The article points out that the robot makes celebrity-size salaries when put on display, too
No you fool. It doess't earn any fookin salary. HOnda are planning to rent it out instead for outrageous sums so that they can recover some of the money they invested. With the present economic situation, I don't see any company shelling out megabucks so that they can have ASIMO moving to-n-fro in some exhibition stall....
Aside, does anyone know why Honda got into ASIMO rpoject at the first place. My guess is that they wanted to give their engineers experience in electric motors, hydraulics, and/or system programming....typical Honda....can't wait for 2004 NSX....ye gods...
Big Deal! Linux 2.2.20 is out...
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Linux 2.2.20 is Out
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and who cares?
Don't get me wrong, but I think that Linux deserves better pulicity(pr stunt?) for important releases. Look what MSFT is doing for Windows Xtra Profit. Yeah, the distributions (Suse rox) will give all the publicity...but still there is hardly any mention in the mainstream media. Which is disheartening as being an open source initiative development of Linux is not tied to corporate bullcracy and as this release shows development can be so much faster.
Most people still think that Linux is some obnoxious, patchy "difficult" OS. Good or bad thing...you decide.
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I couldn't care less for the amount of disk space. I want faster disks with lower seek times...
No you fool. It doess't earn any fookin salary. HOnda are planning to rent it out instead for outrageous sums so that they can recover some of the money they invested. With the present economic situation, I don't see any company shelling out megabucks so that they can have ASIMO moving to-n-fro in some exhibition stall....
Aside, does anyone know why Honda got into ASIMO rpoject at the first place. My guess is that they wanted to give their engineers experience in electric motors, hydraulics, and/or system programming....typical Honda....can't wait for 2004 NSX....ye gods...
Don't get me wrong, but I think that Linux deserves better pulicity(pr stunt?) for important releases. Look what MSFT is doing for Windows Xtra Profit. Yeah, the distributions (Suse rox) will give all the publicity...but still there is hardly any mention in the mainstream media. Which is disheartening as being an open source initiative development of Linux is not tied to corporate bullcracy and as this release shows development can be so much faster.
Most people still think that Linux is some obnoxious, patchy "difficult" OS. Good or bad thing...you decide.