Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10879
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Erik Stone kestone@socket.net
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:57:32 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: The Almost Complete Walker
Use bigger caps or resistors.
BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
>
> As you might have been following, i have been making a walker with the
> almost complete walker circuit. I got rid of those infernal MPJA worm gear
> motors and got some really really really nice display motors to do the job.
> the only problem is that the really really really nice display motors have a
> really really really high gear ratio. the walker does do anything except
> slightly wiggle. how can i lengthen the timing of the bicore to compensate?
> Thanks a ton!!!
>
> -"Sad cause my #$%&!! walker won't work in Illinois" or just Spencer
10880 Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:06:11 +1100 [alt-beam] Re: BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization "David Perry" okay i think we've learnt a lesson - don't let microsoft try to build an
artificial brain
Mircosoft Human 3000 walks down the street for a few seconds, has a fatal
system error and catches on fire.
All we have to do to create a reliable brain is not let microsoft at it and
pay the linux community to develop it :-)
Linux - crashed 0
Windows - crashed 500+
David
>Now consider Windows 95. Again, a complex system made up of many
>elements (modules, subroutines, etc). Again, the elements are connected
>in many ways, probably countable this time, if we really WANTED to.
>These connections are much better defined than the social ones in a
>business, or the neural connections in a brain.
>
>SO ... how is it that Windows still locks up due to "fatal errors"? How
>is it that programs running under Windows produce "illegal operation"
>errors and shut themselves down? This isn't a very complicated system,
>relatively speaking.
>
>How is it that so many, many companies run so badly? (WARNING: beware of
>the stock excuses offered by the management of those companies. None of
>the excuses stand up to close scrutiny.) You don't think most companies
>are badly run? What's one test of a well run company? Satisfied
>customers. What's another? Satisfied employees. How many businesses do
>you deal with that leave you completely satisfied with their
>performance? How many people do you know that are really satisfied with
>the company they work for? Does your reply extend to all the customers
>and employees of those businesses?
>
>The fact is, the large number of people at MicroSoft can't get its
>software to work with adequate reliability (you call having to push the
>reset button reliable?) Thousands of executives and managers cannot make
>their companies run effectively. So how on earth can we expect to build
>a reliable, effective equivalent of the brain (even a mouse's brain)?
>
>Aren't thought experiments fun :)
>
>Bruce
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