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FIRST Robotics Competition Announced 73

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @01:38AM from the harsh-mistress dept.

Z80xxc! writes "FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) has officially announced the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition. This competition, started by inventor Dean Kamen, encourages high-school students to design and build robots to compete with and against other FRC teams. The competition overview video is available from NASA. This year's competition is called 'Lunacy.' The game consists of a series of 135-second face-offs during which the student-designed robots must pick up 9-inch game balls and deposit them in trailers hitched to the opposing teams' robots. The game field is coated with regolith, a slick polymer material, and special wheels are used to create a low-traction interaction with the crater's surface. Together, these combine to simulate the one-sixth gravity on the surface of the moon. For any readers who are interested in participating, FRC teams can always use more adult mentors."

Open Source Victories of 2008 378

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 03, 2009 @11:30PM from the brief-look-back dept.

Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"

Comment Re:Important Questions to Ask (Score 2, Insightful) 1000

by KageMonkey on Thursday May 04, 2006 @10:31AM (#15262212) Attached to: Let's Settle This. Who Would Win?

I can tell you that you probably lost a lot of intelligent employees who actually understand the subject more than you. Since you chose the candidate based on your narrow idea of ninja, you are the one who missed out.

A Ninja is simply trained to handle various situations and scenarios -- even through non-combative means. From espionage, pretending to be the pirate ship's cook and poisoning food supply, to sneaking up onto a boat at sea at night and assassinating all the pirates on board, they don't even need to fight to win the battle.

Be it modern or antiquated pirates, they do not stand a chance against a trained non-mythical Ninja.

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