And since no one read TFA.. I'll just point out that the code was on the checklist... Written in plain sight.
Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel.
You know, I really hate lmgtfy. It implies that there are such things as stupid questions, which is something that I try to not believe in. And why should anyone ask anything of anyone else, when non-judgmental google is just a mouse-click away? It's not like someone might want to contribute to a semi-realtime conversation with other actual humans, right?
Your offence is noted, though as the other poster noted, LMGTFY isn't meant to imply there are stupid questions, only that it was something that ought to have just been googled.
I particularly felt like expressing an "attitude" because I was "hearing" an attitude in your post (and others) that implied that Segways don't make sense for people who are disabled, when I consider that patently false. (I actually see it as being more useful to people with mobility problems then for people who can walk normally.)
An old lady with a bad hip, a vet with no legs, a person with stunted growth in their legs or feet, a person with a spinal injury, etc, all seem way more likely and better candidates for a Segway for day to day use then a healthy 30 something business exec in a 3 piece. It would allow them near normal mobility, at normal speeds, and a level of confidence and independence that might not be afforded by a wheelchair.
Since I doubt they could get away with informing the parties that the call is rude, I think a little message every minute with the price of the call so far would be good. 1st minute "This call has cost $10.00" 2nd minute "This call has cost $25.00" 3rd minute "This call has cost $45.00"
I see no reason why a computer couldn't use visual clues and alternate sensors to detect velocity.. These may have been harder in the past, but certainly possible with today's technology.
I also see no reason why a computer couldn't visually see broken engines and do an emergency maneuver.
I also see no reason why a computer couldn't learn from the Hudson landing and be able to do similar maneuvers.
I see the pilot being needed at this time, but I also see that in the not too distant future a computer could do a better job then the original.
Personally, I think we're just a few years away from a fully automatic flying experience.
Me too. Honestly I can't imagine a human surviving as many crashes as our black boxes have.. The combined learning from all of those, as well as the automation we already have ought to be able to out perform a human right to the last moment, when human pilots may have been incapacitated by movements or G-forces. We are getting better and better at explaining to these moving robots how to handle themselves in all sorts of crazy situations.
Just think about the Google Car that has to handle far crazier things then you would ever encounter in the air or on a landing strip. Even impromptu landing strips could be better judged by a computer with all the sensors at its disposal. (And it would be better able to analyze all the data then any human in a panic.)
Fair enough, I assume that comes out of my lack of understanding about how MenuetOS is designed/architected. I kinda assumed it was kinda monolithic in its assembled form... I am probably wrong on that point.
Really, it's no better than simply holding a lottery to award parcels of land to random people.
I actually think it should go a step further. Lets say the entire surface of the moon is property of all humans alive today. Assign equal sized parcels by a pure random lottery to every man woman and child. If they sell their property on the moon to some rich guy, then it isn't our fault. Just let economics take its course from there.
If we are starting to believe that the core of an operating system should include a full GUI, video and mp3 playback, audio, USB, network, etc. for the least possible battery use, then this is a really cool way to go.
Why waste the resources? Just cause we can?
If we are to rethink what a basic operating system of today ought to have right out of the box from the first nanosecond, then I'm sure there is a lot of reengineering that would happen to any Linux or Windows kernel.
It's almost Star Trek-like in its ability to parse natural language input. And I think that's the eventual direction that computer programming will evolve towards. Programs will not be written in code, but instead, as broad sentences, parsed by an AI which automatically performs the high-level task.
That is kinda how I would think of it.. You make a request. The computer AI does its best to pick a starting point given what you described and starts running it. Then you explain to the computer what the AI is doing wrong in comparison to the running program. It tries again. Rinse and repeat until it has something that does everything you want it to.
From a programming point of view it is like starting with a similar project and using natural language to modify the existing program little by little. This certainly wouldn't make the most efficient code, but it might be good for people who just want to do a variation on an existing theme.
Obviously this wouldn't be programming from the classical point of view, but it could be extrapolated to handle an enormous variety of things that an average person would want.... Then once there is a prototype they could hand it to a software engineer for the parts that need optimization for final tweaking.
Terrorists won't be able to afford robots, and terrorism will become economically unfeasible. Tomorrow's war will be rich people using robots to kill uppity poor people before they can become rich.
Obviously anything that requires confidential information should be received though portal pages and tokens returned to make sure the developer is limited in their access / retention abilities... And sites/apps that use confidential information would have to meet certain standards to be approved....
Seems to me that the government ought to be in the API business, making all their tools open to developers that can then take the information and the forms, fill them out get details, etc. Make life easy for developers and then let the public create the interfaces. I could see a lot of great things coming out of such a model.
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I'll see your video and raise you Red Dwarf Enhancement... ;)
Because honestly, we could just enhance our satellite imagery
And since no one read TFA.. I'll just point out that the code was on the checklist... Written in plain sight.
Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel.
Lastly, if people get that desperate they can resort to phage therapy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Never heard of that, thanks for bringing it to my attention! Sounds interesting.
You know, I really hate lmgtfy. It implies that there are such things as stupid questions, which is something that I try to not believe in. And why should anyone ask anything of anyone else, when non-judgmental google is just a mouse-click away? It's not like someone might want to contribute to a semi-realtime conversation with other actual humans, right?
Your offence is noted, though as the other poster noted, LMGTFY isn't meant to imply there are stupid questions, only that it was something that ought to have just been googled.
I particularly felt like expressing an "attitude" because I was "hearing" an attitude in your post (and others) that implied that Segways don't make sense for people who are disabled, when I consider that patently false. (I actually see it as being more useful to people with mobility problems then for people who can walk normally.)
An old lady with a bad hip, a vet with no legs, a person with stunted growth in their legs or feet, a person with a spinal injury, etc, all seem way more likely and better candidates for a Segway for day to day use then a healthy 30 something business exec in a 3 piece. It would allow them near normal mobility, at normal speeds, and a level of confidence and independence that might not be afforded by a wheelchair.
Since I doubt they could get away with informing the parties that the call is rude, I think a little message every minute with the price of the call so far would be good.
1st minute
"This call has cost $10.00"
2nd minute
"This call has cost $25.00"
3rd minute
"This call has cost $45.00"
...
>:)
Honestly... Segways for the Disabled
You don't need to be fully mobile to lean.
Now people who rage agains't people with Google Glass are going to go ape shit over someone who has an actual disability :(
I remember reading about people doing that to disabled people using Segways.
I see no reason why a computer couldn't use visual clues and alternate sensors to detect velocity.. These may have been harder in the past, but certainly possible with today's technology.
I also see no reason why a computer couldn't visually see broken engines and do an emergency maneuver.
I also see no reason why a computer couldn't learn from the Hudson landing and be able to do similar maneuvers.
I see the pilot being needed at this time, but I also see that in the not too distant future a computer could do a better job then the original.
Personally, I think we're just a few years away from a fully automatic flying experience.
Me too. Honestly I can't imagine a human surviving as many crashes as our black boxes have.. The combined learning from all of those, as well as the automation we already have ought to be able to out perform a human right to the last moment, when human pilots may have been incapacitated by movements or G-forces. We are getting better and better at explaining to these moving robots how to handle themselves in all sorts of crazy situations.
Just think about the Google Car that has to handle far crazier things then you would ever encounter in the air or on a landing strip. Even impromptu landing strips could be better judged by a computer with all the sensors at its disposal. (And it would be better able to analyze all the data then any human in a panic.)
This was my first thought. You probably couldn't do it all the time, but once in a blue moon it could be quite handy for some 30 minute errand.
Here is a question... If you can't consent to sex while drunk, how can you consent to this research while drunk?
I'm certain the discovery was chronicled in the book "Treasure Of Khan" where Dirk Pitt ... oh wait ;)
The real threat is the people who have been compromised in these organizations.
You mean the web admins for not securing their servers?
Someone tore down a poster hung up by the CIA and if caught faces 25 years in federal pound you in the ass prison!
FTFRandall
Fair enough, I assume that comes out of my lack of understanding about how MenuetOS is designed/architected. I kinda assumed it was kinda monolithic in its assembled form... I am probably wrong on that point.
Really, it's no better than simply holding a lottery to award parcels of land to random people.
I actually think it should go a step further. Lets say the entire surface of the moon is property of all humans alive today. Assign equal sized parcels by a pure random lottery to every man woman and child. If they sell their property on the moon to some rich guy, then it isn't our fault. Just let economics take its course from there.
Sounds like other things related to rates of change:
velocity
acceleration
jerk
jounce
Touché
If we are starting to believe that the core of an operating system should include a full GUI, video and mp3 playback, audio, USB, network, etc. for the least possible battery use, then this is a really cool way to go.
Why waste the resources? Just cause we can?
If we are to rethink what a basic operating system of today ought to have right out of the box from the first nanosecond, then I'm sure there is a lot of reengineering that would happen to any Linux or Windows kernel.
"Add a google Ad box to the upper left corner below the logo"
"Make it fit under the logo nicely."
"Make it blink."
...
Noooooooooo!
It's almost Star Trek-like in its ability to parse natural language input. And I think that's the eventual direction that computer programming will evolve towards. Programs will not be written in code, but instead, as broad sentences, parsed by an AI which automatically performs the high-level task.
That is kinda how I would think of it.. You make a request. The computer AI does its best to pick a starting point given what you described and starts running it. Then you explain to the computer what the AI is doing wrong in comparison to the running program. It tries again. Rinse and repeat until it has something that does everything you want it to.
From a programming point of view it is like starting with a similar project and using natural language to modify the existing program little by little.
This certainly wouldn't make the most efficient code, but it might be good for people who just want to do a variation on an existing theme.
Obviously this wouldn't be programming from the classical point of view, but it could be extrapolated to handle an enormous variety of things that an average person would want.... Then once there is a prototype they could hand it to a software engineer for the parts that need optimization for final tweaking.
Terrorists won't be able to afford robots, and terrorism will become economically unfeasible. Tomorrow's war will be rich people using robots to kill uppity poor people before they can become rich.
FTFY
Obviously anything that requires confidential information should be received though portal pages and tokens returned to make sure the developer is limited in their access / retention abilities. .. And sites/apps that use confidential information would have to meet certain standards to be approved....
Seems to me that the government ought to be in the API business, making all their tools open to developers that can then take the information and the forms, fill them out get details, etc. Make life easy for developers and then let the public create the interfaces.
I could see a lot of great things coming out of such a model.
Uhh, hello? Each occupied prison place is income for said prison, lawyers and judges.
FTFY