Agreed, only times I've ever had problems were when I changed the password and forgot to update a mail client and had to use the captcha to unlock it. and one other time that they were down temporarily that I tried to check.
The problems with CG tend to be that they can't seem to make human skin not look cartoony, and they eyes always look dead. Since the terminators actually have human skin on them, that solves the first problem. Glass eyes also tend to look a little more realistic then their CG counterparts. The only problems with them is that they don't move. Fix that and it would be hard to tell. Also, dogs are expected to do things. They jump around, they beg for food, they bark and drool a lot. A person that was just rescued or escaped from a robot work camp may sit in the corner and stare off into the distance. If a dog acts funny, the first thought may be robot, if a human acts funny the first thought may be shell shock or post traumatic stress.
I fail to see how complicating the weapons should be required. Why shouldn't the humans be able to use the gear. As robots start, they will be fighting along side with humans. The only difference that I could see between the gear would be that the robot could carry more ammo/larger magazines and use a weapon with higher recoil by itself. If the robot was carrying a heavy machine gun that normally required a two man crew, why shouldn't the humans fighting along side it be able to take the weapon for themselves?
Seperate companies. Verizon Wireless is a seperat privately owned corporate entity that is owned by Vodafone and Verizon Communications.
They do not have direct access to the information that their parent company has, likewise, the parent company does not have direct access to any wireless information. Their billing systems are different, and they have their own phone switches. In some areas, they may share trunk lines, but that's about as far as it goes.
And the robots should be built with a single purpose - to exterminate humans.
That's not a simple purpose. It involves movement. It involves weapons use. It involves communication. It involves organizational abilities. Are you saying that an automated riveter in an automotive factory could somehow exterminate anything that wasn't on an assembly line? And quadripedal robots could certianly handle the terrain. But would they be able to carry weapons and blend in with regular dogs? Probably not...
Exactly. And the welding robots have a far HIGHER reliability rate than the humans with the welding equipment do. That's because the systems are simplified and have fewer problems.
they are better at doing simplified repetitive tasks. The more complex a task you put in front of it, the more complex of a robot you would need.
Why? It's a mobile AI. It can diagnose the problem and run itself back for repair... then back to the front line.
but who will fix it if no robots have hands? It's a complex task, it's not a simple as weld the same spot on the chasis as they travel down the assembly line.
And, again, those are only the RANGED weapons. The dog-shape can still use teeth and claws.
and what is to stop the humanoid one from having claws?
cell phone companies aren't the land line companies. They can see caller ID (which can be spoofed) and they can see where calls go on their network, but they have absolutely nothing to do with landlines.
Also, just because someone made a call from somewhere doesn't mean that they work there or have the any authority. I can make a call from the phone at pizza hut, doesn't mean I can send you free pizzas...
Now go look at the robots designed to build cars. Do they use the same tools that the humans did? No.
You are comparing a stationary robot designed to perform one specific task repeatedly on objects that do not move and are always in the same position, with one that would have to be designed move and operate within an environment designed for humans and interact with multiple types of obstructions and perform many different tasks.
Since these robots would need to perform multiple types tasks, we would need to give them hands of some kind, and while the claw design is good for just picking things up, it has some serious deficiencies in the way of manipulation, or using anything that a human hand can use. Likewise, they could mount a gun hand and we could have Samas Aran on the battle fiend, but what happens when the gun jams. It can't just drop the gun and draw another. It's attached just like the welder on the assembly line robot in your comparison. You have to deactivate it and bring the whole unit in for repair. But if you give it the option of holstering that weapon and drawing another, or even picking one up from a fallen enemy, and the robot can keep fighting.
exactly, plus, bipedal robots could use the same gear that a human would, whether it's armor or weaponry, and could even use the same vehicles as a human.
Since a program doesn't die, it could just quietly back itself up and wait for humanity to die on it's own. Or it could create a danger that looks entirely natural and wouldn't arouse suspicion or fear and wait for it to slowly kill off humanity. A plague would certainly be usefull there, but it probably wouldn't want to use one that we (human scientists) bio engineered, and would probably want to start off small so it looks like a normal virus that mutated into something else. However, all that goes out the window if it somehow got impatience programmed into it...
If you read the Dune series all the way to the end (I'm including the ones written by his son and anderson) you see almost the same thing as my first option. The robots lived on from a backup well outside of human controlled areas of the galaxy, grew their empire over the course of 20 or so thousand years, and only attacked when humans from the scattering found them again.
How long would a fuel cell from the future last before it needed a recharge? The movies only spanned a couple of days. If the cell would last a highly efficient robot for a week, then it's all good.
and who is to say that our new robotic overlords wouldn't be sociopaths? They probably wouldn't have developed the same way that a child develops in human society. They would be totally alone if, like Skynet, it became self aware on it's own, and not aided by human teaching.
I imagine that our first complete AI would not be as emotionally stable as you would hope...
But it is also 'evolving' at a rapid rate and it realizes that the things it is killing are as sentient as itself. It stops the attacks and I think then it started communicating with the humans, etc.
That's all fine and dandy, you just better hope that it doesn't have access to any history books, because if it does, then it would see that not many peace talks actually work. Likewise it would probably see just how humanity treats those it sees as different or strange, and not see any use in talking either...
That depends on whether you want some clueless ass to lower his productivity by smacking his monitor like a monkey at a banana vending machine until it works, or have a trained professional fix something in a tenth of the time so that business can resume as normal...
The $20 would only prevent calls from going through. They would still be able to determine what tower it is picking up or use any available tracking information. I'm going to guess that what happened was that some deputy who had no clue what to do called in, asked for the wrong information, and also probably didn't have any of the proper documents either.
the article actually has no information other than it took them 11 hours to pay $20.
article doesn't say anything about whether or not they followed proper channels. Anybody can call in and say, "Hi, I'm a cop, we need to find Bob, can you turn his phone on then track it?" Any customer service is going to say no. Cops actually have their own support teams that they work with, and generally, they will need things like court orders to access accounts or tracking.
Sorry, when I said "pop up", I meant, "Show on the right hand column labeled Sponsored Links" and not actual pop up windows. If you have the ability to make those ads disappear, I would be interested to hear it
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But I'm really hoping that "mosted" translates into something really awesome, because in English, it just sounds pretty gay...
Agreed, only times I've ever had problems were when I changed the password and forgot to update a mail client and had to use the captcha to unlock it. and one other time that they were down temporarily that I tried to check.
HA HA, I was thinking the same thing...
After you kill enough of one side that they are willing to give up, sure. You just have to get them to that point first...
The problems with CG tend to be that they can't seem to make human skin not look cartoony, and they eyes always look dead. Since the terminators actually have human skin on them, that solves the first problem. Glass eyes also tend to look a little more realistic then their CG counterparts. The only problems with them is that they don't move. Fix that and it would be hard to tell. Also, dogs are expected to do things. They jump around, they beg for food, they bark and drool a lot. A person that was just rescued or escaped from a robot work camp may sit in the corner and stare off into the distance. If a dog acts funny, the first thought may be robot, if a human acts funny the first thought may be shell shock or post traumatic stress.
I fail to see how complicating the weapons should be required. Why shouldn't the humans be able to use the gear. As robots start, they will be fighting along side with humans. The only difference that I could see between the gear would be that the robot could carry more ammo/larger magazines and use a weapon with higher recoil by itself. If the robot was carrying a heavy machine gun that normally required a two man crew, why shouldn't the humans fighting along side it be able to take the weapon for themselves?
They do not have direct access to the information that their parent company has, likewise, the parent company does not have direct access to any wireless information. Their billing systems are different, and they have their own phone switches. In some areas, they may share trunk lines, but that's about as far as it goes.
That's not a simple purpose. It involves movement. It involves weapons use. It involves communication. It involves organizational abilities. Are you saying that an automated riveter in an automotive factory could somehow exterminate anything that wasn't on an assembly line? And quadripedal robots could certianly handle the terrain. But would they be able to carry weapons and blend in with regular dogs? Probably not...
Exactly. And the welding robots have a far HIGHER reliability rate than the humans with the welding equipment do. That's because the systems are simplified and have fewer problems.
they are better at doing simplified repetitive tasks. The more complex a task you put in front of it, the more complex of a robot you would need.
Why? It's a mobile AI. It can diagnose the problem and run itself back for repair ... then back to the front line.
but who will fix it if no robots have hands? It's a complex task, it's not a simple as weld the same spot on the chasis as they travel down the assembly line.
And, again, those are only the RANGED weapons. The dog-shape can still use teeth and claws.
and what is to stop the humanoid one from having claws?
Also, just because someone made a call from somewhere doesn't mean that they work there or have the any authority. I can make a call from the phone at pizza hut, doesn't mean I can send you free pizzas...
But wait, Skynet's entry now states that it is a totally harmless program and has no intent to kill us. Looks like we're all safe now...
You are comparing a stationary robot designed to perform one specific task repeatedly on objects that do not move and are always in the same position, with one that would have to be designed move and operate within an environment designed for humans and interact with multiple types of obstructions and perform many different tasks.
Since these robots would need to perform multiple types tasks, we would need to give them hands of some kind, and while the claw design is good for just picking things up, it has some serious deficiencies in the way of manipulation, or using anything that a human hand can use. Likewise, they could mount a gun hand and we could have Samas Aran on the battle fiend, but what happens when the gun jams. It can't just drop the gun and draw another. It's attached just like the welder on the assembly line robot in your comparison. You have to deactivate it and bring the whole unit in for repair. But if you give it the option of holstering that weapon and drawing another, or even picking one up from a fallen enemy, and the robot can keep fighting.
exactly, plus, bipedal robots could use the same gear that a human would, whether it's armor or weaponry, and could even use the same vehicles as a human.
If you read the Dune series all the way to the end (I'm including the ones written by his son and anderson) you see almost the same thing as my first option. The robots lived on from a backup well outside of human controlled areas of the galaxy, grew their empire over the course of 20 or so thousand years, and only attacked when humans from the scattering found them again.
Was that the voice from Hercules in New York??? That's fantastic!
I tried learning at a geometric rate, but I just couldn't figure out how to put the square peg into the round hold without breaking everything...
How long would a fuel cell from the future last before it needed a recharge? The movies only spanned a couple of days. If the cell would last a highly efficient robot for a week, then it's all good.
and who is to say that our new robotic overlords wouldn't be sociopaths? They probably wouldn't have developed the same way that a child develops in human society. They would be totally alone if, like Skynet, it became self aware on it's own, and not aided by human teaching.
I imagine that our first complete AI would not be as emotionally stable as you would hope...
But it is also 'evolving' at a rapid rate and it realizes that the things it is killing are as sentient as itself. It stops the attacks and I think then it started communicating with the humans, etc.
That's all fine and dandy, you just better hope that it doesn't have access to any history books, because if it does, then it would see that not many peace talks actually work. Likewise it would probably see just how humanity treats those it sees as different or strange, and not see any use in talking either...
not only that, they also used the good old-fashioned nuclear annihilation. mentioned in the article. The robots were just there for cleanup.
That depends on whether you want some clueless ass to lower his productivity by smacking his monitor like a monkey at a banana vending machine until it works, or have a trained professional fix something in a tenth of the time so that business can resume as normal...
Exactly, what they should do is just give out the information to anybody claiming to be a cop, regardless of whether or they have a warrant...
the article actually has no information other than it took them 11 hours to pay $20.
article doesn't say anything about whether or not they followed proper channels. Anybody can call in and say, "Hi, I'm a cop, we need to find Bob, can you turn his phone on then track it?" Any customer service is going to say no. Cops actually have their own support teams that they work with, and generally, they will need things like court orders to access accounts or tracking.
like all those o;d people playing Wii?
Sorry, when I said "pop up", I meant, "Show on the right hand column labeled Sponsored Links" and not actual pop up windows. If you have the ability to make those ads disappear, I would be interested to hear it
well, actually, you can, as there was an ad that did populate. Are you sure about this?