How exactly does it upload all this data onto the web if there are no nearby open access points?
I mean if you say it "makes the information immediately available online." I'd be stupid to believe in it blindly without an explanation as to how it manages to do this. TFA links to two pages, none of which mention how this incredible feat is accomplished.
If anyone happens to have an idea about how this is being done, I'd like to know.
Why don't they use Odd Modern Nuke Plants instead?
It's heartening to see tax funded organizations saying what they mean and accurately with little, if any chance to misinform.
Then again, with the corruption of the real meaning of words that is so popular these days, I suppose this island won't last long either.
Green fuel.. I mean seriously, who came up with that term anyway? I had a good laugh when i saw the headline. I laughed till the tears would not come anymore.
The laugh is over now and I'm irritated with the way people use "green" insteadt of "environmentally friendly" for in the end, that is really what you want to say!
The environment is anything but green! From space, even the planet looks blue! The Earth itself looks brown, but that's all beside the point. The point is if you mean something, say it! Don't say what you don't mean and expect people to believe you're really serious about being understood.
So that the Enemy just needs to walk up to the LS3 and shout "Follow ME!" to commandeer our units supplies?
That's how we fight future wars? Wow!
..is how on Earth they will be able to orient the lenses when they're in the eyes. I believe the lenses stick to the eyeball in more or less whatever way they are placed. However, even a slight misplacement would cause an image distortion when the brain gets around to processing what it sees, due to the fact that each eye needs to see the same thing (with corrections being made to take care of perspective).
To have VR, your eyes will have to be focusing on objects at different distances. The image displayed on the lenses therefore, will have to be configured therefore, to account for perspective variations. Even a slight change in lens orientation will be amplified with distance and wearers will end up with massive headaches and nausea.
Not to mention after all this, every time the wearer blinks, he could inadvertently re-orient the lenses.. Unless there's a way to prevent that from happening. I'm very curious to learn about it if there is!
iBorg!
is why they don't incorporate a tongue in these devices. Even the lips on the device are not lips. Just one big lip!
I mean.. this stuff is elementary dear Watson! It's hard to commercialize a single-lipped robot.
What kind of board meetings do you go to anyway? I see great potential for these devices in mega corp. board rooms!
and SOPA/PIPA have their way, they'll probably ensure you get a Hook Prosthesis!
Free speech is a basic right. And that would include the written word as well. Internet usage is not a right however, but I think you do have a point there. There are some lines that should not be crossed, and they're doing just that.
Nah, that would not work. For one thing, Indians have had free rein over their Facebook, Google and twitter accounts since the very beginning. The citizenry will find it way too hard to make the shift from a global to a local platform.
Furthermore, we Indians are used to being relatively uncensored at every turn. The moment we "realize" that the government is actively monitoring every tweet and every post, people will start withdrawing from the services offered.
We have a deep mistrust of our government. It is one thing to force the uneducated into censorship. But those of us who use the internet have at least a basic education, and we don't like the government meddling in any of our affairs. especially if we can't see a justification in it.
What irks many of us, is the fact that the government spends too little of our tax money in the right places. For instance, the roads are potholed, the water services are unreliable. Energy production has crawled into a hole and died. There is hunger and starvation all over the country. The middle and upper classes are the ones who are most impacted by the Governmental organizations. The Police are unreliable.
When an accident occurs, we fear reporting it to the cops because we know that if we do, we're the first to be taken in for questioning and the cops overstep their authority at every turn. You see a guy dying on the street, and passers by will stop just to mull around and stare. Everyone will complain that someone should do something, but no one will consider calling the authorities or helping the poor chap to a hospital because the helper becomes the hunted in the eyes of the authorities.
A friend of mine was put in the slammer for moving the victim of an accident. He was let free four days later because the court decided he was innocent, but he left with bruises and came down with a bad case of diarrhea. The cops actually beat the guy up during their "questioning for facts"! He was just trying to help an injured guy who ended up dying on the way to the hospital.
We love our country, but we hate deeply, those in power who're trying to run it because they don't appear to care for the public.
An alternative website, monitored/restricted or not, will hold even less water in such a country. They might be able to forcefully lock social networks out of the country, but they can't get people to use a government-controlled one.
Error reading from drive C:
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
My bad.. I miscalculated unforgivably. They don't match the article I linked to.
The values recalculated to $135 urban and $104 rural.
I feel foolish now. I'll go sulk under the first stone I turn over.
Apologies for the delayed reply.. India has a different definition regarding where its poverty line lies.
I tried to find the statistics I used in my reply above, but can't seem to find them. Any way, here's an article from The Times of India from May of 2011 that might throw some light on the facts.
Just a reminder.. The exchange rate is: $1 USD = Rs.51.71 INR.
As per my calculations, the Urban Poverty Line lies at $7.16 per year while the Rural Poverty Line lies at $3.48 a year.
Of course, this data is a bit out of date.. However, considering inflation levels and the massively slow ambling of the government, I think the point comes through quite clearly.
I hope this info satisfies your curiosity. God knows, I wish more people were as interested.
Happiness is twin floppies.
