iRobot

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by iRobot 14y ago
slightly off-topic, but relevant for the future of this technology. I love Sci-Fi novels such as Peter Hamilton's "Reality Dysfunction" where an AI does the function of all local and central government in a habitat for no personal gain and
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by iRobot 14y ago
Why was this down-voted? I agree with the poster, and as far as I see, I wake up and everyone's clock is 1 second wrong, why precisely should I give a frig about this and how is the world going to end or change due to the clock going from :
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by iRobot 14y ago
Total and utter bollocks. Millions of Chinese students have or will have done engineering and science at the degree level, that combined with the Chinese business acumen will almost certainly ensure them both designing and building the thin
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by iRobot 14y ago
Lousy web site (IMHO) a 3 inch wide column of text in the middle of my browser and not even a picture of the car
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by iRobot 14y ago
Which of the Basic Assumptions of Modern Physics are Wrong? As a Sci-Fi fan, "Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light" would be a nice one to be wrong
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by iRobot 14y ago
Where are the ARM based Chrome books ?
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by iRobot 14y ago
I am one of those people who have been "corn-holed" over the last 30 years and I seriously don't care how many publishers or retail outlets I put out of business by buying electronically. The Internet selling model is here to stay and as lo
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by iRobot 14y ago
God this guys got a downer on all things scifi. Get a life, sci-fi is just entertainment and a little escapeisn, not everyone wants to read through 500 pages of math and physics to find some underlying revelation about the universe.
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by iRobot 14y ago
The other ship on the front page of the enterprise web site the `skylon`, looks awesome, almost like it was designed by Apple compared to the current crop of 'beige box' rockets. Its design spec seems to put it in the class of space DC3 too
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by iRobot 14y ago
http://www.menuetos.net/
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by iRobot 14y ago
Someone should explain to this guy the concept of bootstrapping. Saying that a man should be allowed to dream big and NASA are the ones who we should be laughing at considering they currently cant even send a man 100 miles into space. Hopef
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by iRobot 14y ago
In 1989 I ran a Unix system with 1000 users on hardware less powerful than this, why this kind of horse power cannot run something as simple as a web browser says more about the inefficiencies inherent in current operating systems and progr
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by iRobot 14y ago
Another upside is you end up with a company full of auditors so its unlikely there is going to be much funny business going on.
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by iRobot 14y ago
Step One achieved. Now if you could just feed and educate the little fellows and keep them from having too many kids and stop their (generally) useless and corrupt governments from destroying their countries and killing each other, the worl
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by iRobot 14y ago
if(enemy=true) FireWeapons(); // (sic)
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by iRobot 14y ago
A bit off-topic but they should just kill these bastards the second they find them. (and this is from a New Zealander, not an American)
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by iRobot 14y ago
Put a laser on it and give me a light sabre and..
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by iRobot 14y ago
Loving it, great to be able to exclude annoying sites pay for content sites. Keep up the good work
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by iRobot 14y ago
A word count on the summary page would be nice for text docs
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by iRobot 14y ago
Ouch, I do all 3!
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by iRobot 14y ago
Good luck A Lot of developers have a MOTD file in their applications, before I compiled my motd file I looked everywhere for a simple motd feed but gave up as it was all too much time and trouble and quicker to compile my own off the vario
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by iRobot 14y ago
Text adventures rocked until dungeon master came along and nuked the genre. They may be nice to code, but life's too short and I would not play one again.
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by iRobot 14y ago
I'm no real fan of MU or kim dot com but the way all this occurred taking down the guys whole business empire and putting him under arrest makes me think it can happen to any dot com company which I am (I trade in Europe, NZ and australia a
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by iRobot 14y ago
18 Years to market - WTF, we should have mr-fusion by then
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by iRobot 14y ago
It kinda makes the asteroid mining venture from yesterday seem a lot more sensible and tangible an investment long term.
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by iRobot 14y ago
Its a rocket. The basic research was done by the Germans at the end of WW2 and dont forget Russia, they got there first. Nasa wasnt even around then.
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by iRobot 14y ago
Governments can and do stop innovation quite well all the time. The good thing here is that technically once off planet, you don't have any government to answer too, however I hate to think what regulations the bureaucrats are dreaming up t
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by iRobot 14y ago
Well said.
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by iRobot 14y ago
..who were mostly creating powerpoint presentations and not rockets.
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by iRobot 14y ago
No web site, nothing on google, I'd start by creating a marketing department Seriously, I'd buy some shares even if its a very high risk venture, if I knew how too.

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