There was a classic sci-fi short story from the 1940s or 1950s on this topic. The problem was "solved" by someone's mother who just happened to be in the "control room", baking cookies or some such. She basically proposed a full duplex scheme where two parties just stream data to each other, sending and listening at the same time, and you send a retransmit request if you miss something.
After spending many years as a programmer, and writing thousands of lines of code, I have learned so much about coding that these days I find myself not writing code at all, or very little code.
As a young freshly trained programmer, you are walking around with a hammer, and a lot of things look like nails.
You think you are a badass because of the power and precision with which you hit the nails.
Then one day and you see you are building a house. And there are a lot of other people whose work is instrumental to getting the house built.
So after a while you start telling other people how to hit their nails, and before you know it, you are building entire tracts of homes.
This was done along time ago with Kodak cameras. The cameras actually run a scripting language. A script can be written to read from a serial port and superimpose the coordinates onto the picture much like the time/date stamps.
This may be a bit offtopic, but does anyone remember Adam Curry's metaverse.com web site? He got that one after MTV took away mtv.com from him. This was way back in like 1993 or 1994. I believe he had just read 'Snow Crash'. Anyway, it's neat to see a celebrity become a geek (kind of like the pr0n star Asia Carerra!), but of course she looks better naked.
What kind of basic computer skills are they referring to? Using a mouse? Ok, so you can click. Can you really create anything substantial by just clicking?
I can't think of many skills more basic than touch typing, especially since people communicate more via email and instant messaging and less in person and on the phone. I don't think voice recognition is there yet.
Next they'll be saying that you don't need to know how to add in order to do calculus!:-) Which is technically true if you do it all with Mathematica, I guess.
The world might be ready to accept that there is life on Mars (say, bacterial life). After all, we found meteorites from Mars that contained fossilized bacteria. After all we don't even know if life originated on Mars, and then spread to Earth. But the fact that life can spread between planets on ROCKS is going to take some of the shock value out of it and people will realize that instead of saying something like "I don't think God created life on MARS!"
That is an interesting approach. Basically it looks like their robot is a framework for servos. There's almost nothing to it but servo mounts that are connected to each other.
The video is impressive, but are we watching a simple playback of a preprogrammed sequence? In that case, no dynamic "balancing" is necessary.
A robot with true balance would have to be MUCH more sophisticated.
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of these "military devices" would sell really well at Christmastime? I'm sure a lot of us wouldn't mind having a packbot to play with! Maybe even that guy who was trying to build a robotic autonomous lawnmower!
The government is sitting on piles of potential playtime products. After all, look at the success of the Hummer!
If you really want to be different consider an autonomous swarm of mowing machines. The guts of a Roomba would be a good starting point! I'd like to see a self-organizing mesh network created by the mobile mowing agents.
Good luck - I'd love to see this when you're done!
In the 80's I found this cool gizmo at a garage sale, it was called a CB Receiver by "Conic". I attached it to my bicycle handlebars and listened to cursing truckers as I cruised around.
So, this guy accomplishes what a lot of people have been talking about - the emphasis here is on TALKING - putting Linux on the desktop in a real way - it's selling at WAL-MART for God's Sake - this guy is BRILLIANT, and he is doing a lot for your cause. So don't sit back and impotently complain just because you're jealous.
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That is teh creepiest freaking thing I have ever seen.
I see that they have solved all the other problems in their state. No wonder the Midwest is mocked everywhere.
I found it! It's a 1962 story by Asimov!
There was a classic sci-fi short story from the 1940s or 1950s on this topic. The problem was "solved" by someone's mother who just happened to be in the "control room", baking cookies or some such. She basically proposed a full duplex scheme where two parties just stream data to each other, sending and listening at the same time, and you send a retransmit request if you miss something.
nouns become objects, verbs become functions
Congratulations!!!
You've invented Smalltalk!
Welcome to 1980!
"Linux based bluetooth robot"
Did you hear that?
It was the sound of 1,000,000 Slashdot readers having an orgasm simultaneously.
After spending many years as a programmer, and writing thousands of lines of code, I have learned so much about coding that these days I find myself not writing code at all, or very little code.
As a young freshly trained programmer, you are walking around with a hammer, and a lot of things look like nails.
You think you are a badass because of the power and precision with which you hit the nails.
Then one day and you see you are building a house. And there are a lot of other people whose work is instrumental to getting the house built.
So after a while you start telling other people how to hit their nails, and before you know it, you are building entire tracts of homes.
This was done along time ago with Kodak cameras. The cameras actually run a scripting language. A script can be written to read from a serial port and superimpose the coordinates onto the picture much like the time/date stamps.
This may be a bit offtopic, but does anyone remember Adam Curry's metaverse.com web site? He got that one after MTV took away mtv.com from him. This was way back in like 1993 or 1994. I believe he had just read 'Snow Crash'. Anyway, it's neat to see a celebrity become a geek (kind of like the pr0n star Asia Carerra!), but of course she looks better naked.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Find a mirrored wiki somewhere
Post your uuencoded encrypted data to it
Step 3: Profit
IBM prefers to hire engineers, preferably 4.0 GPA engineers.
What kind of basic computer skills are they referring to? Using a mouse? Ok, so you can click. Can you really create anything substantial by just clicking?
:-) Which is technically true if you do it all with Mathematica, I guess.
I can't think of many skills more basic than touch typing, especially since people communicate more via email and instant messaging and less in person and on the phone. I don't think voice recognition is there yet.
Next they'll be saying that you don't need to know how to add in order to do calculus!
The world might be ready to accept that there is life on Mars (say, bacterial life). After all, we found meteorites from Mars that contained fossilized bacteria. After all we don't even know if life originated on Mars, and then spread to Earth. But the fact that life can spread between planets on ROCKS is going to take some of the shock value out of it and people will realize that instead of saying something like "I don't think God created life on MARS!"
That is an interesting approach. Basically it looks like their robot is a framework for servos. There's almost nothing to it but servo mounts that are connected to each other.
The video is impressive, but are we watching a simple playback of a preprogrammed sequence? In that case, no dynamic "balancing" is necessary.
A robot with true balance would have to be MUCH more sophisticated.
They've achieved deliberately what happens naturally in a lot of other companies.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?
Well when the space elevator is completed, we can all have our own personal satellites. Talk about an off-site backup!
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of these "military devices" would sell really well at Christmastime? I'm sure a lot of us wouldn't mind having a packbot to play with! Maybe even that guy who was trying to build a robotic autonomous lawnmower!
The government is sitting on piles of potential playtime products. After all, look at the success of the Hummer!
If you really want to be different consider an autonomous swarm of mowing machines. The guts of a Roomba would be a good starting point! I'd like to see a self-organizing mesh network created by the mobile mowing agents.
Good luck - I'd love to see this when you're done!
In the 80's I found this cool gizmo at a garage sale, it was called a CB Receiver by "Conic". I attached it to my bicycle handlebars and listened to cursing truckers as I cruised around.
The iQue does not come with any built in wireless networking. That seriously limits its ability to be used as a transponder.
So, this guy accomplishes what a lot of people have been talking about - the emphasis here is on TALKING - putting Linux on the desktop in a real way - it's selling at WAL-MART for God's Sake - this guy is BRILLIANT, and he is doing a lot for your cause. So don't sit back and impotently complain just because you're jealous.
Ban email from EVERYBODY by default, and only ALLOW email from certain people.
``I told those 3-year-olds they're watching a very historic moment,'' she said, adding that they may not have grasped the significance.