Countertops that don't need to be protected from water, heat, or stains, can be easily resurfaced after scratching, and are designed to be hosed down and then squeegeed into the sinks. A refrigerator that has no interior surfaces that are awkward or difficult to clean. A freezer that is frost free without defrost cycles (laminar flow air curtain when the door opens?), cause I'd rather have frost than freezer burn. It would also have a -70C alcohol bath for flash freezing foods or just because I wanted the ice cubes for my whiskey damn cold. A range hood/HVAC system that while almost completely silent still manages to move air up to about 60 linear feet per minute across and up the back of the range. It would also pull in makeup air from a vent to the outside when outdoor temperatures make doing so appropriate, cannily avoid wasting heat in winter, and be easy to degrease.
In the spirit of less is more (but still gadgety):
How about instead of a fridge that needs to have inventory scanned in and out just like a grocery store, one with a couple of wide angle cameras inside which you could activate from your smart phone while you're at the grocery store?
In one respect that is fine: in Europe an artist can take assorted odd jobs that allow them to perform and tour, the choice affects their income. In the US that quits working rather suddenly the moment they (or their dependents) need health care.
The people who can successfully complete a training course and buy guns are still increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used improperly
Economic imbalance and a system designed to widen the gap rather than close it are increasing the number of thieves waiting to steal guns.
Yet violent crime rates have been decreasing for the past 20 years.
I'd say that firearm ownership is intended to add a risk component to creating too dumb and reactionary a populace.
I'm not sure I see it that way. There's a profit incentive for the gun trade, and political incentives for Republicans "It's our gun tribe vs the anti-gun tribe" and "It's a scary world, I'm protecting the gun that protects you", but I don't see any advantage from the actual risk itself. Cui bono from suicide, accidents, or killing your spouse?
I think the burglar posts are focusing on the rational, logical burglars. There are other types out there.
There's also you, and your spouse/partner. Getting killed by a robber is a lot less common than getting killed by someone else who lives in the house. So you should probably have a gun to protect yourself.
Having sufficient training to pick up a gun, properly target an adversary and if necessary fire with effective results is important. I would offer that people that cannot successfully complete a training course with some kind of live-fire simulation should not be given permits for handguns.
Otherwise we are simply increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner.
You would still be increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner. If you really wanted to decrease risks to your household the training would focus on recognizing (in your self and everyone else in the house): anger management issues, substance abuse issues, abusive tendencies, suicidal tendencies, and perhaps lackadaisical tendencies like considering the glove compartment of a car to be a secure storage place for a gun.
I don't see any reason for the information to be available outside of a formal police investigation. But that information should include the serial numbers of the guns, and be readily available to police throughout the country. Your gun should be your responsibility until you sell it legally or report it stolen.
I would offer that people that cannot successfully complete a training course with some kind of live-fire simulation should not be given permits for handguns.
Otherwise we are simply increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner.
The people who can successfully complete a training course and buy guns are still increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used improperly. Training courses don't test for poor anger management, suicidal or abusive tendencies, or people who consider their glove compartment to be secure storage. Training courses also don't necessarily test all of the people in the home who will have access to the gun.
Having sufficient training to pick up a gun, properly target an adversary and if necessary fire with effective results is important.
I'd say having sufficient training to recognize all of the problems I mentioned, both in yourself and other people in your home, and then using that training to decide whether or not to have a gun in the house is more important when it comes to actual risk reduction.
Pretty much this. Most people watch far too many hollywood movies.
Hollywood sucks for risk assessment. Less than 1000 people in the USA are killed during robberies each year, and thats all robberies not just home invasions. If you buy a gun to protect your family just remember: on average wives/girlfriends are more likely to be killed by their spouse/boyfriend than a robber.
that'll mean that that speed will be achievable with $5-600 consumer parts. Add into that that valve will be getting OEM prices, and it'll likely be $400-450 to them, add to that that they'll probably launch it at a loss, and you're looking at $300 for their high end version. That's an entirely reasonable price for a console in this day and age.
I think they would be selling it at a loss at $300 even if they got the components for free. Valve will have to market and advertise the hell out of this if they want it to sell in large numbers, and the only way to get the other major game developers to consider working with the platform is to sell in large numbers. MS spent half a billion just to introduce the Kinect. How much do you think they will spend on the 720? Plus Valve is currently a software operation. They'll have to invest in becoming a hardware developer/manufacturer/distributer or at least pay other companies to do it for them.
Also worth bearing in mind: Imagine generic Linux boxes started to look like a potential competitor in the games scene. Then imagine how much money Sony and Microsoft would throw at developers to NOT release any linux versions of games at all. Then double that number if this was happening anywhere near the release dates for the Playstation 4 or Xbox 720.
Your the only one everyone else is moving to Libreoffice and Google Docs,.
No, no they're not. If your clients, boss, or coworkers are sending you Excel spreadsheets or heavily formatted Word documents for you to work on and return and you insist on using LibreOffice you will find yourself without clients, boss, or coworkers. You don't get to tell them to format their files as Office 2003 and hand them a list of formatting, drawing, template, and macro features they will have to stop using. MS owns you, or at least they own me. Heck, I tried to set up LibreOffice for my Mom but everyone else at the nonprofit she volunteers for uses MS Word/Excel, so that fell through too.
when you apply for disability or long term care insurance:
"Thank you Mr/Ms. Brown for your application. Your last step is to submit a cheek swab for genetic analysis"
No law against it right now.
Still, you are right its not the fault of the researchers (as its impossible to fully anonymise a dataset while retaining its research usefulness).
For researchers the way forward is to restrict access to their data. Stored data is encrypted, email/FTP is encrypted. HIPAA enforcement and potentially being banned from access to clinical trial data (in the case of egregious carelessness) would be good motivators to maintain good IT practices.
On NPR they pointed out that while it is illegal to deny or charge more for health insurance based on genetic information it is perfectly legal to deny life insurance or long term care insurance on that basis. They came pretty close to pointed out that a private model for long term care insurance just won't work once people have a handle on their risk factors, but backed off saying a public model would be better
What I wonder about: Say your relatives make their genotypes public resulting in you not being able to purchase long term care insurance. Would that be actionable?
The big thing I found I had to do was resist the urge to look at what the camera was not focused on. Hopefully one day eye tracking and lytro type cameras make even that possible.
I don't think they need lytro type cameras or eye tracking. Directors have been using shallow depths of field to guide the eye and compose the frame for over a hundred years. The problem now is making them choose: selective focus OR 3D. No, not both. No jumping back and forth between selective focus and 3D either. Choose one or the other and get on with the show.
To me the big problem is the focus/convergence distance difference. When they can do that (giant heads up display?) it will stop being a gimmick.
Rethink wants to use Baxter to perform simple jobs that manufacturers have never been able to automate cost-effectively before.
Great! Like what?
Baxter has a basic knowledge of how to perform a wide range of basic manufacturing operations such as loading and unloading, counting, reorienting, and light assembly.
Ah. Those things that robots are already doing quite efficiently. What else?
It can also be programmed with additional capabilities. (Rethink is currently developing software that would allow Baxter to communicate with other machines, say a conveyor belt.)
Yes, but since when is a police officer truly ever off duty? Having a few friends in law enforcement, I can tell you that the answer is 'never'.
One would hope the answer to "when is a police officer off duty?" would be "after they've had more than a few drinks". I doubt the new laws states have been enacting that ban carrying a concealed weapon while intoxicated (which are a great idea, IMHO) are enforced against law enforcement though.
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Countertops that don't need to be protected from water, heat, or stains, can be easily resurfaced after scratching, and are designed to be hosed down and then squeegeed into the sinks. A refrigerator that has no interior surfaces that are awkward or difficult to clean. A freezer that is frost free without defrost cycles (laminar flow air curtain when the door opens?), cause I'd rather have frost than freezer burn. It would also have a -70C alcohol bath for flash freezing foods or just because I wanted the ice cubes for my whiskey damn cold. A range hood/HVAC system that while almost completely silent still manages to move air up to about 60 linear feet per minute across and up the back of the range. It would also pull in makeup air from a vent to the outside when outdoor temperatures make doing so appropriate, cannily avoid wasting heat in winter, and be easy to degrease.
So add a condenser to a rice cooker/food steamer?
In the spirit of less is more (but still gadgety): How about instead of a fridge that needs to have inventory scanned in and out just like a grocery store, one with a couple of wide angle cameras inside which you could activate from your smart phone while you're at the grocery store?
How do you figure over $100,000?
In one respect that is fine: in Europe an artist can take assorted odd jobs that allow them to perform and tour, the choice affects their income. In the US that quits working rather suddenly the moment they (or their dependents) need health care.
In related news, Kim DotCom's new company Mega has moved its place of business to Antigua ...
I think if the plot had been prepared 120 years ago the singularity would have been forecast for about 1900.
The people who can successfully complete a training course and buy guns are still increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used improperly
Economic imbalance and a system designed to widen the gap rather than close it are increasing the number of thieves waiting to steal guns.
Yet violent crime rates have been decreasing for the past 20 years.
I'd say that firearm ownership is intended to add a risk component to creating too dumb and reactionary a populace.
I'm not sure I see it that way. There's a profit incentive for the gun trade, and political incentives for Republicans "It's our gun tribe vs the anti-gun tribe" and "It's a scary world, I'm protecting the gun that protects you", but I don't see any advantage from the actual risk itself. Cui bono from suicide, accidents, or killing your spouse?
I think the burglar posts are focusing on the rational, logical burglars. There are other types out there.
There's also you, and your spouse/partner. Getting killed by a robber is a lot less common than getting killed by someone else who lives in the house. So you should probably have a gun to protect yourself.
Having sufficient training to pick up a gun, properly target an adversary and if necessary fire with effective results is important. I would offer that people that cannot successfully complete a training course with some kind of live-fire simulation should not be given permits for handguns.
Otherwise we are simply increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner.
You would still be increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner. If you really wanted to decrease risks to your household the training would focus on recognizing (in your self and everyone else in the house): anger management issues, substance abuse issues, abusive tendencies, suicidal tendencies, and perhaps lackadaisical tendencies like considering the glove compartment of a car to be a secure storage place for a gun.
Did they calculat how many kg of solar panels you can install on earth for the energy it takes to put one kg of solar panel in orbit?
I don't see any reason for the information to be available outside of a formal police investigation. But that information should include the serial numbers of the guns, and be readily available to police throughout the country. Your gun should be your responsibility until you sell it legally or report it stolen.
I would offer that people that cannot successfully complete a training course with some kind of live-fire simulation should not be given permits for handguns.
Otherwise we are simply increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used in an otherwise improper manner.
The people who can successfully complete a training course and buy guns are still increasing the number of guns waiting to be stolen or used improperly. Training courses don't test for poor anger management, suicidal or abusive tendencies, or people who consider their glove compartment to be secure storage. Training courses also don't necessarily test all of the people in the home who will have access to the gun.
Having sufficient training to pick up a gun, properly target an adversary and if necessary fire with effective results is important.
I'd say having sufficient training to recognize all of the problems I mentioned, both in yourself and other people in your home, and then using that training to decide whether or not to have a gun in the house is more important when it comes to actual risk reduction.
Pretty much this. Most people watch far too many hollywood movies.
Hollywood sucks for risk assessment. Less than 1000 people in the USA are killed during robberies each year, and thats all robberies not just home invasions. If you buy a gun to protect your family just remember: on average wives/girlfriends are more likely to be killed by their spouse/boyfriend than a robber.
Someone has to defend your right to be a pacifist.
That someone would be their lawyer, not a random self appointed vigilante.
that'll mean that that speed will be achievable with $5-600 consumer parts. Add into that that valve will be getting OEM prices, and it'll likely be $400-450 to them, add to that that they'll probably launch it at a loss, and you're looking at $300 for their high end version. That's an entirely reasonable price for a console in this day and age.
I think they would be selling it at a loss at $300 even if they got the components for free. Valve will have to market and advertise the hell out of this if they want it to sell in large numbers, and the only way to get the other major game developers to consider working with the platform is to sell in large numbers. MS spent half a billion just to introduce the Kinect. How much do you think they will spend on the 720? Plus Valve is currently a software operation. They'll have to invest in becoming a hardware developer/manufacturer/distributer or at least pay other companies to do it for them.
Also worth bearing in mind: Imagine generic Linux boxes started to look like a potential competitor in the games scene. Then imagine how much money Sony and Microsoft would throw at developers to NOT release any linux versions of games at all. Then double that number if this was happening anywhere near the release dates for the Playstation 4 or Xbox 720.
Your the only one everyone else is moving to Libreoffice and Google Docs,.
No, no they're not. If your clients, boss, or coworkers are sending you Excel spreadsheets or heavily formatted Word documents for you to work on and return and you insist on using LibreOffice you will find yourself without clients, boss, or coworkers. You don't get to tell them to format their files as Office 2003 and hand them a list of formatting, drawing, template, and macro features they will have to stop using. MS owns you, or at least they own me. Heck, I tried to set up LibreOffice for my Mom but everyone else at the nonprofit she volunteers for uses MS Word/Excel, so that fell through too.
seriously though http://www.libreoffice.org/ is great.
Not if MS can help it.
when you apply for disability or long term care insurance: "Thank you Mr/Ms. Brown for your application. Your last step is to submit a cheek swab for genetic analysis" No law against it right now.
Still, you are right its not the fault of the researchers (as its impossible to fully anonymise a dataset while retaining its research usefulness).
For researchers the way forward is to restrict access to their data. Stored data is encrypted, email/FTP is encrypted. HIPAA enforcement and potentially being banned from access to clinical trial data (in the case of egregious carelessness) would be good motivators to maintain good IT practices.
On NPR they pointed out that while it is illegal to deny or charge more for health insurance based on genetic information it is perfectly legal to deny life insurance or long term care insurance on that basis. They came pretty close to pointed out that a private model for long term care insurance just won't work once people have a handle on their risk factors, but backed off saying a public model would be better
What I wonder about: Say your relatives make their genotypes public resulting in you not being able to purchase long term care insurance. Would that be actionable?
The big thing I found I had to do was resist the urge to look at what the camera was not focused on. Hopefully one day eye tracking and lytro type cameras make even that possible.
I don't think they need lytro type cameras or eye tracking. Directors have been using shallow depths of field to guide the eye and compose the frame for over a hundred years. The problem now is making them choose: selective focus OR 3D. No, not both. No jumping back and forth between selective focus and 3D either. Choose one or the other and get on with the show. To me the big problem is the focus/convergence distance difference. When they can do that (giant heads up display?) it will stop being a gimmick.
Rethink wants to use Baxter to perform simple jobs that manufacturers have never been able to automate cost-effectively before.
Great! Like what?
Baxter has a basic knowledge of how to perform a wide range of basic manufacturing operations such as loading and unloading, counting, reorienting, and light assembly.
Ah. Those things that robots are already doing quite efficiently. What else?
It can also be programmed with additional capabilities. (Rethink is currently developing software that would allow Baxter to communicate with other machines, say a conveyor belt.)
Nothing to see here, move along.
I'm guessing $50 gets you the terminal but there will be a monthly charge for the OS and applications cloud.
He won the last round with no broadcast.
Some sources (commenters on chess sites) say the feed was back on for the last round. http://www.chess.com/news/suspected-cheater-strip-searched-4830?page=2
Yes, but since when is a police officer truly ever off duty? Having a few friends in law enforcement, I can tell you that the answer is 'never'.
One would hope the answer to "when is a police officer off duty?" would be "after they've had more than a few drinks". I doubt the new laws states have been enacting that ban carrying a concealed weapon while intoxicated (which are a great idea, IMHO) are enforced against law enforcement though.