It used to be you had to crash your space craft before the Government would announce that 'We have the technology, we can rebuild him' at a cost of 6 million dollars to the taxpayer. Now they want to make you bionic first and then launch you.
Funny you should mention ducks after this quote from SunnComm CEO Peter Jacobs
"It wasn't about the Shift key...It had nothing to do with that. It had to do with reviewing a rabbit when we invented the duck and saying the rabbit didn't work right."
God knows what he was talking about, never mind how he got to be CEO with nuggets of insight like that.
Why will it be linux? From the article it appears ITRON has several considerable advantages over its competitors (I'm not sure how they can really be called competitors when ITRON is so dominant). It was designed for this purpose from the ground up and its opensource. With 3 Billion installs there cant be a whole lot wrong with it. Linux is not the be all and end all of operating systems.
Hey if you are going to steal my previous comments and post them as your own you might have at least taken the time to fix my fucking spelling mistakes.
The counter is placed on computer hard drives by a cookie, a software file that a Web site places without the recipient's permission or notification and that transmits information back to the site. "If the number contains more than three digits,'' the counter notes, "you truly are a Google frequent searcher.''
Maybe the article author should Google for browser security/privacy settings to find out how cookies are handled.
Tom was just a little off. Bill Nighy is going to be the doctor and Eddie will put on a dress and play his assistant.
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Sensors like this have been used since the Vietnam war when acoustic/motion sensors were dropped by aircraft on or near tracks the VC were suspected of using. I suppose they borrowed the idea from the navy with their submarine hunting experiences.
I'm not sure how popular they are now with the trend towards real time feeds from UAV's but a combination of UAV's and dropped sensors would make it very difficult to move about undetected.
However it is trivial now to establish means for safe inspection
I know this is/. home of the bland statement but come on. This is space we are talking about, not your garage. Nothing is trivial. If it was we would all have our own orbiters and I would be abducting Venusian women. Inspection is not easy and repairing any damage is considerably more than your average stroll in the park. Procedures must be designed and verified. Tooling must be designed and built to carry out repairs. The Austronauts must be trained. Then if things go pear shaped and a repair is required they must do all this in what is a very unforgiving environment. I dont see where trivial comes into this at all.
Some wonderful conceptualisations and insights into technology closely followed by statements that make you wonder if Bill is actually in the same universe as us, nevermind on the same planet.
Anyway thanks for Java, its a fantastic development language, please stop telling us we are going to have/need JINI in every toaster, lightfitting and piece of cutlery we own and best of luck for the future.
Why should there be an American prototype of a civic scientist. Surely many of the Greek thinkers, (Aristotle and Plato in particular) paved the way for this sort of thinking. Franklin was undoubtly a brilliant man but I would hardly call him a prototype.
Its an interesting article though I would consider it somewhat naive. The majority of people dont care about science. Once the inventions and breakthroughs keep coming and their lives are made easier, safer etc. they will just say isn't science wonderful and carry on with their daily lives.
As for the political aspects I think (conspiracy theory here) that the political and legal systems are deliberately being made as obtuse as possible to prevent access by the public. Supposedly we get transparent government which basically means they might hold the odd, ultimately meaningless inquiry every now and then. Witness the current WMD fiasco for a classic example of political spin, distortion of facts and politicians doing as they please. The legal system in particular has been made ridiculously complex to the detriment of justice and the embellishment of lawyers.
It would be good if we could get more scientists, or engineers for that matter into political positions. They would bring a more balanced and rational perspective to many of the issues facing society today. Unfortunately politics is the art of compromise and we are all well aware what happens when we start to compromise on engineering and scientific projects (recent shuttle furore anyone). Scientists and Engineers are no more immune from this than politicians.
Again I think its an interesting article but naive to think that a visionary scientist, or even a bunch of scientists would somehow radically change our political and social landscape. Our current systems are a little bit too entrenched.
As humans a lot of our brainpower is geared towards interpreting visual input. Its will always be a lot faster for me to look at the pages of hits returned and determine what is of interest to me than it will be to listen to a computer voice and try to figure it out. Speaking to the computer is OK but in many situations I will want visual, not aural feedback
Screw those. The experienced professional knows that for alleviating emergencies its important to train a team of wheel loving hamsters to power your hardware. Also keep your bongo drums in top condition to ensure you can get your daily fix of/.
a much less cumbersome method of sharing the photos far and wide
Thats the whole point of the damn things. Its easy and convenient so you so it thus providing an additional revenue stream to the telcoms in situations where normally your phone would be sitting idle in your pocket.
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Most importantly, what does brain state tell us about behavior, if anything?
For most men, nothing. You really need to be looking a little further south for the control center.
It used to be you had to crash your space craft before the Government would announce that 'We have the technology, we can rebuild him' at a cost of 6 million dollars to the taxpayer. Now they want to make you bionic first and then launch you.
Funny you should mention ducks after this quote from SunnComm CEO Peter Jacobs
"It wasn't about the Shift key...It had nothing to do with that. It had to do with reviewing a rabbit when we invented the duck and saying the rabbit didn't work right."
God knows what he was talking about, never mind how he got to be CEO with nuggets of insight like that.
Why will it be linux? From the article it appears ITRON has several considerable advantages over its competitors (I'm not sure how they can really be called competitors when ITRON is so dominant). It was designed for this purpose from the ground up and its opensource. With 3 Billion installs there cant be a whole lot wrong with it. Linux is not the be all and end all of operating systems.
I can confirm that hell has not in fact frozen over because Natalie Portman is still refusing to date me.
Well given that the elevators travel upwards at 60kmh its probably to stop them shooting out through the roof of the building.
Hey if you are going to steal my previous comments and post them as your own you might have at least taken the time to fix my fucking spelling mistakes.
Just how many complete pr0n/flight sim freaks are there out there with $155,799 to blow on these screens.
note to self patent method for delivering emergency suppies of peanuts and soda to flying aircraft using laser following guidance system.
That in this day and age we are concerned that one of the underlying principles of our success may be a house of cards.
I'll take 5 plates, 10,000, gallons of ink and as much printing paper as you can give me.
The counter is placed on computer hard drives by a cookie, a software file that a Web site places without the recipient's permission or notification and that transmits information back to the site. "If the number contains more than three digits,'' the counter notes, "you truly are a Google frequent searcher.''
Maybe the article author should Google for browser security/privacy settings to find out how cookies are handled.
Tom was just a little off. Bill Nighy is going to be the doctor and Eddie will put on a dress and play his assistant.
Sensors like this have been used since the Vietnam war when acoustic/motion sensors were dropped by aircraft on or near tracks the VC were suspected of using. I suppose they borrowed the idea from the navy with their submarine hunting experiences.
I'm not sure how popular they are now with the trend towards real time feeds from UAV's but a combination of UAV's and dropped sensors would make it very difficult to move about undetected.
You mean training kangaroos to box the crap out of spammers is not a good idea !!!
Whats that Skippy ? You threw another spammer down the mine shaft. Good roo.
However it is trivial now to establish means for safe inspection
/. home of the bland statement but come on. This is space we are talking about, not your garage. Nothing is trivial. If it was we would all have our own orbiters and I would be abducting Venusian women. Inspection is not easy and repairing any damage is considerably more than your average stroll in the park. Procedures must be designed and verified. Tooling must be designed and built to carry out repairs. The Austronauts must be trained. Then if things go pear shaped and a repair is required they must do all this in what is a very unforgiving environment. I dont see where trivial comes into this at all.
I know this is
Some wonderful conceptualisations and insights into technology closely followed by statements that make you wonder if Bill is actually in the same universe as us, nevermind on the same planet.
Anyway thanks for Java, its a fantastic development language, please stop telling us we are going to have/need JINI in every toaster, lightfitting and piece of cutlery we own and best of luck for the future.
Why should there be an American prototype of a civic scientist. Surely many of the Greek thinkers, (Aristotle and Plato in particular) paved the way for this sort of thinking. Franklin was undoubtly a brilliant man but I would hardly call him a prototype.
Its an interesting article though I would consider it somewhat naive. The majority of people dont care about science. Once the inventions and breakthroughs keep coming and their lives are made easier, safer etc. they will just say isn't science wonderful and carry on with their daily lives.
As for the political aspects I think (conspiracy theory here) that the political and legal systems are deliberately being made as obtuse as possible to prevent access by the public. Supposedly we get transparent government which basically means they might hold the odd, ultimately meaningless inquiry every now and then. Witness the current WMD fiasco for a classic example of political spin, distortion of facts and politicians doing as they please. The legal system in particular has been made ridiculously complex to the detriment of justice and the embellishment of lawyers.
It would be good if we could get more scientists, or engineers for that matter into political positions. They would bring a more balanced and rational perspective to many of the issues facing society today. Unfortunately politics is the art of compromise and we are all well aware what happens when we start to compromise on engineering and scientific projects (recent shuttle furore anyone). Scientists and Engineers are no more immune from this than politicians.
Again I think its an interesting article but naive to think that a visionary scientist, or even a bunch of scientists would somehow radically change our political and social landscape. Our current systems are a little bit too entrenched.
Hold your horses, snowboarding and sking go in a mostly down direction, thats not really what you want in water.
Sort of defeat the whole purpose of being outdoors, getting some sun and fresh sea air and some good healthy physical activity at the same time?
If you need a motor perhaps you should wait until the virtual surf simulator is released for Ninentendo in oh say 20 years.
As humans a lot of our brainpower is geared towards interpreting visual input. Its will always be a lot faster for me to look at the pages of hits returned and determine what is of interest to me than it will be to listen to a computer voice and try to figure it out. Speaking to the computer is OK but in many situations I will want visual, not aural feedback
Screw those. The experienced professional knows that for alleviating emergencies its important to train a team of wheel loving hamsters to power your hardware. Also keep your bongo drums in top condition to ensure you can get your daily fix of /.
I'm starting a Free Lamo group right now on MSN to see if the US blocks access to Microsoft
a much less cumbersome method of sharing the photos far and wide
Thats the whole point of the damn things. Its easy and convenient so you so it thus providing an additional revenue stream to the telcoms in situations where normally your phone would be sitting idle in your pocket.
When the walking robot climb on and ride the scooter. Oh the irony of it!