That's a good idea. Link the radar to dolby spatialized sterio and have "engine noises" doppler shift around you so you can be queued as to where other craft are without turning your head...
You should join the airforce. Or take out a patent.
I'm studying to be a bioinformatics guy with the university of melbourne and have just had the misfortune of looking into the enzymatic reactions that control oxygen based metabolism in the human body.
I tried to do a worst case complexity analysis and gave up about half way through the krebs cycle.
When you think about it, most of basic science, some religeon and all of medicine has been about removing layers of abstraction to try and fix things when they go wrong.
the base model doesn't seem to have a lot of bite to its bark... but unlike a real dog you might be able to mount a backpack rocket launcher like that dog shadow from the centurions.
On the other hands, real k9s these days can carry body armour, so I guess things might be looking up for organic hounds.
since the original criteron for a cyborg was any self governing system which used sensory feedback to adapt to its environment. whether that feedback loop interaction is "it's too hot, better cool off with this fan" or "you have a instant message. you'd probably want to turn on the car autopilot while you respond..." is just a matter of scale.
It's funny that you mention that. I remember trying to transfer files at school from an IrDA capable laptop to an IrDA capable printer. It took 3 hours and in the end we had to build a cardboard tunnel to cut the interfereance out. (the funniest part was at about hour 2 when we realised that the manufacturer's plastic protecting sticky tape was still on the electronic eye of the printer. We peeled it off and got a much better signal)
Anyway, from the picture of the optical antenna, I would guess that it would be oriented upwards so that it looks like a big fisheye lense pointing at the ceiling. Since IR bounces off walls (I know because I've sometimes changed the channel on my TV while pointing my remote in the opposite direction) then I guess that the whole point of the optical antenna is that it is able to see the ceiling and not be blocked because if the direct LOS is blocked, than this omnidirectional antenna should get usable signal from the reflections coming in the opposite direction.
I don't know, uClibc is supposed to have "made compromises" to get compactness over speed. I don't know whether this means using O(cN) where c is a bigger constant over an O(N) time algorithm or whether they went and used O(N^2) instead of O(N). I'd have get off my arse and read the source to tell you for sure.
anyway, if you have a fast machine, you probably would be better off using the algorithm which, say, has more instructions to keep you doing calculations in the most time efficient way than bottlenecking yourself to give you a few kb more available ram.
Then again one of Gordon Bell's laws says that "the simplest way to program something is probably the fastest" so go boot up a featherweight linux on your box, benchmark it and post the results to slashdot! You'd probably make the front page.
Anybody remember Activision's battlezone and BZ2? That was one of the first RTS/FPS games around, where you could both drive vehicles and then hop out and snipe the pilots out of other vehicles.
one majorly cool feature of the BZ2 engine was the deformable models and terrain. Some alien units could literally morph from speed to combat mode, and buildings would deform the terrain, digging holes if you wanted to put in a semi-underground command bunker.
I've always wondered what would happen if somebody resurected the BZ2 engine and made a contemporary Afghanistan mod. all the tools are there. Mines, machine guns, bombers, satchel charges, buildings that can be instructed to build specific configurations of a particular unit, pilotable resource gatherers.... You could even have modular trench systems that the commander could have dug.
I recall the navy had a system of running current along loops of wire in the hull of the ship to nullify the magnetic signiture of their vessles when they suspeced that they were close to magnetic mines...
way to stop them from falling into enemy hands
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Make them double as mines so they blow up in enemy faces.
Lying in a fox hole with a tin can for a buddy
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How about this: attack an army who is using these things for defence on the eve of their date roll over.
Half way through the attack, the automated defensive guns fall silent, because it is 30000 years before they've been ordered to go active.
To upgrade the defensive guns some poor techie has to wade out there, find them and patch them. Or they have to turn on some kind of remote maintenance program which would allow you to get in, retask them to switch sides and then tell them to start shooting immediately!
Think about it: this is NOT Y2k all over again. These devices are more like land mines than the embedded devices that run powerplants. You place them and forget them, rather than have a maintenence schedule. Keeping them all up to date for future problems would defeat the purpose of an autonomous sensor network!
add some "reproductive" devices here and there which are somehow able to scavenge items from the environment and build/repair all other nodes... with the odd "mistake" here and there....
later on the nature channel
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When Sensors Attack!
Be amazed by real live footage of sensors watching other sensors!
Be captivated by the secret sensor mating ritual! (mount, fsck, unmount!)
Be horrified by real live footage of sensors mauling some guy who sprayed himself with sensor musk!
Re:From now on, we'll all travel in TUBES!
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ok then, how about this: you own your own tube capsule. You have a sort of offline station in your neighbourhood which you drive your capsule to in a conventionaly way. You put your capsule into the airlock and its wheels retract. The capsule asks you "where do you want to go?" You tell it. The air comes out of the tube in the offline station. You see green lights. Then you hold onto your retinas as the capsule goes to 300mph and your little fuzzy dice start pointing towards the rear windshield...
kinda like in hover carnage except without all the death and stuff...
Slashdot Mirror
E-mail's openness is doomed when faced with massive traffic and a few bad actors.
On behalf of the Bad Actors Guild, I plead Not Guilty.
I mean, it's hard enough to make a buck when you've been typecast to play dog-catchers.
Actually, if she's talking about replicating (rather than just sending you her gif) then I think you're right.
Spammers Fought the Evil Rogue States and spammed Saddam Hussein! You kids should be grateful...
And got OWNED by some twelve year old who enabled Clippy and clicked the button "Show Me How..."
Captain: How could they find us?! We engaged the silent but deadly drive...
That's a good idea. Link the radar to dolby spatialized sterio and have "engine noises" doppler shift around you so you can be queued as to where other craft are without turning your head...
You should join the airforce. Or take out a patent.
Is our own bodies.
I'm studying to be a bioinformatics guy with the university of melbourne and have just had the misfortune of looking into the enzymatic reactions that control oxygen based metabolism in the human body.
I tried to do a worst case complexity analysis and gave up about half way through the krebs cycle.
When you think about it, most of basic science, some religeon and all of medicine has been about removing layers of abstraction to try and fix things when they go wrong.
That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time! thanks for a good laugh
the base model doesn't seem to have a lot of bite to its bark... but unlike a real dog you might be able to mount a backpack rocket launcher like that dog shadow from the centurions.
On the other hands, real k9s these days can carry body armour, so I guess things might be looking up for organic hounds.
You could build it out of a dragan fly and have almost all the same benefits.
Be sure to check out the movie files there of this toy in action! Think geek should be a reseller.
maybe you should switch to one of these World Class Inflatable Utility Vest and Jacket with manual inflate thingies,
:)
lest you find yourself on a desert island without a Symbol SP17000 PalmOS PDA with laser barcode scanner, sunglasses, hair ties, cable ties, Leatherman wave, whistle, resusci-shield breathing mask, laser pointer, universal key, pen, surgical gloves, mini-blowtorch, lock-knife, magnifier/torch, cellphone, pager, 10m parachute cord, tape measure, various medications (figures, huh?), syringe, insulating tape, lockpicks, paperclips, magnesium flint block, mini-leatherman, wire probes, pins, needles, safety pins, wire saw, compass, fishing tackle, betalight, antiseptic, plasters, steristrips, pencil, waterproof matches, salt, snow-marker, comb, rescue shears, 2 marlin spikes, antiseptic wipes, wire saw, binder, Pez, cash or even a major credit card.
since the original criteron for a cyborg was any self governing system which used sensory feedback to adapt to its environment. whether that feedback loop interaction is "it's too hot, better cool off with this fan" or "you have a instant message. you'd probably want to turn on the car autopilot while you respond..." is just a matter of scale.
Could you use PGPhone which you could compile yourself for your laptop, a head set and a cellphone to become secret agent man?
or better yet use some featherweight linux and get it running off your iPaq!
when you can use our patented security protocol?
You just put the message into the secure wrapper, and it's safe from prying eyes!
I wonder how long before we run out of letters to designate 802.11 standards...
802.11omega anybody? maybe we might need to grab some hirigana...
is it fiber optic?
It's funny that you mention that. I remember trying to transfer files at school from an IrDA capable laptop to an IrDA capable printer. It took 3 hours and in the end we had to build a cardboard tunnel to cut the interfereance out. (the funniest part was at about hour 2 when we realised that the manufacturer's plastic protecting sticky tape was still on the electronic eye of the printer. We peeled it off and got a much better signal)
Anyway, from the picture of the optical antenna, I would guess that it would be oriented upwards so that it looks like a big fisheye lense pointing at the ceiling. Since IR bounces off walls (I know because I've sometimes changed the channel on my TV while pointing my remote in the opposite direction) then I guess that the whole point of the optical antenna is that it is able to see the ceiling and not be blocked because if the direct LOS is blocked, than this omnidirectional antenna should get usable signal from the reflections coming in the opposite direction.
I don't know, uClibc is supposed to have "made compromises" to get compactness over speed. I don't know whether this means using O(cN) where c is a bigger constant over an O(N) time algorithm or whether they went and used O(N^2) instead of O(N). I'd have get off my arse and read the source to tell you for sure.
anyway, if you have a fast machine, you probably would be better off using the algorithm which, say, has more instructions to keep you doing calculations in the most time efficient way than bottlenecking yourself to give you a few kb more available ram.
Then again one of Gordon Bell's laws says that "the simplest way to program something is probably the fastest" so go boot up a featherweight linux on your box, benchmark it and post the results to slashdot! You'd probably make the front page.
Anybody remember Activision's battlezone and BZ2? That was one of the first RTS/FPS games around, where you could both drive vehicles and then hop out and snipe the pilots out of other vehicles.
one majorly cool feature of the BZ2 engine was the deformable models and terrain. Some alien units could literally morph from speed to combat mode, and buildings would deform the terrain, digging holes if you wanted to put in a semi-underground command bunker.
I've always wondered what would happen if somebody resurected the BZ2 engine and made a contemporary Afghanistan mod. all the tools are there. Mines, machine guns, bombers, satchel charges, buildings that can be instructed to build specific configurations of a particular unit, pilotable resource gatherers.... You could even have modular trench systems that the commander could have dug.
I recall the navy had a system of running current along loops of wire in the hull of the ship to nullify the magnetic signiture of their vessles when they suspeced that they were close to magnetic mines...
It won't make you totally invisible, however.
Make them double as mines so they blow up in enemy faces.
How about this: attack an army who is using these things for defence on the eve of their date roll over.
Half way through the attack, the automated defensive guns fall silent, because it is 30000 years before they've been ordered to go active.
To upgrade the defensive guns some poor techie has to wade out there, find them and patch them. Or they have to turn on some kind of remote maintenance program which would allow you to get in, retask them to switch sides and then tell them to start shooting immediately!
Think about it: this is NOT Y2k all over again. These devices are more like land mines than the embedded devices that run powerplants. You place them and forget them, rather than have a maintenence schedule. Keeping them all up to date for future problems would defeat the purpose of an autonomous sensor network!
add some "reproductive" devices here and there which are somehow able to scavenge items from the environment and build/repair all other nodes... with the odd "mistake" here and there....
When Sensors Attack!
Be amazed by real live footage of sensors watching other sensors!
Be captivated by the secret sensor mating ritual!
(mount, fsck, unmount!)
Laugh at sensors hopping around the battle field like little metal frogs.
Be horrified by real live footage of sensors mauling some guy who sprayed himself with sensor musk!
ok then, how about this: you own your own tube capsule. You have a sort of offline station in your neighbourhood which you drive your capsule to in a conventionaly way. You put your capsule into the airlock and its wheels retract. The capsule asks you "where do you want to go?" You tell it. The air comes out of the tube in the offline station. You see green lights. Then you hold onto your retinas as the capsule goes to 300mph and your little fuzzy dice start pointing towards the rear windshield...
kinda like in hover carnage except without all the death and stuff...