I'm not calling for reparations, largely since there is no price tag one could put on the injustice of slavery. Forget the logistical implications of distributing funds to "worthy people" - there is simply not a dollar figure the government can pay and then say, "Now everything's okay".
They rebuild from scratch, but one can't argue that every aspect of society gets reset to zero, all cultural biases are eliminatd, and the slate is cleared for everyone. White people had privileges during the reconstruction period. Owning land is an advantage; knowing people with political power is an advantage; knowing everybody will do business with you is an advantage; knowing that all the cops have the same color skin as you is an advantage; being able to vote is an advantage; being able to read is an advantage.
If you don't like the weather in Minnesota, wait an hour. Except in the "winter", which starts in October and ends in April. But unlike California, we have actual seasons.
Racism is prejudice combined with the power to enforce that prejudice. To act as if the slaveowners' descendants today are not in any way privileged over the slaves' descendents because of their historical inequities, to sweep all of that under the rug and pretend it never happened - THAT'S racist.
Just because race is subjectively defined and culturally constructed doesn't make it "bullshit", it just makes it unscientific. There are lots of useful concepts in the world which are unquantifiable and unscientific - aesthetics and ethics are two examples.
In the United States, there was a time in which it was legal to own slaves. The descendants of slave-owners have wealth and social status that was earned by the labor of those slaves - that comes about in the form of privilege. The descendants of slaves don't have that privilege. That's an inequity that can not be correctly measured objectively, no matter what methods you choose. If you want to try to measure it and correct it, then you will upset a lot of people, because they will all disagree about your method of measuring how the construction of race has affected American society. If you ignore that race exists, and that its cultural impact has had socioeconomic effects, then you will upset a lot of people.
There is no natural state of equality between people - it's a state we seek to enforce on our world. It is dangerous to ignore race as a component of inequality between people, as a creator of privileged classes within societies. If you honestly believe that race has no effect on where people grow up, what schools they attend, the quality of their education, and the jobs they can get, you are extremely deluded.
Songwriters write the music (chords are just part of it - there are melodies too) and the lyrics. The producers make decisions about how it should sound, and the performers play it. Sound engineers record, mix, and master performances. They all work together to provide a finished product. If all the songwriters had to do was write chords, they would be awfully bored.
If the new recorders weigh less than the old recorders, and are easier to maintain, the airlines will make damn sure to retrofit if the cost-benefit analysis is right (and they are not already required to retrofit, per TFA). Most of the time, the CBA takes the form of "(less weight = less fuel) + lower maintenance costs => cost savings", balanced by "new technology => delays at gates while it gets monkeyed with => increased costs".
And "almost never" is completely unacceptable from a regulatory perspective, where the reality is that not every plane is going to be in as good shape as the day it came off the line. If a plane is not well-maintained, this shielding can (and probably will) fail. Aircraft flying through a storm can be struck by lightning dozens of times - over the lifetime of an aircraft, that's a lot of wear and tear that needs to be fixed. Since not every plane is as well-maintained as it should be, the regulatory groups for avionics (FAA, EUROCAE, etc.) have standards for electromagnetic interference (see RTCA document DO-254) which must be met by all hardware on the plane for when that shielding fails. There are quite a few laboratories where, for thousands of dollars an hour, you too can simulate repeated lightning strikes on the electronic equipment of your choice.
It's not the same thing. An artillery shell spends the majority of its life in storage until one day it gets pulled out of storage, transported to the field, and blown up. A black box has to be installed on an aircraft (full of moisture, vibration, and temperature extremes) and work continuously until the plane crashes or its service life is exceeded (several years), whichever happens first. Storage environments are easier to design for.
I understand what you're saying - as long as I take my device out when the lights stop, it works as you've stated under Windows XP. My experience with Windows 2000 is that it doesn't play as nicely, but it's not always such a big deal. I've never lost data from pulling a device, but if some other program is trying to read data on that device, it will complain about potential lost data. McAfee Anti-Virus and Matlab are the two programs that do this to me most commonly, because they both seem awful with file handles.
What version of Windows are you using that does not have a "Safely Disconnect" tray app that you need to use when you unplug a USB device to prevent a barrage of error messages about how you may have lost data?
It's true - you could attempt to use the consumer grade sensors in the Wii to create an INS, but even with deeply-integrated, GPS-aided nav solution, it would perform so badly that it would be unusable for military applications. Inertial sensors come in several "grades", each one based on how much position drift it has - strategic (< 100 ft/hour), navigation (< 1 nautical mile/hr), tactical (< 10 nautical miles/hr), and consumer/automotive/commercial grade (worse than that). Tactical grade sensors are required for short range missile guidance - the Wii's sensors aren't coming anywhere close to that.
Of course, this wouldn't stop the DoD from classifying it as export-restricted and locking the builders up.
The Wii controller uses MEMS accels - it can just as easily use MEMS gyros. MEMS isn't particularly accurate, but it's good enough for most consumer uses, consumes very little power, and is incredibly cheap compared to ring-laser, fiber optic, or even mechanical gyros.
The real problem is that nobody knows how much of a detrimental effect wireless signals will have on the nav systems, and it will be ridiculously expensive to find out how much of a problem it is. Not all planes use GPS - some use one variant or another of nav radio, which is pretty darn easy to interfere with. Some of these planes have nav systems designed in the 1970's (with FORTRAN, Ada, and obscure assembly languages nobody remembers anymore for chips that haven't been in production for years). The test equipment used to certify the original nav systems is probably defunct. All of the original designers are probably, at best, not working for the company that produces the nav system (i.e. different job or retired); at worst, they're dead. The design specs are probably archived in some abandoned mine shaft, where nobody has had to read them for decades. Back then, RF interference was not a design concern (since the nav system(s) was probably causing all of it). If you shield the devices, you can add weight or power constraints unforeseen by the original designers - this might be a problem, and it might not - it depends on the device.
Pilots have to be able to land a plane on instruments alone - during a rainstorm, or at night, there is very little visibility. During a hailstorm, the cockpit glass could be busted up so heavily that the pilots can't see out. Visibility on anything other than a gross level (track is here) is over-rated for any but the simplest approaches.
They use inertial and stellar navigation because you don't need GPS precision to hit strategic (as opposed to tactical) targets. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the newer systems incorporate diffential GPS for no other reason than, "hey, why not? One more position-fixing source isn't going to kill us".
No. The "control segment" of the GPS system is built to interface redundantly with all of the satellites in orbit - this includes sites on every continent except Africa and Antarctica.
Which distribution did you do embedded Linux development with? LynuxWorks is the only distribution I know of which provides a comparable embedded systems OS to QNX, Green Hills, vxWorks, et al. These are all hard real-time, safety-critical OSes with certification packages for deployment in a regulated environment.
QNX has a viable business model just selling the test suite and certification package for the OS, without selling the OS package itself (although they will still make a killing licensing it for commercial use). They have an established base of customers in the embedded systems market who need to prove to regulatory bodies that the OS will do what it claims to do - and these documents would be worth every penny. This is an excellent way to take advantage of open source licensing.
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I'm not calling for reparations, largely since there is no price tag one could put on the injustice of slavery. Forget the logistical implications of distributing funds to "worthy people" - there is simply not a dollar figure the government can pay and then say, "Now everything's okay".
They rebuild from scratch, but one can't argue that every aspect of society gets reset to zero, all cultural biases are eliminatd, and the slate is cleared for everyone. White people had privileges during the reconstruction period. Owning land is an advantage; knowing people with political power is an advantage; knowing everybody will do business with you is an advantage; knowing that all the cops have the same color skin as you is an advantage; being able to vote is an advantage; being able to read is an advantage.
As long as people don't read the second part as "Micro-Squeal", I think it could catch on.
If you don't like the weather in Minnesota, wait an hour. Except in the "winter", which starts in October and ends in April. But unlike California, we have actual seasons.
Racism is prejudice combined with the power to enforce that prejudice. To act as if the slaveowners' descendants today are not in any way privileged over the slaves' descendents because of their historical inequities, to sweep all of that under the rug and pretend it never happened - THAT'S racist.
Just because race is subjectively defined and culturally constructed doesn't make it "bullshit", it just makes it unscientific. There are lots of useful concepts in the world which are unquantifiable and unscientific - aesthetics and ethics are two examples.
In the United States, there was a time in which it was legal to own slaves. The descendants of slave-owners have wealth and social status that was earned by the labor of those slaves - that comes about in the form of privilege. The descendants of slaves don't have that privilege. That's an inequity that can not be correctly measured objectively, no matter what methods you choose. If you want to try to measure it and correct it, then you will upset a lot of people, because they will all disagree about your method of measuring how the construction of race has affected American society. If you ignore that race exists, and that its cultural impact has had socioeconomic effects, then you will upset a lot of people.
There is no natural state of equality between people - it's a state we seek to enforce on our world. It is dangerous to ignore race as a component of inequality between people, as a creator of privileged classes within societies. If you honestly believe that race has no effect on where people grow up, what schools they attend, the quality of their education, and the jobs they can get, you are extremely deluded.
Songwriters write the music (chords are just part of it - there are melodies too) and the lyrics. The producers make decisions about how it should sound, and the performers play it. Sound engineers record, mix, and master performances. They all work together to provide a finished product. If all the songwriters had to do was write chords, they would be awfully bored.
If the new recorders weigh less than the old recorders, and are easier to maintain, the airlines will make damn sure to retrofit if the cost-benefit analysis is right (and they are not already required to retrofit, per TFA). Most of the time, the CBA takes the form of "(less weight = less fuel) + lower maintenance costs => cost savings", balanced by "new technology => delays at gates while it gets monkeyed with => increased costs".
And "almost never" is completely unacceptable from a regulatory perspective, where the reality is that not every plane is going to be in as good shape as the day it came off the line. If a plane is not well-maintained, this shielding can (and probably will) fail. Aircraft flying through a storm can be struck by lightning dozens of times - over the lifetime of an aircraft, that's a lot of wear and tear that needs to be fixed. Since not every plane is as well-maintained as it should be, the regulatory groups for avionics (FAA, EUROCAE, etc.) have standards for electromagnetic interference (see RTCA document DO-254) which must be met by all hardware on the plane for when that shielding fails. There are quite a few laboratories where, for thousands of dollars an hour, you too can simulate repeated lightning strikes on the electronic equipment of your choice.
It's not the same thing. An artillery shell spends the majority of its life in storage until one day it gets pulled out of storage, transported to the field, and blown up. A black box has to be installed on an aircraft (full of moisture, vibration, and temperature extremes) and work continuously until the plane crashes or its service life is exceeded (several years), whichever happens first. Storage environments are easier to design for.
I understand what you're saying - as long as I take my device out when the lights stop, it works as you've stated under Windows XP. My experience with Windows 2000 is that it doesn't play as nicely, but it's not always such a big deal. I've never lost data from pulling a device, but if some other program is trying to read data on that device, it will complain about potential lost data. McAfee Anti-Virus and Matlab are the two programs that do this to me most commonly, because they both seem awful with file handles.
What version of Windows are you using that does not have a "Safely Disconnect" tray app that you need to use when you unplug a USB device to prevent a barrage of error messages about how you may have lost data?
It's true - you could attempt to use the consumer grade sensors in the Wii to create an INS, but even with deeply-integrated, GPS-aided nav solution, it would perform so badly that it would be unusable for military applications. Inertial sensors come in several "grades", each one based on how much position drift it has - strategic (< 100 ft/hour), navigation (< 1 nautical mile/hr), tactical (< 10 nautical miles/hr), and consumer/automotive/commercial grade (worse than that). Tactical grade sensors are required for short range missile guidance - the Wii's sensors aren't coming anywhere close to that.
Of course, this wouldn't stop the DoD from classifying it as export-restricted and locking the builders up.
The Wii controller uses MEMS accels - it can just as easily use MEMS gyros. MEMS isn't particularly accurate, but it's good enough for most consumer uses, consumes very little power, and is incredibly cheap compared to ring-laser, fiber optic, or even mechanical gyros.
And that was before steroid injections were MANDATORY!
You beat me to it! I hope the mods will reward you justly!
The real problem is that nobody knows how much of a detrimental effect wireless signals will have on the nav systems, and it will be ridiculously expensive to find out how much of a problem it is. Not all planes use GPS - some use one variant or another of nav radio, which is pretty darn easy to interfere with. Some of these planes have nav systems designed in the 1970's (with FORTRAN, Ada, and obscure assembly languages nobody remembers anymore for chips that haven't been in production for years). The test equipment used to certify the original nav systems is probably defunct. All of the original designers are probably, at best, not working for the company that produces the nav system (i.e. different job or retired); at worst, they're dead. The design specs are probably archived in some abandoned mine shaft, where nobody has had to read them for decades. Back then, RF interference was not a design concern (since the nav system(s) was probably causing all of it). If you shield the devices, you can add weight or power constraints unforeseen by the original designers - this might be a problem, and it might not - it depends on the device.
Pilots have to be able to land a plane on instruments alone - during a rainstorm, or at night, there is very little visibility. During a hailstorm, the cockpit glass could be busted up so heavily that the pilots can't see out. Visibility on anything other than a gross level (track is here) is over-rated for any but the simplest approaches.
They use inertial and stellar navigation because you don't need GPS precision to hit strategic (as opposed to tactical) targets. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the newer systems incorporate diffential GPS for no other reason than, "hey, why not? One more position-fixing source isn't going to kill us".
No. The "control segment" of the GPS system is built to interface redundantly with all of the satellites in orbit - this includes sites on every continent except Africa and Antarctica.
Which distribution did you do embedded Linux development with? LynuxWorks is the only distribution I know of which provides a comparable embedded systems OS to QNX, Green Hills, vxWorks, et al. These are all hard real-time, safety-critical OSes with certification packages for deployment in a regulated environment.
QNX has a viable business model just selling the test suite and certification package for the OS, without selling the OS package itself (although they will still make a killing licensing it for commercial use). They have an established base of customers in the embedded systems market who need to prove to regulatory bodies that the OS will do what it claims to do - and these documents would be worth every penny. This is an excellent way to take advantage of open source licensing.
I ended up buying a DAT72 tape drive (36GB storage without compression). I got sick of waiting.
Why nobody has made an action movie using only this premise is beyond me. It it one of the most pure gaming titles ever, for that reason alone.
And SAY NO TO DRUGS! (ah, the Reagan years)
I would like to think I'm not alone in wanting to have something to show for nine years of getting beaten up for keeping my books in my band locker ;-)