> Hitting anything in space is like hitting a needle in a haystack. Actually, that's vastly understating it.
I'm pretty sure that slamming a 200 billion tonne rock into a haystack is going to do quite a number on any needles as well.
Less facetious, the odds of any randomly selected rock hitting any other randomly selected rock is pretty much 1. It happens all the time. Earth has also been hit by randomly selected rocks in the past, and this will happen again in the future. Odds are it won't be in our lifetime.
Dude. Learn when to use "there", "they're" and "their". You're coming across as semi-illiterate.
Examples: "There are three cars." "A car is useful to get from here to there." "Their car is blue." "They have just sold their car." "They aren't going by bike, they're going by car." "They're motorists."
I think someone who pushed systems slightly *over* the edge is excellently positioned know where the edge currently is.
And yes, slightly. Give it three months and there'll be plenty of systems that can run the game very well. (Alas, mine will not be one of them. I hope to game at least a year more on my current rig)
Actually, the yuan hasn't been directly linked to the dollar since 2005. It's now linked to a group of currencies, of which the dollar remains a big part. The exchange between yuan and dollar has been hitting record highs for the Chinese, but then, so has pretty much every other currency...
My car turns on the lights automatically when it turns dark, or when I drive into a tunnel. A few people forget to do this. If for some reason ambient light in the tunnel is sufficient to not trigger those lights, yet still low enough to require them, *I* am responsible for the decrease in safety. That does not invalidate the feature; it's a convenience.
The luxury model of this car (which I don't have) has Lane Departure Warning System. Checks the road markings. If you're crossing lanes on a highway without a turn signal enabled, it vibrates your chair in the appropriate direction. Likewise, if you drift into oncoming traffic, it's still your own fault.
Not everything requires a three-page disclaimer, American.
That's what destroyed BattleBots in comparison to Robot Wars, the wrestling style comments. Highly fake, highly American, and highly annoying.
Why would I want to see some bulky duo of Americans talking about robots fighting, when I could actually watch robots fighting? The commentators are necessary if you want to take something that is essentially dull, and make it exciting, such as American Football (great moments of tactical play interspersing boring, short maneuvering). But in this case... Robots! FIGHTING! Not dull!
It was a legitimate demand. They broke copyright law, but he didn't want to litigate because that takes time and money away from everyone except lawyers, and best avoided in civilized society. They responded by starting litigation against *him*, on false grounds.
Also, if it's a legitimate demand that you're willing and able to back up with (legal) force, it's not a bluff. Likewise, for example, if the police say "Put your hands up or we will shoot you", that's not a bluff, and keeping your hands lowered isn't "calling" anything.
It translates mechanical motion into light (rather than redirecting the mechanical energy) in a practical self-contained manner. I haven't seen any mechanically powered home lighting yet.
I do find it odd that'd you put up a hose between car and house, turn on the car, enter the house, and wait *there* to die, rather than just piping the exhaust into the car and sit there for a few minutes.
I don't want the mentally weak in society to fall prey to these vultures. Do you kick the crutches out from under a crippled person and laugh, because that's what they get for being crippled?
WTF? 20-40 bucks for a money transfer? You Americans are odd... As you say, it's completely free here in the Netherlands. Coupled with stupidity like 'recipient-pays' for cellphones (necessitated by the NANP), it's like you're living in the Stupid Ages...
Only those wanting to be guilty of murder and death will join.
That's all I need to hear! You are quite the salesman. When can I start?
In practical terms, they're looking for people who can assist intelligence gathering, which attempts to limit murder and death to those proclaim themselves enemies. By doing the best you can, you avoid civilian casualties.
You should be required to have a working model of your invention. I was kindof surprised that it isn't a requirement now.
After all, how can there be 'prior art' if there isn't any 'current art'? It's all handwavy bullcrap until you've tied it down into some object that demonstrates your invention.
No, lying. Non-cooperation would be to just consume the 'food' when you find it, and leave the rest in the dark. Falsely communicating "food!" when finding poison so that competitors die is lying.
So I've always wanted to rig my house up with voice commands. My guess is I need the following:
*Simple* speech recognition. I want it to react to a keyword ("Computer", or "House", or similar sci-fi-ey) and then a few simple commands. Sphinx-2 seems ideal, but I'd need good dictionary files.
Ubiquitous microphones (preferably exclusively usable by the speech recognition engine. Setting proper/dev permissions will help). Probably the most difficult/expensive to get right; it needs to work in noisy environments.
Machine controllable electronics, sufficiently protected so that . Where those 433MHz remote switches come in I guess. Needs to be code protected, for obvious reasons.
Scripts to tie all this together.
Has anyone done this properly/successfully/usefully?
How is that different from the current situation? Only rich people can afford to pay for a presidency campaign that has a snowball's chance in hell or better.
1: Perhaps, perhaps not. Remember that this has incredible scaling potential, at a reasonably fixed cost.
2: Granted.
3: My main point here was that directly collecting solar requires significant space, and all space that is directly exposed to sunlight for significant periods. Buffering is necessary anyway, because of night-time and bad weather. In the case of an orbital platform, you *know* it's going to collect a certain amount of power, and you can transmit that whenever conditions allow, as long as you have a good reserve.
Also, in case of a natural disaster, you either have it contained in a well-fortified structure, or spread out over a lot of land.
4: Like you mentioned, the military will love this. Mainly because the US military now has an infinite budget, of course, but even so its an amazing capability.
The floating nuke plant sounds like a good idea, except that the scary idea of nuclear waste (90% being stuff like the clothing the employees wore) dropping into the ocean.
What the hell?! That actually happens, with newspaper thrown in the yard? I thought that was just on TV and the game Paper Boy!
Here in civilized countries our paperboys walk up to the front door and shove the papers through our mail slots, or (if we have a mailbox) they shove it into the mailbox.
(Or they dump the papers in the garbage and go back to sleep; I believe this is a cross-cultural thing)
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So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next?
Looking forward to this one.
> Hitting anything in space is like hitting a needle in a haystack. Actually, that's vastly understating it.
I'm pretty sure that slamming a 200 billion tonne rock into a haystack is going to do quite a number on any needles as well.
Less facetious, the odds of any randomly selected rock hitting any other randomly selected rock is pretty much 1. It happens all the time. Earth has also been hit by randomly selected rocks in the past, and this will happen again in the future. Odds are it won't be in our lifetime.
Apparently, odds are 450:1?
Who is John Novak?
Oh wait, alt.shrugged chronicles the death of Usenet, not NASA.
Dude. Learn when to use "there", "they're" and "their". You're coming across as semi-illiterate.
Examples:
"There are three cars." "A car is useful to get from here to there."
"Their car is blue." "They have just sold their car."
"They aren't going by bike, they're going by car." "They're motorists."
Good luck.
I think someone who pushed systems slightly *over* the edge is excellently positioned know where the edge currently is.
And yes, slightly. Give it three months and there'll be plenty of systems that can run the game very well. (Alas, mine will not be one of them. I hope to game at least a year more on my current rig)
Actually, the yuan hasn't been directly linked to the dollar since 2005. It's now linked to a group of currencies, of which the dollar remains a big part. The exchange between yuan and dollar has been hitting record highs for the Chinese, but then, so has pretty much every other currency...
My car turns on the lights automatically when it turns dark, or when I drive into a tunnel. A few people forget to do this. If for some reason ambient light in the tunnel is sufficient to not trigger those lights, yet still low enough to require them, *I* am responsible for the decrease in safety. That does not invalidate the feature; it's a convenience.
The luxury model of this car (which I don't have) has Lane Departure Warning System. Checks the road markings. If you're crossing lanes on a highway without a turn signal enabled, it vibrates your chair in the appropriate direction. Likewise, if you drift into oncoming traffic, it's still your own fault.
Not everything requires a three-page disclaimer, American.
That's what destroyed BattleBots in comparison to Robot Wars, the wrestling style comments. Highly fake, highly American, and highly annoying.
Why would I want to see some bulky duo of Americans talking about robots fighting, when I could actually watch robots fighting? The commentators are necessary if you want to take something that is essentially dull, and make it exciting, such as American Football (great moments of tactical play interspersing boring, short maneuvering). But in this case... Robots! FIGHTING! Not dull!
It was a legitimate demand. They broke copyright law, but he didn't want to litigate because that takes time and money away from everyone except lawyers, and best avoided in civilized society. They responded by starting litigation against *him*, on false grounds.
Also, if it's a legitimate demand that you're willing and able to back up with (legal) force, it's not a bluff. Likewise, for example, if the police say "Put your hands up or we will shoot you", that's not a bluff, and keeping your hands lowered isn't "calling" anything.
So you expect to be fired for publicly expressing an opinion in your own free time. That's sad.
The fact that you're apparently correct in this is fundamentally *wrong*. If I were 'reprimanded' because of something like this, I'd quit.
It translates mechanical motion into light (rather than redirecting the mechanical energy) in a practical self-contained manner. I haven't seen any mechanically powered home lighting yet.
He didn't ever join scientology.
I do find it odd that'd you put up a hose between car and house, turn on the car, enter the house, and wait *there* to die, rather than just piping the exhaust into the car and sit there for a few minutes.
I don't want the mentally weak in society to fall prey to these vultures. Do you kick the crutches out from under a crippled person and laugh, because that's what they get for being crippled?
WTF? 20-40 bucks for a money transfer? You Americans are odd... As you say, it's completely free here in the Netherlands. Coupled with stupidity like 'recipient-pays' for cellphones (necessitated by the NANP), it's like you're living in the Stupid Ages...
Dude, that's rule 24. And in this case, death was pretty much instantaneous.
I know I'd not be keen on people smoking pot in my work place either.
Deadbeat != security expert. Get a job and cut your hair, dude.
It's called redundancy!
You should be required to have a working model of your invention. I was kindof surprised that it isn't a requirement now.
After all, how can there be 'prior art' if there isn't any 'current art'? It's all handwavy bullcrap until you've tied it down into some object that demonstrates your invention.
If you want to keep your employees, or keep them motivated, showing them a modicum of respect and some common goddamn decency goes a long way, though.
No, lying. Non-cooperation would be to just consume the 'food' when you find it, and leave the rest in the dark. Falsely communicating "food!" when finding poison so that competitors die is lying.
- *Simple* speech recognition. I want it to react to a keyword ("Computer", or "House", or similar sci-fi-ey) and then a few simple commands. Sphinx-2 seems ideal, but I'd need good dictionary files.
- Ubiquitous microphones (preferably exclusively usable by the speech recognition engine. Setting proper
/dev permissions will help). Probably the most difficult/expensive to get right; it needs to work in noisy environments.
- Machine controllable electronics, sufficiently protected so that . Where those 433MHz remote switches come in I guess. Needs to be code protected, for obvious reasons.
- Scripts to tie all this together.
Has anyone done this properly/successfully/usefully?How is that different from the current situation? Only rich people can afford to pay for a presidency campaign that has a snowball's chance in hell or better.
1: Perhaps, perhaps not. Remember that this has incredible scaling potential, at a reasonably fixed cost.
2: Granted.
3: My main point here was that directly collecting solar requires significant space, and all space that is directly exposed to sunlight for significant periods. Buffering is necessary anyway, because of night-time and bad weather. In the case of an orbital platform, you *know* it's going to collect a certain amount of power, and you can transmit that whenever conditions allow, as long as you have a good reserve.
Also, in case of a natural disaster, you either have it contained in a well-fortified structure, or spread out over a lot of land.
4: Like you mentioned, the military will love this. Mainly because the US military now has an infinite budget, of course, but even so its an amazing capability.
The floating nuke plant sounds like a good idea, except that the scary idea of nuclear waste (90% being stuff like the clothing the employees wore) dropping into the ocean.
What the hell?! That actually happens, with newspaper thrown in the yard? I thought that was just on TV and the game Paper Boy!
Here in civilized countries our paperboys walk up to the front door and shove the papers through our mail slots, or (if we have a mailbox) they shove it into the mailbox.
(Or they dump the papers in the garbage and go back to sleep; I believe this is a cross-cultural thing)