The first one was built a bit further north and uses a dual overhead catenary and has a counterpart in a warmer climate in USA. Both built to test how the technologies will work in practical conditions. https://www.trafikverket.se/en...
If we were really there, the comet would look black, black, black and more black. And the shadows would be slightly, but probably imperceptibly, darker. The images are extremely enhanced to exagerrate the tiny variations of deep black.
The question of colour is interesting. Space probe cameras don't have RGB sensors, they're monochrome with lots and lots of switchable filters for specific purposes, like seeing seeing specific gases like nitrogen monohydride or a mineral like orthopyroxene, and many are in UV or IR. It's a bonus if the science lets you make more or less true colour images too.
The resolution will be much better when the probe gets close to the nucleus as the narrow field camera won't be able to see all of it at once. What I've seen so far seems to be only part of the full frame.
Data harvesting only adds value if it can be used to predict something which Google finds useful, what feeds you've got in common with someone else apparently wasn't useful enough in presenting, for example, search results. But without Reader, I wouldn't have gotten a Google account. At least not then.
Of course Telenor themselves mention the bandwidth: http://www.telenor.com/media/a... Fibre optic with lots of Gb/s to the European mainland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... Can be noted that any citizen of a country which has signed the Svalbard treaty can move there without needing any permit.
Interview with Kayser ("we've only found the first five genes"): http://www.scientificamerican.... In short: Hair and eye colour prediction: 0.9, height: 0.75, everything else "much lower" than 0.75 with 0.5 being totally random.
And from the article itself: "The next step is to run larger studies in different populations to confirm that the variants found so far are statistically reliable." which explains why there aren't any more test examples.
The interesting question is: What do cars think of the Trolley Problem? It's not when software or hardware fails to do as intended that is the big problem when assigning blame. Nor when the car does something because it's been told to. It's the usually hidden and unused ethics which makes this difficult and interesting. Rules and duty versus utility and consequences.
It's most likely wrong to think that all self driving cars will act the same when faced with a necessary choice of who to kill and who to save. Unless governments require all such software to be written to very exact specifications about how to deal even with situations nobody has thought of, of course.
Should the cars' ethical system reflect their owners' views on the trolley problem? Should cars be forced to use a specific ethical system contrary to what some owners would like? Should cars learn by experience and adapt their ethics?
If you ride in your self driving car when it is, would you like it to kill you to save five others or the other way round?
"Downgrade" data-link isn't exactly right: It was a replacement of the Swedish with Link 16. Which doesn't have all the features the Swedish did 20 years ago but has the important feature that it's NATO compatible. The problem was (is?) that there's not space for both in a Gripen, so suddenly the C/D version wasn't compatible with most data-link resources in the defence force, but the older A/B version was.
From the image, they would not fit in lightbulb sockets. I don't think that's a mistake, I think it's a hint that you can't buy them in the real world.
I just tried that with a couple of paragraphs: Google Translate returns the exact text including mis-spellings even though it had correctly identified what the mis-spelled words actually should be. This suggests that there are language independent methods of "identifying" writers.
"Sweden's" official account? I didn't even know about it until now. But they got BBC to write about it, even though there's really no news content apart from "innovative marketing approach", which probably helped increase the number of followers from 8000 to 18000 but I wonder if the extra 10000 are interested in Sweden or in how this will work (and if it's really amateurs writing) and if any of them had any trouble telling Sweden and Switzerland apart before.
This source also has some more technical details, like charging current, how much current the charging station will draw from the grid (20kW), that the charging station has twin batteries with different properties, that car makers need to adopt new battery types for it to work:
One other is saccadic eye movements. Anything shown via these would remain fixed relative to the eye, but as our eyes constantly shift the exact direction we look in, each "pixel" would appear to jump around.
One more is the very small field of view our eyes have sharp vision in. A single projected image (I'm not clear on whether they intend to project the light from each LED to a spot on the retina) would be VERY small. To simulate a larger (7+ characters?) image you'd have to have orientation sensors in the contact lenses (which also would help with the previous paragraph).
I really wonder if they or anyone else have put semitransparent letters or whatever on a contact lens to determine how information dense it really can be as a static display.
Amtrak security was even filmed saying filming isn't allowed, when a news crew was interviewing Amtrak's spokesperson, who very clearly was saying there's no policy forbidding filming or taking photographs: http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=6664418
GPS monitoring is to be able to FIND them at all times, for tests. They're already supposed to be available for testing at any time, so this is to reduce the number of excuses when someone isn't where they were supposed to be.
$9990 is at least cheap enough that it actually exists. When stuff like this first became a possibility, a prospective maker found a market for 6 units: 4 for BBC and 2 for SR (Swedish national radio), and decided not to start production.
"Just off hand, I wonder how many pilot's die in car accidents... "
I don't know, but I know that John Paul Stapp was allowed to work on car safety on USAF time because the air force lost more pilots due to car accidents than flying accidents in the 1950s.
Assess damage? Yes: Since last year, the MQ-1 and MQ-9 are permitted to fly in ordinary US airspace, much for exactly that reason.
Supplies? Maybe. Dropping sacks of food from underwing racks from light aircraft has been done when flying low and slow. Don't think these would be suitable for that, but maybe cannisters with (steerable with GPS guidance?) parachutes would work. Air dropping from a larger transport aircraft would probably be better in most cases though. The MQ-9s strong point is its endurance, up to 42 hours, not its load capacity.
But there are those who seriously consider developing smallish cargo UAVs for relief use where ground transport would be risky and regular aircraft impractical.
Sorry, I was probably too brief. You're of course right regarding prosthetics and it does mention implantation.
But I think the term "artifical tissue" in this case does not mean the same thing as it usually does, when it's biological in nature like skin and bone replacements which either becomes part of the recipient or allows own new cells to grow in place. A plastic actuator seems to be something quite different.
One mentioned use actually is "artificial tissue for implantation", so inside isn't out of the question, but I don't think they mean implantation in the sense of making it part of the recipent.
I think it might be things like a pump which works like a heart, but electrically powered. Machine, but if it works like muscle tissue it does a better job and will have a longer service life.
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The first one was built a bit further north and uses a dual overhead catenary and has a counterpart in a warmer climate in USA.
Both built to test how the technologies will work in practical conditions.
https://www.trafikverket.se/en...
Perhaps the car could generate simulated obstacles at random intervals for the driver to react to.
If the cell phone service as such isn't shut down a modem app would make uucp possible.
If we were really there, the comet would look black, black, black and more black. And the shadows would be slightly, but probably imperceptibly, darker. The images are extremely enhanced to exagerrate the tiny variations of deep black.
The question of colour is interesting. Space probe cameras don't have RGB sensors, they're monochrome with lots and lots of switchable filters for specific purposes, like seeing seeing specific gases like nitrogen monohydride or a mineral like orthopyroxene, and many are in UV or IR. It's a bonus if the science lets you make more or less true colour images too.
The resolution will be much better when the probe gets close to the nucleus as the narrow field camera won't be able to see all of it at once. What I've seen so far seems to be only part of the full frame.
Data harvesting only adds value if it can be used to predict something which Google finds useful, what feeds you've got in common with someone else apparently wasn't useful enough in presenting, for example, search results.
But without Reader, I wouldn't have gotten a Google account. At least not then.
Of course Telenor themselves mention the bandwidth: http://www.telenor.com/media/a...
Fibre optic with lots of Gb/s to the European mainland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Can be noted that any citizen of a country which has signed the Svalbard treaty can move there without needing any permit.
The improved version could instead of being better be cheaper.
Interview with Kayser ("we've only found the first five genes"): http://www.scientificamerican....
In short: Hair and eye colour prediction: 0.9, height: 0.75, everything else "much lower" than 0.75 with 0.5 being totally random.
And from the article itself: "The next step is to run larger studies in different populations to confirm that the variants found so far are statistically reliable." which explains why there aren't any more test examples.
A bit about how it works ("Fine Tuning of Craniofacial Morphology by Distant-Acting Enhancers"): http://www.evolutionnews.org/2...
The interesting question is: What do cars think of the Trolley Problem?
It's not when software or hardware fails to do as intended that is the big problem when assigning blame. Nor when the car does something because it's been told to. It's the usually hidden and unused ethics which makes this difficult and interesting. Rules and duty versus utility and consequences.
It's most likely wrong to think that all self driving cars will act the same when faced with a necessary choice of who to kill and who to save. Unless governments require all such software to be written to very exact specifications about how to deal even with situations nobody has thought of, of course.
Should the cars' ethical system reflect their owners' views on the trolley problem?
Should cars be forced to use a specific ethical system contrary to what some owners would like?
Should cars learn by experience and adapt their ethics?
If you ride in your self driving car when it is, would you like it to kill you to save five others or the other way round?
"Downgrade" data-link isn't exactly right: It was a replacement of the Swedish with Link 16. Which doesn't have all the features the Swedish did 20 years ago but has the important feature that it's NATO compatible. The problem was (is?) that there's not space for both in a Gripen, so suddenly the C/D version wasn't compatible with most data-link resources in the defence force, but the older A/B version was.
From the image, they would not fit in lightbulb sockets. I don't think that's a mistake, I think it's a hint that you can't buy them in the real world.
I just tried that with a couple of paragraphs: Google Translate returns the exact text including mis-spellings even though it had correctly identified what the mis-spelled words actually should be.
This suggests that there are language independent methods of "identifying" writers.
"Sweden's" official account? I didn't even know about it until now. But they got BBC to write about it, even though there's really no news content apart from "innovative marketing approach", which probably helped increase the number of followers from 8000 to 18000 but I wonder if the extra 10000 are interested in Sweden or in how this will work (and if it's really amateurs writing) and if any of them had any trouble telling Sweden and Switzerland apart before.
You're forgetting to mention that the main character cheats. On medical and performance tests determining his suitability for a space mission.
Fences is sort of what this is about, I think; Google photographs from a camera which is higher up than the conventional "public view".
This source also has some more technical details, like charging current, how much current the charging station will draw from the grid (20kW), that the charging station has twin batteries with different properties, that car makers need to adopt new battery types for it to work:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20100621/183598/
No, the resolution isn't the only problem.
One other is saccadic eye movements. Anything shown via these would remain fixed relative to the eye, but as our eyes constantly shift the exact direction we look in, each "pixel" would appear to jump around.
One more is the very small field of view our eyes have sharp vision in. A single projected image (I'm not clear on whether they intend to project the light from each LED to a spot on the retina) would be VERY small. To simulate a larger (7+ characters?) image you'd have to have orientation sensors in the contact lenses (which also would help with the previous paragraph).
I really wonder if they or anyone else have put semitransparent letters or whatever on a contact lens to determine how information dense it really can be as a static display.
Amtrak security was even filmed saying filming isn't allowed, when a news crew was interviewing Amtrak's spokesperson, who very clearly was saying there's no policy forbidding filming or taking photographs:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=6664418
GPS monitoring is to be able to FIND them at all times, for tests. They're already supposed to be available for testing at any time, so this is to reduce the number of excuses when someone isn't where they were supposed to be.
$9990 is at least cheap enough that it actually exists.
When stuff like this first became a possibility, a prospective maker found a market for 6 units: 4 for BBC and 2 for SR (Swedish national radio), and decided not to start production.
"Just off hand, I wonder how many pilot's die in car accidents... "
I don't know, but I know that John Paul Stapp was allowed to work on car safety on USAF time because the air force lost more pilots due to car accidents than flying accidents in the 1950s.
Assess damage? Yes: Since last year, the MQ-1 and MQ-9 are permitted to fly in ordinary US airspace, much for exactly that reason.
Supplies? Maybe. Dropping sacks of food from underwing racks from light aircraft has been done when flying low and slow. Don't think these would be suitable for that, but maybe cannisters with (steerable with GPS guidance?) parachutes would work. Air dropping from a larger transport aircraft would probably be better in most cases though.
The MQ-9s strong point is its endurance, up to 42 hours, not its load capacity.
But there are those who seriously consider developing smallish cargo UAVs for relief use where ground transport would be risky and regular aircraft impractical.
Sorry, I was probably too brief. You're of course right regarding prosthetics and it does mention implantation.
But I think the term "artifical tissue" in this case does not mean the same thing as it usually does, when it's biological in nature like skin and bone replacements which either becomes part of the recipient or allows own new cells to grow in place. A plastic actuator seems to be something quite different.
One mentioned use actually is "artificial tissue for implantation", so inside isn't out of the question, but I don't think they mean implantation in the sense of making it part of the recipent.
I think it might be things like a pump which works like a heart, but electrically powered. Machine, but if it works like muscle tissue it does a better job and will have a longer service life.
What "destination body"? This is for machines.