This (old!) thing is a research project wich led to the development of the Hubo humanoid robot--a Asimo-like competitor from a korean university. The Hubo robot was the predecessor of their newer Albert Hubo robot.
The later uses animatronic facial expressions but it's just meant as a research complement to the humanoid robot. It's more like a tongue-in-cheek element of the project, just like the chair was to their first Hubo FX-1 thing. The chair also helped them better understand balance and control the AI's learning process of self-balancing.
The entire article is bullcrap. It goes on to decide a draw based on Vista's and it's app's crashyness and the featureless aspect of OSX's Front Row application.
For one, what turned Apple around was the iMac. It came out way before OS X did, wich was but a mere promisse at the time. OS X only became a relevant factor around Tiger. By that time, OS 9 was dead and the iMac (and the rest of the lineup: PowerBooks, iBooks and the G5) had put Apple back into the spotlight. The iPod locked it there and people (other than Mac followers like myself) started to take notice of Mac OS X around that time.
The OS itself is heavily multi-threaded itself. Cocoa also makes it easy to multi-thread an application (and quite frankly, even using pthreads is simple).
The OpenGL drivers are also multi-threaded. A game I play went from ~300 FPS to 500~ FPS when they turned on OpenGL multithreading on the Intel Mac builds.
My father was chief architect for Royal Bank of Canada, when it had it's own architectural dept (wich they closed in the 90s). The department took the entire 7th floor of the Place Ville-Marie building in Montreal. It was a big department with lots of architects, engineers and dedicated drafting machinery like CalComps.
AutoCAD was the *only* thing they had internally. It was *very* big, and they had 3D extensions and bill management.
So, yes. Industry standard. Surpassed? Certainly with products such as Catia, but in the technical plan & drafting area, AutoCAD is still very big. Most small to medium architectural design firms still use it today.
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Well we all knew it would come down to that, Aka, utter BS.
Pretty much.
It matters if the device breaks down before it's total energy output equals that wich was required to build it in the first place.
Not only that...
I bet the total energy output of this device's expected mtbf isn't big enough to cover the machine's construction in the first place. Thus, moot.
Rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! My head!
There is no why.
This (old!) thing is a research project wich led to the development of the Hubo humanoid robot--a Asimo-like competitor from a korean university. The Hubo robot was the predecessor of their newer Albert Hubo robot.
The later uses animatronic facial expressions but it's just meant as a research complement to the humanoid robot. It's more like a tongue-in-cheek element of the project, just like the chair was to their first Hubo FX-1 thing. The chair also helped them better understand balance and control the AI's learning process of self-balancing.
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We are in a crisis: if we can't explain how the universe works, the creationists win and we're all doomed.
The entire article is bullcrap. It goes on to decide a draw based on Vista's and it's app's crashyness and the featureless aspect of OSX's Front Row application.
That's complete nonsense.
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Now that's a hefty business plan.
Yeah. That's complete BS.
For one, what turned Apple around was the iMac. It came out way before OS X did, wich was but a mere promisse at the time. OS X only became a relevant factor around Tiger. By that time, OS 9 was dead and the iMac (and the rest of the lineup: PowerBooks, iBooks and the G5) had put Apple back into the spotlight. The iPod locked it there and people (other than Mac followers like myself) started to take notice of Mac OS X around that time.
It matters because it means that when the scene gets more complicated and the FPS drops down, you still get smooth animations.
It'd rather see my 500FPS drop down to 200FPS than see my 70FPS drop down to 35.
The OS itself is heavily multi-threaded itself. Cocoa also makes it easy to multi-thread an application (and quite frankly, even using pthreads is simple).
The OpenGL drivers are also multi-threaded. A game I play went from ~300 FPS to 500~ FPS when they turned on OpenGL multithreading on the Intel Mac builds.
The vendetta-online space MMORPG also uses Lua at it's core.
It's currently only 85% bestiality.
And 15% screwed-up.
The point of the news/record is that this thing is both autonomous AND can last up to a year down there.
That's not the case of this manned submarine.
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...they're going right through it?
Without a doubt, Windows is still the most convenient platform for consumers
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Nice trolling.
It's a moot point because we dont have a single real robot out there.
All we have are lame assimo -like remotely-controlled or -operated show floor wich the press and public lala-land insist on calling robots.
Artificial Intelligence is no where near capable of producing a hamster brain.
My father was chief architect for Royal Bank of Canada, when it had it's own architectural dept (wich they closed in the 90s). The department took the entire 7th floor of the Place Ville-Marie building in Montreal. It was a big department with lots of architects, engineers and dedicated drafting machinery like CalComps.
AutoCAD was the *only* thing they had internally. It was *very* big, and they had 3D extensions and bill management.
So, yes. Industry standard. Surpassed? Certainly with products such as Catia, but in the technical plan & drafting area, AutoCAD is still very big. Most small to medium architectural design firms still use it today.