Hey... you Linux geeks get all the cool toyz!
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DSPAM v2.10 Released
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Why can't I get this to run on my WXP machine? I have XP Pro installed.... You linux geeks get all the good toyz!! Darn you, Darn you to Redmond!
What do I get?
Well.. I guess I do get all the neat patches.
What about legit spam????
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Gates on Spam
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There is such a thing you know, and there are probably plenty of us who enjoy it.
Many examples, like when my favorite BB site ( www.rage3d.com ) sends me an email to tell me that a thread I am involved in has a reply. Or if there is a company that I LIKE. Maybe I want there spam? Maybe I want there coupons? Maybe I don't opt-out of everything, just most things.
Do these exchange servers get left holding the check?
Yes I am sure that we can enable and disable this feature on a case by case basis. But realisticly, how much of the population is actually going to go through the trouble of doing that? It will probably be far easier to leave the system on for all sites all the time.
Don't get me wrong. I am not 'dissing' the system here. On the contrary, I find it rather fascinating. And it is about the best solution to spam I can come up with. But I find this side of it kind of troubling.
I work for a company that used to do in house data minning. We would sell lists and the company would intentionaly put fake names and addresses in the list. If the company that we sold the lists to followed our instructions and used the lists as per the contract then these fake names and addresses would never be an issue.
But if the company didn't follow the agreement they would run across this stuff.
The manager of the department would always make sure that his home address and telephone number was in the fake section. That way he could keep tabs on who was staying in line and who wasn't.
I make a database with names and phone numbers, I sprinkle in a few incorrect entries here and there among tens of thousands of correct ones. If you publish a database and it has those same incorrect entries then I sue ya.
But I don't think I understand why this is so eeevvviiilll. I can argue that a book is nothing but a collection of words placed in a certain order, and no one seems to have a problem with me holding rights to a book I wrote. I don't own the words and punctuation, I do own the order of the words though.
If I assemble a database, any database and I go through the trouble of putting data in it, legaly obtained data - then why shouldn't I have a right to that particular assemblage of data?
If you have a need of the exact same data assembled in the same fashion then you can either license it from me, or assemble it from scratch yourself. Useing the shortcut of downloading my database should only be an option if I allow it.
And since when are facts and statistics free anyways? Think Neilson does there thing as charity work? How about polling groups? Think that data is free? I am sure that if you asked them they would have no problem saying that if you don't want to pay them you can go through the trouble of getting the data on your own.
I have no opinion whatsoever on if this works or not. But I am thoroughly convinced that this thing would suck to live within a few miles of.
Seriously, isn't this why we keep those environmentalist whack jobs around? To protest stuff like this? 120 decibles? Damn... I wonder if it presents a cancer risk....
I want one, what an efficient way to piss off the neighbors.
Re:Why wouldn't math be known across the universe?
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The Golden Ratio
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I can take this a step farther. The human brain is set up to recognize patterns. In the same way that all computers come down to mathmetics and binary (no matter what it is you fed into it or what output you desire) the human brain breaks down into pattern recognition.
I see no reason to assume that an alien race has brains that function like that. They could function in any number of ways, I think they all could have an effect on how those creatures approached mathmetics.
What does 'different mathmetics' mean?
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The Golden Ratio
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Seems to me that we base our math on the number ten for a pretty logical reason. I think it is easy to understand how we came up with that number.
But if we were born with 13 fingers on each hand, then how would we work math?
Is that what he means by different mathmetics? When I think of it that way I come to the conclusion that at the core everything is equal. Seems to me that no matter what number system you use you could always convert it.
On a side note, here is a question that I have never known the answer to. Why do countries that have such dissimilar languages (the US and China or Russia for example) all use the same roman numeral numbers?
I can be looking at Russian text and it is all gibberish, but as soon as a number is inserted, bammm familiar territory.
I thought anything geneticaly modified was categoricaly bad?!?!?!
I thought geneticaly modifying plants could cause evil things, things that were so evil they were not worth feeding poor people in third world countries???
Is this an episode of the Twilight Zone?
(cynicism provided by a dude that thinks that geneticaly modified food stuff is getting bad rap by a bunch of commie wackos)
I can understand why the average Joe dildohead might think a particular thing is evil, like say cookies on internet sites.
But the/. crowd is supposed to be more technicaly astute then that.
RFID doesn't rate any better or worse then about a zillion other things in my book. You are worried about people tracking what you buy? Then stop paying for things with Checks, Debit/ATM cards, Credit Cards... use cash only for EVERYTHING.
I work for a company that sells things over the internet and through catalogs. You RFID wackos would loose your minds if you understood the dollar value on your personal information. Hell, we have been doing this since.... hell when I started working for the company I had to load magnetic tape drives with reel to reel tapes. We don't need no stinking RFID to track you.
Nah RFID isn't any more evil then anything else. If Wal-Mart likes it then I say more power to them.
Is there any logic to the argument that if these companies are putting software in there software/hardware that is capable of censoring currency and not printing it then these same companies should be held responsible for there machines/software copying and printing other things that break the law?
What puts this into my head is the old usenet argument against moderated forums. That if a forum wasn't moderated then the posters were responsible for whatever got posted. But once you started moderating a forum and yanking posts for say porn then you could be held responsible if you didn't yank WAREZ off your forum.
Not to mention, what if I figure out how to get around the software, or what if it just simply doesn't work right, does the company have a liability risk there?
Maybe this isn't in the best interest of the companies....
The only way that DRM software is gonna find it's way into things like DVDRW, CDRW and hard drives is going to be if it is the result of a law being passed.
And even then the law would probably only say that the company had to put it there, not that it had to work ***wink-wink-nudge-nudge-knowwhatimean-knowwhatime an***.
At the end of the day consumers are not going to spend money on a product that is intentionally crippled like that. If TDK starts producing all there DVDRW drives with digital rights management and Plextor does not then Plextor's sales are gonna go through the roof.
Look at Aptex DVD players as a really good example. What happened when they made there first models that had an easily bypassed region protection? Aptex couldn't make enough DVD players that is what happened.
As far sa this printer and photoshop problem it just isn't comparable. Very, very few people are going to have a use for scanning and printing money - it is just ridiculous. The people with there pants in a wad are either A) artists, B) counterfieters or C) analy retentive boneheads.
I was turning off a road that had been properly plowed and salted so it was down to the asphalt into a parking lot that was a sheet of ice, the parking lot also has an 'S' turn in it almost immediatly (along with a raised concrete curb).
Normally pushing in the clutch and turning into the slide is the thing to do, but it was critical that I reduce my speed, that is why a clutch is cool, downshift one or two gears and your wheels don't lock, and I couldn't turn into the slide, would have hit that damned curb.
I know I was lucky, but that particular incident stands out in my mind as a place where an automatic clutch just wouldn't have performed.
It is also nice when you are coming up to a stop sign and you tap your breaks only to find nothing happens (cause you are on ice), I find I can normally reduce my speed significantly by downshifting and then when I apply my breaks I can stop.
I wouldn't dream of being all fanboyish about it, it isn't for everyone, but I like it.
Also if you have the money to drop there is anti-skid breaks which would have solved my problem, as well as a few expensive cars that allow you to switch your automatic for a clutchless stick. I B poor, I can't afford that, besides driving a stick somehow seems macho and manly. Automatics are for girls and meterosexuals.
I am with you on that. As much as I love my manual, when I am in serious stop and go traffic like that even I wish I was driving an automagical vehicle.
Automatic transmission seems pretty reliable to me. I like driving a stick cause we get snow and ice where I live. The first time I started sliding, downshifted 2 gears, let the clutch out and the car straightened out I realized that I never wanted to own an automatic, ever.
I know nothing about lawsuits in Japan, so this may not be a factor.
But when I read the article (bad slashdotter, BAD!) and came to the part that said 'there is no onboard object recognition, so there is nothing that is going to stop you from running over something in the parking space.' I thought, oooohhhh boy.
I don't think this will make it to the US for this reason. If it does, then the first time someone runs over someone elses dog all hell is gonna break loose. People are gonna be saying that it is in fact Toyota's fault that they ran over the dog.
Stupid lawsuits, stupid people.
Come to think of it wew may never get that feature in the US no matter how good of a job they do.
Lets say a company does make a decent object recognition package for the car, is it possible for them to actually be 100 percent sure that the car will recognize an object in 100 percent of situations that come along?
Cause as soon as that figure moves to 99 percent then some doofushead is gonna argue that the object recognition feature takes the responsibility of running something over out of there hands and into the car manufacturers hands.
You are just mad cause we could whip your briny little asses into yesteryear if we wanted.
As far as our numbers and superiority is concerned, what are you nuts???
Are you telling me that if the President said 'We could send in an enormous amount of armement into Iraq and utterly and completly win this, but that wouldn't be fair. We are only sending in things to make it a fair fight.', that you would actually think that was smart? If you were an American soldier what would you think about going into such a fight?
When I was on Paris Island a very wise, very scary, very big man, easily the biggest, blackest, scariest mofo I have ever met, said to me 'There are two kinds of people in a fight, those who fight fair, and those who win.'. This individual that told me this, he had a scar that ran from one ear to the next.
Everything you need to know about going into a battle is in that statement. Good, sound advice as far as I have ever been concerned.
I have a funny story about me applying that advice and 'winning' a subsequent boxing match on Paris Island. Damn those DI's were pissed, when I got back to the barracks the head DI didn't even know what to make of it.
I most certainly do. I get about 1.8 megs down and I do 350kb up.
That is exactly what I pay for. I reach those speeds all the time.
If you are not happy with your DSL speed don't forget that DSL isn't cable. Cable is rather straightforward, they hook you up and bammm you get what you get.
DSL is, well DSL can be a mess. The phone company only cares about the line to your house, after that it is your responsibility. You realize that there is nothing stopping you from running a dedicated phone line out to your switchbox on the side of your house?
Don't be stupid. Clean Water, yeah that is useful. You are batting one out of three.
The other two, what is wrong with you? Do you want these people to starve? GM crops can be very useful things, assuming that a small group of overzealous and clueless people don't have there way with it. They have the promise of of providing better, healthier crops. Hell, with GM crops it is even possible to do something about pesticides.
Speaking of them... you know how much harder and how much the yeild decreases when you go the 'natural' route? These people are in very poor countries, they are having enough problems without having some socialist know-it-all telling them how to farm.
I do agree with one thing, this entire internet for poor Indian farmers does seem like a waiste of money. The money might be better spent buying the farmers supplies so they can access clean water, GM crops so they can have a better, healthier yeild, and modern insecticides with the training on how to use them effectively.
Securing HR data and salaries is basic, basic stuff. I would have some sympathy if Joe Schmoes Pizza barn had there salary and HR data compromised, after all they make pizzas, IT is way down the line for these people.
But lets face it, if you want to manufacture eVoting technology then securing the network is a crucuial part of that technology.
If THEY can't secure there own HR and payroll data then how am I supposed to trust them to handle evoting competently?
Can I assume you are a 19 year old AMERICAN college Sophmore?
Yeah, actually I do think you should at least have heard of this.
The Osprey is supposed to be a replacement for the very aged Chinook helicopters. If ever the military had a vehicle that outlived its usefulness it was the Chinook. My father was in 'Nam and he tells me that he couldn't get out of those things fast enough. They were flying bullseyes as far as he was concerned.
The Osprey has the range and speed of a propeller aircraft but the VTOL capability, and the hover ability of a helicpoter. This is acomplished by putting extremely large propeller (turboprop) engines on the end of the wings. The largest damn propellers you are ever going to see. The ends of the wings actually rotate 90 degrees to facilitate take off and landings.
When they first started testing this thing they found a lot of flaws. Some where engineering problems, but there is one nasty one they have been working on.
The engines can create an unusual vortex that has never really been seen before. When this vortex happens they loose lift and control of the aircraft and it crashes.
Is it a bad aircraft that we need to give up on?
I don't really know.
John Glenn seems to think the Shuttle's are flying death traps and we were better off putting capsules on top of rockets.
The Hubble was a real mess when it was first put in orbit as well. There was an enormous public outcry after the press labeled it 'a failure'. Hmmmm some failure.
The B-1 bomber also suffered a number of crashes in testing.
Aviation is HARD and DANGEROUS. Someone else already said it for me, it is about time we took the 'pilot' out of test pilot. I can only imagine what the difference in public perception would be if the Osprey had gone through an unmanned testing phase.
The Osprey does hold tremendous promise though. If we can iron out the problems in it, it really would be a new category of aircraft. Something that can economicaly provide city to city air service, something that can bridge the gap between helicopter and airplane.
While I am not yet convinced that they can get a grip on the vortex problem, I am very far away from saying they need to give up.
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Why can't I get this to run on my WXP machine? I have XP Pro installed....
You linux geeks get all the good toyz!!
Darn you, Darn you to Redmond!
What do I get?
Well.. I guess I do get all the neat patches.
There is such a thing you know, and there are probably plenty of us who enjoy it.
Many examples, like when my favorite BB site ( www.rage3d.com ) sends me an email to tell me that a thread I am involved in has a reply. Or if there is a company that I LIKE. Maybe I want there spam? Maybe I want there coupons? Maybe I don't opt-out of everything, just most things.
Do these exchange servers get left holding the check?
Yes I am sure that we can enable and disable this feature on a case by case basis. But realisticly, how much of the population is actually going to go through the trouble of doing that? It will probably be far easier to leave the system on for all sites all the time.
Don't get me wrong. I am not 'dissing' the system here. On the contrary, I find it rather fascinating. And it is about the best solution to spam I can come up with.
But I find this side of it kind of troubling.
Only if you aquired it by copying my database.
I work for a company that used to do in house data minning. We would sell lists and the company would intentionaly put fake names and addresses in the list. If the company that we sold the lists to followed our instructions and used the lists as per the contract then these fake names and addresses would never be an issue.
But if the company didn't follow the agreement they would run across this stuff.
The manager of the department would always make sure that his home address and telephone number was in the fake section. That way he could keep tabs on who was staying in line and who wasn't.
I make a database with names and phone numbers, I sprinkle in a few incorrect entries here and there among tens of thousands of correct ones. If you publish a database and it has those same incorrect entries then I sue ya.
Is it really so evil?
Maybe I don't quite understand the issue.
But I don't think I understand why this is so eeevvviiilll.
I can argue that a book is nothing but a collection of words placed in a certain order, and no one seems to have a problem with me holding rights to a book I wrote. I don't own the words and punctuation, I do own the order of the words though.
If I assemble a database, any database and I go through the trouble of putting data in it, legaly obtained data - then why shouldn't I have a right to that particular assemblage of data?
If you have a need of the exact same data assembled in the same fashion then you can either license it from me, or assemble it from scratch yourself. Useing the shortcut of downloading my database should only be an option if I allow it.
And since when are facts and statistics free anyways? Think Neilson does there thing as charity work? How about polling groups? Think that data is free? I am sure that if you asked them they would have no problem saying that if you don't want to pay them you can go through the trouble of getting the data on your own.
Strange...
some of your post is right out of a Douglas Coupland book. That one with 'Microserf', I can't think of the title.
I have no opinion whatsoever on if this works or not. But I am thoroughly convinced that this thing would suck to live within a few miles of.
Seriously, isn't this why we keep those environmentalist whack jobs around? To protest stuff like this? 120 decibles? Damn... I wonder if it presents a cancer risk....
I want one, what an efficient way to piss off the neighbors.
I can take this a step farther. The human brain is set up to recognize patterns. In the same way that all computers come down to mathmetics and binary (no matter what it is you fed into it or what output you desire) the human brain breaks down into pattern recognition.
I see no reason to assume that an alien race has brains that function like that. They could function in any number of ways, I think they all could have an effect on how those creatures approached mathmetics.
Seems to me that we base our math on the number ten for a pretty logical reason. I think it is easy to understand how we came up with that number.
But if we were born with 13 fingers on each hand, then how would we work math?
Is that what he means by different mathmetics? When I think of it that way I come to the conclusion that at the core everything is equal. Seems to me that no matter what number system you use you could always convert it.
On a side note, here is a question that I have never known the answer to.
Why do countries that have such dissimilar languages (the US and China or Russia for example) all use the same roman numeral numbers?
I can be looking at Russian text and it is all gibberish, but as soon as a number is inserted, bammm familiar territory.
Why is that?
I thought anything geneticaly modified was categoricaly bad?!?!?!
I thought geneticaly modifying plants could cause evil things, things that were so evil they were not worth feeding poor people in third world countries???
Is this an episode of the Twilight Zone?
(cynicism provided by a dude that thinks that geneticaly modified food stuff is getting bad rap by a bunch of commie wackos)
I can understand why the average Joe dildohead might think a particular thing is evil, like say cookies on internet sites.
/. crowd is supposed to be more technicaly astute then that.
But the
RFID doesn't rate any better or worse then about a zillion other things in my book. You are worried about people tracking what you buy?
Then stop paying for things with Checks, Debit/ATM cards, Credit Cards... use cash only for EVERYTHING.
I work for a company that sells things over the internet and through catalogs. You RFID wackos would loose your minds if you understood the dollar value on your personal information.
Hell, we have been doing this since.... hell when I started working for the company I had to load magnetic tape drives with reel to reel tapes.
We don't need no stinking RFID to track you.
Nah RFID isn't any more evil then anything else. If Wal-Mart likes it then I say more power to them.
I have found myself struggling with a problem, I mean really struggling. I will eventually exhaust myself, throw in the towel and go to bed.
When I do this I often feel like I can solve the problem, but I am spinning my wheels in my attempt.
I will go to sleep, sleep 8 hours and when I wake up I will open my eyes and at the very front of my head will be the solution.
This has happened to me so many times that it is actually a tool I use to solve problems.
Is there any logic to the argument that if these companies are putting software in there software/hardware that is capable of censoring currency and not printing it then these same companies should be held responsible for there machines/software copying and printing other things that break the law?
What puts this into my head is the old usenet argument against moderated forums. That if a forum wasn't moderated then the posters were responsible for whatever got posted. But once you started moderating a forum and yanking posts for say porn then you could be held responsible if you didn't yank WAREZ off your forum.
Not to mention, what if I figure out how to get around the software, or what if it just simply doesn't work right, does the company have a liability risk there?
Maybe this isn't in the best interest of the companies....
The only way that DRM software is gonna find it's way into things like DVDRW, CDRW and hard drives is going to be if it is the result of a law being passed.
e an***.
And even then the law would probably only say that the company had to put it there, not that it had to work ***wink-wink-nudge-nudge-knowwhatimean-knowwhatim
At the end of the day consumers are not going to spend money on a product that is intentionally crippled like that. If TDK starts producing all there DVDRW drives with digital rights management and Plextor does not then Plextor's sales are gonna go through the roof.
Look at Aptex DVD players as a really good example. What happened when they made there first models that had an easily bypassed region protection? Aptex couldn't make enough DVD players that is what happened.
As far sa this printer and photoshop problem it just isn't comparable. Very, very few people are going to have a use for scanning and printing money - it is just ridiculous. The people with there pants in a wad are either A) artists, B) counterfieters or C) analy retentive boneheads.
I was turning off a road that had been properly plowed and salted so it was down to the asphalt into a parking lot that was a sheet of ice, the parking lot also has an 'S' turn in it almost immediatly (along with a raised concrete curb).
Normally pushing in the clutch and turning into the slide is the thing to do, but it was critical that I reduce my speed, that is why a clutch is cool, downshift one or two gears and your wheels don't lock, and I couldn't turn into the slide, would have hit that damned curb.
I know I was lucky, but that particular incident stands out in my mind as a place where an automatic clutch just wouldn't have performed.
It is also nice when you are coming up to a stop sign and you tap your breaks only to find nothing happens (cause you are on ice), I find I can normally reduce my speed significantly by downshifting and then when I apply my breaks I can stop.
I wouldn't dream of being all fanboyish about it, it isn't for everyone, but I like it.
Also if you have the money to drop there is anti-skid breaks which would have solved my problem, as well as a few expensive cars that allow you to switch your automatic for a clutchless stick.
I B poor, I can't afford that, besides driving a stick somehow seems macho and manly.
Automatics are for girls and meterosexuals.
I am with you on that. As much as I love my manual, when I am in serious stop and go traffic like that even I wish I was driving an automagical vehicle.
Automatic transmission seems pretty reliable to me. I like driving a stick cause we get snow and ice where I live. The first time I started sliding, downshifted 2 gears, let the clutch out and the car straightened out I realized that I never wanted to own an automatic, ever.
I know nothing about lawsuits in Japan, so this may not be a factor.
But when I read the article (bad slashdotter, BAD!) and came to the part that said 'there is no onboard object recognition, so there is nothing that is going to stop you from running over something in the parking space.' I thought, oooohhhh boy.
I don't think this will make it to the US for this reason. If it does, then the first time someone runs over someone elses dog all hell is gonna break loose. People are gonna be saying that it is in fact Toyota's fault that they ran over the dog.
Stupid lawsuits, stupid people.
Come to think of it wew may never get that feature in the US no matter how good of a job they do.
Lets say a company does make a decent object recognition package for the car, is it possible for them to actually be 100 percent sure that the car will recognize an object in 100 percent of situations that come along?
Cause as soon as that figure moves to 99 percent then some doofushead is gonna argue that the object recognition feature takes the responsibility of running something over out of there hands and into the car manufacturers hands.
Nah, we will never see it on our shores.
You are just mad cause we could whip your briny little asses into yesteryear if we wanted.
As far as our numbers and superiority is concerned, what are you nuts???
Are you telling me that if the President said 'We could send in an enormous amount of armement into Iraq and utterly and completly win this, but that wouldn't be fair. We are only sending in things to make it a fair fight.', that you would actually think that was smart? If you were an American soldier what would you think about going into such a fight?
When I was on Paris Island a very wise, very scary, very big man, easily the biggest, blackest, scariest mofo I have ever met, said to me 'There are two kinds of people in a fight, those who fight fair, and those who win.'.
This individual that told me this, he had a scar that ran from one ear to the next.
Everything you need to know about going into a battle is in that statement. Good, sound advice as far as I have ever been concerned.
I have a funny story about me applying that advice and 'winning' a subsequent boxing match on Paris Island. Damn those DI's were pissed, when I got back to the barracks the head DI didn't even know what to make of it.
I most certainly do. I get about 1.8 megs down and I do 350kb up.
That is exactly what I pay for. I reach those speeds all the time.
If you are not happy with your DSL speed don't forget that DSL isn't cable. Cable is rather straightforward, they hook you up and bammm you get what you get.
DSL is, well DSL can be a mess. The phone company only cares about the line to your house, after that it is your responsibility. You realize that there is nothing stopping you from running a dedicated phone line out to your switchbox on the side of your house?
Just out of curiosity, I have noticed that whenever I see these stories they are always associated with cable broadband.
Anyone with a nice fast DSL connection ever gotten one of these things?
Don't be stupid.
Clean Water, yeah that is useful. You are batting one out of three.
The other two, what is wrong with you? Do you want these people to starve?
GM crops can be very useful things, assuming that a small group of overzealous and clueless people don't have there way with it. They have the promise of of providing better, healthier crops. Hell, with GM crops it is even possible to do something about pesticides.
Speaking of them... you know how much harder and how much the yeild decreases when you go the 'natural' route? These people are in very poor countries, they are having enough problems without having some socialist know-it-all telling them how to farm.
I do agree with one thing, this entire internet for poor Indian farmers does seem like a waiste of money. The money might be better spent buying the farmers supplies so they can access clean water, GM crops so they can have a better, healthier yeild, and modern insecticides with the training on how to use them effectively.
Securing HR data and salaries is basic, basic stuff. I would have some sympathy if Joe Schmoes Pizza barn had there salary and HR data compromised, after all they make pizzas, IT is way down the line for these people.
But lets face it, if you want to manufacture eVoting technology then securing the network is a crucuial part of that technology.
If THEY can't secure there own HR and payroll data then how am I supposed to trust them to handle evoting competently?
Can I assume you are a 19 year old AMERICAN college Sophmore?
Yeah, actually I do think you should at least have heard of this.
The Osprey is supposed to be a replacement for the very aged Chinook helicopters.
If ever the military had a vehicle that outlived its usefulness it was the Chinook.
My father was in 'Nam and he tells me that he couldn't get out of those things fast enough. They were flying bullseyes as far as he was concerned.
The Osprey has the range and speed of a propeller aircraft but the VTOL capability, and the hover ability of a helicpoter.
This is acomplished by putting extremely large propeller (turboprop) engines on the end of the wings. The largest damn propellers you are ever going to see. The ends of the wings actually rotate 90 degrees to facilitate take off and landings.
When they first started testing this thing they found a lot of flaws. Some where engineering problems, but there is one nasty one they have been working on.
The engines can create an unusual vortex that has never really been seen before. When this vortex happens they loose lift and control of the aircraft and it crashes.
Is it a bad aircraft that we need to give up on?
I don't really know.
John Glenn seems to think the Shuttle's are flying death traps and we were better off putting capsules on top of rockets.
The Hubble was a real mess when it was first put in orbit as well. There was an enormous public outcry after the press labeled it 'a failure'.
Hmmmm some failure.
The B-1 bomber also suffered a number of crashes in testing.
Aviation is HARD and DANGEROUS. Someone else already said it for me, it is about time we took the 'pilot' out of test pilot. I can only imagine what the difference in public perception would be if the Osprey had gone through an unmanned testing phase.
The Osprey does hold tremendous promise though. If we can iron out the problems in it, it really would be a new category of aircraft. Something that can economicaly provide city to city air service, something that can bridge the gap between helicopter and airplane.
While I am not yet convinced that they can get a grip on the vortex problem, I am very far away from saying they need to give up.
Yeah I know the add problem is big and scary and easy to digest. But the real problem should scare the hell out of the networks.
When you get a Tivo there is no reason to watch crappy TV.
Period.
Seriously, why would I want to watch lowest common denominator TV when I always have something I enjoy at my finger tips?
Seems to me that is the real issue, people that own a Tivo are much, much less likely to watch something 'cause nothing better is on'.
Funny thing about Tivo and I, I watch a hell of a lot more HBO and pay TV then I used to.
What is the point of reading a review AFTER seeing a movie?
So you can be told how you should feel about the movie?