That's a great setup for a scifi flick, but it suffers from fridge logic. If we can create mind-controlled drones, why would we have wounded veterans control them? Why not just train perfectly healthy people to control these things, without ever sending them into harms way? Heck, we're already doing exactly that with our current drones, the only difference being that they're controlled by more traditional input devices. Even if we still needed boots on the ground, it's not like the soldiers on the front line have some innate talent for controlling drones.
That's a pretty enormous "if", especially given that people with use of their limbs could always just operate joysticks, or strap on some motion capture hardware. There's very little advantage in creating a system to covert thoughts to movement when nature already provides us with such an effective means.
All the same, the military should be interested in this, to give wounded veterans a closer approximation of a normal life following their service.
Only if HP actually does something with them. The way that company's been going, I expect that actual innovations using memristors will be accomplished by other parties, and HP will just play patent troll and either extract licensing fees or try to block superior products from reaching the market at all.
1) The rich have been leeching away public wealth to line their own pockets. People who gamble other people's money for a living make thousands of times more money per year than those who do actual, back-breaking labor. They make this money even if they lose their gambles (and remember that money they are gambling is the retirement funds of those aforementioned laborers). They use this money to corrupt the government in order to enrich themselves even further, for example by creating special loop holes so that they pay a lower tax rate than those laborers.
2) We should raise personal income taxes, a lot. Income over $250k should be taxed at 40%. Income over $1M should be taxed at 50%. Income over $10M should be taxed at 80%. They'll still have more than enough to buy their mansions and yachts and private vineyards. This money should be used to provide a safety net for the people at the bottom of society, providing them with a guaranteed minimum quality of life. Not enough for luxury goods, but enough to give them food and shelter and medicine. We will know we were successful when the richest man in the country makes "only" one thousand times as much as the poorest.
It is class warfare. The rich have been at war with the rest, and kicking our asses, for the past thirty years. They have taken damn near everything we ever had. It's high time we fight back.
Google+ had its numbers go up by 1200% upon opening to the public. Of those new users, 40% stuck around, for a net increase of 480%. Slashdot's headline? "Google+ user base down 60%! It must be dying!" I've seen powerdrills with less spin.
Word can export files as PDFs, at least as of the 2007 version, and even before that you could use "print to file" addons. The point is, whatever tool they're using, they ought to know how to use it well enough to perform their basic job functions.
Seriously, this exact mistake seems to occur at least a couple times a year. You would think that anyone with enough security clearance to make redactions would, I don't know, take a 4 hour training course on how to use MS Word? Do they hand this job off to interns, or what?
My Droid X2 has a 4.3" screen, and it fits my hand wonderfully. I specifically chose it over competing phones for that reason. That's one of the many nice things about Android -- you don't have a single model that has to be one-size-fits-all. There can be different models targeted towards different market segments.
If the best you can say of Apple is, "Hey, they're only about equally bad with Edison!", then that speaks volumes. What's next? If China invades Taiwan, will you be chiding us for talking about that instead of Alexander the Great?
Perhaps if Microsoft had successfully banned the sale of all non-Windows computers on the grounds that they came in rectangular boxes, there might be a comparison. As it stands, Apple is far, far worse than any major corporation in memory.
They ruled that money is equivalent to speech, and corporations deserve all the rights of actual human beings. They issued this ruling, overturning a near century of precedent, because it benefited their party in an upcoming election. Even the plaintiffs that "won" the case hadn't asked for such a ruling -- the so-called "justices" ordered them to go back and re-argue the case for no reason other than to give them an excuse to issue the ruling they had already decided on. Only an absolute fool could fail to recognize just how corrupt they are.
Those cases were back before the Republicans started stacking the SCOTUS with partisan hacks. If those cases were argued today, the result would yet another 5-4 decision pissing on us serfs.
Going from 60 mpg to 90 mpg will save you around 50 gallons of fuel over the course of 10,000 miles, or about $200. Not exactly huge savings, and easily wiped out by the slightest maintenance issue.
No way. I don't want to in any way disparage the man, he was certainly a visionary, but it was the forgotten engineers and technicians, laboring away for 80 hours a week with no overtime who have driven and continue to drive the technology industry. People love to heap praise on the CEOs, because people like having a single figure to praise (and blame). But Apple would be nothing without the hard work of the faceless employees who actually gave form to Jobs's ideas.
And before you say that Jobs contributed more than any individual one of them, let me ask: do you really even know how many of his contributions were truly his, and not his underlings'?
It doesn't matter if you could build one or not. Apple didn't sue Samsung over its inner workings. They sued because both objects were rounded rectangles, and a couple of the icons used a similar color scheme.
If you mean a regular Kindle, it's no good for text books. I love my Kindle, but e-ink just isn't good for that application. The Kindle Fire being described in the article, however, is a tablet computer with an LCD screen, and would probably work just fine in that role.
So comparable to buying a used compact. Only today's compact gets at least twice as many miles per gallon, five times as much horse power, power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, a radio/cd player, seat belts, air bags, crumble zones, headlights that don't run on burning oil, a top speed above 40 mph, and the ability to start without using a fricken hand crank.
There's a reason modern cars are more expensive. You are getting a much, much, <i>much</i> better product for your money. Absolutely no one would buy a car with specs similar to a Model T at $3000.
The purple you see is just purple light. Most of the light emitted by black lights is ultraviolet, and thus invisible. But some of it is just regular old violet.
You're completely wrong. There is some very well established science regarding the maximum amount of information that can be sent in a given bandwidth. Read up on the Shannon limit, for starters. If you and I are on the same frequency, standing next to each other, we have to share the available bandwidth. There's simply no way around it. Distinguishing my traffic from yours is the easy part.
You can get some breathing room by moving towards numerous, low-power stations, as you suggest. But it's not as easy as it is in your imagination. In order to have good signal in your house, it's going to have to spill over into your neighbors. So he'll have to use a different frequency. And so will your neighbor on the other side, and across the street. The entire county would turn into the map coloring problem from hell, except the four color limit won't apply since the borders are squishy and blend together.
And even if you spent the zillions of dollars necessary to set up and maintain that system, it would still have limits. The bandwidth would still get filled up. That's simply a mathematical law.
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I can hear the Twilight Zone narrator now...
That's a great setup for a scifi flick, but it suffers from fridge logic. If we can create mind-controlled drones, why would we have wounded veterans control them? Why not just train perfectly healthy people to control these things, without ever sending them into harms way? Heck, we're already doing exactly that with our current drones, the only difference being that they're controlled by more traditional input devices. Even if we still needed boots on the ground, it's not like the soldiers on the front line have some innate talent for controlling drones.
That's a pretty enormous "if", especially given that people with use of their limbs could always just operate joysticks, or strap on some motion capture hardware. There's very little advantage in creating a system to covert thoughts to movement when nature already provides us with such an effective means.
All the same, the military should be interested in this, to give wounded veterans a closer approximation of a normal life following their service.
Only if HP actually does something with them. The way that company's been going, I expect that actual innovations using memristors will be accomplished by other parties, and HP will just play patent troll and either extract licensing fees or try to block superior products from reaching the market at all.
1) The rich have been leeching away public wealth to line their own pockets. People who gamble other people's money for a living make thousands of times more money per year than those who do actual, back-breaking labor. They make this money even if they lose their gambles (and remember that money they are gambling is the retirement funds of those aforementioned laborers). They use this money to corrupt the government in order to enrich themselves even further, for example by creating special loop holes so that they pay a lower tax rate than those laborers.
2) We should raise personal income taxes, a lot. Income over $250k should be taxed at 40%. Income over $1M should be taxed at 50%. Income over $10M should be taxed at 80%. They'll still have more than enough to buy their mansions and yachts and private vineyards. This money should be used to provide a safety net for the people at the bottom of society, providing them with a guaranteed minimum quality of life. Not enough for luxury goods, but enough to give them food and shelter and medicine. We will know we were successful when the richest man in the country makes "only" one thousand times as much as the poorest.
It is class warfare. The rich have been at war with the rest, and kicking our asses, for the past thirty years. They have taken damn near everything we ever had. It's high time we fight back.
Google+ had its numbers go up by 1200% upon opening to the public. Of those new users, 40% stuck around, for a net increase of 480%. Slashdot's headline? "Google+ user base down 60%! It must be dying!" I've seen powerdrills with less spin.
Word can export files as PDFs, at least as of the 2007 version, and even before that you could use "print to file" addons. The point is, whatever tool they're using, they ought to know how to use it well enough to perform their basic job functions.
Seriously, this exact mistake seems to occur at least a couple times a year. You would think that anyone with enough security clearance to make redactions would, I don't know, take a 4 hour training course on how to use MS Word? Do they hand this job off to interns, or what?
My Droid X2 has a 4.3" screen, and it fits my hand wonderfully. I specifically chose it over competing phones for that reason. That's one of the many nice things about Android -- you don't have a single model that has to be one-size-fits-all. There can be different models targeted towards different market segments.
If the best you can say of Apple is, "Hey, they're only about equally bad with Edison!", then that speaks volumes. What's next? If China invades Taiwan, will you be chiding us for talking about that instead of Alexander the Great?
Perhaps if Microsoft had successfully banned the sale of all non-Windows computers on the grounds that they came in rectangular boxes, there might be a comparison. As it stands, Apple is far, far worse than any major corporation in memory.
They ruled that money is equivalent to speech, and corporations deserve all the rights of actual human beings. They issued this ruling, overturning a near century of precedent, because it benefited their party in an upcoming election. Even the plaintiffs that "won" the case hadn't asked for such a ruling -- the so-called "justices" ordered them to go back and re-argue the case for no reason other than to give them an excuse to issue the ruling they had already decided on. Only an absolute fool could fail to recognize just how corrupt they are.
Those cases were back before the Republicans started stacking the SCOTUS with partisan hacks. If those cases were argued today, the result would yet another 5-4 decision pissing on us serfs.
Going from 60 mpg to 90 mpg will save you around 50 gallons of fuel over the course of 10,000 miles, or about $200. Not exactly huge savings, and easily wiped out by the slightest maintenance issue.
No way. I don't want to in any way disparage the man, he was certainly a visionary, but it was the forgotten engineers and technicians, laboring away for 80 hours a week with no overtime who have driven and continue to drive the technology industry. People love to heap praise on the CEOs, because people like having a single figure to praise (and blame). But Apple would be nothing without the hard work of the faceless employees who actually gave form to Jobs's ideas.
And before you say that Jobs contributed more than any individual one of them, let me ask: do you really even know how many of his contributions were truly his, and not his underlings'?
But we do know that autism isn't caused by vaccines.
It doesn't matter if you could build one or not. Apple didn't sue Samsung over its inner workings. They sued because both objects were rounded rectangles, and a couple of the icons used a similar color scheme.
"Here we come"? Man, we've been here for... well... a few millenia at least.
If you mean a regular Kindle, it's no good for text books. I love my Kindle, but e-ink just isn't good for that application. The Kindle Fire being described in the article, however, is a tablet computer with an LCD screen, and would probably work just fine in that role.
And get sued for infringing on a scene from some old cowboy flick? Not a chance!
So comparable to buying a used compact. Only today's compact gets at least twice as many miles per gallon, five times as much horse power, power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, a radio/cd player, seat belts, air bags, crumble zones, headlights that don't run on burning oil, a top speed above 40 mph, and the ability to start without using a fricken hand crank.
There's a reason modern cars are more expensive. You are getting a much, much, <i>much</i> better product for your money. Absolutely no one would buy a car with specs similar to a Model T at $3000.
The purple you see is just purple light. Most of the light emitted by black lights is ultraviolet, and thus invisible. But some of it is just regular old violet.
Ever heard of a Clapp oscillator?
You're completely wrong. There is some very well established science regarding the maximum amount of information that can be sent in a given bandwidth. Read up on the Shannon limit, for starters. If you and I are on the same frequency, standing next to each other, we have to share the available bandwidth. There's simply no way around it. Distinguishing my traffic from yours is the easy part.
You can get some breathing room by moving towards numerous, low-power stations, as you suggest. But it's not as easy as it is in your imagination. In order to have good signal in your house, it's going to have to spill over into your neighbors. So he'll have to use a different frequency. And so will your neighbor on the other side, and across the street. The entire county would turn into the map coloring problem from hell, except the four color limit won't apply since the borders are squishy and blend together.
And even if you spent the zillions of dollars necessary to set up and maintain that system, it would still have limits. The bandwidth would still get filled up. That's simply a mathematical law.