Nope, I missed nothing; it may be an original, but it's still a costume... and still overpriced. Of course, that's MY opinion. Some idiot somewhere will probably pay for it. And other idiots will buy the other crap, too.
There are militants in the deaf community who see hearing restoration as an attempt at genocide.
Seriously.
Any group of people is going to have some wackos at the wrong end of the bell curve, so I'm not really surprised by the existence of this attitude. I'm more or less just happy that these nuts aren't running around poking normal people in the ears with sharp objects in order to expand their numbers.
Is it just me, or is it only the hard-core sci-fi geek loner with no money who would willingly pay $US 15K for a Cylon costume? I would think that anyone able to afford this would wouldn't be willing to pay that much for it.
I mean, I think it'd be neat... for a few hundred maybe.
I was under the impression that this tool would be INTERNAL to the various government agencies, in which case as long as it's kept out of the public eye it is a wonderful tool. It's a great way to eliminate the tiered filter effect that stops or corrupts information on its way from the bottom to the top of the chain of command.
I'm surprised that anybody thought it could be anything less than a complete disaster to open it to the public. The costs in world opinion and strained diplomatic ties can't help but outweigh any predictive ability of the system.
Since electronics (though I doubt we're talking about the latest Intel CPU!) and display screens can be made with this technology, along with simple buttons and actuators... I think I could come up with a short list of some fairly nifty items that *I'd* want, anyway.
Throw the geeks of the world at the issue, and I'm pretty sure there WILL be a "Napster of Solid Objects" and a whole mess of trouble with governments and corporations trying to restrict the spread of certain types of plans.
On the other hand, this all depends on the cost of the raw materials and energy requirements, right?
OK, 'scuse my ignorance... but why are we still seeing buffer overflow attacks? If I understand correctly, it's just a matter of checking for valid input before accepting the data.
Hell, I'm no programmer, just a Win Admin, but even I learned to check inputs and handle bad data after the first time I wrote a script that crashed.
I dunno about robots never taking service jobs... after all we have the RealDoll, Japanese robots that walk, polymer 'muscles' to replace hydrolics and gears, alcohol fuel cells, recognition technologies (facial, voice, writing), the ability to create dense tactile sensors, simple automatons that fake social interaction, etc.
Spend 10% of Mr. Gates' net worth to put it all together and you might get a passible android *today* as long as you didn't expect anything beyond simple tasks from it. If we ever get A.I. back on track, I see no reason why an android couldn't become mostly indistinguishable from a very talented human servant... who expects no pay or vacation or even basic humane treatment.
I might even live long enough to see the huge mess such a creation will cause.
I like the base for Celcius... water's freezing and boiling points at standard pressure for the 0 and 100 mark respectively.
The zero point in particularly easy to relate to in terms of weather. Also, I'd suggest that humidity causes a bigger fudge factor for measuring human comfort than the lower resolution of the Celcius scale anyway.
I recall reading not too long ago about using direction-sensitive reception and having multiple broadcasts using the same portion of the spectrum.
It seems to me that you could put the dozen or so stations in my area on one frequency and free the rest up for public use - requiring only a new tuner for your TV, not a cable or satellite installation.
I think allowing a corp to have legal status as an author is a huge mistake. Corporations are a legal method for encouraging investment, nothing more...
You know what would be nice? If a creative work is produced by a corporation, then every indivual who works on the project should be considered a contributing author, and each person should have to pay that $1 every 50 years, or drop off the list. When nobody's left to pay, it's public domain. I assume that the corporation would want to pay on their behalf (and so would need to provide proof that they're alive), as it is the entity benefiting from the work.
Assuming you had the processing power, and the program... you couldn't simulate only what is currently being observed. You must simulate what is currently being observed and everything that *has* been observed and might be double-checked at some time in the future.
Imagine some IBM lab scientist with an electron microscope writes "IBM" in atoms.
Imagine he goes back a year later to read it again for old time's sake and notices that the shape of the letters is slightly different, because the simulator didn't record exactly what random numbers were generated in the first simulation.
Imagine that the letters are exactly the same, but some change was expected, and the simulator just pulled out the last known state for display!
While it was before MY time, I'm informed by members of my parent's generation that at one time consistently sucessful DDoS attacks were repeatedly launched against the analog phone network via zombie clients known as 'listeners' by a hacker who used the alias 'Wolfman Jack' and broadcast his instructions via a publicly broadcast audio stream.
Actually, I foresee the day when these boxes are complete black boxes with a cockpit voice recorder (and maybe an internal camera and a few external ones), GPS, and inertial sensors etc...
I also foresee the day when they have a proprietary transponder in them, so when a crime is committed with a vehicle, the police can send out a broadcast enquiry and have every car in the area that matches a given make/model/colour/location profile rat out the owner's current whereabouts, and maybe make your lights flash, horn honk, and engine die.
Some 'lucky' people got an extended version of the census, filled out multiple times over a period of months. Whee. Personally, I have no experience with the basic form - I've never even seen one.
For the record, at the time I lived in Mississauga, Ontario. For non-Canadian readers who might want to locate Mississauga on a map, it is about 20 km west-southwest of Toronto along Lake Ontario.
In Canada, the census is taken by locally appointed representatives from the community... that's right, your neighbour will see the original form with every personal detail on it... like your individual incomes, religion, and other personal information.
When my house was selected, the woman collecting the forms lived all of 100 ft away. Privacy my ass. Oh, and you are required by law to fill out the form. You can't abstain.
Re:The real thing is much nicer
on
Junkyard Wars Tour
·
· Score: 2, Funny
What is so special about a robot that you need to see it directly instead of on television?
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, I missed nothing; it may be an original, but it's still a costume... and still overpriced. Of course, that's MY opinion. Some idiot somewhere will probably pay for it. And other idiots will buy the other crap, too.
There are militants in the deaf community who see hearing restoration as an attempt at genocide.
Seriously.
Any group of people is going to have some wackos at the wrong end of the bell curve, so I'm not really surprised by the existence of this attitude. I'm more or less just happy that these nuts aren't running around poking normal people in the ears with sharp objects in order to expand their numbers.
Is it just me, or is it only the hard-core sci-fi geek loner with no money who would willingly pay $US 15K for a Cylon costume? I would think that anyone able to afford this would wouldn't be willing to pay that much for it.
I mean, I think it'd be neat... for a few hundred maybe.
I was under the impression that this tool would be INTERNAL to the various government agencies, in which case as long as it's kept out of the public eye it is a wonderful tool. It's a great way to eliminate the tiered filter effect that stops or corrupts information on its way from the bottom to the top of the chain of command.
I'm surprised that anybody thought it could be anything less than a complete disaster to open it to the public. The costs in world opinion and strained diplomatic ties can't help but outweigh any predictive ability of the system.
Since electronics (though I doubt we're talking about the latest Intel CPU!) and display screens can be made with this technology, along with simple buttons and actuators... I think I could come up with a short list of some fairly nifty items that *I'd* want, anyway.
Throw the geeks of the world at the issue, and I'm pretty sure there WILL be a "Napster of Solid Objects" and a whole mess of trouble with governments and corporations trying to restrict the spread of certain types of plans.
On the other hand, this all depends on the cost of the raw materials and energy requirements, right?
OK, 'scuse my ignorance... but why are we still seeing buffer overflow attacks? If I understand correctly, it's just a matter of checking for valid input before accepting the data.
Hell, I'm no programmer, just a Win Admin, but even I learned to check inputs and handle bad data after the first time I wrote a script that crashed.
I dunno about robots never taking service jobs... after all we have the RealDoll, Japanese robots that walk, polymer 'muscles' to replace hydrolics and gears, alcohol fuel cells, recognition technologies (facial, voice, writing), the ability to create dense tactile sensors, simple automatons that fake social interaction, etc.
Spend 10% of Mr. Gates' net worth to put it all together and you might get a passible android *today* as long as you didn't expect anything beyond simple tasks from it. If we ever get A.I. back on track, I see no reason why an android couldn't become mostly indistinguishable from a very talented human servant... who expects no pay or vacation or even basic humane treatment.
I might even live long enough to see the huge mess such a creation will cause.
One problem - gravity propagates at the speed of light. It is not an FTL phenomenon.
I have a sister-in-law who actually got upset when I tried to switch stations to avoid ads.
For my second try, I muted the TV. That also upset her and the sound had to be reinstated.
Fuel cells are most certainly NOT a new field.
The technology meets the definition of an antique (over 100 years old) IIRC.
Is it just me, or should we smuggle 1 billion copies of '1984' into China?
Well, I'd like argue that point...
I like the base for Celcius... water's freezing and boiling points at standard pressure for the 0 and 100 mark respectively.
The zero point in particularly easy to relate to in terms of weather. Also, I'd suggest that humidity causes a bigger fudge factor for measuring human comfort than the lower resolution of the Celcius scale anyway.
Modded "Troll"??? It wasn't meant as a troll, just a friendly jibe.
Chill, mods.
Silly Americans... still converting to Fahrenheit. ;)
Just to be clear... you DID read the second paragraph of my post, right?
I recall reading not too long ago about using direction-sensitive reception and having multiple broadcasts using the same portion of the spectrum.
It seems to me that you could put the dozen or so stations in my area on one frequency and free the rest up for public use - requiring only a new tuner for your TV, not a cable or satellite installation.
I think allowing a corp to have legal status as an author is a huge mistake. Corporations are a legal method for encouraging investment, nothing more...
You know what would be nice? If a creative work is produced by a corporation, then every indivual who works on the project should be considered a contributing author, and each person should have to pay that $1 every 50 years, or drop off the list. When nobody's left to pay, it's public domain. I assume that the corporation would want to pay on their behalf (and so would need to provide proof that they're alive), as it is the entity benefiting from the work.
Assuming you had the processing power, and the program... you couldn't simulate only what is currently being observed. You must simulate what is currently being observed and everything that *has* been observed and might be double-checked at some time in the future.
Imagine some IBM lab scientist with an electron microscope writes "IBM" in atoms.
While it was before MY time, I'm informed by members of my parent's generation that at one time consistently sucessful DDoS attacks were repeatedly launched against the analog phone network via zombie clients known as 'listeners' by a hacker who used the alias 'Wolfman Jack' and broadcast his instructions via a publicly broadcast audio stream.
Actually, I foresee the day when these boxes are complete black boxes with a cockpit voice recorder (and maybe an internal camera and a few external ones), GPS, and inertial sensors etc...
I also foresee the day when they have a proprietary transponder in them, so when a crime is committed with a vehicle, the police can send out a broadcast enquiry and have every car in the area that matches a given make/model/colour/location profile rat out the owner's current whereabouts, and maybe make your lights flash, horn honk, and engine die.
Some 'lucky' people got an extended version of the census, filled out multiple times over a period of months. Whee. Personally, I have no experience with the basic form - I've never even seen one.
For the record, at the time I lived in Mississauga, Ontario. For non-Canadian readers who might want to locate Mississauga on a map, it is about 20 km west-southwest of Toronto along Lake Ontario.
In Canada, the census is taken by locally appointed representatives from the community... that's right, your neighbour will see the original form with every personal detail on it... like your individual incomes, religion, and other personal information.
When my house was selected, the woman collecting the forms lived all of 100 ft away. Privacy my ass. Oh, and you are required by law to fill out the form. You can't abstain.
What is so special about a robot that you need to see it directly instead of on television?
;)
That's how I understood it and I don't think that is incompatible with my interpretation.
Of course, if you think of it that way, Google essentially turns the entire Internet into one big collection of sub-webpages.
Here I sit, someone who has used the Internet since 1991 and has only JUST thought of that. Stupid brain.
Let me get this straight...
This guy ran a search engine on his PC that essentially turned every particpating client PC into a single unit of a JBOD RAID array?
It would have been interesting to see the court case unfold if the guy had had the resources to fight