Ban on takeoffs and landings is FAA, and was instituted when they weren't sure what caused interference in avionics, and at low altitudes there is little room to recover.
Ban on cell phone use at altitude is FCC, not FAA, and is due to your speed shifting you through cell towers every few seconds, which messes with cell network design.
I have no idea if the latter has since been addressed by cell phone networks.
> Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler...building a robot toddler > called 'Roboy.' Using 'soft robotics' technology that mimics > the human body, the 1.2 meter (3 ft, 11 in) tall humanoid robot > is part of an effort to make robots that people are more > comfortable with in day-to-day situations.
I'm going to guess one of it's first uses will be a situation that people are less comfortable with.
I would like to see studies of these people to see, years down the road, if they felt it was worth it.
That's the real answer, like asking people with anomalous genitalia if they were happy with their gender assignment surgery they had as babies. Overwhelmingly they were not, while those who didn't have it, also tellingly, weren't running around "Damn I wish my parents had had that done to me!"
My friend, this is the exact opposite of capitalism. You are thinking of crony capitalism, or corruption, or rent-seeking (look it up).
The solution wasn't vox populi vox dei, a meme that allows massive powers to be wielded through government by the powerful. It was simply disallowing government many powers that connected or powerful or wealthy people could use to swing to their favor.
If this seems like working hand-in-hand with capitalism, you haven't learned much from history,
Well, McAfee Labs oughtta know. "Anon will have problems. We know -- we're...familiar with trying to remain anonymous and hidden when governments put you on the most wanted list."
> I guess you could launch it towards the sun and do a slingshot around it.
No, too much energy! That will make it go faster than is possible in normal space, i.e. faster than the speed of light, and thus throw it back in time.
Previous to this discovery, only the mysterious energies released in a warp core cold start implosion could make you go faster than light while still in normal space.
The next revolution is construction at the atomic level without needing buttloads of chemistry to create things in a roundabout way.
The number of new materials we cannot even guess at will make life better and longer, and should also facilitate manipulators on a scale to patch and repair cells. It will also aid DNA experimenting to program life, and provide delivery of specialized DNA injections to particular cells.
Plus you'll finally get that hyper-lifelike robot to fuck, thouh human behavior (not counting remote control) is still a little off.
For about $2500 in "tweaks", you can make your engine run on natural gas, too. We don't do that here, either.
Netherlands did it, and you could optionally get that mod (and you get a nice switch to flip the engine back and forth) and they then immediately slapped a severe tax on it so you had to drive 20km per year just to break even again vs. gas. Thanks for nothing!
There is nothing government can't get involved in that it can't muck things up. Problem isn't power hunger so much as the ability to suavely persuade useful idiots to gang up behind them.
Exactly. When done properly, it just adds some to the experience, and is not a central feature.
See also the new HFR High Frame Rate stuff in Hobbit. Not a damned thing seemed odd about that, but then I've been watching TV recently. Who wants artificially-forced degradation?
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Ban on takeoffs and landings is FAA, and was instituted when they weren't sure what caused interference in avionics, and at low altitudes there is little room to recover.
Ban on cell phone use at altitude is FCC, not FAA, and is due to your speed shifting you through cell towers every few seconds, which messes with cell network design.
I have no idea if the latter has since been addressed by cell phone networks.
YouTube, can you look into this worthless, hookless piece of shit?
I dare you to force yourself to listen to the entire thing.
> Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler...building a robot toddler
> called 'Roboy.' Using 'soft robotics' technology that mimics
> the human body, the 1.2 meter (3 ft, 11 in) tall humanoid robot
> is part of an effort to make robots that people are more
> comfortable with in day-to-day situations.
I'm going to guess one of it's first uses will be a situation that people are less comfortable with.
"We have 3 minutes! Where are you surfing?"
"Yes, hurry, go here! Always wanted to see this!"
I would like to see studies of these people to see, years down the road, if they felt it was worth it.
That's the real answer, like asking people with anomalous genitalia if they were happy with their gender assignment surgery they had as babies. Overwhelmingly they were not, while those who didn't have it, also tellingly, weren't running around "Damn I wish my parents had had that done to me!"
"Because it's there" -- people put this stuff on watches and calculators and jabbering children's toys.
Now why do it for actual home use as opposed to buying hardware designed for it or generic computer hardware, I don't know.
Bloomberg is imagining things.
I dropped my Windows 8 smartphone on the busy sidewalk by accident three days ago and it was still there this morning. Whew!
> "The company's [then] CEO, Michael Scott"
Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change
That's what she said!
Steve's desire to end the disjoined approach
That's what she said!
bad design was both the symptom and a contributing cause of Apple's corporate disease
That's what she said!
My friend, this is the exact opposite of capitalism. You are thinking of crony capitalism, or corruption, or rent-seeking (look it up).
The solution wasn't vox populi vox dei, a meme that allows massive powers to be wielded through government by the powerful. It was simply disallowing government many powers that connected or powerful or wealthy people could use to swing to their favor.
If this seems like working hand-in-hand with capitalism, you haven't learned much from history,
Whew! They achieved the same as the Beatles.
I have a Facebook account, haven't logged on to it in a year, and was hoping a future employer would ask me so I could say no.
Oh well.
Thanks! I was wondering what kinds of asses mod down humor. -1 lame, maybe, but on principle? =D
"Well, Butters really seems to be enjoying his new Nintendo 3DS game!"
"My precious!"
Well, McAfee Labs oughtta know. "Anon will have problems. We know -- we're...familiar with trying to remain anonymous and hidden when governments put you on the most wanted list."
Bullshit!
I send photons out my flashlight way faster than that.
A few years of economic difficulties and some populist loudmouths talking about draconian cuts, and boom! There she goes.
> I guess you could launch it towards the sun and do a slingshot around it.
No, too much energy! That will make it go faster than is possible in normal space, i.e. faster than the speed of light, and thus throw it back in time.
Previous to this discovery, only the mysterious energies released in a warp core cold start implosion could make you go faster than light while still in normal space.
The next revolution is construction at the atomic level without needing buttloads of chemistry to create things in a roundabout way.
The number of new materials we cannot even guess at will make life better and longer, and should also facilitate manipulators on a scale to patch and repair cells. It will also aid DNA experimenting to program life, and provide delivery of specialized DNA injections to particular cells.
Plus you'll finally get that hyper-lifelike robot to fuck, thouh human behavior (not counting remote control) is still a little off.
Well, infinitely powerful God apparently needs humans to kill off his political enemies. Censoring them ain't no thang.
"Present them."
$1000 is what they mean by "tweaks".
For about $2500 in "tweaks", you can make your engine run on natural gas, too. We don't do that here, either.
Netherlands did it, and you could optionally get that mod (and you get a nice switch to flip the engine back and forth) and they then immediately slapped a severe tax on it so you had to drive 20km per year just to break even again vs. gas. Thanks for nothing!
There is nothing government can't get involved in that it can't muck things up. Problem isn't power hunger so much as the ability to suavely persuade useful idiots to gang up behind them.
> Speaking as someone that lives, bills get passed that favor the politicians, not the corporations or the people.
FTFY
Ethanol blends also damage your liver and nose. WTF!
Christmas On Mars
Ooh! Let's decorate.
A little green here, some silver and gold there. Ahhhh. We've got the red covered, don't worry about it.
Japan burst its bubble 20 years ago by taxing real estate in downtown Tokyo, and they still haven't fully recovered.
Be careful when you get a big ol' boner for tax increases.
Exactly. When done properly, it just adds some to the experience, and is not a central feature.
See also the new HFR High Frame Rate stuff in Hobbit. Not a damned thing seemed odd about that, but then I've been watching TV recently. Who wants artificially-forced degradation?