That would be a First Law violation! Are you sure that the humans in question weren't humaniform robots? Time to call Lije Bailey, Earth's greatest robot detective! He's in your corner...
They gave it a humaniod torso because the PR value of Yet Another Tethered Insect is marginal.
The real hoax, I think, is that this is a mechanical engineering achievement, not a leap forward in robotics -- notice how smooth the stage was? Adjust the angle of the stairs or put a bump in the floor and watch the thing fall on its ass.
That's not real robotics if it can't handle the real world.
Can't you realize what's happening?! Look at the moon tonight! LOOK AT IT! Can't you see that the light reflected off its dark side is an indicator that an asteroid has hit Australia, and is emitting a fireball brighter than the sun? THIS COULD MEAN THE END oh wait that's a streetlamp outside, never mind.
Too late. The horse is already outside the barn. Dot-com is the Kikkoman of domain names and I wouldn't want to do.biz-ness with any company that hasn't had the foresight to reserve their.com.
IMHO the system is foobar... I feel sorry for folks trying to think up new company names, or who are a little late to the Internet biz (oops, I said it:) ). I mean when "telefunken-u47.com", "elvisconspiracy.com", and "liquorinthefront.com" are all taken, can the end of civilization be far behind?
Luxury domain names should have been reserved years ago, and the extra revenue (if any) used to fund IP multicast research or something useful...
Somewhere in an underground fortress in Redmond, thousands of miles beneath the Earth's crust, engineers from the "Plex86 Incompatibility Project" are working feverishly...
TMBG is to nerds what the Grateful Dead was to... well, deadheads:) They are also one of the few big acts who have embraced MP3s as a distribution mechanism (I've bought 2 of their albums online). They sing songs about robots and Belgian painters. In my mind, they are perfect Slashdot material!!
I think Greenspun is talking about product companies, not software body shops. Most companies that hire hotshot programmers to do a software product give them a fair equity stake in the company or royalties. So the "master/servant" relationship isn't as strong here. Instead of being pedantic about how many how much you're getting per hour, you're just trying to figure out the best way to get the product shipped, cash in your options, and retire. The mathematics is different than if you were just billing hours.
Greenspun = rich computer scientist; behavioral scientists = poor social scientists. I think I'll trust Greenspun.
When I foolishly installed ME, thinking it was like 98 with sprinkles, it pissed all over my system. First I lost some.DLLs that I had to restore by hand. Then I discovered that lo and behold, they had killed off pure DOS mode. So no more old DOS games that can't run in a box. Sure, fine, I'll resurrenct an old P-166 and install DOS. Then I had the !*!*!ing "most recent programs in your Start Menu" feature rear its ugly head, and like Krusty the Klown after viewing the Soviet version of Itchy & Scratchy, "Worker and Parasite", I said "What the hell is that?!" So I turned off pretty much every new feature I could fine to make it work less sucky.
The point is... nothing! Windows sucks! +1 insightful! YEAH! Thank you for your pity.
But what is to come of it? Are coaches and football moms everywhere going to disband the Homecoming ritual in favor of a coding contest and school-wide Quake tourney? Will your school get more funding? Will cheerleaders give it up to nerds instead of 25-year old Neanderthals?
Protest is easy, it only takes a couple of minutes. Real change is hard.
Hey man, I have a friend who works at a company with a ping-pong table, and he loves it! He plays it all day long! So he's certainly more produc... oh, wait...
You think that's wacky? In the early 60's, there were a number of designs for a single-person bailout device, for "bailing out" from *orbit*. MOOSE was one such design, where the astronaut was enclosed in a foam shield.
It's been awhile, but I don't think MySQL even has page-level locking.. it has *table*-level locking. This means that you get many readers or one writer on a table at any given time. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's the sad truth.
Well, Bush Sr. made a half-hearted attempt with SEI... but partisian politics killed it just out of spite. Pork barrelling will kill any manned Mars mission, as it did with the supercollider in Texas. I think the only way to get to Mars is through commercialization. It was a miracle that we got to the moon -- not only a technological miracle, but a political miracle. If we hadn't had a president as popular as Kennedy, or the USSR on our heels, I don't think it could have happened. Now we KNOW for a fact that Gore ain't gonna send us to Mars, and Bush Jr. won't either unless the rockets burn pure crude oil and make all his Texas buddies stinkin rich.
Anyway, kids don't dream about space anymore, they dream about female pop stars' exposed midriffs, which are much easier to come by than Mars missions.
A couple years ago, it was the Mondo Super Cool Kernel Level Java VM that was supposed to save Novell. No matter how fast & cool your VM is, it doesn't matter if no one is interested in using your platform. Novell just hasn't been innovating nearly as much as other companies, and they're paying for it.
I actually like to read Slashdot for the nice little stories about robot dogs and video games. I don't expect every story to include a disclaimer that says: "WARNING: Purchase of this product may potentially benefit money-grubbing capitalist bullyboys, leading you to eternal damnation, and also may affect your parents' credit rating. Vote Nader."
If you want to rage, go to boycott-riaa.com and buy a T-shirt or a mug. Or get a bunch of rowdy friends and go throw rocks at a building somewhere. I guarantee you better media coverage than anything you could do online. But let's not depend on Slashdot to be the moral spokesperson for the geek generation.
Not to be picky... but isn't an Everquest-clone called a MMRPG (Massively Multiplayer RPG), not a MUD? AFAIK the gaming press never uses the term MUD since the word conjures up images of VT100 terminals.
I tried VoteMatch and it told me I was chaotic neutral, and had special skills in repairing small engines and archery. I'm going to keep re-rolling until I get at least two 18's.
I agree... but I don't think you can recreate what was great about the Simpsons, just as you can't recreate what was great about early SNL. I just wish they would take it off life support...
That being said, I have enjoyed a COUPLE of new Simpsons... but I can't remember what they were about, so obviously they didn't make that big an impression on me...:)
"It's not just about freaks... it's about music... and advertising... and youth-oriented product positioning..."
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Prepare for the onslought ... of punk bands, all named "The Dangling Chads"!!!
That would be a First Law violation! Are you sure that the humans in question weren't humaniform robots? Time to call Lije Bailey, Earth's greatest robot detective! He's in your corner...
They gave it a humaniod torso because the PR value of Yet Another Tethered Insect is marginal.
The real hoax, I think, is that this is a mechanical engineering achievement, not a leap forward in robotics -- notice how smooth the stage was? Adjust the angle of the stairs or put a bump in the floor and watch the thing fall on its ass.
That's not real robotics if it can't handle the real world.
Can't you realize what's happening?! Look at the moon tonight! LOOK AT IT! Can't you see that the light reflected off its dark side is an indicator that an asteroid has hit Australia, and is emitting a fireball brighter than the sun? THIS COULD MEAN THE END oh wait that's a streetlamp outside, never mind.
Too late. The horse is already outside the barn. Dot-com is the Kikkoman of domain names and I wouldn't want to do .biz-ness with any company that hasn't had the foresight to reserve their .com.
:) ). I mean when "telefunken-u47.com", "elvisconspiracy.com", and "liquorinthefront.com" are all taken, can the end of civilization be far behind?
IMHO the system is foobar... I feel sorry for folks trying to think up new company names, or who are a little late to the Internet biz (oops, I said it
Luxury domain names should have been reserved years ago, and the extra revenue (if any) used to fund IP multicast research or something useful...
Two words: ROT 13.
Somewhere in an underground fortress in Redmond, thousands of miles beneath the Earth's crust, engineers from the "Plex86 Incompatibility Project" are working feverishly...
TMBG is to nerds what the Grateful Dead was to ... well, deadheads :) They are also one of the few big acts who have embraced MP3s as a distribution mechanism (I've bought 2 of their albums online). They sing songs about robots and Belgian painters. In my mind, they are perfect Slashdot material!!
P.S. they do not wear big suits.
You might think it's neat, yeah, until a stray BFG blast takes out most of your MP3 archive...
That's right! It's not over yet. Because Hawaii is 5 time zones away. Can't forget Hawaii. Wouldn't be prudent.
(BTW is Hawaii still a state? I thought we traded it to the Japanese for more PS2's or something...)
I think Greenspun is talking about product companies, not software body shops. Most companies that hire hotshot programmers to do a software product give them a fair equity stake in the company or royalties. So the "master/servant" relationship isn't as strong here. Instead of being pedantic about how many how much you're getting per hour, you're just trying to figure out the best way to get the product shipped, cash in your options, and retire. The mathematics is different than if you were just billing hours.
Greenspun = rich computer scientist; behavioral scientists = poor social scientists. I think I'll trust Greenspun.
When I foolishly installed ME, thinking it was like 98 with sprinkles, it pissed all over my system. First I lost some .DLLs that I had to restore by hand. Then I discovered that lo and behold, they had killed off pure DOS mode. So no more old DOS games that can't run in a box. Sure, fine, I'll resurrenct an old P-166 and install DOS. Then I had the !*!*!ing "most recent programs in your Start Menu" feature rear its ugly head, and like Krusty the Klown after viewing the Soviet version of Itchy & Scratchy, "Worker and Parasite", I said "What the hell is that?!" So I turned off pretty much every new feature I could fine to make it work less sucky.
... nothing! Windows sucks! +1 insightful! YEAH! Thank you for your pity.
The point is
But what is to come of it? Are coaches and football moms everywhere going to disband the Homecoming ritual in favor of a coding contest and school-wide Quake tourney? Will your school get more funding? Will cheerleaders give it up to nerds instead of 25-year old Neanderthals?
Protest is easy, it only takes a couple of minutes. Real change is hard.
I did a similar, informal study ... folks who play at least 3 hours of polo a week are less likely to smoke crack. It's true! It'll rock your world.
Hey man, I have a friend who works at a company with a ping-pong table, and he loves it! He plays it all day long! So he's certainly more produc... oh, wait...
You think that's wacky? In the early 60's, there were a number of designs for a single-person bailout device, for "bailing out" from *orbit*. MOOSE was one such design, where the astronaut was enclosed in a foam shield.
:)
Mach 1.5, bah! Try Mach *25*!
It's been awhile, but I don't think MySQL even has page-level locking .. it has *table*-level locking. This means that you get many readers or one writer on a table at any given time. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's the sad truth.
Well, Bush Sr. made a half-hearted attempt with SEI ... but partisian politics killed it just out of spite. Pork barrelling will kill any manned Mars mission, as it did with the supercollider in Texas. I think the only way to get to Mars is through commercialization. It was a miracle that we got to the moon -- not only a technological miracle, but a political miracle. If we hadn't had a president as popular as Kennedy, or the USSR on our heels, I don't think it could have happened. Now we KNOW for a fact that Gore ain't gonna send us to Mars, and Bush Jr. won't either unless the rockets burn pure crude oil and make all his Texas buddies stinkin rich.
Anyway, kids don't dream about space anymore, they dream about female pop stars' exposed midriffs, which are much easier to come by than Mars missions.
Powerful machine
A billion polygons
More fun than "Dig Dug"?
A couple years ago, it was the Mondo Super Cool Kernel Level Java VM that was supposed to save Novell. No matter how fast & cool your VM is, it doesn't matter if no one is interested in using your platform. Novell just hasn't been innovating nearly as much as other companies, and they're paying for it.
I actually like to read Slashdot for the nice little stories about robot dogs and video games. I don't expect every story to include a disclaimer that says: "WARNING: Purchase of this product may potentially benefit money-grubbing capitalist bullyboys, leading you to eternal damnation, and also may affect your parents' credit rating. Vote Nader."
If you want to rage, go to boycott-riaa.com and buy a T-shirt or a mug. Or get a bunch of rowdy friends and go throw rocks at a building somewhere. I guarantee you better media coverage than anything you could do online. But let's not depend on Slashdot to be the moral spokesperson for the geek generation.
Not to be picky ... but isn't an Everquest-clone called a MMRPG (Massively Multiplayer RPG), not a MUD? AFAIK the gaming press never uses the term MUD since the word conjures up images of VT100 terminals.
I tried VoteMatch and it told me I was chaotic neutral, and had special skills in repairing small engines and archery. I'm going to keep re-rolling until I get at least two 18's.
I agree... but I don't think you can recreate what was great about the Simpsons, just as you can't recreate what was great about early SNL. I just wish they would take it off life support...
:)
That being said, I have enjoyed a COUPLE of new Simpsons... but I can't remember what they were about, so obviously they didn't make that big an impression on me...
"It's not just about freaks... it's about music... and advertising... and youth-oriented product positioning..."
JUST a cartoon show?!?!?! Sir, Simpsons *is* life.