Indeed it is, but I must say their (Evolution Robotics) SDK robot is nicer looking, though more expensive. Having played only with ER1 I have no idea if it does more stuff than an ER1 with all the extra goodies. However I suspect it simply is an ER1 with the goodies and a groovy frame rather than parts from Lincoln Logs for Engineers. (Don't get me wrong I like and use this sort thing!). Also I think, Think Geek has sold this and/. has reviewed before so it's really nothing new, sort of like flying RC Heliocams
Occused pastor remains in jail. Supporters say Randy Morrow, accused of lewd activity
with three teenage boys, is being made a target by the Clearwater police....
While I agree with you, your reasoning sounds like something out of an old Mech-Warrior game. How about preserving the earth because it is the origin of our biosphere and just leave it at that?
Besides with much of human life 'spread out among the stars' the earth just might become interesting (or at least clean).
Recently Iâ(TM)ve been in a similar situation and my opinion is: Donâ(TM)t bother to orchestrate some big event, just help each other to find other jobs. The negativity you bring on yourself isnâ(TM)t worth âoeTeachingâ management (In my experience, if the company is really in this position, management is too arrogant for communication from the working class to be effective). However many people joined together to find jobs seams to be quite effective and a very positive experience. My position currently stems from an interview a co-worker had, where he put the manager in contact with me. Potential employers find this sort of recommendation attractive I suppose.
(And my former employer is currently looking about his building with a dazed look wondering what happened to all of us and how is going to deliver what he over sold in the first place)
I do a lot of embedded development and I remember one of the SH4 reference boards having a wonderful license which basically forbade any terrorist or military use. Of course people that think violence is a good idea aren't going to be slowed down by a license but it still was a nice touch.
I too have nieces, nephews and cousins in the prescribed age, but I seldom find appropriate material for them anywhere. True,
I didn't devote my life looking but I'm single, no children, with a variety of dependences. All these people who have children appear very interested in anything that relates to their children at their kid's level. From a drunk, single, nerd's perspective it doesn't seem responsible.
I've had the book for years, and I'm quite enamored with some of the near term possibilities.It's a great idea... I would jump at the opportunity to live on one of the floating cities. (my friends and I call the book: How to strip mine the solar system for fun and profit)
Actually it might be an interesting exercise to review Mr. Savage's book to see what sort of improvement s could be made with employment of recent technological advancements.
On a side note I suspect that most criticism of the book arise from Mr. Savage's somewhat unorthodox philosophies concerning governments and society structures
MIT did not use these because you could never generate more energy than was used to create the wind or solar generation devices in the first place, so it's a (energy) loosing proposition.
Bummer...
I'm not so sure that increased R&D spending due to economic is necessarily a Good Thing (tm). I've been in R&D for years and before the Dot.Bomb money infiltrated our devision our department was small, we worked hard for the progress we made and basically it was fun. When all the money started floating about upper level management started having delusions of grandeur, we got into technologies that were not our core compentices, we made dubious business deals to make devices that didn't really make sense in the market. We hired many programmers and consultants that our existing managers had no idea how to motivate. Suddenly the lab began to resemble the world according to Scot Adams. Now that the bubble burst, our original technology has been sold twice (in three years) and several of the projects I've worked on have been canceled. Most of the dead wood has been pruned away and what reamins are a couple of small groups that will wind up having to move to continue research. Hindsight being 20-20 I don't think we should let ourselves become distracted and concentrated on continuing real development in the areas we were working on to begin with. Bottom line: increased spending is not automaticaly a Good Thing, increased productivity is...
We use them where I work, and in the future I'll allways concider using them. But then again I do embedded stuff and one has to physically have the unit and jump through arcane hoops to open the backdoor. Also we sell the units for quite a bit more than the hardware costs so there is not much incentive for a customer to hack into it, ala the iOpener.
BTW I'm hacking a telocity ADSL modem to run QS Linux has anyone got anywhere with that??
I'm moving to Graz, Austria in a few months and have been wondering the same thing...
I'm not too interested in having a land line for voice or fast ping times (i don't play games)
Does anyone have any insight on the best way to go in Graz?
Sigh....
This must be fake; but it makes a nice fantasy. Perhaps it would be appropriate to place it in about 1993 (in our fantasy world). I would have liked to build a prototype in 1993, and because this is pure mind games I'd use DR DOS 7.03. It's quite nice, I'm using it now for an ancient cross-complier for the HC16.
Actually I do use these ports for scientific instruments, and I've found that some OEM serial ports are not particularly well behaved (Dell & HP) so I'm stuck buying an additional card anyway.
I've had both a RX3sp & a Cosmo!
Wankels are great engines, we just need some andvances in material sciences for the apex seals.
Now what does the have to do with hard drives?
Embedded programming isn't necessarily a dead end job but it is highly specialized. Specifically it specializes in the gory details that operating systems and very high level programming languages abstract away; (which is the whole point of their existence). My theory is that this is what makes embedded programmers such egregious kooks, much more so than the normal kookiness of that of the average/. population.
Actually come to think of it Jack Ganssle is a prime example, but then again I subscribe to Embedded Systems Programming
Absolutely, Lucas does say this. Additionally Joseph Campbell specifically said that Mythology belongs in things like pulp fiction, it's the *whole* point. Mythology is not some distant irrelevant story, it's relevant and reachable. I don't think it's that someone doesn't like Joseph Campbell I think they just don't get it.
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Real Genius, I think
Indeed it is, but I must say their (Evolution Robotics) SDK robot is nicer looking, though more expensive. Having played only with ER1 I have no idea if it does more stuff than an ER1 with all the extra goodies. However I suspect it simply is an ER1 with the goodies and a groovy frame rather than parts from Lincoln Logs for Engineers. (Don't get me wrong I like and use this sort thing!). Also I think, Think Geek has sold this and /. has reviewed before so it's really nothing new, sort of like flying RC Heliocams
Occused pastor remains in jail. Supporters say Randy Morrow, accused of lewd activity with three teenage boys, is being made a target by the Clearwater police. ...
Besides with much of human life 'spread out among the stars' the earth just might become interesting (or at least clean).
Recently Iâ(TM)ve been in a similar situation and my opinion is: Donâ(TM)t bother to orchestrate some big event, just help each other to find other jobs. The negativity you bring on yourself isnâ(TM)t worth âoeTeachingâ management (In my experience, if the company is really in this position, management is too arrogant for communication from the working class to be effective). However many people joined together to find jobs seams to be quite effective and a very positive experience. My position currently stems from an interview a co-worker had, where he put the manager in contact with me. Potential employers find this sort of recommendation attractive I suppose. (And my former employer is currently looking about his building with a dazed look wondering what happened to all of us and how is going to deliver what he over sold in the first place)
I do a lot of embedded development and I remember one of the SH4 reference boards having a wonderful license which basically forbade any terrorist or military use. Of course people that think violence is a good idea aren't going to be slowed down by a license but it still was a nice touch.
I too have nieces, nephews and cousins in the prescribed age, but I seldom find appropriate material for them anywhere. True, I didn't devote my life looking but I'm single, no children, with a variety of dependences. All these people who have children appear very interested in anything that relates to their children at their kid's level. From a drunk, single, nerd's perspective it doesn't seem responsible.
I've had the book for years, and I'm quite enamored with some of the near term possibilities.It's a great idea... I would jump at the opportunity to live on one of the floating cities. (my friends and I call the book: How to strip mine the solar system for fun and profit) Actually it might be an interesting exercise to review Mr. Savage's book to see what sort of improvement s could be made with employment of recent technological advancements. On a side note I suspect that most criticism of the book arise from Mr. Savage's somewhat unorthodox philosophies concerning governments and society structures
MIT did not use these because you could never generate more energy than was used to create the wind or solar generation devices in the first place, so it's a (energy) loosing proposition. Bummer...
I'm not so sure that increased R&D spending due to economic is necessarily a Good Thing (tm). I've been in R&D for years and before the Dot.Bomb money infiltrated our devision our department was small, we worked hard for the progress we made and basically it was fun. When all the money started floating about upper level management started having delusions of grandeur, we got into technologies that were not our core compentices, we made dubious business deals to make devices that didn't really make sense in the market. We hired many programmers and consultants that our existing managers had no idea how to motivate. Suddenly the lab began to resemble the world according to Scot Adams. Now that the bubble burst, our original technology has been sold twice (in three years) and several of the projects I've worked on have been canceled. Most of the dead wood has been pruned away and what reamins are a couple of small groups that will wind up having to move to continue research. Hindsight being 20-20 I don't think we should let ourselves become distracted and concentrated on continuing real development in the areas we were working on to begin with. Bottom line: increased spending is not automaticaly a Good Thing, increased productivity is...
We use them where I work, and in the future I'll allways concider using them. But then again I do embedded stuff and one has to physically have the unit and jump through arcane hoops to open the backdoor. Also we sell the units for quite a bit more than the hardware costs so there is not much incentive for a customer to hack into it, ala the iOpener. BTW I'm hacking a telocity ADSL modem to run QS Linux has anyone got anywhere with that??
I'm moving to Graz, Austria in a few months and have been wondering the same thing... I'm not too interested in having a land line for voice or fast ping times (i don't play games) Does anyone have any insight on the best way to go in Graz?
And... while we are indulging our selves I wonder what a good graphics card would be like knowing what we do now but with production tech of 1991
Sigh.... This must be fake; but it makes a nice fantasy. Perhaps it would be appropriate to place it in about 1993 (in our fantasy world). I would have liked to build a prototype in 1993, and because this is pure mind games I'd use DR DOS 7.03. It's quite nice, I'm using it now for an ancient cross-complier for the HC16.
Actually I do use these ports for scientific instruments, and I've found that some OEM serial ports are not particularly well behaved (Dell & HP) so I'm stuck buying an additional card anyway.
I seam to remember an 'extreme' Canadian overclocker who was venting his PC to the outside and keeping things quite cool in the winter.
I've had both a RX3sp & a Cosmo! Wankels are great engines, we just need some andvances in material sciences for the apex seals. Now what does the have to do with hard drives?
Yes, I'm Dyslexic too.
Slashcode really does need a spelling checker!
or maybe just leverage the one in the installed office product.
There is a big difference between a 1000 watt street lamp and a 4 watt LED array.
Read the article, you dolt!
The o-ring wasn't from any of the Apollo missions, it was from the Challenger solid rocket booster explosion.
Who defines integral?
Microsoft Does: MSIE is integral to every one of their recent operating systems.
Got it?
Embedded programming isn't necessarily a dead end job but it is highly specialized. Specifically it specializes in the gory details that operating systems and very high level programming languages abstract away; (which is the whole point of their existence). My theory is that this is what makes embedded programmers such egregious kooks, much more so than the normal kookiness of that of the average /. population.
Actually come to think of it Jack Ganssle is a prime example, but then again I subscribe to Embedded Systems Programming
Sounds like a perfect application for the USNA Shoestring satellite guys:
Absolutely, Lucas does say this. Additionally Joseph Campbell specifically said that Mythology belongs in things like pulp fiction, it's the *whole* point. Mythology is not some distant irrelevant story, it's relevant and reachable. I don't think it's that someone doesn't like Joseph Campbell I think they just don't get it.
Yes! I am, but I can't use this damn thing because it's suddenly speaking russian to me.