There's a whole lot of stuff like that going on. For example, the whole ROS PointCloud Library is a major effort focused on surface reconstruction, object detection, etc. You just don't see front page/. posts on the really cool stuff.
That will get the Kinect working. Then you just need a GPS and the appropriate transform between the GPS antenna and the sensor (easiest to put the antenna on top of the kinect), and you're done.
And I don't see what me being German has anything to do with this.
The cool thing is that these things don't cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, that's the great thing about them, but the downside to this sort of sensor is that it doesn't scale well in size. That is, you can't use more than one kinect at a time, as the structured light fields from one will interfere with another. I suppose you can create some timing where one field will be off while another is on, but you can only have so many kinects in an area before this is impractical.
Of course it's not a problem for gaming in a living room, but it if you want to do any sort of multi robot navigation you'll have to resort to the sensors that cost thousands of dollars.
This is trivially done with ROS and the Kinect stack. I went out and bought a kinect and plugged them into my robot platforms, provided a transform between robot base and kinect sensor, and was done. It's a great application and anyone who owns a kinect should try it out, but at this point it's trivial and hardly worthy of a/. post.
I don't see any Microsoft robots out there. In fact, I don't see many robots at all; most advances in robotics seem to come from the Japanese, and maybe from iRobot and their Roomba.
Blizzard, the entertainment company? Is it part of some kind of joke? Obviously I'm missing something when someone cites an entertainment company for a mathematical proof.
If they didn't care why would they fix it at all? A company that doesn't care about its customers would deny this is even happening, or simply not respond at all.
You act as if it's the first beta. This is the 9th beta release for a project that was supposed to be released in November. For reference, Alpha 1 was released in Feb 2010, almost an entire year ago. So yes, bugs in beta are expected, but eventually you start looking like an 8 year old who can't graduate first grade.
Drag/Drop will get you an excel table in word. I don't normally like that, and prefer a plain text table, which is what copy/paste will do. Dragging also acts like a 'cut' operation, so the cells will be gone from excel. However, dragging is easy with a pen as well.
Something that the tech journalists who get infatuated with tablets seem to fail to consider is that they are lousy devices for content creation
Agreed, which is why it irks me when people automatically dismiss Microsoft's early efforts in the tablet arena. I own both an iPad and a Windows 7 convertible tablet, and while the convertible tablet may have not achieved the same commercial success as the iPad, I get a hell of a lot more work done on it. Note while my complaints are specific to iPad, they can extend generally to other tablets, as they're all trying their hardest to copy the iPad.
I attribute this mainly to the stylus. While people love to call it a relic, it is far superior to hands for working with a tablet (emphasis on working). In college for instance I took all my notes in One Note. Now, I do all my lab work on my tablet, including recording data and taking lab notes. When it comes time to write a paper I just flip the screen around and I have the full Office suite at my disposal. Not so much with iPad, where even if I had it docked, I would only have the anemic iWork for iPad suite.
Presentations are especially better on my Windows tablet compared to my iPad. For one, I can create the presentation right on the machine. While it's possible to create a presentation on iPad keynote, it's really not practical. Then, when I present, I have the advantage of PowerPoint presenter view, which lets me see my current slide, my presentation time, notes, and my slide deck. Keynote presenter view just gives you the time. Further, since I have a stylus I can annotate my slides, save them, and send them to the attendees later. Not so much with iPad. Finally, I can project any application I want with my Windows 7 tablet. So if I want to show a webpage I just switch to Opera. On iPad, not every app can be displayed on the projector.
The only area where iPad is superior is for reading books and other general content consumption. Its battery life make it great on the couch, but I aspire to more than spending my time in front of the TV and surfing the web, which is why I use a Windows tablet to actually do things.
That's actually very easy to do with Windows 7 and a pen interface. Drag select with the pen, flick top right for copy, tap to switch to word, flick down right to paste, and then choose from any of the preset styles (or use your own).
Choose one you find useful. I'm sure you can create some sort of frakenstein XP OS which includes all these features, but I'm sure it won't perform as well. The particular features I find most useful in 7 is instant search, SSD support, UAC, integrated backup, GPU accelerated desktop, Aero snap and peek, and jump lists.
Do you know what happens when I, as a Ph.D. candidate, submit a paper with no references and smiley faces in the text? It gets sent back with comments that say "no background or literature review, please revise. Please consider the tone of your paper." The fact that research is original does not guarantee publication.
That's great, but it's the researcher's job to state this, and not the reviewer's. If I had reviewed this paper, I would have told the authors the same, and sent it back. With the added changes yeah, it would probably make a great paper to accept, but certainly not in its current form. The comments you linked are closer to what the paper should have been.
Scientists don't need to be statisticians to be able to do good research. Scientists don't need to be statisticians to be able to do good research.
No, but they would be better researchers for it. In my opinion faulty conclusions derived from bogus statistics is one of the worst problems in science. Next to that is no statistical analysis at all.
It gives the scientific community as a whole the opportunity to critique this, rather than just the reviewing panel.
There is a different between doing experiments and doing research. Experiments are the fun part of science: thinking of ideas, designing tests, recording data. Research is a step further, and involves background review of the literature, and significant analysis and interpretation of the data. It's clear that the students did experiments, and very good ones at that. But they didn't do research.
Research gets published, experiments do not. If you want to publish experiments, there's always the Internet, where you can make claims that bees are intelligent problem solvers capable of solving complex puzzles. I, however, don't want to see this in my journals just because the paper has a "how adorable" backstory.
I think it's great that these students are excited about science and were able to participate in a learning experience like this, but after reading the paper it's clear to me this was published only because the children are 8; the true value of this paper is for educators in the sciences looking to motivate children through unique projects.
I hate to be a Negative Nancey, but if the current paper (with more formal language of course) were submitted for by a college graduate it would be rejected outright. The paper begins by asserting that the ability to problem solve is a sign of extreme intelligence, and further conflates pattern recognition and intelligence. The methods seem sound (control, rigorous data taking) but there is no statistical analysis of the data to show correlations, just a statement of "more did this therefore..." Further they make the claim that no one has ever done this particular experiment, yet a quick search yield over 50,000 articles pertaining to pattern recognition in bees. Yet nothing like this was ever conducted? Seriously? Given this prior research, it is their obligation to show how their research is unique and different, and further why it is important. I realize the paper states that the students couldn't do this since the language in the literature is far above their level, but it's just another reason showing this paper was published because of their age, not because of the work.
Again, good on the students for having fun and enjoying science, but I'm a firm believer that results should stand on their own irrespective of the experimenter's ages.
Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be
free
That's all apple has to say on the matter, and just from this text there are several ways to interpret it. Obviously the app includes no ability to make donations; it's by the way of buying the app that $1 is donated to wikileaks. Further, wikileaks isn't a "recognized charitable organization." How is saying "I will give $1 of my profits to wikileaks" different from saying "I will use $1 of my profits to buy a new car," and why should apple care either way?
No they don't. Donations are done via Safari or SMS, according to section 21.2 of the appstore guidelines. In fact it's clear that if you have some sort of in app donation functionality you're violating the donation policy.
The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
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it's usually cheaper to buy a laptop on sale and throw away the Windows license than it is to buy one without Windows preinstalled!
So if Windows makes computers cheaper, what exactly is the Microsoft tax?
There's a whole lot of stuff like that going on. For example, the whole ROS PointCloud Library is a major effort focused on surface reconstruction, object detection, etc. You just don't see front page /. posts on the really cool stuff.
It takes maybe 4 commands to get this working.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu maverick main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
apt-get install ros-cturtle-ros
apt-get install ros-cturtle-kinect
That will get the Kinect working. Then you just need a GPS and the appropriate transform between the GPS antenna and the sensor (easiest to put the antenna on top of the kinect), and you're done.
And I don't see what me being German has anything to do with this.
Sorry, I didn't realize we were giving out gold stars for carrying out commonplace (for nerds) tasks with a kinect.
The cool thing is that these things don't cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, that's the great thing about them, but the downside to this sort of sensor is that it doesn't scale well in size. That is, you can't use more than one kinect at a time, as the structured light fields from one will interfere with another. I suppose you can create some timing where one field will be off while another is on, but you can only have so many kinects in an area before this is impractical.
Of course it's not a problem for gaming in a living room, but it if you want to do any sort of multi robot navigation you'll have to resort to the sensors that cost thousands of dollars.
This is trivially done with ROS and the Kinect stack. I went out and bought a kinect and plugged them into my robot platforms, provided a transform between robot base and kinect sensor, and was done. It's a great application and anyone who owns a kinect should try it out, but at this point it's trivial and hardly worthy of a /. post.
I don't see any Microsoft robots out there. In fact, I don't see many robots at all; most advances in robotics seem to come from the Japanese, and maybe from iRobot and their Roomba.
Microsoft Robotics Studio. It's excellent.
The phrase is "drinking the kool-aid".
Aaaaaaaaand Godwined.
Blizzard, the entertainment company? Is it part of some kind of joke? Obviously I'm missing something when someone cites an entertainment company for a mathematical proof.
If they didn't care why would they fix it at all? A company that doesn't care about its customers would deny this is even happening, or simply not respond at all.
You act as if it's the first beta. This is the 9th beta release for a project that was supposed to be released in November. For reference, Alpha 1 was released in Feb 2010, almost an entire year ago. So yes, bugs in beta are expected, but eventually you start looking like an 8 year old who can't graduate first grade.
Drag/Drop will get you an excel table in word. I don't normally like that, and prefer a plain text table, which is what copy/paste will do. Dragging also acts like a 'cut' operation, so the cells will be gone from excel. However, dragging is easy with a pen as well.
Something that the tech journalists who get infatuated with tablets seem to fail to consider is that they are lousy devices for content creation
Agreed, which is why it irks me when people automatically dismiss Microsoft's early efforts in the tablet arena. I own both an iPad and a Windows 7 convertible tablet, and while the convertible tablet may have not achieved the same commercial success as the iPad, I get a hell of a lot more work done on it. Note while my complaints are specific to iPad, they can extend generally to other tablets, as they're all trying their hardest to copy the iPad.
I attribute this mainly to the stylus. While people love to call it a relic, it is far superior to hands for working with a tablet (emphasis on working). In college for instance I took all my notes in One Note. Now, I do all my lab work on my tablet, including recording data and taking lab notes. When it comes time to write a paper I just flip the screen around and I have the full Office suite at my disposal. Not so much with iPad, where even if I had it docked, I would only have the anemic iWork for iPad suite.
Presentations are especially better on my Windows tablet compared to my iPad. For one, I can create the presentation right on the machine. While it's possible to create a presentation on iPad keynote, it's really not practical. Then, when I present, I have the advantage of PowerPoint presenter view, which lets me see my current slide, my presentation time, notes, and my slide deck. Keynote presenter view just gives you the time. Further, since I have a stylus I can annotate my slides, save them, and send them to the attendees later. Not so much with iPad. Finally, I can project any application I want with my Windows 7 tablet. So if I want to show a webpage I just switch to Opera. On iPad, not every app can be displayed on the projector.
The only area where iPad is superior is for reading books and other general content consumption. Its battery life make it great on the couch, but I aspire to more than spending my time in front of the TV and surfing the web, which is why I use a Windows tablet to actually do things.
That's actually very easy to do with Windows 7 and a pen interface. Drag select with the pen, flick top right for copy, tap to switch to word, flick down right to paste, and then choose from any of the preset styles (or use your own).
What makes you think Windows Phone 8 can't be the same as Windows 8? I imagine the situation would resemble iOS and OSX.
A great rabbit stands teaching in the marketplace.
This gave my imagination an interesting picture while reading this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_features_new_to_Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_new_to_Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_I/O_technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7
Choose one you find useful. I'm sure you can create some sort of frakenstein XP OS which includes all these features, but I'm sure it won't perform as well. The particular features I find most useful in 7 is instant search, SSD support, UAC, integrated backup, GPU accelerated desktop, Aero snap and peek, and jump lists.
Do you know what happens when I, as a Ph.D. candidate, submit a paper with no references and smiley faces in the text? It gets sent back with comments that say "no background or literature review, please revise. Please consider the tone of your paper." The fact that research is original does not guarantee publication.
That's great, but it's the researcher's job to state this, and not the reviewer's. If I had reviewed this paper, I would have told the authors the same, and sent it back. With the added changes yeah, it would probably make a great paper to accept, but certainly not in its current form. The comments you linked are closer to what the paper should have been.
Scientists don't need to be statisticians to be able to do good research. Scientists don't need to be statisticians to be able to do good research.
No, but they would be better researchers for it. In my opinion faulty conclusions derived from bogus statistics is one of the worst problems in science. Next to that is no statistical analysis at all.
It gives the scientific community as a whole the opportunity to critique this, rather than just the reviewing panel.
There is a different between doing experiments and doing research. Experiments are the fun part of science: thinking of ideas, designing tests, recording data. Research is a step further, and involves background review of the literature, and significant analysis and interpretation of the data. It's clear that the students did experiments, and very good ones at that. But they didn't do research.
Research gets published, experiments do not. If you want to publish experiments, there's always the Internet, where you can make claims that bees are intelligent problem solvers capable of solving complex puzzles. I, however, don't want to see this in my journals just because the paper has a "how adorable" backstory.
I think it's great that these students are excited about science and were able to participate in a learning experience like this, but after reading the paper it's clear to me this was published only because the children are 8; the true value of this paper is for educators in the sciences looking to motivate children through unique projects.
I hate to be a Negative Nancey, but if the current paper (with more formal language of course) were submitted for by a college graduate it would be rejected outright. The paper begins by asserting that the ability to problem solve is a sign of extreme intelligence, and further conflates pattern recognition and intelligence. The methods seem sound (control, rigorous data taking) but there is no statistical analysis of the data to show correlations, just a statement of "more did this therefore..." Further they make the claim that no one has ever done this particular experiment, yet a quick search yield over 50,000 articles pertaining to pattern recognition in bees. Yet nothing like this was ever conducted? Seriously? Given this prior research, it is their obligation to show how their research is unique and different, and further why it is important. I realize the paper states that the students couldn't do this since the language in the literature is far above their level, but it's just another reason showing this paper was published because of their age, not because of the work.
Again, good on the students for having fun and enjoying science, but I'm a firm believer that results should stand on their own irrespective of the experimenter's ages.
Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free
That's all apple has to say on the matter, and just from this text there are several ways to interpret it. Obviously the app includes no ability to make donations; it's by the way of buying the app that $1 is donated to wikileaks. Further, wikileaks isn't a "recognized charitable organization." How is saying "I will give $1 of my profits to wikileaks" different from saying "I will use $1 of my profits to buy a new car," and why should apple care either way?
No they don't. Donations are done via Safari or SMS, according to section 21.2 of the appstore guidelines. In fact it's clear that if you have some sort of in app donation functionality you're violating the donation policy.
The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
It's a video. Maybe you have flash turned off?