Life insurance likely wouldn't be paid out by the airplane company's insurance company unless they were liable. However given the way lawyers work, that may crop up. At a bear minimum more lawyers would be involved and they all want to be paid, driving up costs. So if the humans can walk away uninjured, that saves a considerable amount of money and headache.
As you said, the airframe is but one part of the plane. I believe that for smaller planes it is a fairly small portion of the overall cost. I'd expect that inspectors might hesitate in how they deal with engines and other parts that just took such a crash. So I can't speak to that, but portions of the plane may indeed be salvagable. Even in a "write-off" many of the parts will enter the used plane market. Of course that would hurt plane manufacturers who make their pofits selling planes. Every time a Beaver or old school Cessna gets sold no manufacturer makes money.
However people who can walk away from injuries are less likely to sue on general principles. Sort of like if you got a fender-bender. You might be pissed, but you are not likely to enter into a bunch of liability suites. However if you are in the hospital or a family member dies, you may be pissed enough to do so. Even beyond the payouts it is this general attitude of torte that I think this will help prevent.
Further this is a reasonably new technology. (Yes I know that whole-plane chutes technically have been around a long, long time) I wouldn't be surprised if, for small planes, this continues to advance so that the plane itself can be saved.
The Republican party, like the Democratic party, has had to cater to the so-called "moderates." While some are moderate on idealogical grounds, most are not. They simply don't consider idealogy, consistency or even think about ramifications. They care only about the immediate consequences of action and appearance.
This means that it is more and more difficult to get an idealogical conservative like say a Ronald Reagan into power. On the liberal side you have the same problem, although some suggest that Democrats are going to move away from moderates because of their losses in this last election.
This constant appealation to moderates mean that politicians have to put expediency about long term consequence. (Principle is a little more problematic - overly "principled" politicians often care little about compromise and action and accomplish little) You saw this with Bill Clinton. Hate him or love him, he quickly moved to the middle in many ways. Same with Bush. Bush broke away from conservative principles with his tarrifs and other violations of free trade. His programs of spying on Americans violate conservative idealogy of freedoms. The congressional approach to copyright is just one more example. Fortunately many Republicans are starting to think through all this.
Of course the real problem is that most Americans simply don't care about political issues. I'd much rather have someone who thoughtfully disagrees with me than someone who votes shortsightedly. And politicians reflect their constituents. It always cracks me up how people rail on politicians rather than the voters who put them in office.
Nova had an excellent show on the evolution of safety devices on planes a while ago. Admittedly some are holdovers from the 50's and 60's. However many others do work very well and are very effective. For instance the slides for getting out of a plane are used a fair bit and have changed a great deal from the early slides.
I find controlling a computer with speech recognition software to be annoying. GUIs are simply much better. Until there is software that not only recognizes speech but can analyze text in a reliable and high level it is useless. (i.e. convert text to meanings) That is still a long way off. Yes you can run text through profilers, categorizers and even all those things you did with Prolog. But it is very, very difficult to discern intent from most speech. Further there are problems with feedback which most GUIs give you very well.
In effect a useful spech recognition control system requires a reasonably functional AI program. So the analogies to HAL aren't far off. And real AI is still a long way off, assuming that are current methadologies could even achieve AI.
Speech recognition will be useful, but more for dictating letters or the like. Even then I think that the noise of dictating renders keyboards better. That's why PDA's are more interesting. While dictating to a desktop computer has questionable utility, dictating to a PDA on the go is much more useful. You can dictate a letter while driving down the road, send messages, and so forth.
Right now a lot of phones have email, but it is almost useless because of how hard it is to message with them. Imagine if a phone could convert your message to text and email it. Now that would be useful. Imagine a PDA that could be interacted to in a voice manner. (i.e. reads your email and can construct email in this fashion)
It wouldn't eliminate the use of the pointer/pen. (There are too many places where that is useful, just as a GUI is useful) But I think that the way people use PDAs is much more condusive to voice software.
Speech recognition is only a niche market because of the way it is integrated at present. If there was reliable speech recognition on PDAs then I suspect many people would use that instead of the nearly as unreliable handwriting recognition. (I can speak a lot more clearly than I can write) Further it would be a boom for businessmen on the go. You could dictate notes and letters while driving, for instance.
Sometimes niche markets turn out not to be. Just look at a lot of "desktop publishing" software. Back in 1986 that was still largely a niche market. Now it is indespensible for many, many people.
I wonder what all it catches. As someone else mentioned, dynamically created sites might not fair too well. There are obvious ways to make a crawler that will crawl many pages generated with CGI. Take a site like AintItCoolNews. Crappy website with everything done with CGI. However you could still write a crawler to crawl most of its links without any trouble. (I wrote one that did)
I also wonder how well it does with Flash or other multimedia. I don't care about it not crawling commercial sites as much. There are much bigger copyright issues on that. Plus, lets be honest, most of those sites are just porn anyway. I don't think we need a historic archive of porn sites.
My big question though is whether they backup their data regularly. Afterall even hard drives wear out. . .
This will hopefully drive down the costs associated with small aviation. Over the past decade or so a lot of manufactures have left that market - often because of liability. If, when there is an "accident" the plane could land safely with little damage to even the plane itself that would mean fewer insurance payouts. With fewer insurance payouts I'd suspect that the industry might become much more economical.
If this works as well as I've heard, look for it to eventually become mandatory on small planes.
The original series did have masks as in the movie. But yea, I had a brain fart and started thinking about the movie. (Although the first one wasn't as horrid as that John Woo versions)
Um - yea. Realistic masks that mimic every facial movement but can be ripped off at will. Helicopters that can be towed behind a high speed train through a tunnel without the turbulence causing it to crash. Yeah, Mission Impossible was a barrel of realism.
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I don't understand why you felt OpenBSD was less secure than Redhat in this regard. You can patch the software on OpenBSD fairly easily. Heavens, I've updated our OpenBSD box's Apache several times now.
That's not entirely true. The G4 outperforms the speed difference in some functions. However not as much as many Mac zealots claim.
Programs that utilize Altivect really have a dramatic speed increase. Unfortunately one of the programs that benefit best from Altivect has a bug that makes it unstable with that code. Adobe's fix? Disable it, making Photoshop considerably slower.
But it also faster than two or three G4's. This is great for the Windows/Linux world but kind of sad for competition which may led to problems down the road. After all I think both AMDs offering and the IBM 970 will have trouble competing it Intel continues in their path.
I love OSX. But the hardware really is falling behind. . .
I'm afraid that MPEG-1 is a distinct turnoff with the EyeTV thing. Further USB seems far too slow. Has anyone used the Formac and would like to say how it works? I wished it did Digital Cable as I have that and many channels I'd like to record are on the digital. C'est la vie I guess.
Unless they changed it recently, the above isn't true. We used both Macs and PCs in top secret areas. We used removable drives and most of the work to keep things "classified" were the trust of the employees. The really secure stuff were in a safe with no cables at all, but we had plenty of cabling actually running into quite a few areas.
Actually truth be told it never seemed that secure to me. Pro Force would actually let you into the buildings at night unaccompanied to do work. You then left on your own. Admittedly we were just doing analysis of nuclear explosions and weren't working on the main models or anything. Those were up the road. But it always freaked me out how little real security there was.
It always seemed odd that we had these rules about no non-optical cable beyond a certain length but the staff (including summer interns) was given free reign.
As most security lectures point out, the typical way a hacker will crack your network isn't a direct brute force way. Yet those more "primitive" approaches are what are typically left unguarded. (Although of course with recent WiFi networks not putting security on at all was always silly - but the government was much smarter than that)
Of course the new technique against HIV is to increase the mutation rate even higher. This makes it so hard to replicate that it dies out. New Scientist had an interesting article on this a few days back. I'd put a link up, but it appears it is already gone from the public site. Of course it is still in early research but it sounds like a novel approachs.
Bacteria aren't restricted to darwinian evolution.
Oh no! They are using Lamarkian Evolution. Run and hide! Run and hide! They've been trained to eat people so they'll all start mutating that way!
Funny how you say that while simultaneously overlooking that Republicans control the House, Senate and Presidency. To quote right back at you. "The FACT that most people overwhelmingly vote Republican year after year proves I'm on the right side." I mean this was supposed to be an election where Democrats would pick up 20 - 30 seats and instead the Republicans won?
FireWire2 is extremely exciting. Since Apple will undoubtedly include it as standard in their future machines it could make some serious networking/mulitprocessing stuff possible. I hope that OSS takes advantage of this. How about a port of POOMA that works off a network of FireWire2 based computers?
(For those not familiar with it, POOMA is a math library for C++ that handles multiprocessing in a very easy way. Debug it on a single processing system and run it on a multiprocessing system) It was developed at LANL but a lot of people use it. With FireWire2 and a bunch of cheap systems you could get a lot of supercomputer performance very cheaply.
You do realize that one of the recent opponents of the recording industry is Orin Hatch. Admittedly he is a recent "convert" and it probably has more to do with what his constituents feel back in Utah. However the knee jerk reaction against Republicans by some is always interesting to me: especially when frequently many Republicans are the ones defending the views in question.
It reminds me of the opposition to the war. All these left wing democrats were attacking Republicans while it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who were often the ones raising the difficult questions.
I will be honest. I hate knee jerk party politics. Those who say "ACLU no matter what" or "Democrat no matter what" or "Republican no matter what" or what ever really irritate the hell out of me. It turns politics into a debate about what team you are on rather than an effective discussion of ideas and their implementation. As soon as someone falls into those categories I'm almost always inclined to tune them out because I know all I'll hear are strawmen designed to help their team. It's like a pep rally from High School. "Go team go!"
Damn. What happened to politics being about effective service.
I can think of lots of rights that the ACLU doesn't fight for. If you worry about your rights, work with all sides and try to see all perspectives.
Which translation did you read? There is one that is accompanied by a very good physics commentary that discusses the theorems and proof as well as contrasting the methods with modern physics. Unfortuantely I lost mine and can't for the life of me remember who the translator was. None of the versions I've seen at Barnes and Nobel or Borders are the one I had.
Anyway, Leibniz rules for many reasons, not the least of which is his version of the calculus. The Monadology is a pretty interesting read as well. Even if I don't buy it.
Unfortunately past precedence on this issue isn't good. Canada has done relatively little or nothing to other nations violating their waters. They allowed other nations to help overfish the grand banks. They basically did nothing until the stocks were already depleted and that one ship (Spanish?) was after the last remaining school. (Sorry I forget the details as I now live in Utah, not Nova Scotia)
Further saying that no one could use the northwest passage simply isn't going to happen. It is too valuable. So unless Canada does something about their pitiful machinery for the coast guard, the waters will de-facto end up controlled by the United States. I mean right now they have those helicopters for search and rescue that barely fly.
Further if some ship tried to sail the northwest passage and Canada confronted them, do you REALLY think that the Canadian navy would attack? Do you think they would be willing to sink some ship? I don't. I think that by and large the Canadian government lacks balls. What is worse is that it is completely unwilling to allocate the funds to even be able to project power over its own waters.
Actually this is why the poles may reverse. (See the other Slashdot article earlier today) Santa's secret workshop was in danger of sinking in the ocean. He thus needs to relocate to the south pole but can only do so if it becomes the north pole.
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As you said, the airframe is but one part of the plane. I believe that for smaller planes it is a fairly small portion of the overall cost. I'd expect that inspectors might hesitate in how they deal with engines and other parts that just took such a crash. So I can't speak to that, but portions of the plane may indeed be salvagable. Even in a "write-off" many of the parts will enter the used plane market. Of course that would hurt plane manufacturers who make their pofits selling planes. Every time a Beaver or old school Cessna gets sold no manufacturer makes money.
However people who can walk away from injuries are less likely to sue on general principles. Sort of like if you got a fender-bender. You might be pissed, but you are not likely to enter into a bunch of liability suites. However if you are in the hospital or a family member dies, you may be pissed enough to do so. Even beyond the payouts it is this general attitude of torte that I think this will help prevent.
Further this is a reasonably new technology. (Yes I know that whole-plane chutes technically have been around a long, long time) I wouldn't be surprised if, for small planes, this continues to advance so that the plane itself can be saved.
This means that it is more and more difficult to get an idealogical conservative like say a Ronald Reagan into power. On the liberal side you have the same problem, although some suggest that Democrats are going to move away from moderates because of their losses in this last election.
This constant appealation to moderates mean that politicians have to put expediency about long term consequence. (Principle is a little more problematic - overly "principled" politicians often care little about compromise and action and accomplish little) You saw this with Bill Clinton. Hate him or love him, he quickly moved to the middle in many ways. Same with Bush. Bush broke away from conservative principles with his tarrifs and other violations of free trade. His programs of spying on Americans violate conservative idealogy of freedoms. The congressional approach to copyright is just one more example. Fortunately many Republicans are starting to think through all this.
Of course the real problem is that most Americans simply don't care about political issues. I'd much rather have someone who thoughtfully disagrees with me than someone who votes shortsightedly. And politicians reflect their constituents. It always cracks me up how people rail on politicians rather than the voters who put them in office.
Here's an interesting Nova link to one show. (Not the one I was thinking of)
In effect a useful spech recognition control system requires a reasonably functional AI program. So the analogies to HAL aren't far off. And real AI is still a long way off, assuming that are current methadologies could even achieve AI.
Speech recognition will be useful, but more for dictating letters or the like. Even then I think that the noise of dictating renders keyboards better. That's why PDA's are more interesting. While dictating to a desktop computer has questionable utility, dictating to a PDA on the go is much more useful. You can dictate a letter while driving down the road, send messages, and so forth.
Right now a lot of phones have email, but it is almost useless because of how hard it is to message with them. Imagine if a phone could convert your message to text and email it. Now that would be useful. Imagine a PDA that could be interacted to in a voice manner. (i.e. reads your email and can construct email in this fashion)
It wouldn't eliminate the use of the pointer/pen. (There are too many places where that is useful, just as a GUI is useful) But I think that the way people use PDAs is much more condusive to voice software.
Sometimes niche markets turn out not to be. Just look at a lot of "desktop publishing" software. Back in 1986 that was still largely a niche market. Now it is indespensible for many, many people.
I also wonder how well it does with Flash or other multimedia. I don't care about it not crawling commercial sites as much. There are much bigger copyright issues on that. Plus, lets be honest, most of those sites are just porn anyway. I don't think we need a historic archive of porn sites.
My big question though is whether they backup their data regularly. Afterall even hard drives wear out. . .
If this works as well as I've heard, look for it to eventually become mandatory on small planes.
Parachutes don't work in space too well, do they? How about a light sail to "slow down" the ship?
The original series did have masks as in the movie. But yea, I had a brain fart and started thinking about the movie. (Although the first one wasn't as horrid as that John Woo versions)
Um - yea. Realistic masks that mimic every facial movement but can be ripped off at will. Helicopters that can be towed behind a high speed train through a tunnel without the turbulence causing it to crash. Yeah, Mission Impossible was a barrel of realism.
I don't understand why you felt OpenBSD was less secure than Redhat in this regard. You can patch the software on OpenBSD fairly easily. Heavens, I've updated our OpenBSD box's Apache several times now.
The Syphilis they gave him was going a bit far though, wasn't it?
That's not entirely true. The G4 outperforms the speed difference in some functions. However not as much as many Mac zealots claim. Programs that utilize Altivect really have a dramatic speed increase. Unfortunately one of the programs that benefit best from Altivect has a bug that makes it unstable with that code. Adobe's fix? Disable it, making Photoshop considerably slower.
I love OSX. But the hardware really is falling behind. . .
I found a few reviews on Google:
http://www.whatcamcorder.net/frame.html?http://www .whatcamcorder.net/reviews/VideoEditing/Formac/For macStudio.shtml
http://www.ibook-user.com/reviews/review-formac.ht ml
http://www.synchrotech.com/product-1394/analog-dv- converter_01.html
I'm afraid that MPEG-1 is a distinct turnoff with the EyeTV thing. Further USB seems far too slow. Has anyone used the Formac and would like to say how it works? I wished it did Digital Cable as I have that and many channels I'd like to record are on the digital. C'est la vie I guess.
Actually truth be told it never seemed that secure to me. Pro Force would actually let you into the buildings at night unaccompanied to do work. You then left on your own. Admittedly we were just doing analysis of nuclear explosions and weren't working on the main models or anything. Those were up the road. But it always freaked me out how little real security there was.
It always seemed odd that we had these rules about no non-optical cable beyond a certain length but the staff (including summer interns) was given free reign.
As most security lectures point out, the typical way a hacker will crack your network isn't a direct brute force way. Yet those more "primitive" approaches are what are typically left unguarded. (Although of course with recent WiFi networks not putting security on at all was always silly - but the government was much smarter than that)
Of course the new technique against HIV is to increase the mutation rate even higher. This makes it so hard to replicate that it dies out. New Scientist had an interesting article on this a few days back. I'd put a link up, but it appears it is already gone from the public site. Of course it is still in early research but it sounds like a novel approachs.
Bacteria aren't restricted to darwinian evolution. Oh no! They are using Lamarkian Evolution. Run and hide! Run and hide! They've been trained to eat people so they'll all start mutating that way!
(For those not familiar with it, POOMA is a math library for C++ that handles multiprocessing in a very easy way. Debug it on a single processing system and run it on a multiprocessing system) It was developed at LANL but a lot of people use it. With FireWire2 and a bunch of cheap systems you could get a lot of supercomputer performance very cheaply.
It reminds me of the opposition to the war. All these left wing democrats were attacking Republicans while it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who were often the ones raising the difficult questions.
I will be honest. I hate knee jerk party politics. Those who say "ACLU no matter what" or "Democrat no matter what" or "Republican no matter what" or what ever really irritate the hell out of me. It turns politics into a debate about what team you are on rather than an effective discussion of ideas and their implementation. As soon as someone falls into those categories I'm almost always inclined to tune them out because I know all I'll hear are strawmen designed to help their team. It's like a pep rally from High School. "Go team go!"
Damn. What happened to politics being about effective service.
I can think of lots of rights that the ACLU doesn't fight for. If you worry about your rights, work with all sides and try to see all perspectives.
The whole event appears in next week's Alias where Syd pretends to be a philosopher of physics looking for note by Rambaldi in the margins.
Which translation did you read? There is one that is accompanied by a very good physics commentary that discusses the theorems and proof as well as contrasting the methods with modern physics. Unfortuantely I lost mine and can't for the life of me remember who the translator was. None of the versions I've seen at Barnes and Nobel or Borders are the one I had. Anyway, Leibniz rules for many reasons, not the least of which is his version of the calculus. The Monadology is a pretty interesting read as well. Even if I don't buy it.
Further saying that no one could use the northwest passage simply isn't going to happen. It is too valuable. So unless Canada does something about their pitiful machinery for the coast guard, the waters will de-facto end up controlled by the United States. I mean right now they have those helicopters for search and rescue that barely fly.
Further if some ship tried to sail the northwest passage and Canada confronted them, do you REALLY think that the Canadian navy would attack? Do you think they would be willing to sink some ship? I don't. I think that by and large the Canadian government lacks balls. What is worse is that it is completely unwilling to allocate the funds to even be able to project power over its own waters.
Actually this is why the poles may reverse. (See the other Slashdot article earlier today) Santa's secret workshop was in danger of sinking in the ocean. He thus needs to relocate to the south pole but can only do so if it becomes the north pole.