"Neglecting physical wear" when it comes to batteries is like saying "This car runs forever (neglecting its need for fuel)"
No, neglecting physical wear is like saying this car will constantly fuel itself, so it can run forever, until the engine or other components physically break down hundreds of thousands of miles later.
This is already known by anyone in the field. IIRC the EPA values each American life at around $7 million. They use this figure to make decisions on whether safety features are worth the cost. I believe the value is based around the gross output of the average working person over the span of their life.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things communicating via wireless or 3G, sending walking algorithms to each other while traversing difficult terrain.
You seem to have made an error in your comment. I took the liberty of fixing it.
The X-Prize is intentionally fairly small. If the lunar X-Prize was, for example several billion dollars, it would become profitable for a company like boeing to complete it. The price is set at $30M to encourage someone to find a cheaper way to enter space.
People say my broken friend is useless. But I say his mind is free. There's lots of things my mangled robot friend could be. Well he could make a good hat rack, He only has to stand there. Or a cheap doorstop, He doesn't need to move. Or a great big giant thermos with a twist off top, That would be good for soup. He could be a storage closet for outdated pants. My broken friend could do it all, Just give him a chance! That robot has a tragic secret That I'd like to share. My broken friend is closer to me than an ass to a chair. That robot's name I never told you You could not foresee. I sing it loud and sing it proud, His name is you and me! Don't melt me down into a crowbar, Just 'cause I can't move my arms and legs. Or toss me into a trash can, Just 'cause I can't cook you ham and eggs. Don't crush me into an anchor, Just 'cause I can't jump and dance and sing I'm telling you, my broken friend... Put your hands in the air like you just don't care! I'm telling you my broken friend Can do most anything! Yeah!
People make mistakes with technology which results in unintended consequences. Giving someone treatment for the wrong disease may have adverse side effects.
Basically this only proves that people are stupid in general. I don't see anything wrong with this technology.
OK, i'm going to try to walk you through this, but for further reading, I would look into Flatland
You can't see your toaster because it is in a 3 dimensional world and you do not have three dimensional vision. An example of 3 dimensional vision in the real world is an MRI. Having three dimensional vision does not mean that you see every face of every object, it means you see every object in its entirety. When I look on a piece of paper, I can see all the information on that piece of paper. When I look into the real world, even though I only have 2D vision, I can imply some depth based on stereoscopic cues, shadows and lighting. The brain is also trained to infer 3D data based off of past experiences. Your brain knows how to fill in the gaps of information that it does not have, which is why you don't notice the blind spot in your eye where the nerve connects.
Picture something that resides in a two-dimensional plane. If you draw a line on a piece of paper it won't have any idea what is on the other side, because it can't see through the line. Since we have two-dimensional vision we can see across that line. The same applies in the three dimensional world. If someone puts up a wall in space, you can't see across it, but for a creature with 3 dimensional vision it would be trivial to see the other side, just like you could see both sides of the line on the paper.
Think of the game dig-dug. When digging through the ground you can see everything that exists on the playing field. If they tried to make this game 3D with depths, some of your tunnels would be obscured if you traveled into the plane of the screen and then turned.
Both of those eyes receive two-dimensional pictures and send them to the brain. By comparing the two pictures, which are taken a set distance apart, the brain can infer 3D information from various visual cues.
For example, on a piece of paper draw a rectangle. You can see anything that is drawn inside of this rectangle because you have 2D vision. You can see the entire picture. Now take a cardboard box. If the box is closed and opaque, you have no way of seeing what is inside the box, because the projection of the 3D world into 2 dimensions cannot contain all of the information in the 3D world.
Using 2D interfaces allows us to overlook something and see it all, without having to worry about what is being obscured.
Humans see in 2 dimensions, we can infer 3D data from various signals I will not go into in this post. When you are viewing something in a 2 dimensional plane, you can see the entirety of the plane at once. When looking in 3-space, you can only see a projection of that space onto a 2 dimensional plane. You will never be able to simply understand everything in that space at one point, which is why they aren't popular. They are difficult to use, and are only useful for gimmicks.
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Sure is a bummer that a successful space-faring species probably survives in a vacuum.
"Neglecting physical wear" when it comes to batteries is like saying "This car runs forever (neglecting its need for fuel)"
No, neglecting physical wear is like saying this car will constantly fuel itself, so it can run forever, until the engine or other components physically break down hundreds of thousands of miles later.
This is already known by anyone in the field. IIRC the EPA values each American life at around $7 million. They use this figure to make decisions on whether safety features are worth the cost. I believe the value is based around the gross output of the average working person over the span of their life.
Sorry, copying to a different folder doesn't count.
Well, at least it would be better than Vista.
Thats 0.14 Library of Congresses / Day.
Sorry for the confusion.
-NASA
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things communicating via wireless or 3G, sending walking algorithms to each other while traversing difficult terrain.
You seem to have made an error in your comment. I took the liberty of fixing it.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6199172.html
Pardo also said that the second two releases could be considered expansion packs, but that "we really want them to feel like stand-alone products."
i.e., they will charge full price.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+can%27t+i+own+a+canadian
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Sorry buddy, better luck next time. Wrong thread.
No, their plans will go ahead of schedule, and they will be ramping it up to full power in December of 2012.
Sorry, get ready for a beatin!
I tried to post a reply but I segfaulted, bad string handling. I had to wade through fields of ampersands and asterisks to get here.
-C guy.
The X-Prize is intentionally fairly small. If the lunar X-Prize was, for example several billion dollars, it would become profitable for a company like boeing to complete it. The price is set at $30M to encourage someone to find a cheaper way to enter space.
What happens if you lose?
This is a job for a flabby individual with lots of personal insulation
I prefer stationary science platform.
People say my broken friend is useless.
But I say his mind is free.
There's lots of things my mangled robot friend could be.
Well he could make a good hat rack,
He only has to stand there.
Or a cheap doorstop,
He doesn't need to move.
Or a great big giant thermos with a twist off top,
That would be good for soup.
He could be a storage closet for outdated pants.
My broken friend could do it all,
Just give him a chance!
That robot has a tragic secret
That I'd like to share.
My broken friend is closer to me than an ass to a chair.
That robot's name I never told you
You could not foresee.
I sing it loud and sing it proud,
His name is you and me!
Don't melt me down into a crowbar,
Just 'cause I can't move my arms and legs.
Or toss me into a trash can,
Just 'cause I can't cook you ham and eggs.
Don't crush me into an anchor,
Just 'cause I can't jump and dance and sing
I'm telling you, my broken friend...
Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!
I'm telling you my broken friend
Can do most anything!
Yeah!
Oh. What's it called now?
How was your a Turing Test?
People make mistakes with technology which results in unintended consequences. Giving someone treatment for the wrong disease may have adverse side effects.
Basically this only proves that people are stupid in general. I don't see anything wrong with this technology.
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OK, i'm going to try to walk you through this, but for further reading, I would look into Flatland
You can't see your toaster because it is in a 3 dimensional world and you do not have three dimensional vision. An example of 3 dimensional vision in the real world is an MRI. Having three dimensional vision does not mean that you see every face of every object, it means you see every object in its entirety. When I look on a piece of paper, I can see all the information on that piece of paper. When I look into the real world, even though I only have 2D vision, I can imply some depth based on stereoscopic cues, shadows and lighting. The brain is also trained to infer 3D data based off of past experiences. Your brain knows how to fill in the gaps of information that it does not have, which is why you don't notice the blind spot in your eye where the nerve connects.
Picture something that resides in a two-dimensional plane. If you draw a line on a piece of paper it won't have any idea what is on the other side, because it can't see through the line. Since we have two-dimensional vision we can see across that line. The same applies in the three dimensional world. If someone puts up a wall in space, you can't see across it, but for a creature with 3 dimensional vision it would be trivial to see the other side, just like you could see both sides of the line on the paper.
Think of the game dig-dug. When digging through the ground you can see everything that exists on the playing field. If they tried to make this game 3D with depths, some of your tunnels would be obscured if you traveled into the plane of the screen and then turned.
Both of those eyes receive two-dimensional pictures and send them to the brain. By comparing the two pictures, which are taken a set distance apart, the brain can infer 3D information from various visual cues.
For example, on a piece of paper draw a rectangle. You can see anything that is drawn inside of this rectangle because you have 2D vision. You can see the entire picture. Now take a cardboard box. If the box is closed and opaque, you have no way of seeing what is inside the box, because the projection of the 3D world into 2 dimensions cannot contain all of the information in the 3D world.
Using 2D interfaces allows us to overlook something and see it all, without having to worry about what is being obscured.
Humans see in 2 dimensions, we can infer 3D data from various signals I will not go into in this post. When you are viewing something in a 2 dimensional plane, you can see the entirety of the plane at once. When looking in 3-space, you can only see a projection of that space onto a 2 dimensional plane. You will never be able to simply understand everything in that space at one point, which is why they aren't popular. They are difficult to use, and are only useful for gimmicks.
They can just fill in the missing 1% with frog DNA.