Calling in a gunship for air cover might be a little risky if the "gunners" can't tell who's on whose side.
If you have troops on the ground anyway, why not have a roboplane-operator among them? Send in the gunship and have the local operator take over. The ground troops knows where they are, and where the problem is too.
The robots in second variety was designed to kill (enemy) humans, not robots. The robot-designed robots merely lost the ability to detect non-enemy humans.
They used "radiation tabs" to pacify robots, unfortunately the new designs were lead-lined. I remember no indication wether that was a honest mistake or a sneaky attempt by the designers. Of course it seems weird that a robot advanced enough to engage in simple conversation couldn't use a more advanced way to identify friends & enemies...
No commercial airplane will ever fly without pilots in any of our lifetime.
And why bother - the pilot is just one more human. His weight (and pay) isn't that much. I don't think there is much to win, and even a automated plane would need to bring a pilot in case of "unexpected trouble"
No airplane has the capability to do a autopilot takeoff,
Because it seems unnecessary. Taking off is so easy that the pilots don't need help. And if the conditions are so bad that a human can't take off, you just leave the plane on the ground. You can't leave planes in the air indefinitely though, so more effort is put into landing.
However, according to my friend, the military is more concerned that the enemy would come into possession of the missile's electronics than the cost of disposable missiles. The fear is that a missile could be shot down on it's return leg.
Easy. Put a destruction charge in the electronics that blow it up _if_ it can't return as planned. (Shot down/home out of range/attempted capture) Save money if all goes well, blow up as usual otherwise.
You can obviously not fly around with a transponder that keeps saying "here I am, I am a friend..." because to the other side this is "Here I am, I am the enemy..."
So these things are turned off, making it harder for the _enemy_ to see you. No use having a stealth-plane with a transmitter marking its position...
Microsoft does, in a way, force people to buy their software. Ever go into a (mass market) store and find a PC(non-Apple) with an OS that didn't come from Redmond? Didn't think so.
I get around this by buying spare parts, not complete machines. I know a guy who bought a complete machine without a disk drive - and a spare drive. No ms os!
Computer must mechanically operate the same controls used by the human;
Why? The extra mechanics involved adds no real difficulty to the computers task.
Yes it does. Operating the brakes directly lets it use them in ways a human couldn't possibly do. The robot should drive an ordinary F1 with all the F1's built-in limitations and shortcomings. Put the robot in a car not prepared for a robot occupant.
Wether the computer has a direct feed from the cars sensors or points a camera at the dials and does some image processing is not important.
Yes, this is important, because now the robot gets the same limitation (slow instrument dials etc.) as the human. It is not supposed to have advantages other than the internal.
A human has stereoscopic vision to measure distances. I think that would be a hard task to match.
Old stuff. There even were a linux-powered car in Italy that did this. It could drive the car 90% of the time, highways only.
Sort of reminds me of an argument why movie car-chases were so much better in the old days. It was because they used big american cars with hopeless traction and control. They could make a car spin around wildly at 50 km/h and later speed up the film. With a modern car you would have to soap the tires or actually drive as fast as it looks.
Pulling the handbrake in a modern car still makes it spin wildly. Turn off the ABS (pull a fuse) and you can easily lock all 4 wheels too.
Of course. Anything 2D is 3D too _per definition_. Everything just happens to be in the same plane, what a coincidence! So you can sell your 2D games as 3D or 4D or whatever.
Bah. Only reason I run redhat at work is that I can't get FreeBSD to *stop* detecting the integrated i810 so the XFree SVGA server will start using the voodoo3 I have in there instead.
On some PCs, you can disable onboard peripherals (NIC, sound, video, etc.) in the BIOS. Have you tried this?
Disabling stuff - such an odd way. Why not simply select the wanted card when starting X? There should need to disable the other.
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Think about it though... most people aren't going to go on a web site, look up their local area, find a local stash. drive for a half hour to the general area, and spend another hour looking for a small sealed bucket in a relatively well hidden area unless they plan on writing in the log book and following the rules.
Mostly enthusiasts have GPS now, but that will change. A kill-joy won't bother driving for half an hour, but there will be those who realize "hey - this thing is right here! Lets go get it..."
lets face it, the government is more efficent at collecting money than any corporation you can name.
They seem efficient because they collect a lot without spending much. Thats not efficiency, it is the fact that they can collect like that. A corporation must manufacture some popular product in order to collect, a government don't have to.
Well, I can take out some of my Linux systems nicely in a similar fashion -- granted, it was just X
Exactly. Bad for the home user system, but the server is different. Test a funky program on the server and X dies? Not big deal, because the web/database/xyz server is still up and running. All you messed up was the GUI, and that can be restarted. Tricky, but without disturbing the server stuff.
The beauty of unix: No quickrestore cd - because it isn't needed. Setup is a one-time thing, buy preloaded or hire a consultant if you don't want to know.
The unix computer simply don't crash after saving a file.
QWERTY was designed to slow people down. The arrangement ensures that you write slower, and get less trouble because of that. You can arrange commonly used arms away from each other and still get "e" at the right index finger (most used key at the fastest finger) but that wasn't done. "e" isn't directly available to any finger - you have to move tha hand too. Slowdown indeed.
Win2k/WinNT make GREAT file servers that will run forever if you give it the same respect as you would any other server.
Servers are not supposed to need respect. The word comes from "servant". They are there to do what I want, without making demands.
Reason most NT/Win systems fudge up is because of all the CRAP people put on them. If you want a webserver then an NT box running web/email/pop will stay up forever. Don't go installing a bunch of crap.
Why in the world do you allow your box to fall over because you install stuff on it? It ain't supposed to do that - ever.
Same goes for a linux box. Install a bunch of crap, get stuck in "lib hell" instead of dll hell and your on the same boat.
Install a bunch of crap on a linux box - and no "lib hell" happens. If you really need to you can keep 2 incompatible libraries without messing up. (Common example last year was binaries requiring older libc). No lib hell. Of course using a sane distribution mostly avoids that sort of work as the distributors keep the packages in sync.
However, the real problem is maintaining the setup. Installing new software. Adding new features. Changing new settings.
This is exactly what breaks windows. Do this for a while. The machine eventually becomes so slow and/or unstable that the only fix is a reinstall of everything
Unix isn't like that. Keeping a unix machine going for years with no complete reinstall is trivial. It is the way people manage unix machines. Even those who update their software several times a month, with security fixes, enhancements and test kernels. And upgrade their hardware too, including disks. No reinstall required. No doing the same configuration twice.
Oh, and for user-friendliness: What do windows types do when the day comes when the thing they have to change isn't in the control panel?
If Harley-Davidson somehow needs motorcycles for running their business (motorcycle couriers?) then they better use their own product. They would loose a lot of credibility and image by using Hondas...
The balance for the company is zero. you are right.
The balance for your department is -250K (to use your total.
I am not saying it costs MS nothing, but it can sure cost one of their divisions some of their budgets.
Consider the real cost of a office cd. They don't have to generate profit for the internal sales. So it is merely the price of copying cd's. Which is dirt cheap. Oh, and they can make a thousand installs from the same cd too.
This is sort of scary if it passes. Can you imagine Dell being sued repeatedly in Pennsylvania Civil Court because people have Windows PCs that occasionally crash
I am sure Dell can find a way to pass that problem on to microsoft (ms supply the buggy os, not Dell.) The worst case for this might be the end of preloaded windows in Pennsylvania.
I mean, why on earth would the DoD redistribute the software with their changes in it.
They might want to sell some advanced weapons (complete ships or whatever) to allied/friendly governments. These systems may contain software in binary form. They are then redistributing their software.
This get even more likely when the first generation of computerized ships gets old and is about to be replaced by new improved ships.
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If you have troops on the ground anyway, why not have a roboplane-operator among them? Send in the gunship and have the local operator take over. The ground troops knows where they are, and where the problem is too.
The robots in second variety was designed to kill (enemy) humans, not robots. The robot-designed robots merely lost the ability to detect non-enemy humans.
They used "radiation tabs" to pacify robots, unfortunately the new designs were lead-lined. I remember no indication wether that was a honest mistake or a sneaky attempt by the designers. Of course it seems weird that a robot advanced enough to engage in simple conversation couldn't use a more advanced way to identify friends & enemies...
And why bother - the pilot is just one more human. His weight (and pay) isn't that much. I don't think there is much to win, and even a automated plane would need to bring a pilot in case of "unexpected trouble"
No airplane has the capability to do a autopilot takeoff,
Because it seems unnecessary. Taking off is so easy that the pilots don't need help. And if the conditions are so bad that a human can't take off, you just leave the plane on the ground. You can't leave planes in the air indefinitely though, so more effort is put into landing.
Easy. Put a destruction charge in the electronics that blow it up _if_ it can't return as planned. (Shot down/home out of range/attempted capture) Save money if all goes well, blow up as usual otherwise.
You can obviously not fly around with a transponder that keeps saying "here I am, I am a friend..." because to the other side this is "Here I am, I am the enemy..."
So these things are turned off, making it harder for the _enemy_ to see you. No use having a stealth-plane with a transmitter marking its position...
I get around this by buying spare parts, not complete machines. I know a guy who bought a complete machine without a disk drive - and a spare drive. No ms os!
Why? The extra mechanics involved adds no real difficulty to the computers task.
Yes it does. Operating the brakes directly lets it use them in ways a human couldn't possibly do. The robot should drive an ordinary F1 with all the F1's built-in limitations and shortcomings. Put the robot in a car not prepared for a robot occupant.
Wether the computer has a direct feed from the cars sensors or points a camera at the dials and does some image processing is not important. Yes, this is important, because now the robot gets the same limitation (slow instrument dials etc.) as the human. It is not supposed to have advantages other than the internal.
A human has stereoscopic vision to measure distances. I think that would be a hard task to match.
Old stuff. There even were a linux-powered car in Italy that did this. It could drive the car 90% of the time, highways only.
Sort of reminds me of an argument why movie car-chases were so much better in the old days. It was because they used big american cars with hopeless traction and control. They could make a car spin around wildly at 50 km/h and later speed up the film. With a modern car you would have to soap the tires or actually drive as fast as it looks. Pulling the handbrake in a modern car still makes it spin wildly. Turn off the ABS (pull a fuse) and you can easily lock all 4 wheels too.
"Could it be done in 3D?"
Of course. Anything 2D is 3D too _per definition_. Everything just happens to be in the same plane, what a coincidence! So you can sell your 2D games as 3D or 4D or whatever.
If you want the full experience and unmodified sound - go to the concert. Fully analog, not modified by sampling, algorithms, or anything else.
CPU cycles are rapidly becoming cheaper. But "one cpu hour on a common processor" isn't. You just get more cycles in that hour.
On some PCs, you can disable onboard peripherals (NIC, sound, video, etc.) in the BIOS. Have you tried this?
Disabling stuff - such an odd way. Why not simply select the wanted card when starting X? There should need to disable the other.
Mostly enthusiasts have GPS now, but that will change. A kill-joy won't bother driving for half an hour, but there will be those who realize "hey - this thing is right here! Lets go get it..."
Make sunglasses out of those unwanted cd's. They are really good for that.
They seem efficient because they collect a lot without spending much. Thats not efficiency, it is the fact that they can collect like that. A corporation must manufacture some popular product in order to collect, a government don't have to.
Exactly. Bad for the home user system, but the server is different. Test a funky program on the server and X dies? Not big deal, because the web/database/xyz server is still up and running. All you messed up was the GUI, and that can be restarted. Tricky, but without disturbing the server stuff.
The beauty of unix: No quickrestore cd - because it isn't needed. Setup is a one-time thing, buy preloaded or hire a consultant if you don't want to know.
The unix computer simply don't crash after saving a file.
QWERTY was designed to slow people down. The arrangement ensures that you write slower, and get less trouble because of that. You can arrange commonly used arms away from each other and still get "e" at the right index finger (most used key at the fastest finger) but that wasn't done. "e" isn't directly available to any finger - you have to move tha hand too. Slowdown indeed.
Simple. Because Linus prefer the current way. The kernel is his piece of software.
Servers are not supposed to need respect. The word comes from "servant". They are there to do what I want, without making demands.
Reason most NT/Win systems fudge up is because of all the CRAP people put on them. If you want a webserver then an NT box running web/email/pop will stay up forever. Don't go installing a bunch of crap.
Why in the world do you allow your box to fall over because you install stuff on it? It ain't supposed to do that - ever.
Same goes for a linux box. Install a bunch of crap, get stuck in "lib hell" instead of dll hell and your on the same boat.
Install a bunch of crap on a linux box - and no "lib hell" happens. If you really need to you can keep 2 incompatible libraries without messing up. (Common example last year was binaries requiring older libc). No lib hell. Of course using a sane distribution mostly avoids that sort of work as the distributors keep the packages in sync.
This is exactly what breaks windows. Do this for a while. The machine eventually becomes so slow and/or unstable that the only fix is a reinstall of everything
Unix isn't like that. Keeping a unix machine going for years with no complete reinstall is trivial. It is the way people manage unix machines. Even those who update their software several times a month, with security fixes, enhancements and test kernels. And upgrade their hardware too, including disks. No reinstall required. No doing the same configuration twice.
Oh, and for user-friendliness: What do windows types do when the day comes when the thing they have to change isn't in the control panel?
If Harley-Davidson somehow needs motorcycles for running their business (motorcycle couriers?) then they better use their own product. They would loose a lot of credibility and image by using Hondas...
The balance for your department is -250K (to use your total.
I am not saying it costs MS nothing, but it can sure cost one of their divisions some of their budgets.
Consider the real cost of a office cd. They don't have to generate profit for the internal sales. So it is merely the price of copying cd's. Which is dirt cheap. Oh, and they can make a thousand installs from the same cd too.
I am sure Dell can find a way to pass that problem on to microsoft (ms supply the buggy os, not Dell.) The worst case for this might be the end of preloaded windows in Pennsylvania.
They might want to sell some advanced weapons (complete ships or whatever) to allied/friendly governments. These systems may contain software in binary form. They are then redistributing their software.
This get even more likely when the first generation of computerized ships gets old and is about to be replaced by new improved ships.