The hardest part about programming on a mobile robot platform is what happens to the bot after so many iterations of compiled code being executed on it. My robotics class in college wasn't so much sending commands to the damn thing as much as it was determining whether sensors were acting correctly (our bots were ice-cream tub-sized machines with two independent drive motors on the sides and a caster wheel for balance).
On a computer, 99.9% of the time, code gets executed the same way every time. In the actual world, you don't have a controlled environment, and tiny variations in the environment can butterfly-effect a scripted series of commands sending the bot head on into a wall, further damaging it.
On the other hand, it put our programming (and thinking) paradigm more along the lines of Google's early research -- design the system around the idea that sub-systems could (and will) fail without warning. Not a bad learning subject for advanced programmers, but it's not something I'd teach to an introductory course.
in arizona, we have a "stupid drivers law". for instance, if you attempt to drive through a wash and get carried away by the water, you will incur a charge from the state for wasting their time rescuing your dumb ass.
(for anyone who doesn't know what a wash is, it's a culvert for diverting water during the rainy season.)
Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.
How about the folks at/. quit posting "news" with a link to articles that have little or no informative value to them. this article is nothing but fluff. who really gives a shit?
more interesting would be, say, some insight from the author as to whether adobe has gone after open source software that produces pdf files, or online pdf generators, not speculation that there might be a lawsuit. articles that report fact are always better than ones that do not.
sad thing is, this jingoism you speak so highly about is rather called for. those hospitals and ambulances wearing the red cross were found to house weapons and transport enemies. if anything, the red cross society needs to fight that battle and leave innocuous reality-imitating computer games alone.
Hmm, 7 million laptops on a mesh network in an undeveloped region (i.e. having even less computer-related education of users than the US)...
Supposing someone found a new security hole in linux, that's a lot of unpatched systems. The only way for a virus-writer not to take complete advantage of 7 million machines for, say, a DDoS attack, is the fact that inter-network communication is "on standby". Just wait until the telecommunications infrastructure is updated.
Oh wait, there's that pesky handcrank. Quick, someone write a 'wake-on-crank' acpi driver...
Most people just go by what people tell them and don't actually think for themselves. There's nothing wrong with propaganda; it's another form of capitalism, IMHO.
It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.
Last I checked, Army UAVs (Pioneer, Hunter, Shadow, Raven, etc.) had cameras on them, not PsyOps transmitters. Air Force UAVs (GlobalHawk and Predator) had the same. And then there was that one time that they put Hellfires on a few Predators, and one of them blew up an SUV driven by al-Qaeda.
If UAVs are used in the information warfare as the article suggests, then it's only because Iraqis and Afghanis go inside when they see (or hear) these aircraft coming. Otherwise, I wouldn't include them in this list.
Most people weren't even aware of the existence of the NSA, or their programs in place to collect information (e.g. Carnivore). They've been spying on our telecommunications for decades, and now all of a sudden, people are up in arms about a few wiretaps on suspected terrorists.
IMHO, Bush's mistake was to visit the NSA and give a speech, as if he needed the public's permission to do so.
What about all the negative press Sony received for the DRM rootkit? Hardware-decoded proprietary music formats in portable devices? Sorry to say, DRM killed the big beast.
i'm a php coder, fyi, and haven't had time yet to learn ruby on rails. i'm just putting it out as an alternative to php. i have yet to find a decent framework that can produce useful web objects as fast as ruby on rails.
i'm sure you've seen the video - reminds me of a console version of every single vba demonstration i've ever seen.
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The hardest part about programming on a mobile robot platform is what happens to the bot after so many iterations of compiled code being executed on it. My robotics class in college wasn't so much sending commands to the damn thing as much as it was determining whether sensors were acting correctly (our bots were ice-cream tub-sized machines with two independent drive motors on the sides and a caster wheel for balance).
On a computer, 99.9% of the time, code gets executed the same way every time. In the actual world, you don't have a controlled environment, and tiny variations in the environment can butterfly-effect a scripted series of commands sending the bot head on into a wall, further damaging it.
On the other hand, it put our programming (and thinking) paradigm more along the lines of Google's early research -- design the system around the idea that sub-systems could (and will) fail without warning. Not a bad learning subject for advanced programmers, but it's not something I'd teach to an introductory course.
Doesn't really break it down further than that...
Scrapple comes from other parts of the pig as well.
some of us rely on taking that newspaper to the crapper for an entirely different reason.
wrong-
i don't only want to know where the card reader is, i want to thoroughly inspect it.
in arizona, we have a "stupid drivers law". for instance, if you attempt to drive through a wash and get carried away by the water, you will incur a charge from the state for wasting their time rescuing your dumb ass.
(for anyone who doesn't know what a wash is, it's a culvert for diverting water during the rainy season.)
move to new jersey.
wouldn't you rather see masses of Windows desktop adoption stories? oh wait, that's right. no one gives a shit what os you run.
omgwtfbbq u r not 4 real, r u?
SATIRE? holy fucking obvious batman.
how does this get modded insightful? i think we need a mod for GULLIBLE.
"effect" is more commonly used as a noun than a verb. and i have yet to see a use for "affect" as a noun.
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How about the folks at /. quit posting "news" with a link to articles that have little or no informative value to them. this article is nothing but fluff. who really gives a shit?
more interesting would be, say, some insight from the author as to whether adobe has gone after open source software that produces pdf files, or online pdf generators, not speculation that there might be a lawsuit. articles that report fact are always better than ones that do not.
you could also try out ephpod.
think "tiles" in lego-terminology, not building blocks, which have studs on top. "tiles" are one-third height pieces with smooth tops.
sad thing is, this jingoism you speak so highly about is rather called for. those hospitals and ambulances wearing the red cross were found to house weapons and transport enemies. if anything, the red cross society needs to fight that battle and leave innocuous reality-imitating computer games alone.
Not to mention: Coffee can be HOT!
the word you're looking for is "obfuscate".
Hmm, 7 million laptops on a mesh network in an undeveloped region (i.e. having even less computer-related education of users than the US)...
Supposing someone found a new security hole in linux, that's a lot of unpatched systems. The only way for a virus-writer not to take complete advantage of 7 million machines for, say, a DDoS attack, is the fact that inter-network communication is "on standby". Just wait until the telecommunications infrastructure is updated.
Oh wait, there's that pesky handcrank. Quick, someone write a 'wake-on-crank' acpi driver...
My point is that UAVs have nothing to do with disseminating propaganda.
Unless you're in the know.
Most people just go by what people tell them and don't actually think for themselves. There's nothing wrong with propaganda; it's another form of capitalism, IMHO.
Probably the only thing Michael Moore was right about -- American culture is driven by fear.
Most people weren't even aware of the existence of the NSA, or their programs in place to collect information (e.g. Carnivore). They've been spying on our telecommunications for decades, and now all of a sudden, people are up in arms about a few wiretaps on suspected terrorists.
IMHO, Bush's mistake was to visit the NSA and give a speech, as if he needed the public's permission to do so.
What about all the negative press Sony received for the DRM rootkit? Hardware-decoded proprietary music formats in portable devices? Sorry to say, DRM killed the big beast.
i'm a php coder, fyi, and haven't had time yet to learn ruby on rails. i'm just putting it out as an alternative to php. i have yet to find a decent framework that can produce useful web objects as fast as ruby on rails.
i'm sure you've seen the video - reminds me of a console version of every single vba demonstration i've ever seen.