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Robots!
Sweet!
Microsoft Unveils Robotics Studio
The early release targets academic, hobbyist and commercial developers with a toolset for building applications that can run on a variety of robotics computing platforms.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday launched a technology preview of Robotics Studio, a Windows-based development environment for creating robotic applications.The early release targets academic, hobbyist and commercial developers with a toolset for building applications that can run on a variety of robotics computing platforms, the company said. Early partners include the LEGO Group.
“We’ve reached out to a broad range of leading robotics companies and academics early on in the development process and are thrilled with the positive response from the community,” Tandy Trower, general manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group, said in a statement.
The Microsoft site is located here.
On the other hand, some people are concerned with Robot Sex.
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A surprising question, coming from me…
Where is a good place to buy cookware? I’ve felt like getting back into that lately.
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Blinded by the white
After four long years, the Creative Plumbing website gets a long overdue makeover. I decided to concentrate on a simple black and white look. I’ll be adding portfolio items over the next few days.
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Soon you shall all see….
This week I’m going to post short summaries of all my book ideas and hold a vote for which one I should actually start, should anyone care. I have about five fleshed out ideas I’ve accumulated over the past ten years or so.
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Sweet!
The Silver Comet Trail is to be completed by next May. Thank you Coca Cola!
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Quick Sunday night round up
- Drones over Los Angeles
- Unusual, but proven business ideas
- Smart Traffic Systems, in Georgia no less.
- Photographing Urban Landscapes
- A poll of the Muslim countries, one thing that jumped out was
One of the more surprising findings in the poll was that solid majorities in Indonesia (65 percent), Turkey (59 percent), Egypt (59 percent) and Jordan (53 percent) said they do not believe the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States were carried out by groups of Arabs.
which is scary, scary stuff.
- MSNBC has a nice catch-all page on Islam in Europe.
- Wikipedia entry of the day: Charles Martel
- Wildcats in Buckhead
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Quotes of the moment
From the comments of a vitriolic post about an Israeli flag being waved at some soccer game
This is why the entire Arab world can barely make a good washing machine and we send people into space for fun.
And via Jane Galt (original post about second languages)
I’m a poor programmer whose solution to execution failures is type louder and more slowly.
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Interesting thought of the day
This post from Global Guerrillas leads to much thought. To wit:
As people connect outward onto this platform, they see both threat or promise. In response, they look inward for sources of strength to support them going forward, and in most cases find it wanting. Their states (and corporations) can’t or will not provide them that strength.
The result is an almost pandemic drive towards ethnic/religious identity — and — the increasingly muscular granular forces of clan, sect, gang, and tribe.
That leads to his linked articles of The Melted Map (a thought experiment about how a properly separated Middle East, while The Coming Anarchy chips in with The Real Central Asia.
Like most things, I’m reminded of Eric Hoffer. To paraphrase, changing times make misfits of us all, and those unable to adapt to new times will dream of a glorious past or a glorious future, but will forever resent the present.
All the articles are well worth reading.
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A record of sorts
10:23 PM makes for the latest I’ve ever been out riding. Yes, it’s quite dark.
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Cracker Soul
Saw Cracker at the Variety Playhouse last night in a very wonderful show. They only did two songs off Countrysides, but that’s my only complaint.