Of course it's speculation. How do you think you figure these things out? Time travel?
But it is potentially useful speculation. Instead of trying to find life on everything floating around random bits of fusion, look for specific parameters. Basically, one is attempting to Goldilocks the Drake Equation. Since there appear to be lots of lots of bits of rock orbiting random stars this can be a useful thing.
I live in Seattle. Everytime I hear someone complain that nothing is made in the USA I think - are you kidding, look up in the sky those planes were made right here.
Sort of true (Boeing is huge and mostly in the US) - but in an effort to get international orders, YoYoDyne subcontracted the 787 to pretty much every country with an airport. That was one of the reasons that it fell so far behind (the other being that Boeing, like everyone else, can't hit a release target to save it's life). It became hugely difficult to monitor and integrate suppliers from damned near everywhere.
Not quite sure why you're modded at -1. This is all too true. A friend of my wife's was visiting not too long ago and showed me her camera - the same one she had three years ago when she last visited. Had a 4 GB SD card so it has a capacity of one zillion little jpegs. She's never off loaded them, never backed them up. They are pictures of kids, grandkids, family events.
She went home with a spare old 10 GB drive with her pics backed up. But some people.....
It's not like they're scraping the sides of Hell's Canyon in this thing. Nobody is careening into rock walls. I'm sure this was debated at length in engineering meetings. If you cover everything, then you can't see it (duh). Visual inspection is one of the strong points of the Rover so by making everything all aerodynamic you potentially cover a lot of useful information.
Not much of a local economy to save. It's it the middle of nowhere. An occasional tourist I suppose, but since there isn't a McDonald's within 100 meters, it can be too significant.
Fracking (injecting sand, soap and other miscellaneous and mysterious chemicals under pressure to open up tiny microfractures) isn't the technique you're looking for. Doesn't have nearly the power needed.
I prefer "yelling at SIRI" to typing when using my ipad when typing prose like this. If I had similar functionality on my PC I would use it. It saves a ton of wear and tear on the hands. The biggest "drawback" is I find I need to speak with practiced diction rather than my usual drawl. Even with the mistakes I still find it faster and less tiresome.
Hrrumph. When I make a mistake, I want it to be my mistake. Not some random dribble trumped up by the misbegotten spawn of an Apple Newton.
So average users are dumb yet can use iTunes better than the supposedly smart nerds who claim it's too hard to use? And that's an insult against the average user? LOL.
Maybe we don't have enough Gamma waves? More neuroscience!
Oh, it never made any sense. Ever. If you're going to offer a service, offer a good service (it just works, right?). I imagine that the first introduction to Apple for many folks was an iPod. On Windows. So with iTunes being the enormous cluster-fuck that it is/was and likely will be on Windows, where is the Apple Experience?
Even if they had to hire programmers from Microsoft themselves, it seems like they could have been arsed to do a better job.
An 'external monitor' for an IV pump? Exactly how would you do that? Gang another pump in series (with concomitant added complexity, chances for infection vectors, operator error and other issues)?
From the fairly useless blurb it sounds like on some (but not all) pumps the user interface can't keep up with the user. Suggests that there was a problem in understanding the manufacturing tolerances of the touchscreens or some other timing issue in the system. While concerning, I don't think anyone really thinks you can get 'perfect' devices. Certainly the smarter pumps have the advantage that they can do some simple arithmetic calculations (which humans are notoriously buggy at) and have many more failsafes than the old 'dropper' method of determining IV flow rates (1 drop every 10 seconds = 100 cc / hr or some similar).
I'm more interested in how they determined an error in 1% of their pumps. Did somebody look carefully? Did their QA processes find it? Did the FDA find it?
FTA: after discovering a software error that caused the touch screen interfaces on the devices to respond incorrectly to user input.
From the same FA: Software engineers and security experts have sounded warnings about the vulnerability of IP-enabled medical devices for some time now.
Yes,
1. Hyping a known problem (software has bugs) 2. Non Sequitur to favorite whine (Wifi enabled x is bad)
All in one little package. Perfect for page views. Little use for anything else.
Judging from the Google Autonomous Car and some of the contrasting flight path data I've seen, fully autonomous vehicles are frequently less prone to error then their inconsistent, drug using, emotional, fatigued human pilots.
Most commercial UAS(read micro-UAV w/micro price) are not autonomous and are generally just FPV RC vehicles with more redundancy(-optimism), and higher price tags justified by support contracts, warranties, cosmetic improvements, total-cost-of-ownership motivated diminishing-return component-quality improvements. Their most sophisticated autopilot functionalities are usually way-point navigation, GPS Loiter, Return to Base, Altitude Hold, and signal loss/component failure inspired controlled descents.
These can all be lumped in to bidirectional telemetry and what the robotics field calls "localization". The higher level functionality typical of military vehicles & research is what is required for collision avoidance.
Military vehicles like the predator drones aren't usually powered by lithium batteries but instead by petrol engines or turbines(sometimes fuel cells). Their effective range and flight times are usually orders of magnitude higher and their power plant can support the wing area, and hotel energy load required by accessories such as 1000W Radars, pan-tilt heads, FLIR imaging systems, & single board computer based vision processing CPUs.
These vehicles are capable of systems like TERCOM, DSMAC, INS, TCAS, GPWS, GCWS, TAWS, & precision GPS, and can be outfitting to require human pilot intervention exclusively during takeoff/landing or not at all.
This class of vehicle is what is being discussed, and are being considered for applications such as air-freight/cargo transport, border patrol(already in operation with FAA COA), forestry service/BLM, Homeland Security patrols of critical infrastructure.
OK, so all of those acronyms are supposed to make me feel better?
So Seattle-Tacoma International Airport would have to basically take up the entire Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR metropolitan corridor for the panels alone. While this would solve several problems inherent to the constantly dripping wet environment (this summer excepting) it's probably not an especially practical land use scenario.
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Of course it's speculation. How do you think you figure these things out? Time travel?
But it is potentially useful speculation. Instead of trying to find life on everything floating around random bits of fusion, look for specific parameters. Basically, one is attempting to Goldilocks the Drake Equation. Since there appear to be lots of lots of bits of rock orbiting random stars this can be a useful thing.
I live in Seattle. Everytime I hear someone complain that nothing is made in the USA I think - are you kidding, look up in the sky those planes were made right here.
Sort of true (Boeing is huge and mostly in the US) - but in an effort to get international orders, YoYoDyne subcontracted the 787 to pretty much every country with an airport. That was one of the reasons that it fell so far behind (the other being that Boeing, like everyone else, can't hit a release target to save it's life). It became hugely difficult to monitor and integrate suppliers from damned near everywhere.
Sort of sounds like the Space Shuttle writ large.
Not quite sure why you're modded at -1. This is all too true. A friend of my wife's was visiting not too long ago and showed me her camera - the same one she had three years ago when she last visited. Had a 4 GB SD card so it has a capacity of one zillion little jpegs. She's never off loaded them, never backed them up. They are pictures of kids, grandkids, family events.
She went home with a spare old 10 GB drive with her pics backed up. But some people.....
1. Weight.
2. Weight.
3. Complexity
4. Weight.
It's not like they're scraping the sides of Hell's Canyon in this thing. Nobody is careening into rock walls. I'm sure this was debated at length in engineering meetings. If you cover everything, then you can't see it (duh). Visual inspection is one of the strong points of the Rover so by making everything all aerodynamic you potentially cover a lot of useful information.
Besides, it looks cool this way. Very geeky.
Good point. Hard to keep up a 24 x 7 guard around your perfect redoubt all by yourself.
Hard to chop up a 4 foot wide tree all by yourself.
Hard to have every skill and trade needed all by yourself.
Society. There is a reason for it.
urrrrr.
in, not it
can't not can
INSUFFICIENT CAFFEINE TO CONTINUE. *** EMERGENCY STOP DETECTED. ***
(Note to Slashdot programmers. If you allowed editing this sort of embarrassment wouldn't be necessary. WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO YELL.)
Not much of a local economy to save. It's it the middle of nowhere. An occasional tourist I suppose, but since there isn't a McDonald's within 100 meters, it can be too significant.
Fracking (injecting sand, soap and other miscellaneous and mysterious chemicals under pressure to open up tiny microfractures) isn't the technique you're looking for. Doesn't have nearly the power needed.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
This thing is going to get photoshopped to hell and back again.
Too many possibilities to ignore.
I prefer "yelling at SIRI" to typing when using my ipad when typing prose like this. If I had similar functionality on my PC I would use it. It saves a ton of wear and tear on the hands. The biggest "drawback" is I find I need to speak with practiced diction rather than my usual drawl. Even with the mistakes I still find it faster and less tiresome.
Hrrumph. When I make a mistake, I want it to be my mistake. Not some random dribble trumped up by the misbegotten spawn of an Apple Newton.
Why is it important to have a kill switch? You working on the Skynet beta or something?
Maybe not but if they handed out T-shirts, geeks would be all over it.
So average users are dumb yet can use iTunes better than the supposedly smart nerds who claim it's too hard to use? And that's an insult against the average user? LOL.
Maybe we don't have enough Gamma waves? More neuroscience!
Oh, it never made any sense. Ever. If you're going to offer a service, offer a good service (it just works, right?). I imagine that the first introduction to Apple for many folks was an iPod. On Windows. So with iTunes being the enormous cluster-fuck that it is/was and likely will be on Windows, where is the Apple Experience?
Even if they had to hire programmers from Microsoft themselves, it seems like they could have been arsed to do a better job.
Well, I'm certainly glad you've cleared things up. I'll just ask the NY Philharmonic to just trundle up here to Alaska for my personal enjoyment.
What a wonderful world we could live in!
Simply amazing! A bit of technology used for good, and perhaps bad. (I didn't pick up that bit, thanks).
Complications!
Funny, I always thought that it referred to the cigarette. That made perfect sense.
An 'external monitor' for an IV pump? Exactly how would you do that? Gang another pump in series (with concomitant added complexity, chances for infection vectors, operator error and other issues)?
From the fairly useless blurb it sounds like on some (but not all) pumps the user interface can't keep up with the user. Suggests that there was a problem in understanding the manufacturing tolerances of the touchscreens or some other timing issue in the system. While concerning, I don't think anyone really thinks you can get 'perfect' devices. Certainly the smarter pumps have the advantage that they can do some simple arithmetic calculations (which humans are notoriously buggy at) and have many more failsafes than the old 'dropper' method of determining IV flow rates (1 drop every 10 seconds = 100 cc / hr or some similar).
I'm more interested in how they determined an error in 1% of their pumps. Did somebody look carefully? Did their QA processes find it? Did the FDA find it?
FTA:
after discovering a software error that caused the touch screen interfaces on the devices to respond incorrectly to user input.
From the same FA:
Software engineers and security experts have sounded warnings about the vulnerability of IP-enabled medical devices for some time now.
Yes,
1. Hyping a known problem (software has bugs)
2. Non Sequitur to favorite whine (Wifi enabled x is bad)
All in one little package. Perfect for page views. Little use for anything else.
$1.80 for a super sensitive gyroscope. I like your style NASA!
Then how do you explain Rethuglicans?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Judging from the Google Autonomous Car and some of the contrasting flight path data I've seen, fully autonomous vehicles are frequently less prone to error then their inconsistent, drug using, emotional, fatigued human pilots.
Most commercial UAS(read micro-UAV w/micro price) are not autonomous and are generally just FPV RC vehicles with more redundancy(-optimism), and higher price tags justified by support contracts, warranties, cosmetic improvements, total-cost-of-ownership motivated diminishing-return component-quality improvements. Their most sophisticated autopilot functionalities are usually way-point navigation, GPS Loiter, Return to Base, Altitude Hold, and signal loss/component failure inspired controlled descents.
These can all be lumped in to bidirectional telemetry and what the robotics field calls "localization". The higher level functionality typical of military vehicles & research is what is required for collision avoidance.
Military vehicles like the predator drones aren't usually powered by lithium batteries but instead by petrol engines or turbines(sometimes fuel cells). Their effective range and flight times are usually orders of magnitude higher and their power plant can support the wing area, and hotel energy load required by accessories such as 1000W Radars, pan-tilt heads, FLIR imaging systems, & single board computer based vision processing CPUs.
These vehicles are capable of systems like TERCOM, DSMAC, INS, TCAS, GPWS, GCWS, TAWS, & precision GPS, and can be outfitting to require human pilot intervention exclusively during takeoff/landing or not at all.
This class of vehicle is what is being discussed, and are being considered for applications such as air-freight/cargo transport, border patrol(already in operation with FAA COA), forestry service/BLM, Homeland Security patrols of critical infrastructure.
OK, so all of those acronyms are supposed to make me feel better?
(Ancient Firesign Theater for those not so generationally challenged).
Bob
So Seattle-Tacoma International Airport would have to basically take up the entire Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR metropolitan corridor for the panels alone. While this would solve several problems inherent to the constantly dripping wet environment (this summer excepting) it's probably not an especially practical land use scenario.
A solar Flyer would be prop driven, means slow low alt, bumpy flights..
Not at all. Sitting on the runway, perfectly still, would be a very smooth ride.