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Comment Re:Answer: Helicopters (Score 3, Informative) 107

The idea is totally impractical, of course, which is why it's science fiction and not a product.

Kinda like the horseless carriage. I mean, its possible, but its completely impractical since you would need to stop and chop wood for the boiler every few miles, and the uneven roads will be much harder to navigate on.

Sometimes obstacles change with times, and what looks hard now will be less hard later.

Comment Re:Government Elites do not want SPACE frontiers. (Score 1) 393

Obviously these people have read something besides 1984 and are trying to stop the logic next steps.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Lazarus Long

Submission + - A new Watson-style form of AI called Viv seeks to be the first 'global brain' (wired.com)

paysonwelch writes: For the past two years, the team has been working on Viv Labs’ product—also named Viv, after the Latin root meaning live. Their project has been draped in secrecy, but the few outsiders who have gotten a look speak about it in rapturous terms. “The vision is very significant,” says Oren Etzioni, a renowned AI expert who heads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. “If this team is successful, we are looking at the future of intelligent agents and a multibillion-dollar industry.” and Siri Viv is attempting to become the first world wide brain. T

Comment Re:Glad to see you use the term 'assemble' (Score 1) 391

To this day I have the schematic for an apple 1, but I just can't quite bring myself to attempt it. Plus the fact that a lot of the IC's don't exist anymore could lead to some real headaches. Still, I think it would be a good adventure in learning how to fabricate digital equipment.

I was thinking that too, but just decided to get a newer model and let someone else put it together.

They even threw in a BIOS, OS, Drivers, Utility software and Apps!

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