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Comment Re:Are we devolving back to hieroglyphics? (Score 1) 226

Really? Really? Because I am familiar enough with several different alphabets, and they all have problems. English spelling (for example) is only somewhat related to pronunciation.

Do you have some examples? AFAICT English spelling is tied extremely close to pronunciation for the most part. The only exceptions I can think of are when words from other languages are converted to English and people decide they need to use letters to make sounds the letters don't normally make.

Comment Re:500 dates!!? (Score 1) 170

Take it a step further and don't pay for the first date at all. Still keep it cheap so that you're not using them for $$$, if they didn't bring any money because they were just using you then you can still pay, and if there is a next time then go somewhere a little nicer and pay. After that try to keep it alternating who pays so that nobody is getting used for money.

Comment Re: What about pedestrians? (Score 2) 264

If it doesn't make sense to you then it might be that you're not considering that uber/lyft are already preparing to have fleets of driverless cars so the majority of cars would be either be run by businesses or possibly even government owned. It would be incredibly cheap and quick to pay with NFC to travel short distances and the streets would be full of driverless taxis to take you anywhere. With the current driver operated cars nobody really considers them to go a few blocks even if they're tired or walking or w/e because the wait to get a ride far outweighs the small convenience of it but if nearly every car is a driverless taxi then people would use them to go near or far.

Comment Re: What about pedestrians? (Score 1) 264

There are also tunnels which are more aesthetically pleasing above ground but afaik they are even more expensive and have the added downside of being dangerous since they are out of sight (ie. you walk down into one and someone robs/hurts you).

During the transition to driverless cars I think updating the existing push buttons at crosswalks to communicate pedestrians' desire to cross to the car network along with having the cars identify pedestrians appearing to be about to cross at intersections without lights will be needed, but eventually pedestrian crossing could be completely eliminated since anyone could just hop in a driverless car and go a couple blocks away instead of walking and if you wanted to go for a walk/run then you would take a driverless car to a nearby park or gym.

Comment Re: Great but when is Cyanogen going to become rea (Score 1) 54

The two of you have "glass half empty vs half full" arguments. On devices supported by Cyanogenmod, they usually provide more recent version of Android than stock ROM's do, BUT usually they need to find updated devices drivers out of updated stock ROM's for other phones with the same hardware as yours. Usually after 2-3 years no manufacturer provides updates and so without updated device drivers, support totally dies off. This is also the reason why there are delays before older phones are updated for newer OS's, old hardware is usually the last to get updates rolled out from the manufacturers which means delayed device drivers.

Comment Re:First thought... (Score 2) 134

Part of it is that Google is cherry-picking the easiest locations to deploy fiber in because they already have the infrastructure (underground conduit, possibly with dark fiber already in it) ready to go and a local government that isn't bound by contracts to the existing monopolies. The conditions that make it easy for Google to deploy fiber also make it easy for other ISP's to as well but the existing ISP only do it when they are threatened with the loss of business that Google Fiber presents.

Sonic.net is an independent ISP that has been slowly rolling out fiber to the SF Bay Area even before Google Fiber started but it has been incredibly slow because they only do it to areas where they have high customer density AND all the other ideal conditions. It's difficult to tell how much of it depends on existing infrastructure VS regulatory red tape VS existing customer base.

Comment Actual Editors (Score 1) 1839

Someone needs to proofread the terribly written submissions and actually edit them to be better grammatically like what used to happen here in the 90's. For the past 10 years stories have been posted with what appears to have been zero proofreading and editing.

Comment Remote surgery over 5G wireless? (Score 1) 103

First of all, remote surgery is stupid. Having a remote doctor advising while a local doctor does the procedure is all fine and good, but having some expensive robot do the work that a remote doctor tells it to do is dumb for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being cost. How many hospitals would waste money on a remote surgery robot rather than hiring more doctors or better doctors...

Assuming that remote surgery robots ever did become popular, why the fuck would they even consider connecting them over any form of wireless communication? No matter what codecs or protocols you used they would still be susceptible to frequency jamming. I can't imagine any scenario where a surgery robot would need to be located somewhere without a stable and secure wired connection where it would still have a 5G connection.

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