I'm not sure; large portion of ground robots will be hardened, at least comparable in size to human, slow moving objects that can't take cover effectively. It seems to me that the most effective weapons against them would be either booby-traps (you can expect how they will move, and that they won't be able to notice "something is wrong" as easily) or anti-materiel sniper rifle (or generally any sniper rifle with proper ammo). Not too escalating above what's already out there.
Or we might start talking about the actions of **AA as piracy too. They simply equal infringing of copyrights with piracy. But robbing us of public domain, raping the social deal on which copyrights are based, lobbying for copyright modification infringes too...
OTOH it's easy to find so called Western countries, open to the world, and in which almost nobody got vaccinated. The numbers were withing typical flu season.
Governments had a big incentive too - relatively recent financial crisis was still looming in the news, so it was convenient to have a "serious" topic that would shift the attention away from their f***ups.
In some places, in Ukraine for example, the promotion of hysteria went to comical levels (but they also have presidential election now, and such things are very strong element of them there)
Since it was a complex web of factors this time (and a little bit of surprise for Health Minister I'm sure), don't get your hopes high for the future of decision making in PL gov;p
What if some large batch of vaccine would turn out to be "faulty" in one way or another, resulting in non-trivial number of deaths?
Your gov would take the formal blame. Because for some reason in the case of this vaccine most EU governments dissolved the pharmaceutical companies of the responsibility for their product.
Or apparently otherwise healthy people, with no discovered preexisting condition (for example)
I must agree that from the reports at my place I remember talks of preexisting conditions in cases of death. But then my gov (PL) somehow managed to do the sensible thing once and hasn't fallen into hysteria, even requiring (gasp) from pharmaceutical companies standard responsibility for their vaccine (most govs apparently bought it on terms that place responsibility on...them)
I'm curious in what way exactly JFS fails to scale on disk-saturated systems?
Mostly because sometimes I look into possible alternatives for "standard" ext family, and JFS seems quite sensible - without any serious issues or perf problems (where it's not stellar but also solid across the spectrum), utilizing free disk space most efficiently and with very low cpu usage; both things might be handy in some situations.
Retarded would be looking at 4 decades of mobile telephony history, of which Nokia is major part, as a 40 year old product line and disregarding that Apple entered only at convenient moment for them; and mainly into a small segment of total market, made ready for Apple by castration of phones and lax concept of "affordable". But it's very interesting how you perceive long standing dedication of Nokia to provide communication equipment to people as somehow lessening their success...
(how is domination started with Apple II going along? What, Apple pissed away their advantage, their early start?)
Ah, and there's another fantasy with sales numbers. All the while only one model from Nokia, 1100, sold more, during its much shorter presence on the market, than all iPods combined. It is the most popular single consumer electronics device in history. BTW, Nokia is by far the biggest manufacturer of portable audio players in the world (shipping more units annually than Apple has ever produced). Probably even flashlights, too... (since a portion of their most popular phones include a LED one)
While Apple sold 30 million phones in those 4 years (and they don't seem to really want selling orders of magnitude more, perhaps preferring a world in which communication is a luxury), Nokia sold a billion in the last 2 years + one quarter. It is greatly responsible, among others, for the fact that while a year ago there were 3 billion mobile subscribers, now there are around 4.6 billion. You're a slime not thinking about the future of humanity if you think that's not monumental, far above anything Apple has done lately (they did similar things at the beginning, popularizing the concept of personal computer; and even then their scale was nowhere nearby what Nokia is doing)
PS. I also value that Nokia maintains R&D centers throughout the world and that most of their manufacturing plants are NOT in China.
...criminalizing organizations. That's the biggest potential of such infiltration. Actually manufacturing unlawful dissent, in direct opposition to the official policy.
Because, as it clearly states, the goal is to place infiltrators in key positions of organization...meaning they effectively try to take it over.
And we know how that ends; few years ago German courts dismissed cases against neonazis because there was so much infiltration - the agents were basically the ones running the show! It was similar in communist Poland, when SB (security agency) had many agents in Solidarity movement (I guess Stasi did so too), especially in very useful factions already lending towards radicalism.
When your agents start to influence the policy of given organization, it's not only easy to make sure the members aren't misinformed, but also to radicalize them. Manufacturing in this way convenient scapegoats.
Which has been done, in a way; though usually in a form of members of law "enforcement" acting in irresponsible fashion and under false flag, on the side of protesters.
You are absolutely right; what an unfortunate development (on top of that MS bought out Zcam team shortly before they were to release their webcam; I think now I'm angry instead of eagerly waiting - MS doesn't dissapoint yet again)
http://www.primesense.com/category/reference_design ^this is the tech on which Natal is based; essentially it is Natal, as you can see from the diagrams. While interesting in its own right, at least for indoors usage & when geared towards noticing humans, it's certainly not what I was hoping for. I guess Cenesta is next in line in possibly providing cheap TOF system...
Apple has "redefined" less than 3% of current market (and with the uptake of mobile phones in developing countries, areas in which Apple is not interested in, that percentage might as well go down); that's a curious definition of "mobile market" you have there. Also, it seems Nokia wants to go in a bit different direction, as their N900 shows (which is of course directly based on their earlier tablets; which were launched before first news of iPhone)
On top of that, Nokia is the only hugely profitable phone manufacturers. Others are either out of the market, struggling for a long time, or mobile phones aren't their main business (RIM is debatable here - do they market primarily mobile phones or corporate service?)
I say use it more. This system seems to have quite limited vision, figuratively.
When you think about it, most of the structure of aircraft/tank/whatever simply gets in the way of seeing your surroundings properly. But that structure might become translucent once you're looking through an array of cameras placed outside the vehicle, outputs of which get combined to present a nice view of surroundings in your VR gear. A view augmented with useful info, too.
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I'm not sure; large portion of ground robots will be hardened, at least comparable in size to human, slow moving objects that can't take cover effectively. It seems to me that the most effective weapons against them would be either booby-traps (you can expect how they will move, and that they won't be able to notice "something is wrong" as easily) or anti-materiel sniper rifle (or generally any sniper rifle with proper ammo). Not too escalating above what's already out there.
A weapon is only as good as the intelligence controlling it, thats how armies are run, accept it.
Not quite; give rats or ants high explosives (or nuclear warheads?) and they might doom us all.
Or we might start talking about the actions of **AA as piracy too. They simply equal infringing of copyrights with piracy. But robbing us of public domain, raping the social deal on which copyrights are based, lobbying for copyright modification infringes too...
...and it's something that hasn't materialized with this year's flu.
Also, most robot "casualties" could be quite easily repaired.
People were also using fully autonomous devices to kill; they are called traps.
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trou_de_loup
We can see the difference between 1 and 3. It's not about ordering the vaccines, it's about vaccinating. A thing which most people ignored.
OTOH it's easy to find so called Western countries, open to the world, and in which almost nobody got vaccinated. The numbers were withing typical flu season.
Governments had a big incentive too - relatively recent financial crisis was still looming in the news, so it was convenient to have a "serious" topic that would shift the attention away from their f***ups.
In some places, in Ukraine for example, the promotion of hysteria went to comical levels (but they also have presidential election now, and such things are very strong element of them there)
Since it was a complex web of factors this time (and a little bit of surprise for Health Minister I'm sure), don't get your hopes high for the future of decision making in PL gov ;p
What if some large batch of vaccine would turn out to be "faulty" in one way or another, resulting in non-trivial number of deaths?
Your gov would take the formal blame. Because for some reason in the case of this vaccine most EU governments dissolved the pharmaceutical companies of the responsibility for their product.
Or apparently otherwise healthy people, with no discovered preexisting condition (for example)
I must agree that from the reports at my place I remember talks of preexisting conditions in cases of death. But then my gov (PL) somehow managed to do the sensible thing once and hasn't fallen into hysteria, even requiring (gasp) from pharmaceutical companies standard responsibility for their vaccine (most govs apparently bought it on terms that place responsibility on...them)
I'm curious in what way exactly JFS fails to scale on disk-saturated systems?
Mostly because sometimes I look into possible alternatives for "standard" ext family, and JFS seems quite sensible - without any serious issues or perf problems (where it's not stellar but also solid across the spectrum), utilizing free disk space most efficiently and with very low cpu usage; both things might be handy in some situations.
Retarded would be looking at 4 decades of mobile telephony history, of which Nokia is major part, as a 40 year old product line and disregarding that Apple entered only at convenient moment for them; and mainly into a small segment of total market, made ready for Apple by castration of phones and lax concept of "affordable". But it's very interesting how you perceive long standing dedication of Nokia to provide communication equipment to people as somehow lessening their success...
(how is domination started with Apple II going along? What, Apple pissed away their advantage, their early start?)
Ah, and there's another fantasy with sales numbers. All the while only one model from Nokia, 1100, sold more, during its much shorter presence on the market, than all iPods combined. It is the most popular single consumer electronics device in history. BTW, Nokia is by far the biggest manufacturer of portable audio players in the world (shipping more units annually than Apple has ever produced). Probably even flashlights, too... (since a portion of their most popular phones include a LED one)
While Apple sold 30 million phones in those 4 years (and they don't seem to really want selling orders of magnitude more, perhaps preferring a world in which communication is a luxury), Nokia sold a billion in the last 2 years + one quarter. It is greatly responsible, among others, for the fact that while a year ago there were 3 billion mobile subscribers, now there are around 4.6 billion. You're a slime not thinking about the future of humanity if you think that's not monumental, far above anything Apple has done lately (they did similar things at the beginning, popularizing the concept of personal computer; and even then their scale was nowhere nearby what Nokia is doing)
PS. I also value that Nokia maintains R&D centers throughout the world and that most of their manufacturing plants are NOT in China.
You seem to be capable of imagining curtailing of fee speech.
I want you out of public decision making process, clearly you're predisposed to limiting free speech.
...criminalizing organizations. That's the biggest potential of such infiltration. Actually manufacturing unlawful dissent, in direct opposition to the official policy.
Because, as it clearly states, the goal is to place infiltrators in key positions of organization...meaning they effectively try to take it over.
And we know how that ends; few years ago German courts dismissed cases against neonazis because there was so much infiltration - the agents were basically the ones running the show!
It was similar in communist Poland, when SB (security agency) had many agents in Solidarity movement (I guess Stasi did so too), especially in very useful factions already lending towards radicalism.
When your agents start to influence the policy of given organization, it's not only easy to make sure the members aren't misinformed, but also to radicalize them. Manufacturing in this way convenient scapegoats.
Which has been done, in a way; though usually in a form of members of law "enforcement" acting in irresponsible fashion and under false flag, on the side of protesters.
...while my topmost post which started this subtree of discussion - down (I feel ashamed for spreading this inaccuracy about Natal & TOF camera now)
Gotta go to sleep; and sleeping through might help ;(
(and my parent post - down...)
You are absolutely right; what an unfortunate development (on top of that MS bought out Zcam team shortly before they were to release their webcam; I think now I'm angry instead of eagerly waiting - MS doesn't dissapoint yet again)
http://www.primesense.com/category/reference_design
^this is the tech on which Natal is based; essentially it is Natal, as you can see from the diagrams. While interesting in its own right, at least for indoors usage & when geared towards noticing humans, it's certainly not what I was hoping for. I guess Cenesta is next in line in possibly providing cheap TOF system...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction
Section just before the Contents menu.
And it's quite accurate IMHO, if only because we typically remember mostly the good parts of our past. And even those through rose-colored glasses.
Apple has "redefined" less than 3% of current market (and with the uptake of mobile phones in developing countries, areas in which Apple is not interested in, that percentage might as well go down); that's a curious definition of "mobile market" you have there. Also, it seems Nokia wants to go in a bit different direction, as their N900 shows (which is of course directly based on their earlier tablets; which were launched before first news of iPhone)
On top of that, Nokia is the only hugely profitable phone manufacturers. Others are either out of the market, struggling for a long time, or mobile phones aren't their main business (RIM is debatable here - do they market primarily mobile phones or corporate service?)
That's simply false, Nokia tried to negotiate with Apple for quite a while. Plus, in the scale of Nokia, iPhone is very far from "raging success"...
I say use it more. This system seems to have quite limited vision, figuratively.
When you think about it, most of the structure of aircraft/tank/whatever simply gets in the way of seeing your surroundings properly. But that structure might become translucent once you're looking through an array of cameras placed outside the vehicle, outputs of which get combined to present a nice view of surroundings in your VR gear. A view augmented with useful info, too.
And it will work nicely with unmanned vehicles.
Because Apple is special, haven't you heard? Not only in this case of course, it applies always - for example regarding Nokia wireless patents.
Festivus, you heretic!
Well, alright, and for large group of people I know it's Saturnalia / Sol Invictus / Pagan mating holiday.