Suppose you were involved in a horrific accident at your research lab in which one of your robots sliced off your legs. Would you no longer be humanoid?
I have never been, and am not humanoid. I am human. I may one day become humanoid if my brain is inserted into a humanoid. Call me new fashioned, but I would not call a painted face on a trashcan with wheels and a couple of arms - humanoid.
To me, the saddest part is that they call a robot on wheels humanoid. Excuse me, but being a researcher in robots, if it doesn't have two legs, its not humanoid.
In the SDK Documentation PDF on their site (available from http://www.ageia.com/novodex_downloads.html) section 5.2.9 on page 33 mentions the solver used. Does anyone know if the solver is an n-th order Runge-Kutta method, or do they simply subdivide each step into n euler steps?
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Go. The rule set isn't very clean, ie, there are many exceptions to the main rules. Hex is mathematically similar to Go, but its rules are very clean (maybe only exception being the swap-rule), and you can't get a draw.
Where do you draw the line between hardware and software? Hypothetically, if software patents did not exist, could you implement in software a hardware patent to drive a custom built patent-free robot to create a piece of patented hardware?
Are there any ideas as to what is the theoretical difference between hardware and software?
If the difference is that hardware is or creates something physical and software is/does not, then couldn't I just easily port software algorithms into a mechanical device essentially allowing for a hardware patent?
Ok, so there are billions of markup languages around. However, I don't see anyone one of them implemented across most imbedded language libraries. The hype of XML has helped XML to infest itself into everything, and now I can parse any XML document using my favourite language with very little work.
I meant that if you slow it down then seconds become longer. So a calculated 24hr period on slowed down cesium 133 would equal a 30hr period on normal cesium 133.
But, I get your meaning. Speeding up cesium 133 would mean we get 30hrs per actual daylight day.
Being a researcher in neural networks, I first thought ICANN was the "International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks": http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005/
Interaction does not require tactile feedback. It may be possible to set up a two cameras which can record your hand and decide if your hand is at the same position as the image, then alter the projection of 3d model as required. This can make it seem as if your moving/rotating the object, however you do not actually feel anything touching your skin.
If you can *hear* it then you can rip it, simple mathematics. To make things even easier I bet cd companies will make cd players that can bypass the protection due to the demand (their impending profit) if everyone has this longhorn.
This just sounds like timothy has friends at Tableau, and he owes them a favour. So he's decided to give them some free advertising. Or he's a little more intelligent and they've payed him a wad of cash to do it.
Wireless access to the speach and visual areas of the brain would allow for some pretty funky telepathy-like communication between people. This is definately something I would look forward to. We could even interface with computer and other ai systems.
/me waits for the all-too-obvious "thats to dangerous" replys.
Vocal chords will become obselete, and only come into use when inadvertantly shouting "haxor!" while playing "Counter-Strike 3: Outsourced" after getting head-shotted across the level from a noob with an mp5.
Making an educated guess based on neuroscience, if your always smelling the same odor, then your sense of smell will be diminished to that odor as your perception adapts to a stable environment. However, if your always smelling different odors then your sense of smell should be heightened for those odors.
Hmm, however this would contradict the need to have a nasalnaught since in space you will always smell that same odor. Oh well, perhaps the guess was not as educated as I had thought:)
I'd like to try my hand at one of these. You can easily buy straight carbon rods at a hobby shop, but does anyone know of a away to bend them into a desired shape, like the helicopter chassis in pixelito?
Please, PLEASE mark such images as NSF (not suitable for work). I've just been fired because my boss thinks I enjoy looking at skank-hobags during business hours.
Reading slashdot at work should be enough cause to get fired.
I would like to see Google create a link from the main "Google" picture to Slashdot, and at the same time get Slashdot to write a post about it linking to the Google site, and see who's servers drown first.
This is just another one of those, "Do you see the [insert anything here] in the Clouds?" Humans like to attribute purpose where it doesn't belong. What's the next headline? A particle of sand dropped in water exhibts ability to compute Navier-Stokes equations?
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Suppose you were involved in a horrific accident at your research lab in which one of your robots sliced off your legs. Would you no longer be humanoid?
I have never been, and am not humanoid. I am human. I may one day become humanoid if my brain is inserted into a humanoid. Call me new fashioned, but I would not call a painted face on a trashcan with wheels and a couple of arms - humanoid.
To me, the saddest part is that they call a robot on wheels humanoid. Excuse me, but being a researcher in robots, if it doesn't have two legs, its not humanoid.
In the SDK Documentation PDF on their site (available from http://www.ageia.com/novodex_downloads.html) section 5.2.9 on page 33 mentions the solver used. Does anyone know if the solver is an n-th order Runge-Kutta method, or do they simply subdivide each step into n euler steps?
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Go. The rule set isn't very clean, ie, there are many exceptions to the main rules. Hex is mathematically similar to Go, but its rules are very clean (maybe only exception being the swap-rule), and you can't get a draw.
He built a time machine, but needs plutonium to power the flux capacitor before reaching 88 miles per hour.
Where do you draw the line between hardware and software? Hypothetically, if software patents did not exist, could you implement in software a hardware patent to drive a custom built patent-free robot to create a piece of patented hardware?
Are there any ideas as to what is the theoretical difference between hardware and software?
If the difference is that hardware is or creates something physical and software is/does not, then couldn't I just easily port software algorithms into a mechanical device essentially allowing for a hardware patent?
Weissman has already created mice with brains that are about one percent human.
I know a few humans with the very same feature.
Ok, so there are billions of markup languages around. However, I don't see anyone one of them implemented across most imbedded language libraries. The hype of XML has helped XML to infest itself into everything, and now I can parse any XML document using my favourite language with very little work.
There are recent reports (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/ 23/0340233&tid=160&tid=99) of active volcanoes on Mars. Could it be seismic activity shaking the dust loose?
Proud to be Polish.
Bloody hell slashdot, cache the damn site!!!
If anyone of us puts something neat on their website then its in danger of getting slashdotted.
I meant that if you slow it down then seconds become longer. So a calculated 24hr period on slowed down cesium 133 would equal a 30hr period on normal cesium 133.
But, I get your meaning. Speeding up cesium 133 would mean we get 30hrs per actual daylight day.
I'd also like to see if we could slow down the Earth to create 30 hour days.
Nah, too hard, just slow down cesium 133.
Being a researcher in neural networks, I first thought ICANN was the "International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks": http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005/
No need for 3D, we all know Han shot first.
Interaction does not require tactile feedback. It may be possible to set up a two cameras which can record your hand and decide if your hand is at the same position as the image, then alter the projection of 3d model as required. This can make it seem as if your moving/rotating the object, however you do not actually feel anything touching your skin.
If you can *hear* it then you can rip it, simple mathematics. To make things even easier I bet cd companies will make cd players that can bypass the protection due to the demand (their impending profit) if everyone has this longhorn.
This just sounds like timothy has friends at Tableau, and he owes them a favour. So he's decided to give them some free advertising. Or he's a little more intelligent and they've payed him a wad of cash to do it.
Hmm, looks like they've already redirected funds from web servers to the project.
Wireless access to the speach and visual areas of the brain would allow for some pretty funky telepathy-like communication between people. This is definately something I would look forward to. We could even interface with computer and other ai systems.
/me waits for the all-too-obvious "thats to dangerous" replys.
Vocal chords will become obselete, and only come into use when inadvertantly shouting "haxor!" while playing "Counter-Strike 3: Outsourced" after getting head-shotted across the level from a noob with an mp5.
Hmm, however this would contradict the need to have a nasalnaught since in space you will always smell that same odor. Oh well, perhaps the guess was not as educated as I had thought :)
I'd like to try my hand at one of these. You can easily buy straight carbon rods at a hobby shop, but does anyone know of a away to bend them into a desired shape, like the helicopter chassis in pixelito?
I would like to see Google create a link from the main "Google" picture to Slashdot, and at the same time get Slashdot to write a post about it linking to the Google site, and see who's servers drown first.
This is just another one of those, "Do you see the [insert anything here] in the Clouds?" Humans like to attribute purpose where it doesn't belong. What's the next headline? A particle of sand dropped in water exhibts ability to compute Navier-Stokes equations?