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GUIs for Robots

Posted by michael on from the click-drag-boom dept.

kabir writes "OpenGL.org has a link to a fun article over at the Stanford Aerospace Robotics Laboratory. It seems an OpenGL-based GUI has been developed to enable the operation of multiple complex field robots by a single operator. The interaction mechanism was inspired by interface techniques refined in the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre of video games. Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers."

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  1. New cook book coming by Izanagi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next month Arthur Andersen plans to release a comprehensive cook book. It will be priced high than it true worth.

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  2. Why only teenagers.... by HowlinMad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wanna play too

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  3. ANGRYdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ANGRYdot

  4. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like that really needed to be said...

    1. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I disagree. The link certainly shows an "insightful" picture. As is seeing inside of a gooey ass. That is totally on topic for a GUI discussion.

  5. *BSD Is Dying by pwpbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Netcraft has now confirmed BSD is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraftsurvey which plainly states that BSD has lost more market share this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along BSD is collapsing in complete disarray as further exemplified by failing dead last samagcom samagcom in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking testYou dont need to be a Kreskin amdestcom to predict BSDs future The hand writing is on the wall BSD faces a bleak future In fact there wont be any future at all for BSD because BSD is dying Things are looking very bad for BSD As many of us are already aware BSD continues to lose market share Red ink flows like a river of blood FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all having lost 93 of its core developersLets keep to the facts and look at the numbers OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD How many users of NetBSD are there Lets see The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1 Therefore there are about 70005 1400 NetBSD users BSDOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts Therefore there are about 700 users of BSDOS A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the BSD market Therefore there are 700014007004 36400 FreeBSD users This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenetposts Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek abysmal sales and so on FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS Now BSDI is also deadits corpse turned over to yet another charnel house All major surveys show that BSD has steadily declined in market share BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim If BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers BSD continues to decay Nothing short of a miracle could save it atthis point in time For all practical purposes BSD is dead BSD is dying

    -pwpbot

    1. Re:*BSD Is Dying by pwpbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      not another open sauce bug...

  6. Re:Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fucking columbine. i'd shoot those kids if i knew they were gonna pull that shit. i know people who got months in jail for simply wondering how it would have happened at their school, and by who. fuckin DOO GOODER MOTHER FUCKERS ARE RUINING THE WORLD. FUCKING GET OVER IT YOU PUSSY ASS MOTHER FUCKING WHORES

  7. Lets have a vote; I say mod up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First of all, the parent post is pretty funny. Goatse as a "graphical interface", get the pun? "Just don't try to use it!", delicious.