Maybe it means that it has good hardware detection? I remember reading about Suse on a notebook before and they were impressed with the hardware detection of even a wireless NIC. Just a thought.
I wonder if they really will drop the Windows name? That's there marketing tag. Kind of like dropping "Office." I'm not sure what they could call it. But then again maybe people will just go with it becaust it came from Microsoft.
Bleh I'm gonna get modded down for this but oh well. If they want to do long term work, work on the stability and security of an operating system. Let's face it. Microsoft is here. Linux coming to a desktop may happen but as of now it's in pre-natal care. Microsoft does need to take some hints from *nix. Be secure. Be quick. Be able to be to customized. They need to work with the community (by that I mean other software companies like gaming companies) and make strict guidelines how it should be written to work with Windows correctly. But they also need to take input. Software companies well say, "well hey we need to do this because..." and instead of MS saying "nope" they should say "well we built the OS and know it so this won't work becasue.....but if you do this...". I started my experience using MS, I'm a linux user looking for a linux job, but at least in linux developer comminicate and things are implimated correctly. Windows is easy to use, windows is easy to fuck up, windows is hard to repair. Usually the best repair is a re-install. This need not be. Eye candy is great, but we need stability and security.
I don't know about Canada but in my little town in Pennsylvania a nickle got me 25 minutes. Do you really think I'll spend another 35 cents (.05 (25 minutes)+.30 (embezzlement charge) to add another 25 minutes? I'll walk my fat ass out the door and insert the nickle.
and weapons relly of all type. My normal carry gun is a Glock 23 C. I like it. Guns are meant to be easy to use. I don't want have to, God forbid, pull my gun and have to enter an 8 digit code or whatever before I shoot back at the bad guy shooting at me. This encrpytion thing is just an excuse for people who have very bad gun lock-up habits. Blehh I had to actually stop here before I go on a rant about morons that dont secure their weapons properly.
Microsoft will never play nice. What's totally amazing is other countries are imposing theses rulings, but in America they get away with it. If all these other countries think it's wrong, maybe it is.
But why the Gates foundation? If Bill Gates is running that and he has the money to run it... why not give it to a charity that isn't being headed by a really really rich person. Why not like for a cure in Parkinsons? or Jerry's Kids?
disclaimer: This is in no way to belittle what he did, and it's a great awesome thing to do.
Okay, all kidding aside. They probaly wouldn't be re-useable, right? How many would a person have to carry then to actually search a building area by area or floor by floor, you get the point. How cost-efficent, or efficient even, would that be?
This is interesting. If these robot toy dogs can do this, that puts engineers one step closer for any U*V fleets the military will use. If they can "talk" to each other, and one is fired upon, it can tell the other crafts where to target and return fire. But, now it can also do more complex things in the future. If one craft can tell the other crafts where a target it is, we can have stealth attacks done autonamously.
Theres also the factor of safety of the pilot and crew.
Helicopters have something called a 'dead mans curve'; its a range of altitudes and velocities below which, in event of a mechanical failure, it is impossible to perform a safe autorotational descent.
Much surveillance flying is routinely below this curve; the helicopter is flying too low and too slow.
Well you tell me. You're first line would impy that safety of pilot and crew as if they're flying the machine. Then you go to refer to a helicopter and then to a drone. It sounds as if you think they were being flown in person.
what pilot and crew? The ones in a control room on the ground?
A small camera capable of tilt and pan operations is fixed to the underside of the drone which sends the video directly to a laptop command station. Once launched, the craft is set to fly autonomously with global positioning system (GPS) coordinates and a fixed flight pattern.
From The Article:
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department operates a fleet of 18 helicopters, priced between three and five million dollars each. The SkySeer will cost between 25,000 and 30,000 dollars.
That's true, but it's controlled by remote. So therfore you don't have to pay a pilot, which I'm sure is a decent amount of money (I never researched it though)to go up in the air. Plus it'll cut back on insurance payments. As for maintenance. Looking @ this link that someone posted in the thread before. I'm not really sure maintenance will be that high of a cost. At 20 to 30 grand, it's almost disposeable in a big city like that.
LA's a big city. There are some good things about this.
* It frees up man power
* It saves money on paying pilots and buying more aircraft
* They can cover more are quickly plus relay constant feed back and be remotely
controlled to travel certain ares faster.
There are some bad things.
* It could, theoretically, be a privacy issue as they take pictures of people's yards (I'm
sure pictures will be wide lens)
* Let's say they can hover and ease drop on a building
* I'm sure taxes will come into play (howerver this may be on neutral ground if it really beneifts the residents).
The light @ the end of the tunnel is one of two things. Actual light and it's almost over, or a freight train barreling down on you.
They may claim a losing victory, but by no means is their war over. You'll see expensive law suits coming up soon. They'll continue to drain the bank accounts on futile law suits. They'll become the SCO of media.
It's a canny bit of work by Redmond, but the question now is: can they actually make things interoperable? Yes.
Will they make things interoperable? Yes, but only to a point to satisfy or try to satisfy OSS users.
More and more I read articles like this it makes me think that Linux and Open Source is starting to really frighten Microsoft. The only problem is when animals get scared, they usually attack.
Now, this is 1981 according to the summary. Here in America now, and I mention America specificaly for a reason, this probaly wouldn't have been possible, but especially now. OSHA is big on safety. I run coil making machines for Sealy and we have crazy safety switches and gates everywhere. It's almost the point where if I look @ it wrong it'll give me a safety error. Now I'm not from Japan nor ever worked there, but their laws, especially then, may be more relaxed than our OSHA standards?
I'm not sure how many programmers are doing actualy drugs per say. Maybe coffee and caffine and perhaps some of those gas station stackers, but I don't think they're actually resorting to drugs like this. At the risk of sterotyping, and I include my self in this, I think more of the type of person to get the drugs would be young adults and people who work in a factory more than an office type. But that's just my opinion.
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aww yes but wouldn't it be even better if it were towards England? Being the 4th and all....
Maybe it means that it has good hardware detection? I remember reading about Suse on a notebook before and they were impressed with the hardware detection of even a wireless NIC. Just a thought.
I wonder if they really will drop the Windows name? That's there marketing tag. Kind of like dropping "Office." I'm not sure what they could call it. But then again maybe people will just go with it becaust it came from Microsoft.
Bleh I'm gonna get modded down for this but oh well. If they want to do long term work, work on the stability and security of an operating system. Let's face it. Microsoft is here. Linux coming to a desktop may happen but as of now it's in pre-natal care. Microsoft does need to take some hints from *nix. Be secure. Be quick. Be able to be to customized. They need to work with the community (by that I mean other software companies like gaming companies) and make strict guidelines how it should be written to work with Windows correctly. But they also need to take input. Software companies well say, "well hey we need to do this because..." and instead of MS saying "nope" they should say "well we built the OS and know it so this won't work becasue.....but if you do this...". I started my experience using MS, I'm a linux user looking for a linux job, but at least in linux developer comminicate and things are implimated correctly. Windows is easy to use, windows is easy to fuck up, windows is hard to repair. Usually the best repair is a re-install. This need not be. Eye candy is great, but we need stability and security.
I don't know about Canada but in my little town in Pennsylvania a nickle got me 25 minutes. Do you really think I'll spend another 35 cents (.05 (25 minutes)+ .30 (embezzlement charge) to add another 25 minutes? I'll walk my fat ass out the door and insert the nickle.
and weapons relly of all type. My normal carry gun is a Glock 23 C. I like it. Guns are meant to be easy to use. I don't want have to, God forbid, pull my gun and have to enter an 8 digit code or whatever before I shoot back at the bad guy shooting at me. This encrpytion thing is just an excuse for people who have very bad gun lock-up habits. Blehh I had to actually stop here before I go on a rant about morons that dont secure their weapons properly.
Microsoft will never play nice. What's totally amazing is other countries are imposing theses rulings, but in America they get away with it. If all these other countries think it's wrong, maybe it is.
But why the Gates foundation? If Bill Gates is running that and he has the money to run it... why not give it to a charity that isn't being headed by a really really rich person. Why not like for a cure in Parkinsons? or Jerry's Kids?
disclaimer: This is in no way to belittle what he did, and it's a great awesome thing to do.
Okay, all kidding aside. They probaly wouldn't be re-useable, right? How many would a person have to carry then to actually search a building area by area or floor by floor, you get the point. How cost-efficent, or efficient even, would that be?
This is interesting. If these robot toy dogs can do this, that puts engineers one step closer for any U*V fleets the military will use. If they can "talk" to each other, and one is fired upon, it can tell the other crafts where to target and return fire. But, now it can also do more complex things in the future. If one craft can tell the other crafts where a target it is, we can have stealth attacks done autonamously.
Theres also the factor of safety of the pilot and crew. Helicopters have something called a 'dead mans curve'; its a range of altitudes and velocities below which, in event of a mechanical failure, it is impossible to perform a safe autorotational descent. Much surveillance flying is routinely below this curve; the helicopter is flying too low and too slow.
Well you tell me. You're first line would impy that safety of pilot and crew as if they're flying the machine. Then you go to refer to a helicopter and then to a drone. It sounds as if you think they were being flown in person.
moron...
what pilot and crew? The ones in a control room on the ground?
A small camera capable of tilt and pan operations is fixed to the underside of the drone which sends the video directly to a laptop command station. Once launched, the craft is set to fly autonomously with global positioning system (GPS) coordinates and a fixed flight pattern.
For definition of autonomous, see this link
From The Article:
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department operates a fleet of 18 helicopters, priced between three and five million dollars each. The SkySeer will cost between 25,000 and 30,000 dollars.
The helicopters aren't going any where.
But what really gets interesting is crooks who have got smarter and implimenting jamming technologies.
This link
That's true, but it's controlled by remote. So therfore you don't have to pay a pilot, which I'm sure is a decent amount of money (I never researched it though)to go up in the air. Plus it'll cut back on insurance payments. As for maintenance. Looking @ this link that someone posted in the thread before. I'm not really sure maintenance will be that high of a cost. At 20 to 30 grand, it's almost disposeable in a big city like that.
LA's a big city. There are some good things about this.
* It frees up man power
* It saves money on paying pilots and buying more aircraft
* They can cover more are quickly plus relay constant feed back and be remotely controlled to travel certain ares faster.
There are some bad things.
* It could, theoretically, be a privacy issue as they take pictures of people's yards (I'm sure pictures will be wide lens)
* Let's say they can hover and ease drop on a building
* I'm sure taxes will come into play (howerver this may be on neutral ground if it really beneifts the residents).
The problem is that once the trojan is on the network it travels through the whole network.
FTA:
may have been compromised by an ex-employee's unauthorized use of a computer,
It doesn't say that it was downloades on the computer that held the information.
The light @ the end of the tunnel is one of two things. Actual light and it's almost over, or a freight train barreling down on you.
They may claim a losing victory, but by no means is their war over. You'll see expensive law suits coming up soon. They'll continue to drain the bank accounts on futile law suits. They'll become the SCO of media.
It's a canny bit of work by Redmond, but the question now is: can they actually make things interoperable? Yes.
Will they make things interoperable? Yes, but only to a point to satisfy or try to satisfy OSS users.
More and more I read articles like this it makes me think that Linux and Open Source is starting to really frighten Microsoft. The only problem is when animals get scared, they usually attack.
You mis-understood me. I was comparing other countries w/out OSHA or an OSHA equivelant to America.
Now, this is 1981 according to the summary. Here in America now, and I mention America specificaly for a reason, this probaly wouldn't have been possible, but especially now. OSHA is big on safety. I run coil making machines for Sealy and we have crazy safety switches and gates everywhere. It's almost the point where if I look @ it wrong it'll give me a safety error. Now I'm not from Japan nor ever worked there, but their laws, especially then, may be more relaxed than our OSHA standards?
I'm not sure how many programmers are doing actualy drugs per say. Maybe coffee and caffine and perhaps some of those gas station stackers, but I don't think they're actually resorting to drugs like this. At the risk of sterotyping, and I include my self in this, I think more of the type of person to get the drugs would be young adults and people who work in a factory more than an office type. But that's just my opinion.
Only if I swam over the pond
Used to be a bunch in the Pop Sci magazine too. Well at least how to's. They ranged from spying to phreaking to using a pay phone for nothing.
It's a neat little hobby I guess. Personally, I'd rather collect bladed weapons over stuff like this.