On the weekend I noticed a rather cool looking robot video posted to stileproject here http://www.stilemedia.com/?v=heexe1.wmv
Probably not a good idea to grab it from work though as people (like my boss) don't believe you when you say it's a science and anatomy site.
and you didnt have one of those insta restore partitions that would put everything back the way it was
Wasn't my computer - it was a girls computer. Her data was all there, but yes an "insta restore" partition would have been great. Do you have a HowTO link for the readers that are following along?
She sort went (more) crazy after that, and since then I think she's gone to Vietnam or something to teach English, but basically I have no idea where she is. Besides I have this really great girlfriend now from Taiwan, however she doesn't like me having anything to do with my ex girlfriends...or any other women for that matter....hmm:/
I think Sony are great! Years ago when the original Napster announced that they were going to have a legit subscription service I had my money ready to slap down for the wonderful range of music that Napster offered. Of course the RIAA showed me that no they didn't want my money and shut Napster down, so ok I will take my money and spend it on other things instead.
Fast forward to last year, my girlfriend at the time was a self-employed contract graphic artist, bought music all the time, and criticised me on my stance. Her friends told her to use P2P software but she said that her computer was too important to put anything on there that might upset her work. Overall her and I sort of had this ongoing argument about it. Anyway one day I get a SMS from her, a big "Help Me". I got round to her house and her computer wouldn't boot into Windows. She's in a big panic, big job due the next day, it takes days to install all the software she needs to do her work, she's lost a bunch of work and her PC is stuffed.
In the end it was a big disaster, the job was screwed up and she lost a customer. A few weeks later I realised what the problem was, she was running Windows XP x64 and had put in a new Sony CD that had rootkitted her machine and overwrote some 64 bit drivers with some 32 bit drivers. PWN3D!!!! Explaining to her what happened was like the best argument win ever!! of course then we split, but it was worth it.
A gimmick is often something intersting that has no real advantage, like some of those virtual reality controllers that came out for Doom.
It's hard to progress the the art of computer games and hardware without resorting to some things that are a bit left-field. The market will choose what is useful. Consoles are part of entertainment, and entertainment often is gimmicky. The fault here is that the Sony guy probably shouldn't have said that Sony isn't interested in gimicks, afterall these are the people who brought us the Aibo robot dog.
While my competition was changing over to open source I pushed on with Windows and delivered before them. I wish I could pout something better here, but it's the only incident I could think of.
Sometimes you have to compromise to get things done quickly.
I don't know about HAM-based, but I think there's plenty out there about SPAM-basaed internet connections.
You gotta do a lot better than that. It's a really tough crowd here on slashdot. I wish one day we could get all slashdotters in a hall and arm them with fruit, then let people get up on stage and make a comment. The crowd could cheer, or bombard them with fruit.....I think that would be a good time for the RIAA guys to make some comments.
I remember when I was in school I went to see The Terminator with some friends. When the assembly code was scrolling up the screen many of us recognised it and sang out "Hey he's a Commodore 64".
Wow, I just realised that the people around me must be the most prductive in the world! They are all sitting around doing nothing, but the company is making money, so they are worth an infinite amount of money (Profit / hours *working* = infinity).
Maybe you should point out the differences as the article doesn't really state how they do deep brain stimulation. They do use electricity in the stimulation, and therefore I think it would be valid to call it a refinement of electro-shock therapy (which has the effect of dimming a person's intelligence a bit).
DBS uses a surgically inserted probe that rests deep in the brain, and stimulates the deep brain section by use of electriciy. It isn't a large shock type action though, but rather the person carries a battery pack and only a small charge is released through the probe, but on a continuous basis.
You control where the lost blood goes, and feed it back into their body. It's a matter of attaching suction devices to the points where you cut across major blood supplies, and being very meticulous. Probably requires some special skills.
Of course it requires a lot more fiddling about than just simply cutting straight in and fixing the problem, so it's going to require a lot more time to do the operation, thus it would be preferable to surgeons if they can just rip into you, and then leave the nurses to put blood back into you when they are done.
There are three standard configurations for myPVR, and a choice of two case styles.
Configuration Price (inc GST)
Base
Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (or above)
512 MB Ram
DVD ± RW DL Drive
Remote control
Wireless keyboard and mouse
Choice of black or silver HTPC cases.
12 Months return to base hardware support
3 Months standard software support
(updates, patches and online assistance)
Special Offer - For a limited period software support extended to 6 months
Single Tuner - 250
Single Tuner Hauppauge PVR 150 Capture Card
Single 250GB Hard Drive
$1499
Dual Tuner - 250
Dual Tuner Hauppauge PVR 500 Capture Card
Single 250GB Hard Drive
$1699
Dual Tuner - 400
Dual Tuner Hauppauge PVR 500 Capture Card
Single 400GB Hard Drive
$1949
The site seems to be slashdotted for some reason:-0, but I managed to grab this bit:
Additional Dual Tuner Model Now Available
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Due to customer demand an additional standard configuration of myPVR has been released.
It appears by far that customers want their "Personal Video Recorders" to have dual tuners. Hence we are please to announce the availability of an additional dual tuner model with the smaller 250GB Hard Drive.
For the average user this HTPC can handle between 100 and 300 hours of TV, dependant on capture quality and the use of myPVR to store other media such as Music, Games and Images.
You will be pleased to know that our current Limited Period special offers sill apply with this new model.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 April 2006 )
Pricing Information Now Online
Monday, 10 April 2006
We are very pleased to announce the initial pricing for our standard versions of myPVR 1.0. For a Limited Period we are offering the following special deal -
Software support extended from 3 to 6 months
Free delivery within New Zealand
Onsite install within the Auckland area
Note some conditions apply
This innovative HTPC (Home Theater PC) solution, with all of the features you would expect from a PVR, is now available for the New Zealand consumer.
The first link states that "The cars can travel up to 100 mph, according to the report" while the second link agrees with the submitter (100km/hr; 60 mph).
It must have been designed by NASA. I see stuff like this all the time in their specs for craft to be sent to Mars.
What differentiates them from the rest is that they actually prepare very hard for it-- with actuve faculty and school encouragement
So what you are saying is that those countries value academic acheivement more than your country does. If it was a football competition do you think it would be taken more seriously in your country?
No you got that wrong. The great creator (pick which ever one applies to you) saw the problem and then released some DNA patches to overcome it. People often say that things are such a mess that they couldn't be intelligently designed, but lets face it, the "Designer Corporation" has been around for so long that it's probably become like Microsoft, the old IBM, et al.
As soon as some little guy comes up with something he'll be crushed by the bigger guys for violating a bunch of patents. So this pretty much eliminates people without significant resources.
You have mentioned some rather nasty uses for this technology.
However you can also trade music with your friends without being thrown in the clink, and this is what will make this techonology more popular. Interesting how by the music industry making criminals out of so many people it makes it easier for the real criminals to hide amoung the mases when the masses retalliate with technology.
How much money does a research team need? What sort of methods could provide that money?
A new technology like nano biotech needs space to breathe. The thing I'm worried about is that other countries may be advancing, but in the US the base research is getting stifled before it even gets off the ground, and thus in 50 years the other countries will have quite a head start on such technology.
Suppose I'm some scientist who makes a nano-biotech break-through (NBTBT). Then I look at this big pile of overbroad patents of supposed NBTBTs. I must say the thought would cross my mind that I should simply take all my work, and move to a country that is more innovation-friendly rather than a collective bunch of money grabbing litigators.
For the true Einstein like scientist, what would be his/her motivation to stay in a western country? Seriously?
If this doesn't change then in 50 years time we are going to find ourselves being totally owned by the other half of the world.
Someone who has coded in VB.Net for years would be a far better choice for a Managed C++.Net project than someone who has programmed in C++ on another platform for years.
What! Are you insane? We've got massive projects being written in Managed C++ that interop with unmanaged C++. The C++ programmers we've got use just about all the features of C++ that you can think of, as well as exploiting the STL library to it's fullest. Any VB.NET programmer dropped into this project would just drown.
Managed C++ is superset of C++, not a simplification. Let's face it, years ago people were running from C++ to Java. C# started bringing them back, but Microsoft's next generation of programming tools treats C++ as a first class language and C++ is starting to look very attractive again because Managed C++ gives you the best of both worlds.
When you think about Microsoft's.NET platform may actually be the saviour of C++.
So then really patents should only be granted to things that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the patent system. Although that may not really cover much, I mean people still invented stuff before the patent system existed.
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On the weekend I noticed a rather cool looking robot video posted to stileproject here http://www.stilemedia.com/?v=heexe1.wmv Probably not a good idea to grab it from work though as people (like my boss) don't believe you when you say it's a science and anatomy site.
Wasn't my computer - it was a girls computer. Her data was all there, but yes an "insta restore" partition would have been great. Do you have a HowTO link for the readers that are following along?
She sort went (more) crazy after that, and since then I think she's gone to Vietnam or something to teach English, but basically I have no idea where she is. Besides I have this really great girlfriend now from Taiwan, however she doesn't like me having anything to do with my ex girlfriends...or any other women for that matter....hmm :/
Fast forward to last year, my girlfriend at the time was a self-employed contract graphic artist, bought music all the time, and criticised me on my stance. Her friends told her to use P2P software but she said that her computer was too important to put anything on there that might upset her work. Overall her and I sort of had this ongoing argument about it. Anyway one day I get a SMS from her, a big "Help Me". I got round to her house and her computer wouldn't boot into Windows. She's in a big panic, big job due the next day, it takes days to install all the software she needs to do her work, she's lost a bunch of work and her PC is stuffed.
In the end it was a big disaster, the job was screwed up and she lost a customer. A few weeks later I realised what the problem was, she was running Windows XP x64 and had put in a new Sony CD that had rootkitted her machine and overwrote some 64 bit drivers with some 32 bit drivers. PWN3D!!!! Explaining to her what happened was like the best argument win ever!! of course then we split, but it was worth it.
Last week there was a bill before congress that would make it illegal for you to keep in your memory any method for circumventing copyright.
I'm sure the RIAA would love to be able to collect royalties for you retaining a song in your head.
It's hard to progress the the art of computer games and hardware without resorting to some things that are a bit left-field. The market will choose what is useful. Consoles are part of entertainment, and entertainment often is gimmicky. The fault here is that the Sony guy probably shouldn't have said that Sony isn't interested in gimicks, afterall these are the people who brought us the Aibo robot dog.
Playstation Fanbois vs Xbox Fanbois....sounds like an adult movie in the making.
Sometimes you have to compromise to get things done quickly.
You gotta do a lot better than that. It's a really tough crowd here on slashdot. I wish one day we could get all slashdotters in a hall and arm them with fruit, then let people get up on stage and make a comment. The crowd could cheer, or bombard them with fruit.....I think that would be a good time for the RIAA guys to make some comments.
They probably all read slashdot now. Hi Guys!
I feel so privilaged.
DBS uses a surgically inserted probe that rests deep in the brain, and stimulates the deep brain section by use of electriciy. It isn't a large shock type action though, but rather the person carries a battery pack and only a small charge is released through the probe, but on a continuous basis.
Of course it requires a lot more fiddling about than just simply cutting straight in and fixing the problem, so it's going to require a lot more time to do the operation, thus it would be preferable to surgeons if they can just rip into you, and then leave the nurses to put blood back into you when they are done.
umm yeah, the sites down, but here some pricing:
There are three standard configurations for myPVR, and a choice of two case styles.
Configuration Price (inc GST) Base
Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (or above)
512 MB Ram
DVD ± RW DL Drive
Remote control
Wireless keyboard and mouse
Choice of black or silver HTPC cases.
12 Months return to base hardware support
3 Months standard software support
(updates, patches and online assistance)
Special Offer - For a limited period software support extended to 6 months
Single Tuner - 250
Single Tuner Hauppauge PVR 150 Capture Card
Single 250GB Hard Drive
$1499
Dual Tuner - 250
Dual Tuner Hauppauge PVR 500 Capture Card
Single 250GB Hard Drive
$1699
Dual Tuner - 400
Dual Tuner Hauppauge PVR 500 Capture Card
Single 400GB Hard Drive
$1949
Additional Dual Tuner Model Now Available
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Due to customer demand an additional standard configuration of myPVR has been released.
It appears by far that customers want their "Personal Video Recorders" to have dual tuners. Hence we are please to announce the availability of an additional dual tuner model with the smaller 250GB Hard Drive.
For the average user this HTPC can handle between 100 and 300 hours of TV, dependant on capture quality and the use of myPVR to store other media such as Music, Games and Images.
You will be pleased to know that our current Limited Period special offers sill apply with this new model.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 April 2006 )
Pricing Information Now Online Monday, 10 April 2006 We are very pleased to announce the initial pricing for our standard versions of myPVR 1.0. For a Limited Period we are offering the following special deal -
Software support extended from 3 to 6 months
Free delivery within New Zealand
Onsite install within the Auckland area
Note some conditions apply
This innovative HTPC (Home Theater PC) solution, with all of the features you would expect from a PVR, is now available for the New Zealand consumer.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 April 2006 )
It must have been designed by NASA. I see stuff like this all the time in their specs for craft to be sent to Mars.
So what you are saying is that those countries value academic acheivement more than your country does. If it was a football competition do you think it would be taken more seriously in your country?
No you got that wrong. The great creator (pick which ever one applies to you) saw the problem and then released some DNA patches to overcome it. People often say that things are such a mess that they couldn't be intelligently designed, but lets face it, the "Designer Corporation" has been around for so long that it's probably become like Microsoft, the old IBM, et al.
I think they probably also have a lot to do with the invention of the hands free remote control http://kmakbar.trustpass.alibaba.com/product/10885 029/Voice_Remote_Control.html
As soon as some little guy comes up with something he'll be crushed by the bigger guys for violating a bunch of patents. So this pretty much eliminates people without significant resources.
You have mentioned some rather nasty uses for this technology. However you can also trade music with your friends without being thrown in the clink, and this is what will make this techonology more popular. Interesting how by the music industry making criminals out of so many people it makes it easier for the real criminals to hide amoung the mases when the masses retalliate with technology.
A new technology like nano biotech needs space to breathe. The thing I'm worried about is that other countries may be advancing, but in the US the base research is getting stifled before it even gets off the ground, and thus in 50 years the other countries will have quite a head start on such technology.
For the true Einstein like scientist, what would be his/her motivation to stay in a western country? Seriously?
If this doesn't change then in 50 years time we are going to find ourselves being totally owned by the other half of the world.
What! Are you insane? We've got massive projects being written in Managed C++ that interop with unmanaged C++. The C++ programmers we've got use just about all the features of C++ that you can think of, as well as exploiting the STL library to it's fullest. Any VB.NET programmer dropped into this project would just drown.
Managed C++ is superset of C++, not a simplification. Let's face it, years ago people were running from C++ to Java. C# started bringing them back, but Microsoft's next generation of programming tools treats C++ as a first class language and C++ is starting to look very attractive again because Managed C++ gives you the best of both worlds.
When you think about Microsoft's .NET platform may actually be the saviour of C++.
So then really patents should only be granted to things that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the patent system. Although that may not really cover much, I mean people still invented stuff before the patent system existed.