There is a clever concept in Python where you can have multiple statements inside a lambda. You can even split it easily over one or more lines. It is called a "function".
It is not far fetched at all! Chromecast has already offered my phone to recognize it via sound via the chromecast app. So it is already implemented as standard practice. There is no bottom to the depths...
+300 km range and 30 minutes charge time is probably enough that most of us will be satisfied. So in my book we are already there. Now all that will need to improve is the price, and that will come down radically in the next few years as production quadrouples.
Exactly this. I used to upgrade every time i could get a machine that was 4x faster. I have not really experience anything like that since my core 2 duo. So the machine i got will keep on running until it breaks.
If you think that a viable and functioning treatment will keep staying expensive then you have very little imagination. Immune therapy is a hot topic these days, and seem to be very suitable for automation. It actually seem to be best suited for automation. So my best guess is that prices will plummet if it becomes standard.
Stop considering the individual components of a piece of equipment for a unit that can be repaired. It is the wrong layer of abstraction.
In modern electronics a single electronic component has long stopped being the unit of repair. If your electronics gets fried, you change at least the entire circuit board. Personally I rarely get electronics repaired. Rather I will replace.
The new unit of repair is whatever not requires human intervention. A modern phone is assembled by robots so the entire phone is cheaper to replace and get a new phone you know is working. Instead of risking the uncertainty of getting a non-fixed device at unknown human hourly wages.
And as soon as you make more than you want to pull out as personal salary then it is the way most people do it. As far as I remember the rule of thumb is that if you make more than £100.000 a year it is worth doing.
I find it hard to believe that Facebook has no profit generating business in the UK. No UK companies buying adds on the site. So of course laws were broken. If a company makes business in several countries but only report their income in the one with the lowest tax rate then they are cheating on their taxes. There are a lot of financial techniques possible for that.
If a file is copied on their internal network between users they can basically just make a softlink. Pirates can also have a secret stash and then copy from that to a public acount. So after a dcma takedown they just make a new "softlink" from their private stash to the public account. Naturally they will need security when they make the public acount.
As a programmer working on difficult and abstract problems, his method is not that usefull. The example was good for a single simple problem. But that is not really the problems you have when working on difficult problems. And writing visual-feedback software for complex problems would be like writing book authoring software that creates a movie from the book you are writing. It is a good and obvious idea. But absolutely unrealistic for real world problems.
Where it is *very* useful though is for programmers designing software. If we can make our software work like that in their limited domains, then it is a terrific way to solve our users problems.
These days you don't have to choose. I run Win 7 on my machine and a virtualbox Ubuntu on that. So I develop in Ubuntu, and any kind of multimedia stuff is handled in Windows.
The great thing about development on Unix is that it is all just there. apt-get install xxx and you are ready to go. Versions are automatically upgraded. If you prefer working in a windows environment for some part of your project, you can easily do it by sharing drives and networking.
But I guess that you could just have an extra battery pack that is charged untill it is full, and then charge the car from that. That would also make solar and wind power better alternatives, as you could store power in cheap periods.
Considering that my 46" LED 1600x1080 flatscreen TV, which also has built in media player, internet connection etc costs about the same as a tablet, I would say yes.
They are insanely priced. I could install android on a small computer and make my own bloody 46" tablet... and use it as a coffee table.
A tablet is basically a netbook where the keyboard has been traded for a touch screen. But with less ram and storage. So they should at least be less expensive than a netbook. But they seem to cost at least twice that. It makes no sense whatsoever.
The real reason for linux is the freedom for me as a developer. But in a modern world where I have to edit video, make music and edit pictures, Windows or Mac is a required choice too.
Having to spend $100 on a windows desktop does not matter a bit to me. Nor to most other people I would expect.
As a software developer on the server end I am happy that there is a relatively lightweight desktop interface on my dev machine that runs virtualised in Virtualbox under Windows 7.
If open source developers are a big enough audience to keep that alive, then that is good enough for me.
I could not care less if my mother switched to linux.
If you put a high voltage through it, some conductive atoms move a little bit away from each other. That that makes it into an insulator instead. You can then reverse the voltage and move the atoms back in place. Actually a mechanical on/off switch, but at such small scales that it goes blazingly fast.
I believe that the cartoon clause are there because child pornographers used photoshop filters on real child pornography to make it look like cartoons To avoid prosecution.
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There is a clever concept in Python where you can have multiple statements inside a lambda. You can even split it easily over one or more lines. It is called a "function".
It is not far fetched at all! Chromecast has already offered my phone to recognize it via sound via the chromecast app. So it is already implemented as standard practice. There is no bottom to the depths ...
+300 km range and 30 minutes charge time is probably enough that most of us will be satisfied. So in my book we are already there. Now all that will need to improve is the price, and that will come down radically in the next few years as production quadrouples.
Exactly this. I used to upgrade every time i could get a machine that was 4x faster. I have not really experience anything like that since my core 2 duo. So the machine i got will keep on running until it breaks.
It is normal for european kids to have their own account with a debit card to use for paying stuff with. The card also has account info on it.
If you think that a viable and functioning treatment will keep staying expensive then you have very little imagination. Immune therapy is a hot topic these days, and seem to be very suitable for automation. It actually seem to be best suited for automation. So my best guess is that prices will plummet if it becomes standard.
Stop considering the individual components of a piece of equipment for a unit that can be repaired. It is the wrong layer of abstraction.
In modern electronics a single electronic component has long stopped being the unit of repair. If your electronics gets fried, you change at least the entire circuit board. Personally I rarely get electronics repaired. Rather I will replace.
The new unit of repair is whatever not requires human intervention. A modern phone is assembled by robots so the entire phone is cheaper to replace and get a new phone you know is working. Instead of risking the uncertainty of getting a non-fixed device at unknown human hourly wages.
And as soon as you make more than you want to pull out as personal salary then it is the way most people do it. As far as I remember the rule of thumb is that if you make more than £100.000 a year it is worth doing.
I find it hard to believe that Facebook has no profit generating business in the UK. No UK companies buying adds on the site. So of course laws were broken. If a company makes business in several countries but only report their income in the one with the lowest tax rate then they are cheating on their taxes. There are a lot of financial techniques possible for that.
If a file is copied on their internal network between users they can basically just make a softlink. Pirates can also have a secret stash and then copy from that to a public acount. So after a dcma takedown they just make a new "softlink" from their private stash to the public account. Naturally they will need security when they make the public acount.
As a programmer working on difficult and abstract problems, his method is not that usefull. The example was good for a single simple problem. But that is not really the problems you have when working on difficult problems. And writing visual-feedback software for complex problems would be like writing book authoring software that creates a movie from the book you are writing. It is a good and obvious idea. But absolutely unrealistic for real world problems.
Where it is *very* useful though is for programmers designing software. If we can make our software work like that in their limited domains, then it is a terrific way to solve our users problems.
These days you don't have to choose. I run Win 7 on my machine and a virtualbox Ubuntu on that. So I develop in Ubuntu, and any kind of multimedia stuff is handled in Windows.
The great thing about development on Unix is that it is all just there. apt-get install xxx and you are ready to go. Versions are automatically upgraded. If you prefer working in a windows environment for some part of your project, you can easily do it by sharing drives and networking.
The required current would be really high.
But I guess that you could just have an extra battery pack that is charged untill it is full, and then charge the car from that. That would also make solar and wind power better alternatives, as you could store power in cheap periods.
Considering that my 46" LED 1600x1080 flatscreen TV, which also has built in media player, internet connection etc costs about the same as a tablet, I would say yes.
They are insanely priced. I could install android on a small computer and make my own bloody 46" tablet... and use it as a coffee table.
A tablet is basically a netbook where the keyboard has been traded for a touch screen. But with less ram and storage. So they should at least be less expensive than a netbook. But they seem to cost at least twice that. It makes no sense whatsoever.
May I kindly point out that 2D will never work either. It has even more problems than 3D. How will anyone evet get depth perception in a 2D movie :-S
The real reason for linux is the freedom for me as a developer. But in a modern world where I have to edit video, make music and edit pictures, Windows or Mac is a required choice too.
Having to spend $100 on a windows desktop does not matter a bit to me. Nor to most other people I would expect.
As a software developer on the server end I am happy that there is a relatively lightweight desktop interface on my dev machine that runs virtualised in Virtualbox under Windows 7.
If open source developers are a big enough audience to keep that alive, then that is good enough for me.
I could not care less if my mother switched to linux.
If you put a high voltage through it, some conductive atoms move a little bit away from each other. That that makes it into an insulator instead. You can then reverse the voltage and move the atoms back in place. Actually a mechanical on/off switch, but at such small scales that it goes blazingly fast.
I never said they produced CP to convert it to cartoons.
Presumably they would take existing CP and "filter" it.
I believe that the cartoon clause are there because child pornographers used photoshop filters on real child pornography to make it look like cartoons To avoid prosecution.
Although we are still somewhat following Moores law, out computers have not become that much faster over the last years.
They have, however, become smaller and cheaper. So if you extrapolate from that, he is spot on.
And all we need for really small computers to become really usable is wearable screens. Perhaps even 3D screens.
The television crowd is currently working on that. When there is enough tv shows on big 3D screens, small 3D eyeglasses will become normal too.
I mean we will need glasses to watch 3D on 50" screens, so why not skip the 50" screen and just use the glasses only?
And what would you rather want right now? A faster computer notebook or a wearable one with 3D glasses?
No problem. We will just feed it to our livestock too. 30% more meat instantly.
They are a political and economic tool to advance economic growth and development of new technology.
In the software world where there are many people working on the same problem, and finding the same solutions. Patents are of no use whatsoever.
I would like to be proven wrong though. Is there any examples of software that would not have been developed without software patents?
But it still had enough atmosphere and detail that I, after a while, bought the other two. I now find the series on my shortlist.
A great read.
"War Machine: Rogue Trooper" is one of the best graphic novels ever made.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/rogue.shtml
And it would be very easy to translate it into a movie script. It reads like one already.