The exo-skeleton concept has been around for
MANY years, just grab an old copy of Popular
Science from the 1960's.
The concept alone has no value without a working implementation. If somebody has a better one than Raytheon's, I agree it should have been featured instead.
I'm not so sure. Think about special forces chasing Taliban around the rugged mountains of Afghanistan with their 130 lb backpacks. That is not something a forklift can help them do.
The point isn't that highschool kids can out-engineer Detroit. They can't. Detroit's problem is they are not willing to push into the future. Watch "Who Killed the Electric Car." They built a great car and then utterly refused to believe anybody would want to buy it, even when customers were stepping forward with checkbook in hand.
Or look at Hybrids. Detroit dinked around for decades with fuel-efficient prototypes, but refused to believed they could sell. Then Toyota came along with the Prius and spanked them. Detroit learned nothing from the 70s.
That raises an important issue though. How much control did Steve Fosset's widow actually have over the search expenses? Did they come to her and say "we could use a Cessna for $X/hr or a helicopter for $Y/hr but the helicopter has a 30% better recovery rate." It's all absurd. Sort of like when you check into a hospital and then later you get a bill with page after page of $30 aspirins and such, much of which you don't even know what it is.
And by the way, I don't think it was just because there was a huge war going on. The history of mankind is full of wars, and none of them were associated with such leaps forward in math, physics, materials, and communications. Nukes, jet aircraft, RADAR, plastic, computers, rockets, cryptography, all at once almost. I just don't think we could develop, e.g. a new fighter plane in 3 years now regardless of the resources, it's too complex. If there are a million advanced civilizations out there in space, I bet they have a name for the period of development humans encountered in the 20th century - a sudden dramatic leap forward.
I didn't know it went all the way back to WWII. Once again, I am amazed at how much transpired in just that short few years. It's as if 100 years of history and scientific discovery were packed into 10.
Though I agree with your criticisms of this test, I cannot for the life of me figure out why they don't make SSDs with fantastic sustained read/write speed. Seems like it should be easy to increase parallelism to almost any degree desired. It's not like a hard drive where you can only align 1 head with a track at once.
But it's not true. Microsoft is still raking in massive piles of money. It's a recession, and the pile is slightly less massive than last year's. Hardly time for them to panic (or the rest of us, to rejoice). But I don't see how they could be all that reliant on the markets when their products bring in so much cash.
Will the movement to the web actually threaten the Microsoft monopoly on office apps anyways? If nobody has been able to write a good replacement for Outlook and Powerpoint until now (and no, ooimpress isn't), why will the be able to do it on the web?
It's hard to compare, since Europeans pay so many taxes, but then Americans pay so much for health care and education.
Since the US economy relies so heavily on imports, I'm surprised the devaluation of our currency hasn't caused more inflation. We've felt the impact through gas prices, certainly. But imagine if imported cars, clothing, and electronics had shot up that much. We'd be wiped out. I noticed, for instance, that motorcycles now cost significantly less in Euros than US Dollars, but the difference is less than the exchange rate says it should be.
I will say this, for an American to tour Europe has become impossibly expensive.
Not sure how to solve low light situations.. but it's a long shot cheaper than $1000 if you can live without it.
My understanding is normal CCDs are IR-sensitive (until they put a filter over them block it). So it just needs an IR light on it. Seems like camcorders used to come with a nighttime mode just like this.
I'm surprised it has to be 600-700 dollars when 8mp consumer digicams are $180 and have an intricate zoom lens you don't even want for surveillance. What we need is a 6mp monchrome sensor with no IR filter, a fixed-length lens, and wifi, for about $100. OK, $130 with a motion sensor. Come on China, you can do it!
Yesterday I heard about Nine Inch Nails new album (Ghosts) on NPR. I visited the band homepage, paid $5 (yes $5) via paypal, and downloaded the new album in FLAC. I didn't have to install a special software client (this turned me away from the amazon store), didn't have to use a centralized service, didn't have to create an "account" with a new password I'll never remember, nothing. Buy and enjoy. I'll admit I have downloaded unauthorized copies in the past. But at $5, which mostly goes straight to the artist, what is the excuse?
It will be interesting to see public outcry when one of the Russian craft craters with Americans onboard. This will inevitably happen, even if the Soyuz is safer than anything America has (which it probably is). Then we'll all have to be dragged through a lot of media-driven "soul-searching" about whether it was smart to "outsource NASA" (you heard it here first).
That's good if you're building a new computer. I think timeOday's problem is that (s)he is trying to switch an existing computer from Windows to Linux
Nah, I've been using Linux for 10 years. But, for instance, I bought both my printer and my wireless print server because they claimed Linux support. Yet both, either alone or together, are so unreliable when printing from Linux that they're almost worse than useless.
Again, the nvidia driver in my laptop. Is it "linux supported"? The official answer is yes. But start trying to use suspend-to-ram, 3d acceleration, xrandr, docking and undocking... you get crashes in the kernel, crashes in the nvidia config app, on and on.
So, there is a big difference between "Oh, yeah, I guess we support that" and actually devoting ongoing resources to make stuff is maintained and actually works for users. My experience is Linux is a VERY distant second or third priority to hardware makers. More users will help.
From a selfish perspective, this is great. So long as Linux gains significant adoption somewhere in the world, we will get better hardware support. Much as I like linux, drivers are the main problem.
If they believed they were complying with a lawful order, then they aren't legally guilty of anything. The only reason they'd need immunity is if they are actually guilty but "somebody" thinks his orders are more important than the law.
Don't any of you even read the blurb! GROWTH HAS CRATERED. There is no "prediction" here. 1 percent annual sales growth is nothing, especially compared to what the iPod has done in years previous.
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I'm not so sure. Think about special forces chasing Taliban around the rugged mountains of Afghanistan with their 130 lb backpacks. That is not something a forklift can help them do.
I agree. But then why should the victim's family be financially liable for all the decisions made.
Or look at Hybrids. Detroit dinked around for decades with fuel-efficient prototypes, but refused to believed they could sell. Then Toyota came along with the Prius and spanked them. Detroit learned nothing from the 70s.
That raises an important issue though. How much control did Steve Fosset's widow actually have over the search expenses? Did they come to her and say "we could use a Cessna for $X/hr or a helicopter for $Y/hr but the helicopter has a 30% better recovery rate." It's all absurd. Sort of like when you check into a hospital and then later you get a bill with page after page of $30 aspirins and such, much of which you don't even know what it is.
Thanks alien dude / god :)
And by the way, I don't think it was just because there was a huge war going on. The history of mankind is full of wars, and none of them were associated with such leaps forward in math, physics, materials, and communications. Nukes, jet aircraft, RADAR, plastic, computers, rockets, cryptography, all at once almost. I just don't think we could develop, e.g. a new fighter plane in 3 years now regardless of the resources, it's too complex. If there are a million advanced civilizations out there in space, I bet they have a name for the period of development humans encountered in the 20th century - a sudden dramatic leap forward.
I didn't know it went all the way back to WWII. Once again, I am amazed at how much transpired in just that short few years. It's as if 100 years of history and scientific discovery were packed into 10.
Though I agree with your criticisms of this test, I cannot for the life of me figure out why they don't make SSDs with fantastic sustained read/write speed. Seems like it should be easy to increase parallelism to almost any degree desired. It's not like a hard drive where you can only align 1 head with a track at once.
But it's not true. Microsoft is still raking in massive piles of money. It's a recession, and the pile is slightly less massive than last year's. Hardly time for them to panic (or the rest of us, to rejoice). But I don't see how they could be all that reliant on the markets when their products bring in so much cash.
Will the movement to the web actually threaten the Microsoft monopoly on office apps anyways? If nobody has been able to write a good replacement for Outlook and Powerpoint until now (and no, ooimpress isn't), why will the be able to do it on the web?
Since the US economy relies so heavily on imports, I'm surprised the devaluation of our currency hasn't caused more inflation. We've felt the impact through gas prices, certainly. But imagine if imported cars, clothing, and electronics had shot up that much. We'd be wiped out. I noticed, for instance, that motorcycles now cost significantly less in Euros than US Dollars, but the difference is less than the exchange rate says it should be.
I will say this, for an American to tour Europe has become impossibly expensive.
Watch this and tell me if you think those guys would have been suckers to surrender to the UAV.
I'm surprised it has to be 600-700 dollars when 8mp consumer digicams are $180 and have an intricate zoom lens you don't even want for surveillance. What we need is a 6mp monchrome sensor with no IR filter, a fixed-length lens, and wifi, for about $100. OK, $130 with a motion sensor. Come on China, you can do it!
Yesterday I heard about Nine Inch Nails new album (Ghosts) on NPR. I visited the band homepage, paid $5 (yes $5) via paypal, and downloaded the new album in FLAC. I didn't have to install a special software client (this turned me away from the amazon store), didn't have to use a centralized service, didn't have to create an "account" with a new password I'll never remember, nothing. Buy and enjoy. I'll admit I have downloaded unauthorized copies in the past. But at $5, which mostly goes straight to the artist, what is the excuse?
It will be interesting to see public outcry when one of the Russian craft craters with Americans onboard. This will inevitably happen, even if the Soyuz is safer than anything America has (which it probably is). Then we'll all have to be dragged through a lot of media-driven "soul-searching" about whether it was smart to "outsource NASA" (you heard it here first).
Again, the nvidia driver in my laptop. Is it "linux supported"? The official answer is yes. But start trying to use suspend-to-ram, 3d acceleration, xrandr, docking and undocking... you get crashes in the kernel, crashes in the nvidia config app, on and on.
So, there is a big difference between "Oh, yeah, I guess we support that" and actually devoting ongoing resources to make stuff is maintained and actually works for users. My experience is Linux is a VERY distant second or third priority to hardware makers. More users will help.
From a selfish perspective, this is great. So long as Linux gains significant adoption somewhere in the world, we will get better hardware support. Much as I like linux, drivers are the main problem.
If they believed they were complying with a lawful order, then they aren't legally guilty of anything. The only reason they'd need immunity is if they are actually guilty but "somebody" thinks his orders are more important than the law.
9. Toss all that stuff in the trash and make up some BS to substantiate whatever accusations the administration leveled against country X last week.
Don't any of you even read the blurb! GROWTH HAS CRATERED. There is no "prediction" here. 1 percent annual sales growth is nothing, especially compared to what the iPod has done in years previous.