Grand Challenge Videos Posted 138
awtbfb writes "For those readers not fortunate enough to watch the satellite feed on the day of the race, videos of the Grand Challenge have been quietly posted on the race site. These include official AVI and DVD compilations and unedited clips in Quicktime MP4. The compilations also include some footage from the chase helicopters. Feel free to yell 'No! Turn right! Your other right!' as you watch these."
Gotta (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Gotta (Score:1, Interesting)
At Harvard Bill Gates wrote the code to port the language Basic to the Altair infact not on the Altair itself but a simulation of one on a DARPA funded computer given to Harvard.
Without DARPA there would be no Microsoft.
--Matt
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server suicide (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:server suicide (Score:3, Funny)
course windows sez it's 1.21 gigabytes to download.. and I'll have it in 6 hours.
I just realized,! (Score:5, Funny)
WOW, what a sales pitch, what does daylight savings do? it keeps your kids from standing around in the AM dark, and SPEEDS UP YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION..
sounds like something netzero would use....
Re:I just realized,! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I just realized,! (Score:1)
The politicians fight about Daylight Savings Time every once in awhile, but it comes to nothing.
Re:I just realized,! (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Re:server suicide (Score:3, Funny)
They can probably afford the bandwidth bill.
(hell, do they have to pay for bandwidth? or do they get the "we invented the damned thing" discount?)
Re:server suicide (Score:4, Insightful)
Worst part is... we all have to pay for that bandwidth bill from hell among other things on the 15th of this month.
Re:server suicide (Score:2)
teams (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:teams (Score:2)
Yeah streaming video that they took the liberty of re-encoding in Windows Media player format. Nice going Tech TV! You took perfectly good AVIs and MP4s and Microsofted them. No wonder Microsoft has 90% + of the computer market...
Boing Boing's videos (Score:5, Informative)
More accurately - Re:Boing Boing's videos (Score:1)
One thing you can't outrun... (Score:5, Funny)
DoD /.ed? (Score:2)
Re:DoD /.ed? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DoD /.ed? (Score:2)
grandchallenge.org has timed out for Netcraft, but I assume they run the same thing.
1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:3, Insightful)
Instead of wasting my tax dollars on terabyte upon terabyte of bandwidth, they should have used BitTorrent to distribute these files; that's what it's designed for! Then, the money they save on bandwidth (by shifting it to my normally UNUSED and "unlimited" bandwidth) can be used more productively.
And don't give me the line about bittorrent being "hard" to setup, because 1) it's not, and 2) the type of people downloading these videos are slightly more technically inclined than Joe Average anyway.
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Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:1, Insightful)
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If someone gets it before me, they can use my tracker at http://andrewhitchcock.org:6969/announce
Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:2)
Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:3, Informative)
http://p2pbridge.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
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Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:2, Interesting)
I could not work on this for the past few months as I was busy with something else. But I should be able to start again soon and complete it.
Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:5, Informative)
These are
These are free of charge publically available files, mirrored on the BitTorrent system. Their respective sources are linked.
so as you can see, not only has someone thought about it, they've also done it.
Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:1)
But the most recent file on f.scarywater.net is 34 days old. Good idea, not so great execution.
Re:Slashdot torrent tracker? (Score:2)
Unfortunately they haven't been keeping it up to date.
Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:3, Informative)
b) the DoD has an OC-3 at the least. They don't pay by the gig or tera.
Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:1)
Which campuses are blocking slashdot?
What justification could they possibly have?
I mean, other than the hour or more I waste ever day on here...
Anyone got a pigeon handy ? (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand - it's going to take me 35 hours to download @ 10kb/sec, but thats still faster than flying in a 767 from here (Melbourne, Australia) to DARPA and back!
Re:1.4GB and no BitTorrent? (Score:1)
"Either multipart or corrupt ZIP archive"
*whimpers*
DVD video torrent available (Score:2)
Re:DVD video torrent NOT available (Score:2)
Andrew
Screw BitTorrent (Score:2)
This is a job for IP Multicast. Set up "broadcasters" (actually multicasters, obviously) pushing out the data on a fixed schedule, the way video-on-demand (yet another misnomer) works. Use trackers to allow clients to find a multicast group carrying the feed they want at a speed close to their line speed, with a start-time within a p
AGV capabilities (Score:5, Informative)
My computer... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My computer... (Score:1)
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Slashdotting in progress.
Use my mirror [128.220.38.169]. Some files aren't fully downloaded, but will be in about ten minutes. I'm posting this now because Slashdotting is in progress.
I'm mirroring:
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Re:Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully soon they will be sacked.
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Re:Go red team! (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course, not having a driver helps.
From what one of the Red Team guys told us afterwards, they were one meter to the left of whatever the GPS signal said. So naturally it hit EVERY obstacle on the way up there. The funny thing is that they couldn't decide if was because of them crashing it or if the GPS signal was screwed (I'll go for the crashing story).
Then it fell into a ditch well outside of the town of Dagget (a great vacation spot if you plan on killing yourself), where I was WAITING, with a tiny little radio. Apparently it freaked out because it was stuck, and it started going back and forth. It kept doing that until the tires literally caught on fire. I think they blew up some bearings or gears or something else related to the axles/differentials. We were 21 miles out on the "race course", so you can imagine my despair of it not getting there...
I was hoping they would come over by me. Right before my position they were supposed to go off the highway (they would have been on Route 66 at this point) and then they would have gone under a concrete railway underpass.
A few things people were wondering:
1. Would they make it that far? No.
2. IF they got there, will going under this railway underpass, lined with concrete and who-knows-what kind of metal, would the signal get lost?
3. Do you thing a freight train running over over that bridge every 10 minutes might screw something up?
4. If they got it past the underpass, will it hit that pretty natural gas meter station directly after that or will it turn right like it's supposed to!
Oh, well. I had fun anyway...
Next year they plan on having it again. And the prize is supposed to be 2 million dollars.
Re:Go red team! (Score:1)
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Re:Go red team! (Score:1)
I use my middle finger. Is there another way to do it? =)
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Since the site is down: (Score:5, Funny)
They all lost.
Umm...I'm a little confused (Score:3, Insightful)
Red Team 10:30 AM (Shot from the Start Line)
Red Team 10:30 AM (Shot from the Finish Line
How in the heck do you get shots from the finish line if no one finished??
Re:Umm...I'm a little confused (Score:1)
Those are videos of the QID in Fontana (Score:2)
The TerraMax video, where it rams the mini-van repeatedly, is very funny.
Don't wait. (Score:2, Funny)
Dashwerks' DashPC helped this project... (Score:4, Interesting)
Dashwerks has provided advice, notes, and exclusive IP to [at least one] member of the CMU DARPA team members for the past year or so.
It's very fulfilling to see underdog project(s) such as these in the spotlight and taking a lead position in their respective industries.
Is there anyway to make a bittorrent for webpages? (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe a Mozilla pluggin.
Next DARPA Challenge (Score:3, Funny)
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Motorcycle videos (Score:3, Informative)
BitTorrent (Score:2, Informative)
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Planning for next year... (Score:2)
GPS at fault for many of these failures (Score:2)
Re:GPS at fault for many of these failures (Score:1)
Of course, it almost goes without saying that additional information is needed in the form of computer vision, laser sensors, etc. This can be used to avoid obstacles and pick the best route over the terrain.
Re:GPS at fault for many of these failures (Score:3, Informative)
CMU is using an Applanix GPS. We're using a Novatel; the Applanix didn't meet the temperature spec.
how disapointing (Score:2, Funny)
some cars follow gps. badly.
although a motorbike did fall over. that was great.
My real complaint is about the terrible comentator. Yes mate, i'm sure "those folks in the middle east" would drop their weapons and flee when a 5mph car making a loud beeping noise drives towards them then falls into a ditch.
pathetic.
Re:I can't believe this! (Score:1)
I'm tellin' ya... People's perversions never sease to amaze me. Ought to be laws!