Sounds like a project equivalent to going to the moon ten times. This project will go for about 10 months and probably petter out. If they get it working, it will require as-of-now undeveloped algorithms in the realm of fuzzy pattern-matching, expert systems w/ learning and signal processing. Good luck.
and the silly thing is that they DONT NEED ANY MORE RECRUITS!!! the govt should cancel that krap and cut their marketing budget. What's the point of adv. when they dont need anyone to signup?!?!?!!?
Expert-systems are still in their infancies. It's possible that advances in expert systems will allow for some kind of dynamic/fuzzy parsing. The real problem is that semantics (meaning) is more difficult to translate between languages. It means that to do really good translation requires a cognitive model (a brain or an approximation of a brain).
My buddy has one of those fancy-shmacy data hand keyboards w/ the DVORAK mapping. He types something like 120-150 wpm! He was a fellow sufferer of RSI but seems to be doing better. As for me, I shouldn't be typing this much... *owh* the M$FT elite kbd seems to not be doing the trick. Maybe the M$FT keyboard requires more force to press keys, causing more injury? Or do clicky kybds cause more injury due to the acceleration of the "click" action? Whatever, ill just have to get a speech recognizer and injure my vocal cords.
Right. You can't buy beer w/ a warezed c0py of "The Matrix." So a digital copy is not always the same as counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is the act of making a fradulent replica with intent to deceive (usu. by offering for sale). There is no deception in warez because it usually doesn't involve a sale, though warez is still illegal. Counterfeiting is the making and selling of fake copies of "The Blair Bitch Project."
However, counterfeiting is rampant in asia. The factories that pump out the real stamped copies for consumption also pump out pirate/counterfeit copies for the local black markets and gangs at 1/4 the price. Go anywhere in asia and your sure to find a Region 1 copy of Titanic for about $5.
No shit sherlock. Jammers are usually on the ground, i.e. below you if you are a missle or a plane and the GPS constellation is above you. Hell, use GPS and a laser-ring INS to get your position and you can easily do phase comparison for a phased array receiver.
Btw, high-end GPS products are able to "count" the number of wavelengths to a satellite to determine position w/ 95% confidence interval within Differential GPS or kinematic (position is accurate while moving) differential GPS can get down to the SUB-centimeter range !!! This requires an accurately measured fixed based station and a broadcast channel for updates; mostly for farms, mines (the mineral kind), power plants, construction, etc. On the conus (the us mainland), the coast guard and others broadcast DGPS corrects that are publically available.
Differential GPS also defeats the old inserted error for non-military keyed receivers, it's a mute point because there is no error.
Consider that people in a crowded restaurant are all talking on basically the same frequencies... the reason you can "listen" to someone is that the brain can do time-delay comparison to lock onto the sender... so, why not have two antennas on devices to enable them to pick signals out of the soup of signals in the air? The military has used this technique to make jamming GPS less practical (requiring more power from the jammer). Note, that a signal or conversation can still be jammed by a high-power source or a loud patron, respectively.
The EM spectrum has alot of bandwidth; i think it could allocated more efficiently and fairly, while still maintaining channel integrity.
License to "Be Silly": $0 Skills learned: priceless
Hands on tinckering is a good way to learn, even if the result is silly.
Yeah, but a webserver on a PIC is a much cooler thing. Yes, even your watch could have a web server. I'm thinking that building something cool and useful is even more l337. I think that a line of sight optikal ethernet link is pretty kewl (and useful!).
You gotta admit this is a fairly creative project. Wow, this guy must have alot of time and money to spare.
But, who gets you down from there if your train gets stuck? I dont see any ladders around. Rope ladder maybe?
What is this thing powerred by? Human-power, electric?
P.S. Bah, the site seems to be/.ed. Maybe we should find a way to mirror/cache the linked pages automatically so we don't hit some guy's site 1e20 times and cost him $10k in bandwidth usage fees. Just a suggestion.
Umm.. the Soviets Have Had This For Years
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The AIM-9X / look-n-shoot is a direct response to the Cold War developments by the Soviets that was above and beyond any technology we had. The system used in the MIG-29 and SU-27, comprised of slaving the targeting computer to the helmet display and using FLIR as well, similar to the Apaches'. But the neat thing about the Soviet's system is that it was completely passive, with use of a variety of missles IR or radar: AA-10b/d "Alamo" or AA-11 "Archer". Also, the field of view of the IR seekers and the maneuverability of their missles had much wider envelopes than ours (US). The AA-11 uses thrust-vectoring to maneuver in such a way as to be able to pull over 12 Gs and has a range of 40 km, compared to our AIM-9M max range of about 15-20 km and maneuverability of about 9-10 Gs.
Fallacy #1 ad-hominem: Thanks for the personal attack, please focus on the issue.
Pure competition may not be nice, but that's why we have our "buddy" the government to worry about it for us, which just happens to be taking money from the businesses it's supposedly "regulating." The problem is that the U.S. government is not necessarily responsible for what happens in other countries, because its main concern is here. The U.S. does not have to be the global police to go around and solve every single 3rd-world countries' problem. That's for the non-profits, not taxpayer $$$s. But the U.S. gov't should not condone companies CREATING problems.
Sweat-shop and piece-work manufacturing are regrettably the reasons why businesses scatter to the most destitute parts of the world, so they can cash in on low-cost labor. Otherwise your fancy Nikes would be $400. Another case in point, I believe that the current situation w/ the Mexican people is wrong, making criminals out of people who want to work. Minimum wage is a bogus idea, since it prevents low-end, small businesses from hiring sufficient low-end labor. Agreed that no one can live on less that $10/hr in San Jose, a blanket minimum wage is a bad idea for the simple economic reason that it creates an artificial barrier that maybe above the intersection of the supply and demand curve; result: insufficient supply.
SIGs = the lumber industry, the recording industry, etc.
We need to gripe about the things that really matter, not just find things to gripe about. Global trade relations do indeed matter.
"It's all very well to laugh at the Military, but, when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself, and without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear." -- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Maybe this will stop companies (*cough* NorthPoint, Verio) from pulling out of xDSL service with only a six-day warning. Your local Bell seems to have a strangehold on installation, repair and service... So what does it take for a community, city, etc. to run copper to a bunch of houses? Wouldn't it be simpler to bypass the Bells and run your own pairs? For example, what would i need to run a line to a friend a mile away in an urban/suburban setting?
Slashdot Mirror
hehe.
and the other important phrases too:
"another beer please"
"bitch, suck it"
"drop your weapons and come out with your hands up"
"get some"
"where is the toliet?"
Awh, cmon. There's just not enough qualified translators out there that speak those languages and actually want to work for the government.
Sounds like a project equivalent to going to the moon ten times. This project will go for about 10 months and probably petter out. If they get it working, it will require as-of-now undeveloped algorithms in the realm of fuzzy pattern-matching, expert systems w/ learning and signal processing. Good luck.
can't you build a two-way system w/ 2 one-way translators?!?!? well, i guess they need to share the same db.
and the silly thing is that they DONT NEED ANY MORE RECRUITS!!! the govt should cancel that krap and cut their marketing budget. What's the point of adv. when they dont need anyone to signup?!?!?!!?
it was done by a "lieutenant colonel" (LTC). well, army research == gov't geeks. you get what you pay for. =)
Expert-systems are still in their infancies. It's possible that advances in expert systems will allow for some kind of dynamic/fuzzy parsing. The real problem is that semantics (meaning) is more difficult to translate between languages. It means that to do really good translation requires a cognitive model (a brain or an approximation of a brain).
babelfish... proving yet again that sci-fi steers science and innovation. ;)
universal translator? i wonder if any trekkies patented it, or if it's even patentable?
My buddy has one of those fancy-shmacy data hand keyboards w/ the DVORAK mapping. He types something like 120-150 wpm! He was a fellow sufferer of RSI but seems to be doing better. As for me, I shouldn't be typing this much... *owh* the M$FT elite kbd seems to not be doing the trick. Maybe the M$FT keyboard requires more force to press keys, causing more injury? Or do clicky kybds cause more injury due to the acceleration of the "click" action? Whatever, ill just have to get a speech recognizer and injure my vocal cords.
Right. You can't buy beer w/ a warezed c0py of "The Matrix." So a digital copy is not always the same as counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is the act of making a fradulent replica with intent to deceive (usu. by offering for sale). There is no deception in warez because it usually doesn't involve a sale, though warez is still illegal. Counterfeiting is the making and selling of fake copies of "The Blair Bitch Project."
However, counterfeiting is rampant in asia. The factories that pump out the real stamped copies for consumption also pump out pirate/counterfeit copies for the local black markets and gangs at 1/4 the price. Go anywhere in asia and your sure to find a Region 1 copy of Titanic for about $5.
No shit sherlock. Jammers are usually on the ground, i.e. below you if you are a missle or a plane and the GPS constellation is above you. Hell, use GPS and a laser-ring INS to get your position and you can easily do phase comparison for a phased array receiver.
Btw, high-end GPS products are able to "count" the number of wavelengths to a satellite to determine position w/ 95% confidence interval within Differential GPS or kinematic (position is accurate while moving) differential GPS can get down to the SUB-centimeter range !!! This requires an accurately measured fixed based station and a broadcast channel for updates; mostly for farms, mines (the mineral kind), power plants, construction, etc. On the conus (the us mainland), the coast guard and others broadcast DGPS corrects that are publically available.
Differential GPS also defeats the old inserted error for non-military keyed receivers, it's a mute point because there is no error.
Consider that people in a crowded restaurant are all talking on basically the same frequencies... the reason you can "listen" to someone is that the brain can do time-delay comparison to lock onto the sender... so, why not have two antennas on devices to enable them to pick signals out of the soup of signals in the air? The military has used this technique to make jamming GPS less practical (requiring more power from the jammer). Note, that a signal or conversation can still be jammed by a high-power source or a loud patron, respectively.
The EM spectrum has alot of bandwidth; i think it could allocated more efficiently and fairly, while still maintaining channel integrity.
Remember that movie "The Arrival" ? Power-plants, I mean teraform factories.
Btw, you know there's a form of solid methane called Methane Hydrate on the ocean floor?
Let's play "Who want's to be a taddler."
License to "Be Silly": $0
Skills learned: priceless
Hands on tinckering is a good way to learn, even if the result is silly.
Yeah, but a webserver on a PIC is a much cooler thing. Yes, even your watch could have a web server. I'm thinking that building something cool and useful is even more l337. I think that a line of sight optikal ethernet link is pretty kewl (and useful!).
That's just my 10b cents.
He must have the webserver running on the roller-coaster's control system.
I'd rather put a runway or a race track in my backyard, but I think I'll try a shed first.
"You been wackin' in my tool-shed again, boy?" -- Hank Hill, B&B.
You gotta admit this is a fairly creative project. Wow, this guy must have alot of time and money to spare.
/.ed. Maybe we should find a way to mirror/cache the linked pages automatically so we don't hit some guy's site 1e20 times and cost him $10k in bandwidth usage fees. Just a suggestion.
But, who gets you down from there if your train gets stuck? I dont see any ladders around. Rope ladder maybe?
What is this thing powerred by? Human-power, electric?
P.S. Bah, the site seems to be
Pencil and paper.
To backup, simply hit [COPY] on the copying machine! Want security you say? Simply buy a safe and install your database there.
Why not have public patents?
The AIM-9X / look-n-shoot is a direct response to the Cold War developments by the Soviets that was above and beyond any technology we had. The system used in the MIG-29 and SU-27, comprised of slaving the targeting computer to the helmet display and using FLIR as well, similar to the Apaches'. But the neat thing about the Soviet's system is that it was completely passive, with use of a variety of missles IR or radar: AA-10b/d "Alamo" or AA-11 "Archer". Also, the field of view of the IR seekers and the maneuverability of their missles had much wider envelopes than ours (US). The AA-11 uses thrust-vectoring to maneuver in such a way as to be able to pull over 12 Gs and has a range of 40 km, compared to our AIM-9M max range of about 15-20 km and maneuverability of about 9-10 Gs.
(link to Soviet missles)
I live in America; always have, always will.
Fallacy #1 ad-hominem: Thanks for the personal attack, please focus on the issue.
Pure competition may not be nice, but that's why we have our "buddy" the government to worry about it for us, which just happens to be taking money from the businesses it's supposedly "regulating." The problem is that the U.S. government is not necessarily responsible for what happens in other countries, because its main concern is here. The U.S. does not have to be the global police to go around and solve every single 3rd-world countries' problem. That's for the non-profits, not taxpayer $$$s. But the U.S. gov't should not condone companies CREATING problems.
Sweat-shop and piece-work manufacturing are regrettably the reasons why businesses scatter to the most destitute parts of the world, so they can cash in on low-cost labor. Otherwise your fancy Nikes would be $400. Another case in point, I believe that the current situation w/ the Mexican people is wrong, making criminals out of people who want to work. Minimum wage is a bogus idea, since it prevents low-end, small businesses from hiring sufficient low-end labor. Agreed that no one can live on less that $10/hr in San Jose, a blanket minimum wage is a bad idea for the simple economic reason that it creates an artificial barrier that maybe above the intersection of the supply and demand curve; result: insufficient supply.
SIGs = the lumber industry, the recording industry, etc.
We need to gripe about the things that really matter, not just find things to gripe about. Global trade relations do indeed matter.
"It's all very well to laugh at the Military, but, when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself, and without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear." -- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! (AH, as in surprise) It's a trap!
Ouch, seems like moving your server to a non-extradition country might be a better choice if you're going to do anything quasi-legal.
allowed customers to be their own tech support and fix coding bugs? Wait a min, screw that! We already have Linux!
Maybe this will stop companies (*cough* NorthPoint, Verio) from pulling out of xDSL service with only a six-day warning. Your local Bell seems to have a strangehold on installation, repair and service... So what does it take for a community, city, etc. to run copper to a bunch of houses? Wouldn't it be simpler to bypass the Bells and run your own pairs? For example, what would i need to run a line to a friend a mile away in an urban/suburban setting?