Most carriers in the US are charging a one time monthly fee for sms/mms messaging. I don't think comments that sms/mms charges cost an arm and and a leg are relevant in this day and age.
Nevertheless, cellphone providers are making LOTS of money from text/sms messages.
From an article on pizza coupons on your cellphone:
"In April, [Cincinnati}Bell's system handled 115 million text messages, or an average of about 278 per subscriber. The national average is about 30 per subscriber per month. And data such as text make up 10 percent of Bell's wireless service revenues, the second-highest percentage of any carrier in the country."
Here is a ani gif of the F-111B landing and takinf off on the USS Coral Sea. The -111 was too big and heavy, and the Navy dropped it in favor of the upcoming F-14. The -111 (TFX) was supposed to be a joint service A/C. SecDef McNamara's baby.
I worked on the F-111E at RAF Upper Heyford in the late 70's.
I expect more petroleum will be used for packaging of Hot Wheels cars and Playstation games for the upcoming Christmas season than would be used for a years worth of flights for this.
True, but conditions can change from when the mission is planned to arrival at the target area. What I was speaking was far more AI in the drone aircraft, rather than a pilot flying it from a trailer on the ground. And from what I've heard, flying a Predator is harder than flying a regular aircraft. No seat of the pants feel, and a narrower view on the monitor as opposed to being able to swivel your head around.
We already have fully automated 'drones', that will follow a preset route to a preset point and hit it. Cruise missiles. Next, there needs to be a system to change that route or target after launch.
I think it will be a combination. 4 drones slaved to 1 F-22 or AC-130 until they get to the target area. Then the mother ship assess the situation, and lets loose the drones at specific targets, or uses them as decoys for SAMs.
With a traditional jet, you have to hit a small specific area on the deck. The ship is moving forward, possibly pitching or rolling at the same time. But the ships forward speed is a small fraction of the aircrafts forward speed.
Landing vertically, helicopter or Harrier, you have to match the forward speed of the ship (maybe 10-20 knots), compensate for pitch and roll so the deck doesn't come up and slap your landing gear off, and adjust for your own ground effect as you near the surface of the deck. Also, depending on space and where you're supposed to set down, you may be coming down not in line with the ship, but maybe trying to fly sideways at 15 knots.
It's not necessarily easier or harder, just a different set of conditions that need to be met and compensated for.
The weather looked quite ideal for a flawless landing. Since the whole idea is for a craft to land in adverse weather conditions, I don't see how this means much of anything.
It's the first test of an automated landing system. Get it to work in easy conditions first, then refine the process. Or would you rather they the first test with their one and only prototype aircraft be with an aircraft critically short on fuel, trying to land on the deck of a torpedo damaged ship, in the north atlantic during a hurricane?
And how about when the automated landing system gets destroyed by say a midair collision, ground fire, etc.
How about when it isn't shot out? This is a system to reduce pilot workload at the end of a stressful flight. If its damaged, maybe then the pilot reverts back to trying to land it manually. What's the big deal? You think they'll completely remove any possibility of a backup system? Just like with fly-by-wire controls. OMFG!! What happens when the wire breaks??!!?? STOOPID IDEA!! STOOPID IDEA!! No, then the other 2 reduntant systems take over.
They are quite far away from a system that could be deployed in everyday carrier operation, let alone a combat situation.
Yeah. Just like every other prototype system in existence. Give it time to be developed. It just might work. "QinetiQ has achieved the world's first automatic landing of a short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft on a ship."
No, not 'crazy'. Just caught up on the hamster wheel. Zoloft, produce, produce, more zoloft, more code...You haven't stopped since middle school.
Stop.
Take a year off. Be a lumberjack. Do a lap of your continent on your bicycle. Flip burgers. Join the Peace Corps. Do something, anything, else for a while. Your brain and body will thank you.
Actually, if you have a dupe ssn, you are likely going to also have a dupe name and possibly dupe birth place. That is becuase your name and birth place seem to factor in the algorithm that produces the number
SSN & FName & LName is close enough to unique as to make no difference, especially in a small (city size) sample. Now..I don't know that's what they used, but the odds of dupe SSN's, with the same name, in the same city are pretty damn small.
In the event of someone getting zombied, who is liable? Especially in the event that the zombied box is fully patched.
Doesn't apply. The servers at gmail.prepaid don't accept incoming mail from mail servers that don't have a current bond. 400 series SMTP error.
Grandma has a "Gmail-Plus!" acct. Grandma's box gets zombied. Poof, her bond disappears in short order.
One point is that the bond doesn't have to be all that large. If a spammer shells out $10, and 100 messages later, has exhausted his bond, it is quickly going to become obvious that he is in a financially losing game.
Apparently, some of the big spammers are making a few million per year. How big does this bond have to be to deter them? I'm sure they'd sport a few hundred K/year to a shady mailserver.
By making people post a bond just to send email, you are assuming criminal activity up front. And putting a hell of a workload on regular, honest people.
The purveyors of spam are known. Somewhere in there is a contact...a way to send money or buy whatever it is they are selling. Go after that link. Don't penalize me.
It's being tested in the Cincinnati area by Current Communications a division of Cinergy. Currently, about 8,000 homes wired up.
According to the section chief of the Ohio ARRL, problems are minimal. (at the bottom of the article:)
"Joe Phillips of Fairfield, the Ohio section chief for the American Radio Relay League, says that so far the Cinergy roll-out hasn't created the radio interference many ham radio operators had feared."
Who collects and distributes these (micro)payments? Who enforces that the mailserver supports this? In the event of someone getting zombied, who is liable? Especially in the event that the zombied box is fully patched. How does a 13 year old from a dirt poor country send an email from the shared village PC to a uni professor in London or NYC? Where is his escrow acct? What about anon email accts? How is my bank/paypal/whatever tied to that? (Not that I want it that way) How does a free, but popular mailing list afford the escrow acct needed to cover new recipients?
There are a host of other problems that we haven't even begun to consider.
If you can get the same show again and again, whenever you want, what is the need to 'keep' a copy? Why not delete after X days? Prevents space problems on less than clueful users machines, and satisfies the copyright owners need for a little bit of control on the content.
The only reason I could see would be space-shifting onto another medium (play on your portable DVD player, for instance)
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Nevertheless, cellphone providers are making LOTS of money from text/sms messages.
From an article on pizza coupons on your cellphone:
"In April, [Cincinnati}Bell's system handled 115 million text messages, or an average of about 278 per subscriber. The national average is about 30 per subscriber per month. And data such as text make up 10 percent of Bell's wireless service revenues, the second-highest percentage of any carrier in the country."
Most USAF/USN fighters after the F-4 don't have back seaters. F-14, F-15E, and trainer (i.e. F-16 B & D or F-15B & D) models excepted.
I worked on the F-111E at RAF Upper Heyford in the late 70's.
Note: The first linked pic looks like an A-10 rather than what it is labeled as (F-15)
Your point?
If you've got the cash to consider dropping $250k for this, you've already got the house. And the beach house. And the Aspen condo.
No, but this was the first test. Let them work on it and let it mature for a while.
Very true. 10cm is easily enough precision for an aircraft.
When you're parking, maybe. 10cm may mean the difference between simply parking and breaking off a mirror.
We already have fully automated 'drones', that will follow a preset route to a preset point and hit it. Cruise missiles. Next, there needs to be a system to change that route or target after launch.
F-15's don't fly off carriers.
so you can 'bolt' a broken wire or hook
bolter
I think it will be a combination. 4 drones slaved to 1 F-22 or AC-130 until they get to the target area. Then the mother ship assess the situation, and lets loose the drones at specific targets, or uses them as decoys for SAMs.
Landing vertically, helicopter or Harrier, you have to match the forward speed of the ship (maybe 10-20 knots), compensate for pitch and roll so the deck doesn't come up and slap your landing gear off, and adjust for your own ground effect as you near the surface of the deck. Also, depending on space and where you're supposed to set down, you may be coming down not in line with the ship, but maybe trying to fly sideways at 15 knots.
It's not necessarily easier or harder, just a different set of conditions that need to be met and compensated for.
It's the first test of an automated landing system. Get it to work in easy conditions first, then refine the process. Or would you rather they the first test with their one and only prototype aircraft be with an aircraft critically short on fuel, trying to land on the deck of a torpedo damaged ship, in the north atlantic during a hurricane?
And how about when the automated landing system gets destroyed by say a midair collision, ground fire, etc.
How about when it isn't shot out? This is a system to reduce pilot workload at the end of a stressful flight. If its damaged, maybe then the pilot reverts back to trying to land it manually. What's the big deal? You think they'll completely remove any possibility of a backup system? Just like with fly-by-wire controls. OMFG!! What happens when the wire breaks??!!?? STOOPID IDEA!! STOOPID IDEA!!
No, then the other 2 reduntant systems take over.
They are quite far away from a system that could be deployed in everyday carrier operation, let alone a combat situation.
Yeah. Just like every other prototype system in existence. Give it time to be developed. It just might work.
"QinetiQ has achieved the world's first automatic landing of a short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft on a ship."
Stop.
Take a year off. Be a lumberjack. Do a lap of your continent on your bicycle. Flip burgers. Join the Peace Corps. Do something, anything, else for a while. Your brain and body will thank you.
Both large companies in the way that elephants and mice are large compared to fleas (us).
This is a case of the elephant giving up one of it's peanuts (out of a 25lb bag) to the mouse.
Maybe because they're trying to simulate the real world?
No, that doesn't appear to be the case.
The SSN Numbering Scheme
USAF C-23 Sherpa
USCG HH-65A Dolphin (Dauphin)
Sony
Panasonic Toughbook
Software for the F-35 Strike Fighter (p.17)
Fox NBC Rec Vehicle
Not huge projects, but not inconsequential, either.
SSN & FName & LName is close enough to unique as to make no difference, especially in a small (city size) sample. Now..I don't know that's what they used, but the odds of dupe SSN's, with the same name, in the same city are pretty damn small.
Doesn't apply. The servers at gmail.prepaid don't accept incoming mail from mail servers that don't have a current bond. 400 series SMTP error.
Grandma has a "Gmail-Plus!" acct. Grandma's box gets zombied. Poof, her bond disappears in short order.
One point is that the bond doesn't have to be all that large. If a spammer shells out $10, and 100 messages later, has exhausted his bond, it is quickly going to become obvious that he is in a financially losing game.
Apparently, some of the big spammers are making a few million per year. How big does this bond have to be to deter them? I'm sure they'd sport a few hundred K/year to a shady mailserver.
By making people post a bond just to send email, you are assuming criminal activity up front. And putting a hell of a workload on regular, honest people.
The purveyors of spam are known. Somewhere in there is a contact...a way to send money or buy whatever it is they are selling. Go after that link. Don't penalize me.
According to the section chief of the Ohio ARRL, problems are minimal.
(at the bottom of the article:) "Joe Phillips of Fairfield, the Ohio section chief for the American Radio Relay League, says that so far the Cinergy roll-out hasn't created the radio interference many ham radio operators had feared."
Overly complex, ineffective, and useless.
Who collects and distributes these (micro)payments?
Who enforces that the mailserver supports this?
In the event of someone getting zombied, who is liable? Especially in the event that the zombied box is fully patched.
How does a 13 year old from a dirt poor country send an email from the shared village PC to a uni professor in London or NYC? Where is his escrow acct?
What about anon email accts? How is my bank/paypal/whatever tied to that? (Not that I want it that way)
How does a free, but popular mailing list afford the escrow acct needed to cover new recipients?
There are a host of other problems that we haven't even begun to consider.
The only reason I could see would be space-shifting onto another medium (play on your portable DVD player, for instance)
Hopefully this doesn't mean 200 channels of the same drek that is seen on (the blissfully limited to 1 or 2) current public access TV.