Comment If they're skipping MMR (Score 5, Informative) 622
then they're putting everyone at risk for mumps and rubella, both with reproductive implications.
then they're putting everyone at risk for mumps and rubella, both with reproductive implications.
Simple. If the animal is small enough to cause no damage on impact, hit it and keep going. If it is big enough to damage the vehicle, don't hit it.
So when it sees a baby in the road, it will run over them and keep going.
Sounds good.
Autonomous cars will allow tailgating and higher speeds, with much less risk, raising the effective traffic load to 3 cars per second, which is a 50% increase in throughput, without adding more lanes, going to double-decker limos for everyone, etc.
No, they won't, outside of Ideal Driverless Car Utopia.
What happens when the car at the front slams on its brakes, and your car can't stop as fast because the pads are worn and the owner hasn't bothered to keep up with regular maintenance?
Oops. You crash. Then many of the cars behind crash too.
At highway speeds, human driven cars should be over 150 feet apart to be safe. Autonomous cars can be separated by just a few feet.
Yeah, because nothing could happen so fast that computer-driven cars a few feet apart could cause a massive pileup with thousands dead.
Is that a 1990's style, proprietary approach to an competing API?
I believe it's kind of like OpenGL, except it only runs on Windows?
Yeah, but the battery will run out two miles down the road, so it's not really a big deal.
20 million iPads means 500,000 fewer Mac sales and 19.5 million fewer sales of other computers.
Uh, no, it doesn't.
Everyone I know who owns a tablet has it in addition to other computers, and wouldn't have bought another computer if they hadn't bought a tablet.
Windows 8 is killing PC sales, not iPads.
Unify them by making them totally separate functional modes. Interesting strategy, that's for sure.
Yes. Microsoft even screwed that up.
Metro apps should have been able to run in Windows on the desktop. Instead they split the OS into two glaringly incompatible modes, and forced users to keep switching between them.
Their problem was that no-one was going to buy a Microsoft tablet without apps, and no-one was going to write apps for a tablet with no market share. So they had to push that Metro crap onto desktop users to try to get people to write apps that could then run on tablets and phones.
Maybe the project could treat it for tax purposes as one of those things where donors get something of value in return, which I believe is legal for 501(c)3s (DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT).
People like change.
They just like change that actually benefits them, not change that benefits Microsoft ('Yes, dump all your old desktop apps and run Metro apps so we can make 30% in the app store! It's the glorious new future of Window!').
Why is this so hard for fanboys to understand? Windows 8 is a disaster becuase it tries to push users in a UI they don't want. You only need to go into a computer store and try to run notepad on one of the demo Windows 8 machines to realise what a colossal fsck-up it is and why home users are avoiding it in droves.
This is for a very simple reason, without it all the big earners would simply have their pay given to them in another nation.
Uh, no.
I believe there are three or four nations on the planet who try to tax their citizens no matter where they live, and America is the only first-world nation on the list. It's one reason why the US government have made renouncing American citizenship so hard.
The start menu wasn't 'incredibly awful' until they broke it in Windows 7. Then they said 'no-one uses the start menu, so let's get rid of it'.
The only thing they need to do to fix Windows 8 is remove the GUI and put back the one from Windows 7, preferably with the Windows XP start menu.
Nah, you don't even need a majority. You just need to claim you have a majority and have friends in the media who'll mindlessly parrot whatever crap you send them.
Even if man-made climate change is false, reducing the fucking atmospheric pollution is a good damn idea.
Carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. And much of the increase in real atmospheric pollution is a result of the Greens demanding that Western nations reduce CO2 emissions, so we shipped all our factories to China, where they burn coal without a care in the world about where the pollution goes.
By the same logic, touch screens are a fail because my grandmother has difficulty bringing up the Android keyboard as she is not used to touch interfaces.
Yes. Touch screens are a lousy alternative to a real user interface.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
