I'm severely pissed off at Obama for all the campaign promises he reneged on (Gitmo, the wars, campaign reform, regulatory reform...I could go on and on and on)
It's not really fair to be "severely pissed off" at Obama over those issues, none of which he can do much about with a congress that opposes and obstructs his efforts to do anything at all.
People are bitching about solar power too? No wonder conservatives say that environmentalists want to turn back the clock on civilization.
I think a lot of people on
Anyone else remember all the hype 15 years ago about how we'd all be running Java thin client machines by the year 2000? Pundits have been calling for the PC to die for the past 15 years, half the platform's life!
Yes, I do. I remember Larry Ellison (I think) trying to push diskless "Net PCs" back in the late 90's. No-one wanted them then, and I don't think they'll really do that much better (re: storing all of everyone's data) now.
Or if the Republican party is down to just religious psychopaths and undereducated xenophobes.
I think you've got it!
I just don't get it. Here we have the teabaggers trying to RUIN the credit rating of this country, which will cause rampant inflation, yet I still hear poor folks saying "It is Obama's fault".
Because the Fox News crowd has convinced poor conservatives that to vote democrat is to support the evil Socialist, Gay, Junkie, non-White, non-male, Atheist, etc. etc. etc. Lib'rals. And supporting the Lib'rals would be the end of the world for these folks...
With a new technology like this there is going to be some insurance and liability issues to resolve.
Indeed, and it is insurance companies that will eventually make automated driving the default option by pricing "manual" driving insurance through the roof.
without someone to blame or punish people will feel very cheated if a robot driver kills or injures a human.
Eventually, "feelings" will not matter. Money, w.r.t. gains in safety & efficiency, will outweigh everything, as it usually does.
Or do Apple have a policy of taking phones you report as vulnerable to malware and replacing them with the next model up?
Not an iPhone, but when my iMac G5 died a few years ago, after they'd been EOL'ed but before my Applecare had expired, Apple replaced it with an Intel iMac. This wasn't the first option, i.e. they tried swapping the mobo, etc., but replacement + upgrades do happen.
No idea about streaming availability outside the UK though.
BBC in general is missing out on non-UK revenue by trying (in vain) to limit consumption to UK tax-paying folks only. Outside the UK they could charge fees/subscriptions, and enjoy additional revenue from people like me that like their content but live in, say, the USA. The current situation is lame. (End of rant.)
To program is to be.
