At least they aren't going the route of apple which last week, for example, patented an existing 3D eye tracking based icon display system of which there is a demo by someone else in youtube since 2009.
Would the patent office bother to find out? I dont think so. Don't believe me, compare it yourself:
A person who thinks a vaccine causes autism is liable to start blaming their doctor for whatever other ailments crop up in their kids life. Which is only no big deal if you don't have a family yourself or reputation.
Desalination.. just have solar powered desalination plants so that desalinated sea water can be piped inland to the farms.. israel does it.. if you dont wanna be stuck with a salt mound.. just remix the salt with the agricultural outflow and it'll be dumped back in the sea.
i can't f'ing believe this crap.. is it ever going to end?? i have a worrisome feeling that mankind's inalienable rights, the ones the US founding fathers identified, will eventually be completely squished under a boot of tyranny. I mean every year there's a relentless assault on it. It's starting to feel like we're all huddled inside the Alamo. Except there's no Texian Army to avenge it.
Any attractive force can cause orbit. The water droplets were forced out of a syringe and have a velocity pointing away from the syringe.. when the droplets get attracted to the knitting needle they still retain that velocity/momentum.. the attraction of the needle can't erase the droplet's pre-existing velocity.. this causes the droplet to orbit.. it slowly spirals inwards because air resistance that slows down it's velocity.
Obama's healthcare plan, as passed.. simply states that you must get private insurance. The few who cannot afford it will get taxpayer assistance. The overall taxpayer input will not justify the govt. telling people they can't eat chocolate. In fact, the INSURANCE companies can do that.. they already have stuff like that.. for example if you have health insurance and you smoke.. if you get sick.. they can tell you you voided the contract by smoking so you're out of luck. Why would a private insurance company want to insure people they know are going to fall ill? The fears of being regulated can happen without government. It'll be quite easy for healthcare companies to write in loopholes like that to get out of their obligations.
And btw the FDA already "decides" what you can and cannot buy in a store.. for example can you buy diseased rotten meat? And guess what the helmet laws exist regardless of "socialized" healthcare.
At least governments can be voted out within 2 to 4 years of sh*t hitting the fan. Again, Obama's health care plan only says everyone should get insurance and those who can't afford it will be given assistance to purchase it. If you smoke or eat excess chocolate, you will simply have to pay more.. the govt. assistance won't cover it. This is how it would be under a private system too.
I'm not sure with current technology this will be very useful. Better than nothing? As I have said in the past, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1408231&cid=29781469 -this is the way forward.. but I hope it's not at the expense of long term. I mean look how long it is taking for us to wean of incandescent lightbulbs and gasoline.
We really need a way to do long reads, coupled with single cell sequencing technology. That's the proper way to attack cancer. Hmm, also we may need a way to find out chromatin structure on a single cell basis too. Get on it.
That's not what that link says. It says Microsoft is making more _revenue wise_ from Android than Windows phones. Per phone, Microsoft makes more on WP7 (which brings in $22 per phone).
"The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908 (see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus) and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. 109. The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell, lend or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained. This means that the copyright holder's rights to control the change of ownership of a particular copy ends once ownership of that copy has passed to someone else, as long as the copy itself is not an infringing copy. This doctrine is also referred to as the "right of first sale," "first sale rule," or "exhaustion rule.""
This should means that a store can buy a movie and rent it out online for as little as 25 cents.. as long as it does not retain a copy. How is that feasible as a business model? Simple.. do it the similar to how DVD rental kiosks work. Temporarily authorize the credit card for the full price of the movie --say..19.95.. then when the rental period is over.. "buy back" the full movie for $19.70.. This would make it possible to legally rent out movies for dirt cheap. In theory movie companies shouldn't get overly pissed off at the concept either because they can always either increase the price of the first sale and they can expect more movie watching and growth for the industry.
1. Display 2d images on a flat panel tv facing you 2. spin the display 45 degrees so that one edge is nearer to you the other edge 3. That's it --notice how pixels on one side are closer to you when the ones on the opposite edge are futher away from u spetially)you display is in 3D now.
I agree with what you're saying as it applies to today..in the context of the low cost of Chinese labor.. however even for them.. the exception for "final assembly work, such as putting the device together, and maybe packaging it" is rapidly disappearing (youtube has plenty of videos of packaging robots).
As for putting stuff in enclosures, robots will be able to do it in the not too distant future. There has been a lot of advancement in image recognition and robot dexterity. The robot may cost $1 million.. while you can hire 60 (equally productive in sum total) workers for 5 full years at that price ($300 per month is considered a great salary http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Media/foxconn-china-assembly-workers-receive-pay-raise/story?id=10846341#.TxxTTiMq1W4 ). But unlike the robot you won't need a consultant $10,000 to reprogram it every year for the updated product and also hire or contract a full time semi-skilled person to watch for and deal with robot issues. Plus if you lose the next year's manufacturing contract... you can let the workers go rather than be in debt for the robot.
"To make a robot that places an assembled board into an enclosure, for example, is more difficult because the enclosure could have any number of shapes. "
You'd be correct if many types of enclosures had to be randomly assigned to one worker. However, for most consumer products the sales numbers are in the tens of thousands or even millions, so a single robot would only have to deal with one type of enclosure. Yes.. you do need a skilled programmer to program the robot's movements and failure detection ability and all that. However, you don't need 100 programmers if we are talking about 100 robots doing the same thing.
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aZWWZnXDA.. look at what the workers are doing (at the 45 second mark they show some of their work clearly).. tell me you think a set of modern robots with machine vision capability and all that cannot be programmed do it.
Building a B-24 was a skilled job that required a lot of care and attention to detail. However, manufacturing itself has changed so that the precision work is no longer handled by humans at all.. it's all done by industrial robots. Only the most boring stuff is handled by humans. For example, sophisticated surface mounting of chips on PCB boards used to require a skilled worker.. today it's done by entirely 100% by robot far more precisely than any human could do it. The US minimum wage is $8 an hour. They pay the Chinese $8 a day.. maybe even less. That means a US minimum wage worker needs to be 8 times as productive as a Chinese.. which may sound laughably easy.. but.. most of the work is repetitious manual labor that doesn't require a precision skill or ability (watch some videos of manufacturing in China.. it's all stuff like screwing components onto boards.. tell me you'd wanna do that 8 times as fast). In fact, a robot could (and will..google the article about how Hon Hai is purchasing 1,000,000 robots in the next few years) replace most of the Chinese workers. Already many FANUC robots are already nearly cost competitive with Chinese workers.
The US is still the undisputed leader in aircraft manufacture because aircraft manufacture is a low volume industry that robots cannot do cost competitively. Yet.
Has anyone seen what's possible with modern robotics? The only reason the Chinese employ people in their factories is because the robots are still expensive. Already robots are starting to displace workers.. and the pace of that is increasing.. google Hon Hai robots.. you'll find the story of how one Chinese factory plans to introduce about 1,000,000 (yes.. one million robots to improve its manufacturing capability). Jobs of the future will be in maintaining, programming, and arranging these industrial robots. And they are so reliable they wont require that many maintenance workers. Also the robots will be cheap enough that they can merely be swapped rather than repaired.. so special skills won't even be required. In the not too distant future (2025).. the total number of workers needed per million iPhones will be very low.
The only reason so many Chinese are in manufacturing jobs is because robots are currently expensive. Eventually about 90% of them will be replaced by robotics.. and those robots will likely be made by FANUC in Japan.
The Pixel Qi resolutions suck.. tablet displays going forward will need 250 ppi or high. Even laptops will likely require 200 ppi and up to be competitive in 3Q and 4Q of this year.
"the read length in the Ion Torrent system is ten times the size it needs to be"
Uh no. Not at all.
"most (known) diseases occur due to mutations in the very specific and non-repetitive exome"
The problem is that if it does occur outside of this, there's be no way to tell where exactly it is. Second, even if it is within the non-repetitive region.. a mutation could make matching the sequences difficult since it wouldn't be certain if you're dealing with an overlap or a mutation. The reason most known diseases occur due to mutations in non repetitive areas is because those are the easiest areas to detect. The unknown diseases probably occupy the other spots.
For disease specific mutations such as cancer the only way to detect the mutations is with long reads. If you want to cure cancer there needs to be a way to do long reads with single cell sequencing.
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GTFS? Get The Fucking Subway?
At least they aren't going the route of apple which last week, for example, patented an existing 3D eye tracking based icon display system of which there is a demo by someone else in youtube since 2009.
Would the patent office bother to find out? I dont think so.
Don't believe me, compare it yourself:
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/02/apple-working-on-hot-3d-eye-tracking-interface-for-gaming-iphone.html
versus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SImOIMcMlk
If anyone has any connection to the US patent office they should be made aware.
If they were really students at the Univeristy of Twente, how come they stole Thirty instead of Twenty laptops? Not very good students.
A person who thinks a vaccine causes autism is liable to start blaming their doctor for whatever other ailments crop up in their kids life. Which is only no big deal if you don't have a family yourself or reputation.
Why would any doc want that?
Desalination .. just have solar powered desalination plants so that desalinated sea water can be piped inland to the farms .. israel does it .. if you dont wanna be stuck with a salt mound .. just remix the salt with the agricultural outflow and it'll be dumped back in the sea.
i can't f'ing believe this crap .. is it ever going to end??
i have a worrisome feeling that mankind's inalienable rights, the ones the US founding fathers identified, will eventually be completely squished under a boot of tyranny. I mean every year there's a relentless assault on it. It's starting to feel like we're all huddled inside the Alamo. Except there's no Texian Army to avenge it.
Any attractive force can cause orbit. The water droplets were forced out of a syringe and have a velocity pointing away from the syringe .. when the droplets get attracted to the knitting needle they still retain that velocity/momentum .. the attraction of the needle can't erase the droplet's pre-existing velocity .. this causes the droplet to orbit .. it slowly spirals inwards because air resistance that slows down it's velocity.
I think you should focus on what people are saying rather then looking for grammatical quirks.
Obama's healthcare plan, as passed .. simply states that you must get private insurance. The few who cannot afford it will get taxpayer assistance. The overall taxpayer input will not justify the govt. telling people they can't eat chocolate. In fact, the INSURANCE companies can do that .. they already have stuff like that .. for example if you have health insurance and you smoke .. if you get sick .. they can tell you you voided the contract by smoking so you're out of luck. Why would a private insurance company want to insure people they know are going to fall ill? The fears of being regulated can happen without government. It'll be quite easy for healthcare companies to write in loopholes like that to get out of their obligations.
And btw the FDA already "decides" what you can and cannot buy in a store .. for example can you buy diseased rotten meat? And guess what the helmet laws exist regardless of "socialized" healthcare.
At least governments can be voted out within 2 to 4 years of sh*t hitting the fan. Again, Obama's health care plan only says everyone should get insurance and those who can't afford it will be given assistance to purchase it. If you smoke or eat excess chocolate, you will simply have to pay more .. the govt. assistance won't cover it. This is how it would be under a private system too.
I'm not sure with current technology this will be very useful. Better than nothing? As I have said in the past, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1408231&cid=29781469 -this is the way forward .. but I hope it's not at the expense of long term. I mean look how long it is taking for us to wean of incandescent lightbulbs and gasoline.
We really need a way to do long reads, coupled with single cell sequencing technology. That's the proper way to attack cancer. Hmm, also we may need a way to find out chromatin structure on a single cell basis too. Get on it.
That's not what that link says. It says Microsoft is making more _revenue wise_ from Android than Windows phones. Per phone, Microsoft makes more on WP7 (which brings in $22 per phone).
So now people who don't have to live in it get more convenient ways to decide how people in a particular state should live?
Uh, if Mickey Mouse was really on that ballot those would be the real results.
I thought Nicholas Lydon was British. He sounds Brit.
Why doesn't someone offer a legal online movie rental service that's ultra cheap ... way cheaper than iTunes or even netflix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
"The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908 (see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus) and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. 109. The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell, lend or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained. This means that the copyright holder's rights to control the change of ownership of a particular copy ends once ownership of that copy has passed to someone else, as long as the copy itself is not an infringing copy. This doctrine is also referred to as the "right of first sale," "first sale rule," or "exhaustion rule.""
This should means that a store can buy a movie and rent it out online for as little as 25 cents .. as long as it does not retain a copy. How is that feasible as a business model? Simple .. do it the similar to how DVD rental kiosks work. Temporarily authorize the credit card for the full price of the movie --say ..19.95 .. then when the rental period is over .. "buy back" the full movie for $19.70 .. This would make it possible to legally rent out movies for dirt cheap. In theory movie companies shouldn't get overly pissed off at the concept either because they can always either increase the price of the first sale and they can expect more movie watching and growth for the industry.
1. Display 2d images on a flat panel tv facing you
2. spin the display 45 degrees so that one edge is nearer to you the other edge
3. That's it --notice how pixels on one side are closer to you when the ones on the opposite edge are futher away from u spetially)you display is in 3D now.
OK I screwed up .. that's not what would result in $68K bill .. shoulda double checked it since it seemed fishy before commenting.
1,440 minutes is only 11 movies! It's not streaming 24/7 .. it's just 3 movies a week.
I agree with what you're saying as it applies to today ..in the context of the low cost of Chinese labor .. however even for them .. the exception for "final assembly work, such as putting the device together, and maybe packaging it" is rapidly disappearing (youtube has plenty of videos of packaging robots).
As for putting stuff in enclosures, robots will be able to do it in the not too distant future. There has been a lot of advancement in image recognition and robot dexterity. The robot may cost $1 million .. while you can hire 60 (equally productive in sum total) workers for 5 full years at that price ($300 per month is considered a great salary http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Media/foxconn-china-assembly-workers-receive-pay-raise/story?id=10846341#.TxxTTiMq1W4 ). But unlike the robot you won't need a consultant $10,000 to reprogram it every year for the updated product and also hire or contract a full time semi-skilled person to watch for and deal with robot issues. Plus if you lose the next year's manufacturing contract ... you can let the workers go rather than be in debt for the robot.
"To make a robot that places an assembled board into an enclosure, for example, is more difficult because the enclosure could have any number of shapes. "
You'd be correct if many types of enclosures had to be randomly assigned to one worker. However, for most consumer products the sales numbers are in the tens of thousands or even millions, so a single robot would only have to deal with one type of enclosure. Yes .. you do need a skilled programmer to program the robot's movements and failure detection ability and all that. However, you don't need 100 programmers if we are talking about 100 robots doing the same thing.
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aZWWZnXDA .. look at what the workers are doing (at the 45 second mark they show some of their work clearly) .. tell me you think a set of modern robots with machine vision capability and all that cannot be programmed do it.
Building a B-24 was a skilled job that required a lot of care and attention to detail. However, manufacturing itself has changed so that the precision work is no longer handled by humans at all .. it's all done by industrial robots. Only the most boring stuff is handled by humans. For example, sophisticated surface mounting of chips on PCB boards used to require a skilled worker .. today it's done by entirely 100% by robot far more precisely than any human could do it. The US minimum wage is $8 an hour. They pay the Chinese $8 a day .. maybe even less. That means a US minimum wage worker needs to be 8 times as productive as a Chinese .. which may sound laughably easy .. but .. most of the work is repetitious manual labor that doesn't require a precision skill or ability (watch some videos of manufacturing in China .. it's all stuff like screwing components onto boards .. tell me you'd wanna do that 8 times as fast). In fact, a robot could (and will ..google the article about how Hon Hai is purchasing 1,000,000 robots in the next few years) replace most of the Chinese workers. Already many FANUC robots are already nearly cost competitive with Chinese workers.
The US is still the undisputed leader in aircraft manufacture because aircraft manufacture is a low volume industry that robots cannot do cost competitively. Yet.
Has anyone seen what's possible with modern robotics? The only reason the Chinese employ people in their factories is because the robots are still expensive. Already robots are starting to displace workers .. and the pace of that is increasing .. google Hon Hai robots .. you'll find the story of how one Chinese factory plans to introduce about 1,000,000 (yes .. one million robots to improve its manufacturing capability). Jobs of the future will be in maintaining, programming, and arranging these industrial robots. And they are so reliable they wont require that many maintenance workers. Also the robots will be cheap enough that they can merely be swapped rather than repaired .. so special skills won't even be required. In the not too distant future (2025) .. the total number of workers needed per million iPhones will be very low.
Here's what was possible 15 years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7foG1rtlA (fast forward to 1:35 to avoid the text crap.
The only reason so many Chinese are in manufacturing jobs is because robots are currently expensive. Eventually about 90% of them will be replaced by robotics .. and those robots will likely be made by FANUC in Japan.
I figure after I eat those microbes I could get drunk just by eating seaweed. I could just live at the beach .. perfect.
The Pixel Qi resolutions suck .. tablet displays going forward will need 250 ppi or high. Even laptops will likely require 200 ppi and up to be competitive in 3Q and 4Q of this year.
"the read length in the Ion Torrent system is ten times the size it needs to be"
Uh no. Not at all.
"most (known) diseases occur due to mutations in the very specific and non-repetitive exome"
The problem is that if it does occur outside of this, there's be no way to tell where exactly it is. Second, even if it is within the non-repetitive region .. a mutation could make matching the sequences difficult since it wouldn't be certain if you're dealing with an overlap or a mutation. The reason most known diseases occur due to mutations in non repetitive areas is because those are the easiest areas to detect. The unknown diseases probably occupy the other spots.
For disease specific mutations such as cancer the only way to detect the mutations is with long reads. If you want to cure cancer there needs to be a way to do long reads with single cell sequencing.
If by close you meant 5 times thicker, then yes.