No, just consider it the free flow of ideas when people don't try to horde and own minor improvements.
Alternatively, think of this copying as payback for Apple's copying of transparent-background windows from OSS. Eterm/Aterm did that several years before OSX (though OSX applies this to all types windows, not just terminals). Good ideas get copied and impoved, at least when there aren't greedy people and lawyers to piss on the party.
Right now Apple is being pretty open, but the grandparent's point (I think) is that they have enough control over the hardware to change that at any point. Why do you need standards compliance when you control the hardware and the OS? You don't. Compliance also does not mean open; Sorenson encoded video is an industry standard, yet no Linux player can legally play it. (Yes I know you can play them, but that's in a really gray area wrt EULAs) All Apple has to do is start charging license fees to access the BIOS or some other key component, and Linux will die. (-1: Anti-Mac, +1: Linux Paranoia, Total: 0)
Most of them are supported partially by the carriage they are "pulling". I saw something like this (at a museum) that was built in the 1930s. Most of the pictures are from angles that don't let you rule out hidden supports, and the rest are fanciful drawings.
BTW, there were plenty of walking biped robots in the research world before Honda's Asimo. Asimo is just the latest and greatest. Honda's work alone goes back almost 25 years.
I wonder how long that will last after/if he gets elected. Probably it won't.
By voting Green..your going to end up like the florida 2000 race, splits for the democrats there by vote goes to the republicans...
If the democrats wanted the vote of a green, then perhaps they should take up the issues the greens raise and not just pay lip service to them. Then they would *have* the votes, and you wouldn't need to beg for them. I'm not a green, but the whole "throw your vote away" stuff is BS. Look past one election... planning only for next year's is not planning for the future.
How exactly can you see the future in 2004, 2010, and two generations? Don't you mean you think he is right? This of course does not excuse people who bit on an OT troll, but whatever.
The empire disappearing does not make the country completely collapse. Last I checked, Italy and Rome still exist; They don't rule a vast empire but people live there and many are happy. Kind of like most of the rest of the world. It will be so sad when the US... ends up like other countries. Sounds like the sky is falling. I guess when Argentina recovers in a generation they'll have to choose a new "example" for our grim future.
Well one correction, there were some 3D hopping robots, but IIRC only the monopod could ever really move in a controlled manner for more than around 30 seconds without falling.
They are *planar* walkers, not 3D. The M2 has been done for years, is there any proof it can walk yet? Their work on elastic actuation is important, but don't underestimate the differences between free 3D running and planar tethered robots, or simulations of 3D walkers. I guess they did have the small dinosaur, but that never ran.
Almost dead on. The latest version has 3 processors, and the FPGA is mainly for stereo. Last I heard they have not upgraded them to the 600MHz processors that the latest Aibo has (from the earlier 400MHz ones), but that may have changed in the last few months. You sound like an Robocup legged league participant, are you?
Actually QRIO runs Aperios, which is an embedded OS Sony developed in-house (it is the same one as used for the Aibo). The development environment runs in Linux, and the "robot middleware", called Open-R, runs on both Aperios and Linux. I worked there last summer.
I would however refuse to spend time on a SCO problem or refuse a SCO patch that doesn't have benefits for other platforms.
Exactly, it's called a boycott and I don't think there's anything at all amoral about them. Boycotts have been a classic method of change for the good, particularly when a small group is trying to beat up on those that are individually weak (Linux users), but collectively strong (FOSS). Thankfully for us they were stupid enough to attack IBM too.
I see them declaring war and sending an infantry division to Britain, so I guess I should say they followed the UK, while the US waited for its naval base to be attacked. The US sent 14.5 times the troops to the war, 12.4% of its population, while Canada sent 10%. Australians sent an incredible 18.6% of its population, as well as more troops in total than Canada; guess they are the real heroes. Probably doesn't show up in your classbooks either. Now put that nationalism aside and honor the true heroes who gave more than any allied country, the Australians, or can you not do that because you're too used to thinking only your country is the best at everything?
So do you disagree with the grandparent post then? Is Canada a peaceful pacifist county or a donwtrodden superpower? You can't have it both ways. Yeah, Canada should have told the US to fuck off during the Cold War, but the fact that it didn't demonstrates that at the time it was in its best interest not to.
Yes, Canada torched Washington, but only in response to us torching Toronto first. Unfortunately stupid US school books like to forget about the Toronto part, and that the US really did deserve the attack on Washington. However, I do recall the US winning the war of 1812, not losing it.
We're still there. The "popular" approach would be to pull out like Reagan did. The president after the next election probably will, and the president after that will have to deal with it again. This president hasn't made _that_ mistake.
Hey, Saddam called some of later missile strikes "Operation Monica", not me. Though now that you mention it, I don't know why the news article called it Desert Fox, which it couldn't have been. My point is its hypocritical to say Bush is doing this as a PR campaign, or to deflect attention, when basically the same thing happened with Clinton and his many cruise missiles. I personally tend to give them both the benefit of the doubt. But this is Slashdot, so we should only give one the benefit of the doubt and the earlier one must have been good because we only have 2 year memories. I'm sorry you lost your buddy in Iraq; My family has lost relatives in every war from WW1 to Vietnam; We've been lucky since then.
Who launched a half-assed attack against Al Qaeda? Can you find a reference to "Al Qaeda" that exists before 9/11/01? Not likely. This is all made up bullshit.
Here you go, that took about 10 seconds. I guess you're technically right since it was only called "bin Laden's network of terrorist groups", not "Al Qaeda" then. Of course, 1998 was such a long time ago, and those cruise missiles were just a friendly gesture. Here's an interview where OBL himself mentions the attack. Half-assed is demonstrated in these twoarticles, however the latter one is written after 9/11 and it isn't fully fair, since hindsight is 20/20. But we could have done better, that's for sure. Here's another referenencing the attack. Calling it all "made up bullshit" sure sounds good, but its hard to rebut the facts of history. Do I think Clinton's scandal caused the 75 cruise missile attack? No, but the timing sure seems bad. Now tell me again why Bush is doing this all as a big PR campaign? Seems like "No War" would have been a hell of a lot more popular with the voters around here.
as a result of the previous Bush's actions
We made a mistake in 1991, but again hindsight is perfect. We're finishing it now; the sanctions and cruise missiles were just putting it off. Responsibility for OBL and Al Qaeda rest soley with Clinton and later GWB. Sure, the original Gulf War fanned the flames a lot, but that was a UN war, and our options were limited since the UN only knows limited/partial war, and all the limited/partial results that brings (see Korea). So who's your favorite leader? More likely than not they either (1) fought a war in which Americans died, or (2) ignored a security threat so that his successor had to fight the war instead. Don't even say JFK was your favorite... you'll have a lot more bodies to count.
You don't need a military because the US would protect its neighbor. Do you really believe Canada would still be a sovereign country if during the cold war the US declared that it would not interefere in an invasion of Canada? Do you really think Canada would have fought in WW2 if the US had not entered, or that its contribution was the same as that of the US and the UK, in terms of winning the war?
Incidentally, Canada spends more on its military than Israel, which really is at war every 39 seconds. I do like foreign countries, and travel a lot. However I get tired of people from smaller (population,GNP) countries thinking that their isolationist approach would work for the US too. We tried that before; it didn't work.
At least when Clinton lied about a blow job from a mildly unattractive ditz nobody got killed.
Actually the answer is at least 25 killed and 75 wounded. Now I know 4 years is an awful long time to remember, so here's a link. We called it Operation Desert Fox. They called it "Operation Monica", because of the very interesting timing.
Don't forget around that time who launched a half-assed attack on Al Queda, which only really served to piss them off further. I wonder when 9/11 got planned. We're still waiting for a good president; It's been quite a while. But at least this one finishes things, rather than just exacerbating them.
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No, just consider it the free flow of ideas when people don't try to horde and own minor improvements.
Alternatively, think of this copying as payback for Apple's copying of transparent-background windows from OSS. Eterm/Aterm did that several years before OSX (though OSX applies this to all types windows, not just terminals). Good ideas get copied and impoved, at least when there aren't greedy people and lawyers to piss on the party.
maybe he meant "knot holes" :-)
Right now Apple is being pretty open, but the grandparent's point (I think) is that they have enough control over the hardware to change that at any point. Why do you need standards compliance when you control the hardware and the OS? You don't. Compliance also does not mean open; Sorenson encoded video is an industry standard, yet no Linux player can legally play it. (Yes I know you can play them, but that's in a really gray area wrt EULAs) All Apple has to do is start charging license fees to access the BIOS or some other key component, and Linux will die.
(-1: Anti-Mac, +1: Linux Paranoia, Total: 0)
Most of them are supported partially by the carriage they are "pulling". I saw something like this (at a museum) that was built in the 1930s. Most of the pictures are from angles that don't let you rule out hidden supports, and the rest are fanciful drawings.
BTW, there were plenty of walking biped robots in the research world before Honda's Asimo. Asimo is just the latest and greatest. Honda's work alone goes back almost 25 years.
...open to reforming DMCA...
I wonder how long that will last after/if he gets elected. Probably it won't.
By voting Green..your going to end up like the florida 2000 race, splits for the democrats there by vote goes to the republicans...
If the democrats wanted the vote of a green, then perhaps they should take up the issues the greens raise and not just pay lip service to them. Then they would *have* the votes, and you wouldn't need to beg for them. I'm not a green, but the whole "throw your vote away" stuff is BS. Look past one election... planning only for next year's is not planning for the future.
...change the fact that he is right
How exactly can you see the future in 2004, 2010, and two generations? Don't you mean you think he is right? This of course does not excuse people who bit on an OT troll, but whatever.
The empire disappearing does not make the country completely collapse. Last I checked, Italy and Rome still exist; They don't rule a vast empire but people live there and many are happy. Kind of like most of the rest of the world. It will be so sad when the US... ends up like other countries. Sounds like the sky is falling. I guess when Argentina recovers in a generation they'll have to choose a new "example" for our grim future.
Ah, but you're probably part of the conspiracy too! Now where did I put that tinfoil hat...
11.5 seconds here ;)
of course not that much intellectual when we're talking about insects
Can't we have a discussion without having to bring up SCO? (Suddenly I can so picture Darl McBride starring in the next version of "The Fly")
With zsh one can of course turn the option on or off. It's off by default.
Damned dirty spacer! On Earth he should be referred to as R. Daneel. We don't like robots here, just our hive-like cities.
The same could be said about the people attempting flight 100 years ago. It certainly wasn't practical or useful then.
Well one correction, there were some 3D hopping robots, but IIRC only the monopod could ever really move in a controlled manner for more than around 30 seconds without falling.
They are *planar* walkers, not 3D. The M2 has been done for years, is there any proof it can walk yet? Their work on elastic actuation is important, but don't underestimate the differences between free 3D running and planar tethered robots, or simulations of 3D walkers. I guess they did have the small dinosaur, but that never ran.
Almost dead on. The latest version has 3 processors, and the FPGA is mainly for stereo. Last I heard they have not upgraded them to the 600MHz processors that the latest Aibo has (from the earlier 400MHz ones), but that may have changed in the last few months. You sound like an Robocup legged league participant, are you?
Actually QRIO runs Aperios, which is an embedded OS Sony developed in-house (it is the same one as used for the Aibo). The development environment runs in Linux, and the "robot middleware", called Open-R, runs on both Aperios and Linux. I worked there last summer.
Well, it was steam powered. I'd like to see anything steam powered fly using materials available before 1900.
I would however refuse to spend time on a SCO problem or refuse a SCO patch that doesn't have benefits for other platforms.
Exactly, it's called a boycott and I don't think there's anything at all amoral about them. Boycotts have been a classic method of change for the good, particularly when a small group is trying to beat up on those that are individually weak (Linux users), but collectively strong (FOSS). Thankfully for us they were stupid enough to attack IBM too.
...as is the correct use of possessives. You mean cliches.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/worldwariichro nology.html
I see them declaring war and sending an infantry division to Britain, so I guess I should say they followed the UK, while the US waited for its naval base to be attacked. The US sent 14.5 times the troops to the war, 12.4% of its population, while Canada sent 10%. Australians sent an incredible 18.6% of its population, as well as more troops in total than Canada; guess they are the real heroes. Probably doesn't show up in your classbooks either. Now put that nationalism aside and honor the true heroes who gave more than any allied country, the Australians, or can you not do that because you're too used to thinking only your country is the best at everything?
So do you disagree with the grandparent post then? Is Canada a peaceful pacifist county or a donwtrodden superpower? You can't have it both ways. Yeah, Canada should have told the US to fuck off during the Cold War, but the fact that it didn't demonstrates that at the time it was in its best interest not to.
Yes, Canada torched Washington, but only in response to us torching Toronto first. Unfortunately stupid US school books like to forget about the Toronto part, and that the US really did deserve the attack on Washington. However, I do recall the US winning the war of 1812, not losing it.
We're still there. The "popular" approach would be to pull out like Reagan did. The president after the next election probably will, and the president after that will have to deal with it again. This president hasn't made _that_ mistake.
Hey, Saddam called some of later missile strikes "Operation Monica", not me. Though now that you mention it, I don't know why the news article called it Desert Fox, which it couldn't have been. My point is its hypocritical to say Bush is doing this as a PR campaign, or to deflect attention, when basically the same thing happened with Clinton and his many cruise missiles. I personally tend to give them both the benefit of the doubt. But this is Slashdot, so we should only give one the benefit of the doubt and the earlier one must have been good because we only have 2 year memories. I'm sorry you lost your buddy in Iraq; My family has lost relatives in every war from WW1 to Vietnam; We've been lucky since then.
Who launched a half-assed attack against Al Qaeda? Can you find a reference to "Al Qaeda" that exists before 9/11/01? Not likely. This is all made up bullshit.
Here you go, that took about 10 seconds. I guess you're technically right since it was only called "bin Laden's network of terrorist groups", not "Al Qaeda" then. Of course, 1998 was such a long time ago, and those cruise missiles were just a friendly gesture. Here's an interview where OBL himself mentions the attack. Half-assed is demonstrated in these two articles, however the latter one is written after 9/11 and it isn't fully fair, since hindsight is 20/20. But we could have done better, that's for sure. Here's another referenencing the attack. Calling it all "made up bullshit" sure sounds good, but its hard to rebut the facts of history. Do I think Clinton's scandal caused the 75 cruise missile attack? No, but the timing sure seems bad. Now tell me again why Bush is doing this all as a big PR campaign? Seems like "No War" would have been a hell of a lot more popular with the voters around here.
as a result of the previous Bush's actions
We made a mistake in 1991, but again hindsight is perfect. We're finishing it now; the sanctions and cruise missiles were just putting it off. Responsibility for OBL and Al Qaeda rest soley with Clinton and later GWB. Sure, the original Gulf War fanned the flames a lot, but that was a UN war, and our options were limited since the UN only knows limited/partial war, and all the limited/partial results that brings (see Korea). So who's your favorite leader? More likely than not they either (1) fought a war in which Americans died, or (2) ignored a security threat so that his successor had to fight the war instead. Don't even say JFK was your favorite... you'll have a lot more bodies to count.
No! There can be no middle ground! This is Slashdot; How dare you not pick one extreme!
You don't need a military because the US would protect its neighbor. Do you really believe Canada would still be a sovereign country if during the cold war the US declared that it would not interefere in an invasion of Canada? Do you really think Canada would have fought in WW2 if the US had not entered, or that its contribution was the same as that of the US and the UK, in terms of winning the war?
Incidentally, Canada spends more on its military than Israel, which really is at war every 39 seconds. I do like foreign countries, and travel a lot. However I get tired of people from smaller (population,GNP) countries thinking that their isolationist approach would work for the US too. We tried that before; it didn't work.
At least when Clinton lied about a blow job from a mildly unattractive ditz nobody got killed.
Actually the answer is at least 25 killed and 75 wounded. Now I know 4 years is an awful long time to remember, so here's a link. We called it Operation Desert Fox. They called it "Operation Monica", because of the very interesting timing.
Don't forget around that time who launched a half-assed attack on Al Queda, which only really served to piss them off further. I wonder when 9/11 got planned. We're still waiting for a good president; It's been quite a while. But at least this one finishes things, rather than just exacerbating them.