I have been subject to most of the problems which you list. Its just life. Everybody has to put up with that shit. The "She's just a woman" remark is pretty bad, I agree.
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story about that called Report on Planet Three, in which the Martians establish beyond doubt that life on Earth is impossible due to the corrosive oxygen in our atmosphere, high temperature, etc.
At my former job we used fibre cable under major roads to link CCTV cameras to our control room environment. One day a road worker drilled down into the road with some sort of hole digger and wrapped 100 metres of fibre around his machine, exactly like rolling pasta around a fork.
It could be argued that a computer run ATC (under the direction of a human) would be more efficient then the current manned stations, but as long as we have pilots in the air making decisions (which isn't likely to change), a voice interface would still be the best option.
An air traffic controller in years past handled 10 aircraft each. Today, with significant assistance from software they handle the same number: 10 aircraft. Increased traffic volumes over that time are handled by reducing the volume of airspace each controller manages, but then you get more interfaces between volumes, more handovers and more opportunity for error.
For ATC not to break in the near future it will have to become much more automated.
Finally, how could he possibly fault the voice controlled computers in Star Trek? Remember, this is a show about the future. It's quite possible that in another hundred years or so, most functions of a computer could be controlled by voice command.
ATC simulators currently use a human to represent the pilots of aircraft in the simulation. New simulators use a voice reponse system not unlike the systems used for voice POP systems where you speak your requirements rather than typing them into your phone.
I have no trouble believing that control room environments will soon be able to control some equipment by voice command.
The author suggests using a 3D interface is tiring but in the movie the police are required to parse through a large amount of 4-dimensional data in very short periods of time.
Most people describe the UI of the air traffic control system I work on as dull but thats because you need to give it your total attention for six hours straight without your eyes getting tired.
Different requirements from your example, with the totally opposite outcome, but the argument that the UI has to suit the application is a good one.
More recently phones in the US have been required to incorporate a GPS receiver
To use my garmin GPS I have to hold it away from my body, with the antenna pointing at the sky, with a least 60 degrees of clear sky visible in two axies, then it takes a couple of minutes to sync before I get a lock.
I don't see how a cellphone, carried in a pocket or handbag, in a car or building, could give a GPS fix more than 10% of the time unless it was being carried by somebody who is aways outside.
Or are they just calling it GPS but in reality they just use the ol'e standard lobe tracking?
I read once that laws in the US require cellular carriers to calculate handset position using the distance between the handset and three cellular base stations. I think the intention is to give positional information to emergency services. I know that a lot of emergency calls from mobile phones here in Australia often say something like oh there's a crash right in front of me, where you say? Oh about half way home, you know, near the supermarket. or something equally useless.
Some people will find the negative in anything. Nothing wrong with a safe, routine KSC landing.
This article came up overnight for me. We really are living in the 21st century here. A spaceship landed on a runway in florida a couple of hours ago and the article is tagged "slownewsday".
Every single site which I know has moved away from Tru64 unix has gone to RHEL or a close derivative of it. Maintaining those systems 5, 10, 15 years into the future is going to deliver a lot of work to RedHat.
assuming you as a third party wanted to and indeed did kill his wife wouldn't you want someone else to take the blame and he is the most likely suspect?
There was that guy who was apparently his business partner who had apparently started a relationship with Nina Reiser, but his name seems to have disapeared from the wikipedia article.
Its especially interesting because hes supposed to be a smart guy
Most of us who have seen CSI would assume that the car can not be adequately cleaned well enough to fool the cops. Better for it to be "stolen" and theb set on fire
Of course murdering somebody is a stupid thing to do, so it is natural for the coverup to be stupid as well.
I'm not sure I'd want to buy a company from someone driving a Honda CRX...
Out here in the Rest Of the World it is considered one of the first pure Hot Hatches. People race them, you know.
I thought it was a bit strange when mythbusters needed a small old car to trash and a viewer gave them a Fiat X1/9 which he described as "that piece of euro shit which has been cluttering up my drive way for five years". Where I live people pay big money for that exact car to do up and drive around in. Maybe Americans should just ban foreign cars on the basis of job protection.
The Autodesk format (DWG etc ) is a piece of crap anyway, and it would appear the company is the devil incarnate.
My wife runs a small architectural practice. Her office systems only run ubuntu. The reason is that she graduated before CAD became popular and only draws freehand. She outsources her CAD work to a draftsman who has told us many times that he will happily give us free copies of autocad.
Autocad is a worse monopoly than MS word because so few software engineers have to work with CAD, so applications like OO.o don't exist.
The 2 headed reptile does not even hold a candle to this 7 legged deer!!!
I remember a story about a guy who was found to have the dead embryo of his identical twin brother inside his body. Looks like the twin got too close to him in early development and developed for a while inside his body. I wonder if this is a similar case. Perhaps there is another deer inside this deer.
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They can sell upgrades to the dead.
No, you pay up front for the enjoyment rating of the song. If your enjoyment goes beyond what you have paid for they bill you again.
Are immigrants considered dumb in your country?
I have been subject to most of the problems which you list. Its just life. Everybody has to put up with that shit. The "She's just a woman" remark is pretty bad, I agree.
Shit happens. Sorry about that.
"Why are we deciding all life is the same here?"
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story about that called Report on Planet Three, in which the Martians establish beyond doubt that life on Earth is impossible due to the corrosive oxygen in our atmosphere, high temperature, etc.
At my former job we used fibre cable under major roads to link CCTV cameras to our control room environment. One day a road worker drilled down into the road with some sort of hole digger and wrapped 100 metres of fibre around his machine, exactly like rolling pasta around a fork.
They do it right now. Its called CPDLC
An air traffic controller in years past handled 10 aircraft each. Today, with significant assistance from software they handle the same number: 10 aircraft. Increased traffic volumes over that time are handled by reducing the volume of airspace each controller manages, but then you get more interfaces between volumes, more handovers and more opportunity for error.
For ATC not to break in the near future it will have to become much more automated.
Such a cheap, noisy bastard, the modern PC power supply.
Looking at the screenshots I was surprised that Etch doesn't have the same installer as Ubuntu. Is that in Sid yet?
ATC simulators currently use a human to represent the pilots of aircraft in the simulation. New simulators use a voice reponse system not unlike the systems used for voice POP systems where you speak your requirements rather than typing them into your phone.
I have no trouble believing that control room environments will soon be able to control some equipment by voice command.
Most people describe the UI of the air traffic control system I work on as dull but thats because you need to give it your total attention for six hours straight without your eyes getting tired.
Different requirements from your example, with the totally opposite outcome, but the argument that the UI has to suit the application is a good one.
You mean like this?
To use my garmin GPS I have to hold it away from my body, with the antenna pointing at the sky, with a least 60 degrees of clear sky visible in two axies, then it takes a couple of minutes to sync before I get a lock.
I don't see how a cellphone, carried in a pocket or handbag, in a car or building, could give a GPS fix more than 10% of the time unless it was being carried by somebody who is aways outside.
I read once that laws in the US require cellular carriers to calculate handset position using the distance between the handset and three cellular base stations. I think the intention is to give positional information to emergency services. I know that a lot of emergency calls from mobile phones here in Australia often say something like oh there's a crash right in front of me, where you say? Oh about half way home, you know, near the supermarket. or something equally useless.
This article came up overnight for me. We really are living in the 21st century here. A spaceship landed on a runway in florida a couple of hours ago and the article is tagged "slownewsday".
Why? In most places you build a phone using a standard GSM module, get it approved by the FCC equivalent and market it to the public.
I know the US doesn't use GSM, but why does that make it different?
If one seal in a thousand was boobytrapped then there would be fewer hunters.
Go to bed with a watchmaker, wake up with all your parts rearranged.
Every single site which I know has moved away from Tru64 unix has gone to RHEL or a close derivative of it. Maintaining those systems 5, 10, 15 years into the future is going to deliver a lot of work to RedHat.
There was that guy who was apparently his business partner who had apparently started a relationship with Nina Reiser, but his name seems to have disapeared from the wikipedia article.
Most of us who have seen CSI would assume that the car can not be adequately cleaned well enough to fool the cops. Better for it to be "stolen" and theb set on fire
Of course murdering somebody is a stupid thing to do, so it is natural for the coverup to be stupid as well.
Out here in the Rest Of the World it is considered one of the first pure Hot Hatches. People race them, you know.
I thought it was a bit strange when mythbusters needed a small old car to trash and a viewer gave them a Fiat X1/9 which he described as "that piece of euro shit which has been cluttering up my drive way for five years". Where I live people pay big money for that exact car to do up and drive around in. Maybe Americans should just ban foreign cars on the basis of job protection.
Yes but I think its is a terrible example of the subject at hand.
A movie reviewer here described it as the tragic story of a robot who discovers that he is slowly becoming Robin Williams.
My wife runs a small architectural practice. Her office systems only run ubuntu. The reason is that she graduated before CAD became popular and only draws freehand. She outsources her CAD work to a draftsman who has told us many times that he will happily give us free copies of autocad.
Autocad is a worse monopoly than MS word because so few software engineers have to work with CAD, so applications like OO.o don't exist.
I remember a story about a guy who was found to have the dead embryo of his identical twin brother inside his body. Looks like the twin got too close to him in early development and developed for a while inside his body. I wonder if this is a similar case. Perhaps there is another deer inside this deer.