I wonder what good they think that will do? Its not going to offend the car, or cause it to retaliate. Its also not going to stop progress on this front.

*Life

I wish there was an edit button :/

"How many millions of dollars does it take to build a clock that will keep time for 10,000 years?"

42

"PM1643, why aren't you at your post? PM1643, do you copy?"

"Hydra...without the scary red skull looking guy."

Are you *sure*? Have you seen what Mr. Zuckerberg looks like when he takes his face off?

Hail Facebook!

[just kidding, of course]

That isn't the only problem, though. What about collecting / remitting taxes? Is a small business supposed to file taxes in 50 different states (well, 50 minus the ones that don't have a sales tax)? What about states where the tax varies by county and city? Its something a company like Amazon could handle, but smaller mom and pop shops likely couldn't.

There are likely other 'problems' / issues to be determined besides these. It makes things messy, for sure.

I've been considering a smart watch to go along with my Android phone for some time, but the quality and functionality of many seem to be poor (or at least scored lower than I'd like by reviewers). Since it sounds like you've got a lot of experience with this, may I ask what brand and model of smart watch you use currently? Or what you would recommend, if you do not currently own what you consider to be the best option?

I don't worry about Google stealing my identity, though. On the other hand, a backdoor could be abused by malware authors - even if the company that built it isn't doing anything too horrible.

A quick look over the article didn't seem to name phones or brands, but this is one of the reasons I stick to Google's Nexus / Pixel devices. I am hoping that they do a good job of keeping third party stuff off their phones. 'Better the devil you know' and all that sort of stuff.

The big difference here, and something that most Quadro cards don't even have, is the high double-precision (FP64) performance. The original Titan had good performance there too, for its time, but later Titans were more like the GeForce cards: they had crippled FP64. Most Quadro cards do as well, though there have been some of the top-end models that had good FP64. Tesla cards are normally the ones that specialize in that, but those are far more expensive than the Titan V and they don't have video outputs. They also often require specialized cooling. Being able to bring massive FP64 performance to a desktop / workstation will be really good for some users!

The addition of Tensor Cores in Volta (and thus the Titan V) could also be nice... but not much uses that yet. It will likely be restricted to inference engines, but being able to test those quickly without additional hardware could be handy.

For more 'normal' applications, the Titan V also does really well with GPU based rendering. Maybe not well enough to justify the price, but if you need the most performance from just 1-2 cards (in a compact system, for example) it is a great performer. See the results in this article from V-Ray and Furryball:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/b...

Razer

Though Lenovo makes great laptops too

Also... since when is Chromebook a brand? That is a type of laptop, based on the OS it runs. Poor choice to include here, based on the other options being actual manufacturers.

Not me! I was going to post a similar response, but figured it better to just reply to yours.

I did return two small (~$10) items to Amazon last month, but those were the only things I've returned in recent memory... and I've probably bought 100 or more items on Amazon since the last time I returned anything before that.

1/3rd feels absurdly high to me, but then again even the 9% for brick-and-mortar stores that the summary quotes seems crazy high. I maybe return 1-3% of items bought in stores, and most of the time it is an exchange because something was broken or the wrong size rather than a refund.

Sadly, I am inclined to agree with you. My wife has had two LG phones (G2 and G4, I believe) and neither was very good. Both had to be retired well before what I consider normal for a smart phone (2-3 years of use, ideally).

I got the Pixel 2 XL, and while I think I am going to stick with it I have decided that we won't be getting any more LG (branded or manufactured) phones going forward. There is so much that is great about the Pixel 2 XL, but the screen is lower quality than my 3 year old Nexus 6 (made by Motorola)... and in some ways, worse than the Moto X and Galaxy Nexus phones I had before that.

Right, because no one ever died in car accidents before the invention of the cell phone.

Now mind you, I don't know that I liked the idea of V2V communication anyway. It sounds cool in theory, but the more complex we make all these systems the more chances there are for people to manipulate things to cause harm. If self-driving cars depend on such technology, then messing with it could cause as many problems as it solves. I'd prefer that each self-driving car be able to do its job without inter-car communication, which seems doable given the way that tech is evolving today.

My Pixel 2 XL yesterday, and turning that off was one of the first things I did :)

I've got a lot of thoughts about this phone, having read so much ahead of time and now having hands-on experience. If it just had the same quality of screen as the other Android phones I've owned (all Samsung-built AMOLED in the last 8 years) then I'd be very happy, despite some other oddities about the size and aspect ratio. But man, the screen... I just don't know yet. Very glad to have 15 days to decide.

Interesting - thank you for sharing that video! I couldn't make out what he said he was seeing on the 2 XL, but I don't doubt him. However, it looks to me like the same grey image at 100% brightness on the 2 XL is a LOT lighter / brighter looking than it is on the V30. Compare at about 2 minutes in (for the 2 XL) versus 4:15 for the V30 and you will see what I mean.

In my own tests (just today) with my Nexus 6, I cannot see burn-in on black or dark grey images, but as things get closer to light grey or white (or just plain brighter) it starts to become visible. I wonder if the V30 is calibrated to be darker, even on max brightness? Or if the color settings they use (which are clearly different from Google's) make it less visible?

I'm going to have to think hard about this. My 2 XL has already shipped, so at this point there is no reason not to open it and try it out for myself... but without knowing how bad the burn-in could get over the course of 2-3 years... I'll have to really ponder whether it is worth the risk. Thank you for your input!