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by snom380 13y ago
Misjudgements will happen no matter what, and it's not like it's an either-or proposition. It's perfectly possible to have a set of guidelines that can be used together with common sense, but no matter what people should have
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by snom380 13y ago
In a stable market with no big changes, he would be an excellent CEO, and he was generally considered a good one until the last few years (some would say after Vista, other after the iPhone).
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by snom380 13y ago
I think the point he was trying to make was that if Apple had issued a poll before launching the iPad, people would most likely said "it has to run my current OSX Apps and offer a way to switch back to OSX" because they would cons
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by snom380 13y ago
The technology was there, several years before the iPad I had a PC with a capacitive touchscreen. What Microsoft lacked was the insight to realize that just cramming a touchscreen and stylus on Windows XP wouldn't work. Apple, perhaps
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by snom380 13y ago
That $1B nummer includes software sales to Amazon, Rackspace etc so it's not really comparable to Amazon (which also lumps AWS together with other stuff). Generally though I find it interesting that there is almost no mention of it eit
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by snom380 13y ago
You're confusing the use case. If course you can already look up the data and get alerts, and every modern plant already does. But getting hands on data when you're at the plant isn't just helpful for repairs or inspections,
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by snom380 13y ago
Even with ongoing sync there could be an option to store the password on the device, either permanently or to enter it at boot time. Just like with SSH keys.
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by snom380 13y ago
I've probably saved hours of phone support because my parents wifi passwords and email setups is saved in their iPhone backup (this is only done if the backups are password protected). When they get a new device it's just a matter
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by snom380 13y ago
Does DragonDictate still work if you switch users? If so, you could encrypt your home directory, add a second user, and set OSX to auto-login to that user (and auto-launch DragonDictate). If not, I think your best bet is a Bluetooth solutio
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by snom380 13y ago
Of course others can afford it. Whether they want to is another matter, but other companies like Propellerheads make lots of money selling software in the same price range. Also, don't forget that most of the Apple Pro Apps came about
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by snom380 13y ago
No. the reason Windows Phone is not dominant is because it came too late to the party, and offers no real advantage over iOS or Android. Both Microsoft and Nokia made the fatal mistake of announcing the death of their old mobile operating s
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by snom380 13y ago
As it was running on a shipping phone, I think it was at least as ready as Android at the time of the iPhone launch. The difference was that Google did a U-turn quite quickly while Nokia just pressed on with Symbian which turned out to be a
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by snom380 13y ago
..but play catch up to what? It's not like Nokia has outdone themselves by customizing Windows Phone.
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by snom380 13y ago
I find it interesting that Maemo/Meego was not mentioned as an option. Nokia had a platform they could have built off if they could have settled the internal politics, and they could even have made a compatibility layer to submit Andro
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by snom380 13y ago
What would you recommend as an alternative? I tried some Sony ones but the electronics added some other noise.
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by snom380 13y ago
Exactly. A contributing cause of AF447 was a lack of high altitude flying experience and training on emergencies there, since the training regime is traditionally focused on the more accident-prone takeoff and landing phases.
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by snom380 13y ago
That's pretty much the point. The safety required makes writing a complex, life critical system like this and getting it certified pretty much impossible with our current software methodologies. There's been quite a few software b
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by snom380 13y ago
Because machines aren't perfect either. Airports already have those transmitters and can autoland, but pilots always have to be ready to take over, and sometimes have to. There are just too many things that can go wrong technically to
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by snom380 13y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying :)
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by snom380 13y ago
While we don't yet know the details, have enough information to say that 1) the approach was unstabilized, 2) the engines provided thrust when they initiated a go-around (too late), 3) no emergency was declared before the accident happ
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by snom380 13y ago
For normal operations, I think it's possible to make it _mostly_ autonomous today (TTS and voice recognition for ATC, and some heuristic metar/weather radar analysis might work). I don't think we have the technology today to
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by snom380 13y ago
CFIT used to be common, but it's not anymore on commercial flights thanks to GPWS. There's not yet been an accident on an airplane equipped with EGPWS.
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by snom380 13y ago
Yes, I am a pilot, albeit not an instrument rated one. Are you telling me you don't do anything? Do you bring a book to read instead of monitoring the instruments? You don't talk to ATC, you never have to make a decision regarding
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by snom380 13y ago
Aircraft accidents are extremely rare in the first place, so that's a given. The question should rather be whether computers would do a better job than pilots in the same situation, and currently the answer is no. The actual flying of
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by snom380 13y ago
Most of the time when a pilot saves the day he just disconnects the autopilot and writes an incident report. There's been at least four inflight upsets due to autopilot or sensor malfunction in the past few years that I can recall. Som
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by snom380 13y ago
Assuming we could make such a system secure and unhackable as well as unjammable, why would we want to? To save some money? I would rather pay a little more to have the pilot sit in the same airplane and have his life on the line as well. I
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by snom380 13y ago
Neither can humans, but humans can handle a lot more situations. We can take into account a lot of information and come up with creative solutions, while current computers will need a set of humans to come up with and program potential scen
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by snom380 13y ago
I don't find it likely that pilots hand-fly approaches to make a point. Isn't it more likely that this is codified in airline operation instructions? As for completely autonomous, do you seriously think we have the technology avai
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by snom380 13y ago
I bet those other services aren't subject to frequent inspections by the FAA.
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by snom380 13y ago
It's being used when needed. When not needed, pilots use the opportunity to practice landings. It's important to not get over-dependent on automation.

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