In addition to what other replies have already mentioned about great games, the Xbox was by far the most hackable and hacked of the three.
With modchip and larger drive, the fact that I don't ever need to insert a disc to play a game, that I can watch movies via XBMC or even listen to Shoutcast stations, and the emulators it will run so I can play all my old favorites without hooking up my SNES and N64, have made my Xbox investment a very solid one.
To heck with the gratis and other sites.
I've got six Gmail invites I will happily trade for a working 20gb or larger Ipod. Please reply to this to take me up on it.
Yeah. Was supposed to be funny. As the previous poster just said Stone, and left off the Matt, figured it was an obvious jump. Also, see the sarcasm of the last line.
It was worse than a nightmare: A normal route on the motorway. To be stopped suddenly will the car ever faster, is no more. Well one hour long hunted a French driver with speed 200 over the runway, in the Slalom around the other cars. Debt is to have defective electronics, the manufacturer examines the incident.
Paris - it has a truck overhauled, when its car accelerated suddenly independently on 190 kilometers per hour, quoted the French daily paper "Le Parisien" the driver Hicham Dequiedt on Tuesday: "it was impossible to drive more slowly. On the brake to step, nothing proved functioned. as useless, " It used the headlight flasher and evaded a car after the other one, reported the 29-Jaehrige of the newspaper.
A cause for the Horrortrip was a electronics error in the vehicle: the Tempomat of its Renault Vel Satis was defective. The ignition to switch off is not possibly been, since the car has a smart card instead of a key, quotes the newspaper Dequiedt. It succeeded to it however to alarm over its mobile telephone the police. This warned the other road users over the broadcast and signaling devices along the motorway between Vierzon and Riom in central France.
The police certified Dequiedt a "admirable behavior": "you discussed solution types at the telephone with me." The officials let a Mautstelle on his distance vacate, all barriers were eliminated and fire-brigade and ambulance alarmed as a precaution.
"I stood, said the fear of my life" Dequeidt to "Le Parisien. It became dangerous, when before it a truck on the left trace overhauled another vehicle. It could change over only to the standing tire. "I thought, my last Stuendlein struck."
Only after approximately one hour and 200 kilometers he could finally bring the cars to holding. As succeeded to it, in addition there are different data. "Le Parisien" quoted Dequeidt: "I stepped as firmly, as I could, on the brakes, and the car came finally to a halt." According to data of the police with Clermont Ferrand in central France, it succeeded to pull it after "many attempts" the smart card out. Thereupon the car lost 20 kilometers before a Mautstelle gradually at speed and finally to a halt came.
Electronics breakdown: The Vel Satis is steered with a smart card The pressestelle of the manufacturer Renault confirmed the incident, which occurred on Sunday, on request of MIRROR ON-LINE ONE. "the car is examined for the moment in France", said spokeswoman Caroline Sambale. To the causes she can say to still nothing for the moment. "Le Parisien" quoted head of the company Louis Schweitzer, which expressed itself sceptically over the incident. "as it is described, surprises me the incident, and it appears very improbably." Whether similar incidents in France already occurred, did not become known.
The model Vel Satis is steered via the smart card: Door locks open automatically, as soon as the driver equipped with the map, whom grasp affects; Preferences of the driver such as air conditioning system and seat position, in addition, vehicle-relevant data such as maintenance dates are stored on the smart card. As soon as the driver puts it into the reader in the center console, going away barrier and steering column bolting device are solved. The driver must operate then an asynchronous operation button, in order to start the engine.
Proving That Shape-Shifting Robots Can Get a Move On
ARLINGTON, Va.--It started with tennis balls. As a former collegiate tennis player, Daniela Rus habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. As a robotics researcher at Dartmouth College, she wondered why the tennis balls shouldn't be able to roll themselves around.
She soon determined that electromagnets didn't have enough lifting power to solve the tennis-ball problem. However, her question led to a decade-long research program into the challenges of designing robots that reconfigure themselves to perform different tasks. Most recently, Rus and Dartmouth Robotics Lab researchers developed the first control methods that guarantee such self-reconfigurable robots won't fall apart as they change shape or move across a surface.
The paper by postdoctoral researcher Zach Butler, graduate student Keith Butler, Rus and visiting professor Kohji Tomita from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology appeared in the September 2004 issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
"These latest papers show it is possible to develop self-reconfiguration capabilities in a way that has analytical guarantees," said Rus, who moved to MIT in January after 10 years as director of Dartmouth's Robotics Lab. "Understanding exactly how your system works and when you can trust it and when you can't is very important." In 2002, Rus received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a so-called "genius award," for her work, which has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) awards since 1996.
Robots are usually designed to perform one task very well, whether it's assembling parts in a factory or vacuuming the living room. But ask those robots to perform another task or even the same task in a new environment, and you're asking for trouble.
Self-reconfigurable robots, on the other hand, can reshape themselves as their task or environment changes, ideally without human intervention. A walking robot used for search-and-rescue operations would transform into a snake-like form to slither through small spaces in a collapsed building. A rolling robot exploring the surface of Mars would flow like water over a vertical drop or "flow" uphill onto a rock ledge.
However, today's state-of-the-art shape-shifting robots are a long way from living up to that vision. Several research groups around the world are tackling the many significant mechanical and control challenges involved in having a robot change shape.
Over the past decade, assisted by more than 50 Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students passing through her lab, Rus has made advances on both the mechanical and control fronts. On the mechanical side, she pioneered the design of 3-D shape-shifting robots built out of "expanding cubes," such as the Crystal modules.
Each Crystal module, or "atom," has sides that extend and contract and that use a 'key-in-lock' mechanism to attach to neighboring atoms. The expanding-cube concept is an example of so-called "lattice robots," which can assume a wide variety of 3-D shapes, an advantage over robots whose modules can only form long, thin chains.
Shape-shifting for such lattice robots boils down to exercises in control and planning, which happen at two levels. At one level, the robot must plan how to remodel itself from shape A to shape B. At another level, the robot must also plan the series of shapes needed to accomplish more complicated tasks, such as moving over rough terrain.
Early work in self-reconfiguring robots used centralized methods to control how the pieces reassembled themselves. Today, researchers in the field generally acknowledge the need for distributed methods, in which each robotic module takes at least some control of its own destiny.
"Since we are talking about potentially very large systems, with thousands of individual parts, it's important to consider distributed control and planning," Rus said. "And parallel and distributed algorithms are hard to guarantee."
The recent IJRR paper and a
It went through the washer and dryer two weeks after I first got it. I was certain it was ruined, but pulled the battery out and let it air dry overnight. Next morning I plugged it in to charge and it worked. Still works fine a year later.
To that effect, Ipods also have no value. In which case, you probably wouldn't mind helping me get a free one.
To stay on topic a bit, I have no problem giving a performer money for either live or recorded versions of their work. However, the industry that has grown up around this really chaps my hide. Not just the RIAA, either. How about Ticketmaster? $7.50 per ticket service charge?!?!?!?!! And a monopoly on tickets for a certain venue? Definitely candidates for Ark B.
Slashdot Mirror
Clive Barker's Candyman was a decent short story (novella?) but translated much better into a movie.
In addition to what other replies have already mentioned about great games, the Xbox was by far the most hackable and hacked of the three.
With modchip and larger drive, the fact that I don't ever need to insert a disc to play a game, that I can watch movies via XBMC or even listen to Shoutcast stations, and the emulators it will run so I can play all my old favorites without hooking up my SNES and N64, have made my Xbox investment a very solid one.
On that note, I've got 9 gmail invites I'm willing to trade for an ipod.
To heck with the gratis and other sites. I've got six Gmail invites I will happily trade for a working 20gb or larger Ipod. Please reply to this to take me up on it.
Did this get mirrored anywhere, or does anyone have a copy they downloaded? Sounds interesting and I'd like to see it.
The obvious answer is an XBox,
except for the fact that it is lacking in the PVR department,
having no native inbound video.
I'm very happy with my modded XBox/XBMC,
but am curious what the answer to hoggoth's post is.
Adding DVR/PVR to the mix would be nice.
Yhere are plenty of great reasons. In fact, we should send everyone. Now if you'll just step into the B ark...
Yeah. Was supposed to be funny. As the previous poster just said Stone, and left off the Matt, figured it was an obvious jump. Also, see the sarcasm of the last line.
No, Stone directs too.
I can't wait to see this combination of Trey Parker's highbrow humor with Stone's obsession for finding the truth.
(paraphrasing) Advertising's not so bad, we're nice people, really. We're not evil.
That's funny. Tell another one.
ONE HOUR LONG FULL POWER
"fear of my life"
It was worse than a nightmare: A normal route on the motorway. To be stopped suddenly will the car ever faster, is no more. Well one hour long hunted a French driver with speed 200 over the runway, in the Slalom around the other cars. Debt is to have defective electronics, the manufacturer examines the incident.
Paris - it has a truck overhauled, when its car accelerated suddenly independently on 190 kilometers per hour, quoted the French daily paper "Le Parisien" the driver Hicham Dequiedt on Tuesday: "it was impossible to drive more slowly. On the brake to step, nothing proved functioned. as useless, " It used the headlight flasher and evaded a car after the other one, reported the 29-Jaehrige of the newspaper.
A cause for the Horrortrip was a electronics error in the vehicle: the Tempomat of its Renault Vel Satis was defective. The ignition to switch off is not possibly been, since the car has a smart card instead of a key, quotes the newspaper Dequiedt. It succeeded to it however to alarm over its mobile telephone the police. This warned the other road users over the broadcast and signaling devices along the motorway between Vierzon and Riom in central France.
The police certified Dequiedt a "admirable behavior": "you discussed solution types at the telephone with me." The officials let a Mautstelle on his distance vacate, all barriers were eliminated and fire-brigade and ambulance alarmed as a precaution.
"I stood, said the fear of my life" Dequeidt to "Le Parisien. It became dangerous, when before it a truck on the left trace overhauled another vehicle. It could change over only to the standing tire. "I thought, my last Stuendlein struck."
Only after approximately one hour and 200 kilometers he could finally bring the cars to holding. As succeeded to it, in addition there are different data. "Le Parisien" quoted Dequeidt: "I stepped as firmly, as I could, on the brakes, and the car came finally to a halt." According to data of the police with Clermont Ferrand in central France, it succeeded to pull it after "many attempts" the smart card out. Thereupon the car lost 20 kilometers before a Mautstelle gradually at speed and finally to a halt came.
Electronics breakdown: The Vel Satis is steered with a smart card
The pressestelle of the manufacturer Renault confirmed the incident, which occurred on Sunday, on request of MIRROR ON-LINE ONE. "the car is examined for the moment in France", said spokeswoman Caroline Sambale. To the causes she can say to still nothing for the moment. "Le Parisien" quoted head of the company Louis Schweitzer, which expressed itself sceptically over the incident. "as it is described, surprises me the incident, and it appears very improbably." Whether similar incidents in France already occurred, did not become known.
The model Vel Satis is steered via the smart card: Door locks open automatically, as soon as the driver equipped with the map, whom grasp affects; Preferences of the driver such as air conditioning system and seat position, in addition, vehicle-relevant data such as maintenance dates are stored on the smart card. As soon as the driver puts it into the reader in the center console, going away barrier and steering column bolting device are solved. The driver must operate then an asynchronous operation button, in order to start the engine.
No, no, no.
Not crackers like DOS kiddiez, crackers like this:
Courtesy of dictionary.com:
3. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.
They're training Florida voters.
no-cat-will-ever-drag-your-sorry-ass-out-of-a-burn ing-building
Nor will a troll.
In Microsoft America, JPEG's burn you!
Proving That Shape-Shifting Robots Can Get a Move On ARLINGTON, Va.--It started with tennis balls. As a former collegiate tennis player, Daniela Rus habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. As a robotics researcher at Dartmouth College, she wondered why the tennis balls shouldn't be able to roll themselves around. She soon determined that electromagnets didn't have enough lifting power to solve the tennis-ball problem. However, her question led to a decade-long research program into the challenges of designing robots that reconfigure themselves to perform different tasks. Most recently, Rus and Dartmouth Robotics Lab researchers developed the first control methods that guarantee such self-reconfigurable robots won't fall apart as they change shape or move across a surface. The paper by postdoctoral researcher Zach Butler, graduate student Keith Butler, Rus and visiting professor Kohji Tomita from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology appeared in the September 2004 issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). "These latest papers show it is possible to develop self-reconfiguration capabilities in a way that has analytical guarantees," said Rus, who moved to MIT in January after 10 years as director of Dartmouth's Robotics Lab. "Understanding exactly how your system works and when you can trust it and when you can't is very important." In 2002, Rus received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a so-called "genius award," for her work, which has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) awards since 1996. Robots are usually designed to perform one task very well, whether it's assembling parts in a factory or vacuuming the living room. But ask those robots to perform another task or even the same task in a new environment, and you're asking for trouble. Self-reconfigurable robots, on the other hand, can reshape themselves as their task or environment changes, ideally without human intervention. A walking robot used for search-and-rescue operations would transform into a snake-like form to slither through small spaces in a collapsed building. A rolling robot exploring the surface of Mars would flow like water over a vertical drop or "flow" uphill onto a rock ledge. However, today's state-of-the-art shape-shifting robots are a long way from living up to that vision. Several research groups around the world are tackling the many significant mechanical and control challenges involved in having a robot change shape. Over the past decade, assisted by more than 50 Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students passing through her lab, Rus has made advances on both the mechanical and control fronts. On the mechanical side, she pioneered the design of 3-D shape-shifting robots built out of "expanding cubes," such as the Crystal modules. Each Crystal module, or "atom," has sides that extend and contract and that use a 'key-in-lock' mechanism to attach to neighboring atoms. The expanding-cube concept is an example of so-called "lattice robots," which can assume a wide variety of 3-D shapes, an advantage over robots whose modules can only form long, thin chains. Shape-shifting for such lattice robots boils down to exercises in control and planning, which happen at two levels. At one level, the robot must plan how to remodel itself from shape A to shape B. At another level, the robot must also plan the series of shapes needed to accomplish more complicated tasks, such as moving over rough terrain. Early work in self-reconfiguring robots used centralized methods to control how the pieces reassembled themselves. Today, researchers in the field generally acknowledge the need for distributed methods, in which each robotic module takes at least some control of its own destiny. "Since we are talking about potentially very large systems, with thousands of individual parts, it's important to consider distributed control and planning," Rus said. "And parallel and distributed algorithms are hard to guarantee." The recent IJRR paper and a
Start complaining about how JK Rowling messes up Harry in her next book...
Okay, I will.
Rowling totally sold out after Azkaban.
Dumbledore shoots first!!!
Too easy. I want to be able to set up a CS server on my NIC.
It did shrink. It was initially one of those late-80's bag phones.
I assume this is a clothes washing/drying reference.
If so, my Kyocera 5135 passes that test.
It went through the washer and dryer two weeks after I first got it. I was certain it was ruined, but pulled the battery out and let it air dry overnight. Next morning I plugged it in to charge and it worked. Still works fine a year later.
No, but we can say boring, painful to watch, and evidence that Lucas should never be allowed to direct.
That's a silly attitude. The addition of a third dimension also adds a lot more room to avoid other vehicles.
To have a silly attitude, you'd need three dimensions of travel.
Interesting point.
To that effect, Ipods also have no value. In which case, you probably wouldn't mind helping me get a free one.
To stay on topic a bit, I have no problem giving a performer money for either live or recorded versions of their work. However, the industry that has grown up around this really chaps my hide. Not just the RIAA, either. How about Ticketmaster? $7.50 per ticket service charge?!?!?!?!! And a monopoly on tickets for a certain venue? Definitely candidates for Ark B.
pre-n?
Thank you, but I'll wait for pr0-n wireless.
Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul
If I do, will it make compiling faster, or is this just something to do while waiting for it to build?
(/obligatory This Must Be Gentoo flamebait)
After that, it has to be said:
I, for one, welcome our new Martian unclefucker overlords.