Comment Re:This debate emerged many decades years ago (Score 1) 510
"By dying of starvation and brutality."
But not in the countries where the robots are common.
"By dying of starvation and brutality."
But not in the countries where the robots are common.
"With More Disabilities Than Ever"?
That is not necessarily so. There may just be more diagnosed and reported than ever, at least in releative terms.
In absolute numbers, yes. But that is due to Earth's population growth...
This debate emerged many decades ago. Here is one example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEA_IRB
"The ASEA IRB is an industrial robot series for material handling, packing, transportation, polishing, welding, and grading. Built in 1975, the robot allowed movement in 5 axes with a lift capacity of 6 kg. It was the world's first fully electrically driven and microprocessor-controlled robot, using Intel's first chipset."
What is reported now was also reported then, for fear of losing jobs. Robots fears are nothing new.
Isn't Metropolis from 1927 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)) and Frankenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein) from 1818 about this too in a way.
Technophobia.
Humans tend to work around these issues.
"Presumably, you are allowed to take your calculator to exams, but not your Linux box."
Nokia N900...
That http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop should get another job.
"Matlab is more mature"
That is not even close to being true. R surpasses but not outclasses Matlab in many instances and vice versa. It all depends on what you're doing.
R has an unknown userbase (http://bigcomputing.blogspot.se/2011/07/figuring-out-number-of-r-users-in.html) but an impressive, free codebase (www.r-project.org)
whereas Matlab has some 300,000 users (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/lnt/multimatlab.html) and an equally impressive codebase ( http://www.google.com/search?q=matlab+code).
R is an excellent piece of software, but so is Matlab.
As for simplicity, I find them equally easy to learn.
That said I dumped Matlab years ago for R.
I woke up one morning and the attraction I had felt the night before had turned into repulsion.
So what is new? That it is on Slashdot?
"These fibers are thinner than human hair, flexible, and yet they produce electricity, just like a normal solar cell."
Imagine the surface available for photon uptake in fleece form! Fleece, as in Helly Hansen - www.google.com/search?q=helly+hansen+fleece
One square meter of standard, plain photocell surface would possibly be multiplied if made into some brushy/hairy type of material.
True. But compare this with:
"Venus is the case of a runaway greenhouse effect. The temperature and pressure of the atmosphere decrease with height, so water vapor rises in the atmosphere and encounters conditions that cause it to condense back into liquid water and fall back to the surface - a region called the "cold trap." On Earth, this is at a height of 9-15 km (5-9 miles) above the surface, but on Venus it lies at an altitude around 50 km (31 miles) due to the planet's closer proximity to the sun.
On Earth, the ozone layer is several kilometers above this, and the ozone prevents ultraviolet light from destroying water in our atmosphere. On Venus, there is no ozone layer, and the atmosphere doesn't become opaque to ultraviolet light until a depth is reached below the cold trap. This allows ultraviolet light to destroy water between this height and the cold trap's.
So, as water rises in Venus' atmosphere and reaches this region, UV light dissociates it into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The hydrogen is much lighter than the water molecule was, and so it easily escapes Venus' atmosphere. The water will usually quickly recombine with a carbon or carbon monoxide molecule to form carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. This is probably one reason why there is so much carbon dioxide in Venus' atmosphere today.
Heavy water, however, which is composed of one oxygen, one hydrogen, and one deuterium (a proton and one neutron), cannot reach the requisite height as easily. If it does, it can still be dissociated just like normal water, but this happens at a much slower rate. Thus, a measurement of how much deuterium compared with how much hydrogen today shows that Venus has much more deuterium in its atmosphere for each hydrogen atom than Earth does. This is the strongest evidence that Venus has lost a massive amount of water in its history."
From http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/venus.html
It sounds there are at least two ways to have Venus water disappear.
"'While that question will not be easy to answer, it is worth pursing because the practical implications of the findings depend on the causal direction,' he said."
This must be fake! Or at least it is the first time I hear a psychologist speaking of causal directions. Is sound like a good study just because of that caveat.
There may be progress in this world!
It appears to be most likely that Venus' uninhabitability is most likely to be caused by our star, Sun. What else?
The reason Earth is habitable to us is because of plants, where the precursors had other shit to deal with. In large, the plants made the atmosphere of Earth we know of today. That is no big news.
Life never thrived on Venus. And?
The Sun is the culprit.
Meanwhile, Nokia drops case vs Xtrauf, proud US makers of rubberboots.
Nokia: We found out their boots were actually made in China.
Nokia: while we haven't been in the rubberboot business for decades, we felt we needed to, just like Ericsson with phones, make our _former_ presence heard.
Q: What have the damages to you been from Xtraufs move to China?
Nokia: Why ask us? Ask that question to Sony who have NEVER been selling rubber boots.
Q: Huh?
Nokia: That's our point.
It could also be Google.
If the doctor used Google Drive he may have given up those rights you referered to, only so that Google should be able to store that data at various servers around the world at their own accord.
If it is a US citizen it may perhaps be less complex, as they technically all you are belong to us Nigeria; I have eleven e-mails from a billionaire to prove that.
Now we have a prophecy realized?
Now we have a property realized.
"Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating".
How would you know that?
SOME GAMES SUCK.
As an analogy, Israel lost its game against the world vs Palestine.
Now, that game continues.
"Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future construction in a strategic area of the West Bank where critics have long warned that Jewish settlements would kill hopes for a viable Palestinian state. Israel's moves served as a harsh reminder to Palestinians — euphoric over the U.N. upgrade — that while they now have a state on paper, most of it remains very much under Israeli control. "This is a doomsday scenario," Daniel Seidemann of Ir Amim, a group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem, said of the building plans. Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States, which was among just nine countries in the 193-member General Assembly to vote against accepting Palestine as a nonmember observer state. "
WTF?
"Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States"
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that without progress toward peace, Israel will be forced to choose between "preserving democracy and the Jewish identity of the state." "
Ok, Israel wants to fuck the US, once more, despite the support? Yet, for how long?
You can't fool a game between humans, forever.
"Why are devs trying this rather risky way of financing, anyway?"
Exactly! Apparently because it pays off! Israel fucks the US, and it pays off.
Hence, screw any fucked up until they bleed or die.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
