You are correct. One of the FedNet sequences shows a map of the galaxy and the bugs are on the opposite end from us. The narrator is saying how they're an immediate threat and so we must go to war, despite the obvious contradiction provided by the map.
There's a few ways to go about it. Either the screen will display the left and right images polarized simultaneously, and the polarized glasses will sort out which image goes to which eye. Or, the left and right images will be interleaved frame-by-frame, and shutters on the glasses will select which eye gets which image.
The best option is no glasses. You know those holographic posters where the image changes as you walk by it? It's exactly like that only the image changes every 3 inches, so each eye is guaranteed a different image (only in this case it's not a movie poster, it's a movie).
Just use an uninterrupted power supply system. It can be built to draw current only when the batteries are low, and that can be programmed in, so that the actual draw of electricity is orthogonal to the use of the electricity. Think kind of like a Prius.
This sounds like an energy-efficient design.
Some else suggested a capacitor--that wouldn't be so bad, I suppose.
I feel what you're saying, and I agree with both of you (op and gp), but imagine this with even weak AI. It could be a huge productivity booster. Instead of typing a long string of commands, tell it what you want in natural language, and let it generate the commands.
I liked the idea of each house having it's own trans/rec capable of producing a variety of ac/dc voltages. Then, when you plugged something in, it would tell the plug what it needed and the household transformer would deliver. Thus increasing the efficiency...kinda like the combining power supplies argument for data centers.
I was thinking in terms of an RPG game! I played table top d&d. I could easily imagine a mechanic such that the visibility index of a target would affect your chances of hitting from a distance, for instance. Or when rolling for stealth, your visibility index would affect that as well.
Ahhh. I thought maybe it was like how visible you are...something something index. Seeing as he was wearing a 'bright orange' jumpsuit, his visibility index would be highly unfavourable (thus the negative value).
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Addicting may be used as participle adjective so "Facebook Can Be Addicting" is in fact grammatically acceptable.
Just like any other service that sends money -- fees. http://bitcoinfees.com/
Titanium mined from the Moon could surely be sold for more than $9/lb.
You are correct. One of the FedNet sequences shows a map of the galaxy and the bugs are on the opposite end from us. The narrator is saying how they're an immediate threat and so we must go to war, despite the obvious contradiction provided by the map.
I hope there's some truth to this story.
Can someone rework this as a car analogy?
There's a few ways to go about it. Either the screen will display the left and right images polarized simultaneously, and the polarized glasses will sort out which image goes to which eye. Or, the left and right images will be interleaved frame-by-frame, and shutters on the glasses will select which eye gets which image. The best option is no glasses. You know those holographic posters where the image changes as you walk by it? It's exactly like that only the image changes every 3 inches, so each eye is guaranteed a different image (only in this case it's not a movie poster, it's a movie).
Tell that to OPEC.
No one cares about the trivial solution.
Higher math crowd-sourcing. I like this idea.
Just use an uninterrupted power supply system. It can be built to draw current only when the batteries are low, and that can be programmed in, so that the actual draw of electricity is orthogonal to the use of the electricity. Think kind of like a Prius.
This sounds like an energy-efficient design. Some else suggested a capacitor--that wouldn't be so bad, I suppose.
Flywheels.
Just don't throw any bricks?
I say it's more reliable. Twitter gets cached by all sortsa spiders all day long. If someone blocks twitter, your bot can go to a cache instead.
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Seriously?
I feel what you're saying, and I agree with both of you (op and gp), but imagine this with even weak AI. It could be a huge productivity booster. Instead of typing a long string of commands, tell it what you want in natural language, and let it generate the commands.
Or if you happened to control a huge botnet, you could do the same thing.
means going in your diapers.
I believe the program you refer to is title 'House M.D.'
I liked the idea of each house having it's own trans/rec capable of producing a variety of ac/dc voltages. Then, when you plugged something in, it would tell the plug what it needed and the household transformer would deliver. Thus increasing the efficiency...kinda like the combining power supplies argument for data centers.
Relevant (and interesting) article: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/06nov_loworbit.htm
I think your definition of 'just works' is very different from Joe PC's definition of 'just works'.
I was thinking in terms of an RPG game! I played table top d&d. I could easily imagine a mechanic such that the visibility index of a target would affect your chances of hitting from a distance, for instance. Or when rolling for stealth, your visibility index would affect that as well.
Ahhh. I thought maybe it was like how visible you are...something something index. Seeing as he was wearing a 'bright orange' jumpsuit, his visibility index would be highly unfavourable (thus the negative value).