Its about time that this was considered. I have been suggesting this since the early designs of the shuttles were released. Now all we need to do is get rid of the Buck Rogers spaceship mentality and send people up in capsules with smaller areas to cover and shield from heat.
Unmanned cargo ships would also contribute to robotic and autonomous machine technologies which, unlike microgravity research, be of some value to the rest of us Earthbound folks.
Avoid Hickel Cadmium batteries. Even the ones that claim (no memory problems) basically still have memory problems. I would stick with NiMH or better Lithium Ion (very light for the energy stored). Lead Acid (Gell Cells) are good for some applications but they are heavy.
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No kidding! Industry came to this conclusion 30 years ago. You can't make things "smart" if you don't know what smart is. Come up with a real useful definition of "intelligence". Apply simple engineering concepts to the problems instead of rushing to the "Statistical Death Spiral" where we generate reports with bad statistics to get paid form some research.
My guess? I doubt that the game is issued with win encrypted. It cannot be how well you play the game, just that some games are set up to allow the player to win. Only those games will win, and they will win every time. Cracking makes no sense if all the disk has is a game that runs you around with no link to the money.
Either that ot they are really looking to get hacked.
Segway has some fundamental flaws, the biggest one is that standing still in one place is better for people than walking. It is harder on knees and legs to stand still in one spot than to walk. I think it is a big piece of equipment with little real use. Hello pet rock, CB radios and, oh yes, personal computers.
These filings are not a big deal. There is too much prior art for them to be granted. I wonder, however, if we will be able to have sex anymore because of the patents on portions of the human genome. If I reproduce a patented section of DNA when I reproduce, can I be sued? Maybe we can just pay a one-time fee to RIAA for the right to procreate.;)
How about 3 dimensional displays suspended in a matrix of transparent substrate? If these generate light and are flexible, why not create true 3D displays that we could walk around and manipulate?
Dr. Dobbs (Journal of Calesthetics and Orthodontia) had an article for playing tones from an 8080 machine using memory accesses to generate the pulses. I got it to do 3 voice harmonies over an AM radio. I also used the radio to tell me if my assembly was going OK or if I had a coding error. The sound was completely different and at times I could even guess about where in the code the error occurred. Man we had way too much free time back then!
Get the paper!!!! No matter what a pain it is, get the paper. It took me 25 years (yes that is a quarter of a century) to get my degree. I was "the computer whiz" in the 70s (yes when Billionaire Billy was just Bill). I have been building and assembling different kinds of systems for over 25 years. No matter how much I knew, or how much money I saved my employers, I was still the guy without the paper. "Degreed engineers must know more, after all, they have degrees." Contract engineers (i.e. contract ignorants) would come in and "design" things that later I would be stuck with to make work. They would put in place some crappy process or procedure or equipment and then leave me to clean up the mess. I could run rings around all of them with software, hardware and field instrumentation. I could design systems that actually worked because I knew where they were likely to fail. But I didn't have the official paper so I couldn't stop their insane implementations. It really pissed me off, but without the degree I was never taken seriously (except in the middle of the night when all hell would break loose because there had been no failure modes considered in a system design). Now that I have my degree, I can be the contract ignorant and hopefully design systems that work. In addition, as the world is "managed" more and more by business school graduates (the folks who couldn't do highschool algebra), technical personnel who might understand what you know will never get to see your resume. You will be rejected by some HR clerk who only notices that you have no degree.
CS is a broad field. Pick a spare time exercise in an area that you never considered before. Design a web page or two. Outside of CS, go to a movie, take up martial arts, volunteer at a shelter in the real world. But GET THE PAPER!!!!
Most businesses will say that their main concern is intellectual property (IP). They are concerned that their "invention" will be forced into the open source community. They are also concerned with being sure that all licensing is properly taken care of (as some open source is not GPL'd).
The biggest problem, however, is future liability. Instead of 10 or 20 people seeing the code for a closed source library, literally hundreds or thousands of people will see the code. Errors may be detected in a library months or years after it is employed in a product, opening the company up for recalls and lawsuits.
I believe that the liability problem is bigger and more significant than potential IP problems.
I agree. UTF-8 can make 8-bit and 31-bit Unicode play nice together. I just wish people would realize that supporting 16-bit characters is not supporting Unicode.
The idea is OK, but multiple use keys are confusing enough. Multiple use fingers would need to be labelled. Maybe there would be a market in micro tatoos to label each of your fingers according to its functions.
I still think voice will be best, when it comes of age.
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Yipee! Now all of our problems will be solved because MIT is on the job.
Its about time that this was considered. I have been suggesting this since the early designs of the shuttles were released. Now all we need to do is get rid of the Buck Rogers spaceship mentality and send people up in capsules with smaller areas to cover and shield from heat. Unmanned cargo ships would also contribute to robotic and autonomous machine technologies which, unlike microgravity research, be of some value to the rest of us Earthbound folks.
Avoid Hickel Cadmium batteries. Even the ones that claim (no memory problems) basically still have memory problems. I would stick with NiMH or better Lithium Ion (very light for the energy stored). Lead Acid (Gell Cells) are good for some applications but they are heavy.
My opinion.
No kidding! Industry came to this conclusion 30 years ago. You can't make things "smart" if you don't know what smart is. Come up with a real useful definition of "intelligence". Apply simple engineering concepts to the problems instead of rushing to the "Statistical Death Spiral" where we generate reports with bad statistics to get paid form some research.
My guess? I doubt that the game is issued with win encrypted. It cannot be how well you play the game, just that some games are set up to allow the player to win. Only those games will win, and they will win every time. Cracking makes no sense if all the disk has is a game that runs you around with no link to the money. Either that ot they are really looking to get hacked.
Segway has some fundamental flaws, the biggest one is that standing still in one place is better for people than walking. It is harder on knees and legs to stand still in one spot than to walk. I think it is a big piece of equipment with little real use. Hello pet rock, CB radios and, oh yes, personal computers.
These filings are not a big deal. There is too much prior art for them to be granted. I wonder, however, if we will be able to have sex anymore because of the patents on portions of the human genome. If I reproduce a patented section of DNA when I reproduce, can I be sued? Maybe we can just pay a one-time fee to RIAA for the right to procreate. ;)
How about 3 dimensional displays suspended in a matrix of transparent substrate? If these generate light and are flexible, why not create true 3D displays that we could walk around and manipulate?
Dr. Dobbs (Journal of Calesthetics and Orthodontia) had an article for playing tones from an 8080 machine using memory accesses to generate the pulses. I got it to do 3 voice harmonies over an AM radio. I also used the radio to tell me if my assembly was going OK or if I had a coding error. The sound was completely different and at times I could even guess about where in the code the error occurred. Man we had way too much free time back then!
Get the paper!!!! No matter what a pain it is, get the paper. It took me 25 years (yes that is a quarter of a century) to get my degree. I was "the computer whiz" in the 70s (yes when Billionaire Billy was just Bill). I have been building and assembling different kinds of systems for over 25 years. No matter how much I knew, or how much money I saved my employers, I was still the guy without the paper. "Degreed engineers must know more, after all, they have degrees." Contract engineers (i.e. contract ignorants) would come in and "design" things that later I would be stuck with to make work. They would put in place some crappy process or procedure or equipment and then leave me to clean up the mess. I could run rings around all of them with software, hardware and field instrumentation. I could design systems that actually worked because I knew where they were likely to fail. But I didn't have the official paper so I couldn't stop their insane implementations. It really pissed me off, but without the degree I was never taken seriously (except in the middle of the night when all hell would break loose because there had been no failure modes considered in a system design). Now that I have my degree, I can be the contract ignorant and hopefully design systems that work. In addition, as the world is "managed" more and more by business school graduates (the folks who couldn't do highschool algebra), technical personnel who might understand what you know will never get to see your resume. You will be rejected by some HR clerk who only notices that you have no degree. CS is a broad field. Pick a spare time exercise in an area that you never considered before. Design a web page or two. Outside of CS, go to a movie, take up martial arts, volunteer at a shelter in the real world. But GET THE PAPER!!!!
Most businesses will say that their main concern is intellectual property (IP). They are concerned that their "invention" will be forced into the open source community. They are also concerned with being sure that all licensing is properly taken care of (as some open source is not GPL'd). The biggest problem, however, is future liability. Instead of 10 or 20 people seeing the code for a closed source library, literally hundreds or thousands of people will see the code. Errors may be detected in a library months or years after it is employed in a product, opening the company up for recalls and lawsuits. I believe that the liability problem is bigger and more significant than potential IP problems.
I agree. UTF-8 can make 8-bit and 31-bit Unicode play nice together. I just wish people would realize that supporting 16-bit characters is not supporting Unicode.
The idea is OK, but multiple use keys are confusing enough. Multiple use fingers would need to be labelled. Maybe there would be a market in micro tatoos to label each of your fingers according to its functions.
I still think voice will be best, when it comes of age.