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Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel
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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Does it run Linux?
Half the freakin military is still using WinNT.
Who will like this movie? Nerds. Huge flaming nerds who live in their parents basements and collect bad comic books written about superheroes that most of the world has never heard of or for that matter will ever care about. They'll buy into this thing because it turns all the right pages and hits all the right tickle spots that they'll no doubt sit and dissect as irony or subtle filmmaking, when in fact it is simply contrived stupidity.
Anybody else read "HSV 2 Swift" as "too swift"? ;-)
(HSV 2 is Swift and HSV 1X is Joint Venture . Looking at googled pics, both look like ordinary "wawe-breaking" catamarans, so the novelty is in the built-in information infrastructure.)
Try to keep a sense of perspective when reading about "friendly fire".
How many troops in the field in the "coalition" forces? How many of those are American? How many British?
According to this link the U.S. has some 110,000 troops in Iraq, followed by Britain with 8,700. Overall there are only 22,000 soldiers of nationalities other than American total.
Now why were you surprised that most of the news of accidents and goof-ups seem to involve Americans?
It's actually kind of surprising that there are so many accidents involving soldiers of other nationalities than the U.S. in the news. And yes, quite a few of them involve the British.
Many of them without U.S. involvement, need I add.
Doo doo occurs. Accidents happen to the best of us and whining about "trigger-happy Americans" is insulting and shows a willful disregard of perspective in the matter, if not a lack of simple percentages. Regardless of your feelings of U.S. foreign policy remember that the soldiers whose performance you're so cavalierly insulting are not the ones making the decisions. They're just trying to serve their country and do a difficult job under some very nasty conditions.
>Learning to code in assembly is like learning to fight with a sword.
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Tedious & Pointless ?
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