What happens when two people with mini keyfobs drive by at the same time? Or a husband and wife who both own minis, but are driving in one car? Does it only show the message for the first keyfob it detects? Or does it flash back and forth between the two?
what if you decide to "see" in infrared? If you make something that only bends visible light radiation around you, you can still transmit and/or receive other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Think about your microwave. It has little holes in it that allow you to see your food getting cooked, but the microwaves don't shoot out these holes and cook you while you're looking in. Why? Because the microwaves see the little holes as a solid wall. The holes are built to block that spectrum, but allow other spectrum through.
by spending a few billion dollars protecting against this threat, the government is protecting itself from having to spend many more billions bailing out the airlines again like they had to after 9/11.
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television
Who do you have to bribe in a podunk little town full of people you've known for a long time to fake your death? The guys at the morgue? The local police? Not hard for a guy with that much money and that much motive.
A few years back I bought something called a desknote. It was designed on the idea that 90% of laptop use is a point A or point B. There is very little computing in between. So they built a laptop (kinda chunky) with desktop components in it. The only catch was that you had to have it plugged in to use it. This makes sense with the point A/point B theory. Most people use it at work and then use it at home or take it on travel and plug it in when they get to their destination.
So if you want the portability of a laptop with the power consumption of a desktop, there is already a solution out there for you.
It's not so much an improvement in the AI as it is an improvement in the sensors. These vehicles look ahead about 30 feet and plot their course based on very simple logic. If there is a negative obstacle (a hole), it is more difficult for sensors to detect than if there is a rock sticking up in the path. Last race, the only thing that stopped red team was a hairpin turn. Their sensors looked straight ahead and only a little to the sides, but when faced with the hairpin turn, the vehicle almost fell off the side of the mountain!
But the rules of the AI haven't changed much- just the sensors. If you're driving through jungle, for example, you have to have sensors that don't see leaves as obstacles. Otherwise the path will look totally impassable.
Google is amazing! I can't wait for the day when they start making operating systems and suddenly there's no need for windows anymore either!!!
Could this be my first first post and my first post???
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What happens when two people with mini keyfobs drive by at the same time? Or a husband and wife who both own minis, but are driving in one car? Does it only show the message for the first keyfob it detects? Or does it flash back and forth between the two?
what if you decide to "see" in infrared? If you make something that only bends visible light radiation around you, you can still transmit and/or receive other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Think about your microwave. It has little holes in it that allow you to see your food getting cooked, but the microwaves don't shoot out these holes and cook you while you're looking in. Why? Because the microwaves see the little holes as a solid wall. The holes are built to block that spectrum, but allow other spectrum through.
that as the orbit of the earth was changing because of mammal extinctions?
Does this mean that they're gonna have to redo Duke Nukem Forever to run on a UHDTV resolution? Sigh... another 20 years of waiting...
Well, it IS just a series of pipes. Hang on, I think my staff just sent me an internet...
by spending a few billion dollars protecting against this threat, the government is protecting itself from having to spend many more billions bailing out the airlines again like they had to after 9/11.
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." - Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television
AOL is the internet. Duh. How else would you connect?
Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites!
Who do you have to bribe in a podunk little town full of people you've known for a long time to fake your death? The guys at the morgue? The local police? Not hard for a guy with that much money and that much motive.
The summer games were held there in 2004. Having to catch the sprinters is probably why these mosquitos had to get faster...
A few years back I bought something called a desknote. It was designed on the idea that 90% of laptop use is a point A or point B. There is very little computing in between. So they built a laptop (kinda chunky) with desktop components in it. The only catch was that you had to have it plugged in to use it. This makes sense with the point A/point B theory. Most people use it at work and then use it at home or take it on travel and plug it in when they get to their destination. So if you want the portability of a laptop with the power consumption of a desktop, there is already a solution out there for you.
That IS their job. DARPA doesn't do any real research. They fund research projects at schools and in private industry.
It's not so much an improvement in the AI as it is an improvement in the sensors. These vehicles look ahead about 30 feet and plot their course based on very simple logic. If there is a negative obstacle (a hole), it is more difficult for sensors to detect than if there is a rock sticking up in the path. Last race, the only thing that stopped red team was a hairpin turn. Their sensors looked straight ahead and only a little to the sides, but when faced with the hairpin turn, the vehicle almost fell off the side of the mountain! But the rules of the AI haven't changed much- just the sensors. If you're driving through jungle, for example, you have to have sensors that don't see leaves as obstacles. Otherwise the path will look totally impassable.
Google is amazing! I can't wait for the day when they start making operating systems and suddenly there's no need for windows anymore either!!! Could this be my first first post and my first post???