None. None at all. That's my whole point. This system isn't designed to take care of that. I would hope that they would have some other system in place to take care of that. I think they call it a F.E.N.C.E. Either that or build a strong enough plane that every little bit of debris doesn't blow it to bits.
Saying it's of limited useage is like saying your blender is of limited usage because it doesn't bake a pie.
From the article: "These shuttle maps could then be checked against public satellite images; double-checked against data in the Global Positioning System or Internal Navigation System; and triple-checked by radar, infrared or millimeter wave sensors."
So yes it gets some real-time data, but it still won't be super useful for real time stuff if your secondary sensor systems are knocekd out. This doesn't matter since this isn't as much a technology that lets you see the world around you as it is a navigation technology. Airplanes have to worry about things ground forces don't like ramming into mountins. Ground forces can creep along with a laptop GPS system to guide them and do OK getting where they're tyring to go. Sure having your radar in your fighter jet integrated with you goggles to give you a virtual view of that squadron of enemy jets coming from 20 miles away could be handy in clear skies, but if you're in a sandstorm it just ain't gonna happen. On the other hand if you're in a big transport plane that's grounded because you can't see 3 inches past the window no matter what you use and the guys on the front lines desperately need the food/water/ammo you've got this could be invaluable.
I went to GA Tech and left for another uni because it sucked horribly. Georgia Tech has prestige, research opportunities, is decently equipped/funded, has ok extra curriculars and is near a lot of other stuff since it is in the middle of Atlanta.
That being said it also tons of problems. It has professors who only care about their pet projects. If you're not one of their research assistants they don't care about you. You have to research every professor before you sign up for their classes to make sure you don't end up with they anti-christ himself. The TAs don't know what they're doing and sadly are the people who a really teaching a lot of the classes. Class sizes are huge. They're in the hundreds of people for core and popular classes. This admittedly gets a little better as you go on since so many people leave but it just makes it all the more insulting when the prof still doesn't give a damn about the class. They actively try to fail and burn out as much of the freshmen/sophmore classes as they can with obtuse grading schemes and pointless time consuming projects. You'll never meet an Architorture or Industiral Design major because they spend 23 1/2 hours a day working on projects almost from day one. Some of them literally take the stuff from their dorm rooms and take it to the mysterious batcaves where they work on their projects because they get more use out of it that way. There are almost no women on Tech campus and the ones that are there are not in your classes. I think they have a secret underground base or something they all hide in during the day. Either that or they're all history/management/international business majors and don't have to take real classes. At night they only hang out with the frat boys or the drama geeks. The on campus housing is poorly run, unresponsive, and expensive for what you get. Parking is hella expensive and you're lucky if you ever get the spot you paid for and you're even luckier if it's not all the way across campus from where you need to be, but you're still screwed during sports seasons because they'll kick you out of the space you paid for every weekend without providing any real alternative place to put your car.
It doesn't matter how smart you are it still sucks as a learning institution. In fact all the people I personally know that left/failed out averaged SAT's around 1500 or so. People with lower SAT's actually did better and stayed longer. We came to the conclusion it was possible to be TOO SMART for GA Tech. Many of us had never had to develop real study skills since we breezed through high screwl or were accustomed to having teachers that actually cared and could TEACH(a shocker I know). You could say this was our fault for not just putting more effort into it but frankly if we had had any support at all I think a lot of us would have worked through it. Those of us that didn't go straight to the work force afterwards went to other colleges and mostly did ok.
If you can teach yourself everything(because noone else will), have money to spare(because they'll drain you of as much of it as they can and living off campus is even more expensive and crappy), and have the patience of Buddah(you'll need it with the mind numbingly stupid administration) you can make it. It is a really nice piece of paper to have once you get out, but getting a really nice peice of paper or wanting to get in on research are the only reasons to go to GA Tech. Oh and everything I've said here that's bad about tech...it's all twice as bad in the CS programs. Am I bitter? Yes. Do I have a right to be? Hell yes. Am I being fully objective? Maybe not but I'll tell you this, there are many many other bitter people who agree with everything I've said. I don't know anything about the Colorado School of Mines, but it would have to be the domain of Satan himself on earth to be worse than GA Tech. For the love of anything you hold holy stay away.
Has anyone heard of small businesses doing this kind of thing? The articels all talked about large coroporations, but small mom-n-pop stores have even less idea about what to charge their customers than large chains. Is there such thing as listings of suggested pricing reccomendations for various small scale services or even for people who do a little work here and there on the side?
According to cosmogames.com these things are supposed to sell for around 7500 yen. I think that's around $61 which is WAY too much of a simple optical mouse. These things are not only ugly, but they look like they're horribly designed. It's sad that people will take advantage of anime fanboys just by sticking some artists name on it.
Oh great. I change my computer desktop wallpaper every other day. Now I have to redecorate my house every other day when I change a room's wallpaper. Joy.
77% of consumers believe they should be allowed to copy CD's for personal use in another device. 82% believe they should be allowed to make personal backup copies of CD's
This implies that 23% of people don't think they should be allowed to copy their own CD's and 18% don't think they should be able to make personal backup copies of CD's. Is this the result of brainwashing or does the RIAA actually employ that many people?
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None. None at all. That's my whole point. This system isn't designed to take care of that. I would hope that they would have some other system in place to take care of that. I think they call it a F.E.N.C.E. Either that or build a strong enough plane that every little bit of debris doesn't blow it to bits.
Saying it's of limited useage is like saying your blender is of limited usage because it doesn't bake a pie.
From the article:
"These shuttle maps could then be checked against public satellite images; double-checked against data in the Global Positioning System or Internal Navigation System; and triple-checked by radar, infrared or millimeter wave sensors."
So yes it gets some real-time data, but it still won't be super useful for real time stuff if your secondary sensor systems are knocekd out. This doesn't matter since this isn't as much a technology that lets you see the world around you as it is a navigation technology. Airplanes have to worry about things ground forces don't like ramming into mountins. Ground forces can creep along with a laptop GPS system to guide them and do OK getting where they're tyring to go. Sure having your radar in your fighter jet integrated with you goggles to give you a virtual view of that squadron of enemy jets coming from 20 miles away could be handy in clear skies, but if you're in a sandstorm it just ain't gonna happen. On the other hand if you're in a big transport plane that's grounded because you can't see 3 inches past the window no matter what you use and the guys on the front lines desperately need the food/water/ammo you've got this could be invaluable.
I went to GA Tech and left for another uni because it sucked horribly. Georgia Tech has prestige, research opportunities, is decently equipped/funded, has ok extra curriculars and is near a lot of other stuff since it is in the middle of Atlanta.
That being said it also tons of problems. It has professors who only care about their pet projects. If you're not one of their research assistants they don't care about you. You have to research every professor before you sign up for their classes to make sure you don't end up with they anti-christ himself. The TAs don't know what they're doing and sadly are the people who a really teaching a lot of the classes. Class sizes are huge. They're in the hundreds of people for core and popular classes. This admittedly gets a little better as you go on since so many people leave but it just makes it all the more insulting when the prof still doesn't give a damn about the class. They actively try to fail and burn out as much of the freshmen/sophmore classes as they can with obtuse grading schemes and pointless time consuming projects. You'll never meet an Architorture or Industiral Design major because they spend 23 1/2 hours a day working on projects almost from day one. Some of them literally take the stuff from their dorm rooms and take it to the mysterious batcaves where they work on their projects because they get more use out of it that way. There are almost no women on Tech campus and the ones that are there are not in your classes. I think they have a secret underground base or something they all hide in during the day. Either that or they're all history/management/international business majors and don't have to take real classes. At night they only hang out with the frat boys or the drama geeks. The on campus housing is poorly run, unresponsive, and expensive for what you get. Parking is hella expensive and you're lucky if you ever get the spot you paid for and you're even luckier if it's not all the way across campus from where you need to be, but you're still screwed during sports seasons because they'll kick you out of the space you paid for every weekend without providing any real alternative place to put your car.
It doesn't matter how smart you are it still sucks as a learning institution. In fact all the people I personally know that left/failed out averaged SAT's around 1500 or so. People with lower SAT's actually did better and stayed longer. We came to the conclusion it was possible to be TOO SMART for GA Tech. Many of us had never had to develop real study skills since we breezed through high screwl or were accustomed to having teachers that actually cared and could TEACH(a shocker I know). You could say this was our fault for not just putting more effort into it but frankly if we had had any support at all I think a lot of us would have worked through it. Those of us that didn't go straight to the work force afterwards went to other colleges and mostly did ok.
If you can teach yourself everything(because noone else will), have money to spare(because they'll drain you of as much of it as they can and living off campus is even more expensive and crappy), and have the patience of Buddah(you'll need it with the mind numbingly stupid administration) you can make it. It is a really nice piece of paper to have once you get out, but getting a really nice peice of paper or wanting to get in on research are the only reasons to go to GA Tech. Oh and everything I've said here that's bad about tech...it's all twice as bad in the CS programs.
Am I bitter? Yes. Do I have a right to be? Hell yes. Am I being fully objective? Maybe not but I'll tell you this, there are many many other bitter people who agree with everything I've said. I don't know anything about the Colorado School of Mines, but it would have to be the domain of Satan himself on earth to be worse than GA Tech. For the love of anything you hold holy stay away.
Has anyone heard of small businesses doing this kind of thing? The articels all talked about large coroporations, but small mom-n-pop stores have even less idea about what to charge their customers than large chains. Is there such thing as listings of suggested pricing reccomendations for various small scale services or even for people who do a little work here and there on the side?
According to cosmogames.com these things are supposed to sell for around 7500 yen. I think that's around $61 which is WAY too much of a simple optical mouse. These things are not only ugly, but they look like they're horribly designed. It's sad that people will take advantage of anime fanboys just by sticking some artists name on it.
Oh great. I change my computer desktop wallpaper every other day. Now I have to redecorate my house every other day when I change a room's wallpaper. Joy.
This implies that 23% of people don't think they should be allowed to copy their own CD's and 18% don't think they should be able to make personal backup copies of CD's. Is this the result of brainwashing or does the RIAA actually employ that many people?
Why am I not surprised that when you get something like the Prior-Art-O-Matic from the UK that they would take it just one step too far.