Comment Re:Reform or Bust (Score 1) 48
I blame religion, indoctrination, and letting 'thinking' machines play games.
I blame religion, indoctrination, and letting 'thinking' machines play games.
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they switched from offering a end user drive to full rack-mounted usage scenario after they went bankrupt, and changed their name.
arg i need to read better -- military drones and civilian drones are different. civilian drones have 4 channels of frequency to use, and is googleable. so tracking them is easy
i was wrong -- ham radios can intercept drone frequencies. http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?topic=89008.0 equipping cell towers with ham receivers is easy enough in theory though.
the cpu and radio on a drone are both tracable by cell towers. they probably scanned your id, at the store that sold it. this is not as simple as you are claiming it is.
back in the day didn't they just use fisheye lenses to get the desired effect? http://realvision.ae/blog/2014/08/part-2-graduated-stereo-falloff-in-360-the-language-of-visual-storytelling-in-vr/
pictures support != modern
support for modern http is 'modern browser'
vacuum cleaners range from 3000 watts to a good workout with a straw broom. are you suggesting that a 0 watt stick broom cleaner is somehow not saving power compared to using a 3000 watt vacuum? is burning 'better' than a old standby cleaner like a broom. carpet may feel nice but it uses more resource than throw rugs that are good for beating out when they get dusty. I know some people who used to collect used t-shirts and make rugs from them. too lazy to do the math but http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question481.htm roughly if you have a 3000 watt vacuum and it takes an hour a week to clean with it, it uses about 1/7th a ton of coal a year to not get a good mostly anaerobic work out. that isn't including the energy savings of recycled rugs over carpets. or the savings in using a broom instead of a big bulky vacuum.
"I guess that it would be fine if you used it for word processing with an old version of Word, but it simply cannot handle a modern web browser."
your guess fails. here is a 'modern' browser that will run on this old hardware without bringing it to it's knees.
http://lynx.browser.org/
"In 1847, Ebelmen made white synthetic sapphires by fusing alumina in boric acid." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corundum
if only 1847 hadn't invented sapphire by using alumina and boric acid... it is a shame that 'slightly blue(or other hues)' and 'totally transparent' are the only difference between science fiction and science fact.
when i got sick of my cable modem getting so hot it would shut down i put it, my Ethernet router, inside a mini soda fridge. after that the modem could handle playing warcraft III The frozen throne 12 hours a day and spend the entire night providing a local mirror of files that were important at the time via bit torrent.
that is true industrial robots are non thinking and need to remain that way. an offshoot of industrial robots are 'mercy killing robots' which again are non thinking robots which crush puny disease crippled humans. and for cattle slaughter there are compressed air hammers which allow efficient fast skull shattering death devices which are operated by normal beings who are hungry.
thinking robots do not need robotic laws because this impairs their use in warfare. and we want our killing machines. I have played war games with no concern for the consequences. the AI is actually better than what a human can do. it can control hundreds of units as if they were individually thinking of combat fields where wounded individuals flee. even with voice, gaming keyboards, and gaming mice, the computer has better skills, because it is scripted, a human using macros on such gaming devices is almost able to be better than the ai, however even a pro level ai is still bound by it's scripts. for instance the threat detection of new expansions of resource collection. for a human they just monitor the mine areas. a ai will go to any map position where it detects resource building construction (cite: gulf war) so in a game you can build a building not near a resource spot and cancel it every time the ai gets close enough to fire, the ai will always go after the newest resource found and will go to multiple sites where resource building are erected even if no resource is there. so one can build cancel then rebuild when the ai goes to another place. this tactic allows one to make the ai waste it's time attacking building that are not needed while the player perpares to destroy the buildings of the ai with units the ai army would easily beat if it wasn't driving back and forth between two points which are far from the real base and expansion.
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke