I would describe the speed as on the order of 1/3 the speed of a dog being teased with a tennis ball.
And the sequence looked about the same; the robot hand follows the ball back and forth just like a dog a then lunges out to grab it when it sees its opportunity.
One of Microsoft's reputed strengths is their ruthlessness in killing projects that aren't turning out right.
For instance, at one time they poo-pooed that Internet thing and resolved to one-up Prodigy, AOL, and whoever with their own MS network. MS had shloads invested in that strategy, but realized early enough that it wasn't going to fly and the next thing you know they're acting like they were helping Gore work out the details of TCP-IP all along.
Also they seem to have quietly abandoned any pretense of competing in the more-real, less-time market, and have moved instead to providing configurable versions of the normal mondo-memory 32-bit one-user stuff.
So it seems to me they're quite conscious of the need to avoid throwing cash at projects that are going nowhere, but it's hard to say whether they can avoid the natural progression into pissing away time and money on glib PowerPoint presentations outlining bright futures some fine day.
eCOS, BSD, and RT Linux have established a clear and viable alternative to proprietary solutions, and they are expanding the extent to which embedded systems are becoming source-code compatible with one another.
For medium-to-large systems that could actually take advantage of 32-bit open source solutions, suddenly QNX, pSOS, and the others are talking price like never before. I'm sorry if Red Hat is losing money, but at least they've established a market that stops the established vendors from locking you in and gouging you.
Open source solutions have created an environment where the choice is no longer which vendor to be locked-in to because now there is the none-of-the-above choice. So now if you go with QNX because it is indeed the best option, they still have to be nice to you because you can walk. Everybody wins.
So the point is that the price of all embedded kernel source has equalized, proprietary or otherwise, the vendors now all compete on service, turn-key solutions, and technical merit.
Acutally traffic lights derive their time base from the power grid, which allows all traffic lights to know exactly what time it is, at least relative to one another.
I'm not aware of any centrally contolled type systems in the U.S. that would go haywire if central went down, typically they revert to a reasonable coordination scheme according to the time-of-day in the absence of central control.
As for a 555 timer being up to the task, hardly. Traffic lights have been a whole lot more sophisticated than that since at least the early 1930's.
Twenty-one floppies, over and over. One bad click, one bad assumption, start over. I swear there was some sadistic dys-feature whereby the more rationally you behaved, the more inscrutable the behavior of the install program.
Good riddance you patronizing sonzabiches! I don't care if they were all billable hours, they were hours of pure misery, and I will never, ever forgive IBM for putting me through them.
At least not the old IBM. The new one is fine by me.
From NY I found I was lucky to turn a movie around twice a month, they really drag their feet on their end. So with three inventory slots, you can see maybe six movies a month, and then only if you watch them the day they arrive.
But the real problem is that they advertise availability of films that are just not available.
"Hobson's choice. An appearantly free choice that offers no real alternative. After English liveryman Thomas Hobson who required that customers take the horse nearest the door or none." -- American Heritage Dictionary
--You can't even format a floppy you ignorant twit! Now you're going to run scandisk all night if that's what it takes -- If you know what's good for you! That'll teach you not to accept defaults around here.
Steve Kirkendall -- I feed my family by typing, and elvis is my editor. Russell Nelson -- You'd have to have lived through the dark days of DOS and sneaker-net to really appreciate his work.
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Got a look at two of the clips.
I would describe the speed as on the order of 1/3 the speed of a dog being teased with a tennis ball.
And the sequence looked about the same; the robot hand follows the ball back and forth just like a dog a then lunges out to grab it when it sees its opportunity.
it's Rotterdam, the largest port it the world!
One of Microsoft's reputed strengths is their ruthlessness in killing projects that aren't turning out right.
For instance, at one time they poo-pooed that Internet thing and resolved to one-up Prodigy, AOL, and whoever with their own MS network. MS had shloads invested in that strategy, but realized early enough that it wasn't going to fly and the next thing you know they're acting like they were helping Gore work out the details of TCP-IP all along.
Also they seem to have quietly abandoned any pretense of competing in the more-real, less-time market, and have moved instead to providing configurable versions of the normal mondo-memory 32-bit one-user stuff.
So it seems to me they're quite conscious of the need to avoid throwing cash at projects that are going nowhere, but it's hard to say whether they can avoid the natural progression into pissing away time and money on glib PowerPoint presentations outlining bright futures some fine day.
eCOS, BSD, and RT Linux have established a clear and viable alternative to proprietary solutions, and they are expanding the extent to which embedded systems are becoming source-code compatible with one another.
For medium-to-large systems that could actually take advantage of 32-bit open source solutions, suddenly QNX, pSOS, and the others are talking price like never before. I'm sorry if Red Hat is losing money, but at least they've established a market that stops the established vendors from locking you in and gouging you.
Open source solutions have created an environment where the choice is no longer which vendor to be locked-in to because now there is the none-of-the-above choice. So now if you go with QNX because it is indeed the best option, they still have to be nice to you because you can walk. Everybody wins.
So the point is that the price of all embedded kernel source has equalized, proprietary or otherwise, the vendors now all compete on service, turn-key solutions, and technical merit.
Acutally traffic lights derive their time base from the power grid, which allows all traffic lights to know exactly what time it is, at least relative to one another.
I'm not aware of any centrally contolled type systems in the U.S. that would go haywire if central went down, typically they revert to a reasonable coordination scheme according to the time-of-day in the absence of central control.
As for a 555 timer being up to the task, hardly. Traffic lights have been a whole lot more sophisticated than that since at least the early 1930's.
you'd have wished he'd burnt out a lot sooner!
Rules? There are no rules in core wars!
Twenty-one floppies, over and over. One bad click, one bad assumption, start over. I swear there was some sadistic dys-feature whereby the more rationally you behaved, the more inscrutable the behavior of the install program.
Good riddance you patronizing sonzabiches! I don't care if they were all billable hours, they were hours of pure misery, and I will never, ever forgive IBM for putting me through them.
At least not the old IBM. The new one is fine by me.
From NY I found I was lucky to turn a movie around twice a month, they really drag their feet on their end. So with three inventory slots, you can see maybe six movies a month, and then only if you watch them the day they arrive.
But the real problem is that they advertise availability of films that are just not available.
"Hobson's choice. An appearantly free choice that offers no real alternative. After English liveryman Thomas Hobson who required that customers take the horse nearest the door or none." -- American Heritage Dictionary
For all intensive purposes. I suppose a particularally intensive purpose would be trying to thread a needle by donzerly light....
And now for extra credit, speculate as to the fate of a young Gauss in today's elementary schools...
--But -sob- I tried to shut down properly.
--You can't even format a floppy you ignorant twit! Now you're going to run scandisk all night if that's what it takes -- If you know what's good for you! That'll teach you not to accept defaults around here.
Acutally uS would be micro siemans, micro seconds cubed amperes squared over meters squared kilograms, i.e. conductance.
WTF would of course be watts * teslas * farads.
Cheers -- ewd
"Only entropy comes easy." -Lewis Mumford
Agreed, and:
Steve Kirkendall -- I feed my family by typing, and elvis is my editor.
Russell Nelson -- You'd have to have lived through the dark days of DOS and sneaker-net to really appreciate his work.
I've never posted before because there's rarely anything I can add, but in this case the Slashdot community has made a glaring ommission.
http://www.jclark.com/
groff, sgmls, technical lead for WWWC XML.
This guy has done an amazing amount of the heavy lifting.
Cheers -- hba
Only entropy comes easy.
-Lewis Mumford