Comment Re:Inputs. (Score 1) 140
Not just Kinect:
Not just Kinect:
Just because it doesn't directly profit doesn't mean it doesn't provide a strategic advantage.
Not all business is sell X, make Y from that. Delta airlines bought a refinery, not to make money from selling Jet-A, but to hedge against price increases (i.e insurance).
Self-driving cars don't need drivers.
People are still putting soldiers on the ground? That's UAV work right there!
Front lines are so 20th century. The only warriors are going to be those on the airstrip fueling and refurbing UAVs and the pilots controlling them from the airbase near Vegas.
The NIH says you're wrong: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=fluorescent%20light
Care to provide any proof?
Which any incumbent could've done, they've just chosen not to.
My understanding of the SpaceX engine control system is that the launch portion is completely automated; once the vehicle is ignited, the only on-ground task is the safety control officer's in the event the vehicle becomes unstable and needs to be destroyed.
This is apparent during the latest launch to the ISS: a merlin engine was lost, and the onboard launch system safed the motor and increased burn time on the remaining motors to obtain orbit. While its true that the secondary mission failed due to a small window (due to NASA/ISS safety margins), the vehicle was still able to a) make it to orbit and b) complete its primary mission with *zero* human intervention.
No, they're not. It's software's job to determine sensor inconsistencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
The aircraft crashed following an aerodynamic stall caused by inconsistent airspeed sensor readings, the disengagement of the autopilot, and the pilot making nose-up inputs despite stall warnings, causing a fatal loss of airspeed and a sharp descent. The pilots had not received specific training in "manual airplane handling of approach to stall and stall recovery at high altitude"; this was not a standard training requirement at the time of the accident.[8][1][9]
The reason for the faulty readings is unknown, but it is assumed by the accident investigators to have been caused by the formation of ice inside the pitot tubes, depriving the airspeed sensors of forward-facing air pressure.[10][11][12] Pitot tube blockage has contributed to airliner crashes in the past – such as Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 in 1974 and Birgenair Flight 301 in 1996.[13]
This is my favorite Youtube video showing the driverless Google car in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-Fd2JbgGA
Human drivers will be obsolete in 5-10 years, tops.
Does this mean I'm going to have to hand my 3D bioreactor before it even gets to my desk? Because if guns kill easily, just wait and see what you'll be able to churn out biologically from your desk in 10 years.
Madagascar sounds like a good place to be.
A simple hunting rifle or handgun are all that one needs.
In that case, what next? We ban machine shops?
Really? Because at my day gig, our developers write their stored procedures, not a DBA.
You can build your input sanitization directly into the stored procedure; someone at Google once said, "If the policy isn't built into the code, it doesn't exist."
Unless you're the big boys: Then you're just specing it from the ODM and bypassing Dell/HP/etc: http://opencompute.org/
Just wait until ADS-B/NextGen rolls out.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
