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Triglav posted:tbf infantry supposedly didnt like the bots as ammo mules cuz they were loud as gently caress ammo mules and medical transports were the public face of this. I'm sure somewhere in a lab at general dynamics there's a version of that bot with a mounted machine gun on a dual axis swivel base.
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cremnob posted:was fuzzy mammal reassigned when google decided to reproduce their messaging offerings for the 6th time? or is google hangouts still being "developed" while the current team looks for the exits? never fear i work on common code under all of it.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:never fear i work on common code under all of it. you poor bastard
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since were wrecking on google moonshot acquisitions can anyone name a company they bought that actually turned into a good and profitable product?
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vodkat posted:since were wrecking on google moonshot acquisitions can anyone name a company they bought that actually turned into a good and profitable product? Applied Semantics (makers of AdSense), Android Inc., YouTube
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i would have said Inbox was one of their successful acquisitions but it's gone nowhere but downhill since the buy
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Improbable Lobster posted:i want a tiny version of those dog-bots that doesn't sound like it's screaming it's just a power:weight issue and turns out liquid-fueled 2-stroke engines are still king. if batteries were better they could be nearly silent max4me posted:It just shocks me that google pulls this poo poo. Just loving write off the R&D and commint to a five, ten, 15 year plan and see what you get. this is probably the #1 problem facing american research today. every dollar spent on basic research returns it like fifty-fold in GDP, but it takes a few decades for the results to be seen. see: moon program. that's not acceptable to venture capitalists (and by extension all modern tech companies, picking up the same attitudes and cultures), who demand that their investments pay off within a few years. and since VC is where all the money is going right now, we get snapchat instead of mars colonies.
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and the best part of it is that if you're a startup you're forced to take vc money oh, don't want to sell your soul to us at a lovely price? that's cool, we'll just give $100 million to your nearest competitor so they can hold your head underwater undercutting you at a loss for as long as it takes you to drown :-)
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Mr Dog posted::-)
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Improbable Lobster posted:i want a tiny version of those dog-bots that doesn't sound like it's screaming same except a bigger one with a 40 cal browning and it screams all the time
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uncurable mlady posted:it screams all the time 
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vodkat posted:since were wrecking on google moonshot acquisitions can anyone name a company they bought that actually turned into a good and profitable product? ShadowHawk fucked around with this message at 16:04 on May 30, 2016 |
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that's just part of the story. a leaked email suggests google didn't want the "bad press" of humanoid robots with the ability to take people's jobs. it was then they put BD up for sale. sad they didn't seem to mind questions about the ethics of ammo mules and unmanned artillery poo poo. i think they keep these companies around in part for marketing. once their usefulness there runs out, they bail. look at how they get journalists into their labs years before any product is predicted to come out. and these articles are part of what people cite when ranking Google in the top 5 brands or CEOs, etc.
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also they don't need that many hits to make the purchases worth it with the sort of rather ambitious stuff they pick up. as noted, adsense/adwords was effectively purchased (cheap), android and youtube cost a bit more but turned out fantastic i was sort of expecting people to quote that list and go "well what have they done recently?!" and then i was going to first quote the monty python skit about what the romans have done, and then bring up DeepMind, which they also bought pretty much complete, for a rather piddling sum even considering just the pr alone
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PleasureKevin posted:that's just part of the story. a leaked email suggests google didn't want the "bad press" of humanoid robots with the ability to take people's jobs. it was then they put BD up for sale. sad they didn't seem to mind questions about the ethics of ammo mules and unmanned artillery poo poo. stumbling around in a parking lot making an ear-splitting racket is a job? that's either a fake leak or a completely deluded employee.
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yippee cahier posted:stumbling around in a parking lot making an ear-splitting racket is a job? well, i don't think anyone pays me for it, but
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Sagebrush posted:well, i don't think anyone pays me for it, but did you get your motorbike back?
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guys, there is no rhyme or reason they bought BD because somebody at google wanted a new toy, and now they're getting rid of it because somebody realized oh poo poo we're running an actual company
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kevin no longer gives me pleasure
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kevin, why do you hate google so much? and have you stopped beating your wife?
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Sagebrush posted:every dollar spent on basic research returns it like fifty-fold in GDP, but it takes a few decades for the results to be seen. see: moon program. People tend to give NASA more credit than they are actually due though. People on this message board have said stuff like without NASA there'd be no personal computers or cell-phones and that is hilariously wrong. NASA isn't even responsible for GPS. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 22:34 on May 30, 2016 |
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p sure steve jobs was a lunatic QED bihtc
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sadly, hyperbolic statements like "without nasa there'd be no cell phones" are probably the only way to get people to (grudgingly) accept the value of the space program, because most of the real spinoffs that have made enormous differences to everyday life are basically invisible. "without nasa we'd have nowhere near the knowledge that we currently do of aluminum alloy metallurgy and fiber-reinforced composites" is not getting the average high school dropout off their couch to vote, even though those fields affect everything from your car's gas mileage to the design of prosthetic legs
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like, you gotta remember that this forum's users are mostly in the 99th percentile of science and technology education. the average person has no understanding of what sorts of goals or outcomes are appropriate for a large pure-research organization. after NASA landed curiosity on mars, i saw a youtube comment ranting about the $2.5bn that the program cost, complaining that "they should of spend that money on EARTH on JOBS!!!!!!". i could only conclude that the commenter believed that robots are sent to mars not by hiring scientists and engineers and machinists and programmers and technicians all over the country, but by shoveling a bunch of cash into a rocket and shooting it into space
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im dumb as heck dude
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Sagebrush posted:like, you gotta remember that this forum's users are mostly in the 99th percentile of science and technology education. the average person has no understanding of what sorts of goals or outcomes are appropriate for a large pure-research organization. look if bitcoin can go to the moon then usd must be fuel for mars
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silence_kit posted:People tend to give NASA more credit than they are actually due though. People on this message board have said stuff like without NASA there'd be no personal computers or cell-phones and that is hilariously wrong. NASA isn't even responsible for GPS. the apollo program mostly cribbed its tech from ICBMs anyway life support being the big exception i guess
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computer parts posted:the apollo program mostly cribbed its tech from ICBMs anyway "well, once we understood how to instantaneously end the life of millions, it was a simple matter of reversing the process"
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Sagebrush posted:like, you gotta remember that this forum's users are mostly in the 99th percentile of science and technology education. lol, no
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akadajet posted:kevin, why do you hate google so much? they strung me along for years, through android updates that promised to make things faster, through google Voice, Plus and Wave. i just got tired of poo poo never getting good, getting shut down prematurely or never getting released at all, so now i'm slightly bitter about it. but i also think it's an interesting study in what doesn't work. it's like star citizen but for real life devices and services that you're supposed to be able to count on. i also like to read about Microsoft-related schadenfreude.
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PleasureKevin posted:they strung me along for years, through android updates that promised to make things faster, through google Voice, Plus and Wave. i just got tired of poo poo never getting good, getting shut down prematurely or never getting released at all, so now i'm slightly bitter about it. but i also think it's an interesting study in what doesn't work. android owns
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wrong
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Sagebrush posted:like, you gotta remember that this forum's users are mostly in the 99th percentile of science and technology education. the average person has no understanding of what sorts of goals or outcomes are appropriate for a large pure-research organization. actually he probably thought that robots are sent to mars not by hiring scientists and engineers and machinists and programmers and technicians all over the country and then stopped there and didnt go on to your second part. people usually dont finish thoughts through. i know i dont
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Hmmmmm. Possy Nossy
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fishmech posted:android owns it only owns the poor saps who can't afford apple
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akadajet posted:it only owns the poor saps who can't afford apple apple is bad, and also dying the last good apple computer was manufactured in 1992
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Sagebrush posted:like, you gotta remember that this forum's users are mostly in the 99th percentile of science and technology education. are you reading the same android whitewashing posts im reading Sagebrush posted:after NASA landed curiosity on mars, i saw a youtube comment ranting about the $2.5bn that the program cost, complaining that "they should of spend that money on EARTH JOBS!!!!!!". chancellor trump will build a wall across our mesosphere and make earth great again
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fishmech posted:apple is bad, and also dying They manufactured the iie into 1993 iirc
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maniacdevnull posted:They manufactured the iie into 1993 iirc apple iigs production halted in december 1992 they manufactured the IIe to november 1993, but it was a bad computer by then because it was old as gently caress and no longer meaningfully expandable
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