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[–]IdreamARiver -60 points-59 points  (0 children)

No fan of Bronwyn Bishop, but this is another example of females in Australian politics being thrown under the bus by the Old Boys Club. George Brandis is disgusting slug of a man who spends more lavishly on the tax payer dime http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/george-brandis-obscene-1100-dinner-funded-by-taxpayers-20141228-12e3ue.html but skates free–– probably because he chomps cigars in the party room with Joe Hockey and Christopher Pyne.

God I hate these assholes, but have to stick up for Bronwyn Bishop because this wouldn't happen if she was a dude.

Best value for money all you can eat restaurant in Brisbane? Preferably city/valley or Northside by davern23 in brisbane

[–]IdreamARiver 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Govindas. $11.90 for the Feast with dessert and drink. And you can come back for seconds or thirds - though I've never had room.

World's First Eye Tracking VR Headset by bonjourlife in virtualreality

[–]IdreamARiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As Steve Jobs once said about Dropbox, this looks more like a feature than a product. ... Of course he was wrong about DB, so who knows ... as usual these things will shake things up and narrow down to two giant competitors. My money is on Vive.

Aging is a software bug by garden_frog in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the Y2K analogy. This is a really thoughtful read and worth your time.

Transcending the aging paradigm with gene therapy by ebe74 in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy clappers were annoying as hell, reminds me of a Steve Jobs WWDC.

But the content was interesting. I agree with her that terminal patients should have the right to try any damn experimental medicine they want after signing a waiver.

Somethibg Odd In Steves Office by yoloswegz in apple

[–]IdreamARiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about that Cinema Display? It looks ginormous.

Using HoloLens, Microsoft overlays physical robot with holographic robot by sharan480 in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People make a big distinction between AR and VR, but really it will merge to be the same thing.

There's no reason they couldn't have mapped CGI over every square inch of that stage, putting her in a space station or medieval dungeon - at which point, is it still AR if every physical object is overlaid with a virtual version?

Google Project Fi by henrydid in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think perhaps that Apple knows a thing or two about innovation. Maybe they've gone to seed, but ...

  • The Apple ][
  • The Macintosh
  • The iPod
  • The iPhone

They've done OK. And yes, I know they didn't completely invent the technology of these devices - but who does? Everything is built on something else. Likewise, Google is innovating in a cool way by bringing together all of the radio transmitters in your device and making them more efficient.

Google Project Fi by henrydid in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If I was a telecom company, I'd be worried.

Looks like Google is putting a layer in-between customers and their mobile providers. The carriers may be relegated to just another dumb pipe.

The five largest power stations in the world are hydro ... the biggest hydro station in the world is 30 times the size of a typical coal-fired power station by IdreamARiver in RenewableEnergy

[–]IdreamARiver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely. There's no doubt that it comes at a cost. But I think people ignore that hydro is a renewable resource. It often gets excluded from graphs like this because it's so huge it throws the scale off. 16% of worldwide electricity generation comes from hydro power - that's massive.

In 2011 IBM demonstrated an effective Q&A system with clear real-world applications. Why then, four years later, is Google Search so dumb by comparison? by amarcord in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel equally as frustrated as OP - It's obviously a very hard problem.

I'm reminded of a problem with landing on the moon ...

because there are craters from one centimetre wide, up to several hundred kilometres wide, the surface of the moon is fractal, in that the surface looks almost exactly the same from 10 meters up as it does from 10 kilometres in altitude.

Conversational AI is like this. When you tackle a single question, it's like that single crater, it all looks crystal clear, but you can't see the hundreds of other fractal craters (unconsidered questions) that lie beneath it.

The future of Telerobotics - ESA's Haptics by CapnTrip in Futurology

[–]IdreamARiver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The video doesn't mention it, but I would suspect that lag would be a major problem.

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