You will certainly get what you want (a wearable display for your phone) long before a practical standalone smartwatch is feasible. Currently, wristwatches with just a GPS receiver (no transmitting) have an 8 hour battery life, at most. There is no way somebody is suddenly going to release a smartphone small enough to pass as a wristwatch.
The article says, "we will be introducing a new wearable concept device..." So is this going to be marketed, or just a concept vehicle (perhaps to let some air out of a possible Apple iWatch announcement?)
Cite? If true, it is curious that the energy company did not bother to mention the "100% tax increase" in the linked press release from them, in the section "Why was this decision made?" Nor did the linked Forbes article - but then Forbes must be in bed with Greenpeace I suppose?
It's not that much of a hurdle. The transition will be very gradual, and it will be years and years before/if the driver is not required to maintain vigilance, and be held accountable.
Anyways the question is essentially no different than saying 'cars will never go over 15 mph because they could kill somebody if something happens like a wheel falls off, and who will take the blame? The manufacturer? The garage who last serviced it? The driver?'
Someone enlighten me on why this, being merely a "trick", would have evolutionary advantage such that all the neurological complexity required to remap perceptions to arbitrary point in space would naturally "emerge".
I think you have the question backwards. The "trick" is that billions of cells somehow perceive themselves as a unitary thing in the first place. Just as with vision, identifying optical illusions reveals the limitations of the trick, but subjecting us to conditions that were rare or unimportant to survival in a natural environment.
After sifting through each trade, exchanges canceled or adjusted many of the trades.
Their actions stanched what would have been an even more costly mistake. People familiar with the matter last week estimated that Goldman's losses could have reached hundreds of millions of dollars.
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At NYSE Amex, the exchange will cancel trades in most cases of obvious error, unless the traders on both sides are market makers, or exchange members who facilitate the trading in a given stock's options to ensure fair and orderly markets. Goldman has a market-making unit, but in this case, NYSE Amex classified the orders as coming from a broker-dealer firm.
Only because of the years and years of preparatory work already done. Development of the F-1 started in 1956.
The V2 rocket is what really started the space age. It was the first thing humans ever built that reached space. It wasn't easy; the Nazis poured vast resources into that research. And there is a direct lineage from the V2 to the moon program.
The linked story is the opposite of your comment. It is about people leaving the world of government contracts behind, in the hopes of making bigger bucks at a startup. It is not about the Pentagon controlling Silicon Valley, it is about the brain drain that Silicon Valley is inflicting on the Pentagon. True, some of those companies' business is with the government, but certainly not all. (It would have been a better story with some information about that, such as what percentage of people at these companies maintain their security clearances).
No, you are still missing the point. It's not 14% of the total population - because hardly anybody drives. That's why their overall per capita death rates (reported in the link for this story) aren't shocking even though they have no traffic laws. But for every 100 cars, yes, there are 14 traffic deaths. Togo isn't even that much of an outlier - Niger, Liberia, and Ethiopia are all around 10,000. This does include deaths of pedestrians due to motor vehicles, but then again, those pesky government laws are to protect pedestrians, too.
There is no data on fatalities per billion vehicle miles for these countries, but they would score even worse on that metric, since I doubt many of the vehicles there are racking up 15K miles per year like we do.
You are crazy. If you look at deaths per yer per 100K vehicles, the rate ranges from 14,050 (Togo) down to 4.6 (Malta). Other samples: UK (5.1), US (15), Russia (55), Bangladesh (6,300).
So your prediction would be that an outage of a few hours in this vital industry will negatively impact US economic output? Cause I don't think that. All this super-short-term stuff is zero sum.
What are you talking about. I HATE how major websites censor everything. Somebody goes on a shooting spree, Facebook suspends their account. Why? Slashdot's moderation system is the FAR better way to go.
With its new instruments, Hubble will be 90 times as powerful as it was supposed to be when first launched - it will be like having 90 of the original Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers say. The improvement comes from a combination of increased sensitivity and wider fields of view, allowing Hubble to see 900 galaxies where its original instruments would have revealed only 10. HST will be about 60% more powerful than it was right after the third servicing mission, before ACS and STIS failed.
Good for the welfare generation, maybe. Entitled little shits who want everything but don't want to put in the work.
What your comment really makes me think of is birth control. Things have changed so much that society is debating whether it's even a moral issue any more, but it sure used to be. Wouldn't birth control just allow people to screw around, and unnaturally separate sex from its biological function, and from marriage? And all that is just what did happen.
And you could say the same for eating pork, or blood transfusions, which were forbidden by Moses. But now that it's safe, it's hard to remember why it could have been considered a "moral" issue.
If not now, then within a couple hundred years it's hard to imagine we won't be able to control body fat and muscle mass, in the same way we can control pregnancy. Like breast implants, I predict it will lead to a relatively brief period of action-figure-type physiques, until it is widely available and no longer a status symbol.
Technology really can challenge and change values.
Here is a recent example of US judges who were caught and prosecuted for sentencing people to unnecessarily long sentences in order to generate profits for a privately-operated prison, in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks paid to the judges.
"Artificial intelligence" is no more ill-defined than "intelligence" is in the first place.
Name the benchmark, then we can argue whether any progress has been achieved on that benchmark in the last 40 years, or 5 years.
From the article, here is what DARPA is asking for:
Algorithms inspired by neural models, in particular neocortex, can recognize complex spatial and temporal patterns and can adapt to changing environments. Consequently, these algorithms are a promising approach to data stream filtering and processing and have the potential for providing new levels of performance and capabilities for a range of data recognition problems," DARPA stated. "The cortical computational model should be fault tolerant to gaps in data, massively parallel, extremely power efficient, and highly scalable. It should also have minimal arithmetic precision requirements, and allow ultra-dense, low power implementations."
The only "problem" I see here is whether DARPA's selected performers will be overrun by others' progress already occurring in this exact area.
Strong vs weak is a mere philosophical distinction that is completely meaningless as far as anybody knows.
As for not knowing the state of the art, were you aware that, for example, a so-called deep-learning algorithm recently achieved super-human performance in recognizing road signs, despite being a rather general algorithm? Super-human, as in, it had a lower recognizing road signs than people did. It's stunning. And surprisingly, the algorithm(s) doing this are among those that could be most credibly called bio-inspired.
I don't understand why so much of the focus on google glass is on the video camera. Lots of devices can record video, that's nothing new.
If police should be wearing google glass, it would be because it can provide heads up information, as opposed to the rather bulky laptop-based systems now in their cruisers.
Hey, I never knew the guy who played the boss at News Radio was the same guy who said "I believe you have my stapler" and burned down the building in Office Space.
What would you pay to have a lawn in which individual blades of grass live forever instead of dying and being replaced with new ones every few months? For me the answer is, nothing. People a hundred years from now will enjoy and suffer through life with just as much feeling as you and I do, and in fact more than we would if we were to stick around. As I watch my kids enjoy each "first" for the first time, I think it is better the way it is. I see no advantage to there being a Final Generation.
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You will certainly get what you want (a wearable display for your phone) long before a practical standalone smartwatch is feasible. Currently, wristwatches with just a GPS receiver (no transmitting) have an 8 hour battery life, at most. There is no way somebody is suddenly going to release a smartphone small enough to pass as a wristwatch.
The article says, "we will be introducing a new wearable concept device..." So is this going to be marketed, or just a concept vehicle (perhaps to let some air out of a possible Apple iWatch announcement?)
Cite? If true, it is curious that the energy company did not bother to mention the "100% tax increase" in the linked press release from them, in the section "Why was this decision made?" Nor did the linked Forbes article - but then Forbes must be in bed with Greenpeace I suppose?
Anyways the question is essentially no different than saying 'cars will never go over 15 mph because they could kill somebody if something happens like a wheel falls off, and who will take the blame? The manufacturer? The garage who last serviced it? The driver?'
I think you have the question backwards. The "trick" is that billions of cells somehow perceive themselves as a unitary thing in the first place. Just as with vision, identifying optical illusions reveals the limitations of the trick, but subjecting us to conditions that were rare or unimportant to survival in a natural environment.
The V2 rocket is what really started the space age. It was the first thing humans ever built that reached space. It wasn't easy; the Nazis poured vast resources into that research. And there is a direct lineage from the V2 to the moon program.
The linked story is the opposite of your comment. It is about people leaving the world of government contracts behind, in the hopes of making bigger bucks at a startup. It is not about the Pentagon controlling Silicon Valley, it is about the brain drain that Silicon Valley is inflicting on the Pentagon. True, some of those companies' business is with the government, but certainly not all. (It would have been a better story with some information about that, such as what percentage of people at these companies maintain their security clearances).
There is no data on fatalities per billion vehicle miles for these countries, but they would score even worse on that metric, since I doubt many of the vehicles there are racking up 15K miles per year like we do.
14,000 vs 5 is not a close call in my book.
So your prediction would be that an outage of a few hours in this vital industry will negatively impact US economic output? Cause I don't think that. All this super-short-term stuff is zero sum.
That cliche is at least two generations old.
What are you talking about. I HATE how major websites censor everything. Somebody goes on a shooting spree, Facebook suspends their account. Why? Slashdot's moderation system is the FAR better way to go.
I thought the 2008 upgrade made it better than originally designed?
What your comment really makes me think of is birth control. Things have changed so much that society is debating whether it's even a moral issue any more, but it sure used to be. Wouldn't birth control just allow people to screw around, and unnaturally separate sex from its biological function, and from marriage? And all that is just what did happen.
And you could say the same for eating pork, or blood transfusions, which were forbidden by Moses. But now that it's safe, it's hard to remember why it could have been considered a "moral" issue.
If not now, then within a couple hundred years it's hard to imagine we won't be able to control body fat and muscle mass, in the same way we can control pregnancy. Like breast implants, I predict it will lead to a relatively brief period of action-figure-type physiques, until it is widely available and no longer a status symbol.
Technology really can challenge and change values.
Wait a minute, did you just estimate I could drive a TESLA for about the same total price as an Honda Accord?
...and when is the $15k mini-van? (restrained sobbing is overheard)
Here is a recent example of US judges who were caught and prosecuted for sentencing people to unnecessarily long sentences in order to generate profits for a privately-operated prison, in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks paid to the judges.
Name the benchmark, then we can argue whether any progress has been achieved on that benchmark in the last 40 years, or 5 years.
From the article, here is what DARPA is asking for:
The only "problem" I see here is whether DARPA's selected performers will be overrun by others' progress already occurring in this exact area.
As for not knowing the state of the art, were you aware that, for example, a so-called deep-learning algorithm recently achieved super-human performance in recognizing road signs, despite being a rather general algorithm? Super-human, as in, it had a lower recognizing road signs than people did. It's stunning. And surprisingly, the algorithm(s) doing this are among those that could be most credibly called bio-inspired.
How do you know there wasn't breach in the database of some company she purchased from any time in the last however many years she's had the card?
If police should be wearing google glass, it would be because it can provide heads up information, as opposed to the rather bulky laptop-based systems now in their cruisers.
Just when I thought today was a total write-off.
What would you pay to have a lawn in which individual blades of grass live forever instead of dying and being replaced with new ones every few months? For me the answer is, nothing. People a hundred years from now will enjoy and suffer through life with just as much feeling as you and I do, and in fact more than we would if we were to stick around. As I watch my kids enjoy each "first" for the first time, I think it is better the way it is. I see no advantage to there being a Final Generation.
The fact you get paid more is what he considers the problem to be solved.