I've worked on a similar project, but we avoided GPS, since it doesn't work very well indoors. What I want to know is if TFA is wrong, or if they're really using GPS. If it works fairly well, that would have made our lives a lot easier during my project.
Synthetic indoor GPS is commonly used for robotics.
Robots are never affected by having a bad night with the baby and falling asleep at the wheel.
I'm not trying to be misogynist here, but should women with very small kids be working? Isn't this exactly the type of thing we should expect the government to try to protect through programs designed to give women time off that they need after having a baby?
Its not just women who look after the baby you know.
4. Deathstar Escape Scene - Troopers miss every shot at the group of rebels who are going to lead them to the rebellion base...hmm, could it be they were ordered to miss?
But then why does Leia, guessing they are bugged, fly directly to her base?
I don't Orion is very different from Apollo in that respect. Apollo orbital missions were launched without the Saturn V. The CSM-LM cluster was assembled on the way to the moon. Apollo serviced skylab successfully.
The problem is that canonical may not provide that version on line for three years. They might be out of business then. So I have to host the source or pay canonical to do it for me.
But "host the source" can mean "I have the CD on hand and if you pay me for my time, media, and postage I will make you a copy". Also, web hosting is very cheap now, if you just need to shovel some source bundles occasionally.
Oh yeah. My only argument is with people who say they only need to distribute source they have changed "because the rest is freely available".
You have it absolutely wrong. Your version of the source has to be available to your customers, so if you haven't modified the source in any way then you CAN provide them with the source from canonical.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge
. The problem is that canonical may not provide that version on line for three years. They might be out of business then. So I have to host the source or pay canonical to do it for me.
Which comes down to just providing them the Ubuntu CD , which most would do anyway. Unless you really made some changes to the source code , in that case , you also need to provide the source for those changes.
The ubuntu CD doesn't include source. Under the GPL you have to offer source code for all GPL software you distribute, not just the code you changed.
I don't smile much at work. When I smile, especially a big toothy smile, I've been told that I look like a serial killer who's decided "This is the day to kill all of you.", and very excited about it.
A guy I work with is a bit like that. He scuttles around the office at a bit of a run with a stressed smile on his face suggesting he is in the middle of committing a mass murder.
Please just take as much politicians, lawyers, marketing managers and phone sanitizers with you as you possibly can.;)
Oh yeah, great idea. Look how it served the Golgafrinchans.
Its funny. I once worked for the state gas company here in Victoria, Australia. We had phone sanitizers who came around a couple of times a month. Of course more phones were shared in the office those days.
Baghdad is hands-down the most complicated airspace in the world, with multiple simultaneous UAVs at any given time, plus rotary-wing and fixed-wing assets flying constantly, some which are engaging in real-world operations, like dropping bombs. The deconfliction that needs to be done with assets that are collecting, assets that are targeting, assets picking up or dropping off troops, Iraqi commercial aircraft, VIP aircraft, ad nausem is just mind-boggling. The ATC there does this every day. Why is flying one UAV in the US that big a deal?
Because deaths in Iraq are easier to accept? Or possibly there is more central control of airspace there.
Huh? Why would unmanned craft have slower climb/turn rates than manned craft? Presumably they would be greater, since there are no squishy bags of meat on board that get uncomfortable while pulling a G or ten. Anyone know?
Probably an artificial constraint so that interactions with other aircraft are not made worse. What if the UAV does a sharp turn into the path of a different aircraft, faster than its TCAS can react? Also many UAVs are currently remotely piloted, which leads to slower reactions.
My dad flies gliders and glider tug aircraft. One of the problems he told me about is that military pilots like to fly along a rail line close to an airfield where the gliders fly. They don't care that they are cutting through the circuit for an airfield. UAVs would at least follow instructions when transiting through these areas.
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Yeah looks like its not as widespread as I thought it was, to say the least.
I've worked on a similar project, but we avoided GPS, since it doesn't work very well indoors.
What I want to know is if TFA is wrong, or if they're really using GPS. If it works fairly well, that would have made our lives a lot easier during my project.
Synthetic indoor GPS is commonly used for robotics.
Would be easier for the mint and the rest of us to handle.
Robots are never affected by having a bad night with the baby and falling asleep at the wheel.
I'm not trying to be misogynist here, but should women with very small kids be working? Isn't this exactly the type of thing we should expect the government to try to protect through programs designed to give women time off that they need after having a baby?
Its not just women who look after the baby you know.
4. Deathstar Escape Scene - Troopers miss every shot at the group of rebels who are going to lead them to the rebellion base...hmm, could it be they were ordered to miss?
But then why does Leia, guessing they are bugged, fly directly to her base?
I don't Orion is very different from Apollo in that respect. Apollo orbital missions were launched without the Saturn V. The CSM-LM cluster was assembled on the way to the moon. Apollo serviced skylab successfully.
Project Orion was certainly designed for planetary launch. They even did an analysis of how many people it would kill per launch due to fallout.
That's so metal.
God was knockin', and he wanted in bad...
It's a great story but I hope it gets credit as the "seed" for this movie.
Yes I thought of that story too and I am sure it won't get credit. The Matrix was highly derivative too.
Methane is a good fuel in its own right. Using solar power this could be a good general source of transportable energy.
...have they found the circle yet?
Do SSNs get reused?
Yes, going from a previous article here on that subject.
The problem is that canonical may not provide that version on line for three years. They might be out of business then. So I have to host the source or pay canonical to do it for me.
But "host the source" can mean "I have the CD on hand and if you pay me for my time, media, and postage I will make you a copy". Also, web hosting is very cheap now, if you just need to shovel some source bundles occasionally.
Oh yeah. My only argument is with people who say they only need to distribute source they have changed "because the rest is freely available".
You have it absolutely wrong. Your version of the source has to be available to your customers, so if you haven't modified the source in any way then you CAN provide them with the source from canonical.
Okay lets read the license.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge
.
The problem is that canonical may not provide that version on line for three years. They might be out of business then. So I have to host the source or pay canonical to do it for me.
Any bits of it you modified, you have to provide those modifications as source
You have to offer to supply the source for all GPL software, not just your changes.
Which comes down to just providing them the Ubuntu CD , which most would do anyway.
Unless you really made some changes to the source code , in that case , you also need to provide the source for those changes.
The ubuntu CD doesn't include source. Under the GPL you have to offer source code for all GPL software you distribute, not just the code you changed.
Everything which you distribute which is GPL licensed puts an obligation on you to distribute the source code.
If I sell a computer with ubuntu installed I have offer ubuntu sources to the customer. Its not good enough that the source could come from canonical.
I don't smile much at work. When I smile, especially a big toothy smile, I've been told that I look like a serial killer who's decided "This is the day to kill all of you.", and very excited about it.
A guy I work with is a bit like that. He scuttles around the office at a bit of a run with a stressed smile on his face suggesting he is in the middle of committing a mass murder.
Oh yeah, great idea. Look how it served the Golgafrinchans.
Its funny. I once worked for the state gas company here in Victoria, Australia. We had phone sanitizers who came around a couple of times a month. Of course more phones were shared in the office those days.
There used to be the OUTGOING thing here as well.
P.S: Excuse my ignorance, but was Kuro5hin actually a site devoted to trolling?
I think thats a meta troll from BadAnalogyGuy. Not sure why he is putting on this act though. Maybe he wants the attention.
So this is a gay solar system? Can't be a coincidence. This gay rights thing is going too far.
There is no way that children in Britain think blue is the colour of the sky.
Grey would be more logical.
Baghdad is hands-down the most complicated airspace in the world, with multiple simultaneous UAVs at any given time, plus rotary-wing and fixed-wing assets flying constantly, some which are engaging in real-world operations, like dropping bombs. The deconfliction that needs to be done with assets that are collecting, assets that are targeting, assets picking up or dropping off troops, Iraqi commercial aircraft, VIP aircraft, ad nausem is just mind-boggling. The ATC there does this every day. Why is flying one UAV in the US that big a deal?
Because deaths in Iraq are easier to accept? Or possibly there is more central control of airspace there.
Huh? Why would unmanned craft have slower climb/turn rates than manned craft? Presumably they would be greater, since there are no squishy bags of meat on board that get uncomfortable while pulling a G or ten.
Anyone know?
Probably an artificial constraint so that interactions with other aircraft are not made worse. What if the UAV does a sharp turn into the path of a different aircraft, faster than its TCAS can react? Also many UAVs are currently remotely piloted, which leads to slower reactions.
My dad flies gliders and glider tug aircraft. One of the problems he told me about is that military pilots like to fly along a rail line close to an airfield where the gliders fly. They don't care that they are cutting through the circuit for an airfield. UAVs would at least follow instructions when transiting through these areas.