that's sitting on our garden wall right now, and appears to be rather enjoying the constant barking of the neighbours' little dog for the last 10 minutes or so.
While we're at it, let's calculate interests continously, in real time. Just like the capacity of your gmail inbox, you would actually see the number ticking up as interest is added every second or so. When you transfer money, it is processed immediately (or retroactively) so it's really considered to have left your account at that precise time, instead of at the beginning of the day for a withdrawal and the next day for a deposit. And you don't have to wait for the end of the month or even the end of the year to get your interests. Come on, this is the 21st century!
I don't get it, they claim to have made a phone that is as simple as possible... and then they do include speed dial. Why did they ruin the perfect phone?!
The supernova did, yes. Well, roughly, if you consider that it was observed 30 years ago (actually... 31?) and assume it's "exactly" 50 million light years away, which of course it isn't.
But then what happens when the black hole evaporates through hawking radiation and the event horizon disappears?
That will only happen after the black hole has fully formed and matter has stopped falling into it. Which, in our reference frame, is never. It only ever evaporates in local time.
Exactly. It is, and forever will be, something that's about to become a black hole. Unless you happen to fall into it. In that case, as your watch joins the local reference frame, the black hole will actually form (from your point of view) and suck you in. Outsiders will just see you approaching the thing-that's-almost-a-black-hole, and your watch slowing to an imperceptible crawl, freezing you in time.
Actually, it's not really a black hole yet. Not even now, 50 million years after the supernova. At least not in the reference frames that most of us are using. As the collapsing star gets more and more dense, its enormous gravity will warp space-time so that local time effectively comes to an asymptotic standstill from our point of view. This thing is, and forever will be, something that's about to become a black hole. Unless you fall into it, of course. Then your watch will join the local reference frame and you will find yourself falling into an actual black hole that has just formed. But any outsiders would only see you approaching the thing, slowing down, and your watch coming to pretty much a standstill.
Of course, for all intents and purposes, the thing will very much resemble a black hole and might as well be considered to be one. It might not have an actual event horizon yet (and never will, from our point of view), but any light trying to escape would take such an enormously long time and be redshifted by such an enormous amount, we might as well say nothing can escape
We would colonise Mars as a hedge against a catastrophe on earth... Imagine being on Mars with just a handful of fellow astronauts, and the big catastrophe hits earth, with no survivors. No way for you to restart an entire civilisation, so you know it will all end there, with the last colony dying out some day when supplies run out. Must be a really, really strange feeling...
Just being the devil's advocate here (in a limited way)...
It's their network, and if their terms and conditions say "no P2P", then they are entitled to enforce that policy. It does not matter whether or not it's a fair decision, or an intelligent one, or a well-informed one. It's none of those, obviously, but if they say you're not allowed to use P2P, that's their call. If you violate that policy, you ARE doing something "wrong". Just like if they would say you're not allowed to wear a hat on the grounds.
However, calling the cops on them... I'm not sure if violating TOS is illegal in any way. Maybe a breach of contract, but that's it. I don't know what kind of sanctions their TOS include, but terminating access would seem to be the worst they can do. In fact, even if actual copyright violations took place, it's probably still not something you can call the police for. But IANAL
Well, TFA says that the actions of the robot were controlled from behind the scenes by a human.
I do agree that actually walking around might have proven difficult (even the best models do still fall over from time to time), but this robot barely moves at all! And the movements that it does make, are jerky. In the video, it looks like the robot is not even moving its arm, but the actress is holding it. This is technology from a few decades ago.
Seriously, can't they do better than that? A puppet sitting still, slowly moving its arms, lips and eyelids? Remote control from back stage? Did we somehow teleport back 20 years or so?
There are already robots that can walk around and do all sorts of movements based on real time autonomous decisions, surely you can make one that does a series of realistic, pre-programmed movements for a play?!
Actually the transition is not that gentle. I'm a pilot, and we usually avoid flying near the edge of a jet stream. Not because it's dangerous or anything, just a bit uncomfortable. It won't damage a balloon, but the glider hanging underneath it will probably dangle left and right quite a bit.
All they have to do, is keep sending these messages, pushing the bounty up higher and higher until it bankrupts Adafruit.
(And maybe then release their own driver and cash in on the bounty, or are they excluded from the contest?)
Actually, quite a lot of people have trouble understanding what the Monty Hall problem is asking. For example, people often leave out the crucial part that the show host knows which door holds the prize, and deliberately opens the door with no prize before offering you the choice whether to change doors or not. Some will say this does not matter. If you then tell them they are wrong, they will gleefully say that their answer is correct, and you are among the thousands of people who get this wrong. Sigh...
According to the article, he was going to go to space using a weather balloon (and then jump into 23 miles of "nothingness")
For so many decades, nations have been spending huge amounts of money designing rockets and space shuttles, and now it turns out they could have just used a balloon!
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that's sitting on our garden wall right now, and appears to be rather enjoying the constant barking of the neighbours' little dog for the last 10 minutes or so.
As Oxford University scientists, they should know that intelligence is inversely related to social behaviour!
While we're at it, let's calculate interests continously, in real time. Just like the capacity of your gmail inbox, you would actually see the number ticking up as interest is added every second or so. When you transfer money, it is processed immediately (or retroactively) so it's really considered to have left your account at that precise time, instead of at the beginning of the day for a withdrawal and the next day for a deposit. And you don't have to wait for the end of the month or even the end of the year to get your interests. Come on, this is the 21st century!
Didn't that Swedish judge use to star in the Muppet Show before he became a judge?
I don't get it, they claim to have made a phone that is as simple as possible... and then they do include speed dial. Why did they ruin the perfect phone?!
It will turn into a Zune
If you can only call, talk and hang up, it doesn't appear very useful to me. Listening would be a nice addition, and receiving calls as well...
The supernova did, yes. Well, roughly, if you consider that it was observed 30 years ago (actually... 31?) and assume it's "exactly" 50 million light years away, which of course it isn't.
But then what happens when the black hole evaporates through hawking radiation and the event horizon disappears?
That will only happen after the black hole has fully formed and matter has stopped falling into it. Which, in our reference frame, is never. It only ever evaporates in local time.
Exactly. It is, and forever will be, something that's about to become a black hole. Unless you happen to fall into it. In that case, as your watch joins the local reference frame, the black hole will actually form (from your point of view) and suck you in. Outsiders will just see you approaching the thing-that's-almost-a-black-hole, and your watch slowing to an imperceptible crawl, freezing you in time.
Actually, it's not really a black hole yet. Not even now, 50 million years after the supernova. At least not in the reference frames that most of us are using. As the collapsing star gets more and more dense, its enormous gravity will warp space-time so that local time effectively comes to an asymptotic standstill from our point of view. This thing is, and forever will be, something that's about to become a black hole. Unless you fall into it, of course. Then your watch will join the local reference frame and you will find yourself falling into an actual black hole that has just formed. But any outsiders would only see you approaching the thing, slowing down, and your watch coming to pretty much a standstill.
Of course, for all intents and purposes, the thing will very much resemble a black hole and might as well be considered to be one. It might not have an actual event horizon yet (and never will, from our point of view), but any light trying to escape would take such an enormously long time and be redshifted by such an enormous amount, we might as well say nothing can escape
We would colonise Mars as a hedge against a catastrophe on earth... Imagine being on Mars with just a handful of fellow astronauts, and the big catastrophe hits earth, with no survivors. No way for you to restart an entire civilisation, so you know it will all end there, with the last colony dying out some day when supplies run out. Must be a really, really strange feeling...
Just being the devil's advocate here (in a limited way)...
It's their network, and if their terms and conditions say "no P2P", then they are entitled to enforce that policy. It does not matter whether or not it's a fair decision, or an intelligent one, or a well-informed one. It's none of those, obviously, but if they say you're not allowed to use P2P, that's their call. If you violate that policy, you ARE doing something "wrong". Just like if they would say you're not allowed to wear a hat on the grounds.
However, calling the cops on them... I'm not sure if violating TOS is illegal in any way. Maybe a breach of contract, but that's it. I don't know what kind of sanctions their TOS include, but terminating access would seem to be the worst they can do. In fact, even if actual copyright violations took place, it's probably still not something you can call the police for. But IANAL
Well, TFA says that the actions of the robot were controlled from behind the scenes by a human. I do agree that actually walking around might have proven difficult (even the best models do still fall over from time to time), but this robot barely moves at all! And the movements that it does make, are jerky. In the video, it looks like the robot is not even moving its arm, but the actress is holding it. This is technology from a few decades ago.
Seriously, can't they do better than that? A puppet sitting still, slowly moving its arms, lips and eyelids? Remote control from back stage? Did we somehow teleport back 20 years or so? There are already robots that can walk around and do all sorts of movements based on real time autonomous decisions, surely you can make one that does a series of realistic, pre-programmed movements for a play?!
I assume they are using Bill Clinton's definition of "sexual"?
Actually the transition is not that gentle. I'm a pilot, and we usually avoid flying near the edge of a jet stream. Not because it's dangerous or anything, just a bit uncomfortable. It won't damage a balloon, but the glider hanging underneath it will probably dangle left and right quite a bit.
No, he's just very private about who he really is at Apple.
All they have to do, is keep sending these messages, pushing the bounty up higher and higher until it bankrupts Adafruit. (And maybe then release their own driver and cash in on the bounty, or are they excluded from the contest?)
I stand corrected.
Actually, quite a lot of people have trouble understanding what the Monty Hall problem is asking. For example, people often leave out the crucial part that the show host knows which door holds the prize, and deliberately opens the door with no prize before offering you the choice whether to change doors or not. Some will say this does not matter. If you then tell them they are wrong, they will gleefully say that their answer is correct, and you are among the thousands of people who get this wrong. Sigh...
According to the article, he was going to go to space using a weather balloon (and then jump into 23 miles of "nothingness")
For so many decades, nations have been spending huge amounts of money designing rockets and space shuttles, and now it turns out they could have just used a balloon!
Actually, this already happened. Forget Darwin. Adams got it right.
But does it mow the lawn?
(OK, I guess it does, if you count that tiny strip of grass at the 5 minute mark)
What if you're swimming?