Ah, so it almost does the same thing. Safaris has bookmark folders in the navigation bar... thingy... I'm having browser-vocalubary issues all of a sudden.
Anyway, it's right there, instead of having to go looking in submenu hell. Not a BIG difference, but a difference : )
As a biologist, I have to say that I'm incredibly disappointed by the inclusion of "junk" DNA in the list. I don't know what specific research results they're referring to when they say there's a breakthrough there
They removed most of the DNA from lab mice and produced living, healthy mice with no apparent side effects.
As a biologist, you should know this. Watch the news: stay up to date in your field.
the theory that [embryonic stem cells] justified abortion
I don't get how people can end up in logical holes like that.
There are allready aborted embryos. Right now, they are disposed off. If they were instead preserved and used to save lives, it would be a Good Thing(tm).
And, if they were preserved, anti-abortion nutjobs could adopt them and reimplant them into their matrices.
Opposing this research: waste. This research: saved lives. Who's "pro life", again, exactly? Sigh.
Experiment: Don't drink any for 3 days, then come back to report your findings;-)
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Opera has as good if not better tab browsing than other browsers
Can you kill tabs without having them in the foreground? Haven't used it in a while, but I don't remember tabs having individual close-tab buttons like Safari has and Firefox/Mozilla doesn't...
And Opera doesn't have adblocking, does it? Maybe I should download the latest, but, I'm set in my ways : )
Metamoderate the metamoderators, yes. You'd have to take into account the metametamoderator's habits to make sure he doesn't simply disagree systematically with every "unfair", but if you get unfaired enough you get a karma hit, so those who abuse the meta should also be punishable.
And btw, one of Safari's hotness is the "close tab" button (x) for each tab, so you can close the ones that are slashdotted without having to go look at the "it's not working" message, since the lil' icon told me so already. Nifty.
meta-moderate. It's really odd how people abuse the system for no known reason.
If you're not carefull, you can accidently change your moderation choice by pressing down or page down while the moderation selector is still, er, selected. You have to click out of it to navigate with the keyboard. I know I've accidently moderated wrongly that way at least twice. I got meta-whupped for it once (boy was I confused before I remembered this lil' bug).
Then again, I'm convinced that a bunch of trolls have managed to karma-whore their way into some moderation points and are abusing the system.
I wish there were a feedback option when you get meta moderated. Like, "agree" or "disagree" with it, so that when I agree that my moderation was indeed unfair I could say so, and when it's someone with some kind of dogma-metamoderating habit (you know, the people who always metamoderate certain flavours as unfair) I could object.
/. readers seeing the headline and running to [penny arcade]?
Well, I saw the headline and remembered "oh yeah, it's friday", fired up Safari (I was on firefox for it's adblockedness) and went to my bookmark bar's comix folder and selected "open in tabs", as is my custom. That opens all my bookmarked webcomics in tabs, simulteniously, with one click: Very cool.
So, yes.
P.S. Safari has much better tab browsing and navigation than other browsers, but they have it deactivated by default. Go figure.
P.P.S. I love it so much I felt like spreading the gospel, and annoying non-mac users by bragging about my platform's exclusive browsing goodness : )
ASIMO is anthropomorphic but doesn't have a truly humanoid gait (yet).
How would you know, the last time you looked at it it either was the old astronaut-sized model, or some other robot (Toyota's walker prototype?) who also had nervous japanese techs around it.
Anyway, it does.
You mean "the first I heard about".
You really, really suck at guessing what I mean. Your reading comprehension skills need some honing.
I might have meant "the first to walk up stairs" though...
"One of the first functioning bipedal robots was developed in the 1970s by Kato (Kato and Tsuiki, 1972)."
No mention of how those legs went about, and I'm pretty damn sure that this thing was a thetered monstrosity, not a humanoid, independant robot like Asimo.
Anyway, just go see the damn movies of the latest Asimo model someone else posted, it's streaming, but you need to stop blasting somthing you haven't even looked at.
Take humanoid locomotion: it's based on coupled oscillator dynamics, and letting the physics of the body do much of the work for you. ASIMO doesn't do that at all.
Humanoid locomotion means bipedal with the legs bending backwards. Asimo does that, Asimo was the first to do that. And that is why it's the "world leader" in humanoid robotics.
I don't see where she gets off comparing the SciFi channel's treatment to changing the LOTR ending.
Yes! How DARE she, a fantasy author who's books have been adapted to the screen, compare herself to Tolkien, a fantasy author who's books have been adapted to the screen????!!??
MADNESS I SAY!
Sheesh, fanboy, get a clue.
I also don't understand, financial considerations aside, what would posess an artist to relinquish so much artistic control over their material
And RTFA:
When I sold the rights to Earthsea a few years ago, my contract gave me the standard status of "consultant"--which means whatever the producers want it to mean, almost always little or nothing. My agency could not improve this clause. But the purchasers talked as though they genuinely meant to respect the books and to ask for my input when planning the film. They said they had already secured
Philippa Boyens (who co-wrote the scripts for The Lord of the Rings) as principal script writer. The script was, to me, all-important, so Boyens' presence was the key factor in my decision to sell this group the option to the film rights.
I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense.
it can draw an audience in, making them have to think
Whoa whoa WHOA there, buddy.
This is intended for an American audience. That sort of thing might fly in Europe or Asia, but NOT in America! No siree Bob!
Terry Pratchett broke a deal to have a hollywood movie made from one of his books because the producers insisted on dumbing it down so that any slack jawed yockel could wander in to an Alabama mall and enjoy the movie. He's rich enough to afford putting his foot down, not every good author has that chance.
the government won't be putting cameras in private spaces anytime soon
Not, but I'm sure it is a very Patriotic Act to gain remote controll of your web cam. And to monitor your power usage (hey, you might be trying to grow some of that evil hydroponic devil weed).
And when there's a camera on every street light looking at liscense plates (gotta catch those red light burning bandits), it's gonna be a breeze to track your car... right to the mall, where every store front tracks your unique compilation of RFID tags and cameras from every angle watch your every move.
Each of these things, by themselves, aren't a big deal, right? So there's no reason (aside from tin-foilliness) to object to any of these small, incremental erosions of privacy, right?
A lot of Asimov stories were written to show that the Three Laws weren't correct, that they would ultimatley lead to problems. The various short stories revolve around detectives trying to figure out why a robot did something it wasn't supposed to do, apparently violating one of the Three Laws.
Nooooo, but that is what the hype machine for Hardwir...er..."Will Smith's I, Robot" (*groan*) claimed, in order to pass off their hackery as legitimate Asimov.
Those detectives were actually trying to figure out how following the laws was making the robots act that way (like "why is Speedy running around in circles when he was ordered to go to a location inside that circle?"). The laws were correct, and it was impossible for positronic robots to disobey them, but they were simple laws applied to complex situations, and therefore Isaac wrote about how they could be circumvented, or how they could lead to robots getting stuck in infinite loops, etc.
Then again, you used the word "apparently", so maybe you understand that, but didn't express it as eloquently as you intended. : ) Speedy was indeed apparently disobeing the order to go to the specified coordinates...
Kinda, most Japanese can't end words in consonants other than "n" and "s", and they're cheating with the "s". So they dropped the "v".
Re:Government sponsered, privately built
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Honda Updates ASIMO
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· Score: 3, Informative
He isn't named after Asimov. The name ASIMO is japanese; it means something like "with legs".
There's a japanese leg pun in there too, but it is named after Asimov.
From Wikipedia:
The robot's name is a backronym in honor of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, maker of the Three Laws of Robotics. Officially, the name stands for "Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility". In Japanese, the name is pronounced ashimo and, not coincidentally, means "legs also".
You deserve your +5 informative, but you could have warned us that they were streams. I started about 6 of 'em in tabs before I realised what I had done.
And off course, everytime the robot starts doing something interresting the video stream craps out for 2 seconds. It sure SOUNDS like he's doing something neat.
Man I hate streaming, why do people do this? Hate, is it hate of mankind? Some kind of irrational need to let people know there's something cool to see, but not actually letting them see it...
/rant
P.S. Hey, what gives, since when can't you put in "greater than" and "smaller than" signs on slashdot? My rant tag looks all crappy now : (
Government sponsered, privately built
on
Honda Updates ASIMO
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· Score: 3, Informative
Japan has a government sponsored humanoid robot devellopment project. And it seems that rivalry between the major corporation also fuels the R&D.
Honda's Asimo is the best of the bunch, but Sony has a doll sized little "entertainment" robot, and Toyota has a trumpet playing robot, not to mention all the universities working on various robotic sub-projects, like facial expression and whatnot (I thought disney's animatronics had the expressiveness thing figured out, maybe my memory has embelished them somewhat).
Asimov expected the U.S. to be the leader in humanoid robots, he couldn't have foreseen this shift in technological leadership, but at least Honda named their creation after him : )
Why is it what when claria/gator or anyone else does simillar things, it is evil, but when google does it, it is fair.
What has gator done that was similar to accepting a competing company as a keyword to generate an onubtrusive ad on the side of the search results in their own, free web page?
Slashdot Mirror
Then in your bookmarks menu go to the folder
Ah, so it almost does the same thing. Safaris has bookmark folders in the navigation bar... thingy... I'm having browser-vocalubary issues all of a sudden.
Anyway, it's right there, instead of having to go looking in submenu hell. Not a BIG difference, but a difference : )
As a biologist, I have to say that I'm incredibly disappointed by the inclusion of "junk" DNA in the list. I don't know what specific research results they're referring to when they say there's a breakthrough there
They removed most of the DNA from lab mice and produced living, healthy mice with no apparent side effects.
As a biologist, you should know this. Watch the news: stay up to date in your field.
They're basing this "Hobbit" on a single small human skull they found in Indonesia?
No, and no.
the theory that [embryonic stem cells] justified abortion
I don't get how people can end up in logical holes like that.
There are allready aborted embryos. Right now, they are disposed off. If they were instead preserved and used to save lives, it would be a Good Thing(tm).
And, if they were preserved, anti-abortion nutjobs could adopt them and reimplant them into their matrices.
Opposing this research: waste.
This research: saved lives.
Who's "pro life", again, exactly? Sigh.
why the presumption that water means life?
;-)
Experiment: Don't drink any for 3 days, then come back to report your findings
DISCLAIMER
Following the above directions may result in death. Failure to recognise irony or humour releases me from any liabilities. Additionally, by reading this post you hereby turn over your immortal soul to the demonic entity of my choosing. Have a nice day.
do the same thing in Firefox by middle clicking on the tab
Well, I can't do it, middle-click does the same damn thing as left click. Is it one of those "but not if the middle button is a wheel" things?
*nix users will need to go into about:config and disable "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" first
Yeaaaaah... er, you count OSX as a *nix or not?
Opera has as good if not better tab browsing than other browsers
Can you kill tabs without having them in the foreground? Haven't used it in a while, but I don't remember tabs having individual close-tab buttons like Safari has and Firefox/Mozilla doesn't...
And Opera doesn't have adblocking, does it? Maybe I should download the latest, but, I'm set in my ways : )
So you basically want to moderate the moderators?
Metamoderate the metamoderators, yes. You'd have to take into account the metametamoderator's habits to make sure he doesn't simply disagree systematically with every "unfair", but if you get unfaired enough you get a karma hit, so those who abuse the meta should also be punishable.
It never ends, does it? : )
You can do that in Firefox.
Really? How?
And btw, one of Safari's hotness is the "close tab" button (x) for each tab, so you can close the ones that are slashdotted without having to go look at the "it's not working" message, since the lil' icon told me so already. Nifty.
meta-moderate. It's really odd how people abuse the system for no known reason.
If you're not carefull, you can accidently change your moderation choice by pressing down or page down while the moderation selector is still, er, selected. You have to click out of it to navigate with the keyboard. I know I've accidently moderated wrongly that way at least twice. I got meta-whupped for it once (boy was I confused before I remembered this lil' bug).
Then again, I'm convinced that a bunch of trolls have managed to karma-whore their way into some moderation points and are abusing the system.
I wish there were a feedback option when you get meta moderated. Like, "agree" or "disagree" with it, so that when I agree that my moderation was indeed unfair I could say so, and when it's someone with some kind of dogma-metamoderating habit (you know, the people who always metamoderate certain flavours as unfair) I could object.
/. readers seeing the headline and running to [penny arcade]?
Well, I saw the headline and remembered "oh yeah, it's friday", fired up Safari (I was on firefox for it's adblockedness) and went to my bookmark bar's comix folder and selected "open in tabs", as is my custom.
That opens all my bookmarked webcomics in tabs, simulteniously, with one click: Very cool.
So, yes.
P.S. Safari has much better tab browsing and navigation than other browsers, but they have it deactivated by default. Go figure.
P.P.S. I love it so much I felt like spreading the gospel, and annoying non-mac users by bragging about my platform's exclusive browsing goodness : )
Humanoid means "shaped like a human".
Wrong, it means "like a human", no reference to shape involved. What you're thinking of is "anthropomorphic".
No, what I'm thinking of is "Human" + the greek suffix "oid" (-oid resembling, like, shaped)
ASIMO is anthropomorphic but doesn't have a truly humanoid gait (yet).
How would you know, the last time you looked at it it either was the old astronaut-sized model, or some other robot (Toyota's walker prototype?) who also had nervous japanese techs around it.
Anyway, it does.
You mean "the first I heard about".
You really, really suck at guessing what I mean. Your reading comprehension skills need some honing.
I might have meant "the first to walk up stairs" though...
"One of the first functioning bipedal robots was developed in the 1970s by Kato (Kato and Tsuiki, 1972)."
No mention of how those legs went about, and I'm pretty damn sure that this thing was a thetered monstrosity, not a humanoid, independant robot like Asimo.
Anyway, just go see the damn movies of the latest Asimo model someone else posted, it's streaming, but you need to stop blasting somthing you haven't even looked at.
humanoid (as in fluent and efficient)
Humanoid means "shaped like a human".
Take humanoid locomotion: it's based on coupled oscillator dynamics, and letting the physics of the body do much of the work for you. ASIMO doesn't do that at all.
Humanoid locomotion means bipedal with the legs bending backwards. Asimo does that, Asimo was the first to do that. And that is why it's the "world leader" in humanoid robotics.
women [..] agree [...] a bigger one is a good idea.
That... isn't new.
Compare Stephen King's The Shining [...] to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Ok: One is a masterwork from a genius, the other is a book.
Feel free to masochistically submit yourself to a viewing of the latter, King approved adaptation, if you wish.
Yes! How DARE she, a fantasy author who's books have been adapted to the screen, compare herself to Tolkien, a fantasy author who's books have been adapted to the screen????!!??
MADNESS I SAY!
Sheesh, fanboy, get a clue.
I also don't understand, financial considerations aside, what would posess an artist to relinquish so much artistic control over their material
And RTFA:
Ignoring?
And there's more.
it can draw an audience in, making them have to think
Whoa whoa WHOA there, buddy.
This is intended for an American audience. That sort of thing might fly in Europe or Asia, but NOT in America! No siree Bob!
Terry Pratchett broke a deal to have a hollywood movie made from one of his books because the producers insisted on dumbing it down so that any slack jawed yockel could wander in to an Alabama mall and enjoy the movie. He's rich enough to afford putting his foot down, not every good author has that chance.
the government won't be putting cameras in private spaces anytime soon
Not, but I'm sure it is a very Patriotic Act to gain remote controll of your web cam.
And to monitor your power usage (hey, you might be trying to grow some of that evil hydroponic devil weed).
And when there's a camera on every street light looking at liscense plates (gotta catch those red light burning bandits), it's gonna be a breeze to track your car... right to the mall, where every store front tracks your unique compilation of RFID tags and cameras from every angle watch your every move.
Each of these things, by themselves, aren't a big deal, right? So there's no reason (aside from tin-foilliness) to object to any of these small, incremental erosions of privacy, right?
Baby steps... baby steps.
A lot of Asimov stories were written to show that the Three Laws weren't correct, that they would ultimatley lead to problems. The various short stories revolve around detectives trying to figure out why a robot did something it wasn't supposed to do, apparently violating one of the Three Laws.
Nooooo, but that is what the hype machine for Hardwir...er..."Will Smith's I, Robot" (*groan*) claimed, in order to pass off their hackery as legitimate Asimov.
Those detectives were actually trying to figure out how following the laws was making the robots act that way (like "why is Speedy running around in circles when he was ordered to go to a location inside that circle?"). The laws were correct, and it was impossible for positronic robots to disobey them, but they were simple laws applied to complex situations, and therefore Isaac wrote about how they could be circumvented, or how they could lead to robots getting stuck in infinite loops, etc.
Then again, you used the word "apparently", so maybe you understand that, but didn't express it as eloquently as you intended. : )
Speedy was indeed apparently disobeing the order to go to the specified coordinates...
Is Asimo short for Isaac Asimov?
Kinda, most Japanese can't end words in consonants other than "n" and "s", and they're cheating with the "s".
So they dropped the "v".
There's a japanese leg pun in there too, but it is named after Asimov.
From Wikipedia:
You deserve your +5 informative, but you could have warned us that they were streams. I started about 6 of 'em in tabs before I realised what I had done.
And off course, everytime the robot starts doing something interresting the video stream craps out for 2 seconds. It sure SOUNDS like he's doing something neat.
Man I hate streaming, why do people do this? Hate, is it hate of mankind? Some kind of irrational need to let people know there's something cool to see, but not actually letting them see it...
P.S. Hey, what gives, since when can't you put in "greater than" and "smaller than" signs on slashdot? My rant tag looks all crappy now : (
Japan has a government sponsored humanoid robot devellopment project. And it seems that rivalry between the major corporation also fuels the R&D.
Honda's Asimo is the best of the bunch, but Sony has a doll sized little "entertainment" robot, and Toyota has a trumpet playing robot, not to mention all the universities working on various robotic sub-projects, like facial expression and whatnot (I thought disney's animatronics had the expressiveness thing figured out, maybe my memory has embelished them somewhat).
Asimov expected the U.S. to be the leader in humanoid robots, he couldn't have foreseen this shift in technological leadership, but at least Honda named their creation after him : )
Why is it what when claria/gator or anyone else does simillar things, it is evil, but when google does it, it is fair.
What has gator done that was similar to accepting a competing company as a keyword to generate an onubtrusive ad on the side of the search results in their own, free web page?