Posts by JDX 6848 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010
I would expect that the number of times a human has to suddenly jump in to ensure safety is VERY low, otherwise it would not be deemed safe for use. I'd love to see information too, but I think we're all underestimating how smart the car is in the same way we stereotype computer speech recognition as being the way it was in the 90s.
I would not be too surprised if this is Google's 2nd "big product" after Google Search in terms of revenue.
I agree with the Judge but on this one specific defence, I'm not so sure. Isn't it sensible to stipulate that people are responsible for taking reasonable care to secure their internet access points? Otherwise we set legal precedent for a real criminal to deliberately use an unsecured router and get away with anything they want.
"Can you think of any other industry where the raw materials of the product you're buying cost 5p but they ask you to pay 2000 times that to purchase it?"
A ticket to absolutely any entertainment event. What kind of idiot expects to be able to ask for money back because they "don't like" a piece of subjective art?
People have also been saying that for years. It's undoubtedly true but a good optimiser can still beat the hell out of the compiler through knowing the context and stuff like SSE. The claim "modern compilers can't be beaten by hand coding" is simply bogus - however the truth is it doesn't normally need optimising.
Software is ALWAYS about doing what it takes to run on the target hardware. It's all well and good being nostalgic but people used to hand-optimise ASM because they had to to make it run fast enough, not due to some sense of craftsmanship.
Those old-school skills are fun to learn and good to know, but you learned them because it was necessary to get the job done.
But it could be a big marketing opportunity to say:
"due to unprecedented continued support for RockBand, we have taken the decision not to end the service as previously announced. EA takes our users' feedback very seriously and is delighted to announce the service will remain live"
I don't know it is all about the apps. Email and web-browsing would be my two main needs for a smart-phone. We've already started to see that as HTML5 matures, a whole class of native apps become unneeded... and in many cases I'd rather view the real site on my phone than the cobbled-together app anyway.
"If it comes with Half Life 3, Left 4 Dead 2/3 and Counter Strike:GO then the uptake by Valve fanbois (like me) would cause a fair few games to get a linux port."
Except all the people who really want those games - fans of the prequels - have Windows already in order to play them. So I don't know it would mean extra sales, which is really all it boils down to unless the owner _really_ wants to go off on a personal mission. Which he might, if he's allowed to.
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