...(if you're not so buried that you should seek help from one of the credit counseling agencies that make deals with creditors for you)...
If you are so buried that you think you need one of those scammers to help you out, declare bankruptcy. It will be cheaper to do so and will clean up your credit faster.
TOKYO -- A Japanese team of researchers has developed a robot that could help browse for books in a library by receiving instructions via the Internet, a team member said Friday. The robot, a wheeled vehicle measuring 50 by 45 centimeters with a digital camera, mechanical hand and arm, follows orders received through the Internet.
So, the first paragraph of the article (two rather unspectacular examples of writing to begin with) rather redundantly explains that the robot takes its orders from the Internet. You're so special for pointing out what an insensitive fuck I am for not caring about poor housebound Internet users who want to go to the library.
Let me ask you something. Why go through all the trouble to design, build, and debug a digital camera wielding box of bolts with a D-Link wireless Internet gateway jammed up its rear just so homebound people can visit the library, when existing technology known as "scanners" and "permanent storage" could store and make available every book in that library on the Internet? Not only that, there would be no queue to use the freaking robot, and the robot wouldn't be running over human library browsers' toes. Oh, "scanners" and "permanent storage" aren't experimental technologies either. Hmm!!!
Go ahead and mod me down for pointing out UTTER STUPIDITY. I just call it like I see it.
Why is it important to stress that the robot receives orders through the Internet? Is that somehow more important than the fact that it navigates bookshelves to find books? That's like stressing that a television receives pictures through Radio Raves. Hey, look! This magic picture box gets its images from **ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION** Ooh! Ahh!
Why are people still capitalizing "Internet", for that matter? Good Lord. Da interweb ain't nothin' but a thang anymore, folks. It's like radio waves. Useful for transferring information and the band is full of static. Get over it.
Our image/video server is slow/down for the time being due to increased load. Until Slashdot.org users forget we exist, things will be a little slow / inaccessible. On Monday, we will ensure access from on-campus computers and possibly from the internet at large.
They should rename themselves to the Gravity / Chaos Club.
There is the option of shooting radioactive waste into the Sun, if it can be done economically.
All it would take is one exploded launch vehicle and the resulting catastrophe would most assuredly dwarf all previoius nuclear accidents in human history. Imagine spreading a cloud of highly radioactive nuclear waste particles over hundreds or even thousands of miles! Never mind doing it economically. It would need to be done safely. Besides, if we bury it right here we have the option of digging it back up down the line when we find fun new things to do with the waste.
I would like to once again put forth the theory that SCO is in fact on the side of open source -- that what is really going on is, they are just working a win-win-win deal where they make a little bank while getting the GPL upheld in a court of law as they go out of business with a bang!
The government has actually mandated that an industry make progress?? Hey, FCC, how 'bout sticking your nose in the RIAA's business for a little while? If you muzzle them then I'll forgive you for the V-Chip.
Is there some little easter egg in the scripts driving these forums that sometimes substitutes "artical" for "article"? That is not a typo I'm prone to making, and I've seen the same typo in many other posts that otherwise appear to be made by competent writers. What's the deal?
His article is a thought provoking discussion of the unintended consequences of technological change.
I rather thought the artical was merely stating the obvious. Let me distill it and save a lot of people a little time:
"Gee! When technology makes something ubiquitously available, the world changes! In some ways it becomes better and in other ways it becomes worse. That's something to think about in the future!"
I don't know 'bout the Enterprise, but apparently Klingon ships can go to warp in an atmosphere. Maybe that only works while temporally displaced, though...
I would. I do. Both at home and at work. Cygwin's X server makes a great remote terminal for a Linux machine. Cygwin X even has clipboard support (though it's a little goofy) -- I can copy text from an X app being run on a remote Linux machine and displayed locally, and paste that text into a Windows app running locally. And, vice-versa. Cygwin's X server even does a good job displaying all of KDE in windowless mode. One minute my monitor will look just like it's hooked directly to the Linux machine running KDE -- then I press the Windows key and my Windows taskbar appears. From there I can click the "show desktop" icon and all of a sudden the Cygwin X display is shuffled to the back and I'm only looking at my local Windows stuff. Of course you can have mixed X and Windows windows overlapping as well. It's really pretty cool.
1. The chip is fully programmable and an SDK invluding C compiler is available now. 2. The chip will be marketed as a coprocessor. 3. They expect to start selling them for around $16,000 in a few months.
I've actually got MP3s of William Shatner doing Rocketman and a couple other "songs".
For the unitiated, he doesn't sing in these recordings. Instead he speaks the song lyrics with the music. He manages to sound so much like a parody of himself that one can only assume he is parodying himself.
In any case, it's interesting to listen to once.
"And I think it's going to be a long, long time..."
I'm seriously, guys. Click the link. It doesn't just go to the Lindows site. It goes to a part of the site that will make you wonder exactly what the Lindows folks are smoking.
This MediaMax copy protection scheme isn't even capable of working on all computers (for obvious reasons). And for a computer that can't run this autorun Windows binary, the disc will just look like a mixed-media one with audio and data tracks. BUT, since MediaMax is a copy protection scheme, doing *anything* to get around that copy protection is therefore a violation of the DMCA. Hitting to turn off AutoRun...disabling AutoRun on your computer, or simply putting the disc in a non-Windows computer could all be construed as DMCA violations.
But it gets better. Since the copy protection technology obviously isn't capable of working across all platforms (it has no effect on non-Windows computers or audio CD players), then it's not 100% effective to begin with. You could also say that printing the words "This CD is copy protected" on the disc label and then not actually putting any copy protection on the disc isn't a 100% effective method of copy protection either. So would a person ignoring those words and making a copy of the disc be a DMCA violation?
The world has finally begun to defy all logic. I'll be checking into my rubber room at the funny farm now. Nice knowin' y'all.
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Let me ask you something. Why go through all the trouble to design, build, and debug a digital camera wielding box of bolts with a D-Link wireless Internet gateway jammed up its rear just so homebound people can visit the library, when existing technology known as "scanners" and "permanent storage" could store and make available every book in that library on the Internet? Not only that, there would be no queue to use the freaking robot, and the robot wouldn't be running over human library browsers' toes. Oh, "scanners" and "permanent storage" aren't experimental technologies either. Hmm!!!
Go ahead and mod me down for pointing out UTTER STUPIDITY. I just call it like I see it.
Why is it important to stress that the robot receives orders through the Internet? Is that somehow more important than the fact that it navigates bookshelves to find books? That's like stressing that a television receives pictures through Radio Raves. Hey, look! This magic picture box gets its images from **ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION** Ooh! Ahh!
Why are people still capitalizing "Internet", for that matter? Good Lord. Da interweb ain't nothin' but a thang anymore, folks. It's like radio waves. Useful for transferring information and the band is full of static. Get over it.
Hmmm...massive inflation and giant lasers on the moon? We can hold the world hostage for one MILLION dollars!
I would like to once again put forth the theory that SCO is in fact on the side of open source -- that what is really going on is, they are just working a win-win-win deal where they make a little bank while getting the GPL upheld in a court of law as they go out of business with a bang!
That nitpick aside, good post.
The government has actually mandated that an industry make progress?? Hey, FCC, how 'bout sticking your nose in the RIAA's business for a little while? If you muzzle them then I'll forgive you for the V-Chip.
"Gee! When technology makes something ubiquitously available, the world changes! In some ways it becomes better and in other ways it becomes worse. That's something to think about in the future!"
I don't know 'bout the Enterprise, but apparently Klingon ships can go to warp in an atmosphere. Maybe that only works while temporally displaced, though...
I would. I do. Both at home and at work. Cygwin's X server makes a great remote terminal for a Linux machine. Cygwin X even has clipboard support (though it's a little goofy) -- I can copy text from an X app being run on a remote Linux machine and displayed locally, and paste that text into a Windows app running locally. And, vice-versa. Cygwin's X server even does a good job displaying all of KDE in windowless mode. One minute my monitor will look just like it's hooked directly to the Linux machine running KDE -- then I press the Windows key and my Windows taskbar appears. From there I can click the "show desktop" icon and all of a sudden the Cygwin X display is shuffled to the back and I'm only looking at my local Windows stuff. Of course you can have mixed X and Windows windows overlapping as well. It's really pretty cool.
So I'll summarize some interesting key points:
1. The chip is fully programmable and an SDK invluding C compiler is available now.
2. The chip will be marketed as a coprocessor.
3. They expect to start selling them for around $16,000 in a few months.
I've actually got MP3s of William Shatner doing Rocketman and a couple other "songs".
For the unitiated, he doesn't sing in these recordings. Instead he speaks the song lyrics with the music. He manages to sound so much like a parody of himself that one can only assume he is parodying himself.
In any case, it's interesting to listen to once.
"And I think it's going to be a long, long time..."
Hmm! Maybe they should click here to see how cool LindowsOS is!
I'm seriously, guys. Click the link. It doesn't just go to the Lindows site. It goes to a part of the site that will make you wonder exactly what the Lindows folks are smoking.
Looks like the joke was lost on the mods as well.
This MediaMax copy protection scheme isn't even capable of working on all computers (for obvious reasons). And for a computer that can't run this autorun Windows binary, the disc will just look like a mixed-media one with audio and data tracks. BUT, since MediaMax is a copy protection scheme, doing *anything* to get around that copy protection is therefore a violation of the DMCA. Hitting to turn off AutoRun...disabling AutoRun on your computer, or simply putting the disc in a non-Windows computer could all be construed as DMCA violations.
But it gets better. Since the copy protection technology obviously isn't capable of working across all platforms (it has no effect on non-Windows computers or audio CD players), then it's not 100% effective to begin with. You could also say that printing the words "This CD is copy protected" on the disc label and then not actually putting any copy protection on the disc isn't a 100% effective method of copy protection either. So would a person ignoring those words and making a copy of the disc be a DMCA violation?
The world has finally begun to defy all logic. I'll be checking into my rubber room at the funny farm now. Nice knowin' y'all.