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| finally a sigh of relief. After a lot of work over the semester, my robotics team finally finished our robot. It plays basketball with ping-pong balls.. Shoots and targets on the fly as it's moving around the court to get more balls.
-Evan
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| It's been a while hasn't it? I've been swamped with school work and deadlines. I did however find this hilarious explanation of how a guided missile works. Check it out:
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this
because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from
where it isn't (Or where it isn't from where it is, depending on
which is the greater) it obtains a difference or deviation. The
inertial guidance system use deviations to generate corrective
commands to drive the missile from the position where it is to the
position where it isn't. The missile arrives at the position
where it wasn't, consequently the position where it was is now the
position where it isn't. In the event that the position where it
is now is not the same as the position where it originally wasn't
the system has acquired a variation, (variations are caused by
external factors and the discussion of these factors is not
considered to be within the scope of this report) the variation
being the difference between where the missile is and where the
missile wasn't. If the variation is considered to be a
significant factor it too may be corrected by the inertial
guidance system. Moreover, the missile must now know where it
was also. The "Thought Process" of the missile is as follows:
Because a variation has modified some of the information which the
missile had obtained, it is not sure where it is. However, it is
sure where it isn't and it knows where it was. It now subtracts
where it should be from where it wasn't (or vice versa) and by
differentiating this from the algebraic difference between where
it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the
difference between it's deviation and it's variation, this
difference being called the Error."
ROFL.
They also made a ytmnd for it. It can be found here: http://tomahawk.ytmnd.com/
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| I just realized i don't have a single friday class... how much ass does that kick? eh?
-Chaz
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| I really don't know what i expected out of microsoft, but i installed Vista a few days ago to give it a try for them. It is the most bloated operating system that i've ever seen. I will be clinging to 2000 and XP for as long as i can. Beta testing for Vista is open to the public and i suggest you go try it out just for laughs, but be warned: if Vista detects XP on your system, even on another drive from the one you're installing on, it will irradicate it.
Just for starters, with nothing but the base background apps running, Vista uses 600 Mb's of memory. This is significantly more than my Gentoo install which used 18 mb's of memory with nothing running. They've completely changed the order and names of all the navigational windows: not the function really, just the names in order to annoy people that were familiar with XP.
And IE7 blows even harder than any of it's predecessors. Within 2 days of installing Vista, IE has pop ups that open a new window every 15 seconds. The punchline to that is that i haven't even used IE for anything yet. And these pop ups occur constantly, even when i can't open a single program without Vista asking me to authorize this program to run. IE seems to run fine on it's own.
Vista is a lawsuit waiting to happen as well.they stole the user environment from Mac and combined it with the permissions heirarchy from KDE and combined it into the shittiest operating system i've ever seen. Now i've just got to get XP working again from Vista nuking it.
There, now i feel better.
-Evan
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| Wow, and i didn't think a 2.7 GPA was that bad considering how hard i try....until i got this e-mail from a research job i applied for.
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Evan,
Thank you for your interest in this position. Unfortunately, we only
hire students with much hire GPAs.
Thanks again,
Georgios
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Wow, what an asshole.
-Evan | | |
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