Comment: Surely 1.2 millidollars is barely petty theft (Score 1) 114
How is that worth international intrigue?
Comment: Please roll this out to work (Score 2) 614
This may or may not work out for schools but I would love a 3-day weekend every week at my job!
Comment: Should have an awesome soundtrack! (Score 2) 244
Rhythmic and increasing in tempo throughout the movie. Enkt
Does anything today work like Lotus Agenda?
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Chris.Nelson writes "Does anyone remember Lotus Agenda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Agenda)? It was a sort of free-text personal data mining tool that let you take random notes that it organized and/or searched for you.
What I'm looking for is something like it to keep a garden journal. I want to be able to enter "The roses bloomed today" or "Planted gladiolus" and later be able to ask the system "When do my roses usually come up?" or "When did I last mulch" or "Do the lilies or the peonies bloom first?" A wiki or blog tool almost works but the data isn't really self organizing the way Agenda's was. Any recommendations?"
What I'm looking for is something like it to keep a garden journal. I want to be able to enter "The roses bloomed today" or "Planted gladiolus" and later be able to ask the system "When do my roses usually come up?" or "When did I last mulch" or "Do the lilies or the peonies bloom first?" A wiki or blog tool almost works but the data isn't really self organizing the way Agenda's was. Any recommendations?"
Comment: Waterproof, not hyper-shielded (Score 1) 505
That bulky cable going into the thing on his lap is waterproof, oil-proof, vibration-resistant and possibly Kevlar-jacketed. No doubt there's some shield but not very much more than COTS cables. Military Ethernet switches (e.g., http://sixnet.com/product/8-port-ip67-gigabit-managed-or-unmanaged-switch-174.cfm) are filled with resin to protect them from the harsh environment but not don't have any extra shielding.
Comment: What a lovely high-glare screen it has. (Score 1) 44
Really? Why do they even make those?
Comment: Not that version (Score 1) 45
The Android Market is offering 1.6.0.13 this morning.
Comment: No! (Score 1) 742
If they did they wouldn't have changed their name (or, for that matter, air ghost hunting crap).
Comment: But the default.... (Score 1) 87
"The user can set a time for how long the drop will exist, decide who can view the content, set permissions for who can alter the content and share content in a variety of ways" But the default for access is world-readable forever. Setting permissions more restrictively requires navigating three intermediate pages and viewing an on-line video ad.
Robot acceptance and religious culture->
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Chris.Nelson writes "'[The] difference between Japanese and American attitudes toward robots is rooted in something much older than even the idea of robots: religion.
"In Japan... they're culturally open to robots, on account of animism. They don't make a distinction between inanimate objects and humans."
Animism is a component of the Shinto faith, the religion that preceded the introduction of Buddhism to Japan and remains an influential part of the country's culture. Animism is the notion that all objects have a spirit — even man-made objects.
In the West, in contrast, creating life inevitably leads to destruction of the creator — a notion that is hardly original to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'
The original article contains a video of a Japanese singing robot and an interview with one of its (her?) creators."
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"In Japan... they're culturally open to robots, on account of animism. They don't make a distinction between inanimate objects and humans."
Animism is a component of the Shinto faith, the religion that preceded the introduction of Buddhism to Japan and remains an influential part of the country's culture. Animism is the notion that all objects have a spirit — even man-made objects.
In the West, in contrast, creating life inevitably leads to destruction of the creator — a notion that is hardly original to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'
The original article contains a video of a Japanese singing robot and an interview with one of its (her?) creators."
Link to Original Source