This makes plenty of fscking sense when you remember that the company is large and only some of them are morons. Companies act a lot less monolithically than most people imagine.
To adhere to Asimov's rules of robotics requires that the robot be capable of executing those instructions, and we're nowhere near having machines with the Artifical Intelligence necessary to do that.
Manufacturing robots are sophisticated, but they're really more properly thought of as "Automatons" in this context, not robots in the Asmovian sense.
Tragic that this fellow died, but no more of a failing than a farmhand who falls into a thresher.
It does suggest that these industrial machines might have more safeties on them than they currently do, though.
I don't think it was Illustrator/Photoshop that did the trick. Check history - I think you'll find it was Pagemaker that was the killer app for the Mac.
Dude, EVERYTHING in Slashdot is "scooped" by someone. The whole POINT of Slashdot is that it points off to news and stories that are pointed out by other news-gathering and aggregating sources.
Or does Slashdot have a team of primary source journalists that we don't know about?
What is the *deal* with the black box...? If they can keep the black box software from crashing, why don't they make the rest of the operating system out of the same material? am I right, people?
You REALLY have to give a tip of the hat to the folks at UNC who've been doing this sort of work for YEARS.
Their GRASP system was a force-feedback molecule-docking simulation driven by a motorized WALDO arm. Very impressive. Nice to see that others are following in their footsteps.
Images don't resize with the browser. Images can't be selected and pasted as text. Images can't be read by external devices for accessibility purposes.
There are huge tradeoffs to using images, which is why people keep trying to do find a real text based solution to the font problem. Images are just a hacky solution.
They keep to themselves, are cool in their own way, but they suffer from being a little defensive and overly senstive because everyone always forgets about them.
"I do not think that word means what you think it means..."
A Homonym is a word that *sounds* like another word, but has a different meaning. Bear and bare are homonyms. Their and They're. Too, to and two. You get the idea.
"the same word that means different things" is called a homograph. Commonly we say that word as several meanings or senses.
there have been very few medical advances that have actually increased human lifespan or health
Not true. Lifespan has increaed by about a factor of 2 in the last 100 years, at least in Western industrialized nations. If you're an American, that's where your NIH money is going: letting you live longer.
Lizards? OH! We used to DREAM of computing with lizards....
Where I grew up there was 150 of us crammed into a cubicle in the middle of the road. We had to wake up at six in the morning, half an hour before we went to bed, and we were forced to do our computing by sucking on a damp cloth.
Try to tell kids today that though, and they won't believe you.
Stop, stop, stop, stop everyone, please, just stop trying to prove you can or can't make a computer for 100 bucks by looking up retail prices at your favorite pricegrabber site.
RETAIL is NOT the point.
The ONLY thing that matters is whether you can gather the parts for a WHOLESALE pricepoint where you can sell the box for 100 retail.
Until someone starts posting bulk wholesale prices and then computes the cost of labor, none of the DIY lists are even remotely interesting.
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This makes plenty of fscking sense when you remember that the company is large and only some of them are morons. Companies act a lot less monolithically than most people imagine.
To adhere to Asimov's rules of robotics requires that the robot be capable of executing those instructions, and we're nowhere near having machines with the Artifical Intelligence necessary to do that.
Manufacturing robots are sophisticated, but they're really more properly thought of as "Automatons" in this context, not robots in the Asmovian sense.
Tragic that this fellow died, but no more of a failing than a farmhand who falls into a thresher.
It does suggest that these industrial machines might have more safeties on them than they currently do, though.
I'm pretty unhappy with this patent and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I give it 0 out of 5 stars.
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come get me, Amazon.
I charge you with sparking a potential pun war and it's having a polarizing effec out here in the field.
Now, now, let's be civil.
You're right that private insurance doesn't cover flood damage.
You're wrong if you think that it's "complete nonsense" that private insurance companies will be writing billions of dollars in claims checks.
There's a lot more going on here than just flood damage.
Ra-men, brother.
I don't think it was Illustrator/Photoshop that did the trick. Check history - I think you'll find it was Pagemaker that was the killer app for the Mac.
Dude, EVERYTHING in Slashdot is "scooped" by someone. The whole POINT of Slashdot is that it points off to news and stories that are pointed out by other news-gathering and aggregating sources.
Or does Slashdot have a team of primary source journalists that we don't know about?
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What is the *deal* with the black box...? If they can keep the black box software from crashing, why don't they make the rest of the operating system out of the same material? am I right, people?
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For your sake, I hope all your bugs are shallow. ;)
You, sir, are a genius.
All the money for the "Save Enterprise" fund should be put into advertising to support this new show.
You REALLY have to give a tip of the hat to the folks at UNC who've been doing this sort of work for YEARS.
Their GRASP system was a force-feedback molecule-docking simulation driven by a motorized WALDO arm. Very impressive. Nice to see that others are following in their footsteps.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/cismm/
Even worse: ICE on the moon.
BRRR!
wait for it... ... like chips!
computer... chip...oh nevermind.
Images don't resize with the browser.
Images can't be selected and pasted as text.
Images can't be read by external devices for accessibility purposes.
There are huge tradeoffs to using images, which is why people keep trying to do find a real text based solution to the font problem. Images are just a hacky solution.
Jeeez, whoever modded this guy as insightful clearly didn't get the fact that this comment was meant to be funny.
Please, dear God tell me this was meant to be funny...?
Mod parent to 6, Insightful. ;)
thanks.
....and finally, Amiga users are the Coast Guard.
They keep to themselves, are cool in their own way, but they suffer from being a little defensive and overly senstive because everyone always forgets about them.
HEY! I'm a believer in Intelligent Design of Spacesuits, you insensitive clod!
Mod parent up.
Though, I would have to add this:
No. No. No. No. NO. no no Nonononononononoogodno.
and, of course: no.
"I do not think that word means what you think it means..."
A Homonym is a word that *sounds* like another word, but has a different meaning. Bear and bare are homonyms. Their and They're. Too, to and two. You get the idea.
"the same word that means different things" is called a homograph. Commonly we say that word as several meanings or senses.
there have been very few medical advances that have actually increased human lifespan or health
Not true. Lifespan has increaed by about a factor of 2 in the last 100 years, at least in Western industrialized nations. If you're an American, that's where your NIH money is going: letting you live longer.
Them's some big olives you gonna need too.
Lizards? OH! We used to DREAM of computing with lizards....
Where I grew up there was 150 of us crammed into a cubicle in the middle of the road. We had to wake up at six in the morning, half an hour before we went to bed, and we were forced to do our computing by sucking on a damp cloth.
Try to tell kids today that though, and they won't believe you.
Stop, stop, stop, stop everyone, please, just stop trying to prove you can or can't make a computer for 100 bucks by looking up retail prices at your favorite pricegrabber site.
RETAIL is NOT the point.
The ONLY thing that matters is whether you can gather the parts for a WHOLESALE pricepoint where you can sell the box for 100 retail.
Until someone starts posting bulk wholesale prices and then computes the cost of labor, none of the DIY lists are even remotely interesting.