing was permo glued causing Ifixit to jokingly say V stands for "Very Repairable". I hope it lasts a long time compared to the epic glued together phones of today.
4 Days admittedly might be pushing it. A Nissan Leaf has about a 24 KwH battery. It means it can run a 1000 watt microwave non-stop for 24 hours. If you're not excessively using power it should last at least 1-2 days thou.
Not many people realize how much power EVs are capable of. I own a Chevy Volt which is a mixed battery / gas generator type vehicle and so I have a view of exactly what KWatt's I use when I drive around on my dashboard. Your average house rarely exceeds 10 KWatts at peak power use. Travelling on a straight highway uses about 21 Kwatts of power while slow speed urban driving can be as low as 7 Kwatts. Volt's peak battery output is around 107 Kwatts which could easily cover several houses all at once, it's amazing to think that's how much power is used when a car is accelerating. The Volt's gas engine / generator is about 80hp which is way above any of your camping portable generators which are probably a measly 1-4 hp. The issue is how to hook up the house power safely. Volt's primary power line off the battery is about 360v DC with enough amperage to more than put you in the grave. Unless the car maker safely designed a way to tap the system, it's difficult to do.
It seems like fun unless you get nailed in the wrong place. Thou I wonder if plastic stick dueling (which is more accurate) would take the fun out of it.
I just had a hilarious thought, maybe google assumed that customers would realize there is a microphone in their product when you can talk to it? Unless they suddenly good at lip reading.
I would have thought that most employers might be interested in your ability to perform under stress as well or at least your ability to handle it? If you can't program at all when under stress, that's not going make you a very effective programmer in the real world.
Before investing your life savings into something, it would be wise to do a lot of research into what you're doing. With all the disaster stories from Bitcoin (Mt. Grox) you'd think someone would at least look into history to realize that although there might be legitimate Exchanges, some are completely unregulated scams as well.
I wonder what happened to the Chevy Volt or is it off the list because GM is discontinuing it this year. As a plugin hybrid like the Prius Prime, it's a popular car among owner and very reliable too compared to a Tesla.
At this point with all the overwhelming evidence, most would agree that Einstein is probably correct. The reason they keep doing things like this is to see if they can find something unusual or unexpected. It's often the weird / unexplained phenomena that leads to new theories or even technology that we can use. So yes, it seems redundant but it's how new things are discovered.
Umm maybe this didn't occur to the designers but sure you might be able to sap a little more power to charge the cellphone but I'll bet you'll be losing a lot more from the cellphone desperately trying to find a cell tower to connect to because you've killed it's signal reception.