I've watched a notoriously rough area a couple of miles away from where I live go from serious rioting in the streets about ten years ago to being a relatively safe (albeit poor) place to live today. Part of that is due to the CCTV cameras which make it difficult to commit crime without being caught, but a larger part of it is due to the efforts of social workers in the area. They provide a youth centre, drugs counselling groups, excursions for the elderly and disabled, computer literacy training, advice and support, and much more. Just one example of where the welfare state really does benefit the people.
Yes, Sketch is an excellent tool, genuinely the Gimp of vector manipulation tools in my opinion. I spent ages trying to do real work with xfig and dia (and some others that were so bad I don't even remember their names) before I discovered Sketch. I don't know why it isn't much more well known than it is (perhaps because the main distributions don't include it along with the Gimp in default installs?). The only minus point was that I had to find half a dozen weird and wonderful libraries, then recompile Python in order to get it work (twice, because I messed up the Python configuration the first time).
There is a guy here in the UK called J. Michael (I forget his first name) who has been trying to sell something he calls "fractal robotics" for years. The whole thing is a big joke in the robotics industry as he's yet to demonstrate any actual working hardware despite often claiming that he has received large amounts of investment from respected companies and that fractal robotics is "the next big thing" which will revolutionise agriculture, space exporation, construction, etc. For a while at least, he used to regularly troll comp.robotics.misc and uk.misc with lengthy articles about how NASA is digging it's own grave by refusing to invest in his company. He even got published in a hobbyist electronics magazine several years ago. He has a web site where you can see obviously fake video clips of a "prototype fractal robot" in operation and read lots of propaganda.
It's alternative to a common product which is expensive, dirty, and dangerous, especially for city dwellers (sounds like a car to me). He has a history in electric wheelchairs.
Am I the only person on the planet who actually likes SPAM (the canned meat variety)? I probably would eat it every day if it wasn't so saturated with fat...
What does a strace say? Perhaps every time you start it, it stores the current date/time in a file somewhere so that it can tell if you set the clock back, or maybe it uses some other method of finding the time as well and compares the two...
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Yeah, grilled Spam sandwiches are fantastic!
I've watched a notoriously rough area a couple of miles away from where I live go from serious rioting in the streets about ten years ago to being a relatively safe (albeit poor) place to live today. Part of that is due to the CCTV cameras which make it difficult to commit crime without being caught, but a larger part of it is due to the efforts of social workers in the area. They provide a youth centre, drugs counselling groups, excursions for the elderly and disabled, computer literacy training, advice and support, and much more. Just one example of where the welfare state really does benefit the people.
Yes, Sketch is an excellent tool, genuinely the Gimp of vector manipulation tools in my opinion. I spent ages trying to do real work with xfig and dia (and some others that were so bad I don't even remember their names) before I discovered Sketch. I don't know why it isn't much more well known than it is (perhaps because the main distributions don't include it along with the Gimp in default installs?). The only minus point was that I had to find half a dozen weird and wonderful libraries, then recompile Python in order to get it work (twice, because I messed up the Python configuration the first time).
Gemini isn't a true "modular robot"- it's two identical robots.
There is a guy here in the UK called J. Michael (I forget his first name) who has been trying to sell something he calls "fractal robotics" for years. The whole thing is a big joke in the robotics industry as he's yet to demonstrate any actual working hardware despite often claiming that he has received large amounts of investment from respected companies and that fractal robotics is "the next big thing" which will revolutionise agriculture, space exporation, construction, etc. For a while at least, he used to regularly troll comp.robotics.misc and uk.misc with lengthy articles about how NASA is digging it's own grave by refusing to invest in his company. He even got published in a hobbyist electronics magazine several years ago. He has a web site where you can see obviously fake video clips of a "prototype fractal robot" in operation and read lots of propaganda.
It's alternative to a common product which is expensive, dirty, and dangerous, especially for city dwellers (sounds like a car to me). He has a history in electric wheelchairs.
He's reinvented the Sinclair C5!
See http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/.
2000-01-02? Is that supposed to be the first of February or the January the second? Better to use 2000-1-Feb or something...
Am I the only person on the planet who actually likes SPAM (the canned meat variety)? I probably would eat it every day if it wasn't so saturated with fat...
What does a strace say? Perhaps every time you start it, it stores the current date/time in a file somewhere so that it can tell if you set the clock back, or maybe it uses some other method of finding the time as well and compares the two...