seems that recently a portion of the subway burnt down and when the guys went down to repair it they found that the hardware driving the system dated back to the 1930's. After more digging they found that the original systems laid in the early 1900's till 1920 were still operating and actually in daily use in many other parts of the subway.
point is that thing is working well that they dont want to touch the thing. the other fact is that there is no way they are going to get the thing changed without majorly affecting the daily workings of the system.
With everybody preferring broadband over dial up , it seems suicidal to give up all capability in broadband, split and concentrate more on dial up !!
Shouldnt AOL being doing things the other way round and try to build up presence in broadband market ?
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/07/17/stor ies/2003071703730500.htm
aol has been hiring in india, if you would equate the jobs cut here and add up the jobs added in their manila and bangalore sites.... adds up.
so this is more of outsourcing and less of downsizing.
ohh of course the profit always goes up, if not u can always fire the grunts in india.
give the engineers a break, people out here cannot write a proper software without bugs in it and in a way a software works in a much more controlled environment than what happens to a space shuttle. Yet any software that rolls out has bugs in it. Look at it in another way, compare the security flaws/bugs/etc etc of a software.. open source or otherwise and compare it with the number of space related accidents !!
Moral of the story :
There is only some much you can design for, there is a thing called god and engineers are human too !!
Just to get your facts straight, getting into medical school in india is extremely tough. compared to the number of medical schools in US, the number in India is much much lower, secondly the population size that is competing for this small number of seats is be mind boggling. A ground fact is that on an average if you are below 95+ percentile all over india(so i am talking about like a few million high school graduates), you dont even think about medical school.
as far as doctors and any engineer coming to us, thats because of the dollar. grad school often is the shortest path to a h1b-greencard-better living.More as an opinion out of personal experience it is easier for an indian to get into a 'good' school in us than a 'good' school in india.
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/publications/pap ers/1999_ieee_tbe.pdf , prostate examination simulator, there is one for the simulation of the female pelvis too.... no telling of what can be built given the time , money and idle brains of grad students
As mentioned in this post, A number of force sensors are not going to do much good in this case (if picking up of an egg is all that is required) . If mimicking position and the biomechanics of the human arm is what is required, then all we need is the exact position information (along with velocities and accelarations) of all corresponding points. By mimicking the force position with relevant velocity and accelaration profiles for all points, theoretically the force values get replicated (force is after all a second derivative of position, given the first two force can be accurately predicted). So all that needs to be done is to set up the robotic arm, train it using a neural networks to mimick human arm positions for desired actions (success of the actions can be measured using the position/velocity/accelaration values).
The key advantage to doing this is, this reduces the hard-wire requirements on the number of sensors and uses software more extensively. Get a fast processor , hook it up and u have a lot less circuits to deal with... but the same results.
G
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seems that recently a portion of the subway burnt down and when the guys went down to repair it they found that the hardware driving the system dated back to the 1930's. After more digging they found that the original systems laid in the early 1900's till 1920 were still operating and actually in daily use in many other parts of the subway. point is that thing is working well that they dont want to touch the thing. the other fact is that there is no way they are going to get the thing changed without majorly affecting the daily workings of the system.
With everybody preferring broadband over dial up , it seems suicidal to give up all capability in broadband, split and concentrate more on dial up !! Shouldnt AOL being doing things the other way round and try to build up presence in broadband market ?
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/07/17/stor ies/2003071703730500.htm
aol has been hiring in india, if you would equate the jobs cut here and add up the jobs added in their manila and bangalore sites .... adds up.
so this is more of outsourcing and less of downsizing.
ohh of course the profit always goes up, if not u can always fire the grunts in india.
give the engineers a break, people out here cannot write a proper software without bugs in it and in a way a software works in a much more controlled environment than what happens to a space shuttle. Yet any software that rolls out has bugs in it. Look at it in another way, compare the security flaws/bugs/etc etc of a software .. open source or otherwise and compare it with the number of space related accidents !!
Moral of the story :
There is only some much you can design for, there is a thing called god and engineers are human too !!
Just to get your facts straight,
getting into medical school in india is extremely tough. compared to the number of medical schools in US, the number in India is much much lower, secondly the population size that is competing for this small number of seats is be mind boggling.
A ground fact is that on an average if you are below 95+ percentile all over india(so i am talking about like a few million high school graduates), you dont even think about medical school.
as far as doctors and any engineer coming to us, thats because of the dollar. grad school often is the shortest path to a h1b-greencard-better living.More as an opinion out of personal experience it is easier for an indian to get into a 'good' school in us than a 'good' school in india.
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/publications/pap ers/1999_ieee_tbe.pdf , prostate examination simulator, there is one for the simulation of the female pelvis too .... no telling of what can be built given the time , money and idle brains of grad students
As mentioned in this post, A number of force sensors are not going to do much good in this case (if picking up of an egg is all that is required) . If mimicking position and the biomechanics of the human arm is what is required, then all we need is the exact position information (along with velocities and accelarations) of all corresponding points. By mimicking the force position with relevant velocity and accelaration profiles for all points, theoretically the force values get replicated (force is after all a second derivative of position, given the first two force can be accurately predicted). So all that needs to be done is to set up the robotic arm, train it using a neural networks to mimick human arm positions for desired actions (success of the actions can be measured using the position/velocity/accelaration values). The key advantage to doing this is, this reduces the hard-wire requirements on the number of sensors and uses software more extensively. Get a fast processor , hook it up and u have a lot less circuits to deal with ... but the same results.
G