I suppose so. OTH it sounds like a great aid to reducing response times. Once you know the location where a car is needed, dispatch can be immediate and automatic.
Better be careful there. If their tracking software tries to calculate the distance between vehicles there is potential for a divide by zero error in the vicinity of the donut shop.
But this is normal for engineering. Two of the three top projects at my workplace are going to go this way. The increase in workload towards the deadline is almost exponential.
This isn't Google's fault any more than the TiVo situation is Linus's fault.
Linus could use GPLv3 in linux. Google could use the GNU userland in android. Neither is these things is happening because tivoisation is good for earnings, even though it is bad for freedom.
Sure, why not? I am sure the greenguy can think of something useful and profitable to do with software which would never see the light of day on an iphone.
In Australia we have exactly the same issues, but with one tenth the population density. In theory infrastructure should be ten times more affordable in the USA.
Yeah where I work there is a project to develop a totally new user interface in Java. The application it replaces is written in C and Motif. The new one is about half done and the SLOCS are about 10 times the total in the old UI. Development time for new features is at least double and the team which develops it is about five to ten times the size.
I think the OO methodology they use accounts for part of it. Everything seems to be built out of these huge blocks.
One place where I worked another agency was digging a hole with a boring machine, straight down in the middle of the road. They hit our fibre cable straight on. You know when you stick a fork into a plate of spaghetti and twist it.....
ALL of your "situations" can be solved with a second $399.95 DELL sitting next to the critical workstation. Anyone saying that that is not practical is a blathering moron.
In all the control room environments I have worked in this approach is just not acceptable. The users expect to get a single, integrated UI environment.
There are some situations where security MUST override convenience.
Tell that to the union. Remember power industry operational environments are blue collar work places. I have seen people in similar environments go to any length to get a system they don't want to see shut down. They will play totally dumb, like not noticing they are using the wrong keyboard for hours at a time. Assume that your users are hostile to you. Then design a solution.
From the article it seems that the software could be activated whenever its masters behind the scenes wish so, which is not quite easy if it has to be manually triggered by insiders (workers could get fired, etc..)
Given control of the firmware and software at some point I can think of a way to do it on the traffic signal system. Just send it messages through its normal inputs. Send morse code in through a pedestrian signal button, look for feedback in the flashing walk signal.
Maybe for the power system you could signal it through its fault database. A pylon on fire reported by a Mr A Cross of Smith street has a particular meaning to your hidden easter egg. If that system is not appropriate you could (ab)use other sensors like temperature and moisture sensors.
The systems I work on are typically airgapped, but there is a constant push from users for some access to the internet. A user might need to access meteorological information, and the simplest way is to go online to get the data. Another user might need to refer to work instructions on the corporate intranet, but the intranet gets you to the internet anyway. Like it or not, the internet is working its way into many types of work and many people are starting to expect it to be available.
Maybe they got a job working on those systems. I have the internals of several major cities traffic signal systems in my head at the moment, and that is just what I was working on up to ten years ago.
I am a non-gamer and a science fiction reader. The biggest problem I have with games (MMO or otherwise) is having to play by somebody else's rules. A simple environment like second life would be okay for me but something where I have to kill a dwarf to get a sword to buy a boat to learn how to fight to... well you can see I don't do this stuff but it would keep me interested for about five seconds.
My main online interests are tech news and tech discussion so an MMO which would interest me would probably reduce to slashdot.
Thats a terrible analogy. I am a native English speaker and I did not hear of habeas corpus until recently.
OTH my wife is a native Cantonese speaker and I have noticed the trouble she has in English with the concepts of lights vs mirrors, ground vs floor and gate vs door.
Yeah back when most people used the Z80 and 6502 I read an article about how people should reconsider getting an 8086 machine because the eight bit architecture is much better for word processing.
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose so. OTH it sounds like a great aid to reducing response times. Once you know the location where a car is needed, dispatch can be immediate and automatic.
Better be careful there. If their tracking software tries to calculate the distance between vehicles there is potential for a divide by zero error in the vicinity of the donut shop.
Thats why everybody should use 000. It works upside down too.
But this is normal for engineering. Two of the three top projects at my workplace are going to go this way. The increase in workload towards the deadline is almost exponential.
Its bad management, pure and simple.
This isn't Google's fault any more than the TiVo situation is Linus's fault.
Linus could use GPLv3 in linux. Google could use the GNU userland in android. Neither is these things is happening because tivoisation is good for earnings, even though it is bad for freedom.
And don't tell me I should just write my own.
Sure, why not? I am sure the greenguy can think of something useful and profitable to do with software which would never see the light of day on an iphone.
In Australia we have exactly the same issues, but with one tenth the population density. In theory infrastructure should be ten times more affordable in the USA.
everyone hoped IBM takeover, to add some direction and stability.
Actually I think they would stop development, increase the price and take what profit they could. You would definitely see some stability that way.
Yeah where I work there is a project to develop a totally new user interface in Java. The application it replaces is written in C and Motif. The new one is about half done and the SLOCS are about 10 times the total in the old UI. Development time for new features is at least double and the team which develops it is about five to ten times the size.
I think the OO methodology they use accounts for part of it. Everything seems to be built out of these huge blocks.
One place where I worked another agency was digging a hole with a boring machine, straight down in the middle of the road. They hit our fibre cable straight on. You know when you stick a fork into a plate of spaghetti and twist it.....
That one took a while to fix.
Bacterial infections aren't even on the radar compared to self-inflicted problems such as obesity.
In the West, anyway.
All I get is a message saying I need Flash 10, so it really is stupid.
ALL of your "situations" can be solved with a second $399.95 DELL sitting next to the critical workstation. Anyone saying that that is not practical is a blathering moron.
In all the control room environments I have worked in this approach is just not acceptable. The users expect to get a single, integrated UI environment.
Can't these guys afford a few leased lines?
Leased lines may actually be less secure than a VPN because of the tendency to run insecure protocols over them.
We should require aircon systems to incorporate photovoltaic power supplies.
Now somewehere in the depths of the US power grid somebody reads the above comment and thinks silently ... "d'oh!"
Finally an appropriate Simpsons reference.
this article reads like a well-crafted piece of BS, designed to put the N back into FUDing.
Nuding?
Where?
There are some situations where security MUST override convenience.
Tell that to the union. Remember power industry operational environments are blue collar work places. I have seen people in similar environments go to any length to get a system they don't want to see shut down. They will play totally dumb, like not noticing they are using the wrong keyboard for hours at a time. Assume that your users are hostile to you. Then design a solution.
Then I'd suggest they need two PCs.
Then you have a badly integrated UI. What if a user confused one with the other at a critical moment?
From the article it seems that the software could be activated whenever its masters behind the scenes wish so, which is not quite easy if it has to be manually triggered by insiders (workers could get fired, etc..)
Given control of the firmware and software at some point I can think of a way to do it on the traffic signal system. Just send it messages through its normal inputs. Send morse code in through a pedestrian signal button, look for feedback in the flashing walk signal.
Maybe for the power system you could signal it through its fault database. A pylon on fire reported by a Mr A Cross of Smith street has a particular meaning to your hidden easter egg. If that system is not appropriate you could (ab)use other sensors like temperature and moisture sensors.
The systems I work on are typically airgapped, but there is a constant push from users for some access to the internet. A user might need to access meteorological information, and the simplest way is to go online to get the data. Another user might need to refer to work instructions on the corporate intranet, but the intranet gets you to the internet anyway. Like it or not, the internet is working its way into many types of work and many people are starting to expect it to be available.
Maybe they got a job working on those systems. I have the internals of several major cities traffic signal systems in my head at the moment, and that is just what I was working on up to ten years ago.
I am a non-gamer and a science fiction reader. The biggest problem I have with games (MMO or otherwise) is having to play by somebody else's rules. A simple environment like second life would be okay for me but something where I have to kill a dwarf to get a sword to buy a boat to learn how to fight to... well you can see I don't do this stuff but it would keep me interested for about five seconds.
My main online interests are tech news and tech discussion so an MMO which would interest me would probably reduce to slashdot.
Thats a terrible analogy. I am a native English speaker and I did not hear of habeas corpus until recently.
OTH my wife is a native Cantonese speaker and I have noticed the trouble she has in English with the concepts of lights vs mirrors, ground vs floor and gate vs door.
Yeah back when most people used the Z80 and 6502 I read an article about how people should reconsider getting an 8086 machine because the eight bit architecture is much better for word processing.