From the article it looks a lot like an ActivMedia Pioneer with a SICK laser which you can control through Player/Stage and includes all of the mapping algrothims, still have to do work to make it work however.
This looks like a fairly standard reasearch project for undergrad student, player/stage is littered with uni students asking questions about using these type of modules
I am not suprised by the lack of accuracy in the shown map, you normally get a lot of errors due to the robot not accurately figuring out where it is everytime it turns even slightly. Onboard odometry is never that good.
If you want something slightly more cutting edge, yet still old look at the mapping out of something like Kurt3D
The last time I was in McDonalds (Australia, Sydney) they were having all of their registers replaced by some bloke with a Fujitsu shirt. So this may no longer be a problem.
From what one of the lectures at my uni told us: They found full specs plastered across websites and a lecturer at an Indian University contacted them after finding advertisements, with full assignment specs, posted at the Indian Uni on the CS department notice boards offerring payment for assignments. After looking at available options they found their was little they could do at the time unless they located who posted the advertisement. The solution now is for assignments to be posted on password protected webpages with clear copyright notices about reproduction. If they see the assignment spec anywhere again, particularly in relation to websites they are "apparently" planning to go after them for copyright infringement to put a stop to it and punish the infringers.
On a side note, when some of the lectures come down to the bar they tell some funny stories including about classes they are no longer allowed to teach such as first year postgrad computing as they failed too many students for cheating. This is in Australia where ungrads pay a lot less than postgrads due to government subsidys - which are slowly going away.
All lectures fail students for cheating if they are caught, some are less lax in the work they put into checking however.
Yes there are better office suites available for some tasks that are already free, and most importantly they are all going to support the same formats. OO gave the one advantage of massive corporate backing which has opened the door to the concept that maybe being tied into MS Office is a bad idea and that the file format should be openly available for anyone to work with.
One thing I hope the Patent Office will one day do is return the requirement of a working prototype. The trick is in forcing the patent requestor to store the prototype and giving the patent office the right to inspect it at short notice, 1-2 weeks. This is primarily during the application stage.
This should stop at least some junk patents, where someone has thought of a great idea but cannot build it. If you add in fines for failing to have a prototype on demand then you can start reducing the rates of junk filing. If they cannot pay the fines you can then take away their other patents simply by adding the fine to patent renewal fee notices and taking the fine portion out first.
This should help small inventors as they have to store very little compared to large patent hording companies.
Having a look at the list of domain keys very nicely points out that all the dodgy looking names have got their domain keys well in order to continue the barrage of crap email, but at least you know it is from them...
It also shows a nice, test key when inspecting the spf records for such high quality domains...
The tools exist as part of the project but they do not claim they are perfect, see here
Although 50mb is hardly anything really, we are looking at transferring ~5GB of data out of CVS and into subversion at the moment, testing for stability and conversion ability should begin now that they have got to 1.0.
In a number of printed articles in Australia recently there have been reports of the decrease of people enrolling in IT for this very reason.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
There are a lot of places you can make good money apart from IT but people seem to have got caught up in the IT boom period and thought that IT was the only way to make good money and those not in IT would be at a disadvantage somehow..
Note I am in Australia which has some of these problems but nothing it would appear in comparison to America.
As much as it does suck I honestly see the only real way forward for software engineers and programmers is to either move into or start a research and development company and develop highly specialized software or to move into a new area of IT.
Honestly I would prefer if you didnt move into the system administration area, that would be mine,;)
The only way to keep your job secure is to work in face to face/onsite support or IT management although I am sure some clever CEO/CTO will figure out how to move those overseas as well.
One of the funniest things I read this year was a guarntee from our American management that they would not be moving the software development section from Australia to America from Australia, it was originally an Australian company so we didn't steal any American jobs:)
The real thing I want to know is where will the jobs be that are not outsourced to other countries and why will they be the ones to stay in comparison to those that are sent overseas.
Gwenice Garnett was happy to hear about the bust as she stopped by Comcast this evening to upgrade to digital cable.
She's paying 70-bucks a month.
Garnette says, "I pay a substantial amount of money for my cable and if I have to pay, they should have to pay!"
Living in Australia digital tv and all the joys of interactive tv and movies on demand is still to be rolled out AFAIK anyway, I believe it is due sometime next year
However I find it hard to believe that people are so willing to pay so much to watch advertisements and it will surely get worse in the future.
*put on tinfoil hat*
Digital tv means providers can finally start to monitor who is watching what and when, this means they get to build up massive databases of viewing patterns. Combine this with an increased level of profiling and we get targeted advertising. The great joy of been told what we want according to what we watch and whatever random data the advertising companies have bought.
If anyone out there has digital tv, they are monitoring you, they will use the data to directly advertise to you and to take as much of your money as possible.
*takeoff tinfoil hat*
Anyone who believes this will not happen is at best naive and worst extremely foolish. I know it will not happen in the next year, but the ground work is been laid now and I see no sensible way to avoid it unless people refuse to watch digital tv, an unlikely proposition or it is legislated by the government (an unlikely thing)
Anyone with any ideas on how to try and escape the future of advertising hell..
One possible but wasteful way as someone earlier mentioned invloves the use of udp to ensure that the sending client remains anonymous.
Through the use of a site such as sharereactor you upload a link for the file. This covers the priamry problem of not been able to find files on the network so that the server can't become a *AA honeypot as it has no need to ever know what files each user has available.
All the clients connect to a main server so that they can share files. When a user wants to download a file they send to the server a list of packets they want (similar to the way edonkey/emule works so the file can be downloaded in a random order), their public key and the file they want.
The server then sends this information on to the other machines connected to the server, possibly sending out a different requested packet to each machine.
The other clients in the network decide if they are available to send and if so encrypt the data and send it via udp so they cannot be traced. Now repeat and you have the entire file.
This could have some problems, and im not entirely sure what they all are, I just know they exist..
That's not really why you guys went to Iraq, is it?
I think it is why we (Australia) went...
Why else would we go, if not to suck up to those magnificent yanks...
Quick flights will be a major advantage
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Been in Sydney with the Rugby World Cup having just finished last weekend a lot of reports were of English fans jumping on a plane too come out for just the weekend to enjoy the game and then go back home. It is a changing world, the last time I traveled to England it took 20+hours to get there and I expect it still takes a similar time period. People are becoming more globaly minded, sure it was for just the World Cup final, but if this is a future trend of people flying half way around the world for sport then supersonic flight has a real and possible future.
As long as they dont develop a market for the rich only then it is highly likely that supersonic flight will take off and the airline industry should start to come around in the next few years. Considering this plane will probably take a fair while to fully develop now is a good time to get the ball rolling and develop a plane that could very well be in high demand in the next 10-20 years.
Oh yeah, for those non rugby fans, England won and it was freaking beautiful, would have been well worth the trip I think..
What I don't understand is why there is not a combined system put into place where the voting machines prints a ticket that can be verified by the voter and then placed in a standard ballet box.
Afterwards take the total from the electronic system and randomly select a number of areas to be hand counted. This would make it much more difficult for anyone to fix the results as they would need to change both the paper ballots and the electronic count to ensure that their vote fixing is not picked up.
According to the report there was a growth of 7000 jobs in R&D and every other area lost jobs.
However surely there must be areas that are improving in the IT job space. I find it hard to believe that no area will see an increase at any point. I would love to see a better breakdown of the figures on what exact areas jobs were lost.
I do expect (read hope) that security and administration jobs should improve. They are areas were it is sensible to have someone on site and not over in India/anywhere else. I seriously doubt that programming will ever be a growth area again except in highly specialized areas, although even this is doubtful.
So has anyone seen any growth in jobs in any particular areas or moved around the IT fields to find work that wont go overseas?
Try the unattended install system Unattended
It runs an install from sources on an NFS share and it also allows for the setup of batch scripts to automatically install any programs you may want once Windows is first installed.
Supports booting from floppy, cd or PXE boot and away you go with a fully unattended windows + applications install.
Takes slightly more setup than a ghost system but can be exteremely useful and more importantly free..
Australians do not drink Fosters. Fosters has this great marketing campaign overseas that makes everyone think Fosters = Australian. It doesn't damn it!
Try VB off the tap or Carlton Draught for a nice beer from Austrlia. If you are feeling fancy you can even have a Crown.
The difference as far as I am aware between Server and Advanced Server is the number of CPUS and memory it supports, As in ADV Server will work with more CPUS and memory than plain old Server.
Theoretically it would also be optimized for increased CPUS/Memory. There is also Datacenter which can support more CPUS and memory than Adv Server again.
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From the article it looks a lot like an ActivMedia Pioneer with a SICK laser which you can control through Player/Stage and includes all of the mapping algrothims, still have to do work to make it work however.
This looks like a fairly standard reasearch project for undergrad student, player/stage is littered with uni students asking questions about using these type of modules
I am not suprised by the lack of accuracy in the shown map, you normally get a lot of errors due to the robot not accurately figuring out where it is everytime it turns even slightly. Onboard odometry is never that good.
If you want something slightly more cutting edge, yet still old look at the mapping out of something like Kurt3D
The last time I was in McDonalds (Australia, Sydney) they were having all of their registers replaced by some bloke with a Fujitsu shirt. So this may no longer be a problem.
...Assuming it ever was...
I guess the latest TCO Microsoft is great checks failed to appear this week....
From what one of the lectures at my uni told us:
They found full specs plastered across websites and a lecturer at an Indian University contacted them after finding advertisements, with full assignment specs, posted at the Indian Uni on the CS department notice boards offerring payment for assignments. After looking at available options they found their was little they could do at the time unless they located who posted the advertisement. The solution now is for assignments to be posted on password protected webpages with clear copyright notices about reproduction. If they see the assignment spec anywhere again, particularly in relation to websites they are "apparently" planning to go after them for copyright infringement to put a stop to it and punish the infringers.
On a side note, when some of the lectures come down to the bar they tell some funny stories including about classes they are no longer allowed to teach such as first year postgrad computing as they failed too many students for cheating. This is in Australia where ungrads pay a lot less than postgrads due to government subsidys - which are slowly going away.
All lectures fail students for cheating if they are caught, some are less lax in the work they put into checking however.
Visibility and Cross Platform support.
Yes there are better office suites available for some tasks that are already free, and most importantly they are all going to support the same formats. OO gave the one advantage of massive corporate backing which has opened the door to the concept that maybe being tied into MS Office is a bad idea and that the file format should be openly available for anyone to work with.
Are you coding up an IPSec implementation by any chance?
One thing I hope the Patent Office will one day do is return the requirement of a working prototype. The trick is in forcing the patent requestor to store the prototype and giving the patent office the right to inspect it at short notice, 1-2 weeks. This is primarily during the application stage.
This should stop at least some junk patents, where someone has thought of a great idea but cannot build it. If you add in fines for failing to have a prototype on demand then you can start reducing the rates of junk filing. If they cannot pay the fines you can then take away their other patents simply by adding the fine to patent renewal fee notices and taking the fine portion out first.
This should help small inventors as they have to store very little compared to large patent hording companies.
Is there a solution to IPV6 multihoming yet?
A lot of the proposals I have managed to read seem to be hacks on top of Layer4/5 protocols which is interesting but probably useless.
Am I correct in assuming that individual companies are not meant to get IPv6 ranges?
Having a look at the list of domain keys very nicely points out that all the dodgy looking names have got their domain keys well in order to continue the barrage of crap email, but at least you know it is from them...
It also shows a nice, test key when inspecting the spf records for such high quality domains...
http://www.trustedsource.org/dkim.php
Yes and then again no...
The tools exist as part of the project but they do not claim they are perfect, see here
Although 50mb is hardly anything really, we are looking at transferring ~5GB of data out of CVS and into subversion at the moment, testing for stability and conversion ability should begin now that they have got to 1.0.
In a number of printed articles in Australia recently there have been reports of the decrease of people enrolling in IT for this very reason.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money.
There are a lot of places you can make good money apart from IT but people seem to have got caught up in the IT boom period and thought that IT was the only way to make good money and those not in IT would be at a disadvantage somehow..
Note I am in Australia which has some of these problems but nothing it would appear in comparison to America.
;)
:)
As much as it does suck I honestly see the only real way forward for software engineers and programmers is to either move into or start a research and development company and develop highly specialized software or to move into a new area of IT.
Honestly I would prefer if you didnt move into the system administration area, that would be mine,
The only way to keep your job secure is to work in face to face/onsite support or IT management although I am sure some clever CEO/CTO will figure out how to move those overseas as well.
One of the funniest things I read this year was a guarntee from our American management that they would not be moving the software development section from Australia to America from Australia, it was originally an Australian company so we didn't steal any American jobs
The real thing I want to know is where will the jobs be that are not outsourced to other countries and why will they be the ones to stay in comparison to those that are sent overseas.
Gwenice Garnett was happy to hear about the bust as she stopped by Comcast this evening to upgrade to digital cable.
She's paying 70-bucks a month.
Garnette says, "I pay a substantial amount of money for my cable and if I have to pay, they should have to pay!"
Living in Australia digital tv and all the joys of interactive tv and movies on demand is still to be rolled out AFAIK anyway, I believe it is due sometime next year
However I find it hard to believe that people are so willing to pay so much to watch advertisements and it will surely get worse in the future.
*put on tinfoil hat*
Digital tv means providers can finally start to monitor who is watching what and when, this means they get to build up massive databases of viewing patterns. Combine this with an increased level of profiling and we get targeted advertising. The great joy of been told what we want according to what we watch and whatever random data the advertising companies have bought.
If anyone out there has digital tv, they are monitoring you, they will use the data to directly advertise to you and to take as much of your money as possible.
*takeoff tinfoil hat*
Anyone who believes this will not happen is at best naive and worst extremely foolish. I know it will not happen in the next year, but the ground work is been laid now and I see no sensible way to avoid it unless people refuse to watch digital tv, an unlikely proposition or it is legislated by the government (an unlikely thing)
Anyone with any ideas on how to try and escape the future of advertising hell..
One possible but wasteful way as someone earlier mentioned invloves the use of udp to ensure that the sending client remains anonymous.
Through the use of a site such as sharereactor you upload a link for the file. This covers the priamry problem of not been able to find files on the network so that the server can't become a *AA honeypot as it has no need to ever know what files each user has available.
All the clients connect to a main server so that they can share files. When a user wants to download a file they send to the server a list of packets they want (similar to the way edonkey/emule works so the file can be downloaded in a random order), their public key and the file they want.
The server then sends this information on to the other machines connected to the server, possibly sending out a different requested packet to each machine.
The other clients in the network decide if they are available to send and if so encrypt the data and send it via udp so they cannot be traced. Now repeat and you have the entire file.
This could have some problems, and im not entirely sure what they all are, I just know they exist..
So any suggested improvements/fundamental flaws?
I think it is why we (Australia) went...
Why else would we go, if not to suck up to those magnificent yanks...
Been in Sydney with the Rugby World Cup having just finished last weekend a lot of reports were of English fans jumping on a plane too come out for just the weekend to enjoy the game and then go back home.
It is a changing world, the last time I traveled to England it took 20+hours to get there and I expect it still takes a similar time period. People are becoming more globaly minded, sure it was for just the World Cup final, but if this is a future trend of people flying half way around the world for sport then supersonic flight has a real and possible future.
As long as they dont develop a market for the rich only then it is highly likely that supersonic flight will take off and the airline industry should start to come around in the next few years.
Considering this plane will probably take a fair while to fully develop now is a good time to get the ball rolling and develop a plane that could very well be in high demand in the next 10-20 years.
Oh yeah, for those non rugby fans, England won and it was freaking beautiful, would have been well worth the trip I think..
What I don't understand is why there is not a combined system put into place where the voting machines prints a ticket that can be verified by the voter and then placed in a standard ballet box.
Afterwards take the total from the electronic system and randomly select a number of areas to be hand counted. This would make it much more difficult for anyone to fix the results as they would need to change both the paper ballots and the electronic count to ensure that their vote fixing is not picked up.
According to the report there was a growth of 7000 jobs in R&D and every other area lost jobs.
However surely there must be areas that are improving in the IT job space. I find it hard to believe that no area will see an increase at any point. I would love to see a better breakdown of the figures on what exact areas jobs were lost.
I do expect (read hope) that security and administration jobs should improve. They are areas were it is sensible to have someone on site and not over in India/anywhere else. I seriously doubt that programming will ever be a growth area again except in highly specialized areas, although even this is doubtful.
So has anyone seen any growth in jobs in any particular areas or moved around the IT fields to find work that wont go overseas?
In all fairness the government has been right recently.
Job losses are slowing so therfore the economy is improving comparatively speaking
A slower decline is always a relativly speaking improvement when you need to make yourself (read government) look good....
It runs an install from sources on an NFS share and it also allows for the setup of batch scripts to automatically install any programs you may want once Windows is first installed.
Supports booting from floppy, cd or PXE boot and away you go with a fully unattended windows + applications install.
Takes slightly more setup than a ghost system but can be exteremely useful and more importantly free..
Assuming of course they are stored in optimal conditions..
I honestly can believe that anyone will have a device capable of reading a cd in 100 years so yay for corn.
Bruce Willis can stay put.
Lets send him anyway..Fosters IS NOT AUSTRALIAN!!
Australians do not drink Fosters. Fosters has this great marketing campaign overseas that makes everyone think Fosters = Australian. It doesn't damn it!
Try VB off the tap or Carlton Draught for a nice beer from Austrlia. If you are feeling fancy you can even have a Crown.
Mmm VB...
In fact, I think I'll have one now
XXXX is the most horrible beer in the world!!
Come down to NSW and enjoy a proper beer, from Victoria of course...
The difference as far as I am aware between Server and Advanced Server is the number of CPUS and memory it supports, As in ADV Server will work with more CPUS and memory than plain old Server.
Theoretically it would also be optimized for increased CPUS/Memory. There is also Datacenter which can support more CPUS and memory than Adv Server again.