Well, that and I just don't really care much about robots. The UML Robotics Lab where Mark works does some great stuff, I'm just not that interested in the robotics part.
BTW, the robots here simulate range sensors and video cameras and do not use an environment description to move around. There's a physics engine driving all the movement, too.
It was the last "bottom of the barrel" review that made me put the Idle section into "always collapsed" mode on my homepage, but now idle content is showing up in other sections. Is there no end?
After a long time of waffling, I finally picked one of these up for my home use. I absolutely LOVE it. I've got a few old model-m's floating around, but I wanted something with the windows key, and USB was a definite plus. $70 was a bit expensive, but it's been worth it so far. Now I'm just trying to convince work to buy me one. If they don't soon, I'll probably just buy one on my own dime and bring it in.
I cut my teeth on BASIC, too, but why the celebration? Specifically, why *now*? I don't know too many people or organizations who are overly eager to celebrate the 44th anniversary above any others. Doesn't really match any nice clean milestone-like numbers (not even in binary!).
[... and cue the/. numerologists to find the hidden meaning of 44, like it's the first power of two plus the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything, or something like that.]
This is true assuming your TV has a VGA input. If that's the case, you're doing just fine with whatever the laptop can push to external video. Of course a laptop's able to push out very high external resolutions-- it'd be silly to think otherwise. Heck, my eeePc can crank out plenty pixels to an external monitor.
However, I was talking about a laptop's ability to push to a regular HDTV, which has to take into account the physical connection at play. My 720p/1080i set has component, composite, svideo, and HDMI, but not VGA. My laptop's capable of spitting out composite and s-video, neither of which will work with HD resolutions as best as I know. Now if you've got a laptop with DVI output (again, not quite common) then you could do the DVI-HDMI converter thing. So it's really not as simple as just plugging it in to a computer monitor.
My problem with the in-game friend codes is that they make absolutely no use of the Wii's built-in friend code system whatsoever. So it doesn't matter if we've already swapped Wii codes and I can send you Wiimail; in order to play Brawl together (or Guitar Hero 3, or... you name it) online, we need to give each other *additional* friend codes.
I wouldn't even care if the lists were kept separately for each game. That'd allow me to, say, add some guy from a forum to my Brawl list but not my GH3 list. BUT for the love of all that is orange, give me a menu option for inviting someone from my existing address book. And then let them accept that invitation right from the Wii message board.
For all of the wonderful things that Nintendo got right with the Wii, this is one area where they seriously botched things up.
I didn't even get to Hoth. Not that I even know where Hoth is in the universe. I didn't even realize that I was playing as Luke Skywalker until I figured out all of the "LUKE! DO THIS THING HERE NOW!" type comments were actually being directed at me.
I gave up after getting creamed in the deathstar trench a few times.
Wait -- you actually liked Rogue Squadron? I found the thing to be inscrutable. Bad design left and right. Mind you, I'm not a Star Wars fan by any stretch, so I couldn't fill in all the plot and motivation that they assumed I knew. But even so, I found it to be just an awful game.
I did this to my old "Linux CoolKeyboard" about a year ago, as things were getting kinda gunky. A few days later, we bought a new dishwasher.
Unfortunately, you see, a few of the keys got wedged down into the drain-pump mechanism in the bottom, which we had to disassemble to get them out. Having so thoroughly taken it apart, I wasn't too sure of my ability to get it back together without causing flood damage downstairs. More importantly, neither was my wife. Hence, new dishwasher. (The old one had seen better days anyway.)
Yeah, I picked up a no-name adapter, and poking around online afterward this seems to be a fairly common problem. It's apparently something that's not hard to get right, but just a lot easier to get wrong.
Beware of that plan! I tried that exact same thing this past December and quickly found out a very odd "feature" of most CF-to-IDE adapters; specifically, they don't wire through DMA properly. So your BIOS will support DMA, your CF card will support DMA, but the signals never actually get through. Now it takes this particular machine a few minutes to boot while linux tries to turn DMA on but keeps timing out. And yes, I've tried passing a few different kernel parameters at boot time but to no avail. You're much better off going with a simple USB thumbdrive (which most BIOSes will happily boot from these days), and the price for the size will be about the same as card + adapter (unless you've got a stockpile of CF cards floating around, of course). I'm probably going to be doing just that in the future with this machine at some point, but since I've already mistakenly invested in this tech, I'm going to stick it out for a while at least. Though I will say that there is at least one manufacturer who purportedly makes adapters with proper DMA handling. Their name escapes me at the moment though.
A place called Dustin Home. Search for "sempron" and it'll come up, though I have no way of telling if it's in stock. The ones in question are marked "EE" for "Energy Efficient", with model numbers starting with "SDD" as opposed to "SDA". AMD has a nice chart on what the model numbers mean. I just wish that AMD would be a little more explicit in the names on the packaging.
These are nice, but I'm just trying to track down one of the new 35W Semprons that AMD makes (model # SDD*). Unfortunately, nobody carries them at retail. And unless I want to order them in packs of 12, or pay for shipping from Sweden, I seem to be completely out of luck.
I initially read the title of the article as "Hoboken Ninja vs. Giant Parking Robot", which would have made a much more interesting story than the actual article. Who cares about legal battles? Give me real ultimate power!
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Not in this video, but they have controlled real robots, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48A8vdJ68lI
Well, that and I just don't really care much about robots. The UML Robotics Lab where Mark works does some great stuff, I'm just not that interested in the robotics part.
BTW, the robots here simulate range sensors and video cameras and do not use an environment description to move around. There's a physics engine driving all the movement, too.
The simulation is separate from the UI, so it's very much not an RTS. The robots even get stuck on things in the simulation.
No, that would be the name of the the $_ circle of hell.
It was the last "bottom of the barrel" review that made me put the Idle section into "always collapsed" mode on my homepage, but now idle content is showing up in other sections. Is there no end?
Hi, you must be new here.
It's Massachusetts. We don't like your science and technology very much over here.
You know, after ten years of living here, I still tell people I'm "originally from Maine" so as not to get lumped in...
Seconded. go here.
Dishwasher.
Seriously pop the caps off, run the sucker through a dishwasher, alone. Let it dry for a couple days, and presto, practically-new keyboard for you.
As a side note, never, ever try this with a membrane keyboard.
After a long time of waffling, I finally picked one of these up for my home use. I absolutely LOVE it. I've got a few old model-m's floating around, but I wanted something with the windows key, and USB was a definite plus. $70 was a bit expensive, but it's been worth it so far. Now I'm just trying to convince work to buy me one. If they don't soon, I'll probably just buy one on my own dime and bring it in.
Actually, you're thinking of DASKeyboard, which is separate from this.
I cut my teeth on BASIC, too, but why the celebration? Specifically, why *now*? I don't know too many people or organizations who are overly eager to celebrate the 44th anniversary above any others. Doesn't really match any nice clean milestone-like numbers (not even in binary!).
/. numerologists to find the hidden meaning of 44, like it's the first power of two plus the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything, or something like that.]
[... and cue the
This is true assuming your TV has a VGA input. If that's the case, you're doing just fine with whatever the laptop can push to external video. Of course a laptop's able to push out very high external resolutions-- it'd be silly to think otherwise. Heck, my eeePc can crank out plenty pixels to an external monitor.
However, I was talking about a laptop's ability to push to a regular HDTV, which has to take into account the physical connection at play. My 720p/1080i set has component, composite, svideo, and HDMI, but not VGA. My laptop's capable of spitting out composite and s-video, neither of which will work with HD resolutions as best as I know. Now if you've got a laptop with DVI output (again, not quite common) then you could do the DVI-HDMI converter thing. So it's really not as simple as just plugging it in to a computer monitor.
The native resolution is higher, *but* many laptops can't put out an HDTV signal natively to take advantage of those resolutions on a TV screen.
My problem with the in-game friend codes is that they make absolutely no use of the Wii's built-in friend code system whatsoever. So it doesn't matter if we've already swapped Wii codes and I can send you Wiimail; in order to play Brawl together (or Guitar Hero 3, or ... you name it) online, we need to give each other *additional* friend codes.
I wouldn't even care if the lists were kept separately for each game. That'd allow me to, say, add some guy from a forum to my Brawl list but not my GH3 list. BUT for the love of all that is orange, give me a menu option for inviting someone from my existing address book. And then let them accept that invitation right from the Wii message board.
For all of the wonderful things that Nintendo got right with the Wii, this is one area where they seriously botched things up.
I didn't even get to Hoth. Not that I even know where Hoth is in the universe. I didn't even realize that I was playing as Luke Skywalker until I figured out all of the "LUKE! DO THIS THING HERE NOW!" type comments were actually being directed at me.
I gave up after getting creamed in the deathstar trench a few times.
Wait -- you actually liked Rogue Squadron? I found the thing to be inscrutable. Bad design left and right. Mind you, I'm not a Star Wars fan by any stretch, so I couldn't fill in all the plot and motivation that they assumed I knew. But even so, I found it to be just an awful game.
I did this to my old "Linux CoolKeyboard" about a year ago, as things were getting kinda gunky. A few days later, we bought a new dishwasher.
Unfortunately, you see, a few of the keys got wedged down into the drain-pump mechanism in the bottom, which we had to disassemble to get them out. Having so thoroughly taken it apart, I wasn't too sure of my ability to get it back together without causing flood damage downstairs. More importantly, neither was my wife. Hence, new dishwasher. (The old one had seen better days anyway.)
Yeah, I picked up a no-name adapter, and poking around online afterward this seems to be a fairly common problem. It's apparently something that's not hard to get right, but just a lot easier to get wrong.
Beware of that plan! I tried that exact same thing this past December and quickly found out a very odd "feature" of most CF-to-IDE adapters; specifically, they don't wire through DMA properly. So your BIOS will support DMA, your CF card will support DMA, but the signals never actually get through. Now it takes this particular machine a few minutes to boot while linux tries to turn DMA on but keeps timing out. And yes, I've tried passing a few different kernel parameters at boot time but to no avail. You're much better off going with a simple USB thumbdrive (which most BIOSes will happily boot from these days), and the price for the size will be about the same as card + adapter (unless you've got a stockpile of CF cards floating around, of course). I'm probably going to be doing just that in the future with this machine at some point, but since I've already mistakenly invested in this tech, I'm going to stick it out for a while at least. Though I will say that there is at least one manufacturer who purportedly makes adapters with proper DMA handling. Their name escapes me at the moment though.
they're not quite done copying the wii! notice the mii-like functionality in PS home?
A place called Dustin Home. Search for "sempron" and it'll come up, though I have no way of telling if it's in stock. The ones in question are marked "EE" for "Energy Efficient", with model numbers starting with "SDD" as opposed to "SDA". AMD has a nice chart on what the model numbers mean. I just wish that AMD would be a little more explicit in the names on the packaging.
These are nice, but I'm just trying to track down one of the new 35W Semprons that AMD makes (model # SDD*). Unfortunately, nobody carries them at retail. And unless I want to order them in packs of 12, or pay for shipping from Sweden, I seem to be completely out of luck.
Actually, the reserved localhost network is a full class-A, 127.x.x.x, so sending to 127.0.0.2 will have the same result on most clients.
I initially read the title of the article as "Hoboken Ninja vs. Giant Parking Robot", which would have made a much more interesting story than the actual article. Who cares about legal battles? Give me real ultimate power!