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ASIMO and Research Celebrated in Brussels
robotsrule writes "The European Comission (Europa) is holding a public event to bring the public, especially young people, closer to the museums, laboratories and academic institutions that are doing high level research in Europe. 'European Researchers' Night' will offer several fun events such as science cafes, behind-the-scenes open house evenings at several research facilities, an X-ray laser demonstration, films, dinners, and more. The star guest of the evening is Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot. The event is scheduled for September 23, 2005 and will be held in Brussels, Belgium."
AWESOM-O must dispense oil waste. Where is the nearest toilet please?
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlord.
Röntgen laser? WTF?
I know people here are good at seeing the EU as something evil, but not THAT kind of evil. EU is the suits-and-lawyers-and-politicians kind of evil, NOT x-ray-lasers-and-sharks evil.
Bad correlation with stereotype. They should be ashamed of themselves. ; )
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A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly gay.
I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.
"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.
Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.
You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.
Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.
But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks
The Chinese are currently torturing hundreds of Tibetans and Uighurs.
The Chinese are currently torturing hundreds of Tibetans and Uighurs.
Thanks for the educational but oh-so-comedy killing reply.
"Ok, ready?"
(click)
"There it was, what did you think? What? Nothing?"
"Ok, one more time, but PAY ATTENTION. This is expensive."
(click)
"Ok, NOW what did you think?"
"What do you mean, 'nothing'?"
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
Yet another sickening blow has struck what's left of the Linux community, as a soon-to-be-released report by the independent Commision for Technology Management (CTM) after a year-long study has concluded: Linux is already dead. Here are some of the commission's findings:
.005% of internet servers. This led to Mandrakesoft, makers of another troubled distro, to purchase Connectiva. However, industry anaylists say that this will not help since Mandrakesoft is already a shell of its former self.
Fact: Linux has balkanized yet again. There are now no less than 120 separate, competing Linux distros, each of which has introduced fundamental incompatibilities with the other distros, and frequently with Unix standards. Average number of developers in each project (except for Redhat and Novell/Suse): fewer than five. Average number of users per project: there are no definitive numbers, but reports show that all projects are on the decline.
Fact: Trivial issues such as names and a lack of professionalism continue to plague Linux. At a recent Linux conference in San Francisco, a fight broke out between RMS (Richard M. Stallman) who says Linux should be called GNU/Linux and Linus Torvalds who created Linux and says that Linux should be called Linux. This led to a massive barroom style brawl involving at least 150 Linux geeks. The SFPD was called out to break up the melee, and arrested 150 people. It was estimated that at least 2 to 3 times that many were involved in the brawl, but there wasn't enough police on hand to arrest all of them. Thirty one people were hospitalized as a result of this brawl, and one person is still in a coma.
Fact: There are almost no Connectiva developers left, and its use, according to Netcraft, is down to a sadly crippled
Fact: X.org will not include support for Redhat's Fedora project. The newly formed group believes that Fedora has strayed too far from Unix standards and have become too difficult to support along with other Linux distros and Solaris x86. "It's too much trouble," said one anonymous developer. "If they want to make their own standards, let them doing the porting for us."
Fact: Ubuntu Linux, yet another offshoot of the beleaguered Debian "distro", is already collapsing under the weight of internal power struggles and in-fighting. "They haven't done a single decent release," notes Mark Baron, an industry watcher and columnist. "Their mailing lists read like an online version of a Jerry Springer episode, complete with food fights, swearing, name-calling, and chair-throwing. It also doesn't help that Ubuntu sounds like an obscure term for a gay orgy." Netcraft reports that Ubuntu Linux is run on exactly 0% of internet servers.
Fact: Debian Linux, which claims to focus on "being free" (whatever that is supposed to mean), is slow, and cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs. "That about drove the last nail in the coffin for Linux use here," said Michael Curry, CTO of Amazon.com. "We took our Debian boxes out to the backyard and shot them in the head. We're much happier running FreeBSD."
Fact: The Slackware Distro is now dead. The Slackware team could never get their distro to function on hardware other than Intel and S/390. Had they not been slacking off, Slackware would still be around.
Fact: Servers running SELinux, which claims to focus on security, are frequently compromised. According to Jim Markham, editor of the online security forum SecurityWatch, the few SELinux servers that exist on the internet have become a joke among the hacker community. "They make a game out of it," he says. "The SELinux team will scramble to make a new patch to fix one problem, and they've already compromised a bunch of boxes with a different exploit."
With these incontroverible facts staring (what's left of) the Linux community in the face, they can only draw one conclusion: Linux is already dead.
They are just savages anyway.
The Chinese are currently torturing hundreds of Tibetans and Uighurs.
I mean, all of us know about the city's history, right? We know about Brussels sprouts and...uh...umm...(clicks link)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
The ASIMO site appears to be getting slashdotted and I can't find any pricing there, there are only plushies, scale models, and toys on eBay, so can you really buy one of these and for how much?
cmdr taco
why are you raping me
please stop
...if I made something as capable as that, I'd too make it lease-only, to respected customers.
I mean, I'd be quite mad if my desktop was suddenly wrecked, accidentally or otherwise. Something like this is probably far more <smeagol>presssiousss<smeagol> than a thousand-dollar PC in their opinion. It sure is IMO.
I guess there will be some luxury reseller out there soon, but I haven't heard of one yet.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
WHY THE FUCK do they need robots when there are already 12 billion fucking zipperheads
if they could ride their bikes to america we'd already be fucked
Does anyone know how much ASIMO is estimated to have cost Honda? I know there have been several revisions and whatnot, so "just for the current one" is fair in my book.
I have a feeling it probably pales in comparison to the billion or so spent on their F1 racing efforts (yeah, billion with a b; F1 is insane these days).
Please help metamoderate.
why should I give a FUCK about 1 type of slope torturing two others?
If anyone has solid information on this, I'd be interested in obtaining it. Thanks.
Greetings from Brussels !
Here in Belgium we have researched the new technologies to enable special educations is schools.Now with EU constitution and education grants all alternative lifestyle like homo is taught at schools in Europe! This is new law that everyone must follow, soon special laws come in to ban all rogue OS's like Linux! This is neccessary because of stolen code in Linux kernels! Macintosh is also banned because of stolen codes in KHTML/Safari. Soon we have special education, Microsoft are very popular here and all childrens must learn microsoft word. This is new legislation in the new European constitution everyone must follow!
greetings!
"a public event to bring the public"? Well I would expect that would be the purpose of a public event.
that's . Now there's one more to close, so...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Meanwhile, in the death cult capital of the world, the Netherlands, a new bone-chilling survey has been released. See Many Dutch Doctors Support Euthanasia for Terminally Ill Kids. An excerpt:
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A child is suffering terribly from incurable cancer, and both he and his parents request a lethal injection of drugs to put an end to his pain. According to a new survey, up to 60 percent of Dutch pediatricians say they would honor that request, were such a step legal.
In fact, a smaller but significant number of pediatricians -- up to 28 percent -- said they would be willing to resort to lethal injection in such cases even when parents did not agree with their child's wish to die
The survey comes on the heels of the so-called "Groningen protocol," issued in March by two Dutch physicians who contend that newborns with defects that cause them severe, chronic pain should, in certain cases, be euthanized.
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I saw the Asimo Robot on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum when my daughter competed in the US Nationals for the Sally Ride Science Foundation "Toy Challenge" recently. It was presented by an attractive, young woman.
There was a pause in her conversation when she asked the audience for a particular dance for Asimo, and I responded with the first one that came to mind... the robot!
Apparently, it does the cha-cha, the salsa, and a number of others, but it doesn't do the robot...
Whodda thought?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
As we all know, X-rays go through our bodies. So, a robot with an X-ray laser can fire at me as much as he wants, he will just fry any metal that's behind me.
shouldn't that just be 'xaser'? or is it some kind of laser powered by x-rays?
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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In Tokyo. I was visiting Japan, and happened to walk into the National Emerging Science and Technology museum. They had a little show where he would walk around and play rock paper scissors, and navigate two steps, up a platform on a box. It was pretty cool. It was definitely aimed at youngsters though, they had a show every 1/2 hour, and from the nonexistant Japanese I speak, the 'host' was trying to get the crowd geared up. Several small children chanted 'ASIMO', at some question (maybe 'Who do you want to see?') by the host. When it was done, it would walk backwards too. Pretty cool, overall.
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These researchers really know how to par-tay! Count me in!
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The ASIMO suit for the midget doesn't really cost all that much.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
You should have actually read about what you have posted. The "European Researchers' Night" isn't only in Brussels, it's an event in whole Europe. ASIMO is only in Brussels.
If you check out the calendar of the Researchers in Europe 2005 initiative, you'll see that there is a lot more happening than just the "European Researchers' Night" on September 23rd. In fact, from June through November, there are research- and science-related events all over Europe.
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Lend me an ASIMO so I can stuff it with Mindpixels.
ASIMO is old news. We need a newer better robot. And this time, don't make it look so gay.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
The last X-ray laser I heard about was this one:
.. user friendly .. design to demo.
Another idea to come from the SDI project was the nuclear-pumped X-ray laser. This was essentially an orbiting atomic bomb, surrounded by laser media in the form of glass rods; when the bomb exploded, the rods would be bombarded with highly-energetic gamma-ray photons, causing spontaneous and stimulated emission of X-ray photons in the atoms making up the rods. This would lead to optical amplification of the X-ray photons, producing an X-ray laser beam which would be minimally affected by atmospheric distortion and capable of destroying ICBMs in flight. The X-ray laser would be a strictly one-shot device, destroying itself on activation.
I hope they've managed a more