1. Know how to either run, defend yourself, or use a gun.
Or, buy a phone with e911? That way, instead of needing a concealed weapons permit, a lugar, or a black belt in karate, I can just call the people that probably have the most experience with this sort of thing. This was an example, of course. Use your imagination for situations in which vigalante justice would not suffice.
2. Don't be an idiot and run into a tree...
Again, This was an example. Are you seriously saying that accidents are prevented by not being an "idiot"? I suppose by your standards, we dont need hospital ICU's, police, or the fire department... we just need self-help brochures.
Yes, and when you're somewhere between 52nd and Neal St (but can't quite remeber), and you have someone tailing you, acting all suspicious like? Or you're at the Ski resort, and you see someone smack into a tree, possibly breaking their neck, and needing a medevac (Why yes, dispatcher, We're on "Bongo Hills Run," which is 23'55'' by 54'34'' -- I always remember the Lat/Lon locations of places that I'm at -- I don't need no stinkin' new-fangled GPS)?
I think you're thinking of the feel-good article in wired a few months back about the broke highschool team that beat MIT.. This is a different competition, although I think by the same organizers. The Wired article covered a ROV style competition, while this one is autonomous only... significantly harder.:)
I agree -- we were next to them in the tents (Amador), and I can tell you that I don't think I ever saw them open the tube of their sub, which means that they basically had all the hardware sorted before coming to the competition, and only had to focus on a few software bugs. I was impressed with their team. Of course, they did have a PHD student, and all the others seemed to already have bachelors / masters degrees, but still...
I agree, and what I found was simply by talking to the teams.. I really think AUVAI should have an "after the fact" type page, with comments by different teams as to why they did so well / bad.
You can read on the AUVAI webpage the breakdown of points... if one copmletes the mission, all the others are basically irrelevants (such as static judging). However, since so many people were not able to complete the mission, these points become important for seperating out the bottom of the stack. Basically, teams 1-4 where the only teams able to complete part of the mission (I don't believe anyone was able to complete the entire mission).
I think as regards problems... I know for us it was our PC104 stack getting destroyed by some short in the endcap... For Univ of Victoria, they had communication troubles between their custom PIC boards, and didn't have the original guy on their team who made them anymore (apparently he dumped the team 2 days before the competition, and didn't return their emails). For Rhode Island, I know that their bouyancy system, which is kinda neat actually (they use a compression cylinder to change their bouyancy) somehow leaked, and flouded their tube. For the rest of the teams, I'm not so sure, but they were similar problems. I think everyone suffers from reliability issues, not technical sophistication problems -- everyone has these amazing technologies that are all very impressive. The problem comes with the intergration of all these components into one vehicle.
Most teams just settle with Tshirts with their team logo on them. MIT though, normally dominate the competition, so I think that the jumpsuits are not their downfall:)
I was part of the Amador team, the only H.S at the competition. We placed 5th, which isn't too shabby:).
This year, I think that teams had a lot more bad luck than previous years -- one teams, the univ. of victoria, had their lead programmer / team leader leave 2 days before the competition, after deciding that sub's just "weren't his thing." Since they used custom PIC circuitery etc, they were basically screwed.
We a catastrophe happen to us as well -- our PC104 computer fried hours before the qualifying run. We then started looking at using a basic stamp as our main computer -- amazingly powerful little things, they allow something like 16 serial IO ports.
What about capping the number of patents a single company can own? What if, in order to gain a new patent, one must release an old patent into public domain?
It wouldn't be too much different than our current use of the judicial branch to regulate monopolies. Any thoughts?
The problem is the number of ways you can get around this; many big companies these days share their patent portfolios with other companies, which (I think) has the effect of locking out potential competitors entering the market (barrier to entry, and all that). Would you prevent this "sharing"? If not, what about a spinoff "research" company that buys tech from the main company for $1, patents it, then grands a 20 year use of the patent for the main company?
You want this level of "discipline" to continue? Really?
Because if it proves to be successful, you can be sure the practice will spread. Come to work 5 minutes late? Stand on the green tile, Mr. Krankheit. Allow your coworkers to ridicule you. Tired and made a silly typo in a comment in your code? Green tile, Mr. Krankheit.
I'm sorry, but that sort of intimidation and humiliation is unacceptable. The higher levels of this company I seriously doubt are held to the same standards... I doubt if one of the CEO's poor decisions would result in him being placed on the green tile.
This is just another way of dehumanizing the workers.
Meh -- I'm wrong I guess. I thought this because I saw the same picture in my physics book, and they credit it to the NOVA laser (Physics for Scientists and engineers, 3rd edition, pg 714)
Roland has an article about a supposed "Z Machine" which shows a really neat picture that is supposedly the "arcs and sparks produced by the gun" (http://www.primidi.com/images/z_machine_2.j pg) I have to call BS on this. This picture is of the NOVA lasers target chamber at Livermore Labs, California, not Sandia, and not this Z machine.
It's only a matter of time until this starts to become widespread in its use on these online poker places. For now, I think these places are ignoring it, since they get the fees for each game anyway.
I think however, that there is going to be a big backlash soon against sites that tacitly allow these sorts of players... I wonder how they are going to stop them?
Perhaps a webcam-based poker site would be the best strategy. This also allows more strategy, since the whole bluffing angle is in play.
"...testing the limits of the first ammendment. And all for a beer! "
Are you seriously suggesting that this is stretching someone's first ammendment rights?
This is not attacking / defaming / publishing state secrets etc. This is basically the equiviliant of a riddle. If a technical (I assume) person thinks this is risky ground, I shudder to think what the average bob thinks...
It is perfectly within their rights to sell two versions of a software program. I would venture as to say its good for the consumer as well, since they get the choice between an expensive "pro" version and a cheaper "home" version. Because they happen to include the files in both versions, but crippled in one version I have a hard time finding fault with. Would you really feel better if the files weren't on the CD?
What about shareware? Do you find its an example of evil little companies' business practises to *gasp* include all the features, but in a crippled form?
To be honest, in old versions of word, pasting could be a pain in the ass when all the formatting was still attached... Copying something into an already created sometimes created havoc.
The latest versions of Word have really improved on this with the "smart icon" that pops up after a paste.
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This web page has not been updated since 2000... I remeber back in the day this was new and cool. 5 years though in internet time is like rediscovering the slide rule -- good job guys! I hear IBM are releasing the teletype II any day:)
its funny the progression that this story has taken -- it went from hackaday --> fark --> slashdot, and doubtless appeared on hackaday due to someone trying this trick out.
Slashdot Mirror
2. Don't be an idiot and run into a tree... Again, This was an example. Are you seriously saying that accidents are prevented by not being an "idiot"? I suppose by your standards, we dont need hospital ICU's, police, or the fire department... we just need self-help brochures.
Yes,
and when you're somewhere between 52nd and Neal St (but can't quite remeber), and you have someone tailing you, acting all suspicious like?
Or you're at the Ski resort, and you see someone smack into a tree, possibly breaking their neck, and needing a medevac (Why yes, dispatcher, We're on "Bongo Hills Run," which is 23'55'' by 54'34'' -- I always remember the Lat/Lon locations of places that I'm at -- I don't need no stinkin' new-fangled GPS)?
Not all 911 emergencies happen at home...
I think you're thinking of the feel-good article in wired a few months back about the broke highschool team that beat MIT.. This is a different competition, although I think by the same organizers. The Wired article covered a ROV style competition, while this one is autonomous only... significantly harder. :)
I agree -- we were next to them in the tents (Amador), and I can tell you that I don't think I ever saw them open the tube of their sub, which means that they basically had all the hardware sorted before coming to the competition, and only had to focus on a few software bugs. I was impressed with their team. Of course, they did have a PHD student, and all the others seemed to already have bachelors / masters degrees, but still...
I agree, and what I found was simply by talking to the teams.. I really think AUVAI should have an "after the fact" type page, with comments by different teams as to why they did so well / bad.
You can read on the AUVAI webpage the breakdown of points... if one copmletes the mission, all the others are basically irrelevants (such as static judging). However, since so many people were not able to complete the mission, these points become important for seperating out the bottom of the stack. Basically, teams 1-4 where the only teams able to complete part of the mission (I don't believe anyone was able to complete the entire mission).
I think as regards problems... I know for us it was our PC104 stack getting destroyed by some short in the endcap... For Univ of Victoria, they had communication troubles between their custom PIC boards, and didn't have the original guy on their team who made them anymore (apparently he dumped the team 2 days before the competition, and didn't return their emails). For Rhode Island, I know that their bouyancy system, which is kinda neat actually (they use a compression cylinder to change their bouyancy) somehow leaked, and flouded their tube. For the rest of the teams, I'm not so sure, but they were similar problems. I think everyone suffers from reliability issues, not technical sophistication problems -- everyone has these amazing technologies that are all very impressive. The problem comes with the intergration of all these components into one vehicle.
The've had those jumpsuits for a few years now...
:)
Most teams just settle with Tshirts with their team logo on them. MIT though, normally dominate the competition, so I think that the jumpsuits are not their downfall
I was part of the Amador team, the only H.S at the competition. We placed 5th, which isn't too shabby :).
This year, I think that teams had a lot more bad luck than previous years -- one teams, the univ. of victoria, had their lead programmer / team leader leave 2 days before the competition, after deciding that sub's just "weren't his thing." Since they used custom PIC circuitery etc, they were basically screwed.
We a catastrophe happen to us as well -- our PC104 computer fried hours before the qualifying run. We then started looking at using a basic stamp as our main computer -- amazingly powerful little things, they allow something like 16 serial IO ports.
Here's something that just popped into my head:
What about capping the number of patents a single company can own? What if, in order to gain a new patent, one must release an old patent into public domain?
It wouldn't be too much different than our current use of the judicial branch to regulate monopolies. Any thoughts?
The problem is the number of ways you can get around this; many big companies these days share their patent portfolios with other companies, which (I think) has the effect of locking out potential competitors entering the market (barrier to entry, and all that). Would you prevent this "sharing"? If not, what about a spinoff "research" company that buys tech from the main company for $1, patents it, then grands a 20 year use of the patent for the main company?
That was "Without Remorse" IIRC.
Yeah -- have two of them. Incredible to think how good they are, considering their age (1999).
Now, if onlythey didnt use LVDS... sigh.
Anyone got some spare dongle boxes for a 1600SW?
"Taxation without Reputation"
"Mind parse error. (R)etry (A)bort?"
You want this level of "discipline" to continue?
Really?
Because if it proves to be successful, you can be sure the practice will spread. Come to work 5 minutes late? Stand on the green tile, Mr. Krankheit. Allow your coworkers to ridicule you. Tired and made a silly typo in a comment in your code? Green tile, Mr. Krankheit.
I'm sorry, but that sort of intimidation and humiliation is unacceptable. The higher levels of this company I seriously doubt are held to the same standards... I doubt if one of the CEO's poor decisions would result in him being placed on the green tile.
This is just another way of dehumanizing the workers.
Meh -- I'm wrong I guess. I thought this because I saw the same picture in my physics book, and they credit it to the NOVA laser (Physics for Scientists and engineers, 3rd edition, pg 714)
Roland has an article about a supposed "Z Machine" which shows a really neat picture that is supposedly the "arcs and sparks produced by the gun"
(http://www.primidi.com/images/z_machine_2.
I have to call BS on this. This picture is of the NOVA lasers target chamber at Livermore Labs, California, not Sandia, and not this Z machine.
This is at least my impression. Am I mistaken?
It's only a matter of time until this starts to become widespread in its use on these online poker places. For now, I think these places are ignoring it, since they get the fees for each game anyway.
I think however, that there is going to be a big backlash soon against sites that tacitly allow these sorts of players... I wonder how they are going to stop them?
Perhaps a webcam-based poker site would be the best strategy. This also allows more strategy, since the whole bluffing angle is in play.
"...testing the limits of the first ammendment. And all for a beer! "
Are you seriously suggesting that this is stretching someone's first ammendment rights?
This is not attacking / defaming / publishing state secrets etc. This is basically the equiviliant of a riddle. If a technical (I assume) person thinks this is risky ground, I shudder to think what the average bob thinks...
Yeah its in portage (as is its horrible firefox / mozilla plugin, mplayerplug-in)
It is perfectly within their rights to sell two versions of a software program. I would venture as to say its good for the consumer as well, since they get the choice between an expensive "pro" version and a cheaper "home" version. Because they happen to include the files in both versions, but crippled in one version I have a hard time finding fault with. Would you really feel better if the files weren't on the CD?
What about shareware? Do you find its an example of evil little companies' business practises to *gasp* include all the features, but in a crippled form?
To be honest, in old versions of word, pasting could be a pain in the ass when all the formatting was still attached... Copying something into an already created sometimes created havoc.
The latest versions of Word have really improved on this with the "smart icon" that pops up after a paste.
Hey, ;)
in our defense that girl was smoking hot
I believe there is a plugin called "firesomething" that allows you to rename the title bar to whatever you want.
Look for it on the official extensions website (can't remember the url offhand)
The last barrier between widows and linux is slowly but surely being eroded by the WINE engineers.
:)
For some reason, this sentence strikes me as being really ominous...
This web page has not been updated since 2000... I remeber back in the day this was new and cool. 5 years though in internet time is like rediscovering the slide rule -- good job guys! I hear IBM are releasing the teletype II any day :)
its funny the progression that this story has taken -- it went from hackaday --> fark --> slashdot, and doubtless appeared on hackaday due to someone trying this trick out.
proper capitalization on message boards is for weenies. ... also note that i capitalized "TV" in my original post.
;)
ergo, you are a weenie?
If you switch the bike off and restart the engine, that sometimes triggers the switch (Magnetic field from starter motor?)
You can also buy small devices that you stick on a bike, and I guess they create a magnetic field similar to the large mass of metal of a car.