Whatever happened to BEAM robotics? Anyone involved with that? I first heard about it on a Science Channel robotics series and it seemed interesting. I have been to the main page by the inventor Mark Tilden but I have seen nothing new in the past couple years. Does anyone know if this area of research has died off?
"The more that customers support our efforts both directly (by voting with your wallets) and by communicating directly to the music industry, the better."
Problem is, most consumers will vote simply by not using their wallet. Hence there is no direct way for the industry to know when consumers find a pricing strategy unnacceptable.
I think the point is how do you know they are experts if there is no verification. You can't say entries are often entered by experts without some verification. Or maybe you can, depending on what your definition of "is" is. LOL.
Considering that they have decided to donate the patents on this invention to a non-profit group I would say that we should all like/respect Disney at least a tad. That's a great move.
Welcome to the world that Microsoft has to deal with. Think the average Joe wants to deal with "unblocking ports?" Nope. And we wonder why MS Windows is considered insecure.
Don't get your panties in a bunch. Go back and read your post and you'll realize that you were asking a perfectly valid question and guess what you got? A perfectly valid answer. Go figure.
As much as I agree with your points, I would have to say that in regards to #6 we are all better off if everyone eats a little CPU time and compresses their data as opposed to sending all that raw traffic across the network.
Well, I think there is a naming issue here. I know nothing about emachines but the "pad2pad" site uses a software that was available from another discounted PCB fabricator (the name is escaping me tonight.) It's likely that emachines is just another name for some business that has been around for a while and this grandparent poster just recognized their website design or design software.
Who thinks of tractors when they think of Hitachi? Probably just about no one but they do make them. These Japanese conglomerates are huge and they have their fingers in a whole lot of pies.
Well, the speeds they cite are not much higher (if higher) than Comcast. I'm more than willing to continue to pay my Comcast bill for the high speeds I get. So yes, people are willing to pay. Comcast has over 5 million subscribers currently.
This isn't about "outside the room." It's about outside your building. Also, like the article says, if you are in an office building with different companies on different floors then you can keep as many prying as out as possible.
I wonder where the marketing "geniuses" get the ideas for these things. Isn't semper latin for always? Maybe this processor is meant to be "always on."
Interesting that the Canadian government can choose not to disclose the money spent on the contract. That's definitely in contrast to here in the US where even a teacher's pay is public record.
The market can regulate itself all right. While we're at it let's dismantle the Federal Trade Commission because we all know the market can regulate itself with respect to monopolies as well.
That was sarcasm, in case you didn't notice "you insensitive clod!"
Sounds like these people are very remote. It makes me wonder how they are even getting power for their PCs and network gear. Solar? Generators?
It's amazing the good that has come out of the internet. This setup may even save someone's life at some point since these people can now "call" for help.
When I was at the embedded systems conference in San Francisco Motorola had a booth demonstrating Zigbee. They had a cell phone controlling an RC car. Kinda neat.
I've had it for two (or two and ah half) years but will surely use it for one to two more. So, it is cheaper in the long run. And when you consider that most of the software in red hat's distribution was written by other people on their own time or on someone elses nickel the $5/month is insane.
Do the math on that one: $60 a year. Windows XP OEM version cost me $140 and I have already owned that for over 2 years so it is now cheaper then RH Desktop. Where is the value in the Red Hat Desktop? M$ Windows was a cheaper deal apparently.
As far as parts go, Digi-Key is like the 7-11 of the electronics world: very convenient but at a high price. No one that does production work pays half what they charge for single item quantities.
Might have some educational uses but I can't imagine someone actually using this to build something they wanted to use. I would imagine that to make anything even semi complex would require a lot of boxes and a mess of wires.
You know what would be neat, a PC app that could communicate wirelessly with each box and then each box could also potentially talk to any other box wirelessly. So you could build the eBlock system on the PC (kinda like their simulator) then the computer tells the boxes which other boxes they are to talk to. Would be kinda cool.
Well, they were mentioned in one of my college classes way back when so I would guess that for anyone that considers this interesting (and understandable) news already knew about it.
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Whatever happened to BEAM robotics? Anyone involved with that? I first heard about it on a Science Channel robotics series and it seemed interesting. I have been to the main page by the inventor Mark Tilden but I have seen nothing new in the past couple years. Does anyone know if this area of research has died off?
"The more that customers support our efforts both directly (by voting with your wallets) and by communicating directly to the music industry, the better."
Problem is, most consumers will vote simply by not using their wallet. Hence there is no direct way for the industry to know when consumers find a pricing strategy unnacceptable.
You know, if you have two of almost everything guess what you've got? Two computers! :)
I think the point is how do you know they are experts if there is no verification. You can't say entries are often entered by experts without some verification. Or maybe you can, depending on what your definition of "is" is. LOL.
Considering that they have decided to donate the patents on this invention to a non-profit group I would say that we should all like/respect Disney at least a tad. That's a great move.
"...we wanted everything blocked by default "
Welcome to the world that Microsoft has to deal with. Think the average Joe wants to deal with "unblocking ports?" Nope. And we wonder why MS Windows is considered insecure.
Don't get your panties in a bunch. Go back and read your post and you'll realize that you were asking a perfectly valid question and guess what you got? A perfectly valid answer. Go figure.
As much as I agree with your points, I would have to say that in regards to #6 we are all better off if everyone eats a little CPU time and compresses their data as opposed to sending all that raw traffic across the network.
Sounds like a day in the life of the married man.
Well, I think there is a naming issue here. I know nothing about emachines but the "pad2pad" site uses a software that was available from another discounted PCB fabricator (the name is escaping me tonight.) It's likely that emachines is just another name for some business that has been around for a while and this grandparent poster just recognized their website design or design software.
Who thinks of tractors when they think of Hitachi? Probably just about no one but they do make them. These Japanese conglomerates are huge and they have their fingers in a whole lot of pies.
Well, the speeds they cite are not much higher (if higher) than Comcast. I'm more than willing to continue to pay my Comcast bill for the high speeds I get. So yes, people are willing to pay. Comcast has over 5 million subscribers currently.
This isn't about "outside the room." It's about outside your building. Also, like the article says, if you are in an office building with different companies on different floors then you can keep as many prying as out as possible.
I wonder where the marketing "geniuses" get the ideas for these things. Isn't semper latin for always? Maybe this processor is meant to be "always on."
Interesting that the Canadian government can choose not to disclose the money spent on the contract. That's definitely in contrast to here in the US where even a teacher's pay is public record.
The market can regulate itself all right. While we're at it let's dismantle the Federal Trade Commission because we all know the market can regulate itself with respect to monopolies as well.
That was sarcasm, in case you didn't notice "you insensitive clod!"
Sounds like these people are very remote. It makes me wonder how they are even getting power for their PCs and network gear. Solar? Generators?
It's amazing the good that has come out of the internet. This setup may even save someone's life at some point since these people can now "call" for help.
When I was at the embedded systems conference in San Francisco Motorola had a booth demonstrating Zigbee. They had a cell phone controlling an RC car. Kinda neat.
I've had it for two (or two and ah half) years but will surely use it for one to two more. So, it is cheaper in the long run. And when you consider that most of the software in red hat's distribution was written by other people on their own time or on someone elses nickel the $5/month is insane.
Do the math on that one: $60 a year. Windows XP OEM version cost me $140 and I have already owned that for over 2 years so it is now cheaper then RH Desktop. Where is the value in the Red Hat Desktop? M$ Windows was a cheaper deal apparently.
Why is it that the FCC gets any say into what can be broadcast from space?
Solution: China. Cheap labor.
As far as parts go, Digi-Key is like the 7-11 of the electronics world: very convenient but at a high price. No one that does production work pays half what they charge for single item quantities.
Might have some educational uses but I can't imagine someone actually using this to build something they wanted to use. I would imagine that to make anything even semi complex would require a lot of boxes and a mess of wires.
You know what would be neat, a PC app that could communicate wirelessly with each box and then each box could also potentially talk to any other box wirelessly. So you could build the eBlock system on the PC (kinda like their simulator) then the computer tells the boxes which other boxes they are to talk to. Would be kinda cool.
Next time, just go straight to the spammers.
Well, they were mentioned in one of my college classes way back when so I would guess that for anyone that considers this interesting (and understandable) news already knew about it.