Why not have it filter out the organic material (bugs, spiders, slugs, small mammals, etc), put it into a fermentation container to generate methane, which it could then use later to generate energy to charge its batteries?
Reminds me of a another bot that's out there somewhere in planning: a slugbot:-)
ought to go out on nights, search for slugs (i think it was by IR...), pick em up (container->ferment->energy). Although i'm not quite sure what area the robot was developed for.... Farms? nah....
What problem?? If you create a system for idiots, only idiots will want to use it.
No, the sentence runs this way: If you make a system idiot-proof, a new generations of idiots will evolve...
To be serious: extactly THAT is the problem! To create a system that is useable by idiots, lusers, newbies... AND is usable by "normal geeks".-) it may be somewhere about a system (like linux) with tons of good, guiding help applets all around... But it's a massive problem, surely hard (if not impossible) to solve...
Don't know anything about these false memories of yours. Memories don't change over time, but the way we retrieve them can.
Well - what do we really know about the way the brain stores information?
To me the two things: "Memories" as itself and "the way we retrieve memories" are pretty much the same - Memories are stored in that a complex manner, aren't they? And doesn't the way we inteprete (retrieve) that complex pattern is as much of the memory as the memory itself?
The biggest single thing you can to to improve performance is to make the game your window manager. Just make your.Xclients file a link to the game binary. Or, even simpler: start X with xinit/full/path/to/game/binary - initializes X11, and starts the client you specified. (a window manager in general...)
minimize the effect or anything except memory intensive background programs. Or I/O intensive background... it SO bloats a (E)IDE System - UDMA doesn't help that much:-(
In all seriousness, as cool as the Replay and Tivo are, I already use my VCR the way they would. Any of my regular shows, I tape. This way, 1) I can't be interrupted by a phone call (I can always pause it), and 2) I can watch an hour of TV in 45 minutes. I recycle the same few tapes for my regular weekly episodes. How would my life be changed by digital VCRs?
AFAIK one thing you can benefit from these digital VCRs is you can overlap real-broadcast and viewing (you could at least with one machine ive seen an preview of)
That says you may as well watch any show at the time they broadcast it (or generally 15minutes later), skip over Commercials and hit "PAUSE" for a phone call..
Speaking of commercial breaks - the german magazine CT has shown a way to let the computer decide wether the now broadcasted program is a commercial break or not. Wether one could hack such a dedection into an digital VCR direct ? (instead of having the PC watch TV and doing remote signals...)
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Why not have it filter out the organic material (bugs, spiders, slugs, small mammals, etc), put it into a fermentation container to generate methane, which it could then use later to generate energy to charge its batteries?
Reminds me of a another bot that's out there somewhere in planning: a slugbot :-)
ought to go out on nights, search for slugs (i think it was by IR...), pick em up (container->ferment->energy). Although i'm not quite sure what area the robot was developed for.... Farms? nah....
Tschö, DThought
No, the sentence runs this way: If you make a system idiot-proof, a new generations of idiots will evolve...
To be serious:
extactly THAT is the problem! To create a system that is useable by idiots, lusers, newbies...
AND is usable by "normal geeks"
it may be somewhere about a system (like linux) with tons of good, guiding help applets all around... But it's a massive problem, surely hard (if not impossible) to solve...
Don't know anything about these false memories of yours. Memories don't change over time, but the way we retrieve them can.
Well - what do we really know about the way the brain stores information?
To me the two things: "Memories" as itself and "the way we retrieve memories" are pretty much the same -
Memories are stored in that a complex manner, aren't they?
And doesn't the way we inteprete (retrieve) that complex pattern is as much of the memory as the memory itself?
The biggest single thing you can to to improve performance is to make the game your window manager. Just make your .Xclients file a link to the game binary. /full/path/to/game/binary
:-(
Or, even simpler:
start X with
xinit
- initializes X11, and starts the client you specified. (a window manager in general...)
minimize the effect or anything except memory intensive background programs.
Or I/O intensive background...
it SO bloats a (E)IDE System - UDMA doesn't help that much
In all seriousness, as cool as the Replay and Tivo are, I already use my VCR the way they would. Any of my regular shows, I tape. This way, 1) I can't be interrupted by a phone call (I can always pause it), and 2) I can watch an hour of TV in 45 minutes. I recycle the same few tapes for my regular weekly episodes. How would my life be changed by digital VCRs?
AFAIK one thing you can benefit from these digital VCRs is you can overlap real-broadcast and viewing (you could at least with one machine ive seen an preview of)
That says you may as well watch any show at the time they broadcast it (or generally 15minutes later), skip over Commercials and hit "PAUSE" for a phone call..
Speaking of commercial breaks - the german magazine CT has shown a way to let the computer decide wether the now broadcasted program is a commercial break or not. Wether one could hack such a dedection into an digital VCR direct ? (instead of having the PC watch TV and doing remote signals...)