My water isn't for-profitMy water isn't for-profit
In France water utilities were sold years ago with the usual line "private companies are more efficient, la-la-la". Net result: some cities saw the price of their water multiplied by 20 in a matter of years !!! It was a rather big scandal as they were sold to only 2 mega-corps (Generale des Eaux and Lyonnaise des Eaux) who were friends with the govermint of the time.
I own one. But in practice, green ideals must be evaluated against one's needs. A car puts a barrier between the driver and the weather; a bike does not. A car has enough metal surface to trigger induction loops connected to traffic signals; a bike does not. A car can carry passengers larger than 50 lbs (22 kg); a typical bike trailer cannot. A car can travel on controlled access highways; a bike cannot.
You stop at lights with a bike ? Maybe if you need to cross a high-traffic road, but that's about all. As for highways, if you are in Australian you can bike on them!
PS: I bike to work, and so does my wife. When we last moved, we had biking in mind for commuting, so that's one more consideration that people often won't take.
Why don't they use active noise cancellation like in high-end earphones or in modern helicopters ? It's now a proven technology that works very well for a fairly large range of frequencies.
A more contemporary question is how much peaceful scientific research could have been conducted in the US for the cost of military operations in Afganistan and Iraq.
My car could be driving itself by now...
You'd have the software to drive it, yes, but not the oil...:P
Having done construction work in polar regions, I can't imagine how much money and energy must have gone into that thing. Cool, yes, but how much useful, peaceful scientific research could have been conducted there for the same budget ?!? Compare to now where instead instead of wasting it on useless and scary bombs, we waste it on useless and scary traders. Hmmm.
In my country there are very good 1:25000 maps, but the trails in the wooded areas can be off by hundreds of meters because they we mapped before the time of the GPSs and there's no way to use a theodolite acurately on a forest trail. Come the GPS: I take a track, clean it up a bit, upload it to OSM and the trail is now a lot more accurate than the best maps available...
I wonder what you do consider the 'best languages and programming tools'.
PS: The guy who taught me programming in 1981 was 75 years old and had been a paratrooper during WWII before getting into electronics and computers. I don't know why I just remembered that...
Really, the "something you are" is still "something you have", but you "have" it attached to your body.
Not necessarily. Something you are is nine-times. The gard at the entrance knows you as nine-times. For hime you _are_ nine-times. Maybe you get fired from work and your badge (something you have) is revoked and your system password (something you know) is removed. But they forget to notify the guard and the next day you manage to walk in as usual, because he knows you. Of course the opposite situation is possible too: the boss throws you out and tells the guard not to let you in, even though your cards passwds won't be canceled for another few days. That's what 'something you are' means. To my understanding anyway.
If you know the difference, why do you want to be given a prediction for a specific location?
Actually, plenty of climate models give localized predictions. Some areas will get much warmer than others; some monsoons may dry up entirely; and others yet may get much colder than now (like Europe if the Gulf Stream stops).
Thanks. Since I don't have an RC background, at least it gives me an idea of what I'm up against, and if not doable now, what needs to improve before it is.
Looks like ground avoidance would be the harder to match, so let's drop it and just have it fly higher. Then the autonomy, OK, let's do something closer. As for the remote control, I was thinking of leaving that out entirely for several reasons: lack of line of sight, no need to learn to fly, no need for $$$ ground equipment, saves weight on the plane (no antenna, less power). But it means that it must land by itself; or at least crash with minimal damage! High video quality is not a requirement, two decent webcams would do (or maybe one split with a mirror). As for the legality of it all...
As for the minimal work, well, yes... C;-) I'm a software guy who deals with hardware daily at work. But I want to _use_ it, not spend months putting it together !
In winter usually the air is pretty calm. Anyway the requirement wouldn't be to fly in _any_ conditions, just when it's best to do a recon. Anyway, I see plenty of good suggestions so far. Thanks all.
Well, I'm in France and have no idea of the legality of unmanned flying here. Anyway, a discussion centererd on the US is fine as once I know what the pitholes are, I can transpose to a different country with some research.
You are right about the constraints, ideal conditions first and then we'll see. Anyway the altitude isn't very high. As for the noise, something quiet would be better: it's not a national park but still, animals in winter waste energy if they get scared and have to move; and people get away from the city in order not to hear moped noises coming from the sky.
As for the price, yes 1~2k$ would be ideal. Technically this looks interesting, but they appear to sell only to spy^H^H^Hlaw enforcement agencies.
For me the nail in the coffin was when 15 or so years ago they passed a law forcing radios to broadcast at least 70% of french music. Oh the crap that I heard, you wouldn't believe. Before that there were plenty of interesting bands. After that I gave up entirely.
Transcripts all the way. But if you want quality video: mail them an already configured camera on a mini-tripod. Call them on the phone, tell them to press [Record], also record your end of the conversation (sound only), get the camera back, mix the sounds. It will never be as good as a cameraman+soundman with 2 plane tickets.
Yeah, my beer went through my nose when I read "Diplomatic, military stuff but not commercial competitor stuff". The US has been proven over and over again to have used its very many 'intelligence' agencies (1271, un-freaking-believable) to gather commercial information for the express interest of private US companies. It's not even the stuff of conspiracy theorists as they've been documented by the victim countries themselves.
I understand there are 2 types of noise canceling headphones: those that cut out everything they can and those that let in the bandwidth of voices (that's the kind you want in the server room when talking with colleagues without screaming).
Years ago I tried to find statistics about the cases where the airbag actually increases the gravity of corporal damages, like in you story, but I couldn't find anything. I was mostly worried about having glasses punched into the eyes instead of flying off in a normal accident, but I can think of many other cases. Also I remember reading about deliberate statistics fudging by the manufacturers years ago.
Personally I strongly dislike the idea of having a pack of explosive inches from my face at all time when driving, even if I know that in _some_ cases it can save my life.
1366x768 ? Who uses that ? Even my mother in law has a better screen.
I've been using 1920x1200 and/or 1920x1080 for the last 8 years and lately trying to get something better than that. But there's nothing without a huge price jump (think x3 for the closest resolution and most screens are actually x10). When are we going to get an improvement in screen resolution ?!? And fuck the iPad3.
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Hey, there are penguins there ! (and colleagues of mine for that matter)
My water isn't for-profitMy water isn't for-profit
In France water utilities were sold years ago with the usual line "private companies are more efficient, la-la-la". Net result: some cities saw the price of their water multiplied by 20 in a matter of years !!! It was a rather big scandal as they were sold to only 2 mega-corps (Generale des Eaux and Lyonnaise des Eaux) who were friends with the govermint of the time.
Some types of encryptions cannot be distinguished from noise unless you know the protocol.
I own one. But in practice, green ideals must be evaluated against one's needs. A car puts a barrier between the driver and the weather; a bike does not. A car has enough metal surface to trigger induction loops connected to traffic signals; a bike does not. A car can carry passengers larger than 50 lbs (22 kg); a typical bike trailer cannot. A car can travel on controlled access highways; a bike cannot.
You stop at lights with a bike ? Maybe if you need to cross a high-traffic road, but that's about all. As for highways, if you are in Australian you can bike on them! PS: I bike to work, and so does my wife. When we last moved, we had biking in mind for commuting, so that's one more consideration that people often won't take.
Why don't they use active noise cancellation like in high-end earphones or in modern helicopters ? It's now a proven technology that works very well for a fairly large range of frequencies.
A more contemporary question is how much peaceful scientific research could have been conducted in the US for the cost of military operations in Afganistan and Iraq.
My car could be driving itself by now...
You'd have the software to drive it, yes, but not the oil... :P
You think there will be a "disable" button?
There better be. Or the guy who sold it to me will enjoy the same hardware through his anus.
Having done construction work in polar regions, I can't imagine how much money and energy must have gone into that thing. Cool, yes, but how much useful, peaceful scientific research could have been conducted there for the same budget ?!? Compare to now where instead instead of wasting it on useless and scary bombs, we waste it on useless and scary traders. Hmmm.
In my country there are very good 1:25000 maps, but the trails in the wooded areas can be off by hundreds of meters because they we mapped before the time of the GPSs and there's no way to use a theodolite acurately on a forest trail. Come the GPS: I take a track, clean it up a bit, upload it to OSM and the trail is now a lot more accurate than the best maps available...
PS: The guy who taught me programming in 1981 was 75 years old and had been a paratrooper during WWII before getting into electronics and computers. I don't know why I just remembered that...
OK, I'll get off your lawn without even making a snarky comment... Are you Mel by any chance ?
Really, the "something you are" is still "something you have", but you "have" it attached to your body.
Not necessarily. Something you are is nine-times. The gard at the entrance knows you as nine-times. For hime you _are_ nine-times. Maybe you get fired from work and your badge (something you have) is revoked and your system password (something you know) is removed. But they forget to notify the guard and the next day you manage to walk in as usual, because he knows you. Of course the opposite situation is possible too: the boss throws you out and tells the guard not to let you in, even though your cards passwds won't be canceled for another few days. That's what 'something you are' means. To my understanding anyway.
If you know the difference, why do you want to be given a prediction for a specific location?
Actually, plenty of climate models give localized predictions. Some areas will get much warmer than others; some monsoons may dry up entirely; and others yet may get much colder than now (like Europe if the Gulf Stream stops).
Looks like ground avoidance would be the harder to match, so let's drop it and just have it fly higher. Then the autonomy, OK, let's do something closer. As for the remote control, I was thinking of leaving that out entirely for several reasons: lack of line of sight, no need to learn to fly, no need for $$$ ground equipment, saves weight on the plane (no antenna, less power). But it means that it must land by itself; or at least crash with minimal damage! High video quality is not a requirement, two decent webcams would do (or maybe one split with a mirror). As for the legality of it all...
As for the minimal work, well, yes... C;-) I'm a software guy who deals with hardware daily at work. But I want to _use_ it, not spend months putting it together !
In winter usually the air is pretty calm. Anyway the requirement wouldn't be to fly in _any_ conditions, just when it's best to do a recon. Anyway, I see plenty of good suggestions so far. Thanks all.
Well, I'm in France and have no idea of the legality of unmanned flying here. Anyway, a discussion centererd on the US is fine as once I know what the pitholes are, I can transpose to a different country with some research.
Sounds interesting. What's the range of those ? And is it possible to have them run autonomously following a GPS track ?
As for the price, yes 1~2k$ would be ideal. Technically this looks interesting, but they appear to sell only to spy^H^H^Hlaw enforcement agencies.
For me the nail in the coffin was when 15 or so years ago they passed a law forcing radios to broadcast at least 70% of french music. Oh the crap that I heard, you wouldn't believe. Before that there were plenty of interesting bands. After that I gave up entirely.
Peak phosphorus
Transcripts all the way. But if you want quality video: mail them an already configured camera on a mini-tripod. Call them on the phone, tell them to press [Record], also record your end of the conversation (sound only), get the camera back, mix the sounds. It will never be as good as a cameraman+soundman with 2 plane tickets.
Yeah, my beer went through my nose when I read "Diplomatic, military stuff but not commercial competitor stuff". The US has been proven over and over again to have used its very many 'intelligence' agencies (1271, un-freaking-believable) to gather commercial information for the express interest of private US companies. It's not even the stuff of conspiracy theorists as they've been documented by the victim countries themselves.
I understand there are 2 types of noise canceling headphones: those that cut out everything they can and those that let in the bandwidth of voices (that's the kind you want in the server room when talking with colleagues without screaming).
Personally I strongly dislike the idea of having a pack of explosive inches from my face at all time when driving, even if I know that in _some_ cases it can save my life.
I've been using 1920x1200 and/or 1920x1080 for the last 8 years and lately trying to get something better than that. But there's nothing without a huge price jump (think x3 for the closest resolution and most screens are actually x10). When are we going to get an improvement in screen resolution ?!? And fuck the iPad3.