Cool. Reminds me of that circular saw that was claimed to stop short of cutting through a human finger. Mass is a good point, though, considering the difference between a circular saw blade and a robotic arm.
Seems like the company could do a little more research into force feedback, and you know, shut the robot down if it encountered forces (obstacles) it wasn't expecting, or when it was expecting them.
and now that Android runs on MIPS it has potential to control those cute Sony Aibos
By the way, Sony had this whole idea years ago, with their OPEN-R operating system that runs the Aibos and other robots. Believe me, it was terrible, and didn't even have POSIX sockets or threads.
You really shouldn't be only considering future jobs, but which school you would feel more comfortable at and would better fit your learning.
As a computer science major at a small liberal arts college, I know all my professors by their first name, have classes that range from 4 to 15 students, starting working with a robotics soccer team my freshman year and won the world championship last summer, get to fly to Germany and China for competitions, choose exactly which projects to focus on and work directly with other student in coordinating research and development. I know my experience is not typical.
But there are also drawbacks. The class selection is limited (I will have completed my major and all the courses in the department by the end of junior year), and though this leaves lots of room for student research, if the professors field aren't what you're interested in, it will be difficult to develop your own tasks. There also aren't many other student on campus that are in your field, so you may both be in lack of large number of friends with similar interests and forced to interact with many different types of people, for better or for worse (I enjoy it very much, but miss the nerd-friends I had in high school).
It's definitely a toss-up. I know I made the right choice, and I've enjoyed taking classes outside of my field, as a liberal arts college will cause you to. But I get to focus a lot more on MY education and what I'm interested in studying. My entire senior year will be student research in computer science and non-major classes .
The absolute best thing, though, has been getting involved with RoboCup. I don't think that in a larger tech school we could have 'owned' this project the way we do. I've even had a lot of interaction with graduate departments all over the world: next week we'll be sending our code to Germany to compete remotely, in April driving to Pittsburgh to beat the Carnegie Mellon team to the ground once more, and in July flying to China to via for first with the new robots.
Our mental 'evolution' to learn to create a better tool is so much faster, why would we need to change genetically just to fit a specific tool better? Just make the tool differently...
In case you're interested, it's meant to sound like "all you see" on the internet. Has always been better that tvlinks: has way more content, updated more often, and constantly improving the interface and organization to get what you want faster/easier.
Almost 300 names and e-mail addresses of security experts, both in the government and in the private sector, were exposed in the incident. One SANS Storm Center reader suggested it wouldn't be surprising if a "wiseacre" now sent a zero-day PDF or Word attachment to that list to "nail a few dozen gullible security professionals," Sachs said.
if they would open an unsecure document sent to thousands of people, or to a mailing list?
I guess I might imagine someone sending to individuals on the list, posing as someone else (on the list?) connected to them...
Here's a simple guide to what a merchant can/should do, and a link it gives to the NASP for specific details. In the US, laws on this matter differ by state.
The change has been rather surprisingly successful. I had been very happy running our previous Sun servers and the control I had over everything via LDAP, but now all email changes are under the control of the Microsoft systems. However, the new email has been relatively easy to use, with fewer problems (though the web client does not due nearly enough justice for non-IE users, when compared with the old Java interface), still supports all the features I actually use, and if it helps in this Hot-Site effort, I'd say it's worth it. Take some hits for better interoperability and in the end we will have a more reliable service.
At Bowdoin we have unreliable (compared to some areas) power service, so it was made sure that doesn't shut down our data center. It's nice to know that even with emergency light on in the hallway, I can turn on a laptop, plug into the wall and get information and email about when the power will be back, or check the status of the building ups or the data center generator. We have also have problems with our upstream providers every once and a while. Now with the "Hot Site", even if all three providers and fiber are dead to us, our services (at least from off-site) will stay up. This has been well-worth the system changes made for interoperability.
I run Debian, but if I have to use a Microsoft email service in exchange (no pun intended) for never losing connectivity to that service, I gladly make the change (in email systems, not OS).
Check out some recent video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=AqclRmMCyWA
Unfortunately, this is pretty ugly play for both teams involved. It was a practice match, and much (like a well-functioning wireless network) wasn't set up yet. Our team has no network communication and is missing some dogs at times:-)
Hopefully we'll have some better video up soon on google vids (it's capturing from the camera now, regulation play only started this morning)
A raise would be an increase in wage paid for future work, due the expectation of success. This ties in nicely with the gp's point about swallowing losses, since the company has a greater expectation of return and will not have to bear losses (hopefully) and can afford to pay you more to continue working for them. This is not the same as going back and suing to get the revenues the company took in off of their ('your' paid-for) work, when you've already been paid for them.
Microsoft arrogantly believes that they are the IT Industry but they've always made a product that's just good enough to be tolerable. "Just good enough to be tolerable" means exactly what the market is demanding from them. What I find to be the problem with the Windows operating systems is that the general public doesn't seem to find a problem with them, or just not enough to bother to switch. Windows produces to the masses, as that's where the bulk of it's revenue comes from. I don't believe they really face any economic pressure to make a better operating system, as it will only satisfy/increase a small portion of its user base where the majority won't really notice any difference. Until we have a general increase in the demanded quality of the OS, or until we lose the monopolistic giant that is Microsoft in the x86 market, we won't get those differentiated commercial OS products that fit the needs of the whole gradient of consumer demand. Instead, we have high-quality independent (open-source) distributions that serve the needs of the "computer-elite". In term of Mac and OS X, I have always believed that the average user-base for Mac is in general simply more computer-savvy, as at least they have gone ahead and looked into what operating system would serve their needs better (as opposed to not knowing what an OS is), and thus Mac produces to a different expected level of quality than Microsoft.
With horror games like Sadness, action and swordplay games like Redsteel, and who's know what else to come, I don't know how long the Wii will keep the 'kids-only' stigma attached with Nintendo systems. I've been disappointed with Nintendo's offering in the past, once old enough to desire something a little more intense than Pokemon adventures, but with the Wii's expanded capabilities I'm hoping that it will attract attention from all sorts of game designers.
Funny, I don't know whether traffic has died down, they've increased bandwidth, or it matter of inter-university connections, but I'm getting well over 200KBps.
Am I the only one here who has kept reading these headlines and wondering what the hell the porno biz is doing suing people left and right, and how is it supposed to be tied to music?
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Cool. Reminds me of that circular saw that was claimed to stop short of cutting through a human finger. Mass is a good point, though, considering the difference between a circular saw blade and a robotic arm.
This is definitely the right way to go. I can't wait for the Fantasy Game
Seems like the company could do a little more research into force feedback, and you know, shut the robot down if it encountered forces (obstacles) it wasn't expecting, or when it was expecting them.
and now that Android runs on MIPS it has potential to control those cute Sony Aibos
By the way, Sony had this whole idea years ago, with their OPEN-R operating system that runs the Aibos and other robots. Believe me, it was terrible, and didn't even have POSIX sockets or threads.
You really shouldn't be only considering future jobs, but which school you would feel more comfortable at and would better fit your learning.
As a computer science major at a small liberal arts college, I know all my professors by their first name, have classes that range from 4 to 15 students, starting working with a robotics soccer team my freshman year and won the world championship last summer, get to fly to Germany and China for competitions, choose exactly which projects to focus on and work directly with other student in coordinating research and development. I know my experience is not typical.
But there are also drawbacks. The class selection is limited (I will have completed my major and all the courses in the department by the end of junior year), and though this leaves lots of room for student research, if the professors field aren't what you're interested in, it will be difficult to develop your own tasks. There also aren't many other student on campus that are in your field, so you may both be in lack of large number of friends with similar interests and forced to interact with many different types of people, for better or for worse (I enjoy it very much, but miss the nerd-friends I had in high school).
It's definitely a toss-up. I know I made the right choice, and I've enjoyed taking classes outside of my field, as a liberal arts college will cause you to. But I get to focus a lot more on MY education and what I'm interested in studying. My entire senior year will be student research in computer science and non-major classes .
The absolute best thing, though, has been getting involved with RoboCup. I don't think that in a larger tech school we could have 'owned' this project the way we do. I've even had a lot of interaction with graduate departments all over the world: next week we'll be sending our code to Germany to compete remotely, in April driving to Pittsburgh to beat the Carnegie Mellon team to the ground once more, and in July flying to China to via for first with the new robots.
I'm pretty sure, knowing the Czechs, that the five best drank their fair amount as well.
How can you optimize a constant? This is news
Our mental 'evolution' to learn to create a better tool is so much faster, why would we need to change genetically just to fit a specific tool better? Just make the tool differently...
No no, burning mushrooms destroys the psilocybin. Those defensive clouds of yours wouldn't do much good.
In case you're interested, it's meant to sound like "all you see" on the internet. Has always been better that tvlinks: has way more content, updated more often, and constantly improving the interface and organization to get what you want faster/easier.
Great site
if they would open an unsecure document sent to thousands of people, or to a mailing list?
I guess I might imagine someone sending to individuals on the list, posing as someone else (on the list?) connected to them...
Here's a simple guide to what a merchant can/should do, and a link it gives to the NASP for specific details. In the US, laws on this matter differ by state.
I do not think that word means what you think it does.
The change has been rather surprisingly successful. I had been very happy running our previous Sun servers and the control I had over everything via LDAP, but now all email changes are under the control of the Microsoft systems. However, the new email has been relatively easy to use, with fewer problems (though the web client does not due nearly enough justice for non-IE users, when compared with the old Java interface), still supports all the features I actually use, and if it helps in this Hot-Site effort, I'd say it's worth it. Take some hits for better interoperability and in the end we will have a more reliable service.
At Bowdoin we have unreliable (compared to some areas) power service, so it was made sure that doesn't shut down our data center. It's nice to know that even with emergency light on in the hallway, I can turn on a laptop, plug into the wall and get information and email about when the power will be back, or check the status of the building ups or the data center generator. We have also have problems with our upstream providers every once and a while. Now with the "Hot Site", even if all three providers and fiber are dead to us, our services (at least from off-site) will stay up. This has been well-worth the system changes made for interoperability.
I run Debian, but if I have to use a Microsoft email service in exchange (no pun intended) for never losing connectivity to that service, I gladly make the change (in email systems, not OS).
Games are under way, and we've seen some interesting play so far. Some of our league's team sites are:
The world cup site is http://www.robocup-us.org/ as mentioned above.
Check out some recent video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=AqclRmMCyWA
Unfortunately, this is pretty ugly play for both teams involved. It was a practice match, and much (like a well-functioning wireless network) wasn't set up yet. Our team has no network communication and is missing some dogs at times
Hopefully we'll have some better video up soon on google vids (it's capturing from the camera now, regulation play only started this morning)
A raise would be an increase in wage paid for future work, due the expectation of success. This ties in nicely with the gp's point about swallowing losses, since the company has a greater expectation of return and will not have to bear losses (hopefully) and can afford to pay you more to continue working for them. This is not the same as going back and suing to get the revenues the company took in off of their ('your' paid-for) work, when you've already been paid for them.
Yeah, something tells me this isn't going to be the next Watergate....
Don't forget about methyl mercaptan (methanethiol). You get the best smell from those two together.
With horror games like Sadness, action and swordplay games like Redsteel, and who's know what else to come, I don't know how long the Wii will keep the 'kids-only' stigma attached with Nintendo systems. I've been disappointed with Nintendo's offering in the past, once old enough to desire something a little more intense than Pokemon adventures, but with the Wii's expanded capabilities I'm hoping that it will attract attention from all sorts of game designers.
I liked how the 'mood' of the faces were measured in two categories, pleasure and arousal wonder how it would respond to an O face
Funny, I don't know whether traffic has died down, they've increased bandwidth, or it matter of inter-university connections, but I'm getting well over 200KBps.
wikipedia has a nice article on the subject, here, with at least one great picture.
or google image, like suggested above, though it is disappointing the original article didn't have pictures of the giants
definately me too, and this isn't even the first post about them... was so confused by the last one
Am I the only one here who has kept reading these headlines and wondering what the hell the porno biz is doing suing people left and right, and how is it supposed to be tied to music?