Efficient gas engines are heavy. Lighter gas engines used in RC applications are not at all what the kids would call fuel efficient and to generate the amount of electricity a normal quadcopter uses they'd probably go though 8 ounces of fuel in about 8 minutes which would actually be a step back in endurance, plus now you've added a whole bunch of moving parts to potentially go wrong. Plus, noise. Plus most of those RC engines are 2 stroke so pollution as well.
It's only once you're scaling your vehicle up to large drone size that a gas engine becomes reasonable, and that only if your drone is a fixed wing variety.
It's not a MS specific comment. MANY companies or groups have tried to take or hijack an OSS project and the community told them to go pound sand and made their own fork. Like MySQL and MariaDB. Or like Nagios and Icinga, or Mambo and Jooma, or even stuff like OpenBSD from NetBSD (caused by a power struggle within the NetBSD team).
I think you vastly overestimate the sophistication of drone swarms that an asymetric foe might field. For that matter, calling them swarms might be generous. For comparison the thing that killed and injured more soldiers in Iraq than anything else was the IED. Which is basically 19th century tech - bury a bomb, set it off with wires hooked to a detonator, or if you're feeling fancy, use a cellphone as the detonator (presuming it isnt jammed).
Developing a drone swarm, let alone one that could fly miles out to open sea and precision attack a warship, is a very lofty undertaking with an uncertain payoff.
You'd be surprised, there are some fantastically stupid criminals out there. $5 says this person was doing installs at their residence and activating Windows and Office on these machines then selling or installing the machines at customer sites, charging for the OS and Office without paying Microsoft their share. Invalidating the licenses would probably be the best way to get back at this person as it would make their customers come back to them en masse.
How do you figure? Drone "swarms" capable of doing any damage to a destroyer or carrier group will be incredibly easy pickings for a single CIWS system. And drone swarms with members small enough to evade detection or destruction by a CIWS system won't be able to do jack to those same assets. Drone swarms also won't be able to do anything to fast moving, high flying, GBU dropping aircraft.
These drones the US is developing on the other hand will be autonomous and in future able to seek human sized targets with a small explosive in coordination with the other members of the swarm. Imagine the US "clearing" a city like Fallujah not by blockading it and sending in the troops, but by broadcasting a warning to clear all civilians from the city and telling everyone to leave unarmed and scanning the departing people for weapons and known enemies. Then 24 hours later C130s fly over and dispense thousands or even tens of thousands of these swarm explosive drones and they sweep the city looking for human sized heat signatures, homing in and destroying any that are found. Then a wave of tread mounted heavy drones rolls in to secure the place for several months in conjunction with smaller swarms of overhead drones who look to pick off any stragglers who emerge from hiding due to being starved out.
The biggest winners are going to be the US and NATO (and of course the military industrial complex who will happily build hundreds of thousands of these drones). They'll be able to conduct invasions without risking a single life on their side and not have to worry about the political effects of soldiers' bodies coming home in coffins on the news.
Again though, there's no "trust". If they "do" something to Eclipse the codebase will fork and everyone will take the non MS fork like has happened so many times in the past.
OSS works a little differently. See Oracle and MySQL. Oops, I mean MariaDB.
As crazy as it sounds, Microsoft is probably actually trying to join the table in earnest for a change. They realize that the world is marching onward and that platforms are not as important as they used to be so they want to try and stay relevant. Witness their move to bring SQL server to Linux. They know that cloud/infrastructure on demand is where a lot of the world is going and SQL server on Windows just isn't going to be a big part of that picture. And honing in on Oracle's share of that space is a good motivation too.
> And all phones can go on the roads that we call the Internet > So I don't buy the different-road-network-per-OS argument
But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about Pi vs ODROID. There's a LOT of software for the Pi that won't run on the ODROID without some major work. That's the difference. Many people buy the Pi because they can pop Raspbian or OSMC on a memory card and off you go. I doubt they'd have the same breadth of choice out of the box with the ODROID, which is why it will not get as much traction.
Because a lot of people are familiar with the Pi series and using it as a reference point is useful? It's not really 'knocking' the Pi to say the ODROID is faster at a few bucks more if it's true, it's just stating reality.
Yes, I'm sure most home Apple users take weekly backups and drop them in their safety deposit boxes. Just like they constantly update their virus scanners.
Or they do neither of those things because Apple's marketing drum that's been beating for the last decade has been "you can't get malware and just use Time Machine to be perfectly safe!"
I'm not saying Apple is completely at fault, but they did go out of their way to make it sound like they take care of everything.
You do realize that no Islamic dictatorship would ever launch a nuke in a missile at the US right? Because that would be an open invitation and a clear marker for the US to blow them off the map. Those nukes on missiles will be used against their neighbors. Or, if the US will be attacked by one, it will happen when the nuke comes into a harbor aboard a container ship and detonates well before anyone can inspect said container ship. Spending a ton of money on missile defense will not help with either of those usage cases.
Actually no. Pure Communism is a benign society that actually does very well. In fact, the US and Canada have many examples of it with the Amish and Hutterite colonies. The problem is SCALE. Both of these groups know if the colony gets too large - more than a few hundred members, the societal ties that make Communism work start to break down, which is why once a certain size is reached the colony sends a large chosen section of its members off to start another colony.
When you try to apply Communism to a country, you inevitably end up with a hellish blend of Communism and Totalitarianism to try and keep control of the monster.
I'll concede I was mistaken about the without a warrant portion, but I still stand by the slippery slope that will be exacerbated by cops wanting expedience. For example, when we first heard about Stingrays various law enforcement said they were only supposed to be used with a warrant. How did that go?
The problem is this is how the slippery slope is entered. Today it's a terrorist's phone, tomorrow a drug dealer's, the day after that, a shoplifter's. The day after that, arrested protestors' phones. The day after that, anyone who is arrested for any reason gets their phone swept. And so on. The Supreme Court has already said that a locked phone is protected under the 4th amendment. Just exactly where does the line get drawn on who that amendment no longer applies to?
Are you sure? Laser guided missiles follow the shine of the laser, whatever is "illuminated" as the tac speak calls it. is considered the target. Watching a plane you're firing a laser at launch a missile at you, you'd probably drop the laser (turning it off) and run like hell. So now there's this missile heading roughly in the area of where a laser last was. That sounds safe.
Or better yet, you lase the plane, plane fires a missile and then you shine your laser at the front door of the local cop shop. Missile follows the shiny and sets off 50 pounds of high yield explosive in the lobby. I don't think a lot of people would be very happy about such a system.
They don't HAVE to no, but you really don't want your pilots sitting there pressing a couple of buttons and only getting actual hands on feel with the controls during emergencies. You need the pilots to actually interact with the plane regularly to keep them useful for when those things the autopilot actually cannot cope with arise.
Wishful thinking, and straight out of scifi unfortunately. A laser that melts granite isn't something easily packaged and made airborne, let alone able to be hooked to a precision targeting system to fire on a discrete target miles away with pinpoint accuracy.
Plus I can think of at least a half dozen ways to get such a system to "return" fire to a different location or a location without a person. I imagine this system would cause a shitstorm the first time someone used one of those methods to use it to attack the mayor's house or similar. Or heaven forbid someone tricked it into helping with a murder.
There's quite a few differences. Firstly, there's a level of anonymity, nobody in my "real" life knows who I am on Slashdot (or would even use Slashdot for that matter). Secondly, the way social media works, if someone posts a reply or a @ to you on Twitter for example, all of your followers see that as well. If someone replies to this post, only those people who have bothered to snake through it will see it. Same for Facebook and similar, posts to your wall are open to all and they get updated on them, as well as being able to see reply chains. Conversely if some random dude cruises by and replies to this message a month from now trying to start shit, nobody will ever see it.
But you can also never reason with them. One of the reasons I don't use social media is I don't feel like engaging with random idiots who are either some tenuous friend of a friend coworker's cousin by marriage 14 places removed or complete strangers who just happened on a comment. Dealing with that crap can sometimes be draining even if you're only reading their comment and then completely ignoring it afterward. It takes up mental cycles no matter what, and when some of these people are trying to get a deliberate rise out of you, you occasionally feel a stab of wanting to respond to the provocation.
Much easier to not be in that situation to begin with. For me the "ups" of being on social media and engaging with friends is outweighed by the potential for conflict with random clowns. Plus I find a lot of people on social media overshare waaaaaay too much.
Exactly. You plug in the address to a nav system and what's the first bit of info it will tell you? How far and how long it will take to get there. You have to be some kind of moron to ignore that.
I don't even know where to start with such a moronic statement.... Maybe when you graduate and get into the real world for a few years you might see things differently, like as in closer to reality.
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You are assuming that 8kWh is extracted in some manner that approaches efficiency. As I've said, these little RC engines are anything but efficient.
I own a quad. I can promise you the racket they make is NOTHING compared to what a 2 stroke RC plane motor makes.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtCQd7OlOU
Most lawn mowers and leaf blowers are quieter.
Efficient gas engines are heavy. Lighter gas engines used in RC applications are not at all what the kids would call fuel efficient and to generate the amount of electricity a normal quadcopter uses they'd probably go though 8 ounces of fuel in about 8 minutes which would actually be a step back in endurance, plus now you've added a whole bunch of moving parts to potentially go wrong. Plus, noise. Plus most of those RC engines are 2 stroke so pollution as well.
It's only once you're scaling your vehicle up to large drone size that a gas engine becomes reasonable, and that only if your drone is a fixed wing variety.
It's not a MS specific comment. MANY companies or groups have tried to take or hijack an OSS project and the community told them to go pound sand and made their own fork. Like MySQL and MariaDB. Or like Nagios and Icinga, or Mambo and Jooma, or even stuff like OpenBSD from NetBSD (caused by a power struggle within the NetBSD team).
I think you vastly overestimate the sophistication of drone swarms that an asymetric foe might field. For that matter, calling them swarms might be generous. For comparison the thing that killed and injured more soldiers in Iraq than anything else was the IED. Which is basically 19th century tech - bury a bomb, set it off with wires hooked to a detonator, or if you're feeling fancy, use a cellphone as the detonator (presuming it isnt jammed).
Developing a drone swarm, let alone one that could fly miles out to open sea and precision attack a warship, is a very lofty undertaking with an uncertain payoff.
You'd be surprised, there are some fantastically stupid criminals out there. $5 says this person was doing installs at their residence and activating Windows and Office on these machines then selling or installing the machines at customer sites, charging for the OS and Office without paying Microsoft their share. Invalidating the licenses would probably be the best way to get back at this person as it would make their customers come back to them en masse.
Annnd, you're on some list somewhere now. And we all know what happened last time someone tried to burn the Pentagon...
How do you figure? Drone "swarms" capable of doing any damage to a destroyer or carrier group will be incredibly easy pickings for a single CIWS system. And drone swarms with members small enough to evade detection or destruction by a CIWS system won't be able to do jack to those same assets. Drone swarms also won't be able to do anything to fast moving, high flying, GBU dropping aircraft.
These drones the US is developing on the other hand will be autonomous and in future able to seek human sized targets with a small explosive in coordination with the other members of the swarm. Imagine the US "clearing" a city like Fallujah not by blockading it and sending in the troops, but by broadcasting a warning to clear all civilians from the city and telling everyone to leave unarmed and scanning the departing people for weapons and known enemies. Then 24 hours later C130s fly over and dispense thousands or even tens of thousands of these swarm explosive drones and they sweep the city looking for human sized heat signatures, homing in and destroying any that are found. Then a wave of tread mounted heavy drones rolls in to secure the place for several months in conjunction with smaller swarms of overhead drones who look to pick off any stragglers who emerge from hiding due to being starved out.
The biggest winners are going to be the US and NATO (and of course the military industrial complex who will happily build hundreds of thousands of these drones). They'll be able to conduct invasions without risking a single life on their side and not have to worry about the political effects of soldiers' bodies coming home in coffins on the news.
Social Security is a pension... and one many people think won't be there in 30 years. So there's that....
Again though, there's no "trust". If they "do" something to Eclipse the codebase will fork and everyone will take the non MS fork like has happened so many times in the past.
OSS works a little differently. See Oracle and MySQL. Oops, I mean MariaDB.
As crazy as it sounds, Microsoft is probably actually trying to join the table in earnest for a change. They realize that the world is marching onward and that platforms are not as important as they used to be so they want to try and stay relevant. Witness their move to bring SQL server to Linux. They know that cloud/infrastructure on demand is where a lot of the world is going and SQL server on Windows just isn't going to be a big part of that picture. And honing in on Oracle's share of that space is a good motivation too.
> And all phones can go on the roads that we call the Internet
> So I don't buy the different-road-network-per-OS argument
But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about Pi vs ODROID. There's a LOT of software for the Pi that won't run on the ODROID without some major work. That's the difference. Many people buy the Pi because they can pop Raspbian or OSMC on a memory card and off you go. I doubt they'd have the same breadth of choice out of the box with the ODROID, which is why it will not get as much traction.
Because a lot of people are familiar with the Pi series and using it as a reference point is useful? It's not really 'knocking' the Pi to say the ODROID is faster at a few bucks more if it's true, it's just stating reality.
Yes, I'm sure most home Apple users take weekly backups and drop them in their safety deposit boxes. Just like they constantly update their virus scanners.
Or they do neither of those things because Apple's marketing drum that's been beating for the last decade has been "you can't get malware and just use Time Machine to be perfectly safe!"
I'm not saying Apple is completely at fault, but they did go out of their way to make it sound like they take care of everything.
You do realize that no Islamic dictatorship would ever launch a nuke in a missile at the US right? Because that would be an open invitation and a clear marker for the US to blow them off the map. Those nukes on missiles will be used against their neighbors. Or, if the US will be attacked by one, it will happen when the nuke comes into a harbor aboard a container ship and detonates well before anyone can inspect said container ship. Spending a ton of money on missile defense will not help with either of those usage cases.
Actually no. Pure Communism is a benign society that actually does very well. In fact, the US and Canada have many examples of it with the Amish and Hutterite colonies. The problem is SCALE. Both of these groups know if the colony gets too large - more than a few hundred members, the societal ties that make Communism work start to break down, which is why once a certain size is reached the colony sends a large chosen section of its members off to start another colony.
When you try to apply Communism to a country, you inevitably end up with a hellish blend of Communism and Totalitarianism to try and keep control of the monster.
I'll concede I was mistaken about the without a warrant portion, but I still stand by the slippery slope that will be exacerbated by cops wanting expedience. For example, when we first heard about Stingrays various law enforcement said they were only supposed to be used with a warrant. How did that go?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150823/23323932038/police-regularly-use-stingrays-without-warrant-to-find-petty-criminals-then-try-to-hide-that-fact.shtml
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/nypd-used-stingrays-over-1000-times-without-warrants-since-2008/
http://epic.org/foia/fbi/stingray/
Not very well.
The problem is this is how the slippery slope is entered. Today it's a terrorist's phone, tomorrow a drug dealer's, the day after that, a shoplifter's. The day after that, arrested protestors' phones. The day after that, anyone who is arrested for any reason gets their phone swept. And so on. The Supreme Court has already said that a locked phone is protected under the 4th amendment. Just exactly where does the line get drawn on who that amendment no longer applies to?
Are you sure? Laser guided missiles follow the shine of the laser, whatever is "illuminated" as the tac speak calls it. is considered the target. Watching a plane you're firing a laser at launch a missile at you, you'd probably drop the laser (turning it off) and run like hell. So now there's this missile heading roughly in the area of where a laser last was. That sounds safe.
Or better yet, you lase the plane, plane fires a missile and then you shine your laser at the front door of the local cop shop. Missile follows the shiny and sets off 50 pounds of high yield explosive in the lobby. I don't think a lot of people would be very happy about such a system.
They don't HAVE to no, but you really don't want your pilots sitting there pressing a couple of buttons and only getting actual hands on feel with the controls during emergencies. You need the pilots to actually interact with the plane regularly to keep them useful for when those things the autopilot actually cannot cope with arise.
Wishful thinking, and straight out of scifi unfortunately. A laser that melts granite isn't something easily packaged and made airborne, let alone able to be hooked to a precision targeting system to fire on a discrete target miles away with pinpoint accuracy.
Plus I can think of at least a half dozen ways to get such a system to "return" fire to a different location or a location without a person. I imagine this system would cause a shitstorm the first time someone used one of those methods to use it to attack the mayor's house or similar. Or heaven forbid someone tricked it into helping with a murder.
There's quite a few differences. Firstly, there's a level of anonymity, nobody in my "real" life knows who I am on Slashdot (or would even use Slashdot for that matter). Secondly, the way social media works, if someone posts a reply or a @ to you on Twitter for example, all of your followers see that as well. If someone replies to this post, only those people who have bothered to snake through it will see it. Same for Facebook and similar, posts to your wall are open to all and they get updated on them, as well as being able to see reply chains. Conversely if some random dude cruises by and replies to this message a month from now trying to start shit, nobody will ever see it.
They're two different animals.
But you can also never reason with them. One of the reasons I don't use social media is I don't feel like engaging with random idiots who are either some tenuous friend of a friend coworker's cousin by marriage 14 places removed or complete strangers who just happened on a comment. Dealing with that crap can sometimes be draining even if you're only reading their comment and then completely ignoring it afterward. It takes up mental cycles no matter what, and when some of these people are trying to get a deliberate rise out of you, you occasionally feel a stab of wanting to respond to the provocation.
Much easier to not be in that situation to begin with. For me the "ups" of being on social media and engaging with friends is outweighed by the potential for conflict with random clowns. Plus I find a lot of people on social media overshare waaaaaay too much.
Yeah well, some people thing Wireshark is crazy scary to use so they prefer the simple (incorrect) approach.
Exactly. You plug in the address to a nav system and what's the first bit of info it will tell you? How far and how long it will take to get there. You have to be some kind of moron to ignore that.
I don't even know where to start with such a moronic statement.... Maybe when you graduate and get into the real world for a few years you might see things differently, like as in closer to reality.