Ok, granted they are not travelling 60mph, this is still pretty impressive.. I consider this on-topic, because maybe it is possible to do what the summary suggests (replace wheel in moving car).:)
The power requirements mean it will have to dissipate huge amounts of heat, generate lots of noise which means it'll essentially be carrying a "shoot me!" sign and individuals without any form of body power assist can already kill tanks, bring down helicopter gunships etc.
As a form of fork lift I can see some advantages in logistics, but not on the sharp end of a military.
Really? My desktop computer consumes about 220watts and is about 30dB with all my fans (quiet fans). According to TFA, this exoskeleton eats up about 250 watts, alot of which will be used up in motion. 95% of the 220 watts in my computer go directly to heat, because the only moving parts are small fans.
while the simulation worked for most people, those who played a lot of video games did some unusual things when using the simulation. 'If a door was on fire, [the gamers] would try and run through it, rather than look for a different exit,' said Smith.
I'm pretty sure I'd also run through the fire, at least a few times or until video-game-death, just to see what happens.. Obligatory XCKD link
I would say that you are correct. The article is saying that the SMALL LIMITED mag fields on Mars allows, even encourages, the ripping. Our field encompasses the entire planet and prevents. I have wondered if the moon acting on our core is what makes it spin. As such, it would seem that pushing a large asteroid (perhaps ceres) around Mars would re-start its core spinning. Of course, that tech is out of our reach for a while, and we do not have enough data to know if something like that would work.
Putting a satellite around Mars.. hmmm.. maybe we should put two in orbit, and call them Phobos and Deimos.;)
you're trolling..
and I'll bite: possession doesn't hurt anyone. Unless someone else wants what you've got. Or you want to get possession and have way of buying it.
.
you're trolling..
and I'll bite: Still not hurting anyone in those cases. If that was "hurting someone," then YOU would be "hurting someone" if I bought a pair of chopsticks from you and stabbed myself in the eye with them. Hurting myself or others with those chopsticks is my own fault, and not yours (the seller). Ford is hurting someone when I buy a car and run over a baby. Should we make it illegal to sell or possess cars that can be abused to cause harm?
How about this: people hurt each other. Sometimes drugs are involved. Sometimes guns are involved. Sometimes chopsticks are involved. Don't make drugs, cars, chopsticks, and guns illegal to own (because the law clearly does not work as intended in two of the cases). Instead, why not try to convince people to stop hurting each other?
Basically, you should be driving safely, and if that means slowing down, then yeah, there isn't a problem with that. (The only case where you can complain legitimately about someone driving too slow is if they are more then about 20 km/h below the speed limit on a highway.)
Or driving exactly at the speed limit in the middle of the road when every other car on the road is driving 20mph over, forcing everyone to swerve around. And alot of people end up passing on both sides - left and right, to get around the slow driver. Sure, the 100 people that pass the slow driver each may have made a risky move. But if you ask me, I put my blame on the one individual who is interrupting the flow of traffic for the 100 others and causing a hazard by not going with the flow. (I put my blame on him especially if he's doing it on purpose to try to force everyone else to align to his moral beliefs that you should never drive over the speed limit, but that's a rambling rant for another time.)
I think you're allowed to use the word "only" even if the percentage is is over 50%. Example: Only 59.1% of the people who tried the new hair product survived. Or: Only 59.1% of humans believe the world is round. "Only" probably sounds more legitimate in those two examples because you probably expect the number to be much greater than 59.1%.
The fact that the submitter said "only 59.1%" only means that (s)he either expected that number to be much greater than 59.1%, or (s)he's pretending to have expected that for dramatic effect (as I guess you're implying).
But yeah, I also think 59.1% is pretty high and am surprised that that many people keep their browser up-to-date. Just sayin'..
"It works by blowing a stream of air over two ice packs that you have previously frozen in your freezer." means = "no freon"?
Well, then I'm also selling water-free water for places that have water shortages. Just add 1 cup of water to the device and you will have an entire cup of water that you can drink!
This is why I voted for Al Gore. He knew about this all along. Right now it's just half pig, half man; but soon it will be half man, half bear, and half pig. ManBearPig is real.
IT, Systems Integration, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering..
I got a BS degree in Electrical Engineering a couple years ago and started out as a "Hardware Engineer" (by title only, didn't do any E.E., more like Systems Integration Analyst.. basically I picked which computer/network/etc hardware to buy, and made sure whatever it was would work. Rarely ever touched the hardware, except in the lab for reproducing/troubleshooting issues that the first line of defense could not figure out).. last few months I spent as a "Software Engineer," writing some code.
I think a technical BS degree these days is really just a license to work in a technology-related job, and that if you have the desire/motivation, you can really do anything you want right now (except R&D, unless you have a higher degree or are the cream of the crop of B.S.-having candidates).
Hey, I'm into the car-PC scene (where we replace our stock radio's with computers & touchscreens, in order to have all the features of the best touch-screen navigation/head units, in addition to things such as internet (wifi/edge/etc), engine management, etc..) [/carputer plug]
We frequently use LCD's in the 6-8" size, but they're usually touch-screen and that may be overkill for your application. If it's not, though, a good bang-for-the-buck 7" touchscreen is the Lilliput 7" touchscreen - ~$250. If you want something a little better, try the Xenarc 7" - ~$350 (I personally use the Xenarc 7" 700TSV and have tested the Lilliput 7".. I have only great things to say about Xenarcs)
The touchscreens connect to your computer via USB and the video source can be either VGA or a single RCA coaxial. If you're on a budget, my best advice would be to search for a cheap Lilliput non-touchscreen in the size you want. A quick google search came up with this 7" Lilliput for $120
If you want touchscreens, a good place to start is www.mp3car.com. Non-touchscreens are less popular in the carputing world, so you will probably have better luck with google for those.
What about people with non-standard bone structure or fat distribution? They could easily have wider waists without actually being fat or overweight.
What about taller people? How can you expect someone who is 6'5" to have the same waist as someone who is 5'0"?
I'm 5'11.5" and ~200lbs and athletically built (12% body fat.. not bodybuilder low and not unhealthy high) but my waist is 33"-34". I'm fat and deserve a fine in Japan? Lame...
I wish the results were that antimatter falls upwards. If that were true, while it would have no practical use in the near future, it would be a hole in physics that our far descendants could exploit. Dude, please don't exploit holes in physics. I don't want my access to the universe revoked just because God banned us all from our reality for hax. All it takes is one noob hax0r particle physicist to ruin it for us all.
There is no reason to believe that we would even recognize extraterrestrial colonization. Right now, we probably expect an intelligently colonized region of space to be filled with large metal constructions and the congested traffic of a billion large space ships flying to/from various colonized places. Or we expect astronomical scale artificial constructions, like Dyson spheres.
There is NO reason to believe that civilization will look like that after having advanced sufficiently. This is just how WE scale our CURRENT concepts of "building/living structure," "vehicle," or "power plant" into future tech. In the same way, a man from the year 0 may imagine 2000-years-in-the-future tech to include super-chariots that are attached to 1,000 horses and triremes that can fly. It's impossible to see even a few THOUSAND(or hundred) years into the future with any accuracy.. all of our concepts will be completely obsolete and irrelevant. What makes us think that we will have ANY idea what progress/expansion/colonization will look like in a MILLION years?
Maybe a thousand other races have already passed our level of advancement and continue to exist, but in a way that is beyond our comprehension.
Who wants to play with the editor? Me and people like me who really enjoy the creation half of video game play. We're the same people who spent hours customizing CJ in GTA:SA despite that fact that no one but us would ever see him.
Not to nitpick, but.. customizing CJ's appearance actually had an effect on your respect/street cred and determines how many friendly gang members you can recruit to follow you at a time.
Shouldn't that be 10 Atoms long, One Atom wide? I didn't RTFA, but it could be 10 atoms long, 1 atom wide, depending on what the functional orientation is.
Car Analogy:
Say a car A is 10 feet bumper to bumper, and 6 feet side to side. We say that car A is 10 feet long and 6 feet wide.
Now say car B is only 3 feet bumper to bumper (Steve Urkel's car?) and 6 feet wide. Would you say this car is 6 feet "long" just because its width happens to be the longest dimension? IMO, we would call this car "3 feet long and 6 feet wide."
I have Sprint's wireless broadband service specifically for use on the road. It's advertised as a 1.5Mbps connection and I consistently get download speeds of about 150KB/s (1.2 Mbps) and upload speeds of about 20-30KB/s in the Washington DC metro area.
I've also driven from Washington DC to Florida while playing internet radio and I had a minimum of dial-up speeds 95-99% of the time. I had broadband speeds about 75%+ of the time. The commute involved a 800 mile drive down I-95 and I was surprised at the broadband speeds at some seriously remote looking gas stops. (I would notice the drop from broadband speeds to dialup speeds because the connection wouldn't be able to keep up with the minimum of 10-20kb/s to keep the song buffered)
Also, Sprint has no usage limits and their terms: Verizon offers the same service, but will disconnect/warn/etc you if you use whatever they consider "excessive" bandwidth. Verizon's usage policy specifically prohibits medium bandwidth / long term use, such as IP-telephony, constant webcam transmission, etc. Sprint doesn't prohibit these things in their terms of service. I've read many anecdotal reports of people downloading alot (over 50GB/month off the top of my head) without being disconnected.
If there's tiny molecules of ozone floating around in orbit of the earth, I'm certain that would be scientifically interesting.
Not only would this hypothetical - let's call it a "layer" - be interesting.. we should also investigate why the ozone from this.. "ozone layer" contains tiny molecules of ozone, compared to our relatively large molecules of ozone down on the surface.
The ozone molecules by my house are so large, in fact, that my cat eats them and chokes on them.:(
Hmm.. I was just thinking.. if we are to suspend our disbelief for a moment and consider that the premise of Asimov's story is true: The advent of true AI would be a pretty logical advance to stop - to be our "penicillin." Once AI can be >= Human Intelligence, that AI can produce a greater AI, and so on - causing the technological singularity. That singularity could give almost instantaneous rise to all the technologies that we're not "supposed" to have..
I can't remember the name, but there was this one Sci-fi story about the human race being grown by a superior species. In the same way that we would grow bacteria in a petri dish and put a ring of penecillin around it to kill all bacteria that try to leave that specific area, we were also being confined. But we were confined intellectually - our penecillin was "the discovery of an invisible nuclear shield" that could protect against a nuclear blast. In the story, every scientist who came close to this discovery would commit suicide. The story follows one particularly brilliant scientist who easily solved the problem, but was consumed by an irrisistable urge to kill himself once he figured it out.
Anyone remember the name of that story? Or was it a book? I don't remember.. but it's pretty interesting to think about - especially if AI researchers begin to have a statistically higher probability of suicide.
Wow, that's very interesting. I've never trained with a firearm (been to a shooting range once, recently), but all my life, whenever I am able to produce a gun to defend myself with, it never works. It either doesn't shoot, shoots bullets smaller than BB's that don't affect my attacker, or most often, shrinks into a small key-chain sized toy gun that I have difficulty manipulating the trigger with - and fires tiny ineffectual bullets if any at all.
I always attributed this phenomenon to the fact that I haven't actually held a gun (until recently), and my brain just didn't believe that a gun that fits in your hand could actually be used to kill/defend/etc. But after reading your account, I guess this is pretty common.
One fairly common dream that people in the self-defense community have is the one where you come under sudden attack and your gun malfunctions, or is out of ammunition, or for whatever reason you can't fire it at your dream-attacker.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, granted they are not travelling 60mph, this is still pretty impressive.. I consider this on-topic, because maybe it is possible to do what the summary suggests (replace wheel in moving car). :)
Watch from 1:55 to 2:35:
Youtube video of guys replacing a wheel on a car while it is moving..
Really? My desktop computer consumes about 220watts and is about 30dB with all my fans (quiet fans). According to TFA, this exoskeleton eats up about 250 watts, alot of which will be used up in motion. 95% of the 220 watts in my computer go directly to heat, because the only moving parts are small fans.
I'm pretty sure I'd also run through the fire, at least a few times or until video-game-death, just to see what happens..
Obligatory XCKD link
(Disclaimer: I don't.. just sharing)
You know, some people actually believe that to be literally true.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI
Putting a satellite around Mars.. hmmm.. maybe we should put two in orbit, and call them Phobos and Deimos. ;)
.
you're trolling..
and I'll bite: Still not hurting anyone in those cases. If that was "hurting someone," then YOU would be "hurting someone" if I bought a pair of chopsticks from you and stabbed myself in the eye with them. Hurting myself or others with those chopsticks is my own fault, and not yours (the seller). Ford is hurting someone when I buy a car and run over a baby. Should we make it illegal to sell or possess cars that can be abused to cause harm?
How about this: people hurt each other. Sometimes drugs are involved. Sometimes guns are involved. Sometimes chopsticks are involved. Don't make drugs, cars, chopsticks, and guns illegal to own (because the law clearly does not work as intended in two of the cases). Instead, why not try to convince people to stop hurting each other?
Or driving exactly at the speed limit in the middle of the road when every other car on the road is driving 20mph over, forcing everyone to swerve around. And alot of people end up passing on both sides - left and right, to get around the slow driver. Sure, the 100 people that pass the slow driver each may have made a risky move. But if you ask me, I put my blame on the one individual who is interrupting the flow of traffic for the 100 others and causing a hazard by not going with the flow. (I put my blame on him especially if he's doing it on purpose to try to force everyone else to align to his moral beliefs that you should never drive over the speed limit, but that's a rambling rant for another time.)
I think you're allowed to use the word "only" even if the percentage is is over 50%. Example: Only 59.1% of the people who tried the new hair product survived. Or: Only 59.1% of humans believe the world is round. "Only" probably sounds more legitimate in those two examples because you probably expect the number to be much greater than 59.1%.
The fact that the submitter said "only 59.1%" only means that (s)he either expected that number to be much greater than 59.1%, or (s)he's pretending to have expected that for dramatic effect (as I guess you're implying).
But yeah, I also think 59.1% is pretty high and am surprised that that many people keep their browser up-to-date. Just sayin'..
"It works by blowing a stream of air over two ice packs that you have previously frozen in your freezer." means = "no freon"?
Well, then I'm also selling water-free water for places that have water shortages. Just add 1 cup of water to the device and you will have an entire cup of water that you can drink!
This is why I voted for Al Gore. He knew about this all along. Right now it's just half pig, half man; but soon it will be half man, half bear, and half pig. ManBearPig is real.
IT, Systems Integration, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering..
I got a BS degree in Electrical Engineering a couple years ago and started out as a "Hardware Engineer" (by title only, didn't do any E.E., more like Systems Integration Analyst.. basically I picked which computer/network/etc hardware to buy, and made sure whatever it was would work. Rarely ever touched the hardware, except in the lab for reproducing/troubleshooting issues that the first line of defense could not figure out).. last few months I spent as a "Software Engineer," writing some code.
I think a technical BS degree these days is really just a license to work in a technology-related job, and that if you have the desire/motivation, you can really do anything you want right now (except R&D, unless you have a higher degree or are the cream of the crop of B.S.-having candidates).
Hey, I'm into the car-PC scene (where we replace our stock radio's with computers & touchscreens, in order to have all the features of the best touch-screen navigation/head units, in addition to things such as internet (wifi/edge/etc), engine management, etc..) [/carputer plug]
We frequently use LCD's in the 6-8" size, but they're usually touch-screen and that may be overkill for your application. If it's not, though, a good bang-for-the-buck 7" touchscreen is the Lilliput 7" touchscreen - ~$250. If you want something a little better, try the Xenarc 7" - ~$350 (I personally use the Xenarc 7" 700TSV and have tested the Lilliput 7".. I have only great things to say about Xenarcs)
The touchscreens connect to your computer via USB and the video source can be either VGA or a single RCA coaxial.
If you're on a budget, my best advice would be to search for a cheap Lilliput non-touchscreen in the size you want. A quick google search came up with this 7" Lilliput for $120
If you want touchscreens, a good place to start is www.mp3car.com. Non-touchscreens are less popular in the carputing world, so you will probably have better luck with google for those.
What about bodybuilders?
What about people with non-standard bone structure or fat distribution? They could easily have wider waists without actually being fat or overweight.
What about taller people? How can you expect someone who is 6'5" to have the same waist as someone who is 5'0"?
I'm 5'11.5" and ~200lbs and athletically built (12% body fat.. not bodybuilder low and not unhealthy high) but my waist is 33"-34". I'm fat and deserve a fine in Japan? Lame...
There is no reason to believe that we would even recognize extraterrestrial colonization. Right now, we probably expect an intelligently colonized region of space to be filled with large metal constructions and the congested traffic of a billion large space ships flying to/from various colonized places. Or we expect astronomical scale artificial constructions, like Dyson spheres.
There is NO reason to believe that civilization will look like that after having advanced sufficiently. This is just how WE scale our CURRENT concepts of "building/living structure," "vehicle," or "power plant" into future tech. In the same way, a man from the year 0 may imagine 2000-years-in-the-future tech to include super-chariots that are attached to 1,000 horses and triremes that can fly. It's impossible to see even a few THOUSAND(or hundred) years into the future with any accuracy.. all of our concepts will be completely obsolete and irrelevant. What makes us think that we will have ANY idea what progress/expansion/colonization will look like in a MILLION years?
Maybe a thousand other races have already passed our level of advancement and continue to exist, but in a way that is beyond our comprehension.
Not to nitpick, but.. customizing CJ's appearance actually had an effect on your respect/street cred and determines how many friendly gang members you can recruit to follow you at a time.
Anyways, gimme dem duckets!
Car Analogy:
Say a car A is 10 feet bumper to bumper, and 6 feet side to side. We say that car A is 10 feet long and 6 feet wide.
Now say car B is only 3 feet bumper to bumper (Steve Urkel's car?) and 6 feet wide. Would you say this car is 6 feet "long" just because its width happens to be the longest dimension? IMO, we would call this car "3 feet long and 6 feet wide."
I have Sprint's wireless broadband service specifically for use on the road. It's advertised as a 1.5Mbps connection and I consistently get download speeds of about 150KB/s (1.2 Mbps) and upload speeds of about 20-30KB/s in the Washington DC metro area.
I've also driven from Washington DC to Florida while playing internet radio and I had a minimum of dial-up speeds 95-99% of the time. I had broadband speeds about 75%+ of the time. The commute involved a 800 mile drive down I-95 and I was surprised at the broadband speeds at some seriously remote looking gas stops. (I would notice the drop from broadband speeds to dialup speeds because the connection wouldn't be able to keep up with the minimum of 10-20kb/s to keep the song buffered)
Also, Sprint has no usage limits and their terms: Verizon offers the same service, but will disconnect/warn/etc you if you use whatever they consider "excessive" bandwidth. Verizon's usage policy specifically prohibits medium bandwidth / long term use, such as IP-telephony, constant webcam transmission, etc. Sprint doesn't prohibit these things in their terms of service. I've read many anecdotal reports of people downloading alot (over 50GB/month off the top of my head) without being disconnected.
Not only would this hypothetical - let's call it a "layer" - be interesting.. we should also investigate why the ozone from this.. "ozone layer" contains tiny molecules of ozone, compared to our relatively large molecules of ozone down on the surface.
The ozone molecules by my house are so large, in fact, that my cat eats them and chokes on them.
Yeah, that's what you get for buying the Lamborghini Home edition. Everyone knows you need the Ultimate edition to fire all 12 cylinders.
Hmm.. I was just thinking.. if we are to suspend our disbelief for a moment and consider that the premise of Asimov's story is true: The advent of true AI would be a pretty logical advance to stop - to be our "penicillin." Once AI can be >= Human Intelligence, that AI can produce a greater AI, and so on - causing the technological singularity. That singularity could give almost instantaneous rise to all the technologies that we're not "supposed" to have..
(Sorry, I don't understand how to use the tag.)
Ah yeah, that was it. Thanks.
I can't remember the name, but there was this one Sci-fi story about the human race being grown by a superior species. In the same way that we would grow bacteria in a petri dish and put a ring of penecillin around it to kill all bacteria that try to leave that specific area, we were also being confined. But we were confined intellectually - our penecillin was "the discovery of an invisible nuclear shield" that could protect against a nuclear blast. In the story, every scientist who came close to this discovery would commit suicide. The story follows one particularly brilliant scientist who easily solved the problem, but was consumed by an irrisistable urge to kill himself once he figured it out.
Anyone remember the name of that story? Or was it a book? I don't remember.. but it's pretty interesting to think about - especially if AI researchers begin to have a statistically higher probability of suicide.
Maybe this is our penecillin?
I always attributed this phenomenon to the fact that I haven't actually held a gun (until recently), and my brain just didn't believe that a gun that fits in your hand could actually be used to kill/defend/etc. But after reading your account, I guess this is pretty common.