require regular upkeep
I'm not sure about all of those, but Matlab is (most commonly) used in the buy unlimited system, even though you can rent it. Do you really think this would be Microshaft's strategy?
1) Microsoft only releases a new version every three years. They don't (won't) produce incremental upgrades beyond "service packs" which aren't really worth much.
2) The only other reason for a subscription service is to provide customer support, but since Microsoft's GUI is so good, the main problem is not in using the software, but in dealing with the bugs, which Microsoft doesn't usually know how to do either. So they can't really provide any customer support.
So basically, it boils down to a plan through which they get more money without providing anything more. That's just not going to fly.
Ever studied quantum physics? All we can characterize is probability. Its pretty simple to get absolutely random data. Just sample the spin direction of electrons at fixed intervals for a specific point where the probability is known to be 50%. It is likely that he just used the modulus approach to generate random numbers, in which case four numbers (at most) characterize the entire set.
The problem with ANY of these shows is what they attempt. Robotics is cutting edge, which means if you want something to work REALLY well, you have to make it top-of-the-line. Making top of the line stuff takes time, research, and lots of knowledge, parts and money.
This is something you can't get EVERY week in a television show. It takes a really long time. And when you make something that good, you don't want to just wreck it. Its an academic achievement, after all.
Real robotics just isn't that exciting. Being a member of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems at my college, we're making something that moves on its own and records and responds to Video...THAT'S IT. Its actually not far behind the times, and ahead of the industry as it is.
Its just not a lot of fun to watch remote control cars move around...
Of course, you could just build sophistocated remote control cars and CALL it robotics...or BattleBots.
I think this establishes a precedent - from now on, NCITS will probably vote down all copyright protection that is that strict - that impracticle in terms of file transfers. Its likely that the victory won means one of two things:
1) NCITS will not be supported by industry and become an ignored agency
2) Copywrite protection will be just some silly system that can easily be hacked, or it won't exist.
Using Discrete Cosine Transform with Run-length encoding, bit-reduction, and huffman coding?
What is that? Oh yeah! JPEG!
Maybe we better not try to encode a file system as if it was a continuous function. Its not. Its a file system. JPEG, MPEG and MP3 work based upon observations of human beings - we specifically know that we can remove high and low frequencies from a signal without losing anything that we'll notice, in video or audio. Theoretically, once we get rid of this silly artifact problem (via wavelet encoding, probably), we won't notice any loss at all. But we would notice if we try to apply the same techniques to things that aren't discrete approximations of continuous signals. ALL of lossy compression technology is based upon the assumption that what you have to encode is a discrete approximation of a continuous signal.
Of course, I guess you could use this instead of JPEG, but this technique that they're doing is just JPEG...but a little less sophisticated.
We go ahead and minimize the whole English language? We've already got/., and everyone likes perl.
A few suggestions:
spm = spam
fstp = first post (fp is taken - "floating point")
ayb1 = All your base are belong to us.
$M = Microsoft is a horrible, money grabbing useless institution.
L! = Linux is a wonderful, beutiful thing.
CTO = Commander Taco
Hemos = well...its already pretty short.
ILB = I like beans.
YCUAL = you can't have any until later
HN/DTA = Have some now, but don't tell anyone
We could also use verbs as operands...
For example - kills = k
kL!$M - Linux, the wonderful, beautiful thing kills Microsoft the horrible, money grabbing institution.
Of course, we could, I don't know...just zip it up and unzip it? Its not like zip is a difficult protocol to implement on a palm...
Try here. This is the site of the DHTML guru. As far as web based, free (not flash) work, its pretty much the best. He describes his design philosophy a little and how to make something that works in all of the browsers.
He doesn't do a really good job of presenting javascript formally. A better, class based presentation can be found in the dynapi, which is a full blown extension of the javascript language to make it more useable, and add more features.
Of course, if you're not looking for web-based multimedia, I suggest that you be more specific about what type you're looking for. There are too many things to pick.
Read more often. The algorithms are already publicly available. CMU publishes details of all the stuff they do in scientific journals. Its like atomic physics used to be: the knowledge was available, but very few people understood it. Hack all you want...if you understand it. Check these conference proceedings: CVPR, ICPR, IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation, and of course, CMU's website.
125 MICRONS!!!!
I can see what will happen with wire like this. The companies that make it would sell 50 feet at $200/foot. Plus, they'd have to sell a lot more than that to deal with the fact that the wire breaks about every foot or so as it is being carried.
Does anybody think this is as even close to being practicle for use?
Actually, I think I'm a little mistaken. We could use all of the broken wire fibers to make really cool looking fiberglass computer cases.
Well, its not exactly a program...more like a system. The algorithms are published every year in academic conferences such as Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICPR), and IEEE Conference on Robots and Automation (not often). There are a lot of 'ifs' here to getting it to work. IF you have access to a University library, and IF you have an extensive background in discrete calculus and signal processing, IF you can program well, and IF you have the expensive equipment, then you can go ahead and make it work. Actually, CMU will probably give you some code if you ask - if you're at a University. Acadamia is where sharing originated after all...
I am a student studying computer vision. It has long been known that CMU, and especially the famous Dr. Takao Kanade have been interested in autonomous vehicles - that and stereo vision have been the major focus of that school. They're very good, but this is really not just an event at their school. Its more like a community (the vision robotics community) effort. Even Slashdot has posted a few of the other contributions.
HOWEVER, its still a long time coming. In addition, space projects and industry require much more precision and accuracy than academia can offer alone. Keep in mind that CMU already did the "No hands across America" project, where there cars "drove" (they controlled breaks and gas) 99% of the way across the United States autonomously. That was a while ago - so was their total virtual environment mapping dome. Have you seen any autonomous cars for sale? What about 3d videos that you can see from every point of view?
...or you could just appreciate that, like all of slashdot, not all of the news and comments are intended for everyone to enjoy. Do you think the gaming demographic is women? Try teenagers - the hormonally powered male kind, and a few who are a little older than that - especially those who made that skin. This post, therefore, also generally excludes all of the other demographics.
Its official alright. To each their own. Just like the rest of the country/world/universe.
I can just see it. It'll have absolutely nothing to do with Sims. They'll just make it a sort of copy of the Simpsons. The name is similar enough to confuse the non-gamers. At least that's probably the reason most people will watch it the first time.
Actually, free speech is very limited at all schools, public and private. You are allowed to express anything you want, so long as it does not "interfere with education." This applies specifically to minors, who do not actually have any rights to begin with (other than those protected by labor laws).
This is all at the hands of the educators - you can be limited in any way if the school decides you're interfering with education.
It just makes me glad I'm old enough to have rights now.
Well, there's no really, really good stuff yet, but you can control the mouse now. You can use a standard remote control with a serial device you have to build (but its pretty simple).
Did you look on freshmeat? All you have to do is look!
We have censorship for one reason, and one reason alone: our educators are not capable of demanding high quality computing resources of any kind. The fact of the matter is that the US education system has such low wages and such a high demand that they have to accept anybody they can get as teachers. Tech jobs go for a lot higher pay than teaching ones do, so the IT people don't take teaching jobs. Computer classes are often taught by following a perscribed teaching format by rote.
The result: teachers accept anything that companies who make "educational software" throw at them, and then when the system is installed, the teachers think its foolproof because they can't do anything, even if students figure out how by, for instance, using the task manager to close the censorship program.
I can't remember a time when I didn't know more about the technology I was using in the classroom than my teacher (or teachers) did.
E-book is an okay idea for some people but I don't think its the same as being free from electronic devices, curling up in a nice warm place with a good book.
While sitting in your electrically heated house (or gas powered, though the mechanics of how the gas got there was electric) with food you cooked on your electric stove, you read a book made using a computerized printing press and listen to soothing music being played on your electric CD player.
Free from electric devices? RIIIGGGHHHT. As soon books are as convenient and cheap as paper books, they will be replaced like everything else has that is less effecient. We still have them because the technology does not present a better means of presenting information right now. Wait.
Their milk looks and tastes like the real thing, but once its proteins are filtered and purified into a fine white powder, they can be spun into tough thread.
So...
SOMEBODY DRANK MILK FROM A GOAT THEY GENETICALLY ALTERED?
"Hey, Bob get over here. We have something we want you to try."
"What is it?"
"..."
"Well?"
"Its...milk"
"Oh. Cool! *glug*"
Its been done - and you've eaten it!
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Sorry to contradict you, but this has been done already, and the genetically modified rice has met what they're calling "consumer resistance".
Have you ever had a strawberry, and noticed that it seemed to have two tips? Do you think that happen in nature all the time? NOO (well, they do some of the time).
It is a common practice in fruit and vegetable production to double or triple (or more) the number of chromosomes, which usually results in bigger fruits...with a few side effects as with the strawberries.
As far as natural resources (food)...you don't really think there aren't enough for everyone, do you? The U.S. alone has the resources to produce enough food to feed all of the starving nations in the world AND their animals, and to feed their animals to other nations, and we're not the only ones with an abundance of unutilized farmland.
Keep in mind that genetic engineering of plants is a really, really old practice. They called it splicing.
"but people aren't stupid. They know what to buy"
One word: Celeron
Its probably the worst processor on the market because it lacks cache, but it sells because you can get a 500Mhz processor for the equivalent in price of a 200Mhz PII (even though the PII will perform better).
People really know what to buy, and aren't stupid? Perhaps this is so, but they can sure be fooled easily.
I wonder how many people where fooled by the what stores referred to as an "upgrade" that was put into the I-openers to make them unhackable, or how many will be fooled by a similar "improvement" in the DVD players.
Persons are smart. People are stupid. Still, this offers only risk to hard drive manufacturers. They can only lose business. This will fade unless lawmakers get involved in the regulation of hard drive manufacture and import.
Can you imagine that? The underworld would gain a new group of players - hard drive smugglers. I bet the drug dogs wouldn't be able to find that! I doubt its going to happen, though
I think it is safe to make the claim that we are not exactly a republic. We are most of the time, but strong enough public opinion turns this into a tyranny of the democracy. Just look at the quasi-concentration camps that were instituted to hold Japanese Americans during WWII. Are you going to tell me that wasn't intruding on the rights of the individual for the sake of the majority?
This is a tyranny of the democracy where most people vote to keep other's rights from being trampled(most of the time). This is close, but not completely, a republic.
The application domain determines the significance of binaries and screenshots. The type of application determines:
1) Who uses it
2) How they use it
3) What form of GUI they want
Webservers are notorious for not needing screenshots, since they are run by the technically knowledgeable administrators. Conversely, creating graphics programs absolutely REQUIRES screenshots. For the first example, even the finished product may not necessarily be compiled to binary, while the second usually is. This extends to various domains at various levels. It all depends on who the end user is, and what his level of expertise is expected to be.
You write letter and e-mail to someone in particular. Why shouldn't you write code to someone as well?
Being struck the first time gave me my incredible super powers and let me be an incredible fighting machine for the forces of good. The second time it was an elaborate scheme by the evil doctor Smelgor to take my powers away, but I was completely coated in latex at the time, so it foiled his plan.
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require regular upkeep
I'm not sure about all of those, but Matlab is (most commonly) used in the buy unlimited system, even though you can rent it. Do you really think this would be Microshaft's strategy?
2) The only other reason for a subscription service is to provide customer support, but since Microsoft's GUI is so good, the main problem is not in using the software, but in dealing with the bugs, which Microsoft doesn't usually know how to do either. So they can't really provide any customer support.
So basically, it boils down to a plan through which they get more money without providing anything more. That's just not going to fly.
But, your assumption is still wrong.
This is something you can't get EVERY week in a television show. It takes a really long time. And when you make something that good, you don't want to just wreck it. Its an academic achievement, after all.
Real robotics just isn't that exciting. Being a member of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems at my college, we're making something that moves on its own and records and responds to Video...THAT'S IT. Its actually not far behind the times, and ahead of the industry as it is.
Its just not a lot of fun to watch remote control cars move around...
Of course, you could just build sophistocated remote control cars and CALL it robotics...or BattleBots.
1) NCITS will not be supported by industry and become an ignored agency
2) Copywrite protection will be just some silly system that can easily be hacked, or it won't exist.
Lets just hope for the second.
Using Discrete Cosine Transform with Run-length encoding, bit-reduction, and huffman coding?
What is that? Oh yeah! JPEG!
Maybe we better not try to encode a file system as if it was a continuous function. Its not. Its a file system. JPEG, MPEG and MP3 work based upon observations of human beings - we specifically know that we can remove high and low frequencies from a signal without losing anything that we'll notice, in video or audio. Theoretically, once we get rid of this silly artifact problem (via wavelet encoding, probably), we won't notice any loss at all. But we would notice if we try to apply the same techniques to things that aren't discrete approximations of continuous signals. ALL of lossy compression technology is based upon the assumption that what you have to encode is a discrete approximation of a continuous signal. Of course, I guess you could use this instead of JPEG, but this technique that they're doing is just JPEG...but a little less sophisticated.
We go ahead and minimize the whole English language? We've already got /., and everyone likes perl.
A few suggestions:
spm = spam
fstp = first post (fp is taken - "floating point")
ayb1 = All your base are belong to us.
$M = Microsoft is a horrible, money grabbing useless institution.
L! = Linux is a wonderful, beutiful thing.
CTO = Commander Taco
Hemos = well...its already pretty short.
ILB = I like beans.
YCUAL = you can't have any until later
HN/DTA = Have some now, but don't tell anyone
We could also use verbs as operands...
For example - kills = k
kL!$M - Linux, the wonderful, beautiful thing kills Microsoft the horrible, money grabbing institution.
Of course, we could, I don't know...just zip it up and unzip it? Its not like zip is a difficult protocol to implement on a palm...
He doesn't do a really good job of presenting javascript formally. A better, class based presentation can be found in the dynapi, which is a full blown extension of the javascript language to make it more useable, and add more features.
Of course, if you're not looking for web-based multimedia, I suggest that you be more specific about what type you're looking for. There are too many things to pick.
Read more often. The algorithms are already publicly available. CMU publishes details of all the stuff they do in scientific journals. Its like atomic physics used to be: the knowledge was available, but very few people understood it. Hack all you want...if you understand it. Check these conference proceedings: CVPR, ICPR, IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation, and of course, CMU's website.
I can see what will happen with wire like this. The companies that make it would sell 50 feet at $200/foot. Plus, they'd have to sell a lot more than that to deal with the fact that the wire breaks about every foot or so as it is being carried.
Does anybody think this is as even close to being practicle for use?
Actually, I think I'm a little mistaken. We could use all of the broken wire fibers to make really cool looking fiberglass computer cases.
Hmm...you seem to have the wrong impression. It ONLY steered, and didn't do breaks or gas...
Well, its not exactly a program...more like a system. The algorithms are published every year in academic conferences such as Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICPR), and IEEE Conference on Robots and Automation (not often). There are a lot of 'ifs' here to getting it to work. IF you have access to a University library, and IF you have an extensive background in discrete calculus and signal processing, IF you can program well, and IF you have the expensive equipment, then you can go ahead and make it work. Actually, CMU will probably give you some code if you ask - if you're at a University. Acadamia is where sharing originated after all...
HOWEVER, its still a long time coming. In addition, space projects and industry require much more precision and accuracy than academia can offer alone. Keep in mind that CMU already did the "No hands across America" project, where there cars "drove" (they controlled breaks and gas) 99% of the way across the United States autonomously. That was a while ago - so was their total virtual environment mapping dome. Have you seen any autonomous cars for sale? What about 3d videos that you can see from every point of view?
We still have a long way to go.
Its official alright. To each their own. Just like the rest of the country/world/universe.
I can just see it. It'll have absolutely nothing to do with Sims. They'll just make it a sort of copy of the Simpsons. The name is similar enough to confuse the non-gamers. At least that's probably the reason most people will watch it the first time.
This is all at the hands of the educators - you can be limited in any way if the school decides you're interfering with education.
It just makes me glad I'm old enough to have rights now.
Did you look on freshmeat? All you have to do is look!
We have censorship for one reason, and one reason alone: our educators are not capable of demanding high quality computing resources of any kind. The fact of the matter is that the US education system has such low wages and such a high demand that they have to accept anybody they can get as teachers. Tech jobs go for a lot higher pay than teaching ones do, so the IT people don't take teaching jobs. Computer classes are often taught by following a perscribed teaching format by rote.
The result: teachers accept anything that companies who make "educational software" throw at them, and then when the system is installed, the teachers think its foolproof because they can't do anything, even if students figure out how by, for instance, using the task manager to close the censorship program.
I can't remember a time when I didn't know more about the technology I was using in the classroom than my teacher (or teachers) did.
E-book is an okay idea for some people but I don't think its the same as being free from electronic devices, curling up in a nice warm place with a good book.
While sitting in your electrically heated house (or gas powered, though the mechanics of how the gas got there was electric) with food you cooked on your electric stove, you read a book made using a computerized printing press and listen to soothing music being played on your electric CD player.
Free from electric devices? RIIIGGGHHHT. As soon books are as convenient and cheap as paper books, they will be replaced like everything else has that is less effecient. We still have them because the technology does not present a better means of presenting information right now. Wait.
So...
SOMEBODY DRANK MILK FROM A GOAT THEY GENETICALLY ALTERED?
Now theres a real geek. I can just see it now:
"Hey, Bob get over here. We have something we want you to try."
"What is it?"
"..."
"Well?"
"Its...milk"
"Oh. Cool! *glug*"
Sorry to contradict you, but this has been done already, and the genetically modified rice has met what they're calling "consumer resistance". Have you ever had a strawberry, and noticed that it seemed to have two tips? Do you think that happen in nature all the time? NOO (well, they do some of the time). It is a common practice in fruit and vegetable production to double or triple (or more) the number of chromosomes, which usually results in bigger fruits...with a few side effects as with the strawberries. As far as natural resources (food)...you don't really think there aren't enough for everyone, do you? The U.S. alone has the resources to produce enough food to feed all of the starving nations in the world AND their animals, and to feed their animals to other nations, and we're not the only ones with an abundance of unutilized farmland. Keep in mind that genetic engineering of plants is a really, really old practice. They called it splicing.
People really know what to buy, and aren't stupid? Perhaps this is so, but they can sure be fooled easily.
I wonder how many people where fooled by the what stores referred to as an "upgrade" that was put into the I-openers to make them unhackable, or how many will be fooled by a similar "improvement" in the DVD players.
Persons are smart. People are stupid. Still, this offers only risk to hard drive manufacturers. They can only lose business. This will fade unless lawmakers get involved in the regulation of hard drive manufacture and import.
Can you imagine that? The underworld would gain a new group of players - hard drive smugglers. I bet the drug dogs wouldn't be able to find that! I doubt its going to happen, though
I think it is safe to make the claim that we are not exactly a republic. We are most of the time, but strong enough public opinion turns this into a tyranny of the democracy. Just look at the quasi-concentration camps that were instituted to hold Japanese Americans during WWII. Are you going to tell me that wasn't intruding on the rights of the individual for the sake of the majority? This is a tyranny of the democracy where most people vote to keep other's rights from being trampled(most of the time). This is close, but not completely, a republic.
The application domain determines the significance of binaries and screenshots. The type of application determines: 1) Who uses it 2) How they use it 3) What form of GUI they want Webservers are notorious for not needing screenshots, since they are run by the technically knowledgeable administrators. Conversely, creating graphics programs absolutely REQUIRES screenshots. For the first example, even the finished product may not necessarily be compiled to binary, while the second usually is. This extends to various domains at various levels. It all depends on who the end user is, and what his level of expertise is expected to be. You write letter and e-mail to someone in particular. Why shouldn't you write code to someone as well?
TWICE
Being struck the first time gave me my incredible super powers and let me be an incredible fighting machine for the forces of good. The second time it was an elaborate scheme by the evil doctor Smelgor to take my powers away, but I was completely coated in latex at the time, so it foiled his plan.