The robots themselves arn't the problem, some of the hardware is fantastic. Its the software - moving a robot around and doing tasks in an unpredictable enviroment with obstacles is a monumentally hard task. Even the human brain takes a number of years to master it from birth so the chances of any one team of programmers suddenly mastering it with a robot is minimal. It'll be a gradual evolution of the software over the years.
... but the parachute? Really? If you know the speed and the density of the atmosphere you're going to deploy it in then the rest is basic physics and engineering. Just make sure you make the damn thing strong enough!
... will be as large as ever. I've rather had it Bethesda since I couldn't complete the main quest on Skyrim due to a major bug (dragon call failed to work). You expect the odd glitch and minor issue in any large piece of software but not a complete show stopper that should be been spotted in even basic testing. Maybe they've fixed it by now, who knows. Frankly I stopped caring a long time ago but I won't buy any game with the Bethesda name on it any more.
Do you? In that case you might want to consider moving to india where they've had a fairly unprecedented hot spell recently with temperatures hitting 48C. Unfortunately unlike priviledged fat yanks like yourself, the majority don't have comfy air condition homes - if they have homes rather than a shack - to cool themselves with.
Given that the languages that use classes were generally desiged properly by a team of engineers, and the ones that don't were usually designed by one guy calling people who like class based languages "idiots" is rather a pot and kettle scenario. Prototype based OO is inefficient, ugly, difficult to debug for any large scale object system and generally just a dumb dumb way to describe objects.
"If nobody's going to buy the database, in one month I'm releasing the keys, and victims will have their files automatically unlocked.â
Oh , how heart warmingly magnanimous of you! I can see how contrite and sorry you are about what you've done... well apart from still wanting some money for the DB.
Tell you what you sorry little turd, how about you release them anyway and give these poor people their data back? @rsehole.
There'll be some tin foil hat wearing paranoid redneck along any minute to tell us why he needs his sub machine gun collection to fend off The Men In Black when they come for him after he's sent illegally encrypted kitten pictures to his boyfriend.
Oh get over yourself. The stuff came out of the ground so it can quite easily be buried back in the ground. Or did you think radioactivity appeared as if by magic from unicorns and fairy dust as soon as the uranium was put in the reactor?
And people like you go on about long term pollution, but I bet you don't think twice about the immediate pollution caused by mining to get the ore to build the latest smarttoy you've upgraded to do you? The way things are going they'll be hardly anyone around to care in 100K years time since manking will have nicely wrecked the enviroment anyway.
What about the cost (enviromental and financial due to climate impact) of the CO2 from fossil fuels? Oh wait, 21st century western society can simply be powered by windmills and solar cells, right? Suuure.
... that they'll even spend probably billions trying to replace the minimum wage guy at the wheel of the taxi with some automated system that probably won't work as well for decades if ever?
Someone explain this techno nerd obsession with replacing people with robots, I just don't get it.
Blame Intel with their idiotic system management mode. The person who thought that was a good idea should have been fired on the spot instead of the damn thing actually being implemented since the 386.
That way it can't be overwritten by software. Or at least require an internal jumper to be set before any writes can happen. Any user updating their BIOS would be fairly experienced so taking the lid off an setting a jumper wouldn't be a problem for them and people who arn't technical could just take it to a store.
Since when has blocking some pirate sites been the same as censoring the content? Hysterical, much?
"That should give you a pretty good picture where this is going.."
Its simply treating the internet like any other media - ie subject to the law. If you don't like the law vote for someone who'll change it. In the meantime stop whining like some tin foil hat hippy whos just stepped out of 1975.
Go and write a textbook yourself if you think its so unfair? Oh, whats that? You can't? Well then stop whining about people who can making some money out of their efforts. Or it you don't believe effort should be rewarded then I presume you'll be working for free for the rest of your life?
As more heat gets trapped at the ground so the stratosphere where ozone destruction occurs gets colder (because less heat is coming up from below) and so ironicaly in warmer winters it can be colder in the stratosphere and hence more O3 destruction can occur.
Its about the DJ banter, weather & traffic news etc. If I wanted to listen to wall to wall music I'd put my collection on, but sometimes its nice to hear a live human voice between the tracks and to be surprised by a track I'd probably never have streamed or downloaded myself.
Sorry, but who comes up with this shit? Apart from not knowing the start location and orientation of the phone, electric trains are all pretty similar these days and besides which how will they take account of non station stops at reds, bad riding suspension on certain trains, fast/slow drivers etc etc?
What a crock of....
Apart from that the accelerometers on your average consumer device arn't even that accurate. After a few minutes it'll be hopelessly lost.
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Its the software thats make or break for this task and software to accomplish this sort of thing is incredibly hard to write.
The robots themselves arn't the problem, some of the hardware is fantastic. Its the software - moving a robot around and doing tasks in an unpredictable enviroment with obstacles is a monumentally hard task. Even the human brain takes a number of years to master it from birth so the chances of any one team of programmers suddenly mastering it with a robot is minimal. It'll be a gradual evolution of the software over the years.
... but the parachute? Really? If you know the speed and the density of the atmosphere you're going to deploy it in then the rest is basic physics and engineering. Just make sure you make the damn thing strong enough!
They pushed out fixes to the PS3 too. Sadly they didn't seem to fix this.
... will be as large as ever. I've rather had it Bethesda since I couldn't complete the main quest on Skyrim due to a major bug (dragon call failed to work). You expect the odd glitch and minor issue in any large piece of software but not a complete show stopper that should be been spotted in even basic testing. Maybe they've fixed it by now, who knows. Frankly I stopped caring a long time ago but I won't buy any game with the Bethesda name on it any more.
"I like the heat,"
Do you? In that case you might want to consider moving to india where they've had a fairly unprecedented hot spell recently with temperatures hitting 48C. Unfortunately unlike priviledged fat yanks like yourself, the majority don't have comfy air condition homes - if they have homes rather than a shack - to cool themselves with.
Given that the languages that use classes were generally desiged properly by a team of engineers, and the ones that don't were usually designed by one guy calling people who like class based languages "idiots" is rather a pot and kettle scenario. Prototype based OO is inefficient, ugly, difficult to debug for any large scale object system and generally just a dumb dumb way to describe objects.
"If nobody's going to buy the database, in one month I'm releasing the keys, and victims will have their files automatically unlocked.â
Oh , how heart warmingly magnanimous of you! I can see how contrite and sorry you are about what you've done... well apart from still wanting some money for the DB.
Tell you what you sorry little turd, how about you release them anyway and give these poor people their data back? @rsehole.
There'll be some tin foil hat wearing paranoid redneck along any minute to tell us why he needs his sub machine gun collection to fend off The Men In Black when they come for him after he's sent illegally encrypted kitten pictures to his boyfriend.
Oh get over yourself. The stuff came out of the ground so it can quite easily be buried back in the ground. Or did you think radioactivity appeared as if by magic from unicorns and fairy dust as soon as the uranium was put in the reactor?
And people like you go on about long term pollution, but I bet you don't think twice about the immediate pollution caused by mining to get the ore to build the latest smarttoy you've upgraded to do you? The way things are going they'll be hardly anyone around to care in 100K years time since manking will have nicely wrecked the enviroment anyway.
Beached whale? Tell that to France thats been using it safely for the last 50 years for the majority of their electrical power.
What about the cost (enviromental and financial due to climate impact) of the CO2 from fossil fuels? Oh wait, 21st century western society can simply be powered by windmills and solar cells, right? Suuure.
"Automation has always led to increased employment and wealth for the masses."
Has it? You need to venture outside your parents house and visit the rest of the world occasionally.
You don't need a special processor mode to do power management FFS.
... that they'll even spend probably billions trying to replace the minimum wage guy at the wheel of the taxi with some automated system that probably won't work as well for decades if ever?
Someone explain this techno nerd obsession with replacing people with robots, I just don't get it.
Blame Intel with their idiotic system management mode. The person who thought that was a good idea should have been fired on the spot instead of the damn thing actually being implemented since the 386.
That way it can't be overwritten by software. Or at least require an internal jumper to be set before any writes can happen. Any user updating their BIOS would be fairly experienced so taking the lid off an setting a jumper wouldn't be a problem for them and people who arn't technical could just take it to a store.
"Now they are starting to censor books."
Since when has blocking some pirate sites been the same as censoring the content? Hysterical, much?
"That should give you a pretty good picture where this is going.."
Its simply treating the internet like any other media - ie subject to the law. If you don't like the law vote for someone who'll change it. In the meantime stop whining like some tin foil hat hippy whos just stepped out of 1975.
Go and write a textbook yourself if you think its so unfair? Oh, whats that? You can't? Well then stop whining about people who can making some money out of their efforts. Or it you don't believe effort should be rewarded then I presume you'll be working for free for the rest of your life?
As more heat gets trapped at the ground so the stratosphere where ozone destruction occurs gets colder (because less heat is coming up from below) and so ironicaly in warmer winters it can be colder in the stratosphere and hence more O3 destruction can occur.
Its about the DJ banter, weather & traffic news etc. If I wanted to listen to wall to wall music I'd put my collection on, but sometimes its nice to hear a live human voice between the tracks and to be surprised by a track I'd probably never have streamed or downloaded myself.
The sort of people who set up these compromised systems probably never knew them in the first place.
"I wager I can distinguish between each train, the train operator, as well as the tracks its running on based on accelerometer data."
Yeah. right.
1995 called, they want their zero day exploits back.
Sorry, but who comes up with this shit? Apart from not knowing the start location and orientation of the phone, electric trains are all pretty similar these days and besides which how will they take account of non station stops at reds, bad riding suspension on certain trains, fast/slow drivers etc etc?
What a crock of ....
Apart from that the accelerometers on your average consumer device arn't even that accurate. After a few minutes it'll be hopelessly lost.