Well, the people developing Autopilot seem to think it's feasible to automate RC heli flight, which would surely make a compelling package - when combined with an onboard camera - for producers of TV sports of all kinds.
It would have minimal labour costs, and be cheap enough in comparison to hiring a chopper for an hour or two that you could afford to have a few flying even if you lost on now and again...
OK, I don't want to hurt your feelings here, but MS didn't invent those gloves (as pointed out by a couple of earlier posters), and the conference-going robot is possibly the stupidest idea I've heard of recently.
What's the advantage over teleconferencing? Nothing. And what are the additional drawbacks over teleconferencing? Plenty - I'm sure you don't need me to spell them out.
Consider that people didn't slam these "innovations" because they hate Microsoft for some reason, but because this is absolutely laughable, empty PR bullshit.
They turn photos into data?!? How the hell did they manage that? Sheer genius! Thank the gods that we have MS around to keep the world in amazingly inventive, original products.
However their incredibly innovative (sorry, Microvative) robot, Robie, seems strangelyfamiliar!
...What, if anything, does it have to do with the article, save that the software in question was written using C# via Mono?
Err, it's written in C# via Mono. The author of the article is interested in the app but has reservations about that technology.
What is so inappropriate about stating that? If anything it provides a good starting point to the discussion here.
Getting your knickers in a twist because slashdot isn't a traditional media source and doesn't try to ape that style *is* inappropriate, and somewhat silly.
I couldn't agree more that these (and other) government sponsored programs are needed to spread the much-touted "1st world" wealth and health to the less fotunate.
Sadly, despite Australia's fairly progressive history in this regard, the current government is doing everything it possible can to destroy them, and bring us into line with the US.
I'm an admirer of much of American society, but there are some aspects that Australia definately does not need to emulate.
According to the right, both here in Aus and abroad, affirmative action is right up there with state-sponsored medical care and unemployment benefits in the stakes of Ultimate Idealogical Evil.
Because you and I can get together and say "hey, you got one of them wireless thingies? Cool, me too! Let's swap pr0n!", and totally fail to be able to do so as you have an 802.11g card and I have an Bluetooth card. They're both "wireless", but different standards for different purposes.
Now who's fault is that? Ours, not the manufacturer's, not the slashdot crowd's.
Well, someone spilling the key on purpose is one possibility, but the other, more likely IHMO, is that someone spills it by accident.
After all, it seems to me that if every piece of equipment that can play media has to have DRM, odds are that *someone* will screw up somewhere and leave the backdoor wide open...
I just cannot believe it! Is it your hobby to search for old threads, read them and, if you don't find them "funny," insult women as your revenge? Don't you have more important things to do maybe? Don't you think that every woman would find such words extremely offensive? You might consider finally growing up.
Wow, you're really good at this! Did you study trolling under PhysicsGenius or Bank_of_America_ATM?
You've gone from funny to stupid, to tedious, and right back to funny again.
I particularly like the way you manage to make *anything* said against you somehow relate to the fact that you're allegedly female, as if that dubious fact had anything to do with... anything.
It's a great gimmick, and it warms the heart to see the traditional slashdot trolling arts practiced with such aplomb!
You could be a bit more subtle though... I mean mentioning Mensa in your username, home page url *and* sig is kind of a dead giveaway that you're not for real.
'Scuse my ignorance, but I'm curious as to just how incompatible the original keyboard was...
Would any of the people that know about hardware care to enlighten me on how hard a keyboard translater would be to build - something that would read the output of the Atari keyboard and spit out equivilent input that the Mini ITX's keyboard controller would understand?
There's a lot of really cool looking old gear out there (well, specifically, under the desk here) with built in keyboards that would make pretty nifty little machines for those of us who want to relive the days of sitting crosslegged on the loungeroom floor 3 inches from the TV screen tapping stuff into a machine like that, but with all mod cons...
[snip utterly irrelevant but clever-sounding ramble about legal systems]
--perhaps you would be better off re-reading posts than defending divisive attacks based on nationality.
And perhaps you would be better off paying a little more attention to something that actually matters at all rather than making an fool of yourself getting all bothered about a very mild tease. I mean, 'divisive' for Christ's sake?
Don't get me wrong here, I'm sure you're not one of those Americans that refers to the French as smelly cheese eating surrender-monkeys...
"come now, that's just petty and wrong--you're just trying to be deliberately insulting."
Oh get over it. As if Americans don't constantly dismiss the rest of the world is if it barely exists, then act shocked when anyone else teases them for their insularity.
What makes you think this person's European, anyway?
Way to sarcasically ignore the point. The IP laws are stupid and wrong, in the cases of both Noorda and SCO. Yes, many here cheered Noorda and many here now vilify SCO. Using a stupid, wrong law for a 'good' cause as opposed to a 'bad' one doesn't make it any more or less stupid or wrong.
But then again, I suspect that IH just BT, and IH probably L.
Kuro5hin is full of unbelievably pretentious people just *burning* to let each other know how intellectual they are.
Kuro5hin is chock-a-block full of flamebait articles - it's purpose is to incite pointless psuedo-intellectual pissing contests.
Slashdot's purpose is to provide links to news and articles of interest - if you want to discuss them here you can.
Slashdot is phenomenally popular because it provides something that huge numbers of people want.
Kuro5hin isn't, because it doesn't.
You may think your argument is exactly the same as the one being made in the article, but your argument is a bloody stupid one, and totally irellevant to the discussion.
Why not just piss off back to K5 and have an 'intellegant' discussion or whatever it is you think you're doing.
Wow, nice rant! I don't know about your item-numbering system though - what happened to point 6? Must be all that "allergy medication";-)
Anyhoo, I'm sure what you say has some merit. If all you care about is security, and you've got the budget and available manpower of the US military.
From perspectives other than security an OS9 web serving solution strike me as expensive, not terribly scalable, and - from my admittedly limited experience of OS8 and 9 - possibly not all that stable either.
<cheap shot>Anyway, if it's so secure, how come you're whining that there's no section in the book for it?</cheap shot>
Ah well, maybe there just wasn't anything the authors could say that could possibly improve the security of the mighty Mac...
OK, I have no problem with you flaming these posters if you really feel that strongly about it, but honestly, who cares if Open Source/Linux/whatever gets recognition, loses credibility with someone, achieves world domaination or anything? It doesn't matter in the slightest.
It's free software. It doesn't have to compete, it doesn't have to attract anyone outside those who are naturally interested anyway, and most of all, it doesn't need to be particularly polite.
No one's going to be sacked if some newbie gets offended when they inadvertantly press someone's buttons and get mildly roasted.
People will continue to produce it, people will continue to use it. Some people are going to disagree with other people, some will be helpful, some will be rude, some will just walk away shaking their heads in perplexion that anyone would give their hard work away for free.
In other words, if a user is so thin-skinned that they're offended at the response freely offered by a member of the public to an enquiry, then they should invest in software that pays the salary of some poor bastard in support to be nice to them.
It'll probably result in a lot of people doing a lot of pot in a short time, but the use will decrease as the novelty dies off (and everybody gets ticketed).
It doesn't even seem to work that way much.
Take South Australia, which years ago decriminalised posession of up to, uh, several plants - can't remember the number (doh! shouldn't have just had that last cone I guess) - for personal use only.
It's slightly cheaper there than in the rest of Australia, maybe $5-$15 dollars less for small amounts, and the quality tends to be more consistent, but other than that it doesn't seem to have made much difference. Well, except that they do look at you funny if you try to put tobacco in the mix...
People still do serious time for selling, clutivating or posessing large amounts, yet smoking dope doesn't seem more or less socially acceptable there than anywhere else I've been in Australia.
That said, once you're past the stigma and pretense of it's legality, for Australians occasional weed consumption seems fairly widely accepted across a broad demographic of people under the age of 55 or so, not to say they all actually partake...
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...unless we have a more comprehensive vocabulary, in which case we may choose to say inbuilt
Holy shit, your gas station is running Windows and is connected to the internet??
Please, please tell me that the pumps can't actually be controlled from the PC running the station...
Well, the people developing Autopilot seem to think it's feasible to automate RC heli flight, which would surely make a compelling package - when combined with an onboard camera - for producers of TV sports of all kinds.
It would have minimal labour costs, and be cheap enough in comparison to hiring a chopper for an hour or two that you could afford to have a few flying even if you lost on now and again...
OK, I don't want to hurt your feelings here, but MS didn't invent those gloves (as pointed out by a couple of earlier posters), and the conference-going robot is possibly the stupidest idea I've heard of recently.
What's the advantage over teleconferencing? Nothing. And what are the additional drawbacks over teleconferencing? Plenty - I'm sure you don't need me to spell them out.
Consider that people didn't slam these "innovations" because they hate Microsoft for some reason, but because this is absolutely laughable, empty PR bullshit.
They turn photos into data?!? How the hell did they manage that? Sheer genius! Thank the gods that we have MS around to keep the world in amazingly inventive, original products.
However their incredibly innovative (sorry, Microvative) robot, Robie, seems strangely familiar!
...What, if anything, does it have to do with the article, save that the software in question was written using C# via Mono?
Err, it's written in C# via Mono. The author of the article is interested in the app but has reservations about that technology.
What is so inappropriate about stating that? If anything it provides a good starting point to the discussion here.
Getting your knickers in a twist because slashdot isn't a traditional media source and doesn't try to ape that style *is* inappropriate, and somewhat silly.
I couldn't agree more that these (and other) government sponsored programs are needed to spread the much-touted "1st world" wealth and health to the less fotunate.
Sadly, despite Australia's fairly progressive history in this regard, the current government is doing everything it possible can to destroy them, and bring us into line with the US.
I'm an admirer of much of American society, but there are some aspects that Australia definately does not need to emulate.
According to the right, both here in Aus and abroad, affirmative action is right up there with state-sponsored medical care and unemployment benefits in the stakes of Ultimate Idealogical Evil.
Why say 810.11...
Because you and I can get together and say "hey, you got one of them wireless thingies? Cool, me too! Let's swap pr0n!", and totally fail to be able to do so as you have an 802.11g card and I have an Bluetooth card. They're both "wireless", but different standards for different purposes.
Now who's fault is that? Ours, not the manufacturer's, not the slashdot crowd's.
Well no. In car nav systems are mostly useless as defined by anyone who can read streetsigns and a normal, cheap, ubiquitous, paper map.
Well, someone spilling the key on purpose is one possibility, but the other, more likely IHMO, is that someone spills it by accident.
After all, it seems to me that if every piece of equipment that can play media has to have DRM, odds are that *someone* will screw up somewhere and leave the backdoor wide open...
I just cannot believe it! Is it your hobby to search for old threads, read them and, if you don't find them "funny," insult women as your revenge? Don't you have more important things to do maybe? Don't you think that every woman would find such words extremely offensive? You might consider finally growing up.
... anything.
Wow, you're really good at this! Did you study trolling under PhysicsGenius or Bank_of_America_ATM?
You've gone from funny to stupid, to tedious, and right back to funny again.
I particularly like the way you manage to make *anything* said against you somehow relate to the fact that you're allegedly female, as if that dubious fact had anything to do with
It's a great gimmick, and it warms the heart to see the traditional slashdot trolling arts practiced with such aplomb!
You could be a bit more subtle though... I mean mentioning Mensa in your username, home page url *and* sig is kind of a dead giveaway that you're not for real.
'Scuse my ignorance, but I'm curious as to just how incompatible the original keyboard was...
Would any of the people that know about hardware care to enlighten me on how hard a keyboard translater would be to build - something that would read the output of the Atari keyboard and spit out equivilent input that the Mini ITX's keyboard controller would understand?
There's a lot of really cool looking old gear out there (well, specifically, under the desk here) with built in keyboards that would make pretty nifty little machines for those of us who want to relive the days of sitting crosslegged on the loungeroom floor 3 inches from the TV screen tapping stuff into a machine like that, but with all mod cons...
Oh just fuck off you dull cunt. Your troll was funny for the first few posts. It is now not funny, but tedious.
[snip utterly irrelevant but clever-sounding ramble about legal systems]
--perhaps you would be better off re-reading posts than defending divisive attacks based on nationality.
And perhaps you would be better off paying a little more attention to something that actually matters at all rather than making an fool of yourself getting all bothered about a very mild tease. I mean, 'divisive' for Christ's sake?
Don't get me wrong here, I'm sure you're not one of those Americans that refers to the French as smelly cheese eating surrender-monkeys...
"come now, that's just petty and wrong--you're just trying to be deliberately insulting."
Oh get over it. As if Americans don't constantly dismiss the rest of the world is if it barely exists, then act shocked when anyone else teases them for their insularity.
What makes you think this person's European, anyway?
No contradiction here. Just good solid reasoning.
Way to sarcasically ignore the point. The IP laws are stupid and wrong, in the cases of both Noorda and SCO. Yes, many here cheered Noorda and many here now vilify SCO. Using a stupid, wrong law for a 'good' cause as opposed to a 'bad' one doesn't make it any more or less stupid or wrong.
But then again, I suspect that IH just BT, and IH probably L.
I think 'Acidic Diarrhea' is a spot-on description of what you've just written.
Kuro5hin is full of unbelievably pretentious people just *burning* to let each other know how intellectual they are.
Kuro5hin is chock-a-block full of flamebait articles - it's purpose is to incite pointless psuedo-intellectual pissing contests.
Slashdot's purpose is to provide links to news and articles of interest - if you want to discuss them here you can.
Slashdot is phenomenally popular because it provides something that huge numbers of people want.
Kuro5hin isn't, because it doesn't.
You may think your argument is exactly the same as the one being made in the article, but your argument is a bloody stupid one, and totally irellevant to the discussion.
Why not just piss off back to K5 and have an 'intellegant' discussion or whatever it is you think you're doing.
You are kidding right? You can trust CNN ??.
What fantasy world are you living in, buddy?
Wow, nice rant! I don't know about your item-numbering system though - what happened to point 6? Must be all that "allergy medication" ;-)
Anyhoo, I'm sure what you say has some merit. If all you care about is security, and you've got the budget and available manpower of the US military.
From perspectives other than security an OS9 web serving solution strike me as expensive, not terribly scalable, and - from my admittedly limited experience of OS8 and 9 - possibly not all that stable either.
<cheap shot>Anyway, if it's so secure, how come you're whining that there's no section in the book for it?</cheap shot>
Ah well, maybe there just wasn't anything the authors could say that could possibly improve the security of the mighty Mac...
OK, I have no problem with you flaming these posters if you really feel that strongly about it, but honestly, who cares if Open Source/Linux/whatever gets recognition, loses credibility with someone, achieves world domaination or anything? It doesn't matter in the slightest.
It's free software. It doesn't have to compete, it doesn't have to attract anyone outside those who are naturally interested anyway, and most of all, it doesn't need to be particularly polite.
No one's going to be sacked if some newbie gets offended when they inadvertantly press someone's buttons and get mildly roasted.
People will continue to produce it, people will continue to use it. Some people are going to disagree with other people, some will be helpful, some will be rude, some will just walk away shaking their heads in perplexion that anyone would give their hard work away for free.
In other words, if a user is so thin-skinned that they're offended at the response freely offered by a member of the public to an enquiry, then they should invest in software that pays the salary of some poor bastard in support to be nice to them.
Dude, come on - check the guy's sig - it's just another sad, starving troll. Don't feed it.
That's a cool idea...
This is the sequence - anyone recognise it?
UUAUEAIAEUAUEUAAAAIAIUEUUIEIUAUIUUIAEAEEUEAAUEAEAI'd like to implement something like this, but I wonder if there's not a more subtle way to do it...
It'll probably result in a lot of people doing a lot of pot in a short time, but the use will decrease as the novelty dies off (and everybody gets ticketed).
It doesn't even seem to work that way much.
Take South Australia, which years ago decriminalised posession of up to, uh, several plants - can't remember the number (doh! shouldn't have just had that last cone I guess) - for personal use only.
It's slightly cheaper there than in the rest of Australia, maybe $5-$15 dollars less for small amounts, and the quality tends to be more consistent, but other than that it doesn't seem to have made much difference. Well, except that they do look at you funny if you try to put tobacco in the mix...
People still do serious time for selling, clutivating or posessing large amounts, yet smoking dope doesn't seem more or less socially acceptable there than anywhere else I've been in Australia.
That said, once you're past the stigma and pretense of it's legality, for Australians occasional weed consumption seems fairly widely accepted across a broad demographic of people under the age of 55 or so, not to say they all actually partake...