It would be much more spectacular...
If they were 'Millennium Falcon'-style drones.
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Exactly. Every bloody episode of Star Trek I watch, there's SOMETHING goes wrong with the power. It's always "Divert all power from life support to maintain the shields", "There's an unexplained power drain in the EPS conduit on deck 11", "We're recalibrating the dilithium chamber and there's only minimal power for the next 22 hours", "The alien entity is draining our power through the shields, Captain!", "Re-routing the energy flow matrix to stabilise the warp field could damage the plasma injectors"
If the guy who turns up to fit it is wearing a red shirt, I'm outta there!
the world will never see the self-driving car on the public roads.
How many on this comment thread are coders? And how many posts has it taken to thoroughly muddy the waters of what the actual codified rules of the road actually state? And was there any kind of conclusion reached?
And that's JUST for the traffic lights.
I was in Swansea earlier this year. Don't think I hit Kingsway. I did find an incredible set of roads which appeared to be built around disused railway viaducts and being roundaboutted like crazy to marry up with some horrendous quantity of new housing.
That video in the news piece is utterly shit, isn't it? I expected a series of historical photographs and maybe the odd scene from a film made on that road, not 2 minutes of video taken on the same day from a variety of different angles which jump cuts to the side of a cinema for some reason.
Which is why the OS map app needs the ability to drop a destination pin, waypoint pins and produce orienteering details from your current location including straight line gradient and obstacle warnings between waypoints.
There are plenty of apps for big screen computers that let you set up routes before hand and display them on os maps but the os app still needs to handle those better.
Relying on the phone? Stupid. Expecting a convenient aid to work right? Reasonable.
You could take a GPS device with you, like a Garmin. Good or bad advice?
Don't rely on just a map alone. That's your backup if you like. If you're teaching map craft then the phone's your backup.
Unfortunately if you, like me, swap between Aerial view and downloaded explorer map*, then by going back to the offline maps through that menu screen resets the scaling and centring of the map.
The premise behind this new app is that the device will have an always on connection, which is utterly idiotic given the likely use case. If you have always on, there are dozens of far better, far cheaper apps and maps to use. If you buy a paper map, they give you a download map code included now. It's very handy. But as you zoom in and out, they don't cache all the other scales of map within that downloaded map's coverage area, so you get a 5" view of a very detailed map indeed, and if you are in the mountains with no signal, you can't zoom out, pan, then zoom in. The zoomed out view is ultra lo-res and useless for placing an orienteering flag on base camp which is about 50" of screen size away. The system doesn't even give you a bearing from where you are to a dropped orienteering pin so you can put the phone away in the pouring rain and use a simple compass to get closer to where you're going.
It's utterly useless in the current form. Might as well use Google Maps. Or even Apple Maps. at least that take you to new and surprising places.
I've asked them if they'll make the old version available whilst they sort out this new one.
*very useful for checking if the farm a mile away you can see nestling in the trees with a blue tarp over the barn and the pink walls is the same as the now you think it is on the map.
Had exactly the same thought with the front of Euston station. And I wouldn't get close in to the building as although shards might go over the top, full panels of safety glass suddenly changing shape and falling free of their frames can come down like guillotines.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/12/19/cannabis-farms-causing-house-fires
Given the fire danger from dodgy electrics in these places compared to the risk of a helicopter dropping out of the sky on your house... really. This kind of "Henny Penny" thinking will have people glueing themselves to the roofs of tube trains next.
Nottingham has a reasonable amount of research going on. Just wait until they try to tackle THAT hot potato.
"Yeah, I need 500Gbps sustained with no packet loss, 4PB of object storage, a 200TB NVMe cache, 3,000 processing cores and a 15,000 GPU cores with ECC DRAM of course... no, that's just for my research group. How much is that, please?"
Customer satisfaction is hard to rate. I never believe ours. You see people tend to use satisfaction questionnaires as a means to express displeasure, but not necessarily when things went as could be expected. So you have to apply a correction factor for that tendency, calculated from response rate.
But a very large sign outside the door of a building on a campus announced this was the home of the
Department of
Hard Asset
Management
A caged delivery arrived one day and was left near the door. A box of long fixings for something or other stuck out of the side of the cage and obscured the last two characters of the second line.