Time is, I think, the real issue for consumers. If you can put your phone on a table, or whatever, for 30mins and have it completely recharged this will do well. But I have a feeling that inefficiency will make it something for when you sleep, so you can wake up to fully recharged gadgets. I can't see wireless providing more juice than most gadgets use so having them in public places, coffee shops. etc., will not overcome the inevitable flat battery, just delay it for a bit.
This is not something I know a great deal about, but surely the UDID is pretty easy to get hold of. Surely most suppliers will keep a record for warranty/insurance reasons. AFAIK, many apps can access this information. ITunes relies on it. These data could just be from the FBI looking for patterns of insurance fraud, or similar. And I wouldn't be surprised if a load or organizations hold this sort of data for a range of gadgets. I bought a fridge a while back and had to send the serial number off to some third party to have my warranty set up. I am happy to be corrected though, and told this is a huge privacy thing.
My issue with bio-inspired designs like this is that are are surely susceptible to the same vulnerabilities as humans. One of the benefits of robots is that they can be sent to places humans would not otherwise go, such as deep space, extremes in temperature, and so on. What is the point? Why do we need a copy of a human, other than the obvious cool insights such research provides of course.
Skyrim is pretty much unplayable on the PS3, particular in the latter stages. I enjoyed the game but have since swapped to my PC and will no longer buy new games for the PS3... now it just sits there as a bulky blueray player. I think this is Sony's loss rather than Bethesda's downfall, imho.
The Tax Office's statements come after this week's passage of new legislation that will allow law enforcement agencies to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers while an official warrant is sought
This seems reasonable, so long as there is some transparency and judicial oversight. They also want to bring in powers similar to those already in Europe where data is held for two years. Again, so long as these data are not subject to data mining to catch crooks and would-be crooks, plus with judicial oversight to insure that data requests are reasonable, this again seems fairly reasonable. If there are reasonable grounds to believe someone is acting illegally then I have no problem with authorities keeping a close eye on them. I just don't get the real time monitoring bit - are they suggesting that they should have access to real time data without any oversight? Privacy issues to one side, how could they even hope to monitor that volume of data effectively?
I can see this happening for some fairly small studies, but many very big studies simply can't be replicated. For example, a big public health study will possibly change the sampling population. What about the LHC? How could anyone realistically replicate that work? The deal is replication isn't really replication as you can't always copy what someone has already done. This idea just seems more like profiteering than anything else. What we really need are options for research groups to publish studies that failed but say something interesting about why they failed. This is much more useful. This way we all learn. Plus big labs aren't always free from suspicion themselves.
Maybe - but define late... there's late in that everyone else knows the result and you might find out before you get to watch it. And then there's late, in that you are few seconds behind everyone else.
I know nothing about how these things work, but I do like nice pictures. Some of the most facinating I've seen recently are of the surface of the sun - can we get some more of these?
They are bound to have a copy of Curiosity here on Earth, surely? So they should be able to thoroughly test the process first. Ok, it is not Mars and there might be issues specific to transmitting that data over such distances... but still. I'd be really surprised if this hasn't been thoroughly tried and tested.
I have a Synology NAS and I'm very pleased with it. I don't have anywhere near the volume of data the OP has though. One thing with a NAS is that you'll be subject to the networks available bandwidth and, depending on your set up, this could make backing up lots of data pretty darn tedious. And might annoy admin (and other users). So while a decent portable raid might be the better option, it might be better to find one that just plugs in rather than use the network. Might find one that can be setup to use SSDs as well.
Indeed. A small nudge, if applied when the asteroid is still some distance from Earth, could have a considerable impact on it's trajectory. That would make an interesting project, simulating the relationship between time to asteroid, payload, asteroid mass and what not to determine how quickly we would need to react.
I've also used K9 - works well. It means that when they have friends over and are giggling madly at something they've found on the PC in their room it is probably just silly pictures of cats. I hope. There is nothing worse than interrupting pre-teens mid-sleepover.
It would be most amusing to find conclusive evidence that the beast's number was 616. As there is some evidence for both can I suggest a compromise and we just take the average? This would make 641 the number of the beast. Fitting, as I believe this is also the area code for Iowa.
I think the FB price might have broad implications - with the value now falling and there being little on the horizon to suggest it will not keep falling this could send a strong signal that FB isn't the cool place to hang out any more. Users and advertisers could well start looking elsewhere. FB have, imho, been a bit reckless.
I can't say I know a great deal about this area but it strikes me that "gene sequence does not match any known organism living on earth today" is not appropriate, seeing as we know so very little about what is crawling around the deepest parts of our oceans. It could well be this Norwegian fellow is quite ordinary.
Well, having looked through the literature in the past I would agree that "conventional" counselling isn't perhaps as effective as people make out. CBT is the most common and probably attracts attention and resources because it is the most common... not because it is particularly effective. But there are plenty of other forms of counselling, and the key is selecting the approach that fits the client, the symptoms and available pharmacological inteventions. And there are approaches that do involve people talking about their feelings. For example, I recall one patient where this approach was particularly suitable for treating their stress induced psychosis, along with suitable medication. Yes, some people can get better on their own, but not all. "Friendship" can help, particularly in a therapeutic environment. This video game is very useful as it provides another option in treating youngsters with depression. It is likely to engage them and is something they can manage in their own time. But when it comes to using this in the real world, away from the trial environment, it will be best used by experts as a part of a programme of therapy, not on it's own.
Simulation whether with robots or simple models have never been as useful as they might be - a small change to a parameter can yield very unstable results. No problem with drawing in expertise to refine hypotheses, whether they are selling snake oil or not
I'm glad a fellow snake owner commented on this - my first reaction to the story was why don't they just go chat with some people who feed snakes regularly rather than rush off an build robotic squirrels. Obviously building robotic things are a priority it just seems there's probably more interesting robotic things to build. Anyhow, as far as I know, rattle snakes eyesight is far from their strongest sense and it would, in general, be odd for any land-based snake to rely on eyesight very much at all. Mine really go for vibrations and heat.
I'm struggling to handle these things with my fat fingers already. And devices are getting so small that you have to wonder whether, if we want any foorm of interaction, we are on the edge of small enough. Now capacity and power, pile it on.
All that being said, there is one tiny plus side. We professors are pretty smart cookies. There are many ways of getting access to materials, even if the library does not have a subscription. This means that there is a thriving set of back-channels that the greed of publishers have created. More than that, I am not prepared to say.
You mean email the author and ask for a copy? In fact I find that is sometimes easier than searching an on-line journal... plus it communicates to the author that someone, somewhere, is reading their work, which is nice.
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Time is, I think, the real issue for consumers. If you can put your phone on a table, or whatever, for 30mins and have it completely recharged this will do well. But I have a feeling that inefficiency will make it something for when you sleep, so you can wake up to fully recharged gadgets. I can't see wireless providing more juice than most gadgets use so having them in public places, coffee shops. etc., will not overcome the inevitable flat battery, just delay it for a bit.
This is not something I know a great deal about, but surely the UDID is pretty easy to get hold of. Surely most suppliers will keep a record for warranty/insurance reasons. AFAIK, many apps can access this information. ITunes relies on it. These data could just be from the FBI looking for patterns of insurance fraud, or similar. And I wouldn't be surprised if a load or organizations hold this sort of data for a range of gadgets. I bought a fridge a while back and had to send the serial number off to some third party to have my warranty set up. I am happy to be corrected though, and told this is a huge privacy thing.
My issue with bio-inspired designs like this is that are are surely susceptible to the same vulnerabilities as humans. One of the benefits of robots is that they can be sent to places humans would not otherwise go, such as deep space, extremes in temperature, and so on. What is the point? Why do we need a copy of a human, other than the obvious cool insights such research provides of course.
The long delays on the PS3 when moving to another area, opening doors & etc. was pure torture
I originally accepted these delays, convincing myself that it just reflected the games awesomeness. Then I saw it played on a high end PC.
Skyrim is pretty much unplayable on the PS3, particular in the latter stages. I enjoyed the game but have since swapped to my PC and will no longer buy new games for the PS3... now it just sits there as a bulky blueray player. I think this is Sony's loss rather than Bethesda's downfall, imho.
The Tax Office's statements come after this week's passage of new legislation that will allow law enforcement agencies to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers while an official warrant is sought
This seems reasonable, so long as there is some transparency and judicial oversight. They also want to bring in powers similar to those already in Europe where data is held for two years. Again, so long as these data are not subject to data mining to catch crooks and would-be crooks, plus with judicial oversight to insure that data requests are reasonable, this again seems fairly reasonable. If there are reasonable grounds to believe someone is acting illegally then I have no problem with authorities keeping a close eye on them. I just don't get the real time monitoring bit - are they suggesting that they should have access to real time data without any oversight? Privacy issues to one side, how could they even hope to monitor that volume of data effectively?
I can see this happening for some fairly small studies, but many very big studies simply can't be replicated. For example, a big public health study will possibly change the sampling population. What about the LHC? How could anyone realistically replicate that work? The deal is replication isn't really replication as you can't always copy what someone has already done. This idea just seems more like profiteering than anything else. What we really need are options for research groups to publish studies that failed but say something interesting about why they failed. This is much more useful. This way we all learn. Plus big labs aren't always free from suspicion themselves.
Maybe - but define late... there's late in that everyone else knows the result and you might find out before you get to watch it. And then there's late, in that you are few seconds behind everyone else.
I know nothing about how these things work, but I do like nice pictures. Some of the most facinating I've seen recently are of the surface of the sun - can we get some more of these?
They are bound to have a copy of Curiosity here on Earth, surely? So they should be able to thoroughly test the process first. Ok, it is not Mars and there might be issues specific to transmitting that data over such distances... but still. I'd be really surprised if this hasn't been thoroughly tried and tested.
I have a Synology NAS and I'm very pleased with it. I don't have anywhere near the volume of data the OP has though. One thing with a NAS is that you'll be subject to the networks available bandwidth and, depending on your set up, this could make backing up lots of data pretty darn tedious. And might annoy admin (and other users). So while a decent portable raid might be the better option, it might be better to find one that just plugs in rather than use the network. Might find one that can be setup to use SSDs as well.
Indeed. A small nudge, if applied when the asteroid is still some distance from Earth, could have a considerable impact on it's trajectory. That would make an interesting project, simulating the relationship between time to asteroid, payload, asteroid mass and what not to determine how quickly we would need to react.
for when a lump of snow or mud sticks to the camera lense.
I've also used K9 - works well. It means that when they have friends over and are giggling madly at something they've found on the PC in their room it is probably just silly pictures of cats. I hope. There is nothing worse than interrupting pre-teens mid-sleepover.
It would be most amusing to find conclusive evidence that the beast's number was 616. As there is some evidence for both can I suggest a compromise and we just take the average? This would make 641 the number of the beast. Fitting, as I believe this is also the area code for Iowa.
we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road
Walking is free, even in London
I think the FB price might have broad implications - with the value now falling and there being little on the horizon to suggest it will not keep falling this could send a strong signal that FB isn't the cool place to hang out any more. Users and advertisers could well start looking elsewhere. FB have, imho, been a bit reckless.
I can't say I know a great deal about this area but it strikes me that "gene sequence does not match any known organism living on earth today" is not appropriate, seeing as we know so very little about what is crawling around the deepest parts of our oceans. It could well be this Norwegian fellow is quite ordinary.
Well, having looked through the literature in the past I would agree that "conventional" counselling isn't perhaps as effective as people make out. CBT is the most common and probably attracts attention and resources because it is the most common... not because it is particularly effective. But there are plenty of other forms of counselling, and the key is selecting the approach that fits the client, the symptoms and available pharmacological inteventions. And there are approaches that do involve people talking about their feelings. For example, I recall one patient where this approach was particularly suitable for treating their stress induced psychosis, along with suitable medication. Yes, some people can get better on their own, but not all. "Friendship" can help, particularly in a therapeutic environment. This video game is very useful as it provides another option in treating youngsters with depression. It is likely to engage them and is something they can manage in their own time. But when it comes to using this in the real world, away from the trial environment, it will be best used by experts as a part of a programme of therapy, not on it's own.
Simulation whether with robots or simple models have never been as useful as they might be - a small change to a parameter can yield very unstable results. No problem with drawing in expertise to refine hypotheses, whether they are selling snake oil or not
I'm glad a fellow snake owner commented on this - my first reaction to the story was why don't they just go chat with some people who feed snakes regularly rather than rush off an build robotic squirrels. Obviously building robotic things are a priority it just seems there's probably more interesting robotic things to build. Anyhow, as far as I know, rattle snakes eyesight is far from their strongest sense and it would, in general, be odd for any land-based snake to rely on eyesight very much at all. Mine really go for vibrations and heat.
I'm struggling to handle these things with my fat fingers already. And devices are getting so small that you have to wonder whether, if we want any foorm of interaction, we are on the edge of small enough. Now capacity and power, pile it on.
All that being said, there is one tiny plus side. We professors are pretty smart cookies. There are many ways of getting access to materials, even if the library does not have a subscription. This means that there is a thriving set of back-channels that the greed of publishers have created. More than that, I am not prepared to say.
You mean email the author and ask for a copy? In fact I find that is sometimes easier than searching an on-line journal... plus it communicates to the author that someone, somewhere, is reading their work, which is nice.
Why bother with the $100? Just steal the identity of a frequent flier
It's more interesting for things like CAT and NMR, IMHO.
Tricorders?