Comment Re:29 years old (Score 1) 432
Social Security was never intended to be a retirement plan. Its just to keep old people from starving to death. If you haven't saved enough to not need SS when you retire then you are in big trouble.
Social Security was never intended to be a retirement plan. Its just to keep old people from starving to death. If you haven't saved enough to not need SS when you retire then you are in big trouble.
Makosinski admitted there were points in the experiment when she thought it would never work, but said "You just kind of have to keep going.
Way more important lesson than the circuit design.
Yeah. and I bet her laboratory isn't really in orbit, either.
Is it really a robot if it doesn't fulfill a practical purpose? Robot is derived from a word meaning "slave" because it does work in place of a person. If it is unable to do work, by conjoining AI with mobility, does it really fit the bill? What makes a windmill not a robot? What makes a drill not a robot?
Android: sure, robot: I'm not convinced.
The origin of the word robot is from art! It comes from the story R.U.R. by Karel Capek. So complaining that these are not robots because they are art is iron(ic).
"the undercover investigator brought Crawford X-ray tubes to examine for possible use in the weapon, followed by their technical specifications a month later.
Hmm.. wonder whose idea this whole plot was. We've only heard one side so far.
Well, I hope that he manages to keep good relations with the natives or they will turn the tables on him. He had better have a backup strategy for this transaction.
He outer join the local Chamber of Commerce.
For actual work and play I use windows. Everything works best on it.
Every now and then I boot into the latest linux distro currently in favor and give it a spin. And I've always ended up disappointed.
How do you do something as basic as copy a file securely to another computer? I use scp on Linux.
A Java fork would be great.
Get control away from shitbags like Oracle over to some kind of foundation. Get rid of the fucking Ask toolbar spyware, improve the platform more quickly, etc.
A fork wouldn't help since Oracle is asserting copyright on the API, not the code.
The International fair is sponsored by Intel. That means that the rules are probably 45 pages long in tiny print and if followed exactly would disqualify 95% of the projects that were entered. At least that's the way their chip specs read.
Not even. Our data center had an irreplaceable piece oif software that was not Y2K so they just declared that 2000 = 1970. It was finally replaced last year (1982).
On the title page is this ambiguous statement:
This report was published on behalf of
The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property
by The National Bureau of Asian Research.
Here's a list of the commission members. Perhaps a note should be added to their Wikipedia pages.
To be fair, we were running 3 mbit CSMA/CD at C-MU until we could design 10 Mbit interfaces around 1980. I still have the DEC-Intel-Xerox blue book.
Now tell us what percent of breakins are due to guessing passwords. Maybe 2%. The rest are social engineering, default accounts, keyloggers, vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigured networks and people leaving their phones in bars.
Gloat? The hardware engineers would have to battle with the influx of software engineers battling for their jobs. Pay goes down due to supply and everyone loses.
Once the software engineers are in, there will be so many bugs that the robots won't have an advantage any more, so it will be back to status quo.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
