Comment Re:The "If current trends continue" problem (Score 1) 314
The Segway, just as was originally predicted.
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."
Comment Re:Roberto! (Score 1) 132
We have safety rules to deal with this.
Robots either need very different safety rules or they need systems developed to make them respond more like humans (the people in the article seem to be working on such a system).
If only there were some sort of code of conduct, or better yet, Law of Robotics we could apply to keep people safe. Unfortunately, nobody's ever come up with a set.
Comment Re:/Obligatory (Score 1) 706
No, it's not; Yakov and the Simpsons are never obligatory. Nobody's making you post it. Maybe if they gave you money to do so like in TFA, you should feel compelled. Otherwise, it's really not that funny.
Comment Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score 2, Interesting) 67
Where's your 99% statistic coming from? I doubt many slaves and former slaves had much access to education.
Comment Re:Consistent Histories? (Score 1) 365
You'd better have a good way of proving it, because my working hypothesis is that the server was just very slow.
Comment Re:Isn't this what we want? (Score 3, Insightful) 119
Exactly. People seem to forget that power drain and energy consumption are not the same thing - power consumption is in energy consumed per some amount of time. For a completely unrelated example: If you run a 30 W load over 1 second, it will use 30 joules of energy (because a 1 W power draw means it consumes 1 J per second). But if you run a 500 W load over 1/100 sec, you'll only use 5 J of energy. Batteries store energy, not power, so what is likely to be more important for mobile platforms is which one used the least amount of energy over the time span of the test, not comparing peak power or power in short bursts of activity.
That is, if you're concerned about battery life. Peak power might play a bigger role in talking about current load and CPU/battery temperature issues.
Comment Re:Rules? (Score 1) 315
The Dukes left the road in practically every chase.
Hint: ramps.
