As an American soldier, I'll come out and say that I'd rather the Taliban shot the robot than the real medic. View these like bomb-disposal robots: they're not intended to be better at the actual task (inspecting a bomb or dragging a casualty) than a human, they're intended to do these tasks in situations where you'd hesitate to risk a human. Or, given that most medics I've known will take the risk anyway, at least give the human another option.
Battery life.
16.5GB ought to be enough for anyone.
Also, a rope that is a problem for a small boat is by no means a problem for a giant container ship.
On the other hand, on a small (netbook-sized) monitor it's very handy to have a UI like Chrome, where the extra 30 or so pixels of screen height saved by omitting the title bar make up 5% of your overall display height.
Isn't it already taken?
He's not asserting it as a right. He's saying that there's a giant untapped market available, and that distributors are foolish to not take advantage of that.
Maybe this is meant for preview screenings and the like where people already have to provide ID and there aren't really all that many showings to track.
The summary is somewhat misleading.
You must be new here.
Since when do "cheaper" and "space" go together? Obviously, you go with the robot.
No, you just have to bundle up before going outside.
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