FCC regulation being what it is, I don't think they'd let a plane that has suffered a 'light damage' crash fly again. Not without the complete teardown you mentioned, but expect to pay for everything (including the frame) getting replaced anyways. Probably is cheaper to just buy a new plane.
Have any of you considered the idea that perhaps Lockheed is big enough to develop the 'business apps' they need in-house, and simply have to port that from Solaris to Linux. I'm thinking that they probably can buy CAD, but their simulators, project management software, and other stuff is all done in-house.
Plus, if they're already using Solaris, there's a good chance they can get a Linux port for it already.
Can't stand all of these "Microsoft Office doesn't run on Linux!" posts.
The Lovecraftian mythos teaches us that the City of R'lyeh is possibly located underneath Antarctica.
"Know ye that He has slept death's dream for ages unnumbered; He who has slumbered long before the birth of Man; He who is dead yet waits dreaming: SHALL RISE, and His time draws near. The worm shall not corrupt the corrupted; time is naught to His continuation; the aeons shall not lay waste that which is not of earth's flesh.
In R'Lyeh He dwells, bound in timeless sleep by Those who would hold back the darkness of Outer Hells and stem the fate of Man. Yet the darkness shall prevail, the destiny of Man is sealed and graven.
The stars shall mark the time of His coming, and when the spheres intersect: HE SHALL RISE. Great Cthulhu shall return, and armed with vengeful talons He shall smite the Elder Lords and rend the soul of Man. The earth shall know the night without cease.
His minions dwell amongst you, Beware O Man, they come in servile stealth; like thieves in the night. They heed not Man and his frail gods, blind in the will of their master.
Great Cthulhu sleeps in His house and shapes the dream of what shall b, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
My brother Ibn Ghazi saw with the lidless eyes the end of Man's time, yet Their curse denied him the revelation. Ever condemned he suffers the endless torments of the Vaults of Zin. His mouth is sealed up, his tongue severed - nought shall he speak or bewail his tortures - he is headless, the slave of the Shoggoth until the Great Old Ones fall.
Yog-Sothoth knoweth the Gate through which the Old Ones shall return. When the stars have faded and the moon shines no more, when only dark suns rise and set: Great Cthulhu shall awaken and call from the deep with the voice of a thousand thunders, and the Gate shall be cast open:
We still have trouble in the UP getting packages delivered on time, because we still have the 'pallet problem'. But, more packages are going through, I suppose, because there's so much more business up here now and because of internet/mailorder purchases.
I took a year of online French as part of my Sophomore highschool year. It was offered through the Michigan Virtual High School system, which seems to rely heavily on Blackboard software (which I've always heard is horrible). Further, the Michigan Virtual High School contracts out their classes to companies like ApexVS, from who I am took the course.
The main problem with learning a language online is that there is no interaction. The hour I had the class, I was alone in a computer lab with one of the few computers with speakers and a microphone in our school. I'd have to listen to RealPlayer recordings and then usually had to find the same spot and play them back again. When it's a 20 minute file and RealPlayer's bar for location in the sound track is only 4 inches wide, it's hard to find that point that you want to listen to. I had no one telling me "This is how you say 'formidable'. It's not pronounced like in English; it is pronounced as if 'dable' and 'table' rhymed in this accent, this way in an accent from Paris..." etc. I had no comprehension of how to listen to French and interpret it.
I get get really good at finding where I was in a RealPlayer file, and complaining to the people running the service. For example, I run Linux at home. I also run Mozilla as my browser of choice. At first, neither Mozilla or any Linux-based browser would run the site, they had written code to stop and say "Please use IE only." Well, I complained, and they stated that my school was providing a Windows box with IE and that I should use that (so much for 'home'work).
However, I did find the teacher of the course to be a very friendly, generous man. He could see my frustrations with the course and the way it was laid out, and so we worked out how I could do different things on my own to study.
I came away with a fairly decent understanding of the stories in the book, but that was about it. I can tell you whether the bat is lying against the chair or if the parrot is sitting on the vase. Not much else, though.
So much for online courses. And to think my school spent money on it because they can't find a foreign language teacher.
Two good books which I recently began to read are Founding Brothers and HW Brands' The First American (Benjamin Franklin)
Though I may like them simply for my recent interest in learning more about the American founding fathers, there are many interesting points in both to pick up. Franklin definitely had the hacker spirit, and Jefferson/Washington/etc were great men. You don't necessarily have to be an American to enjoy these books, either.
The sad thing is, I've actually seen robots that fish.. I believe they were built with the intent that handicapped people could also fish. Basically, you press a button, it casts it, and actually monitored the string tension until it thought a fish was on the line. Of course, a moving boat with a net might have better chances of being able to catch anything. The robot fisher gadget was in a display case at Lake Superior State University.
There's E-Stops built into all of them. A chase vehicle is required, with a judge onboard. If the chase vehicle is too far away or something bad is about to happen, the E-Stop will be activated and the robot must come to a safe stop.
At least, that's how it works in theory. Obviously, DARPA is trying to be as safe and thorough as possible.
Heh, and I thought he was talking about that McDonalds and rest stop built on an old overpass over the road. I forget where that is, but it's somewhere in the trip between Iowa and Nebraska... yeah, I was asleep for most of that trip:)
-m_xiphias
Actually, it's logical that the major problem would be the drive system. A slightly larger robot designed for all terrain movement, a faster processor, and RF communications would probably be the way to handle earthquake ruins. What he has demonstrated is something like a protocol for getting the robots to interact, now it just has to be applied to real hardware.
.. was an ant colony at MIT. He's probably using something about the same for his 125 robot swarm. Take a look at: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/
It's really quite interesting how they're designed, even if the tech is from a few years back.
Too bad there aren't any websites showing the new ones? Or are there?
Instead of Iron Chef, what about a show like Discovery Channel's Monster Garage? It might actually be a little boring, and boggling to non-geeks, though.
3 or 4 programmers with certain skills are put into one area to program for 5 days, with one head honcho (whoever we want to elect with the equivilency of Jessie James on MG) to oversee it. Highlights will be testing it at each end of the day, explanations of how they're doing things. They'd get the first day to plan. On the sixth day, they have to present their work whether it is in working condition or not.
I dunno, it seemed kind of cool when I first thought it up. Ideas for what to program might not be that easy to come up with. And, rules would have to either be very lax (use any existing sourcecode, any libs you want) or very specific. Maybe the Monster Garage type show would work better for a casemodding thing, though.
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No, but geeks tend to walk around waving Zauruses like they're tricorders and making the beeping noises from Star Trek when they war walk with them.
FCC regulation being what it is, I don't think they'd let a plane that has suffered a 'light damage' crash fly again. Not without the complete teardown you mentioned, but expect to pay for everything (including the frame) getting replaced anyways. Probably is cheaper to just buy a new plane.
They are so going to brand you an ubergeek now.
Have any of you considered the idea that perhaps Lockheed is big enough to develop the 'business apps' they need in-house, and simply have to port that from Solaris to Linux. I'm thinking that they probably can buy CAD, but their simulators, project management software, and other stuff is all done in-house.
Plus, if they're already using Solaris, there's a good chance they can get a Linux port for it already.
Can't stand all of these "Microsoft Office doesn't run on Linux!" posts.
The Lovecraftian mythos teaches us that the City of R'lyeh is possibly located underneath Antarctica.
"Know ye that He has slept death's dream for ages unnumbered; He who has slumbered long before the birth of Man; He who is dead yet waits dreaming: SHALL RISE, and His time draws near. The worm shall not corrupt the corrupted; time is naught to His continuation; the aeons shall not lay waste that which is not of earth's flesh.
In R'Lyeh He dwells, bound in timeless sleep by Those who would hold back the darkness of Outer Hells and stem the fate of Man. Yet the darkness shall prevail, the destiny of Man is sealed and graven.
The stars shall mark the time of His coming, and when the spheres intersect: HE SHALL RISE. Great Cthulhu shall return, and armed with vengeful talons He shall smite the Elder Lords and rend the soul of Man. The earth shall know the night without cease.
His minions dwell amongst you, Beware O Man, they come in servile stealth; like thieves in the night. They heed not Man and his frail gods, blind in the will of their master.
Great Cthulhu sleeps in His house and shapes the dream of what shall b, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
My brother Ibn Ghazi saw with the lidless eyes the end of Man's time, yet Their curse denied him the revelation. Ever condemned he suffers the endless torments of the Vaults of Zin. His mouth is sealed up, his tongue severed - nought shall he speak or bewail his tortures - he is headless, the slave of the Shoggoth until the Great Old Ones fall.
Yog-Sothoth knoweth the Gate through which the Old Ones shall return. When the stars have faded and the moon shines no more, when only dark suns rise and set: Great Cthulhu shall awaken and call from the deep with the voice of a thousand thunders, and the Gate shall be cast open:
THEY SHALL RETURN."
-Abdul Alhazred : the R'lyeh Manuscript
Granted, I don't know if they speak english or not, but putting on classic literature (and possibly including a cheap printer) might be a good idea.
Alan Alda. Great show, btw.
We still have trouble in the UP getting packages delivered on time, because we still have the 'pallet problem'. But, more packages are going through, I suppose, because there's so much more business up here now and because of internet/mailorder purchases.
They already run daily builds of their software internally. Read up on Microsoft's development cycle.
I took a year of online French as part of my Sophomore highschool year. It was offered through the Michigan Virtual High School system, which seems to rely heavily on Blackboard software (which I've always heard is horrible). Further, the Michigan Virtual High School contracts out their classes to companies like ApexVS, from who I am took the course.
The main problem with learning a language online is that there is no interaction. The hour I had the class, I was alone in a computer lab with one of the few computers with speakers and a microphone in our school. I'd have to listen to RealPlayer recordings and then usually had to find the same spot and play them back again. When it's a 20 minute file and RealPlayer's bar for location in the sound track is only 4 inches wide, it's hard to find that point that you want to listen to. I had no one telling me "This is how you say 'formidable'. It's not pronounced like in English; it is pronounced as if 'dable' and 'table' rhymed in this accent, this way in an accent from Paris..." etc. I had no comprehension of how to listen to French and interpret it.
I get get really good at finding where I was in a RealPlayer file, and complaining to the people running the service. For example, I run Linux at home. I also run Mozilla as my browser of choice. At first, neither Mozilla or any Linux-based browser would run the site, they had written code to stop and say "Please use IE only." Well, I complained, and they stated that my school was providing a Windows box with IE and that I should use that (so much for 'home'work).
However, I did find the teacher of the course to be a very friendly, generous man. He could see my frustrations with the course and the way it was laid out, and so we worked out how I could do different things on my own to study.
I came away with a fairly decent understanding of the stories in the book, but that was about it. I can tell you whether the bat is lying against the chair or if the parrot is sitting on the vase. Not much else, though.
So much for online courses. And to think my school spent money on it because they can't find a foreign language teacher.
Two good books which I recently began to read are Founding Brothers and HW Brands' The First American (Benjamin Franklin)
Though I may like them simply for my recent interest in learning more about the American founding fathers, there are many interesting points in both to pick up. Franklin definitely had the hacker spirit, and Jefferson/Washington/etc were great men. You don't necessarily have to be an American to enjoy these books, either.
Any others have any comments on these books?
The sad thing is, I've actually seen robots that fish.. I believe they were built with the intent that handicapped people could also fish. Basically, you press a button, it casts it, and actually monitored the string tension until it thought a fish was on the line. Of course, a moving boat with a net might have better chances of being able to catch anything. The robot fisher gadget was in a display case at Lake Superior State University.
-m_xiphias
There's E-Stops built into all of them. A chase vehicle is required, with a judge onboard. If the chase vehicle is too far away or something bad is about to happen, the E-Stop will be activated and the robot must come to a safe stop. At least, that's how it works in theory. Obviously, DARPA is trying to be as safe and thorough as possible.
Heh, and I thought he was talking about that McDonalds and rest stop built on an old overpass over the road. I forget where that is, but it's somewhere in the trip between Iowa and Nebraska... yeah, I was asleep for most of that trip :)
-m_xiphias
Actually, it's logical that the major problem would be the drive system. A slightly larger robot designed for all terrain movement, a faster processor, and RF communications would probably be the way to handle earthquake ruins. What he has demonstrated is something like a protocol for getting the robots to interact, now it just has to be applied to real hardware.
.. was an ant colony at MIT. He's probably using something about the same for his 125 robot swarm.
Take a look at:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/
It's really quite interesting how they're designed, even if the tech is from a few years back.
Too bad there aren't any websites showing the new ones? Or are there?
-m_xiphias
Instead of Iron Chef, what about a show like Discovery Channel's Monster Garage? It might actually be a little boring, and boggling to non-geeks, though. 3 or 4 programmers with certain skills are put into one area to program for 5 days, with one head honcho (whoever we want to elect with the equivilency of Jessie James on MG) to oversee it. Highlights will be testing it at each end of the day, explanations of how they're doing things. They'd get the first day to plan. On the sixth day, they have to present their work whether it is in working condition or not. I dunno, it seemed kind of cool when I first thought it up. Ideas for what to program might not be that easy to come up with. And, rules would have to either be very lax (use any existing sourcecode, any libs you want) or very specific. Maybe the Monster Garage type show would work better for a casemodding thing, though.