A) It is interesting that grammar features this, but not that much as they use a help to have given up using vocabulary.
B) Instead of using vocabulary, they use grammar. This is interesting not that much.
C) They gave up on vocabulary as help, and it is interesting that much not that they use grammar features to do this but that they seem to.
D) They use grammar to do this, what is interesting is not that much that features do this, but that they seem to have given up a help as using vocabulary.
how many Rube Goldbergian machines we use without realizing how much so they are...yeah, that was english.
Take for instance my friend's cell phone, it rings; like, as in ringing. You know, the sound a bell makes.
Well, to me the funny thing is how much processing has to occur to create this ringing sound - all the decompression, digital to analog conversion - how some IC's are monitoring the juice from the battery - all to mimic a simple, age-old bell.
I was wondering why all the nasa employees were so jittery and why they were always scratching, washing my car windows and asking me to spare a quarter.
Funny, dogs and cars both fit well in my world of cities, and aren't my form factor. Both have a stabler shape that reduces much of the difficulties of bipedalism.
Haha! that is funny!
And true, but they both have problems opening a door in your house. And helping you work on your car. And pushing your shopping cart. And going on a roller-coaster ride with you, or a bus-ride or car-ride or airline flight.
I admit it's fun to imagine doing all this with a dog...or a car for that matter...but our world is designed around our form factor. the difficulties of bipedalism are offset by the benifits.
I know that a future "humanoid" robot will probably have something like additional digits on the hand, additional hands, heads. whatever. But bipedalism is the most energy-effecient form of legged locomotion over long, flat distances. and even treaded vehicles can only reach a fraction of the places legs can. Also if you bring your robot on an elevator it's going to take up less room if it's standing up (in this case a one-legged or no-legged robot would fare perhaps even better;)
Lastly, to further clairify my standing: robots will come in all sizes - they obviously already do. And I am not guessing that humanoid robots will be the most prevelant type of robot. What I am thinking is that humanoid robots will have a very important place in the future of robotics.
Hmm, you got me thinking. You know, really the only part of us humans that is more than mere animal is that teeny tiny frontal lobe.
Considering that minor piece of our brain accounts for a miniscule percentage of our body as a whole I can feel a little better knowing that we have an excuse for not being god-like in our intellectual pursuits just yet;)
still, I wouldn't call it too soon if we could traverse the stars by decade's end ¦D
If we want our robots to live in a human world in our homes and cities they more or less need to fit our form factor. Additionally, if you want the robots to take over jobs like construction then, at first, they will need to be able to drive the decades old machinery - back-hoes, delivery trucks...you get the picture.
Going past that stage there is also the psycological consideration: a robot with whom you can shake hands is going to garner more emotional investment from us then the tank treaded claw-mobile.
when robots become the new automobile we WILL see them in much more "functional" forms: more machine like and specialized. but there will always be a place for the humanoid robot in our homes.
I can't help it, but alongside the pride and excitement I feel whenever I see technological progress like this I have this tinge of frustration.
How much money is spent every year on perfume? how many great mechanical engineers are working for sea-doo?
I mean, we could have so much more! Not just in robotics but chemisty, physics, space exploration...
But, alas, I know that all work and no play makes humans a dull animal and that that perfume makes ladies smell very nice. Nevertheless, I cannot help this tinge of disapointment which inevitably follows my rush of happiness.
Slashdot Mirror
it turned out to be more of a "burn".
possible interpretations:
:)
A) It is interesting that grammar features this, but not that much as they use a help to have given up using vocabulary.
B) Instead of using vocabulary, they use grammar. This is interesting not that much.
C) They gave up on vocabulary as help, and it is interesting that much not that they use grammar features to do this but that they seem to.
D) They use grammar to do this, what is interesting is not that much that features do this, but that they seem to have given up a help as using vocabulary.
ok, that's enough for now
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People should pay to see the Opera! after all, when you download it you miss all the fantastic costumes and corpulant players!
when will the RIAA do something about this!?
A "Magneto-optical trap".
m ot.html
http://www.npl.co.uk/quantum/projects/project1-1/
one of my fav physics tools because it uses lasers and magnets! it's just so science-fictiony!
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No no... Aluminum
steel, he's got a point.
how many Rube Goldbergian machines we use without realizing how much so they are...yeah, that was english.
Take for instance my friend's cell phone, it rings; like, as in ringing. You know, the sound a bell makes.
Well, to me the funny thing is how much processing has to occur to create this ringing sound - all the decompression, digital to analog conversion - how some IC's are monitoring the juice from the battery - all to mimic a simple, age-old bell.
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well, it will once MS finally patents them like they did sudo.
http://taint.org/2004/08/20/024522a.html
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I was wondering why all the nasa employees were so jittery and why they were always scratching, washing my car windows and asking me to spare a quarter.
it's outrageous!
They cannot honestly think that their site being on google is a bad thing in any way conceivable.
but then, this doesn't seem to be about honesty at all, now does it?
you speak of the slipperiest of subjects.
summed up in one of my favorite phrases; "you must be more tolerant of those who are less tolerant of you".
Funny, dogs and cars both fit well in my world of cities, and aren't my form factor. Both have a stabler shape that reduces much of the difficulties of bipedalism.
;)
Haha! that is funny!
And true, but they both have problems opening a door in your house. And helping you work on your car. And pushing your shopping cart. And going on a roller-coaster ride with you, or a bus-ride or car-ride or airline flight.
I admit it's fun to imagine doing all this with a dog...or a car for that matter...but our world is designed around our form factor. the difficulties of bipedalism are offset by the benifits.
I know that a future "humanoid" robot will probably have something like additional digits on the hand, additional hands, heads. whatever. But bipedalism is the most energy-effecient form of legged locomotion over long, flat distances. and even treaded vehicles can only reach a fraction of the places legs can. Also if you bring your robot on an elevator it's going to take up less room if it's standing up (in this case a one-legged or no-legged robot would fare perhaps even better
Lastly, to further clairify my standing: robots will come in all sizes - they obviously already do. And I am not guessing that humanoid robots will be the most prevelant type of robot. What I am thinking is that humanoid robots will have a very important place in the future of robotics.
Ha! good times! well, before the house destroying that is!!! ¦D
Hmm, you got me thinking. You know, really the only part of us humans that is more than mere animal is that teeny tiny frontal lobe.
;)
Considering that minor piece of our brain accounts for a miniscule percentage of our body as a whole I can feel a little better knowing that we have an excuse for not being god-like in our intellectual pursuits just yet
still, I wouldn't call it too soon if we could traverse the stars by decade's end ¦D
well, it's a migration strategy.
If we want our robots to live in a human world in our homes and cities they more or less need to fit our form factor. Additionally, if you want the robots to take over jobs like construction then, at first, they will need to be able to drive the decades old machinery - back-hoes, delivery trucks...you get the picture.
Going past that stage there is also the psycological consideration: a robot with whom you can shake hands is going to garner more emotional investment from us then the tank treaded claw-mobile.
when robots become the new automobile we WILL see them in much more "functional" forms: more machine like and specialized. but there will always be a place for the humanoid robot in our homes.
I can't help it, but alongside the pride and excitement I feel whenever I see technological progress like this I have this tinge of frustration.
How much money is spent every year on perfume? how many great mechanical engineers are working for sea-doo?
I mean, we could have so much more! Not just in robotics but chemisty, physics, space exploration...
But, alas, I know that all work and no play makes humans a dull animal and that that perfume makes ladies smell very nice. Nevertheless, I cannot help this tinge of disapointment which inevitably follows my rush of happiness.
"lottery"!...
what was supposed to happen?
of the total perspective vortex