[quote]That's a big 'if' there. How do you propose he get to work?[/quote]
Train, subway, bike or a combination of them. If you live in a country that doesn't have either of them, then you're forced to spend the $10k a year "crappy public transport tax"
And if you want to do bitbanging (or low level rs232 communication for that matter) and realtime programming Java makes you want to pull your hairs out. Don't start on JNI. Although developing anything high-level is much easier than c++.
In metric a drywall would probably be made to be 1.20 m width, driving in a screw every 40 cm is not that hard.
If drywalls are 1m width, you just drive in a screw every 33cm. Your tolerance of screwing screws into drywall is probably higher than 3mm. (note the m - cm - mm conversions that are really easy. try doing the same in imperial). In the real world, integer units are kinda useless and you can always drop back to a magnitude smaller in metric. Tolerances make the notion of screwing something in every 16" foolish anyway, in metric it would be in the same number of significant digits.
A solution would be to tax Diesel less. To stop people from buying Diesel cars increase the registration tax for them so only people who make loads of miles (businesses and trucks (which don't have to be taxed) can afford them
Shipping tons of hydrocarbons to earth doesn't sound like the best plan to me. It would decrease oxygen levels and increase CO2 if done in big enough numbers.
Depending on the country I think. At least in the NL, the insurance is assigned to the car and you can have anyone drive it. Although no-risk is personal again.
Wouldn't it be bad if other researcher exactly copies your setup, but use your hypothesis to design their own experiment and test it. If the results don't match then more research would be needed to validate either study.
This would (hopefully) rule out results due to environmental interactions in your particular setup. If two different experiments come to the same conclusion, that is better than two identical experimental setups coming to the same conclusion (and more useful as well).
At the moment high speed rail is faster then a plane for shorter ( 4 hours I guess) flights, and goes from center to center of the city, saving even more time. Car cannot compete, as it takes at least 3-4 times longer to drive the same distance.
Idling the car to melt the ice on the windshield is bad for more than one reason (toxic fumes, kills your engine). You have to manually remove the ice and then start the car.
Agree, you should leave enough distance that you can react+stop (about 2 seconds * speed) if the object in front of you comes to a sudden halt (aka hits something hard and heavy).
GM hopes the humanoid can one day work on the assembly line (mostly manual labour now). Because it is an humanoid, it can use existing infrastructure for humans and a human can step in if the robot fails, without downtime.
Might as well disable all potentially distracting activities that drivers do:
doing anything with your eyes besides looking straight ahead while driving
If you only look straight they should take away your driving license. You have to look into your mirrors really often and over your shoulder when you make a turn (to make sure you don't kill pedestrians/cyclist/etc)
I just spent some months in the south and people drive slow here. I don't mean top speed, but they accelerate like grandma's from the traffic light and take ages to hit normal speeds. When I'm in front and accelerate in a normal way, I'm 400m in front of everyone. Yet everyone drives 6.0L trucks and 3L sedans (also, automatics suck because they shift down and use loads of petrol when you accelerate normal instead of grandma mode)
Won't a finite number of monkeys working for infinite time or a infinite number of monkeys working for a finite time also recreate the works of Shakespeare?
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[quote]That's a big 'if' there. How do you propose he get to work?[/quote]
Train, subway, bike or a combination of them. If you live in a country that doesn't have either of them, then you're forced to spend the $10k a year "crappy public transport tax"
And if you want to do bitbanging (or low level rs232 communication for that matter) and realtime programming Java makes you want to pull your hairs out. Don't start on JNI. Although developing anything high-level is much easier than c++.
What is the problem with negative numbers? Are they more difficult for you?
Since when do Subway subs have a tolerance of 0.1mm?
In metric a drywall would probably be made to be 1.20 m width, driving in a screw every 40 cm is not that hard.
If drywalls are 1m width, you just drive in a screw every 33cm. Your tolerance of screwing screws into drywall is probably higher than 3mm. (note the m - cm - mm conversions that are really easy. try doing the same in imperial). In the real world, integer units are kinda useless and you can always drop back to a magnitude smaller in metric. Tolerances make the notion of screwing something in every 16" foolish anyway, in metric it would be in the same number of significant digits.
It was by far the cheapest in the bar I frequented in the states as well ($2,50 vs $4,00), so at first I ignored it.
A solution would be to tax Diesel less. To stop people from buying Diesel cars increase the registration tax for them so only people who make loads of miles (businesses and trucks (which don't have to be taxed) can afford them
from 1895 till 1941 there was a tax for bicycles in the Netherlands. Nothing new.
Shipping tons of hydrocarbons to earth doesn't sound like the best plan to me. It would decrease oxygen levels and increase CO2 if done in big enough numbers.
Almost any connection is really unlimited here. Starting at about 20-25 euro's a month for a 20mbits/1mbits connection.
If your pattern is completely random, the opponent can easily win by favoring one.
For example, random against always rock, rock wins 2 out of 3 times.
Substract 20% VAT first, then compare.
A modern engineer would've written it in Matlab.
Depending on the country I think. At least in the NL, the insurance is assigned to the car and you can have anyone drive it. Although no-risk is personal again.
CAD & Simulation are two examples I can come up I do a lot.
Wouldn't it be bad if other researcher exactly copies your setup, but use your hypothesis to design their own experiment and test it. If the results don't match then more research would be needed to validate either study.
This would (hopefully) rule out results due to environmental interactions in your particular setup. If two different experiments come to the same conclusion, that is better than two identical experimental setups coming to the same conclusion (and more useful as well).
At the moment high speed rail is faster then a plane for shorter ( 4 hours I guess) flights, and goes from center to center of the city, saving even more time. Car cannot compete, as it takes at least 3-4 times longer to drive the same distance.
Idling the car to melt the ice on the windshield is bad for more than one reason (toxic fumes, kills your engine). You have to manually remove the ice and then start the car.
Agree, you should leave enough distance that you can react+stop (about 2 seconds * speed) if the object in front of you comes to a sudden halt (aka hits something hard and heavy).
GM hopes the humanoid can one day work on the assembly line (mostly manual labour now). Because it is an humanoid, it can use existing infrastructure for humans and a human can step in if the robot fails, without downtime.
I switched to after my right arm became really painfull to use. Didn't switch the keys and getting pretty good it atm.
Might as well disable all potentially distracting activities that drivers do:
doing anything with your eyes besides looking straight ahead while driving
If you only look straight they should take away your driving license. You have to look into your mirrors really often and over your shoulder when you make a turn (to make sure you don't kill pedestrians/cyclist/etc)
I just spent some months in the south and people drive slow here. I don't mean top speed, but they accelerate like grandma's from the traffic light and take ages to hit normal speeds. When I'm in front and accelerate in a normal way, I'm 400m in front of everyone. Yet everyone drives 6.0L trucks and 3L sedans (also, automatics suck because they shift down and use loads of petrol when you accelerate normal instead of grandma mode)
A mere $1000,- per Socket.
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Won't a finite number of monkeys working for infinite time or a infinite number of monkeys working for a finite time also recreate the works of Shakespeare?