This is how it works in the specifications I deal with. You start with a set of customer requirements and they go into DOORS which is a crap tool, its just better than all the alternatives. Then from that you generate system specifications which describe your system at a high level and technical specifications which pretty much how it is going to work. At any point you can point and click to trace back to the source of a particular requirement.
Now all of that has nothing to do with climate change (apart from the horrible overhead of those big binary doors files we keep copying around) but the concept is pretty straightforward.
When you write your intermediate and final documents you somehow retain traceability back to the source of the information, so that if one of your conclusions is based on crap assumptions then you can easily identify the problem.
Its not hard. Just takes some experience in fairly professional technical writing. You don't have to use the craptastic tools. I have written doors like functionality into xslt, for example.
If you get spam, your email client has a big 'report certified spam' button. Click it, and an email is auto-launched to the certifier of the sender. The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain.
Why not just have the client reject mail from that sender and cut out all the dicking around?
There's someone here whose sig is "I live in my mother's basement, but I'm only fifteen". I wonder if it's the same fifteen year old? At any rate, hooray for today's youth!
And of course, some participants didn't actually want their remarks heard, so they would avoid the microphone at all costs, with the result that they were inaudible. After a bit, judges had steno reporters monitor the recording and signal to them when someone's remarks weren't clear - and the judge would magically instruct them to speak loud and clearly for the record...
The Judge should wear head phones and only hear the feed being recorded.
The notion of morse on a touch screen or phone keypad doesn't turn me on, but somewhere I have a very old balanced CW key. Not sure what it was originally attached to, possibly a WW2 era radio transmitter. I wonder if I could build it into a bluetooth or USB input device?
Sincere apologies for the double reply but I just read the end of your fine post.
Far more sensible to have your big "house" computer nestled away somewhere, controlling all your devices for you over the airwaves. Like HAL, only with less psychopathy.
The psychopathy will come in when my wife programs HAL to ensure the toilet seat is down, serve extra vegetables at dinner, block pornographic web sites and hide the software change from me.
An automatic car wash is basically robotic and looks nothing like a human while doing the same work. They're usually worse at it than a human
Thats funny because last time I was in Malaysia we borrowed a car from a relative and went to get it washed before we returned it. We found an automatic car wash (the outside of it anyway) with eight (count'em) Indonesian guys inside hand washing cars.
But then we have washing machines. We have lost the ability to do whatever we did to wash clothes before washing machines (I have no idea) and there is no going back. I think if humanoid robots were available they would have morphed into modern washing machines anyway.
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This is how it works in the specifications I deal with. You start with a set of customer requirements and they go into DOORS which is a crap tool, its just better than all the alternatives. Then from that you generate system specifications which describe your system at a high level and technical specifications which pretty much how it is going to work. At any point you can point and click to trace back to the source of a particular requirement.
Now all of that has nothing to do with climate change (apart from the horrible overhead of those big binary doors files we keep copying around) but the concept is pretty straightforward.
When you write your intermediate and final documents you somehow retain traceability back to the source of the information, so that if one of your conclusions is based on crap assumptions then you can easily identify the problem.
Its not hard. Just takes some experience in fairly professional technical writing. You don't have to use the craptastic tools. I have written doors like functionality into xslt, for example.
In Soviet Russia whistle blows you!
What do they do instead of freezing your account?
TFA (such as it is, < 140 chars):
The SCUMBAGS at PayPal have frozen the assets of http://www.wikileaks.org/ ! I'll withdraw all my money from PayPal as soon as I can!
So don't deal with the scumbags at PayPal. I suppose they have it for taking donations. Maybe they should have a second bank account.
If you get spam, your email client has a big 'report certified spam' button. Click it, and an email is auto-launched to the certifier of the sender. The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain.
Why not just have the client reject mail from that sender and cut out all the dicking around?
Thats a great camera. I wonder if he does weddings?
Better check that the shed is still there...
In the class of ungovernable hell holes Haiti is right up there with Iraq and Afghanistan. It was a bad idea to go there.
Okay but how can that feature be discovered without asking on /.?
Whats not to like? She is smart and she could be good looking one day...
There's someone here whose sig is "I live in my mother's basement, but I'm only fifteen". I wonder if it's the same fifteen year old? At any rate, hooray for today's youth!
From his posts I don't really think he is 15.
And of course, some participants didn't actually want their remarks heard, so they would avoid the microphone at all costs, with the result that they were inaudible. After a bit, judges had steno reporters monitor the recording and signal to them when someone's remarks weren't clear - and the judge would magically instruct them to speak loud and clearly for the record...
The Judge should wear head phones and only hear the feed being recorded.
Why don't they just record the audio direct to (say) mp3? Transcription was introduced before practical audio recording was possible.
The notion of morse on a touch screen or phone keypad doesn't turn me on, but somewhere I have a very old balanced CW key. Not sure what it was originally attached to, possibly a WW2 era radio transmitter. I wonder if I could build it into a bluetooth or USB input device?
I find it ironic that the GP had to post on a forum to find that out.
Additionally if you don't live near the equator you can write outside during the winter. Typing on a phone sucks since you can't wear gloves.
Good point. Where I live that would only be a problem for yuppies twittering on iphones while skiing in the winter.
Thats 20 times the expected lifetime.
Opportunity is chewing up Martian dirt and unearthing the mineral and chemical makeup of the red planet.
Shouldn't that be "unmarsing"?
Uncovering?
(as pointed out by Harry Harrison, humans in the distant future may wonder why the original home planet of Humanity had a name which means "Dirt").
Sincere apologies for the double reply but I just read the end of your fine post.
Far more sensible to have your big "house" computer nestled away somewhere, controlling all your devices for you over the airwaves. Like HAL, only with less psychopathy.
The psychopathy will come in when my wife programs HAL to ensure the toilet seat is down, serve extra vegetables at dinner, block pornographic web sites and hide the software change from me.
But why not just build the fridge into the robot? Or perhaps some sort of beer cannon?
I think you should submit that idea to mythbusters.
Or why does C3PO need a hand held two way radio to talk to R2D2?
An automatic car wash is basically robotic and looks nothing like a human while doing the same work. They're usually worse at it than a human
Thats funny because last time I was in Malaysia we borrowed a car from a relative and went to get it washed before we returned it. We found an automatic car wash (the outside of it anyway) with eight (count'em) Indonesian guys inside hand washing cars.
But then we have washing machines. We have lost the ability to do whatever we did to wash clothes before washing machines (I have no idea) and there is no going back. I think if humanoid robots were available they would have morphed into modern washing machines anyway.
Unless users are way out in nowhere, those users already have most all of the same features of a stand-alone GPS.
On the other hand, if I'm way out in nowhere, I definitely need directions in order to get somewhere. That's where downloadable maps shine.
In my definition of nowhere, communications (other than satellite comms) won't be working so downloading won't work.
I'm guessing not even 1% of GPS users need a waterproof device.
Maybe but they were the original market for dedicated GPS devices anyway.