Simple, jut convince your employer to open-source his program to the slashdot community.
We'll tell you how it runs on all sorts of different systems.
[grin]
You could even submit your request as a slashdot question. It has all the right ingredients, after all: "How do I do [impossible task A] with [irresponsibly innapropriate hardware setup X] within [absurdly low budget constraint Y]."
But one can achieve toll-quality audio across a low-bandwidth line. Which means it could also be done across a wireless connection.
Within the next ten years, as long range wireless systems like WiMax come into play, the inability for a provider to serve a customer without building a physical network will disappear--all you'll have to do is build a phone that connects directly into a WiMax-type network a peripheral. Build one really well designed WiMax call center capable of servicing millions of low bandwidth connections, put it in the right place in a major city, and voila--everyone in the metropolitan area of that city could switch over to your network tomorrow.
I agree that it's preposterous to say that the phone companies didn't have a monopoly on the phone service they provided, and that monopoly also seriously depressed any competition from providing a compelling alternative. But I don't think that limitation is going to stay with us for much longer. It's already fading out as major cities implement their own Wifi hotspots.
I distinctly recall, in late high school, a period when the Virtua Fighter games were all I played. In particular, I thought I had gotten pretty skilled at VF2. I had the run of an arcade and was accepting challengers left and right, then sending them off dejected.
. ..that is until a mexican kid that can't have been more than seven years old showed up. They actually had to get the kid a footstool so he could reach the controls.
And he cleaned my clock in consecutive rounds. I don't think I've ever been so thoroughly beaten in any game on any system.
So, just a thought, there are abberations to the rule.
You'll notice that you have audio in that scene and no Jim Carrey impression. It could be this is an earlier version of the bot where processing was done offboard that was moved onboard later, but I doubt that. They perform an identical kick test outside and it seems to respond just as well. My guess is that the unit is identical to the outdoors one except that in the lab they have a power source that allows them to run the 'bot without running that gorram awful two-stroke motor.
Which makes sense, because when you're running ultra-repetitive tests in a lab environment, you really don't want your senior scientists and interns slowly reduced to gibbering loons by that nightmarish sound.
Impressive sense of balance (the second kick in the video where it uses an almost simian method to get it's feet back under it is amazing). That's quite a step forward for robotics, though it's not particularly practical as a pack-mule alternative *yet*.
However, that thing desperately needs a muffler--is anybody else having flashbacks to "Dumb and Dumber"?
"Hey, you guys want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?"
If you succeeded, you'd be bombed out of existence within the week.
More likely though, you'd wind up like Sealand. Have you heard any news about HavenCo in the last few years? I haven't. The website claims they're fully operational, but the update mark is from 2003.
"I'd like the government to defend my liberty by infringing his."
Ignoring the other issues present, let me make a clarification:
The government isn't defending your "liberty" when they catch such a person. They're defending your safety. Important difference. Not that your safety isn't important. It is.
But these sorts of programs infringe upon the liberty of the guilty by infringing upon the liberty of everyone. That's how they work. It's like a tuna net. If you want tuna caught that's fine, but are you volunteering to be the dolphin? Because plenty of dolphins will get caught in that net if it gets built.
So don't say they're defending your liberty. They're not, their defending your safety by infringing upon your liberty. That's the way of it.
Google's webcrawlers don't know the difference between copyrighted work and public-domain work. And to my knowledge the robots.txt spec doesn't give them a way *to* know easily.
I put lots of my photography into the public domain or up with a CC license when I post it to the web, I don't want people thinking they can't use it because some random (false) copyright notice is slapped on it by the indexing service.
. ..I sure as hell don't want moneybags here trying to design my next car while all he can think about is how he's going to be able to afford his in-ground pool.
You're right, but as the poster says "The history of the world should be universally accessible."
Now my country has birthed a bigarse huge/scary megacorporation with a passion for proliferating content, much of it free, and is now happily dumping all of the video history we have onto the table, for the world's benefit.
Tell me, what did YOUR country do to help reach the common goal?
I'm not saying we're saints just because we shared our video collection. But I am saying that before you go whining about how people shouldn't be celebrating America, maybe you should have a contribution of your own to hold up alongside ours?
If you don't, maybe a little less whining and a little more [working towards getting your own country's video archives released for the rest of the worlds benefit] might be in order?
I don't know. . . can you buy VCRs in other countries?
It seems to me that if the fallout hadn't been felt the world over, Universal would have taken the case to the rest of the courts. Unless, that is, they felt it likely they'd be put down in those arenas too?
Pathetic attempt at sarcasm to belittle the point = 0. Real world results of the decisions in question = 1.
I was particularly amused by this gem: "As an introvert, I'm pretty outraged that this game is marginalizing my entire personality type."
If you don't want to interact with other people, why sir, did you purchase a Massively Multiplayer game in the first place?
Second: Are you unaware that one of the magical things about the personal computer is that it can run all sorts of different programs? This includes lots of other games that might be more suited to your particular personality type! If you don't like WoW, you could go play something else. Imagine that. Finding a reasonable alternative instead of whinging about how the big bad game hurt your feelings. What a novel concept.
My point is that this poster's spurious assertion that only someone with complete access to the entire government infrastructure could make a decision about what should and shouldn't be classified is spurious based on his own logic. That's not because his conclusion is invalid, but because his logic is bad.
Slashdot Mirror
Simple, jut convince your employer to open-source his program to the slashdot community.
We'll tell you how it runs on all sorts of different systems.
[grin]
You could even submit your request as a slashdot question. It has all the right ingredients, after all: "How do I do [impossible task A] with [irresponsibly innapropriate hardware setup X] within [absurdly low budget constraint Y]."
[looks at his computer]
.but the tricky part is input. Do they *make* metal keyboards?
I guess I'll be buying one of those expensive Aluminum cases when that happens. .
3D Ping pong.
3D Pong is free.
Whine Bitch, whine. I'd rather die by the hand of a foreign attacker than be subjected to persecution by my own government.
:)
Fixed your typo.
But one can achieve toll-quality audio across a low-bandwidth line. Which means it could also be done across a wireless connection.
Within the next ten years, as long range wireless systems like WiMax come into play, the inability for a provider to serve a customer without building a physical network will disappear--all you'll have to do is build a phone that connects directly into a WiMax-type network a peripheral. Build one really well designed WiMax call center capable of servicing millions of low bandwidth connections, put it in the right place in a major city, and voila--everyone in the metropolitan area of that city could switch over to your network tomorrow.
I agree that it's preposterous to say that the phone companies didn't have a monopoly on the phone service they provided, and that monopoly also seriously depressed any competition from providing a compelling alternative. But I don't think that limitation is going to stay with us for much longer. It's already fading out as major cities implement their own Wifi hotspots.
I distinctly recall, in late high school, a period when the Virtua Fighter games were all I played. In particular, I thought I had gotten pretty skilled at VF2. I had the run of an arcade and was accepting challengers left and right, then sending them off dejected. . . .that is until a mexican kid that can't have been more than seven years old showed up. They actually had to get the kid a footstool so he could reach the controls.
And he cleaned my clock in consecutive rounds. I don't think I've ever been so thoroughly beaten in any game on any system.
So, just a thought, there are abberations to the rule.
Correct.
A self-sustaining object is a much larger target. Way more parts for them to bomb.
So wait, I can falsely add copyright notices to works in the public domain, like King Kong, that are defensible in court?
Awesome. I'm going to be RICH!
So, I think that that video is rigged somewhat.
You'll notice that you have audio in that scene and no Jim Carrey impression. It could be this is an earlier version of the bot where processing was done offboard that was moved onboard later, but I doubt that. They perform an identical kick test outside and it seems to respond just as well. My guess is that the unit is identical to the outdoors one except that in the lab they have a power source that allows them to run the 'bot without running that gorram awful two-stroke motor.
Which makes sense, because when you're running ultra-repetitive tests in a lab environment, you really don't want your senior scientists and interns slowly reduced to gibbering loons by that nightmarish sound.
Impressive sense of balance (the second kick in the video where it uses an almost simian method to get it's feet back under it is amazing). That's quite a step forward for robotics, though it's not particularly practical as a pack-mule alternative *yet*.
However, that thing desperately needs a muffler--is anybody else having flashbacks to "Dumb and Dumber"?
"Hey, you guys want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?"
This was brilliant. I think the security implications comment sealed it for me. Priceless.
If you succeeded, you'd be bombed out of existence within the week.
More likely though, you'd wind up like Sealand. Have you heard any news about HavenCo in the last few years? I haven't. The website claims they're fully operational, but the update mark is from 2003.
I'm going to paint her phone with it.
Which reminds me. . .the 9 inches per nanosecond is for silicon. Not air.
Whoops.
[Google's talking about the speed of light in a vacuum.]
"I'd like the government to defend my liberty by infringing his."
Ignoring the other issues present, let me make a clarification:
The government isn't defending your "liberty" when they catch such a person. They're defending your safety. Important difference. Not that your safety isn't important. It is.
But these sorts of programs infringe upon the liberty of the guilty by infringing upon the liberty of everyone . That's how they work. It's like a tuna net. If you want tuna caught that's fine, but are you volunteering to be the dolphin? Because plenty of dolphins will get caught in that net if it gets built.
So don't say they're defending your liberty. They're not, their defending your safety by infringing upon your liberty. That's the way of it.
Google's webcrawlers don't know the difference between copyrighted work and public-domain work. And to my knowledge the robots.txt spec doesn't give them a way *to* know easily.
I put lots of my photography into the public domain or up with a CC license when I post it to the web, I don't want people thinking they can't use it because some random (false) copyright notice is slapped on it by the indexing service.
. . .I sure as hell don't want moneybags here trying to design my next car while all he can think about is how he's going to be able to afford his in-ground pool.
You're right, but as the poster says "The history of the world should be universally accessible."
Now my country has birthed a bigarse huge/scary megacorporation with a passion for proliferating content, much of it free, and is now happily dumping all of the video history we have onto the table, for the world's benefit.
Tell me, what did YOUR country do to help reach the common goal?
I'm not saying we're saints just because we shared our video collection. But I am saying that before you go whining about how people shouldn't be celebrating America, maybe you should have a contribution of your own to hold up alongside ours?
If you don't, maybe a little less whining and a little more [working towards getting your own country's video archives released for the rest of the worlds benefit] might be in order?
Is the relevant speed of light you're looking for.
So an image of light reflecting off an object 9 feet away is 12 nanoseconds old.
I don't know. . . can you buy VCRs in other countries?
It seems to me that if the fallout hadn't been felt the world over, Universal would have taken the case to the rest of the courts. Unless, that is, they felt it likely they'd be put down in those arenas too?
Pathetic attempt at sarcasm to belittle the point = 0.
Real world results of the decisions in question = 1.
I was particularly amused by this gem: "As an introvert, I'm pretty outraged that this game is marginalizing my entire personality type."
If you don't want to interact with other people, why sir, did you purchase a Massively Multiplayer game in the first place?
Second: Are you unaware that one of the magical things about the personal computer is that it can run all sorts of different programs? This includes lots of other games that might be more suited to your particular personality type! If you don't like WoW, you could go play something else. Imagine that. Finding a reasonable alternative instead of whinging about how the big bad game hurt your feelings. What a novel concept.
Try and remember, Joe's 10 hour program might have extra features compared to yours, and Frank's 1 hour one might be completely unstable. . .
Thank you. That's much better. I wasn't disagreeing with your conclusion. I just felt your statement wasn't correct.
And I agree with you.
My point is that this poster's spurious assertion that only someone with complete access to the entire government infrastructure could make a decision about what should and shouldn't be classified is spurious based on his own logic. That's not because his conclusion is invalid, but because his logic is bad.