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mod parent up. the first few paragraphs are insightful, the rest -/. bashing - may be worth a discussion, but keep it factual. There's no need to attack editors. Topics: - meta- & moderation system - design/style of/. (what about an alternative style for logged-in users to please people that don't like green?:)) - reposts, typos,...
Yet for all its success, Slashdot remains very much unknown because it targets the
niche of technology-savvy, highly-educated computer users. The vocabulary in most
discussions is so technical that it constitutes another language. But a review of the
occasional posts which discuss current events grounded in familiar issues and terms
reveals a highly functional system that achieves high levels of feedback, interaction, and
freedom, but still maintains a high level of insight and information in its content.
/. remains unknown? Are there really famous websites apart from google or yahoo? IT people know/., people from xy know their local websites, but there are not that many Bruce Willis in the www.
Count all the blogs, bulletin boards and other tech news sites as heise.de or even print media that link or copy the whole article from/..
Well, that's the whole point of "comparable/incomparable" in the "AI" name. I didn't like the idea, but my professor wanted that the "hoovy" knows where the dust is if it's in a neighboring cell. So I built a FSM.
When I was finished with the FSM, I wanted to build a more realistic, Trilobite-like hoover that doesn't know if there's no dust left, but builds internally a map of the room (A*). This version should stop only, if the whole room was vacuumed ("incomparable"). Then again, I still wanted to please my professor and built a A* method that stopped when there's no more dust left to compare it with the FSM version.
Of course the A* version is not what Trilobite does, but it's a start.
Anyone else having problems viewing this pdf in linux? A large part of the pdf is completely black in Xpdf and kghostview.
In fact, it does the same thing in Acrobat reader 4 through cxoffice. What gives?
Works with Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 (no black areas).
Jaws PDF Editor Version 2.1 is readable, but the rectangle around the periodic table is black instead of white.
I thought the newest version of Jaws PDF Editor was Acrobat 6.0 compatible, strange.
(all on WinXP)
Wanna play Trilobite yourself?
This was my first (and last) Java Applet. JRE 1.4.1 required:
Have fun:)
Well, I didn't elaborate the applet as far as I wanted, but it was fun learning Java/GUI programming and fundamentals of path finding (A*) at the same time.
I'm on a crusade. I intend to post a comment like this one whenever I see anybody use "virii." [...] The plural of "virus" isn't "virii." There is no such word. The plural of "virus" is "viruses."
And whenever I see a/. discussion about the plural of virus I wish it was below my threshold.
What about spending your time convincing people of more important issues like [insert anything else here]?
AFAIK SQL injection can be prevented by binding the parameters to the SQL statement and not putting them within SQL.
An example:
It's easy to inject some malicious SQL when using the following PHP code:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO FOO('Bar') VALUES('$some_post_param');");
But if you prepare the SQL statement with parameters and bind the variable $some_post_param to the statement, it will be secure.
see mysql manual for mysqli_stmt_bind_param() aka bind_param
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO CountryLanguage VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)");
$stmt->bind_param('sssd', $code, $language, $official, $percent);
I know this concept from Perl DBI, but in PHP I haven't seen anyone (phpBB,...) using bind_param.
Why is this? Performance? Keeping the code short and simple?
As for general webserver security: use PHP and perl as cgi, use suEXEC, run the webserver as nobody/www, put the users into chroot jails, but by all means, don't use PHP safe_mode On.
while most answers to the question make some valid points, they don't apply to the question:)
the answer from imadork (226897) is the only one pointing out the main difference:
The new chip from Strech + its compiler translate the functionality of your (c++,...) code into hardware.
A task that has to be done by a hardware description language programmer when targeting FPGA / ASIC.
Kind of the holy grail:)
About the same story was on telepolis (German online magazine) on April 1st 2004 ("Europa und Russland starten 2009 erste bemannte Mars-Expedition" (German) (Europe and Russia launch the first manned expedition to Mars in 2009)).
The article on telepolis was obviously a joke and I guess this story also.
And what about the official 3d tracking (macromedia 3d shockwave app, looks great)?
How do you manage to view it? I tried, but it seems to require some plugin that does not exist. Or, well, it exists but only for Microsoft's and Apple's OSes. Which seems pretty silly if the target audience is people with an interest in technology.:-O (OK, so I know there are geeks on OS X, but they're a small minority as far as I can tell.)
don't know of any official shockwave plug-in for linux, sorry. but there are ways, google it.
TubeSteak wrote:
P.S. how come there was no freakin' advance notice of this on/.??? not even a hint or a whisper all week? Did I not get the memo?
it has been covered, there are several/. news articles, use the search function below (grand challenge, darpa).
MyFourthAccount wrote:
According to this 3d map (updated every 30 seconds) the Caltech Bot is running since a 30 minutes or so
Hmm, I don't know how you got that information, but their status page indicates that no-one has started, as of yet (5:10am in Barstow). The race is supposed to start at 6:30am, so that would make sense.
Maybe they had some incorrect data initially. Anyways, this slightly 'lighter' page [grandchallenge.org] shows the status.
Actually, this "Caltech Bot 5" is now back at start (again?) on the 3d tracking map. Perhaps they were testing something...
And what about the official 3d tracking (macromedia 3d shockwave app, looks great)?
It uses about 150 MB RAM and 100% CPU on my celeron 1.4 GHZ...
According to this 3d map (updated every 30 seconds) the Caltech Bot is running since a 30 minutes or so. But I couldn't observe any movement...
As a side note: The videos on tomshardware are not exactly the same as those from the official website (very long ones, only the last 2 show vehicles that master the qualification without longer pauses). The videos from tomshardware are much shorter, a lot less boring;) and show the autonomous vehicles going havoc:)
This is the list of all qualified teams (from the new.pdf):
1. (22) Red Team - Pittsburgh, PA
2. (21) SciAutonics II - Thousand Oaks, CA
3. (05) Team Caltech - Pasadena, CA
4. (07) Digital Auto Drive (DAD) - Morgan Hill, CA
5. (25) Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA
6. (23) Axion Racing - Westlake Village, CA
7. (02) Team CajunBot - Lafayette, LA
8. (13) Team ENSCO - Falls Church, VA
9. (04) Team CIMAR - Gainesville, FL and Logan, UT
10. (10) Palos Verdes High School RoadWarriors - Palos Verdes Estates, CA
11. (17) SciAutonics I - Thousand Oaks, CA
12. (20) Team TerraMax - Oshkosh, WI
13. (15) Team TerraHawk - Gardena, CA
14. (09) The Golem Group - Santa Monica, CA
15. (16) The Blue Team - Berkeley, CA
update on the grandchallenge.org website:
1. list of the 15 qualified teams:
pdf file (url corrected, the one on the website is broken!
2. live tracking software, downloadable here
It's really amazing watching an automotive vehicle going havoc:) Robot Vehicles Take To The Desert (videos on last page)
Obviously they're trying to do a preemptive strike on the journalists fearing bad publicity! Still, it's a pity the motocross from the blue team couldn't start properly. But finally, they qualified as most of the other teams when DARPA lowered the terms of qualification.
There are more videos on DARPA's Grand Challenge Gallery I wonder whether we can expect Number 5 (Short Circuit) to be on the next years list of competitors:)
Actually, both, Nyquist and Shannon, discovered the sample-rate formula at the same time, hence you can call it Nyquist theorem or Shannon's critical sample-rate theorem. It happened quite often that people - geographically separated by thousands of miles - invented/discovered the same thing at the same time, +/- a few weeks.
Actually, IBM is the winner of the nextgen video game consoles.
IBM designs the Cell chip together with Sony.
A 64 Bit powerpc will power the XBOX 2.
And last but not least, IBM will produce the CPU for the gamecube successor.
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mod parent up. /. bashing - may be worth a discussion, but keep it factual. There's no need to attack editors. /. (what about an alternative style for logged-in users to please people that don't like green? :)) ...
the first few paragraphs are insightful, the rest -
Topics:
- meta- & moderation system
- design/style of
- reposts, typos,
Count all the blogs, bulletin boards and other tech news sites as heise.de or even print media that link or copy the whole article from
Well, that's the whole point of "comparable/incomparable" in the "AI" name. I didn't like the idea, but my professor wanted that the "hoovy" knows where the dust is if it's in a neighboring cell. So I built a FSM.
When I was finished with the FSM, I wanted to build a more realistic, Trilobite-like hoover that doesn't know if there's no dust left, but builds internally a map of the room (A*). This version should stop only, if the whole room was vacuumed ("incomparable"). Then again, I still wanted to please my professor and built a A* method that stopped when there's no more dust left to compare it with the FSM version.
Of course the A* version is not what Trilobite does, but it's a start.
Works with Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 (no black areas).
Jaws PDF Editor Version 2.1 is readable, but the rectangle around the periodic table is black instead of white.
I thought the newest version of Jaws PDF Editor was Acrobat 6.0 compatible, strange.
(all on WinXP)
Wanna play Trilobite yourself? :)
This was my first (and last) Java Applet. JRE 1.4.1 required: Have fun
Well, I didn't elaborate the applet as far as I wanted, but it was fun learning Java/GUI programming and fundamentals of path finding (A*) at the same time.
Rugrat, who remembers Rugrat? I searched for "virii" *lol*!
*lol*, and you get every 5 seconds another "dupe" or "repost" comment.
/. poll:
Seems as if weekendwarrior1980 surfs the net only on weekends...
Anyone knows how the they punish the publishing of duplicate stories?
Make this a new
How would you punish timothy or CmdrTaco for dupes?
And whenever I see a
What about spending your time convincing people of more important issues like [insert anything else here]?
Ansari x-price condition: 100 km (~62 miles)
/.er the current price is $10k/kg. assuming a hight of 100 km we're talking of an improvement of a factor of about 6.
ISS orbit: ~353 km (~220 miles)
geostationary orbit: ~35'000km (~21'748 miles)
according to another
AFAIK SQL injection can be prevented by binding the parameters to the SQL statement and not putting them within SQL.
...) using bind_param.
Why is this? Performance? Keeping the code short and simple?
An example:
It's easy to inject some malicious SQL when using the following PHP code:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO FOO('Bar') VALUES('$some_post_param');");
But if you prepare the SQL statement with parameters and bind the variable $some_post_param to the statement, it will be secure.
see mysql manual for mysqli_stmt_bind_param() aka bind_param
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO CountryLanguage VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)"); $stmt->bind_param('sssd', $code, $language, $official, $percent);
I know this concept from Perl DBI, but in PHP I haven't seen anyone (phpBB,
As for general webserver security: use PHP and perl as cgi, use suEXEC, run the webserver as nobody/www, put the users into chroot jails, but by all means, don't use PHP safe_mode On.
while most answers to the question make some valid points, they don't apply to the question :)
the answer from imadork (226897) is the only one pointing out the main difference:
The new chip from Strech + its compiler translate the functionality of your (c++, ...) code into hardware.
A task that has to be done by a hardware description language programmer when targeting FPGA / ASIC.
Kind of the holy grail :)
About the same story was on telepolis (German online magazine) on April 1st 2004 ("Europa und Russland starten 2009 erste bemannte Mars-Expedition" (German) (Europe and Russia launch the first manned expedition to Mars in 2009)). The article on telepolis was obviously a joke and I guess this story also.
don't know of any official shockwave plug-in for linux, sorry. but there are ways, google it.
TubeSteak wrote:
it has been covered, there are several
MyFourthAccount wrote:
Actually, this "Caltech Bot 5" is now back at start (again?) on the 3d tracking map. Perhaps they were testing something...
And what about the official 3d tracking (macromedia 3d shockwave app, looks great)? ;) and show the autonomous vehicles going havoc :)
.pdf):
It uses about 150 MB RAM and 100% CPU on my celeron 1.4 GHZ...
According to this 3d map (updated every 30 seconds) the Caltech Bot is running since a 30 minutes or so. But I couldn't observe any movement...
As a side note: The videos on tomshardware are not exactly the same as those from the official website (very long ones, only the last 2 show vehicles that master the qualification without longer pauses).
The videos from tomshardware are much shorter, a lot less boring
This is the list of all qualified teams (from the new
1. (22) Red Team - Pittsburgh, PA
2. (21) SciAutonics II - Thousand Oaks, CA
3. (05) Team Caltech - Pasadena, CA
4. (07) Digital Auto Drive (DAD) - Morgan Hill, CA
5. (25) Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA
6. (23) Axion Racing - Westlake Village, CA
7. (02) Team CajunBot - Lafayette, LA
8. (13) Team ENSCO - Falls Church, VA
9. (04) Team CIMAR - Gainesville, FL and Logan, UT
10. (10) Palos Verdes High School RoadWarriors - Palos Verdes Estates, CA
11. (17) SciAutonics I - Thousand Oaks, CA
12. (20) Team TerraMax - Oshkosh, WI
13. (15) Team TerraHawk - Gardena, CA
14. (09) The Golem Group - Santa Monica, CA
15. (16) The Blue Team - Berkeley, CA
update on the grandchallenge.org website:
1. list of the 15 qualified teams: pdf file (url corrected, the one on the website is broken!
2. live tracking software, downloadable here
It's really amazing watching an automotive vehicle going havoc :) :)
Robot Vehicles Take To The Desert (videos on last page)
Obviously they're trying to do a preemptive strike on the journalists fearing bad publicity!
Still, it's a pity the motocross from the blue team couldn't start properly. But finally, they qualified as most of the other teams when DARPA lowered the terms of qualification.
There are more videos on DARPA's Grand Challenge Gallery
I wonder whether we can expect Number 5 (Short Circuit) to be on the next years list of competitors
Actually, both, Nyquist and Shannon, discovered the sample-rate formula at the same time, hence you can call it Nyquist theorem or Shannon's critical sample-rate theorem.
It happened quite often that people - geographically separated by thousands of miles - invented/discovered the same thing at the same time, +/- a few weeks.
Studying EE, comm. electronics / systems.
Actually, IBM is the winner of the nextgen video game consoles. IBM designs the Cell chip together with Sony. A 64 Bit powerpc will power the XBOX 2. And last but not least, IBM will produce the CPU for the gamecube successor.