If this gets passed for video games then wouldn't it also set legal precedent for inferior OS as well? Microsoft and it's long history of crappy first releases for the Windows OS which could be a viable next target.
Isn't that the truth. Business models are already outsourcing anything information based that they can. Industry is slowly coming back due to gas prices and cost of transportation of goods but information transmission is free for the most part.
Actually yes you are correct. You would need at least three monitor sensors for each data value. However for the computer reading data from these sensors you only need a single backup system. It should be high enough priority to replace and bring online the original computer system in at most a 24 to 36 hour time frame. If you were very paranoid then yes perhaps three computer systems might be needed. However to triple check data values you only need an odd number of sensors not necessarily an odd number of computer systems who read the values of the sensors. Good eye however in pointing out the odd number needs.
It doesn't really matter in this case if the operation system is looking at plant data from a minor monitoring system. What is troubling here is that it's completely reliant upon this minor monitoring system. If this box someplace is so important as to cause a emergency shutdown in a nuclear power plant then one would think there would be a backup system that comes into place when the primary monitoring system goes down. Did they think this box would never have a hardware failure? That it would last forever as some kind of cosmic perpetual motion machine? I am very worried that operations management systems like this even get implemented in high security and important locations such as a nuclear power plant. Looks like it's time to higher a better and more intelligent Information Systems and Network Manager.
One of the things I realized right away was the small amount of classes and Races allowed to players. This leads to many cookie cutter type characters and rather lack in expansion possibilities outside new skills or abilities as add ons later.
Two Questions:
Is there any plans to expand the available classes or to add a 2nd tier of more specialized classes to the current class sets?
Will there be an ability to play evil races such as Goblins and Orcs as player characters without using the special portal player controlled mob system?
The argument that every Computer Science track requires programing knowledge is mute because they all require coding knowledge at least at a basic level. The knowledge of coding and how to code and how code flows etc. That in itself is learning how to program. What is different however is the type of code and the programing language that is learned. Some are much more complex than others but someone going into Web Design won't be learning Fortran for Engineers. To label one field of Computer Science we can look at the Networking Tracks. Certainly you are learning logic code and perhaps some basic filter scripts and other traffic filter related coding. But this code is very basic and unless you are reprograming network systems like netsquid boxes or firewalls your code knowledge is limited. If you are instead a Network Hardware individual then your coding is very limited and most of the time you are flipping through menu systems and setting flags.
So do all fields of CS need to learn code or at least learn what code is and how it flows? Yes. Do they all learn programing? Yes. Do they all require intensive programing knowledge? No.
Oh you are correct for most roads and whatever small changes happen we can compensate for but for those that travel alot cross country an updated US map every year is necessary. That comment on pricing is more aimed at those people. Like those that sell products or take lots of business trips via car to various different companies.
GPS would be much better if it didn't cost about $100 to just get an updated map each year for your GPS system. I know the Garmin StreetPilot requires you to buy new map software with updated maps each year if you want to keep current. At $125 annually that's a bit rediculous. Esspecially since the unit itself costs around $500.
Actually if it just says anything about surveillance equipment being on the property at all, he's covered. After all if you have an electronic sensor grid on your door and windows all you need is a small sign or a sticker on the window near your front door stating as much. That's enough for just about everywhere so I would hope that a security camera would follow the same rationality.
Redmond Police in a town that has become large singularily due to Microsoft being in town. Redmond Police who's budget might as well be paid by Microsoft considering the taxes that are levied for the business being there. If there is any policy it would be to not accept bribes from "employees" of Microsoft due to their pull locally. i.e. "Do not let Bill Gates get away with stuff just because he's the richest man on the planet." This is rather rediculous considering all they needed to do is get a single ok to get "free drinks" from their LT or the Captain or Chief or whoever their administrative superior is. If this is the only example of "legit" police action to prove that most "Officers of the Law" are not corrupt then I suggest coming down to Houston or Dallas or San Antonio, or New Orleans, or NYC, or Chicago or just about any of the largest 100 cities in the US and try and find a clean department. It doesn't exist. Even in the smallest of towns around the country the law will do whatever they want whenever they feel like it. Power corrupts and if left unchecked it will do just that.
The statement that society treats Cops as defalt heros is very true. Their ideals of serving the public is only in spirit, not in practice. Anyone who's been a Cop for a while gets jaded and that's no longer the case. While I'm sure there are officers that are completely the good guys, there is no doubt in my mind that there are bad cops and rude cops and cops who just generally like being assholes. If there was a higher standard placed upon law enforcement as a whole that was actually enforced then perhaps we would have more good cops.
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If this gets passed for video games then wouldn't it also set legal precedent for inferior OS as well? Microsoft and it's long history of crappy first releases for the Windows OS which could be a viable next target.
Isn't that the truth. Business models are already outsourcing anything information based that they can. Industry is slowly coming back due to gas prices and cost of transportation of goods but information transmission is free for the most part.
Actually yes you are correct. You would need at least three monitor sensors for each data value. However for the computer reading data from these sensors you only need a single backup system. It should be high enough priority to replace and bring online the original computer system in at most a 24 to 36 hour time frame. If you were very paranoid then yes perhaps three computer systems might be needed. However to triple check data values you only need an odd number of sensors not necessarily an odd number of computer systems who read the values of the sensors. Good eye however in pointing out the odd number needs.
It doesn't really matter in this case if the operation system is looking at plant data from a minor monitoring system. What is troubling here is that it's completely reliant upon this minor monitoring system. If this box someplace is so important as to cause a emergency shutdown in a nuclear power plant then one would think there would be a backup system that comes into place when the primary monitoring system goes down. Did they think this box would never have a hardware failure? That it would last forever as some kind of cosmic perpetual motion machine? I am very worried that operations management systems like this even get implemented in high security and important locations such as a nuclear power plant. Looks like it's time to higher a better and more intelligent Information Systems and Network Manager.
One of the things I realized right away was the small amount of classes and Races allowed to players. This leads to many cookie cutter type characters and rather lack in expansion possibilities outside new skills or abilities as add ons later. Two Questions: Is there any plans to expand the available classes or to add a 2nd tier of more specialized classes to the current class sets? Will there be an ability to play evil races such as Goblins and Orcs as player characters without using the special portal player controlled mob system?
The argument that every Computer Science track requires programing knowledge is mute because they all require coding knowledge at least at a basic level. The knowledge of coding and how to code and how code flows etc. That in itself is learning how to program. What is different however is the type of code and the programing language that is learned. Some are much more complex than others but someone going into Web Design won't be learning Fortran for Engineers. To label one field of Computer Science we can look at the Networking Tracks. Certainly you are learning logic code and perhaps some basic filter scripts and other traffic filter related coding. But this code is very basic and unless you are reprograming network systems like netsquid boxes or firewalls your code knowledge is limited. If you are instead a Network Hardware individual then your coding is very limited and most of the time you are flipping through menu systems and setting flags. So do all fields of CS need to learn code or at least learn what code is and how it flows? Yes. Do they all learn programing? Yes. Do they all require intensive programing knowledge? No.
Oh you are correct for most roads and whatever small changes happen we can compensate for but for those that travel alot cross country an updated US map every year is necessary. That comment on pricing is more aimed at those people. Like those that sell products or take lots of business trips via car to various different companies.
GPS would be much better if it didn't cost about $100 to just get an updated map each year for your GPS system. I know the Garmin StreetPilot requires you to buy new map software with updated maps each year if you want to keep current. At $125 annually that's a bit rediculous. Esspecially since the unit itself costs around $500.
Actually if it just says anything about surveillance equipment being on the property at all, he's covered. After all if you have an electronic sensor grid on your door and windows all you need is a small sign or a sticker on the window near your front door stating as much. That's enough for just about everywhere so I would hope that a security camera would follow the same rationality.
Redmond Police in a town that has become large singularily due to Microsoft being in town. Redmond Police who's budget might as well be paid by Microsoft considering the taxes that are levied for the business being there. If there is any policy it would be to not accept bribes from "employees" of Microsoft due to their pull locally. i.e. "Do not let Bill Gates get away with stuff just because he's the richest man on the planet." This is rather rediculous considering all they needed to do is get a single ok to get "free drinks" from their LT or the Captain or Chief or whoever their administrative superior is. If this is the only example of "legit" police action to prove that most "Officers of the Law" are not corrupt then I suggest coming down to Houston or Dallas or San Antonio, or New Orleans, or NYC, or Chicago or just about any of the largest 100 cities in the US and try and find a clean department. It doesn't exist. Even in the smallest of towns around the country the law will do whatever they want whenever they feel like it. Power corrupts and if left unchecked it will do just that. The statement that society treats Cops as defalt heros is very true. Their ideals of serving the public is only in spirit, not in practice. Anyone who's been a Cop for a while gets jaded and that's no longer the case. While I'm sure there are officers that are completely the good guys, there is no doubt in my mind that there are bad cops and rude cops and cops who just generally like being assholes. If there was a higher standard placed upon law enforcement as a whole that was actually enforced then perhaps we would have more good cops.