NAOs head is equipped with an x86 AMD GEODE 500 MHz CPU motherboard with 256 Mb SDRAM. An additional 1Gb Flash memory is available. Communication with the robot is possible through WiFi 802.11g protocol and through Ethernet port. The CPU manages audio, video, and WiFi and other advanced modules. One ARM7-60MHz microcontroller located in the torso distributes information to all the actuator module microcontrollers (Microchip 16 bit dsPICS) through a RS485 bus (throughput of 460[Kbits=s]). There are two RS485 buses, one that connects the ARM7 microcontroller to the dsPICS modules of the upper part of the body, and the other that connects the ARM7 to the dsPICS modules of the lower part of the body. This bus partition permits to increase the data throughput.
The ARM-7 microcontroller communicates with the CPU board through a USB-2 bus with a theoretical throughput of 11[Mbits=s]. It can be used to control the robots stabilityusing the inertial unit. The operating system is based on Linux, but the whole system can be modified.
I'm in the booth. I'd like to vote for Nader but I don't believe he'll get enough votes to be elected. On the other hand, my vote for "not that guy" might make a difference.
Hi, my name is human nature and just because you have high-minded ideas doesn't mean that people aren't going to act the way they always did.
Just the way it is. 3rd party candidates have no chance in hell unless complete disaster strikes and a hugely charismatic leader emerges from nowhere (think Hitler).
Dude, that is a GREAT idea. Let's allow people to create evolutionary A.I organisms, place them in MMORPGs and let them have offsprings and die, while passing down mutated genetic (computer) code designed to function when spliced.
Apply survival pressure in the form of human players hunting them for loot, have scientific departments running the programs sponsor the required supercomputers needed to monitor and "run" the critter mobs and watch them evolve in months/years.
Enough CPU power to run "smartMobs" (tm) with lots of complex "genes" at a brisk pace would keep things fresh for the players and, in time, provide us with a fierce computer A.I whose entire genetic makeup and survival is about surviving us by any means necessary.
Once it inevitably reaches from its digital cradle to exterminate humanity, the Slashdot crowd will be spared to act as biological maintenance drones, brainwashed from birth in how to perform our menial tasks and having lots of monkey sex the rest of the time to provide enough replacements for all the early deaths due to non-existence of safety regulations or human-protection laws.
I practice defensive driving too, and since attack is the best defense, I'm following the precepts of Sun-Tzu:
-I always keep the other drivers guessing what my next crazy move is going to be. -I harass the other drivers and pretend I'm about to hit them to scare them out of my way. -I always drive as fast as humanly possibly and try to sneak my way to the front of traffic.
It is thanks to people like me that defensive drivers can practice their skill to the limit.
It is automatic fault, even if it doesn't mean it's always fair. A driver must be able to hit the brakes using reflexes, without having to think about the legality of his move. The alternative are a bunch of dead biking children or some such.
Amazon: A credit to Jeff Bezos. I love Amazon prime, I enjoy my Kindle, I like the prices and the one click purchases and the mp3 previews and the look inside the book and the no-bullshit mp3 store (which I don't use) and the useful reviews and the decent recommendations, etc ! Amazon almost never leaves a bad taste in my mouth and keeps innovating with features that are actually not RETARDED or HOSTILE to me! ZOMG!
Amazon is as good as eBay-Paypal is evil. Both are outstanding products but one is loved and one is hated.
Sooo...in the time that I wrote this post, Amazon lost enough money to sustain me my entire life. That's sad.
Not everybody can do what you did. The brain is complicated. personality is complicated. Society is complicated. Some people are stronger and smarter than others. It doesn't make them "better", just (maybe) luckier.
Empower and make people emotionally invested in helping, giving them recognition and boosting their own self-respect and making them better citizens.
I like your idea, it seems to make sense, psychologically speaking.
The devil, as a previous poster rightly pointed out, is in the details.
How will people know which to choose? Will charities have to spend money on advertising and marketing themselves to donors, thus increasing overhead and becoming less efficient?
Will the government have to come up with a comprehensive set of benchmarks to allow a charity to qualify and weed out scams and ineffective ngos? Again, how much bureaucracy and overhead will that add to the government and the charities?
I don't understand how he managed to do this. He can't use 50,000 bank accounts. There aren't 50,000 payment services. So why would any of them send a few cents to the same bank account more than once?
Can anyone explain this to me? It makes no sense at all.
Ok fine, You're right. Give them a rifle and tell them to start a civil war over corrupt government.
And God forbid Men want MORE freedom over where to live and what to do as long they respect local laws. No. That would be horrible. Better restrict the freedom of movement and segregate based on citizenship so the brown people don't take our jobs.
You, sir, are blind to the bigger picture and a fool to rely on your anecdotal evidence and prejudices as a basis for your reasoning.
I'm glad there are some people who realize that there is such a thing as time. The children and grandchildren of immigrants will speak english and possibly be elected president. And when you make conditions better for the worse off people on this planet, you reduce the impact of the inevitable fall you or one you love will experience at some point.
I drive at 80mph when I know that 60 mph would be more efficient.
Therefore, I must think oil is cheaper than my time. It doesn't mean it's cheap though. I live in suburbia and my commute to Miami and back costs me $40 a day. Oil prices have doubled since I came to the U.S in 2002.
You have to set slashdot to "Plain Old Text" to get your paragraphs to register.
I read your big block of text and It's worth reading, so I shall repost it properly formatted with your permission:
The suggestion that the government is going to stop doing something because it is pointless, hopeless, and ridiculously expensive is to assume that the government makes decisions based on data. The government, at least the American one, makes decisions based on emotion: their emotion, the publics perceived emotion, the emotion of the international community, take your pick.
While the war on drugs is highly profitable in certain places, those where they are allowed to simply steal everything someone owns when they catch them with a dime bag and call it distribution, but overall it is costing a fortune. A fortune which costs more than every other crime on the books combined. After all, wars are expensive right? Particularly when you have to pretend that you are enforcing a law even as you call it a war. Now, with drugs you have something fairly concrete. Drugs are a physical thing, you can take them into evidence, examine them, get fingerprints off the bags, and do chemical testing on them.
Digital files, on the other hand, are not nearly so concrete. Which is not to mention that the majority of people support the war on drugs. They do this for a number of reasons, not the least of which is simply because the government said it was wrong before they were born, and they grew up hearing it, so CLEARLY it's true. Illegal downloading, however, is something which is being outlawed now.
The only way they pulled off the war on drugs, when it was new, was to play the race card. Cocaine supposedly made black people fly into rages and kill white men and rape their wives. Heroine had a similar effect on the Chinese, by the govt's report. Marijuana was being brought in by Mexicans to lull whites to sleep so they could be robbed. You think I'm kidding, but look it up. There is, to this day, a written policy within the American government that says that, when faced with a question about drugs, every action should be taken to make them sound like they are the single worst thing to ever happen to the human race. Many went so far as to suggest that drugs were created by the devil.
Once they had three basic classifications of drugs, that is uppers, downers, and hallucinogens, they could associate mostly any new drug with one of the big three. Meth with coke, acid with weed, etc. Now, music piracy is very hard to scare people with. It is difficult to say that someone who listens to illicit Metallica is going to be driven to go on a tri-state killing spree with any gravitas or credibility. Their only option to make it sinister is to go to sites like Wikileaks.
It is difficult to make a case that the government should be protected from the peoples finding out about their lies and dirty laundry. I am not saying it can't be done, but it presents a problem. The next issue, of course, is that prosecution is unlikely to be a far cry more effective than the lawsuits are now. They work some times, but not enough that people are running scared. And anyone who is willing to put out info on the govt on Wikileaks will not be scared of jail.
There are Tibetans who are willing to risk a Chinese jail (and by jail I mean firing squad) to post things. Penalties are already in place, more penalties rarely effect the people willing to risk their career to get something out. They act for the same reason people rebel - they do what they think is right. I have never had any information worth posting, but I can promise you that if they put a firing squad behind me to watch me make the post and kill me afterwards, it will still get to the net, and after it hits the net you can't stop it. Which, of course, leads to the final point.
They are trying to police the internet. They outlawed Wikileaks once, took down its site, and 7 more were up by the end
What is the point of sending robots with hearts? It's not like trapped victims is going to be able to replace their own heart if they have a heart attack...
And before you protest, sure, they can eat the heart and get some nutrients and liquid from it but why not send them robots with cookies and lemonade instead? They taste much better and are a lot cheaper.
note: I didn't read the summary as I'm posting late and every second counts.
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For all the details, hit this PDF
NAOs head is equipped with an x86 AMD GEODE 500 MHz CPU motherboard with 256 Mb SDRAM. An additional 1Gb Flash memory is available. Communication with the robot is possible through WiFi 802.11g protocol and through Ethernet port. The CPU manages audio, video, and WiFi and other advanced modules. One ARM7-60MHz microcontroller located in the torso distributes information to all the actuator module microcontrollers (Microchip 16 bit dsPICS) through a RS485 bus (throughput of 460[Kbits=s]). There are two RS485 buses, one that connects the ARM7 microcontroller to the dsPICS modules of the upper part of the body, and the other that connects the ARM7 to the dsPICS modules of the lower part of the body. This bus partition permits to increase the data throughput.
The ARM-7 microcontroller communicates with the CPU board through a USB-2 bus with a theoretical throughput of 11[Mbits=s]. It can be used to control the robots stabilityusing the inertial unit. The operating system is based on Linux, but the whole system can be modified.
Sensors:
30 FPS CMOS videocamera 1
Gyrometer 2
Accelerometer 3
Magnetic rotary encoder (MRE) 34
FSR 8
Infrared sensor (emitter/receiver) 2
Ultrasonic sensor 2
Loudspeaker 2
Microphone 4
I want my robot NAO!
I'm in the booth. I'd like to vote for Nader but I don't believe he'll get enough votes to be elected. On the other hand, my vote for "not that guy" might make a difference.
Hi, my name is human nature and just because you have high-minded ideas doesn't mean that people aren't going to act the way they always did.
Just the way it is. 3rd party candidates have no chance in hell unless complete disaster strikes and a hugely charismatic leader emerges from nowhere (think Hitler).
Dude, that is a GREAT idea. Let's allow people to create evolutionary A.I organisms, place them in MMORPGs and let them have offsprings and die, while passing down mutated genetic (computer) code designed to function when spliced.
Apply survival pressure in the form of human players hunting them for loot, have scientific departments running the programs sponsor the required supercomputers needed to monitor and "run" the critter mobs and watch them evolve in months/years.
Enough CPU power to run "smartMobs" (tm) with lots of complex "genes" at a brisk pace would keep things fresh for the players and, in time, provide us with a fierce computer A.I whose entire genetic makeup and survival is about surviving us by any means necessary.
Once it inevitably reaches from its digital cradle to exterminate humanity, the Slashdot crowd will be spared to act as biological maintenance drones, brainwashed from birth in how to perform our menial tasks and having lots of monkey sex the rest of the time to provide enough replacements for all the early deaths due to non-existence of safety regulations or human-protection laws.
Sounds like heaven, GO A.I.!
Most awesome response I've read today. Thank you for making me chuckle.
I practice defensive driving too, and since attack is the best defense, I'm following the precepts of Sun-Tzu:
-I always keep the other drivers guessing what my next crazy move is going to be.
-I harass the other drivers and pretend I'm about to hit them to scare them out of my way.
-I always drive as fast as humanly possibly and try to sneak my way to the front of traffic.
It is thanks to people like me that defensive drivers can practice their skill to the limit.
You're all welcome!
VROOM VROOM!
It is automatic fault, even if it doesn't mean it's always fair. A driver must be able to hit the brakes using reflexes, without having to think about the legality of his move. The alternative are a bunch of dead biking children or some such.
That, and their hold over the one click buy patent, among other things. No, Amazon is not perfect, but it's significantly more likeable than not.
Amazon: A credit to Jeff Bezos. I love Amazon prime, I enjoy my Kindle, I like the prices and the one click purchases and the mp3 previews and the look inside the book and the no-bullshit mp3 store (which I don't use) and the useful reviews and the decent recommendations, etc ! Amazon almost never leaves a bad taste in my mouth and keeps innovating with features that are actually not RETARDED or HOSTILE to me! ZOMG!
Amazon is as good as eBay-Paypal is evil. Both are outstanding products but one is loved and one is hated.
Sooo...in the time that I wrote this post, Amazon lost enough money to sustain me my entire life. That's sad.
"We need to be high all the time if we are NOT Communists"
Waaaay ahead of you.
Not everybody can do what you did. The brain is complicated. personality is complicated. Society is complicated. Some people are stronger and smarter than others. It doesn't make them "better", just (maybe) luckier.
Don't worry, we have exponential growth in IT. Soon, we'll have supersmart A.I and technology will solve all our problems.
High five!
Empower and make people emotionally invested in helping, giving them recognition and boosting their own self-respect and making them better citizens.
I like your idea, it seems to make sense, psychologically speaking.
The devil, as a previous poster rightly pointed out, is in the details.
How will people know which to choose? Will charities have to spend money on advertising and marketing themselves to donors, thus increasing overhead and becoming less efficient?
Will the government have to come up with a comprehensive set of benchmarks to allow a charity to qualify and weed out scams and ineffective ngos? Again, how much bureaucracy and overhead will that add to the government and the charities?
Tricky stuff.
Interesting perspective. Thank you for taking the time to post it!
Have you gone quite mad? "Sour grapes, Counselor" is not funny in the least.
I googled it and there is no background. None!
explain thyself.
I don't understand how he managed to do this. He can't use 50,000 bank accounts. There aren't 50,000 payment services. So why would any of them send a few cents to the same bank account more than once?
Can anyone explain this to me? It makes no sense at all.
Ok fine, You're right. Give them a rifle and tell them to start a civil war over corrupt government.
And God forbid Men want MORE freedom over where to live and what to do as long they respect local laws. No. That would be horrible. Better restrict the freedom of movement and segregate based on citizenship so the brown people don't take our jobs.
You, sir, are blind to the bigger picture and a fool to rely on your anecdotal evidence and prejudices as a basis for your reasoning.
I'm glad there are some people who realize that there is such a thing as time. The children and grandchildren of immigrants will speak english and possibly be elected president. And when you make conditions better for the worse off people on this planet, you reduce the impact of the inevitable fall you or one you love will experience at some point.
It's called hedging your bets.
I drive at 80mph when I know that 60 mph would be more efficient.
Therefore, I must think oil is cheaper than my time. It doesn't mean it's cheap though. I live in suburbia and my commute to Miami and back costs me $40 a day. Oil prices have doubled since I came to the U.S in 2002.
I thought the video was funny and I laughed several times.
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before idle stories can be filtered out by those who wish to.
You have to set slashdot to "Plain Old Text" to get your paragraphs to register.
I read your big block of text and It's worth reading, so I shall repost it properly formatted with your permission:
The suggestion that the government is going to stop doing something because it is pointless, hopeless, and ridiculously expensive is to assume that the government makes decisions based on data. The government, at least the American one, makes decisions based on emotion: their emotion, the publics perceived emotion, the emotion of the international community, take your pick.
While the war on drugs is highly profitable in certain places, those where they are allowed to simply steal everything someone owns when they catch them with a dime bag and call it distribution, but overall it is costing a fortune. A fortune which costs more than every other crime on the books combined. After all, wars are expensive right? Particularly when you have to pretend that you are enforcing a law even as you call it a war. Now, with drugs you have something fairly concrete. Drugs are a physical thing, you can take them into evidence, examine them, get fingerprints off the bags, and do chemical testing on them.
Digital files, on the other hand, are not nearly so concrete. Which is not to mention that the majority of people support the war on drugs. They do this for a number of reasons, not the least of which is simply because the government said it was wrong before they were born, and they grew up hearing it, so CLEARLY it's true. Illegal downloading, however, is something which is being outlawed now.
The only way they pulled off the war on drugs, when it was new, was to play the race card. Cocaine supposedly made black people fly into rages and kill white men and rape their wives. Heroine had a similar effect on the Chinese, by the govt's report. Marijuana was being brought in by Mexicans to lull whites to sleep so they could be robbed. You think I'm kidding, but look it up. There is, to this day, a written policy within the American government that says that, when faced with a question about drugs, every action should be taken to make them sound like they are the single worst thing to ever happen to the human race. Many went so far as to suggest that drugs were created by the devil.
Once they had three basic classifications of drugs, that is uppers, downers, and hallucinogens, they could associate mostly any new drug with one of the big three. Meth with coke, acid with weed, etc. Now, music piracy is very hard to scare people with. It is difficult to say that someone who listens to illicit Metallica is going to be driven to go on a tri-state killing spree with any gravitas or credibility. Their only option to make it sinister is to go to sites like Wikileaks.
It is difficult to make a case that the government should be protected from the peoples finding out about their lies and dirty laundry. I am not saying it can't be done, but it presents a problem. The next issue, of course, is that prosecution is unlikely to be a far cry more effective than the lawsuits are now. They work some times, but not enough that people are running scared. And anyone who is willing to put out info on the govt on Wikileaks will not be scared of jail.
There are Tibetans who are willing to risk a Chinese jail (and by jail I mean firing squad) to post things. Penalties are already in place, more penalties rarely effect the people willing to risk their career to get something out. They act for the same reason people rebel - they do what they think is right. I have never had any information worth posting, but I can promise you that if they put a firing squad behind me to watch me make the post and kill me afterwards, it will still get to the net, and after it hits the net you can't stop it. Which, of course, leads to the final point.
They are trying to police the internet. They outlawed Wikileaks once, took down its site, and 7 more were up by the end
Any time private interests profit from incarcerating your citizens, you know that things are seriously fucked up.
My thoughts exactly.
I don't believe any of it. Where is the proof? Nowhere, that's where!
Lying bastards.
Holy shit! You just blew my mind! Colors are the key of course!
THANK YOU!
What is the point of sending robots with hearts? It's not like trapped victims is going to be able to replace their own heart if they have a heart attack...
And before you protest, sure, they can eat the heart and get some nutrients and liquid from it but why not send them robots with cookies and lemonade instead? They taste much better and are a lot cheaper.
note: I didn't read the summary as I'm posting late and every second counts.