The "it's in Hawai'i" info was for the benefit of other readers. Readers less delightedly in the know than the parent poster can find out more about UKIRT at the homepage. Also check out the other stuff going on at the (Anglo-Canadian-Dutch) Joint Astronomy Centre.
Hey, I'm sorry for the flame, and particularly the name calling. I'd mail you personally to apologize if I could. I saw red after reading this thread and lost my cool.
This topic interests me though. I'm an H-1B myself. I work at a research lab that stopped hiring non-citizens after 9/11 and we have a staffing problem. I'm leaving what has become an awkwardly restrictive environment, and am having a really hard time finding someone to hire into my post.
If you look around the top CS departments in the US, you'll find a real scarcity of talented homegrown graduate students. I'm hoping this is a temporary phenomenon; perhaps most citizens went for great jobs in the 'net boom and we're in a slump before those bright start-up people get out of the grad schools they re-entered when the bubble burst. However, right now the institutions that can not use the H1 program such as NASA, nuclear labs, etc. have a hard time finding qualified people. Simultaneously, a large proportion of the DARPA/ONR/Air Force funded University research is being executed by great quality Indian, Chinese, German, South African, Brazilian, etc.grad students. Professors would love to get hold of smart American science grad students, as there are dollars there for the taking. They are absolutely NOT being crowded out by foreigners in this area. Rather, there just aren't enough local people available.
Meanwhile there is clearly a situation out there where people feel that foreigners without exceptional skills are taking their jobs. The main claim on this thread seems to be that employers exploit the H1 program to get staff that will accept lower wages. This is a little wierd because those H1s live in the same city, go to the same movies, maybe even send some cash home. How can they afford to so this if the citizens can not? Perhaps the expectations of the locals have been raised a little high? Perhaps one episode of Friends too many? The labor certification process requires that H1 salaries are reasonable. None of the many H1s I know does badly.
Isn't honest-to-goodness competition a good thing? Most Americans perceive themselves to have many advantages over other people. So, compete. America is a hard-working culture. If the education system is letting you down, use your votes and tax dollars to fix it. If the corporations are behaving immorally, use your personal spending to tell 'em what you think.
I thought it was a great American tradition to Let the Market Decide. That 'bunch' of 'H1-Bs' (skilled workers) were obviously a better deal for the company. I guess your family sprouted from the ground in North America, rather than coming here looking for work?
but hey! you manage to be racist and war mongering in the same post! way to go for double fascist points, asshole!
Ah, the United States of America. The richest country in the world. In which people are genuinely and reasonably afraid that if they lose their job they will be out in the street begging for quarters.
What does this society spend its money on, if not looking after each other? Surely they wouldn't want to spend, say, $87 billion on some other project this year while Sarah begs for change?
I agree absolutely, and that is very worrying. I still think she fumbled the point by saying that all models are two-way so they could not help but read and write. Over-generalization and false statements weaken their important argument.
I found that interview very interesting, but was a little surprised right at the end when Harris said that all modems are 2-way, so that if they could download this data, they could just as easily upload their own altered data. She implied they could alter the voting data this way.
Even non-geek listeners should be aware that the ability to read some data does not imply the ability to write over that data. Most people's experience of the web is a read-only affair. I felt it was misleading FUD to tell the audience that read implies write. Even if the voting machines allow fetches by good-old-fashioned FTP, there is no reason it assume it would take any less than a full-scale hack to upload altered voting data.
That's quite insulting to the millions of Americans to whom English is a second language. The 1950s view of American monoculture is dating fast, at least down the coasts.
if there was an OSS replacement fine. but it isn't the be all, end all. sorry. unless you're RMS or something, everything isn't about software philosophy.
Right, like freedom isn't the be all, end all, unless you're Ghandi, or Martin Luther King. Exercising a little software philosophy helps make sure great quality, diverse, user-empowering, cheap software continues to be made. It sounds like you don't mind benefitting from it, so why not join in?
My lab just bought several Dell boxes with RedHat 8.0 and HP boxes with Mandrake 9.0 pre-installed, including support contracts. The Dell boxes were US$1500+, but the HPs were all less than US$1000.
So some OEMs are ready right now and I was happy to buy from them.
Simulation is used extensively. Several of the researchers mentioned in the article use the (GPL'ed - try 'em yourself) Player/Stage tools for robot control and simulation.
But using real robots is a vital reality check.
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If you want to run Linux, think seriously about getting the Intel mobo version. Linux nForce support is not great. Too many things don't work. It's a nice Windows box, if a little loud with the Athlon space-heater inside.
The Player/Stage Project makes the Player server, a networked interface to lots of robot hardware, and Stage a multiple robot simulator that uses the Player interface. All the code is GPL, managed from Sourceforge, and has been funded largely by DARPA, via USC Robotics Research Labs and HRL Labs from the start.
P/S is used by research labs all over the world, as well as by several DARPA funded projects in the US. The program manager (an official agent of the Man) has always been extremely cool about the OS nature of the project. He immediately understood that by staying OS we could pool the resources of hundreds of researchers, most of whom were not being paid by DARPA, to solve a pressing need for network-friendly robot interfaces and re-usable code. A good deal for everyone.
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Just like Mercedes doesn't sell well to single people under the age of 25 You didn't go to USC or UCLA did ya?
Key difference is the lack of DVI out. The 12" PB allows you to use a spiffy Apple display (with a DVI-ADC converter).
From the article: [W]e are already quite sure that this release could potentially be one of the best ever from the MandrakeSoft team.
Already? You reached that firm conclusion so quickly?
The "it's in Hawai'i" info was for the benefit of other readers. Readers less delightedly in the know than the parent poster can find out more about UKIRT at the homepage. Also check out the other stuff going on at the (Anglo-Canadian-Dutch) Joint Astronomy Centre.
...because UKIRT is on top of Mauna Kea on Hawai'i.
Around the same time, HRL demonstrated the first laser. Busy people.
The ion engine was invented at HRL Laboratories in California in 1961 funded by NASA. HRL continued to work on the engine into the 70's.
Hey, I'm sorry for the flame, and particularly the name calling. I'd mail you personally to apologize if I could. I saw red after reading this thread and lost my cool.
This topic interests me though. I'm an H-1B myself. I work at a research lab that stopped hiring non-citizens after 9/11 and we have a staffing problem. I'm leaving what has become an awkwardly restrictive environment, and am having a really hard time finding someone to hire into my post.
If you look around the top CS departments in the US, you'll find a real scarcity of talented homegrown graduate students. I'm hoping this is a temporary phenomenon; perhaps most citizens went for great jobs in the 'net boom and we're in a slump before those bright start-up people get out of the grad schools they re-entered when the bubble burst. However, right now the institutions that can not use the H1 program such as NASA, nuclear labs, etc. have a hard time finding qualified people. Simultaneously, a large proportion of the DARPA/ONR/Air Force funded University research is being executed by great quality Indian, Chinese, German, South African, Brazilian, etc.grad students. Professors would love to get hold of smart American science grad students, as there are dollars there for the taking. They are absolutely NOT being crowded out by foreigners in this area. Rather, there just aren't enough local people available.
Meanwhile there is clearly a situation out there where people feel that foreigners without exceptional skills are taking their jobs. The main claim on this thread seems to be that employers exploit the H1 program to get staff that will accept lower wages. This is a little wierd because those H1s live in the same city, go to the same movies, maybe even send some cash home. How can they afford to so this if the citizens can not? Perhaps the expectations of the locals have been raised a little high? Perhaps one episode of Friends too many? The labor certification process requires that H1 salaries are reasonable. None of the many H1s I know does badly.
Isn't honest-to-goodness competition a good thing? Most Americans perceive themselves to have many advantages over other people. So, compete. America is a hard-working culture. If the education system is letting you down, use your votes and tax dollars to fix it. If the corporations are behaving immorally, use your personal spending to tell 'em what you think.
I thought it was a great American tradition to Let the Market Decide. That 'bunch' of 'H1-Bs' (skilled workers) were obviously a better deal for the company. I guess your family sprouted from the ground in North America, rather than coming here looking for work?
but hey! you manage to be racist and war mongering in the same post! way to go for double fascist points, asshole!
Ah, the United States of America. The richest country in the world. In which people are genuinely and reasonably afraid that if they lose their job they will be out in the street begging for quarters.
What does this society spend its money on, if not looking after each other? Surely they wouldn't want to spend, say, $87 billion on some other project this year while Sarah begs for change?
The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab at the University of the West of England has demonstrated a robot doing phototaxis, powered entirely by a microbial fuel cell.
I agree absolutely, and that is very worrying. I still think she fumbled the point by saying that all models are two-way so they could not help but read and write. Over-generalization and false statements weaken their important argument.
I found that interview very interesting, but was a little surprised right at the end when Harris said that all modems are 2-way, so that if they could download this data, they could just as easily upload their own altered data. She implied they could alter the voting data this way.
Even non-geek listeners should be aware that the ability to read some data does not imply the ability to write over that data. Most people's experience of the web is a read-only affair. I felt it was misleading FUD to tell the audience that read implies write. Even if the voting machines allow fetches by good-old-fashioned FTP, there is no reason it assume it would take any less than a full-scale hack to upload altered voting data.
Hmmm. The oil is on top because it's less dense and therefore probably more difficult to walk on than the water.
Yes I know the parent is a gag, but this is pedant^d^d^d^d^dslashdot.org after all.
That's quite insulting to the millions of Americans to whom English is a second language. The 1950s view of American monoculture is dating fast, at least down the coasts.
Right, like freedom isn't the be all, end all, unless you're Ghandi, or Martin Luther King. Exercising a little software philosophy helps make sure great quality, diverse, user-empowering, cheap software continues to be made. It sounds like you don't mind benefitting from it, so why not join in?
My lab just bought several Dell boxes with RedHat 8.0 and HP boxes with Mandrake 9.0 pre-installed, including support contracts. The Dell boxes were US$1500+, but the HPs were all less than US$1000.
So some OEMs are ready right now and I was happy to buy from them.
But using real robots is a vital reality check.
If you want to run Linux, think seriously about getting the Intel mobo version. Linux nForce support is not great. Too many things don't work. It's a nice Windows box, if a little loud with the Athlon space-heater inside.
It's Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic). Richard Reed is the Shoe Bomber and not very super.
Of course, The World is produced by PRI, not NPR. Sorry.
This release renders NPR's The World correctly for the first time.
One nice Safari feature is the two-click procedure to report a broken page to Apple. The World is the only page I ever had to report. Now I am happy.
because it could turn out very badly...
Not so. RTV is a robot researcher who urges you not to build evil robots.
P/S is used by research labs all over the world, as well as by several DARPA funded projects in the US. The program manager (an official agent of the Man) has always been extremely cool about the OS nature of the project. He immediately understood that by staying OS we could pool the resources of hundreds of researchers, most of whom were not being paid by DARPA, to solve a pressing need for network-friendly robot interfaces and re-usable code. A good deal for everyone.