Now that's real robotics! That I would attend, or sponsor, or mentor, or at least like to read about. One minor problem is the only three events on the web page for 2013 are in Germany, Netherlands, and Iran. More to come, hopefully.
OK OK in my defense I used to subscribe to "Servo" magazine in the 00s and back then "robot competition" was almost exclusively homemade weaponized RC cars with the exception of once (ONCE) I heard about some firefighting robot competition. So either FIRST began well after that era of "psuedo-robotics", or the scene overall has completely changed to pacifism, or Servo was intentionally not covering FIRST or whatever. I'm trying to report what I heard in the past with my ear to the ground, not rewrite history into claiming Kamen must have been a weaponized drone mfgr.
It's an area that basically requires miany more sensors/inputs
Well now autonomy is a tricky thing. For a car analogy you can design a unlimited F1 like competition where only world class engineering companies can compete with millions of bucks, lets say bipedal team of hydraulic/pneumatic robots playing soccer. You can also design a competition where kids, or not much more advanced than kids, can actually compete, like maybe a tabletop maze runner, maybe a somewhat simplified air-hockey table rig, maybe a "fire fighting robot" with a squirt gun trying to hit a candle. Robot tag? A "big" smart autonomous maze runner would be kind of interesting, held on a golf course or parking lot.
Its like saying you can't have a programming competition because developing the linux kernel took too long to replicate in a competition. Yet... corewars...
Another argument is just call a spade a spade and call it a "Homemade radio controlled car competition". For a standard/. car analogy, they don't call the drag racing strip in Kentucky "The Kentucky Derby" despite not having any horses and being run by cars. Although I have to admit it would be kind of hilarious to see a biological equine horse race a homemade (electric? radio controlled?) car on a drag strip.
You would need to stabilize the print head with respect to the skin, some kind of robotic assembly that you wear on the area getting the tattoo perhaps.
Just use machine vision. Supposedly the laser eye surgery blasters won't blast unless the embedded camera sees everything is lined up properly. Unsure if that's unusual, merely common, or required by medical regulation and also unsure about how its changed over time. Or it could all be BS that the doc told my coworker so he wouldn't freak out.
One interesting topic discussed in that very wikipedia article is you can create an economic hit on your enemy merely by plausibly claiming they have defective equipment. So China just cost the USA one zillion bucks to replace all that stuff, even if the story is just make believe.
I know of a couple alternatives from gossip with industrial controls type people. Please don't secure your nations nuclear secrets based on my/. post.
Google for "Garrett" they make industrial switches. Industrial as in weird DC voltages (for railroad, telco, etc) and supposedly good rep WRT interference protection. Like if you're running on the factory floor and the network goes bonkers when someone arc welds, rewire the run to a garrett and supposedly that'll fix it most of the time. The reputation of the prices is high, but when you need ethernet connectivity to the PLCs on a railroad engine or whatever, well...
Google for a place called "wideband" if you want a local. Low to mid end office gear. Really not that expensive, like a couple billable consultant hours for a switch or about three 3rd party wiring calls. My point is complaining about something from wideband costing $800 vs noname for $600 or Cisco for probably about $1000 is kind of pointless for a $100K/yr network admin and $50/hr electrician and all that, but for home its going to be hard to slip a $800 purchase by for a 24 port managed switch. I have no rep info on this although I've heard they work.
You need like ten centuries of switch*years before reports about reliability and such change from "anecdote" to "information" so onesie-twosie stories about "I heard of one that worked" isn't terribly useful.
Ultra is more 60s, and Turbo is more 80s. I'm guessing something inspirational/aspirational like "USB Vista" or a made up word like "USB Zune" or add an R at the end with no vowel, so "USBr"
There has been some roman numeral stuff in recent phones, along with astronomical themes, so my best guess at this time for the next USB standard marketing name is "Stellar USBr IV+"
I think its a matter of scale. So raw uncompressed video signal on an original displayport connector is 4.32 Gbit/s... now instead of a "USB" port being able to carry one uncompressed video signal it could carry two. Of course displayport 1.2 does 17.28 Gbit/s, so we've gone from only 1/4 to only 1/2 of a video signal. On the other hand, displayport has about twice the BW available as HDMI, so you could just about replace HDMI with USB now on a raw available BW basis. Although it would be a heck of a lot more intelligent to shove compressed video down the cable rather than raw uncompressed.
Using USB for a uncompressed video connection is not a valid or useful data point, anyway. But it does make the point that this is competitive with the fastest port anyone is likely to ever have access to. Nothing in your average dude's computer will ever be able to saturate a USB thats faster or about as fast as the video cable. A more normal use case is I'm sure my typing speed was not limited by 5.0 Gigs USB so 10.0 Gigs USB is not going to help.
In the very long run we will not have USB / Firewire / SATA / PATA / Displayport / HDMI we'll have just one connector and protocol to run them all. Plug your keyboard, mouse, LAN adapter and monitor into your hub connected to your phone and be done with it. The only question is which standard will win. Probably USB.
I glanced at the PR stuff and was pleased to see its not a stereotypical "robot" = "homemade RC car with weapons destroys another homemade RC car with weapons". Apparently something about getting disks into goals, I assume as close as they can get to calling it Hockey without violating trademarks and patents. Does anyone know if its basically "homemade RC cars that play hockey" or are the robots autonomous? An autonomous robot competition would be more complicated, but much more interesting. The only autonomous competition I can remember is that "drive across the desert" thing from years back. Not that there's anything wrong with homemade RC cars.
That's where I'd draw the line, if the asked if he has a PHD he's pretty much obligated to say yes and therefore get disqualified for employment because its a resume stain.
My current boss has no idea I have expert level skill at stacking onions on a produce cooler at a food store. For some odd reason it's never come up in discussion, and its not "pretending" for me to never mention it. It certainly has nothing even remotely to do with my current job. None the less if he asked me point blank if I knew how to stack onions on a produce cooler to make a stable and appealing looking pile, well I guess I gotta come clean and tell the truth.
That's not following the herd, and manufacturers are only allowed to participate in herd behavior. There really isn't much at a place like CES. Its like having 50 farmers at a farmers market all selling genetically identical potatoes and claiming they're the pinnacle of variety because there's 50 of them, missing the point that all 50 are doing exactly the same thing the other 49 have done, and almost exactly the same thing they've done for 10 years.
The specs you listed are pretty much a brand new HP50G calculator for about $90 from amazon. Sadly its basically identical to my HP48 from about 20 years ago other than minor specsmanship. Unless they've removed something in the last 20 years, it has a tolerable little alphanumeric keyboard, it syncs via a cable to my PC (I used to use ckermit around linux ver 1.2 to transfer programs and data off the '48). It uses AAA batteries which do last a rather long time, depending on usage. Maybe during my school years a set of batteries only lasted a semester, but that was pretty intense use. For me, $90 is cheap. I believe its cheaper than what I paid for my '48 20 years ago, and "everyone other than me" pays more than $90/month for cellphone, etc. So... yeah, the flagship hp calculator would do. Its not "new" so its not going to be at CES, its basically a quarter century old.
Perhaps someone thought the populace was becoming too intelligent via the interweb, and put into play a plan to stop that.
I don't think facebook has anything to do with this.
The problem facing "computer stores" is the upgrade treadmill is dead. Hmm my video card from 2 years ago pretty much does everything I'd want it to do. I'm still not out of memory on my main desktop. The audio market has gone spec crazy with higher and higher sample rates and theoretical bits and extra channels, although no one wants to talk about actual SNR.
Physical copies of pictures is still the best solution when you're talking about 50 years later.
Nope. Despite storage under mostly controlled conditions, some of the color 35mm film my wife scanned in the '90s is visibly screwed up if rescanned in the '10s. Some kind of analysis would probably make a great kids science project.
Yeah yeah black and white on archival acid free paper with extremely careful processing (to prevent long term fixer stains) MIGHT be OK in 50 years, plus or minus water damage, etc. But I wouldn't bet on it, and I wouldn't bet on random color prints from the instant-photo-kiosk lasting very long. I've also seen some weird fading on inkjet prints.
The best solution is keep copying it. Keep that data live and always on the latest media.
no no no I mean use a antique analog camera as a prop or toy for a theme, more or less. Using a iphone to document fun time is kind of been there done that. Consider 1860 theme night using a civil war era camera (which despite my low/. UID is still way before my time)
Just like using your buggy whip to drive the horses pulling your covered wagon doesn't count (see hot coffee mod for Oregon Trail)
That's a nice phrase. Your invention? I sat here for a couple minutes trying to think of other necrotic brands. Dead and rotting but haven't been entirely excised from culture yet... "SCO"? "Atari"? "CompUSA?"
The buggy whip people found a new lease on life in pr0n and related activities. The camera people need to do the same.
Get rid of the plastic and the electronics, make it look like a '60s pentax spotmatic or violate some design patents and make it look like a vintage hasselblad, and above all else make it liquid proof. That might actually sell.
could mean anything from Apollo era IBM mainframe (which would be cool, but not export controlled anymore) to fairly recent NSA spy satellite stuff that is going to have all manner of strange expensive regulations.
OTOH, I'd say it's more interesting to puruse academic career,
Isn't the situation something like for every 10 phd granted, there are only 3 academic phd level openings, depending on area of study of course? The vast majority are going to have to activate the backup plan. Its very much like professional sports.
Incidentally tell them you left it out as it isn't relevant to your current work desires.
I often "leave out" that I worked at a grocery store in my sophomore year of high school. If you're so young you can't fill up a one page resume, you have to fill it up the blank page with something, anything, but over the age of 30 most probably have far too much resume fodder to fill the page.
Now, if you were applying to become a physics instructor at a high school and lied about not having a phd then there's some issues, but networking hardware? I think you're OK there, at least morally and ethically.
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Now that's real robotics! That I would attend, or sponsor, or mentor, or at least like to read about. One minor problem is the only three events on the web page for 2013 are in Germany, Netherlands, and Iran. More to come, hopefully.
FIRST has never been about weaponry
OK OK in my defense I used to subscribe to "Servo" magazine in the 00s and back then "robot competition" was almost exclusively homemade weaponized RC cars with the exception of once (ONCE) I heard about some firefighting robot competition. So either FIRST began well after that era of "psuedo-robotics", or the scene overall has completely changed to pacifism, or Servo was intentionally not covering FIRST or whatever. I'm trying to report what I heard in the past with my ear to the ground, not rewrite history into claiming Kamen must have been a weaponized drone mfgr.
It's an area that basically requires miany more sensors/inputs
Well now autonomy is a tricky thing. For a car analogy you can design a unlimited F1 like competition where only world class engineering companies can compete with millions of bucks, lets say bipedal team of hydraulic/pneumatic robots playing soccer. You can also design a competition where kids, or not much more advanced than kids, can actually compete, like maybe a tabletop maze runner, maybe a somewhat simplified air-hockey table rig, maybe a "fire fighting robot" with a squirt gun trying to hit a candle. Robot tag? A "big" smart autonomous maze runner would be kind of interesting, held on a golf course or parking lot.
Its like saying you can't have a programming competition because developing the linux kernel took too long to replicate in a competition. Yet... corewars...
Another argument is just call a spade a spade and call it a "Homemade radio controlled car competition". For a standard /. car analogy, they don't call the drag racing strip in Kentucky "The Kentucky Derby" despite not having any horses and being run by cars. Although I have to admit it would be kind of hilarious to see a biological equine horse race a homemade (electric? radio controlled?) car on a drag strip.
AC is begging for a link to goatse, isn't he?
You would need to stabilize the print head with respect to the skin, some kind of robotic assembly that you wear on the area getting the tattoo perhaps.
Just use machine vision. Supposedly the laser eye surgery blasters won't blast unless the embedded camera sees everything is lined up properly. Unsure if that's unusual, merely common, or required by medical regulation and also unsure about how its changed over time. Or it could all be BS that the doc told my coworker so he wouldn't freak out.
One interesting topic discussed in that very wikipedia article is you can create an economic hit on your enemy merely by plausibly claiming they have defective equipment. So China just cost the USA one zillion bucks to replace all that stuff, even if the story is just make believe.
It would be cheaper, simpler, and "fairer" to enforce US EPA, FCC, FDA, and OSHA laws on the foreigners and then see who's more productive...
I know of a couple alternatives from gossip with industrial controls type people. Please don't secure your nations nuclear secrets based on my /. post.
Google for "Garrett" they make industrial switches. Industrial as in weird DC voltages (for railroad, telco, etc) and supposedly good rep WRT interference protection. Like if you're running on the factory floor and the network goes bonkers when someone arc welds, rewire the run to a garrett and supposedly that'll fix it most of the time. The reputation of the prices is high, but when you need ethernet connectivity to the PLCs on a railroad engine or whatever, well...
Google for a place called "wideband" if you want a local. Low to mid end office gear. Really not that expensive, like a couple billable consultant hours for a switch or about three 3rd party wiring calls. My point is complaining about something from wideband costing $800 vs noname for $600 or Cisco for probably about $1000 is kind of pointless for a $100K/yr network admin and $50/hr electrician and all that, but for home its going to be hard to slip a $800 purchase by for a 24 port managed switch. I have no rep info on this although I've heard they work.
You need like ten centuries of switch*years before reports about reliability and such change from "anecdote" to "information" so onesie-twosie stories about "I heard of one that worked" isn't terribly useful.
British-like typing detected.
The eye tracking system must have recognized a british scowl on the submitters face and made some assumptions.
Ultra is more 60s, and Turbo is more 80s.
I'm guessing something inspirational/aspirational like "USB Vista" or a made up word like "USB Zune" or add an R at the end with no vowel, so "USBr"
There has been some roman numeral stuff in recent phones, along with astronomical themes, so my best guess at this time for the next USB standard marketing name is "Stellar USBr IV+"
I think its a matter of scale. So raw uncompressed video signal on an original displayport connector is 4.32 Gbit/s... now instead of a "USB" port being able to carry one uncompressed video signal it could carry two. Of course displayport 1.2 does 17.28 Gbit/s, so we've gone from only 1/4 to only 1/2 of a video signal. On the other hand, displayport has about twice the BW available as HDMI, so you could just about replace HDMI with USB now on a raw available BW basis. Although it would be a heck of a lot more intelligent to shove compressed video down the cable rather than raw uncompressed.
Using USB for a uncompressed video connection is not a valid or useful data point, anyway. But it does make the point that this is competitive with the fastest port anyone is likely to ever have access to. Nothing in your average dude's computer will ever be able to saturate a USB thats faster or about as fast as the video cable. A more normal use case is I'm sure my typing speed was not limited by 5.0 Gigs USB so 10.0 Gigs USB is not going to help.
In the very long run we will not have USB / Firewire / SATA / PATA / Displayport / HDMI we'll have just one connector and protocol to run them all. Plug your keyboard, mouse, LAN adapter and monitor into your hub connected to your phone and be done with it. The only question is which standard will win. Probably USB.
I glanced at the PR stuff and was pleased to see its not a stereotypical "robot" = "homemade RC car with weapons destroys another homemade RC car with weapons". Apparently something about getting disks into goals, I assume as close as they can get to calling it Hockey without violating trademarks and patents. Does anyone know if its basically "homemade RC cars that play hockey" or are the robots autonomous? An autonomous robot competition would be more complicated, but much more interesting. The only autonomous competition I can remember is that "drive across the desert" thing from years back. Not that there's anything wrong with homemade RC cars.
but pretending to have done less
That's where I'd draw the line, if the asked if he has a PHD he's pretty much obligated to say yes and therefore get disqualified for employment because its a resume stain.
My current boss has no idea I have expert level skill at stacking onions on a produce cooler at a food store. For some odd reason it's never come up in discussion, and its not "pretending" for me to never mention it. It certainly has nothing even remotely to do with my current job. None the less if he asked me point blank if I knew how to stack onions on a produce cooler to make a stable and appealing looking pile, well I guess I gotta come clean and tell the truth.
That's not following the herd, and manufacturers are only allowed to participate in herd behavior. There really isn't much at a place like CES. Its like having 50 farmers at a farmers market all selling genetically identical potatoes and claiming they're the pinnacle of variety because there's 50 of them, missing the point that all 50 are doing exactly the same thing the other 49 have done, and almost exactly the same thing they've done for 10 years.
The specs you listed are pretty much a brand new HP50G calculator for about $90 from amazon. Sadly its basically identical to my HP48 from about 20 years ago other than minor specsmanship. Unless they've removed something in the last 20 years, it has a tolerable little alphanumeric keyboard, it syncs via a cable to my PC (I used to use ckermit around linux ver 1.2 to transfer programs and data off the '48). It uses AAA batteries which do last a rather long time, depending on usage. Maybe during my school years a set of batteries only lasted a semester, but that was pretty intense use. For me, $90 is cheap. I believe its cheaper than what I paid for my '48 20 years ago, and "everyone other than me" pays more than $90/month for cellphone, etc. So... yeah, the flagship hp calculator would do. Its not "new" so its not going to be at CES, its basically a quarter century old.
Perhaps someone thought the populace was becoming too intelligent via the interweb, and put into play a plan to stop that.
I don't think facebook has anything to do with this.
The problem facing "computer stores" is the upgrade treadmill is dead. Hmm my video card from 2 years ago pretty much does everything I'd want it to do. I'm still not out of memory on my main desktop. The audio market has gone spec crazy with higher and higher sample rates and theoretical bits and extra channels, although no one wants to talk about actual SNR.
Physical copies of pictures is still the best solution when you're talking about 50 years later.
Nope. Despite storage under mostly controlled conditions, some of the color 35mm film my wife scanned in the '90s is visibly screwed up if rescanned in the '10s. Some kind of analysis would probably make a great kids science project.
Yeah yeah black and white on archival acid free paper with extremely careful processing (to prevent long term fixer stains) MIGHT be OK in 50 years, plus or minus water damage, etc. But I wouldn't bet on it, and I wouldn't bet on random color prints from the instant-photo-kiosk lasting very long. I've also seen some weird fading on inkjet prints.
The best solution is keep copying it. Keep that data live and always on the latest media.
no no no I mean use a antique analog camera as a prop or toy for a theme, more or less. Using a iphone to document fun time is kind of been there done that. Consider 1860 theme night using a civil war era camera (which despite my low /. UID is still way before my time)
Just like using your buggy whip to drive the horses pulling your covered wagon doesn't count (see hot coffee mod for Oregon Trail)
I sincerely hope you poker faced it and tried to convince the clerk that's just how family reunions roll after a couple beers...
necrotic brand
That's a nice phrase. Your invention? I sat here for a couple minutes trying to think of other necrotic brands. Dead and rotting but haven't been entirely excised from culture yet... "SCO"? "Atari"? "CompUSA?"
Turn your instagram "artsy" photo into a tattoo in 45 minutes or less at the mall ! This might work !
Another dead idea. Quite unfortunate really.
The buggy whip people found a new lease on life in pr0n and related activities. The camera people need to do the same.
Get rid of the plastic and the electronics, make it look like a '60s pentax spotmatic or violate some design patents and make it look like a vintage hasselblad, and above all else make it liquid proof. That might actually sell.
Sell it to China
Hard to tell after the journalist filter, but
and its high-tech test equipment
could mean anything from Apollo era IBM mainframe (which would be cool, but not export controlled anymore) to fairly recent NSA spy satellite stuff that is going to have all manner of strange expensive regulations.
OTOH, I'd say it's more interesting to puruse academic career,
Isn't the situation something like for every 10 phd granted, there are only 3 academic phd level openings, depending on area of study of course? The vast majority are going to have to activate the backup plan. Its very much like professional sports.
Incidentally tell them you left it out as it isn't relevant to your current work desires.
I often "leave out" that I worked at a grocery store in my sophomore year of high school. If you're so young you can't fill up a one page resume, you have to fill it up the blank page with something, anything, but over the age of 30 most probably have far too much resume fodder to fill the page.
Now, if you were applying to become a physics instructor at a high school and lied about not having a phd then there's some issues, but networking hardware? I think you're OK there, at least morally and ethically.
You failed to amortized the cost of the GPS among all of the trips taken by the car...
I only use GPS about once a year, if that.