Flocking CGI orcs are too smart to stand and fight

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hobbits and wizards and orcs, oh my!

hobbits and wizards and orcs, oh my! 01/04/2004 08:21 PM
The Encyclopedia of Arda A reference guide to Tolkien-can't tell an orc from a Uruk-hai? Stumped at what the three kinds of hobbits are? This website has the answers. Nicely laid out site, too.

Students Still Flocking Toward
E-Commerce

Students Still Flocking Toward
E-Commerce 12/31/2003 07:20 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 31 2003 6:11PM ET

Viewers flocking to pay TV films

Viewers flocking to pay TV films 06/07/2004 09:16 AM
More than 100 million homes world-wide now buy on demand movies, says a technology report.

Open source, flocking UAVs for hobbyists

Open source, flocking UAVs for hobbyists 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
Autopilot is an open-source firmmare for autonomous model aircraft:

We're building a system for autonomous aerial vehicles for the hobbiest. The entire design and all software is available as Free Software, licensed under the GPL. The goal is to produce a do-it-yourself autopilot kit that anyone can build and fly.

Our initial target is 60 sized model helicopters and less than $500 in parts. So far we've been very successful -- one of our 2.2 boards has hovered a Concept 60 for several minutes at a time under attitude command from the safety pilot. It isn't totally autonomous yet, but the demonstration has proven that the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and Kalman filter approach work well.

Link (Thanks, Ernie!)

Tourists Flocking Back to Bridges, Dams
(AP)

Tourists Flocking Back to Bridges, Dams
(AP) 06/10/2004 03:25 AM
AP - Tourists are flocking back to the nation's engineering marvels — the dams, bridges and other structures that had seen increased security and lightened visitor traffic since September 2001 — despite the fact that they're still potential terrorist targets.

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children 04/09/2004 08:02 PM
If one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the quality and social standing of its teachers.

"The standard rap against us
armchair warriors is that we can't stand
the heat of real war, but poor Mary Ann
can't stand the heat of real armchairs."

"The standard rap against us
armchair warriors is that we can't stand
the heat of real war, but poor Mary Ann
can't stand the heat of real armchairs." 05/30/2004 10:18 PM
Read Mark Steyn Now .. rationalizations

telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/200 4/05/30/do3001.xml
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Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms. “Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to refer to modeled flight that is biologically inspired by the flight of flocking birds and swarming insects. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents 09/13/2004 12:34 PM
Smart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent” computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Once a week, createdigitalmusic's Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment, from essential to oddball. This week's computer audio control surface, invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the oddball end.

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone?

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone? 04/13/2004 08:56 PM
ZDNet Apr 14 2004 0:41AM GMT

In a world gone mad it’s hard to think
rightSo much violence hate and
spiteMurder going on all day and
nightDue time we fight the non-violent
fight

In a world gone mad it’s hard to think
rightSo much violence hate and
spiteMurder going on all day and
nightDue time we fight the non-violent
fight 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Beastie Boy’s lyrics .. lyrics .. Lyrics

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"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"

"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!" 06/19/2004 04:26 PM

""Why didn't you fight?" one Governing
Council member asked Hussein as their
meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward
the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked
his own question: "Would you fight
them?""

""Why didn't you fight?" one Governing
Council member asked Hussein as their
meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward
the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked
his own question: "Would you fight
them?"" 12/16/2003 08:48 PM

The stand

The stand 05/05/2004 11:19 AM
Cam ilo Mejia is the first US soldier serving in Iraq to run away and proclaim himself a conscientious objector. The Pentagon says another 600 people have done the same, and for the same reasons: they find this war immoral and illegal.

Stand-up guy

Stand-up guy 06/22/2004 12:32 PM

Get Up, Stand Up

Get Up, Stand Up 05/09/2004 12:18 AM
I was at a conference near Washington recently, attended by a sampling of geeks from across the intelligence community; every three-letter agency you’ve ever heard of plus lots of military and some law enforcement. They were talking about deploying computer applications and, one after another, described about how they would “stand up” the document repository or the search engine or the message router or whatever. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of people talking about working on a lot of application deployments, but this usage is new to me. I wonder if it’s a defense/intelligence thing, or something that’s out there in the corporate world too, these days? It works well in conversation, so I think it may spread.

Let Me Stand Next to your F.I.R.E.

Let Me Stand Next to your F.I.R.E. 01/03/2004 05:54 PM
Forensic and Incident Response Environment Bootable CD This is a nice discovery I found. All in one bootable " Forensic and Incident " Linux ....hum... I would not call it "Distro"... perhaps Tool? (box?)..... : Q: What tools are included? A: Far too many to list here. Some popular ones are: * Nessus, Nmap, whisker, hping2, hunt, fragrouter * Ethereal, Snort, tcpdump, ettercap, dsniff, airsnort * chkrootkit, F-Prot * tct, tctutils, Autopsy *...

So, where do we stand on this?

So, where do we stand on this? 04/27/2004 01:56 AM
there are other issues .. From the WaPo:

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41965-2004Apr25.html
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running to stand still

running to stand still 02/05/2005 09:48 PM

Sketch's vet told me that his lungs are clear, he's bright and active, and he's looking strong . . . but his kidney levels are still elevated from the lasix, and he isn't eating.

It really worries me that he's not eating, but I hope it's just because he's tired of being in the hospital, and he wants to come home and sleep on my his bed.

They told me that I should come down and visit him, because maybe he'll eat for me. Sketch has always been a stubborn cat, but he's extremely affectionate, and I'm hoping that when I get down there and give him some love, and tell him how excited we all are for him to come home, he'll perk up and chow down.

I'm scared. I don't like it that he's not eating.

Stand Alone journalism

Stand Alone journalism 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Standing room

Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to sell ads and subscriptions.

Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for "Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the San Franciso Free Press experiment, I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my own publication on the Web!

So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature, and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad (hey, here's an interview with Marc Canter! Here's a satirical take on the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).

What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo banner, giving away T-shirts.)

After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print. Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate has felt a little crowded).

Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into far better organized online networks to spread the word of their activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash. But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and, in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's undertaking.

When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.

So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless without being connected.

[Scott Rosenberg]

"America We Stand as One."

"America We Stand as One." 04/06/2005 08:59 PM

united we stand

united we stand 01/01/2004 07:26 PM
Check this out: In 1968, Richard Nixon won the White House. He did it in a shameful way--by dividing Americans...

Sun: A CEO's Last Stand

Sun: A CEO's Last Stand 07/19/2004 04:40 PM

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“Scott McNealy knows he made many mistakes. Is it too late to recover?”…

What Does 'PDC' Really Stand For?

What Does 'PDC' Really Stand For? 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
Check out what might just become the ultimate Microsoft Professional Developers Conference give-away.

Stand up and HOLLA!

Stand up and HOLLA! 04/25/2004 12:43 PM
Stand up and Holla! Sponsored by the Republican National Convention. Word, G.

Stand by Your Standards

Stand by Your Standards 01/22/2004 02:54 AM
Few deny that standards are crucial to software, but some distrust vendors' motives in pushing them.

How to Stand and Deliver

How to Stand and Deliver 08/30/2004 03:30 PM
good tips for speakers

Paisley to stand down as MEP

Paisley to stand down as MEP 01/19/2004 08:29 AM
DUP leader Ian Paisley is to stand down as a Member of the European Parliament in June, the BBC learns.

Eisner's Last Stand

Eisner's Last Stand 02/13/2004 10:47 AM
With Disney in play, the days may be numbered for its CEO.

""I can stand anything from politicians
except being taken for an idiot.""

""I can stand anything from politicians
except being taken for an idiot."" 11/03/2003 03:37 PM

Lapvantage stand now goes better with
PowerBooks

Lapvantage stand now goes better with
PowerBooks 05/18/2004 04:22 PM
The Plasticsmith Inc. has introduced a new Lapvantage laptop stand that is molded in grey to complement Apple's PowerBook line, according to the company. Black and white models of the height-adjustable laptop stand are already available. The Lapvantage stands are available for US$59.95. Silicone feet and cord clips are included; other accessories are also available.

Will the real conservatives please stand
up.

Will the real conservatives please stand
up. 08/22/2004 03:55 PM
Pa t Buchanan has realsed a new book called &q uot;Where the Right went Wrong" just in time for the Republican National Convention. The politics of war in the U.S. must make strange bedfellows if Pat Buchanan, Lou Rockwell and more recently Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska can have anything in common with Moveon.org and Common Dreams. What does it mean for such a notable Republican to publish an anti-war book and be this critical of President Bush? Will moderate Republicans stay at home, vote third party or even switch to John Kerry? A growing trend or blip on the radar? [More inside]

Sun Microsystems, a CEO's Last Stand?

Sun Microsystems, a CEO's Last Stand? 07/17/2004 09:43 AM

Microsoft rivals take the stand

Microsoft rivals take the stand 11/14/2003 09:08 AM
BBC Nov 14 2003 7:49AM ET

Kilroy-Silk will not stand as MP

Kilroy-Silk will not stand as MP 08/09/2004 02:10 AM
Robert Kilroy-Silk tells the BBC he will not stand for the UK Independence Party in the Hartlepool by-election.

America-We-Stand-As-One-Gate

America-We-Stand-As-One-Gate 04/13/2005 02:32 PM
Remember the video from Dennis Madalone - "America We Stand As One" first reported here? And then, of course, we were offered "America We Stand as One / F*CK Yeah!" mash-up video, frist reported here. Well, now the original artist has responded. Dennis has placed himself in the public spotlight. Does this not warrant some playful ridicule? Some might feel bad for Dennis, but others might say he has targeted himself...

Senate's Cellular Stand

Senate's Cellular Stand 09/24/2004 01:16 PM
U.S. Senate takes the cellular industry in hand.

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand?

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand? 05/19/2004 01:26 PM
With the slow rundown of Cometa's clock starting today, which companies remain standing?: I do have a little ego, and my article in Feb. 2001 in The New York Times was the first comprehensive piece written in a major publication about the nascent Wi-Fi hotspot industry. Several companies were striving to raise funds into the mouth of the dotcom collapse, which claimed bloated business plans or too early attempts to capitalize on a technology that only a small number of laptop users had access to. While researching the story in Dec. 2000, I spoke to the chief marketing officer of the Aerzone division of Softnet. Three days after I spoke to him, Softnet pulled the plug because they couldn't raise the funds to perform the build out that they'd contracted with airlines and airports to handle. The firms I interviewed for the article were Wayport, Surf and Sip, Global Digital Media, AirWave, SkyLink (not quoted), and MobileStar. Let's start in reverse order. What's clear from examining each of these firms is that execution and timing mattered as much in 2001 as they do today: controlling costs and building out a robust network in the right place can only go so far: users who pay are still required. MobileStar: While initially well funded, MobileStar had extremely high run rates. I's technical standards were top notch, but expensive, and expenses ran far ahead of any potential revenue. They went bankrupt late in 2001 and had their assets purchased by T-Mobile HotSpot. The company reportedly went through as much as $90 million in investment income while producing no more than a couple million in revenue. T-Mobile has continued to use its brand name and high-level partnerships to run what is generally considered to be an excellent network that's overprice for day use, but not far out of scale on their unlimited monthly plans with one-year commitment. Sky.Link Internet Plus: A promising Canadian firm with hotel and airports service, the company disappeared abruptly a few months after my article came out. It resurfaced briefly with fewer locations before taking a final plunge. Its history and disappearance are a mystery. AirWave: AirWave was a small San Francisco Bay Area set of hotspots in restaurants and coffeeshops that decided that the software they'd written to manage access points was a better product than the hotspot business. In 2002, they exited hotspots, spinning off their locations to...
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