Don't forget the elderly and people with severe disabilities. Someone I care about has a disability and after a LONG LONG time, she is finally about to get a $127,000 car that she can drive herself. Cars for people with more severe disabilities are extremely expensive, but obviously necessary for jobs, and just to enjoy life in general. This is a real problem for the most vulnerable in our society that can be solved with autonomous vehicles.
I am no expert on the matter, but I was under the impression that chess is a problem that would benefit tremendously from quantum computer computations. I've read many sources online that claim this is the case, though none are academic papers. The staggering number of computations does not necessarily phase me because of how quantum computers work. Such staggering computations are more of a problem for classical computers.
Well, whether the technology will arrive may or may not be hype. I don't know. However, once and if it arrives, they will be able to do these things. That part, at least, is not hype.
Quantum computers will bring an end to the competitiveness of AI vs Human chess games. They will be able to completely solve the game, meaning that they can produce a series of moves that will guarantee a win (or tie if the human player plays perfectly) from any position on the board.
On the other hand, we will leap frog centuries of moore's law in bioinformatics algorithms. Goodbye protein folding problem!
150K is just way too high for people to afford. People who use wheelchairs don't represent a significant market force. Traditional capitalism will burn these people (see iBot). There needs to be a huge government investment in technology similar to this. Applying Laissez-Faire to this community is fucking cruel. Also, how much of the 150k is for parts? How many hours go into making one of these devices? What you're going to end up with is a lot of people who use wheelchairs are going to want one of these devices but are going to be SOL. We need one of these devices to cost no more than the typical car.
Also, something about the video didn't makes sense. I suspect some not-so-clever marketing. People who use wheelchairs move the towels down to where they can reach them. If he uses this thing to fetch a towel, he has to get up in the morning and get into his wheelchair, transfer to REX, fetch the towel, transfer back into his wheelchair, and transfer into the shower. Why not just move the towels low enough to reach and save yourself a lot of time?
Great point, but there is technology out there that allows driving on the road with advanced machine learning techniques interpreting video from multiple cameras (including infra-red) that see things even we humans can not see to avoid accidents. I would like to see some of these devices make it to market.
Now, don't get me wrong because I love that Windows has some competition. Still, I can't shake the feeling that we look the other way too much when Apple does some evil authoritarian tactic to boost its sells. I for one, will vote with my wallet in the future and avoid the iPhone.
Something I find extremely frustrating when I read articles like this is why the delay in bringing products like this to market? If this car makes it up the peek and it is reproducible with a better chance of success than a human driver, and the same can be shown for regular driving conditions, then why isn't it being sold to people? Many older individuals who can no longer drive, or those with severe disabilities would benefit TREMENDOUSLY from this technology. Not to mention people like me who just want to reduce the probability of accidents on the road. I trust a highly optimized computer to be much more accurate at doing repetitive tasks like driving than I would a human in the same way that I trust the average computer to crunch numbers more than the average human.
Something this technology can eventually do is help people with disabilities eventually get around without having to use a wheelchair. It would give people with disabilities the freedom to use robotic legs to be more self-reliant. I'm talking climbing stairs, getting in and out of cars without $25,000 modifications, and traversing airports independently. If you think going through TSA is bad now, imagine what they do to you if you need to go through with a metal chair. The problem that many people don't realize is that people with disabilities don't earn enough money to create a market for these things because of widespread discrimination in the job market for people with disabilities. This is one case where capitalism severely fails. We have the technology to very significantly improve the lives of many people with disabilities. In particular, there is a car that people without appropriate upper body strength can drive, but the damned thing costs $127,000. Combine that price tag with widespread job discrimination in even extremely qualified people with disabilities, and we are simply just teasing an already disadvantaged minority of people.
I have a different idea. There is no cult because Microsoft hasn't done anything new that is pervasive for the average computer user in how many years? Making new and unexciting changes to its movie player, office suite, and slowing down the Operating System for us doesn't elicit fanboyism. Look at Google, Google Earth, Google e-mail, google news, being able to IM without downloading a client. Not to mention they brought a new more consumer friendly philosophy to the mainstream. MS is trying to play catch-up but it stopped coming up with new ideas of its own. Apple gave us the iPod, iTunes, a beautiful and stylish OS and computers. What has MS done recently that is innovative?
I love the idea of quantum computing but I'm tired of seeing articles that say "Progress has been made in QC" or "Breakthrough in QC". Why don't we have a checklist available so that we can cross something out on the checklist every time progress is made. This way we can see exactly how much closer we are to getting QC to the market.
We need someone to get people excited at the idea of change. We need someone charismatic, influenctial, and with the power to convince the rest of the people that we *can* make a difference. People just aren't excited at the idea of taking back control. Someone needs to speak up and remind people that it is well worth the effort. Such people are usually celebrities but don't need to be. Especially these days; it's hard to find a normal celebrity these days.
I see this as a great opportunity for Linux. As MS Windows restricts what can and can't be done on their OS, Linux should get their crap together and work on hardware support and on making an user friendly distribution to get the average joe on board (it was painful and took MANY tries for me to learn linux from scratch and this was just a year ago). We generally won't get the older Mom and Pops to install Linux but the average Joe is all we need.
Didn't the French kill their leaders when they got half as corrupt as ours? Americans have lost the cojones that built this country in the first place.
You guys know what would be even better? If Nintendo sold a dev kit that anyone can buy at a reasonable price and we'd all be able to see our games in the online market so that Wii owners just pay $5 and they get our game. We could get $4 and Nintendo could get $1 and everybody is happy. Let natural selection dictate who gets rewarded for their work.
Listen guys, we can squabble here all day long about how wrong this is and how messed up copyright laws have become. The truth is that none of this matters, the **AA's will do whatever they want because the have MONEY. They have the power to make things like this happen. It's so funny that Americans are so concerned about what's happening overseas, it's like we've completely given up on impacting US copyright laws. The people deciding on passing these laws aren't the most qualified to deal with these issues.
As vast as The Greatness of America is, it can be destroyed by the failure of the people in charge to have some intelligence, altruism, and to strip power away from the people and transfer it over to themselves. We have a President who has expressed contempt for the whistleblower who outed his violations of the 4th Ammendment and a Supreme court that is becoming an extension to the executive branch.
Don't protect politicians breaking the law! Advocate Whistleblower rights!
This makes sense because to make a movie one can take advantage of houses already built, landscapes to be filmed free of charge, forrests there for the filming. When a game is made EVERYTHING must be created by the game designers over and over again for each new game and prices soar. What we need is an open source project that gives game designers access to a world and characters they could use free of charge. They could then design the actual game and not waste time placing a tree here and a lake there.
Someone should start an open source world, sort of like Wikipedia but instead of an encyclopedia it'll be an online world.
I'm genuinely worried for Sony. This appears to be a desperate move. It's hard to see where the PS3 will fit in. It looks to be a slightly better and more expensive XBOX 360. The Nintendo era is upon us once again.:-)
Here at slashdot I like to think that many of us are pretty smart. What I want to do is use our collective power to push forth our agenda. Generally speaking, we all pretty much disagree with Gonzales and how this administration is attacking the 1st and 4th ammendments. There are so many of us here, I was thinking that maybe someone can think of a way that all of us, as a group, can make more of a difference than just express our outrage to each other. It doesn't necessarily need to be about money (but it can).
It can be as simple as all of us going to another website and posting the highest rated opinions from slashdot onto their website so we wouldn't just be preaching to the quire. The money route can also be taken, every time a story is printed about an attack on the constitution, we all donate $5 to EFF. I don't know, what do you guys think? Should we sit around and cry or do something about it?
Really? I've been watching the news and I haven't heard of this happening. It doesn't make sense that the media wouldn't report on this. I mean it's one thing to not memorize the exact wording of the 4th Ammendment and quite another to make assertions with such huge consequences about it that are plain and simply FALSE. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the media is ignoring this issue. They try hard to appear to look neutral. This means they have to ignore like 10 times more negative coverage about this administration than the opposition.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
People died for these rights. Human beings had to say goodbye to their girlfriends, wives, parents, and children forever in order to go die a likely horribly painful death. They did this because they believed there was some value in these rights. They sacrificed themselves so that the majority of us would, in privlige, enjoy the benefits of their sacrifice. Today, in this day and age and by not caring, we as a people are telling those TRUE patriots "You can take your sacrifice and shove it up your ass."
Ironically, liberty and freedom are being attacked by the same people claiming to be inspired by it.
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Don't forget the elderly and people with severe disabilities. Someone I care about has a disability and after a LONG LONG time, she is finally about to get a $127,000 car that she can drive herself. Cars for people with more severe disabilities are extremely expensive, but obviously necessary for jobs, and just to enjoy life in general. This is a real problem for the most vulnerable in our society that can be solved with autonomous vehicles.
It is if you have musculary dsytrophy. Besides, robotics research will definitely help society in general in the future. Think big picture.
I am no expert on the matter, but I was under the impression that chess is a problem that would benefit tremendously from quantum computer computations. I've read many sources online that claim this is the case, though none are academic papers. The staggering number of computations does not necessarily phase me because of how quantum computers work. Such staggering computations are more of a problem for classical computers.
Well, whether the technology will arrive may or may not be hype. I don't know. However, once and if it arrives, they will be able to do these things. That part, at least, is not hype.
Quantum computers will bring an end to the competitiveness of AI vs Human chess games. They will be able to completely solve the game, meaning that they can produce a series of moves that will guarantee a win (or tie if the human player plays perfectly) from any position on the board. On the other hand, we will leap frog centuries of moore's law in bioinformatics algorithms. Goodbye protein folding problem!
150K is just way too high for people to afford. People who use wheelchairs don't represent a significant market force. Traditional capitalism will burn these people (see iBot). There needs to be a huge government investment in technology similar to this. Applying Laissez-Faire to this community is fucking cruel. Also, how much of the 150k is for parts? How many hours go into making one of these devices? What you're going to end up with is a lot of people who use wheelchairs are going to want one of these devices but are going to be SOL. We need one of these devices to cost no more than the typical car. Also, something about the video didn't makes sense. I suspect some not-so-clever marketing. People who use wheelchairs move the towels down to where they can reach them. If he uses this thing to fetch a towel, he has to get up in the morning and get into his wheelchair, transfer to REX, fetch the towel, transfer back into his wheelchair, and transfer into the shower. Why not just move the towels low enough to reach and save yourself a lot of time?
Great point, but there is technology out there that allows driving on the road with advanced machine learning techniques interpreting video from multiple cameras (including infra-red) that see things even we humans can not see to avoid accidents. I would like to see some of these devices make it to market.
Now, don't get me wrong because I love that Windows has some competition. Still, I can't shake the feeling that we look the other way too much when Apple does some evil authoritarian tactic to boost its sells. I for one, will vote with my wallet in the future and avoid the iPhone.
Something I find extremely frustrating when I read articles like this is why the delay in bringing products like this to market? If this car makes it up the peek and it is reproducible with a better chance of success than a human driver, and the same can be shown for regular driving conditions, then why isn't it being sold to people? Many older individuals who can no longer drive, or those with severe disabilities would benefit TREMENDOUSLY from this technology. Not to mention people like me who just want to reduce the probability of accidents on the road. I trust a highly optimized computer to be much more accurate at doing repetitive tasks like driving than I would a human in the same way that I trust the average computer to crunch numbers more than the average human.
Something this technology can eventually do is help people with disabilities eventually get around without having to use a wheelchair. It would give people with disabilities the freedom to use robotic legs to be more self-reliant. I'm talking climbing stairs, getting in and out of cars without $25,000 modifications, and traversing airports independently. If you think going through TSA is bad now, imagine what they do to you if you need to go through with a metal chair. The problem that many people don't realize is that people with disabilities don't earn enough money to create a market for these things because of widespread discrimination in the job market for people with disabilities. This is one case where capitalism severely fails. We have the technology to very significantly improve the lives of many people with disabilities. In particular, there is a car that people without appropriate upper body strength can drive, but the damned thing costs $127,000. Combine that price tag with widespread job discrimination in even extremely qualified people with disabilities, and we are simply just teasing an already disadvantaged minority of people.
I have a different idea. There is no cult because Microsoft hasn't done anything new that is pervasive for the average computer user in how many years? Making new and unexciting changes to its movie player, office suite, and slowing down the Operating System for us doesn't elicit fanboyism. Look at Google, Google Earth, Google e-mail, google news, being able to IM without downloading a client. Not to mention they brought a new more consumer friendly philosophy to the mainstream. MS is trying to play catch-up but it stopped coming up with new ideas of its own. Apple gave us the iPod, iTunes, a beautiful and stylish OS and computers. What has MS done recently that is innovative?
I love the idea of quantum computing but I'm tired of seeing articles that say "Progress has been made in QC" or "Breakthrough in QC". Why don't we have a checklist available so that we can cross something out on the checklist every time progress is made. This way we can see exactly how much closer we are to getting QC to the market.
We need someone to get people excited at the idea of change. We need someone charismatic, influenctial, and with the power to convince the rest of the people that we *can* make a difference. People just aren't excited at the idea of taking back control. Someone needs to speak up and remind people that it is well worth the effort. Such people are usually celebrities but don't need to be. Especially these days; it's hard to find a normal celebrity these days.
You run Vista Beta 2? You have my sympathy you brave brave man.
I see this as a great opportunity for Linux. As MS Windows restricts what can and can't be done on their OS, Linux should get their crap together and work on hardware support and on making an user friendly distribution to get the average joe on board (it was painful and took MANY tries for me to learn linux from scratch and this was just a year ago). We generally won't get the older Mom and Pops to install Linux but the average Joe is all we need.
Didn't the French kill their leaders when they got half as corrupt as ours? Americans have lost the cojones that built this country in the first place.
You guys know what would be even better? If Nintendo sold a dev kit that anyone can buy at a reasonable price and we'd all be able to see our games in the online market so that Wii owners just pay $5 and they get our game. We could get $4 and Nintendo could get $1 and everybody is happy. Let natural selection dictate who gets rewarded for their work.
Listen guys, we can squabble here all day long about how wrong this is and how messed up copyright laws have become. The truth is that none of this matters, the **AA's will do whatever they want because the have MONEY. They have the power to make things like this happen. It's so funny that Americans are so concerned about what's happening overseas, it's like we've completely given up on impacting US copyright laws. The people deciding on passing these laws aren't the most qualified to deal with these issues.
As vast as The Greatness of America is, it can be destroyed by the failure of the people in charge to have some intelligence, altruism, and to strip power away from the people and transfer it over to themselves. We have a President who has expressed contempt for the whistleblower who outed his violations of the 4th Ammendment and a Supreme court that is becoming an extension to the executive branch. Don't protect politicians breaking the law! Advocate Whistleblower rights!
This makes sense because to make a movie one can take advantage of houses already built, landscapes to be filmed free of charge, forrests there for the filming. When a game is made EVERYTHING must be created by the game designers over and over again for each new game and prices soar. What we need is an open source project that gives game designers access to a world and characters they could use free of charge. They could then design the actual game and not waste time placing a tree here and a lake there. Someone should start an open source world, sort of like Wikipedia but instead of an encyclopedia it'll be an online world.
I'm genuinely worried for Sony. This appears to be a desperate move. It's hard to see where the PS3 will fit in. It looks to be a slightly better and more expensive XBOX 360. The Nintendo era is upon us once again. :-)
Here at slashdot I like to think that many of us are pretty smart. What I want to do is use our collective power to push forth our agenda. Generally speaking, we all pretty much disagree with Gonzales and how this administration is attacking the 1st and 4th ammendments. There are so many of us here, I was thinking that maybe someone can think of a way that all of us, as a group, can make more of a difference than just express our outrage to each other. It doesn't necessarily need to be about money (but it can).
It can be as simple as all of us going to another website and posting the highest rated opinions from slashdot onto their website so we wouldn't just be preaching to the quire. The money route can also be taken, every time a story is printed about an attack on the constitution, we all donate $5 to EFF. I don't know, what do you guys think? Should we sit around and cry or do something about it?
United we stand.
Really? I've been watching the news and I haven't heard of this happening. It doesn't make sense that the media wouldn't report on this. I mean it's one thing to not memorize the exact wording of the 4th Ammendment and quite another to make assertions with such huge consequences about it that are plain and simply FALSE. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the media is ignoring this issue. They try hard to appear to look neutral. This means they have to ignore like 10 times more negative coverage about this administration than the opposition.
https://secure.eff.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_D ONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1122
Here is the link to donate to EFF.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. People died for these rights. Human beings had to say goodbye to their girlfriends, wives, parents, and children forever in order to go die a likely horribly painful death. They did this because they believed there was some value in these rights. They sacrificed themselves so that the majority of us would, in privlige, enjoy the benefits of their sacrifice. Today, in this day and age and by not caring, we as a people are telling those TRUE patriots "You can take your sacrifice and shove it up your ass." Ironically, liberty and freedom are being attacked by the same people claiming to be inspired by it.