Yes, robots would cost more than simply installing more cameras. But for shits and giggles, lets say the prison now breaks out in a massive riot. how hard would it be to simply strap a few cans of tear gas, pepper spray, whatever non-leathal means of stopping the riot, to the robot, roll it on in the room(s) and deploy the gas.
Now after the first use like this, now I v2.0 of the robot with an internal cylinder of said gas, with a nozel that leads out the front of the robot, and a guard sitting behind a monitoring station with his finger over the spray button.
This is just a stepping stone to having robots fully capable of stopping potential violence without putting human guards in harms way.
"GM's Volt will follow the same path if it suceeds, or else be a giant waste of money if it fails (like EV1 was)."
I would just like to point out that the EV1 didn't fail, it was killed. There was a number of factors that played against that car from the begining. If you take a look back a few years, you will see the original Volt design was very similar to the EV1. The Volt was designed to run purely on electricity with no gas engine. When I first read that I was as astounded that GM actually released that information. Then, if you notice in the press, there was no more mention of the Volt until it was redesigned with the hybrid engine.
The EV1 was a great design for short distance commutes. The original Volt design was a vast improvement over the EV1 which would have allowed for long distance travel. Why did they go and put a gas engine in it now? I'd like to see a press release describing that reasoning.
Now before anyone goes and tries to say that im simply paraphrasing the documentry "Who Killed the Electric Car", don't get me wrong, that was a real eye opener. But like any documentry, there is always a bias side to the person telling the tale. So for those of you who have seen it, think of it this way... if even a third of what they stated in that documenty was true, then its a very scary thought of the power that oil companies, politians and big business have at crushing any new ideas that threaten the "old" way of doing things.
I started to do a series of "There, fixed that for you" replies based on the comments made. However, there were far too many spelling and gramatical errors for me to continue.
I wonder what impact this might have on magic jack. I've used that service far more than any other type of online communications. It also has a nice feature of letting me take it oversea's and as long as i have a high speed connection, i can still make any phone calls back to north america for free.
oh wait, unless you're just going off the base magnitudes then a magnitude of 2 would be 100, so i'm guessing you're implying its 100 million... i think thats what you mean... arg, math, i hate math....
sorry for sounding so new here, but what order of magnitude are you using? the average distance from earth to mars is around 78 million km, while the averge distance to the moon is around 384,000 km. how does that factor down to a magnitude of 2? honestly... not trying to be a pick, im just curious as from the earlier post i dont see how its even several magnitudes greater...
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Yes yes, but your forgetting one important detail, the information pack you requested is the one they show to the public, they dont want everyone to know about the "real" pay options you get that dont have any type of paper trails, just un-sequenced stacked bills handed to you in a brown paper bag that reads "lunch - extra lettuce".
As for not looking at the camera, i guess thats just habit to them now... knowing when their picture is being taken and all:-)
Can't say i did much in basic, but the one language i cut my teeth on was turing. I still remember the final project myself and a friend teamed up on wouldn't run on any of the school computers (at the time, we incorporated SVGA mouse driven 3D-menu systems and 16-bit sound). I had to lug my old, steel cased, full sized tower system that weighed a ton or more, into the school to demonstrate the program to our teacher in order to get the credit for it.
Would of made my buddy bring in his system, but i lived closer to the school... damn that was a long walk back home with plenty of rest periods to gather my strength before contining on with the system...
One might think the best course of action would be to establish a lunar coloney that could be used as an output for any future missions further out into space. However, the lunar coloney would be subject to the impacts from space rock. The moon is constanly being hit by micro-meteorites and until we can find some way to block these types of impacts, i cant see any type of installtion lasting very long. I still belive that the lunar coloney would be the best starting point for any future space exploration. Just my two cents though
If the taser caused an electrical arc, its possible the arc ignited the gas fumes. The other most likely possibility is that as the taser struck the man, it caused his muscles to contract making his hand operate the lighter which in turn would have ignited the gas fumes (I'm asuming the fumes would have been the main cause for the start of the fire, unless he was covered in gasoline himself).
I like to play games with the telemarketers. The most sucessful game i've played with them is the credit card game. I tell them that im very intrested and would like to make the purchase, i only ask them to hold on for a minute while i go get my wallet to get my credit card. Every couple of minutes i get back on the phone and say something along the lines of "my wife must have my wallet, one sec, i know its around here somewhere", etc... So far the longest time i've gotten has been 17 minutes before they hung up on me.
Too bad there are companies like this out there, when i stopped working for a PC repair shop (espically when i stopped doing alot of repair work on the side), I had alot of my old customers ask me if they should keep taking their systems back to the same shop, or to another shop. The best advice i could give them for hardware related problems was to tell whoever was fixing the systems, that they wanted any original hardware returned to them.
Software, always been a problem... anything you store on your systems is fair game to whoever is fixing it. The best advice i was able to give to my old customers for their sensitive information was not to store it on the computer at all. Pick up a couple thumb drives and store any documents, passwords, etc... on those drives to keep it seperate.
Im sure there are more of us out there that have given the same advice.
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Yes, robots would cost more than simply installing more cameras. But for shits and giggles, lets say the prison now breaks out in a massive riot. how hard would it be to simply strap a few cans of tear gas, pepper spray, whatever non-leathal means of stopping the riot, to the robot, roll it on in the room(s) and deploy the gas.
Now after the first use like this, now I v2.0 of the robot with an internal cylinder of said gas, with a nozel that leads out the front of the robot, and a guard sitting behind a monitoring station with his finger over the spray button.
This is just a stepping stone to having robots fully capable of stopping potential violence without putting human guards in harms way.
Guess this is the end for "Big Brother" since it will be in every home soon enough....
no no, the film was entitiled "Braille -- Bump Bump Bump"
haha, as soon as i seen the name Contra, all i could think was "up up down down left right left right a b select start"
when a company finds a way to make the world a little more foolproof, the world will make a better fool....
"GM's Volt will follow the same path if it suceeds, or else be a giant waste of money if it fails (like EV1 was)."
I would just like to point out that the EV1 didn't fail, it was killed. There was a number of factors that played against that car from the begining. If you take a look back a few years, you will see the original Volt design was very similar to the EV1. The Volt was designed to run purely on electricity with no gas engine. When I first read that I was as astounded that GM actually released that information. Then, if you notice in the press, there was no more mention of the Volt until it was redesigned with the hybrid engine.
The EV1 was a great design for short distance commutes. The original Volt design was a vast improvement over the EV1 which would have allowed for long distance travel. Why did they go and put a gas engine in it now? I'd like to see a press release describing that reasoning.
Now before anyone goes and tries to say that im simply paraphrasing the documentry "Who Killed the Electric Car", don't get me wrong, that was a real eye opener. But like any documentry, there is always a bias side to the person telling the tale. So for those of you who have seen it, think of it this way... if even a third of what they stated in that documenty was true, then its a very scary thought of the power that oil companies, politians and big business have at crushing any new ideas that threaten the "old" way of doing things.
Atari ST... thats bringing back memories, i still remember my first computer which was a Atari 800-XL -- ah the good old days.
I started to do a series of "There, fixed that for you" replies based on the comments made. However, there were far too many spelling and gramatical errors for me to continue.
I'm curious if he can hit a self destruct button and have the car split into the motorcycle!
I wonder what impact this might have on magic jack. I've used that service far more than any other type of online communications. It also has a nice feature of letting me take it oversea's and as long as i have a high speed connection, i can still make any phone calls back to north america for free.
You mean Marvin the depressed andriod?
when i start feeling down, i just take a look at my de- motivational posters and remember, it can always be worse.
actually i was using average orbital patterns, what are you using to find 239 million km?
oh wait, unless you're just going off the base magnitudes then a magnitude of 2 would be 100, so i'm guessing you're implying its 100 million... i think thats what you mean... arg, math, i hate math....
sorry for sounding so new here, but what order of magnitude are you using? the average distance from earth to mars is around 78 million km, while the averge distance to the moon is around 384,000 km. how does that factor down to a magnitude of 2? honestly... not trying to be a pick, im just curious as from the earlier post i dont see how its even several magnitudes greater...
He building the protocol droid to help his mother out, not to help him out.
How many people do you know that actually ready the TOS before they purchase the product?
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Yes yes, but your forgetting one important detail, the information pack you requested is the one they show to the public, they dont want everyone to know about the "real" pay options you get that dont have any type of paper trails, just un-sequenced stacked bills handed to you in a brown paper bag that reads "lunch - extra lettuce".
As for not looking at the camera, i guess thats just habit to them now... knowing when their picture is being taken and all :-)
the real question is can we do anything to stop it.
Well, i hope your refering to stoping the man-made addition to GW. I don't think trying to stop the natural planetary cycle would be a good idea.
Can't say i did much in basic, but the one language i cut my teeth on was turing. I still remember the final project myself and a friend teamed up on wouldn't run on any of the school computers (at the time, we incorporated SVGA mouse driven 3D-menu systems and 16-bit sound). I had to lug my old, steel cased, full sized tower system that weighed a ton or more, into the school to demonstrate the program to our teacher in order to get the credit for it.
Would of made my buddy bring in his system, but i lived closer to the school... damn that was a long walk back home with plenty of rest periods to gather my strength before contining on with the system...
memories....
One might think the best course of action would be to establish a lunar coloney that could be used as an output for any future missions further out into space. However, the lunar coloney would be subject to the impacts from space rock. The moon is constanly being hit by micro-meteorites and until we can find some way to block these types of impacts, i cant see any type of installtion lasting very long. I still belive that the lunar coloney would be the best starting point for any future space exploration. Just my two cents though
If the taser caused an electrical arc, its possible the arc ignited the gas fumes. The other most likely possibility is that as the taser struck the man, it caused his muscles to contract making his hand operate the lighter which in turn would have ignited the gas fumes (I'm asuming the fumes would have been the main cause for the start of the fire, unless he was covered in gasoline himself).
I like to play games with the telemarketers. The most sucessful game i've played with them is the credit card game. I tell them that im very intrested and would like to make the purchase, i only ask them to hold on for a minute while i go get my wallet to get my credit card. Every couple of minutes i get back on the phone and say something along the lines of "my wife must have my wallet, one sec, i know its around here somewhere", etc... So far the longest time i've gotten has been 17 minutes before they hung up on me.
Too bad there are companies like this out there, when i stopped working for a PC repair shop (espically when i stopped doing alot of repair work on the side), I had alot of my old customers ask me if they should keep taking their systems back to the same shop, or to another shop. The best advice i could give them for hardware related problems was to tell whoever was fixing the systems, that they wanted any original hardware returned to them.
Software, always been a problem... anything you store on your systems is fair game to whoever is fixing it. The best advice i was able to give to my old customers for their sensitive information was not to store it on the computer at all. Pick up a couple thumb drives and store any documents, passwords, etc... on those drives to keep it seperate.
Im sure there are more of us out there that have given the same advice.