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Sony to produce more AIBO & more bots
sbeitzel writes "According to this story on Yahoo!, Sony will be producing more "home entertainment robots" next year, and tooling up to start producing a whole line of different 'bots. " Maybe this time I can have/keep a sample. And Rob will stop complaining about not having one. (Are you listening, Sony?)
Nested mode now displays in pages of 25 comments, solving that problem.
Even when I'm at home on my modem (boo hiss), I still prefer it.
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Since Slashdot contains lots of dynamic contents (or rather, since it nothing but dynamic content), the Perl scripts print the appropiate HTTP headers (Pragma, No-Cache and related) to instruct what receives the pages (browsers, proxies and tunnels) not to cache them. That means that whenever you abandon the page (follow a link) the browser will discard it, so when you hit back, you will have to reload it.
I am developing an engine to create dynamic content and it does just the same thing: ask whatever receives the pages not to cache them.
It can be a pain to press the back button, but, on the other hand, you could always `open link in new window' whenever you plan to continue seeing a given page (that is, unless you are using Lynx which ignores all those headers anyway (at least until version 2.8.1rel.2)). Just in case you don't know, you can open links in new window just by clicking them with the middle button in Unix Netscape.
Alejo.
Alejo.
Are these things built in such a way that they can be upgraded? If I bought one of these things (not that I have the cash), I'd want to be able to upgrade it's sensor-pack and/or it's On Board Computer when new versions come out.
Suppose my kids fell in love with Rover. Then, a new OBC came out supporting educational software that would play "A-B-C" type games with the kids. Or new long-range I/R eyeballs hit the market. I wouldn't want to replace the faithful old Rover that we've all come to love. I'd just want to give him an upgrade!
Maybe years go by, and rusty old Rover has learned to relate to my family. Then the new Penguin chassis comes on the market. I might want to keep old Rover's knowledge alive by downloading it into the new Tux model.
Can do?
First, being a typical geek, I could use a Cherry 2000 or something fairly similar. It's lucky that non-geeks can produce geeks or else there'd be damn few of us.
Second, is a KillBot too much to ask for? Preferably one that can fit in the trunk of my car, and help me out with that lovely Boston traffic. Energy weapons only please (consumable ammunition would put it out of my price range).
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Well, hopefully these robotic pets become popular with manufacturers so they can flood the market with them and drive them into a reasonable price range for most people.
It would be cool to have a robot dog, but not at the current price.
BTW, is there going to be another "furby/elmo-style" toy craze this Christmas?
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Use nested mode, then you get all the comments on the same page. Much, much easier to read.
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