So the bug kills the possibility of a rollback. Can you just use a W10 installation medium and do an update install over the bricked installation? Usually, this works without messing up the rest of the system too much.
Then there's the other kind of bug, the subtle kind where everything seems to be working fine, but someone checked the output and it just isn't right: the totals on the report don't add up or something.
Even worse are horrid bugs (think "buffer overflow") that in practice result in minor performance degradation (still well within the requirements).
Or, my favorite so far - using an unitialized variable that by complete coincidence is always zero at this point in this compile run, and zero is the value that it was supposed to be initialized to. It's an obvious bug in the source code that completely fails to manifest in any way - at least in this binary.
When I was a kid, I acquired one of those hotel door hanger signs that said, "Housekeeping. Please make up my room." And hung it on my doorknob. My mother drew the line at that one.
I would not be angry about the sign. It means that the occupant of the room at least cares about cleanliness and isn't content with living in dirty mess, even if they want someone else to do the cleaning.
But I would be absolutely bloody livid if there were... complaints... about the results. If it looked like trash to me, it's in the trashcan now and does not go back in the room. If it smelled, moved on its own, or looked at me funny, it also went in the trash. Any area denial weapons^H^H^H Legos that were on the floor are in the vacuum cleaner bag now. Which is also in the trash. Enjoy your clean room, and be warned that I will be back if it looks messy.
Being brain dead means that the higher brain functions are not working.
No, that's called "being drunk".
Brain death means that the brain, as an organ, has irrevocably stopped working. Not just the "higher functions", but really basic stuff all the way down to respiration, etc.
If a persons brain (as opposed to other parts of the CNS) still shows any reaction to stimuli, that person is, by definition, not brain dead.
So...I get to enjoy the perversity of griefing, without having to do the tedious chore of out-grinding everyone else for superior equipment?
As long as you pay for it.
Oh, and as an added bonus all superior players who manage to wipe the table with you despite your upgrades will be labeled cheaters and banned.
Oh, next step: Replace human opponents with AI bots that are artificially dumb, so that the player feels properly superior. Hey, it works for dating web sites, why not for games?
Batteries for vehicles the size of a truck or a bus are not economical, simply because the relationship between cost and capacity is about linear for batteries (and about ~x^(2/3) for chemical fuel storage).
Put in a smaller battery and a turbine or fuel cell optimized to deliver the average power the vehicle uses.
Also, how safe are large batteries in accidents? Buses are usually full of people. Which is one reason why they're usually powered with Diesel fuel and not gasoline, LPG or CNG.
FTFA: "The innovation lies in picking up EMG more preciselyâ"including getting signals from individual neuronsâ"
EMG doesn't pick up signals from neurons. It picks up electric activity of muscle cells (the M stands for 'myo'). If anything, their method gets signals from individual muscle fibers.
Picking up an electrophysiological signal from unprepared skin and without an adhesive electrode sounds interesting, though.
If the signal is being read on peripheral nerves that innervate the muscles,
If they are doing an EMG, they are reading muscle electrical activity, not nerve electrical activity. So besides requiring a working nervous system, it also requires muscles that work to some degree.
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Yes, yes. There are other ways. But none of them can be performed without either consent by or use of force on the person in question.
So it goes like this.
"I'm fourteen."
"We doubt that, so we are going to perform procedure X on you to determine your age."
"I don't consent to that!"
"Then we will force you to comply with the procedure."
"You can't! That's illegal! I am underage! You're a bunch of child-brutalizers!"
"Then we'll deport you!"
"You can't! I'm underage and in need of protection, you cruel scum!"
"Ok, fine, you're fourteen. Go ahead."
Yes. It says on the box: "Intel inside".
So the bug kills the possibility of a rollback. Can you just use a W10 installation medium and do an update install over the bricked installation? Usually, this works without messing up the rest of the system too much.
Even worse are horrid bugs (think "buffer overflow") that in practice result in minor performance degradation (still well within the requirements).
Or, my favorite so far - using an unitialized variable that by complete coincidence is always zero at this point in this compile run, and zero is the value that it was supposed to be initialized to. It's an obvious bug in the source code that completely fails to manifest in any way - at least in this binary.
At least until you step on any of the area denial devices commonly sold under the brand name LEGO.
Unfortunately, the TLAs answer it ... "Just a second. Hold my beer."
I would not be angry about the sign. It means that the occupant of the room at least cares about cleanliness and isn't content with living in dirty mess, even if they want someone else to do the cleaning.
But I would be absolutely bloody livid if there were ... complaints ... about the results. If it looked like trash to me, it's in the trashcan now and does not go back in the room. If it smelled, moved on its own, or looked at me funny, it also went in the trash. Any area denial weapons^H^H^H Legos that were on the floor are in the vacuum cleaner bag now. Which is also in the trash. Enjoy your clean room, and be warned that I will be back if it looks messy.
... thank you, but if you have a robot that cleans - vaccuums, sweeps, dusts, mops - well enough that I don't have to do another round, I'm all ears.
And our descendants even more so.
It's not even good. It's so bad it's not worth the taxpayer money spent on implementing it.
About as much as will be saved by not incarcerating people for crimes they did not commit.
Locking people up costs quite a bit of money.
... but right now I can't think of a good source of quarks.
... and not from a company that makes stuff that kills people when it malfunctions. Airplanes, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, etc.
More seriously ... a lot of my work is signal processing/algorithm design. The programming part is just implementation.
No, that's called "being drunk".
Brain death means that the brain, as an organ, has irrevocably stopped working. Not just the "higher functions", but really basic stuff all the way down to respiration, etc.
If a persons brain (as opposed to other parts of the CNS) still shows any reaction to stimuli, that person is, by definition, not brain dead.
How about just using lots of decks and re-shuffling often? It takes more time, but keeps the odds of winning in the right range.
As long as you pay for it.
Oh, and as an added bonus all superior players who manage to wipe the table with you despite your upgrades will be labeled cheaters and banned.
Oh, next step: Replace human opponents with AI bots that are artificially dumb, so that the player feels properly superior. Hey, it works for dating web sites, why not for games?
You can have my keyboard and my mouse when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
"So you're looking for someone who is smart enough to do this highly-qualified job, yet uninformed enough not realize they are being underpaid?"
A good management attack can utterly destroy any project.
Put in a smaller battery and a turbine or fuel cell optimized to deliver the average power the vehicle uses.
Also, how safe are large batteries in accidents? Buses are usually full of people. Which is one reason why they're usually powered with Diesel fuel and not gasoline, LPG or CNG.
EMG doesn't pick up signals from neurons. It picks up electric activity of muscle cells (the M stands for 'myo'). If anything, their method gets signals from individual muscle fibers.
Picking up an electrophysiological signal from unprepared skin and without an adhesive electrode sounds interesting, though.
If they are doing an EMG, they are reading muscle electrical activity, not nerve electrical activity. So besides requiring a working nervous system, it also requires muscles that work to some degree.
This.
It's a muscle-machine-interface. Just electrical instead of mechanical.
Did they test it? I would assume there are a number of possible issues like muscular atrophy in such cases.