from the first link at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/20 03/05/01/national1355EDT0644.DTL
The test, in a remote area of the base, started with a brilliant, multihued blaze of rocket engines and ended in a spray of sparks when a missile carried by the sled slammed into an immobile target. There was silence until a split second before the end, when earsplitting bursts rolled across the desert floor.
Seems like they have a fairly effective braking system. I wonder what the immobile target was ?
The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer
Now THAT's a goal.
Maybe we'll see humanoid robot referees in sports. That should stop any dissent from the players,-}
Player: C'mon ref, that was never in a million years a f**king penalty !! Ref: You have 3 seconds to comply..
Yep, it's eye candy, nothing surer.
But some will argue that anything more sophisticated than 80x24 console mode is eye candy. In some scenarios (servers..) it is. But we're talking desktops here:o)
Personally, I think X rocks. I'd like to see this incorporated into the XFree code base, but optional, so that older hardware is still supported.
In response to earlier posts along the lines of "but I want to concentrate on the browser/app/whatever, not whats behind them..." -- fine - you will not be forced to use this feature !
In any case, a slider control in the widget set on each window to control the opacity would be wicked !
can ex-hackers could be trusted as computer security professionals ?
IMO it's just a judgement call, there's no mileage in generalising. You might as well ask "can ex-M$ users be trusted as Linux users ?"
Re:Legal issues around feral robots
on
Feral Robot Dogs
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Let's see...you bought a car. You now own it. You drive it responsibly...the fact that you may or may not have maintained the brakes and tyres is relevant because you're responsible for it. The fact that there are design faults in the brakes and tyres is also relevant. In this scenario you could well be completely absolved of any responsibility for any damage it causes due to the design faults.
See the problem ?
If a fault was unintentionally, or even malicously coded into the robot's software, could you be held responsible ?
How is that any different than putting a crowbar in my John Deere's steering wheel and letting it loose on my neighbor's lawn? The difference my friend, is that legal precendents around the use of John Deeres equipment were set long ago....
It's got a browser (well I assume that's what the hotmail screendump represents).
a quick rundown of the specs:
The res is only 640*480 tho, a bit too blocky for my liking..
Intel X-Scale processor - no mention of speed
touch screen - "high sensitivity" - Mmmmm
64 MB of non-vol flash memory
64 MB of RAM
built in mic, 'phones socket and "speakers" - no mention of a line out or better, I guess you'll have to live with the headphone out..
PCMCIA slot with removeable 802.11b wireless card
8 "direct access" buttons
Legal issues around feral robots
on
Feral Robot Dogs
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
I'm just wondering the about the legal issues surrounding the release of a 'feral' robot..
When you release your feral robot to freely wander about, would you have any legal right of ownership over it, if, say, someone else took it into their own possession ?
On the converse, could you be held responsible for it's actions ?
Are there any legal precendents around for any of this stuff ?
..XVNC will perform many times better. It's time for X to change or die for the sake of Linux.
What have you been smoking ? - just try dragging a window around in Xvnc for a second. Now minimise / maximise it a few times. Got a headache yet ? Good. Now scroll, baby !!!!
No, my comment was not intended as an apple ad.
It was intended as a response to the question posed in the post.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
By the by, I am being paid my hourly rate to get the vaio fully functional, as my boss and 3 coworkers got the same laptop last week, and they ALL want to run linux on them. Smokin':o))
Digital Media Consumers Rights Act
on
Congress' Tech Agenda
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
this sounds like a step in the right direction. Fair use and all that.
Got one of these last week through work - my first impression was OMG!! but it's now running good - 1024x768@24bit - with full access to everything on the docking station, including the firewire/scsi/ide/wtf?? CD-R/DVD drive.
It's light (without the docking station:o)), and has everything you want. I read somethere that it is the european version of the R505 ?
I (eventually) settled on redhat 8.0. You have to boot off the first CD, then do a network (http/ftp/nfs) install due to the firewire CD drive..
You'll then want to get the 2.4.20 kernel, and apply the ACPI patch from http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
You'll also need the updated i830 driver from intel at http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/gr aphics.htm
A pretty good wireless howto can be found at http://www.cowplop.com/writing/pcg-srx77/.
Anyhow, a week on, it's really shaping up. I'm refining a HOWTO which I'll post and get linked from http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html real soon. If anyone's wanting to get one of these up and running ASAP, contact me via my website (link above) and I'll email you the howto as it stands.
I work for a largish (the largest?) media organisation in the world cutting code as part of a team of 4 developers plus a senior developer.
We've been using Scrum and Test Driven Development for about six months now, and there is NO WAY I'm ever going back to writing code without writing tests first.
Scrum (see http://www.controlchaos.com) is a "lightweight" development methodology. It's developer driven (no more gannt charts !!!!), and it's agile, meaning that it embraces change throughout the project lifecycle. I can highly recommend it. But I digress...
Test Driven Development is something that every halfway serious programmer should be doing IMHO. It doesn't replace the initial back-of-a-fag-packet design stage, nor does it stop you designing elegant and effective architectures. What it does do is:
force you to define rules that your code must obey by requiring that you write tests first. This really is useful, because it makes you think about the implications of how your application behaves.
facilitate unit testing - you know that every function, procedure etc works as expected, and fails as expected.
facilitate regression testing - when you change / enhance / refactor or otherwise modify your codebase, you know that you have not broken any existing functionality, because you will re-run the test suite against the modified code. Of course, you will have added tests for the new / changed functionality before having coded the new / changed functionality.
focus your mind on developing the required functionality - when all the tests pass, it's time to stop coding. No temptation to just tweak a line of code. Careful with that axe, eugene.
So I can recommend TDD. Check it out. By the way, we're coding mainly in python with some java thrown in too.
there would be many uses for this technology......
on
Full-Text Audio Search
·
· Score: 1
1 - real-time key-word alerting - i.e. having software listen out for key-words on an audio/visual source, and alert someone appropriately when they have detected. TIA, anyone ?
2 - data retrieval - a phonetic query language - cool !!!
3 - pr0n video spider - just listen out for lots of Ooohs, Aaahs, and the like (sorry, could not resist;o))
> One of the major fallbacks of Linux is the lack > of applications especially those for > development. The day there is an equivalent to > Visual Studio in Linux is the day that > companies will realistically think more about > changing to Linux.
don't know about Kylix, huh ? - http://www.borland.com/kylix/index.html
but on the other hand, if you are pushing quad-digit node-counts and you are sharing streaming video all over the place, then this is a Good Thing.
My employer has just implemented a gigabit backbone for a project which really could do with 10 gigabit capacity to allow room for growth. In fact, we asked the supplier to draw up a migration plan from gigabit to 10 gigabit, so we are serious about moving that way. The only thing that prevented us from implementing 10 gigabit in the first place was the lack of standards.
Of course, as many posters have pointed out, you need seriously fast storage to really use this sort of bandwidth.
Yes, we are streaming video (over 300Mbits/sec on the backbone at the moment) and yes we are pushing a quad-digit node count:o)))
From the original Boston Globe story (couldn't be bothered to register at NYT):
Van Leeuwen of Ford said he thought the company had done everything it could to help the individuals affected by the security breach, and didn't plan to offer them any financial assistance.
Surely Ford have broken some law here ? In the U.K. there is something called the Data Protection Act, c'mon the U.S. has got to have some equivalent legislation.. They're not blaming it on hackers, they admit they don't know how the access code or whatever was taken !
Slashdot Mirror
from the first link at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/20 03/05/01/national1355EDT0644.DTL
The test, in a remote area of the base, started with a brilliant, multihued blaze of rocket engines and ended in a spray of sparks when a missile carried by the sled slammed into an immobile target. There was silence until a split second before the end, when earsplitting bursts rolled across the desert floor.
Seems like they have a fairly effective braking system. I wonder what the immobile target was ?
Many humans share common characteristics with worms, too.
The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer
,-}
Now THAT's a goal.
Maybe we'll see humanoid robot referees in sports. That should stop any dissent from the players
Player: C'mon ref, that was never in a million years a f**king penalty !!
Ref: You have 3 seconds to comply..
Yep, it's eye candy, nothing surer. :o)
But some will argue that anything more sophisticated than 80x24 console mode is eye candy. In some scenarios (servers..) it is. But we're talking desktops here
Personally, I think X rocks. I'd like to see this incorporated into the XFree code base, but optional, so that older hardware is still supported.
In response to earlier posts along the lines of "but I want to concentrate on the browser/app/whatever, not whats behind them..." -- fine - you will not be forced to use this feature !
In any case, a slider control in the widget set on each window to control the opacity would be wicked !
can ex-hackers could be trusted as computer security professionals ?
IMO it's just a judgement call, there's no mileage in generalising. You might as well ask "can ex-M$ users be trusted as Linux users ?"
Let's see...you bought a car. You now own it. You drive it responsibly...the fact that you may or may not have maintained the brakes and tyres is relevant because you're responsible for it. The fact that there are design faults in the brakes and tyres is also relevant. In this scenario you could well be completely absolved of any responsibility for any damage it causes due to the design faults.
See the problem ?
If a fault was unintentionally, or even malicously coded into the robot's software, could you be held responsible ?
The Killer Robot story makes an interesting read..
How is that any different than putting a crowbar in my John Deere's steering wheel and letting it loose on my neighbor's lawn?
The difference my friend, is that legal precendents around the use of John Deeres equipment were set long ago....
..also a "glossy" at http://www.remotecontrol.philips.com/library/ipron to/SPEC_iPronto_TSi6400.pdf
flash required!!
It's got a browser (well I assume that's what the hotmail screendump represents).
a quick rundown of the specs:
I'm just wondering the about the legal issues surrounding the release of a 'feral' robot..
When you release your feral robot to freely wander about, would you have any legal right of ownership over it, if, say, someone else took it into their own possession ?
On the converse, could you be held responsible for it's actions ?
Are there any legal precendents around for any of this stuff ?
> > perhaps the coolest commercial plane ever to fly
> I would take issue with that. Certainly a cool aircraft - but the coolest ever? Its only special quality was being safe enough for passengers.
Yep. The coolest commercial plane ever to fly.
Wow. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those !
..XVNC will perform many times better. It's time for X to change or die for the sake of Linux.
What have you been smoking ? - just try dragging a window around in Xvnc for a second. Now minimise / maximise it a few times. Got a headache yet ? Good. Now scroll, baby !!!!
No, my comment was not intended as an apple ad. :o))
It was intended as a response to the question posed in the post.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
By the by, I am being paid my hourly rate to get the vaio fully functional, as my boss and 3 coworkers got the same laptop last week, and they ALL want to run linux on them. Smokin'
this sounds like a step in the right direction. Fair use and all that.
Got one of these last week through work - my first impression was OMG!! but it's now running good - 1024x768@24bit - with full access to everything on the docking station, including the firewire/scsi/ide/wtf?? CD-R/DVD drive.
:o)), and has everything you want. I read somethere that it is the european version of the R505 ?
r aphics.htm
It's light (without the docking station
I (eventually) settled on redhat 8.0. You have to boot off the first CD, then do a network (http/ftp/nfs) install due to the firewire CD drive..
You'll then want to get the 2.4.20 kernel, and apply the ACPI patch from http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
You'll also need the updated i830 driver from intel at http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/g
A pretty good wireless howto can be found at http://www.cowplop.com/writing/pcg-srx77/.
Anyhow, a week on, it's really shaping up. I'm refining a HOWTO which I'll post and get linked from http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html real soon. If anyone's wanting to get one of these up and running ASAP, contact me via my website (link above) and I'll email you the howto as it stands.
I work for a largish (the largest?) media organisation in the world cutting code as part of a team of 4 developers plus a senior developer.
We've been using Scrum and Test Driven Development for about six months now, and there is NO WAY I'm ever going back to writing code without writing tests first.
Scrum (see http://www.controlchaos.com) is a "lightweight" development methodology. It's developer driven (no more gannt charts !!!!), and it's agile, meaning that it embraces change throughout the project lifecycle. I can highly recommend it. But I digress...
Test Driven Development is something that every halfway serious programmer should be doing IMHO. It doesn't replace the initial back-of-a-fag-packet design stage, nor does it stop you designing elegant and effective architectures. What it does do is:
So I can recommend TDD. Check it out. By the way, we're coding mainly in python with some java thrown in too.
1 - real-time key-word alerting - i.e. having software listen out for key-words on an audio/visual source, and alert someone appropriately when they have detected. TIA, anyone ?
;o))
2 - data retrieval - a phonetic query language - cool !!!
3 - pr0n video spider - just listen out for lots of Ooohs, Aaahs, and the like (sorry, could not resist
Let's hope Will Smmith does the story justice. Any reason to think he won't ??
If you drive into the water at 200MPH it will get messy
here I think - http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename= OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&t=PubArticleDC&c=PubArti cle&cid=1032128635760&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa= 0
What do you call a mule when you slap it with a two-by-four ? Anything you like as long as you're on the bench.
.. just select the individual apps !
> One of the major fallbacks of Linux is the lack
> of applications especially those for
> development. The day there is an equivalent to
> Visual Studio in Linux is the day that
> companies will realistically think more about
> changing to Linux.
don't know about Kylix, huh ? - http://www.borland.com/kylix/index.html
but on the other hand, if you are pushing quad-digit node-counts and you are sharing streaming video all over the place, then this is a Good Thing.
:o)))
My employer has just implemented a gigabit backbone for a project which really could do with 10 gigabit capacity to allow room for growth. In fact, we asked the supplier to draw up a migration plan from gigabit to 10 gigabit, so we are serious about moving that way. The only thing that prevented us from implementing 10 gigabit in the first place was the lack of standards.
Of course, as many posters have pointed out, you need seriously fast storage to really use this sort of bandwidth.
Yes, we are streaming video (over 300Mbits/sec on the backbone at the moment) and yes we are pushing a quad-digit node count
From the original Boston Globe story (couldn't be bothered to register at NYT) :
Van Leeuwen of Ford said he thought the company had done everything it could to help the individuals affected by the security breach, and didn't plan to offer them any financial assistance.
Surely Ford have broken some law here ? In the U.K. there is something called the Data Protection Act, c'mon the U.S. has got to have some equivalent legislation.. They're not blaming it on hackers, they admit they don't know how the access code or whatever was taken !