Last night we had the Mini-Coop Robot that turned out to be an advertising stunt, now we have this thing pretending to be a real robot!
Obligatory,
Frink: No, the robot is programmed to serve humans, following Asimov's 3 Laws of Robots, Asimov, with the so many books, not so many good....
Following the freakin DARPA it appeared at first as if it was a serious, tough, attempt to automate vehicles.
However, time after time they reduce the requirements for qualifying, and basically continually reduce the prestige of the event, now they are allowing all 15 teams to race, even though only 7 finished the much easier race (The last race, only the Carnegie Mellon team actually completed!)
All my commmunication will have to have GW is Double-Plus Good as the header:) Using words such as Terrorism, Nader for President, and Same-Sex Marriage will merit an immediate termination.
Usually I would be the first in line to bash Microsoft, as would the vast majority of the slashdot group.
However, I do have to give them credit for Microsoft XP, being the best thing they have done in a long time, and for allowing me to use a form of Windows that can actually have a nice interface if you tweak with it a bit.
And for making a Windows that is easier to install, and doesnt crash quite so often, as Win98, WinMe, Win95, ad nauseum did.
So basically Microsoft needs to just wait, work on Longhorn, make it stable and release it once it is completely finished, with much much more stability and Bill Gates will just have to wait before becoming a quadro-gonzo-bobillionaire.
I really believe that the amount of effort necessary to provide PayPal with security is worth the effort. PayPal is such a useful utility, especially in conjunction with eBay.
I can see, however, how they have been misleading, in all my uses of PayPal I assumed that there was credit-card style protection (as I was using a credit-card) and they should make it more evident at the very least that the actual protection is not on par with a normal credit card purchase over the internet.
I remember reading about a device developed specifically to assist third-world countries with their crop planting and communications via a radio that is hand-cranked and provides a large amount of listening time per crank.
Apparently these countries suffer from a lack of information about weather patterns, which would greatly assist with the crop planting, and which is provided by the hand-cranked radio
An example of geeky inventing that actually has practial application, rare on slashdot:).
I am not a big fan of these IM clients, as it usually seems to me to be the domain of kiddies chatting on the internet. When I was younger I did partake of the old-fashioned AOL chat rooms and whatnot.
However, the truth of the matter is that I dont believe any of these artificial networks can mimic the social interactions of normal conversations (first of all it lacks all the nervousness and inhibitions that come with normal interactions)
Basically the majority of these networks have been used, and will continue to be used mostly by 45-year old mean pretending to be teenage girls for dirty chats!
Unfortunately these kinds of abuses are prevalent throughout this industry, this specific one brings to mind the advert with for OfficeDepot, I think it is, where the guy reads out the cartridge numbers like it he is reading out lottery numbers.
It is annoying that standardisation has spread through the majority of hardware issues, but still remains stubborn when it comes to printer cartridges.
I was reading in Maximum PC about Personal Video Station 3, another alternative to Tivo et al. One of the interesting properties of PVS3 was the ability to stream pre-recorded shows over the internet if you wanted to watch your shows on the road, also you could change your programming choices over the internet from the office or otherwise.
It did not mention any automatic advert skipping, although I wonder how efficiently such a feature could be implemented (how would it detect the difference between adverts and shows?)
By making these moves they seem to be positioning themselves to be in a similar position to IBM, at least as someone at the forefront of Linux development and usage.
This is an intelligent move as it allows them to move into an area (one of the few in the computing industry) not yet monopolised by Micro$oft!
The future should, hopefully, be fillled with robotic slaves to carry out our every whim:)
But seriously, the next logical progression in a technologically advancing society is to replace menial labour with automated systems, we have already done it with the factory production system, and the next step is the services industry.
As long as we dont give them unnecessary AI and for some reason equip robots designed to clean houses with tactical thermonuclear devices, we wont have to worry about any robotic revolutions.
Electric Cars are the way of the future, there is no way that we will be able to continue along the lines of using fossil fuels to pollute our environment in the quantities that are endemic in our society!
Using electric cars is the logical next step in our society, synthetic alchohol fuels are a good idea as well, but the problem with those is the flammability issue.
With the benefit of electric cars, fuel can be transferred instantly along power lines, nuclear plants can be used to generate almost unlimited amounts of electricity to fuel our cars.
In order to follow our information society forward in progress electrically fuelled cars is the only choice!
As long as they dont make another incredibly terrible movie like that Godzilla 2000 movie, I will be very happy
I would rather see a japanese guy in a rubber suit step on model trains for an hour than see the most expensive 3D technology used to string together a movie with plot elements so stupid it makes my eyes bleed!!!
I love the idea of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Displays) and these ePaper prototypes.
Just imagine in the future with our paper thin computers, chips the size of the tip of a finger at the bottom, touch-screens that are foldable, it shouldnt be too far off.
If it was made twenty years ago, wouldnt it have to be 10,000 times larger than a modern computer and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe would own them.
Asian Markets work very much off of a piracy basis for their software, the large amount of software not being paid for or used within the context of a western office environment.
This appears to me to be another part of the trend of companies salivating over the numbers...(Ooohh, 500 Quadrillion-Billion-Monillion people in China, thats a lot more than America!)
SCO uses its bullying tactics to get some money after all...shouldnt the anti-extortion laws be in effect in this instance...maybe that is just wishful thinking!
Outsourcing doesnt make any sense, no matter what way you look at it. When we stupidly sent all our manufacturing jobs to India everone said "Hey it doesnt matter, we can all do IT!"...so now we outsource all our IT....what will we say now..."Hey it doesnt matter, we can toil in underground sugar caves for our Indian overlords!".
Some good websites are:
http://www.rescueamericanjobs.org/
http://www.washtech.org/wt/
http://www.techsunite.org/
http://www.cwa-union.org/
Chaos is what drives the creative process, I believe it was Heidegger that said that All Creation is Destruction, which makes sense because when you create something you destroy its original state, the unadulterated, virginal state before creation!
Some very interesting data here, the scientist Levin says the imagery offers conclusive proof of Mars Mud! This would seem to me to be indicative of water frequency that would lead to life after all!
It seems to me that this shouldnt be to difficult, technically speaking, considering the 1080 pixel resolution is well within that normally supported on a PC monitor.
I cant wait to get Hi-Def on my TV, have seen it before and it is the ultimate in geek-drool fest!....mmmmm...Hi-Def TV....yummy!
As a programmer and game developer myself I have experienced first hand the level of complexity that game design and development has approached in recent times.
It used to be, and back in the day when I started programming my first games, that a single "Lone Wolf" programmer (Like I have always been) could develop his own game.
However, now with the crazily complex 3D games, there has to be a whole army of developers, artists, designers, programmers, etc. just to create a game.
Unfortunately that damages lone wolf developers such as myself, in that we cant keep up with the demands of such a large production budget!
Anyway, I have attempted to work as good as I can, see what you think of my game, it is a bit difficult to wear the hats of Programmer, Designer, Developer, Musician, and Artist!
Zany if you ask me, is there really much benefit to be had from viewing the extremely damaging effects of space on an un-protected body.
I thought the fact that space was incredibly dangerous to the human body was already quite well proven (look at the scenes in all the sci-fi movies whenever anyone gets ejected into space, it isnt a pretty picture!)
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Last night we had the Mini-Coop Robot that turned out to be an advertising stunt, now we have this thing pretending to be a real robot!
Obligatory,
Frink: No, the robot is programmed to serve humans, following Asimov's 3 Laws of Robots, Asimov, with the so many books, not so many good....
Following the freakin DARPA it appeared at first as if it was a serious, tough, attempt to automate vehicles.
However, time after time they reduce the requirements for qualifying, and basically continually reduce the prestige of the event, now they are allowing all 15 teams to race, even though only 7 finished the much easier race (The last race, only the Carnegie Mellon team actually completed!)
All my commmunication will have to have GW is Double-Plus Good as the header :) Using words such as Terrorism, Nader for President, and Same-Sex Marriage will merit an immediate termination.
Usually I would be the first in line to bash Microsoft, as would the vast majority of the slashdot group.
However, I do have to give them credit for Microsoft XP, being the best thing they have done in a long time, and for allowing me to use a form of Windows that can actually have a nice interface if you tweak with it a bit.
And for making a Windows that is easier to install, and doesnt crash quite so often, as Win98, WinMe, Win95, ad nauseum did.
So basically Microsoft needs to just wait, work on Longhorn, make it stable and release it once it is completely finished, with much much more stability and Bill Gates will just have to wait before becoming a quadro-gonzo-bobillionaire.
I really believe that the amount of effort necessary to provide PayPal with security is worth the effort. PayPal is such a useful utility, especially in conjunction with eBay.
I can see, however, how they have been misleading, in all my uses of PayPal I assumed that there was credit-card style protection (as I was using a credit-card) and they should make it more evident at the very least that the actual protection is not on par with a normal credit card purchase over the internet.
I remember reading about a device developed specifically to assist third-world countries with their crop planting and communications via a radio that is hand-cranked and provides a large amount of listening time per crank.
:).
Apparently these countries suffer from a lack of information about weather patterns, which would greatly assist with the crop planting, and which is provided by the hand-cranked radio
An example of geeky inventing that actually has practial application, rare on slashdot
I am not a big fan of these IM clients, as it usually seems to me to be the domain of kiddies chatting on the internet. When I was younger I did partake of the old-fashioned AOL chat rooms and whatnot.
However, the truth of the matter is that I dont believe any of these artificial networks can mimic the social interactions of normal conversations (first of all it lacks all the nervousness and inhibitions that come with normal interactions)
Basically the majority of these networks have been used, and will continue to be used mostly by 45-year old mean pretending to be teenage girls for dirty chats!
Unfortunately these kinds of abuses are prevalent throughout this industry, this specific one brings to mind the advert with for OfficeDepot, I think it is, where the guy reads out the cartridge numbers like it he is reading out lottery numbers.
It is annoying that standardisation has spread through the majority of hardware issues, but still remains stubborn when it comes to printer cartridges.
I was reading in Maximum PC about Personal Video Station 3, another alternative to Tivo et al. One of the interesting properties of PVS3 was the ability to stream pre-recorded shows over the internet if you wanted to watch your shows on the road, also you could change your programming choices over the internet from the office or otherwise.
It did not mention any automatic advert skipping, although I wonder how efficiently such a feature could be implemented (how would it detect the difference between adverts and shows?)
By making these moves they seem to be positioning themselves to be in a similar position to IBM, at least as someone at the forefront of Linux development and usage.
This is an intelligent move as it allows them to move into an area (one of the few in the computing industry) not yet monopolised by Micro$oft!
The future should, hopefully, be fillled with robotic slaves to carry out our every whim :)
But seriously, the next logical progression in a technologically advancing society is to replace menial labour with automated systems, we have already done it with the factory production system, and the next step is the services industry.
As long as we dont give them unnecessary AI and for some reason equip robots designed to clean houses with tactical thermonuclear devices, we wont have to worry about any robotic revolutions.
Electric Cars are the way of the future, there is no way that we will be able to continue along the lines of using fossil fuels to pollute our environment in the quantities that are endemic in our society!
Using electric cars is the logical next step in our society, synthetic alchohol fuels are a good idea as well, but the problem with those is the flammability issue.
With the benefit of electric cars, fuel can be transferred instantly along power lines, nuclear plants can be used to generate almost unlimited amounts of electricity to fuel our cars.
In order to follow our information society forward in progress electrically fuelled cars is the only choice!
As long as they dont make another incredibly terrible movie like that Godzilla 2000 movie, I will be very happy
I would rather see a japanese guy in a rubber suit step on model trains for an hour than see the most expensive 3D technology used to string together a movie with plot elements so stupid it makes my eyes bleed!!!
No moving parts = perpetual motion!
I love the idea of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Displays) and these ePaper prototypes.
Just imagine in the future with our paper thin computers, chips the size of the tip of a finger at the bottom, touch-screens that are foldable, it shouldnt be too far off.
OLED ePaper, mmmmmm....*drools*
If it was made twenty years ago, wouldnt it have to be 10,000 times larger than a modern computer and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe would own them.
Asian Markets work very much off of a piracy basis for their software, the large amount of software not being paid for or used within the context of a western office environment.
This appears to me to be another part of the trend of companies salivating over the numbers...(Ooohh, 500 Quadrillion-Billion-Monillion people in China, thats a lot more than America!)
SCO uses its bullying tactics to get some money after all...shouldnt the anti-extortion laws be in effect in this instance...maybe that is just wishful thinking!
Outsourcing doesnt make any sense, no matter what way you look at it. When we stupidly sent all our manufacturing jobs to India everone said "Hey it doesnt matter, we can all do IT!"...so now we outsource all our IT....what will we say now..."Hey it doesnt matter, we can toil in underground sugar caves for our Indian overlords!".
Some good websites are:
http://www.rescueamericanjobs.org/
http://www.washtech.org/wt/
http://www.techsunite.org/
http://www.cwa-union.org/
First the Germans do away with Nazis, then Scientology, then SCO!!
Seems like they are doing pretty good (At least recently...and they have a powerful Green Party!)
DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND Uber Alles!
:)
Yet once again the intelligent Europeans do away with nonsense that we should have done a long time ago
Chaos is what drives the creative process, I believe it was Heidegger that said that All Creation is Destruction, which makes sense because when you create something you destroy its original state, the unadulterated, virginal state before creation!
Some very interesting data here, the scientist Levin says the imagery offers conclusive proof of Mars Mud! This would seem to me to be indicative of water frequency that would lead to life after all!
Little mars space men, here we come!
It seems to me that this shouldnt be to difficult, technically speaking, considering the 1080 pixel resolution is well within that normally supported on a PC monitor.
....mmmmm...Hi-Def TV....yummy!
I cant wait to get Hi-Def on my TV, have seen it before and it is the ultimate in geek-drool fest!
As a programmer and game developer myself I have experienced first hand the level of complexity that game design and development has approached in recent times.
It used to be, and back in the day when I started programming my first games, that a single "Lone Wolf" programmer (Like I have always been) could develop his own game.
However, now with the crazily complex 3D games, there has to be a whole army of developers, artists, designers, programmers, etc. just to create a game.
Unfortunately that damages lone wolf developers such as myself, in that we cant keep up with the demands of such a large production budget!
Anyway, I have attempted to work as good as I can, see what you think of my game, it is a bit difficult to wear the hats of Programmer, Designer, Developer, Musician, and Artist!
http://abaddon.igerard.com
Zany if you ask me, is there really much benefit to be had from viewing the extremely damaging effects of space on an un-protected body.
I thought the fact that space was incredibly dangerous to the human body was already quite well proven (look at the scenes in all the sci-fi movies whenever anyone gets ejected into space, it isnt a pretty picture!)