I can't help but think you might be able to do some cool things if you taped a Wii Motion Plus remote to a Kinect and waved it around. Easy all-aspect 3-D?
If somebody walked up to you and said, "We're going to be building a new experimental reactor design in your backyard, funded by Bill Gates", would you give it the thumbs up?
Uh, point of fact, the evacuations are mandatory. There are capital-L Laws in place globally that enforce the amount of radiation that one can be exposed to for various situations, and they are very strictly enforced. They didn't have a choice, and still, they didn't quit.
I don't know about the TWR design, but the pebble bed reactor design basically put flecks of uranium oxide inside graphite balls and use that to generate heat. That heat goes through the wall of the vessel they're contained in, heating the water, which turns the turbine. If there's a failure in a pump somewhere, you drain the primary coolant loop and leave the pebbles. There's no way the heat of the uranium could cause any sort of problem, and because there's no water anymore, you can't get an explosion.
I'm kinda getting an Uplink vibe here, with all these "X was hacked" "Another X was hacked, the government is taking it very seriously" on and on and on.
They're doing some crazy testing to make sure that it won't interfere. They're not going to deploy a technology that could take down the entire US without making damn sure it won't. Besides, Garmin's guys are the ones saying it'll mess everything up- testing sponsored by LightSquared shows that is has a small effect, if any. I don't think they'd bias the tests- most of those labs, if not all, are good labs.
See, that's assuming one hell of a slippery slope. Even then, we don't need to make all white-hat hacks legal- all we need to do is open up a way for someone to blow the whistle anonymously.
The big problem I have is that the internet is not a consumable resource. Yes, if I drive a lot, or eat a lot, or use a lot of electricity, my gas, food, and electrical bills will go up- but that's because those are resources that can be consumed. The internet (and phone access, by the way) isn't consumed when I access it. It's just There.
You can launch fuel through a mass driver. Much safer and cheaper than a rocket. You could probably do same with food and other supplies, although depending on the cargo, medical might need a regular launch. Stick a couple guys on the fuel depot, fire up some food and air packs with the fuel, and replace them with a new crew every six months or so.
Really? You're looking to slam Gates so much that you're willing to overlook his over $28 billion in charitable contributions because the company he founded stands to make some cash off selling computers to them? I'm willing to bet that, even optimally, Gates won't make back a tenth of that as a result of this. Not everything has an ulterior motive.
The reason they have so many kids is because infant mortality is so high. They have to have six kids just to make sure that one of them survives to adulthood.
We've seen in other countries that as quality of life improves, birth rate drops. This is a solid first step towards improving the quality of life.
Is a man who dedicates half his fortune to curing a major cause of death in the third world to establish his good name really any worse than the man who does same for purely altruistic reasons? The money's the same, after all.
It's a damn sight easier to eliminate a disease than to eliminate poverty. If they have more bodies available to work, then the economy will pick up. Baby steps.
One of the ways it gets data is from reading contact book information when people use their email address book to find Facebook friends. Feeding false information there doesn't really help you. I suppose if they put you in as "John" rather than your full name it's obscured, but it only takes one full entry to put it all together.
When I text, I can say "Where are you?" And my friend can say "I'm over there." And I can say "I'll be right there." Calling can take much, much longer, what with the formalities and such. Using voice to send a text isn't going full circle, it's making the system that much more efficient.
Android: "Text Nick meet me at Andrea's period" Siri: "Text Nick meet me at Andrea's"
I don't see the revolutionary difference, really. Siri does do some funkier things, I'll say that, but once you learn the (very simple) syntax of Android voice commands, you've got it.
Even better, if you press and hold the search button, it'll automatically start voice actions. I don't think I've sent but five typed text messages since I started using it.
Looked basically the same, but with some extra commands added that, while they look sexy on the marketing blurb, I would never use. That said, I use the shit out of Voice Actions on Android, and I love them to death. Still, Siri isn't going to be the killer app that pulls me over to the iPhone side.
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I can't help but think you might be able to do some cool things if you taped a Wii Motion Plus remote to a Kinect and waved it around. Easy all-aspect 3-D?
If somebody walked up to you and said, "We're going to be building a new experimental reactor design in your backyard, funded by Bill Gates", would you give it the thumbs up?
Uh, point of fact, the evacuations are mandatory. There are capital-L Laws in place globally that enforce the amount of radiation that one can be exposed to for various situations, and they are very strictly enforced. They didn't have a choice, and still, they didn't quit.
I don't know about the TWR design, but the pebble bed reactor design basically put flecks of uranium oxide inside graphite balls and use that to generate heat. That heat goes through the wall of the vessel they're contained in, heating the water, which turns the turbine. If there's a failure in a pump somewhere, you drain the primary coolant loop and leave the pebbles. There's no way the heat of the uranium could cause any sort of problem, and because there's no water anymore, you can't get an explosion.
I'm kinda getting an Uplink vibe here, with all these "X was hacked" "Another X was hacked, the government is taking it very seriously" on and on and on.
I'm sorry, this isn't a story. This is a blog entry, and a short one at that.
They're doing some crazy testing to make sure that it won't interfere. They're not going to deploy a technology that could take down the entire US without making damn sure it won't. Besides, Garmin's guys are the ones saying it'll mess everything up- testing sponsored by LightSquared shows that is has a small effect, if any. I don't think they'd bias the tests- most of those labs, if not all, are good labs.
One of the countries that got tossed in Arab Spring shut down their access at the carrier level, I remember- I thought it was Egypt.
Worked so well for Egypt, right?
See, that's assuming one hell of a slippery slope. Even then, we don't need to make all white-hat hacks legal- all we need to do is open up a way for someone to blow the whistle anonymously.
The big problem I have is that the internet is not a consumable resource. Yes, if I drive a lot, or eat a lot, or use a lot of electricity, my gas, food, and electrical bills will go up- but that's because those are resources that can be consumed. The internet (and phone access, by the way) isn't consumed when I access it. It's just There.
You can launch fuel through a mass driver. Much safer and cheaper than a rocket. You could probably do same with food and other supplies, although depending on the cargo, medical might need a regular launch. Stick a couple guys on the fuel depot, fire up some food and air packs with the fuel, and replace them with a new crew every six months or so.
Having people to work the farms and factories to make money could, though.
Really? You're looking to slam Gates so much that you're willing to overlook his over $28 billion in charitable contributions because the company he founded stands to make some cash off selling computers to them? I'm willing to bet that, even optimally, Gates won't make back a tenth of that as a result of this. Not everything has an ulterior motive.
The reason they have so many kids is because infant mortality is so high. They have to have six kids just to make sure that one of them survives to adulthood.
We've seen in other countries that as quality of life improves, birth rate drops. This is a solid first step towards improving the quality of life.
Is a man who dedicates half his fortune to curing a major cause of death in the third world to establish his good name really any worse than the man who does same for purely altruistic reasons? The money's the same, after all.
It's a damn sight easier to eliminate a disease than to eliminate poverty. If they have more bodies available to work, then the economy will pick up. Baby steps.
One of the ways it gets data is from reading contact book information when people use their email address book to find Facebook friends. Feeding false information there doesn't really help you. I suppose if they put you in as "John" rather than your full name it's obscured, but it only takes one full entry to put it all together.
When I text, I can say "Where are you?" And my friend can say "I'm over there." And I can say "I'll be right there." Calling can take much, much longer, what with the formalities and such. Using voice to send a text isn't going full circle, it's making the system that much more efficient.
Really?
Well. Damn.
You just gave me the best idea ever.
Google should partner with WolframAlpha and give us the best search ever. Google for the voice API and maybe UI, and WA for everything else.
THAT would be a Siri-killer.
Android: "Text Nick meet me at Andrea's period"
Siri: "Text Nick meet me at Andrea's"
I don't see the revolutionary difference, really. Siri does do some funkier things, I'll say that, but once you learn the (very simple) syntax of Android voice commands, you've got it.
Even better, if you press and hold the search button, it'll automatically start voice actions. I don't think I've sent but five typed text messages since I started using it.
Looked basically the same, but with some extra commands added that, while they look sexy on the marketing blurb, I would never use. That said, I use the shit out of Voice Actions on Android, and I love them to death. Still, Siri isn't going to be the killer app that pulls me over to the iPhone side.