All this time we have been wasting our time looking for little green men on mars. Wonder how many movies about vixens from Venus we 'll get if this turns out to be true.
At the cebit there was a (very) small intervideo stand where they showed a working linux dvd player. It worked without any frame drops, but with hindsight it could have been a hollywood+ or another hardware decoder board. It had no identifying features and very limited interface. This was before the press release even, and the intervideo guy said it would be out in 1-2 months. Well it clearly didn't turn out that way now did it:). I think we will never see this product, nor will we ever see the linux version of powerdvd. This was announced recently but was intended for embedded systems and not for consumers. If you read the press release carefully it wasn't even finished and they wanted their future partners to (help cyberlink) finish it. So no fully operational (without frame skipps) linuxdvd player until at least the and of the year i think.
Frank Terpstra
The gimmick for the winning aibo robot was actually software, the link is at the top of the page (!). They had a better walking algorithm, however there are many more leagues in robocup than just the aibo league. The aibo hardware is very limited in it's ability to cominicate between robots and also in it's sensors. So the really interesting intelligent autonomous robots won't be found in the aibo's. Although it is commendable that the aibo uses a fixed platform so hardware gimmicks aren't an issue. My comment refered to robocup as a whole especially the middle sized league (and the bi-pedel league once it develops ).
The current problem with robocup is that you can win quite easily by devoloping some new "gimmick" like a new walking technique. Iran for instance in the middle sized league has a robot that can turn it's wheels so that it drives in a cirkel around the ball until it's pointing in the right direction and drives of with the ball( turning its wheels into the traight position again ).
Most universities however are more interested in letting real robot's do higher level strategy and therefor use standard robots. You can write much more interesting reasearch papers about strategy and communications between autonomous robots, than you can about a set of turning wheels. Therefor the iranian team was last years world champion and this years european champion (it was an open championship:) ) with almost no budget to speak of. They beat the combined effort of something like 5 italian universities because the italians where using mostly standerd robots. So until a "standard" robot has emerged that has all the good gimmicks we will not sea a real competion between the (robot)intelligience of the differant teams.
They probably haven't mastered the schwalbe yet (technical term for what you just described) but they definitely can be sent of for ramming into an opponent.
Actually you rase an interesting point, blank tape and CDR manufactures are making bucket loads of money becuase of pirating but they keep the riaa from sueing them by offering royalties, now shouldn't napster do the same thing offering the riaa free advertising space, or pay some royalties earned from advertising, after all napster is a commercial company, and i can see that the riaa don't like it they earn money becuase of consumers pirating music. All other company's wich clearly aid pirating music (Radio stations, music television, Blank cdr and tape manufactures) all make sure some kind of royalties are paid so why shouldn't napster? In reality the revenues napster generate won't come anywhere near what the riaa would want from them. But i think it's something to think about anyway.
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All this time we have been wasting our time looking for little green men on mars.
Wonder how many movies about vixens from Venus we 'll get if this turns out to be true.
At the cebit there was a (very) small intervideo stand where they showed a working linux dvd player. It worked without any frame drops, but with hindsight it could have been a hollywood+ or another hardware decoder board. It had no identifying features and very limited interface. This was before the press release even, and the intervideo guy said it would be out in 1-2 months. Well it clearly didn't turn out that way now did it :). I think we will never see this product, nor will we ever see the linux version of powerdvd. This was announced recently but was intended for embedded systems and not for consumers. If you read the press release carefully it wasn't even finished and they wanted their future partners to (help cyberlink) finish it. So no fully operational (without frame skipps) linuxdvd player until at least the and of the year i think.
Frank Terpstra
The gimmick for the winning aibo robot was actually software, the link is at the top of the page (!). They had a better walking algorithm, however there are many more leagues in robocup than just the aibo league. The aibo hardware is very limited in it's ability to cominicate between robots and also in it's sensors. So the really interesting intelligent autonomous robots won't be found in the aibo's. Although it is commendable that the aibo uses a fixed platform so hardware gimmicks aren't an issue. My comment refered to robocup as a whole especially the middle sized league (and the bi-pedel league once it develops ).
The current problem with robocup is that you can win quite easily by devoloping some new "gimmick" like a new walking technique. Iran for instance in the middle sized league has a robot that can turn it's wheels so that it drives in a cirkel around the ball until it's pointing in the right direction and drives of with the ball( turning its wheels into the traight position again ). :) ) with almost no budget to speak of. They beat the combined effort of something like 5 italian universities because the italians where using mostly standerd robots. So until a "standard" robot has emerged that has all the good gimmicks we will not sea a real competion between the (robot)intelligience of the differant teams.
Most universities however are more interested in letting real robot's do higher level strategy and therefor use standard robots. You can write much more interesting reasearch papers about strategy and communications between autonomous robots, than you can about a set of turning wheels. Therefor the iranian team was last years world champion and this years european champion (it was an open championship
They probably haven't mastered the schwalbe yet (technical term for what you just described) but they definitely can be sent of for ramming into an opponent.
Actually you rase an interesting point, blank tape and CDR manufactures are making bucket loads of money becuase of pirating but they keep the riaa from sueing them by offering royalties, now shouldn't napster do the same thing offering the riaa free advertising space, or pay some royalties earned from advertising, after all napster is a commercial company, and i can see that the riaa don't like it they earn money becuase of consumers pirating music. All other company's wich clearly aid pirating music (Radio stations, music television, Blank cdr and tape manufactures) all make sure some kind of royalties are paid so why shouldn't napster? In reality the revenues napster generate won't come anywhere near what the riaa would want from them. But i think it's something to think about anyway.