Betteridge's law of headlines says no and the summary pretty much nails it.
The bubble shape maximizes the amount of internal volume given an amount of materials, or minimizes the amount of materials needed to make a car with a given volume. Take a bubble and attach crumple zones front and back and you have the shape of a typical car. I suppose the idea is that these self-driving cars won't need crumple zones. We'll see about that...
Well, Homeland Security... just that name is chilling.
Staatssicherheit meant "security of the state" where "state" refered to the government, so it really meant "security of the government". The main purpose was probably to make sure the East Germany stayed loyal to the Kremlin.
With net neutrality, the incentive for trying such ideas will be nonexistent.
As long as there is a significant bottleneck somewhere in the last mile or so (typically 4G/LTE or crowded WiFi) the incentive for efficient use of the available bandwidth will remain huge, regardless of politics.
The thing that might hamper development is if one company manages to get a monopoly on the creative content so that everyone have to use their service regardless of how shitty it performs.
I'm sure we've been over this a hundred times already int he thread, but blaming it on crazy is problematic for a couple of reasons:
1. It is usually based on circular reasoning. "Only crazy people commit murder, therefore a murderer is always crazy, therefore the problem with murder is crazy."
2. It puts the spotlight on the vast majority of crazy people who are in fact peaceful.
I skimmed his "manifesto" and I think this shooting spree could have been prevented if the US law dictated that people who buy a weapon have to be able to prove that they have legitimate use for that weapon and the means to store it safely and securely. Rodgers would probably have failed on both counts. I doubt he would have been able to join and maintain a membership in a sports shooting club, because he was basically the worlds greatest whiny quitter. I frankly doubt the guy ever once made an honest and sustained attempt to get a woman interested in him.
I wonder how all this will affect my upcoming book Why Jeff Bezos Is More Awesome Than Elon Musk (working title).
Sure, so an accident is often defined as an incident where a person reported any sort of injury. It's a lot harder to get comparable statistics on that. It's easy to make a list of every person who has died in a car, but it's not easy to list every sprained thumb.
The total accident rate nowadays is roughly on the order of one accident per 1M miles driven (there are on the order of 100 accidents per fatal accident), so we could expect the Google car to have its first minor accident soon if it is exactly on par with the average human driver, assuming they have the car drive an average traffic pattern and don't cancel their tests during difficult weather conditions or difficult traffic conditions. In reality they're not going to do that. It would be grossly irresponsible to do that sort of testing before they feel the car is as good as human drivers in virtually all imaginable traffic situations.
Traffic tickets are even harder to compare since it's a human making a judgement call depending on lots of factors.
Nah, 700k miles is nothing. Human drivers drive >70M miles between fatal accidents, and that's on average. Imagine how far highly trained drivers drive between fatal accidents. Humans are actually pretty good at driving!
Come back when the Google car has driven a few billion miles and we'll have a look at the statistics.
A small level of radiation is one thing; it's the dihydrogen monoxide I worry about.
Don't worry, TFA says that it's totally free of chemicals.
These people are parasites, and leeches, whose evasion is helping to drive UP the cost for everybody else.
Public transportation is en expensive service, mostly subsidized through taxes, these hypocritical parasites help make it that much more expensive for everybody else.
I hope the Swedish authorities take an idea that was floated when the same was about to happen in Denmark.
The fines the "organization" pay, are to be treated as taxable income.
And give them free advertisement in the form of news coverage and other attention?
Planka.nu state that they have 600 members in the Stockholm metro area. That's about 0.03% of the population and perhaps 0.1% of daily transit travelers. They also state that all of their surplus revenue goes towards flyers and stickers and other means of spreading the word. Advertisement is hard, especially when you're barred from using billboards and other conventional outlets.
Nothing to eat, your kids are dying of some horrible disease and you can't the medicine they need, but the datacomm is improving every day! I really, really hate to admit it, but for once Bill Gates is right.
Right about what? Bill Gates has been one of the main public proponents of the importance of cheap smartphones and cellular networks in the poorest countries. If you don't have reasonably fast and reliable communication technology you can't solve any of the other problems.
For example rail lines and steam engines pretty much solved the communications problem in western Europe and North America in the 19:th century, along with telegraph lines for shorter messages.
No task can be accomplished in a single CPU cycle.
A human can actually do something in a second, like move or talk.
Uhhh, CPUs can not only do one task per cycle, a lot of them can do two if they have a fused add/multiply instruction. Add in dual FPUs and you could conceivably do four or more tasks per clock cycle. They can also do multi billion tasks per second as most CPUs operate with gigahertz clocks.
True, but I think the GP was probably thinking about latency and not about throughput.
Okay, but in this case the bug had little to do with the algorithm. The bug was triggered unconditionally for every input.
Sure would like to git me some of them quantum nano-thingys and their negative frequencies! (Um. uh, just whut is a negative frequency?)
Well, the government and the scientific establishment want you to think that it's merely a mathematical concept used in frequency analysis...
Oh, the government is way beyond HAARP now. Some of the chemtrails that they spew out are probably seeded with quantum nano transmitters that inject negative frequencies directly into the ionosphere...
Why do people still pay money for software performing most basic tasks like Word 365? Nowadays, they have millions of alternatives.
Well, a free Office suite is only free to your business if your employees are as well trained in that suite as they are in Microsoft Office.
I think a lot of people are switching to OpenOffice and LibreOffice on their home machines, but they don't use their Office apps as intensively in the home as they do at work so they don't learn everything they need to do at work.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
