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Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lot-of-steel dept.

Xidus writes "Computerworld is running an article on the technology behind the US Navy's newest HSV (High Speed Vessel), focusing on interfaces designed to reduce the number of personnel needed on the bridge. Lots of pretty pictures. No word on OSes, although Mozilla is mentioned, and UNIX-ish desktops are visible, along with some nifty virtual-reality tactical displays. Would you like to play a game?"

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  1. off the shelf? by AssProphet · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Nearly every function of the ship, from navigation and steering to engine and damage control, is conducted and monitored using commercial, off-the-shelf hardware and software."

    hmm I guess I've been shopping on the wrong shelves

    1. Re:off the shelf? by Willeh · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's probably because the navy shelves cost 10x as much as regular shelves, not to mention the products on them.

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    2. Re:off the shelf? by Scoria · · Score: 5, Funny

      A similar product is available here.

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    3. Re:off the shelf? by Didian · · Score: 3, Funny

      > Works just fine, unless you pop a fuse, then you're stuck with last speed and rudder settings

      *YAWN* and those new-fangled engines are no good because as soon as you blow a rod you're stuck in the water with no sails. And those sails, don't get me started....in certain seas you can go into irons for days and if you don't have oars....

      Don't even get me started on getting rid of swords in favor of pistols as sidearms!

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  2. Would you like to play a game? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it know how to play tic tac toe?

    1. Re:Would you like to play a game? by nonewshere · · Score: 4, Funny

      no
      but I'm sure it knows how to play global thermonuclear war!

    2. Re:Would you like to play a game? by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about a nice game of chess?

      (Sorry, someone had to... ;-))

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  3. Impressive by Stopmotioncleaverman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's a close-up look at the ship's cutting-edge IT ...followed by a picture of a strange-looking bald man. At first I thought he was the IT.

    Some impressive IT, that, if that's the state of the AI / cyborgs on board.

  4. Well, if it runs linux by Lurker+McLurker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet SCO aren't going to turn up and demand money.

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  5. Join the navy.... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Fire Scout will be flown by a computer operator using a joystick controller in the Combat Information Center

    Finally!!!!! A military carreer for the overweight masses of X-box, Nintendo and PlayStation owning couch-potatos.

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    1. Re:Join the navy.... by Astrobirdr · · Score: 2, Funny

      In other words . . .

      "Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."

      From The Last Starfighter.

      The arcade version of the game, unfortunately, never existed, but there were alternatives.

  6. Netzero? by 222 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ["Currently, the USS La Salle has a 3Mbit connection. We think we can get a 6Mbit connection and up to 24Mbit using accelerators," said Dick Pearson, a systems engineering consultant at Dataline Inc.]
    Yea, i think netzero tried to sell me on that crap about six months ago :p

  7. New in Gentoo portage! by wzzrd · · Score: 2, Funny

    The ~HSV portage tree!

  8. Open the bomb bay doors, Hal by the_twisted_pair · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry Dave I cannot do that...

  9. Re:Pictures of the ship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But zz99, I do not understand.
    Where are the nuclear wessel?

  10. Controlling the Ship from an iPod by amitofu · · Score: 1, Funny

    The next phase of development is for the Navy to control this ship from an iPod running Linux.

  11. No AOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can see the AOL "Accelerator" in one of the screen shots I think.

  12. Re:Hmmm... Who mans the fire hoses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow! You're AMAZING... I bet NOBODY in the ENTIRE US MILITARY considered that EVER. You may have just SAVED the WORLD for DEMOCRACY!

    Insightful, +5? Fucking idiot moderators... a product of simplistic Tom Clancy plots, no doubt.

  13. Experimental wireless LAN....... by GWTPict · · Score: 1, Funny

    where the Navy was able to remotely control a ship more than 3,000 miles from shore.
    Now that's what I call war driving!