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06/27/2004 03:23 AMCNET Jun 27 2004 7:11AM GMT
Stupid Web Tricks
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05/10/2004 07:16 AMCNET May 10 2004 11:05AM GMT
Stupid Laptop Tricks
Stupid Laptop Tricks
04/10/2005 12:47 PMIn advance response to those who would misread the title to this
article, it's the tricks that are stupid, not the laptop!
I just started a new job this week heading up the graphics
department of a small printing company. I had become accustomed to
having a laptop at my disposal at my old job — an aging 500MHz
PowerBook G4 — so my new employer sweetened his offer to lure me
to the new job with the promise of a spiffy new PowerBook. The new one
runs at 1.5GHz, and while the speed difference is impressive and
reason enough to not look back after the upgrade, some of the other
features, like the automatic screen dimming, lighted keyboard, Combo
drive, standard BlueTooth and AirPort, etc... are pretty cool too.
One of the things the guy at the Mac shop mentioned when he was
showing it to me was the "Sudden Motion Sensor" feature, which uses
several sensors in the case to detect sudden changes in position, and
will park the hard drive heads to keep them from crashing into the
drive platters. I hope I'll never need that feature, and really didn't
think much about it, but of course some people just aren't able to
leave a feature like that alone. Amit Singh has
figured out how to gather data generated by those sensors...
While the PowerBook only uses the AMS as a defensive measure to
prevent accidental damage to the disk drive, such sensors could have a
variety of uses. In particular, they have been considered an
alternative input methods in user interfaces for video game
controllers, phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. While it is to be
seen if they will be successful in these areas, such use at least has
a novelty value
He's even built a couple of silly little apps that make use of the
sensors.
AMSV
isualizer A graphical application that displays a 3-D picture of a
PowerBook. The picture's orientation is a real-time approximation of
the PowerBook's physical orientation. Thus, the on-screen picture
moves with the movement of the AMS-equipped PowerBook.
Stable Window A graphical application that
creates a window displaying a bicycle wheel. The window is
"stable" in the sense that if you rotate the AMS-equipped
PowerBook left or right, the window compensates by rotating itself by
an equal amount in the opposite direction.
Running StableWindow is the wierdest thing; a window's edges are
just supposed to be aligned with the edges of the screen; seeing
something other than that is just... wierd. But some of the... um...
"practical" applications for this sound kinda fun. I catch
no end of grief from my wife & kids about using body english when
I'm playing FA-18
Hornet on the desktop machine at home; how cool would it be for
those body movements to actually control the simulator! Then I could
truthfully tell them that leaning in my chair actually does
help!
via AppleFritter.
Stupid Credit Tricks
Stupid Credit Tricks
06/29/2004 03:33 PMWatch your wallet. It's not just the bad guys out to get you.
Stupid Word Tricks
Stupid Word Tricks
04/28/2004 11:45 AM
A Collection
of Word Oddities and Trivia. Stupid Phishing Tricks
Stupid Phishing Tricks
05/21/2004 01:00 PMhttp-equiv_at_excite.com (May 21 2004)
Stupid Company Tricks
Stupid Company Tricks
04/14/2005 08:52 AMThe end of Disney's namesake magazine is just one of the many recent
boneheaded moves by major corporations.
Stupid cell phone tricks
Stupid cell phone tricks
01/07/2005 02:35 AMFor a project I’m working on we need to send text messages to
mobile phones. We could buy or rent an SMS
gateway, but most carriers in the US allow
you to email a message to yourphonenumber@yourcarrier and it will
appear as a text message on the phone. For example, my phone is
currently with AT&T so you can send a
short email to 9166002497 AT mobile.att.net
and it will show up on my phone.
The problem is figuring out what carrier the phone number is at so
you can append the correct hostname to the email address. John Wehr pointed out Teleflip, a service that lets you send
email to yourphonenumber@teleflip.com and have it delivered to the
phone, regardless of carrier. That’s dandy, but I don’t
want to rely on some free, third party service that might change or go
away later.
After spending some time looking for a way to determine the
phone’s carrier, it hit me: I don’t really care what
carrier they’re using. If I send the message to the incorrect
carrier, it won’t get delivered to the wrong person because
phone numbers are unique. It will just bounce. So if I wanted to send
a message to 212-555-1212, I could just send a text message to
2125551212@mobile.att.net, 2125551212@messaging.sprintpcs.com,
2125551212@messaging.nextel.com and so on. Send to them all and ignore
the bounces. Based on the bounces, you could even learn which carrier
someone’s using and just send to that one in the future.
It’s not terribly polite to send email that you know is going
to bounce, but it’s not a huge load on the servers and
you’d only do it once for each new number.
Editors' Notes: Stupid headline tricks
Editors' Notes: Stupid headline tricks
04/13/2005 10:48 PMWith OS X 10.4 on its way, Jim Dalrymple hopes that, instead of
leading the usual onslaught of Tiger-themed puns, headline writers
will change their stripes.
Stupid Web Tricks: Make disabled text
more readable with the readonly
attribute
Stupid Web Tricks: Make disabled text
more readable with the readonly
attribute
08/09/2004 05:42 AMCNET Aug 9 2004 10:10AM GMT
Stupid Blog Post Content
Stupid Blog Post Content
09/01/2004 12:08 PMContent Usability in RSS: Hey look, we're so big now that I'm
linking to my own stuff...
It's been a year since I posted this, and the situation hasn't
gotten any better. Too many people try to be all witty and
avant-garde in their post titles and content and, as a result, getting
instantly passed over or deleted.
I get several of these a day — entries that don't
have enough information in them to help decide if I actually want to
read them or not. A lot of them just have a title and a link, and the
titles of news articles are pretty ambiguous these days.
Take a look at this
entry over at MetaFilter and ask yourself, why should I give a
crap about this? What has this author presented to make me care one
second about this content?
Notice that the author has to actually include instructions in the
post as to how it "works." Note also that the first commentor
graciously takes it upon themselves to tell everyone where the links
were going so they can figure out if they care. Another commentor
says:
I really dislike this post. Clever, but OBNOXIOUS! I
almost DON'T want to click any of these links.
I didn't even think it was that clever.
Of course, this only matters if you're trying to get people to
follow your links or read your stuff. If you're just trying to be all
black beret, wireframe glasses, and facial hair — well, then
mission accomplished.
Click here to comment on this entry
What Dynamic Content in Europe is
Indexable?
What Dynamic Content in Europe is
Indexable?
06/26/2002 01:02 PMWhat SEs can now index dynamic sites?
Generate Dynamic Content With Tomcat and
MySQL
Generate Dynamic Content With Tomcat and
MySQL
09/27/2002 02:32 PMThis article shows you how to create an application that demonstrates
how Apache Tomcat and MySQL can communicate with one another, and it
also gives you a very useful and reusable tool that handles most of
the database work for you.
Create dynamic content with filters and
transitions
Create dynamic content with filters and
transitions
03/21/2003 02:24 AMCNET Mar 21 2003 1:24AM ET
developerWorks: Generate Dynamic Content
with Tomcat and MySQL
developerWorks: Generate Dynamic Content
with Tomcat and MySQL
09/20/2002 05:04 AM"Companies like doubleclick.net have made a lot of money serving
banner ads on the Web. The service they provide is great, but why pay
for something you can do yourself? In this article, enterprise Java
consultants Javid Jamae and Kulvir Bhogal demonstrate how to create
rotating banner ads using an all open-source environment: Apache
Tomcat, MySQL, and the MM MySQL JDBC driver. First, they'll walk you
through the necessary setup in Tomcat and MySQL, and then show you how
to install the MM MySQL JDBC driver to allow a Java servlet running in
Tomcat to communicate with MySQL..."
How helping spiders reveals the webs
dynamic content to search engines
How helping spiders reveals the webs
dynamic content to search engines
05/11/2004 12:46 AMInternetRetailer.com May 11 2004 4:41AM GMT
Mainichi Newspapers' Official i-mode
Site Offering Dynamic Sports News
Content
Mainichi Newspapers' Official i-mode
Site Offering Dynamic Sports News
Content
05/12/2004 11:05 PMJapan Corp May 13 2004 2:56AM GMT
Completely Unique Launches Complete Site
Manager, a New Approach to Dynamic Web
Design and Content Management
Completely Unique Launches Complete Site
Manager, a New Approach to Dynamic Web
Design and Content Management
03/17/2005 03:02 AMComplete Site Manager (CSM) is one of the most dynamic and uniquely
straight-forward content management systems to hit the Internet in
years. CSM is designed for non-technical and Web design savvy people
who want a collaborative and rules based content management system,
encompassing permission and access level features. CSM includes both a
WYSIWYG and standard HTML interface to meet the needs of both content
managers and site administrators. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]
"You see? You see? Your stupid minds!
Stupid! Stupid!"
"You see? You see? Your stupid minds!
Stupid! Stupid!"
01/06/2004 03:19 AMJack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
08/03/2004 07:46 PMTim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti
said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's
infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American
film industry") look like a walk in the park.
On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and
fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners
of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong
and unfair."
On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to
wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice
in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There
will never be more than three national networks."
On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its
life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it
becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does
the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"
Link
(
Thanks, Patricio!)
Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS
Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS
04/08/2005 04:55 AMHot Banana Software Inc., a leading North American Web Content
Management Suite (CMS) company, announced today that it has won the
2005 e-Content award for the best Content Management System. The
Canadian e-Content Awards are sponsored by the e-Content Institute and
were created to recognize and honor e-content products and services
used by Canadian organizations and individuals. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web
12/19/2004 03:08 PMThe age old question of copyright and Usenet comes up again.
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content
02/10/2004 02:46 PMMajor League Baseball made news last year for
claim
ing to own all in-progress game data - saying they were going to
go after websites that reported what was happening at a game in
real-time. It didn't matter that the law is pretty clear that you
can't copyright facts - MLB believes that just presenting the data is
a "rebroadcast" of the game. That said, I guess it's no surprise to
hear that they now believe that web audio and video broadcasts of
games should work the same way as television broadcasts with a content
provider
paying a huge
upfront fee for the rights to the games, and then telling them
they can make it back in ad revenue and subscription fees. Of course,
the various internet sites they've approached with this plan have been
laughing them out the door, and pointing out that they're not
television stations, and they just want to provide something useful to
their users - but aren't going to lose money to do so. While MLB has
been at the forefront of offering streaming video and audio, it
appears they still look on this as a broadcast medium, and not the
interactive medium it actually is. They're doing their best to
squeeze more money out of existing fans, rather than attract new fans,
which is dangerous for the future of the sport. Not only do you anger
your biggest fans, you also make it less likely that you're going to
pick up new fans.
The C# Programming Techniques Content
Area of Premium Content Aggregator
Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open
The C# Programming Techniques Content
Area of Premium Content Aggregator
Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open
02/01/2005 09:17 PMC# Programming Techniques features articles, tips, techniques, and
source code created by well-known author and programmer Harold Davis.
Davis is the author of more than twenty books about programming and
technology, including most recently Building Research Tools with
Google For Dummies published by John Wiley. [PRWEB Jan 30, 2005]
It's the war, stupid
It's the war, stupid
05/27/2004 05:07 PMIt's the IQ, stupid
It's the IQ, stupid
08/27/2004 01:51 PM
"Innate intelligence has to do with capability and
ignorance to do with variables such as educational opportunity and
personal diligence. But the conundrum remains. Is intellect
important in presidents? If Americans can't solve the question
definitively in the matter of John Kerry and George Bush, we damn sure
ought to make an educated guess."
Does CBS think we're that stupid?
Does CBS think we're that stupid?
02/10/2004 02:42 AMI'd like to someday live in a country where a quick nipple shown on
TV isn't the end of civilization, and that's not what irks me about
the halftime show tonight. What does get me about the Superbowl
halftime show is CBS insisting it was an accident,
calling it a "wardrobe malfunction."
It's funny, when you collect the evidence, I wonder if CBS really
thinks the public is stupid enough to believe it:
1. It was planned from the start.
2. There are snaps on
her outfit clearly visible, designed to be unsnapped. Most
garments are sewn together sans snaps and don't fall apart.
3. She's wearing a "nipple shield" to partially cover her breast. If it was
unplanned why on earth would she have this huge chunk of metal there?
Was it to skirt some FCC rule against an entirely naked breast?
4. Worst of all: She has a
single coming out which is coincidentally being rushed to the
airwaves based on the "overwhelming worldwide demand." Check the
timestamp on the bogus press release, it was posted before the game
was even over.
Is it all a big coincidence or is this how controversy is
manufactured to sell records these days?
Bio-stupid
Bio-stupid
08/02/2004 11:59 PMSalon Aug 3 2004 4:08AM GMT
Stupid PDF-only Policy
Stupid PDF-only Policy
01/28/2004 06:41 PMhe Consumer Federation of California just issued a
privacy report
that is full of useful information -- but it's available only as a
large PDF file, not in HTML or RTF or plain text.
Stupid titles
Stupid titles
03/19/2003 10:27 PMI'm honestly worn out today. Apparently there is an assembily that
will be taking place at our school on Friday....
It’s the Libraries, Stupid
It’s the Libraries, Stupid
06/09/2004 11:39 PMVia Jeff Dillon,
some insightful words on programming in Java and
in the C#/.NET/Mono ecosystem. I hadn’t thought about it that way.
It's the Dividend, Stupid!
It's the Dividend, Stupid!
04/30/2004 10:50 AMWhere has the magic gone?
When ad execs get stupid
When ad execs get stupid
09/13/2004 04:10 PMZDNet Sep 13 2004 7:53PM GMT
stupid cupid
stupid cupid
02/12/2004 04:50 PMI occasionally contribute to this fantastic online magazine called
"The Cult of the One Eyed Cat." It's named after a real cat, who only
has one eye, who once gave me half a look that chills me to this day.
This month's issue is all about Valentine's Day, so I wrote a snarky
piece wherein I get frank about my true feelings for this annual
tradition.
Here's a little bit to get you started:
Valentine's Day is upon us yet again, and husbands and boyfriends all
over the country are trying to solve a fiendishly complex puzzle: what
do we get our wives and girlfriends? If you're dating, are you dating
long enough for roses? What if you're dating too long for roses? And
what color? Should you get chocolates, because she's so sweet, or
should you stay away from chocolates because she will freak about how
it's going to make her fat?
The stakes are incredibly high. If we work out the Rube Goldberg
machine that is the female psyche, we may just get that once-a-year
blowjob . . . but if we fail to read the tea leaves correctly, we end
up spending the evening alone in the bedroom with ESPN Classics while
she watches Lifetime in the living room and talks on the phone with
her bitter single friend who hates us.
You can read the rest of my story, and some other stories that are
much better than mine, at
The Cult of the One Eyed Catfat and stupid is no way to go through
life, son
fat and stupid is no way to go through
life, son
02/05/2005 09:02 PM
RIP, Dean Wormer PREVIEW: It's the War, Stupid
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Stupid Fun Club
Stupid Fun Club
06/04/2004 01:14 AMSoftware Development Magazine: Inside the Stupid
Fun Club.
Software Development Magazine wrote an article called "Inside the Stupid Fun Club" (registration
required).
The author, Alexandra Weber Morales, unexpectedly encountered the
Sad Robot, broken down and crying for help on the streets of
Oakland.
We were shooting a couple of hidden camera reality TV "One Minute Movies" for NBC: one of a Sad Robot torn
apart into pieces and pleading for help from passers by, and the other
of a Robot Waiter taking orders, serving food and bantering for
a tip in a barbecue restaurant.
I (Don Hopkins) developed the custom "robot brain" software
for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club, mostly in Python. It
involved writing lots of high level Python code and XML data, and
integrating all kinds of different software components together with
SWIG, C++, ActiveX, Java, IRC, HTTP and WiFi. The robot features
3D facial animation, speech synthesis and recognition,
conversational scripting, artificial intelligence, personality
simulation, telerobotic remote control via wireless
networking, with an interactive web interface for controling its
behavior in real time.
For another Stupid Fun Club project, I also used Python to
develop expressive synthetic speech authoring tools (audio speech
“phonoscoping”, like visual animation
“rotoscoping”), and talking toy simulations.
Python is ideally suited for brainstorming and prototyping new
product ideas, as well as developing custom
real-time robotic software for supporting creative
Stupid Fun Club projects like reality TV production.
Eventually, Alexandra Weber Morales tracked down the person
responsible, Will Wright, at his private production company, the Stupid Fun Club. She asked
Will about the Sad Robot:
[I've added my own comments
like this.
-Don]
Uh, OK. So, what kinds of reactions did people have to Sad
Robot?
Wright: A lot of people were talking directly to it. Most of
the women who were walking alone just sped up like they were spooked
by it. Most of the single men would stop and start stripping it for
parts, ignoring that the robot was talking to them. And it was mostly
the couples who would actually interact with it and try to help it.
Some would have long conversations, pushing the buttons.
We had a whole sort of troubleshooting thing, and we wanted to see
how far people would go to help it. It was sort of a Good Samaritan
experiment.
She also asked about the software we developed to control the
robot, simulate its personality, animate its face, and listen and talk
with people.
Have you heard of an AI knowledge base called Cyc?
Wright: For the conversational side of it, we’re
using something similar to Cyc—in fact, we were looking at Cyc.
There’s so many different layers. First of all, there’s the
voice recognition, which is getting much better but is still pretty
limited. Then, once you have the voice, you go into the conversation
engine, and then it’s doing something like Cyc or Alice or Eliza:
trying to give an appropriate response to what your input was. One of
the projects we’re working on here is this toy design where we
have these toys that converse with each other via infrared
text-to-speech.
There are all these different approaches to AI. Some of them are
more brute force, like Cyc. There’s also artificial life, an
attempt to evolve systems rather than build them from the ground
up.
Where’s this work being done?
Wright: The Santa Fe Institute is one place. There’s
genetic programming, or adaptive systems, to give computers a way to
learn and get feedback. That looks like a more promising approach.
Back in the ’60s, when computers were first being used in
business, everybody assumed we’d have artificial intelligence in
10 years. When 2001 came out, in 1967, and people came out of that
movie saying, “I can’t believe that a computer will be able
to play chess that well.” But they took the conversation with HAL
for granted. In fact, it was the opposite: Chess turned out to be the
easy part; natural conversation turned out to be the hard part. Within
20 years, we’re going to have machines like this that have full
autonomy and pretty good conversational ability. We could build a
stove that would have a long conversation with you. So the real
interesting question for me now is, what’s going to happen when
our world is surrounding us with intelligent machines? These are going
to be the first aliens we meet.
Describe the software running this
thing.
Wright: The conversational chatbot is Alice. It
takes input and you give it a dictionary to define what it knows
about.
[ALICE is written in
Java, so Python talks to it through an IRC server running on the
robot. We can connect to the same IRC channel over the wireless
network, watch the messages going between ALICE and the brain,
interject text to speak and think, switch moods, play facial
animations, tweak the personality, execute commands, etc. Later I
developed a more powerful web based "
Homunculus" interface, for operating the robot in real time,
with a web browser on a remote laptop or handheld.
-Don]
Winter: That’s connected to Microsoft speech
recognition, which is fantastic.
[I wouldn't go that far. It doesn't suck,
but "fantastic" is a stretch.
-Don]
Winter: And some simple AI, since Alice may or may not
understand what you’re talking about.
[In other words, Alice is like the mad old aunt with
Tourette's Syndrome you keep locked away in the attic. Alice is only
used as a backstop, when the Python/XML/AI layer of the robot
brain can't think of anything to say. But it's turned off when
we don't want the robot to seem insane.
-Don]
Winter: The most intelligent thing it ever did is we had an
opera singer in here singing to the robot, but the robot didn’t
like it. So she said, “maybe I should explain the story,”
and after the singer finished, the robot paraphrased the whole thing
back to her. It was about the most amazing thing we’d ever seen;
we all just about started believing in robots at that moment.
[What's really interesting is abusing the speech
recognizer, by putting the robot brain into a mode where it listens to
itself (and anyone else) talk! It's like the mutating
telephone gossip game, or the news media echo
chamber: The robot repeats what it thinks it heard itself
say, which it then mis-recognizes and distorts again and again, in a
feedback loop of quasi-coherent rhyming speech! Any words you
interject get mixed in and distorted in the speech
recognition/synthesis feedback loop. It naturally finds and converges
on extremely strange attractors in the recognizer's hidden markov
models of the English language, chanting and
mutating gramatically plausible but semantically ridiculous phrases,
in response to whatever it thinks it hears. When properly
configured, the robot can actually compose live performances of
original surrealistic beat robopoetry, responding to the audience
in real time! Stanislaw Lem calls that "Bitic
Literature".
-Don]
Winter: When we take these in public, it seems like the
people who are less technical savvy are the ones who interact with it,
whereas the people with technical backgrounds are standing there
reverse-engineering it.
Are you following what MIT has done with humanoid robots such as
Kismet?
Wright: There are lots of research labs around the country
building these types of robots, but they never take them out into the
public. We drive them into a laundromat or a restaurant and see what
the response is.
When we filmed Sad Robot, we also filmed a scene in a restaurant
with a robot waiter. It was interesting how many people totally bought
it. Usually within three or four minutes, they were completely normal
about it. People kind of expect that there will be robots in the
future; it’s just a matter of when.
[The Sad Robot: A pitiful broken down female robot
is crying for help, bent out of shape and fallen on its side with a
mangled tractor tread, next to a stinky garbage dumpster, begging
reluctant passers by to turn it upright, describe its condition, press
its big red reset button, adjust its controls, step away before it
explodes, and call a mysterious professor on their cell phone.
The Robot Waiter: An earnest robot
waiter, just trying to do its job taking orders, delivering food to
tables, telling jokes and bantering for tips, and collecting dirty
dishes. Afterwards submits itself to a Robot Waiter Performance
Evaluation Survey, and begs the human to give it good marks, otherwise
it might lose its job.
-Don]
Robot: If you could have any kind of robot, what would it
be? The goal is elimination of crime, combined with rehabilitation of
criminals … Yes, it seems very long to me, too.
What do you use for automated testing?
Wright: Our own suites. Most of our stuff is in C++, but
we have a proprietary visual scripting language I designed, called
Edith, for the behavioral code for the Sims. It’s totally geared
to AI and the Sims.
[The robot software is written in C++, Python and
XML. Edith is used to program simulated personalities, but
for simulated people instead of real robots. Edith
is the tool for programming The Sims, for scripting
the artificial intelligence of the characters and objects. The
Sims visual programming language itself is called SimAntics. Edith is
Maxis's official tool for programming SimAntics code, while
iffpencil2 is another third party SimAntics programming
tool, developed outside of Maxis.
-Don]
Winter: I think it’s time for the Christmas robot.
Wright: Are you running that … weapon? I don’t
know if we want to sit here. [A dancing snowman on a wheeled platform
with a circular saw mounted on its front bumper approaches a plastic
toy-store robot.]
Winter: No, you would die. You’d better take cover.
[The interview ends.]
The snowman quickly demolishes the toy, shooting debris throughout
the warehouse. With Winter’s encouragement, I spend 10 minutes in
a nonsensical conversation with the robot. He also shows me the
Minute Movie that have been made for NBC—and they’re
hilarious.
I leave this unconventional interview impressed with the way the
Stupid Fun Club has turned a fascination with robots and toys into a
lucrative and wholly entertaining enterprise. Meanwhile, the larger
concerns about the technical strengths, limitations and implications
of these semiautonomous machines go mostly unanswered. Wright and
Winter seem firmly on the side of presentation, and somewhat unwilling
to delve deeply into how their toys work—as if to say,
“Where’s the fun in asking all these questions? Just talk to
the robot.”
I'm certainly interested in delving deeply into how the
robot brain works myself, but not everyone else is. So I used Python
to develop a high-level XML based AI and wireless web remote
control system, which enables creative writers and designers like Will
Wright to script and control the robot behavior, and reconfigure it
for different scenarios, without needing to deal with Python, C++ or
the other software components that went into building it.
[
Don Hopkins' RadiOMatic
BlogUTron]
All the stupid people. Where do they all
come from?
All the stupid people. Where do they all
come from?
11/03/2003 11:13 AMOpinion Campaign to Re-Educate the Public
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