. . . robot orders in first half of 2003 were up by 26% to the highest level ever recorded; worldwide growth in the period 2003-2006 will reach an average annual rate of 7.4%; and household robots are starting to take off.
They'll really take off when robots start ordering robots, and then those robots order more. . .
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Would the robot be able to have as fine control over its balance as Mr Chan would? would the robot be able to actually do some of the moves without falling over - or would they be indentical?
Forget Kung Fu robots. I wanna see wrasslin' robots! Then we'd know for sure if it was fake.
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If music should have a compulsory license, why shouldn't movies, software, ebooks and other media also be covered by compulsory licenses?
Hell, why not DNA? Once the Human Genome thing is on the books, you could be owned in ways you can't even imagine.
If we all had LiVos, you could fast-forward your life (the boring parts, anyway):
(previous post):Why not design some sort of real-time TiVo-like personal interface (LiVo?), with goggles and audio and all? That way, you could simply fast forward through conversations and encounters that are unenjoyable, boring, or repulsive. Isn't life too short to have to confront the mundane all of the time? Live personal LiVo secretaries could sift through the data and only bring us up to real-time when something/someone important happens. The rest of the time, we would be watching TeeVee, of course. With TiVo.
Was this perchance a *copy* of an existing reactor . . . ? These college kids with their reactor-swapping has got to stop!
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1. Anyone who drives a 959 and parks it on the street will never see it again. It'd be in a chop shop faster than a New York second.
Doubtful. Chop shops exist to supply cheap parts to existing models. Until 959 sales catch up with Camrys, it'd be pretty hard to move parts. Joyriders would be a bigger problem.
I'd buy this if it had some enhanced buffering features. Why not design some sort of real-time TiVo-like personal interface (LiVo?), with goggles and audio and all? That way, you could simply fast forward through conversations and encounters that are unenjoyable, boring, or repulsive. Isn't life too short to have to confront the mundane all of the time? Live personal LiVo secretaries could sift through the data and only bring us up to real-time when something/someone important happens. The rest of the time, we would be watching TeeVee, of course. With TiVo.
"There is no reason to expect that the economy will suddenly figure out a way to create high-paying, exciting, fulfilling jobs for these tens of millions of people displaced by robots. If the economy could do that, it would be doing it now."
Of course, this is assuming our economy won't be run by a bunch of super-genius robots.
Article: "It also seems likely to make his surname instantly associable with Zeno's paradoxes and their remarkably improbable solution almost 2500 years later."
With a 2,500 year head start? He'll never catch him, obviously!
Lets hope Spielberg learned something from Lucas about fiddling with modern myths. There was always something pure and heroic about the Indiana Jones movies (okay, pt. 2 was a little thin). These movies stand up in ways that make your kids want to watch them over and over.
When I compare the third installments of IJ vs. SW, there are big differences: One reinforces the good qualities of the story; one degrades them.
Proof: My daughter will watch the original SW and IJ over and over again, yet she has no desire to see the "new" SWs more than once at the theater.
Ford is good enough to make sure IJ goes out with dignity, I hope.
Two weeks is plenty of time for dogs to "make puppies."
The bigger issue is how evolutionary changes in software will be stymied while lawyers plot the entire "family tree" of software development.
It's sort of like the Human Genome Project. Once it's cracked, no one will be able to make a move without paying royalties to some obscure strand of digital DNA.
A lot of this discussion is centered around what a computer would have to do to create an artificial reality. Assuming it would be able to put these things in our heads, why would it not also be able to reap experiences from our imaginations, dreams, etc., and use these images to repopulate the matrix with imagery and events? The computer would just be a big Napster for reality. Needs less processing power, but more bandwidth.
This would explain a lot, really, with mass psychosis, UFOs,/., etc., etc.
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Is there any doubt we will all be assigned "personal IP" addresses? Can you /. a person?
/tinfoilhat
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How about a 30-day decomposing disc? What if iTMS only lets you burn to these disks? What if the disks taste really great toasted with apple butter?
Only the shiny side. Mine is double-layered (dull side for RF/microwaves).
Could this be similar to the famous 1908 Siberian explosion? Has the earth's core stopped spinning? Darn you, Art Bell.
Does Compuserve offer broadband?
Was this perchance a *copy* of an existing reactor . . . ? These college kids with their reactor-swapping has got to stop! -- "I'm sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly inscribed."
1. Anyone who drives a 959 and parks it on the street will never see it again. It'd be in a chop shop faster than a New York second.
Doubtful. Chop shops exist to supply cheap parts to existing models. Until 959 sales catch up with Camrys, it'd be pretty hard to move parts. Joyriders would be a bigger problem.
iTunes Music Store has nothing by them. . .
I'd buy this if it had some enhanced buffering features. Why not design some sort of real-time TiVo-like personal interface (LiVo?), with goggles and audio and all? That way, you could simply fast forward through conversations and encounters that are unenjoyable, boring, or repulsive. Isn't life too short to have to confront the mundane all of the time? Live personal LiVo secretaries could sift through the data and only bring us up to real-time when something/someone important happens. The rest of the time, we would be watching TeeVee, of course. With TiVo.
"There is no reason to expect that the economy will suddenly figure out a way to create high-paying, exciting, fulfilling jobs for these tens of millions of people displaced by robots. If the economy could do that, it would be doing it now."
Of course, this is assuming our economy won't be run by a bunch of super-genius robots.
Article: "It also seems likely to make his surname instantly associable with Zeno's paradoxes and their remarkably improbable solution almost 2500 years later." With a 2,500 year head start? He'll never catch him, obviously!
Lets hope Spielberg learned something from Lucas about fiddling with modern myths. There was always something pure and heroic about the Indiana Jones movies (okay, pt. 2 was a little thin). These movies stand up in ways that make your kids want to watch them over and over. When I compare the third installments of IJ vs. SW, there are big differences: One reinforces the good qualities of the story; one degrades them. Proof: My daughter will watch the original SW and IJ over and over again, yet she has no desire to see the "new" SWs more than once at the theater. Ford is good enough to make sure IJ goes out with dignity, I hope.
Two weeks is plenty of time for dogs to "make puppies." The bigger issue is how evolutionary changes in software will be stymied while lawyers plot the entire "family tree" of software development. It's sort of like the Human Genome Project. Once it's cracked, no one will be able to make a move without paying royalties to some obscure strand of digital DNA.
Yeah, and those UPS trucks driving down my street? I oughta be able to "sample" them, too.
A lot of this discussion is centered around what a computer would have to do to create an artificial reality. Assuming it would be able to put these things in our heads, why would it not also be able to reap experiences from our imaginations, dreams, etc., and use these images to repopulate the matrix with imagery and events? The computer would just be a big Napster for reality. Needs less processing power, but more bandwidth. This would explain a lot, really, with mass psychosis, UFOs, /., etc., etc.
*Aircraft not included. DAMN!
The real problem was converting "#1" and "#2" to "ones and zeroes."