That's an interesting sociological angle, but it hasn't prevented the rapid acceptance of cruise missles and UAVs in recent years. It's not just predictions any more, it's happening before our eyes.
IMHO a pack of good but moderately priced UAVs will prove more lethal and less expensive than a much smaller number of gold-plated uber-fighers (such as the F22). Add to that removing the pilots from harm's way and the outcome seems inevitable.
If you want to watch while disconnected, perhaps you should consider buying the show on DVD?
Just get a TV capture card.
I like NBC's thursday night lineup, but it's so chock full of product placements, you'd need a super AI to re-write the script and edit out scenes to actually "skip all the commercials."
So how much do you think it will cost? I think Americans are paying full price + large markup on the hardware, plus an extra-high monthly payment (even though the hardware is not subsidized), plus they are locked into it for years, plus they are paying with the weak US dollar.
This was 4 years ago, so not sure how cutting edge the technology is...
Robotic forklifts are nothing new. What's is new, at least to me, is the "swarming" idea here. The robots don't service pre-specified areas of the warehouse, or work for pre-specified human operators; several can work together to fulfill an order and are dynamically tasked to people depending on who needs what next. If a robot breaks down, apparently the others just work around it. These robots don't fetch individual items; instead the system manages a mix of items in containers, and then fetch a mix of containers to fill an order most rapidly. They also don't put containers in specified places; instead they automatically re-distribute the warehouse contents over time to put requested items near packers. Finally, the robots themselves are very small and cheap.
I'm not enough of an expert to know how much of this is novel, but it's far beyond "get me the palette from location x,y,z" that I have seen previously.
people now work FAR LESS than hunters-gatherers or even medieval peasants. You basically need to work 7 hours a day 5 days a week.
That may be the number of hours that you are on somebody's clock getting paid with money (although 35 hours/week is a very low estimate). But yYou have to add in commuting, shopping, cooking, caring for children, and repairing your house and car (often on the weekends). These forms of work are perhaps closer to prehistoric work, because you are doing diverse activities to produce value for your family directly. The part of work where you do repetitive specialized work for cash is relatively modern.
Can you OFFICIALLY update a server (no X11, no physical access) yet?
Regardless of whether you can OFICIALLY do it, can you ACTUALLY do it? Both of my favorite distros (gentoo and debian) sport this feature... but does that mean the system will actually update dozens of packages without breaking something? Of course not. Based on my personal experience, people who cavalierly "emerge -U world" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" are nuts.
Blame everyone else all you want, but that child was handed to you in a pristine state and you raised it.
This is so incorrect, I wonder if you have any experience parenting? Children are not blank slates. Each person is born with their own personality and presents vastly different challenges to their parents. Add to that, parents are far from the only influence in their children's lives. And trying to seal them off from the world doesn't work, either. Look at parents with several children - it's quite common for one child to have significant problems that none of the others has.
I think the point of the encryption is, a middleman (such as comcast) would no longer be able to forge RSTs at all. (Of course they could still drop packets on the floor).
Silicon Valley isn't a good place though, maybe they can make circuit boards but the actual design and construction of cars would have to be elsewhere.
Unfortunately I can't imagine the manufacturing will be anywhere else in the US either. Think China, India, Mexico... Then again, maybe the collapse of the dollar makes domestic manufacturing a remote possibility.
there's nothing that says you have to have a boring building in order for the roof not to leak. It just costs more. Obviously someone was cutting corners in there somewhere.
It's not obvious to me. Novelty implies risk.
Incidentally this is why analogies between software development and civil/structural engineering are normally silly. In this case the analogy is a little better... and look at the outcome.
The paper says the operator sent the robot an average of 1 byte every 141 seconds, so it's hardly a puppet. Also, Sony never sold the QRIO, and discontinued development in Jan. of 2006, so the financial motivation for Sony is small.
You raise a valid issue. If Yahoo's actions in China did not violate any US laws, then clearly we need to change our laws. We can't control the actions of companies all over the world, but we can certainly decide who may incorporate and conduct business here at home.
Forgive me for possibly being naive, but wouldn't it possibly be a LOT more practical to simply keep a highly-skilled physician on board the mission?
The latest technology is almost always impractical, by definition. Using robots to make cars used to be impractical. The point of R&D is to further technology with good prospects of becoming practical. I think this is great research. Using human surgeons with 16 years of training for every operation is simply not working. Many people worldwide die each year because they can't afford surgical procedures. This problem will be solved in the same way that hunger has been greatly reduced worldwide through farming technology, which allows 1 person to do the work of 100 primitive farmers.
"SRI wants to move away from remote telesurgery and closer to autonomy. The company plans to build a system for NASA that could treat an astronaut on Mars, where communication delays of more than 20 minutes would make telesurgery impossible. "
Are all these datacenters just for Microsoft's own use? I agree, I don't see why their online presence, such as it is, would require so many half-billion dollar datacenters.
It's still just a client device. Somehow I was hoping for a much bolder stroke from google, like if they'd bought up that new spectrum, thrown in their own fiber backbone, and used it to change the cellco/customer relationship fundamentally. So long as they're working through the same old networks, the US cellphone industry will stay pretty much as-is.
How about a Kia Rio for $11.5K? They actually include "Body-color Exterior Door Handles" in the list of amenities, so I don't think it could be stripped down much more. It's still more than $2k, but even a raw ton of steel plate costs $800, so I don't think a $2000 car will happen. You can't blame it all on features, engines and transmissions do cost money too.
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Sssh! The shift key is a copy-protection circumvention measure of questionable legality!
IMHO a pack of good but moderately priced UAVs will prove more lethal and less expensive than a much smaller number of gold-plated uber-fighers (such as the F22). Add to that removing the pilots from harm's way and the outcome seems inevitable.
Then if you think something is worth having, the appropriate response is to buy it, not claim it's not too expensive. So why are you commenting?
So how much do you think it will cost? I think Americans are paying full price + large markup on the hardware, plus an extra-high monthly payment (even though the hardware is not subsidized), plus they are locked into it for years, plus they are paying with the weak US dollar.
I'm not enough of an expert to know how much of this is novel, but it's far beyond "get me the palette from location x,y,z" that I have seen previously.
You can't have a decent scandal without a snappy catchphrase.
Actually notebook hard drive technology and pricing was relatively stagnant for years. I'm glad to see it advance again.
I think the point of the encryption is, a middleman (such as comcast) would no longer be able to forge RSTs at all. (Of course they could still drop packets on the floor).
Incidentally this is why analogies between software development and civil/structural engineering are normally silly. In this case the analogy is a little better... and look at the outcome.
The paper says the operator sent the robot an average of 1 byte every 141 seconds, so it's hardly a puppet. Also, Sony never sold the QRIO, and discontinued development in Jan. of 2006, so the financial motivation for Sony is small.
You raise a valid issue. If Yahoo's actions in China did not violate any US laws, then clearly we need to change our laws. We can't control the actions of companies all over the world, but we can certainly decide who may incorporate and conduct business here at home.
"SRI wants to move away from remote telesurgery and closer to autonomy. The company plans to build a system for NASA that could treat an astronaut on Mars, where communication delays of more than 20 minutes would make telesurgery impossible. "
Are all these datacenters just for Microsoft's own use? I agree, I don't see why their online presence, such as it is, would require so many half-billion dollar datacenters.
I think you've got the categorization about right... let's require a commercial driver's license for anything over 5000 lbs and call it even.
It's still just a client device. Somehow I was hoping for a much bolder stroke from google, like if they'd bought up that new spectrum, thrown in their own fiber backbone, and used it to change the cellco/customer relationship fundamentally. So long as they're working through the same old networks, the US cellphone industry will stay pretty much as-is.
Higher resolution is just more of the same. Moore's law solves that almost automatically.
You're right, we really need to get those SUVs off the road, for many reasons.
How about a Kia Rio for $11.5K? They actually include "Body-color Exterior Door Handles" in the list of amenities, so I don't think it could be stripped down much more. It's still more than $2k, but even a raw ton of steel plate costs $800, so I don't think a $2000 car will happen. You can't blame it all on features, engines and transmissions do cost money too.