Interesting and quite an achievement but how useful is it in 'real life' (ie. military use) when weather conditions may not be so ideal as they presumably are in arizona? Can it handle high winds and storms or will it fall apart?
Also wont it present a fetching target for those 'unfriendlies' the military would be watching or does it fly too high?
Good old fashioned internet forums or message boards provide all the online social interaction and information you could ever need in whatever field of interest you choose (there's a forum out there for every conceivable subject) without sacrificing your privacy (as long as you are careful). Many have social network type functions as well.
Of course most of them will have google ads so google could still cobble together all your online actvity..
Is talking on the phone really a single task? Is cooking? Surely each of those is made up of countless sub-tasks even if you don't consciously think about them.
Their concept of 'communication', let alone their culture and motivations, will likely be be so wildly different than ours as to be beyond our ability to even conceive of it.
Alien communication was covered in an episode of red dwarf and involved breaking two legs, using all the toilet paper and finishing a jigsaw puzzle just to say "hello"..
The low hanging fruit.. there's bound to be enough nutters who are not tech savvy enough to cover their tracks online (or offline) or even some who don't care.
They didn't clear the area, and there's no reason to believe they brought in a robot, given that they shot it in earshot of the rest of the travellers. If they did think it was a bomb, they were obviously keen to do as much damage with it as possible.
How do you know they didn't clear the area? Its standard procedure to clear the area (they don't need to evacuate the whole city!) and those gunshots the bomb squad robot makes are actually rather loud.
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I've seen some methylated dudes staggering around town.. apparently it works for them.
What friends?
s/friends/mother/
I always wondered where Macgyver ended up..
Cats rule so it would have to be imperial.
These things are going to fly off the shelves like hot pies!
Will be interesting to see if the makers at LMR put them to good use.. http://letsmakerobots.com/
I may have to dust off the soldering iron and "electronics for dummies" soon to join the fun.
Cow-tipping is not a game.
Its a way of life!
You may also find an inventory or asset management system useful to make sense of what you have, if its relevant in your circumstances. There is web based or software like http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ http://www.tracmor.com/ http://www.pukkapanel.com/ and others mentioned here.. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-it-inventory-control-systems.html or if you use RT there is http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/AssetTracker
There's also a previous /. discussion on asset tracking stuff although perhaps a bit outdated now.. http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/20/0214256/it-asset-tracking-and-helpdesk-software
Interesting and quite an achievement but how useful is it in 'real life' (ie. military use) when weather conditions may not be so ideal as they presumably are in arizona? Can it handle high winds and storms or will it fall apart?
Also wont it present a fetching target for those 'unfriendlies' the military would be watching or does it fly too high?
Certainly not all the forum posts were deleted (yet!)
http://www.boardtracker.com/search/?q=consumer+report&o=0&s=apple.com
It's not clear to me if they've even got a way of releasing the energy
Sure they have - light blue touch paper and stand waaaaaaaaay back.. ;)
Legions of british couch potatoes were almost moved to protest the inhuman experiments on their national dish.. but couldn't be bovvered.
*phew* lucky I read the summary after..
Hey its friday, gimme a break! ;)
Does she live next door to Bob?
Had to be asked.. ;)
Good old fashioned internet forums or message boards provide all the online social interaction and information you could ever need in whatever field of interest you choose (there's a forum out there for every conceivable subject) without sacrificing your privacy (as long as you are careful). Many have social network type functions as well.
Of course most of them will have google ads so google could still cobble together all your online actvity..
Easy way to find forums that interest you is a forum search engine such as: http://www.boardtracker.com/
No really.. it is. Awesome.
Vid is on youtube also..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShVRLSJ-7c
I use xen extensively too so its a good job EL5 will still be supported for many more years (until 2014 they say but all bets are off after 2012 ;) ).
Is talking on the phone really a single task? Is cooking? Surely each of those is made up of countless sub-tasks even if you don't consciously think about them.
Their concept of 'communication', let alone their culture and motivations, will likely be be so wildly different than ours as to be beyond our ability to even conceive of it.
Alien communication was covered in an episode of red dwarf and involved breaking two legs, using all the toilet paper and finishing a jigsaw puzzle just to say "hello"..
for the ipad! ;)
lies the future! SeaQuest FTW
Cool show.. except for when it went (way) off the rails on occasion.
About damn time we started colonizing the ocean one way or another.. there's a whole lot of space out there!
"Update: BoardTracker recently replaced its spiders with Koalas.."
http://www.boardtracker.com/boards/4/
is spelt really the past tense of spell?
Yes. At least in my oxford english dictionary..
"spell (p.t. spelt)"
Also on google dictionary..
"* Spelt is a past tense and past participle form of spell. Britain"
Maybe spelled is an american spelling?
unrealistic optimism
Isn't that just "The American Dream"?
So who are the spies spying on exactly?
The low hanging fruit.. there's bound to be enough nutters who are not tech savvy enough to cover their tracks online (or offline) or even some who don't care.
They didn't clear the area, and there's no reason to believe they brought in a robot, given that they shot it in earshot of the rest of the travellers. If they did think it was a bomb, they were obviously keen to do as much damage with it as possible.
How do you know they didn't clear the area? Its standard procedure to clear the area (they don't need to evacuate the whole city!) and those gunshots the bomb squad robot makes are actually rather loud.