RockedMan40 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I nominate Jim McLane to go.. (Score 1) 724

by RockedMan40 on Thursday March 06, 2008 @10:55AM (#22662902) Attached to: Will Mars be a One-way Trip?

Actually - add one more name to the /. list of those that would volunteer.

I don't care the fame part, because I would never be around to know it.
I don't care about the one-way ticket thing - hell *LIFE* is a one-way ticket!

So - If I get to pick my likely demise - growing old slobbering on myself and wearing diapers in a nursing home, OR:

A chance to go on a trip farther than anyone else ever has, see things that no one else has with their own eyes.

We all die eventually - the only difference is how we choose to face that fact.
Choice is pretty easy for me.

Python + Motion detection = Fweemote 30

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @04:01PM from the help-tom-cruise-find-future-crime dept.

jedie writes "After reading about different Wiimote hacks on Slashdot I decided to make a video with some demos of my motion-detection library. You can watch the video here. There's a link to the sourcecode (GPL) as well, but the demo is win32 only. It's basically a webcam and some software in python to track LEDs (preferrably IRs). In the demo video, you see the software (albeit badly because of the webcam's IR filter being removed) tracking two differently colored LEDs, so multiplayer is possible. The software can track multiple points easily, and when combined with IR-LEDs, it's easy to simulate one Wiimote (i.e. calculating the distance and angle between two IR-LEDs to determine where the remote is relative to the webcam). I want the code to get some publicity, because I don't have time to work on it (dissertation, blabla) but I don't want the code (however messy it is) to go to waste."

Submission + - Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse (eweek.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @02:39PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Frustrated at the FTC's blessing of the Google/Doubleclick merger, Microsoft is complaining to the EU. Its latest filings detail how the merger would give Google a stranglehold on the advertising industry. While these complaints aren't new, the diagram [PDF] Microsoft created gives you an interesting look at the sort of competition Microsoft fears from Google."

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