There are several posters here that are just not getting it and can't appreciate it.
This project is extremely cool, and I'd like to hear more about the software logic/heuristics that drive it. That is, if that's info you'd be willing to share and have time to write up.
The video of it navigating the forest is very interesting; it normally gives a wide berth to obstacles, but in that one case it darts between the two close trees.
Please look again at the site. The car is made from common RC car parts (Traxxas truck parts) but the control system is autonomous. On top of the stalk is the inertia sensor that is the basis for its navigation.
[BLOCKQUOTE]As for over the internet? Well it would be EXTREMELY cool to have access to all of my documents where ever I sit down at a computer, Gmail gets close but not quite the same as a universal "My Docs" folder that I can save to and load from across all apps across all plateforms ya know?[/BLOCKQUOTE]
This is similar to what I posted above. I think that having centralized storage of our documents is far more likely than returning to centralized processing (Google Maps, etc). Not primary centralized storage, but rather centralized storage that augments our primary storage (at home, work, etc).
Cheap webhosting makes this somewhat feasible now, but it's clumsy with HTTP/FTP modes. Some type of secure caching-NFS seems apropos. But I don't know.
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Yes they did. And it was bullshit then, too.
Why on earth would anybody want to go back to centralized computing? It simply won't happen; desktop machines are far too powerful to drop, let alone the frail networking one must depend on with this scheme. On that note, I think in 2015 there will still be backhoe operators that drive the shovel right through the subterranean neural connection filaments, or *whatever* some Wired author decides to call the cables.
Further, who will give up total control of their apps? What if you want to work where there is no net access? For data processing apps, why limit the app's speed to the net bandwidth? What if I need an app to do X/and/ Y with my already-entered data, not just X?
I do think, however, that centralized storage to augment, not replace, your primary storage will become popular and quite useful. With the cheap webhosting available, it's doable now, if a bit clumsy with HTTP/FTP.
This article is a good example of why my Wired subscription is lapsing. Few articles are what I would call "good", and most are pulled straight from the author's buttockal ether. Wired: put that in your blog and e-publish it.
And I hope I don't get a letter from their collection agency goons.
Three satellites solve the lat,lon and time delay unknowns, giving you a 2D position (no elevation). Your position is actually ambiguous because two points satisfy the equations. One is on the ground of course, and the other is the mirror image out in space (relative to the three satellite locations). To get 3D position information, a fourth satellite provides the disambiguating data.
The three satellites define a plane and a fourth satellite tells which side of the plane your position is.
One example of a reasonably priced, fanless GPU is the FX5200, which can be had at electronic stores for $50-$70. The plain FX5200 is passively cooled, and most manufacturers include only one video output on it. The slightly faster FX5200 Ultra requires a fan for the increased heat, and would probably include two video outputs. The ones I've seen with two outputs had one VGA and one DVI. Surely someone is producing one with two DVIs.
I just purchased a FX6600GT for $165. For its performance, I'd call that reasonably priced, and it includes two DVI outputs, but has a fan.
I'd prefer to see video cards with passive heat sinks too, but the silicon process just isn't there yet. It is getting closer, however.
It is surprising there haven't been more issues with the Internet Archive. My prediction is this will change.
I've been in the dark with respect to the Wayback Machine and got slightly bit by it. In my instance, a couple years ago I had created some designs that another person felt infringed on their commercial ideas. We amicably sorted it out, and I removed the file. End of story.
However, the Wayback Machine had dutifully maintained copies of every file, including the one I had removed. The situation didn't come to this, but what if others were getting the offending file via the Wayback Machine? Who is responsible in this case?
The big question with utilizing web content as evidence is, how far back should an edition be valid as evidence? Does it depend on the offense? Or perhaps statute of limitations?
In my situation I contacted the Internet Archive and asked for them to remove all the archived pages. In light of this situation, I think the Internet Archive system should attempt sending an email to a website's owner stating "We've taken a snapshot of your site. Please see archive.org for instructions on removing and preventing future snapshots."
Further, not every website can use the robots.txt file. A case in point are personal sites based on an ISP's server. An alternative file, for instance a robots.txt stored in a user's dir should be checked for, IMO.
Do "Website Creation for Dolts" books mention the Internet Archive?
Is that in any way outright illegal w.r.t. privacy issues?
Some collection agency called me about a neighbor and I was shocked. I told him to pound sand, and come down to the neighborhood to knock on the door himself if he wanted.
The only other entity worse than a collection agency is a medical insurance company. What they want to do is get somebody else to pay the bill via legal means (is this an injury? due to anyone else? just an accident?) before they must pay anything out. They use similar tactics: numerous calls, threats of legal action against you if you don't complete their questionaire, etc. And just think, that's *my* insurance?!? Are they really working for me?
I'm not defending the despicable Enron by saying this, but California did it to themselves.
Their version of deregulation/privatization was lopsided, where the retail prices were set by market but the wholesale prices were not. So, as retail prices dropped from competition, wholesale prices remained steady. This gets unbalanced quickly. The costs combined with the increased power demand attracted Enron, the opportunistic frauds they are.
Enron smelled blood in the water. Unfortunately, it was from a self-inflicted shot to the foot.
From the press release (a press release about a WiFi report?) this report doesn't sound anything more than subjective fluff. However, it's material that SBC and other muni WiFi blockers would love to quote.
Only reporting on a limited scope isn't bias, it's merely a boundary.
What gets me is the emphasis on breakeven points, profiteering opportunities, etc. Not everything needs a 100% quantifiable ROI. Muni WiFi is just that; the benefit it provides is a convenience for the community for both casual users (check mah email) and mobile workers. I.e., build it if you can afford it.
As a last resort, we could always measure the usage in kilogirls.
The USGS and other agencies produce the images, which are freely available. I don't believe they have registered copyright on them, and what would be the point since they are created by the govt for public dissemination?
As for Google, the copyright is on the actual *presentation* of the underlying free image data. Think of a religious book like the Bible: the actual text of the chapters isn't copyrighted, but the collection of that, plus notes, plus cross references, plus historical information that is in a typical Bible *is* copyrightable.
I'm not entirely sure how DVD scripts work, but I believe you can specify what parts are skippable, fast-forwardable, or not. The DVD player interprets the script commands and enforces the specified policies.
Since patching my DVD player, I've been able to skip over every promo and FBI warning I've tried. But there's still something that prevents skipping some bits; in those cases, FF works. Before patching, none of this was possible.
I don't have the links on hand, but web search for DVD, ROM, patch, region code, macrovision. Not all DVD players are hackable.
Kids' DVDs are the worst -- I don't think you are exaggerating with 10 minutes of commercials/promos.
Fortunately, my DVD player was one of the hackable ones, so now it doesn't support region codes and I can FF over FBI warnings and other promo crap. It can't totally be skipped, but FF at 8x is good enough.
RANT I hate how media companies insist on limiting end-user control. It's *my* PC, it's *my* DVD player, and it's *my* licensed copy of the DVD, so deal with it!/RANT
- Good Plot, but I wasn't totally convinced why Anakim turned to the Dark side - I mean, he could be in a somewhat "gray" side, but this is just me, watch and draw your conclusions.
No spoilers, but I read somewhere that his turn to the dark side was the fact that Elected Queen Senator Amidala (WTF?) would die in childbirth, and those "in the dark" could bring back the dead. So Star Wars is a love story.
I just registered a few weeks ago through GoDaddy and was certainly annoyed and even a bit confused by the numerous promotional pages one must navigate through to final check out. But it wasn't that bad, and all is fine.
IIRC, the ICANN fee was around 50 to 80 cents; certainly less than $1.
For hosting I went with WebHostingBuzz.com on a reco from a friend. $4/mo for 2GB disk storage, unlimited emails, subdomains, and 65GB bandwidth/month -- an insane deal for nerds.
I wouldn't pin the entire fiasco on Enron. Enron had its own fraudulent goings-on elsewhere.
Meanwhile, just prior to the California energy crisis, the geniuses there decided to only partially regulate the industry. If I remember this correctly, they fixed the wholesale price while letting the retail price fluctuate. As more private enterprises attempt to sell power (and thus drive the price down) they are unable to pay the fixed wholesale price. They shut down, and at that point, with fewer producers, voila, an energy shortage.
What Enron did after that is sell power to Cali at exorbitant costs. But you know what, that's called a free market -- exactly what the whole deregulation movement worships but has yet to achieve in a manner that actually works. This has played out across the country; at least some locales have the sense to not force deregulation/privatization of a public utility.
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If that were me, I would have offered a Five Star product.
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Of course, not to be confused with a Top Choice game, or a Gamer's Choice, or a TenTenths production, or the coveted Kick-Ass! Award, or A-1, or
All that said, I have a soft spot for a local plumbing company called AAA Aardvark plumbing. They may very well be Teh F1rs7 Po5t!! in the phonebook.
There are several posters here that are just not getting it and can't appreciate it.
This project is extremely cool, and I'd like to hear more about the software logic/heuristics that drive it. That is, if that's info you'd be willing to share and have time to write up.
The video of it navigating the forest is very interesting; it normally gives a wide berth to obstacles, but in that one case it darts between the two close trees.
Good job!
Please look again at the site. The car is made from common RC car parts (Traxxas truck parts) but the control system is autonomous. On top of the stalk is the inertia sensor that is the basis for its navigation.
This is similar to what I posted above. I think that having centralized storage of our documents is far more likely than returning to centralized processing (Google Maps, etc). Not primary centralized storage, but rather centralized storage that augments our primary storage (at home, work, etc).
Cheap webhosting makes this somewhat feasible now, but it's clumsy with HTTP/FTP modes. Some type of secure caching-NFS seems apropos. But I don't know.
Yes they did. And it was bullshit then, too.
/and/ Y with my already-entered data, not just X?
Why on earth would anybody want to go back to centralized computing? It simply won't happen; desktop machines are far too powerful to drop, let alone the frail networking one must depend on with this scheme. On that note, I think in 2015 there will still be backhoe operators that drive the shovel right through the subterranean neural connection filaments, or *whatever* some Wired author decides to call the cables.
Further, who will give up total control of their apps? What if you want to work where there is no net access? For data processing apps, why limit the app's speed to the net bandwidth? What if I need an app to do X
I do think, however, that centralized storage to augment, not replace, your primary storage will become popular and quite useful. With the cheap webhosting available, it's doable now, if a bit clumsy with HTTP/FTP.
This article is a good example of why my Wired subscription is lapsing. Few articles are what I would call "good", and most are pulled straight from the author's buttockal ether. Wired: put that in your blog and e-publish it.
And I hope I don't get a letter from their collection agency goons.
Here's the geometry of the situation:
Three satellites solve the lat,lon and time delay unknowns, giving you a 2D position (no elevation). Your position is actually ambiguous because two points satisfy the equations. One is on the ground of course, and the other is the mirror image out in space (relative to the three satellite locations). To get 3D position information, a fourth satellite provides the disambiguating data.
The three satellites define a plane and a fourth satellite tells which side of the plane your position is.
Just another interesting way to think about it.
One example of a reasonably priced, fanless GPU is the FX5200, which can be had at electronic stores for $50-$70. The plain FX5200 is passively cooled, and most manufacturers include only one video output on it. The slightly faster FX5200 Ultra requires a fan for the increased heat, and would probably include two video outputs. The ones I've seen with two outputs had one VGA and one DVI. Surely someone is producing one with two DVIs.
I just purchased a FX6600GT for $165. For its performance, I'd call that reasonably priced, and it includes two DVI outputs, but has a fan.
I'd prefer to see video cards with passive heat sinks too, but the silicon process just isn't there yet. It is getting closer, however.
It is surprising there haven't been more issues with the Internet Archive. My prediction is this will change.
I've been in the dark with respect to the Wayback Machine and got slightly bit by it. In my instance, a couple years ago I had created some designs that another person felt infringed on their commercial ideas. We amicably sorted it out, and I removed the file. End of story.
However, the Wayback Machine had dutifully maintained copies of every file, including the one I had removed. The situation didn't come to this, but what if others were getting the offending file via the Wayback Machine? Who is responsible in this case?
The big question with utilizing web content as evidence is, how far back should an edition be valid as evidence? Does it depend on the offense? Or perhaps statute of limitations?
In my situation I contacted the Internet Archive and asked for them to remove all the archived pages. In light of this situation, I think the Internet Archive system should attempt sending an email to a website's owner stating "We've taken a snapshot of your site. Please see archive.org for instructions on removing and preventing future snapshots."
Further, not every website can use the robots.txt file. A case in point are personal sites based on an ISP's server. An alternative file, for instance a robots.txt stored in a user's dir should be checked for, IMO.
Do "Website Creation for Dolts" books mention the Internet Archive?
About the neighbor...
Is that in any way outright illegal w.r.t. privacy issues?
Some collection agency called me about a neighbor and I was shocked. I told him to pound sand, and come down to the neighborhood to knock on the door himself if he wanted.
The only other entity worse than a collection agency is a medical insurance company. What they want to do is get somebody else to pay the bill via legal means (is this an injury? due to anyone else? just an accident?) before they must pay anything out. They use similar tactics: numerous calls, threats of legal action against you if you don't complete their questionaire, etc. And just think, that's *my* insurance?!? Are they really working for me?
I'm not defending the despicable Enron by saying this, but California did it to themselves.
Their version of deregulation/privatization was lopsided, where the retail prices were set by market but the wholesale prices were not. So, as retail prices dropped from competition, wholesale prices remained steady. This gets unbalanced quickly. The costs combined with the increased power demand attracted Enron, the opportunistic frauds they are.
Enron smelled blood in the water. Unfortunately, it was from a self-inflicted shot to the foot.
Only reporting on a limited scope isn't bias, it's merely a boundary.
What gets me is the emphasis on breakeven points, profiteering opportunities, etc. Not everything needs a 100% quantifiable ROI. Muni WiFi is just that; the benefit it provides is a convenience for the community for both casual users (check mah email) and mobile workers. I.e., build it if you can afford it.
As a last resort, we could always measure the usage in kilogirls.
Perl is either GPL'd or covered by Wall's Artistic License.
http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
Welp, it looks like I get 1000 points.
9 4&spn=0.007639,0.007725&t=k&hl=en
7 5&spn=0.007639,0.007725&t=k&hl=en
But first, here's a Saturn-V rocket at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I grew up exactly 2.5 miles from this rocket. Next to the Saturn V are two upright rockets: a Mercury and a mumble-mumble 3000 (I forget).
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.554017,-95.0940
Now, about that plane in flight. At Hobby airport, also in Houston, is this Cessna (?) on final approach (upper right).
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.653130,-95.2879
Another program that displayed B/W aerial photos had a picture of Hobby airport, and an airliner that is just taking off.
The USGS and other agencies produce the images, which are freely available. I don't believe they have registered copyright on them, and what would be the point since they are created by the govt for public dissemination?
As for Google, the copyright is on the actual *presentation* of the underlying free image data. Think of a religious book like the Bible: the actual text of the chapters isn't copyrighted, but the collection of that, plus notes, plus cross references, plus historical information that is in a typical Bible *is* copyrightable.
Here is the first tech preview of teh w3bsite. We'd like our product to be clearly disclosed to the public, and prospective VCs.
http://www.zombo.com/
I'm not entirely sure how DVD scripts work, but I believe you can specify what parts are skippable, fast-forwardable, or not. The DVD player interprets the script commands and enforces the specified policies.
Since patching my DVD player, I've been able to skip over every promo and FBI warning I've tried. But there's still something that prevents skipping some bits; in those cases, FF works. Before patching, none of this was possible.
I don't have the links on hand, but web search for DVD, ROM, patch, region code, macrovision. Not all DVD players are hackable.
Kids' DVDs are the worst -- I don't think you are exaggerating with 10 minutes of commercials/promos.
/RANT
Fortunately, my DVD player was one of the hackable ones, so now it doesn't support region codes and I can FF over FBI warnings and other promo crap. It can't totally be skipped, but FF at 8x is good enough.
RANT
I hate how media companies insist on limiting end-user control. It's *my* PC, it's *my* DVD player, and it's *my* licensed copy of the DVD, so deal with it!
The characters have bad breath and they're fat? Here's a spoiler: Darth Vader is Luke's father.
No spoilers, but I read somewhere that his turn to the dark side was the fact that Elected Queen Senator Amidala (WTF?) would die in childbirth, and those "in the dark" could bring back the dead. So Star Wars is a love story.
His arrogance, whines, rudeness and narcissism runs in the family.
"He sounds pathetic. Uncle Owen, why do people have to be so pathetic?"
Does it remind you of anyone?
Nice twist to deflect the truth. I applaud you attempt.
But here's the real spoiler: Chewbacca is Luke and Leia's love child.
I just registered a few weeks ago through GoDaddy and was certainly annoyed and even a bit confused by the numerous promotional pages one must navigate through to final check out. But it wasn't that bad, and all is fine.
IIRC, the ICANN fee was around 50 to 80 cents; certainly less than $1.
For hosting I went with WebHostingBuzz.com on a reco from a friend. $4/mo for 2GB disk storage, unlimited emails, subdomains, and 65GB bandwidth/month -- an insane deal for nerds.
How unfortunate a slogan.
Another reading of "It just works" is the take that it is barely adequate, just about to fail. Which is considerable truth in advertising from MS.
The software analogue of this is, "It compiles, ship it!"
I wouldn't pin the entire fiasco on Enron. Enron had its own fraudulent goings-on elsewhere.
Meanwhile, just prior to the California energy crisis, the geniuses there decided to only partially regulate the industry. If I remember this correctly, they fixed the wholesale price while letting the retail price fluctuate. As more private enterprises attempt to sell power (and thus drive the price down) they are unable to pay the fixed wholesale price. They shut down, and at that point, with fewer producers, voila, an energy shortage.
What Enron did after that is sell power to Cali at exorbitant costs. But you know what, that's called a free market -- exactly what the whole deregulation movement worships but has yet to achieve in a manner that actually works. This has played out across the country; at least some locales have the sense to not force deregulation/privatization of a public utility.
If it raises my bloodpressure or gives me a case of the popups, it's viral/malware. Distinctions of gray after that point are irrelevant.