It most likely is already included. One of the issues with designing missile jammers is making sure that the signal the jammer sends out isn't picked up as a beacon by the missile that you are trying to jam.
Jon,
What I think is sad and ugly is that you are angry that people called you on this. I didn't see the post until it was corrected, but if you don't make it clear what is your original writing and what is taken from a different source, that is plagiarism. So, you did (perhaps accidently) commit plagiarism.
You're also making it worse by emphatically denying that you did not and never have committed plagiarism. Yes, the link was there. But that still doesn't tell the reader what material is yours, and what material is the Daily Breeze. It should be obvious to you that it's necessary to give citations for all sentences that aren't yours.
There's one problem here: you are assuming that the company pays dividends. Microsoft does not pay dividends. Therefore this argument doesn't apply to them.
The DOJ/MS lawsuit brought down every tech stock on the market except for MSFT.
Have you taken a look at MSFT stock recently? It is around 65 dollars. That's about half of the value it had at the beginning of the year, before the final ruling.
I no longer have the article, but I believe the robot that the smithsonian showed was Walkman (I don't know what version.) If you scavange your parts from old electronics, and don't count the original cost, or the cost of labor, then it does get pretty cheap.
From what I understand about how Mark Tilden makes most of his robots, there isn't really very
much programming involved. Like I said in my post, Mark's robots are mostly analog. He builds
nervous nets (not neural) out of a series of transistors and uses that as the brain for the
walking part of the robot. From there, additional
sensors inputs can be added into the stream, and
a digital head can be added to the walker to
input different things into the stream. His walkers can be very similar to dinosaurs, in that
they have multiple brains, 1 for motion and 1 for everything else.
My guess is that the gathering of rocks and the clearing of the space will be done in exactly the same way. Mark's robots tend to be very simple creatures.
I'd agree that Mark does sound very optomistic about the whole process, especially when the company only has plans for one shipment of his robots to the moon, and not for all the other steps that he envisions. However, there does need to be that first step sometime, and since the moon will stayed clear for about a million years, I don't think clearing the space will go to waste.
Check out http://www.solarbotics.com/gallery.asp to see a bunch of different robots, mostly based off of designs by Tilden, or the BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) concept of his. The Smithsonian magazine recently had an article about different robots. It talked about robots and there progress in various labs around the world. In most places, they haven't gotten much farther then walking on 4 or 6 legs. They also listed the prices. For the featured (analog)robot of Mark Tilden : $2.50 . For all the other (digital) robots: over $100,000 . Something to think about there.
I don't know about anyone else out there, but I'm really fascinated by Mark Tilden's work. This just adds to the fascination. Mark is piggy-backing on this companies desire to get these moon-rocks so that he can get his robots up to the moon. His robots will cost $100 dollars, which is probably 6 orders of magnitude cheaper than any other robots sent out in space. Granted, the robots won't be much smarter then the moon rocks and dust that they'll be pushing around, but it's still cool.
Mark's robots are mostly analog, which is completely opposite of most robotocists (sp?) designs. It's crazy, but they end up working,
and performing the desired task. They end up
doing it because they are light seeking, and
their task becomes a side-effect of the robots
movement, like his lawnmower that cuts grass that
cover's it solar panel, or his window washer
that cleans the glass so it has more sunlight.
Of course they aren't living, but there as close
as any other robots out there now.
I'm curious to know what the typical user will need a 2 GHz processor for. I can see how it will be useful for heavy number crunching, like image rendering and processing, or for map and routing VHDL to an FPGA, but most typical users don't do these things. Other than games, I can't see anything to do with a 2Ghz processor at home. What would you use your 2Ghz processor for?
What exactly does Pius the II have to do with the GPL? The editor's note at the end of the article confused more then anything else. How exactly is worshipping Christ's blood like breaking the GPL?
Don't you pay any attention to holistic healing? Magnetics heal your body. They should change businesses, and turn the place into a health spa. Bring in some ancient mind healing crystals, and they'll be all set.
Here's a question for you: If all it takes is a wire mesh or steel plate on the floor of their office/ceiling of the other office to block the magnetic flux, why isn't a computer already encased in metal with a ground (via the power cable) protected?
Also, with the metal plate/mesh solution, how do you deal with flux wrapping around the plate?
If you used metal mesh, aren't you then just creating a huge inductor on the floor? Inductors
work by the change in magnetic flux going through
loops. This induces a current acting opposite to
the magnetic flux. The bigger the change in flux, the stronger the reactant current will be.
So, I don't think a metal mesh will work to stop the magnetic flux, but it might be a good ( or not so good) source of electricity.
Well, Microsoft knows that others aren't using Web bugs to track Word documents, because they've set it up so that they can track all Word documents with Web bugs.
It was part of the fine print in the User Agreement that says " All content created with Microsoft Word belongs to Microsoft, and will be tracked accordingly."
I think you missed their point. I doubt the original poster believes that it would work if everyone could pick exactly how their money was spent. But, having even the least bit of choice would make most people feel much better. Even if the choices we put down were simply surveys that was then presented to congress when making the budget. It's hard for a Republic to be representative, when they don't know what the people want.
I also agree that those doing the budgeting know more about it than I, or most average americans do. That's why I like a Republic over a Democracy. I know that I could screw something like that up, so I want a designated representative to do it for me. However, I do want them to take my opinion into consideration before the decision is made.
Well, I don't think their too worried about most
of there citizens reading ascii text files either. As far as I know, it doesn't translate too well into chinese characters!
I agree. I think it would be very interesting to see what sort of purpose people who take advantage of typos use. Are most of them scams (paypai.com) or porn (whitehouse.com), or do they simply have a similar interest that they want the site to be about? Dave
Your right. Because hey, If i'm going to send something malignant in an email, I'm going to be sure not to violate anyone's patents. I'll want to pick an extension that is not related to anything else. problem something like thisfile.screwsyou or thisisa.virus. that's what i'd do. Otherwise I'd have to pay $5000 dollars to use innocent.gif dave
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On the face of it, an AC is no more anonymous than I am. I find it interesting how people talk about the difference between an actual account on slashdot, and anonymity, when creating a new account for the purpose of anonymity is relatively easy.
One of the things not yet mentioned in the discussion is the quantity of writing necessary to do any real sort of comparison. For example, it would be difficult to identify me by my writings only, because I post so infrequently. If I posted more often, and wanted to remain pseudo-anonymous, I simply create new accounts. If each account has similarly few postings, it would be very difficult to sift through the hundreds of thousands of slashdot accounts to find the few accounts that are all most likely mine.
Even when people use account names, they're still pseudonyms that would be pretty difficult to link to real names by using writing styles, unless writings under both real name and pseudonym are prolific.
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It most likely is already included. One of the issues with designing missile jammers is making sure that the signal the jammer sends out isn't picked up as a beacon by the missile that you are trying to jam.
What I think is sad and ugly is that you are angry that people called you on this. I didn't see the post until it was corrected, but if you don't make it clear what is your original writing and what is taken from a different source, that is plagiarism. So, you did (perhaps accidently) commit plagiarism.
You're also making it worse by emphatically denying that you did not and never have committed plagiarism. Yes, the link was there. But that still doesn't tell the reader what material is yours, and what material is the Daily Breeze. It should be obvious to you that it's necessary to give citations for all sentences that aren't yours.
Dave
There's one problem here: you are assuming that the company pays dividends. Microsoft does not pay dividends. Therefore this argument doesn't apply to them.
Have you taken a look at MSFT stock recently? It is around 65 dollars. That's about half of the value it had at the beginning of the year, before the final ruling.
Dave
Dave
My guess is that the gathering of rocks and the clearing of the space will be done in exactly the same way. Mark's robots tend to be very simple creatures.
I'd agree that Mark does sound very optomistic about the whole process, especially when the company only has plans for one shipment of his robots to the moon, and not for all the other steps that he envisions. However, there does need to be that first step sometime, and since the moon will stayed clear for about a million years, I don't think clearing the space will go to waste.
Check out http://www.solarbotics.com/gallery.asp to see a bunch of different robots, mostly based off of designs by Tilden, or the BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) concept of his. The Smithsonian magazine recently had an article about different robots. It talked about robots and there progress in various labs around the world. In most places, they haven't gotten much farther then walking on 4 or 6 legs. They also listed the prices. For the featured (analog)robot of Mark Tilden : $2.50 . For all the other (digital) robots: over $100,000 . Something to think about there.
Dave
Mark's robots are mostly analog, which is completely opposite of most robotocists (sp?) designs. It's crazy, but they end up working, and performing the desired task. They end up doing it because they are light seeking, and their task becomes a side-effect of the robots movement, like his lawnmower that cuts grass that cover's it solar panel, or his window washer that cleans the glass so it has more sunlight. Of course they aren't living, but there as close as any other robots out there now.
Dave
What exactly does Pius the II have to do with the GPL? The editor's note at the end of the article confused more then anything else. How exactly is worshipping Christ's blood like breaking the GPL?
Don't you pay any attention to holistic healing? Magnetics heal your body. They should change businesses, and turn the place into a health spa. Bring in some ancient mind healing crystals, and they'll be all set.
Also, with the metal plate/mesh solution, how do you deal with flux wrapping around the plate?
If you used metal mesh, aren't you then just creating a huge inductor on the floor? Inductors work by the change in magnetic flux going through loops. This induces a current acting opposite to the magnetic flux. The bigger the change in flux, the stronger the reactant current will be.
So, I don't think a metal mesh will work to stop the magnetic flux, but it might be a good ( or not so good) source of electricity.
Dave
It was part of the fine print in the User Agreement that says " All content created with Microsoft Word belongs to Microsoft, and will be tracked accordingly."
Actually, I think about the best thing for your karma is to be the first to post a Karma Recipe to each new article on slashdot.
I also agree that those doing the budgeting know more about it than I, or most average americans do. That's why I like a Republic over a Democracy. I know that I could screw something like that up, so I want a designated representative to do it for me. However, I do want them to take my opinion into consideration before the decision is made.
Dave
Dave
I agree. I think it would be very interesting to see what sort of purpose people who take advantage of typos use. Are most of them scams (paypai.com) or porn (whitehouse.com), or do they simply have a similar interest that they want the site to be about? Dave
Your right. Because hey, If i'm going to send something malignant in an email, I'm going to be sure not to violate anyone's patents. I'll want to pick an extension that is not related to anything else. problem something like thisfile.screwsyou or thisisa.virus. that's what i'd do. Otherwise I'd have to pay $5000 dollars to use innocent.gif dave
One of the things not yet mentioned in the discussion is the quantity of writing necessary to do any real sort of comparison. For example, it would be difficult to identify me by my writings only, because I post so infrequently. If I posted more often, and wanted to remain pseudo-anonymous, I simply create new accounts. If each account has similarly few postings, it would be very difficult to sift through the hundreds of thousands of slashdot accounts to find the few accounts that are all most likely mine.
Even when people use account names, they're still pseudonyms that would be pretty difficult to link to real names by using writing styles, unless writings under both real name and pseudonym are prolific.
Dave