How is this total dumbass robot supposed to do anything but get its ass kicked by punk kids?? Seriously, it would be better to send a human police officer to schools to teach kids about crime prevention. Then again, this robot may get the kids attention better, but as for actualy fighting crime, this robot couldn't stand a chance.
*In a robot voice barely audible with all the gunfire*:
Please stop shooting that person. Come back. Please come off the curb and back onto the street. I am a dumbass robot and can't move over any obstacle over two inches because I have wheels and a long plastic skirt. You have the right to....
mod above post up as informative and parent as interesting to make my 'funny' work. then mod this post down so people reading at 3 don't know this was a group effort, and laughter will be brought into the world.:)
Actually, there is knowledge that at least xbox2 will be based on a CPU and nVidia GPU combination, basically a PC lite for gaming just like xbox1. I don't know about gamecube2.
But, and this is the crazy part, PS3 is being based on "grid" (formerally known as "cell") technology which stems directly from IBM's research into self healing massively parallel distributed computing. In essence, PS3 is going to be a frickin' Beowulf cluster beyond the wildest dreams of any slashnerd. They are talking about attaining a 200x increase in speed over PS2(!).
I'm not positive, but a 200 fold speed increase sounds more than just an incremental step. My current PC with an OCed 1.9Ghz AthlonXP and 9700 Pro is far superior to the Xbox or PS2 but I'm not sure that the next generation of CPU-GPU combinations will be able to touch where the PS3 is going.
I remember CNN telling me that yup, we assume Gore will win Florida so we're just gonna throw those electoral votes into his pool. Man, was that ever frustrating when a couple hours later they yanked those votes away!
Anyway, I've never owned a console before but I plan on getting a playstation 3. Why? Because the specs for PS3 are fucking ridiculous!! There's gonna be like digital naked-chicks and fucking explosions coming out of my Holographic HDTV set when I hook this bad boy up in 2006.:D
No kidding it doesn't have an atmosphere, that's the whole point. When there's no air to create an ambient temperature the only thing that matters is if you're in the sunlight or in the shade. If you're in the shade then it's gonna be a lot easier to maintain extremely cold superconducter temperatures.
But it doesn't matter cuz the idea of accelerating 1kg of material to.75c with a moon based railgun is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!.75c is an INSANE amount of speed.
I've only managed to download the first two videos so maybe it shows in the third, but I wonder if this thing can let the "pilot" stand still with the 100lb bag on his back. You can see the kid kinda throwing his hands out for balance once in a while. For some reason I imagine standing still and balancing the weight would be a lot harder for the machine to interpret and more difficult for the kid to balance than the walking.
Actually, after I RTFA, I saw that they mention that a penny lands "tails up" 80% of the time (!!!) due to the weight of the head.
So, uh, the weights are more significant than either of us realized.
I was expecting this article to say something about the subtle differences in weight between the Eagle and the Washington bust. I wonder if there's any consistant bias in this sense that might expose itself after several rounds of a million tosses?
here, check this out. First off, I want to say that Toms Hardware is pretty good at fairly representing all sides but I still think they favor AMD. Here's the opening paragraph to a Athlon XP 3000+ vs. P4 3.06 GHz article. And here's the link.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030210/index.h tm l
"It is pretty certain that hardly any x86 architecture processor has a longer history. The idea for the first Athlon core goes back to 1998, when Dirk Meyer of AMD impressed us all and, most importantly, gave a jaded Intel competition jitters.
It was a market revolution, and not long before the Athlon started its victory march, winning everyone's heart along the way. The essential ingredient was its very good price/ performance ratio.
From the very beginning, the focus was on the thrifty end user. Moreover, there was the option of overclocking, which helped countless freaks squeeze the same power as they could with much more expensive CPUs. In short: Athlon became a philosophy, a staple of conversation among sophisticated users, and, in part, the subject of heated debate, the likes of which sometimes degenerates into fanatacism." Wow! I think that makes look AMD look pretty good. Could just be though. Check it out.
Take another look. Every article will give a sentence or two to downplay an intel feature and several paragraphs reminding us why such-and-such AMD feature is better.
Maybe I'm thinking of ATI vs nVidia but I'm pretty damn sure it's both of them. TomHardware likes the underdog just like everyone else that's cool.:-)
All your pentiums are not belong to us! We set us up AMDs.
I'm an AMD fan and I've always been amazed how many people and web sites like tomshardware.com are so pro-AMD and anti-Intel. I guess everyone likes to root for the underdog?
It's serious competition to the employees and shareholders of these companies but it's simply fun to an AMD fanboy like myself. GO AMD, GO! TSK, TSK INTEL YOU COPY CATS!:-)
I'd like to sign one against this waste of money. I like the previously mentioned idea of sinking it to make a nice fish habitat and historically significant diving ground.:-) Now that's clever! We should not divert any money from the new Moon/Mars vision.
Exactly, funds removed from NASA won't necessarily be reallocated to fix "leaky school roofs."
Many say we just wasted at least 80 billion dollars on the Iraq War and what do we have to show from that besides several hundred dead American bodies. Now I'm expecting that we're also assuring ourselves a lot of oil so that 80 billion may not all be a waste.
But damn, it annoys me so much when people rat on the space program! Someone at work was saying about the Mars Spirit Panorama, "What, we paid 300 million bucks for a pikcha?" AH!!!
This moon proposal is space infrastructure. It is an investment in humanities future in this solar system.
Also, the Moon seems like a much better place to start. It's close, we can do a lot of equally inspiring stuff there that would just be more expensive, dangerous, and would take longer if attempted on Mars.
Agreed, that's the first thing that came to mind. Why not put something in space that could be in the sunlight all the time and not even have to deal with shadows.
And what's this about robots building the god-damn assembly out of freaking dust!?! I guess, MAYBE in 50 years. But certainly not now. Hans Moravec's site shows a lot of cool progress he's making towards generalized robot vision... the type of vision that will be necessary for any sort of autonomous assembling operation.
BUt this is the stupidest fucking idea I've heard of! Who the hell is going to post shit on this board? How can you trust anything on it? WTF?!?!!? The idea sounds cool and makes sense for about 5 seconds.
I can't wait to get one of these... once I pay off my credit card that is.
The new aibo can direct itself back to a recharge port. I'm really looking forward to when my Roomba Vac can drive around cleaning my whole third floor apartment and then go back and recharge and just be cleaning non-stop. That would be sweet. Plus I think it would keep me company.:-) What's that line from 5th Element? Zorg: "Look at these little things, so happy, so productive."
Is this true? Old fashioned reb-blue stereoscopy probably only reduces the area that will behave three-dimensionally by 10%. Meaning that an image only has to be far away enough from the border to allow the red or blue version. Is it true these autostereoscopic LCDs reduce the effective 3D area of the screen by 50% ?!
That sucks if true but I doubt that it's correct. Parallaxing (my own word?) 2 pixels on extreme left and right of screen would make you cross eyed or even weirder which would have your eyes BOTH looking outward, hehe, funny to imagine. Plus the effective 3D image would appear to be inside your nose, haha.
Hah! Great idea. But wouldn't a hot surface cool more quickly in shaded-outer-space as opposed to being in contact with any medium such as your trans-Jovian planets?
This is ridiculous and you sound like a neo-luddite.
Ask anyone who has lost the use of a leg if they were happy to recieve a prosthetic leg or something that allowed them to continue on with their life as it was before. Of course they are more happy.
If you haven't heard much of this talk, you'll be really shocked to see the World Transhumanism Association site!
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Can it fight crime???
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How is this total dumbass robot supposed to do anything but get its ass kicked by punk kids?? Seriously, it would be better to send a human police officer to schools to teach kids about crime prevention. Then again, this robot may get the kids attention better, but as for actualy fighting crime, this robot couldn't stand a chance.
*In a robot voice barely audible with all the gunfire*:
Please stop shooting that person. Come back. Please come off the curb and back onto the street. I am a dumbass robot and can't move over any obstacle over two inches because I have wheels and a long plastic skirt. You have the right to
hah.
mod above post up as informative and parent as interesting to make my 'funny' work. then mod this post down so people reading at 3 don't know this was a group effort, and laughter will be brought into the world. :)
Actually, there is knowledge that at least xbox2 will be based on a CPU and nVidia GPU combination, basically a PC lite for gaming just like xbox1. I don't know about gamecube2.
But, and this is the crazy part, PS3 is being based on "grid" (formerally known as "cell") technology which stems directly from IBM's research into self healing massively parallel distributed computing. In essence, PS3 is going to be a frickin' Beowulf cluster beyond the wildest dreams of any slashnerd. They are talking about attaining a 200x increase in speed over PS2(!).
I'm not positive, but a 200 fold speed increase sounds more than just an incremental step. My current PC with an OCed 1.9Ghz AthlonXP and 9700 Pro is far superior to the Xbox or PS2 but I'm not sure that the next generation of CPU-GPU combinations will be able to touch where the PS3 is going.
I remember CNN telling me that yup, we assume Gore will win Florida so we're just gonna throw those electoral votes into his pool. Man, was that ever frustrating when a couple hours later they yanked those votes away!
:D
Anyway, I've never owned a console before but I plan on getting a playstation 3. Why? Because the specs for PS3 are fucking ridiculous!! There's gonna be like digital naked-chicks and fucking explosions coming out of my Holographic HDTV set when I hook this bad boy up in 2006.
No kidding it doesn't have an atmosphere, that's the whole point. When there's no air to create an ambient temperature the only thing that matters is if you're in the sunlight or in the shade. If you're in the shade then it's gonna be a lot easier to maintain extremely cold superconducter temperatures.
.75c with a moon based railgun is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! .75c is an INSANE amount of speed.
But it doesn't matter cuz the idea of accelerating 1kg of material to
I've only managed to download the first two videos so maybe it shows in the third, but I wonder if this thing can let the "pilot" stand still with the 100lb bag on his back. You can see the kid kinda throwing his hands out for balance once in a while. For some reason I imagine standing still and balancing the weight would be a lot harder for the machine to interpret and more difficult for the kid to balance than the walking.
That's nothing. Check out ZMP's robot PINO V.2. It looks pretty friggin' stupid if you ask me.
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http://www.zmp.co.jp/data/movie/pino2_waseda_pa
Not if it lands directly on end at the exact angle necessary to counteract the rotational inertia from its spin! :P
Actually, after I RTFA, I saw that they mention that a penny lands "tails up" 80% of the time (!!!) due to the weight of the head. So, uh, the weights are more significant than either of us realized.
I was expecting this article to say something about the subtle differences in weight between the Eagle and the Washington bust. I wonder if there's any consistant bias in this sense that might expose itself after several rounds of a million tosses?
here, check this out. First off, I want to say that Toms Hardware is pretty good at fairly representing all sides but I still think they favor AMD. Here's the opening paragraph to a Athlon XP 3000+ vs. P4 3.06 GHz article. And here's the link.
h tm l
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030210/index.
"It is pretty certain that hardly any x86 architecture processor has a longer history. The idea for the first Athlon core goes back to 1998, when Dirk Meyer of AMD impressed us all and, most importantly, gave a jaded Intel competition jitters.
It was a market revolution, and not long before the Athlon started its victory march, winning everyone's heart along the way. The essential ingredient was its very good price/ performance ratio.
From the very beginning, the focus was on the thrifty end user. Moreover, there was the option of overclocking, which helped countless freaks squeeze the same power as they could with much more expensive CPUs. In short: Athlon became a philosophy, a staple of conversation among sophisticated users, and, in part, the subject of heated debate, the likes of which sometimes degenerates into fanatacism." Wow! I think that makes look AMD look pretty good. Could just be though. Check it out.
Dude... are you serious??
:-)
Take another look. Every article will give a sentence or two to downplay an intel feature and several paragraphs reminding us why such-and-such AMD feature is better.
Maybe I'm thinking of ATI vs nVidia but I'm pretty damn sure it's both of them. TomHardware likes the underdog just like everyone else that's cool.
All your pentiums are not belong to us! We set us up AMDs.
I'm an AMD fan and I've always been amazed how many people and web sites like tomshardware.com are so pro-AMD and anti-Intel. I guess everyone likes to root for the underdog?
:-)
It's serious competition to the employees and shareholders of these companies but it's simply fun to an AMD fanboy like myself. GO AMD, GO! TSK, TSK INTEL YOU COPY CATS!
Are there such things as anti-Petition Petitions?
:-) Now that's clever! We should not divert any money from the new Moon/Mars vision.
I'd like to sign one against this waste of money. I like the previously mentioned idea of sinking it to make a nice fish habitat and historically significant diving ground.
Exactly, funds removed from NASA won't necessarily be reallocated to fix "leaky school roofs."
Many say we just wasted at least 80 billion dollars on the Iraq War and what do we have to show from that besides several hundred dead American bodies. Now I'm expecting that we're also assuring ourselves a lot of oil so that 80 billion may not all be a waste.
But damn, it annoys me so much when people rat on the space program! Someone at work was saying about the Mars Spirit Panorama, "What, we paid 300 million bucks for a pikcha?" AH!!!
This moon proposal is space infrastructure. It is an investment in humanities future in this solar system.
Also, the Moon seems like a much better place to start. It's close, we can do a lot of equally inspiring stuff there that would just be more expensive, dangerous, and would take longer if attempted on Mars.
No way, Russia should be red. USA has to be either green or blue... cuz we're the good guys! ;-)
Dude, give the engineers a bit more credit. They're not morons. The prospect of a schizophrenic, strobing billboard I'm sure has been considered.
Just as elevators in tall buildings don't get all flabbergasted and shoot out of the roof, these bill boards should be pretty well behaved too.
Agreed, that's the first thing that came to mind. Why not put something in space that could be in the sunlight all the time and not even have to deal with shadows.
And what's this about robots building the god-damn assembly out of freaking dust!?! I guess, MAYBE in 50 years. But certainly not now. Hans Moravec's site shows a lot of cool progress he's making towards generalized robot vision... the type of vision that will be necessary for any sort of autonomous assembling operation.
BUt this is the stupidest fucking idea I've heard of! Who the hell is going to post shit on this board? How can you trust anything on it? WTF?!?!!? The idea sounds cool and makes sense for about 5 seconds.
No, Slashdot is not read primarily my men... why do you ask?
;-)
I can't wait to get one of these... once I pay off my credit card that is.
:-) What's that line from 5th Element? Zorg: "Look at these little things, so happy, so productive."
The new aibo can direct itself back to a recharge port. I'm really looking forward to when my Roomba Vac can drive around cleaning my whole third floor apartment and then go back and recharge and just be cleaning non-stop. That would be sweet. Plus I think it would keep me company.
Wow, I'm surprised that a resolution of 10 cubic kilometers is enough to actually make any predictions besides the most general of weather trends.
Think of the variation between the state of air at sea level and then at the ceiling of a 10km cell... that's some severe approximation.
Is this true? Old fashioned reb-blue stereoscopy probably only reduces the area that will behave three-dimensionally by 10%. Meaning that an image only has to be far away enough from the border to allow the red or blue version. Is it true these autostereoscopic LCDs reduce the effective 3D area of the screen by 50% ?!
That sucks if true but I doubt that it's correct. Parallaxing (my own word?) 2 pixels on extreme left and right of screen would make you cross eyed or even weirder which would have your eyes BOTH looking outward, hehe, funny to imagine. Plus the effective 3D image would appear to be inside your nose, haha.
Hah! Great idea. But wouldn't a hot surface cool more quickly in shaded-outer-space as opposed to being in contact with any medium such as your trans-Jovian planets?
Just a thought.
This is ridiculous and you sound like a neo-luddite. Ask anyone who has lost the use of a leg if they were happy to recieve a prosthetic leg or something that allowed them to continue on with their life as it was before. Of course they are more happy. If you haven't heard much of this talk, you'll be really shocked to see the World Transhumanism Association site!