I just read an article in Scientific American about this. I'm not into robotics myself, but I'm curious: how much of the difficulty is due to the time it takes to process the input data (from cameras, lasers, etc.)? how much is from the necessary ruggedness of the components? how much difficulty comes from lack of funding for and access to top-of-the-line components?
I'm also curious to see what DARPA plans to do with the winning vehicle, if there is a winner. Will they pay for, and then take, any vehicle that is innovative (for example, the motorcycle that can stand on its own)?.
Kudos to DARPA for their clever method of conducting research--instead of tying funds up in someone's brainchild, they are allowing a lot of different ideas to proliferate.
So what can a legal owner or renter of a DVD do? Play it with Linux? Yeah, but then I break the law.
To elaborate on this idea... My TV broke recently and since I am not going to buy I new one, I thought it would be a great idea to just play my DVD collection on my computer [OS: Mandrake 9.1]. It's a great idea... I have a DVD drive and everything... except that I can't play any of my DVD movies on it. Linux doesn't come with the software needed to decrypt the DVD's. I can't play a DVD I purchased on a drive I purchased because the MPAA is afraid I might pirate it.
I believe the MPAA's first priority should be to give us a product that is usable on any player we have... then, and only then, they can think about copy protection.
I could also get the software to decrypt the DVD's... no, wait, that's illegal!
I am encouraged to pirate movies so I can actually watch them.
Maybe it would be better if they gave us no reason to pirate anything.
You people waste far too much time analyzing this stuff. If you want something logically consistent, go find some episodes of Farscape or something.
Not only that, but Berman seems to be trying to ride on the previous successes of other Star Trek series. Thankfully, people are starting to realize that Enterprise SUCKS and maybe spur on some kind of Star Trek paradigm shift.
Oh, God, I just used "paradigm shift" in the real world. The corporate trolls are starting to get to me...
Too many websites focus on the bells, whistles, airhorns, and other attention-grabbers rather than the actual content. The content is the part they throw in at the last minute. They get all excited by the themes and frames and pretty pictures that move that they forget that websites need a purpose.
No one cares about your goddamn javascript nav bar!
The next time I see one of those "oh, look, here's Fifi eating an ice cream cone" websites I am gonna FLIP! K
I completely agree that our right to peaceably assemble is being assaulted.
But it goes so much farther than that. The ultra-invasive Information Awareness Office , wants information on every little part of our lives. The WiFi deal is just helping them reach that end. In the name of security they ask us to give up our privacy. We must ask ourselves, is that a sacrifice we want to make?
Quality science fiction is more than just entertaining; it is a way to explore the could haves, should bes, and what ifs in a context where there are fewer consequences for ideas.
Fahrenheit 451 showed us a truly terrifying image of extreme censorship; Brave New World and 1984 denounced the evils of excessive government control. Dune painted a picture of a vicious political and economical battle over a valuable resource.
All of these stories were more than entertaining; they gave us a message. The best science fiction of all is more than a fanciful tale of adventure--it leaves you thinking, observing the world around you, and noticing that you are closer to the make-believe world than you thought.
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I just read an article in Scientific American about this. I'm not into robotics myself, but I'm curious: how much of the difficulty is due to the time it takes to process the input data (from cameras, lasers, etc.)? how much is from the necessary ruggedness of the components? how much difficulty comes from lack of funding for and access to top-of-the-line components? I'm also curious to see what DARPA plans to do with the winning vehicle, if there is a winner. Will they pay for, and then take, any vehicle that is innovative (for example, the motorcycle that can stand on its own)?. Kudos to DARPA for their clever method of conducting research--instead of tying funds up in someone's brainchild, they are allowing a lot of different ideas to proliferate.
So what can a legal owner or renter of a DVD do? Play it with Linux? Yeah, but then I break the law.
To elaborate on this idea... My TV broke recently and since I am not going to buy I new one, I thought it would be a great idea to just play my DVD collection on my computer [OS: Mandrake 9.1]. It's a great idea... I have a DVD drive and everything... except that I can't play any of my DVD movies on it. Linux doesn't come with the software needed to decrypt the DVD's. I can't play a DVD I purchased on a drive I purchased because the MPAA is afraid I might pirate it.
I believe the MPAA's first priority should be to give us a product that is usable on any player we have... then, and only then, they can think about copy protection.
I could also get the software to decrypt the DVD's... no, wait, that's illegal!
I am encouraged to pirate movies so I can actually watch them.
Maybe it would be better if they gave us no reason to pirate anything.
You people waste far too much time analyzing this stuff. If you want something logically consistent, go find some episodes of Farscape or something.
Not only that, but Berman seems to be trying to ride on the previous successes of other Star Trek series. Thankfully, people are starting to realize that Enterprise SUCKS and maybe spur on some kind of Star Trek paradigm shift.
Oh, God, I just used "paradigm shift" in the real world. The corporate trolls are starting to get to me...
Too many websites focus on the bells, whistles, airhorns, and other attention-grabbers rather than the actual content. The content is the part they throw in at the last minute. They get all excited by the themes and frames and pretty pictures that move that they forget that websites need a purpose.
No one cares about your goddamn javascript nav bar!
The next time I see one of those "oh, look, here's Fifi eating an ice cream cone" websites I am gonna FLIP!
K
I completely agree that our right to peaceably assemble is being assaulted.
But it goes so much farther than that. The ultra-invasive Information Awareness Office , wants information on every little part of our lives. The WiFi deal is just helping them reach that end.
In the name of security they ask us to give up our privacy. We must ask ourselves, is that a sacrifice we want to make?
Quality science fiction is more than just entertaining; it is a way to explore the could haves, should bes, and what ifs in a context where there are fewer consequences for ideas.
Fahrenheit 451 showed us a truly terrifying image of extreme censorship; Brave New World and 1984 denounced the evils of excessive government control. Dune painted a picture of a vicious political and economical battle over a valuable resource.
All of these stories were more than entertaining; they gave us a message. The best science fiction of all is more than a fanciful tale of adventure--it leaves you thinking, observing the world around you, and noticing that you are closer to the make-believe world than you thought.