I mean you gotta feed 'em and care for 'em and make sure they're comfortable in their 5-star hotels and eating their 5-star meals and so on and so forth. A robot, on the other hand, can be used for scrap parts when they're no longer useful to our cause... I mean, when they break down.
I'm sure this will get modded down, but isn't this an obvious progression? Wouldn't governments jump all over this in order to prevent assassinations or other terror attempts on delegations? Even if the robots weren't completely autonomous, "messenger bots" would allow, in my opinion, high-level people to travel to unsecured locations safely. Just my.02.
I like the idea simply because powered exoskeletons could be utilized in so many different areas. This article, for instance, discusses military exoskeletons, being developed to help soliers carry more, jump higher and march further. I could see industrial exoskeletons becoming commonplace, much like the yellow walker Ripley used in Aliens. Why not have "super soccer" in which the athletes wear high-performance exoskeletons that enable them to run twice as fast or kick the ball over half a mile? Cost, usability, size and aestetics are all factors, but visionaries like Sankai could bring these things into interesting markets within five to ten years, and I personally welcome the idea.
DivX is great and all, but... with all sorts of other (great) codecs out there, why do they think they can essentially charge a fee for using theirs? Just curious.
A binary search tree or a red-black tree? Seriously, I "clone" these all the time.
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It has been years since Doom arrived on the scene, but Carmack and Romero so thoroughly quenched my gaming thirst that I've hardly played a game since. These men were (and still are) visionaries of the highest order, and proved unquestionably our collective thirst for blood and violence.
There's nothing better in life than getting together with some of your closest friends and blowing the crap out of each other.
People are violent. If TV, movies and games cause people to be violent, wouldn't the Romans have been (more) peaceful? Violence is simply systemic throughout human history, it's at our core; it's not caused by or fueled through Man's creations, but by Man himself. Why don't we take a little responsibility for our own actions and stop trying to place the blame on everything else? People have no accountability, they accept no responsibility.
So I'm just going to blame YOU for all my problems now and personally, Slashdot causes me to be violent.
I really admired SA. It possesses some of the most beautiful images I've seen in a long time on the big screen, plus a simple story that contained enough emotional layers that almost anyone could get into it.
If you're not familiar with Miyazaki's work, this is probably the most accessible (and hence the reason Disney picked it up). I would certainly see it again, and though I personally don't feel it should be up for Best Picture or anything like that, it certainly deserves at least a nod from the self-congratulatory Academy.
My two cents, anyway:)
I just can't get the useful help and cutsy animations from Linux. Clippy is my best friend. I love Clippy. If you used Clippy once, you'd grow to love him too. I can't live or breathe without Clippy...
So when's the album come out? Seriously, seems like a decent way to support the project... if only it wasn't so... so... damn cheesy. If they put out quality music without the god-awful lyrics, I'd pay for a CD.
The net has many hearts; that's where its beauty lies. It has a pulse, sure, but that pulse is derived from countless sources... limiting it to a single flavor-of-the-month source is rather short-sighted.
In My Opinion (C), less tends to be more... the Gang of 4 book, for instance, or the AOCP volumes. I'm tired of breaking my arms holding a book that weighs 700 lbs. and, ultimately, makes for a better doorstop than a literary/technical masterpiece. Give me substance and power (Knuth, Don Box), not volume.
Also, why has the current trend been to put fifteen authors on a single topic? Couldn't one expert provide volumes more information than fifteen not-so-expert individuals?
To top it all off, please don't grace the cover of a book with their photos... It's disturbing:-)
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How long is the ubiquitous Save icon going to remain a floppy? It's so archaic now.
After they're dead and hanging outside my front door as a warning to other virus writers.
I mean you gotta feed 'em and care for 'em and make sure they're comfortable in their 5-star hotels and eating their 5-star meals and so on and so forth. A robot, on the other hand, can be used for scrap parts when they're no longer useful to our cause... I mean, when they break down.
I'm sure this will get modded down, but isn't this an obvious progression? Wouldn't governments jump all over this in order to prevent assassinations or other terror attempts on delegations? Even if the robots weren't completely autonomous, "messenger bots" would allow, in my opinion, high-level people to travel to unsecured locations safely. Just my .02.
No Crazy Go Nuts University?!?
I love Homsar.
I like the idea simply because powered exoskeletons could be utilized in so many different areas. This article, for instance, discusses military exoskeletons, being developed to help soliers carry more, jump higher and march further. I could see industrial exoskeletons becoming commonplace, much like the yellow walker Ripley used in Aliens. Why not have "super soccer" in which the athletes wear high-performance exoskeletons that enable them to run twice as fast or kick the ball over half a mile? Cost, usability, size and aestetics are all factors, but visionaries like Sankai could bring these things into interesting markets within five to ten years, and I personally welcome the idea.
I still consider pants optional. Especially while naked.
DivX is great and all, but... with all sorts of other (great) codecs out there, why do they think they can essentially charge a fee for using theirs? Just curious.
A binary search tree or a red-black tree? Seriously, I "clone" these all the time.
It has been years since Doom arrived on the scene, but Carmack and Romero so thoroughly quenched my gaming thirst that I've hardly played a game since. These men were (and still are) visionaries of the highest order, and proved unquestionably our collective thirst for blood and violence.
People are violent. If TV, movies and games cause people to be violent, wouldn't the Romans have been (more) peaceful? Violence is simply systemic throughout human history, it's at our core; it's not caused by or fueled through Man's creations, but by Man himself. Why don't we take a little responsibility for our own actions and stop trying to place the blame on everything else? People have no accountability, they accept no responsibility.
So I'm just going to blame YOU for all my problems now and personally, Slashdot causes me to be violent.
A beowulf cluster of network blackouts... Wait... Somebody shoot me.
I really admired SA. It possesses some of the most beautiful images I've seen in a long time on the big screen, plus a simple story that contained enough emotional layers that almost anyone could get into it. If you're not familiar with Miyazaki's work, this is probably the most accessible (and hence the reason Disney picked it up). I would certainly see it again, and though I personally don't feel it should be up for Best Picture or anything like that, it certainly deserves at least a nod from the self-congratulatory Academy. My two cents, anyway :)
I just can't get the useful help and cutsy animations from Linux. Clippy is my best friend. I love Clippy. If you used Clippy once, you'd grow to love him too. I can't live or breathe without Clippy...
Evil Genius Bill Gates: We must buy them out for... *pinky in mouth* 100 billion dollars. Muahahahaha!
So when's the album come out? Seriously, seems like a decent way to support the project... if only it wasn't so... so... damn cheesy. If they put out quality music without the god-awful lyrics, I'd pay for a CD.
Micro$oft. Put a bunch of cash behind something, and everyone's bound (forced?) to pick it up, powerful or not.
The net has many hearts; that's where its beauty lies. It has a pulse, sure, but that pulse is derived from countless sources... limiting it to a single flavor-of-the-month source is rather short-sighted.
In My Opinion (C), less tends to be more... the Gang of 4 book, for instance, or the AOCP volumes. I'm tired of breaking my arms holding a book that weighs 700 lbs. and, ultimately, makes for a better doorstop than a literary/technical masterpiece. Give me substance and power (Knuth, Don Box), not volume. Also, why has the current trend been to put fifteen authors on a single topic? Couldn't one expert provide volumes more information than fifteen not-so-expert individuals? To top it all off, please don't grace the cover of a book with their photos... It's disturbing :-)