Auto ownership has probably hit it's peak, self-driving cars will make the expense of individual ownership less and less appealing in general. And owning an ICE for road trips is ridiculous. Just rent the car.
When did we reach the conclusion that self driving cars is some sort of given fact?
The concept of car ownership is archaic.
Ah, that would be why literally every person over the age of 16 that I know owns at least one car.
It is interesting to note that the average age of cars on the road in the US now is at an all time high. The "pundits" wring their hands trying to discover the cause of this "anomaly", when anyone with half a brain knows the answer: People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
I would say two reasons:
1. Cars today last longer than they used to.
2. New cars today are not affordable by the lower or middle class.
(As if leaving everything broken was a valid option and he was doing us some big favor by fixing what broke.)
As a landlord I can tell you that tenants do expect things to get fixed that if they lived in the home, they would not bother to fix, and there are definitely things in my own home that I cannot afford to fix and so I leave them broken.
Can the electric grid handle charging that many cars every night?
In 2014, the United States produced 4,093 billion kilowatthours of electricity. There are 254 million cars in the United States. It takes about 30 kilowatthoursto charge a completely drained small electric vehicle. Assuming that a car needs to be charged only every other day, this represents 3.75 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every night, or over the year, about 334 times our current electrical usage.
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
It's less a "tablet mode" and more a "touchscreen mode", and no, Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if you're going to use your mouse or your touchscreen to interact with your computer before you do.
Well, that is something else entirely, then. They should call it touchscreen mode. Tablet mode sounds like you would want to use it on a tablet.
I have yet to figure out this obsession some people have with screen space. Bitching about three friggin' toolbars?
Tablets have insufficient screen space. Wasting any of it is sacrilege. I would complain about three toolbars, too. I have zero toolbars on firefox, That seems to be about the correct number.
The fastest way to launch a program is to click on a shortcut.
That's what the "metro screen" gave us. It can definitely fit more shortcuts on the screen than win7's little "All Programs" scrolly section where you can hunt for the one you want.
I have to assume you are being sarcastic since it is pretty clearly impossible that the screen could fit more of the gigantic icons that constituted metro, than to fit a couple of words in standard font and which also allows nesting of structures.
I know this is completely anecdotal and very short-term data, but for the three developers we upgraded to 10 last night they haven't had a crash yet or even had to reboot because Windows becomes too slow to use. We typically reboot three times a day, so assuming they can make it another couple hours before they reboot tonight, that means they will have cut the number of reboots per day by a third! That is signification since it usually takes us almost an hour to get VisualStudio, SQL server, IIS, etc. back up and running. For our typical ten hour work day, that's three hours per day wasted! If we can cut that to one hour, we've saved ten hours per week. I'm hoping 10 remains working as well as it has so far!
That's pretty bad. If I have to reboot at all during the day I assume something is seriously wrong with the computer. I am on Windows 7, which is fairly stable. At home, I don't ever reboot Windows 7. It runs until the stupid updates makes it reboot. It literally never gets slow or crashes.
I did not expect to come here and fine someone complaining about how great Windows 8 is.
Whenever a new version of Windows comes out, the previous version is ALWAYS better, no matter how crappy the previous version was.
Who the hell modded this clown up?
There is a tablet mode, which you failed to figure out!
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
So you follow the drone, remaining on public property and filming with your phone. If it lands on private property, like someone's yard, you call the cops to come to that location. If it lands on public property, like a park, you film the person or people that recover it and call the cops to come to that location.
Yeah, that is the annoying thing. The drone operator thinks it is fine to fly over private property and film whatever he wants to film, but when chasing it down, you can't go on private property because it is trespassing when non-drone owners do it.
That is exactly clear view.
The legal example is a neighbor climbing a tree to see over your fence, and over the curtain that protected the ground-level view. That is legal.
A drone is more like the neighbor installing a tree that wasn't there before so that they could climb it and look in your window. In fact, the drone is more like someone putting in a 12 foot stepladder so they can climb up and look in your window.
So the shooter will have to prove that the firing of his weapon was "immediately necessary" to prevent the trespass, and he would have to prove that the pilot *knew* he was trespassing.
How could he possibly NOT know that he was trespassing? As soon as his drone left his own yard he was trespassing. Is stupidity now an excuse for disobeying the law?
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
