The sand is released after the orbit is circularized and it becomes a giant, fine-grained shotgun blast that will destroy any satellite on the same plane. Is this one of those hoary chestnuts that just isn't true or is it very plausible?
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Hard to believe linux desktop gets anyone at Microsoft shaking in their booties with its < 1% market share. MacOS just broke above 10%. That's a target to neutralise, not linux.
Triggering a quake by building such a huge dam is not cost-effective. The Chinese could have gotten the same quake for less money by getting everyone to climb up on a chair and jump at the same time.
If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store
The store looks at your IP address. The account you opened and used in the US, with a US billing address, and a US credit card, will be declined when you travel abroad. Tested. Then circumvented using a proxy.
Just as long as it doesn't distract the wine devs from what's really important to the linux community: Making sure World of Warcraft runs smoothly. Keep up the good work.
your car has license plates on it which can be scanned from far further than RFID
Very few people carry their car's license plates in their wallet or purses. For most of us, having RFID on our driver's license is akin to having RFID implanted in our skull.
Mitchell Ashley is not a Microsoft blogger. He's a blogger who often writes about Microsoft products. Not the same thing.
He's not related to Microsoft, never has been. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellashley
Wouldn't solar power be easier? Where there are enough things to eat to survive there is enough sun to survive.
Solar won't work in the jungle. Very rich in biomass, but very little light gets past the dense treetops.
Solar won't work at night. Nighttime is the best time to eat unsuspecting victims.
Solar will shine in a desert. The robot will have a hard time getting its greasy little clamps on the scarce biomass.
So I guess survival comes down to adaptability. That sounds familiar. Someone else must have said it before.
Heuristics, by definition, are just an educated guess. If you write software that gets it right without guessing you can circumvent the patent entirely.
Besides, didn't the palm pilot already do that for Graffiti back in the 20th century? Sans multi-touch of course.
The voice recognition & language processing component alone would be years ahead of anything else if it worked well outside of a "narrow, carefully defined domain".
Agreed. And even then it will still be short of the intelligence of a first grader. In the murky waters of human communications the words are just a tiny piece of the puzzle. Where's the posture gesture expression tone accent speed pauses and choice of words recognition that tells you what a person really means by asking you to fetch a stapler?
Historically, recession meant more people staying at home and getting their entertainment fix from the tube. Those millions of converter boxen are going to need a lot of juice to turn digital Regis into analog Regis. They probably draw some current when the TV is off too.
The math of saving energy is easier when you look at a fraction of the system. But only meaningful when you account for everything.
Why is it called Windows 7? The last Windows with a proper version number was 3.11. Since then there's been: 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, and Vista. By my count that puts the next version at 10 (or X in roman numerals, what a coincidence). To make the next version 7, we'd have to disregard three of the above. Certainly ME because... well, just because. Probably 2000 because it wasn't a "home" product. And finally Vista because... see ME?
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The sand is released after the orbit is circularized and it becomes a giant, fine-grained shotgun blast that will destroy any satellite on the same plane. Is this one of those hoary chestnuts that just isn't true or is it very plausible?
Sounds like a myth. Adam? Jaime? Any thoughts?
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Hard to believe linux desktop gets anyone at Microsoft shaking in their booties with its < 1% market share. MacOS just broke above 10%. That's a target to neutralise, not linux.
popular Ideas get modded up and controversial ideas get modded down
Who would have modded up Galileo? No one.
Very bad for science.
Triggering a quake by building such a huge dam is not cost-effective. The Chinese could have gotten the same quake for less money by getting everyone to climb up on a chair and jump at the same time.
Can we get a "Don't break this for me" checkbox instead?
If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store
The store looks at your IP address. The account you opened and used in the US, with a US billing address, and a US credit card, will be declined when you travel abroad. Tested. Then circumvented using a proxy.
Just as long as it doesn't distract the wine devs from what's really important to the linux community: Making sure World of Warcraft runs smoothly. Keep up the good work.
your car has license plates on it which can be scanned from far further than RFID
Very few people carry their car's license plates in their wallet or purses. For most of us, having RFID on our driver's license is akin to having RFID implanted in our skull.
There is no product, no prototype, no schematics. This is just a picture someone made for contest. He didn't even win.
Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley...
Mitchell Ashley is not a Microsoft blogger. He's a blogger who often writes about Microsoft products. Not the same thing.
He's not related to Microsoft, never has been. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellashley
past tense for old (repeated) news. Scientists "Teleported" Quantum Information One Meter.
Wouldn't solar power be easier? Where there are enough things to eat to survive there is enough sun to survive.
Solar won't work in the jungle. Very rich in biomass, but very little light gets past the dense treetops.
Solar won't work at night. Nighttime is the best time to eat unsuspecting victims.
Solar will shine in a desert. The robot will have a hard time getting its greasy little clamps on the scarce biomass.
So I guess survival comes down to adaptability. That sounds familiar. Someone else must have said it before.
Maybe it's just me but I find it a little worrying that this monster of a robot was created by Dr. Finkelstein
No worries, it's pronounced "Finkelsteen".
long-endurance missions such as search and rescue in the mountains and caves of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greetings person in Afghan cave.
I am a robot.
I am here to rescue you.
*chainsaw*
Stand still so I can rescue you.
Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
I thought modern operating system (i.e. not-DOS) make no BIOS calls once the drivers are loaded. Does any of this code get executed from the desktop?
Heuristics, by definition, are just an educated guess. If you write software that gets it right without guessing you can circumvent the patent entirely.
Besides, didn't the palm pilot already do that for Graffiti back in the 20th century? Sans multi-touch of course.
The voice recognition & language processing component alone would be years ahead of anything else if it worked well outside of a "narrow, carefully defined domain".
Agreed. And even then it will still be short of the intelligence of a first grader. In the murky waters of human communications the words are just a tiny piece of the puzzle. Where's the posture gesture expression tone accent speed pauses and choice of words recognition that tells you what a person really means by asking you to fetch a stapler?
Sometimes a stapler isn't just a stapler.
2.1 Gigawatts?? Great Scott!!
Historically, recession meant more people staying at home and getting their entertainment fix from the tube. Those millions of converter boxen are going to need a lot of juice to turn digital Regis into analog Regis. They probably draw some current when the TV is off too.
The math of saving energy is easier when you look at a fraction of the system. But only meaningful when you account for everything.
If human-like appearance is a kind of Turing Test, how come Madame Tussauds hasn't gotten an ACM Award yet? Or Al Gore.
Why is it called Windows 7? The last Windows with a proper version number was 3.11. Since then there's been: 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, and Vista. By my count that puts the next version at 10 (or X in roman numerals, what a coincidence). To make the next version 7, we'd have to disregard three of the above. Certainly ME because... well, just because. Probably 2000 because it wasn't a "home" product. And finally Vista because... see ME?