The difference between a "researcher" and a "hacker" is that a "researcher" works in a nice shiny office building or school campus, while a "hacker" works at home or his mom's basement. I think you meant "while a "hacker" works at home in his mom's basement."
We wouldn't want everyone to know that RTOS's really run the world and PeeCees are still a big joke to those that write code for things like avionics, missile systems... you know, software that has to work first time out or people get hurt?
...because the point of missile systems isn't to hurt people
Google desktop search isn't limited by bandwidth - it runs its own server on your computer and serves results from that, there just isn't a stand-alone client for viewing the results (better IMHO)
Rather than limiting the kids to the materials supplied in the (incredibly expensive) kits, I would prefer seeing something where the bare minimum was provided by FIRST and the majority of parts were to be found at Home Depot/Digikey by the kids themselves. I think this would limit the price somewhat, would allow the kids to spend more time on design, building and experimenting (which is what FIRST should be all about anyway).
That was sort of what was done this year. The kits still cost the same amount, but only included a couple pieces of metal, the control system, and pieces to make a very basic drive system. All of the other parts had to be bought or made by the team and the total cost had to be less than $2500. Although this seemed like a good idea at the beginning, it really didn't make much of a difference and most of the teams in my hub (Lonestar, Houston) still had robots that at least appeared to cost far more than the limit and were made by parents or corporate sponsors. Unlike BEST, the other competition my school does, FIRST and Dean Kamen really don't seem to care who designs and builds the robots, only that they work and look good.
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I agree completely - it's hard enough learning all the inconsistencies as a native speaker; I'd hate trying to learn English as a second language.
His, hers, ours, theirs - there aren't apostrophes in any possessive pronouns.
I believe you're talking about Mark Tilden and B.E.A.M. robotics. IIRC, he now works (worked?) at Los Alamos with his bottom-up approach.
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That was strangely amusing and funny.
In the keynote it was announced that Macs with Intel processors will use a bios.
Seem to just be trolls - notice that all of them are posted as ACs and the new word verification thing
either that or just trolling
His mom's basement doesn't count?
Good job missing the joke.
Google desktop search isn't limited by bandwidth - it runs its own server on your computer and serves results from that, there just isn't a stand-alone client for viewing the results (better IMHO)
What sex am I?
Are you sure he's not a dork?
and the website's url would be fearerdotcom.com
He is using a firewall, just not the Windows one. He said that the Norton installer told him not to use the built in one.
Posting a link to a 65mb file on your own site is brave.
From what I have seen this appears to be a pretty good site with a good layout and good content.
A company George made up in Seinfeld.
This is /. you mean +5.
People who want them probably already have them and those who don't have them either don't care, or will still be able to import them.