Rise of the Machines
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Rise of the Machines at Toyota
Rise of the Machines at Toyota
01/06/2005 03:21 PMForget low-cost labor. Toyota's testing no-cost labor in Japan.
Rise of the (sewing) machines
Rise of the (sewing) machines
09/22/2004 10:52 PMSympatico Sep 23 2004 2:48AM GMT
Next News: Rise of the machines
Next News: Rise of the machines
04/22/2004 02:41 PMUS News Apr 22 2004 7:11PM GMT
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
06/14/2004 03:33 AMIt appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important
than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled
out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting
machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling
machines. Perhaps that's because
electronic gambling
machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting
machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which
gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than
electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that
the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic
gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for
any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines.
Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to
make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had
convict
ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you
wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting
machines as well.
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
03/27/2005 05:50 AMZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
12/04/2003 01:10 PMSlashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET
Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo
Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo
12/19/2004 03:28 PMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Dec 15, 11:20 pm GMT
Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts
Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts
12/20/2003 09:51 AMCanadian Press Dec 20 2003 9:07AM ET
The rise and rise of embedded Linux
The rise and rise of embedded Linux
04/08/2005 11:52 AMZDNet Apr 8 2005 2:54PM GMT
Rise and rise of file-sharing
Rise and rise of file-sharing
03/29/2005 03:58 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Mon Mar 28, 03:48 pm GMT
The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators
The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators
12/06/2003 01:06 PMmaffstephens writes "Have you noticed how difficult it's become to
develop software? Not because software is more complex, but because
there seems to be an ...
Mean machines
Mean machines
07/29/2004 11:32 AMWith "I, Robot," Hollywood has returned to Asimov's three laws to keep
robots in their place. But what would it really take to stop robots
from hurting humans?
Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T
Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T
04/23/2004 09:52 PMGigex Apr 24 2004 1:41AM GMT
When machines breed
When machines breed
08/12/2004 09:23 AMEvolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the
job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it.
Segways May Become War Machines
Segways May Become War Machines
12/02/2003 06:32 AMA Pentagon program drafts inventor Dean Kamen's self-balancing
scooters, hoping to create an army of battlefield helpers capable of
transporting injured troops and hauling soldiers' gear.
Inferior machines
Inferior machines
11/12/2003 10:24 PM
Les
Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of
himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote
this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess
that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I
would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly
inferior machine.
Bah. In 1983, I was working on a
3033. (16 MB RAM, 4.7
MIPs).
Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a
Palm Pilot Tungsten W...
Speaking machines!
Speaking machines!
01/04/2004 01:14 PM A brief
history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and
sound samples!
Better Answering Machines
Better Answering Machines
12/05/2003 02:11 AMMy old faithful answering machine is a dinosaur and I had to re-record
my message on it this morning for...
How Many Google Machines, Really?
How Many Google Machines, Really?
05/02/2004 12:51 PMGetting Misty Over Old Machines
Getting Misty Over Old Machines
08/19/2004 03:21 PMYou ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just
can't throw away?
Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could
pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was
the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) broke the
$1,000 barrier.
I still remember the doors opening on Sunday mornings to a throng
people nearly drooling at the prospect of a system for $999. You used
to have to hold up the weekly flier, point to a package, and say,
"Everyone who wants this, go over there, and, " — pointing at a
different one — "everyone who wants this, come over here." It
was crazy.
Anyway, sometime during that job, someone returned a Compaq
Presario 4508 mini-tower, and I persuaded the inventory guy to let me
buy it as-is for $200. The box said it was 200 MHz, but BIOS told me
233. It had 24MB of RAM, but only 1MB of video memory, so I dropped
$20 on a used 4MB video card, taking up one of the two PCI slots in
the process. The hard drive was a monstrous 4.3GB.
That computer served me well for almost four years. I managed to
cram 48MB of memory in it — the most it would take (the case
design was so poor that adding memory was a 30-minute operation). It
ran Windows 95 for all those years until I got a new machine (a 1 GHz
Athlon, which I still use today) and I put Linux on it briefly. I
remember installing Office 2000, then having to uninstall it because
it was just too slow.
About three years ago, I passed the computer on to my
mother-in-law. She's one of those folks who does two things: surfs
the Web and sends email. In that capacity, the little machine has
worked great, until now.
I think it's finally started to die. The hard drive cycles
endlessly, and every once in a while it reboots to Safe Mode, a
phenomenon I can only attribute to some obscure bit of hardware going
to pieces so that it doesn't respond correctly on reboot. I have it
running Windows 98 SE, stripped down to virtually nothing. Everything
that can be removed has been, but it's still using 10MB more memory
than it has immediately after rebooting.
I'm going to start looking for another machine for my
mother-in-law, but I just can't bear to throw the old Presario away.
It's chugged along for seven years now, and enabled the sending and
receiving of countless baby pictures. I'm a little sentimental about
the old bird, and I think I'll just store it away in the basement for
a while in the hopes that my wife never finds it and sells it at a
garage sale one day.
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How many Google machines
How many Google machines
05/03/2004 02:23 AMGoogle's bajillion servers. Everywhere I've worked, they never have
enough servers. Apart from Time Out, I guess. They had enough. Oh yeah
.. How many systems does Google have? ..
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05/03/2004 09:24 AMRage Against the Machines
Rage Against the Machines
12/25/2004 04:45 PMSlashdot Dec 24 2004 7:37PM GMT
Sex Machines At Work
Sex Machines At Work
08/29/2004 03:57 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Online photo gallery with
portraits of garage-geek inventors of "sex machines" -- and the people
who use them -- shot by photographer Timothy Archibold. I hatehatehate
the site's 1.5MB gorilla Flash interface, and I hate that I can't copy
and paste some of the project notes for you here in text. But the
images and the subject matter they detail (online communities that
connect people who imagine, build, and use these machines) are
fascinating. At left: "Scott at his kitchen table, Sex Machines
Unlimited."
Link
(NSFW). (
Thanks, alfie)
Print on the old RISO machines
Print on the old RISO machines
04/15/2004 11:43 AMIf you are using an old RISOgraph with OS 9 because the company that
makes RISO claims that the old printers will not work with the new
drivers, don't upgrade to their new $30,000 printer just yet. Instead,
use the old RISO w...
Steamboy Rages Against Machines
Steamboy Rages Against Machines
03/22/2005 05:13 PMAnime legend Katsuhiro Otomo explores the corrupting power of science
in Steamboy, a sci-fi fable set in Victorian England. The ambitious
animated film is a gorgeous action movie, though ultimately
overwhelmed by its own machinery. By Jason Silverman.
en gets pwned by the god of virtual
machines
en gets pwned by the god of virtual
machines
12/18/2003 08:01 AM55 operating systems on a Powerbook ..
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Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection!
Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection!
07/29/2004 08:21 PMVending Machines of Japan
Vending Machines of Japan
04/30/2004 11:54 AM
Vending Machines
of Japan PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique
vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates
suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be
one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000
totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines
followed by machines with pornography
Legal Rights for Machines
Legal Rights for Machines
12/27/2004 03:29 PMA new LegalAffairs.org
article calls for discussion on the topic of granting
legal rights to machines. While this is old hat to science fiction
readers, real world lawyers are only begining to realize the problems
of
denying rights to intelligent machines that other intelligent
creatures have. The article describes a mock trial held last year by
the
International Bar Association in San Francisco in which the plaintiff,
BINA48, an
intelligent machine, asked for legal representation when it learned
that the corporation it was owned by had plans to shut it down. With
animal cruelty laws on the books protecting creatures much less
intelligent than itself, it reasoned that it should have the standing
to
argue for its rights in court. Typically for today's court system the
jury sided overwhelmingly with the plaintiff but the judge overruled
the
jury and set aside their verdict. A complete
transcript of the trial can be found online.
Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI?
Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI?
02/05/2005 09:44 PMAccording to a University of
Reading press release, Dr. James
Anderson of Reading's Department
of Computer Science has developed a new way to write computer
programs. Instead of code, he uses a geometrical structure that he
calls
a perspective simplex or Perspex. A Perspex exists in Perspex space
and,
it is claimed, can do anything a computer program written as
instructions of code can do. The developer alleges the Pespex
"provides one solution to the centuries-old problem of how mind
arises in physical bodies" and
"provides a model that is
accurate
enough for a robot to use to describe its own mind and body". Dr.
Anderson details his invention in "The Book of
Paragon" which provides a detailed
explanation of the Perspex Machine (PDF format). Meanwhile, the
University website has further information under the more mundane name
of
"New
Artificial Neuron" and includes the bizarre statement "In theory,
perspex neurons could process an infinitely long program and thereby
become omniscient, but, in practice, physical limitations force them
to
work only with finite programs".
am3 Anime Vending Machines
am3 Anime Vending Machines
07/08/2004 08:44 AM
Thanks to Tyler
and Mohammed and everybody else that sent in pictures of these am3
Anime Vending machines for the Advance Movie player. I'm fairly sure
that eh one of the left (the Pokemon-branded one) is the newer model,
while the one on the right is the older, less full-featured model that
has been out for a while. I love that in an all-digital machine,
they've somehow still found it necessary to incorporate a giant crank
dial on the front.
Look - am3?GBA [Watch.Impress]
Look - Product
Page
Related
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines
for Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
Japanese vending-machines
Japanese vending-machines
05/05/2004 12:52 PM
Great page with photos and notes on vending machines that can be found
in and around Tokyo.
Link
(
Thanks, Infospigot!)
"Vending Machines of Japan"
"Vending Machines of Japan"
05/06/2004 09:52 PMDistributed State Machines
Distributed State Machines
03/14/2005 05:06 PMState machines are a fundamental concept in computer science.
The
concept is simple: sequentially feed a series of inputs, in a
particular
order, to a black box in order to obtain a desired result. ...
Sexing Up Green Machines
Sexing Up Green Machines
11/04/2003 06:05 PMtechtv Nov 4 2003 5:31PM ET
China had first complex machines
China had first complex machines
06/10/2004 05:56 PMCraftsmen in ancient China were using complex machines to work
jewellery long before such devices are traditionally thought to have
been invented.
Machines of Loving Grace
Machines of Loving Grace
11/04/2003 12:06 PMMachines of Loving Grace, an early to mid 90s Industrial Rock group,
makes their appearance on the iTMS. First up is their last release...
Fla. vote machines flawed
Fla. vote machines flawed
06/14/2004 06:15 PMUSA Today Jun 14 2004 9:54PM GMT
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French remove junk food vending machines
French remove junk food vending machines
07/30/2004 03:54 PMRobot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software
Robot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software
03/14/2005 05:06 PMMany Robosapien owners are looking for a way to get more out of the
greatest consumer robot of the new millennium. The Robosapien Dance
Machine software, released as a free open source program on
SourceForge, is a powerful tool for creating your own videos, comedy
sketches, and complex performances with your favorite robot. [PRWEB
Mar 7, 2005]
'Remove' school vending machines
'Remove' school vending machines
04/22/2004 06:47 PMMachines selling crisps and fizzy drinks should be taken out of
schools, parents say.
Vending Machines Making Room for Health
(AP)
Vending Machines Making Room for Health
(AP)
08/07/2004 01:37 PMAP - The typical vending machine fare consists of chocolate bars and
potato chips, leaving few options for people seeking low-calorie or
low-salt snacks.
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines for
Game Boy Advance
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines for
Game Boy Advance
07/07/2004 12:46 PM
Japanese company am3 has set
up anime vending machines in 20 locations around the country in test
program to sell content for its moderately succesful 'Advance Movie'
peripheral for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Different from the Game Boy Advance Video
cartridges available here, the Advance Movie uses a rewriteable Smart
Media card, which consumers can fill up with movies that cost between
100 (~$1) and 400 yen(~$4), depending on their content (and presumably
length). So far all the titles are anime, but there's nothing stopping
other types of programs to be sold. In fact, am3 is already planning
to sell data for four other peripherals it sells; Advance Comic, for
manga viewing; Advance Picture, for images; Advance Music, for
durrrrr; and Advance Navi, for maps.
Why they can't just have one peripheral that does all those things,
I don't know. Oh, and if any of our Japanese readers can snap a pic of
the vending machines and send it to us, that'd be dandy.
Re
ad - GBA movie vending machine to hit Japan [Gamespot]
Related
Gutting the Pocket Cinema Player
for the Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
A Vending Machine for Voter Data
A Vending Machine for Voter Data
12/11/2003 06:15 AMAristotle International sells lists online containing personal facts
about voters to anybody who cares to plunk down the money. A Wired
News special report by Kim Zetter.
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of
Japanese Vending Machines
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of
Japanese Vending Machines
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04/25/2004 08:33 PMVirtual Vending Machine for Widgets
launches
Virtual Vending Machine for Widgets
launches
06/17/2005 03:04 PMThe Widget Machine was launched today, a new site dedicated to
Dashboard widgets -- mini applications featured in Mac OS X Tiger...
Game Boy Advance music vending machine
Game Boy Advance music vending machine
07/09/2004 05:19 AM
This beast is a music vending machine that sells tunes to play in your
Game Boy Advance movie player. Gizmodo notes the deliciously
superfluous giant mechanical dial on the front.
Link
McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans
McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans
11/13/2003 02:55 PMAlmost exactly a year ago we wrote about how
giant
vending machines were coming to the US. These were vending
machines the size of small shops, that could pick from over 200 items
to drop into your hand at your convenience - without having to deal
with (gasp!) a human checkout person. It turns out that many of these
machines were actually being run by McDonald's who has now decided
that
the US market just
isn't ready for giant vending machines, which are being shut down.
Perhaps there were complaints from teenaged kids who were scared that
the vending machines were going to take away their only hope for a
job.
DARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching
DARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching
02/01/2005 08:58 PMIf you want a chance at winning the two million dollar prize in the
DARPA Grand Challenge for robotic ground vehicles, you need to file an
application soon.
Vend Audit Controls Announces VendCheck
Pilot for Vending Machines in
Philadelphia Public Schools
Vend Audit Controls Announces VendCheck
Pilot for Vending Machines in
Philadelphia Public Schools
08/05/2004 03:40 AMVend Audit Controls Systems Now In Place In Three Major School
Districts [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]
Russian Grand Duke was too lazy to
labour (Reuters)
Russian Grand Duke was too lazy to
labour (Reuters)
05/20/2004 11:23 PMReuters - King George VI helped Vladimir Kirillovitch, exiled heir to
the Russian
throne, to find a factory job before World War Two, but he was not up
to the work, released
government files show.
Random Robot News
Random Robot News
01/05/2004 05:33 PMOver the last couple of weeks I've accumulated lots of robot news
that I haven't had time to post. To help get things rolling again, I
offer these two items. First
Phillip M. Torrone sent us
links to his photos of the Sony QRIO and AIBO robots.
Meanwhile, Ghassan
Abdallah sent this link to the ERobot CCMP Project, a student
effort to create a Linux-based robot controlled over wireless LAN
technology that includes audio, video, GPS, and other sensors.
The Grand Flying Robot Challenge
The Grand Flying Robot Challenge
07/23/2004 03:08 PMIf you're sitting around waiting for the X-Prize contestants to blast
into space looking for their millions of dollars, or the autonomous
vehicles of DARPA's grand challenge to figure out how to travel more
than 10 feet or so, there are always other similar "grand challenges"
going on. Apparently going on for four years now, the International
Aerial Robotics Competition was held yesterday to see if teams could
create a
robot that can "fly 3 miles, identify a building and enter
it in less than 15 minutes." Once again, however, no team
successfully finished the challenge. Each year, though, the prize
goes up another $10,000. So, while no one won the $40,000 this year,
next year the prize should be $50,000. Get to work.
Eye robot--start-up aims at bringing
vision to machines
Eye robot--start-up aims at bringing
vision to machines
08/09/2004 03:06 PMTechnology could let automatic doors size up situation before opening
or allow rearview mirrors to spot a drunk behind the wheel.
Mr. Machine toy robot TV commercial
Mr. Machine toy robot TV commercial
03/14/2005 05:28 PMMark Frauenfelder:
We've written about tyrannical toy inventor
Marvin Glass before. Here's a clip of a TV commercial of one of
his toys, a little robot toy called Mr Machine.
Marvin Glass was a workaholic toy
inventor. So much so, that he often did not spend enough time with his
wife. During an argument over Marvin's work habits, Mrs. Glass shouted
"You are always working, inventing! You are Mr. Machine!". And so a
great toy name and toy was invented by Marvin Glass.
LinkFree French film lands director grand
bill (Reuters)
Free French film lands director grand
bill (Reuters)
09/20/2004 08:38 AMReuters - French director Claude Lelouch says he is 150,000 euros
(102,000 pounds) out of pocket after footing the bill for an
evening of free screenings of his latest film.
Machine defends rampaging robot
Machine defends rampaging robot
06/17/2005 04:41 PMFoTW Insults
Reg hacks
French Bring Robot, Experts to Red Sea
Crash
French Bring Robot, Experts to Red Sea
Crash
01/04/2004 04:38 PMReuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 3:36PM ET
French Robot to Dive Red Sea for Crash
Black Box
French Robot to Dive Red Sea for Crash
Black Box
01/04/2004 06:57 PMReuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 6:42PM ET
Rise of the Machines
