If you're using legit adobe software that costs hundreds or in some case thousands of dollars, what the fuck do you care if you spend 100$ more on windows ?
Because both Windows and OS X, the two platforms on which Creative Suite is available, have multiple issues surrounding effective ownership and control of the computer. The future of both operating systems seems to be a both a dumbing down and locking up of the computer hardware and software. Many people would love to have a Linux version of CS to escape from having to deal with those issues. Adobe is bad enough by themselves, thank you very much.
However, I don't see this as a likely development in the near term.
If you watch some of the Big Dog videos 'in the field', they seem to be using a rather noisy gas motor to power the thing. Looked like maybe a 10 - 20 hp Honda industrial motor from a couple of views - that's a lot of gasoline (equivalents) to be shipping to Mars. Of course, if you were to develop a Martian Dog that was designed for lower gravity, perhaps lower speed but optimized for power use and say, climbing (and durability) it might be a reasonable design.
However, the Dogs are still pretty new. I doubt JPL would change the game so dramatically in the near future. If we don't kill NASA completely, perhaps our kids will see it.
Wow. Just wow. And to buttress your argument you point to a completely speculative, disorganized, unprovenanced blog.
Go hang out on the Oil Drum for a week to see how staggeringly incorrect you are.
Can we get off of fossil fuels without crashing civilization as we know it? That's a very interesting question. Theoretically we can. We have the technology to create energy from much safer sources. Any practical chance of this happening?
Look at the Big Dog videos - even the ones from several years ago showed them being pushed down on ice and having them recover. The problem with putting them on Mars is the same problem putting them in the battlefield - they're power pigs. Wheels have been chosen for the Mars rovers because they're very efficient on mostly flattish terrain.
First Garry Kasparov, then Ken Jennings, and (soon) Usain Bolt. Sure, Albert Einstein or Leonardo Da Vinci or Mahatma Gandhi may be beyond robotic capabilities for quite a while yet, but you'd think that we could start replacing congressmen with much better robotic equivalents soon.
Furby's are pretty cheap and they're bound to be smarter than the average Congressman.
Look, do us adults a favor and go back to/b/ where moronic off topic racist and misogynist rants are the pinnacle of your literary accomplishments. We don't need your help.
... but why don't they build the rocket on the take-off location and remove the building instead? It seems like a smaller effort, no?
Go look at pictures of the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building - no, you find the links). The largest indoor space in the world. So you'd like to immolate it every time you launched a rocket? Sounds even more expensive than the crawler transporter.
Just as a point of argument, there ARE other ways to do this sort of thing. The Russians like to put things together on the ground and then lift the entire mess up. I'm sure there were spirited discussions on the pros and cons of doing this in the 60's but this way certainly has been quite flexible.
Sigh. This is part of my childhood - grew up around the thing. Nice to see that it's still there though.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck....
"Fibromyalgia patients routinely get well, and they get well quickly."
OK, Dr. Fuhrman, care to do some even observational studies? Case controls? Publish said studies in some sort of reputable journal?
(BTW, I certainly would not advocate a diet high in acrylamides, that's why all lab personnel are told never to eat their sequencing gels when they're finished with the experiment.)
Yes, just add it to any of the android powered DSLRs currently on the market. And you have so many to choose from. How many android DSLRs are there now? I forget.
A phone with a video camera and link to some analysis software (or, heaven forbid, a real person) would work fine. Do this once a month or so - say when the kids show up. Probably a lot easier than the high tech carpet.
Hell, 30 seconds of walking in front of a physical therapist would get you the same info.
The 'I've fallen and I can't get up' problem is probably better answered by a bracelet / fob whatever that has an accelerometer, perhaps a pulse meter and a wireless or whatever connection. To use a floor mat to determine whether granny is alive seems complicated.
I think that is the attraction of these devices - having someone of minimal experience download a file, stick in some spools of plastic and print a gun, but I doubt that this is going to represent a functional reality. And yes, I have a CNC machine in my basement / cave / study - a little Sherline based unit that could easily make a small gun. Of course, I'm not exactly normal but then again, the guy with a fully functional 3D printer isn't much better....
And yeah, I think a big part of the buzz here is exactly what fff said - people who aren't thinking about this in much detail and who don't have much generic experience in current fabrication methods getting all Star Trek about what is likely to be available next month.
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Why do you think that statement was directed at foreigners? It's the average American who needs help with geography.
If you're using legit adobe software that costs hundreds or in some case thousands of dollars, what the fuck do you care if you spend 100$ more on windows ?
Because both Windows and OS X, the two platforms on which Creative Suite is available, have multiple issues surrounding effective ownership and control of the computer. The future of both operating systems seems to be a both a dumbing down and locking up of the computer hardware and software. Many people would love to have a Linux version of CS to escape from having to deal with those issues. Adobe is bad enough by themselves, thank you very much.
However, I don't see this as a likely development in the near term.
If you watch some of the Big Dog videos 'in the field', they seem to be using a rather noisy gas motor to power the thing. Looked like maybe a 10 - 20 hp Honda industrial motor from a couple of views - that's a lot of gasoline (equivalents) to be shipping to Mars. Of course, if you were to develop a Martian Dog that was designed for lower gravity, perhaps lower speed but optimized for power use and say, climbing (and durability) it might be a reasonable design.
However, the Dogs are still pretty new. I doubt JPL would change the game so dramatically in the near future. If we don't kill NASA completely, perhaps our kids will see it.
Oops. Forgot. AC's have absolutely no sensor of humor, sarcasm (or anything else for that matter).
Sorry.
Yeah, less starch next time.
With a speed limit of 10mph, you can virtually eliminate car related deaths on highways!
You're forgetting something. At 10 mph, driving through Texas would kill people either from boredom or old age.
I'd like to thank all the Slashdot pedants for clarifying one small point of fact on my post. Where would we be without you guys?
No, really. Thanks. The world is a better place.
"We are not dependent on fossil fuels"
Wow. Just wow. And to buttress your argument you point to a completely speculative, disorganized, unprovenanced blog.
Go hang out on the Oil Drum for a week to see how staggeringly incorrect you are.
Can we get off of fossil fuels without crashing civilization as we know it? That's a very interesting question. Theoretically we can. We have the technology to create energy from much safer sources. Any practical chance of this happening?
No, not really.
Look at the Big Dog videos - even the ones from several years ago showed them being pushed down on ice and having them recover. The problem with putting them on Mars is the same problem putting them in the battlefield - they're power pigs. Wheels have been chosen for the Mars rovers because they're very efficient on mostly flattish terrain.
First Garry Kasparov, then Ken Jennings, and (soon) Usain Bolt. Sure, Albert Einstein or Leonardo Da Vinci or Mahatma Gandhi may be beyond robotic capabilities for quite a while yet, but you'd think that we could start replacing congressmen with much better robotic equivalents soon.
Furby's are pretty cheap and they're bound to be smarter than the average Congressman.
Do you really trust the people who will ultimately control this kind of tech? Imagine 10,000 of them dropped from an airplane.
Parts! Look at all of those nifty parts!
(Rubs hands together in glee).
Here guys! Drop them over here!
For now this company has managed, with their previous robot design, to make what is basically a $32 million dollar robotic replacement for a mule.
"Horses can make other horses. That's a trick that tractors haven't learned." - Heinlein.
Look, do us adults a favor and go back to /b/ where moronic off topic racist and misogynist rants are the pinnacle of your literary accomplishments. We don't need your help.
... but why don't they build the rocket on the take-off location and remove the building instead? It seems like a smaller effort, no?
Go look at pictures of the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building - no, you find the links). The largest indoor space in the world. So you'd like to immolate it every time you launched a rocket? Sounds even more expensive than the crawler transporter.
Just as a point of argument, there ARE other ways to do this sort of thing. The Russians like to put things together on the ground and then lift the entire mess up. I'm sure there were spirited discussions on the pros and cons of doing this in the 60's but this way certainly has been quite flexible.
Sigh. This is part of my childhood - grew up around the thing. Nice to see that it's still there though.
Quack. Quack. Quack. Quack.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck....
"Fibromyalgia patients routinely get well, and they get well quickly."
OK, Dr. Fuhrman, care to do some even observational studies? Case controls? Publish said studies in some sort of reputable journal?
(BTW, I certainly would not advocate a diet high in acrylamides, that's why all lab personnel are told never to eat their sequencing gels when they're finished with the experiment.)
The only difference is that when I was doing it, we were doing it for the "country". Now it is for Foxconn.
There is a difference?
Why only men? I did not read that the the DNA they had was identified as male. Could there not be a female accomplice?
Likely because cause they have the perp DNA with a Y chromosome.
Rules out most women. The East German Woman's Weight Lifting Team being the obvious exception.
The female accomplice is possible, but if they have a Y chromosome SNP pattern, then they know they have at least a guy involved.
I'd be damn fucking PROUD to be published on a list of "those who didn't cater to the OBVIOUS overstepping of the authorities
From an AC.
Priceless.
Dear Ms. AC:
He didn't say the horse was actually moving. Or even alive.
And from a purely logic standpoint, his first and second sentence can stand alone and have nothing to do with each other.
Thank you,
Your local Ad Council
Yes, just add it to any of the android powered DSLRs currently on the market. And you have so many to choose from. How many android DSLRs are there now? I forget.
Two.
tl;dr - A Samsung and Nikon point and shoot.
Why not exoskeletons? With that many people needing them, the costs will go waaay down over time.
Help! My battery's discharged and I can't get up!
A phone with a video camera and link to some analysis software (or, heaven forbid, a real person) would work fine. Do this once a month or so - say when the kids show up. Probably a lot easier than the high tech carpet.
Hell, 30 seconds of walking in front of a physical therapist would get you the same info.
The 'I've fallen and I can't get up' problem is probably better answered by a bracelet / fob whatever that has an accelerometer, perhaps a pulse meter and a wireless or whatever connection. To use a floor mat to determine whether granny is alive seems complicated.
I think that is the attraction of these devices - having someone of minimal experience download a file, stick in some spools of plastic and print a gun, but I doubt that this is going to represent a functional reality. And yes, I have a CNC machine in my basement / cave / study - a little Sherline based unit that could easily make a small gun. Of course, I'm not exactly normal but then again, the guy with a fully functional 3D printer isn't much better....
And yeah, I think a big part of the buzz here is exactly what fff said - people who aren't thinking about this in much detail and who don't have much generic experience in current fabrication methods getting all Star Trek about what is likely to be available next month.
Beam me up....
OTOH, few things wake you up faster than sticking a bunch of ice up your ass in the AM.