This robot does not have the ability to operate on it's own. The optimal interface to control such a robot would be telepresence. Telepresense hooks up a human operator with a head set and sensors to track arm, hand and body movement from the torso up. By keeping the robot's dimensions and range of motion the same as the human operator, the operator is able to control the robot with greater precision and with less training.
The young bull and the old bull...
on
Too Old To Code?
·
· Score: 1
This reminds me of a story that an older Aussie programmer once told me...
A young bull and an old bull are on the top of a hill looking down upon a heard of cows. The young bull turns to the old bull and says "Why don't we run down the hill and root us one of those cows down there?" The old bull replies "Why don't we walk down and root them all!"
Programmers are like gold now, experienced programmers are like diamonds. If a programmer keeps up in their area of expertise, while maintaining general knowledge of current professional development, they will only become more and more valuable. The trick is to always learn, steadily. New gimmicks will come and go, some will stick around, learn the ones that do. The fundamentals of solid code, planning and organization never lose importance.
The young guns have a place too, we need someone to pull off those 20 hour days on a diet of pizza.
Does anyone have a list or better yet a URL of Jon's future appearances. I know he does a lot of speaking here and there, just wondering if anyone knew of one.
NSI has a MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT section to their Domain Name registration agreement, which means that they can change the contract anytime they want. It also has wording which means that you automatically agree to these changes simply by continuing to use their services. So if you agreed to some other form of the agreement previously for a specific term, that is no protection.
Look for such clauses when you switch, if you agree to a contract, modifications should be very limited, not totally open ended like NSI.
Of course NSI does say that if you don't like the changes you can always terminate your service.
Kerberos is an important aspect of secure communications within the internet/intranets. To gain control over Kerberos drastically impacts competing operating systems.
MicroSoft embraced Kerberos, only to make off with the standard and extend Kerberos in such a way to make it fully compatible with only other MicroSoft Windows machines. After being caught red-handed, they agreed to publish something they should have made available openly to begin with. Also consider that MicroSoft only did this because the Feds were watching, otherwise these extensions would have never left MicroSoft.
MicroSoft then publishes these extensions, but under tight restrictions. The publishing is somewhat of a trick to make it appear that they published the info without really doing so.
These preditory monopolistic actions are fuel to the fire for the case against MicroSoft. Hiding these actions behind their "legal rights" is all the more reason to resist against them.
Sure Slashdot might loose and be forced to take down the postings, but the MicroSoft PR nightmare will live on during the entire time.
It is interesting how the DMCA so quickly is used for exactly what everyone feared.
"Small startup Andover bullied by MicroSoft monopoly." "MicroSoft uses monoploy powers and DMCA to censure media."
The stupidity is amazing, the damage caused by the release of these documents is done. It's been more than a week, I had completely forgotten about it. Now MicroSoft stirs up the ants nest again, who's side is this Mr. Weston on? Laugh.
Couldn't you just use URL rewriting on appache to make the banner add URL appear to come from the same server? They have the URL rewriting turn it into the real URL, or did the feature take that in account?
It is difficult to predict the exact form that mass media will take in the future. It will surely be some combination of devices we already use. As Ho Hum as this sounds, it is stuff like this that narrows the gap between the devices of old and the devices we now have.
I now see with more and more frequency web TV instructions on main stream programming. Soon it will be, if you want a print of this, hit the Print icon on corner of the screen.
This is a planned series of steps by media companies to establish total control over media distribution and pricing on the internet. If ISP's do become responisble for content, it actually plays further into the hands of big media.
First take out Napster, next go after similar open distribution of files of any kind, in the name of piracy protection. While all this is going on, buy up smaller ISPs, place restrictive TOS agreements, which allow total control of content to and from every consumer point of entry. Buy laws which allow for companies to control or block content in the name of protection from the various media reported evils on the internet.
CmdrTaco and others alluded to this problem with the "What is a server" definition, raised at least once on Geeks in Space. I would like to see a piece if not a whole show dedicated to these issues.
Finally put this all in a small cool looking case.
Now you have a PC which is a poor desktop machine, a poor laptop and a poor PDA.
However it does start to make your think. All these items not on the Espresso now, still have plently of room for size reduction. Not too long now before my handheld is nearly as powerful as my desktop.
The comparison of these 2 games is flawed, since the games differ in many ways other than just violence. The results may be the affect of an "action" game vs. a "non-action" game. They would have been better served to also use a non-violent action game like an auto-racing game vs. Wolfenstein 3D. Then use an auto-racing game vs. Myst, those results might be more meaningful.
This is just spam of a different flavor. Creating false products, registering lots of domains simular to real sites, etc. But it works... Made it on to slashdot.
BTW, I've got this perpetual motion UPS system that this pink guy gave me.
Slashdot Mirror
This robot does not have the ability to operate on it's own. The optimal interface to control such a robot would be telepresence. Telepresense hooks up a human operator with a head set and sensors to track arm, hand and body movement from the torso up. By keeping the robot's dimensions and range of motion the same as the human operator, the operator is able to control the robot with greater precision and with less training.
This reminds me of a story that an older Aussie programmer once told me...
A young bull and an old bull are on the top of a hill looking down upon a heard of cows. The young bull turns to the old bull and says "Why don't we run down the hill and root us one of those cows down there?" The old bull replies "Why don't we walk down and root them all!"
Programmers are like gold now, experienced programmers are like diamonds. If a programmer keeps up in their area of expertise, while maintaining general knowledge of current professional development, they will only become more and more valuable. The trick is to always learn, steadily. New gimmicks will come and go, some will stick around, learn the ones that do. The fundamentals of solid code, planning and organization never lose importance.
The young guns have a place too, we need someone to pull off those 20 hour days on a diet of pizza.
Does anyone have a list or better yet a URL of Jon's future appearances. I know he does a lot of speaking here and there, just wondering if anyone knew of one.
Thanks.
NSI has a MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT section to their Domain Name registration agreement, which means that they can change the contract anytime they want. It also has wording which means that you automatically agree to these changes simply by continuing to use their services. So if you agreed to some other form of the agreement previously for a specific term, that is no protection.
Look for such clauses when you switch, if you agree to a contract, modifications should be very limited, not totally open ended like NSI.
Of course NSI does say that if you don't like the changes you can always terminate your service.
Consider the important big picture to this.
Kerberos is an important aspect of secure communications within the internet/intranets. To gain control over Kerberos drastically impacts competing operating systems.
MicroSoft embraced Kerberos, only to make off with the standard and extend Kerberos in such a way to make it fully compatible with only other MicroSoft Windows machines. After being caught red-handed, they agreed to publish something they should have made available openly to begin with. Also consider that MicroSoft only did this because the Feds were watching, otherwise these extensions would have never left MicroSoft.
MicroSoft then publishes these extensions, but under tight restrictions. The publishing is somewhat of a trick to make it appear that they published the info without really doing so.
These preditory monopolistic actions are fuel to the fire for the case against MicroSoft. Hiding these actions behind their "legal rights" is all the more reason to resist against them.
Sure Slashdot might loose and be forced to take down the postings, but the MicroSoft PR nightmare will live on during the entire time.
It is interesting how the DMCA so quickly is used for exactly what everyone feared.
You can see the headlines now...
"Small startup Andover bullied by MicroSoft monopoly."
"MicroSoft uses monoploy powers and DMCA to censure media."
The stupidity is amazing, the damage caused by the release of these documents is done. It's been more than a week, I had completely forgotten about it. Now MicroSoft stirs up the ants nest again, who's side is this Mr. Weston on? Laugh.
Couldn't you just use URL rewriting on appache to make the banner add URL appear to come from the same server? They have the URL rewriting turn it into the real URL, or did the feature take that in account?
It is difficult to predict the exact form that mass media will take in the future. It will surely be some combination of devices we already use. As Ho Hum as this sounds, it is stuff like this that narrows the gap between the devices of old and the devices we now have.
I now see with more and more frequency web TV instructions on main stream programming. Soon it will be, if you want a print of this, hit the Print icon on corner of the screen.
Copyright has nothing to do with this.
Theft has nothing to with this.
This is a planned series of steps by media companies to establish total control over media distribution and pricing on the internet. If ISP's do become responisble for content, it actually plays further into the hands of big media.
First take out Napster, next go after similar open distribution of files of any kind, in the name of piracy protection. While all this is going on, buy up smaller ISPs, place restrictive TOS agreements, which allow total control of content to and from every consumer point of entry. Buy laws which allow for companies to control or block content in the name of protection from the various media reported evils on the internet.
CmdrTaco and others alluded to this problem with the "What is a server" definition, raised at least once on Geeks in Space. I would like to see a piece if not a whole show dedicated to these issues.
Think it can't happen, it already is.
Can it be prevented, or is it already too late?
To make your own Espresso.
1) Buy a Laptop PC.
2) Remove Keyboard
3) Remove LCD screen.
4) Remove CDROM/DVD
5) Remove Battery
Finally put this all in a small cool looking case.
Now you have a PC which is a poor desktop machine, a poor laptop and a poor PDA.
However it does start to make your think. All these items not on the Espresso now, still have plently of room for size reduction. Not too long now before my handheld is nearly as powerful as my desktop.
The comparison of these 2 games is flawed, since the games differ in many ways other than just violence. The results may be the affect of an "action" game vs. a "non-action" game. They would have been better served to also use a non-violent action game like an auto-racing game vs. Wolfenstein 3D. Then use an auto-racing game vs. Myst, those results might be more meaningful.
This is just spam of a different flavor. Creating false products, registering lots of domains simular to real sites, etc. But it works... Made it on to slashdot.
BTW, I've got this perpetual motion UPS system that this pink guy gave me.
Xerx