... on an interesting side note, i work on apaches and our portable computers are of interesting design...
Pentium 3, lcd, dvd, 2 batteries, pc card slots, floppy, 40 gig hard drive, power supply has a slot to charge a battery. Dropped 10 feet today and not a single problem. Fanless, water-resistant. Everything is sealed, including mouse and keyboard, batteries and pc card slots, even the ports are covered. Has modem, lan, serial, infrared, parallel, usb, unfortunately no wi-fi, but that might be a good thing if ya get my drift.
We're already halfway to where we need to be for a fully automated army.
Yea, so um, why am i one of 1.2million other soldiers in the army? Obviously we're all getting put out of work by these robots that do our jobs better than us(sic).
I can respect your point of view, and its refreshing to see an opposing stance which isn't as extreme or condescending.
Man it'd be great to have a beer with lunch. MRE's don't come with beer, but they do come with orange beverage powder sometimes:)
In a time of such controversy, to me at least, it seems anything and everything you do becomes a statement. Ie., if you demoed AA before the conflict, it would just be a game but now its become more than that to a lot of people and I bet if you did demo it somebody would bitch about it, moreso than if you didn't.
Wow, that what i was gonna do before i left college for the army. I was going to do interdisciplinary Psychology + computer science concentrating on user interfaces and do research.
As for america's army, i don't see it as propaganda because a lot of the stuff is real and its not politically motivated. I think its the best attempt to remind people that the army is an option.
Maybe you can give me an example as i've not played it much past the very beginning where you qualify and stuff.
You do realize there are jobs in the military other than infantry and artillery, right?
Volunteering to defend for next to no pay is indeed honorable as it is inherently selfless.
yea volunteering to work at a soup kitchen is nice, too but that is part time, ie., you don't live at the soup kitchen, its not your life and its a whole lot easier.
The US military role is more than domestic freedom, the US has taken on the role of defending freedom. You can argue my point, but you have to admit that historically, the us has been there to defend many a country in need.
You know that money was earmarked for recruitment anyhow. They army can reach more people with something liek a videogame than they can with keychains and other doodads.
that and some people want to knwo what army training is like and what you learn. Kinda like getting the training without the commitment, but not really, you know?
makes sense to me. Covert ops has to know that stuff. Wouldn't be much of a challege if you just ran around and shot stuff, would it? Then'd it would just be a generic fps.
And come on, is it really that difficult? now if you had to identify them by sound, that'd be a real challenge, heh.
Anybody who joins without the right mindset and expects mom to do everything for them is gonna get a crash course in reality without the sugar coating. It was a lot for some people in basic.
The training is the same. Who wants to play a game where you pull a 24hour CQ?* The game works well to remind america's youth that the military is an option. I think its great. For awhile choosing army was out of style or whatever.
Hey, i'm in the army and its a blast. Don't tell me its not fun.
I've never met anybody that joined the army to be a 'leet sniper dude', and if they didn't they'd figure out in an instant just how dedicated you'd have to be to get anywhere near that level of expertise. CQ: Charge of quarters. Basically sit around and wait for the phone to ring.
I'm in the army, i don't know what you're talking about. All the BRM (basic rifle marksmanship) stuff in the game is _exactly_ how i learned to fire a rifle.
Breath control, trigger squeeze, steady aim, all that stuff.
The army is what you make of it. if you're shitbag, you'll be treated like one and you can't quit.
I've received somewhere near $250k in training for free. I love my job. I work on apache helicopters every day, what do you do?
True, but his site should be able to handle a slashdotting. I mean, people coming from this site are people his advertisers are going after. Why wouldn't he want the slashdot crowd?
If given the chance i will vote that they be accepted by all.
Every car's computer has ram and in that ram a small amount of data is kept. This is where the evidence is coming from. I'm not making this up or talking out of my ass, somebody in a car the same model as mine (1995 z28) got into a wreck and said he was going 60. They decided to look at his computer which indicated the last speed to be 115 mph. They can only hold a few seconds of data. Don't believe me there is extensive information available about this specific computer, how to program it, etc. A good starting point would be camaroz28.com message board.
Anyhoo, i see your point but i don't agree that its a bad thing.
Still, it requires a search warrant. Therefore nobody is tracking you. If the police are going through all of that red tape, you've done something wrong.
As for remote shutdown; I don't believe GM would put such a feature into a car. I agree that would be a bad idea for the same reasons. There's no need for such a feature. Cars run out of gas and why would you need to shut it down if you know where it is anyways?
I think that we can both agree that so far OnStar is a Good Deployment of a Good Thing. Would you rather onstar _not_ have the stolen vehicle location feature? I know i'll sleep better at night knowing i have that feature. The only feature that onstar has that is eery is the remote door-lock feature, which as far as i know has not been abused at all. If it came to the point that it was being abused all over, which it won't but possibly could, then GM will remove the ability and just keep the location service so they can send a towtruck.
True but only a few relative to cooling the charge air temperature (in a forced induction engine). I was of course assuming the engine was NA and cooling the intake does little, and supercooling wouldn't help much.
I have seen some strap their cars to the chassis dyno and during the run spray the intercooler with nitrogen and make dramatically higher horsepower, but its terribly impracticle and was just a stress test and a 'how much can it make'. Pretty cool though. I'll see if i can't find the link.
You know as well as I do theres plenty of stuff going on that doesn't get reported and a foiled plot is only a blurb while anything that succeeds is front page news.
I have seen evidence that plots were being foiled left and right on tv news stations. I trust the government a lot more than the rest of the slashdot crowd, apparently. I don't have a problem with them and i think they should have the ability to eavesdrop. How else are they supposed to gather intelligence?
Intersting, do you think the Patriot Act is evil and should be repealed or never should have passed? What do you think should be in its place?
I was being sarcastic, i think its a great idea. I would love to have onstar in every car. I have yet to see how it is life taking in addition to live saving.
First of all, nobody has proven that the government has the ability to track anybody with onstar. If they were going to they would have to prove to a judge that you were dangerous which means they would be tracking you anyhow. Secondly i don't think any of us know enough about onstar to be making any serious judgements here. As far as i know its basically a gps receiver/analog cell phone/modem. I doubt that it even has the ability to be tracked as it only transmits (as far as i know) when you push the button or there is a crash.
If there's one thing i admire about you its your floccinauccinihilipilification of anything i say.
I don't see the cops as my enemies, i think they should have laws to protect them. If they are doing something wrong, they should be broght to justice. A few shouldn't ruin for the rest.
I'm not going to get into the rest, its too generic and off-topic from On-Star.
Yes it does. Personally i don't think rolling the dice is suitable, there should be 0 chance of any terrorist act. Put yourself in the government workers' position and tell me how you plan on making the united states safer from terrorism.
When so many people hate the united states and its citizens so much that they are willing ot brainwash their youth and have them blow themselves and americans up, its time to get serious and aknowledge the threat.
Yes the chances of being hurt by a terrorist act are very slim, the chances of being affected on the other hand are very real. Everybody is affected.
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... on an interesting side note, i work on apaches and our portable computers are of interesting design...
Pentium 3, lcd, dvd, 2 batteries, pc card slots, floppy, 40 gig hard drive, power supply has a slot to charge a battery. Dropped 10 feet today and not a single problem. Fanless, water-resistant. Everything is sealed, including mouse and keyboard, batteries and pc card slots, even the ports are covered. Has modem, lan, serial, infrared, parallel, usb, unfortunately no wi-fi, but that might be a good thing if ya get my drift.
Here's the data sheet (PDF) Here.
I've used it in the field in mud and rain and didn't flinch, what a champ. Kinda pricey though.
Lets say the US has a fully automated robotic army.
Time to put down the fantasy books, switch off sci-fi channel and push stop on the anime dvd, buddy.
We're already halfway to where we need to be for a fully automated army.
Yea, so um, why am i one of 1.2million other soldiers in the army? Obviously we're all getting put out of work by these robots that do our jobs better than us(sic).
I can respect your point of view, and its refreshing to see an opposing stance which isn't as extreme or condescending.
:)
Man it'd be great to have a beer with lunch. MRE's don't come with beer, but they do come with orange beverage powder sometimes
In a time of such controversy, to me at least, it seems anything and everything you do becomes a statement. Ie., if you demoed AA before the conflict, it would just be a game but now its become more than that to a lot of people and I bet if you did demo it somebody would bitch about it, moreso than if you didn't.
Wow, that what i was gonna do before i left college for the army. I was going to do interdisciplinary Psychology + computer science concentrating on user interfaces and do research.
As for america's army, i don't see it as propaganda because a lot of the stuff is real and its not politically motivated. I think its the best attempt to remind people that the army is an option.
Maybe you can give me an example as i've not played it much past the very beginning where you qualify and stuff.
You do realize there are jobs in the military other than infantry and artillery, right?
Volunteering to defend for next to no pay is indeed honorable as it is inherently selfless.
yea volunteering to work at a soup kitchen is nice, too but that is part time, ie., you don't live at the soup kitchen, its not your life and its a whole lot easier.
The US military role is more than domestic freedom, the US has taken on the role of defending freedom. You can argue my point, but you have to admit that historically, the us has been there to defend many a country in need.
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Yahoo has disposable email addresses, too.
Maybe in your world. I live in this one.
Everything isn't utopian.
I'll ignore the spin at the end and throughout your comment and ask why you think serving the country isn't an honor and shouldn't be glorified?
I believe in pre-emption. This is where we dissent.
You know that money was earmarked for recruitment anyhow. They army can reach more people with something liek a videogame than they can with keychains and other doodads.
wow
so we should really dismantle our military, eh?
Be realistic.
that and some people want to knwo what army training is like and what you learn. Kinda like getting the training without the commitment, but not really, you know?
makes sense to me. Covert ops has to know that stuff. Wouldn't be much of a challege if you just ran around and shot stuff, would it? Then'd it would just be a generic fps.
And come on, is it really that difficult?
now if you had to identify them by sound, that'd be a real challenge, heh.
Anybody who joins without the right mindset and expects mom to do everything for them is gonna get a crash course in reality without the sugar coating. It was a lot for some people in basic.
The training is the same. Who wants to play a game where you pull a 24hour CQ?* The game works well to remind america's youth that the military is an option. I think its great. For awhile choosing army was out of style or whatever.
Hey, i'm in the army and its a blast. Don't tell me its not fun.
I've never met anybody that joined the army to be a 'leet sniper dude', and if they didn't they'd figure out in an instant just how dedicated you'd have to be to get anywhere near that level of expertise.
CQ: Charge of quarters. Basically sit around and wait for the phone to ring.
I'm in the army, i don't know what you're talking about. All the BRM (basic rifle marksmanship) stuff in the game is _exactly_ how i learned to fire a rifle.
Breath control, trigger squeeze, steady aim, all that stuff.
The army is what you make of it. if you're shitbag, you'll be treated like one and you can't quit.
I've received somewhere near $250k in training for free. I love my job. I work on apache helicopters every day, what do you do?
True, but his site should be able to handle a slashdotting. I mean, people coming from this site are people his advertisers are going after. Why wouldn't he want the slashdot crowd?
Maybe tom will test new networking gear by being linked to by slashdot everytime he has a roundup.
"This week we overclock the latest NIC's, and do a torture test to our site -- We will be linked to at slashdot."
If given the chance i will vote that they be accepted by all.
Every car's computer has ram and in that ram a small amount of data is kept. This is where the evidence is coming from. I'm not making this up or talking out of my ass, somebody in a car the same model as mine (1995 z28) got into a wreck and said he was going 60. They decided to look at his computer which indicated the last speed to be 115 mph. They can only hold a few seconds of data. Don't believe me there is extensive information available about this specific computer, how to program it, etc. A good starting point would be camaroz28.com message board.
Anyhoo, i see your point but i don't agree that its a bad thing.
Still, it requires a search warrant. Therefore nobody is tracking you. If the police are going through all of that red tape, you've done something wrong.
As for remote shutdown; I don't believe GM would put such a feature into a car. I agree that would be a bad idea for the same reasons. There's no need for such a feature. Cars run out of gas and why would you need to shut it down if you know where it is anyways?
I think that we can both agree that so far OnStar is a Good Deployment of a Good Thing. Would you rather onstar _not_ have the stolen vehicle location feature? I know i'll sleep better at night knowing i have that feature. The only feature that onstar has that is eery is the remote door-lock feature, which as far as i know has not been abused at all. If it came to the point that it was being abused all over, which it won't but possibly could, then GM will remove the ability and just keep the location service so they can send a towtruck.
True but only a few relative to cooling the charge air temperature (in a forced induction engine). I was of course assuming the engine was NA and cooling the intake does little, and supercooling wouldn't help much.
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I have seen some strap their cars to the chassis dyno and during the run spray the intercooler with nitrogen and make dramatically higher horsepower, but its terribly impracticle and was just a stress test and a 'how much can it make'. Pretty cool though. I'll see if i can't find the link.
http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?s
You know as well as I do theres plenty of stuff going on that doesn't get reported and a foiled plot is only a blurb while anything that succeeds is front page news.
I have seen evidence that plots were being foiled left and right on tv news stations. I trust the government a lot more than the rest of the slashdot crowd, apparently. I don't have a problem with them and i think they should have the ability to eavesdrop. How else are they supposed to gather intelligence?
Intersting, do you think the Patriot Act is evil and should be repealed or never should have passed? What do you think should be in its place?
I was being sarcastic, i think its a great idea. I would love to have onstar in every car. I have yet to see how it is life taking in addition to live saving.
First of all, nobody has proven that the government has the ability to track anybody with onstar. If they were going to they would have to prove to a judge that you were dangerous which means they would be tracking you anyhow. Secondly i don't think any of us know enough about onstar to be making any serious judgements here. As far as i know its basically a gps receiver/analog cell phone/modem. I doubt that it even has the ability to be tracked as it only transmits (as far as i know) when you push the button or there is a crash.
hey, if you want to take it personally, fine.
If there's one thing i admire about you its your floccinauccinihilipilification of anything i say.
I don't see the cops as my enemies, i think they should have laws to protect them. If they are doing something wrong, they should be broght to justice. A few shouldn't ruin for the rest.
I'm not going to get into the rest, its too generic and off-topic from On-Star.
Yes it does. Personally i don't think rolling the dice is suitable, there should be 0 chance of any terrorist act. Put yourself in the government workers' position and tell me how you plan on making the united states safer from terrorism.
When so many people hate the united states and its citizens so much that they are willing ot brainwash their youth and have them blow themselves and americans up, its time to get serious and aknowledge the threat.
Yes the chances of being hurt by a terrorist act are very slim, the chances of being affected on the other hand are very real. Everybody is affected.