Sure, but there's no need for them to sit in our chairs or wear human sneakers and designer jeans.
Allowing a bit of leeway on the exact size/shape of the parts could make everything else a lot better (and cheaper).
In an environment where stairs are just the "emergency exit" (ie. most factories, hospitals, office buildings, apartments, etc.) then adding bipedal legs is pointless.
Not unsafe? The likelyhood of failure is higher than you think! Trying to contain the atomic dragon is a fools errand.
Do you know how many people die on the toilet each year while "straining at stool"?
Maybe we should ban that.
And a humanoid robot can go where we go, which is useful... (think: stairs!).
So can cats and dogs.
Cats can also go places I can't and get over obstacles I have to go around.
Dogs can move _much_ faster then me.
Not everyone lives in a one-floor apartment, after all.
My cat isn't bipedal but has no problem with stairs. How weird is that?
And there's no way a robot could have a special rail to grab onto or a little elevator like granny has?
Bipeds are the only option!
The issue us geeks need to use muscle memory
No it isn't. The issue is that us geeks do real work and have things called 'files' on the computer.
I'm sure Windows 8 is fine for using Facebook and playing online games.
I think the last time I saw it was when I connected to a Raspberry Pi last year with some free X11 client or other.
I cracked up laughing when it appeared.
I dunno, I always get a big belly laugh whenever I log into something and see that horrible 1980s B&W X11 desktop, complete with ugly 'X' cursor.
"Before doing that, we want to try and work out some general principles about how to handle core X fill styles."
Use textures! And stencil bitplanes!
They're only breaking the spirit of the law, not the letter.
That makes it perfectly OK, just ask the NSA if you don't believe me.
But
+1 Insightful.
. . so people cant wear skirts anymore? Sharia Law is over there . . .
What about windy days? Can we outlaw them, too.
And escalators. They often give people an eyeful of thigh (and not all of it is pretty, ew!)
Many upskirts will show less than a miniskirt or booty shorts. How will that factor in to the new law? Will the length of the skirt be taken into account?
So many questions....
DirectX11 was back ported to Vista.
The reason DirectX 10/11 was not backported to XP was not because of mean old bad microsoft but rather WinXP is such an obsolete archaic OS that is fundamentally different.
Weird that the system requirements for DX11 suddenly changed later on - to allow XP!
http://community.spiceworks.co...
Some people might think that it was mean old bad microsoft after all...that the "obsolete archaic OS" thing was just a lie.
Don't forget that DX11.1 mysteriously started working on Windows XP when Microsoft decided it could:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
( System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 )
It was necessary evil to be able to publish new video driver model architecture with neat features, get over it.
LOL!
People managed to make DX10 run on XP without official support from MS/NVIDIA/AMD: https://www.google.es/search?q...
Later on...guess what? Microsoft decided to allow DX11 to run as well: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
There's no relation between an operating system and the feature set exposed by the video driver. It's just another API.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
