Here is another excellent paper. Unfortunately, this publication is no longer active but it should be possible to locate it at a university library or though inter-library loan. There are follow-up essays on this paper in the same issue.
Goodman MJ, Tijerina L, Bents FD, Wierwille WW. Using cellular telephones in vehicles: safe or unsafe? Transportation Human Factors, 1(1), 3-42, 1999.
The authors listed above are very well respected. On a related note, the journal mentioned in the story (Human Factors) is a solid technical publication. Their threshold is pretty high.
The problem with many Slashdot posts is that both their writers and readers expect a formula. They don't want to be challenged, instead, they want to have the ideas swirling in the writer's head synthesized and explained. But critical thought, in its truest form, should be something that inspires others to think critically, not just accept what has been handed to them.
Something similar happened to me after a Bolo marathon. Those of you who know the game will remember the angles you could use with the grid buildings to shoot at pillboxes safely. I was walking home that night and the world seemed like a grid. I kept positioning myself to take pillbox angles using trees as shields when nearing doors to buildings. Every pedestrian seemed to be wearing green...
I was staying with a guy who lived near a large computer company's regional office. He secured it and set up the SSID to look like one of theirs -14A253 or something like that. He thought it would be fun to see who tried to break in.
The better (top 40-50 in the US) graduate schools exist primarily to create more professors.
Actually, this may appear to be the case from your perspective in grad school, but the cold hard truth is that there are very few faculty openings. There are often well over 100 applications for each mid/top-level open faculty position. Admittedly, the top schools do have a higher hit rate which will improve your odds. However, the dirty little secret of all PhD programs is that the bulk of the PhDs will spend their careers as staff researchers in various academic, government, and industry labs.
FED has already been used for flat panel screens. Specifically: field emission displays. Worth noting is that these, while very neat, turned out to be fiscally problematic (hence the need for the Wayback Machine). Not a good omen for this incarnation...
Kind of inelegant, but you could have a script that tweaks the permitted MAC address table dynamically ("The time is 11 o'clock, you are offline NOW!"). Of course, this could mean resetting the router/switch regularly, depending on the product he uses. Of course, this assumes the kids have a different computer(s) than the folks.
Unplugging the WAN cord on the router works too but is more indiscriminate.
I used to use an old IBM with a card mounted hard drive. If anyone turned off the computer the drive would seize up and fail to spin. I'd have to crack the case, pull the card and give it a few good rotating snaps to eliminate the stiction. This was one case where shaking the drive was a -good- thing.
If you want a real drowsiness detector, go get one of these. It watches your eyes, not the road. As such, it actually measures drowsiness directly rather than something that is affected by drowsiness.
Disclaimer: I worked on a project related to this Carnegie Mellon spin-off before it became a product.
But this will never be a mainstream product in our society. Too many lawyers and other disinterested parties (such as insurance companies).
This is actually pretty close to the truth. This is a major reason why Adaptive Cruise Control is being sold by OEMs as a "convenience" feature rather than a safety benefit. Another major factor is that many of these systems rely on rather expensive sensors (from a car component perspective). Consumer willingness to plunk down thousands of dollars to enable their car with these systems is not present except for the luxury models.
...prefering to try to fix the child's deafness...
This is yet another potential flame inducer, but it illustrates that the general public has no idea that deaf population does not speak with one voice on the issue of communication and disability.
If you are interested in the debate over oral (often with a cochlear implant) and sign you should check out the critically acclaimed documentary Sound and Fury. The linked website also has all sorts of related information.
... we shouldn't teach anything but ASL to Deaf children...
Before the Parent gets flamed for this, I should point out a key syntax choice here. There are also many diverse subgroups within the deaf community, one of which is the Deaf (capital D) subgroup. Members of this group tend to be particularly oriented on ASL as a means of communication. Most people incorrectly assume the Deaf subgroup represents all members of the deaf population since it is very vocal (figuratively speaking) and highly visible.
Worth noting is that there are other subgroups in the deaf population who favor other educational and communication options; e.g., oral (speech and lipreading), aural (speech and residual hearing supplemented by lipreading), cued speech (like aural and oral, but with signs near the mouth for clarification of hard to distinguish phonemes), Signed English (sign, but in the syntax of english), etc. Some of these subgroups are so integrated into the mainstream society that those around them may not even realize they are deaf.
An additional point of clarification: ASL is definitely not english. The syntax is rather different, thus leading to the occasional moment of confusion when communicating in written english. This sometimes propagates the stereotype that all people who are deaf have lower reading skills.
... robot lander that could walk effectively (and efficiently)...
Efficiency is the crux of the problem. Legs are incredibly inefficient compared to wheels and until the on-board power problem is handled in an acceptable manner, you won't see a lot of legged robots too far away from an outlet.
Having said that, this is where RHEX shines. Since the legs spin like wheels they have a real advantage compared to traditional walking robots in power savings. As an aside, the thing also moves pretty fast. Again, an advantage over most walking robots and a lot like a wheel oriented solution.
Oh yeah, kids and dogs love it too. It was like the pied piper at a demo day earlier this summer.
So that's 1,768,251 sq km of farmland, 3% of which is 53048 sq km... Don't want to be down on wind power or anything, but there's still quite the engineering challenge here.
Post-Customer Trip Specialist
Job code: VC-15x9
Job duties: Return plane interior to pre-trip state, including walls, ceilings, and seats.
Requirements: No allergies to cleaning products.
My high school physics teacher had problems every Halloween with kids blowing up his mailbox with fireworks. He finally took a laser home from school, set up some mirrors and ringed his mailbox with laser tripwires. This was hooked up to a freakin' loud alarm. You get the picture.
If you wanted to take it a step further, you could set up strobe lamps and a camera like the intersection ticket boxes. Multiple view angles would help in case the person has their back to the camera. That way, when the police came by you could hand them glossies and a DV tape of the guy.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is another excellent paper. Unfortunately, this publication is no longer active but it should be possible to locate it at a university library or though inter-library loan. There are follow-up essays on this paper in the same issue.
Goodman MJ, Tijerina L, Bents FD, Wierwille WW. Using cellular telephones in vehicles: safe or unsafe? Transportation Human Factors, 1(1), 3-42, 1999.
The authors listed above are very well respected. On a related note, the journal mentioned in the story (Human Factors) is a solid technical publication. Their threshold is pretty high.
The problem with many Slashdot posts is that both their writers and readers expect a formula. They don't want to be challenged, instead, they want to have the ideas swirling in the writer's head synthesized and explained. But critical thought, in its truest form, should be something that inspires others to think critically, not just accept what has been handed to them.
Something similar happened to me after a Bolo marathon. Those of you who know the game will remember the angles you could use with the grid buildings to shoot at pillboxes safely. I was walking home that night and the world seemed like a grid. I kept positioning myself to take pillbox angles using trees as shields when nearing doors to buildings. Every pedestrian seemed to be wearing green...
I was staying with a guy who lived near a large computer company's regional office. He secured it and set up the SSID to look like one of theirs -14A253 or something like that. He thought it would be fun to see who tried to break in.
The better (top 40-50 in the US) graduate schools exist primarily to create more professors.
Actually, this may appear to be the case from your perspective in grad school, but the cold hard truth is that there are very few faculty openings. There are often well over 100 applications for each mid/top-level open faculty position. Admittedly, the top schools do have a higher hit rate which will improve your odds. However, the dirty little secret of all PhD programs is that the bulk of the PhDs will spend their careers as staff researchers in various academic, government, and industry labs.
Clearly someone who has never experienced the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
FED has already been used for flat panel screens. Specifically: field emission displays. Worth noting is that these, while very neat, turned out to be fiscally problematic (hence the need for the Wayback Machine). Not a good omen for this incarnation...
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:+google
This announcement is not a huge surprise. FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL) is on the same block as PARC. FX as in Fuji Xerox.
Kind of inelegant, but you could have a script that tweaks the permitted MAC address table dynamically ("The time is 11 o'clock, you are offline NOW!"). Of course, this could mean resetting the router/switch regularly, depending on the product he uses. Of course, this assumes the kids have a different computer(s) than the folks.
Unplugging the WAN cord on the router works too but is more indiscriminate.
I used to use an old IBM with a card mounted hard drive. If anyone turned off the computer the drive would seize up and fail to spin. I'd have to crack the case, pull the card and give it a few good rotating snaps to eliminate the stiction. This was one case where shaking the drive was a -good- thing.
Based on this query you may be interested in:
If you want a real drowsiness detector, go get one of these. It watches your eyes, not the road. As such, it actually measures drowsiness directly rather than something that is affected by drowsiness.
Disclaimer: I worked on a project related to this Carnegie Mellon spin-off before it became a product.
I know acronyms are a fact of life but I think my brain is starting to overload on them.
I guess you're SOL.
Honestly, the technology exists right now to automatically drive my car along a freeway.
Carnegie Mellon's: No Hands Across America
UC Berkeley's platoon of cars at Demo '97
But this will never be a mainstream product in our society. Too many lawyers and other disinterested parties (such as insurance companies).
This is actually pretty close to the truth. This is a major reason why Adaptive Cruise Control is being sold by OEMs as a "convenience" feature rather than a safety benefit. Another major factor is that many of these systems rely on rather expensive sensors (from a car component perspective). Consumer willingness to plunk down thousands of dollars to enable their car with these systems is not present except for the luxury models.
Yeah, real crazy.
This is yet another potential flame inducer, but it illustrates that the general public has no idea that deaf population does not speak with one voice on the issue of communication and disability.
If you are interested in the debate over oral (often with a cochlear implant) and sign you should check out the critically acclaimed documentary Sound and Fury. The linked website also has all sorts of related information.
Before the Parent gets flamed for this, I should point out a key syntax choice here. There are also many diverse subgroups within the deaf community, one of which is the Deaf (capital D) subgroup. Members of this group tend to be particularly oriented on ASL as a means of communication. Most people incorrectly assume the Deaf subgroup represents all members of the deaf population since it is very vocal (figuratively speaking) and highly visible.
Worth noting is that there are other subgroups in the deaf population who favor other educational and communication options; e.g., oral (speech and lipreading), aural (speech and residual hearing supplemented by lipreading), cued speech (like aural and oral, but with signs near the mouth for clarification of hard to distinguish phonemes), Signed English (sign, but in the syntax of english), etc. Some of these subgroups are so integrated into the mainstream society that those around them may not even realize they are deaf.
An additional point of clarification: ASL is definitely not english. The syntax is rather different, thus leading to the occasional moment of confusion when communicating in written english. This sometimes propagates the stereotype that all people who are deaf have lower reading skills.
Efficiency is the crux of the problem. Legs are incredibly inefficient compared to wheels and until the on-board power problem is handled in an acceptable manner, you won't see a lot of legged robots too far away from an outlet.
Having said that, this is where RHEX shines. Since the legs spin like wheels they have a real advantage compared to traditional walking robots in power savings. As an aside, the thing also moves pretty fast. Again, an advantage over most walking robots and a lot like a wheel oriented solution.
Oh yeah, kids and dogs love it too. It was like the pied piper at a demo day earlier this summer.
It will be ugly all right,
Doubtful, CMU has a pretty serious push in recent history towards a common aesthetic look to the campus.
Now, if 20,000 large doesn't freshen your breath to CERT, dunno what will.
Actually CERT is within SEI which is pretty much a free-standing entity.
Prior art.
So that's 1,768,251 sq km of farmland, 3% of which is 53048 sq km... Don't want to be down on wind power or anything, but there's still quite the engineering challenge here.
That's about half the size of Tennessee.
Post-Customer Trip Specialist
Job code: VC-15x9
Job duties: Return plane interior to pre-trip state, including walls, ceilings, and seats.
Requirements: No allergies to cleaning products.
My high school physics teacher had problems every Halloween with kids blowing up his mailbox with fireworks. He finally took a laser home from school, set up some mirrors and ringed his mailbox with laser tripwires. This was hooked up to a freakin' loud alarm. You get the picture.
If you wanted to take it a step further, you could set up strobe lamps and a camera like the intersection ticket boxes. Multiple view angles would help in case the person has their back to the camera. That way, when the police came by you could hand them glossies and a DV tape of the guy.