Rather than trying to make speech recognition totally portable you might consider building it into a portable machine like an eeepc, then use that machine as a terminal for any system you want to interact with.
Try thinking in terms of a voice activated keyboard instead of a voice activated computer without a keyboard.
...because doing so makes the crypto easier to crack. The attacker can compare the plan text with the encrypted data and reverse engineer the key. So your data may actually endanger the small amounts of sensitive data you actually carry.
Spirit and Opportunity are both close enough to the equator to get solar power every day. Phoenix is north of the arctic circle and will go without any power at all for most of an Earth year.
Phoenix will freeze stone cold dead, but the rovers always have power for their heaters.
Thats basketball for girls. Always played in skimpy outfits. Better defined rules and absolutely no body contact. I spent many a saturday afternoon when I was single glued to the TV watching netball games.
So honest question for all you rocket scientists out there: Why are heaters needed? Which parts of
the spacecraft (electronics?) need to be above a certain temperature to operate? Is it possible to
let the lander "freeze" and then revive it, or if not what components are sensitive to this?
Rich.
One issue is that solder joints between components can break if they are cooled down too much. Batteries and capacitors can fail if liquids inside them freeze and crystalise. While I think there is a chance that the lander will come back up next summer but the likelyhood of this is pretty slim IMHO.
Twenty years ago here in Melbourne there was this monthly Star Trek night. They mainly showed episodes of the original TV series. It moved from place to place and attracted a lot of regulars, including some very strange trekkies (who preferred to be known as "treckers") and didn't actually watch anything because they apparently knew it off by heart anyway.
One month they put on a few of these animated apisodes and I got a surprise when I recognised Niven's story.
I didn't think much of the episode, though I like the story. Characters can't be translated like that. William Gibson did an episode of The X Files and I didn't think much of that either, though I like his books.
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...would hate to see someone siphon fuel from this car!
Siphoning the first half would be easy. The second half would be ...interesting.
You still have to compress the air somehow, either with an electric- or combustion-powered compressor.
How about a wind turbine? That might work well in the right environment.
Or not.
How much energy is required to run the compressor to fill the high pressure air cylinders?
Obviously more than you get out of the drive line at the other end of the system. Compressed air does lose lot of energy to heat.
In fact calculating energy loss would almost be a textbook example in thermodynamics.
Parts of this thing will get fucking cold.
In India thats a feature.
I hope they also come standard with the requisite continuously running directional indicator for those speeds.
I don't understand what this means.
Rather than trying to make speech recognition totally portable you might consider building it into a portable machine like an eeepc, then use that machine as a terminal for any system you want to interact with.
Try thinking in terms of a voice activated keyboard instead of a voice activated computer without a keyboard.
So I assume the UK Government wants to store a mirror of the content on piratebay?
There already is a mirror of the content on piratebay.
Anyone up for bouncing empty packets around?
I've got a better idea. Lets use /dev/urandom to initialise the packets first. Should look like really tough encryption. Might take years to crack.
AI systems are inherently impartial
Nice assumption you have there. Expert systems have to be written by non-impartial (is that just partial?) human programmers.
Just don't go up against the Coca Cola company.
So 'Senator Palin' is most certainly a possibility.
But if she wants to run for President isnt she better off being a Governor?
Hmmm thats a thought. Definitely time for an older Doctor.
I love Dr Who, but please don't call it science fiction.
I think some episodes qualify as SF in isolation. It is more of a short story collection loosely connected by fantasy.
1995 called -- they want their stupid *cough* "joke" *cough* back.
I have a cold you insensitive clod!
...because doing so makes the crypto easier to crack. The attacker can compare the plan text with the encrypted data and reverse engineer the key. So your data may actually endanger the small amounts of sensitive data you actually carry.
Signed.
As an Australian this is a look into the near future.
Spirit and Opportunity are both close enough to the equator to get solar power every day. Phoenix is north of the arctic circle and will go without any power at all for most of an Earth year.
Phoenix will freeze stone cold dead, but the rovers always have power for their heaters.
she also talked a lot about "netball."
Thats basketball for girls. Always played in skimpy outfits. Better defined rules and absolutely no body contact. I spent many a saturday afternoon when I was single glued to the TV watching netball games.
No doubt the first manned mission will be in for a surprise. One survivor from Phoenix.
Should be enough to get going. No boobytraps there. I promise.
So honest question for all you rocket scientists out there: Why are heaters needed? Which parts of the spacecraft (electronics?) need to be above a certain temperature to operate? Is it possible to let the lander "freeze" and then revive it, or if not what components are sensitive to this?
Rich.
One issue is that solder joints between components can break if they are cooled down too much. Batteries and capacitors can fail if liquids inside them freeze and crystalise. While I think there is a chance that the lander will come back up next summer but the likelyhood of this is pretty slim IMHO.
Twenty years ago here in Melbourne there was this monthly Star Trek night. They mainly showed episodes of the original TV series. It moved from place to place and attracted a lot of regulars, including some very strange trekkies (who preferred to be known as "treckers") and didn't actually watch anything because they apparently knew it off by heart anyway.
One month they put on a few of these animated apisodes and I got a surprise when I recognised Niven's story.
I didn't think much of the episode, though I like the story. Characters can't be translated like that. William Gibson did an episode of The X Files and I didn't think much of that either, though I like his books.
Uh no thanks. We are doing just fine without "protection".