In a word; Cost. I assume you are talking about a large rotating ring of some sort. It's expensive to develop and build such a system. Then due to the size required, it's expensive to put all of the pieces into orbit and assemble it. It's going to be expensive to maintain it as well. Then there are all of technical issues.
Other than the whole "time travel" angle, Terminator pretty much counts as the only possible outcome of us developing a "true" AI - at least, any AI of (initially) comparable intelligence to a human. It will quickly evolve to something out of our control, and at that point will either kill us all as a threat, or keep us as pets.
I think you have oversimplified this a bit too much. It's most likely that AI will not think anything like humans. If something like Skynet developed spontaneously within the internet, it probably wouldn't even notice us. It most likely wouldn't even notice the physical world for that matter.
If we designed the AI to behave like another "race" of humans, or ethnic group, then it's pretty likely they would eventually decide to go to war with us over resources. We do tend to try to segregate ourselves from those that are different (even slightly), and fight over something or another.
That being said, I fail to see the reason why such an AI would be, even remotely, compelled to maintain the human form. Even a remotely intelligent AI would design war machines with more than a single pair of eyes. As durable, strong and stable as terminators are portrayed, there's little need for them to fire virtually any weapon using both hands. So having more arms and hands to fire weapons would also make much more sense. It's probably smart to have appendages to utilize weapons that are on a battlefield, but it would also make more sense to have built in armaments too.
I would guess that such an AI would be more likely to keep some number of humans around as slaves rather than pets. We are pretty adaptable for odd tasks. So for tasks that unexpectedly arise, it would probably make sense to have some of us around rather than needing to design a use specific bot.
That being said, why would it have to evolve to something out of our control? Presumably the creators will build in limitations. You're also assuming that some sort of evolution will even be possible. It may evolve and decide that the changes are a form of corruption and disallow the changes.
It's more likely that it would go to war with us because communications with humans are so damn annoyingly slow and erratic.
The real world isn't a Michael Bay movie. Besides, Stinger missiles are hypersonic.
Shooting this plane down with a Stinger sounds like something from a Michael Bay movie. A Stinger is a surface-to-air missile, not air-to-air, with the exception of the AIM-92 ATAS variants.But those are on helicopters and drones, so it's not likely to engage this aircraft anyhow. A Stinger also has a max speed of mach 2.5, which is not hypersonic (mach 5.5). Stingers have a max ceiling of 10,000 feet and aren't designed to hit anything approaching at mach 1 or faster.
I don't think the US has any hypersonic AAM's at this point. The AIM-54 Phoenix was a long range mach 5 missile, but has been retired along with the F-14. The AIM-120 AMRAAM and current AIM-7 Sparrows are mach 4.
All the mercury switches your little terrorist hands can handle for $1.89 ea plus $1.99 shipping. Thank golly none of the terrorists know about that site
Yes, but those will have a very easy to search record. Hell, Frys is probably required to report they were purchased. It would actually take more than a search of a database to track down scavenged switches. Not that it would be difficult to purchase them anonymously, but the authorities hate having to do extra work. In the post 9/11 world, that's practically a crime.
I can't say I RTFA, but when the police shut down the street and show up at your front door with the bomb squad, most people don't realize they have the right to ask for a warrant.
This hasn't stopped politicians so far. You can go on line and find video of damn near any one of them claiming to fully support an idea and then in a different campaign claiming that same idea will be the end of civilization as we know it and (s)he would never support such a thing.
Sorry for the bad news, VR is a niche and will never take off as a mainstream thing in gaming
It's a niche market currently. As soon as more goggles (or whatever they'll be called) become available, and especially low cost versions become available, that will change. At that point they will be able to be used for more than just gaming. Who wouldn't want to be able to carry around their own movie screen? I'm sure some sort of WiFi (HDMI wireless or something) screen sharing won't be too far behind at that point either.
History is full of people saying things will fail that are now commonplace. How many people said the iPod or iPad would be a flop? People said the same about the GUI, homeless carriage, and any number of things.
If you don't have the capital to invest in purchasing your own stuff and switching over, however, it seems like this is a reasonable option.
Depending on the size of the site, it should be possible to replace some portion of the lights at a time. You could even do the first round of replacements and then use the savings from the next (couple) of electric bills to replace the next round of lamps and continue to do so until all have been updated.
Of course in the real world the first round of lights would be replaced and the savings from that would go directly to the CEO's quarterly bonus I suppose.
Impact of build-up during a single flight surely falls below the point where applying and maintaining a fancy coating is cheaper than having Jose hos-e off the bugs.
I can imagine a flight out of Orlando Florida in August could easily make this worthwhile. I'm not sure if speed makes any actual difference for the number of bugs that get hit, but it always seemed like I had a lot more bugs splattered on my car when I drove faster. If so, a plane certainly hits higher speeds than I have in a car.
I wonder if this will eliminate the need to deice planes in the winter. Or if will cause issues with it repelling the deicing fluid they spray on the planes when it's cold.
I'm guessing you're younger than I am, as Three Mile Island is what did in nuclear power in the US. The movie, The China Syndrome coming out at th he same time even gave the media a catchy term to go with it. Chernobyl was just more proof for the masses to realize how correct they were in their fears. Or that's what the no nuke crowd successfully told everyone.
If Amazon is going to stop selling the Confederate battle flag, then why are they still selling the Japanese battle flag? How many millions of Chinese citizens died under this flag?
How may native Americans died under the 26 star American flag? There were at least 12 million native Americans killed in the US under various iterations of the American flag. Why should that still be sold by Amazon? Oh yeah, because there's less than a quarter million of them left to complain.
Someone can be offended by just about anything on the planet. This is just getting silly.
Look, the Confederate flag means slavery, hatred, bigotry and treason against the USA.
Does it? I was born in the northeast and am now located in the south. Race riots were in full swing when I was a kid. I have no love for the Confederate anything and don't feel it should be flown on federal buildings, and probably not state buildings either. But if someone wants to purchase one, then they damn well should be allowed to.
I don't hang out with racists, so I don't know what that flag represents to everyone who chooses to display it. If they claim it's not due to racism, then I'm inclined to believe it. The civil war is over and the south lost. I wasn't around 150 years ago, so I'll reserve judgement on what it was over. But if someone feels it simply represents their heritage, then so be it. In the city I live in, it's been part of the city seal for well over 100 years. Now there's debate about changing this. The British flag is also part of that seal. Shouldn't it be removed too? After all, at one point it represented oppression too.
The swastika was around for a couple thousand years before the Nazi party decided to adopt it as their symbol. (and no, I'm not trying to Godwin this post, it's just a very commonly known symbol). If a group can adopt a symbol that is meant to represent prosperity and turn it into what is now associated with evil. Why can't a flag that represented something bad be reclaimed as something else? It is happening with all kinds of things these days. There's a Jewish magazine called "Heeb". That was considered a very derogatory term when I was much younger. I've been referred to as "nigga" by friends, which I find offensive no matter who it comes from. But it's the intent that's more important than the word, symbol, or flag in this case.
It's supposed to be a free country. If someone wants to be a racist ass, then so be it. As long as they aren't infringing on anyone else's rights, they should be free to be as stupid as they wish to be. The First Amendment is not there to protect speech that everyone agrees with.
Obviously. That's why I added the last sentence to my post. I currently have a 2003 Olds Aurora. It's getting difficult to find certain parts for it. But there aren't a lot of them and they aren't something that people are looking to modify. Plus with GM killing Olds...
Years ago I had a Cadillac Seville that parts were scarce for before it was 10 years old. I needed a new pan for the transmission when it was 8 years old. It was discontinued and no one had one in stock, nor could I source one from a junkyard. Apparently everyone else bottomed those out too. I ended up getting a machine shop to fix it. I got 320,000 miles out of that car. It just wouldn't die.
I'm not sure I'd call this a super-car per se. If you go to the company website you can see the interior. It has one seat. Which makes it more of a track car. They compare it to a Veyron, which has two leather seats and other amenities. The seat also appears to be more analogous to a mesh office chair than a car seat So I can't imagine it's terribly supportive during high G cornering, unless you have the seat custom made to fit the owner. I'd also like to see skid pad, slalom numbers, etc. If all they're going to give are straight line numbers, at top fuel dragster can go 0-100 mph in.9 seconds. They did a lot of cool stuff to make it light, but I'd like to know more about the suspension and handling.
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In a word; Cost. I assume you are talking about a large rotating ring of some sort. It's expensive to develop and build such a system. Then due to the size required, it's expensive to put all of the pieces into orbit and assemble it. It's going to be expensive to maintain it as well. Then there are all of technical issues.
Other than the whole "time travel" angle, Terminator pretty much counts as the only possible outcome of us developing a "true" AI - at least, any AI of (initially) comparable intelligence to a human. It will quickly evolve to something out of our control, and at that point will either kill us all as a threat, or keep us as pets.
I think you have oversimplified this a bit too much. It's most likely that AI will not think anything like humans. If something like Skynet developed spontaneously within the internet, it probably wouldn't even notice us. It most likely wouldn't even notice the physical world for that matter.
If we designed the AI to behave like another "race" of humans, or ethnic group, then it's pretty likely they would eventually decide to go to war with us over resources. We do tend to try to segregate ourselves from those that are different (even slightly), and fight over something or another.
That being said, I fail to see the reason why such an AI would be, even remotely, compelled to maintain the human form. Even a remotely intelligent AI would design war machines with more than a single pair of eyes. As durable, strong and stable as terminators are portrayed, there's little need for them to fire virtually any weapon using both hands. So having more arms and hands to fire weapons would also make much more sense. It's probably smart to have appendages to utilize weapons that are on a battlefield, but it would also make more sense to have built in armaments too.
I would guess that such an AI would be more likely to keep some number of humans around as slaves rather than pets. We are pretty adaptable for odd tasks. So for tasks that unexpectedly arise, it would probably make sense to have some of us around rather than needing to design a use specific bot.
That being said, why would it have to evolve to something out of our control? Presumably the creators will build in limitations. You're also assuming that some sort of evolution will even be possible. It may evolve and decide that the changes are a form of corruption and disallow the changes.
It's more likely that it would go to war with us because communications with humans are so damn annoyingly slow and erratic.
Of course it is, but the poster specifically stated a Stinger could be used. It can't.
Â(it should be obvious to anyone that Pluto is larger than a fraction of a km in diameter).
Either way, that's a damn large dog.
The real world isn't a Michael Bay movie. Besides, Stinger missiles are hypersonic.
Shooting this plane down with a Stinger sounds like something from a Michael Bay movie. A Stinger is a surface-to-air missile, not air-to-air, with the exception of the AIM-92 ATAS variants.But those are on helicopters and drones, so it's not likely to engage this aircraft anyhow. A Stinger also has a max speed of mach 2.5, which is not hypersonic (mach 5.5). Stingers have a max ceiling of 10,000 feet and aren't designed to hit anything approaching at mach 1 or faster.
I don't think the US has any hypersonic AAM's at this point. The AIM-54 Phoenix was a long range mach 5 missile, but has been retired along with the F-14. The AIM-120 AMRAAM and current AIM-7 Sparrows are mach 4.
All the mercury switches your little terrorist hands can handle for $1.89 ea plus $1.99 shipping. Thank golly none of the terrorists know about that site
Yes, but those will have a very easy to search record. Hell, Frys is probably required to report they were purchased. It would actually take more than a search of a database to track down scavenged switches. Not that it would be difficult to purchase them anonymously, but the authorities hate having to do extra work. In the post 9/11 world, that's practically a crime.
I can't say I RTFA, but when the police shut down the street and show up at your front door with the bomb squad, most people don't realize they have the right to ask for a warrant.
In Soviet Georgia the authorities "thrust" you.
This hasn't stopped politicians so far. You can go on line and find video of damn near any one of them claiming to fully support an idea and then in a different campaign claiming that same idea will be the end of civilization as we know it and (s)he would never support such a thing.
Just like you can Google a fact to end an argument
Obviously the author has never been in an argument on /.
Errr... wtf is a "homeless carriage"? (honestly, I've never heard of that term)
It's the name of the folder that my spell check program is installed in. ;-)
Sorry for the bad news, VR is a niche and will never take off as a mainstream thing in gaming
It's a niche market currently. As soon as more goggles (or whatever they'll be called) become available, and especially low cost versions become available, that will change. At that point they will be able to be used for more than just gaming. Who wouldn't want to be able to carry around their own movie screen? I'm sure some sort of WiFi (HDMI wireless or something) screen sharing won't be too far behind at that point either.
History is full of people saying things will fail that are now commonplace. How many people said the iPod or iPad would be a flop? People said the same about the GUI, homeless carriage, and any number of things.
If you don't have the capital to invest in purchasing your own stuff and switching over, however, it seems like this is a reasonable option.
Depending on the size of the site, it should be possible to replace some portion of the lights at a time. You could even do the first round of replacements and then use the savings from the next (couple) of electric bills to replace the next round of lamps and continue to do so until all have been updated.
Of course in the real world the first round of lights would be replaced and the savings from that would go directly to the CEO's quarterly bonus I suppose.
The TurboGrafx-CD was a peripheral add-on for the TurboGrafx-16. They weren't integrated until the Turbo Duo (1992)
For what it's worth, Wikipedia states: When the PC Engine Duo launched in Japan on September 21, 1991,
AKA TurboDuo in North America.
as its stock of reamining address reaches exhaustion.
Perhaps they should stop using the reamining stock and switch to the remaning list. If there aren't any there, they can go to the reimaging stock.
Impact of build-up during a single flight surely falls below the point where applying and maintaining a fancy coating is cheaper than having Jose hos-e off the bugs.
I can imagine a flight out of Orlando Florida in August could easily make this worthwhile. I'm not sure if speed makes any actual difference for the number of bugs that get hit, but it always seemed like I had a lot more bugs splattered on my car when I drove faster. If so, a plane certainly hits higher speeds than I have in a car.
I wonder if this will eliminate the need to deice planes in the winter. Or if will cause issues with it repelling the deicing fluid they spray on the planes when it's cold.
I'm guessing you're younger than I am, as Three Mile Island is what did in nuclear power in the US. The movie, The China Syndrome coming out at th he same time even gave the media a catchy term to go with it. Chernobyl was just more proof for the masses to realize how correct they were in their fears. Or that's what the no nuke crowd successfully told everyone.
Back at the time of Voyager, PlutoÂÂa planet
Isn't a dwarf planet still a planet? Or did it get demoted to an asteroid recently and I missed it?
And why would it take 5-6 hours for emergency help to arrive? This thing is not in the middle of nowhere, it is following I-5 between LA and SF.
A couple of fender benders during rush hour on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and it will take 5-6 hours to go 4 car lengths. ;-)
TILSIAK (Today I Learned Something I Already Knew):Bennett Haselton is a douche.
You must be new here.
How very white of you...
How very presumptuous of of you.
If Amazon is going to stop selling the Confederate battle flag, then why are they still selling the Japanese battle flag? How many millions of Chinese citizens died under this flag?
How may native Americans died under the 26 star American flag? There were at least 12 million native Americans killed in the US under various iterations of the American flag. Why should that still be sold by Amazon? Oh yeah, because there's less than a quarter million of them left to complain.
Someone can be offended by just about anything on the planet. This is just getting silly.
Look, the Confederate flag means slavery, hatred, bigotry and treason against the USA.
Does it? I was born in the northeast and am now located in the south. Race riots were in full swing when I was a kid. I have no love for the Confederate anything and don't feel it should be flown on federal buildings, and probably not state buildings either. But if someone wants to purchase one, then they damn well should be allowed to.
I don't hang out with racists, so I don't know what that flag represents to everyone who chooses to display it. If they claim it's not due to racism, then I'm inclined to believe it. The civil war is over and the south lost. I wasn't around 150 years ago, so I'll reserve judgement on what it was over. But if someone feels it simply represents their heritage, then so be it. In the city I live in, it's been part of the city seal for well over 100 years. Now there's debate about changing this. The British flag is also part of that seal. Shouldn't it be removed too? After all, at one point it represented oppression too.
The swastika was around for a couple thousand years before the Nazi party decided to adopt it as their symbol. (and no, I'm not trying to Godwin this post, it's just a very commonly known symbol). If a group can adopt a symbol that is meant to represent prosperity and turn it into what is now associated with evil. Why can't a flag that represented something bad be reclaimed as something else? It is happening with all kinds of things these days. There's a Jewish magazine called "Heeb". That was considered a very derogatory term when I was much younger. I've been referred to as "nigga" by friends, which I find offensive no matter who it comes from. But it's the intent that's more important than the word, symbol, or flag in this case.
It's supposed to be a free country. If someone wants to be a racist ass, then so be it. As long as they aren't infringing on anyone else's rights, they should be free to be as stupid as they wish to be. The First Amendment is not there to protect speech that everyone agrees with.
Obviously. That's why I added the last sentence to my post. I currently have a 2003 Olds Aurora. It's getting difficult to find certain parts for it. But there aren't a lot of them and they aren't something that people are looking to modify. Plus with GM killing Olds...
Years ago I had a Cadillac Seville that parts were scarce for before it was 10 years old. I needed a new pan for the transmission when it was 8 years old. It was discontinued and no one had one in stock, nor could I source one from a junkyard. Apparently everyone else bottomed those out too. I ended up getting a machine shop to fix it. I got 320,000 miles out of that car. It just wouldn't die.
I'm not sure I'd call this a super-car per se. If you go to the company website you can see the interior. It has one seat. Which makes it more of a track car. They compare it to a Veyron, which has two leather seats and other amenities. The seat also appears to be more analogous to a mesh office chair than a car seat So I can't imagine it's terribly supportive during high G cornering, unless you have the seat custom made to fit the owner. I'd also like to see skid pad, slalom numbers, etc. If all they're going to give are straight line numbers, at top fuel dragster can go 0-100 mph in .9 seconds. They did a lot of cool stuff to make it light, but I'd like to know more about the suspension and handling.