Place optical encoders on the left and right front or rear wheels of the fork lift, so that it knows its delta position based on dead reconning. (about 1mm resolution)
Add 'bar codes' that run the width of the major isles, and point optical encoders downward on the fork lift so that as it drives over them, it can 'reset' its position and eliminate any errors that build up while using dead reconing.
Try to place them so that the fork lift is expected to run over a bar code every 5-15 minutes or so (depends on errors that you measure in encoder accuracy, and the resolution that you need).
Hook them up to a PIC that kicks out the counters for dead reconing as well as any known location events via serial to your computer on which the 802.11b is located. An AVR butterfly will do the job.
"Worst of all was the behavior of the Scientific American, which seemed intent on proving the post-modernist point that it was all about power, not facts. The Scientific American attacked Lomborg for eleven pages, yet only came up with nine factual errors despite their assertion that the book was "rife with careless mistakes." It was a poor display featuring vicious ad hominem attacks, including comparing him to a Holocust denier. The issue was captioned: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist." Really. Science has to defend itself? Is this what we have come to?"
Read between the lines. The U.N. is looking to expand into governing the Internet so that it can tax the Internet (per IP address, per domain registration, etc).
The U.N. has long sought after a source of revenue not tied to the willingness of its member nations. They have long desired an independent source of revenue such as internet taxes.
Pretty simple really. The store management generates a set of userid / password cards good for the time period that they want (1 hour, 2 hours, etc).
When you buy a cup of coffee, you can get a free card. If the worker sees your laptop, he or she can give it to you automatically, or you can ask.
Then customers who connect wirelessly can use the the username / password combination to get online. When their time is up, they will be disconnected and will need to get a new username and password combination.
Tut Systems ExpressWay is one example of a product that does this. (DISCLAIMER: I have a business relationship with Tut Systems).
I mean, come on. Several years/i?? Perl has been around since '87
PHP/FI, the first version of what was to be PHP, was release in 1995 (the same year that Java was first released), so it's been around for a decade now. You may be comforted to know that PHP was originally written in Perl.
Basically, the UN wants control so that it can levy taxes on the Internet, and the developing nations are for it because the UN says that it's willing to send the money to help them get online faster.
There would likely be all sorts of messy consequences, starting with censorship in DNS:
France - Nazi memorabilia banned.
China - You can't use the word "Taiwan" in any domain name.
U.S.A. - All web sites of "known terrorist sympathizers" banned.
U.K. - IRA banned.
Russia - Russian dissidents (those words go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly) and Chechen rebel groups banned.
America doesn't lock you and your whole family up because of what your father did before you were born.
America doesn't kill people who try to escape.
Look, you can make all the jokes you want, but North Korea is an Orwellian human rights nightmare. I'm not saying that bad things don't happen in America or worldwide at the behest of her corporations, but we make an effort to police ourselves. We try to be the good guys, and in North Korea they'll pop a cap in your a** for just looking like you're thinking the wrong thing.
PS: Sometimes swearing is necessary in response to extreme stupidity.
To what extent are open source applications on Windows helping it to be more competitive versus Linux? For example, I immediately install OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird over a virgin Windows install.
While getting a bad rap for taking on the boy scouts, the ACLU is probably the most useful defender of students' rights in America (defending students rights to wear black arm bands, publish independent student papers, etc).
IIRC, it's their legal position that student organizations all have an equal right to school facilities (yup even the Boy Scouts - just no 'special rights').
You may want to contact them via their students' rights web site at
ACLU student rights
"Access to communications _should_ be a human right, just like the right to education (article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)"
South Carolina's voters recently refused to change the segrationist language in their state constitution specifically because it might create a right to a public education.
If they're that concerned that they don't want to pay for kids to get a good education, what makes you think that they're going to pay for them to get broadband!?
Unless you work next to a drill press or milling machine, a good pair of cheap over the ear headphones will do you fine.
Just put them on with the music off, and you'll notice that they muffle the noise around you excellently.
BTW, I loved mine, perhaps too much. I think that my hearing has suffered somewhat from them. You may catch yourself listening at '10' to catch every detail, and that's not a good thing to do for several hours every day.
RFID snoopers who hang out nearby restaurant frequented by foreign tourists scoop up yet another id.
The best solution is to eliminate the stupid idea that you can send and receive vital information wirelessly.
However, baring that, somehow preventing the RFID from working unless you do something explicit to make it work should be sufficient. For example, the RFID chip won't send personally identifiying information unless it has a low voltage electrical contact that you can make by pressing a specifically marked spot in the passport marked "press here to activate wireless identification".
I recall attending an environmentally oriented summer camp while in High School (Back in the dark, dark, 1980s when we had the worst environmental US President ever. Oh, never mind).
Anyway, the Prof in charge of the camp did some calculations showing that at the rate of growth for demand for electrical power, in order to switch to Nuclear, we would have to make enough plants so that no person in the Continental US would be father than 100 miles from one (don't remember all of the constraints - perhaps it was BS).
Anyway, if we use less power ( more efficient windows, LCD displays rather than monitors - the basics), we need less power, and we can cause less environmental impact for the same level of "goodness" of power benefits. Of course, we need to make some capital investments to get the same "goodness" with less power.
("goodness" in the Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" sense).
5: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
So, all of the models are now useless based on new data? Hmm.
"To an outsider, the most significant innovation in the global warming controversy is the overt reliance that is being placed on models." ( Michael Crichton)
In the movie Antitrust, the protagonist's best friend develops an innovative video codec. Because of all of the potential endpoints from which the codec could be run (cell phones, PCs, video game systems), he embeds the code for decoding the code in the stream itself. This is somewhat similar to downloading an applet containing the codec and all of the data.
The villian, his boss, rips off the codec and has him killed.
This technical detail was probably the most interesting part of an otherwise thoroughly mediocre movie.
BTW, I kind of had the impression that his codec generated some sort of code. That code is then transmitted to the client and executed, and is ouput is the set of pixels seen on the screen.
I'm a Microsoft customer. Like millions of other Microsoft
customers, I want a player that plays anything I throw at it, and
I think that you are just the company to give it to me.
Has "True MIMO" already "been chosen" to power 802.11n, or is merely "being considered"?
According to this Intel Whitepaper both MIMO and an increase in channel widths from 20MHz to 40MHz will both be required to meet the 100Mbps performance goals of 802.11n. (See Figure 2)
So, it's merely being considered, but it's also pretty much a given for 802.11n.
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Last I heard, CmdrTaco lived in Saline, west of Ann Arbor, and about 40 minutes by freeway from the conference location.
;)
Of course, I wouldn't know for sure, because SOME Linux dudes are just too good to show up at the Wasthenaw Linux Users Group.
Place optical encoders on the left and right front or rear wheels of the fork lift, so that it knows its delta position based on dead reconning. (about 1mm resolution)
Add 'bar codes' that run the width of the major isles, and point optical encoders downward on the fork lift so that as it drives over them, it can 'reset' its position and eliminate any errors that build up while using dead reconing.
Try to place them so that the fork lift is expected to run over a bar code every 5-15 minutes or so (depends on errors that you measure in encoder accuracy, and the resolution that you need).
Hook them up to a PIC that kicks out the counters for dead reconing as well as any known location events via serial to your computer on which the 802.11b is located. An AVR butterfly will do the job.
"Worst of all was the behavior of the Scientific American, which seemed intent on proving the post-modernist point that it was all about power, not facts. The Scientific American attacked Lomborg for eleven pages, yet only came up with nine factual errors despite their assertion that the book was "rife with careless mistakes." It was a poor display featuring vicious ad hominem attacks, including comparing him to a Holocust denier. The issue was captioned: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist." Really. Science has to defend itself? Is this what we have come to?"
To have all of my digital pictures. 100 years would be nice. Just set a reasonable price and I'll buy it.
Read between the lines. The U.N. is looking to expand into governing the Internet so that it can tax the Internet (per IP address, per domain registration, etc). The U.N. has long sought after a source of revenue not tied to the willingness of its member nations. They have long desired an independent source of revenue such as internet taxes.
Pretty simple really. The store management generates a set of userid / password cards good for the time period that they want (1 hour, 2 hours, etc).
When you buy a cup of coffee, you can get a free card. If the worker sees your laptop, he or she can give it to you automatically, or you can ask.
Then customers who connect wirelessly can use the the username / password combination to get online. When their time is up, they will be disconnected and will need to get a new username and password combination.
Tut Systems ExpressWay is one example of a product that does this. (DISCLAIMER: I have a business relationship with Tut Systems).
With IAX (Inter-Asterix Exchange Protocol), volunteers have provided gateways so that you can actually call many U.S. area codes for no charge.
beat
Do'h!
At my college, we used to have a student cable service that showed Rated R movies. It was free to students.
One year, we had exactly ONE 16 year old student. I was a Resident Assistant, and he was on my floor.
That was the excuse they needed. No more rated R movies.
Still, you could borrow rated R movies for free with your student id. Go figure.
PHP/FI, the first version of what was to be PHP, was release in 1995 (the same year that Java was first released), so it's been around for a decade now. You may be comforted to know that PHP was originally written in Perl.
Basically, the UN wants control so that it can levy taxes on the Internet, and the developing nations are for it because the UN says that it's willing to send the money to help them get online faster.
There would likely be all sorts of messy consequences, starting with censorship in DNS:
France - Nazi memorabilia banned.
China - You can't use the word "Taiwan" in any domain name.
U.S.A. - All web sites of "known terrorist sympathizers" banned.
U.K. - IRA banned.
Russia - Russian dissidents (those words go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly) and Chechen rebel groups banned.
What the F*** are you talking about?
America doesn't run penal labor colonies
America doesn't lock you and your whole family up because of what your father did before you were born.
America doesn't kill people who try to escape.
Look, you can make all the jokes you want, but North Korea is an Orwellian human rights nightmare. I'm not saying that bad things don't happen in America or worldwide at the behest of her corporations, but we make an effort to police ourselves. We try to be the good guys, and in North Korea they'll pop a cap in your a** for just looking like you're thinking the wrong thing.
PS: Sometimes swearing is necessary in response to extreme stupidity.
To what extent are open source applications on Windows helping it to be more competitive versus Linux? For example, I immediately install OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird over a virgin Windows install.
IIRC, it's their legal position that student organizations all have an equal right to school facilities (yup even the Boy Scouts - just no 'special rights').
You may want to contact them via their students' rights web site at ACLU student rights
South Carolina's voters recently refused to change the segrationist language in their state constitution specifically because it might create a right to a public education.
If they're that concerned that they don't want to pay for kids to get a good education, what makes you think that they're going to pay for them to get broadband!?
Unless you work next to a drill press or milling machine, a good pair of cheap over the ear headphones will do you fine.
Just put them on with the music off, and you'll notice that they muffle the noise around you excellently.
BTW, I loved mine, perhaps too much. I think that my hearing has suffered somewhat from them. You may catch yourself listening at '10' to catch every detail, and that's not a good thing to do for several hours every day.
If you insist on getting noise cancelling headphones, you may want to wait for the Aiwa Noise-Canceling Headphones - HP CN6, which are only about $50.00.
"You want wine? May I see your ID?"
American pulls out passport.
RFID snoopers who hang out nearby restaurant frequented by foreign tourists scoop up yet another id.
The best solution is to eliminate the stupid idea that you can send and receive vital information wirelessly.
However, baring that, somehow preventing the RFID from working unless you do something explicit to make it work should be sufficient. For example, the RFID chip won't send personally identifiying information unless it has a low voltage electrical contact that you can make by pressing a specifically marked spot in the passport marked "press here to activate wireless identification".
AACS is the Ann Arbor Computer Society
AACS web site
I recall attending an environmentally oriented summer camp while in High School (Back in the dark, dark, 1980s when we had the worst environmental US President ever. Oh, never mind).
Anyway, the Prof in charge of the camp did some calculations showing that at the rate of growth for demand for electrical power, in order to switch to Nuclear, we would have to make enough plants so that no person in the Continental US would be father than 100 miles from one (don't remember all of the constraints - perhaps it was BS).
Anyway, if we use less power ( more efficient windows, LCD displays rather than monitors - the basics), we need less power, and we can cause less environmental impact for the same level of "goodness" of power benefits. Of course, we need to make some capital investments to get the same "goodness" with less power.
("goodness" in the Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" sense).
5: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
"To an outsider, the most significant innovation in the global warming controversy is the overt reliance that is being placed on models." ( Michael Crichton)
Read his excellent lecture entitled Aliens Cause Global Warming
The villian, his boss, rips off the codec and has him killed.
This technical detail was probably the most interesting part of an otherwise thoroughly mediocre movie.
BTW, I kind of had the impression that his codec generated some sort of code. That code is then transmitted to the client and executed, and is ouput is the set of pixels seen on the screen.
I'm a Microsoft customer. Like millions of other Microsoft customers, I want a player that plays anything I throw at it, and I think that you are just the company to give it to me.
According to this Intel Whitepaper both MIMO and an increase in channel widths from 20MHz to 40MHz will both be required to meet the 100Mbps performance goals of 802.11n. (See Figure 2)
So, it's merely being considered, but it's also pretty much a given for 802.11n.
Listen to Helen Greiner talk about iRobots at ITConversations.com
Applicant: Microsoft Invention: Method of searching documents on a computer information system and interactively displaying results. Patent Clerk Comments: DENIED. Previous art: "grep -R" Slashdot users, stop e-mailing me.