... but unhelpful - sure, the movement's natural-looking, but how good is the software at analysing its environment to adjust its walking pattern, and so on; also, it evidently needs an in-built fusion pack to keep it going, or something - trailing wires is no fun in difficult conditions:-)
Basically, how useful is this prototype; IANAE, but I'd guess that this technology still has some years to go before being useful.
But I/still/ think it's cool.
PS: Of course, given it's running (RT-)Linux... "How about a beowulf cluster of these?";-)
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IWSTM that American advertising is catching up with the rest of the world - compared to European advertising for example, American adverts are terribly crass, obvious, and unrefined. I am told that British advertising leads the way, but whether this is actually true or not I'm not entirely sure. Sometimes advertising campaigns go on for/weeks/ before the actual product is talked about; I believe the idea is to engage the interest of the viewer. Of course, I have never bought anything due to an advert online, and don't really even see them unless I concentrate. Oh for the days of '95 when the Internet was 'clean'...
Let me get this straight: you resent the USA because it spent $B to rebuild enemy nations[...]
I most certainly do not 'resent' the United States - I merely wish they could be somewhat more enlightened as to the actual nature of global governance, and not so very convinced of 'their' way being the sole, correct, way.
On the one hand, the US is evil because it is too involved in global affairs, on the other, it is unintelligent because it is insufficiently so.
Oh, pish. I have never said that the United States is 'too' involved, but I do claim that a great many of the ways in which the United States does effect its ideologies are somewhat poorly sighted. That is all.
Meanwhile, I put it to you that the US is demonstrably more involved with the affairs of freedom , such as engaging in trade,[...]
Such as, say, Indonesia, which has benefitted greatly from Nike's 'trade'.
than any other country, given the international success of US-based companies compared to most any other.
Money. That's all you seem to think it boils down to, isn't it? Money. Pah! There are far more important things to think about. Such as happiness, lack of suffering, lack of poverty, etc.
That US citizens don't sit around and whine about how their
Funny thing, that. I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that the Kyoto protocol was written under the auspices of the United Nations (another body the US seems to take too lightly). Must be my memory playing up on me again. Ah well.
[...]prescriptions for changing the global climate over the next 500 years
Out by a magnitude of about 2 (have you people even heard of, oh, what's it called, El Nino?).
[...]free trade.
Unilateral free trade is, well, not 'free' at all.
BTW, for a good book on the ways in which the United States' foreign policy beaurocracy is somewhat underwhelmingly useful, see Leon Sigal's book, Disarming Strangers, published by Princeton, about the process of forging (good) relations with North Korea some years ago.
No no, quite the contrary - well, not really, but with a different emphasis: my remarks could quite easily, on minimal (unsatisfactory) inspection, be interpreted as a troll or flamebait, especially by someone whose emotions are not totally in check. This is entirely understandable, and I most certainly am not 'bitching'. But no matter.
Moderators: Please rate this as 'funny', not 'troll' - it really is quite hilarious. I don't mind at all being called a socialist freak, as it is obviosuly not meant - no sane person could even contemplate usage of such obviously infantile language. Believing that the United States has lasted for 500 years - indeed! Most amusing.
I confess - I'm not American (well, not quite - I'm British, which apparently makes me a citizen of the 51st state...;-)). And, indeed, the comment about my culture being nearer to that of the abovementioned illuminaries was most touching. But then, your culture is but a bastardization of mine, so I suppose we are not so far apart.;-)
Further, I strongly agree with, well, all of this comment. I tip my hat to you, good Sir.
some effort of humanitarian aid is being made - and seeing as most of the world[']s aid is funded by the US in the first place.
Ha! As any third-rate student of international finance will tell you, the flow of captial from the developed to undeveloped world is strictly negative - for every $1bn that is donated in 'aid', some 100 times as much is extracted in the form of interest payments on oversold, mistakenly-encumbering un-pay-able loans.
To ask for justice is not conceit.
Au contraire - to ask for 'justice' when absolute proof does not exist of the individual's involvemnt is missing, leaving only circumstantial evidence, is indeed conceit of the highest order - the 'we think this is so, so it must be the case' form.
The comment about weapons stockpiles is just so laughable that I won't bother to reply.
To give large loans and sums of money in the way of aid over many, many years starting with the Marshall Plan (how quickly history forgets), is not selfish.
Oh, cut the crap. The sole reason for America 'giving' large amounts of money to other countries in order to rebuild them was not humanitarian (though it was politically useful to use this excuse at the time), it was good economic sense - you're not going to make any money through trade if everybody else is stuck in the stone age, because you either didn't help them fight against an overwhelming force for out-dated, introspective domestic political reasons, or carpet-bombed their foes into submission when you finally did. THe United States has made far more money, not to mention otherwise capital, out of such agreements. Also note that the Marshall Plan and its ilk were created, to an extent, to ward off the 'evil' of Communism - anything that Joe Bloggs in the street doesn't agree with just simple has to be wrong, now doesn't it?
And judging on the US's political, economic and technological state in the world, it is hardly a nation of stupidity.
Again, laughable, though this time I will respond - the comment was made as one applicable to the mob mentality of the United States, not their individual intelligence - living alone on a continent simplifies local politics to the extent that one would think that such a country could a afford to be more involved than others in more global affairs. The comment was directed at the long-term view of international politics in the US, which is akin to 'if we close our eyes and believe that they aren't there, then they cease to exist'.
On a somewhat different note, I see that my original comment has been moderated as 5, Troll, which I find amusing. Of course, I'd prefer for it to be otherwise, but then, given the large, but certainly nt nearly exclusive, American readership that Slashdot has, I should have expected no more.
Oh, for gods' sakes. This is exactly the kind of 'rhetoric' that attracts such hatred towards you Americans - you seem to have this unerring feeling that your position is absolutely correct.
[...]our government has looked for the most peaceful solution possible Please excuse the language, but, put simply, 'bollocks'. The United States has looked for no solution whatsoe'er - demands on a non-negotiable billet do not come close to being an action of looking for a solution.
As a friend of mine put it, they call it 'collateral damage' because 'dead innocent civilians' doesn't have the same ring to it - and collateral damage is going to occur, to both sides, to a great extent, because the 'mission' is not clearly definied, but only a misguided and vague effort supported by dodgy morals and an apparent committment to aid which doesn't really fit with the action being taken. The monopoly of the state as the only body with legitimate use of violence, the boundaries of morals, and the state of global governance are what is at question here. Acts are only called 'terrorism', and not military action by a foreign power by the difference in the percieved legitimacy of their perpetrators - 'fighting terrorism' is about keeping states the sole executors of, well, physical power, to the extent of executions.
Personally, I find it very sad that a country full of such a great many people who could contribute so much to the world at large are generally not only conceited, arrogant and selfish, but somewhat stupid (by this I mean their actions as a mob, rather than individually, for at least most of them).
The first thing that springs to mind is an ASP -> PHP converter that I've heard of, called 'asp2php'.
Perhaps a more 'correct' way of doing things would be to use the ASP-mimicing PERL functions (although I'm aware that this isn't exactly what you were asking for, it's the most 'neat' manner, if you really/have/ to use ASP-based nonsense).
A search through Google is the most obvious place to look, however, which turns up, amongst others, a thread on PHPBuilder, which suggests Apache::ASP, which, AFAICT, uses the abovementioned PERL module (given that it requires the Apache module mod_perl).
"Like the Internet, the system should allow non-hierarchical trust domains with no central authority necessary."
... which kind-of goes against all this 'Hailstorm'.NET rubbish that MicroSoft has been talking about lately (Passport will be an institutionalized form of central authority for a hierarchical trust system...).
[...]having to input all my phone numbers into a new cell phone *sucks*
Err... contact numbers are stored on the SIM card, not the 'phone memory, for precisely this reason[*] - give your old SIM card to one of the attendants at the shop when getting a new 'phone, and they'll copy your contacts across - at least, that's how all Nokia, NEC, Sony and Motorola 'phones that I've every used have done it. Uterly simple. Or is it different in the U.S.A.?
BTW, if anyone works at the FCC, please send the people who decided not to standardise the spectrum and protocol along with the rest of the world my thanks - it's been a huge boost to the European especially, and also Asian, economies.
[*] - Yes, I know, you/can/ store contacts on 'phone memory as well, but normally you can only use one of these locations (SIM card OR 'phone), and the default is the SIM card
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It's called thebunker.net, a refurbished former nuclear underground bomb shelter (sound familiar?), and was discussed on/. a while back. Given that "search is down", I can't provide a link, sorry. Personally, I can't see what this particular example of the type adds to the discussion here, but nevermind...
Oh, FFS, I/do/ know how to set up a network. And anyway, in this case, the computer had a direct connection both to a computer trying to send RC5 blocks to it, and to the Internet.
Or does WinNT5 have the firewall in it, instead?
... actually, I think that the firewall 'in XP' is in IE6 - when I installed a beta of IE6 on a Windows box out of curiosity, network traffic was almost exclusively blocked, with no way to switch it off that I could see. But ne'ermind.
...but the Encyclopaedia Brittanica has been available from eb.com for quite a long time on a subscription model, certainly a year or so longer than britannica.com. This I know, as my former school had (and, indeed, still has) a subscription. Perhaps they've decided to consolidate the two sites?
Umm...
Hate to be picky, but this isn't entirely correct: 'hypothesis' means an idea someone's come up with, 'theory' means an idea someone's suggested how it comes about, and a 'theorem' is what you describe as, and I quote, "most "certain" form of a scientific knowledge, usually backed up with a lot of observations that agree with [it]".
HTH.
As someone who can, and regularly does, pick out just about every voice from a 30-strong choir individually (I'm not so good with orchestras - it depends on the venue and their playing), sound is terribly important for me. Indeed, I am physcially pained by certain sounds ('psycosomaticism' is just another word to me;-), and am especially prone to headaches. Sure, you may think that spending $140K is a lot for pure sound, but then, many people would think that spending $50K on a computer is extreme - yet Sun still manage to sell quite a few such workstations...
So, how would I spend $140K ~= £100K? Well, let's see:
1xMeridian 861 'reference' controller, ~£10K
1xMeridian 800 'reference' DVD player, also ~£10K
7xMeridian DSP8000 loudspeakers, full surround set, ~£120K
Oops, I'm just a littleover budget... And no speaker cables in that list, either. Hmm.
As you can guess, I likeMeridian - well, given the quite ridiculously amazing technology, they're actually quite cheap, and given as the company designed the up-coming DVD-Audio standard... - anyone feeling exceptionally generous?;-)
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... but unhelpful - sure, the movement's natural-looking, but how good is the software at analysing its environment to adjust its walking pattern, and so on; also, it evidently needs an in-built fusion pack to keep it going, or something - trailing wires is no fun in difficult conditions :-)
/still/ think it's cool.
;-)
Basically, how useful is this prototype; IANAE, but I'd guess that this technology still has some years to go before being useful.
But I
PS: Of course, given it's running (RT-)Linux... "How about a beowulf cluster of these?"
IWSTM that American advertising is catching up with the rest of the world - compared to European advertising for example, American adverts are terribly crass, obvious, and unrefined. I am told that British advertising leads the way, but whether this is actually true or not I'm not entirely sure. Sometimes advertising campaigns go on for /weeks/ before the actual product is talked about; I believe the idea is to engage the interest of the viewer. Of course, I have never bought anything due to an advert online, and don't really even see them unless I concentrate. Oh for the days of '95 when the Internet was 'clean'...
The latest release (2.77) has a randomness factor option added. Quite how random it is, though, I'm not sure; basically, I agree :-).
Winamp Mac edition has been in alpha-stage for quite some time (I've been using it for over 4 months, personally).
I like Winamp, but, no, the playlist randomisation is purely random - it doesn't randomise within a genre or the like, for example.
Let me get this straight: you resent the USA because it spent $B to rebuild enemy nations[...]
I most certainly do not 'resent' the United States - I merely wish they could be somewhat more enlightened as to the actual nature of global governance, and not so very convinced of 'their' way being the sole, correct, way.
On the one hand, the US is evil because it is too involved in global affairs, on the other, it is unintelligent because it is insufficiently so.
Oh, pish. I have never said that the United States is 'too' involved, but I do claim that a great many of the ways in which the United States does effect its ideologies are somewhat poorly sighted. That is all.
Meanwhile, I put it to you that the US is demonstrably more involved with the affairs of freedom , such as engaging in trade,[...]
Such as, say, Indonesia, which has benefitted greatly from Nike's 'trade'.
than any other country, given the international success of US-based companies compared to most any other.
Money. That's all you seem to think it boils down to, isn't it? Money. Pah! There are far more important things to think about. Such as happiness, lack of suffering, lack of poverty, etc.
That US citizens don't sit around and whine about how their
Funny thing, that. I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that the Kyoto protocol was written under the auspices of the United Nations (another body the US seems to take too lightly). Must be my memory playing up on me again. Ah well.
[...]prescriptions for changing the global climate over the next 500 years
Out by a magnitude of about 2 (have you people even heard of, oh, what's it called, El Nino?).
[...]free trade.
Unilateral free trade is, well, not 'free' at all.
BTW, for a good book on the ways in which the United States' foreign policy beaurocracy is somewhat underwhelmingly useful, see Leon Sigal's book, Disarming Strangers, published by Princeton, about the process of forging (good) relations with North Korea some years ago.
No no, quite the contrary - well, not really, but with a different emphasis: my remarks could quite easily, on minimal (unsatisfactory) inspection, be interpreted as a troll or flamebait, especially by someone whose emotions are not totally in check. This is entirely understandable, and I most certainly am not 'bitching'. But no matter.
Moderators: Please rate this as 'funny', not 'troll' - it really is quite hilarious. I don't mind at all being called a socialist freak, as it is obviosuly not meant - no sane person could even contemplate usage of such obviously infantile language. Believing that the United States has lasted for 500 years - indeed! Most amusing.
I confess - I'm not American (well, not quite - I'm British, which apparently makes me a citizen of the 51st state... ;-)). And, indeed, the comment about my culture being nearer to that of the abovementioned illuminaries was most touching. But then, your culture is but a bastardization of mine, so I suppose we are not so far apart. ;-)
Further, I strongly agree with, well, all of this comment. I tip my hat to you, good Sir.
some effort of humanitarian aid is being made - and seeing as most of the world[']s aid is funded by the US in the first place.
Ha! As any third-rate student of international finance will tell you, the flow of captial from the developed to undeveloped world is strictly negative - for every $1bn that is donated in 'aid', some 100 times as much is extracted in the form of interest payments on oversold, mistakenly-encumbering un-pay-able loans.
To ask for justice is not conceit.
Au contraire - to ask for 'justice' when absolute proof does not exist of the individual's involvemnt is missing, leaving only circumstantial evidence, is indeed conceit of the highest order - the 'we think this is so, so it must be the case' form.
The comment about weapons stockpiles is just so laughable that I won't bother to reply.
To give large loans and sums of money in the way of aid over many, many years starting with the Marshall Plan (how quickly history forgets), is not selfish.
Oh, cut the crap. The sole reason for America 'giving' large amounts of money to other countries in order to rebuild them was not humanitarian (though it was politically useful to use this excuse at the time), it was good economic sense - you're not going to make any money through trade if everybody else is stuck in the stone age, because you either didn't help them fight against an overwhelming force for out-dated, introspective domestic political reasons, or carpet-bombed their foes into submission when you finally did. THe United States has made far more money, not to mention otherwise capital, out of such agreements. Also note that the Marshall Plan and its ilk were created, to an extent, to ward off the 'evil' of Communism - anything that Joe Bloggs in the street doesn't agree with just simple has to be wrong, now doesn't it?
And judging on the US's political, economic and technological state in the world, it is hardly a nation of stupidity.
Again, laughable, though this time I will respond - the comment was made as one applicable to the mob mentality of the United States, not their individual intelligence - living alone on a continent simplifies local politics to the extent that one would think that such a country could a afford to be more involved than others in more global affairs. The comment was directed at the long-term view of international politics in the US, which is akin to 'if we close our eyes and believe that they aren't there, then they cease to exist'.
On a somewhat different note, I see that my original comment has been moderated as 5, Troll, which I find amusing. Of course, I'd prefer for it to be otherwise, but then, given the large, but certainly nt nearly exclusive, American readership that Slashdot has, I should have expected no more.
Oh, for gods' sakes. This is exactly the kind of 'rhetoric' that attracts such hatred towards you Americans - you seem to have this unerring feeling that your position is absolutely correct.
[...]our government has looked for the most peaceful solution possible
Please excuse the language, but, put simply, 'bollocks'. The United States has looked for no solution whatsoe'er - demands on a non-negotiable billet do not come close to being an action of looking for a solution.
As a friend of mine put it, they call it 'collateral damage' because 'dead innocent civilians' doesn't have the same ring to it - and collateral damage is going to occur, to both sides, to a great extent, because the 'mission' is not clearly definied, but only a misguided and vague effort supported by dodgy morals and an apparent committment to aid which doesn't really fit with the action being taken. The monopoly of the state as the only body with legitimate use of violence, the boundaries of morals, and the state of global governance are what is at question here. Acts are only called 'terrorism', and not military action by a foreign power by the difference in the percieved legitimacy of their perpetrators - 'fighting terrorism' is about keeping states the sole executors of, well, physical power, to the extent of executions.
Personally, I find it very sad that a country full of such a great many people who could contribute so much to the world at large are generally not only conceited, arrogant and selfish, but somewhat stupid (by this I mean their actions as a mob, rather than individually, for at least most of them).
The first thing that springs to mind is an ASP -> PHP converter that I've heard of, called 'asp2php'.
Perhaps a more 'correct' way of doing things would be to use the ASP-mimicing PERL functions (although I'm aware that this isn't exactly what you were asking for, it's the most 'neat' manner, if you really /have/ to use ASP-based nonsense).
A search through Google is the most obvious place to look, however, which turns up, amongst others, a thread on PHPBuilder, which suggests Apache::ASP, which, AFAICT, uses the abovementioned PERL module (given that it requires the Apache module mod_perl).
HTH.
OK, I admit, I should have mentioned that. Tertiary education is HE, Higher Education, and "trade courses and so on" are FE, Futher Education.
To be entirely accurate, it's called "tertiary" education, not "post-secondary". HTH.
"Like the Internet, the system should allow non-hierarchical trust domains with no central authority necessary."
... which kind-of goes against all this 'Hailstorm' .NET rubbish that MicroSoft has been talking about lately (Passport will be an institutionalized form of central authority for a hierarchical trust system...).
... including It's Raining Men. Which, though somewhat sick, I found obscurely amusing.
[...]having to input all my phone numbers into a new cell phone *sucks*
Err... contact numbers are stored on the SIM card, not the 'phone memory, for precisely this reason[*] - give your old SIM card to one of the attendants at the shop when getting a new 'phone, and they'll copy your contacts across - at least, that's how all Nokia, NEC, Sony and Motorola 'phones that I've every used have done it. Uterly simple. Or is it different in the U.S.A.?
BTW, if anyone works at the FCC, please send the people who decided not to standardise the spectrum and protocol along with the rest of the world my thanks - it's been a huge boost to the European especially, and also Asian, economies.
[*] - Yes, I know, you /can/ store contacts on 'phone memory as well, but normally you can only use one of these locations (SIM card OR 'phone), and the default is the SIM card
It's called thebunker.net, a refurbished former nuclear underground bomb shelter (sound familiar?), and was discussed on /. a while back. Given that "search is down", I can't provide a link, sorry. Personally, I can't see what this particular example of the type adds to the discussion here, but nevermind...
Oh, FFS, I /do/ know how to set up a network. And anyway, in this case, the computer had a direct connection both to a computer trying to send RC5 blocks to it, and to the Internet.
Or does WinNT5 have the firewall in it, instead?
... actually, I think that the firewall 'in XP' is in IE6 - when I installed a beta of IE6 on a Windows box out of curiosity, network traffic was almost exclusively blocked, with no way to switch it off that I could see. But ne'ermind.
Oops. s/karma/ID/. Apologies.
... and, presumably, bonus points for low karmas?
...but the Encyclopaedia Brittanica has been available from eb.com for quite a long time on a subscription model, certainly a year or so longer than britannica.com. This I know, as my former school had (and, indeed, still has) a subscription. Perhaps they've decided to consolidate the two sites?
Umm... Hate to be picky, but this isn't entirely correct: 'hypothesis' means an idea someone's come up with, 'theory' means an idea someone's suggested how it comes about, and a 'theorem' is what you describe as, and I quote, "most "certain" form of a scientific knowledge, usually backed up with a lot of observations that agree with [it]". HTH.
... that the ISS was launched /without/ a way of doing EVAs. I mean, just think of the potential problems...
As someone who can, and regularly does, pick out just about every voice from a 30-strong choir individually (I'm not so good with orchestras - it depends on the venue and their playing), sound is terribly important for me. Indeed, I am physcially pained by certain sounds ('psycosomaticism' is just another word to me ;-), and am especially prone to headaches. Sure, you may think that spending $140K is a lot for pure sound, but then, many people would think that spending $50K on a computer is extreme - yet Sun still manage to sell quite a few such workstations...
So, how would I spend $140K ~= £100K? Well, let's see:
- 1xMeridian 861 'reference' controller, ~£10K
- 1xMeridian 800 'reference' DVD player, also ~£10K
- 7xMeridian DSP8000 loudspeakers, full surround set, ~£120K
Oops, I'm just a littleover budget... And no speaker cables in that list, either. Hmm.As you can guess, I like Meridian - well, given the quite ridiculously amazing technology, they're actually quite cheap, and given as the company designed the up-coming DVD-Audio standard... - anyone feeling exceptionally generous? ;-)