How do you know you didn't take any courses not related to your degree? I find this very surprising coming from someone in AI, as it's a very interdisciplinary field, borrowing from statistics, optimization, logic, neuroscience, psychology, control theory, language, etc.. Look at your own field and the failure of expert systems. For a long time, statistics was not core to AI research. Now, some of the most successful AI techniques in robotics have a foundation in statistics. Or consider reinforcement learning, which has roots in animal psychology. As an artificial intelligence researcher in the 80s, you might have looked at animal psychology and said "Bah! I don't want to learn that! It's not a core degree requirement! When would I ever need that?" Because of the interdisciplinary work of researchers in the 80s, animal psychology in the form of reinforcement learning is now a core component of your field.

I think the bottom line is you just don't know where you'll find inspiration. Maybe you've missed out on a lot yourself, and I don't think that's something to be proud of.

No, the kite is not powered, is controlled only by the wind, and is tethered. All these factors put it in a different class of aircraft than an RC airplane.

Actually FAA rules are written so broadly, if a window is open and you're flying a paper airplane indoors, yes absolutely the FAA has jurisdiction.

Actually it's not a first. The key word you're looking for here is "severed", which is what the judge did for the joined plaintiffs. If you want to read more on this, here are some places to start: http://fightcopyrighttrolls.co... http://dietrolldie.com/?s=seve...

Basically, this has happened in the past, and while it changes the cost/benefit ratio it has done nothing to stop these trolls. Now they're starting to target people more discriminatingly. While that's better than the shotgun approach they've been taking, now they're suing one downloader for much higher sums, sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Ah, right, Microsoft must be lying because their sales stats do not fit into your myopic worldview. Got it.

Wrong, at least from my experience in public school. Since you have to pay to take the AP test, it was optional for us and did not count toward your grade. We still had to take a final. Through taking 5 AP courses in high school I didn't take a single AP test.

Correct: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-windows-phone-exceeds-10-percent-in-europes-smartphone-market

tl;dr: Thanks to phones like the Lumia 520, Windows Phone is breached 10% in the EU5, and is beating or growing faster than iOS in countries like Italy, Spain, and France.

13" MBA still has the slower processor, still has lower resolution display (1440 x 900) and still lacks touch and digitizer support. So yeah, you've changed nothing about the comparison.

The 11" MBA also has inferior specs. The Surface pushes nearly twice as many pixels with a 1080p screen versus 768p. Surface also has a 1.6 GHz clock speed compared to 1.3 GHz for the MBA. Finally Surface has a touch screen and an active digitizer, which I assume must be drawing some power.

Calling a card that stores videos a "video card" at least makes sense for someone who doesn't know any better. Calling an engine a gas tank is just stupid as its neither tank-like nor where you pour in the gas.

This is the exact reason autonomous cars do not rely on GPS for navigation. Typical sensor suites for an autonomous car in addition to GPS include: Inertial Navigation System, high resolution odometry encoders, 2D lasers, 3D lasers, and 3D stereo vision. The data from all these sensors are fused together to create a high accurate (to within 10 centimeters in my experience) localization of the robot car.

Maybe you missed the "Pro" in "Surface Pro", but it's meant for a little more than posting pictures on Facebook. You're looking at one market that doesn't need the Surface Pro, and concluding there are no markets that need such a device. This is clearly fallacious.

You might be surprised, but a great deal of software designed for a class OS is usable one tablet, especially one with a stylus like the surface pro. Sure the experience is not optimized, but it does give you access to software you otherwise would not have. Photoshop is one of the best examples of an x86 application which is not designed for a tablet but works great with one.

Aside from software, x86 with Windows also gives you access to hardware you would otherwise be unable to use with an iPad or android device.

Battery life for the original surface pro was on par with the MacBook air at the time at 5 hours. The revamp looks to target 8 hours.