I believe the technical term for this is deep magic - or I would, if I thought the poster understood what the words 'write', 'bit' and 'platter' mean in the context of hard disk drive tech. As it is, the question is so nonsensical it's bizarre.
Good work, GE boffins. It warms my cockles to see our best minds conquer one more idle pastime that robots hadn't already been programmed for. When the Japanese finally achieve their ultimate goal of an android with functional genitals, those air-hockey robots will be left playing with themselves.
'Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?' Really? How about 'Science Books for Pre-Teens?'
A pre-teen hooked on sci-fi books may not have the iron will needed to put down a good book to make time for, say, homework. Or friends. Or you. God knows I don't, and I haven't been a pre-teen in decades.
FTA, it's clear that even a chicken can create good fonts.
Perhaps the writer should have wondered whether the designs of his favorite type designers 'encoded' some sort of influence on their handwriting. Clearly, they do not.
I perceive that there will soon be a huge market for IR-shielding devices for your home.
This reminds me of that 'Weeds' episode where a couple of HomeSec goons going over high-altitude IR photographs can clearly see the giant cross that Nancy is using as a sun lamp for her crop (after Doug stole it from a church), even with the roof in the way.
Well, it does say in the article that a major goal is the detection of so-called gravity waves. As far as I know, there's no irrefutable evidence that gravity doesn't propagate faster than lightspeed - that, in fact, it's speed might very well be unbounded. I can bet you that once we have a gravity wave emitter that the next step will be a coherent gravity wave emitter i.e. a gravitational laser.
... will rely on a rock-solid & well-established foundation of 3D rendering techniques whose relative usage of system resources is at or below that of the rock-solid & well-established foundation of 2D rendering techniques used by today's GUIs.
Sound familiar? This is what Microsoft (among others) is working on. Exploiting the raw processing power of GPUs to create the GUI means the performance hit is minimal for applications, letting them become prettier without getting noticeably slower. Let's hope 'prettier' means 'a better user experience'.
UI engineers have their work cut out for them. Get crackin'.
Wow, yet another proposed prosthetic for human cognition. In terms of advancement of the field, this is no more revolutionary than, say, the intelligent spam filter. I'd wager that both these technologies (spam filtering and visual processing) are approaching and will continue to approach the human proficiency level asymptotically, and a rather shallow asymptote at that.
So all you brainiacs can relax - no one's beaten you to the punch... yet.
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I believe the technical term for this is deep magic - or I would, if I thought the poster understood what the words 'write', 'bit' and 'platter' mean in the context of hard disk drive tech. As it is, the question is so nonsensical it's bizarre.
Because routers lack the ghost of the dead graduate student that performs that function in Windows.
Good work, GE boffins. It warms my cockles to see our best minds conquer one more idle pastime that robots hadn't already been programmed for. When the Japanese finally achieve their ultimate goal of an android with functional genitals, those air-hockey robots will be left playing with themselves.
'Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?' Really? How about 'Science Books for Pre-Teens?'
A pre-teen hooked on sci-fi books may not have the iron will needed to put down a good book to make time for, say, homework. Or friends. Or you. God knows I don't, and I haven't been a pre-teen in decades.
FTA, it's clear that even a chicken can create good fonts.
Perhaps the writer should have wondered whether the designs of his favorite type designers 'encoded' some sort of influence on their handwriting. Clearly, they do not.
I perceive that there will soon be a huge market for IR-shielding devices for your home.
This reminds me of that 'Weeds' episode where a couple of HomeSec goons going over high-altitude IR photographs can clearly see the giant cross that Nancy is using as a sun lamp for her crop (after Doug stole it from a church), even with the roof in the way.
Well, it does say in the article that a major goal is the detection of so-called gravity waves. As far as I know, there's no irrefutable evidence that gravity doesn't propagate faster than lightspeed - that, in fact, it's speed might very well be unbounded. I can bet you that once we have a gravity wave emitter that the next step will be a coherent gravity wave emitter i.e. a gravitational laser.
Sound familiar? This is what Microsoft (among others) is working on. Exploiting the raw processing power of GPUs to create the GUI means the performance hit is minimal for applications, letting them become prettier without getting noticeably slower. Let's hope 'prettier' means 'a better user experience'.
UI engineers have their work cut out for them. Get crackin'.
Wow, yet another proposed prosthetic for human cognition. In terms of advancement of the field, this is no more revolutionary than, say, the intelligent spam filter. I'd wager that both these technologies (spam filtering and visual processing) are approaching and will continue to approach the human proficiency level asymptotically, and a rather shallow asymptote at that. So all you brainiacs can relax - no one's beaten you to the punch ... yet.