Well my last project used 40 developers, 3 countries and 3 time zones and got a product delivered ahead of time.
Who wrote documentation? Who agreed who should do what parts? How were implementation decisions made? I bet there was a lot of structure that you may not be aware of. If all you did was work to a single spec then I bet you were not in design or management. They used a process.
The number of developers is completely irrelevant, look at Linux for instance, hundreds of developers, all on there own and yet the product comes together perfectly.
With a lot of work done on the API that all programmers must follow.
A number of people working on the same project with no discussion and no documentation is just anarchy.
For instance when I write large software projects, I just start coding, I pick a place to start at and go. I wait until I have large testable blocks completed and then debug and integrate them. I don't follow and form of standard development process and yet have never been held up via a deadline of meeting request.
That's great for a project where one person works on it. It does not work when you have many more people working in teams on different parts that all must work together. The biggest ting your "process" lacks is coordination and coordination is necessary when more than one person is working on a project. The more people the more coordination is needed. In a team what happens when one member changes code that breaks code from other team members? That is where APIs and process comes in.
The only things you need to write good code are the right language, the right platform and proper requirements.
There are more than one way to implement requirements and that has to be discussed and documented within the teams.
Have you ever worked in a team on a project? From your comments I doubt it.
Here are a couple of points; 1. Many musicians have families and work to create an inheritance for them. If there is no copyright past death there is no inheritance. 2. Music corporations are not going to pour millions into a rising star if they can get no return if the artist dies.
giving copyright to corporations for 200 years.
Bye the way, The limits are death of artist + 70 years or 120 years from date of creation for works for hire. Where does the 200 years come from? I haven't seen an artist live for 130 years after copyrighting a work.
You might want to check out the Vancouver Development Cost Levies. They go toward the cost of the infrastructure you mention and are not small. Levies like this exist in most jurisdictions.
When these small houses were built there was lots of room and fewer people. That has changed and there are more people who need to live in the same area. Neighbourhoods will change and densify. The only alternative is to grow outward and that is not a viable option as it creates land use and traffic issues.
As for the aesthetics issues, older homes are built very inefficiently. There is a lot of wasted space. Newer construction has to use the space more efficiently to allow more people to live on the same lot. Newer construction will be boxier as it is more space efficient.
Growth is like a balloon. You either let it grow up or, if you try to push it down, it will grow out. Neighbourhoods will change. Deal with it.
One of the main error sources for GPS is the propagation delay of signals that go through the atmosphere. An antenna can be in the exact same location but report a different location from day to day. This error is usually eliminated using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS">Differential GPS.
Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) is an enhancement to Global Positioning System that provides improved location accuracy, from the 15-meter nominal GPS accuracy to about 10 cm in case of the best implementations.
DGPS uses a network of fixed, ground-based reference stations to broadcast the difference between the positions indicated by the GPS (satellite) systems and the known fixed positions. These stations broadcast the difference between the measured satellite pseudoranges and actual (internally computed) pseudoranges, and receiver stations may correct their pseudoranges by the same amount. The digital correction signal is typically broadcast locally over ground-based transmitters of shorter range.
I see no mention of using differential GPS in this system.
Nowhere in the FAA release does it mention package delivery. It only covers the following;
CNN will be researching how visual line-of-sight operations might be used for newsgathering in urban areas. PrecisionHawk, a manufacturer, will be surveying crops in rural areas using unmanned aircraft flying outside of the pilot’s direct vision. BNSF Railroad will explore the challenges of using these vehicles to inspect their rail infrastructure beyond visual line-of-sight in isolated areas.
When they can get things to work correctly in snow and heavy rain then we can think about driverless trucks. I doubt that a trucking system that only works in good weather would be viable.
Sure there are some very bad truck drivers but I bet that the great majority of truck drivers are very good. The issue is that every time someone sees a bonehead truck driver the following happens; 1. The incident is stuck in our heads and stays add to the "bone head driver" tally. 2. We tell friends which stick it in their heads and updates their counters too.
What happens when a bone head truck driver is on the news? Thousands of counters are updated. Have you ever remembered or told a friend about a truck that was driven correctly? We don't count the number of good truck drivers just the bad ones. This leads to the perception that many truck drivers are bone heads when in reality it might be only a few.
Because they are the biggest and need to fit into a 30 second spot.
and the same cars (Police Cruiser/Van fire, Police cruiser swarmed, black car on fire)
See above
According to you the government lies, the news agencies don't check but you can get an accurate picture from a few posts on the internet. That is not likely.
There is no remedy to death but that does not justify looting and arson of private property.
You seem to hold property in a markedly higher esteem than human life.
I most certainly do not. I also don't see how burning and looting private property has anything to do with how the police treat minorities. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Show me where the founding fathers burned down private owned buildings and stole from private citizens not directly related to government action? There may be damage during the war but not riots.
PS. The Boston Tea Party does not count as it was a direct protest against the Tea Act in 1773.
Don't you think that the new agencies fact checked? I think it is strange that you do all of this "research" but don't cite any references. How did you do your research? Surfing the web? Don't you think that only interesting pictures would be posted? The internet is not a complete history. It only has what people post.
Take a look at thesevideos. Those two groups make up much more than a few dozen.
Yet we're told that its necessary to equip police like they're fighting a war, suspend civil liberties and arrest hundreds/thousands all because of the massive amounts of footage of the same 2-5 burning cars and 5-15 damaged businesses probably caused by no more than a few dozen miscreants.
Baltimore Police said 235 arrests were made overnight -- 201 adults and 34 juveniles. Twenty officers were injured in Monday night's violence. The mayor's office said the city's fire department dealt with fires in 144 vehicles and 15 buildings. Baltimore police said one person is in critical condition after one of those fires.
That is just fires. Then there is the looting that did not generate fires.
So you have greatly exaggerated arrests and greatly under reported vehicle fires.
Do you see no difference between burning and looting and holing up in a compound?
police regularly complain, well, they're just uppity thugs and vandals.
No they are not. Have all the organizes peaceful protests you want and I will not call you thugs and vandals. When they cross the line to include destruction of property and theft then they become thugs and vandals. There is a line between what is lawful protest and what is not. Burning buildings and vehicles and looting from stores is not lawful protest.
Sorry but when you cross that line you lose support for your cause. If you act like animals be prepared to be treated as such.
Yes. A tool that can be used to deal with large events like riots should bot be ignored just because it was originally designed for a different purpose.
using it against American citizens who are engaged in the Constitutionally protected activity of criticizing their government.
Sorry but assault, vandalism, arson, destruction of public property, looting, etc are not Constitutionally protected activities no matter what the reason. The minute a protester starts doing any of those things they are no longer protesters and are now thugs and vandals. Sorry but the "we are so mad we can't control ourselves" is just a cop out.
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Well my last project used 40 developers, 3 countries and 3 time zones and got a product delivered ahead of time.
Who wrote documentation? Who agreed who should do what parts? How were implementation decisions made? I bet there was a lot of structure that you may not be aware of. If all you did was work to a single spec then I bet you were not in design or management. They used a process.
The number of developers is completely irrelevant, look at Linux for instance, hundreds of developers, all on there own and yet the product comes together perfectly.
With a lot of work done on the API that all programmers must follow.
A number of people working on the same project with no discussion and no documentation is just anarchy.
For instance when I write large software projects, I just start coding, I pick a place to start at and go. I wait until I have large testable blocks completed and then debug and integrate them. I don't follow and form of standard development process and yet have never been held up via a deadline of meeting request.
That's great for a project where one person works on it. It does not work when you have many more people working in teams on different parts that all must work together. The biggest ting your "process" lacks is coordination and coordination is necessary when more than one person is working on a project. The more people the more coordination is needed. In a team what happens when one member changes code that breaks code from other team members? That is where APIs and process comes in.
The only things you need to write good code are the right language, the right platform and proper requirements.
There are more than one way to implement requirements and that has to be discussed and documented within the teams.
Have you ever worked in a team on a project? From your comments I doubt it.
Here are a couple of points;
1. Many musicians have families and work to create an inheritance for them. If there is no copyright past death there is no inheritance.
2. Music corporations are not going to pour millions into a rising star if they can get no return if the artist dies.
giving copyright to corporations for 200 years.
Bye the way, The limits are death of artist + 70 years or 120 years from date of creation for works for hire. Where does the 200 years come from? I haven't seen an artist live for 130 years after copyrighting a work.
If the false positives are low enough people can make basic preparations.
Anyone in an earthquake zone should already have made basic preparations.
You might want to check out the Vancouver Development Cost Levies. They go toward the cost of the infrastructure you mention and are not small. Levies like this exist in most jurisdictions.
When these small houses were built there was lots of room and fewer people. That has changed and there are more people who need to live in the same area. Neighbourhoods will change and densify. The only alternative is to grow outward and that is not a viable option as it creates land use and traffic issues.
As for the aesthetics issues, older homes are built very inefficiently. There is a lot of wasted space. Newer construction has to use the space more efficiently to allow more people to live on the same lot. Newer construction will be boxier as it is more space efficient.
Growth is like a balloon. You either let it grow up or, if you try to push it down, it will grow out. Neighbourhoods will change. Deal with it.
In both cases you need to get data from the reference station in real time
I didn't see them mention a reference station at all.
But not by companies in the US.
As of quite a few years ago they only do that in war zones.
One of the main error sources for GPS is the propagation delay of signals that go through the atmosphere. An antenna can be in the exact same location but report a different location from day to day. This error is usually eliminated using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS">Differential GPS.
Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) is an enhancement to Global Positioning System that provides improved location accuracy, from the 15-meter nominal GPS accuracy to about 10 cm in case of the best implementations.
DGPS uses a network of fixed, ground-based reference stations to broadcast the difference between the positions indicated by the GPS (satellite) systems and the known fixed positions. These stations broadcast the difference between the measured satellite pseudoranges and actual (internally computed) pseudoranges, and receiver stations may correct their pseudoranges by the same amount. The digital correction signal is typically broadcast locally over ground-based transmitters of shorter range.
I see no mention of using differential GPS in this system.
Nowhere in the FAA release does it mention package delivery. It only covers the following;
CNN will be researching how visual line-of-sight operations might be used for newsgathering in urban areas.
PrecisionHawk, a manufacturer, will be surveying crops in rural areas using unmanned aircraft flying outside of the pilot’s direct vision.
BNSF Railroad will explore the challenges of using these vehicles to inspect their rail infrastructure beyond visual line-of-sight in isolated areas.
When they can get things to work correctly in snow and heavy rain then we can think about driverless trucks. I doubt that a trucking system that only works in good weather would be viable.
Sure there are some very bad truck drivers but I bet that the great majority of truck drivers are very good. The issue is that every time someone sees a bonehead truck driver the following happens;
1. The incident is stuck in our heads and stays add to the "bone head driver" tally.
2. We tell friends which stick it in their heads and updates their counters too.
What happens when a bone head truck driver is on the news? Thousands of counters are updated. Have you ever remembered or told a friend about a truck that was driven correctly? We don't count the number of good truck drivers just the bad ones. This leads to the perception that many truck drivers are bone heads when in reality it might be only a few.
Wait for Apple to sue them like they sued these guys.
showing the same 2 fires (CVS, Senior Center)
Because they are the biggest and need to fit into a 30 second spot.
and the same cars (Police Cruiser/Van fire, Police cruiser swarmed, black car on fire)
See above
According to you the government lies, the news agencies don't check but you can get an accurate picture from a few posts on the internet. That is not likely.
the remedy is not so easily arranged.
There is no remedy to death but that does not justify looting and arson of private property.
You seem to hold property in a markedly higher esteem than human life.
I most certainly do not. I also don't see how burning and looting private property has anything to do with how the police treat minorities. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Show me where the founding fathers burned down private owned buildings and stole from private citizens not directly related to government action? There may be damage during the war but not riots.
PS. The Boston Tea Party does not count as it was a direct protest against the Tea Act in 1773.
Revolution does not need to include destruction of private property. How is burning down a old age home helping revolution?
Don't you think that the new agencies fact checked? I think it is strange that you do all of this "research" but don't cite any references. How did you do your research? Surfing the web? Don't you think that only interesting pictures would be posted? The internet is not a complete history. It only has what people post.
Take a look at these videos. Those two groups make up much more than a few dozen.
You can protest effectively without rioting, burning and looting. It worked pretty well for India to get it's own government.
Actually it was. Learn a little history. The Boston Tea Party was a protest about taxation without representation and specifically taxation on tea.
How do you justify burning down a senior citizen's complex?
Yet we're told that its necessary to equip police like they're fighting a war, suspend civil liberties and arrest hundreds/thousands all because of the massive amounts of footage of the same 2-5 burning cars and 5-15 damaged businesses probably caused by no more than a few dozen miscreants.
You might want to get your figures correct;
Baltimore Police said 235 arrests were made overnight -- 201 adults and 34 juveniles. Twenty officers were injured in Monday night's violence.
The mayor's office said the city's fire department dealt with fires in 144 vehicles and 15 buildings. Baltimore police said one person is in critical condition after one of those fires.
That is just fires. Then there is the looting that did not generate fires.
So you have greatly exaggerated arrests and greatly under reported vehicle fires.
Do you see no difference between burning and looting and holing up in a compound?
police regularly complain, well, they're just uppity thugs and vandals.
No they are not. Have all the organizes peaceful protests you want and I will not call you thugs and vandals. When they cross the line to include destruction of property and theft then they become thugs and vandals. There is a line between what is lawful protest and what is not. Burning buildings and vehicles and looting from stores is not lawful protest.
Sorry but when you cross that line you lose support for your cause. If you act like animals be prepared to be treated as such.
Why are you arguing otherwise?
Yes. A tool that can be used to deal with large events like riots should bot be ignored just because it was originally designed for a different purpose.
using it against American citizens who are engaged in the Constitutionally protected activity of criticizing their government.
Sorry but assault, vandalism, arson, destruction of public property, looting, etc are not Constitutionally protected activities no matter what the reason. The minute a protester starts doing any of those things they are no longer protesters and are now thugs and vandals. Sorry but the "we are so mad we can't control ourselves" is just a cop out.