Am a I heartless bastard if the first thought that crossed my mind was "Damn, he successfully passed on his genes before dying of gross stupidity"? I'd suggest a Darwin award but the idiot managed to reproduce before he kicked the bucket.
Let's see, the physical strength and stamina to climb one of the toughest mountains on earth several times, not to mention the mental fitness, flexibility and willpower one needs in large quantities in order to do something like that.
I'd say his genes were top of the bill really
Funny you mention Darwin though.. . The guy traveled around the world, visiting remote deserted places for years at a time in a era where such voyages were still the equivalent of playing Russian roulette. Also gross stupidity?
No, these are people that want to probe the boundaries and limits of their world, want to explore, excel and stretch their own limitations. These are most likely the types that actually will become true heroes if the situation would call for it.
If the guy climbed mt Everest several times than he and his wife were fully aware of the risks involved. About 1 in 10 climbers die on that mountain I think. So if she got pregnant she was fully aware that her husband had a decent chance of never returning.
They made choice, who are you to judge them about that?
One thing to consider is that the speed of the expansion has been accelerating ever since it started.
Also "Considering how slowly the universe must have expanded in real terms" As far as I understand 'slow' is not really a good description to describe what happened after the big bang. The expansion rate defied every form of physics as we know it.
But still, that universe at that place, in that form, at that time, we observing it, now, in this place, at this time.... It doesn't make sense to me either;-)
If it emitted this light 13 billion years ago then at that point it was the edge of the universe We know that the universe has been expanding since it started, so we're not looking at the edge right now. We're looking at what used to be the edge.
What boggles my mind however, If at a mere 600 million years after the big bang the universe already expanded to that size. How big and vast must it be by now? Truly mindblowing. Almost literally when I try to imagine.
But, let's see how long the limbs of the thief remain attached to his body once his disadvantaged neighbors find out that they are about to die because of dehydration.
For now, it's a toy for the filthy rich only. A few technological evolutions down the line it will be affordable for the masses.
Competition will grow but the money machine needs to keep on rolling so new ways have to be found to get my money in their pockets. How about a space hotel? How about a moon fly-by? How about a 6 day space-cruise? etc.
Commercialism will prevail where governments fail.. goodbye Nasa, Hello Virgin.
There are so many problems with this sollution and shoulderlooking is a huge one.
It's nice that humans are good at remembering graphic data like images on a map but the same goes for the guy standing behind you. If someone knows you personally in most cases he or she wouldn't even have to see the exact location where you click. "ah... that looks like her old neighborhood, let's see if she picked her old house as passlocation"..
Also, it seems way to slow to be functional. The way it sounds they want me to pinpoint a exact location somewhere on earth when I want to log into a site? So I get a 2D? 3D? earth image on my screen and then navigate to that spot? By the time I get to that point my interest is already gone "scroll, scroll, scroll, zoom, zoom, damnit, zoom out a bit, more scroll, more zoom, ah, there we go..
Or can I type out a adress ala google maps that takes me to that location? Would be convenient no? MyOldSchoolroad 10, OldTown, Country... yeah, that would be nice and secure:-)
I personally don't find the really heavy-set guys or girls in spandex t all that pleasant to look at. But on the positive side, they are out there exercising trying to improve themselves instead of being couch potatoes.
Exactly, I hate it when people make mockery of people that actually are doing something to improve themselves.
No, it's not a feast for the eyes when a seriously over-weighted person is jogging through the streets. But it should be a feast for the brains though, instead of making downgrading remarks you should compliment and encourage them.
They are the brave and strong ones in a society where looks are almost the single most important thing to judge a person on.
To be honest my heart skipped a beat while reading the summary. But alas, it has been debunkt allready.
The day that the un really appoints someone as a sort of intergalactic ambassador will be the day that we'd really should ask some serious questions. I don't believe that the un is efficiënt enough to do something like that "just in case".
Would be a fun meeting I reckon.... "alright, we need a alien ambassador, who wants the job?, Who's carreer is on a dead enough track to not mind the lifelong laughter and mockery when your political functions are discussed.....? ":)
No, not gonna happen unless there is a real reason to do so
The thing that keeps amazing me every time I read something about the mars rovers is their stamina.
Think about it, it landed in January 2004 for a 90 (ninety) day mission on the surface of mars.
As we speak it's still driving around and making new discoveries, just mindblowing. That's 2343 days more than expected. Massive kudos to the engineers of these little wonders.
Even worse, not wearing your seatbelt may disable (some of) your airbags. I found this out the hard way.
The only time in my adult life that I didn't wear seatbelts I got involved in a car crash (talk about karma eh..)
A few years friend bought a BMW earlier that day and wanted to show it to me. While driving around a few blocks he got in a spin. The road was a bit wet, the previous owner of the car had worn the tires out pretty badly and my friend was not used to the power of the car yet. Not a very good combination. At the end of the spin we crashed into a parked lorry and instantly totaled the car. We both didn't wear seat-belts at that moment, I simply forgot about it I guess.
However, the car itself was pretty much stuffed with airbags but none of them had inflated at the impact.. A few minutes later a policeman showed up, he checked if we were ok (which we were) and the second thing he said was "you guys didn't wear your seat-belts, that was pretty stupid". I asked him how he could know if we did or did not wore the belts at the time of the crash.
His reply: "the airbags aren't inflated, that means the seatbelts were not in locked position. There is a sensor in the seatbelt lock that prevents airbags from inflating if you don't wear the seatbelts. It's for safety. Without your belt you'd crash into the inflating airbag so hard that you most likely would break your neck from that impact"
To this day I still don't know if that is true, but it does make some sense. The speed of a inflating airbag is huge, if you combine that with the forward speed of a human during a frontal crash I can imagine that's even more harmfull than the crash impact without the airbags.
If language is the problem and the students need dictionaries let them bring a paper version, problem solved. These things are dirtcheap so that won't be much of a problem.
As for the calculators, compile a list of say 10 or 15 models that are not networked and tell them they can use any calculator from that list. Make a range from cheap and simple to expensive overkill so everyone can be happy.
but I'm afraid that less-adaptable students will be unable to handle the switch from the calculator they know to an unfamiliar (but simpler) one.
If they use iPads, phones or other e-devices for dictionaries and cheating I'm pretty sure they will figure out a new calculator in no time really.
You're forgetting something important here I think. Only a very small fraction of the iPhone users actually attempt to jailbreak their device. The majority of people is perfectly happy with the way it works and have no desire to 'hack' it.
Let's not forget that apart from the very closed system it uses the iPhone itself is very very well designed in terms of usability.
When I bought my 3GS it didn't even come with a manual. Just the phone and some cables and stuff. Now, that's a bold statement. Telling your customers 'our device is so user friendly that you don't need a manual, it just works and you'll understand completely how it works without any help needed at all'.
Steve's fight against jailbreaking is a useless fight and he knows that. I think apple only tries to not let it get out of hand. But I don't think it worries them too much. 90% of their customers don't care about it anyway and rightfully so.
Of course, when I saw a HTC desire running Android in action I ditched my iPhone and orderded a Desire rightaway;-)
Did I just see a robot chair designed to move you from A to B inside your own friggin house?
That's just too much for me. I can't even begin to comprehend why I, or anyone else for that matter, would want something like that.
If walking from your bedroom to your living room is a to difficult, to exhausting and daunting task you don't need a robot. You need some goddamn exercise.
Disclaimer: Of course this doesn't apply for the elderly or disabled but there are already plentiful solutions for that. This was just a glorified bling bling version of it.
But since this add (or demo) was clearly targeted at young, healthy, trendy (and probably rich) adults I just find it sickening to watch how pathetically lazy some humans can be.
I'm 35 now and got diagnosed with adhd 2 years ago. I've been through some counseling and training via a "adhd for adults" program and started taking meds.
Man, has my life changed! For the better that is..... Suddenly the things I do (or don't do) make a lot more sense. I've started learning and understanding my own behavior a lot better. The medication (Concerta supplemented with Ritalin) make me feel and act a lot more "normal" (whatever that is). I can now actually watch a complete movie without getting distracted and bored within 10 minutes. I can focus on my work and jobs a lot better, get things done a whole lot more..
So, for me getting that diagnose now in this stage of my life is almost a revelation...
But! When I think of my childhood, I wouldn't have wanted that.
Yes, I was a annoying little son of a....Got bored very fast, always busy, with, well.. being busy. I'm sure a lot of teachers would have executed me on the spot if they had the chance to do so. Later on I became a true wildchild. Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll? Hah, that's what pussies do so to speak..
But I enjoyed every moment of it, wouldn't have wanted to miss that for a second. Of course, I would never have known if I'd had started taking meds at a much younger age. But still... Looking back, I don't regret it.
I was just a kid, being a kid, though on natural steroids.. I'm glad they let me be.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Wrong, No amount of f-stop can make you look better in real life....
The single most important thing in the online dating game is the first impression. On a website there are only two tools available to you to make that first impression. 1. Your written profile. 2. Your photograph.
Anyone can write a good profile. Just take your time for it. Read, re-read, adjust. Don't rush it, take a couple of days to work on it so you have time to make sure it's well written, and perfectly targeted at the demograph you'd like to meet.
Your picture is even more important since it's the very first thing people look at when visiting your profile. The difference between having a normal, average, shot and good quality photo is huge.
I've been dating via datingsites for a long time, for shits-n-giggles, to get laid, to just meet other persons, etc etc. I basically just like the game and the challenge of it. I'm a average looking guy and I guess I get a average amount of replies/succesrate.
At one point a friend of mine, a professional photographer, wanted to experiment with some new techniques and asked if I could pose for a couple of shots.
They turned out te be quite good, gave me a bit of a "rough" look and I started using pictures of that session in my datingprofiles. The results were quite staggering. The amount of replies and comments I got on my profile shot through the roof, four times as much as before when I used just a average pic. In online dating a good first impression isn't winning half the battle, it's winning 75% of the battle.. The steps from having a few messages send back and forth to a actual date is pretty easy after that.
Lesson learned: Looks matter, A LOT, and they can be manipulated..
1. write a good profile 2. get yourself decent pictures 3. . 4. profit
No "????" at 3 because you can skip that step if done right.
Unless a event occurs that is so impacting and unprecedented in known human history. Humans will never learn to unite and live in cooperation with each other. Like you said, it's not in our nature.
And with 'impacting and unprecedented' I'm thinking in terms of Divine intervention, alien visits (which might turn out to be the same thing), natural disaster killing 70/80+ percent of the human population, the made up Mayan prophecy turning out to be true after all.. That sort of stuff.
In other words, ain't gonna happen.
If we can hold out long enough hopefully technology will be so advanced and relatively cheap that at least the more fortunate in our society can get a second chance somewhere else.. (where they can start all over again)
"Unknown entities for unknown reasons are sending thousands of orders a second through the electronic stock exchanges with no intent to actually trade"
Don't know if I should laugh or cry when reading this sentence...
First of all, the 'unknown reasons'.
I have no experience at all with the stockmarket but I'll take a shot at it... My best guess is that that unknown someone wants to make money, and shitloads of it. Or opposed to that, the unknown someone doesn't want someone else to make money. I'm just guessing here ofcourse, maybee the unknown someone has nothing better to do with that ultrafast trading bot that just happened to land in his hands.
But what really disturbs me is the 'Unknown entities' part.
How can that be? How can someone make thousands upon thousands of transactions and remain unknown? To my understanding everything and everyone on the stockmarket is logged and checked. The stockmarkets are the worlds economic fuel and yet we let unidentified robots play with it without so much of a check or regulation? Insane...
The majority of people haven't got the slightest idea that A: these robots even exist and B: even if they do what kind of achievement it is. The scale and precision of this operation is mindboggling.
The distances, the numerous variables and sensitivities involved is something that I, as just a layman, can't even begin to comprehend.
But I can sit back, read and watch about it and for once be proud of the human race. Be in awe what good and positive things, however hard they might be, we as humans can accomplish if we really set our minds to it.
When I started playing fps's online, UT classic mostly, 150ms latency was pretty much the norm. Anything lower was considered a extremely good connection.
Most players just compensated for the lag by aiming slightly off. Predict / anticipate the direction your opponent is going and adjust you aim according to that direction and the latency. Problem fixed.
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Am a I heartless bastard if the first thought that crossed my mind was "Damn, he successfully passed on his genes before dying of gross stupidity"? I'd suggest a Darwin award but the idiot managed to reproduce before he kicked the bucket.
Let's see, the physical strength and stamina to climb one of the toughest mountains on earth several times, not to mention the mental fitness, flexibility and willpower one needs in large quantities in order to do something like that.
I'd say his genes were top of the bill really
Funny you mention Darwin though.. .
The guy traveled around the world, visiting remote deserted places for years at a time in a era where such voyages were still the equivalent of playing Russian roulette. Also gross stupidity?
No, these are people that want to probe the boundaries and limits of their world, want to explore, excel and stretch their own limitations. These are most likely the types that actually will become true heroes if the situation would call for it.
If the guy climbed mt Everest several times than he and his wife were fully aware of the risks involved. About 1 in 10 climbers die on that mountain I think. So if she got pregnant she was fully aware that her husband had a decent chance of never returning.
They made choice, who are you to judge them about that?
One thing to consider is that the speed of the expansion has been accelerating ever since it started.
Also "Considering how slowly the universe must have expanded in real terms"
As far as I understand 'slow' is not really a good description to describe what happened after the big bang. The expansion rate defied every form of physics as we know it.
But still, that universe at that place, in that form, at that time, we observing it, now, in this place, at this time.... ;-)
It doesn't make sense to me either
If it emitted this light 13 billion years ago then at that point it was the edge of the universe
We know that the universe has been expanding since it started, so we're not looking at the edge right now. We're looking at what used to be the edge.
What boggles my mind however, If at a mere 600 million years after the big bang the universe already expanded to that size. How big and vast must it be by now? Truly mindblowing. Almost literally when I try to imagine.
Probably not long.
But, let's see how long the limbs of the thief remain attached to his body once his disadvantaged neighbors find out that they are about to die because of dehydration.
This is the third time a "habitable" planet was discovered in the Gliese system that turned out to be not so habitable, if it exists at all.
Great going.
Pure and plain commerce will take care of that.
For now, it's a toy for the filthy rich only. A few technological evolutions down the line it will be affordable for the masses.
Competition will grow but the money machine needs to keep on rolling so new ways have to be found to get my money in their pockets.
How about a space hotel? How about a moon fly-by? How about a 6 day space-cruise? etc.
Commercialism will prevail where governments fail.. goodbye Nasa, Hello Virgin.
If teachers told us, it'll never happen in a million years, would we even try?
Telling kids there are laws (of physics) that forbid them to do something? That mommy (nature) doesnt allow them to go there?
Are you kidding? We would have been there already by now.
That was my first thought too.
There are so many problems with this sollution and shoulderlooking is a huge one.
It's nice that humans are good at remembering graphic data like images on a map but the same goes for the guy standing behind you.
If someone knows you personally in most cases he or she wouldn't even have to see the exact location where you click.
"ah... that looks like her old neighborhood, let's see if she picked her old house as passlocation"..
Also, it seems way to slow to be functional.
The way it sounds they want me to pinpoint a exact location somewhere on earth when I want to log into a site? So I get a 2D? 3D? earth image on my screen and then navigate to that spot?
By the time I get to that point my interest is already gone "scroll, scroll, scroll, zoom, zoom, damnit, zoom out a bit, more scroll, more zoom, ah, there we go..
Or can I type out a adress ala google maps that takes me to that location? :-)
Would be convenient no? MyOldSchoolroad 10, OldTown, Country... yeah, that would be nice and secure
Might be a good time to start up a book publishing company by then. All those religious and 'holy' books that have to be rewritten en distributed...
I personally don't find the really heavy-set guys or girls in spandex t all that pleasant to look at. But on the positive side, they are out there exercising trying to improve themselves instead of being couch potatoes.
Exactly, I hate it when people make mockery of people that actually are doing something to improve themselves.
No, it's not a feast for the eyes when a seriously over-weighted person is jogging through the streets. But it should be a feast for the brains though, instead of making downgrading remarks you should compliment and encourage them.
They are the brave and strong ones in a society where looks are almost the single most important thing to judge a person on.
To be honest my heart skipped a beat while reading the summary.
But alas, it has been debunkt allready.
The day that the un really appoints someone as a sort of intergalactic ambassador will be the day that we'd really should ask some serious questions. I don't believe that the un is efficiënt enough to do something like that "just in case".
Would be a fun meeting I reckon.... "alright, we need a alien ambassador, who wants the job?, Who's carreer is on a dead enough track to not mind the lifelong laughter and mockery when your political functions are discussed.....? " :)
No, not gonna happen unless there is a real reason to do so
The thing that keeps amazing me every time I read something about the mars rovers is their stamina.
Think about it, it landed in January 2004 for a 90 (ninety) day mission on the surface of mars.
As we speak it's still driving around and making new discoveries, just mindblowing.
That's 2343 days more than expected. Massive kudos to the engineers of these little wonders.
Even worse, not wearing your seatbelt may disable (some of) your airbags. I found this out the hard way.
The only time in my adult life that I didn't wear seatbelts I got involved in a car crash (talk about karma eh..)
A few years friend bought a BMW earlier that day and wanted to show it to me. While driving around a few blocks he got in a spin.
The road was a bit wet, the previous owner of the car had worn the tires out pretty badly and my friend was not used to the power of the car yet. Not a very good combination.
At the end of the spin we crashed into a parked lorry and instantly totaled the car. We both didn't wear seat-belts at that moment, I simply forgot about it I guess.
However, the car itself was pretty much stuffed with airbags but none of them had inflated at the impact..
A few minutes later a policeman showed up, he checked if we were ok (which we were) and the second thing he said was "you guys didn't wear your seat-belts, that was pretty stupid".
I asked him how he could know if we did or did not wore the belts at the time of the crash.
His reply: "the airbags aren't inflated, that means the seatbelts were not in locked position.
There is a sensor in the seatbelt lock that prevents airbags from inflating if you don't wear the seatbelts. It's for safety. Without your belt you'd crash into the inflating airbag so hard that you most likely would break your neck from that impact"
To this day I still don't know if that is true, but it does make some sense. The speed of a inflating airbag is huge, if you combine that with the forward speed of a human during a frontal crash I can imagine that's even more harmfull than the crash impact without the airbags.
Good news, if this doesn't get the commercial space-race going nothing will ;)
That was my first thought too.
If language is the problem and the students need dictionaries let them bring a paper version, problem solved. These things are dirtcheap so that won't be much of a problem.
As for the calculators, compile a list of say 10 or 15 models that are not networked and tell them they can use any calculator from that list. Make a range from cheap and simple to expensive overkill so everyone can be happy.
but I'm afraid that less-adaptable students will be unable to handle the switch from the calculator they know to an unfamiliar (but simpler) one.
If they use iPads, phones or other e-devices for dictionaries and cheating I'm pretty sure they will figure out a new calculator in no time really.
You're forgetting something important here I think.
Only a very small fraction of the iPhone users actually attempt to jailbreak their device. The majority of people is perfectly happy with the way it works and have no desire to 'hack' it.
Let's not forget that apart from the very closed system it uses the iPhone itself is very very well designed in terms of usability.
When I bought my 3GS it didn't even come with a manual. Just the phone and some cables and stuff. Now, that's a bold statement.
Telling your customers 'our device is so user friendly that you don't need a manual, it just works and you'll understand completely how it works without any help needed at all'.
Steve's fight against jailbreaking is a useless fight and he knows that. I think apple only tries to not let it get out of hand. But I don't think it worries them too much. 90% of their customers don't care about it anyway and rightfully so.
Of course, when I saw a HTC desire running Android in action I ditched my iPhone and orderded a Desire rightaway ;-)
Did I just see a robot chair designed to move you from A to B inside your own friggin house?
That's just too much for me.
I can't even begin to comprehend why I, or anyone else for that matter, would want something like that.
If walking from your bedroom to your living room is a to difficult, to exhausting and daunting task you don't need a robot. You need some goddamn exercise.
Disclaimer:
Of course this doesn't apply for the elderly or disabled but there are already plentiful solutions for that. This was just a glorified bling bling version of it.
But since this add (or demo) was clearly targeted at young, healthy, trendy (and probably rich) adults I just find it sickening to watch how pathetically lazy some humans can be.
Democracy is the best form of government but it's not necessarily the best way to decide which stories get posted here.
You mean something like the way the new digg.com works? ;-)
Or what's left of it anyway
Sometimes a tough call.
I'm 35 now and got diagnosed with adhd 2 years ago.
I've been through some counseling and training via a "adhd for adults" program and started taking meds.
Man, has my life changed! For the better that is.....
Suddenly the things I do (or don't do) make a lot more sense. I've started learning and understanding my own behavior a lot better. The medication (Concerta supplemented with Ritalin) make me feel and act a lot more "normal" (whatever that is). I can now actually watch a complete movie without getting distracted and bored within 10 minutes. I can focus on my work and jobs a lot better, get things done a whole lot more..
So, for me getting that diagnose now in this stage of my life is almost a revelation...
But!
When I think of my childhood, I wouldn't have wanted that.
Yes, I was a annoying little son of a....Got bored very fast, always busy, with, well.. being busy.
I'm sure a lot of teachers would have executed me on the spot if they had the chance to do so. Later on I became a true wildchild. Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll? Hah, that's what pussies do so to speak..
But I enjoyed every moment of it, wouldn't have wanted to miss that for a second.
Of course, I would never have known if I'd had started taking meds at a much younger age. But still... Looking back, I don't regret it.
I was just a kid, being a kid, though on natural steroids..
I'm glad they let me be.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Wrong,
No amount of f-stop can make you look better in real life....
The single most important thing in the online dating game is the first impression. On a website there are only two tools available to you to make that first impression.
1. Your written profile.
2. Your photograph.
Anyone can write a good profile.
Just take your time for it. Read, re-read, adjust. Don't rush it, take a couple of days to work on it so you have time to make sure it's well written, and perfectly targeted at the demograph you'd like to meet.
Your picture is even more important since it's the very first thing people look at when visiting your profile.
The difference between having a normal, average, shot and good quality photo is huge.
I've been dating via datingsites for a long time, for shits-n-giggles, to get laid, to just meet other persons, etc etc. I basically just like the game and the challenge of it.
I'm a average looking guy and I guess I get a average amount of replies/succesrate.
At one point a friend of mine, a professional photographer, wanted to experiment with some new techniques and asked if I could pose for a couple of shots.
They turned out te be quite good, gave me a bit of a "rough" look and I started using pictures of that session in my datingprofiles. The results were quite staggering. The amount of replies and comments I got on my profile shot through the roof, four times as much as before when I used just a average pic.
In online dating a good first impression isn't winning half the battle, it's winning 75% of the battle.. The steps from having a few messages send back and forth to a actual date is pretty easy after that.
Lesson learned: Looks matter, A LOT, and they can be manipulated..
1. write a good profile
2. get yourself decent pictures
3. .
4. profit
No "????" at 3 because you can skip that step if done right.
Oh, and get yourself a iPhone ;-)
Unless a event occurs that is so impacting and unprecedented in known human history. Humans will never learn to unite and live in cooperation with each other. Like you said, it's not in our nature.
And with 'impacting and unprecedented' I'm thinking in terms of Divine intervention, alien visits (which might turn out to be the same thing), natural disaster killing 70/80+ percent of the human population, the made up Mayan prophecy turning out to be true after all..
That sort of stuff.
In other words, ain't gonna happen.
If we can hold out long enough hopefully technology will be so advanced and relatively cheap that at least the more fortunate in our society can get a second chance somewhere else.. (where they can start all over again)
"Unknown entities for unknown reasons are sending thousands of orders a second through the electronic stock exchanges with no intent to actually trade"
Don't know if I should laugh or cry when reading this sentence...
First of all, the 'unknown reasons'.
I have no experience at all with the stockmarket but I'll take a shot at it...
My best guess is that that unknown someone wants to make money, and shitloads of it. Or opposed to that, the unknown someone doesn't want someone else to make money.
I'm just guessing here ofcourse, maybee the unknown someone has nothing better to do with that ultrafast trading bot that just happened to land in his hands.
But what really disturbs me is the 'Unknown entities' part.
How can that be? How can someone make thousands upon thousands of transactions and remain unknown?
To my understanding everything and everyone on the stockmarket is logged and checked. The stockmarkets are the worlds economic fuel and yet we let unidentified robots play with it without so much of a check or regulation?
Insane...
Can someone here shed a light on this?
Wish I could mod you up 10 times.
The majority of people haven't got the slightest idea that A: these robots even exist and B: even if they do what kind of achievement it is.
The scale and precision of this operation is mindboggling.
The distances, the numerous variables and sensitivities involved is something that I, as just a layman, can't even begin to comprehend.
But I can sit back, read and watch about it and for once be proud of the human race. Be in awe what good and positive things, however hard they might be, we as humans can accomplish if we really set our minds to it.
Anoying yes, unplayable no.
When I started playing fps's online, UT classic mostly, 150ms latency was pretty much the norm. Anything lower was considered a extremely good connection.
Most players just compensated for the lag by aiming slightly off.
Predict / anticipate the direction your opponent is going and adjust you aim according to that direction and the latency. Problem fixed.