It would count. Copter would be considered an "outside agency" beyond the golfer's control, so you would play the ball as it lies after coming to rest, no penalty. If the ball ends up in the hole then lucky him.
However the copter is LOUD AS HELL. I wonder why they didn't think of a remote-controlled blimp. That should be nearly silent.
These guys already have mad joystick skillz, and they are mostly nice people who don't to around asking people how to become a drone pilot cuz they think it's cool to blow shit up.
I play golf at a course right next to a major R/C airfield. On most Sunday mornings you can see two big R/C jets, most likely scratch-built. These suckers are loud and FAST. The way they maneuver these things around and come in for a precise landing is awesome to watch.
Whatever they do, they should NOT hire people who play video games! These are absolutely the worst people to get; they will blow stuff up for fun, grief other players, call them noob, use wallhacks and aimbots and so on.
how exactly would you know S4 has a clunky, slow laggy interface? It's not out yet, and the only people who were allowed to test it so far have been credentialed journalists at the event.
And I highly doubt you were one of those, seeing as how you're AC posting on slashdot.
he's just taking initiative and sticking it to the man.
The man says, "I can scour the globe for the cheapest labor, while selling my product for full price to the peons who are captive because they cannot scour the globe for the cheapest housing/medical care"
Dude says, "Oh yeah? Watch me, I'm moving to where housing/medical care is cheap. F_ You."
the full duplex, circuit-switched, not-laggy realtime conversations I used to have on a landline phone. I could be talking, and the other party could be talking at the same time, and both of us could hear each other and understand everything.
The young uns here will probably think I'm making this up. I'm not; back in the day, Candace Bergen could drop a pin and I could hear it over the phone.
Let's have some names. And addresses and phone numbers. Then maybe some elite Anonymous operators can obtain their credit card numbers and order a bunch of goatse porn and have it delivered to their homes.
Lawyers are a protected privileged class in the USA. Everyone from the President to members of Congress to Supreme Court justices are all lawyers. If you were to shoot all lawyers, you would no longer have a United States.
it's the piss-poor AI. Even the dumbest human in the world can instantly tell if a person is actually sticking his own finger in the scanner or if he's holding a plastic fake, with 100% accuracy.
Kurzweil may have wet dreams about singularity, but I don't think computers can ever achieve awareness. They lack atman, immortal soul, theta, life essence, the Force, or whatever you wanna call it.
That's right... foam is like McBain's safety goggles against a river of acid... they do nothingggg
The foam inside recording studios is there to reduce echo inside the room, not block sound transmission to the outside. The only thing that blocks sound transmission is MASS. A one-inch thick concrete wall will block hell of a lot more noise than a one-inch thick foam wall.
that's true, China doesn't have the mortgage-backed securities and subprime lending we saw in the U.S.
But while those things certainly help fan a bubble, you can still have a bubble without them. There was no subprime lending or Tulip-backed securities, yet the Tulip bubble still took place.
When that happens, their economy will tank... similar to what happened in U.S. in 2008. And that will bring out people demonstrating in the streets. The Chinese security apparatus will have its hands full trying to stifle online dissent and stop people from plotting against the government. Cyber attacks on external targets will fade.
Habitats, vehicles and other infrastructure are not what's been holding us back. We've had technology to make these for decades. If we had to, we could come up with adequate ones from scratch inside of a year.
The problem has always been our rockets. The most powerful rocket ever built was the Saturn V. It costs $ billions per single launch and that's still not enough to lift a Mars capsule with all the fuel and supplies necessary for a manned landing. So we need multiple Saturn V launches and assemble the spacecraft in orbit, and that just increases the cost and complexity to insane levels. I don't remember the exact number, but in the 90's President H. Bush was toying with the idea of a manned Mars mission and asked NASA if it can be done, and the reply he got was "Yes we can do it, for 200 billion", after which Bush quietly dropped the idea.
I'd be curious to see where the green belt lay during the Medieval warming period. Of course its existence has been discredited now, and tales of dairy farms and Viking settlements in Greenland have been dismissed as an anecdotal myth and stricken from Wikipedia. But it would be interesting to see nonetheless (on a hypothetical basis, of course).
On the other hand, during the Little Ice Age (not so long ago, only a few hundred years) you had towns in the middle of continental Europe sending out their priests to exorcise the ice demons in an attempt to stop the encroaching glaciers threatening to engulf their settlements. One wonders where the green belt was then. But I suppose the existence of the little ice age will be discredited soon as well.
I'm sure the newspaper articles are right and that Whitehead did fly. However what definition of "fly" were they using?
With the 20 HP motor, Whitehead probably had no problem lifting off the ground at least a few feet. The people watching would've been excited and certainly would've told others that they saw a machine fly.
But are we talking about sustained, controllable flight here? Or just hovering in ground effect in a straight line? Look at the picture with the bat wings and tell me -- if you know anything about aerodynamics at all -- what would've happened the first time that thing banked into a turn.
I am no Apple fanboi but I will say that Android's big problem is all the crapware shoveled with even the most premium Android phones.
My mom just got a Galaxy Note 2 (the most expensive Android phone out there) and even that came with stuff I've never heard of... Samsung wiz stuff and Verizon Navigator and bunch of other Verizon crap.
I suppose it's not an indictment on Android OS itself, which I think is quite nice, but rather the inability of Google and Samsung to control the carriers and tell them flat out, don't put your crapware on our phone. Only Apple seems to be able to do that for some reason.
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V'ger overlord!
How are they going to produce jailbreaks if they report it?
It would be irresponsible of them to deliberately collaborate with restricting user freedoms.
Apple hates us for our freedoms!
It would count. Copter would be considered an "outside agency" beyond the golfer's control, so you would play the ball as it lies after coming to rest, no penalty. If the ball ends up in the hole then lucky him.
However the copter is LOUD AS HELL. I wonder why they didn't think of a remote-controlled blimp. That should be nearly silent.
These guys already have mad joystick skillz, and they are mostly nice people who don't to around asking people how to become a drone pilot cuz they think it's cool to blow shit up.
I play golf at a course right next to a major R/C airfield. On most Sunday mornings you can see two big R/C jets, most likely scratch-built. These suckers are loud and FAST. The way they maneuver these things around and come in for a precise landing is awesome to watch.
Whatever they do, they should NOT hire people who play video games! These are absolutely the worst people to get; they will blow stuff up for fun, grief other players, call them noob, use wallhacks and aimbots and so on.
how exactly would you know S4 has a clunky, slow laggy interface? It's not out yet, and the only people who were allowed to test it so far have been credentialed journalists at the event.
And I highly doubt you were one of those, seeing as how you're AC posting on slashdot.
he's just taking initiative and sticking it to the man.
The man says, "I can scour the globe for the cheapest labor, while selling my product for full price to the peons who are captive because they cannot scour the globe for the cheapest housing/medical care"
Dude says, "Oh yeah? Watch me, I'm moving to where housing/medical care is cheap. F_ You."
I don't see a problem here.
Why would you need to pirate it? Shouldn't a documentary about free open source movement be.... free?
the full duplex, circuit-switched, not-laggy realtime conversations I used to have on a landline phone. I could be talking, and the other party could be talking at the same time, and both of us could hear each other and understand everything.
The young uns here will probably think I'm making this up. I'm not; back in the day, Candace Bergen could drop a pin and I could hear it over the phone.
ubiquitous cameras everywhere recording everything at all times are necessary.
After all, according Google's CEO, if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Let's have some names. And addresses and phone numbers. Then maybe some elite Anonymous operators can obtain their credit card numbers and order a bunch of goatse porn and have it delivered to their homes.
Lawyers are a protected privileged class in the USA. Everyone from the President to members of Congress to Supreme Court justices are all lawyers. If you were to shoot all lawyers, you would no longer have a United States.
(what you'd have is a nice place to live)
it's the piss-poor AI. Even the dumbest human in the world can instantly tell if a person is actually sticking his own finger in the scanner or if he's holding a plastic fake, with 100% accuracy.
Kurzweil may have wet dreams about singularity, but I don't think computers can ever achieve awareness. They lack atman, immortal soul, theta, life essence, the Force, or whatever you wanna call it.
incremental improvements and an overall nice phone, sure, but the ad I saw said it was gonna be the biggest revolution since the color TV.
That's right... foam is like McBain's safety goggles against a river of acid... they do nothingggg
The foam inside recording studios is there to reduce echo inside the room, not block sound transmission to the outside. The only thing that blocks sound transmission is MASS. A one-inch thick concrete wall will block hell of a lot more noise than a one-inch thick foam wall.
for cameras, GPS and attitude control?
You could probably do that with a couple of Raspberry Pis...
it also rhymes with SCOOP. And LOOP.
Hadoop running a while loop will scoop your poop.
that's true, China doesn't have the mortgage-backed securities and subprime lending we saw in the U.S.
But while those things certainly help fan a bubble, you can still have a bubble without them. There was no subprime lending or Tulip-backed securities, yet the Tulip bubble still took place.
China is about to have an epic crash when their real estate bubble bursts:
60 minutes on China Real Estate Bubble
When that happens, their economy will tank... similar to what happened in U.S. in 2008. And that will bring out people demonstrating in the streets. The Chinese security apparatus will have its hands full trying to stifle online dissent and stop people from plotting against the government. Cyber attacks on external targets will fade.
Habitats, vehicles and other infrastructure are not what's been holding us back. We've had technology to make these for decades. If we had to, we could come up with adequate ones from scratch inside of a year.
The problem has always been our rockets. The most powerful rocket ever built was the Saturn V. It costs $ billions per single launch and that's still not enough to lift a Mars capsule with all the fuel and supplies necessary for a manned landing. So we need multiple Saturn V launches and assemble the spacecraft in orbit, and that just increases the cost and complexity to insane levels. I don't remember the exact number, but in the 90's President H. Bush was toying with the idea of a manned Mars mission and asked NASA if it can be done, and the reply he got was "Yes we can do it, for 200 billion", after which Bush quietly dropped the idea.
The highest intelligence indicator were the people who never joined facebook and want nothing to do with it.
However, people with the lowest IQ who cannot learn to operate a computer or a phone also were not able to join Facebook.
people are already used to just googling for stuff. Only noobs and idiots type the name of the item they're looking for into the URL textbox.
When you're looking for East of Eden by Steinbeck, do you type "eastofeden.com" in the URL? No, right?
I'd be curious to see where the green belt lay during the Medieval warming period. Of course its existence has been discredited now, and tales of dairy farms and Viking settlements in Greenland have been dismissed as an anecdotal myth and stricken from Wikipedia. But it would be interesting to see nonetheless (on a hypothetical basis, of course).
On the other hand, during the Little Ice Age (not so long ago, only a few hundred years) you had towns in the middle of continental Europe sending out their priests to exorcise the ice demons in an attempt to stop the encroaching glaciers threatening to engulf their settlements. One wonders where the green belt was then. But I suppose the existence of the little ice age will be discredited soon as well.
his clientele probably consists of Microsoft employees
I'm sure the newspaper articles are right and that Whitehead did fly. However what definition of "fly" were they using?
With the 20 HP motor, Whitehead probably had no problem lifting off the ground at least a few feet. The people watching would've been excited and certainly would've told others that they saw a machine fly.
But are we talking about sustained, controllable flight here? Or just hovering in ground effect in a straight line? Look at the picture with the bat wings and tell me -- if you know anything about aerodynamics at all -- what would've happened the first time that thing banked into a turn.
I am no Apple fanboi but I will say that Android's big problem is all the crapware shoveled with even the most premium Android phones.
My mom just got a Galaxy Note 2 (the most expensive Android phone out there) and even that came with stuff I've never heard of... Samsung wiz stuff and Verizon Navigator and bunch of other Verizon crap.
I suppose it's not an indictment on Android OS itself, which I think is quite nice, but rather the inability of Google and Samsung to control the carriers and tell them flat out, don't put your crapware on our phone. Only Apple seems to be able to do that for some reason.