No, hear me out... When negotiating, it makes sense to demand the moon in your first round. If you get it, great, if you don't, you can scrap the unrealistic clauses and be seen as attempting to be reasonable.
I don't agree with it (I think this copyright bill is complete BS), but I suspect that's what's happening here.
How about this:
You get sedated during the "conciousness" transfer (no experiences). When the transfer is complete, the meatspace body is killed, still unconcious, and the robot body/brain is brought online. How is this different from undergoing any sort of surgery that calls for general anesthesia?
Nintendo uses this same screw for a lot of their products (portable systems in particular). You may be able to get ahold of the driver at places that cater to console modders.
I agree, but for a different reason -- I literally can't play the ground game when there are more than about 5 people around (It takes me about 45 minutes just to switch ships at spacedock)!. I mean seriously, Cryptic, is it that much harder to render 5 or 6 people walking around than it is to render massive spacefights flawlessly? Even twenty-man fleet actions seem to work fairly good.
Even better solution -- a guy on one of the forums I frequent had a collection agency that kept on harassing him because of someone else who previously had that number. He also had a home asterisk setup. He routed the collection agency's number back to their own front desk, and recorded the calls -- apparently there was about a week of the secretary and the collections agent swearing at each other several times a day, and then they mysteriously stopped calling...
Try setting up a reverse VNC connection. We use a custom VNC server at work (made from examples in the source code), so that all a client has to do is run one file and type in a computer name. Since the connection is originated from within the firewall, in most situations it doesn't cause any problems. This is the way to go -- secure, quicker than LogMeIn, and since about 2/3 of our clients aren't QUITE sure that this new-fangled intertube thingy isn't a plot by the "man", it works out quite well.
DEFINITELY include Little Brother -- Even though it's aimed at young adults (16-17 years old), it can keep the attention of any reading level. Every time I read that book, I end up staying awake half the night, and every time I read the book I come away with some other project I want to try;)
Yes, we have one or two weeks of -50C weather a year... Other than that it's usually in the -20c range, which isn't that bad.
You didn't mention the upside to cold weather, however: It doesn't get blindingly hot here, and it's a lot easier to keep warm than it is to stay cool.
Up here in Canada Regina, SK isn't a bad place to work -- Saskatchewan is pretty much the only place in North America that still has a growing economy, and Regina has more square feet of park/person than anywhere else in the country.
After the headaches Active Directory has caused the company I work at over the last couple weeks (things like Windows telling the backup software that it wasn't allowed to backup anything to do with AD except the transaction logs), I can't wait!
True, Canadian forces ARE being sent to Afghanistan, but at the moment at least you have to volunteer to be deployed -- you don't automatically get sent overseas just because you enlisted. Also, there are different types of military service where you will almost never get deployed to a combat position unless everything goes tits-up and results in another world war, such as joining the Communications Reserve, or the Canadian Rangers (the first group maintains communications equipment at supply depots in Canada, and the second group is essentially a search-and-rescue team for northern Canada) -- it'll pay for school but you won't have getting shot at to worry about.
Sounds like a good idea, a PIC controller for each sensor, one to coallate the data, and one to put it into a displayable format. Also, have you considered putting a CF slot in there to log the data/transfer it to your computer?
You could probably put a sonar range finder ripped out of an old polaroid camera somewhere as well, from what I hear they are fairly easy to interface with other equipment.
Sincerely,
Mydnight
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No, hear me out... When negotiating, it makes sense to demand the moon in your first round. If you get it, great, if you don't, you can scrap the unrealistic clauses and be seen as attempting to be reasonable. I don't agree with it (I think this copyright bill is complete BS), but I suspect that's what's happening here.
How about this: You get sedated during the "conciousness" transfer (no experiences). When the transfer is complete, the meatspace body is killed, still unconcious, and the robot body/brain is brought online. How is this different from undergoing any sort of surgery that calls for general anesthesia?
Nintendo uses this same screw for a lot of their products (portable systems in particular). You may be able to get ahold of the driver at places that cater to console modders.
I agree, but for a different reason -- I literally can't play the ground game when there are more than about 5 people around (It takes me about 45 minutes just to switch ships at spacedock)!. I mean seriously, Cryptic, is it that much harder to render 5 or 6 people walking around than it is to render massive spacefights flawlessly? Even twenty-man fleet actions seem to work fairly good.
Even better solution -- a guy on one of the forums I frequent had a collection agency that kept on harassing him because of someone else who previously had that number. He also had a home asterisk setup. He routed the collection agency's number back to their own front desk, and recorded the calls -- apparently there was about a week of the secretary and the collections agent swearing at each other several times a day, and then they mysteriously stopped calling...
Try setting up a reverse VNC connection. We use a custom VNC server at work (made from examples in the source code), so that all a client has to do is run one file and type in a computer name. Since the connection is originated from within the firewall, in most situations it doesn't cause any problems. This is the way to go -- secure, quicker than LogMeIn, and since about 2/3 of our clients aren't QUITE sure that this new-fangled intertube thingy isn't a plot by the "man", it works out quite well.
DEFINITELY include Little Brother -- Even though it's aimed at young adults (16-17 years old), it can keep the attention of any reading level. Every time I read that book, I end up staying awake half the night, and every time I read the book I come away with some other project I want to try ;)
... What game can you walk into a city, grab an lamp post, and clobber enemies with it?
Madworld, for one.
Yes, we have one or two weeks of -50C weather a year... Other than that it's usually in the -20c range, which isn't that bad. You didn't mention the upside to cold weather, however: It doesn't get blindingly hot here, and it's a lot easier to keep warm than it is to stay cool.
Up here in Canada Regina, SK isn't a bad place to work -- Saskatchewan is pretty much the only place in North America that still has a growing economy, and Regina has more square feet of park/person than anywhere else in the country.
... someone if they got the identity by subtrefuge, but if the identity is gained through illagel means, that's different. Or should be, at least.
hmmm... I read this as "got the identity by centrifuge", which could be an interesting process... Modded -1, posterneedsmoresleep
As soon as you create a cone like that, you are merely going to suck Chicken (or Goose, or Duck, or whatever else) Mcnuggets into the engines.
Wouldn't that be if they don't float? (I'd assume most robots are more dense than water)
After the headaches Active Directory has caused the company I work at over the last couple weeks (things like Windows telling the backup software that it wasn't allowed to backup anything to do with AD except the transaction logs), I can't wait!
True, Canadian forces ARE being sent to Afghanistan, but at the moment at least you have to volunteer to be deployed -- you don't automatically get sent overseas just because you enlisted. Also, there are different types of military service where you will almost never get deployed to a combat position unless everything goes tits-up and results in another world war, such as joining the Communications Reserve, or the Canadian Rangers (the first group maintains communications equipment at supply depots in Canada, and the second group is essentially a search-and-rescue team for northern Canada) -- it'll pay for school but you won't have getting shot at to worry about.
I'd love to see the circuit diagrams/source when you are done at least a preliminary design.
Sincerely,
Mydnight
Sounds like a good idea, a PIC controller for each sensor, one to coallate the data, and one to put it into a displayable format. Also, have you considered putting a CF slot in there to log the data/transfer it to your computer? You could probably put a sonar range finder ripped out of an old polaroid camera somewhere as well, from what I hear they are fairly easy to interface with other equipment. Sincerely, Mydnight
What sensors have you already got in this project? Sounds really interesting... Do you have plans for it anywhere?
Mydnight