My experience then again tells that agile methods such as xp are actually quite coding oriented. What I've seen as a huge problem is that while the whole idea is to help the project adapt to changes, it also makes doing them far too tempting. People who are in charge can use it to avoid making difficult decisions.
And it looks like once again I'll have to reboot my Leopard macbook because of an update in a fucking web browser application. I've been really quite happy with OS X for last five years but lately this all has become really rather pointless. Too many lock-ups, too many bugs, too many reboots. Didn't see any of that with my iBook running Panther before. Looks like Apple tries to compete with price and the quality is gone.
Wouldn't it be better to learn from the team who came first?
How the hell is this comment modded insightful? Parent obviously has no clue how much time, effort and skill is required to make an autonomous robot at all. I'd consider it to be a major success if those robots work well enough to play soccer. Coming first or fifth in a tournament, well that's quite irrelevant. Even those teams that don't win, may have some technical areas which are more advanced to those that win.
I was particularly interested in the fact that this "tire" improves cornering while maintaining a smooth ride. No doubt all the NASCAR fans out there will be happy.
And since when did NASCAR races actually have anything to do with cornering on those boring oval tracks?;)
I have a series 60 phone (Nokia 6600) and the phone has a lot of features, and even more bugs. It usually hangs once or twice a day so that you'll have to remove the battery. I'm just wondering what kind of mess we'll soon be in with these viruses, since I'm pretty sure the software of the phone is made with hurry to be just as feature rich as possible.
why do the French have to make everything, including robots, seem lame? I can remember a time, like 5 minutes before I read the article, when I thought robots were badass. Now the whole favourable perception has been ruined.
Many of the teams weren't french, including ours (Roboteam, Finland). Our main robot is made of aluminium, weights about 15kg and is fast as hell. I'll promise that if you'd have a direct collision with it, you wouldn't be the one left standing:)
On the other hand, it's technically sophisticated enough to avoid you;)
Excuse me, but what the fuck is the point with this story? Considering there are many illuminated keyboards around, how is this anything else but a free advertisement for this product?
One of the problems is the price. Non-technical people tend to always buy the cheapest. It seems to be very difficult to persuade them to buy a computer with antivirus tools if it costs even a little bit more. And it seems to be impossible to make them buy macs, because they don't won't to pay the price difference. After a while, their brand new Windows-pc:s are back in the shop for a "repair" for weeks.
In their shoes I'd pay few hundred euros more for a computer that would'nt fuck it up all the time and make me mad.
If my PC's noise starts to annoy me, I'll just switch on my SPARCstation for a while. After that it feels somehow very silent and comfortable over here.
From the article: The keyboard and mouse (which add $25 to the cost of the machine) can best be described as "painful." Extremely painful. I couldn't use them for more than five minutes without my wrists hurting, and it is impossible for me to imagine anyone using these 80s-era throwbacks
I like this. Sun peripherals have always been able to give me the feeling that says "Listen punk, these machines are not made for fun, they are made for working. If this would be a pleasant experience, it wouldn't count as working, would it?"
I have two Samsung SpinPoint hard drives and they are making the most of the noise I have to suffer even though I haven't invested a lot for other components (I have GlacialTech Igloo Silent as CPU fan, Fortron 20db as power, I've removed the fan of my old Radeon and MB).
I can even hear the drives reading/writing to the next room and they are making constant high freq noise. I'd really expect there would be something better to recommend?
You don't seem very familiar with the academic world and the gigantic egos (some of them well-deserved) that many professors have.
I am familiar to the academic world, to a some point yes. And where I've been studying/working, professors are usually doing something called research, even if they are otherwise complete nutcases.
Publish or Perish.
Yes, and that means they should do scientific publications. There have been no mention of such in these articles I've seen written about this guy.
Honestly though, this guy is addicted to information.
I think this guy is more addicted to publicity than information. I've seen many articles of him, but I still have no idea if he has actually accomplished anything else than just to wear a computer and a camera all the time. No offence to anyone, but what is the point?
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Are you pondering what i'm pondering?
My experience then again tells that agile methods such as xp are actually quite coding oriented. What I've seen as a huge problem is that while the whole idea is to help the project adapt to changes, it also makes doing them far too tempting. People who are in charge can use it to avoid making difficult decisions.
And it looks like once again I'll have to reboot my Leopard macbook because of an update in a fucking web browser application. I've been really quite happy with OS X for last five years but lately this all has become really rather pointless. Too many lock-ups, too many bugs, too many reboots. Didn't see any of that with my iBook running Panther before. Looks like Apple tries to compete with price and the quality is gone.
Instead, be cool, don't appear desperate, and lower your sights.
Trust me it's better to look in the eyes instead of lowering the sight.
Dutch police have busted Shadow botnet: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-216237.html
Airlines? For a moment I thought the title was about utf-8 and scandinavian alphabet configuration mayhem in terminal emulators.
This is already mentioned in Alan Turing biography by Andrew Hodges, released in 1983.
I hope they'd be following Radiohead's and NIN's footstep and release an album that wouldn't be a piece of crap for a change.
... the police act intelligently ....
So they didn't much care about the game being realistic then...
Wouldn't it be better to learn from the team who came first?
How the hell is this comment modded insightful? Parent obviously has no clue how much time, effort and skill is required to make an autonomous robot at all. I'd consider it to be a major success if those robots work well enough to play soccer. Coming first or fifth in a tournament, well that's quite irrelevant. Even those teams that don't win, may have some technical areas which are more advanced to those that win.
I was particularly interested in the fact that this "tire" improves cornering while maintaining a smooth ride. No doubt all the NASCAR fans out there will be happy.
And since when did NASCAR races actually have anything to do with cornering on those boring oval tracks? ;)
I'd get one too, but tattoos are not cool on fatasses like me.
But delayed and told to come back later after couple of years. At least according to the local Finnish media.
(Totally crazy anyway. This is Finland for heavens sake, not some pansy-ass Sweden ;)
I have a series 60 phone (Nokia 6600) and the phone has a lot of features, and even more bugs. It usually hangs once or twice a day so that you'll have to remove the battery. I'm just wondering what kind of mess we'll soon be in with these viruses, since I'm pretty sure the software of the phone is made with hurry to be just as feature rich as possible.
why do the French have to make everything, including robots, seem lame? I can remember a time, like 5 minutes before I read the article, when I thought robots were badass. Now the whole favourable perception has been ruined.
Many of the teams weren't french, including ours (Roboteam, Finland). Our main robot is made of aluminium, weights about 15kg and is fast as hell. I'll promise that if you'd have a direct collision with it, you wouldn't be the one left standing :)
On the other hand, it's technically sophisticated enough to avoid you ;)
Excuse me, but what the fuck is the point with this story? Considering there are many illuminated keyboards around, how is this anything else but a free advertisement for this product?
One of the problems is the price. Non-technical people tend to always buy the cheapest. It seems to be very difficult to persuade them to buy a computer with antivirus tools if it costs even a little bit more. And it seems to be impossible to make them buy macs, because they don't won't to pay the price difference. After a while, their brand new Windows-pc:s are back in the shop for a "repair" for weeks.
In their shoes I'd pay few hundred euros more for a computer that would'nt fuck it up all the time and make me mad.
If my PC's noise starts to annoy me, I'll just switch on my SPARCstation for a while. After that it feels somehow very silent and comfortable over here.
No, they make whiskey.
Actually, they make whisky.
Oh wait, sorry, Smalltalkers are gods among programmers.
Indeed. They are mentioned frequently on the literature, but no one has actually seen one living and breathing. :)
From the article: The keyboard and mouse (which add $25 to the cost of the machine) can best be described as "painful." Extremely painful. I couldn't use them for more than five minutes without my wrists hurting, and it is impossible for me to imagine anyone using these 80s-era throwbacks
I like this. Sun peripherals have always been able to give me the feeling that says "Listen punk, these machines are not made for fun, they are made for working. If this would be a pleasant experience, it wouldn't count as working, would it?"
I have two Samsung SpinPoint hard drives and they are making the most of the noise I have to suffer even though I haven't invested a lot for other components (I have GlacialTech Igloo Silent as CPU fan, Fortron 20db as power, I've removed the fan of my old Radeon and MB). I can even hear the drives reading/writing to the next room and they are making constant high freq noise. I'd really expect there would be something better to recommend?
You don't seem very familiar with the academic world and the gigantic egos (some of them well-deserved) that many professors have.
I am familiar to the academic world, to a some point yes. And where I've been studying/working, professors are usually doing something called research, even if they are otherwise complete nutcases.
Publish or Perish.
Yes, and that means they should do scientific publications. There have been no mention of such in these articles I've seen written about this guy.
Honestly though, this guy is addicted to information.
I think this guy is more addicted to publicity than information. I've seen many articles of him, but I still have no idea if he has actually accomplished anything else than just to wear a computer and a camera all the time. No offence to anyone, but what is the point?
Also, how many parent think, "Little Jimmy should have a programmable set of Lego!"
Every parent who is an engineer? At least I will when I have my own kids.