Traction control is old hat. On an electric vehicle which uses a seperate motor to drive each wheel (the ideal setup, eliminating most of the drive train and making a differential totally redundant)it's actually not even that difficult. A few sensors and some computer logic to moderate the electricity to each motor, providing a specified amount of torque at each corner.
Pretty sweet setup really. Too bad about the whole battery thingy.
What might surprise you though is that Ford is already not only already testing totally autonomous vehicles, but they're at such an advanced state they're doing so on public roads in heavy traffic. So far they're doing just fine.
It's kind of odd to watch someone sitting in the "driver's" seat, and not driving.
And no upgrade to infrastructure needed, as was posited in the "old days" (guide wires under the roads and such). Advances in computer, feedback and sensor technology have made all that sort of thingy obsolete.
So maybe in the future your fridge will not only call up your grocer when you're out of milk, your car will go get it for you while you sleep.
I'm not sure about being able to train my cat to go out to the car and bring it in though. I'll have to trade her in on an Aibo or something.
Senator Foo Bar stated today that, "I realize that legislation alone won't do much to stem the tide of the cold virus, but we can't just sit by and do nothing while this virulent and potentially deadly virus infects millions of Americans."
Arrest of "distributors" is imminent.
The AMA issued a somewhat puzzled statement, claiming that while they appreciated any aid in the quest to find cures for viral infections they were clueless as to how outlawing said virii in any way constituted such aid.
'The odds of defeating spam by legislation alone is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.'
Ummmm, yes, that's exactly what it means.
Spam is a social, and perhaps technological, issue. Please stop wasting my tax dollars and your time on promoting legislation which you yourself admit is pointless and go handle some issues for which legislation is the actual remedy.
If you really need some useful "makework" and a politically advantageous cause how about going through the books and finding existing law that shouldn't be there and rescinding it?
Or would that be too sensical for a congressman to handle?
You might also consider scanning the copy you have, just in case. My copies died long before the advent of scanners and even my local library seems to have "end of lifed" their copies.
Remember that UTO originated as a mimeographed (remember those?)anonomyous tract distributed samizdat.
It would, of course, be a violation of copyright to the same yourself, but hey, "Up the Organization!"
In the above I meant to type,". ..even if it isn't always pleasant or finacially rewarding in the short run."
My fingers have a nasty habit of typing the opposite of what I mean because I start thinking of the concept as a whole before I type and what I'm thinking "leaks" out of my fingers instead of what I meant. It drives editors crazy, and doesn't say much for my own sanity.
KFG
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And you only appreciate them because you have learned them the hard way.
Never stop learning, but start doing it outside the classroom as soon as possible. We have become a "course" oriented society, much to its detriment. School can only teach knowledge, not wisdom, and it isn't even very good at teaching knowledge. Get outside, find a mentor if you can and learn by experience and transmission, even if the process isn't always pleasant or financially rewarding in the long run.
Hey, even if you get screwed you're still getting payed for it, rather than paying. They just don't kiss you afterwards.
You might start by reading Stephen Leacock's (Professor of Economics at McGill University) "Too Much College."
It's out of print, but too new to be at Project Gutenberg, but you can probably find a copy for a few bucks at that little used bookstore with the cat who likes to sleep in the window.
But then you'll have to read "Up the Orginization" which describes and explains why building such is impossible, even for the company President, in existing orginizations.
Few, unfortunately, have the desire, let alone the fortitude, to simply take of themselves, let alone others.
Even the Library of Congress does not have such a list. An English dictionary does not contain all words, not even all words in English. You might even be surprised at the sheer mass of commercially released sound recordings that aren't "recorded" anywhere at all.
You're absolutely right about Linux package installation. The idea of building Mplayer from source makes be break out in a sweat and start looking for an afternoon I can clear.
For the most part installing a DVD player on Windows means popping in the CD and clicking on install.
However, doing so may mean invoking.dll hell..dll hell does not refer to the proliferation of libraries and dependencies. It refers to the lack of version awareness in Windows allowing an app to install a different version of a library over and existing version, thus breaking who knows what and making it difficult to even track down the problem, let alone cure it.
Dependency Hell in Linux is, in fact, the cure for.dll hell.
Would you like Peche a la Frog, or Frog a la Peche?
Or I suppose you could have a pomme flavored frog.
The world is complex. There is no really good answer.
Are traditional business obsolete in the digital arena?
For traditional apps, yes. This was predictable decades ago. In fact, it was predicted, but not everyone payed attention. There is just so much "innovation" you can do with a wordprocessor, nor is there any way to keep anyone else from entering the market.
Thus they become free.
Rinse and repeat.
What's next?
Traditional business.
Computers can't be the end forever. They're just tools. A time will come, perhaps soon, when they are just a means. If you wish to stay in software then either become a true computer scientist, or get used to making "hammers."
You can only sell hammers for a few bucks apiece, but you can sell a lot of them. Of course, anyone else can sell hammers too.
The digital domain changed the real world. Now the real world is begining its advance into the digital.
CLI oriented does not inherently mean server. Even in such "purely" graphical enviroments as classic Mac and Be the real power of the OS was accessed through a Unixy commnad line.
Now, or course, OSX is a GUI wrapper over over BSD.
Unix is a multiuser OS. The internet is a multiuser enviroment. "Server" OSes are just spiffy for the modern home user.
NT itself is a "server" OS, descended directly from VMS with a GUI wrapper, only in the case of Windows it is done in such way as to somewhat cripple both the GUI and the CLI. Bundling user space apps into the kernel of a server OS is one of the main causes of Windows insecurity, and the main reason Ballmer is talking about a 20 year timespan to fix it.
My 70 year old mom who has only used Macs at home and the odd bit of Windows in internet cafes while traveling is perfectly happy with Mandrake/KDE.
Of course, I configured the system for her, as a workstation/internet client. It can be done, just so long as you actually understand desktop use. The primary problem with Linux on the desktop is that most default installs (even Mandrake's. I haven't tried their "Discovery" distro yet though) are compromises between home desktop configuration and "server" configuration, not being ideally suited for either.
Yeah, and they're also spared having to decide what to vote for when many of the movies under consideration can't be seen in a movie theater within hundreds of miles of where they live.
There are more catagories than "Best Big Stupid Blockbuster."
A lot of Academy members are just working shlubs too. Wives, kids, toilets that don't flush but roofs that do. They don't necessarily have time to go traipsing around looking for obscure films that even the art houses stopped showing months ago, but they can pop a DVD in the player a few nights a week after getting the kiddies to bed.
Not distributing screeners is not only dumb, it's pointless for avoiding piracy. Hell, most of the stuff is in the wild already.
However, every contributer to Linux can bring action against SCO for distributing their code and charging a license fee for it, since not all code in Linux is SCO's even if some of their claims are true.
And of course the whole GNU/Linux thing is very real in this case. For instance, bash is not Linux.
SCO had better be very, very careful just what their "license" actually claims to be licensing.
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Traction control is old hat. On an electric vehicle which uses a seperate motor to drive each wheel (the ideal setup, eliminating most of the drive train and making a differential totally redundant)it's actually not even that difficult. A few sensors and some computer logic to moderate the electricity to each motor, providing a specified amount of torque at each corner.
Pretty sweet setup really. Too bad about the whole battery thingy.
What might surprise you though is that Ford is already not only already testing totally autonomous vehicles, but they're at such an advanced state they're doing so on public roads in heavy traffic. So far they're doing just fine.
It's kind of odd to watch someone sitting in the "driver's" seat, and not driving.
And no upgrade to infrastructure needed, as was posited in the "old days" (guide wires under the roads and such). Advances in computer, feedback and sensor technology have made all that sort of thingy obsolete.
So maybe in the future your fridge will not only call up your grocer when you're out of milk, your car will go get it for you while you sleep.
I'm not sure about being able to train my cat to go out to the car and bring it in though. I'll have to trade her in on an Aibo or something.
KFG
is going to be blowing up the White House you can get red carpet treatment for $50 (plus a few).
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
KFG
". . .rendering it essentially useless as a form of identification. . ."
As it should be for any purpose other than operating a motor vehicle on public roads.
KFG
Senator Foo Bar stated today that, "I realize that legislation alone won't do much to stem the tide of the cold virus, but we can't just sit by and do nothing while this virulent and potentially deadly virus infects millions of Americans."
Arrest of "distributors" is imminent.
The AMA issued a somewhat puzzled statement, claiming that while they appreciated any aid in the quest to find cures for viral infections they were clueless as to how outlawing said virii in any way constituted such aid.
Alone or otherwise.
KFG
'The odds of defeating spam by legislation alone is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.'
Ummmm, yes, that's exactly what it means.
Spam is a social, and perhaps technological, issue. Please stop wasting my tax dollars and your time on promoting legislation which you yourself admit is pointless and go handle some issues for which legislation is the actual remedy.
If you really need some useful "makework" and a politically advantageous cause how about going through the books and finding existing law that shouldn't be there and rescinding it?
Or would that be too sensical for a congressman to handle?
KFG
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449 205053/002-1900140-9169619?v=glance
And don't forget "Further Up the Organization."
You might also consider scanning the copy you have, just in case. My copies died long before the advent of scanners and even my local library seems to have "end of lifed" their copies.
Remember that UTO originated as a mimeographed (remember those?)anonomyous tract distributed samizdat.
It would, of course, be a violation of copyright to the same yourself, but hey, "Up the Organization!"
KFG
In the above I meant to type,". . .even if it isn't always pleasant or finacially rewarding in the short run."
My fingers have a nasty habit of typing the opposite of what I mean because I start thinking of the concept as a whole before I type and what I'm thinking "leaks" out of my fingers instead of what I meant. It drives editors crazy, and doesn't say much for my own sanity.
KFG
And you only appreciate them because you have learned them the hard way.
Never stop learning, but start doing it outside the classroom as soon as possible. We have become a "course" oriented society, much to its detriment. School can only teach knowledge, not wisdom, and it isn't even very good at teaching knowledge. Get outside, find a mentor if you can and learn by experience and transmission, even if the process isn't always pleasant or financially rewarding in the long run.
Hey, even if you get screwed you're still getting payed for it, rather than paying. They just don't kiss you afterwards.
You might start by reading Stephen Leacock's (Professor of Economics at McGill University) "Too Much College."
It's out of print, but too new to be at Project Gutenberg, but you can probably find a copy for a few bucks at that little used bookstore with the cat who likes to sleep in the window.
Make friends with the cat. It's worth your while.
KFG
But then you'll have to read "Up the Orginization" which describes and explains why building such is impossible, even for the company President, in existing orginizations.
Few, unfortunately, have the desire, let alone the fortitude, to simply take of themselves, let alone others.
KFG
Even the Library of Congress does not have such a list. An English dictionary does not contain all words, not even all words in English. You might even be surprised at the sheer mass of commercially released sound recordings that aren't "recorded" anywhere at all.
Omniscience cannot be mandated.
KFG
"Sir, this is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section!"
KFG
We're all ignorant, just about different things, although it might be wise to admit your ignorance and research prices before you buy.
On the flip side most people have knowledge far beyond their intelligence to use it.
See wise.
KFG
It's two, two, two strawmen in one!
But wait, don't order now. There's MORE!
Place your order in the next hour and we'll include, completely free of charge, an ad hominem!
Folks, you don't see values in rhetorical logic like this every day, so hurry, hurry, hurry to those phones and we'll rush it to you. . . AC!
KFG
You're absolutely right about Linux package installation. The idea of building Mplayer from source makes be break out in a sweat and start looking for an afternoon I can clear.
.dll hell. .dll hell does not refer to the proliferation of libraries and dependencies. It refers to the lack of version awareness in Windows allowing an app to install a different version of a library over and existing version, thus breaking who knows what and making it difficult to even track down the problem, let alone cure it.
.dll hell.
For the most part installing a DVD player on Windows means popping in the CD and clicking on install.
However, doing so may mean invoking
Dependency Hell in Linux is, in fact, the cure for
Would you like Peche a la Frog, or Frog a la Peche?
Or I suppose you could have a pomme flavored frog.
The world is complex. There is no really good answer.
KFG
The funny thing is that even Bill Joy doesn't use vi. He uses ed.
ed is the standard editor.
Of course Bill also memorizes his files and doesn't make spelling mistakes.
I guess some men really are from Mars.
KFG
Are traditional business obsolete in the digital arena?
For traditional apps, yes. This was predictable decades ago. In fact, it was predicted, but not everyone payed attention. There is just so much "innovation" you can do with a wordprocessor, nor is there any way to keep anyone else from entering the market.
Thus they become free.
Rinse and repeat.
What's next?
Traditional business.
Computers can't be the end forever. They're just tools. A time will come, perhaps soon, when they are just a means. If you wish to stay in software then either become a true computer scientist, or get used to making "hammers."
You can only sell hammers for a few bucks apiece, but you can sell a lot of them. Of course, anyone else can sell hammers too.
The digital domain changed the real world. Now the real world is begining its advance into the digital.
KFG
CLI oriented does not inherently mean server. Even in such "purely" graphical enviroments as classic Mac and Be the real power of the OS was accessed through a Unixy commnad line.
Now, or course, OSX is a GUI wrapper over over BSD.
Unix is a multiuser OS. The internet is a multiuser enviroment. "Server" OSes are just spiffy for the modern home user.
NT itself is a "server" OS, descended directly from VMS with a GUI wrapper, only in the case of Windows it is done in such way as to somewhat cripple both the GUI and the CLI. Bundling user space apps into the kernel of a server OS is one of the main causes of Windows insecurity, and the main reason Ballmer is talking about a 20 year timespan to fix it.
My 70 year old mom who has only used Macs at home and the odd bit of Windows in internet cafes while traveling is perfectly happy with Mandrake/KDE.
Of course, I configured the system for her, as a workstation/internet client. It can be done, just so long as you actually understand desktop use. The primary problem with Linux on the desktop is that most default installs (even Mandrake's. I haven't tried their "Discovery" distro yet though) are compromises between home desktop configuration and "server" configuration, not being ideally suited for either.
Just like Windows.
Unix isn't the problem. Unix programers are.
KFG
Theorem: You are a young and basically ignorant flamebaiter.
"I love slashbots that've read Cryptonomicon and think they're hot shit by writing 'Q.E.D.' everywhere they can. ROCK"
Q.E.D.
KFG
Within the ranks of scum they're scum. Even my pond rejected them.
KFG
name an academy member that is a working schlub?
Sally Jo.
And even if she won an Oscar she wouldn't get to go on TV.
KFG
Yeah, and they're also spared having to decide what to vote for when many of the movies under consideration can't be seen in a movie theater within hundreds of miles of where they live.
There are more catagories than "Best Big Stupid Blockbuster."
A lot of Academy members are just working shlubs too. Wives, kids, toilets that don't flush but roofs that do. They don't necessarily have time to go traipsing around looking for obscure films that even the art houses stopped showing months ago, but they can pop a DVD in the player a few nights a week after getting the kiddies to bed.
Not distributing screeners is not only dumb, it's pointless for avoiding piracy. Hell, most of the stuff is in the wild already.
KFG
However, every contributer to Linux can bring action against SCO for distributing their code and charging a license fee for it, since not all code in Linux is SCO's even if some of their claims are true.
And of course the whole GNU/Linux thing is very real in this case. For instance, bash is not Linux.
SCO had better be very, very careful just what their "license" actually claims to be licensing.
KFG
You can acquire that information by .NET remoting money from your wallet to bn.com who will .NET remote you the book.
.NET remoting marketing scam, eh?
.NET remoting actually is.
Pretty good
In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion I've just answered your qestion as to what
KFG
I might point out that there's a difference between a company's internal security measures and a blanket federal law.
KFG
to possess a hammer and nails at the same time.
KFG