And its easy to espouse this nonsense when you're already a 1%'er and don't have to worry about paying the mortgage and feed the family.
Who actually pushes on the screen gently, normal, and hard? Probably statistically insignificant. Tap screen, expect response.
Remember who else "solved" this problem? Sony, with the PS2 controller. The face buttons were analog, so you could go easy on the gas and brake in Ridge Racer & GT. Turns out, the L2/R2 triggers were much more effective for analog control. Gamers (like me) just mash the face buttons. Using your ring and pinky fingers plus your thumb is WAY more difficult versus using your index or middle fingers plus your palm to generate the analog signal.
I'm certainly not against economic development, but don't become a serf to corporatism.
In that case, your information goes to advertisors instead of hackers. Not sure who I would trust more.The person who wants your eyeballs, to sell you stuff and your information, to make money, or the hacker? Ha! (...who also wants to sell your information and make money.)
So you'll have a couple of maintenance folks and data-center geeks on a from-the-mainland shift-rotation schedule. The rich folks may stop by in their yacht once a year. They may not even stop in to check on their money-launde...er, offshore accounts.
Climate refugees...hahaha! Waste. Of. Money.
Oh, and the book: "Seasteading -- How Floating Nations Will Restore The Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, And Liberate Humanity from Politicians." Could the title be any more self-aggrandizing? These floating concrete blocks would accomplish nothing of these things. At least classic homesteading had natural resources and an available trading environment to work with.
You know, the European Union went into effect in 1993, 24y ago. I'm sure NOTHING has changed in France since that happened...
Read more here, wikipedia here, the Toolkits here, and the Sony handsets here. And if you are enough of a hardware hacker, there are numerous other handsets to try it on.
Is it 100% complete? Almost, just missing a few sensors and bluetooth, but its sure better than starting from scratch.
There are a few of you around that are anti-Sony or got burned on the Jolla tablet and won't consider this. So have fun with your spy gizmo from Apple or Google.
If you're going to do a study on automobile infotainment systems, you need a broader set of data: 46 people with 7 types of systems, 2 of which are very uncommon. This dataset sounds like they just asked around their office and of the 46 people that work there, only 7 employees had any sort of infotainment system, 3 being the bosses.
Want to do this study right? Go rent 10-12 cars with the various systems, park them at Walmart one day and survey, park them at the mall the next day and survey, park them at the fancy downtown shopping district and survey, and then hold a private dinner for the upper-class folks and survey. 4 distinct groups and hundreds or thousands of data points.
Be sure to include systems that actually are used: Toyota Entune, Ford Sync, GM/Chevrolet Intellilink/MyLink, Honda HondaLink, Dodge/Chrysler Uconnect, Nissan NissanConnect, Mazda, Volkswagen, BMW ConnectedDrive, Mercedes Comand, and Cadillac CUE.
Come on, how many people actually have a Porsche with an infotainment, or a Tesla? Seriously, Ford sold twice as many Fiesta's in the US last year than Tesla has sold total.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.