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Title: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 01, 2008, 03:19:30 AM
I was just wondering

How sad it is to see a user with only 3,10 post

that hasn't logged on in like 3 years

Like, mabye they went on and built many robots

but mabye they just gave up

I THINK THATS SAD    !!!

I don't like people to give up

They should keep on trying

Because i used to be one of the people who gave up all to easily...But it's not HEALTHY to do that all your life!

And the poeple that may of been on about 3,10 post

could of become a master robot builder!

AN "ADMIN 2"



Oh dear....

I should sleep this madness of!
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: jman571 on May 01, 2008, 07:11:04 AM
I don't have nearly that many posts, but I am feeling a little depressed with the way my robot is going. With you know, my entire control system not working  >:( So yea, I may give up soon on it, but not without a fight, because this is something I want to do!

PS Edit your Subject line, you spelled "sadness" wrong.
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: benji on May 01, 2008, 08:52:35 AM
think logically , work hard , dont say i did my best,, do better
and it WILL work,,if it does not, try again  ;)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Trumpkin on May 01, 2008, 09:41:50 AM
your making me feel all sad.  :'(
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Fredrik Andersson on May 01, 2008, 03:13:07 PM
Instead, think of all the souls SoR really do have awaken!
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: sotu on May 01, 2008, 03:21:57 PM
im one of those sadly :( Havent built on my robot for a long time. Doing other things and havent really bothered taking the time to work on my robot couse its so time consuming, even tough i love it :D

PS: Think u ment "A sadness among SOR"  instead of "A sandness among SOR" =)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: superchiku on May 01, 2008, 10:21:02 PM
toughness and challenge is all you need to prosper in life , why do you think that making a robot is time consuming and hard work think of it as fun , think of it as you are creating something that has its own brain and its going to work on its own., The juvilence of seeing your robot on which you have worked so hard is really out of this world and once you get that feeling you will never get disheartened when you fail and youll try to make byourself better for the  sake of creating an intelligent being
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 02, 2008, 03:01:48 AM
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PS: Think u ment "A sadness among SOR"  instead of "A sandness among SOR" =)

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PS Edit your Subject line, you spelled "sadness" wrong.

OH, C'MON

NOW I FEEL A GREAT DEAL OF SADNESS
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: cooldog on May 02, 2008, 06:34:02 AM
but also think about the other 1862 members that are here
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Fredrik Andersson on May 02, 2008, 07:42:04 AM
And do not forget that even if one tries to build a robot, they will always have something with them even if they did not succeed.

Also, I left the game developing area for robotics. Maybe all these people moved on to a different interest. I do believe that most people that even tries to build a robot is a fairly creative and motivated person, so i have no worry for them wasting their lives not building robots.

My guess for why this is, is that you have to buy some physical parts in order to get started. If I wouldn't have needed to buy anything, i would have started with robotics much earlier than i did, and when i finally thought i would buy some parts, I thought it was a pretty wild choice.
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: AndrewM on May 02, 2008, 07:49:56 AM
Robot building is like a disease, albet a good disease.  It is very contagious to people of like mind, and while the disease somtimes might go dormant for a period of time where no robots are built, eventually it comes back to the surface and takes hold again.  Probably not my most poetic analogy, but it works...
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Trumpkin on May 02, 2008, 08:42:31 AM
I think SMASH is one of those who has given up, he hasn't been on the forum for a long time......
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: cooldog on May 02, 2008, 06:12:52 PM
I think SMASH is one of those who has given up, he hasn't been on the forum for a long time......

it's airman00's falt

jk
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 02, 2008, 08:16:00 PM
there's millions of people who have given up...

Take a look at the who's online icon down the bottem of the main fourm page, and look at the profiles that the "Guests" are looking at

although i don't believe the guests are real people because they read topics posted 3 years ago...
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: benji on May 03, 2008, 03:10:06 AM
robotics for starters sounds too much fun,,robots n fiction u know...once they start the hard work most of em give up
you just cant do anythin about it, thats the folks..

and also we are here to help,, we do never let e beginner down, do we?

hope nobody give up ... adios
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: superchiku on May 03, 2008, 04:24:33 AM
ya rightly said
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 03, 2008, 08:13:50 PM
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and also we are here to help,, we do never let e beginner down, do we?


hmmm

Sure...

jk
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: airman00 on May 03, 2008, 08:25:29 PM
although i don't believe the guests are real people because they read topics posted 3 years ago...


they are real

societyofrobots.com posts are found when you search google for stuff

thats how I first found SoR

im almost sure that if you search a sandness among SOR , you'de get this post.

So those guests are people who found robotics posts through google
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 04, 2008, 12:20:07 AM
wow

your right

lol


(Sorry to all guests, for saying you were not real)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: benji on May 04, 2008, 03:26:25 AM
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societyofrobots.com posts are found when you search google for stuff

thats how I first found SoR

me too  ;D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Trumpkin on May 04, 2008, 06:43:37 PM
I didn't know about the forum until maybe a month or two after I found SoR
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 05, 2008, 02:20:41 AM
I didn't know about the forum until maybe a month or two after I found SoR

yer, i found the forum accidentally...

(long story...can't be bothered to type)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: pomprocker on May 06, 2008, 12:06:18 PM
I was into home automation, and that kinda drifted towards robotics. Then I forgot about home automation hehe  :D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 07, 2008, 03:05:20 AM
Do you know how off topic this is getting...?

but it's cool

this is a topic that you can right anything...(friendly)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: SixRingz on May 24, 2008, 06:05:34 PM
Well, I haven't really looked at the amount of offline users since I'm kind of new to the game here and too busy reading all the incredibly interesting and inspiring posts!!  ;D This place rocks!!
More important than the non-active users are the ACTIVE users. Don't be sad my friend, we are still many!

(btw, my Mac says hi 8))
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 24, 2008, 07:35:08 PM
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(btw, my Mac says hi Cool)


oooooooowwwwwwww

welcome to my list of hate...
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: izaktj on May 25, 2008, 02:20:08 PM
I was going to build the $50 robot in January. I "gave up" then, after some moths I came back d=
You see, it's not how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep going u.u
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: SixRingz on May 25, 2008, 02:34:05 PM
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welcome to my list of hate...

I don't understand?!? From your avatar I thought I found a Mac friend...  ???
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: izaktj on May 25, 2008, 02:55:50 PM
lol  :D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Fredrik Andersson on May 25, 2008, 03:03:20 PM
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(btw, my Mac says hi Cool)


oooooooowwwwwwww

welcome to my list of hate...

I think somebody is jealous...  ;)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on May 26, 2008, 03:15:12 AM
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(btw, my Mac says hi Cool)


oooooooowwwwwwww

welcome to my list of hate...

I think somebody is jealous...  ;)


SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP !!!


Ok ok! i am madly in love with mac's (soz Laura) and im still savimg up for one!

SO I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS... :'(


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welcome to my list of hate...

I don't understand?!? From your avatar I thought I found a Mac friend...  ???

SORRY IF YOU THOUGHT I HATED YOU...  ::)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: paulstreats on May 26, 2008, 04:00:16 AM
so are you talking about an apple mac or are you jealous because somebody else has got a BIGMAC  ;D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private reid2 on May 26, 2008, 04:13:09 AM
Yer  ::)

 :D

im going to buy a mac ! and im going to get it before Sam !
(paying u back for saying you love a computer more than me ! BIG mistake
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: SixRingz on May 26, 2008, 09:13:31 AM
Oh, I thought I offended you in some way haha... ::)
Well, I must say you both share good taste then!  ;D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: javafiend on May 27, 2008, 09:37:47 AM
For the record, I'm one of the low post counters and I look at my robot (in pieces) guiltily every day.  I had such grand plans for the little thing, like avoiding obstacles and you know - working.  Alas, as time went on, I got fed up with Windows, switched to Ubuntu and haven't gotten around to getting my development environment established.  Of course much of my time has been consumed by EQ2 and getting it running properly in Wine. 

So you see how easy it is to get sidetracked from a wonderful pastime such as robots?  I still plan on working on my robot and getting it to work... eventually.
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: S. Karim on May 27, 2008, 05:47:28 PM
Post count has nothing to do with anything.

Repeat that until it goes through your head, all of you who thing post count is relative and of substance. On other forums, they mean nothing. Less time here is more time on a robot.

True skill, comes from the brain. Lets compare brain size or something, then yer talking something real.

Oh and yes I am experiencing heavy sandness rofl.
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: airman00 on June 06, 2008, 09:26:24 AM
switched to Ubuntu 

ubuntu fan myself

I dual boot XP and Ubuntu on my laptop ( I removed vista , bleh ) , I suggest you dual boot as well
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: javafiend on June 06, 2008, 10:10:33 AM
I just got my development environment working last night.  I'm a seriously inept at avrdude, but it's working now.

Here's what I'm using:
IDE - Code::Blocks
Programming software - AVRdude
Programmer - AVRISP MKII

So far I really like Code::Blocks.  It loads up so much faster than Eclipse.  I'm still pretty new with it and am trying to figure out the build options.  Avrdude is a cinch to install with apt (sudo apt-get install avrdude) and works well.  I haven't gotten around to installing a GUI for it, though.  Just been saving my scripts.

Honestly, if I had to dual boot to do something, I would probably just find something else to do.  There is such a sense of accomplishment when you get things working, even the small things.
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on June 06, 2008, 11:45:58 PM
oh, yes defiantly ubuntu over windows

I run a virtual machine on my laptop running ubuntu, vista, and Mac Tiger
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: airman00 on June 07, 2008, 08:33:32 PM
oh, yes defiantly ubuntu over windows


lol

I think you mean definitely but  defiantly also makes sense , lol
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private reid2 on June 07, 2008, 11:49:06 PM
lol

who pays that much attention to peoples posts... ;D
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: pomprocker on June 08, 2008, 10:53:50 PM
why are there 2 private reids?
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private reid2 on June 10, 2008, 02:47:12 AM
lol !
there's me Laura (Private reid2)
And Sam (Private Reid)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: pomprocker on June 10, 2008, 09:55:40 AM
are you all related or something?
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on June 11, 2008, 02:39:14 AM
yes we are... ;)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Rebelgium on June 11, 2008, 03:04:05 AM
private reid2 is private reids gf.

btw
When are you finally going to edit the title of this topic?!
I mean, WTH is a sandness!?
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: pomprocker on June 11, 2008, 09:44:44 AM
i wish my gf was into robots  ;)

i'm trying to get her into 'em...
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: maverick monk on June 11, 2008, 02:54:42 PM
"A sandness among SOR"

There is no sand on teh interwebz  ;)
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on June 13, 2008, 01:51:34 AM
lol, i like the name...it's apart of the topic now...it wouldn't be right to change it now !
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private reid2 on June 18, 2008, 03:03:58 AM
Sand it is then!
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: BANE on June 18, 2008, 05:09:12 AM
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private reid2 is private reids gf.

Gosh!  Where do you find a gf that like robots?
My gf is "like whatever, its just a transformer thingy!"    :-\

Bane

Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on June 19, 2008, 03:26:20 AM
lol

hmmm let me test something...ive never got to propaly use the "insert image" thingy...it never works 4 me...

(http://1)

thats it settled! it hates me, absolutely hates me!

is it supposed to be a "http" or just a name...
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: BANE on June 19, 2008, 05:01:19 AM
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lol

hmmm let me test something...ive never got to propaly use the "insert image" thingy...it never works 4 me...



thats it settled! it hates me, absolutely hates me!

is it supposed to be a "http" or just a name...
If anything just save it to your desktop and list it as an attachment.  I've tried to post pics many times an still no luck! :P

bane
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Ro-Bot-X on June 19, 2008, 11:23:52 AM
When replying to a post, underneath the text window there is a link called: Additional Options... Click on that, and then click the Browse button, navigate to the folder you have the picture on your computer (e.g. C:\My Documents\My Pictures\) select the picture you wat to insert (test.jpg) and after you write your post, click on the Post button. The picture will be uploaded on SoR server and will be displayed at the end of your post, like this:
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on June 20, 2008, 02:50:56 AM
yep, i know how to do that.
But i was just wondering the other way...

Oh well
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: airman00 on June 23, 2008, 02:38:34 PM
btw i just got a mac, and I love it! I dual boot windows xp and mac osx

its 1000 bux and u get a free ipod touch with it ( after rebate) , check it on apple.com
Title: Re: A sandness among SOR
Post by: Private Reid on July 12, 2008, 07:18:12 PM
i just got bak from Bali !

i was away for about 2 weeks...Bet no one noticed though!