Can you just turn it off with a single button and toss it on the couch or chair without worrying about hard disk damage?
How well does it work with just touching the screen as an input device.
No, you are comparing laptops to tablets, like comparing a Cessna 172 to a Boeing 737.
"Yea, but you can't fly from Anchorage to Portland nonstop with 137 people, so it's not really an airplane..."
Yea, right now I'm on my laptop because I'm running BT and yep, my iPad won't BT, but since I've gotten my iPad it's used for about 85% of my casual surfing and my other laptop, the 17" gaming rig sits alone because I don't want 8 pounds on my lap.
How about Interferon being the cure for everything? That was the big thing 30 years ago when they started mass producing it.
Hell even universal cellular coverage isn't here yet, let alone augmentation connected to the internet.
15 years from now, theres not going to be any consumer or affordable sporting zooming lenses with IR. There will be big expensive Gen 3 to 5 devices in sporting good stores for the couple thousand people in North America that want them.
Is there a use for 60mph exoskeletons? Yea, thats a good way to get to work.
Not that many corporate monopolies and the ones that exist are new. For example, I'm in Alaska and there are no speed cameras, no red light cameras, nothing like Gatso in Europe.
As for the jurisdictions, yes the US has alot of them, it's how the US works legally. Cities, counties, states all deal with local issues.
Better than everything being handled at the Federal level, for instance, traffic laws for Southern California wouldn't work all that well in Alaska. Moose avoidance, chains from September to May, mandatory stopping at an accident scene.
US Army in Europe will be there with guns. I know the Russians have a ton of guns in stockpiles and even at home.
"According to Russia's gun laws, Russian citizens can buy smoothbore shotguns, such as Saiga 12, gas pistols, or revolvers shooting rubber bullets. Safe use of this arsenal for five years allows purchase of a rifle or carbine. In Moscow alone, some 400,000 people legally keep 470,000 weapons."
So between the US and Russians the EU will be fine right?
Well, since I moved to Portland in 1994, it always had higher unemployment rates than the Dakotas (where I grew up).
Rural counties in Oregon and Washington likewise had lower unemployment rates than the urban counties of the Portland metro area or Eugene-Springfield.
As for the underemployment rates, I've heard numbers of like 40-50% of the skilled technology workers in the Portland Metro area are unemployed.
Here in Alaska a skilled technology worker is in high demand, a reason why I have no worries, I could quit my job today and be in a better position in 3-6 weeks no problem.
Maybe it's better now, we looked from when my fiancee's position was unfunded in June '09, there was another spot that opened in western Arizona but the money was a 30% cut and no jobs for me in tech.
Anchorage has been a job seekers market, heck I got a 20% raise after seven months just so I'd stay another year.
The economy forced a move in 2009, it came down to the only places with jobs (I do tech, fiancee is a science teacher) were South Dakota and Alaska, both have killing weather. Alaska pays more than South Dakota and is alot prettier.
So now we have -20 to -40 winter weather to look forward to, oh and moose, they kill people up here every year.
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Does it weigh less than two pounds?
Can you just turn it off with a single button and toss it on the couch or chair without worrying about hard disk damage?
How well does it work with just touching the screen as an input device.
No, you are comparing laptops to tablets, like comparing a Cessna 172 to a Boeing 737.
"Yea, but you can't fly from Anchorage to Portland nonstop with 137 people, so it's not really an airplane..."
Yea, right now I'm on my laptop because I'm running BT and yep, my iPad won't BT, but since I've gotten my iPad it's used for about 85% of my casual surfing and my other laptop, the 17" gaming rig sits alone because I don't want 8 pounds on my lap.
I'm in North America, here you can go for hours without cell coverage.
I drove from Seattle to Alaska and we went for days of driving with no cellular coverage.
You can drive across the western US or Canada and go for hours without coverage along the major freeways.
Swarming exoskeleton commutes sound super cool. The US Federal Government should shovel 8 billion dollars into that instead of high speed rail.
Alaska has metro areas that would work just fine for traffic cameras, red light cameras, Gatso type ticketing systems on the highway.
How about Interferon being the cure for everything? That was the big thing 30 years ago when they started mass producing it.
Hell even universal cellular coverage isn't here yet, let alone augmentation connected to the internet.
15 years from now, theres not going to be any consumer or affordable sporting zooming lenses with IR. There will be big expensive Gen 3 to 5 devices in sporting good stores for the couple thousand people in North America that want them.
Is there a use for 60mph exoskeletons? Yea, thats a good way to get to work.
Not that many corporate monopolies and the ones that exist are new. For example, I'm in Alaska and there are no speed cameras, no red light cameras, nothing like Gatso in Europe.
As for the jurisdictions, yes the US has alot of them, it's how the US works legally. Cities, counties, states all deal with local issues.
Better than everything being handled at the Federal level, for instance, traffic laws for Southern California wouldn't work all that well in Alaska. Moose avoidance, chains from September to May, mandatory stopping at an accident scene.
Better training and harsh penalties for driving without a license.
Seizure of the car, fines like $500-2000 dollars.
Like in some US states, 200-500 dollar fines for texting.
No they are not.
"A war profiteer is any person or organization that improperly profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war."
Things may move but they are not machines.
A chemical reaction is not mechanical anymore than the movement of electrons down a wire is mechanical.
Drive the frost heaves of the Alaska Highway once.
Bumps do a damned good job of slowing you down or jarring the hell out of you.
And affordable reusable space shuttles were right around the corner in 1979 too.
And nuclear fusion.
And affordable supersonic jet transports.
We are far from anything that Steve Austin could do, 60 mile an hour running, 20:1 zoom lens and infrared vision in the eyes.
All it'll take is a couple bad experiments with a real MMI and it will be outlawed.
What parts of a neuron move?
Good response and you are right.
Kurzweil is too optimistic and Meyers is too pessimistic.
PZ Meyers can come across as something of a self-rightous asshat sometimes, so I'm not surprised he posted without RTFA.
But still his rebuttal to something he didn't know all the details of was interesting.
After decades of "we'll understand the brain in 5 to 10 years", I don't believe Kurzweil is going to accomplish much.
Holland and Holland has since the 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_barrel
US Army in Europe will be there with guns. I know the Russians have a ton of guns in stockpiles and even at home.
"According to Russia's gun laws, Russian citizens can buy smoothbore shotguns, such as Saiga 12, gas pistols, or revolvers shooting rubber bullets. Safe use of this arsenal for five years allows purchase of a rifle or carbine. In Moscow alone, some 400,000 people legally keep 470,000 weapons."
So between the US and Russians the EU will be fine right?
Well, since I moved to Portland in 1994, it always had higher unemployment rates than the Dakotas (where I grew up).
Rural counties in Oregon and Washington likewise had lower unemployment rates than the urban counties of the Portland metro area or Eugene-Springfield.
Here in 10 year data for South Dakota
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LASST46000003
And Oregon
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LASST41000003
Oregon has always had a higher unemployment rate.
As for the underemployment rates, I've heard numbers of like 40-50% of the skilled technology workers in the Portland Metro area are unemployed.
Here in Alaska a skilled technology worker is in high demand, a reason why I have no worries, I could quit my job today and be in a better position in 3-6 weeks no problem.
Anchorage. Big city Alaska with the 10 minute commutes.
It was always the 'skeeters, not the moose, that got to me in AK.
The skeeters are nothing to laugh at, I've never welted up from a mosquito bite like I have from Alaska mosquitos.
Maybe it's better now, we looked from when my fiancee's position was unfunded in June '09, there was another spot that opened in western Arizona but the money was a 30% cut and no jobs for me in tech.
Anchorage has been a job seekers market, heck I got a 20% raise after seven months just so I'd stay another year.
Exactly, where oh where does a super efficient city like New York get it's water?
125 miles away.
LA
223 miles away.
Yes, the economy is.
The economy forced a move in 2009, it came down to the only places with jobs (I do tech, fiancee is a science teacher) were South Dakota and Alaska, both have killing weather. Alaska pays more than South Dakota and is alot prettier.
So now we have -20 to -40 winter weather to look forward to, oh and moose, they kill people up here every year.
Really? None of the ranchers or farmers I know in the Dakotas or Wyoming employ immigrants or illegals.
Even the custom combine crews are majority American or Canadian nationals, with some South Africans coming over to work.
And urbanized states and regions have higher unemployment rates.
Which is why I had to move from a dense urban area (Portland) to a rural area (Alaska).
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area - 10.2%
Anchorage, AK Metropolitan Statistical Area - 7.2%
Lowest unemployment rates are urban centers in rural states, all places that aren't on the list for high speed rail.
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm
I'm the opposite, there are only 20-30 people on the planet with my surname and no one has my given name and surname but me.
I think there are 6-8 males in North American with my surname.
I've been to many houses of worship and sermons, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Islamic and I've never ever heard a word about masturbation.