Right now there is a human in the loop to make the killing decision. The intelligence is gathered by the robot. The weapons are managed and aimed by the robot. The human element is the slowest part in the overall chain.

Also noone has flash or is using it from that long ago. Current chips are a thosand times larger.

Russian science has had this periodic fad of climaing extraordinary qualities of water like under certain conditions it becomes more healing, or retains a memory of enviroment it once previously was in. I saw this in the two "New Age" documentaries called "What The Bleep?" Part of this goes back to trying to prove the claim that blessed water in Russian Christianity has altered the physical properties of water into somethime more useful which science can detect. Part of this that even in accepted Western science water is fiendishly complicated with at least nine frozen phases, unusual hydrogen bond behavior, extreme solvency, and the like.

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planes about .2 kg ppm cars .3 kg ppm
However its a lot easier to rack up miles in an airplane.

You'd think that being most text, low-bandwidth books would have been one of the first widely available content in the modern digital world. But hiding behind strong copyright and publisher overhead they among the last media (after music and video) to particpate in the "all-you-can-eat" distribution model like spotify or netflix.

Mainly juiced up oscilloscopes like Tektronix or pen-plotters. And the early computer graphics languages like GKS were all stroke-based. Raster was a late add-on.

Our first image raster graphics terminal in 1980(AED) had 512x512 8bit-indexed-color resolution and cost $30K ($120K 2014 $$). Most of that was for screen buffer memory which was still several thousand dollars a megabyte then. PC memories were still counted in tens of killobytes (1984 Mac 128KB). I believe you can get this kind of display for a cheap cellphone for about a dollar now. (Moores law in magnitudes is 10x every 5 years, so a million is about right)

Their reason for existing. The long term survivors ofter have a 2nd, 3rd or more. MicroSoft had five: BASIC, DOS, Windows, Office and Xbox. Apple had Apple 2, Mac/laser-printing, iPod/iTunes, iPhone/apps, and iPad. Both those companies had plenty of failures along the way too. Google has Search, AdWords, YouTube and Android. They need more money-making ideas.

Then gradually lost about 25% to the price you quote. Then up over 50% on the dollar. Currently just 20% over dollar.

12 years ago no smartPhones, tablets, on flash laptops due to expense of flash. Even Ipods had micro-disks. Just a few cameras and mp3 players with very limited memory. Those devices, or at least there chips, were upgraded long ago.

http://www.neildegrassetysonli... Pop science. A bit pricey in my town.

Large corporations have the revenues, population, and political strength of a small country. Countries may be starting to treat them like other countries, e.g. make treaties, or go to war with them. Examples North Korea versus Sony; Europe versus Google.

There have been movies about this, such as Blad Runner and Roller Ball where the world is ruled by corporations and nations are shadows.

Most of the current magazines are very machine-specific: Apple or PC. I liked the general software nature of Byte and Dr. Dobbs.

Tehy were a gold-rush in the late 1980s, but relatively few commercial products so far.

It has lots of gold, rare-earth-elements and other kinds of minerals you find in ancient geologic cratons. As the ice melts, more is exposes every year.

Journalist took this drug than made your skin dark and wrote a best-seller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me) of his experiences. I remember the book influencing the civil rights debate.