So a $500 drone can take out a $60 million helicopter? Sounds like the best way to defeat helicopter gun ships is to just surround them with huge swarms of cheap drones... they can't shoot them all!
Avanti Markets already does a similar thing inside several offices -- it's an honor-pay system with where you barcode scan your own purchases, with every square inch covered by cameras to try to keep people honest. Like most honor-pay systems, they just pull the location out if they get stiffed too often. Also, huge markup.
Millenials? I'm 56, and I'd rather do business with a touchscreen than with a real live person. In fact, I find it disturbing when I walk into a bank and the teller greets me by name, and I'm disappointed when the Jamba Juice employee remembers me and I don't have to tell them my name (where do they find people that can immediately recognize 1000 different customers?
Don't even need to "bust it open". Just loiter nearby and wait for someone else to open the door -- just like I get into work when I don't have my badge!
I assume it would issue a receipt and you can check your bag against what's on the receipt, then argue with the store. I also assume they would keep videos for a week for exactly this reason.
Why do people assume everyone has just one Facebook account? I've created throw-away accounts myself. Yes, Facebook would like to sell you on the total number of accounts created, rather than the number that are actually being used... but that would result in a lot less ad revenue, wouldn't it? My mother has a Facebook account that she literally hasn't logged into since 2007... but I'm sure Facebook still counts her as a customer! (She has alzheimer's, I'm pretty sure she's forgotten the password by now.)
I keep wondering why they don't create a robot that replaces coal miners... those people DIE doing their job, it seems like that would be the first industry to automate! Shouldn't be sending human beings below ground at all when the job can be done by remote-controlled drones.
Here's the problem: the most expensive bricks are more expensive because they are non-uniform. People like variations in size, color, and texture. Robots are only good at doing everything the same, and would only be able to work with uniform bricks.
Yeah, stamping is used for _horizontal_ surfaces, because you can't really stamp a design into a _vertical_ surface. If it's soft enough to stamp, it tends to flow downhill. Yes, there are vertical walls that are stamped, but I believe they are stamped when horizontal, then pulled up into place after they cure.
We have this abomination here in Oregon called Orenco Station, all 3-story wooden construction with brick facing to make it LOOK like an old fashioned downtown shopping area, despite being fairly disposable construction.
You would see an improvement in going from a single core to dual core, yes. But if your OS is running on one thread and a single-threaded app on another, then not that much improvement, unless your OS actually fully utilizes all but one of the threads -- which it doesn't, due to all the threads time-sharing the same data bus. Again, for most problem sets, data throughput is the bottleneck, not aggregate CPU cycles.
Agreed, any increase in the size of on-chip cache should be a win in terms of getting data into the CPU. Again, I believe the peak boost speed decreases when more CPUs are in use. I assume Intel did a better job of balancing this so there should be some improvement for certain problem sets.
There is a huge political advantage to the use of drones. Nobody minds a 10 million dollar lethal drone being shot down. Citizens get really upset when a pilot dies. And of course, autonomous vehicles can survive all sorts of environments that would kill human beings. So it's much more politically advantageous to send in the drones than to put human beings in harm's way.
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So a $500 drone can take out a $60 million helicopter? Sounds like the best way to defeat helicopter gun ships is to just surround them with huge swarms of cheap drones... they can't shoot them all!
Avanti Markets already does a similar thing inside several offices -- it's an honor-pay system with where you barcode scan your own purchases, with every square inch covered by cameras to try to keep people honest. Like most honor-pay systems, they just pull the location out if they get stiffed too often. Also, huge markup.
Millenials? I'm 56, and I'd rather do business with a touchscreen than with a real live person. In fact, I find it disturbing when I walk into a bank and the teller greets me by name, and I'm disappointed when the Jamba Juice employee remembers me and I don't have to tell them my name (where do they find people that can immediately recognize 1000 different customers?
Somebody still has to stock the shelves regularly.
Don't even need to "bust it open". Just loiter nearby and wait for someone else to open the door -- just like I get into work when I don't have my badge!
Condoms? Cheetos? Energy drinks? Every once in a while, an toothbrush 'cause a last minute guest didn't bring hers?
I assume it would issue a receipt and you can check your bag against what's on the receipt, then argue with the store. I also assume they would keep videos for a week for exactly this reason.
Oh no, renewable energy is making mom-and-pop coal mines obsolete!!!
Offhand, I'd say what could go wrong is people wearing masks, waiting for someone else to open the door, then rushing in and emptying all the shelves.
Why do people assume everyone has just one Facebook account? I've created throw-away accounts myself. Yes, Facebook would like to sell you on the total number of accounts created, rather than the number that are actually being used... but that would result in a lot less ad revenue, wouldn't it? My mother has a Facebook account that she literally hasn't logged into since 2007... but I'm sure Facebook still counts her as a customer! (She has alzheimer's, I'm pretty sure she's forgotten the password by now.)
I keep wondering why they don't create a robot that replaces coal miners... those people DIE doing their job, it seems like that would be the first industry to automate! Shouldn't be sending human beings below ground at all when the job can be done by remote-controlled drones.
You know, if you'd even think about launching a denial-of-service attack on a pacemaker, you're kind of an asshole, as well as a homicidal maniac!
Tell me where it is, and I'll remove it for you! No problem, I've got a crowbar right here!
Here's the problem: the most expensive bricks are more expensive because they are non-uniform. People like variations in size, color, and texture. Robots are only good at doing everything the same, and would only be able to work with uniform bricks.
Yeah, stamping is used for _horizontal_ surfaces, because you can't really stamp a design into a _vertical_ surface. If it's soft enough to stamp, it tends to flow downhill. Yes, there are vertical walls that are stamped, but I believe they are stamped when horizontal, then pulled up into place after they cure.
We have this abomination here in Oregon called Orenco Station, all 3-story wooden construction with brick facing to make it LOOK like an old fashioned downtown shopping area, despite being fairly disposable construction.
I thought 3D printing with concrete was the future of the construction industry!
You would see an improvement in going from a single core to dual core, yes. But if your OS is running on one thread and a single-threaded app on another, then not that much improvement, unless your OS actually fully utilizes all but one of the threads -- which it doesn't, due to all the threads time-sharing the same data bus. Again, for most problem sets, data throughput is the bottleneck, not aggregate CPU cycles.
Agreed, any increase in the size of on-chip cache should be a win in terms of getting data into the CPU. Again, I believe the peak boost speed decreases when more CPUs are in use. I assume Intel did a better job of balancing this so there should be some improvement for certain problem sets.
There is a huge political advantage to the use of drones. Nobody minds a 10 million dollar lethal drone being shot down. Citizens get really upset when a pilot dies. And of course, autonomous vehicles can survive all sorts of environments that would kill human beings. So it's much more politically advantageous to send in the drones than to put human beings in harm's way.
Now I can't decide if I should be working on sexbots or killbots... either way, it will probably lead to the extinction of the human race...
"But... Volkswagen self-certified this robot as being non-lethal, dammit!"
So my Guy Fawkes mask now protects me from killer robots using facial recognition? Awesome!
Musk just realized what an awesome killeing machine a Tesla car would make? 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds... straight into a crowd of pedestrians!
"I, for one, welcome our new killer robot overlords!"