... I was expecting a car
with an
autopilot.

Scott Vernon wrote:
Same here. Are they still working on the magnet guided cars out in
Calif.? Asking for trouble, IMO.


Shucks, they're working on video-guided cars, and cars with infrared
data exchange ports for linking up in traffic.

Why would it be trouble (assuming the system has been adequately
debugged)? I'd a lot rather just say "Home, James!" and put my feet up
than fight morons yakking on their cell phones while goign 80 in
bumper-to-bumper traffic. Let the computer do it! And as for the morons,
obviously a computer is going to be a safer driver....

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
...
... I was expecting a car
with an
autopilot.

Scott Vernon wrote:
Same here. Are they still working on the magnet guided cars out
in
Calif.? Asking for trouble, IMO.


Shucks, they're working on video-guided cars, and cars with infrared
data exchange ports for linking up in traffic.

Why would it be trouble (assuming the system has been adequately
debugged)? I'd a lot rather just say "Home, James!" and put my feet
up
than fight morons yakking on their cell phones while goign 80 in
bumper-to-bumper traffic. Let the computer do it! And as for the
morons,
obviously a computer is going to be a safer driver....

What if they use a Microsoft program?

Scott Vernon wrote:
What if they use a Microsoft program?


NNOOOoooooo !!

DSK

DSK wrote:
Scott Vernon wrote:
What if they use a Microsoft program?

NNOOOoooooo !!

Oh, you guys can bite me! My stock has already been flat for years,
although my dividend check at xmas was nice. Gimme a break. Please! The
kids need to eat!

Besides, whatcha gonna use, Linux?

Ha!

Frank, retired from an unnamed large software company near Seattle in
95 and uninterested in returning to work

What if they use a Microsoft program?

NNOOOoooooo !!


Frank wrote:
Oh, you guys can bite me! My stock has already been flat for years,
although my dividend check at xmas was nice. Gimme a break. Please! The
kids need to eat!


Better talk to Uncle Bill 'bout dat!

Glad to hear Micro$oft is paying decent dividends, a while ago there was
big flap about them starting to pay them...

Besides, whatcha gonna use, Linux?


Maybe. I've seen some control system networks using it. At least the
code is transparent.

Ha!


Well, Ha! to you, sir! Just yesterday I got stalled in a line at the
grocery store while a clerk tried to get the cash register running...
guess what OS the thing was running...

Tell me Frank, would you fly in a plane that was controlled by any
Windows variant?

Frank, retired from an unnamed large software company near Seattle in
95 and uninterested in returning to work


What, you didn't come back to work for the Y2K fiasco?? Slacker!

DSK

Well, actually, to change this from alt.sailing to
alt.flight-software-controllers...

Yes, I have flown in a couple of homebuilt aircraft using MS software.
I have intense lust for a Velocity 4-place canard built by a guy I know
in the XBox group. It's the perfect airplane. Sigh... And for sailing
content, I've crewed on several boats using MS software. But that's
nitpicking. I understand that there's a strong vein of anti-MS out
there in the universe and I don't really care. Just like I enjoyed
getting my dividend check but didn't find it an adequate substitute for
the stock performance I'd gotten used to in 90's.

There was sure a lot of money to be made off the Y2K insanity; but I'm
lazy. I value my time more than I value money, as long as I can put
food on the table. And people were CRAZY during that silliness.

Frank

Frank wrote:
Well, actually, to change this from alt.sailing to
alt.flight-software-controllers...

Yes, I have flown in a couple of homebuilt aircraft using MS software.

No fair! I said "Windows" specifically.

Actually *if* set up correctly, NT isn't too bad for networked
controllers. I don't know how to do it myself, but over the years I've
built up a working list of pitfalls to avoid.

The problem doing that with a car is that each entry on the punch list
represents somebody's smash-up.

Don't take this personally Frank, I switched from Mac to PC a few years
ago and am still appalled at how often Windows 98, ME, SE, and XP crash.
As soon as they quit buying me new computers every two years, I'm
switching back...

I have intense lust for a Velocity 4-place canard built by a guy I know
in the XBox group. It's the perfect airplane. Sigh...

One of these?

http://www.velocityaircraft.com/airabout.html

It definitely looks like a cool plane! If it had a VTOL option, then
it'd be the *perfect* plane...


... And for sailing
content, I've crewed on several boats using MS software.

You're way ahead of me there.


... Just like I enjoyed
getting my dividend check but didn't find it an adequate substitute for
the stock performance I'd gotten used to in 90's.


Income can easily be turned into growth, but growth can't so easily be
turned into income.

There was sure a lot of money to be made off the Y2K insanity; but I'm
lazy. I value my time more than I value money, as long as I can put
food on the table. And people were CRAZY during that silliness.


Oh yes. Big time. They say it comes and goes in cycles.

It's nice to get far enough up on the power curve that you can relax the
money grabber. When young & poor, I threw away lots & lots of time to
save a little money... fixing up boats was a prime example.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King