The real killer for productivity in iOS is the lack of user space accessible file system. Either they have to open the up to iOS users - and take the security hit, or they have to hide it from OS X users (over our dead 17 inch laptops).
Don't be so proud of this technological terror that you've created.
We may be 'doing more with less' but we're doing a hell of a lot more. To the point where we are clobbering the planet's capacity to maintain some sort of homeostasis. Like the homeostasis needed to feed all of the happy little fruits and vegetables you seem to think would be a good idea.
A planet isn't a farm. We know just enough about ecology to know we don't know jack shit about it.
You, sir, are the reason that we as Humans have not been able to find peace.
OK, let me try and work this out. Because a cranky old poster on an ancient, barely significant site on the Internet misreads a complex post that was thrown together from several other posts by a number of people with varying degrees of competence with both language and the subject matter....
We're doomed?
I'm going to have to take my posts more seriously from now on. I didn't realize how important we are.
I wonder what the rules are for an unmanned vessel on the high seas.
That is an international question, so one country can't just make up a new set of rules. (This applies both to China building islands, and the US building these boats.)
If unmanned = abandoned, then it seems like the ship would be fair game.
If it is following your sub, then perhaps put a swimmer in the water and route the sub so the ship goes to the swimmer.
They may wish to have the option to have a few folks on board depending on operational concerns.
This has been discussed at some length (PDF warning). If it is under way and under control, it would not be considered salvageable. Of course, in a war time situation, this isn't the guiding principle, so either the craft is armed for defense or self destruction (or both) as the designers see fit.
You just know this thing is going to mistake large sea mammals for submarines and kill them.
How many blue whales, orcas, and other large sea mammals must die before we realize our warmongering is going to destroy our planet?
Seaman Jones: [Jonesy is teaching Beaumont] Hear it now?
Beaumont: [resigned] No.
Seaman Jones: Beaumont, at Caltech we used to do this in our sleep! You hear it now?
Beaumont: Wait a minute...
Seaman Jones: Uh oh...
Beaumont: Disparaged surface clutter...
Seaman Jones: Yeeeesssss?
Beaumont: I should go to SAPS?
Seaman Jones: Correct! Seaman Beaumont, Signal Algorithmic Processing System. Give it a week and you'll be teaching at Caltech. So, like Beethoven on the computer, you have laboured to produce... a biologic.
Beaumont: A what?
Seaman Jones: A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar, then you do. Train her around to 269 and lets try it again?
Oh, and displacement values for cats / trimerans include the total of the lengths of the sponsons. So a 50 foot catamaran has roughly double the displacement speed of a monohull.
Catamarans and foils are considered planing boats for this argument. Look at the sailing foils - they seem to have exactly six inches of carbon fiber actually in the water. There is a limit to how big multihulls / foils can get - it gets bigger all of the time but typically at the expense of weight. They are basically aircraft in design and construction (and cost). So far, this hasn't worked out well for naval designers that like to put two hundred men and women, multiple tons of things that go boom and assorted paraphernalia on the craft. That may be the future, but the for the moment, very large boats are displacement-only.
These seem like the ultimate sensor platforms. Yes, you can drop sonobouys (with limited lifetime and capability) or drop some two ton surveillance platform from a CG buoy tender, but this thing can putter off to where you want it and sit there.
It sure looks like a semi submersible - flood the pontoons and part of the hull, the only thing that sticks up are the antennas. Damned hard to spot. The ocean is really freaking big.
How do you propose the submarine call in an air strike? Dial somebody up on the captain's cell phone?
Anytime a submarine needs to communicate, it risks giving away it's position.
Laser comms with satellites. Subs have been doing this for years. Not completely silent (as you point out, nothing is), but hard to spot. A brief encoded message saying 'nasty sub at so and so position, this and that depth, heading thisaway' doesn't take much info (or time).
Your old Nikon back is worth pennies. The lenses, perhaps quite a bit more.
People have tried to work this out for years and it just doesn't fly. A digital camera is a much different beast than a film unit. The ergonomics and data displays for a digital camera just encompass much more than the film cannister. Really, keep your old F4 on the mantle, buy a Nikon 3200 - the very bottom of the DSLR line and find it stomps the image quality and handling of any film camera ever made.* Nostalgia is just that.
* If you want to use your old lens, you're going to have to pony up to a D800 or so, but now we're getting technical.
Model rockets over 1.5kg have to get a specific wavier with location, time of flight, size, impulse and receive a specific waiver (and have a NOTAM filed) from the FAA every single time we fly. Suck it up, buttercup.
Model rockets that weigh over 1.5 kg (hopefully) go much further than the 400 vertical feet drones are limited to. And they go much faster. Yes, in those cases it is definitely appropriate for the rocketeers to tell other people using the airspace that something is going up very quickly. For the smaller drones, not so much.
If a 1kg drone falls on my head, it will likely kill me. I am very much interested in knowing who has these, where they are allowed to fly and what is the maintenance record.
Dear Paranoid Sir:
May I interest you in the latest bit of drone protective gear? In the constant see saw between the Evil Forces and your physical integrity, this impressive device will completely shield you from their nefarious antics. The classic styling will fit in with any decor or occasion. For added protection, an aluminum foil EMF shield can be added to keep those unwanted thoughts to a bare minimum (if you get my drift...).
Pretty much this. The elephant in the room is DJI - the manufacturer of the Phantom series of drones, arguably the most popular drone around. And one which weights 1.3 kg with battery and rotors. DJI has a lot of money invested. They want to play nice and would fall over themselves to force a registration at time of sale. They would even pay for it themselves.
Set it up in Ireland, debug the issue and now you can register (most) drones without even thinking about it.
'Pssst, buddy.... wanna buy an unregistered Phantom?'
About a decade ago, a local boat builder / operator bought a 60 foot commercial hovercraft to make 80 - 90 mile runs between various small towns. It was hoped it would be less expensive and much faster than the Alaska State Ferries. Was basically a flop. The thing kept breaking down - and this was with a group of people that were capable of building 100 foot aluminum boats. It was noisy. The ride was rough. It was expensive and basically had no cargo capacity.
It's a big problem with lack of internet access on farms, not just in the UK. The problem is that the European Union has given each cow a unique ID. Cow breaders then have to report on their lifestock through the internet. However ADSL and similar is a town/city option and quite a number of farms are stuck with 56k and whoever made the webpage to report lifestock is using something way faster. This mean in order to log in, it has to download so much that it times out before it finishes as 56k bandwidth simply isn't enough. Some farmers are then forced to have somewhere else where they can connect to the internet and have to drive there whenever they have something to report and sure enough they waste quite a lot of time doing so.
Uh, no. This is problem with the yoyo designing the system. Sure, if you want an AJAX page with blinkies, a 2 MB picture of a generic cow and a pile of PDF's you need decent broadband. If all you are trying to do is to log some data into a remote server, not so much. We've done projects like that over satellite phones for bog's sake.
Now, I think it great if rural folk have access to high speed Internet - I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and have (expensive) 10 down / 1 up. We even have symmetric and redundant 50/50 links at the hospital. But you don't need that to keep track of cows.
China's problem was one of demographics. Not so much the total number of people, but the age distribution. If you have a large preponderance of old people, all you get is email.
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You both forgot the most important part of the Apple Cycle.
The real killer for productivity in iOS is the lack of user space accessible file system. Either they have to open the up to iOS users - and take the security hit, or they have to hide it from OS X users (over our dead 17 inch laptops).
You were staring at it wrong.
Don't be so proud of this technological terror that you've created.
We may be 'doing more with less' but we're doing a hell of a lot more. To the point where we are clobbering the planet's capacity to maintain some sort of homeostasis. Like the homeostasis needed to feed all of the happy little fruits and vegetables you seem to think would be a good idea.
A planet isn't a farm. We know just enough about ecology to know we don't know jack shit about it.
The Church's beliefs only require the colander for official photos. It's not everyday headwear, it's special-occasion headwear.
Now you tell me.
The US has confiscated Athiest and Lesbian equipment sent through the postal service.
Atheist and Lesbian 'equipment'?
Do tell ....
You, sir, are the reason that we as Humans have not been able to find peace.
OK, let me try and work this out. Because a cranky old poster on an ancient, barely significant site on the Internet misreads a complex post that was thrown together from several other posts by a number of people with varying degrees of competence with both language and the subject matter ....
We're doomed?
I'm going to have to take my posts more seriously from now on. I didn't realize how important we are.
Fifteen minutes of fame.
Six to 10 years in the penitentiary.
Sounds good to me.
Interesting gadget.
I wonder what the rules are for an unmanned vessel on the high seas.
That is an international question, so one country can't just make up a new set of rules.
(This applies both to China building islands, and the US building these boats.)
If unmanned = abandoned, then it seems like the ship would be fair game.
If it is following your sub, then perhaps put a swimmer in the water and route the sub so the ship goes to the swimmer.
They may wish to have the option to have a few folks on board depending on operational concerns.
This has been discussed at some length (PDF warning). If it is under way and under control, it would not be considered salvageable. Of course, in a war time situation, this isn't the guiding principle, so either the craft is armed for defense or self destruction (or both) as the designers see fit.
You just know this thing is going to mistake large sea mammals for submarines and kill them.
How many blue whales, orcas, and other large sea mammals must die before we realize our warmongering is going to destroy our planet?
Seaman Jones: [Jonesy is teaching Beaumont] Hear it now?
Beaumont: [resigned] No.
Seaman Jones: Beaumont, at Caltech we used to do this in our sleep! You hear it now?
Beaumont: Wait a minute...
Seaman Jones: Uh oh...
Beaumont: Disparaged surface clutter...
Seaman Jones: Yeeeesssss?
Beaumont: I should go to SAPS?
Seaman Jones: Correct! Seaman Beaumont, Signal Algorithmic Processing System. Give it a week and you'll be teaching at Caltech. So, like Beethoven on the computer, you have laboured to produce... a biologic.
Beaumont: A what?
Seaman Jones: A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar, then you do. Train her around to 269 and lets try it again?
Always cannibalize your own sales. Don't let your competitor do it.
Oh, and displacement values for cats / trimerans include the total of the lengths of the sponsons. So a 50 foot catamaran has roughly double the displacement speed of a monohull.
Catamarans and foils are considered planing boats for this argument. Look at the sailing foils - they seem to have exactly six inches of carbon fiber actually in the water. There is a limit to how big multihulls / foils can get - it gets bigger all of the time but typically at the expense of weight. They are basically aircraft in design and construction (and cost). So far, this hasn't worked out well for naval designers that like to put two hundred men and women, multiple tons of things that go boom and assorted paraphernalia on the craft. That may be the future, but the for the moment, very large boats are displacement-only.
These seem like the ultimate sensor platforms. Yes, you can drop sonobouys (with limited lifetime and capability) or drop some two ton surveillance platform from a CG buoy tender, but this thing can putter off to where you want it and sit there.
It sure looks like a semi submersible - flood the pontoons and part of the hull, the only thing that sticks up are the antennas. Damned hard to spot. The ocean is really freaking big.
How do you propose the submarine call in an air strike? Dial somebody up on the captain's cell phone?
Anytime a submarine needs to communicate, it risks giving away it's position.
Laser comms with satellites. Subs have been doing this for years. Not completely silent (as you point out, nothing is), but hard to spot. A brief encoded message saying 'nasty sub at so and so position, this and that depth, heading thisaway' doesn't take much info (or time).
Your old Nikon back is worth pennies. The lenses, perhaps quite a bit more.
People have tried to work this out for years and it just doesn't fly. A digital camera is a much different beast than a film unit. The ergonomics and data displays for a digital camera just encompass much more than the film cannister. Really, keep your old F4 on the mantle, buy a Nikon 3200 - the very bottom of the DSLR line and find it stomps the image quality and handling of any film camera ever made.* Nostalgia is just that.
* If you want to use your old lens, you're going to have to pony up to a D800 or so, but now we're getting technical.
Model rockets over 1.5kg have to get a specific wavier with location, time of flight, size, impulse and receive a specific waiver (and have a NOTAM filed) from the FAA every single time we fly. Suck it up, buttercup.
Model rockets that weigh over 1.5 kg (hopefully) go much further than the 400 vertical feet drones are limited to. And they go much faster. Yes, in those cases it is definitely appropriate for the rocketeers to tell other people using the airspace that something is going up very quickly. For the smaller drones, not so much.
If a 1kg drone falls on my head, it will likely kill me. I am very much interested in knowing who has these, where they are allowed to fly and what is the maintenance record.
Dear Paranoid Sir:
May I interest you in the latest bit of drone protective gear? In the constant see saw between the Evil Forces and your physical integrity, this impressive device will completely shield you from their nefarious antics. The classic styling will fit in with any decor or occasion. For added protection, an aluminum foil EMF shield can be added to keep those unwanted thoughts to a bare minimum (if you get my drift...).
Pretty much this. The elephant in the room is DJI - the manufacturer of the Phantom series of drones, arguably the most popular drone around. And one which weights 1.3 kg with battery and rotors. DJI has a lot of money invested. They want to play nice and would fall over themselves to force a registration at time of sale. They would even pay for it themselves.
Set it up in Ireland, debug the issue and now you can register (most) drones without even thinking about it.
'Pssst, buddy.... wanna buy an unregistered Phantom?'
I am so looking forward to this. Finally, a project worthy of my Microsoft Access skills!
I'm going to hunt up the RFP now.
Or should I write it in Lotus Notes?
About a decade ago, a local boat builder / operator bought a 60 foot commercial hovercraft to make 80 - 90 mile runs between various small towns. It was hoped it would be less expensive and much faster than the Alaska State Ferries. Was basically a flop. The thing kept breaking down - and this was with a group of people that were capable of building 100 foot aluminum boats. It was noisy. The ride was rough. It was expensive and basically had no cargo capacity.
Plain ol boats won out....
It's a big problem with lack of internet access on farms, not just in the UK. The problem is that the European Union has given each cow a unique ID. Cow breaders then have to report on their lifestock through the internet. However ADSL and similar is a town/city option and quite a number of farms are stuck with 56k and whoever made the webpage to report lifestock is using something way faster. This mean in order to log in, it has to download so much that it times out before it finishes as 56k bandwidth simply isn't enough. Some farmers are then forced to have somewhere else where they can connect to the internet and have to drive there whenever they have something to report and sure enough they waste quite a lot of time doing so.
Uh, no. This is problem with the yoyo designing the system. Sure, if you want an AJAX page with blinkies, a 2 MB picture of a generic cow and a pile of PDF's you need decent broadband. If all you are trying to do is to log some data into a remote server, not so much. We've done projects like that over satellite phones for bog's sake.
Now, I think it great if rural folk have access to high speed Internet - I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and have (expensive) 10 down / 1 up. We even have symmetric and redundant 50/50 links at the hospital. But you don't need that to keep track of cows.
Thanks to this bug I can see a whole bunch of you masturbating in front of your tablets right now!
That would definitely be a bug, not a feature.
No, it's more like 'we take your egg, perform some woogie that you can't see or verify' and charge you a shitload for it.
That's even better.
China's problem was one of demographics. Not so much the total number of people, but the age distribution. If you have a large preponderance of old people, all you get is email.
Not so good for the 21st Century.