Robots made a comeback - on the moon, after a 37-year hiatus.
Apart from that, the article misses a bunch of very important trends and events in robotics. For example, industrial cooperative robots ( like Rethink Robotics Baster ) etc taking off.
Definitely more pixels than two there. just the lander white blob is about 6 pixels high, with some blur, and rover about 4. add shadows etc, we are easily talking about 50 pixels here !
Well, ISS weighs around 400 tons, a bit more now. One of it's coolant pumps spontaneously developed undocumented features recently, and the crew mounted a fix up mission with somewhat makeshift EVA suits and other merryness right around the time when everyone was stuffing their faces around christmas tables.
So if we are talking about big mishaps, thats pretty big, coming in at 400 tons and whizzing about at 7km/s overhead. Fortunately, the fix worked.
What are your alternatives if every alternative OS is a shitty alternative OS ? Dont run software ?
Last time i looked, there really are not that many OSes around that simultaneously a) do something useful b) avoid being shitty. A couple of open source RTOSes sort of fit the bill, but they dont run any applications apart from the one you embed in them.
Actually no. Just by the fact of giving your voters a real choice, not an imaginary one, you have put enough incentives in the system for the corruption to go down and voting for a cause to actually work. Corruption is always there, the question is if there is a system to keep balances and checks on it or no.
Read about voting theory a bit. You are currently in a gridlock created by pretty hars rules math, not by politicians or evil corporations or whatever your boogieman du jour is.
Except that in US two party system you cannot go out and vote for a cause like this, unless it's made an election center topic. In a political system that accomodates smaller parties and relies on political coalitions, its possible.
US however cannot escape the two party system as its basically mathematical emergent property of the voting system winner-take-all setup. If things were changed to range voting for example, you COULD vote for a cause like this.
Thats kinda the point. If a gun is less and less reliable then its about equivalent to a spear. Genocide is a lot of hard work with machetes and spears so hardly anyone bothers. More effective weapons, more weapons = more people dead, its really that simple.
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Robots made a comeback - on the moon, after a 37-year hiatus.
Apart from that, the article misses a bunch of very important trends and events in robotics. For example, industrial cooperative robots ( like Rethink Robotics Baster ) etc taking off.
A much better, video laden article here
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-our-favorite-robot-videos-and-biggest-stories-from-2013
I cant belive i didnt find "Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy" here. It has answers for everything.
What, you think they dont have Enhance button in LRO control room ?
Definitely more pixels than two there. just the lander white blob is about 6 pixels high, with some blur, and rover about 4. add shadows etc, we are easily talking about 50 pixels here !
Actually come to think of it, Proton faceplanting spectacularly at Baikonur might be a bit bigger, in terms of explosive power
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/07/01/spectacular-video-of-russian-proton-failure/
Well, ISS weighs around 400 tons, a bit more now. One of it's coolant pumps spontaneously developed undocumented features recently, and the crew mounted a fix up mission with somewhat makeshift EVA suits and other merryness right around the time when everyone was stuffing their faces around christmas tables.
So if we are talking about big mishaps, thats pretty big, coming in at 400 tons and whizzing about at 7km/s overhead. Fortunately, the fix worked.
You couldnt hit it as techbase was on the other side of terminator.
The not so surprise is that these morons tend to increasingly more have a certain political affiliation.
Look, if you have been denied the opportunity to participate in evolution, wouldnt you lose a bit of faith there, too ?
There is this great documentary about this part of the population.
Probably because people buy them for grandparents and kids etc who obviously dont drag them out to look trendy in coffee shops at Noe Valley.
Everyone else is shoehorning idiotic tablet or mobile ui elements onto desktops as well. Unity, anyone ?
Good point :)
What are your alternatives if every alternative OS is a shitty alternative OS ? Dont run software ?
Last time i looked, there really are not that many OSes around that simultaneously a) do something useful b) avoid being shitty.
A couple of open source RTOSes sort of fit the bill, but they dont run any applications apart from the one you embed in them.
You are apparently unfamiliar with the sorry history of Golgafrincham Ark ship C.
Why would you want a patent encumbered audio format on your BSD machine ? This is slashdot after all ..
Actually no. Just by the fact of giving your voters a real choice, not an imaginary one, you have put enough incentives in the system for the corruption to go down and voting for a cause to actually work.
Corruption is always there, the question is if there is a system to keep balances and checks on it or no.
Its very much to do with math. Look up things like Condorcet's paradox , Arrow’s impossibility theorem , Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, apportionment paradox etc or just general "Voting theory". Here is a good start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system_criterion#Evaluating_voting_systems_using_criteria
If voting actually worked as intended ( it doesnt now ) things would be quite different.
Read about voting theory a bit. You are currently in a gridlock created by pretty hars rules math, not by politicians or evil corporations or whatever your boogieman du jour is.
Ever heard of the word "fortification" ? Pike wall is a "weapon" as much a locked door is a weapon
Except that in US two party system you cannot go out and vote for a cause like this, unless it's made an election center topic. In a political system that accomodates smaller parties and relies on political coalitions, its possible.
US however cannot escape the two party system as its basically mathematical emergent property of the voting system winner-take-all setup. If things were changed to range voting for example, you COULD vote for a cause like this.
Thats kinda the point. If a gun is less and less reliable then its about equivalent to a spear. Genocide is a lot of hard work with machetes and spears so hardly anyone bothers.
More effective weapons, more weapons = more people dead, its really that simple.
I've been to Mozambique. I had not seen the flag before, and it was a real wtf moment. Nice people though. Elephants were kinda jumpy though.
Nukes have been most effective as deterrents, not as offensive weapons. There are no "offensive" and "defensive" weapons, there are just weapons.
"weapons of mass destruction"? - AK-47s have definitely killed people en masse, no ? By any definition it would fit the bill.
Where does "mass destruction" start anyway ? Destablising entire countries, genocide ? AK-47 has been instrumental in all of them.