>>A developer earning 50-60k up here is considered middle-upper class. He can afford a house on his own, along with all the latest tech toys. Try that in Redmond... yeah right!
Hahahahaaa... LOL, LOL.
Man, you really do not know what you are talking about. Have you seen the housing prices in Vancouver, ever? Its the most expensive city (or top ten) in North America. Sadly, Seattle housing prices are lower in absolute numbers, and when you add the salary difference it becomes much worse.
In short, its quite opposite from what you are claiming.
It's quite a risk for TRUS to create a new online store from scratch, but they've got some good people who've had several years of experience working with Amazon. I wish them the best of luck.
Yeah? look at http://www.toysrus.ca/ . How hard it could be? like 2 weeks of inventory sync? Ok it is little bit more complex, but if they want they can get set up and become operational in less then a month. toysrus.ca is running on WCS and IBM can sell them hosting service, rent hardware and provide all the know-how.
I think that they do not need luck, they already got all they need.
it works for me perfectly on this site. please give better directions... so whoever works on firefox will have ready testcase.. it will be really useful
In fact I would like to see research done on what operations are considered slow. For instance, if your word processor takes 1 sec to update the screen it is considered slow. But nobody will pay any attention if the DVD Burning takes 5 or 10 min..
How hard it is?! Not much (to comperhend), I would say, but requires a lot of work and integration of various devices, sensors and material.
Number one problem is not the motion design or the mathematical problem. The problem of walking is relatively simple to model (using the dynamics + kinematics models).
Number one problem is... actuators. It is simply problem of getting small enough actuator (electrical motor) which is strong enough for the task.
To clarify myself, The bipedal motion is relatively simple manipulation of forces (by some algorithm, no big deal any Linux based box can do this) however, there is no device which can apply range of forces required to control the body of the robot (independent from the environment, self sustained, no wires or pipes supplying power or pressurized air from outside).
AFIK, only air pressure motors can provide range of forces required for real bipedal walk. The electric motors are simply too heavy for this task.
Note: Stepper motors are out of question because they not allow you to control the force (the torque more precisely), while reductor in the motor does not help at all, because it reduces the speed and masks to some extent the capability to control the torque easily.
Besides, there is not widely accepted quaternion algebra (I am not sure if you are studying this at your university) which provides really nice integration of the kinematic with dynamics of an object.
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>>A developer earning 50-60k up here is considered middle-upper class. He can afford a house on his own, along with all the latest tech toys. Try that in Redmond... yeah right!
Hahahahaaa... LOL, LOL.
Man, you really do not know what you are talking about. Have you seen the housing prices in Vancouver, ever? Its the most expensive city (or top ten) in North America. Sadly, Seattle housing prices are lower in absolute numbers, and when you add the salary difference it becomes much worse.
In short, its quite opposite from what you are claiming.
It's quite a risk for TRUS to create a new online store from scratch, but they've got some good people who've had several years of experience working with Amazon. I wish them the best of luck.
Yeah? look at http://www.toysrus.ca/ . How hard it could be? like 2 weeks of inventory sync? Ok it is little bit more complex, but if they want they can get set up and become operational in less then a month. toysrus.ca is running on WCS and IBM can sell them hosting service, rent hardware and provide all the know-how.
I think that they do not need luck, they already got all they need.
it works for me perfectly on this site. please give better directions... so whoever works on firefox will have ready testcase.. it will be really useful
very good point.
In fact I would like to see research done on what operations are considered slow. For instance, if your word processor takes 1 sec to update the screen it is considered slow. But nobody will pay any attention if the DVD Burning takes 5 or 10 min..
How hard it is?! Not much (to comperhend), I would say, but requires a lot of work and integration of various devices, sensors and material.
Number one problem is not the motion design or the mathematical problem. The problem of walking is relatively simple to model (using the dynamics + kinematics models).
Number one problem is... actuators. It is simply problem of getting small enough actuator (electrical motor) which is strong enough for the task.
To clarify myself, The bipedal motion is relatively simple manipulation of forces (by some algorithm, no big deal any Linux based box can do this) however, there is no device which can apply range of forces required to control the body of the robot (independent from the environment, self sustained, no wires or pipes supplying power or pressurized air from outside).
AFIK, only air pressure motors can provide range of forces required for real bipedal walk. The electric motors are simply too heavy for this task.
Note: Stepper motors are out of question because they not allow you to control the force (the torque more precisely), while reductor in the motor does not help at all, because it reduces the speed and masks to some extent the capability to control the torque easily.
Besides, there is not widely accepted quaternion algebra (I am not sure if you are studying this at your university) which provides really nice integration of the kinematic with dynamics of an object.