I doubt it. I own a hosting company and we buy about 5-10K drives a month from Seagate. We'll continue to buy drives from them, just not the ones they're having problems with (the 1.5TBs). Their service for us has been fantastic (and should be because of our volume with them). Feel free to not buy another drive from them. You'll be stuck in the same boat as US cellular customers. There's only a handful of businesses to choose from, and you have to buy from one of them if you need the product *shrugs*
How many people with analog-only TVs are out there? How many ELTs that need to be replaced out there. Even though the new ELTs are more expensive, there are far fewer of those that need to be replaced than the DTV converter boxes that are needed.
Marriage creates a 'default' set of conditions for inheritance it does *not* supersede a will
In the broader context, I think same-sex couples are entitled to the same "default" set of conditions that heterosexual couples are offered. Hopefully, as older, more conservative individuals die off (being replaced by a moderate middle-aged population and a more tolerant youth population), same-sex marriages will be recognized without an issue.
And please spare me the religious bent. I don't need to hear about how some sky wizard says "This is right, this is wrong" and the populace of Earth needs to obey.
Typically, the law is written by those with enough "donations" or "campaign contributions". In this case, I don't feel so bad about a tech juggernaut trying to change the law.
The TSA is also working to make life harder on GA pilots operating under Part 91 flight rules, making them deal with the same security rules as commerical carriers:
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposes to apply commercial air carrier security measures to general aviation aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds, regardless of the type of operation. The proposal is burdensome and costly, calling for crewmember criminal record checks, watch list matching of passenger manifests, biennial third party audits of each aircraft operator, and new airport security requirements. Why is this important?
The proposal fails to recognize the inherent differences that exist between private and commercial aviation and attempts to impose costly and unnecessary security regulations without justification.
What kills me is that the federal government handed out a huge amount of cash for the DTV upgrade so people could watch TV but didn't subsidize ELT upgrades at all.
I think the problem is that ELTs are easy to set off on a hard landing and not know they're going off. Perhaps a better indicator to the pilot would fix the problem.
The 64-bit killer app is virtualization. As the owner of a hosting company, I can fit quite a few virtual machines (VMware or Xen images) on a 64-bit Dell Poweredge 2.5Ghz Quad Core box with 128GB of RAM and 3 1.5TB SATAII disks.
I'd highly recommend going with INSTEON, or building your own custom modules that use WiFi to communicate instead of the powerline. Not many houses have more than 254 outlets in them, so you'd only need a Class C of private address space for your house. I'm not sure if 254 outlets/devices can connect to a single 802.11g/n access point though.
For the longer term, recycling the waste is the only way of making a space mission sustainable. Whether you do it via plants, or by breaking down and then recombining the elements using some non-biological process is largely irrelevant - you need to put energy in from somewhere either way.
Quite honestly, I see it being easier to genetically engineer humans to survive via photosynthesis than it would be to support ecosystems in space.
Almost forgot. My private, instrument, and commercial ratings give me some sort of conception with regards to what a pilot does. And it is certainly not just decision making.
My Aerospace Engineering Degree + Industry Experience > Your Arm-Chair Slashdot Posts.
You're assuming a UAV is a small, flimsy device. Perhaps you haven't met the Global Hawk. Note that if I take the F-22 airframe and avionics, and dump in UAV intelligence, it's now a UAV. All the benefits of not having a human onboard, with the only negative being situational awareness (or lack thereof). It's only a matter of time before the software becomes faster at judging a situation from it's data and acting on it (I leave the question on if the decision is "better" to others). I suggest you stick to working on sound software. Seems to be a better fit than aerospace-related work.
I agree that current UAVs are not a match for current fighter aircraft. I do believe that within 5 years you'll see aircraft with enough intelligence onboard to slice and dice any manned aircraft, as the human onboard is the weakest link.
So, in short, you'll never do better than 132 ms round trip when it comes to getting a signal half way around the earth and back. As a result, there will pretty much always be a significant latency benefit to be had in having your transmitter near your receiver. You can afford to put yourself hundreds of miles from your drone, sure. But you can't expect to fly a drone in China with from a base in Wyoming and hope to have exceptional reaction times.
The drone need only take high-level commands, and deal with low-level reactions on the local level without human intervention.
It does not work the other way â" against comparable or stronger military. When Georgians tried, earlier this year, to use UAVs to monitor their rebel territories from the air, the rebel-supporting Russia quickly blasted the UAV out of the sky with a manned fighter.
Given the proper SAM/laser defense capability, Georgians could've continued to use UAVs.
It's not Battlefield 1942, you don't dogfight until the one with the best reflexes, decisions and aim wins, in which case an eventual AI pilot would help, no, in this case it's about one machine that's easily ten times faster than your machine and that can launch a missile at you from 16 nm away while you couldn't detect it if it was 10 times closer.
If F-22s are so stealthy, how is an object 1/10th to 1/5th of it's size going to be detectable, unless all the UAVs are bunched together? Also, you're going to burn through missiles waaaaaay faster then someone is going to burn through UAVs if they're sending tons after you're one F-22.
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I doubt it. I own a hosting company and we buy about 5-10K drives a month from Seagate. We'll continue to buy drives from them, just not the ones they're having problems with (the 1.5TBs). Their service for us has been fantastic (and should be because of our volume with them). Feel free to not buy another drive from them. You'll be stuck in the same boat as US cellular customers. There's only a handful of businesses to choose from, and you have to buy from one of them if you need the product *shrugs*
How many people with analog-only TVs are out there? How many ELTs that need to be replaced out there. Even though the new ELTs are more expensive, there are far fewer of those that need to be replaced than the DTV converter boxes that are needed.
I assumed you were identifying the hospital as a religious organization to somehow justify your opinion. If that's not the case, my mistake.
Giving a tax break to any organized religion that can than take that money and fund campaigns such as the LDS church did is harmful to the world.
Civil rights > Budget issues
I didn't vote yes on 8, but I know a lot of people who did, and their decision had little to do with any lack of sensitivity or exposure to diversity.
It probably had more to do with their lack of education, conservative leaning, or religions affiliation:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=California_Proposition_8_(2008)#Demographics
Epic fail dude. Next Google won't hire me because I don't believe in Santa Claus.
Marriage creates a 'default' set of conditions for inheritance it does *not* supersede a will
In the broader context, I think same-sex couples are entitled to the same "default" set of conditions that heterosexual couples are offered. Hopefully, as older, more conservative individuals die off (being replaced by a moderate middle-aged population and a more tolerant youth population), same-sex marriages will be recognized without an issue.
And please spare me the religious bent. I don't need to hear about how some sky wizard says "This is right, this is wrong" and the populace of Earth needs to obey.
Typically, the law is written by those with enough "donations" or "campaign contributions". In this case, I don't feel so bad about a tech juggernaut trying to change the law.
I also suggest people who a) Fly GA or b) Love to fly GA join AOPA.
The TSA is also working to make life harder on GA pilots operating under Part 91 flight rules, making them deal with the same security rules as commerical carriers:
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/gasecurity/gasecuritybrief.html
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposes to apply commercial air carrier security measures to general aviation aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds, regardless of the type of operation. The proposal is burdensome and costly, calling for crewmember criminal record checks, watch list matching of passenger manifests, biennial third party audits of each aircraft operator, and new airport security requirements.
Why is this important?
The proposal fails to recognize the inherent differences that exist between private and commercial aviation and attempts to impose costly and unnecessary security regulations without justification.
What kills me is that the federal government handed out a huge amount of cash for the DTV upgrade so people could watch TV but didn't subsidize ELT upgrades at all.
I think the problem is that ELTs are easy to set off on a hard landing and not know they're going off. Perhaps a better indicator to the pilot would fix the problem.
The 64-bit killer app is virtualization. As the owner of a hosting company, I can fit quite a few virtual machines (VMware or Xen images) on a 64-bit Dell Poweredge 2.5Ghz Quad Core box with 128GB of RAM and 3 1.5TB SATAII disks.
I'd highly recommend going with INSTEON, or building your own custom modules that use WiFi to communicate instead of the powerline. Not many houses have more than 254 outlets in them, so you'd only need a Class C of private address space for your house. I'm not sure if 254 outlets/devices can connect to a single 802.11g/n access point though.
For god sakes, mod parent up. He indeed RTFA, as did I, and his point is correct. This is to help use renewable grid energy more efficiently.
You could accomplish this with intelligent X10 outlets and some coding. Srsly.
For the longer term, recycling the waste is the only way of making a space mission sustainable. Whether you do it via plants, or by breaking down and then recombining the elements using some non-biological process is largely irrelevant - you need to put energy in from somewhere either way.
Quite honestly, I see it being easier to genetically engineer humans to survive via photosynthesis than it would be to support ecosystems in space.
Almost forgot. My private, instrument, and commercial ratings give me some sort of conception with regards to what a pilot does. And it is certainly not just decision making.
My Aerospace Engineering Degree + Industry Experience > Your Arm-Chair Slashdot Posts.
You're assuming a UAV is a small, flimsy device. Perhaps you haven't met the Global Hawk. Note that if I take the F-22 airframe and avionics, and dump in UAV intelligence, it's now a UAV. All the benefits of not having a human onboard, with the only negative being situational awareness (or lack thereof). It's only a matter of time before the software becomes faster at judging a situation from it's data and acting on it (I leave the question on if the decision is "better" to others). I suggest you stick to working on sound software. Seems to be a better fit than aerospace-related work.
I agree that current UAVs are not a match for current fighter aircraft. I do believe that within 5 years you'll see aircraft with enough intelligence onboard to slice and dice any manned aircraft, as the human onboard is the weakest link.
So, in short, you'll never do better than 132 ms round trip when it comes to getting a signal half way around the earth and back. As a result, there will pretty much always be a significant latency benefit to be had in having your transmitter near your receiver. You can afford to put yourself hundreds of miles from your drone, sure. But you can't expect to fly a drone in China with from a base in Wyoming and hope to have exceptional reaction times.
The drone need only take high-level commands, and deal with low-level reactions on the local level without human intervention.
It does not work the other way â" against comparable or stronger military. When Georgians tried, earlier this year, to use UAVs to monitor their rebel territories from the air, the rebel-supporting Russia quickly blasted the UAV out of the sky with a manned fighter.
Given the proper SAM/laser defense capability, Georgians could've continued to use UAVs.
It's not Battlefield 1942, you don't dogfight until the one with the best reflexes, decisions and aim wins, in which case an eventual AI pilot would help, no, in this case it's about one machine that's easily ten times faster than your machine and that can launch a missile at you from 16 nm away while you couldn't detect it if it was 10 times closer.
If F-22s are so stealthy, how is an object 1/10th to 1/5th of it's size going to be detectable, unless all the UAVs are bunched together? Also, you're going to burn through missiles waaaaaay faster then someone is going to burn through UAVs if they're sending tons after you're one F-22.
Nothing is stopping the DoD from making the F35 fully autonomous. They probably just haven't tried it yet.