Actually... It would not be SUCH a bad idea to get a few thousands of people to come to Washington and camp out somewhere on the Mall (either by the Capitol or by White house), set up a nice little network and engage in acts of civil disobidience and protest right in front of the legislators.
As long as we are nameless, faceless email addresses, we will be ignored. We need to be there and to tell them what they want - and we need to be there en masse because in Washington SIZE MATTERS!
I'm wondering what EBay would do if I posted that as an auction... "High-quality crack cocaine in individually wrapped 1/4 oz baggies... Reserve price $xyz. Payment by cash in a briefcase at an abandoned warehouse of my choice. Bids from people with negative feedback will be rejected"
(Dear federal agents reading this message: this content is intended as a joke, not as an indication of my posession of and desire to sell a controlled substance. I'm not THAT stupid, OK?)
Academic publishing seems to be mostly based on the reputation or authors and reviewers (in fact, some papers originating from students of influential professors get published even though they are total crap).
The other flaw in the current system is usually hidden from the masses - most professors don't review the papers themselves, but their grad students do. The professors rarely have the time to go in-depth on the paper, check the math, etc. Sometimes the name of the grad student is attached to the review when it's sent out, and sometimes not. So it's impossible to determine the reputation of the real reviewer of the paper.
The software can be signed with DEVELOPER's public key, not public key of whoever beams it to you. Of course, that also presents a problem because one needs access to the Net to verify the digital signature. Of course, one could store both the money and the software in encrypted form and then try to decrypt at home...
I think that sounds pretty clunky. Now, a smart-card reader for the Pilot... That might work.
Each rotation of the earth contains (a) an infinite number of days and (b) and infinite number of seasons. That is, if you can be at an infinite number of places at once!
Makes perfect sense to me...
(my monkeys have just finished Hamlet and are starting on Romeo and Juliet)
Hey, I do that all the time. As a jobbing musician, I often have to learn new songs from tapes. At this point, if I listen to a song twice, I remember it in very detailed way, with chords, harmonies and backup vocal lines. The scary part - how would you like to wake up in the middle of the night from sound of some stupid headbanging song - and then realize that it's all in your head?
Do you know what the world is coming to? We minimize the number of ports in the back of a PC, getting to, say, 2 USB and 2 FireWire ports and an Ethernet. Great. Now we add USB speakers and modem, FireWire monitor, etc, etc.
At this point, we run out of USB ports, so we need a USB hub. Then a FireWire hub. As a result, we end up with a rat's nest of wires.
>"anarchy," "gothic," "pierced" and "tattoo?" Ha ha! That basically prevents people in Australia from studying
Russian History - Anarchists were a fairly popular party in early 20th century;
Gothic Architecture - let's see a Notre Dame home page blocked
Information on Ear Piercing - which is still acceptable for the prudes who think holes in ears are any better than holes in noses, brows, bellybuttons or wherever.
Information on African cultures where tatoos were commonly used for ceremonial purposes.
As usual, the pols royally fuck up anything they do. (If I was then, I would ban any discussion of that law - just to make sure) mAx
No, it runs a proprietary OS, designed for real-time operation. Actually, the doggie has a number of parallel processors running - * A CognaChrome vision system - runs on some version of 680x0 chip, probably a specialized embedded one. The last CognaChrome I played with ran on a custom 68020 board - but Sony must have done something extra special with it.
What is a CognaChrome? It's a fairly simple but very effective vision system originally from MIT. Basically, it thresholds the image to extract blobs of color, and then it returns the position of the biggest blob. I played around with an earlier version CognaChrome, it's relatively easy to work with and VERY FAST. The first version only recognized one color. I believe the doggies recognize 3 or 4, which largely depends on the processor speed. But hell, it's probably the only really workable real-time computer vision system right now!
* One or more motion control processors, doing nothing but servo control. This puppy has 3 servos per leg (to get 3 degrees of freedom), two to hold its head up (or down, or to the side), and one for the tail. That's a lot of PID loops to keep track of.
* a central processor to run the "intelligence" and command the rest of the system. Last time I heard, it was a custom version of the MIPS R4000 chip (same as PlayStation?).
The doggies are very programmable, unless Sony put some deliberate obfuscations in. I've seen the "alpha-doggie" up close, it actually had an Ethernet card hooked up to it so you could telnet to it and tweak parameters. Of course, they probably removed that for the commercial version.
It's too bad I'm not doing robotics anymore, if I stayed at my last job, I probably would have had one!
I like that. A memorial website - with enough money to convert it to the Next Big Technology when that comes along.
BTW - there is a small memorial to Turing on CMU campus. It's a granite bench, roughly looking like this:
===================== = T U R I N G = ===================== =R=...............=W= =E=...............=R= =A=...............=I= =D=...............=T= ===...............=E= ===...............===
>Thirty years from now, when Generation X (and Y >and Z) have reached the upper eschelons of >Congress and the Supreme Court, we'll >begin to see our Jeffersons.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen... Our generation is extremely fragmented - and most likely will be dominated by people who majored in accounting. The most vocal Netizens are likely to be ignored by them.
How about a generator that uses a pendulum to recharge batteries as you walk?
(hey! that's an idea! A laptop battery that gets recharged by a pendulum generator when you carry the laptop on the bag! The generator can be built into the bag so it'd work with all laptops)
I'm wondering if X million (or billion) years from now some green alien from Venus will inspect a meteorite from earth and find remnants of bacteria Will he conclude that there was life of Earth or will he be shouted down (it's too cold there, and not enough sulfur in the athmosphere)?
The websites that succumb to Intel marketing kwap are the ones to lose out on this deal. I mean... If Intel manages to push PIII to 10% market share (not total Intel marketshare, but PIII only), that leaves the website managers with just a tiny fraction of users they would've otherwise served.
My question is: How different is this from tracking the IP address of the machine or using browser cookies?
In Russian, "Foo!" is often used as an exclamation (meaning "Yuk!") - especially while trying to get a dog to stop eating your shoe. I don't know if that is the origin of the word, though...
I have a suspicion that every language on this planet has a word that is pronounced "foo" and that nobody can find origins of. Maybe it comes from before-the-tower-of-Babel times?
Anybody who's worked with mobile robots will tell you that wheel rotation counting tends to accumulate huge errors. When you start biking, you will probably be off by a few feet (since you can hardly start at the very same point every time), and every time you swerve to avoid a pothole, or take a wider/tighter turn, you will be accumulating more errors. Eventually, your measurments will be totally off. (will you swerve around 50 potholes during your ride? Easily. At 2ft error per pothole, you're looking at total 100ft error. That's considerable).
What I would like to see is syncronizing odometry data with GPS. This way the odometry will fill in when you can't get GPS signal, and GPS will correct odometry errors.
A dream gadget? How about a cellphone with a helmet-mounted headset and voice activated dialing? I have never done anything more dangerous than biking in traffic while talking on the phone. Me and my friends have this bike capture-the-flag game that is played over a large area (about 20x20 city blocks and a large park), and cellphones are my team's secret weapon!
I have an idea - I know a few people have mirrored the site before it went down. Can we set up a network by which the content is constantly floating on lots of sites? I can host a mirror, you can host a mirror, everyone can. The Big Bro can't come after 1,000,000 little guys - especially if we're not making any profit. They'll be reduced to mumbling incoherently about how they're being cheated - while information is freed!
Remember, Information Wants To Be Free!
MaxZ (Hey, RIAA, I don't get it! Why the heck are you refusing free advertising?)
Slashdot Mirror
Actually... It would not be SUCH a bad idea to get a few thousands of people to come to Washington and camp out somewhere on the Mall (either by the Capitol or by White house), set up a nice little network and engage in acts of civil disobidience and protest right in front of the legislators.
As long as we are nameless, faceless email addresses, we will be ignored. We need to be there and to tell them what they want - and we need to be there en masse because in Washington SIZE MATTERS!
mAx
I'm wondering what EBay would do if I posted that as an auction... "High-quality crack cocaine in individually wrapped 1/4 oz baggies... Reserve price $xyz. Payment by cash in a briefcase at an abandoned warehouse of my choice. Bids from people with negative feedback will be rejected"
(Dear federal agents reading this message: this content is intended as a joke, not as an indication of my posession of and desire to sell a controlled substance. I'm not THAT stupid, OK?)
Academic publishing seems to be mostly based on the reputation or authors and reviewers (in fact, some papers originating from students of influential professors get published even though they are total crap).
The other flaw in the current system is usually hidden from the masses - most professors don't review the papers themselves, but their grad students do. The professors rarely have the time to go in-depth on the paper, check the math, etc.
Sometimes the name of the grad student is attached to the review when it's sent out, and sometimes not. So it's impossible to determine the reputation of the real reviewer of the paper.
White people are savages.
They eat with swords.
The software can be signed with DEVELOPER's public key, not public key of whoever beams it to you.
Of course, that also presents a problem because
one needs access to the Net to verify the digital
signature. Of course, one could store both the money and the software in encrypted form and then try to decrypt at home...
I think that sounds pretty clunky. Now, a smart-card reader for the Pilot... That might work.
mAx
Each rotation of the earth contains (a) an infinite number of days and (b) and infinite number of seasons. That is, if you can be at an infinite number of places at once!
Makes perfect sense to me...
(my monkeys have just finished Hamlet and are starting on Romeo and Juliet)
Hey, I do that all the time. As a jobbing
musician, I often have to learn new songs from
tapes. At this point, if I listen to a song twice,
I remember it in very detailed way, with chords,
harmonies and backup vocal lines. The scary part -
how would you like to wake up in the middle of the
night from sound of some stupid headbanging song -
and then realize that it's all in your head?
Tell my voices to go away!
Login: slashdot
Password: slashdot
Do you know what the world is coming to? We minimize the number of ports in the back of a PC, getting to, say, 2 USB and 2 FireWire ports and an Ethernet. Great. Now we add USB speakers and modem, FireWire monitor, etc, etc.
At this point, we run out of USB ports, so we need a USB hub. Then a FireWire hub. As a result, we end up with a rat's nest of wires.
Duh!
Ha ha! That basically prevents people in Australia from studying
As usual, the pols royally fuck up anything they do. (If I was then, I would ban any discussion of that law - just to make sure) mAx
No, it runs a proprietary OS, designed for real-time operation. Actually, the doggie has a number of parallel processors running -
* A CognaChrome vision system - runs on some version of 680x0 chip, probably a specialized
embedded one. The last CognaChrome I played with
ran on a custom 68020 board - but Sony must have
done something extra special with it.
What is a CognaChrome? It's a fairly simple but very effective vision system originally from MIT. Basically, it thresholds the image to extract blobs of color, and then it returns the position of the biggest blob. I played around with an earlier version CognaChrome, it's relatively easy to work with and VERY FAST. The first version only recognized one color. I believe the doggies recognize 3 or 4, which largely depends on the processor speed. But hell, it's probably the only really workable real-time computer vision system right now!
* One or more motion control processors, doing nothing but servo control. This puppy has 3 servos per leg (to get 3 degrees of freedom), two to hold its head up (or down, or to the side), and one for the tail. That's a lot of PID loops to keep track of.
* a central processor to run the "intelligence" and command the rest of the system. Last time I heard, it was a custom version of the MIPS
R4000 chip (same as PlayStation?).
The doggies are very programmable, unless Sony put some deliberate obfuscations in. I've seen the "alpha-doggie" up close, it actually had an
Ethernet card hooked up to it so you could telnet
to it and tweak parameters. Of course, they probably removed that for the commercial version.
It's too bad I'm not doing robotics anymore, if I stayed at my last job, I probably would have had one!
mAx
money to convert it to the Next Big Technology
when that comes along.
BTW - there is a small memorial to Turing on
CMU campus. It's a granite bench, roughly
looking like this:
=====================
= T U R I N G =
=====================
=R=...............=W=
=E=...............=R=
=A=...............=I=
=D=...............=T=
===...............=E=
===...............===
>Thirty years from now, when Generation X (and Y
>and Z) have reached the upper eschelons of >Congress and the Supreme Court, we'll
>begin to see our Jeffersons.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen... Our generation is extremely fragmented - and most likely will be dominated by people who majored in accounting. The most vocal Netizens are likely to be ignored by them.
How about a generator that uses a pendulum to
recharge batteries as you walk?
(hey! that's an idea! A laptop battery that
gets recharged by a pendulum generator when
you carry the laptop on the bag! The generator
can be built into the bag so it'd work with all
laptops)
I'm wondering if X million (or billion) years from now some green alien from Venus will inspect a meteorite from earth and find remnants of bacteria Will he conclude that there was life of Earth or will he be shouted down (it's too cold there, and not enough sulfur in the athmosphere)?
"G" is the most important letter in "GNU"!
GNU = Gnu is Not Unix
On the other hand...
LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX - That might work...
The websites that succumb to Intel marketing kwap are the ones to lose out on this deal. I mean... If Intel manages to push PIII to 10% market share (not total Intel marketshare, but PIII only), that leaves the website managers with just a tiny fraction of users they would've otherwise served.
My question is: How different is this from tracking the IP address of the machine or using browser cookies?
There's already such a character. In Cyrillic alphabet, it looks like "ÿ" is pronounced as "Ya" and should be included in Unicode.
(switch Netscape to Cyrillic Windows-1251
encoding to see the character)
In Russian, "Foo!" is often used as an exclamation (meaning "Yuk!") - especially while trying to get a dog to stop eating your shoe. I don't know if that is the origin of the word, though...
I have a suspicion that every language on this planet has a word that is pronounced "foo" and that nobody can find origins of. Maybe it comes from before-the-tower-of-Babel times?
mAx
Anybody who's worked with mobile robots will tell you that wheel rotation counting tends to accumulate huge errors. When you start biking, you will probably be off by a few feet (since you can hardly start at the very same point every time), and every time you swerve to avoid a pothole, or take a wider/tighter turn, you will be accumulating more errors. Eventually, your measurments will be totally off.
(will you swerve around 50 potholes during your ride? Easily. At 2ft error per pothole, you're looking at total 100ft error. That's considerable).
What I would like to see is syncronizing odometry data with GPS. This way the odometry will fill in when you can't get GPS signal, and GPS will correct odometry errors.
A dream gadget? How about a cellphone with a helmet-mounted headset and voice activated dialing? I have never done anything more dangerous than biking in traffic while talking on the phone.
Me and my friends have this bike capture-the-flag game that is played over a large area (about 20x20 city blocks and a large park), and cellphones are my team's secret weapon!
MaxZ
I have an idea - I know a few people have mirrored the site before it went down. Can we set up a network by which the content is constantly floating on lots of sites? I can host a mirror, you can host a mirror, everyone can. The Big Bro can't come after 1,000,000 little guys - especially if we're not making any profit. They'll be reduced to mumbling incoherently about how they're being cheated - while information is freed!
Remember, Information Wants To Be Free!
MaxZ
(Hey, RIAA, I don't get it! Why the heck are you refusing free advertising?)