I'd be much more interested in how they're getting around that feature. That requires memory access or code injection, and as others have mentioned, it's a jailbreak or blatantly intentional.
Our bodies are not adapted, evolved, or designed for space.
We are vastly better off concentrating resources into robotics, AI, and technologies that will allow for the imaging and transfer of brain state. Those next creations - or evolution of intelligence - will be free to explore the universe.
Alternatively, mastering genetic engineering may allow us to create organic lifeforms that ARE adapted to those environments, and have or exceed our own intelligence. That is also possible within a short timeframe.
As the Dr. already indicated, it's not likely we are going to make it the next few hundred years as-is. That'll be ok, we'll all be at the feet of (insert deity here) in eternal paradise, right? *laughs*
I used Neutrino in University, many years ago. QNX is a Canadian company and supports educational endeavors well.
It's a nice RTOS and has a lot of great features. I'm not superstitious, but I am convinced there is something about QNX that is cursed. It hasn't hit any traction; Linux is "good enough" for consumer applications; and there's enough specialty applications to keep it alive, but not prosper.
I am curious to see if this plays out again with RIM.
You can't legislate physics, and the mechanics of a UAV are widely known and trivial to learn for anyone suitably motivated.
If people are going to get you, in a free society, they are going to get you. The idea is to make is so people don't _want_ to do nasty things, because the alternative is to live in a police state, and have neither freedom or safety.
Are we going to start security checks on who can enter an electrical or mechanical engineering program, because they might learn the basics of dynamics and automatic control systems?
The truth is that the first 2-3 years of undergrad are generic, profs generally hate teaching them, and it's about a cash grab before the students go on to something else. Online school can eliminate that for those students most likely to continue on - in my opinion, for what that's worth.
It is not until your final years in engineering, anyway, that I felt there was real engagement from faculty. There are exceptions to this - some brilliant ones, even in my experience - but in general, universities don't want to start to compete on that lowest denominator yet.
War will always be about killing people. That's what the military is for. Killing. This is not a bad thing. I want the best military in the world protecting my liberty.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun. Aimed at you - to make you comply. Willingly, or otherwise.
Read some history. The approval rule will be circumvented - it is only a matter of time. The reason why you need autonomous killing robots is that comms systems can always be jammed with relative ease. An autonomous system is not vulnerable to external jamming threats, or at least, is more easily hardened against them.
My guess is they hired all of the management who tanked Nortel.
Want my advice? Fire anyone who hasn't hit "compile" in 12 months and start over. You can't do any worse and will at least solve the management problems.
I run RF simulations at work and loaded up the RAM to cache terrain data.
64GB system memory was $1500 a few months ago. I think it is below $1000 now.
Skip the SSD and load up on ram.
Once it's cached, leave it there.
I'd like to see a thunderbolt RAM drive.. that'd be something; in my youth I'd have given it a go. Put some backup batteries in there, a mirror HD, and voila - block reads to go, in bulk. Sweet little capacitors. Do my bidding!
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I'd be much more interested in how they're getting around that feature. That requires memory access or code injection, and as others have mentioned, it's a jailbreak or blatantly intentional.
Put your data in an old ammo box and store it in the basement.
If it gets flashed from induced fields through that, you won't be worrying about the data. You'll be worrying about food.
Can't tax what you can't track.
Energy is one thing. Ability to actually protect data from warrantless search and monitoring is another.
http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/landing/
Seriously. You don't need anything else if you want a serious flight sim.
iRacing is basically the end-all in car racing.
YMMV.
Somewhat ironically, in the literal sense, the answer is to open doors to China - exactly what is going on.
Sleep is pretty hard to resist. If you don't do it, you die.
Not really the same as cigarettes?
..nuclear "waste" from one reaction often just requires reproccessing to be fuel for another process. This point is often lost along the way.
Humans will not explore the universe. Adapted or otherwise. We're adapted differently and poorly, to those objectives.
A species or technology created by humans almost certainly will - and that is my point.
TFA doesn't mention any of this, FWIW.
Our bodies are not adapted, evolved, or designed for space.
We are vastly better off concentrating resources into robotics, AI, and technologies that will allow for the imaging and transfer of brain state. Those next creations - or evolution of intelligence - will be free to explore the universe.
Alternatively, mastering genetic engineering may allow us to create organic lifeforms that ARE adapted to those environments, and have or exceed our own intelligence. That is also possible within a short timeframe.
As the Dr. already indicated, it's not likely we are going to make it the next few hundred years as-is. That'll be ok, we'll all be at the feet of (insert deity here) in eternal paradise, right? *laughs*
Detecting the finish line is one problem.
Detecting multiple cars crossing the finish line within a few ms is another problem.
Trusting the client is another issue.
Price is another..
I used Neutrino in University, many years ago. QNX is a Canadian company and supports educational endeavors well.
It's a nice RTOS and has a lot of great features. I'm not superstitious, but I am convinced there is something about QNX that is cursed. It hasn't hit any traction; Linux is "good enough" for consumer applications; and there's enough specialty applications to keep it alive, but not prosper.
I am curious to see if this plays out again with RIM.
You can't legislate physics, and the mechanics of a UAV are widely known and trivial to learn for anyone suitably motivated.
If people are going to get you, in a free society, they are going to get you. The idea is to make is so people don't _want_ to do nasty things, because the alternative is to live in a police state, and have neither freedom or safety.
Are we going to start security checks on who can enter an electrical or mechanical engineering program, because they might learn the basics of dynamics and automatic control systems?
On second thought.. don't propose that, either.
Show up in person and write your exam unassisted.
Problem solved..
The truth is that the first 2-3 years of undergrad are generic, profs generally hate teaching them, and it's about a cash grab before the students go on to something else. Online school can eliminate that for those students most likely to continue on - in my opinion, for what that's worth.
It is not until your final years in engineering, anyway, that I felt there was real engagement from faculty. There are exceptions to this - some brilliant ones, even in my experience - but in general, universities don't want to start to compete on that lowest denominator yet.
Whoever goes first, though, will make some money.
War will always be about killing people. That's what the military is for. Killing. This is not a bad thing. I want the best military in the world protecting my liberty.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun. Aimed at you - to make you comply. Willingly, or otherwise.
Read some history. The approval rule will be circumvented - it is only a matter of time. The reason why you need autonomous killing robots is that comms systems can always be jammed with relative ease. An autonomous system is not vulnerable to external jamming threats, or at least, is more easily hardened against them.
Interesting times.
My guess is they hired all of the management who tanked Nortel.
Want my advice? Fire anyone who hasn't hit "compile" in 12 months and start over. You can't do any worse and will at least solve the management problems.
The Waterloo corridor needs to be house-cleaned.
Except that is an act of war, and while not exactly inviting each other to dinner parties, we're a ways from that.
I run RF simulations at work and loaded up the RAM to cache terrain data.
64GB system memory was $1500 a few months ago. I think it is below $1000 now.
Skip the SSD and load up on ram.
Once it's cached, leave it there.
I'd like to see a thunderbolt RAM drive .. that'd be something; in my youth I'd have given it a go. Put some backup batteries in there, a mirror HD, and voila - block reads to go, in bulk. Sweet little capacitors. Do my bidding!
Nintendo doesn't have much to worry about.
Unless someone makes a nice case with an integrated control button setup that doesn't suck.
Maybe Nintendo should make that.. what's better than selling a DS? Selling a DS with no electronics inside.
I'll take royality checks, or a cushy idea job now. :D
You mean like God? No impact to human experience there.
Good encoders, referencing, inertial nav, and visual cuing can give you that accuracy.
GPS should never be relied on without a backup.
We need this more than any other technology right now, and it's a solvable problem.
Want something to stimulate the economy? That'd do it.
Building thorium reactors is an even better idea.
It's funny, but if you can stomach it it's not a bad idea for an engineer with a lot of industry experience.