I was one of the main firmware developers on the arm. It actually has two batteries that last several hours under reasonably heavy use and has strength comparable to a real human arm. For anyone interested, the degrees of freedom are shoulder, humeral rotation, elbow, wrist rotation, wrist flexion, unified finger grasp, and thumb position. I'm not sure where they got the "8 degrees of freedom" from. It's actually only 7.
Also, on the subject of "amateurs", you can't be a "professional" in the sport you're competing in. There's nothing to say that someone can't be rich, or be a "professional" in some other field.
Tell that to fellow mogulist Jeremy Bloom. The NCAA recently kicked him out of college football because he accepted sponsorship money for his skiing.
So basically Logicon was hired to tell the state whether to sign large licsensing agreements and they came back with an answer of no. Then Logicon later helps negociate a huge licsensing agreement for the state. I think it's hilarious. I don't see why we should blame Logicon, they just played the system. If the system needs to change, the only way to change it is to expose its weaknesses.
Movies are for being engrossed in a different world. If people have so little free time that they must read their email during a movie, what is the point of going to the movie at all?
So if the magnitude of your velocity in the 3 spacial dimensions is greater than c, wouldn't that require you're velocity through time to be negative? Hence, going back in time.
The reason minidisks never tookoff is because Sony refused to sell licenses. Same reason Beta lost to VHS. Sounds like this technology is too restricted to become a standard, but when will companies learn?
I am currently a computer science student at Virginia Tech. I too have run into problems of having to do diagrams of simple hour-long coding programs and at first I thought it was a waste. As I thought about it more, I realized that even though it was pointless for the tiny little programs we were doing, the real point was to teach students to think about the overall design of a program instead of just rushing to code it. Many of the students here have never coded anything longer than a few hundred lines. They need the design perspective.
Also, it is important to remember that the point of college is not to prepare for a future career, but to become more well rounded. If you just want to focus on your career, a trade school would be a better choice.
The dolby digital 6.1 is cool, but all of nVidia's new graphics stuff seems like overkill to me. Getting 130 fps in Quake doesn't really seem worth an extra $150. Past 60 fps, you really can't tell the difference anyway.
I hope one of these companies makes getting into space affordable during my lifetime. We should all feel insignificant if we don't even make it off the surface of our own planet in a universe as big as ours.
The problem with these tragedies is that everyone is scared of being for encyrption and privacy for fear of being seen as sympathetic to terrorism and not getting re-elected. I'm glad there are at least one senator that can see that this was a horrible tragedy, but that that shouldn't change everyone else's rights.
i like that idea, but you have to deal with the issue of communicating with drones on opposite side of the planet. you would have to have amultiple brain network orbiting or have a single brain in very low orbit so that time between passes would be minimized.
one of the major hurdles in space exploration is creating ships that are independent and don't require nasa to be constantly looking over their shoulder. it looks like we are getting closer and closer to clearing this hurdle.
one of the major hurdles of exploring space is creating ships that have indpendence and don't rely on nasa to constantly look over their shoulder. it looks like we are getting closer and closer to realizing this goal.
i understand, but my point is that my computer has an outside energy source, why can't the ultimate computer have one too. in fact the truely ultimate computer would be able to use all the energy in the entire universe
i don't understand why if you are calculating the ultimate computer you would limit its energy...if its speed is based on the energy provided to it, wouldn't the ultimate computer be able to harness all of the energy in the universe?
whatever the power source of choice may be in the future for quantum computers, i gaurantee that it won't be the computer's own mass....quantum computers may not be powered by batteries, but they won't eat themselves....my point is that if the speed of the computer is based on the energy it has then to find its fastest possible speed you would have to assume that it could use all the energy in the universe
quote: "One kilogram of ordinary matter contains approximately 1025 nuclei"
maybe i'm wrong but wouldn't the mass of a given number of nuclei be a function of what type of nuclei they are? for instance a uranium nucleus would be much heavier than a hydrogen nucleus. so what extactly is "ordinary matter"?
quote: "The maximum energy an ultimate laptop can contain is given by Einstein's famous formula relating mass and energy: E = m c2."
wouldn't the amount of evergy available be based on the voltage supplied to the computer and the resistance of its circuits? so wouldn't the relevant equation be V=IR, not E=MC2?
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I was one of the main firmware developers on the arm. It actually has two batteries that last several hours under reasonably heavy use and has strength comparable to a real human arm. For anyone interested, the degrees of freedom are shoulder, humeral rotation, elbow, wrist rotation, wrist flexion, unified finger grasp, and thumb position. I'm not sure where they got the "8 degrees of freedom" from. It's actually only 7.
Tell that to fellow mogulist Jeremy Bloom. The NCAA recently kicked him out of college football because he accepted sponsorship money for his skiing.
The article says the site uses ASP, but that error message at the end sure looks like a Java stack trace to me.
So basically Logicon was hired to tell the state whether to sign large licsensing agreements and they came back with an answer of no. Then Logicon later helps negociate a huge licsensing agreement for the state. I think it's hilarious. I don't see why we should blame Logicon, they just played the system. If the system needs to change, the only way to change it is to expose its weaknesses.
Movies are for being engrossed in a different world. If people have so little free time that they must read their email during a movie, what is the point of going to the movie at all?
Don't PC's use ATA66 and ATA100 as well?
So if the magnitude of your velocity in the 3 spacial dimensions is greater than c, wouldn't that require you're velocity through time to be negative? Hence, going back in time.
The reason minidisks never tookoff is because Sony refused to sell licenses. Same reason Beta lost to VHS. Sounds like this technology is too restricted to become a standard, but when will companies learn?
There are tons of little red dots all over that image. How can they distinguish that those two are so special?
i don't think that would be a problem. there are already watches that generate energy from body movement and they are fine even if left off for days.
I am currently a computer science student at Virginia Tech. I too have run into problems of having to do diagrams of simple hour-long coding programs and at first I thought it was a waste. As I thought about it more, I realized that even though it was pointless for the tiny little programs we were doing, the real point was to teach students to think about the overall design of a program instead of just rushing to code it. Many of the students here have never coded anything longer than a few hundred lines. They need the design perspective.
Also, it is important to remember that the point of college is not to prepare for a future career, but to become more well rounded. If you just want to focus on your career, a trade school would be a better choice.
why spend $300+ on satelite radio when you can buy an mp3 player and play only the music that you do like?
The dolby digital 6.1 is cool, but all of nVidia's new graphics stuff seems like overkill to me. Getting 130 fps in Quake doesn't really seem worth an extra $150. Past 60 fps, you really can't tell the difference anyway.
I hope one of these companies makes getting into space affordable during my lifetime. We should all feel insignificant if we don't even make it off the surface of our own planet in a universe as big as ours.
The problem with these tragedies is that everyone is scared of being for encyrption and privacy for fear of being seen as sympathetic to terrorism and not getting re-elected. I'm glad there are at least one senator that can see that this was a horrible tragedy, but that that shouldn't change everyone else's rights.
the most important thing will be that the OS isn't allowed to be used to bash micrsoft or any of its products.
well it may not be open source, but it beats no source at all...
if it doesn't automatically stay in the sunlight you have to worry about it getting too cold
i like that idea, but you have to deal with the issue of communicating with drones on opposite side of the planet. you would have to have amultiple brain network orbiting or have a single brain in very low orbit so that time between passes would be minimized.
one of the major hurdles in space exploration is creating ships that are independent and don't require nasa to be constantly looking over their shoulder. it looks like we are getting closer and closer to clearing this hurdle.
one of the major hurdles of exploring space is creating ships that have indpendence and don't rely on nasa to constantly look over their shoulder. it looks like we are getting closer and closer to realizing this goal.
i understand, but my point is that my computer has an outside energy source, why can't the ultimate computer have one too. in fact the truely ultimate computer would be able to use all the energy in the entire universe
lol. hopefully win will be long gone by then
i don't understand why if you are calculating the ultimate computer you would limit its energy...if its speed is based on the energy provided to it, wouldn't the ultimate computer be able to harness all of the energy in the universe?
whatever the power source of choice may be in the future for quantum computers, i gaurantee that it won't be the computer's own mass....quantum computers may not be powered by batteries, but they won't eat themselves....my point is that if the speed of the computer is based on the energy it has then to find its fastest possible speed you would have to assume that it could use all the energy in the universe
quote: "One kilogram of ordinary matter contains approximately 1025 nuclei" maybe i'm wrong but wouldn't the mass of a given number of nuclei be a function of what type of nuclei they are? for instance a uranium nucleus would be much heavier than a hydrogen nucleus. so what extactly is "ordinary matter"? quote: "The maximum energy an ultimate laptop can contain is given by Einstein's famous formula relating mass and energy: E = m c2." wouldn't the amount of evergy available be based on the voltage supplied to the computer and the resistance of its circuits? so wouldn't the relevant equation be V=IR, not E=MC2?