I've met Dean on a couple of occasions, myself. He is the recipient of this year's Heinz Award, which was won by Andy Grove (CEO of Intel) in '94. Dean has just recently developed a wheelchair capable of walking up steps and balancing its user, elevated off the ground. Dean is an incredible inventor.
As for Dr Goldin, He made an incredible speech at the kickoff this year. NASA is sponsoring an unbelievable 118 teams, with a grand total in funding of over 1.6 Million Dollars! You wouldn't happen to be the owner of the famed hat, would you?
This is probably one of the most useful reasons to support this sort of activity. It can be used as a teaching tool hidden inside a game. Instead of grade-school kids blowing time watching the TV, they could be involved in the mechanics of robotic mechanisms, the physics needed to understand movement and combat, the computer and electronic skills needed to control such a bugger.
In actuality, the game doesn't contain _hidden_ teaching tools. The students go into the game knowing they're going to learn, and learn they do. There was one FIRST school in California, which before being sponsored by NASA for the FIRST competition was one of those schools where you'd be depressed to walk in the door, there was almost no hope, the average GPA could be counted on less than three fingers, and they were in some serious trouble.
Then NASA came in and the over 80% of the school was involved with FIRST, and the Average GPA went up almost 3/4 of a point. That is only one true success story, for education, and engineering. There are so many more. This Team also happened to win the Chairman's Award (from FIRST), IIRC, which is the most coveted award of the competition. Literally from zero to hero overnight.
Okay, we've got the geek quotient to do it -- we just need Andover.net to sponsor the project and a few folks out there to kick in some time. Let's put together our own competitor for the Battle Bot scene!
I think that if Andover or Slashdot sponsored a FIRST robot, there would be a SHEDLOAD of positive PR.. FIRST is broadcast annually on ESPN, so if the Slashbot won... Damn that would be cool! A Teal and White Robotic Beast... Hey, Rob, Sponsor a FIRST Team... Find a deserving local highschool and pimp ALL over the place!
I've been waiting for the past few days now for something like this to come up. Too bad Rob or Jeff would probably never post it... Some of you may or may not have heard of the FIRST Competition. It is a robotics competition which involves High School students, along with their corporate partners, Universities, or what have you. This year's competition was just released on Saturday. FIRST's Competition homepage is here. This competition is far superior to almost any other. There will be ten regional events this year, and the National Competition will be in EPCOT Center in Disneyworld, FL. There is no other robotics competition with such spirit or fire behind it as this one. Please check out the Homepage and support the FIRST cause in any way possible. The competition has grown from 28 teams in 1992 to over 380 teams this year. There are teams from all over the USA, Canada, and even a team from Brazil. Some of you were wondering about mindstorms... They have a Mindstorms Competition called FIRST Lego League! Check it out here! General Information on FIRST can be found at www.usfirst.org
The prices might be going down on those HMD's, but i've had my solution now for a while. My Princeton Graphics EO75 shoulder-mounted display works wonders. I drag around my portable 750 watt gasoline-powered generator, and my killer APC UPS and bear the weight of my 47 pound monitor on my shoulders. It's a wonder for my six-pack, and damn, radiation... does a body good! I don't even need a nightlight anymore. And the CO from the generator is a breath of fresh air wherever I go. Complements never cease, from the "What the fsck is wrong with you?" to the "Damn, you're messed up." Walking in public is fun for the whole family. We don't need to go shopping anymore. People throw enough fruits and vegetables at us to last all week! Get your very own Shoulder-Mounted FST monitor today!!!
After using the closed-source Win32 Beta of Napster, I can safely say that it is a buggy little thing. Hopefully all this work that is being done to bring it to open-source will at least get some of the bugs out. And there is always the joy of having such a cool program for Linux. I've heard a lot of complaints from tons of people about how Napstar doesn't work with their firewall, and how they can't seem to get their hotlist to work. I've experienced the same problems these people describe, but they seem to be intermittent at best. I don't know if it's a Win32 problem, or a Napster issue, but it is definitely annoying. Hopefully with this new open-source version, some, if not all of these problems will disappear faster than they would have if the source had stayed closed.
I can't say for certain that doubling will continue ad infinitum, but the end is definitly not near. The end _is_ near. The size of transistors, not the power of the machines is that point of the article. We can't make 'em much smaller, thery're already really stretching it at.18m. I'd love to see us be able to manipulate individual atoms, but that is so far into the future that it's almost ridiculous to even hypothesize such an event occuring within our lifetimes. Presently, we have probably 10-15 more years of advancement in the Semiconductor Industry, as far as CMOS is concerned. Companies do not presently have the technology to get to.10m. We're sitting happily at.18m. Molecular physics and quantum mechanics starts to get in the way once you get past.10m. The SiO2 stops being an effective insulator around.05 -.06m. Things are going to get very interesting very quickly for all of us in the field, that much is certain. Whether or not we have jobs working with silicon in 20 years still has room to be decided. Maybe someone should talk to the Physics Gods and get them to change the rules for us...
Can commercialism be blamed for lacking parenting. I see this too much in the news. Everyone wants to put the blame elsewhere, such as the media, or software developers, but god forbid should they look to themselves for a little reponsibility. It is NOT the fault of the Media, the software companies, the porn sites or anything else. The blame in this case lies directly on the parents in this, and almost any other case of "Doom Did It". Let's not get into "what if" about the parents. It's not a case of "what if" any more. It's a case of "They are bad parents."
This is the most engrossing, thrilling, adrenaline pumping movie I have ever seen. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Afterwards, my friends and I drove around town just saying "Holy WOW!" This movie gives a name to all the faceless people hiding from, and fighting the system. It gives a new furvor (sp) to those seeking to make a difference in the world. If you haven't yet, go see this movie, and take your friends. Take your laptop, hell, it'll enjoy it.
Parents should not decide things for their children. That only promotes immaturity.
This post is giving me an aneurism. It's rather obvious to me that you've never had children, also that you haven't an IOTA of an idea what limits are. You've spammed the thread with enough nay-saying and uninformed hogwash that I think you should do us a favor and exclude yourself from the thread after this point (And the Genepool, please).
I am not of the Jewish faith, but your linking another persons belief system to a lifestyle that Judaism expressly prohibits and a political system that more often has not has been guilty of genocide(s) is highly offensive and not funny.
Personally, I'm pro-choice. However, my opinion is irrelevant, as the choice in the case of abortion is up to the mother-to-be-or-not-to-be. I personally believe in a woman's right to choose, not to say that were I a woman that I would do that.
Second, I am fscking sick of these hypocritical murdering pro-life psychopaths. (Not to say all Pro-lifers are psychos, murderers or hypocrites!) These sick fsckers need to be rounded up and shot themselves, either that, or let the families of the dead doctors loose on them. These psychos are doing illegal things. The mothers-to-be-or-not-to-be are not. Abortion is legal (almost) everywhere. Murder is illegal everywhere.
To the psychos: You're fscking sick. This (where I'm from) is the United States of America. We have (what we call) freedom. We have freedom of choice. How DARE you imply that you have ANY right to decide what we do? You got something to say? Say it, by all means. Do it within the law, as the Constitution and local laws allow. Get the fsck out and vote. Step outside the realm of the law and you'll have to deal with the Police, and perhaps with your all-mighty 'God' who has 'told you to kill the murderers.' Your 'God' ain't my God. No God tells his people to kill.
Normally, Slashdot doesn't make me laugh (too much, anyway). This article almost made me snarf the Dr Pepper I had drunk. Anybody with ½ a brain, and even two nanoseconds of a real college education knows this guy is full of crap either because he's completely moronic, or hasn't been to a real school. His picture looks like he spends his time sitting in front of a sticky keyboard looking at alt.binaries.erotica.* and 'coding' HTML. Another fine candidate for the "Why Couldn't Social Darwinism Take This One" award.
But really... If you seriously think you're going to get anywhere significant in this world, without that piece of paper, you're going to end up nothing but a bench-drone or a tech somewhere useless, fixing a useless piece of hardware, broken by a worthless collegeless geek, just like you.
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I've met Dean on a couple of occasions, myself. He is the recipient of this year's Heinz Award, which was won by Andy Grove (CEO of Intel) in '94. Dean has just recently developed a wheelchair capable of walking up steps and balancing its user, elevated off the ground. Dean is an incredible inventor.
As for Dr Goldin, He made an incredible speech at the kickoff this year. NASA is sponsoring an unbelievable 118 teams, with a grand total in funding of over 1.6 Million Dollars! You wouldn't happen to be the owner of the famed hat, would you?
This is probably one of the most useful reasons to support this sort of activity. It can be used as a teaching tool hidden inside a game. Instead of grade-school kids blowing time watching the TV, they could be involved in the mechanics of robotic mechanisms, the physics needed to understand movement and combat, the computer and electronic skills needed to control such a bugger.
In actuality, the game doesn't contain _hidden_ teaching tools. The students go into the game knowing they're going to learn, and learn they do. There was one FIRST school in California, which before being sponsored by NASA for the FIRST competition was one of those schools where you'd be depressed to walk in the door, there was almost no hope, the average GPA could be counted on less than three fingers, and they were in some serious trouble.
Then NASA came in and the over 80% of the school was involved with FIRST, and the Average GPA went up almost 3/4 of a point. That is only one true success story, for education, and engineering. There are so many more. This Team also happened to win the Chairman's Award (from FIRST), IIRC, which is the most coveted award of the competition. Literally from zero to hero overnight.
Okay, we've got the geek quotient to do it -- we just need Andover.net to sponsor the project and a few folks out there to kick in some time. Let's put together our own competitor for the Battle Bot scene!
I think that if Andover or Slashdot sponsored a FIRST robot, there would be a SHEDLOAD of positive PR.. FIRST is broadcast annually on ESPN, so if the Slashbot won... Damn that would be cool! A Teal and White Robotic Beast... Hey, Rob, Sponsor a FIRST Team... Find a deserving local highschool and pimp ALL over the place!
I've been waiting for the past few days now for something like this to come up. Too bad Rob or Jeff would probably never post it...
Some of you may or may not have heard of the FIRST Competition. It is a robotics competition which involves High School students, along with their corporate partners, Universities, or what have you. This year's competition was just released on Saturday. FIRST's Competition homepage is here. This competition is far superior to almost any other. There will be ten regional events this year, and the National Competition will be in EPCOT Center in Disneyworld, FL. There is no other robotics competition with such spirit or fire behind it as this one. Please check out the Homepage and support the FIRST cause in any way possible. The competition has grown from 28 teams in 1992 to over 380 teams this year. There are teams from all over the USA, Canada, and even a team from Brazil.
Some of you were wondering about mindstorms... They have a Mindstorms Competition called FIRST Lego League! Check it out here!
General Information on FIRST can be found at www.usfirst.org
The prices might be going down on those HMD's, but i've had my solution now for a while. My Princeton Graphics EO75 shoulder-mounted display works wonders. I drag around my portable 750 watt gasoline-powered generator, and my killer APC UPS and bear the weight of my 47 pound monitor on my shoulders. It's a wonder for my six-pack, and damn, radiation... does a body good! I don't even need a nightlight anymore. And the CO from the generator is a breath of fresh air wherever I go. Complements never cease, from the "What the fsck is wrong with you?" to the "Damn, you're messed up." Walking in public is fun for the whole family. We don't need to go shopping anymore. People throw enough fruits and vegetables at us to last all week! Get your very own Shoulder-Mounted FST monitor today!!!
After using the closed-source Win32 Beta of Napster, I can safely say that it is a buggy little thing. Hopefully all this work that is being done to bring it to open-source will at least get some of the bugs out. And there is always the joy of having such a cool program for Linux.
I've heard a lot of complaints from tons of people about how Napstar doesn't work with their firewall, and how they can't seem to get their hotlist to work. I've experienced the same problems these people describe, but they seem to be intermittent at best. I don't know if it's a Win32 problem, or a Napster issue, but it is definitely annoying. Hopefully with this new open-source version, some, if not all of these problems will disappear faster than they would have if the source had stayed closed.
I can't say for certain that doubling will continue ad infinitum, but the end is definitly not near. .18m. I'd love to see us be able to manipulate individual atoms, but that is so far into the future that it's almost ridiculous to even hypothesize such an event occuring within our lifetimes. Presently, we have probably 10-15 more years of advancement in the Semiconductor Industry, as far as CMOS is concerned. Companies do not presently have the technology to get to .10m. We're sitting happily at .18m. Molecular physics and quantum mechanics starts to get in the way once you get past .10m. The SiO2 stops being an effective insulator around .05 - .06m. Things are going to get very interesting very quickly for all of us in the field, that much is certain. Whether or not we have jobs working with silicon in 20 years still has room to be decided. Maybe someone should talk to the Physics Gods and get them to change the rules for us...
The end _is_ near. The size of transistors, not the power of the machines is that point of the article. We can't make 'em much smaller, thery're already really stretching it at
Can commercialism be blamed for lacking parenting. I see this too much in the news. Everyone wants to put the blame elsewhere, such as the media, or software developers, but god forbid should they look to themselves for a little reponsibility. It is NOT the fault of the Media, the software companies, the porn sites or anything else. The blame in this case lies directly on the parents in this, and almost any other case of "Doom Did It".
Let's not get into "what if" about the parents. It's not a case of "what if" any more. It's a case of "They are bad parents."
This is the most engrossing, thrilling, adrenaline pumping movie I have ever seen. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Afterwards, my friends and I drove around town just saying "Holy WOW!" This movie gives a name to all the faceless people hiding from, and fighting the system. It gives a new furvor (sp) to those seeking to make a difference in the world. If you haven't yet, go see this movie, and take your friends. Take your laptop, hell, it'll enjoy it.
I didn't learn anything from school. That's become obvious over the past six or seven screens of posts.
Parents should not decide things for their children. That only promotes immaturity.
This post is giving me an aneurism. It's rather obvious to me that you've never had children, also that you haven't an IOTA of an idea what limits are. You've spammed the thread with enough nay-saying and uninformed hogwash that I think you should do us a favor and exclude yourself from the thread after this point (And the Genepool, please).
He was kidding.
Personally, I'm pro-choice. However, my opinion is irrelevant, as the choice in the case of abortion is up to the mother-to-be-or-not-to-be. I personally believe in a woman's right to choose, not to say that were I a woman that I would do that.
Second, I am fscking sick of these hypocritical murdering pro-life psychopaths. (Not to say all Pro-lifers are psychos, murderers or hypocrites!) These sick fsckers need to be rounded up and shot themselves, either that, or let the families of the dead doctors loose on them. These psychos are doing illegal things. The mothers-to-be-or-not-to-be are not. Abortion is legal (almost) everywhere. Murder is illegal everywhere.
To the psychos: You're fscking sick. This (where I'm from) is the United States of America. We have (what we call) freedom. We have freedom of choice. How DARE you imply that you have ANY right to decide what we do? You got something to say? Say it, by all means. Do it within the law, as the Constitution and local laws allow. Get the fsck out and vote. Step outside the realm of the law and you'll have to deal with the Police, and perhaps with your all-mighty 'God' who has 'told you to kill the murderers.' Your 'God' ain't my God. No God tells his people to kill.
By God, man! You call the greatest mind of our times by 'Hawkings'? what are you? a fool?
It's HAWKING.
For those of you who were never forced to take the class, that's: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming.
:) All hail the holy Red Book!
I am holding the book in my hands as we speak. Damnit, I love the MIT press.
Normally, Slashdot doesn't make me laugh (too much, anyway). This article almost made me snarf the Dr Pepper I had drunk.
Anybody with ½ a brain, and even two nanoseconds of a real college education knows this guy is full of crap either because he's completely moronic, or hasn't been to a real school.
His picture looks like he spends his time sitting in front of a sticky keyboard looking at alt.binaries.erotica.* and 'coding' HTML. Another fine candidate for the "Why Couldn't Social Darwinism Take This One" award.
But really... If you seriously think you're going to get anywhere significant in this world, without that piece of paper, you're going to end up nothing but a bench-drone or a tech somewhere useless, fixing a useless piece of hardware, broken by a worthless collegeless geek, just like you.