While Robot Soccer competitions are neat they are a little slow (read "boring"). Now we can have Robot Martial Arts tournements. Much more fun. Much more competitive. "I knocked your block off."
And for those that remember the distant past imagine a robot saying "I know kungfu" via a Votrax chip. Be nice to have a WAV of that.
Sun charges outrageous prices for "Sun" memory. You can buy the same memory far cheaper from Kingston (or anywhere else). Of course Sun gets you by saying that they won't sell you a service contract if you're not using "Sun" memory.
It'll be interesting to see if different parking algorithms popup for different vehicles.
Obviously for the prius you need a fairly conservative routine. With restrictions like "don't bump the vehicles in front/back" and "there must initially be enough room for the vehicle to fit."
For a Hummer or Abrams tank I think you could probably relax the restrictions a little. If you need to widen the spot a little you could probably give the vehicles in front/back a little bump. Or just park on top of another vehicle.
I wonder how good the parking algorithm is when parking next to the edge of a cliff?
So how does the government distribute this list to the telemarketers? "Here's a DVD with 41 million phone numbers of people" -- which they then use to seed their own databases? Is the government going to include our email addresses?
While I'm not saying that piracy is a good thing I also don't like software that makes connections to some "outside" source and sends info off without my permission. Which is why I think outgoing firewalls are a good idea. Along with knowing what kind of traffic internal boxes are generating. It's not paranoia - just perfect awareness. And yes, people ARE out to get me.
The University of Illinois PLATO system had "Multi-User Dungeon" type games before 1978. Just a reminder that lots of innovative things happened on PLATO that then got "reinvented" years later. Having a 512x512 plasma(AC) screen based terminal hooked up to a mainframe and being able to write interterminal games easily was a lot more fun than trying to use the "graphics" on a trs-80 or apple.
Obviously the answer is "Hire a qualified electrician."
He'll probably give you two options -- "Expensive" and "Really expensive".
Like software there are two possible ways of fixing this problem. "The right way which is rewiring the whole thing" or "The cheap way which is just fixing whatever is shorting things out, but not messing with the rest."
Professional electricians are slightly different than software programmers though in that they do have to make it safe.
Happily investors don't take well to being screwed by a company's money-grubbing management. They have a tendency to enlist the aid of the SEC and sue management for all they can.
Since every single human on the plane and on the ground is locked out of controlling the plane I have the perfect weapon.
Hack the "softwall database". Create a narrow corridor straight to my target. Plane takes off. Plane gets into corridor. Autopilot takes over and flies plane directly into target.
A simple scenario is to hack the database and create corridors to 100 "secure" buildings. Load software onto 100 planes that will be in the appropriate air space. Sit back and watch as the government has 2 choices -- let the planes crash into their targets OR shoot them down. Either way is a no win situation.
Just remember that lawmakers believe that "Laws don't apply to Lawmakers".
Their feeling seems to be that one we elect them they have no responsibility to the people that elected them -- just to the lobbyists that continue to pay them.
Remember Orrin Hatch only cares about his buddies in the music industry.
When mistakes are made and my computer gets destroyed because the "RIAA FUCKED UP" and misidentified my downloads (see previous slashdot stories) I wonder what kind of recourse I get. Will Hatch pay the damages? He'll probably exempt the corporations. Luckily as a copyright holder myself I guess I'll be able to go destroy other people's computers. That'll be fun.
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While Robot Soccer competitions are neat they are a little slow (read "boring"). Now we can have Robot Martial Arts tournements. Much more fun. Much more competitive. "I knocked your block off."
And for those that remember the distant past imagine a robot saying "I know kungfu" via a Votrax chip. Be nice to have a WAV of that.
That's what the roll of duct tape is for.
Should be interesting to see how much a space-certified foam brush will cost.
Sun charges outrageous prices for "Sun" memory. You can buy the same memory far cheaper from Kingston (or anywhere else). Of course Sun gets you by saying that they won't sell you a service contract if you're not using "Sun" memory.
Obviously these people are masters at gathering and implementing requirements from the various governmental entities that would use this.
Requirements:
1: Allow government to edit results
2: Make sure logs can be altered
3: Provide false sense of security
Now if they could just make some computer fans that were quiet. I really hate the sonic booms that come out of them when I power up my machine.
It'll be interesting to see if different parking algorithms popup for different vehicles.
Obviously for the prius you need a fairly conservative routine. With restrictions like "don't bump the vehicles in front/back" and "there must initially be enough room for the vehicle to fit."
For a Hummer or Abrams tank I think you could probably relax the restrictions a little. If you need to widen the spot a little you could probably give the vehicles in front/back a little bump. Or just park on top of another vehicle.
I wonder how good the parking algorithm is when parking next to the edge of a cliff?
So how does the government distribute this list to the telemarketers? "Here's a DVD with 41 million phone numbers of people" -- which they then use to seed their own databases? Is the government going to include our email addresses?
Well 96 bits is a little inconvenient for storing these values in a database.
While I'm not saying that piracy is a good thing I also don't like software that makes connections to some "outside" source and sends info off without my permission. Which is why I think outgoing firewalls are a good idea. Along with knowing what kind of traffic internal boxes are generating.
It's not paranoia - just perfect awareness. And yes, people ARE out to get me.
The University of Illinois PLATO system had "Multi-User Dungeon" type games before 1978. Just a reminder that lots of innovative things happened on PLATO that then got "reinvented" years later. Having a 512x512 plasma(AC) screen based terminal hooked up to a mainframe and being able to write interterminal games easily was a lot more fun than trying to use the "graphics" on a trs-80 or apple.
You're forgetting that SCO owns the GPL notice at the front of every file.
Obviously the answer is "Hire a qualified electrician."
He'll probably give you two options -- "Expensive" and "Really expensive".
Like software there are two possible ways of fixing this problem. "The right way which is rewiring the whole thing" or "The cheap way which is just fixing whatever is shorting things out, but not messing with the rest."
Professional electricians are slightly different than software programmers though in that they do have to make it safe.
Wonder what the airlines will do if I try and carry on a laptop powered by this.
"Yes inspector, I KNOW it is similar to a nuclear weapon. But it also lets me play DVDs while we're flying across the country."
Doesn't have to mean that the patents apply to LINUX pieces. SCO has plenty of proprietary code in their product offerings.
Happily investors don't take well to being screwed by a company's money-grubbing management. They have a tendency to enlist the aid of the SEC and sue management for all they can.
I submit the old t-shirt design. The editors won't notice.
This system is great for terrorists.
Since every single human on the plane and on the ground is locked out of controlling the plane I have the perfect weapon.
Hack the "softwall database". Create a narrow corridor straight to my target. Plane takes off. Plane gets into corridor. Autopilot takes over and flies plane directly into target.
A simple scenario is to hack the database and create corridors to 100 "secure" buildings. Load software onto 100 planes that will be in the appropriate air space. Sit back and watch as the government has 2 choices -- let the planes crash into their targets OR shoot them down. Either way is a no win situation.
Required suicide terrorists - none.
And in other news the reaction of lightning and amino acids has been patented. All life is being requested to "pay up or die."
Just remember that lawmakers believe that "Laws don't apply to Lawmakers".
Their feeling seems to be that one we elect them they have no responsibility to the people that elected them -- just to the lobbyists that continue to pay them.
Remember Orrin Hatch only cares about his buddies in the music industry.
When mistakes are made and my computer gets destroyed because the "RIAA FUCKED UP" and misidentified my downloads (see previous slashdot stories) I wonder what kind of recourse I get. Will Hatch pay the damages? He'll probably exempt the corporations. Luckily as a copyright holder myself I guess I'll be able to go destroy other people's computers. That'll be fun.
This would be a trial worth watching if CourtTV would broadcast it. If nothing else for the entertainment value.
Wonder if they found a mud filled watch casing that the lead archaelogist throws away while commenting that it must be some discarded child's toy.
Probably a shrinkwrap license to make the NDA be under NDA.
Nothing wrong with hanging out with the parents for a while.