gunterhass said:
They should just outsource it to a privatized company to do the research. They have more resources and costs would be half what the Airforce spent. Everything the Militaries buy is overpriced. The way the article pitched it also makes it sound ridiculous as well, and I'm sure there could have been a better way to say it all.
Kudos to whoever put their balls on the line and got that project sent through. Innovation pre-separation/crossing into the khaki doesn't seem that common.
But I think everyone's missing the true beauty of the project: energy and costs-savings aside, when the project is complete/sidelined/trashed.... that's a shit load of ps3's going to rec centers and mwr's. I'd hope.
Now if we could just get more showers installed at the FoB's. Re-purposed water cooling systems for said ps3 supercomputers?
Tock said:
Kudos to whoever put their balls on the line and got that project sent through. Innovation pre-separation/crossing into the khaki doesn't seem that common.
Even for DARPA, using a game system seems pretty original, but more significantly, unorthodox. Point wasn't to trash talk uniformed tech devs, just to say I think it's great to see something like this making it through review. Thanks for calling me on it, though. I came off dismissive.
Aaron
Shakopee, MN
July 2004
FEB 03, 2010 11:05 AM