The spectrum problem is why you need to have them think for themselves to accomplish a mission objective. This is the only solution to the jamming problem, which IMO is a bigger issue than spectrum.
Modern aerospace engineering has been limited by the human pilot for a very long time. The design of larger aircraft themselves can be optimized without a cockpit to retain even more stress..
Somewhere, someone is running (or should be running) hundreds, thousands, and millions of simulations of air combat simulations training AI techniques. There's hundreds of billions of dollars at stake there.
The computer can monitor all the inputs, and make the best decision and best move, always. Computers can fight in formation perfectly synchronized in real time. Computers don't have egos.
It's taken a little longer, but ultimately - air combat is a exotic game of chess, and we know how that turns out for the human players.
There's a great poetic justice in that some geeks are going to obsolete the fighter pilot.
You can't do much now, but you couldn't do much with a computer in 1970 either, besides, well, calculate things
If you extrapolate just a little bit, and look at what is going on with nanomaterials, printing all those things is indeed possible from raw materials.
A more interesting question that will have to be dealt with first is when people come up with ways to manipulate either organic molecules in a procedural fashion with tabletop equipment, or perhaps, more interesting and related, processes for manipulating the genes of common chemical factories - bacteria - to produce useful compounds.
Look, I am an EE, this is not the same thing as the Pi.
It's an order of magnitude more expensive, it's complicated, it has a part count from hell, it's bigger, in fact, it's different in just about every way imaginable.
Those are two uniquely American rights that I as a Canadian certainly do not have.
Speech has exceptions here.. lots of them. We put people in jail for saying things - ugly things, but we still put them in jail.
It is also practically, or effectively, impossible to own a handgun and use it for it's intended purpose - defense of one's person - in Canada, and most of the world.
There's two, some some might argue, the most important two to keep. Without those you have no tools to fix the rest of the problem.
I have three 30" screens I work on. It is wonderful.
I want a device that acts like my trusty pad of paper, but better. I like to be able to read and flip through reference papers leaned back in my chair, or over a coffee. I'm not going to sit down and work in that environment - certainly not to code, design a CAD part, work out a tooling process, design a PCB, figure out a circuit, or even write a long memo. I have a great work setup for those tasks.
Microsoft completely missed the mark and the consumers have spoken. You and some others want to work on a tablet, fine - most don't.
..that's what I do now. Stack of engineering paper and a mechanical pencil. Same technology I used in 1990.
The problem is the stack of specification sheets I work from and need to reference constantly. Scanning doesn't help me review notes and designs; if you look at them on the a tablet, the screen isn't the right size. Nevermind tracking and sorting all the paper.
There's rumors Apple is considering a 13" ipad. The bigger issue is the input, but I don't see why that can't be solved with some actual R&D.
How many MBAs does it take to miss that mind-boggingly obvious fact?
Here's some free advice if anyone important is reading this (haha):
Want to be wildly successful? Go invest a lot of time and money into figuring our how to make a 8.5 x 11" replacement for paper. That includes being able to write and draw engineering diagrams with a 0.2mm tip.
I've wanted one of those forever, I'd be willing to bet a lot of professionals out there have the same problem - the ipad is close, but not quite big enough, and it doesn't have written input.
"Me too" doesn't cut it. Have some vision, Microsoft. I dare you.
The artificial shortage of doctors is a national embarassment and goes to the root of why you can't get a GP. There are thousands of perfectly qualified, intelligent, well-manners people who would love to be GPs and can't - because of entry restrictions protecting salaries.
This question is becoming increasingly interesting to ask. I see no clear answer. Society is not willing to pay for them, so they are not needed.. or there is sufficient supply. This is not a value judgement; Poets have much to offer, but society does not extract much direct benefit - so the wages are low.
I'd recommend the best and brightest do engineering as last resort, not a primary one. Engineering is a better hobby than a career these days.. in some ways, that is how it's always been.
You're far better off learning how to build a sucessful business, entering law (technical law is very lucurative), or going into medicine - medicine isn't all that difficult if you can get accepted, and protects itself very agressively.
Do what society values for money. Do what you love to be happy. Sometimes those things are the same, frequently they are not. I've been lucky as a EE but I started almost two decades ago, and much of my success has come not from engineering skill, but entreprenurial endeavours.
A profitable, but well managed career can set you up to be financially independent in 8-12 years - then you can go do whatever you like.
Canada has around 1,000 million acres of forest lands. It is hard to get your head around exactly how big a space that is.
You can make up for low efficiency with volume, unlike profit. Trees are a tremendously underutilized resource. The trees don't have to necessarily be on top of where you are to get a mass benefit - although that depends on where you are.
The US has similar potential volumes for tree growth; maybe more so, depending as the average state is more temperate than up here.
Run your traffic encrypted through another country with actual privacy protections.
It's not perfect, but it is another complication and barrier to direct monitoring.
Ultimately, the NSA reveal is a good thing - it's going to drive demand for virtual private cloud services where you hold the keys, and perhaps, a move back to corporate controlled cloud services on-site. Great news if you're in IT.
Faster always trumps "easier" in the end. Few languages are programmatically easier than C, it remains to be seen if that is the case here. Often "easier" means "able to do things without an underlying understanding of the architecture", and that's not condusive to Good Eats. (apologies to Alton Brown)
I had a brief foray into Java, but I am amazed at the mileage I've gotten out of the C programming language and it's relatives. (C++, ObjC).
It is a privacy tax, of sorts, but there are all sorts of affordable options. It's not going to give you complete anonymity, of course, but what it does most certainly give you is a very effective adminstrative and legal barrier for anyone attempting to sue you to deal with.
Sooner or later someone will launch a satellite for this purpose..
Set up a firm, start networking. If you deliver projects on time and budget then you will soon have more business than you know what to do with. Ultimately this strategy will work out better for you in the long run, but is more challenging to get going.
Generally speaking, if you have real talent, you are a sucker to work for someone else.
Depends if you have a job or a career. I'm so tied up in my career that it does define who I am - of course, I love every minute of it. Winning the lotto sure wouldn't change that - but I'd certainly take on different projects.
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The time to teach them about programming is when they ask how the magic screens work. From there they'll have an interest, or they won't..
The spectrum problem is why you need to have them think for themselves to accomplish a mission objective. This is the only solution to the jamming problem, which IMO is a bigger issue than spectrum.
It's coming..
Modern aerospace engineering has been limited by the human pilot for a very long time. The design of larger aircraft themselves can be optimized without a cockpit to retain even more stress..
Automation, ain't it a bitch?
Fighter pilots are done.
Somewhere, someone is running (or should be running) hundreds, thousands, and millions of simulations of air combat simulations training AI techniques. There's hundreds of billions of dollars at stake there.
The computer can monitor all the inputs, and make the best decision and best move, always. Computers can fight in formation perfectly synchronized in real time. Computers don't have egos.
It's taken a little longer, but ultimately - air combat is a exotic game of chess, and we know how that turns out for the human players.
There's a great poetic justice in that some geeks are going to obsolete the fighter pilot.
You can't do much now, but you couldn't do much with a computer in 1970 either, besides, well, calculate things
If you extrapolate just a little bit, and look at what is going on with nanomaterials, printing all those things is indeed possible from raw materials.
A more interesting question that will have to be dealt with first is when people come up with ways to manipulate either organic molecules in a procedural fashion with tabletop equipment, or perhaps, more interesting and related, processes for manipulating the genes of common chemical factories - bacteria - to produce useful compounds.
You can define "useful" as you see fit.
Look, I am an EE, this is not the same thing as the Pi.
It's an order of magnitude more expensive, it's complicated, it has a part count from hell, it's bigger, in fact, it's different in just about every way imaginable.
Catchpa is "pretend". Giggle.
Try harder, Intel. ARM is coming for you..
This tech is commercially viable for longhaul trucking right now. That is the first market.. Not passenger vehicles.
Nobody will say this, of course, because it is going to make an entire industry obsolete overnight.
Those are two uniquely American rights that I as a Canadian certainly do not have.
Speech has exceptions here.. lots of them. We put people in jail for saying things - ugly things, but we still put them in jail.
It is also practically, or effectively, impossible to own a handgun and use it for it's intended purpose - defense of one's person - in Canada, and most of the world.
There's two, some some might argue, the most important two to keep. Without those you have no tools to fix the rest of the problem.
You're missing my point.
I have three 30" screens I work on. It is wonderful.
I want a device that acts like my trusty pad of paper, but better. I like to be able to read and flip through reference papers leaned back in my chair, or over a coffee. I'm not going to sit down and work in that environment - certainly not to code, design a CAD part, work out a tooling process, design a PCB, figure out a circuit, or even write a long memo. I have a great work setup for those tasks.
Microsoft completely missed the mark and the consumers have spoken. You and some others want to work on a tablet, fine - most don't.
..that's what I do now. Stack of engineering paper and a mechanical pencil. Same technology I used in 1990.
The problem is the stack of specification sheets I work from and need to reference constantly. Scanning doesn't help me review notes and designs; if you look at them on the a tablet, the screen isn't the right size. Nevermind tracking and sorting all the paper.
There's rumors Apple is considering a 13" ipad. The bigger issue is the input, but I don't see why that can't be solved with some actual R&D.
How many MBAs does it take to miss that mind-boggingly obvious fact?
Here's some free advice if anyone important is reading this (haha):
Want to be wildly successful? Go invest a lot of time and money into figuring our how to make a 8.5 x 11" replacement for paper. That includes being able to write and draw engineering diagrams with a 0.2mm tip.
I've wanted one of those forever, I'd be willing to bet a lot of professionals out there have the same problem - the ipad is close, but not quite big enough, and it doesn't have written input.
"Me too" doesn't cut it. Have some vision, Microsoft. I dare you.
Put the doctors on salary.
The artificial shortage of doctors is a national embarassment and goes to the root of why you can't get a GP. There are thousands of perfectly qualified, intelligent, well-manners people who would love to be GPs and can't - because of entry restrictions protecting salaries.
Not much else to it. *shrug*
This question is becoming increasingly interesting to ask. I see no clear answer. Society is not willing to pay for them, so they are not needed .. or there is sufficient supply. This is not a value judgement; Poets have much to offer, but society does not extract much direct benefit - so the wages are low.
I'd recommend the best and brightest do engineering as last resort, not a primary one. Engineering is a better hobby than a career these days.. in some ways, that is how it's always been.
You're far better off learning how to build a sucessful business, entering law (technical law is very lucurative), or going into medicine - medicine isn't all that difficult if you can get accepted, and protects itself very agressively.
Do what society values for money. Do what you love to be happy. Sometimes those things are the same, frequently they are not. I've been lucky as a EE but I started almost two decades ago, and much of my success has come not from engineering skill, but entreprenurial endeavours.
A profitable, but well managed career can set you up to be financially independent in 8-12 years - then you can go do whatever you like.
Want to increase STEM? Why?
Canada has around 1,000 million acres of forest lands. It is hard to get your head around exactly how big a space that is.
You can make up for low efficiency with volume, unlike profit. Trees are a tremendously underutilized resource. The trees don't have to necessarily be on top of where you are to get a mass benefit - although that depends on where you are.
The US has similar potential volumes for tree growth; maybe more so, depending as the average state is more temperate than up here.
The cynic in me wonders how long before this stops being malware and starts being efficient delivery of government policy.
Run your traffic encrypted through another country with actual privacy protections.
It's not perfect, but it is another complication and barrier to direct monitoring.
Ultimately, the NSA reveal is a good thing - it's going to drive demand for virtual private cloud services where you hold the keys, and perhaps, a move back to corporate controlled cloud services on-site. Great news if you're in IT.
He's the guy in charge; the problems at Microsoft are well known and documented, hell I'm pretty sure there's even BOOKS on the topic.
I don't know what the hell is going on at Microsoft but I sure hope it's all sorted before Windows 7 gets EOLed.
2021 - year of the linux desktop?
Python is great. It ain't C.
Faster always trumps "easier" in the end. Few languages are programmatically easier than C, it remains to be seen if that is the case here. Often "easier" means "able to do things without an underlying understanding of the architecture", and that's not condusive to Good Eats. (apologies to Alton Brown)
I had a brief foray into Java, but I am amazed at the mileage I've gotten out of the C programming language and it's relatives. (C++, ObjC).
Thankfully, we have bitcoins.
Just VPN to another juristiction.
It is a privacy tax, of sorts, but there are all sorts of affordable options. It's not going to give you complete anonymity, of course, but what it does most certainly give you is a very effective adminstrative and legal barrier for anyone attempting to sue you to deal with.
Sooner or later someone will launch a satellite for this purpose..
Isn't that what a PC is for?
Set up a firm, start networking. If you deliver projects on time and budget then you will soon have more business than you know what to do with. Ultimately this strategy will work out better for you in the long run, but is more challenging to get going.
Generally speaking, if you have real talent, you are a sucker to work for someone else.
Depends if you have a job or a career. I'm so tied up in my career that it does define who I am - of course, I love every minute of it. Winning the lotto sure wouldn't change that - but I'd certainly take on different projects.
Hardware drivers. Everything else can be.. or is - virtual.
Games follow, but in the end, it all comes down to hardware drivers. RMS had that one nailed.