* You will have access to cheap Canadian drugs if you live in Canada.
* States whose names contain vowels will be allowed to opt out of the plan.
* You get to choose which doctor you cannot afford to see.
* You will not have to be pre-certified to qualify for cremation.
* A patient will be considered "pre-existing" if he or she already exists.
* You'll be free to choose between medications and heating fuel.
* Patients can access quality health care if they can prove their name is "Lieberman."

jqGrid doesn't have very good documentation. You have to get everything from the demos, but the actual demo files are hidden in ajax code. This file is the data file used to build the demo navigation menu on the left. It has the name of the individual demo .html files along with the visible text. There is a corresponding .js file for each demo. All the files are in the http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/ directory.

Example:
http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/searching.html
http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/searching.js

Pulling your hair out because of errors like so: "ERROR 1248 (42000): Every derived table must have its own alias" ?

If you have several complicated unioned queries that you want to use in a sub query try encapsulating them like so:

SELECT col1,col2,col3 FROM
(

SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT col1,col2,col3 FROM myTable WHERE ... etc.
) AS DerivedTable1

UNION

SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT col1,col2,col3 FROM myTable WHERE ... etc.
) AS DerivedTable2

) AS MainTable GROUP BY... HAVING... ORDER BY... LIMIT... etc.

This method of aliasing will add years to your life by providing the unique distinction required of derived tables in sub queries without having to spend a bunch of time trying to alias every table and field while continuing to get "derived table" errors. Thanks goes to David Fells for helping me keep some of my hair over this one!

Have fun.

ITC.TN-RobertLaughlin-2008.10.29.mp3
4313 Stephanie Hannon - Why Should Y.mp3
4311 David Ewing Duncan - Evolution.mp3
4302 Larry Downes - The Laws of Disr.mp3
4288 Richard Whitt - Tinkering witho.mp3
4310 Ken Auletta - Googled_The End o.mp3

... I have decided to just post my nuggets that I have taken away from Robert B. Laughlin's The Crime of Reason.

...

Most entertainment is the celebration of disposable knowledge. In fact, when we are relaxing we avoid useful information. This is why some people do not like my Facebook posts and Twitter updates. They are on these technologies to relax and I am confronting them with potential useful information. (Sorry, but I do not plan to stop. Just unfriend or unfollow me, I am really OK with it.) Let me quote from the book, "Soap operas are enjoyable because their intellectual maintenance costs are low."

All advertising is information you do not want to see. "Advertising is Fun's evil twin brother. The two go everywhere together." If you want to enjoy yourself from free you have to accept advertising.

...in their use of the commons, the Itza' break free of the textbook ‘resource exploitation' frame by means of one of the fundamental orientations of human cognition: the tendency to believe in supernatural entities. (See Atran's 2002 book In Gods we Trust.) Atran and Medin show that the Itza' do not treat forest resources as mere ‘objects of a payoff matrix' (as perhaps some of their neighbours do), but rather ‘as intentional, relational entities, like friends or enemies'. For the Itza', the spirits of the forest have supernatural powers of knowledge. Villagers believe that if they fail to respect the kind of reciprocal relationship with these spirits that would be expected of any human social relationship, they risk being punished. These beliefs are reflected in behaviour patterns that turn out to be the most sustainable of these three neighbouring ethnic groups.

 * http://twit.tv/floss97 about http://exist.sourceforge.net/ 
   * example: http://history.state.gov/
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4301.html
   * http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Web-Applications-Establishing/dp/0596518757/
   * interview with Jon Udell
   * at ~22:30 - Jon: ~"an application" can be accomplished by a convention
   * noticings (Flickr game) - Activity Stream - Oauth - OpenID
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4289.html
   * panel discussion of spectrum: cognitive radio, FCC, policy, lots of complicated stuff
                  

DITA also recognized ... that a small topic-specific DTD is easier to use and to validate than a big generic document-oriented DTD like DocBook. But the problem ... is, how do you manage the relationship between the DTDs, and how do you add a new DTD without having to rewrite your whole tool chain?

... First, it uses a simple mapping mechanism to create a new DTD as a "specialization" of an existing DTD. Second, it uses a trick based on the way XSLT works to enable a transform written for the base DTD to also work for the specialized DTD, and to allow you to write a transform for the specific properties of the new DTD that inherits transforms written for the old DTD without change.

DITA thus limits you in two ways. First, the relationship between new DTDs and existing DTDs can only be expressed by a very simple mapping mechanism. ... Also, existing XSLT transforms cannot be incorporated into the DITA tool chain; they have to be specifically written for DITA.

                                     MARY
                         Murr, have you noticed anything funny 
                         with the teletype machine this 
                         morning? I sure hope there's something 
                         wrong with it.

                                     MURRAY
                         Why?

                                     MARY
                         Because if there isn't President 
                         Ford just held up a liquor store 
                         with a water pistol.

Document-centric XML is simply a deep challenge that will take more time (and probably more of a commercial incentive) to tackle. For the time being, structured authoring managed the XML way is still implemented mainly by very large organizations: such an approach has “trickled down” from organizations the size of IBM to organizations the size of Adobe (which does, in fact, use DITA now), but there are not tool chains yet available that will bring it down much further. The failure of the W3C XML Schema Working Group to provide a functional specification supporting document-centric XML can hardly be underestimated.

As long as content is not easily authored in a semantically rich, structured fashion, the vision of the semantic web will remain an illusion. When and if document-centric XML gets more attention from standards bodies and software vendors, human communications will become far more efficient and effective.

According to that discussion, the player is based on the STB225 set-top box platform designed by NXP. At the center is a chip called the Nexperia Multi Format Source decoder PNX8935, which combines a 32-bit MIPS processor and a dedicated video decoder supporting multiple codecs, including H.264. The reference STB225 boards have SATA and USB capabilities. The Wi-Fi daughtercard in the Roku box uses up the USB header, but there are several other headers that have yet to be identified. Roku engineers say that the box uses HDCP on the HDMI connection, which might limit its hackability.

On the software side, Roku has released the source code to all of the free software used inside the box, including the Linux environment and bootloader.

The first thing I did was create a "gvoice.py" module with several helpful classes. These allow you to:

1. Log in
2. Gather all Google Contacts into separate groups
3. Selectively narrow down the contacts in a group
4. Gather the phone numbers that you have entered
5. Send SMS messages
6. Place Calls

I am by no means a seasoned Python developer, but what I have created works well for my purposes. I tried to make the classes as loosely coupled with the UI as possible in case I want to put a GUI around it sometime, but for now I am doing everything at the command line (which I often prefer).

Energy expert Paul Scheckel and Kevin discussed ways to monitor energy usage around the house. The whole-house electrical monitoring system that uses the internet to provide a "dashboard" showing electrical usage is manufactured by: eMonitor by PowerHouse Dynamics
617-454-1011

I decided to re-engineer it from the ground up. JPolite V2 is then a complete re-design from the ground up with nothing from V1 except for the look & feel. The code structure is much clearer which makes it easier for customization, as well as integration with other jQuery plugins.

A new feature that is now being tested with JPolite is called XDO (XML Data Object), which currently supports JSON objects only. The whole idea is based on some discussion around “Thin Server Architecture” and REST architecture style, that a browser client first construct the foundation of a web app with STATIC content (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) from a web server, and then exchange only DATA (XML, JSON, TXT) with the application server, which relieves the server from the burden of generating HTML markup. This feature is still experimental with lots enhancements expected.

...possible to glean certain patterns, and one that recurred as regularly as an urban legend was the one about how someone would move into a commune populated by sandal-wearing, peace-sign flashing flower children, and eventually discover that, underneath this facade, the guys who ran it were actually control freaks; and that, as living in a commune, where much lip service was paid to ideals of peace, love and harmony, had deprived them of normal, socially approved outlets for their control-freakdom, it tended to come out in other, invariably more sinister, ways.

Applying this to the case of Apple Computer will be left as an exercise for the reader, and not a very difficult exercise.

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml
and
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

Magnetism:
Electromagnetism:
An electric motor in 10 minutes
Fun with High Voltage
A 10 minute railgun
A 30 second motor
Listening to magnetism
Electrochemistry:
A plastic hydrogen bomb
Building your own solar battery
Building a Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Homemade Batteries
Collecting Chemical Elements
Radio:
A quick and simple radio
Building a radio in 10 minutes
Build a portable crystal radio
A radio out of household items
A simple AM transmitter
The Three-Penny Radio
Thermodynamics:
Aerodynamics:
A Bernoulli levitation ball
A Homemade Vacuum Pump
A Classic Propellor Toy
Light and optics:
Simple laser communicator
Make a solar hotdog cooker
A solar powered marshmallow roaster
Biology:
Extracting DNA in your kitchen
Mathematics:
Kaleidocycles
A Geodesic Dome
A Homemade Microgram Balance
Computers and Electronics:
A Computer Controlled Transmitter
A Free Space Laser Data Transmitter
Fun With Solderless Breadboards
A Simple 1 Watt Amplifier

# Server program

from socket import *

# Set the socket parameters
host = "localhost"
port = 21567
buf = 1024
addr = (host,port)

# Create socket and bind to address
UDPSock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)
UDPSock.bind(addr)

# Receive messages
while 1:
	data,addr = UDPSock.recvfrom(buf)
	if not data:
		print "Client has exited!"
		break
	else:
		print "nReceived message '", data,"'"

# Close socket
UDPSock.close()

# Client program

from socket import *

# Set the socket parameters
host = "localhost"
port = 21567
buf = 1024
addr = (host,port)

# Create socket
UDPSock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)

def_msg = "===Enter message to send to server===";
print "n",def_msg

# Send messages
while (1):
	data = raw_input('>> ')
	if not data:
		break
	else:
		if(UDPSock.sendto(data,addr)):
			print "Sending message '",data,"'....."

# Close socket
UDPSock.close()

Free Serial Port Monitor allows you to intercept, display and analyze all data exchanged between the Windows application and the serial device. It can be successfully used in application development, device driver or serial hardware development and offers the powerful platform for effective coding, testing and optimization.

• via http://delicious.com/url/248ad3827d03107181bfd0b380dbe945 The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
• Why "Jump" by Van Halen is the greatest record ever made
• http://twitter.com/charlesfrith/

Mitokine Bioscience was founded in Down East Maine in 2006 to develop a critical new treatment for diabetes. This year - 2009 - Mitokine’s treatment will be tested at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in companion dogs that are insulin dependent, a natural diabetes model. A larger canine study to meet requirements for FDA approval for a veterinary pharmaceutical product will follow. In the mean time, research at Mitokine continues to develop a similar treatment for human diabetes.

SD (software-defined) radio receivers use a bare minimum of hardware, relying instead on their software capabilities. This SDR project demonstrates what’s achievable, in this case a multi-purpose receiver covering all bands from 150 kHz to 30 MHz. It’s been optimised for receiving DRM and AM broadcasts but is also suitable for listening in to the world of amateur transmissions.

www.nti-online.de/diraboxsdr.htm
www.sdradio.org
sourceforge.net/projects/drm
www.g8jcf.dyndns.org

• OpenBTS is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
• The GSM Software Project: We want to bring together all the folks that are interested in building a gsm receiver.

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    * Google Mobile
    * Google pdafriendly
    * del.icio.us/mshook/
    * del.icio.us/html/mshook/
    * del.icio.us/popular/
    * del.icio.us/url
    * Wikipedia Search

 * A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
 * More Python and C# idioms: Finding the difference between two lists
 * To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start
 * Restructuring expert attention to revive the lost 
   art of personal customer service
 * Allman Brothers, Oct 14: Huntington or Nashville? 
   A parable about syndication and provenance.
 * Talking with Daniel Debow about using Rypple 
   to open the Johari Window
 * More visualization of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase

• Why REST Failed - "ERH complaining (rightfully) that browsers (and web presentation specs) should support PUT and DELETE out-of-the-box. I couldn't agree more. And yes, the title is unnecessarily inflammatory." | http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/
• Carrot Vs Orange discusses the benefits, drawbacks, and arguments for or against Pie Api approaches "HTTP using GET/POST to a single URI" (Carrot) vs. "HTTP using the REST Architectural Style" (Orange or simply REST). http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/CarrotVsOrangeDiscuss

Try a Story Idea Prompt
So if you are stuck for ideas, here are some prompts:

    * What was your favorite childhood pet?
    * Where was your most memorable vacation?
    * What topic most inspired you in grade school?
    * Where is a place in the world you'd like to visit?
    * What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
    * Who was an influential authority in your subject discipline?
    * Or just describe a collection of things such as
          o Five attributes of a great writer
          o The top technology gadgets of the future
          o Most important discoveries in your field
          o Favorite cars, vegetables, flowers, tools
          o Collection of things that don't belong

• http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/now/betsey.htm
• I like it because:
• It includes a trip to a worlds fair by train, including hitching a ride
• I know it's 1876
• The principals are like some wonderful women I know
• Reference to Maine's marine/trade heritage
• Spoiler alert:
• Betsy gets a bit of cash from a vistor. She sallies forth, walking to the station but before she get there she hitches a ride on a frieght. At the Philadelphia Centennial she befriends everyone, buys gifts for here friends and comes home.
• This looks like a great site for all things Sarah Orne Jewett

• via Marine Technology Reporter September 2009
• http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/large-wind
• pdafriendly

From virtually nothing in 2000, the industry today can boast 1.5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity, of which 334 MW – more than one fifth – was installed in 2008 alone, see Figure 1, (below). An additional 1.5 GW is currently under construction, and Douglas-Westwood forecasts more than 5 GW will be in the water by 2012.

• pdafriendly
• So far as I can tell, no one has looked in to the same person having different beliefs at different times and in different contexts. That is my own experience. Christian scripture at least acknowledges this cf John 20:27-29
• Dileep George and Jeff Hawkins' Hierarchical Temporal Memory model provides a hard AI implementation rooted in the neural circuitry of the neocortex that demonstrates how beliefs are affected by context and change through time.

   Each layer offers its services in the form of primitives.  Four
   classes of primitives are defined as shown in Figure 1.  Request is
   issued by the layer that wants to get the services or the information
   from another layer, and Confirm is the acknowledgment of the request.
   Indication is the notification of the information to the layer that
   requested the service, and Response is the acknowledgment of the
   indication.

   -------------------------   -----------------------------
             Request                       Response
               ||      /             /      ||
   Layer N     ||      ||             ||      ||
   ------------||------||---   -------||------||------------
               ||      ||             ||      ||
               /      ||             ||      /
   Layer N-m        Confirm       Indication
   -------------------------   -----------------------------

                Figure 1: Interaction Model between Layers

/*send the packet*/
send_result = sendto(s, buffer, ETH_FRAME_LEN, 0, 
	      (struct sockaddr*)&socket_address, sizeof(socket_address));
if (send_result == -1) { errorhandling... }

Example 1.6. Receive a RAW ethernet frame

void* buffer = (void*)malloc(ETH_FRAME_LEN); /*Buffer for ethernet frame*/
int length = 0; /*length of the received frame*/ 
...
length = recvfrom(s, buffer, ETH_FRAME_LEN, 0, NULL, NULL);
if (length == -1) { errorhandling .... }

The use cases are plentiful for businesses:

    * Update Google Sites from 3rd party applications – e.g. your sales
team's Google Sites pages can update automatically when new leads are 
added to your CRM system.
    * Migrate files and content from workspace applications like 
Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Google Sites.
    * Export Google Sites pages, edit them offline, and re-import the 
updated content.
    * Export your sites, including every page revision, for backup.
    * Easily monitor changes across your important internal and public 
sites, all from a single gadget.
    * Push new content like changes to employee policies or a new 
corporate logo to any site on your domain, even sites created by 
individual employees.

• via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• How could Jeff Hawkins Hierarchical Temporal Memory be used to make sense of this data? http://www.numenta.com/

The theoretical setting of hierarchical Bayesian inference is gaining acceptance as a framework for understanding cortical computation. In this paper, we describe how Bayesian belief propagation in a spatio-temporal hierarchical model, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), can lead to a mathematical model for cortical circuits. An HTM node is abstracted using a coincidence detector and a mixture of Markov chains. Bayesian belief propagation equations for such an HTM node define a set of functional constraints for a neuronal implementation. Anatomical data provide a contrasting set of organizational constraints. The combination of these two constraints suggests a theoretically derived interpretation for many anatomical and physiological features and predicts several others. ...

Citation: George D, Hawkins J (2009) Towards a Mathematical Theory of Cortical Micro-circuits. PLoS Comput Biol 5(10): e1000532. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000532

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):  (learn more)
restart protection, space sextant, digital autopilot, landing radar, 
program alarms, rendezvous radar, reaction thrusters, scanning telescope, 
braking phase, inertial platform, descent engine, human spaceflight, 
powered descent, erasable memory, pilot opinion, gimbal lock, 
descent stage, abort button, flying qualities, guidance computer
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Neil Armstrong, North American, World War, Age of Systems, 
Chris Kraft, David Scott, Jack Garman, Space Task Group, Michael Collins, 
Scott Crossfield, Robert Chilton, Project Apollo, Edwards Air Force Base, 
Joe Shea, Aaron Cohen, Alan Shepard, Don Eyles, Draper Laboratories, 
Floyd Bennett, Eldon Hall, Charlie Duke, Mission Control, Deke Slayton, 
United States, Mercury Seven

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via http://librivox.org/the-turn-of-the-screw-by-henry-james/

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Most custom steel rule dies are likely to run easily in the $50 to $100 range. Larger and more complex dies than the heart example below easily run several hundred dollars for a 1 up die. Actually cutting your project will range also in the $50 to $150 range per batch up to 1,000 units. There may also be additional design fees or prototyping fees required depending on the project. If that hasn't scared you off, you are ready to investigate a custom job involving a custom steel rule die.

We highly recommend you investigate your local craft store or scrapbooking club to see if they have some of the hobby die cutting tools that might meet your needs.

* is Unix

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

October 7, 2009

    *  The Mottos Say It All
    * The Learning Curve and The Community
    * What JavaScript Is Good For
          o More Than Just The DOM
          o Inheritance with JavaScript
          o Self Reference
    * MooTools Makes JavaScript Itself More Fun
    * jQuery Makes the DOM More Fun
    * Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
    * MooTools Let's You Have It Your Way
    * Chaining as a Design Pattern
    * Reusing Code with jQuery
    * Reusing Code with MooTools
          o MooTools and Inheritance
          o Extending and Implementing Classes
    * Decision Time
    * Discussion

Generally useful Zigbee & 802.15.4 FAQ; slightly out of date (still mentions KVP) | http://www.meshnetics.com/zigbee-faq/

What is ZigBee?
What is IEEE 802.15.4?
How is ZigBee different from other wireless standards (e.g. Bluetooth)?
What are the real-life applications of ZigBee?
How reliable is the data delivery?
How long is the battery life?
What are the cost considerations for ZigBee implementation?
How long is the Transmission Range?
How high is the Data Rate?
What is the Data Latency for ZigBee Networks?
How large/small a ZigBee Network can be?
How is the Data Security provided?
What is ZigBee Stack?
What Subunits can be on a Node?
What is called ZigBee Application?
What are the ZigBee Device Descriptors?
What is ZigBee Device Profile?
What is ZigBee Stack Profile?
What are the ZigBee Device Objects?
How does a Device/Service Discovery process work?
What are the Clusters, ZigBee Binding and Binding Table?
How is Addressing and Messaging done in a ZigBee network?
What types of ZigBee Devices exist in a network?
What Topologies are supported by ZigBee?
What is ZigBee network Gateway?

by mshook 2009-10-06 09:42 zigbee · radio · wsn · faq · useful · pdafriendly · 802.15.4 · xbee · avr · arduino · architecture

http://www.meshnetics.com/zigbee-faq/ - cached - mail it - history

10 year history of virtualization | http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/10-years-of-virtual-machine-performance-semi-demystified

There are many opinions in the air about the impact that virtualization has on performance, so I thought a short blog would be good to explain (as best I can) virtual machine performance characteristics with pointers to relevant benchmarks and technical papers.

My background is that I was an early Product Manager working on VMware ESX Server (from version 1.5) and among other things ran product management for VMware for a few years. As a product management guy, I kept track of the output of the engineering performance group, and as a result had a reasonable high level (although never code level) understanding of the whys and wherefores of virtualization performance. Although I’m not as fresh on virtualization as I once was, I’ll try to do my best here. I also want to thank Steve Herrod at VMware, and Simon Crosby at Citrix for providing a technical sanity check on the blog contents, although I retain responsibility for any mistakes and oversights.

by mshook 2009-10-06 09:20 virtualization · history · virtual · machine · viapopular · comparison · performance

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/10-years-of-virtual-machine-performance-semi-demystified/ - cached - mail it - history

On a scale of 0-10, your ranking is Level 3: Stupidly unaware of my social climbing and hyping possibilities.. | http://tinyurl.

via http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/This_WEEK_in_GOOGLE_5

Personal Hype Quotient for:

Michael Shook

On a scale of 0-10, your ranking is
Level 3: Stupidly unaware of my social climbing and hyping possibilities..

How we did it:

We took your follower count which is 49,
along with your last 422 tweets:
Where you hyped in 4 of them,
you re-tweeted in 0 of them
and you self-linked in 0 of them.

---

We munged all these together in our secret algorithm to come up with a level 3 score.

by mshook 2009-10-05 23:10 twitter · api · via · twit · gae · rank · hype · app · example

http://personalhypequotient.appspot.com/3 - cached - mail it - history

I know Bob. The book should be good: Do You Know What I Mean?—Discovering Your Personal Communication Style | http://communicati

Bob Keteyian has been counseling through the communication styles lens, focusing on the natural language of the client. This approach relies on the inherent processing abilities of each individual and is naturally validating. Each of us is unique and therefore has a unique communication style, which is related to our learning style.

Learning styles theory is at the base of the communication styles approach. The fundamental question Bob asked many years ago was this: How are learning styles reflected in interpersonal communication? Thinking in words, images, or feelings reflects some of the common, inherent differences that drive individual communication styles. It also helps explain the confusion and communication breakdowns that so readily occur. When you solve the communication style conflicts in relationships, you increase collaboration and give clearer definition to other personal and relational issues.

by mshook 2009-10-05 10:54 bob · friend · local · maine · communication · book · interpersonal · relationship · interesting

http://communicationstyles.us/ - cached - mail it - history

Bike Monkey Magazine | http://www.bikemonkey.net/

Josh Snead, originally from Maine.

Bike Monkey Magazine is a new niche cycling organization that publishes a quarterly magazine ... We produce ... cycling events including mountain bike, road bike, and cyclocross races that stretch to support the hard work that our local non-profit cycling advocacy organizations put into making cycling easier and more accessible to everyone.

by mshook 2009-10-04 22:56 bicycle · swcycle · magazine · maine · race · culture · activism · eben

http://www.bikemonkey.net/ - cached - mail it - history

Arduino autopilot (ArduPilot) theory of operation reference | http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Theory_of_Operation

• via http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddjmqgw3_43gm6gvggf
• http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=pid+kalman&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=7d15299a959dbb33

Roll Rate

float cmd = throttle_dep_pgain * ( err + h_ctl_roll_rate_igain * roll_rate_sum_err / H_CTL_ROLL_RATE_SUM_NB_SAMPLES + h_ctl_roll_rate_dgain * d_err);

Note that the roll Pgain is variable with throttle and multiplies through the entire equation affecting the I and D terms as well for ease of tuning.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/outloud http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/comment

• Rational Irrationality - The real reason that capitalism is so crash prone by John Cassidy - The New Yorker - October 6, 2009
• Steven Strogatz on sync - TED Talk - See also Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.

How do I add an available load to the load board?

Proceed to the "Add a Load" page from the "My Account" dropdown menu, fill out all relevant fields, and click "Add Load" at the bottom of the page.

How do I add an available Truck to the load board?

Proceed to the "Add a Truck" page from the "My Account" dropdown menu, fill out all relevant fields, and click "Add Truck" at the bottom of the page

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

An I thought the Fiddler name was a metaphor for the bow going back an forth like HTTP messages.

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(require moby/stub/world)

(define WIDTH 320)
(define HEIGHT 480)

(define (render w)
  (place-image 
   (text "Hello World" 10 "Black")
   20
   20
   (empty-scene WIDTH HEIGHT)))

(big-bang WIDTH HEIGHT 10 0)
(on-redraw render)

After a few minutes of poking around, I was able to compile this to Java and then run it on the Android Emulator:

(defprocess root (fuzziness)
 (defvariable blobs #’union)
 (always
  (when (eq (read-sensor ’image) ’black)
   (subprocess (measure-blob) :gradient fuzziness)
   (setf blobs
    (list (get-from-sub (measure-blob) blob)))))
 (avoid
  (read-sensor ’query)
  (let ((q (first (read-sensor ’query))))
   (cond
    ((eq q ’blobs)
     (actuate ’response (regional blobs)))
    ((eq q ’area)
     (actuate ’response
      (fold #’+ (mapcar #’second
       (regional blobs)))))))))
(defprocess measure-blob ()
 (defvariable uid #’max :atomic :base 0 :init (random 1))
 (defvariable area #’sum :reduction :base 0 :init 1)
 (defvariable blob :local)
 (always
  (setf blob (list uid area))))

Code to find a set of fuzzy blobs and their areas in a binary image. Each contiguous black area of the image runs a connected measure-blob pro- cess that names it and calculates its area. The set of blobs is collected by the root process and made accessible to the user on the response actuator...

OneFileCMS is just that. It's a flat, light, one file CMS (Content Management System) entirely contained in an easy-to-implement, highly customizable, database-less PHP script.

Coupling a utilitarian code editor with all the basic necessities of an FTP application, OneFileCMS can maintain a whole website completely in-browser without any external programs. Screenshots

    * Validating, semantic, and commented markup. Tested in FF, Safari, and IE7/IE8.
    * Small footprint (20.4 kb)
    * Possibly the easiest installation process ever
    * All the basic features of an FTP application like renaming, deleting, copying, and uploading
uploads/deletions, you're going to want to break out an actual FTP program.)
    * Gracefully degrading CSS and Javascript
    * 100% re-brandable with page title stored in variable and a modifiable filename
Requirements

    * UNIX/Linux host, Apache
    * PHP5 (PHP4 untested)
    * File permission privileges

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Sections:

    * Rabbit

    * XBee

    * vs 6LoWPAN

    * 802.15.4

    * Other

    * Google searches

    * Texas Instruments

    * Atmel

    * iDigi

    * Commissioning

    * History

    * FAQ

    * Smart Energy

    * Open Source Code

    * Miscellaneous

    * The End

The Sesame Street Presentation Rule

After being on both the giving and receiving end of plenty of presentations, I now realize there's one golden rule which applies to all of them:

Entertain your audience.

Every slide of your presentation should serve this fundamental vision statement. Is it entertaining? I don't mean each slide has to contain a wacky joke of some kind. Every slide should provoke a reaction from the audience -- be it controversial, unexpected, amusing, or a meditative Zen koan. Prod your audience. Do this not only to keep them awake, but to engage their brains. Deliver a series of short, sharp shocks that jolt your audience into a heightened state of engagement.

Once your audience has engaged with your presentation, that's when you trick them into learning. The very best presentations entertain and educate-- the common portmanteau is edutainment. The archetypal example of edutainment is Sesame Street.

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//dirt cheap wireless TX
//generates 38kHz carrier wave on pin 9 and 10
//sends data via TX every 500ms
void setup()
{
  pinMode(9, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(10, OUTPUT);

  // Clear Timer on Compare Match (CTC) Mode
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, WGM10, 0);
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, WGM11, 0);
  bitWrite(TCCR1B, WGM12, 1);
  bitWrite(TCCR1B, WGM13, 0);

  // Toggle OC1A and OC1B on Compare Match.
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, COM1A0, 1);
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, COM1A1, 0);
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, COM1B0, 1);
  bitWrite(TCCR1A, COM1B1, 0);

  // No prescaling
  bitWrite(TCCR1B, CS10, 1);
  bitWrite(TCCR1B, CS11, 0);
  bitWrite(TCCR1B, CS12, 0);

  OCR1A = 210;
  OCR1B = 210;

  Serial.begin(2400);
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.println("testing testing testing");
  delay(500);
}