The challenge is to build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a 250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas, 'without external communication or human control.'
Somehow I have the feeling that 99% of the teams competing will try to figure out inventive, creative ways of using and obfuscating 'external communication or human control' as the first step.:)
If we could round up all the politicians in DC, we could power the world.
HA! If that were TRUE, then the force released by combining the power of bullshit with all the politicians in DC would put A WHOLE ENERGY COMPANY out of busine......oh, wait...
...We can build businesses without having to worry that "Internet, Inc." is going to force us to upgrade, double its price once we have bought in, or get taken over by one of our competitors.
HA! If that's true, then explain what these "Internet, Inc." stock certificates are, that I bought online!
I shall have free internet access FOREVER, here and on my MOON property that I also bought online...
Sport: Volleyball Reason for Rules: to be fun and competitive Reason for Game: an alternative to basketball to allow businessmen to compete indoors (they didn't have spiking at the time.) Reason for team sizes: Six players works out to 12 per game, with 3 up front and 3 in the back. China also uses 3 x 3 x 3 vs 3 x 3 x 3. Method of scoring: To stay fun Another reason for method of scoring: switched to rally point scoring to keep the game more predictable (rally means every play somebody gets a point, instead of two horrible teams serving into the net for 2 hours to remain at zero zero... thus easier to calculate times for Television.
There's no inherent reason for most of the "rules", the sizes of the teams, the shape of the ball, the methods of scoring, and so on. With weightlifting, it's just you versus the the fundamental laws of physics. Doesn't get much more interesting than that!
Weight lifting is great, but see if you can find a sport and have to learn it not be ashamed to suck at it at first (the reason why people don't try sports.) To be athletic and to be an animal like the monkeys we were, you need athleticism and to play a sport.
Sport = meet other dedicated people. Sport = learn and help each other. Sport = teamwork. Sport = learning to win and learning to lose. Sport = working your butt off for success (best game ever played etc although loss of tournament, etc.) Sport = improvements motivating you. Sport = fun. Sport = you know every step of the way you're getting better
Since we evolved from gorillas, sports/being active must have been good to humans.
And I have a single cartridge cannon at home, came free with my computer. The output is made by mixing parts together.
The printer I have at school measures color levels, has multiple cartridges (pretty sure), and sounds like the Canon you bought.
I think the difference between Lexmark and Canon was supposed to be, at least years ago, that Lexmark's printhead is not on the cartidges, it's part of the printer.
So with all of this, even though I lean towards Canon, in this case it seems the real difference is that you were comparing the cheapest Lexmark versus a non-free Canon.
I, too, have seen the ugly Mac problems that just occur out of nowhere, and dealt with the people who can't do more than turn their Macs on and type Mathematica labs because the machine intimidates them.
Which is why your whole post is hypocritical because "the public is stupid" would explain why one would have trouble with a Windows system in the first place.
There are three labs on two floors. One is the Windows lab (99% use it), a Linux (two people use it), and Macintoshes are never used.
NetFlip.com worked like that. An advertiser would start with an account and choose what to pay per click. So far, sounds like overture, right?
But.. the gimmick was that an equal number of pennies would also go to a user's account! Each person was limited to 10 clicks a day, and visiting the same site more than once in three days would not earn money. You were supposed to look at each site for 20 seconds before continuing.
The non-paid searches were regular ones from dmoz.org.
When I signed up years ago, I was able to get those juicy.05 cent and.04 cent links (as in,.50 cents a day). I made about $17 but then suddenly, there would barely even be ONE CENT links! I guess the users overflowed the number of advertisers, and then as advertisers shrunk their budgets... they dropped this model of business (which was the point of the company since foundation) and went to another part that they did, having you click affilates and sign up for services and get half of the referral fee..
I believe thats what they switched to doing.
I still think that paying users would work, as long as it's not 5 cents but miniscule amounts. Some kind of reward, like 100 people winning $10 dollars every month just for using google at least once a month. So people feel good without trying to beat the system!
Wow, that's an innovative product name. I wonder how good it is? lol
We might find out really soon. Clearly, the Editor knows something we don't, and mistakingly announced nvidia's latest FX card version "Cancelation" (TM) without realizing it.
HA HA HA! This is/., so the two conclusions are false:
1) slashdot announcing something new instead of duplicates from other tech sites (and/. own articles)
The point I was trying to make was it seems the two candidates the people didn't want, in both cases losing in the polls to another candidate, are the ones making these possibly anti-constitutional changes, and I thought we should take note.
I'm sorry if I what I said sounded political, it wasn't meant to be.
If you have clearly more than half of each piece of soiled, worn out, or dirty bills, you can just go to your local bank and exchange them.
Bills damaged by fire, water, chemicals, decay should be sent to Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Office of Currency Standards (OCS), Room 344-PD, Post Office Box 37048, Washington, D.C. 20013 for examination. The bills should also be clearly more than half intact.
How many people realize that this whole Patriot Act Blah Blah to Preserve Freedom and Democracy is being run by the people who WEREN'T even elected in the democratic sense of the word?
I swear to god we need to get republicans out of the white house. I mean, Bush was the best they could come up with? And what idiots chose Bush at the winner of the primaries? OH, the republicans..
And by a fluke, and through republicans, he is president... Bush getting back at America for not voting for him (Gore got more votes), Ashcroft at Missourri for not voting for him (a dead guy got more votes)... In fact, the only person who voted for Ashkroft was Bush when he selected him. And Bush? He wasn't favored himself as I said. This is a sad, sad, thing to realize that the people that America didn't want in state and national government in the first place are trying to take our freedoms away! It's bad enough that not being favored gets you in government, but why screw up the country even more????
When will these two people get a hint? WE DON'T LIKE YOU!!:P (Plus, you'd expect Bush would try to please both sides instead of acting like he won on a landslide instead of receiving less votes !)
that is so scary... I swear to god we need to get republicans out of the white house. I mean, bush was the best they could come up with? And what idiots chose bush at the winner of the primaries? OH, the republicans..
And by a fluke, and through republicans, he is president... Bush getting back at America for not voting for him (Gore got more votes), Ashcroft at Missourri for not voting for him (a dead guy got more votes)... This is a sad, sad, day.
When will these two people get a hint? WE DON'T LIKE YOU!!:P
They BETTER stop recording after the last note. I'm sure RIAA will argue that "applause" is owned by them since it appears on so many tracks.
The RIAA actually has all the bases covered. What about silence?
If the groupies don't know what to make of the last song, and the silence following is recorded, well there goes that Copyright infringement case from the family of the composer of that silent piece case featured on Slashdot. The RIAA would be happy for that.
In the latter case, another reason RIAA will be happy is that the band will sue ClearChannel for adding extra seconds of silence to the end. This would be a copyright-infringing long moment of silence, and the band will argue that ClearChannel both 1) made them liable for the silence infringement 2) convulted their music by adding a part of that copyrighted Silent Piece mentioned earlier, to the end of the recording, thus making it different.
RIAA will be happy because this would mean that ClearChannel tried to sell CDs with "illegal", copyright infringing music on them.
In the final case, that the band will be booed off stage--well, nobody will buy the CD's then, right? So the RIAA will be happy for zero CD sales.
However, ClearChannel will make some money from the CD's, at least. As you can see, even in this case, all three parties will make some money out of this, one way or another:) Believe you me that, you thought it was so simple, didn't you?;x
The best thing that could happen would be to mask tingling in the tongue. Tongues can tell bitterness, sweetness, etc. apart, and the texture of the food, but that's all.
(OT, but BTW: I remember reading some time back that those popular "taste" regions on a tongue aren't really accurate since your whole tongue can taste the difference between bitterness, sweetness, etc.)
SMELL is the key to taste.
slash. posts suggest that spoiled milk could 'taste' delicious, but your tongue is useless at taste unless it is genetically super-calibrated. The way you can 'TASTE' something is with the SMELL before and while the food is in your mouth. If you close your nose and drink spoiled milk with the texture and flow of normal milk, you won't know you did until you get stomach poisoning.
Yes, although bitterness is associated with toxicity (stuff-you-shouldn'-put-in-your-mouth) and it does apply to most everything,, smell is what really tells you if something is bad or not. You won't be able to tell the taste mandarine and an orange, and maybe even an apple and orange (except for texture obviously) if your nose and eyes are closed.
You might have learned this on Bill Nye the Science Guy or by reading a book, or the internet. Or some of us participated in all three.
At 8 o'clock, they lost connection with the shuttle. It was scheduled to land at 8:16 It was last cited 200K miles above northern texas Don't touch waste if found... Not good
Slashdot Mirror
The challenge is to build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a 250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas, 'without external communication or human control.'
:)
Somehow I have the feeling that 99% of the teams competing will try to figure out inventive, creative ways of using and obfuscating 'external communication or human control' as the first step.
These only support the weaker kind of WiFi -- 802.11b.
They will have 802.11g which is both a+b (a is faster speeds) in June according to stuff I've read before.
So if you're interested, remember that.
... the power of bullshit.
..oh, wait...
If we could round up all the politicians in DC, we could power the world.
HA! If that were TRUE, then the force released by combining the power of bullshit with all the politicians in DC would put A WHOLE ENERGY COMPANY out of busine....
...We can build businesses without having to worry that "Internet, Inc." is going to force us to upgrade, double its price once we have bought in, or get taken over by one of our competitors.
HA! If that's true, then explain what these "Internet, Inc." stock certificates are, that I bought online!
I shall have free internet access FOREVER, here and on my MOON property that I also bought online...
If that's truly the last remaining solaris web server, we just slashdotted it.
I guess depending on whether you use a router/firewall or not, and you cable modem internals, this might not work.
;x
See if it works at home or at a neighbor's house.
If it works for anybody, please post what happens cause I won't
People....
THE 'victims' tooks part in the scam, trying to import and export money while avoiding reporting it and paying taxes.
Shouldn't all 150 go to prison? Remember, the fraud of millions is also on Brittain's side of the table with its citizens...
Sport: Volleyball
Reason for Rules: to be fun and competitive
Reason for Game: an alternative to basketball to allow businessmen to compete indoors (they didn't have spiking at the time.)
Reason for team sizes: Six players works out to 12 per game, with 3 up front and 3 in the back. China also uses 3 x 3 x 3 vs 3 x 3 x 3.
Method of scoring: To stay fun
Another reason for method of scoring: switched to rally point scoring to keep the game more predictable (rally means every play somebody gets a point, instead of two horrible teams serving into the net for 2 hours to remain at zero zero... thus easier to calculate times for Television.
There's no inherent reason for most of the "rules", the sizes of the teams, the shape of the ball, the methods of scoring, and so on. With weightlifting, it's just you versus the the fundamental laws of physics. Doesn't get much more interesting than that!
Weight lifting is great, but see if you can find a sport and have to learn it not be ashamed to suck at it at first (the reason why people don't try sports.) To be athletic and to be an animal like the monkeys we were, you need athleticism and to play a sport.
Sport = meet other dedicated people. Sport = learn and help each other. Sport = teamwork. Sport = learning to win and learning to lose. Sport = working your butt off for success (best game ever played etc although loss of tournament, etc.) Sport = improvements motivating you. Sport = fun. Sport = you know every step of the way you're getting better
Since we evolved from gorillas, sports/being active must have been good to humans.
And I have a single cartridge cannon at home, came free with my computer. The output is made by mixing parts together.
The printer I have at school measures color levels, has multiple cartridges (pretty sure), and sounds like the Canon you bought.
I think the difference between Lexmark and Canon was supposed to be, at least years ago, that Lexmark's printhead is not on the cartidges, it's part of the printer.
So with all of this, even though I lean towards Canon, in this case it seems the real difference is that you were comparing the cheapest Lexmark versus a non-free Canon.
I, too, have seen the ugly Mac problems that just occur out of nowhere, and dealt with the people who can't do more than turn their Macs on and type Mathematica labs because the machine intimidates them.
Which is why your whole post is hypocritical because "the public is stupid" would explain why one would have trouble with a Windows system in the first place.
There are three labs on two floors. One is the Windows lab (99% use it), a Linux (two people use it), and Macintoshes are never used.
NetFlip.com worked like that. An advertiser would start with an account and choose what to pay per click. So far, sounds like overture, right?
.05 cent and .04 cent links (as in, .50 cents a day). I made about $17 but then suddenly, there would barely even be ONE CENT links! I guess the users overflowed the number of advertisers, and then as advertisers shrunk their budgets... they dropped this model of business (which was the point of the company since foundation) and went to another part that they did, having you click affilates and sign up for services and get half of the referral fee..
But.. the gimmick was that an equal number of pennies would also go to a user's account! Each person was limited to 10 clicks a day, and visiting the same site more than once in three days would not earn money.
You were supposed to look at each site for 20 seconds before continuing.
The non-paid searches were regular ones from dmoz.org.
When I signed up years ago, I was able to get those juicy
I believe thats what they switched to doing.
I still think that paying users would work, as long as it's not 5 cents but miniscule amounts. Some kind of reward, like 100 people winning $10 dollars every month just for using google at least once a month. So people feel good without trying to beat the system!
Basically, time tested stuff like that will work.
You know the slashdot effect costs money when articles shave LETTERS from the article to save bandwidth.
Wow, that's an innovative product name. I wonder how good it is? lol
/., so the two conclusions are false:
/. own articles)
:)
/.
We might find out really soon. Clearly, the Editor knows something we don't, and mistakingly announced nvidia's latest FX card version "Cancelation" (TM) without realizing it.
HA HA HA! This is
1) slashdot announcing something new instead of duplicates from other tech sites (and
2) an editor who edited the title correctly
3) ???*
4) Profit*
*=Required items on numerical lists posted on
The point I was trying to make was it seems the two candidates the people didn't want, in both cases losing in the polls to another candidate, are the ones making these possibly anti-constitutional changes, and I thought we should take note.
I'm sorry if I what I said sounded political, it wasn't meant to be.
nt
I use JEdit.
.java files, though... I guess you have a point about java applications, then.. :/
But only to edit
If you have clearly more than half of each piece of soiled, worn out, or dirty bills, you can just go to your local bank and exchange them.
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Bills damaged by fire, water, chemicals, decay should be sent to Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Office of Currency Standards (OCS), Room 344-PD, Post Office Box 37048, Washington, D.C. 20013 for examination. The bills should also be clearly more than half intact.
Sources: http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/8/39
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/sal
That is so scary... but true.
:P (Plus, you'd expect Bush would try to please both sides instead of acting like he won on a landslide instead of receiving less votes !)
How many people realize that this whole Patriot Act Blah Blah to Preserve Freedom and Democracy is being run by the people who WEREN'T even elected in the democratic sense of the word?
I swear to god we need to get republicans out of the white house. I mean, Bush was the best they could come up with? And what idiots chose Bush at the winner of the primaries? OH, the republicans..
And by a fluke, and through republicans, he is president... Bush getting back at America for not voting for him (Gore got more votes), Ashcroft at Missourri for not voting for him (a dead guy got more votes)... In fact, the only person who voted for Ashkroft was Bush when he selected him. And Bush? He wasn't favored himself as I said. This is a sad, sad, thing to realize that the people that America didn't want in state and national government in the first place are trying to take our freedoms away! It's bad enough that not being favored gets you in government, but why screw up the country even more????
When will these two people get a hint? WE DON'T LIKE YOU!!
that is so scary... I swear to god we need to get republicans out of the white house. I mean, bush was the best they could come up with? And what idiots chose bush at the winner of the primaries? OH, the republicans..
:P
And by a fluke, and through republicans, he is president... Bush getting back at America for not voting for him (Gore got more votes), Ashcroft at Missourri for not voting for him (a dead guy got more votes)... This is a sad, sad, day.
When will these two people get a hint? WE DON'T LIKE YOU!!
I just thought of doing the first reply thing but you beat me to it
They BETTER stop recording after the last note. I'm sure RIAA will argue that "applause" is owned by them since it appears on so many tracks.
:) Believe you me that, you thought it was so simple, didn't you? ;x
The RIAA actually has all the bases covered. What about silence?
If the groupies don't know what to make of the last song, and the silence following is recorded, well there goes that Copyright infringement case from the family of the composer of that silent piece case featured on Slashdot. The RIAA would be happy for that.
In the latter case, another reason RIAA will be happy is that the band will sue ClearChannel for adding extra seconds of silence to the end. This would be a copyright-infringing long moment of silence, and the band will argue that ClearChannel both 1) made them liable for the silence infringement 2) convulted their music by adding a part of that copyrighted Silent Piece mentioned earlier, to the end of the recording, thus making it different.
RIAA will be happy because this would mean that ClearChannel tried to sell CDs with "illegal", copyright infringing music on them.
In the final case, that the band will be booed off stage--well, nobody will buy the CD's then, right? So the RIAA will be happy for zero CD sales.
However, ClearChannel will make some money from the CD's, at least. As you can see, even in this case, all three parties will make some money out of this, one way or another
....to eliminate all the dupe stories
The best thing that could happen would be to mask tingling in the tongue. Tongues can tell bitterness, sweetness, etc. apart, and the texture of the food, but that's all.
(OT, but BTW: I remember reading some time back that those popular "taste" regions on a tongue aren't really accurate since your whole tongue can taste the difference between bitterness, sweetness, etc.)
SMELL is the key to taste.
slash. posts suggest that spoiled milk could 'taste' delicious, but your tongue is useless at taste unless it is genetically super-calibrated. The way you can 'TASTE' something is with the SMELL before and while the food is in your mouth. If you close your nose and drink spoiled milk with the texture and flow of normal milk, you won't know you did until you get stomach poisoning.
Yes, although bitterness is associated with toxicity (stuff-you-shouldn'-put-in-your-mouth) and it does apply to most everything,, smell is what really tells you if something is bad or not. You won't be able to tell the taste mandarine and an orange, and maybe even an apple and orange (except for texture obviously) if your nose and eyes are closed.
You might have learned this on Bill Nye the Science Guy or by reading a book, or the internet. Or some of us participated in all three.
Follow this lab:
Here's a link to a 4th grade lab assignment on this.
In post-Soviet Russia, ISS escape capsule saves YOU!
A voiceover just said
...
At 8 o'clock, they lost connection with the shuttle.
It was scheduled to land at 8:16
It was last cited 200K miles above northern texas
Don't touch waste if found
Not good