Also, let it be known that it wasn't us (UT Austin Villa) that played the Germans, but the team from CMU (CMDash).
Also, let it be known that in the world competition, the German teams all combine to form one team of about 80 people from many different universities around Germany. They have a very structured codebase (I believe the use a lot of XML to define behaviors and motions) that they all work on. Don't crown the German Team too quickly though, there are some mighty good teams from Australia too, one of which gave the German Team a serious run for their money in last year's RoboCup finals.
Fast. Free. Efficient. Frugal with the CPU. What else do you need?
How about 5 times the storage space? If I encoded all my CDs with FLAC, not only would I have hardly anything on my Rio Karma, but my entire hard drive would be filled.
At Robocup 2004 in Lisbon, there were a lot of teams that arrived late to the competition. Many of us had booked our flights on Continental, and we had all been delayed by bad weather in Newark. Thus, when I was setting up our team's wireless network and noticed that there was already one called "FuckContinental", I nearly died laughing.
I love CDex. It's one of the few programs I install immediately whenever I install Windows somewhere (along with OO.o and Firefox/T-Bird). A great way to rip your CDs to Ogg/MP3/whatever you want. And completely Free.
I would gladly accept a lower resolution on my camera phone if the lens would be better. There's no way they're going to sell me an N-megapixel camera on my phone until it comes with a decent lens. My 4 year old Olympus digital still takes pictures that look better than ANY camera phone I've seen, and that's all because it has a decent lens.
The problem with the camera phone industry is that it is suffering from the same problem as the CPU industry was - for CPUs it was all about MHz, now it's all about megapixels.
With this new engine, it seems that an inexpensive trip to Mars is now firmly within our grasp. Will we rise to the challenge?
There are so many other things standing in our way before we get to Mars, it's not even funny. Do you seriously think that we only need a good rocket to get to Mars? There's no way any trip to Mars in the next 50 years will be considered "inexpensive".
The two-party system was designed implicitly, not explicitly. You won't find a mention anywhere of "There shall be 2 parties" or anything like that.
Simply by having a "winner-take-all" scenario for most things and requiring majorities in certain places, the 2 party system falls out pretty naturally. In other countries, where there is more proportional representation, more parties spring up. We have lots of little parties in the US, but most of the time they don't matter at all. Certainly, the framers wanted there to be alternatives in cases of dire need (and that has been helpful in the past - usually either the new party sucks up one of the old parties or the new party disbands when one of the old parties addresses their issue). In any case, the behavior of our system is actually a quite natural result of the way things were set up - it's not a big conspiracy or anything.
LaTeX is a horrible standard for Office documents. It's great for producing a finished product, ready to be printed with professional typesetting, but for things that need to be constantly edited or spreadsheets (hello!), it terribly unwieldy. Business execs don't have time to look at raw marked-up text and compile it in their heads while trying to edit it.
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problem is that they have YET to design a sensor like our inner-ear to detect balance and orientation.
It's called an accelerometer, and not only have they designed it, but they have it in the Sony AIBOs that we use for RoboCup soccer. I'm not saying they're perfect, or even that we know how to use the information from them very effectively. But they do exist.
The way the system is designed currently, any communications failures can cause no more harm than a slow-down. No accidents will result from communications failures.
-Kurt
People often bring this up, but I just remind them that you can already to that. Take your car, and go run a bunch of red lights, or drive the wrong way down the freeway. You already have the capacity to mess everything up.
-Kurt
Actually, this is just our preliminary work in this area. We already have ideas for allowing human drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to use the system, but we haven't implemented them yet. Additionally, we definitely plan on trying to incorporate some sort of fault tolerance, but right now this is just a start.
We also think that turning will be feasible to implement. The technique should extend rather nicely. Again, we just haven't done it yet.
At some point I will post the OOo presentation I gave at the conference from the website, in case any of you want to see the things that were discussed (although briefly) that didn't make the paper. I will also post the official version of the paper.
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Also, let it be known that it wasn't us (UT Austin Villa) that played the Germans, but the team from CMU (CMDash).
Also, let it be known that in the world competition, the German teams all combine to form one team of about 80 people from many different universities around Germany. They have a very structured codebase (I believe the use a lot of XML to define behaviors and motions) that they all work on. Don't crown the German Team too quickly though, there are some mighty good teams from Australia too, one of which gave the German Team a serious run for their money in last year's RoboCup finals.
Looking at the store, it seems they dropped the price on their 20" cinema display by $200 too. Now only $800!
But technically, I ain't making any major errors in this sentance.
Except for the misspelling of "sentence."
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If you have 12 IDE drives you can't seriously have quiet as a major priority. :o)
Is when will GratisInternet be giving them away for free?
Speaking of which....
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Sign up and complete an offer and I'll paypal you $5!
No, no, no. You're going to have to make "Regain monopoly" step 2.5, because step 3 is "Profit".
Fast. Free. Efficient. Frugal with the CPU. What else do you need?
How about 5 times the storage space? If I encoded all my CDs with FLAC, not only would I have hardly anything on my Rio Karma, but my entire hard drive would be filled.
At Robocup 2004 in Lisbon, there were a lot of teams that arrived late to the competition. Many of us had booked our flights on Continental, and we had all been delayed by bad weather in Newark. Thus, when I was setting up our team's wireless network and noticed that there was already one called "FuckContinental", I nearly died laughing.
I love CDex. It's one of the few programs I install immediately whenever I install Windows somewhere (along with OO.o and Firefox/T-Bird). A great way to rip your CDs to Ogg/MP3/whatever you want. And completely Free.
Well, you could theoretically use that home theater equipment to play your video games too...
You dumb shit - the article doesn't even mention Firefox. Take your stupid ass flame-baiting elsewhere.
I would gladly accept a lower resolution on my camera phone if the lens would be better. There's no way they're going to sell me an N-megapixel camera on my phone until it comes with a decent lens. My 4 year old Olympus digital still takes pictures that look better than ANY camera phone I've seen, and that's all because it has a decent lens. The problem with the camera phone industry is that it is suffering from the same problem as the CPU industry was - for CPUs it was all about MHz, now it's all about megapixels.
Yeah, I would have modded you up too. Some people just don't understand subtle humor.
With this new engine, it seems that an inexpensive trip to Mars is now firmly within our grasp. Will we rise to the challenge?
There are so many other things standing in our way before we get to Mars, it's not even funny. Do you seriously think that we only need a good rocket to get to Mars? There's no way any trip to Mars in the next 50 years will be considered "inexpensive".
The two-party system was designed implicitly, not explicitly. You won't find a mention anywhere of "There shall be 2 parties" or anything like that. Simply by having a "winner-take-all" scenario for most things and requiring majorities in certain places, the 2 party system falls out pretty naturally. In other countries, where there is more proportional representation, more parties spring up. We have lots of little parties in the US, but most of the time they don't matter at all. Certainly, the framers wanted there to be alternatives in cases of dire need (and that has been helpful in the past - usually either the new party sucks up one of the old parties or the new party disbands when one of the old parties addresses their issue). In any case, the behavior of our system is actually a quite natural result of the way things were set up - it's not a big conspiracy or anything.
LaTeX is a horrible standard for Office documents. It's great for producing a finished product, ready to be printed with professional typesetting, but for things that need to be constantly edited or spreadsheets (hello!), it terribly unwieldy. Business execs don't have time to look at raw marked-up text and compile it in their heads while trying to edit it.
problem is that they have YET to design a sensor like our inner-ear to detect balance and orientation. It's called an accelerometer, and not only have they designed it, but they have it in the Sony AIBOs that we use for RoboCup soccer. I'm not saying they're perfect, or even that we know how to use the information from them very effectively. But they do exist.
Hell, give it 1000 tries. Nobody is going to get their own password wrong 1000 times in a row.
The way the system is designed currently, any communications failures can cause no more harm than a slow-down. No accidents will result from communications failures. -Kurt
People often bring this up, but I just remind them that you can already to that. Take your car, and go run a bunch of red lights, or drive the wrong way down the freeway. You already have the capacity to mess everything up. -Kurt
Actually, this is just our preliminary work in this area. We already have ideas for allowing human drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to use the system, but we haven't implemented them yet. Additionally, we definitely plan on trying to incorporate some sort of fault tolerance, but right now this is just a start.
We also think that turning will be feasible to implement. The technique should extend rather nicely. Again, we just haven't done it yet.
At some point I will post the OOo presentation I gave at the conference from the website, in case any of you want to see the things that were discussed (although briefly) that didn't make the paper. I will also post the official version of the paper.
-Kurt
You payed $300 for WindowsXP?