"The experiments illustrate that passive RFID tags deployed in the environment can act as reliable stimuli that trigger local navigation behaviors to achieve global navigation objectives."
That is, you'll have to imbed an RFID tag into everything you want the robot to be able to see. This is a way around the very hard problem of a generalized object recognition system for the robot. It's a fine solution, if you're blind and you don't mind not leaving your home. Otherwise it sucks.
"The first one was done by FlexBeta and in general goes deep, done by people that seem to know Linux, and good around its 9 pages."
Even if we overlook the switch from past to present tense (and back again), "...was done by...in general goes deep, [was] done by...", this sentence is still atrocious. The coup de grace is "[the first one was] good around its 9 pages."
But our suffering is not over, as we soon find out "...from someone that seems to dislike Linux and don't know a enough about it." I would sure like to meet this someone, this someone who 'don't know' a thing. Finally, I'll leave you with a question: "In what of those extremes are the average new user experience with those distributions?" In what of those extremes indeed! Bravo slashdot staff, bravo!
Don't confuse 'morals' with ethics.
The study of ethics should strive to guide human action by determining what is good, regardless of what we are acting upon, be it the state, the earth, or Titan.
Whether the study of ethics is futile is another question.
One of the arguments for government censorship of broadcast television and radio is 'pervasiveness'. That is, since radio and television broadcast signals can come into the home 'uninvited' and received into the eyes and ears of children, the government must provide a filter.
As free Wi-Fi access points like this become more ubiquitous, giving internet access a similar pervasiveness, it will be interesting to see if internet censorship gains more support.
Americans are so afraid of everything. Afraid that we don't listen to the right music(MTV), afraid we don't have the right clothes(malls), afraid that our kids are eating paste(this article). Who cares? We should all lighten up a little.
I have this problem too. The fact is, when you make yourself work, your productivity goes down. The reason you get faster at crunch time is because you WANT to work then.
What I do to remedy this is to do some other activity that lets my mind wander. Excersize, vacuuming, washing dishes, cleaning, etc. This way, you're mind will wander and start thinking about the work that you should do, and then you'll psych yourself up for working. When you start working, if you start to drift again, go do something again to get back into work mode.
A very long(~1 hour) techno song also helps. I have a song that I have had many successful work sesssions with. I use this if I'm really having a hard time focusing.
I do not propose that Native Americans, nor any prehistoric clan/group/tribe/whatever lived the 'right' way. My argument is simply this:
Prehistoric peoples did have systems that worked-that did not include the accumulation of goods(physical wealth). Thus, a desire to do so cannot be part of a human's nature.
The desire to accumulate wealth is not human nature. Humans weren't doing it for thousands of years in the era before recorded history. Native americans weren't doing it either.
This article was full of fluff and contained little or no real information:
Pitfall 4: Security. Hackers can exploit a robot's vulnerabilities and turn it into a weapon or completely disable it. Solution: Install safeguards to counter these vulnerabilities.
Pitfall 6: Viruses. PCs that are wirelessly communicating with robots might contain viruses. Solution: Install anti-virus programs and present security awareness programs for programmers and users.
The article could easily have been written by an undergrad just finishing an introductory course in artificial intelligence or robotics. I'm a bit dissapointed that it was posted on Slashdot at all.
Or you could use 9 fans running at quarter speed.
But seriously, anyone that has had to run Cat5 cables through the ceiling doesn't want to even SEE a ceiling tile again, unless it's to punch a whole through it. My neck hurts just thinking about them.
"but from what I remember of my undergrad stats course, I would say that that is a pretty damn significant correlation."
You might also remember from stat class that correlation does not mean causation.
In only a single draft, even the greatest of writers will only produce content on par with the average thinker. Mr Gibson has "pettered out" as it were as a novelist. As if to reward himself he publishes countless first drafts: unpolished ramblings not ready, nay, not WORTHY, of consumption.
Most blogs, including this one are about as narcissistic as hit counters on your personal home page.
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"The experiments illustrate that passive RFID tags deployed in the environment can act as reliable stimuli that trigger local navigation behaviors to achieve global navigation objectives." That is, you'll have to imbed an RFID tag into everything you want the robot to be able to see. This is a way around the very hard problem of a generalized object recognition system for the robot. It's a fine solution, if you're blind and you don't mind not leaving your home. Otherwise it sucks.
"The first one was done by FlexBeta and in general goes deep, done by people that seem to know Linux, and good around its 9 pages." Even if we overlook the switch from past to present tense (and back again), "...was done by...in general goes deep, [was] done by ...", this sentence is still atrocious. The coup de grace is "[the first one was] good around its 9 pages."
But our suffering is not over, as we soon find out "...from someone that seems to dislike Linux and don't know a enough about it." I would sure like to meet this someone, this someone who 'don't know' a thing. Finally, I'll leave you with a question: "In what of those extremes are the average new user experience with those distributions?" In what of those extremes indeed! Bravo slashdot staff, bravo!
Don't confuse 'morals' with ethics. The study of ethics should strive to guide human action by determining what is good, regardless of what we are acting upon, be it the state, the earth, or Titan. Whether the study of ethics is futile is another question.
One of the arguments for government censorship of broadcast television and radio is 'pervasiveness'. That is, since radio and television broadcast signals can come into the home 'uninvited' and received into the eyes and ears of children, the government must provide a filter. As free Wi-Fi access points like this become more ubiquitous, giving internet access a similar pervasiveness, it will be interesting to see if internet censorship gains more support.
Get a Mac!
Oops: :) Oh, and don't hot-link to them, my host will kill me. Thanks!"
-BOFH
"Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the screenshots
Um, apparently, you guys haven't actually played Halo. It's quite good.
Americans are so afraid of everything. Afraid that we don't listen to the right music(MTV), afraid we don't have the right clothes(malls), afraid that our kids are eating paste(this article). Who cares? We should all lighten up a little.
Ouch.
There goes your *real* karma.
I have this problem too. The fact is, when you make yourself work, your productivity goes down. The reason you get faster at crunch time is because you WANT to work then. What I do to remedy this is to do some other activity that lets my mind wander. Excersize, vacuuming, washing dishes, cleaning, etc. This way, you're mind will wander and start thinking about the work that you should do, and then you'll psych yourself up for working. When you start working, if you start to drift again, go do something again to get back into work mode. A very long(~1 hour) techno song also helps. I have a song that I have had many successful work sesssions with. I use this if I'm really having a hard time focusing.
I do not propose that Native Americans, nor any prehistoric clan/group/tribe/whatever lived the 'right' way. My argument is simply this:
Prehistoric peoples did have systems that worked-that did not include the accumulation of goods(physical wealth). Thus, a desire to do so cannot be part of a human's nature.
The desire to accumulate wealth is not human nature. Humans weren't doing it for thousands of years in the era before recorded history. Native americans weren't doing it either.
Well this certainly makes the movie to video game adaptation easier.
I don't know whether to mod this post insightful or bloody obvious. This article did indeed blow, hard.
The article could easily have been written by an undergrad just finishing an introductory course in artificial intelligence or robotics. I'm a bit dissapointed that it was posted on Slashdot at all.
But I'm not sure what this has to do with ceiling tiles or quieter PCs.
Or you could use 9 fans running at quarter speed. But seriously, anyone that has had to run Cat5 cables through the ceiling doesn't want to even SEE a ceiling tile again, unless it's to punch a whole through it. My neck hurts just thinking about them.
30 is symmetric vertically in most fonts, and 10 is probably symmetric in a few. Thanks, Mensa!
But panther/bittorrent, anyone, anyone?
As to adding garbage collection to Objective-C, I think that is what Cocoa/Java is for, the 'newbies' as it were.
I can't believe this was modded up as funny. This is really a poor excuse for humor. No offense.
"but from what I remember of my undergrad stats course, I would say that that is a pretty damn significant correlation." You might also remember from stat class that correlation does not mean causation.
In only a single draft, even the greatest of writers will only produce content on par with the average thinker. Mr Gibson has "pettered out" as it were as a novelist. As if to reward himself he publishes countless first drafts: unpolished ramblings not ready, nay, not WORTHY, of consumption. Most blogs, including this one are about as narcissistic as hit counters on your personal home page.