Did anyone ever hear of distributed systems? One simple computer to run evey critical system all networked together. Each and everyone can keep it's device functioning with manual command if everything else fails. The only way to upgrade the system is to physically remove it an plug in a new one.
The Ebola they modeled and the Ebola on the ground were not at all the Te same. The incubation period was longer, the death rate lower, and it took the survivors longer to become non-infectious after they recovered. All these made it spread much worse.
In talking to managers trying to hire good producers they all compline they have to kiss to many frogs and have to keep the one that misrepresent themselves and turn out to be second rate workers. Women aren't part of picture because none applied.
Back when D-RAM cost a mint and the first faster CPUs were comiming out the college was considering putting locks on all their public computers at a cost of &100.00 per computer. One other fellow and I were able to convence them to replace one or two screws in the computer cabnets with aluminum pop rivets at a cost of $40.00 a department for a drill, pop rivet tool & pop rivets.
I own a dry land farm in Southwest Oklahoma. I don't like the price of GM or Hybrid seed but I sure pay it every time. I need less fertilizer, fuel, insecticide, water and herbicide than with public domain seed. The patents on seed don't last forever and they will still be good in coming years as they are rotated to preserve the patents and to stay ahead in the arms race between insects, weeds and GM plants. Twenty or thirty years form now the GM genetics we use now will be useful again as the pest will have lost most of the resistance the developed to them.
If you look on the drought monitor http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ there is a dark red spot in Oklahoma that been there for years. My place is in the middle of that. Some years have been a bust but the fellow that farms it has harvested the best crop of both cotton and wheat off it ever made in the last 5 years on an unbelievably small amount of rain.
The only thing different is being able to farm it no till due to GM Cotton in rotation with conventional bred alfalfa hay and Hard Red Winter wheat. He kept what little moisture he had by not disturbing the soil. My family has farmed that place for right at 100 years with better average yields almost every year until the last 7 year drought. It will make that up when the drought breaks as they always do. I've been though 3 and my family has been thou 9 and 2 really bad weather events. My grandfather was very impressed by his grand fathers stories of the Year with out a summer. My great grand mother's stories of the winters of 1885-1886 and 1886-1887 when 75% to 80% of the cattle on the range in the USA froze to death in the "Great Dieup" kept the winter of 1899 from killing even more cattle when Galveston Bay froze over in a 5 day cold spell at 9 degrees F.
I'll take modern farming thank you as the world was on the edge of starvation using organic methods in 1900 before the Fritz Haber invented an efficient way to make ammonia from natural gas and electricity.
Its very interesting fiction. I have worked with a couple of folks with IQ's that were off the chart that worked outside the box and delivered wonderfully elegant solutions. They can't deliver them on cue or deliver every time. One took two years to write 20 lines of code.
Only idiot savants deliver on cue and they do it every time. I knew one rather well with an IQ in the 60's he followed simple instructions very well. He could keep track of the location, moment, ownership and place in the ginning rotation of at least 2,000 cotton trailers, all in his head. I don't think he could read or write. He was one of the cotton gins greatest human asserts.
Let's propose a real incident. Put a robot in the place of the driver of semi-trailer truck hauling rock that comes over a hill at 55 miles an hour and sees a human driven school bus pulling off a side road in fount of the truck. The truck driver can't stick it the ditch on the right becaus of a concrete overpass that will throw him right back in front into the bus.
Ten kids were killed both drivers and the truck were cited and used the limits of liability of all insurance companies. I know the father of one of the kids he thought the truck diver did the best he could. What he thought of th bus diver anyone can visualize.
Robots have to solve problems like those before the drive cars.
The problems for the robot should be more complex. Try a robot driven taxi with 3 passengers going fast enough it can't stop in time and if it runs off the road at least 50% of it occupants die, an oncoming bus with 4 people in it and 5 drunks in the cabs lane on a 2-lane bridge in the fog. The adjust the number in each group and see how many of winch group the robot kills.
You have a point. The format at best is an annoying way to both read an write, but at least it is reasonable consistent. I have been pleasantly surprised the the shrill, green, progressive, skin headed, vegan voices haven't manged to take over Wikipedia as they try to anywhere someone will listen to them. To do that kind of work and then get the abuse that come with it take rhino hide.
search term AND wiki Is a good way to get a start on researching most subjects as most give a decent bibliography to use to start looking. Many have a good collection of data one can use to start working with to try their hypothesis to see if passes the smell test.
The political winds blew off two chances of cleaner power. The first when popular opinion found nuclear power unacceptable the second in the 1970's when the oil embargo caught the North Eastern States short on natural gas pipeline capacity and electrical generating capacity to replace the high priced heating oil and rather than let us build gas fired power plants to fill the new demand for electric heat in states that have an abundance of natural gas to power them forced us to build coal fired electrical generating plants and haul in coal to Houston Texas from Wyoming. The trains passed almost as much natural gas being flared into the air as the coal they hauled in their cars.
Now the government wants the coal fired plants replaced with natural gas. In ten years will we have to tear the gas fired plants down to put in nuclear power plants?
I don't think you can get internet quality networking with low Earth orbit satellites at the same altitude of the Iridium system. The time overhead so too short it require and extremely high number of them. High Elliptical Orbits [HEO] Such at the USSR built for Arctic communications will keep a satellite in view of 1/3 or more of the Earth for 12 hours.
The cost of HEO satellites is more powerful transceivers on both ends. The advantage is only needing 18 satellites or less cover the world. There is some question in my mind if covering the polar regions and mid ocean areas with full 24 hour coverage is necessary or worthwhile. Just an educated guess if you just covered the land masses 24 hours and picked up the oceans and poles on the quick lower passes of the satellites 12 might be enough.
To deal with cost here is still a lot that can be done to compress text with tokenazation. Use tokens such as 00A3 = 'fiber optic cables' and so on. Much like the old commercial code books. I expect things like mmdf mailer might have to implemented as a store and forward mailer to deal with latency and interruptions inherent to radio links. I ran it for a while and if it were hardened against spam it would be a good mailer.
Lower orbiting HEO's satellites trade off for more of them and require less powerful radio modems on each end. It's a simple linear algebra minimum cost problem. I expect it comes out with lots of satellites that cover 2 or 3 times the area of the Iridium system.
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Did anyone ever hear of distributed systems? One simple computer to run evey critical system all networked together. Each and everyone can keep it's device functioning with manual command if everything else fails. The only way to upgrade the system is to physically remove it an plug in a new one.
It's embedded programming 101!!
The Ebola they modeled and the Ebola on the ground were not at all the Te same. The incubation period was longer, the death rate lower, and it took the survivors longer to become non-infectious after they recovered. All these made it spread much worse.
Red
In talking to managers trying to hire good producers they all compline they have to kiss to many frogs and have to keep the one that misrepresent themselves and turn out to be second rate workers. Women aren't part of picture because none applied.
Mote and Bailey with a draw-bridge should do th job.
Back when D-RAM cost a mint and the first faster CPUs were comiming out the college was considering putting locks on all their public computers at a cost of &100.00 per computer. One other fellow and I were able to convence them to replace one or two screws in the computer cabnets with aluminum pop rivets at a cost of $40.00 a department for a drill, pop rivet tool & pop rivets.
Red
Everyone just doing their job.
Red
Solve problems!!
Understand them, atomize them, describe the solution, implemtnet it.
Throw it away & do it right, now that you really understand the problem.
Red
I own a dry land farm in Southwest Oklahoma. I don't like the price of GM or Hybrid seed but I sure pay it every time. I need less fertilizer, fuel, insecticide, water and herbicide than with public domain seed. The patents on seed don't last forever and they will still be good in coming years as they are rotated to preserve the patents and to stay ahead in the arms race between insects, weeds and GM plants. Twenty or thirty years form now the GM genetics we use now will be useful again as the pest will have lost most of the resistance the developed to them.
If you look on the drought monitor http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ there is a dark red spot in Oklahoma that been there for years. My place is in the middle of that. Some years have been a bust but the fellow that farms it has harvested the best crop of both cotton and wheat off it ever made in the last 5 years on an unbelievably small amount of rain.
The only thing different is being able to farm it no till due to GM Cotton in rotation with conventional bred alfalfa hay and Hard Red Winter wheat. He kept what little moisture he had by not disturbing the soil. My family has farmed that place for right at 100 years with better average yields almost every year until the last 7 year drought. It will make that up when the drought breaks as they always do. I've been though 3 and my family has been thou 9 and 2 really bad weather events. My grandfather was very impressed by his grand fathers stories of the Year with out a summer. My great grand mother's stories of the winters of 1885-1886 and 1886-1887 when 75% to 80% of the cattle on the range in the USA froze to death in the "Great Dieup" kept the winter of 1899 from killing even more cattle when Galveston Bay froze over in a 5 day cold spell at 9 degrees F.
I'll take modern farming thank you as the world was on the edge of starvation using organic methods in 1900 before the Fritz Haber invented an efficient way to make ammonia from natural gas and electricity.
Red
I've always thought that posting on the Internet was the same a writing on the bathroom wall.
Red
Its very interesting fiction. I have worked with a couple of folks with IQ's that were off the chart that worked outside the box and delivered wonderfully elegant solutions. They can't deliver them on cue or deliver every time. One took two years to write 20 lines of code.
Only idiot savants deliver on cue and they do it every time. I knew one rather well with an IQ in the 60's he followed simple instructions very well. He could keep track of the location, moment, ownership and place in the ginning rotation of at least 2,000 cotton trailers, all in his head. I don't think he could read or write. He was one of the cotton gins greatest human asserts.
Red
Let's propose a real incident. Put a robot in the place of the driver of semi-trailer truck hauling rock that comes over a hill at 55 miles an hour and sees a human driven school bus pulling off a side road in fount of the truck. The truck driver can't stick it the ditch on the right becaus of a concrete overpass that will throw him right back in front into the bus.
Ten kids were killed both drivers and the truck were cited and used the limits of liability of all insurance companies. I know the father of one of the kids he thought the truck diver did the best he could. What he thought of th bus diver anyone can visualize.
Robots have to solve problems like those before the drive cars.
The problems for the robot should be more complex. Try a robot driven taxi with 3 passengers going fast enough it can't stop in time and if it runs off the road at least 50% of it occupants die, an oncoming bus with 4 people in it and 5 drunks in the cabs lane on a 2-lane bridge in the fog. The adjust the number in each group and see how many of winch group the robot kills.
Red
You have a point. The format at best is an annoying way to both read an write, but at least it is reasonable consistent. I have been pleasantly surprised the the shrill, green, progressive, skin headed, vegan voices haven't manged to take over Wikipedia as they try to anywhere someone will listen to them. To do that kind of work and then get the abuse that come with it take rhino hide.
search term AND wiki
Is a good way to get a start on researching most subjects as most give a decent bibliography to use to start looking. Many have a good collection of data one can use to start working with to try their hypothesis to see if passes the smell test.
Red
The political winds blew off two chances of cleaner power. The first when popular opinion found nuclear power unacceptable the second in the 1970's when the oil embargo caught the North Eastern States short on natural gas pipeline capacity and electrical generating capacity to replace the high priced heating oil and rather than let us build gas fired power plants to fill the new demand for electric heat in states that have an abundance of natural gas to power them forced us to build coal fired electrical generating plants and haul in coal to Houston Texas from Wyoming. The trains passed almost as much natural gas being flared into the air as the coal they hauled in their cars.
Now the government wants the coal fired plants replaced with natural gas. In ten years will we have to tear the gas fired plants down to put in nuclear power plants?
I remeber Lake Kemp water in the 50's. Potty water is lot better than that.
I wonder what one could do with R and C doing the IO with Java scirpts, HTML and XCEL? It's nice to get correct answers for a change in R.
Red,
I don't think you can get internet quality networking with low Earth orbit satellites at the same altitude of the Iridium system. The time overhead so too short it require and extremely high number of them. High Elliptical Orbits [HEO] Such at the USSR built for Arctic communications will keep a satellite in view of 1/3 or more of the Earth for 12 hours.
The cost of HEO satellites is more powerful transceivers on both ends. The advantage is only needing 18 satellites or less cover the world. There is some question in my mind if covering the polar regions and mid ocean areas with full 24 hour coverage is necessary or worthwhile. Just an educated guess if you just covered the land masses 24 hours and picked up the oceans and poles on the quick lower passes of the satellites 12 might be enough.
To deal with cost here is still a lot that can be done to compress text with tokenazation. Use tokens such as 00A3 = 'fiber optic cables' and so on. Much like the old commercial code books. I expect things like mmdf mailer might have to implemented as a store and forward mailer to deal with latency and interruptions inherent to radio links. I ran it for a while and if it were hardened against spam it would be a good mailer.
Lower orbiting HEO's satellites trade off for more of them and require less powerful radio modems on each end. It's a simple linear algebra minimum cost problem. I expect it comes out with lots of satellites that cover 2 or 3 times the area of the Iridium system.