Well, all of the conventional methods of monitoring the equipment would most likely be left installed as a backup for the sensor network (redundancy is a big deal in our field). If the network went down, the operator would resort to monitoring the machines the old-fashioned way, by reading gages and meters.
For the record, I'm an electrical equipment operator in the USN...fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on one's POV), I can't lose my job to automation. If the government were ever willing to change their stance on that point, however, I'm sure I wouldn't be *too* disappointed...
Not necessarily. If something were to go wrong with the internals of a machine, odds are better that an electronic sensor would detect the problem before the operator would...a problem detected before serious damage occurs is a lot easier to deal with (and would require less work) than one detected when it causes a component (or an entire machine) to fail.
...welcome our new job-stealing wireless mechanical overlords.
Seriously, though, this would make my job a whole lot easier...monitoring the operation of a pair of 8MW generators (or a host of other equipment) from a single location vice constantly hopping around from point-to-point looking at every little gage and meter gets real old, real fast.
I'm posting this from my updated Powerbook G4, so I assume it went OK and didn't break anything. I can't vouch for any spectacular performance boosts or anything, but I'm gonna throw everything I have at it right now and see if anything's broken. Hopefully it won't, like, explode or anything.
He remembered more than I did...I installed the update myself, but couldn't remember all the stuff it updated. It still isn't listed on Apple's website, either...no support page, no download links, nothing. Didn't think to try the links that came with the update; can someone copy/paste those in and post them?
Go figure. I was just going to visit the site (I have it bookmarked), and that's what I see. I thought at first that the site was just down...then I see the "too many connections" part. You can guess where I went next. >_
I haven't seen the post yet (for obvious reasons), but I wonder what the emulated processor speed is, and whether the system can be used to run plain old DOS (so I can play those old games that PocketDOS still seems to have issues with).
You could work for the government/military. At least they tell you outright you should have absolutely no sense of privacy whatsoever. (One of the few things they're actually truthful about.)
As far as I'm concerned, they have as much of a chance of enforcing this effectively as they have a chance of enforcing a patent on the process of breathing. How many thousands (or millions) of sites on the Web use the GIF format? Have they no idea how ridiculous it would be to sue every single admin/webmaster of every GIF-using site on the Internet, not to mention how incredibly expensive and time-consuming?! They should quit while they're still ahead, for continuing on their present course can only mean trouble, for themselves and/or the industry as a whole. Oh, and I intend to leave the GIFs on my site where they belong, and to hell with anyone from Unisys that tells me otherwise. (I used Photoshop, so they should be OK...but you never know with these types...) If they persist in this matter, maybe a little Slashdottin' is in order... ^_^
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Well, all of the conventional methods of monitoring the equipment would most likely be left installed as a backup for the sensor network (redundancy is a big deal in our field). If the network went down, the operator would resort to monitoring the machines the old-fashioned way, by reading gages and meters.
For the record, I'm an electrical equipment operator in the USN...fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on one's POV), I can't lose my job to automation. If the government were ever willing to change their stance on that point, however, I'm sure I wouldn't be *too* disappointed...
Not necessarily. If something were to go wrong with the internals of a machine, odds are better that an electronic sensor would detect the problem before the operator would...a problem detected before serious damage occurs is a lot easier to deal with (and would require less work) than one detected when it causes a component (or an entire machine) to fail.
...welcome our new job-stealing wireless mechanical overlords.
Seriously, though, this would make my job a whole lot easier...monitoring the operation of a pair of 8MW generators (or a host of other equipment) from a single location vice constantly hopping around from point-to-point looking at every little gage and meter gets real old, real fast.
I'm posting this from my updated Powerbook G4, so I assume it went OK and didn't break anything. I can't vouch for any spectacular performance boosts or anything, but I'm gonna throw everything I have at it right now and see if anything's broken. Hopefully it won't, like, explode or anything.
He remembered more than I did...I installed the update myself, but couldn't remember all the stuff it updated. It still isn't listed on Apple's website, either...no support page, no download links, nothing. Didn't think to try the links that came with the update; can someone copy/paste those in and post them?
Go figure. I was just going to visit the site (I have it bookmarked), and that's what I see. I thought at first that the site was just down...then I see the "too many connections" part. You can guess where I went next. >_
I haven't seen the post yet (for obvious reasons), but I wonder what the emulated processor speed is, and whether the system can be used to run plain old DOS (so I can play those old games that PocketDOS still seems to have issues with).
Oddly enough, my Powerbook did the same thing as I was starting it up for the *sole purpose* of installing the update.
You could work for the government/military. At least they tell you outright you should have absolutely no sense of privacy whatsoever. (One of the few things they're actually truthful about.)
As far as I'm concerned, they have as much of a chance of enforcing this effectively as they have a chance of enforcing a patent on the process of breathing. How many thousands (or millions) of sites on the Web use the GIF format? Have they no idea how ridiculous it would be to sue every single admin/webmaster of every GIF-using site on the Internet, not to mention how incredibly expensive and time-consuming?! They should quit while they're still ahead, for continuing on their present course can only mean trouble, for themselves and/or the industry as a whole. Oh, and I intend to leave the GIFs on my site where they belong, and to hell with anyone from Unisys that tells me otherwise. (I used Photoshop, so they should be OK...but you never know with these types...) If they persist in this matter, maybe a little Slashdottin' is in order... ^_^