You're completely off base, it's not the time to design and enough testing.
The constraints of the challenge create emergent requirements that are not readily apparent when only considering the superficial task of building an autonomous vehicle.
The greatest constraint is the time factor, the average speed it demands creates an extremely burdensome situation in terms of how fast your various subsystems need to process terrain and nagivigation data in real time, as well as how quickly decision tress must be traversed when anomolous situations arise.
Also almost all "off the shelf" equipment is used only for semiautonomous tasks. To assume even proximal equivalence is a mistake.
That's not to say the challenge won't eventually be beat, but this is money well spent by DARPA to organize the event, the given the wide applicability of the technologies that will eventually be responsible for successful completion of the challenge, whatever form they take in the end.
So by your logic, if let's say I would buy a car that got 100 mpg in the city I would pay for one, but since they don't sell ones like that, it's ok for me to steal one of the ones they they do sell?
You're not giving them an IV without them knowing it, you're giving them the drug without them knowing it. In other words everyone gets the IV, but only half the people get the drug, the others get something like a saline solution.
Lol, funny you should say that, around my house here the sun kills off the solar cells in trees every single year and I have to rake up the dead carcasses and bag them up. Such a pain.
Because of the speed with which they can revert to nonplasma state they can prevent ringing and other artifacts inherent to metal antennae, increasing the fidelity and reliability as well as the signal processing logic on the receiving end.
There's also the weight and size issue, with the plasma coming in both lighter and smaller to an equivalent conventional one.
But you're right of course that it will be a while or perhaps never that it will be just as easy or easier to work with plasma. So you might not see one on a $10 walkman, but that's not to say that there aren't a lot of applications where the benefits would afar outweight the difficulty.
Oh I see, so all start ups fail, all ideas that sound wonderful must be false.
There's a huge difference between healthy skepticism and brain dead cynicism.
Maybe it makes no difference to you, but knowing abount new technologies that have the potential to be an inflection point for multiple device technologies is something that I at least want to be aware of.
I agree, for most the games that I play with any regularity I end up just turning off the sound all together it gets so annoying hearning the same thing over and over everytime you do some action.
For the same reason people put locks on their doors, issue paper receipts for electronic voting, or make random phone calls to a spouse on a business trip.
If someone really wants to break into your house, rig an election, or cheat on you, they will find a way. But by raising the bar of what is required, you prevent the casual instances where doing so would be convenient.
A video log could still be faked, but it is no longer a temptation of convenience (a couple of key strokes and done). And keep in mind that for evidence to be useful, it has to stand up in court. Something difficult to fake will be less likely to be discounted than something very easy to fake.
Prices are established by the market, not arbitrarily set by the manufacturer.
That's not true, the market consists of the consequences, but virtually all prices (those not regulated by government entities or coalitions) are indeed arbitrarily set by the seller. That's why we have companies that go out of business (for arbitrarily setting their prices too high), or companies that rapidly increase their marketshare (for arbitrarily setting their prices too low).
And how can you say with a straight face that lowering the price of making the good does not affect supply? That's the very definition of what supply is, how much of something that can be produced for a given amount of money/time.
You know that in the original script the humans were used for processing power, organic servers if you will.
The change to humans being used as energy sources was forced upon the Brothers by the studio as the studio felt the common movie goer wouldn't be able to grasp the concept and felt it should be dumbed down, regardless of the fact that it now makes no sense.
I love the magazine personally, but I ended up stopping my subscription and just picking up a copy on the newstand whenever I happened to catch it.
Ironically, for a magazine that runs so many good articles on privacy issues, they whored my address to anyone and everyone. I never got so much crap junkmail as after I started a subscription. And tenacious bulkmailers, sending thick wads every other month or so for years.
While I can understand the reasoning behind the stunt, they might want to take a long hard look in the mirror first before preaching.
There's the unspoken assumption that any new distributable media format will eventually be available as a consumer recordable format as well.
The assumption derives primarily from history. First we get video tapes, then come the VCRs. Then we get compact discs, followed some years later by CD recorders. The lag between the introduction of DVDs and cheap home recorders was the shortest lag of all.
Nevertheless, a consumer recordable does not have to follow. And to the extent that Sony et. al. envision Blu-Ray as the next potential format to distribute high quality (read huge size) entertainment content, they might see it as a big plus if there ends up being no consumer counterpart.
Mass production of DVDs and CDs does not involve burning, rather a metal master is created with bump counterparts to all the grooves that will be on the final disc, the metal master is then pressed into soft plastic, which is then further processed (add reflective layer, protective layer, printing, etc).
So just keep in mind that the most desirable characteristics here from their point of view are the economics of mass production and capacity (for new features/higher resolution) so people are tempted to go out and replace all the DVDs they've bought up until now lol.
While I can appreciate your comment, there are some upper limits that make for widely divergent max energy throughput potentials.
Even at 100% efficiency, solar panels will never be able to provide that much energy without covering prohibitively large areas. There's only so much energy per square yard of unobstructed sunlight.
And then you run into the problem of energy diversion. If you ever found a way to make it cheap enough to cover large enough areas to provide for a large proportion of the world's energy needs, you would have to deal with the effects of diverting that solar energy (in terms of its impact on global weather systems directly, and animal and plant life indirectly).
Don't get me wrong, solar energy is a wonderful, clean source for modest energy needs. But we have a lot of problems on the horizon that will only be solved through the availability of enormous amounts of cheap, clean energy. Things like carbon sequestration, transmutation of ultra hazardous waste materials, economical high earth orbit transit, and terraforming to name a few.
Having said that, I suspect that what we'll be using in 100 years will hold little if any ancestry in the current directions fusion research is going. While it's not money ill-spent, it is money not well-spent.
You're right, because it's just so much more important to be non-redundant then clever when making acronyms. Especially when there's absolutely no meaningful difference between talking about PIR vs. PIRATE.
Loop quantum gravity predicts that space comes in discrete lumps, the smallest of which is about a cubic Plank length, or 10^-99 cubic centimeter. Time proceeds in discrete ticks of about a Plank time, or 10^-43 second. The effects of this discrete structure (non-continuous) might be seen in experiments in the near future.
One of these will be measuring radiation from distant gamma-ray bursts. These occur billions of light-years away and emit a huge amount of gamma rays within a short span. According to loop quantum gravity, each photon occupies a region of lines at each instant as it moves through the spin network that is space. The discrete nature of space causes higher-energy gamma rays to travel slightly faster than lower-energy ones. The difference is tiny, but its effect steadily accumulates during the rays' billion-year voyage. If a burst's gamma rays arrive at Earth at slightly different times according to their energy, that would be evidence for loop quantum gravity. The GLAST satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in 2006, will have the required sensitivity for the experiment.
Recommend the cover story of this past January's Scientific American. Also an online pdf giving more technical details is available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0108/0108026.p df
I suspect one of the more interesting uses this might be put to would be to have the device record while you're sleeping. It would be capable of providing a transcription of your dream speech.
For those of us in creative fields, this would be a wonderful source for novel ideas and concepts from which to work. Some of my best work had it's genesis in the poorly remembered bits and pieces of my dreams the night before.
It could be a bit frightening as well though, there's a *lot* of processing that goes on below the level of concious perception. It might be a bit disconcerting to have access to this other self which isn't a normal part of our self concept.
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You're completely off base, it's not the time to design and enough testing.
The constraints of the challenge create emergent requirements that are not readily apparent when only considering the superficial task of building an autonomous vehicle.
The greatest constraint is the time factor, the average speed it demands creates an extremely burdensome situation in terms of how fast your various subsystems need to process terrain and nagivigation data in real time, as well as how quickly decision tress must be traversed when anomolous situations arise.
Also almost all "off the shelf" equipment is used only for semiautonomous tasks. To assume even proximal equivalence is a mistake.
That's not to say the challenge won't eventually be beat, but this is money well spent by DARPA to organize the event, the given the wide applicability of the technologies that will eventually be responsible for successful completion of the challenge, whatever form they take in the end.
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So by your logic, if let's say I would buy a car that got 100 mpg in the city I would pay for one, but since they don't sell ones like that, it's ok for me to steal one of the ones they they do sell?
How do they know? They didn't show anything or did they?
Even nicer to see the people who try to post authoritatively on topics they know nothing about being represented.
You're not giving them an IV without them knowing it, you're giving them the drug without them knowing it. In other words everyone gets the IV, but only half the people get the drug, the others get something like a saline solution.
You sound bitter and jealous. Are you?
Entertainers entertain. Spectators spectate. Grumps grump.
Lol, funny you should say that, around my house here the sun kills off the solar cells in trees every single year and I have to rake up the dead carcasses and bag them up. Such a pain.
Because of the speed with which they can revert to nonplasma state they can prevent ringing and other artifacts inherent to metal antennae, increasing the fidelity and reliability as well as the signal processing logic on the receiving end.
There's also the weight and size issue, with the plasma coming in both lighter and smaller to an equivalent conventional one.
But you're right of course that it will be a while or perhaps never that it will be just as easy or easier to work with plasma. So you might not see one on a $10 walkman, but that's not to say that there aren't a lot of applications where the benefits would afar outweight the difficulty.
Oh I see, so all start ups fail, all ideas that sound wonderful must be false.
There's a huge difference between healthy skepticism and brain dead cynicism.
Maybe it makes no difference to you, but knowing abount new technologies that have the potential to be an inflection point for multiple device technologies is something that I at least want to be aware of.
I agree, for most the games that I play with any regularity I end up just turning off the sound all together it gets so annoying hearning the same thing over and over everytime you do some action.
For the same reason people put locks on their doors, issue paper receipts for electronic voting, or make random phone calls to a spouse on a business trip.
If someone really wants to break into your house, rig an election, or cheat on you, they will find a way. But by raising the bar of what is required, you prevent the casual instances where doing so would be convenient.
A video log could still be faked, but it is no longer a temptation of convenience (a couple of key strokes and done). And keep in mind that for evidence to be useful, it has to stand up in court. Something difficult to fake will be less likely to be discounted than something very easy to fake.
That's not true, the market consists of the consequences, but virtually all prices (those not regulated by government entities or coalitions) are indeed arbitrarily set by the seller. That's why we have companies that go out of business (for arbitrarily setting their prices too high), or companies that rapidly increase their marketshare (for arbitrarily setting their prices too low).
And how can you say with a straight face that lowering the price of making the good does not affect supply? That's the very definition of what supply is, how much of something that can be produced for a given amount of money/time.
The change to humans being used as energy sources was forced upon the Brothers by the studio as the studio felt the common movie goer wouldn't be able to grasp the concept and felt it should be dumbed down, regardless of the fact that it now makes no sense.
Ironically, for a magazine that runs so many good articles on privacy issues, they whored my address to anyone and everyone. I never got so much crap junkmail as after I started a subscription. And tenacious bulkmailers, sending thick wads every other month or so for years.
While I can understand the reasoning behind the stunt, they might want to take a long hard look in the mirror first before preaching.
There's the unspoken assumption that any new distributable media format will eventually be available as a consumer recordable format as well.
The assumption derives primarily from history. First we get video tapes, then come the VCRs. Then we get compact discs, followed some years later by CD recorders. The lag between the introduction of DVDs and cheap home recorders was the shortest lag of all.
Nevertheless, a consumer recordable does not have to follow. And to the extent that Sony et. al. envision Blu-Ray as the next potential format to distribute high quality (read huge size) entertainment content, they might see it as a big plus if there ends up being no consumer counterpart.
Mass production of DVDs and CDs does not involve burning, rather a metal master is created with bump counterparts to all the grooves that will be on the final disc, the metal master is then pressed into soft plastic, which is then further processed (add reflective layer, protective layer, printing, etc).
So just keep in mind that the most desirable characteristics here from their point of view are the economics of mass production and capacity (for new features/higher resolution) so people are tempted to go out and replace all the DVDs they've bought up until now lol.
Even at 100% efficiency, solar panels will never be able to provide that much energy without covering prohibitively large areas. There's only so much energy per square yard of unobstructed sunlight.
And then you run into the problem of energy diversion. If you ever found a way to make it cheap enough to cover large enough areas to provide for a large proportion of the world's energy needs, you would have to deal with the effects of diverting that solar energy (in terms of its impact on global weather systems directly, and animal and plant life indirectly).
Don't get me wrong, solar energy is a wonderful, clean source for modest energy needs. But we have a lot of problems on the horizon that will only be solved through the availability of enormous amounts of cheap, clean energy. Things like carbon sequestration, transmutation of ultra hazardous waste materials, economical high earth orbit transit, and terraforming to name a few.
Having said that, I suspect that what we'll be using in 100 years will hold little if any ancestry in the current directions fusion research is going. While it's not money ill-spent, it is money not well-spent.
You're right, because it's just so much more important to be non-redundant then clever when making acronyms. Especially when there's absolutely no meaningful difference between talking about PIR vs. PIRATE.
Loop quantum gravity predicts that space comes in discrete lumps, the smallest of which is about a cubic Plank length, or 10^-99 cubic centimeter. Time proceeds in discrete ticks of about a Plank time, or 10^-43 second. The effects of this discrete structure (non-continuous) might be seen in experiments in the near future. One of these will be measuring radiation from distant gamma-ray bursts. These occur billions of light-years away and emit a huge amount of gamma rays within a short span. According to loop quantum gravity, each photon occupies a region of lines at each instant as it moves through the spin network that is space. The discrete nature of space causes higher-energy gamma rays to travel slightly faster than lower-energy ones. The difference is tiny, but its effect steadily accumulates during the rays' billion-year voyage. If a burst's gamma rays arrive at Earth at slightly different times according to their energy, that would be evidence for loop quantum gravity. The GLAST satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in 2006, will have the required sensitivity for the experiment. Recommend the cover story of this past January's Scientific American. Also an online pdf giving more technical details is available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0108/0108026.p df
I suspect one of the more interesting uses this might be put to would be to have the device record while you're sleeping. It would be capable of providing a transcription of your dream speech. For those of us in creative fields, this would be a wonderful source for novel ideas and concepts from which to work. Some of my best work had it's genesis in the poorly remembered bits and pieces of my dreams the night before. It could be a bit frightening as well though, there's a *lot* of processing that goes on below the level of concious perception. It might be a bit disconcerting to have access to this other self which isn't a normal part of our self concept.