Could this be used for civilian airports? Most definitely!
No it couldn't.
Technically it could be built, of course, but all it will do is save a few metres of runway. It won't affect the amount of fuel an aircraft has to carry nor the thrust its engines have to produce. I don't even want to think about the failure modes....
DRM is a terrible idea, of course, but there is a more sinister movement taking place, which is the gradual transfer of music to streaming services.
So long as we can still buy real hard copies of the music such as CD, download or even vinyl then we retain personal control over our collections. I can imagine that in the future new music will only be available on DRM-corrupted streaming services and we will have no choice but to subscribe to one or another of them.
Wish I could find the link, but a couple of days ago I chanced upon a site that described a Python library that would build the gui automatically just by defining some very simple hooks in the body of the code. It was totally ugly utilitarian stuff for science labs, but it meant that even the Fortran refugees could make guis. Anyone know what this was?
because it quite clearly doesn't have to be if you're sensible.
That said, training for a 3-hour marathon at age 49 took a heck of a lot more out of me than it did at age 30; entropy has its way in the end, you're right about that.
The Boeing 787 shows the pitfalls of outsourcing in aerospace. We are way more conservative now in any outsourcing; it has to be 'monkey' work following very strict processes that we develop and debug on site before hand. The key thing is that all the creative, IP generating work is kept in Europe and only the really mundane stuff goes offshore.
There is always the unvocalised issue that any IP sent to an Indian outsourcing company will be stolen.
Rubbish. I've been running since I was 18 but I just got my best ever marathon and half-marathon results at age 49, (2:57 and 1:22) Work has forced a year off this year but I expect to go even quicker next year.
The US take this very seriously. I designed a system that is part of the F-35. My UK company with it's US partner set up a critical test at a Boeing facility and I was sent over to run it. I arrived on site to be told I didn't have clearance to even watch the tests because I was not a US citizen and it would take six months to get me clearance. Boeing said that if I I was caught I would go to jail and they could be shut down.
One of the reasons that Nokia took pretty much the whole market for Windows Phone was the Here suite of apps; turn by turn navigation, public transport routing, live traffic, downloadable maps and local discovery and all of it integrated into the OS. Very slick. The other reason was the cameras, of course.
I honestly can't remember the last time I had a problem with a device driver in either Windows or Linux. Maybe I got lucky? Back in Ubuntu Warty days I remember it being a major project to get a scanner to work, but for the last few years Simple Scan on Ubuntu has *just worked* even for networked scanners. With Windows the print function worked but it had to install a Metro App to run the scanner (which it did automatically) I wasn't sure I was completely happy with this behaviour, but at least I didn't have to install the, always hideous, HP bloatware suite.
To be fair they have never made any excuse about this, which makes sense when you think that their investors are going to want to know why the f*** they are giving away an asset paid for by their money FOR FREE. This is Microsoft adapting to work within the current business environment to the best advantage of these same shareholders. They have a legal obligation to do this or they go to jail.
...is because there is a century of the best engineering behind them, with levels of failure and fault identification and mitigation that most people would find obsessive and arcane. Throw in a Swiss cheese like WiFi access and you have a serious disruption and a non-trivial influence that I for one, as an engineer designing aircraft safety systems, do not particularly want to see, It's nice that I can read my Kindle during take-off. That's enough.
Nokia is selling off Here Maps. Bought for $6B, yours for a steal at $2B! Seriously, check out Here it's a way better service than either Google's or Microsoft's but thanks to the tangled history it is the location service behind all of the WindowsPhone navigation apps.
I agree with everything in your post, including this, but the basic windows phone keyboard works at least as well as Swype, the autocomplete is almost telepathic.
I am somewhat surprised to say how much better I find the Windows Phone UI to be over Android and iOS. I am guessing individually downloaded apps will matter less and less and integrated services more and more in the future, so Microsoft may very well achieve the same thing in the mobile world as they did in the PC world.
Yes, my thoughts too. I think the shift to W10 running on all devices with the UI kinda intelligently morphing to be appropriate for the size will help Microsoft long term as people get used to it, forget how bad W8 was and get on with their lives. (Try the previews). Despite being something of a Microsoft enthusiast I still find I use my favourite apps, Skype and OneNote, on my Nexus 7 far more than on the phone and hardly ever on the desktop. I think Microsoft are making a pragmatic and sensible move.
I'm posting AC because I have mod points tonight, but my handle is "occasional_dabbler" with ID 1735162. I wanted to alert you to this Bill because I mostly agree with your posts. The FAA are under intolerable pressure, Their prime function is to ensure that aerospace activities are safe for EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING; MY HAMSTER is protected by the FAA. They are not being as "obstructive as politically possible", they are desperately fighting a rearguard action against the FUCKING IDIOTS who want to fill our skies with random death machines.
I strongly suspect they have had their balls crushed to make this one-off allowance and they have their entire field team watching with prejudice ready to down the machine as soon as it twitches,
Commercial autonomous drones are not going to happen. At least not until we trust AIs. We can just achieve an acceptable mission success rate in military environments with military drones (which have ALWAYS more human pilots than any physical aeroplane, just not co-located.)
The only time in your entire life when you have been 'safe' to the FAA's satisfaction was when you were strapped into an airplane seat.
I was using a little bit of hyperbole. Currently there are no aircraft equipped for auto-taxi or auto-take-off precisely because this is something that a human pilot can handle better than a machine. It is not even an option offered nor are airports equipped to support it. Auto pilot can be engaged immediately after wheels-up at about 500ft and in principle, with a Cat III aircraft and landing runway, it can fly the whole journey from there to the taxiway, where the pilot would once again take over.
We already have the technology available to fill in those missing parts, should the need ever arise.
Thank you. I know plenty of pilots both socially and professionally. I know from what they tell me that, yep, that was one we wouldn't have foreseen, several times, per pilot. Yet you only get a maximum of one catastrophic event per pilot. I think it's quite possible that pilots avoid more than four otherwise-catastrophic events per career for the one they may cause.
I design aircraft engines for a living. Much as I am an early-adopter type I cannot agree with the assertion that a pilotless plane is safer than one with a man in the loop. At least not yet.
The question is not whether we could build a plane that could fly itself safely, we already build plenty of those, they're called 'drones' and any modern airliner can be specced with options to fly itself from gate to gate on an ordinary day including typical bad weather. The question that is not being properly addressed is this: does having a human pilot avoid more accidents that would have happened, than they cause by error? It is very hard to quantify the former number but tragically easy to quantify the latter.
Microsoft is really not the company it used to be.
Companies are made of people and they change, grow up/older and move on. It is a huge company and in any such organisation it takes a long time for culture and strategy to change significantly.
Anyone who witnessed the hideousness of the SCO litigation has to look at a new Microsoft where FOSS is actively supported (even if there are strings attached) and where employees can talk about open-sourcing the OS without being fired on the spot has to accept that they are at least heading in a better direction than they were.
At least in UK accounting a subscription model has benefits for anyone who can claim a Windows licence as a business expense. A subscription would be classed as an operating expense and can be wholly offset against tax as part of the cost of sales. A licence on the other hand is an asset, which can only be depreciated over at best, three years (50% the first year then 25% for the following two)
This has a number of effects: By reducing my costs in the current year and at the same time being able to offset the entire cost improves my cashflow and reduces my tax burden. Also, by avoiding the ownership of an asset I reduce the book value of the company so I increase the ratio of earnings to investment (ROI). The additional cashflow will allow me to grow the business; I should be able to get a good return on the cash or else why am I bothering to be in business in the first place?
It may well be that Microsoft make more money out of my company using a subsription model, but that does not necessarily mean that my company makes less money, it all depends on just how I can juggle the numbers and what I do with the cash.
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant, but I have been a subcontractor running a limited company for several years.
Yes, we British don't really have an historical right of ownership of the Falklands, it's not like they are on our doorstep, or even in our hemisphere. However, the Argentinians have never had a presence on the islands (except for the famously brief war) and their only interest is in the oil reserves suspected, and now being found, in the surrounding waters. The war was also an attempt by the Junta to boost their flagging popularity in Argentina and a corresponding opportunity for the Conservative government to boost their own flagging popularity in the UK. There are no white hats in this fight.
The only tangible facts are that the people who now live on the islands voted overwhelmingly to remain under British sovereignty and that Mrs Thatcher had bigger balls (and better-trained special forces) than the Junta.
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Could this be used for civilian airports? Most definitely!
No it couldn't.
Technically it could be built, of course, but all it will do is save a few metres of runway. It won't affect the amount of fuel an aircraft has to carry nor the thrust its engines have to produce. I don't even want to think about the failure modes....
So long as we can still buy real hard copies of the music such as CD, download or even vinyl then we retain personal control over our collections. I can imagine that in the future new music will only be available on DRM-corrupted streaming services and we will have no choice but to subscribe to one or another of them.
Wish I could find the link, but a couple of days ago I chanced upon a site that described a Python library that would build the gui automatically just by defining some very simple hooks in the body of the code. It was totally ugly utilitarian stuff for science labs, but it meant that even the Fortran refugees could make guis. Anyone know what this was?
at 40 it's pretty much over
because it quite clearly doesn't have to be if you're sensible.
That said, training for a 3-hour marathon at age 49 took a heck of a lot more out of me than it did at age 30; entropy has its way in the end, you're right about that.
There is always the unvocalised issue that any IP sent to an Indian outsourcing company will be stolen.
Rubbish. I've been running since I was 18 but I just got my best ever marathon and half-marathon results at age 49, (2:57 and 1:22) Work has forced a year off this year but I expect to go even quicker next year.
The US take this very seriously. I designed a system that is part of the F-35. My UK company with it's US partner set up a critical test at a Boeing facility and I was sent over to run it. I arrived on site to be told I didn't have clearance to even watch the tests because I was not a US citizen and it would take six months to get me clearance. Boeing said that if I I was caught I would go to jail and they could be shut down.
One of the reasons that Nokia took pretty much the whole market for Windows Phone was the Here suite of apps; turn by turn navigation, public transport routing, live traffic, downloadable maps and local discovery and all of it integrated into the OS. Very slick. The other reason was the cameras, of course.
I honestly can't remember the last time I had a problem with a device driver in either Windows or Linux. Maybe I got lucky? Back in Ubuntu Warty days I remember it being a major project to get a scanner to work, but for the last few years Simple Scan on Ubuntu has *just worked* even for networked scanners. With Windows the print function worked but it had to install a Metro App to run the scanner (which it did automatically) I wasn't sure I was completely happy with this behaviour, but at least I didn't have to install the, always hideous, HP bloatware suite.
To be fair they have never made any excuse about this, which makes sense when you think that their investors are going to want to know why the f*** they are giving away an asset paid for by their money FOR FREE. This is Microsoft adapting to work within the current business environment to the best advantage of these same shareholders. They have a legal obligation to do this or they go to jail.
That would have got you mod++ if you weren't AC
...is because there is a century of the best engineering behind them, with levels of failure and fault identification and mitigation that most people would find obsessive and arcane. Throw in a Swiss cheese like WiFi access and you have a serious disruption and a non-trivial influence that I for one, as an engineer designing aircraft safety systems, do not particularly want to see, It's nice that I can read my Kindle during take-off. That's enough.
Well, if astronomy is anything like archaeology, that is.
The similarity ends with archaeology being poking at the shit left behind by cavemen and astronomy being poking at the shit left behind by the gods
Nokia is selling off Here Maps. Bought for $6B, yours for a steal at $2B! Seriously, check out Here it's a way better service than either Google's or Microsoft's but thanks to the tangled history it is the location service behind all of the WindowsPhone navigation apps.
I use Swype, which doesn't exist on Windows Phone
I agree with everything in your post, including this, but the basic windows phone keyboard works at least as well as Swype, the autocomplete is almost telepathic.
I am somewhat surprised to say how much better I find the Windows Phone UI to be over Android and iOS. I am guessing individually downloaded apps will matter less and less and integrated services more and more in the future, so Microsoft may very well achieve the same thing in the mobile world as they did in the PC world.
Yes, my thoughts too. I think the shift to W10 running on all devices with the UI kinda intelligently morphing to be appropriate for the size will help Microsoft long term as people get used to it, forget how bad W8 was and get on with their lives. (Try the previews). Despite being something of a Microsoft enthusiast I still find I use my favourite apps, Skype and OneNote, on my Nexus 7 far more than on the phone and hardly ever on the desktop. I think Microsoft are making a pragmatic and sensible move.
I strongly suspect they have had their balls crushed to make this one-off allowance and they have their entire field team watching with prejudice ready to down the machine as soon as it twitches,
Commercial autonomous drones are not going to happen. At least not until we trust AIs. We can just achieve an acceptable mission success rate in military environments with military drones (which have ALWAYS more human pilots than any physical aeroplane, just not co-located.)
The only time in your entire life when you have been 'safe' to the FAA's satisfaction was when you were strapped into an airplane seat.
I was using a little bit of hyperbole. Currently there are no aircraft equipped for auto-taxi or auto-take-off precisely because this is something that a human pilot can handle better than a machine. It is not even an option offered nor are airports equipped to support it. Auto pilot can be engaged immediately after wheels-up at about 500ft and in principle, with a Cat III aircraft and landing runway, it can fly the whole journey from there to the taxiway, where the pilot would once again take over.
We already have the technology available to fill in those missing parts, should the need ever arise.
Thank you. I know plenty of pilots both socially and professionally. I know from what they tell me that, yep, that was one we wouldn't have foreseen, several times, per pilot. Yet you only get a maximum of one catastrophic event per pilot. I think it's quite possible that pilots avoid more than four otherwise-catastrophic events per career for the one they may cause.
The question is not whether we could build a plane that could fly itself safely, we already build plenty of those, they're called 'drones' and any modern airliner can be specced with options to fly itself from gate to gate on an ordinary day including typical bad weather. The question that is not being properly addressed is this: does having a human pilot avoid more accidents that would have happened, than they cause by error? It is very hard to quantify the former number but tragically easy to quantify the latter.
Companies are made of people and they change, grow up/older and move on. It is a huge company and in any such organisation it takes a long time for culture and strategy to change significantly.
Anyone who witnessed the hideousness of the SCO litigation has to look at a new Microsoft where FOSS is actively supported (even if there are strings attached) and where employees can talk about open-sourcing the OS without being fired on the spot has to accept that they are at least heading in a better direction than they were.
This has a number of effects: By reducing my costs in the current year and at the same time being able to offset the entire cost improves my cashflow and reduces my tax burden. Also, by avoiding the ownership of an asset I reduce the book value of the company so I increase the ratio of earnings to investment (ROI). The additional cashflow will allow me to grow the business; I should be able to get a good return on the cash or else why am I bothering to be in business in the first place?
It may well be that Microsoft make more money out of my company using a subsription model, but that does not necessarily mean that my company makes less money, it all depends on just how I can juggle the numbers and what I do with the cash.
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant, but I have been a subcontractor running a limited company for several years.
oops!
(fellow grammar pedant here)
I just wrote to Peter F. Hamilton begging him to employ an editor to revise all of his excellent books with the correct use of which and that
Yes, we British don't really have an historical right of ownership of the Falklands, it's not like they are on our doorstep, or even in our hemisphere. However, the Argentinians have never had a presence on the islands (except for the famously brief war) and their only interest is in the oil reserves suspected, and now being found, in the surrounding waters. The war was also an attempt by the Junta to boost their flagging popularity in Argentina and a corresponding opportunity for the Conservative government to boost their own flagging popularity in the UK. There are no white hats in this fight.
The only tangible facts are that the people who now live on the islands voted overwhelmingly to remain under British sovereignty and that Mrs Thatcher had bigger balls (and better-trained special forces) than the Junta.
Can we start a petition to bring back frequent contributions from any Bennett Haseltons? For one day in the year it would be preferable to this drivel...