It's not. Software subscriptions are a relatively new thing. For a long time before this madness came around, software companies made money hand-over-fist by just selling software in the normal way.
This is a highly suboptimal solution to a problem that doesn't have to exist. If the application as it exists meets my needs, but an update makes it worse, I should be able to keep using the good one.
If I just buy the application rather than license it, it won't change unless I choose for it to by buying the next version. That is ideal.
There are a number of reasons why I avoid software subscriptions, but this is one of the biggest ones.
The odds of this being effective are very, very low. Low enough that I'll still avoid being near anyone wearing a pair of spy glasses regardless of whether or not an LED is glowing.
I disagree. A decent response would have been for the car to simply refuse to continue the ride rather than kidnapping the ne'er-do-wells.
That Waymo did this means that the hesitations I had about using the service are amplified by a few orders of magnitude. I'm not willing to risk someone at Waymo (or, worse, a machine at Waymo) making the wrong call and kidnapping me by mistake.
My social circle has been talking a lot about this problem and question. I have no idea what's next, but suspect it's going to be more balkanization. My friend group has been moving more and more to a private, invite-only, internet replacement and that includes the web.
For us, there is no other realistic option. The web is, as you say, basically dead for noncommercial use, and it's not clear how (or if it's possible) to use the public internet in a safe and private way anymore.
The defining feature of hackers and hacking culture is not computers (hackerdom is larger than, and predates, computers), but curiosity. The drive to know how things actually work.
While there are bad companies to work for of any size, in my experience, small companies tend to be much more enjoyable and meaningful to work for.
But "small company" doesn't have to mean "startup". I'd be unlikely to work for a startup that isn't mine. Fortunately, most small companies aren't startups.
> my point was that for some reason people refuse to consider new projects if ur not well known in the community
You don't need them to.
If your goal is to get people to join you on a project, then just start doing the project on your own. If you're excited by it, you'll talk about it enough that you'll start to naturally find others who are excited by it as well.
> Try having a five-minute conversation with a co-worker where you don't ask a single question and absolutely refuse to complain about anything. I reckon you will last about forty seconds before the silence becomes so suffocating that you panic and blurt out, "So... crazy weather we're having, right?"
You'd reckon wrong. Although my experience talking with people made me predict that this isn't the way it goes, I've experimented three times this morning alone and found no difficulty in doing this at all.
My experience is that while yes, a large percentage of conversations consist of questioning (which is a great thing!) and complaining, there still remains a large proportion of conversation that isn't either of those things. Other things that we tend to express in conversation is praise and appreciation, expressions of wonder, relating interesting things we've experienced, passing along things we've learned, etc.
To say that people only ever say two things to each other is easily disprovable simply by talking with a variety of people.
> I think there is a real market for modding news cars to have physical buttons again.
I sure hope so. I can avoid this whole touchscreen madness by only buying older cars, but there's a chance that I'll outlive the availability of cars that are old enough.
And when you're capturing images of people without their informed consent, it's not even "your data". You're just a conduit through which these companies spy on unconsenting others.
This is a much larger problem with these spy glasses than pervs perving on women.
True, but my point is that what's being reported is a continuation of a solid trend that has been going on before any Trump people were anywhere near.
The FBI is certainly not trustworthy, but in this case what they're saying is in line with what the normal expectation would have been. I believe the stat because it's the least surprising, not because the FBI said it was so.